skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably the largest demand for consumer bandwidth over the first decade of the Web's existence was porn. From about 1996 forward (Quake), gaming has also helped move the needle.

These days sites like Xvideos, Pornhub etc are monsters when it comes to bandwidth consumption, and there are dozens of major streaming porn sites.

That constant bandwidth demand has been a great catalyst in terms of encouraging ever faster speeds.

How much content is on sites like YouTube or Dailymotion related to sex appeal?

Facebook had intentionally built-in sex appeal aspects to it. It was for college students after all.

Snapchat? Chat roulette? MyFreeCams & Live Jasmin (both of which generate tens of millions in sales)? There are many porn related sites in the top 1,000 global sites. Titillation moves things forward and always will. Humans are sexual beings.
A nuclear explosion is a disaster; a nuclear war is a species extinction event. I pick "nuke me".
What's really more likely? A Soviet spy gains physical access to your nuclear weapons and launches or detonates one (or several), possibly starting a global thermonuclear war (which the Kremlin could honestly start at any time if it were interested anyway) with a modest advantage on the Soviet side. (A possible advantage - it depends how quickly the Soviets are able/willing to follow up with additional nukes.)

or...

You lock yourself out of your own nukes during a crisis because you have a big fancy launch-code-management system and it falls apart because key people are confused and/or dead.

In related news, handguns with fingerprint sensors and other electronic locks will protect you in case a criminal breaks in and steals your gun from you - and yet they're not very popular among gun owners.
Finally, someone did this! :D

(easy on the downvotes, it's just a little bit of humour, people)
How so? If we're nuked, we're nuked. The thing is that the other side believes we can nuke them back so they don't do it in the first place. If it's all in the air, I don't see what we stand to gain.
I can confirm the $25 match is the offer for existing customers, got the same message shown by xuki
What exactly could we do to it that would affect its mass significantly? Ship a significant mass back to earth? If things come to that scale, it can be easily corrected by dropping asteroids on it to balance the mass loss.

This sounds like a "we shouldn't have any fusion or fission in space!" argument.
That's basically what passed through my mind a year ago when I started working on my own project. It seems crossing the channel from "good idea" to secure, trusted payment mechanism is more difficult than I thought, but I'm still convinced it's the right way forward. Feel free to email me for more details if interested.
Update: If the app isn't starting any more because of a JSON error, its because the API I am using just crossed its Rate Limit. (https://github.com/cheeaun/node-hnapi). I'm working to fix it as soon as I can.
I'm wondering if the effects of friction could be mitigated by having ball bearings within the channel that the teeth pass through.
Who "owned" the continent of America when it was "discovered"?

Same here... execpt this time, there is no need for a genocide.
No fair if you just brought it back up and then typed that comment, you know.
I'm quite certain that most jurisdictions in the United States have some sort of laws to prevent the restriction of "clean-room" reverse-engineering... which is why projects like GNU and BSD were even possible to begin with. In any case, this is a huge blow for the big companies and a huge win for the smaller ones.
> Todays internet user is any modern slave whos interests dont stretch out further than facebook and easy entertainment.

Did you ever hang out in a computer lab full of people busily attaining a PhD in muds? There were a hell of a lot of people who used the net as a toy, even back in the text-only days.
It is actually, dates back to 1934[0]

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_year
Court Orders Google, Microsoft & Yahoo to Make Pirate Sites Disappear
The problem with this logic is that by characterizing preferring one lifestyle to another as an "anti-X position" and therefore something that is by default wrong, we encourage the dismantling of our entire culture.

If we are to say that the only acceptable view is that being gay is as good as being straight, then we must logically do the same for the following

* Being transgender
* Being a sex worker
* Eating shit for sexual gratification (no chance of AIDS!)
* Having sex with animals (without harming them)

I'm not sure that any of the above are very immoral, but I'm not comfortable with teaching that they are ideal, or advisable. I'm also not comfortable with teaching children that becoming a sex worker is as good a career path as any other.

We as a society need to maintain a balance between protecting everyone's rights, and allowing people to have their own personal tastes and opinions. This balance should be based on enforcing the most basic laws that guarantee a person's right to life and safety. Gay people should be free from threats of violence. But so should everyone else, including groups who will never be considered as oppressed by liberals, like nerds in high school. As for tastes and preferences, this isn't something we can decide in a top down way.
I use a similar setup. I swap the V60 for a Chemex (better for larger quantities), a Bonavita instead of a Buono and I don't bother with Intelligentsia's overpriced roasts.

Frankly, I think Intelli's golden days are behind them and they're partly riding on their reputation at this point. Better roasts at lower prices are available from other roasters.
Good to know (it wasn't in TFA).
I read that as "My Coffee Startup". I need to go to bed, and possibly read HN less.
Obligatory link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk
"including groups who will never be considered as oppressed by liberals, like nerds in high school."

