skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re. Patrick's sentence, you're right, but as I mentioned above, SPDY/4 will become HTTP/2 (we're working through the standardization process). So I think most of the major players are on board with "fixing" HTTP pipelining by using SPDY-style multiplexing.

Re. thinking bigger, you might want to read up on QUIC, which was announced recently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC . Based on that, I would content that at least we on the Chromium team don't have tunnel vision. :)

Re. your question, Patrick's data is from Firefox only I believe. You're right that it's not surprising his stats show that SPDY helps over HTTP without pipelining. But the more interesting thing is that HTTP with pipelining still doesn't help that much over HTTP without pipelining (on average) and SPDY still beats it by orders of magnitude. I'd have to dig, but I'm pretty sure there are similar stats on the Chromium side.
To clarify for people in other countries. When a petition gets 100,000 swiss signers than the governement must respond with a suggestion. The petition and suggestion then go to referendum. The decision of the people is final and government must implement the decision as long as it doesn't impeach some basic rules.
But would you review the source of Docker too?
Many of the things he says he misses from Python, I would rather not have in production code. Heterogenous dictionaries are often objects that should have been, with no encapsulation and a high degree of implicitness that makes them hard to refactor later.
The reason for San Francisco's high rent/home price is very simple, despite how others like to complicate it more:

1: Its desirable for most people to live here. Possibly the most desirable place in the USA, depending on your tastes. As a result, people are willing to pay more to live here. There are jobs, culture, food, art and much more all in this great city.

2: Rent Control. I wont get too much into it, but my take as a real estate investor is that it greatly entices residents to stay put once they have rented. As a result, there is significantly higher rent (due to less supply) for new residents. Many apartments are not rented at all because of the owners fear of rent control. SF needs to get over its "you have a right to live at your same address forever" attitude.

3: No new housing/construction. SF is a 7x7 plot of land which through both NIMBY-like behavior and heavy legislation/bureaucracy, has pushed a extremely anti-developer agenda. Every year, thousands and thousands of people move to SF. Unfortunately, there is less than 1 new housing unit built for every 25 new residents. The common thread that is thrown around is "We dont want SF to turn into a mini tokyo with skyscrapers and tiny apartments" so instead we have 3 floor victorians being used to house 10 roommates at $1500/pop.
I don't understand how using your Twitter handle will elevate the level of discourse. Twitter itself is full of trolls. Also, you can create anonymous Twitter accounts that don't use your real name, so accountability goes out the window too.

For what its worth, it looks like a modern tech discussion forum built using modern tools. Nothing wrong with that, but that's how it should be branded. The feel good aspect without any real technical backend to enable it falls a bit flat.
Currently there is no URL structure for more than one category... but now there will be. Thanks for the idea!
I mean, they could add a form on their website that uses OAuth to add the webhook to your repository for you, but what would that accomplish? It'd probably still involve the same amount of clicking. What exactly do you find annoying about adding a webhook? Is it a UI problem?
So, if I understood that correctly, it's just a virtual box image of ubuntu or debian that you run headlessly in a linux container (via docker) and then run a Xserver on your actual machine OS and connect to it via SSH with Xforward?

how is this any better than simply running virtualbox on your OS to begin with?
I think you need to read about the case a little more before you start arguing. Warren, and many cases before it, have held that the police have a responsibility to protect the public at large, and to do so uniformly.

The police do not have a duty to protect you specifically unless they have told you they are going to protect you. This means they are not liable for preventing a crime from happening to you. That's all it means. It does not touch on the issue of whether or not an officer who witnesses a crime being perpetrated upon you is responsible for intervening, which is what the case you linked to is about. I don't know much about that, and from what I understand that particular case has not been decided yet.

>Politics and law are sideshows to the material facts of physical reality, watching people constantly debate the edicts of hopelessly out of touch political figureheads and their bureaucratic lackeys as if it had an effect on fixing the problems they cause constantly mystifies me.

I agree with you that it is a frustrating situation. I would ask you, as an engineer, to consider the enormous complexity of a system required to provide social structure for 300 million people, and that doing so may require some very specific decisions to be made, that while seemingly small have a massive impact.
Right, except they won't crash. Google has driven almost a million km without an accident.

The car takes in a gigabyte of data a second to analyze. It knows the biker is behind it. It will slow down if the situation is risky and stop if something is imminent.

The car has 360° cameras and LIDAR and records everything.
some other ones:
-More electric cars. Robotaxis have higher utilization rates, so it makes the fuel-captial tradeoffs of electric cars much more appealing. Additionally, the range point becomes moot. Taking a trip longer than one taxi can get you on a charge? Just have a new one come pick you up halfway through.

