skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author is making a big mistake in selling short the possibility of x86-class CPU performance on mobile.

Perhaps it comes from his iOS focus, but he's just wrong about the difficulty of transitioning the mobile software ecosystem to x86. Android is there today and has been for over a year (as the reviews of last year's x86 smartphones make abundantly clear). And, as we all know, Android is the majority of the devices, by a large margin.

It is true that iOS, Windows Phone and other platforms may have more trouble with an x86 transition, but so what? If Android makes a performance leap by moving to x86, other platforms will either find a way to keep up or they'll fall behind in the market. Either way, the mobile center-of-gravity will move towards x86-class CPU performance.
A good analysis but somewhat dated. It has been established, for instance, that with a compatible SSL lib and TLS NPN support SPDY/HTTPbis can be supported on the same socket and port as HTTPS. With that said I really like what PHK has to say about "HTTP routers".
So? From the cited article giving that stat - "a mile of driving is ten times safer than a mile of cycling".

You might argue that cycling is safe. You can't argue that it is safer. It simply isn't.
>but the U.S. government stepping in to FORCE employers

Sounds like you're against the US Government.

>Unfortunately, because you are replaceable you don't have pull and SHOULD NOT have pull.

A clever businessman would organize all these replaceable parts into a cohesive whole, and then having cornered the market, set his own price. That's capitalism in action. The very people who decry it are the same ones cornering their own markets. When its telecoms, cable TV, healthcare, widgets, corn, DNA, etc, its ok, but when its "units of labor", oh, well now its anti-capitalist and anti-american.

So I'll go along with your idea that Unions are an illegal monopoly on labor after we've gotten rid of the government-created construct called the corporation.
Looks good! The button hover over effect is a bit jarring though
Fine. Sure, you bump your head or get a sore throat, you walk it off.

What happens when you try to "walk off" something you think is minor, and you're in the ER 24-72 hours later? Hello $20K-$50K bill.

My wife and I were in a car accident a year ago (someone turned in front of us while we were doing 40mph). My wife required an ambulance for transportation due to damage to her right foot. The ambulance didn't exactly let us compare prices and pick which hospital to go to.
I believe the quote goes, "Everything else _we've tried_"
New work on photonic transistors
> Bradley Manning has been in prison for 1139 days without a trial

Manning's trial is ongoing as we speak. Am I the only one paying attention to it?
In todays (stage 10) the ITV4 coverage (Chris Bordman ) said they where hitting 65-70kph at today's finish which is over 40Mph
The only hand that Yelp has in the process is delivering a convenient form that passes your order to services the restaurants already work with like Seamless, Grubhub, etc. It's no different than if you had visited GrubHub, placed an order, and the restaurant got it to you late.
From your link:

Among U.S. states, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Vermont
and Wyoming allow residents to carry a concealed firearm
without a permit. These states also allow the open carry
of a handgun without a permit.

I count five.
Web Audio API comes to Firefox
We mostly expected people to attach a bluetooth keyboard to their tablet or phone. For people who insisted on using a touch screen, we were working on a graphical context sensitive system like you describe -- except for existing languages (Objective-C)... because nobody wants to keep tapping semicolons and parenthesis :-)
Can someone explain to me why humans land these planes?

These airports are fixed. We can easily set up transmitters around them to allow the plane to triangulate its position to less than an inch. Even excluding the tragedy of the loss of human life, you would think the lost of a multi-billion dollar airplane even once every decade would push people to automate the most dangerous part of flying (landing) to machines.
Interesting. Are you suggesting that some/all comments would enter in a pending state until they are promoted? What sort of rules are you thinking for which comments go straight to live vs. start as pending? Or would it be user based... as a probationary step before getting hellbanned?
I always love hearing the "getting into YC" stories. It's great to see that a lot of it has to do with determination and clever thinking, over having a lengthy "business plan".
Why don't you have a Perl API?
I'll spend some more time on it, but right now it looks like another platform I need to learn, which I don't have time for.

What I want is a service that takes this URL and returns a resized JPG:

http://SimpleImageService.com/resize
?account=DenisM
&source=http://s3.amazonaws.com/DenisMsPictures/Image1.TIFF
&size=400x400

That's it. I'll drop this into my app and forget about it. Set the prices at your AWS cost + 25%, and send me the bill at the end of each month.
> But there is no legal principle that says that police investigatory powers that were previously legal become illegal as soon as they can automate the process

This is, IMO, the key. You're right: things like that were never (rarely?) categorized implicitly as illegal, because they were things that people didn't consider POSSIBLE. Unfortunately, most of our legal framework is based on the idea of precedent.

Our options are:
- pass laws to explicitly prohibit this behavior
- argue successfully in front of the courts that this behavior is counter to the constitution's provisions.