Isn't that arguably a part of the anti-bullying push?
Seems to me it is a technological challenge to improve the efficiency of getting to and from the moon.
Where are you getting your coffee from now? I've tried some other online roasters (e.g. Tonx) and thought they were worse than Intelligentsia.
Okay, I apologize about implying that you're being intentionally obtuse. About the ethics argument, you (or maybe someone else above) said that anti-homosexuality is a violent hateful position, and the homosexuality is just a sexual preference. I'm not disagreeing with you, but an opponent might claim that your arguments regarding both are extremely ad-hoc. You could just as easily claim that homosexuality is unnatural or that it's against god's will or that it goes against our national interests or any other bullshit. Why I didn't want to make these arguments is because I'm not interesting in debating this side. I don't think homosexuality is unethical, and hence carrying on this debate isn't pleasant to me. I'm just saying that thinking that both positions had the same ethical value in any time is presentism.
Dynamic binary translation can sometimes get performance improvements. This is because you would still statically compile your program, and then at runtime, the DBT system dynamically decodes and re-encodes the binary instructions. With a DBT system, you can do tracing, by identifying hot paths and such and lining those basic blocks up in your code cache.
By the time we'll be able to actually destroy our moon or send it off, I'm pretty sure we'll also have the tech to just borrow one from one of the other planets. Personally I would love Europa, but our distance to the sun would no doubt melt it.
Both are equally acceptable (Startup/Setup, not going to bed or reading HN less).
Some of his essay is meant to be funny and I think some people are missing that. It's an interesting critique in the relationship between programmers and management. Just try to enjoy it.
I’ve started such a thing: https://github.com/clipperhouse/gen

Early days, still a lot of work to do, but I think it’s promising.
This is the general problem with share alike clauses and GPL is known for adopting a very limited interpretation of their Share Alike clause. They have recognized CC0 as being compatible with GPL, which is a step. In your example, I'd say that most definitely software cannot be under CC. My perception is that the software license always prevails. Now the image in the game could be implemented with an authorization from the author (it's the best way to avoid problems in any case).
You are assuming there is no possibility of a third-strike, which may or may not be the case.
This is really nicely done on the UI end, should be up higher on this page.
Non-argument; you just said absolutely nothing. The "best" economists in the world at the Fed are incapable of predicting and preventing things like the '08 collapse, yet they have credibility to you? Mainstream economists have no job prospects outside of academia or government because they are pseudoscientists a la alchemists capable of nothing more than reassurance of the king that printing ever more money will bring about prosperity the next time.
Ask HN: Why CouchSurfing website is always down?
Such a world wide used website like CouchSurfing is always down. I wonder why. Are the engineers there not good enough to keep it up and running?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_2:_Hindsight
Try reading "A Memory of Earth". It was the thirds and last Card book I read, after I read Enders Game and Enders Shadow, and disliked both, I was told that maybe I should just read a non-Ender book since I clearly just had something against the Ender universe. I saw "A Memory of Earth" at a yardsale for a dollar so I bought it without knowing anything about it besides that it was Card, and not Ender-universe.

Actually, don't try reading it. It is literally the worse book I've ever read. Confused and idiotic plot, cliched one dimensional characters, a serious sense of confused genre....

A few years later, I looked the book up on wikipedia and learned that it is his sci-fi version of The Book of Mormon.... yeah, the guy is a total hack.
I've been experimenting with a portable coffee setup. It's currently an Aeropress, a Porlex Mini Stainless Steel grinder, a thermometer, and a small scale. I'm experimenting to decide on the ideal type of filter - currently comparing paper vs. a couple different metal filters.
AND WHILE I'M HERE TALKING ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS SYSTEMS and understandings thereof, allow me to rant about one of the most misunderstood videos of all time, Bert the Turtle ("duck and cover") -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60 -- Witness the crowds of people saying "lol but nuclear bomb! you're already dead!" Well, maybe you're right and you're already dead, but IF YOU'RE NOT DEAD YET then there's going to be a BIG BLAST WAVE OF DEBRIS heading your way IN A MATTER OF SECONDS, so you'd better look for some shelter, pronto. And get away from any windows, too, or you'll end up like those poor people watching the Chelyabinsk meteor, getting LACERATED by flying glass.
Yeah. I had to manually kill the app to escape those damned things. Quite persistent.
If you have them. The rights are originally held by the third person, not the photographer (to keep your example). If that person has licensed them to the Licensor/photographer, then they will be considered waived. In any other case, the third person holds them and can have a valid argument.
The paper is a resounding refutation of Cowen's other work. Given how terrible he has proven himself in the past, I am happy to reject this new work out of hand. From what little I read, I again suggest people to read Mises' Anti-Capitalistic Mentality regarding the ludicrous notion that machines are a bad thing.
From my experience, clients generally prefer native, as the quality is so much better. Looking more closely, however, agencies / freelancers pitch HTML5 apps at a considerably lower cost than native. I've seen them come in at half the cost.