-More multi-mode trips, some car trips are just to have a car available for the return trip (e.g. "Let's take separate cars because you have to leave earlier than I do" or "I would take the BART to SF, but it won't be running at 3 AM when i need to come home").

- cars that actually match their necessary capacity. Lots of people buy trucks, vans, and SUVs for the 10% of the time they really need them. Even 5-seat sedans are overkill for most trips. One-passenger robotaxis would hopefully be cheaper due to reduced fuel and manufacturing costs.

-fewer marginal trips. Currently, most costs of car ownership are fixed: insurance, capital, registration. Once you have a car, the only cost to using it more is fuel, so you still take the car for trips where it's only marginally more convenient than alternative transportation.
Neat, but SuperGenPass does this better- has a bookmarklet with configurable salt, and it's based off the domain name, not the service, so you can't get into ambiguities (Gmail, GMail, gmail?)

http://supergenpass.com/

That said, the options for disallowed characters is nice.
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I just understood what http://www.google.com/loon/ is all about.
Scala DI using self type annotations (AKA cake pattern)
That's pretty reductionist. San Francisco's housing policies are definitely responsible for some of the price difference between here and Tucson, but you can't ignore the geography. SF is a 7x7 mile square surrounded by water on three sides. Tucson is a sprawling mess that go on for dozens of miles.

Dense, desirable, naturally bound cities are always going to be more expensive than endless exurbs. Look at housing prices in Hong Kong if you think that looser zoning is a cure-all for high prices.
Sorry someone had replaced my N and M keys.
SF approved "tiny apartments" http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/san-francisco-micro-apar...
Looks / feels exceptionally similar to Potluck: https://www.potluck.it/rooms/ee3db6e8
One alternative would be a graphical installer that asks for your root password. It would very likely also be served over unencrypted HTTP. This happens all the time, and HN never calls anyone out on it.

How is this different, other than a graphical installer being completely unauditable, whereas curl|sh is quite trivially auditable? Both run code as root.
I think there is more danger in html5 dinamyc fonts, or more evil in a dns request, than an opensource project installer.

Of course, don't do this on your most beloved production machine, if you can package it properly, test it, etc

But rendering a font gives execution with your user, so don't be so afraid of a installer "you can read" and has an interesting purpose.
The main reason why people don't want new residential development is because it will feed into gentrification and push people out because they can no longer afford to live in SF. NYC has been and is going through this problem right now and it is not pretty.

EDIT: There are a lot of comments about increasing supply as a way to make housing/apartments cheaper in SF. This is not at all well demonstrated, as in NYC new real estate development as continually raised prices and priced out those who had previously resided in those neighborhoods (if they need to move they can no longer afford the cost of living in said neighborhood, esp. if they lived in a rent stabilized or controlled place).

New real estate development can make things cheaper, but we are seeing cities have population influxes and those cities traditionally are land limited for new construction. Those two factors work together to ensure that properties are renovated or rebuilt at higher cost to a wealth class that can afford it. It should be obvious that this is not sustainable, cities that do not provide a sustainable way to live for all classes will collapse.
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It shouldn't be forced, but some of us do use the mouse on a terminal window. I have more of a keyboard 'nipple' but it's conveniently right there when I'm typing and I don't have to move out of a standard typing position to use it.
I think even sans the tech industry, SF would still be a desirable enough place for people to live that it wouldn't have much of a problem. Even clearer if tech just remained in Silicon Valley; plenty of people would live in SF and commute.

Even just finance is probably strong enough to support SF. Or, like Vancouver, lots of people from Asia. The tolerant/hippie/gay/etc. angle might be enough as well.
Interesting idea, but I wonder if "niceness" is really that important when sharing ideas that may or may not be controversial. Being professional and constructive might be a good goal, but these don't necessarily entail "niceness." That is, you can still be professional and constructive while being a giant asshole.

Also, I'm not really sure making people accountable by making them use Real Names or whatever account tied to their real name will make them be nicer. It might seem like that because on social networks, you can selectively add people to talk to that you enjoy being nice to. When it is an open forum, the discussion might still turn sour because people have contradicting viewpoints and that's okay, especially in a technical discussion. Finally, tying people to their real names by default sounds like it lends itself to all kinds of Internet Detective-y stuff which will probably lead to more Ad Hominem attacks than discussion.