Since most people seem to figure that the first is nearly impossible, especially since the gov't uses secret courts and documents to argue that this doesn't apply to what they're doing (e.g., waterboarding is not torture, "reasonable" means "collect all the things", and so on), we are seeing publicity on the second front.
In our startup, I do the orientation of new people. I require them to select a password manager before joining, and the first day includes setting up numerous accounts (around 11). It is a right royal pain.

A contributory factor are those services that don't understand people have separate personas for work versus personal. Examples that screw it up are Trello, Github and Dropbox. Google are the least worst although they do have sites that get things wrong (eg appengine & analytics).
Well, I'm curious what the numbers actually are. Either way about it, I agree we should fight for addicts. I've lost two dear people to alcohol, and I'm fighting for a third right now.

However, other than increased mental health care funding I struggle to imagine what governmental policy would have helped those I've lost. A sin tax would have done nothing for these people (hell, prohibition wouldn't have worked either).

Legislating 1 meter barriers between auto and bicycle traffic is incredibly simple compared to attempting to legislate the psycho-social forces of addiction. We don't have to limit our social change to legislation but that's the mindset from first reply was made in.
Wow, this (along with the whole health care thing) makes me glad I live in the UK.

Here renting property is very well regulated, you put down a security deposit when you move in (usually 1.5 months rent) and then any charges like this are taken from that. The best part is the security deposit legally has to be left with a third party (DPS), and then if the land lord wants to keep any of it, they have to go through the DPS, and show proof of damage and reasonable charges.

On the other hand, the weather here makes me wish I lived in the US :)
> This privilege is represented by a motor vehicle operator's license, which may be revoked by the state for a variety of reasons.

If that was a sound argument, then one could say that the right to own a firearm is really just a privilege because most states require a license to own a firearm which may be revoked by the state for a variety of reasons. Or similarly that the right to vote is just a privilege because you must register and there are a variety of reasons for the state to revoke it.

Just because a right is regulated does not make it a privilege.
Literally millions of Americans carry guns legally as part of their everyday routine. It's not surprising that dozens of them a week forget that they have it on them when they go to the airport.
We had similar results when switching over to Couchbase. Great read.
Part of my problem with online dating is it's too much like looking for a job. You have to fill out forms, put in all of your data again, and perfect your wording in multiple locations. Yet, you're underqualified for who you want to be with and the only offers you get are those which can't take seriously.
I don't think it's so cut and dry with United States v. Reynolds. Sure, the documents actually didn't contain state secrets about the B29. But then again, SCOTUS didn't examine the documents.

SCOTUS is basically saying with this precedent "If the executive says it's a war secret, it's a war secret, and the tort case of some grieving family can wait for another day."

So maybe we don't agree with that precedent, and we need a new law. Current precedent did not occur because SCOTUS read the docs and let the government lie, though. It occurred because the justices decided not to read the document, and instead put national security above a tort.

Some stuff I read:

* http://www.silha.umn.edu/news/summer2003.php?entry=200788

* http://loc.gov/law/help/usconlaw/pdf/PSQ_122_3_Fisher.pdf

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_secrets_privilege
> I don't want to imply you're lying or something, but is there something to support this claim?

I can only speak from my personal experience, sorry. Maybe someone else has benchmarks to back the claim.
> He was in confinement/custody for how long?

Is that all it takes, a lot of time served and then the guards get bored and sodomize you?

> What do you think they do in sites where people are renditioned to?

I have no clue. As best as I can tell waterboarding was finally taken off the menu around 2008 or so. But Manning wasn't 'renditioned' so I'm not sure what that has to do with my question anyways.
As someone with an High Deductible Healthcare Plan, I pay most medical costs out of pocket up to an annual limit. It's crazy that for such expensive services I NEVER know what my bill is going to be until months after the procedure has happened. I always try to guesstimate costs beforehand, but I've been off by an order of magnitude on more than one occasion. Having transparent pricing in the healthcare world, even if it was just an estimate, would help people with HDHPs immensely.
Where Has the Apple Passion Gone?
1. This is not an argument.

2. Amazingly, people have made binary protocols work before, in spite of no preexisting implementation, so it's not impossible. I'm sure we will be able to meet the challenge.

3. Do not try to sell me the endianess issue. I have written multi-arch tcp/ip stacks and i'm not a CS major. Trust me, it will be okay.

4. Yes, and IPv6 address space will someday expire. But not soon. And as many fixed-length frame protocols have done in the past, you leave an "extra frame options" bit to stack more fields on. It's fine.

5. It's really not about optimization at all. It's about common sense. The computer works better when you talk to it in computer-speak, and we gain absolutely nothing by talking to it in English human-speak. The benefits are a net-positive because parsing is easier, because a computer is parsing it, not a human. There is no sane argument that can validly claim that parsing human-readable English is easier for a computer than fixed-length bitstrings. CPUs don't grok ASCII, they grok BINARY.