What would the result be if you got 2 developers, 1 with 5 years experience building HTML5 apps and 1 with 5 years building native apps, and gave them 3 months to create an apps for Android and iOS?
I buy from Brown Coffee Co.
We had to use RCS for university projects and submit the versioned files. It has many shortcomings but the simplicity of it is nice for some purposes.
another day, another XSS exploit vector
The Unpublished Works of JD Salinger Leaked to Private File Sharing Site What.CD
ive tried metal -- hasnt done it for me.

Also what "small scale" are you using?
This fixation on the moon in a country with stark poverty for most of its rural majority is a sign of China's tyrannical government. The government is seeking glory for the ruling party rather improvement of the daily lives of the common people. (Yes, I do read Chinese and I have been to China more than once and I have been studying China's national policies since the 1970s.) I wish there were a higher percentage of participants on Hacker News who have both thorough knowledge of the language and culture and regular access to the Chinese press and mass media to comment on stories submitted here about China. I especially wish that more of those participants were old enough to have direct personal memories of the Cultural Revolution period and personal travel to both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

The article kindly submitted here reports the thoughts of a British space scientist (not a Sinologist): "He believes China could have astronauts on the lunar surface by 2025." I will make a testable prediction here, which I hope all of us live to see confirmed or disconfirmed. China will not have astronauts (the Chinese term is "taikonauts") on the lunar surface as part of a Chinese national space mission by 2025. (By contrast, I think it is barely possible, but not particularly likely, that an international space mission with a crew from several countries may return astronauts to the lunar surface by that year.) As China democratizes, which is something I fully expect to happen between now and then, China will readjust its national policy priorities. The big priority for China in the next decade will be opening up the political system to more dissent and more effective participation by the masses, especially the rural masses who make up the majority of the population, and avoiding the "middle-income trap" of economic growth stagnating while China is still a relatively poor country on a per-capita basis. China has a lot of issues to work on that are a lot more important than putting taikonauts on the moon as part of a Chinese national space mission.
Across how many nginx servers? :)

I'll add a more serious question. This is a nice optimization, but wouldn't clever attackers respond in turn by eventually throwing highly varied traffic patterns to fluster the JIT?
I thought it was going to be about coffeescript.
The Soviets demonstrated that in many ways space can be brute forced if you're less worried about death. Strap people to rockets and shoot them at the moon, many will make it there intact.

Not really. "By space program, 18 NASA astronauts (4.1%) and four Russian cosmonauts (0.9% of all the people launched) died while in a spacecraft." [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_acc...
The quotes in my explanation are the 'curly' quotes. They just display differently on HN.
We should never tolerate intolerance, unless we are considering the intolerance of intolerance. That intolerance, and only that intolerance, must be accepted:

"The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. The idea is, in a slightly different form, and with very different tendency, clearly expressed in Plato.
Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."

--Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
This still makes you vulnerable to panopticlick style browser identification. Different browsers are a little better in that sense.
$18/lb??? What a rip off. If anyone is wanting to get into great coffee without spending an arm and a leg, please look into roasting your own coffee beans. There is a place called Sweet Maria's in Oakland that can ship it to you; however, I often find shipping kills the deal. I found a really cool local roaster that is willing to sell me any of their green beans for $7/lb. After roasting, you lose some weight so that it comes out closer to $8/lb. And, it's really fresh. The freshest anyone can get.
Intelligentsia coffee is great, there is also an artisan bean subscription service, out of SF I think: https://tonx.org
Nothing done by human beings to earth since Homo sapiens began walking on earth is visible from the moon, so it is doubtful that anything about the appearance of the moon will change in your lifetime or the lifetimes of your great-grandchildren. See

http://what-if.xkcd.com/13/

for just how large the moon is and how limited earth resources are for even reaching the moon.
Thanks for the info, much appreciated. It's a simple, effective system.
For a talk that actually uses Overtone, I'd suggest this one: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/music-functional-language
I've tried Tonx -- wasnt a huge fan. Perhaps I should give it another go.
Fresh isn't always what you want. Many African varietals need two days rest before they really get good, though Latin American beans typically need just one day.