Source: I post on Something Awful where we can still have useful discussion and call each other out on our bullshit. Niceness isn't as important as the free discussion of ideas.
It's made to be a generic ODM/ORM for use on the client side with Ember.js. It's a replacement for Ember Data, which has a ton of bugs and limitations.
From my past experience on HN, humor is not well received. I've been scolded numerous times for cracking a joke or two. Personally, I appreciate humor on HN, but I can understand how people don't want HN comments to turn into redit comment threads.
SF is great for two categories of people:

- The wealthy

- The homeless (yes, social services and tolerance is much better here than in any other big city in the US)

People caught in the middle who own a house will survive 10 years before quitting. If they don't own a house they have already left.

I'm doing more than $100K and I had to leave the day I started a family (try to find a rent below $6K for something suitable for a couple + 2 children). I think it's sad that the city will progressively become a strange place where the very rich and the bums stare at each other. If you want to have a preview, spend one hour on Market and 7th.
I wish I could log in, but I don't use Twitter or Github. Why would I want to set up an account on Site A when all I want to use is Site B?
was SF better during the Gold Rush? I mean the Rush of 160 years ago, not that of today.
> The wealthy tech people aren't the ones ruining San Francisco.

Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification
This could be made VERY interesting if you also add an NX server in the mix. I find basic X11 connections via ssh to be rather laggy and unpleasant to use when the internet connection is not top.

The idea behind NX is to "fake" an X client on the server side and fake a NX server on the client side. This reduces the number of roundtrips required for each action. The improved responsiveness is dramatic -- even on a low speed and high-latency link, using the remote desktop feels like a local machine...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology

Unfortunately, the two open source projects which aimed to reproduce the NX functionality seem to have been abandoned.

http://freenx.berlios.de/
http://code.google.com/p/neatx/source/list

Is anyone using NX these days? Perhaps, people stopped developing these because they work well already?
I don't understand why tech workers in the Bay Area feel guilty about receiving 'high' salaries of $100 - $200k/year. This is not a lot of money... People on Wall street laugh at these amounts. So do specialized doctors, corporate lawyers, investment bankers, etc.

Software engineering is unfortunately a very middle class occupation at this point. I'd love to see it get up into the ranks of the upper class (at least for very experienced engineers!), but it has a long way to go...
The fact that you think "consumer scale web traffic" is some magical thing is exactly what I am talking about. Have you ever heard of TPC? They have done benchmarks of database driven systems for a long time. TPC-C measures performance of a particular write query, while maintaining the set ratio of other active queries. The top non-clustered result right now does 142,000 new orders per second. Yes, a single server can handle 300k reads and 6k writes per second.

http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp?result...
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My wife and I made a very conscious decision to NOT move to SF when we were looking to move back to the US from Australia. Frankly, SF and the whole valley were not where we wanted to raise our three kids (6, 2.5 and newborn). Doing cost comparisons, quality of life and education we just couldn't justify SF over other places.

This is, by all accounts, a career limiting move for me (I'm in tech, but I work remote right now), but it is the right decision for our family.

Perhaps in 10-15 years when the kids are older, though right now, !SF feels like the right decision for our family.

My big hope for the next 10-15 years is that remote work becomes more and more common.
Yeah, fair enough, but regardless of any SLA, I wouldn't expect to be charged full price for inadequate service. Not if you want my continued business anyway.
Right, so rather than have cool little areas like Cow Hollow that are worth living in and visiting, keep things like the Tenderloin that are perpetually unlivable and undesirable.
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Cry me a river.

San Francisco is expensive. It's not the tech workers fault.

Nobody owes you a home in San Francisco. The American dream is not home ownership. Where'd you hear that? A countrywide home loan commercial?
Move to New York City. Your uppity tech salary will again be paltry peanuts compared to the all the hedge fund guys that "turn the market upside down" here.
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I don't think you need any infrastructure changes for robo-taxis. You don't need to eliminate traffic lights, they understand them. You don't need to do anything with parking spots, the car can find its own, or pick up someone else.
In my limited experience (n = 6) I've not seen the same control system twice. I believe this is because the systems I looked at were built at quite different times. This probably varies a lot between countries.