6. Modern designs for clusters of web applications route by session, not by individual request. You are session-oriented instead of connection-oriented, though in practice it's almost the same thing. And see previous comment on why adding onto HTTP willy-nilly is just a hack.

7. No, just the jgc's re-implementation of multipart is bad, for previously stated reasons.
Yottabytes only come into play if everybody switches. But complexity of binary protocols would work against that. So probably only very large sites would implement it - and even for them, is parsing HTTP costs that much?

>>> If it is going to run on trillions of devices for decades, your choices are few in my mind.

The history suggests otherwise - majority of mass-produced software is not written with performance as an ultimate concern. You would find a lot of software written in languages like Python or Java, even though using C or assembly would probably produce better performance. But using C or assembly that software would probably never be produced because its complexity would be harder to manage.

Of course, performance does matter - even writing in Python, you have to worry about performance. But here we effectively see an argument saying "since we have a lot of software in Python, if we switch it to C we'll have massive performance gains". I think it is a wrong line of argument, if we switch to C a lot of this software wouldn't be written. (Note it's not against Python or C - I use both and they both are great in their areas :)

So I guess optimized protocol does have its uses for high-volume websites - but I am concerned its advantages would be offset by its complexity. The designation of it as HTTP/2.0 implies it is the next version of HTTP - but it's rather a rather different thing with different use case. I'd rather have it as a separate protocol for high-traffic websites.
"Fuck sneak" has been a common refrain on the internet for well over a dozen years. :D

Don't sweat it. I don't.
In every airport I've been through, passengers and carry on baggage are checked before the you get past the checkpoint. Yes, the screening areas are usually roped off, but that's it. It's not terribly difficult for a TSA agent to have you step out of line and then lift a rope to allow you to exit the screening area. Yes, having to go back out to one's car and then return to the end of the line sucks, but it's probably better than having your stuff confiscated or being carried away in handcuffs.
I'm not sure if your joking but I'll bite:)

> Most cyclists have no trouble traveling at a speed greater than 25mph, even uphill.

The average speed of the tour de france winners now is only about 25mph and that is very heavily drug assisted;)

http://bikeraceinfo.com/tdf/tdfstats.html

Given this I can't really take your statement as a serious one:)
I still feel like this is just being rammed through far far too fast. SPDY might well be the right way to go, but it's only been deployed for a small number of very large sites for a couple of years at this point. It was a foregone conclusion when the schedule was announced for http2.0 that it would be spdy, because only spdy has demonstrable value in production. There was no time for anyone to come up with or evaluate an alternative. But on the other hand, there hasn't been near enough time to demonstrate that spdy is good for the whole internet, which is what blessing it with the http protocol name implies.

And I just don't see why it should be rammed through. SPDY has a connection upgrade path, that afaik is largely unchanged for http2.0 anyways.
Site seems to work again now, and my order should arrive in 4 minutes. If anyone else wants to try.
For that matter, if it's generated by tools, and we use programs designed to interpret and decipher and color-code it, all of that can happen without it being in English!

Yes, let's base HTML 6 on Word .doc.

Also, the machines in The Matrix were hostile to humans. We'd like machines in the real world to be... not so.
What a huge loss for the RDU tech community. A very decent guy by all accounts and a huge legacy in the open source world. It's very difficult seeing his handle still logged into a number of freenode channels, where he was so active and helpful.

Deepest sympathies to his colleagues, friends, and family.
http://magnets.firebase.com/
LOL yes ;)

What happened to FTP anyway? I know there were a number of issues with it (security, working through NAT, lack of a standard directory listing format etc); but these were all problems that people managed to solve in different ways.

It just goes to show how far how our industry is willing to embrace change for the sake of change (with the results sometimes being inferior) every time a new buzzord appears. I reckon a modernised version of FTP would do the job pretty well.

What I'm mainly concerned with at the moment is building something that recognises a widely-adopted protocol is going to be very difficult politically to achieve (and get implemented), but a library which abstracts over the different protocols would relieve most of the pain.
What 3D property are you speaking of? Maybe you're meaning that using a 2 dimensional transition corresponds to a 3D property that causes the hardware to kick in then I suppose you make sense. But the thing is, I fail to see how that's a "trick" when it's an implemented feature of CSS. Also, if a browser vendor turns off the feature then that's a problem of the vendor and not CSS. Again, you are labeling a feature as a "trick" to paint a negative picture of web apps. Believe me, there's plenty of room for improvement in the area of web apps but your example isn't holding up.

I wasn't speaking of playing videos to the screen. I was referring to the hardware in the device that renders pixels to the display, specifically the hardware accelerated part. That's the PC gamer side of me referring to that hardware as video cards or video hardware.