One of the best shots of espresso I've ever had was a Rwandan roast pulled at fourteen days. Incredible.
There is and always will be scarcity, whether it is in gold, helium, cars, rockets, airplanes, ships, real estate, the time of skilled labor, new ideas, or thoughtful conversations. The market is a tool for allocating resources efficiently, and a non-functioning or non-existent market will cause waste, and eventually (create or) exacerbate scarcity.
Does anyone know of any double-blind taste-tests for enthusiast setups like this? Not limited to coffee but I'd also be very curious about tea, wine and much of the accepted wisdom of both classic and modern cooking.

I don't mean this to be snide. I'm totally open to this kind of setup producing a far superior cup of coffee. But if we accept the premise that at least a portion of the experience, however slight, is psychological, I'd be very interested to know how big that portion is.

Somewhere on my depressingly long list of project ideas is a kickstarter for a video series that does exactly this - very rigorous double-blind tests for coffee, tea, wine, beer, food preparation techniques etc.
Are you trolling? What the actual fuck are people thinking when they post comments like this? Disregarding that you can spend small fractions of bitcoins, what happens when you lose a dollar bill? inb4 "Oh don't worry about it because the bank just makes money out of thin air"
Compared to equipment that produce physical things, mining Bitcoin takes zero skill and labor. It's literally as easy as plugging it in.

However that is starting to change (see ASICminer's facility)
Warts and all: how developers are using Early Access to their advantage
If you have to type "news", you're better off than I am. "n" does it for me.
No you can't fill up the transaction log for free magically. You have no clue what you're talking about. Fuck off.
Intelligentsia offers free shipping on orders over 25 bucks but yes in general the price is on the high side. I did a quick cost comparison though to still show you are saving money vs buying at Starbucks.

That said -- I have not gotten into roasting my own. I am willing to try on artisanal and quality grounds (pun). However I am skeptical on the time involved as I am pretty busy and dont necessarily want to spend a couple hours a week roasting beans.
I cannot believe that you are defending the most vulnerable minority (the individual), what an outrage!
Queue-it
RCPlive: Inter-VLAN Routing
Yeah. The network currently is crunching at the equivalent of 6 exaFLOPS. Pretty ridiculous. I can easily imagine a story like that on the pages of a science fiction book! As in 'A Deepness in the Sky' or alike...
Baratza Vario Coffee Grinder – Simply the best home grinder on the market. 440 distinct grind settings. Ceramic burrs for low heat transfer and long life

I can't help wondering if the grinder uses solid core or braided wire internally. If it's braided, he'd better ensure that there's some opposing winding in there to prevent any heat transfer from stray EM fields.
If portability is valued, why bother with a scale?

I love this Able stainless steel filter for Aeropress:
http://ablebrewing.com/products/disk-coffee-filter

The difference in flavor from a paper filter is very noticeable and hugely appreciated.
This is definitely the wrong place for it... but I noticed with the vet and godoc move that I had trouble "go get"ting them.

I have GOROOT in /usr/local/src/go and root owns that as it's put there in our dev builds by our bootstraps scripts.

I have GOPATH in /home/{user}/Dev/Go

One cannot go get as root from GOROOT for system install, and one cannot trivially go get in the user GOPATH either. The latter is due to vet and godoc needing permission against GOROOT.

If you sudo the go get within GOPATH, then that works from the GOROOT permissions point of view, but then (once you get past Mercurial freaking) the bits of GOPATH/pkg and GOPATH/src that relate to vet and godoc and owned by root... making any subsequent go get of say, the HTML parser, fail because it cannot write to the folder.

I ended up doing this as a user to go get vet and godoc within GOPATH:

echo "[trusted]
users = *
groups = *
" > ~/.hgrc
sudo sh -c "export GOPATH=$GOPATH && export GOROOT=$GOROOT && export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin && go get -u code.google.com/p/go.tools/cmd/godoc"
sudo sh -c "export GOPATH=$GOPATH && export GOROOT=$GOROOT && export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin && go get -u code.google.com/p/go.tools/cmd/vet"
USER=$(whoami)
GROUP=$(id -g -n $USER)
sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP $GOPATH

It works, but there is a better way, right?

Do the docs assume Go source installs are user specific?
Nowadays I sometimes create a git repo in my /etc directory
I live in Chicago where Intelligentsia was started and has several locations. Intelligentsia is good coffee but it's not the best in town by any means. Other strong (Chicago based) competitors:

http://www.halfwitcoffee.com/

http://www.bigshoulderscoffee.com/

http://gaslightcoffeeroasters.com/

http://www.lacolombe.com/

http://www.darkmattercoffee.com/
Relatively safely means probably less likely than someone handing you a counterfeit $5 bill. It's just not worth the expense to try and print it.
Visual Arduino programming
I would be less concerned about "Soviet spy" and more concerned with "General Jack Ripper".