So your point is valid, but diversity doesn't help if the overall resilience of the grid is so low that attacking a few carefully chosen targets could cause a massive blackout.
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Taxes went up by 33% from 2008 through 2011? Doesn't seem credible to me. Can you post the article in which the image you posted occurs?
Exactly. It's better because you can build that image anywhere where there is docker installed and it can be easily moved/upgraded and ready to run. But if you think only locally, then there is no much difference, despite that docker lighter and faster.
Just a minor note, Snowden has been in no way prescient. Everyone that works with confidential information has to be briefed on export control and the associated consequences for security violations. I know he's pretty popular around here, but the fact of the matter is he would be facing most (if not all) of the charges just for leaving the country with top secret data even without adding any penalty for releasing some subset of said data to the public.
> Social accountability is provided by linking your Twitter or GitHub accounts

I never understood the reasoning behind this kind of social login. If you're dead set on being an ass, then you'll be one regardless, even if it takes creating a burner Twitter or GH account. Anything short of demanding proof of identity and linking your real name is useless (and now you have two problems.) All this achieves is forcing people to sign up to another service in order to use your own. A low barrier to entry with community moderation is enough to keep the value of the comments high, while keeping noise to a minimum.
This weekend I spent some time walking around SF and was astounded at how many new apartments are under construction. Even more interesting were the old run-down buildings which were apparently being shuttered in preparation for even more new places to live.

There will be a lot of hand-wringing about the city's loss of character, but in the end the new construction will probably ease things.

The city in essence put a moratorium on new housing after the real estate bubble burst in 2008. For several years afterwards there were virtually no new housing units added to the city at all.[1] Now that the de-facto ban has been lifted, there can actually be some new units to help give all the newcomers and old residents places to live.[2]

[1] Go here and scroll down to "Previous releases": http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=1691
Note the difference between 2009-2011 and now.

[2] Of course there will some who claim that no amount of new housing will fix things, or that new construction will only make things worse. It remains to be seen what the longer-term outcome will be. Rents in the Bay Area actually went down after the last two bubbles burst (the original dot-com boom in 2000 and the real estate boom in the mid-2000s), so it is clearly not impossible for the housing market to change direction.
>Their Senate votes have to follow the party line, otherwise they risk retaliation against their political careers.

Saying things like this only serves to validate the action. They are elected to serve the people, if they choose to be a terrible person and throw millions of people under the bus for personal gain, then lets call them on it. Call them a terrible person, don't let them off the hook with "they might lose their job".
The really interesting thing about SF is that it's not 7x7 as people claim- it's actually more like 3x3. The "City" is confined to a tiny area downtown and in the Mission and SOMA. The entire southern and western parts of SF are low-density suburban sprawl. This is a result of terrible planning in the 50's and shortsighted opposition to new housing and transit ever since.
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I wouldn't underestimate the effects a lack of sunlight will have on you. This coming from a part of the country that receives a little bit less sunlight that Seattle (Pittsburgh area). Seasonal depression can really make life suck. I'm also probably a little bit upset because it's been raining for something like 12 days straight.
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This is also happening in Austin right now. My friends in Durham are speculating that the same is beginning to happen there, although, comparitively, its still super affordable.
>They create big, complex, fragile architectures because they started with simple, off-the-shelf architectures that completely fell over at scale.

No, they fell over at "shit we're hitting the limits of our hardware, lets re-architect everything instead of buying bigger hardware". Rather than buy 1000 shitty $2000 servers, buy 2 good $1,000,000 servers. I know it is not fad-compliant, but it does in fact work.
You didn't actually address any of his points, except to point out that some folks view gentrification as a problem in SF.

I actually agree with the comment you replied to.
Severe governmental incompetence in SF has been worse for the city than gentrification.
My understanding is that this is a special 'trial phase' for Kennedy. The planning department is not approving other similar projects until it studies/weighs the outcome of these.
> Twitter no longer wants to be a web app. Twitter wants to be a set of APIs that power mobile clients worldwide, acting as one of the largest real-time event busses on the planet.

Wait, then why are they actively destroying their third-party app ecosystem...?
Well, detecting potentially malicious shell scripts is merely a matter of solving the halting problem...

Food for thought: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/langsec/
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My friends and I have wanted a personal version of something like this for a while. We have several Facebook groups where we share links/ideas and comment on them but would like to move away from Facebook.

Does anyone know of any service that offers this?
I know absurdly rich people with children who moved out of the city, even when they could afford an $8mm house suitable for a family, because of the schools, too. (and weather, but mainly schools); the mortgage differential between SF and a place like Hillsborough or Palo Alto, combined with $30-50k/yr per child for 14 years or so of schools (to go to private schools in SF, vs. good public schools), is a lot of money.

You'll end up with the homeless, the super wealthy, and maybe the $70-200k/yr earning singles or (young) couples without kids. Tech seems to mostly hire from that third group.