But to combine your Safari and Cocoa examples. If Safari says that it doesn't have hardware accelerated CSS features enabled then you know that the feature doesn't work as nicely as you would want, but the transition will still happen. If Safari says that it is enabled... nah, never mind. Regardless of hardware support or not; you, as the person using CSS, never have to worry about any implementation details. In fact, since CSS isn't a framework, it's far more efficient to use CSS over a Javascript framework anyway, regardless of hardware support.
> ... when a car hits pedestrian or bike, the car is always the "guilty" party.... Does the US have something like that to promote cautious driving habits?

Quite the opposite, in fact. In NYC, drivers are seldom cited at all even when a cyclist or pedestrian has been killed. Here's the link I have on hand, but there are more http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/08/03/nypd-7371-pedestrians-...
This has not been "iteratively created on Github". It has one commit and 1 commit only. Just sayin...

https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov/commits/master

Still cool its open sourced though.
Except for all the horrible jpeg compression artifacts.

...or is that considered "art" lately?
Similarly, a deer (which weighs less than a human on a bike and probably has a lower center of gravity) could never be a threat to a car. Running into a deer couldn't do more than scratch the paint on a car. I've never heard of a single person ever getting killed when they drove into a deer. /sarcasm

Bikes can certainly damage cars. I had a friend who went through a passenger window (breaking through the glass) of a car that pulled out in front of him. If that was the driver's side window, there is a nonzero chance that the driver might have been knocked out or somehow wrecked his car.

Also, cars (and their drivers) can definitely get hurt trying to avoid collisions with bikers by swerving out of the way and colliding with other vehicles/buildings/going off the road into a ditch.

The several grandfather post to this would have said essentially the same thing and would be much less controversial if it just read "a bike is less of a threat to a car than a car is to a bike", rather than using the absolutes of "always" and "never" (which rarely can be used to describe real life situations).

Also, despite historical claims, I'm fairly confident that most roads (by any reasonable definition of most) in the US today were built with the majority of design thought about drivers.
The free market in medicine is plain weird

Says you. Time and again, Lasik surgery and cosmetic surgeries not covered by insurance or hindered by over-regulation have shown us that transparent pricing and competition work to make those procedures more affordable -- just like these forces work in other markets.

The State has perverted the medical market for more than half a century and you're just used to seeing it in its current screwed up state.
Have you tried hosting a Redmine server?
Sorry if you own a weapon it behooves you to know where it is at all times - people that dumb should have their license revoked.
It is worth pointing out, a trick a number of photographer friends use when having to check their photo gear is to include a flare gun (or was it a starter pistol) in the case and note that there is a firearm. It increases the scrutiny and tracking of the bag.

Lifehacker had an article on it --

http://lifehacker.com/5448014/pack-a-gun-to-protect-valuable...
Yes, but that doesn't mean it can't work and add value. Heroku is built on EC2, for example.
Maybe I'm naive, but I thought surge pricing was an automated change when demand is about to outweigh supply. I don't think it's some asshole switch someone flips.
It seems strange to me that they are bragging about syncing between mobile and the web, but the only web SDK they provide is for JavaScript - I can't even find REST documentation for the Datastore API.

I love the idea of cloud apps that use user-provided datastores. It makes it both cheaper for a startup (because they can crowdsource their data storage) and easier for users to control what data services have about them. Google Drive already provides a service whereby I can store a user's data in his Drive account without cluttering his filesystem with my app's metadata. Dropbox Datastores sounds like a similar feature, but it's way less appealing to me if I can't talk to it from my backend.
I don't understand much about processes and threads, but I do know a bit about queues. What is the meaning of this?

"Once a context has run a goroutine until a scheduling point, it pops a goroutine off its runqueue, sets stack and instruction pointer and begins running the goroutine."

Do they mean: "begins running the next goroutine"?
Maybe Mint should scrape Amazon and other retailers in addition to bank websites? Would you trust Mint to keep your Amazon password in addition to your bank's? (Maybe Mint should pivot slightly to include password database management? :p )

Right now, our system is pretty much how you describe it, where the financial institution only gets the basic information of who and how much. And if you want more detail, the retailer provides it.

So I guess you're looking for a service that centralizes that info into the same place as your other financial details?

(paragraphs, please)
Probably because they didn't think many people would use it and had limited man-hours to spare. But it would be nice if they released some language-agnostic API like a REST interface so that people could write bindings for their own languages. They must be using something like that internally anyway.
How can you integrate OpenTable in an app? 
There's doesn't seem to be any public API available.
If you forget you're carrying a loaded firearm you shouldn't be carrying one in the first place. Such responsibility should not be dealt with lightly, if you're not aware that you have it you are also not aware when you lose it.
>Highly knowledgeable people have commented on it and not said it was anything unusual, so, yes, I'd say it's reasonable.

You know, there's not a single thing about your comment that's useful.

>Jet engines don't change their output on a dime.

Yeah, I know. That's the reason for the question.