skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet formalizing your process won't help most people. You'll just end up seeing how many "sunk costs" you have, which might be good, but you'll still churn through ideas.

Here's a more realistic solution: thoroughly research your competitors before you begin implementing your ideas. You should be doing this anyway! You need to learn from their mistakes and leverage your position of starting something from scratch as much as you can.

What I've learned is inevitably you end up scrapping most of your ideas after a few days of research. You realize how tough the competition will be, how far ahead they are, and how much work your idea really will take to implement. A quick dose of reality will make you happy to move on to other ideas before wasting weeks or months working on it. When you are still excited about an idea after knowing the market, you're on to something that might stick.
We did no such thing, but do you have a reference to Bezos saying that? I know Amazon does not negotiate over contract terms, but that's something different than prizes.
Presumably it takes non-0 costs to maintain 4.2.2.x DNS servers. While I'd want to believe Google and L3 just try to help out the public at large with free DNS services, I suspect they are not doing that just purely out of altruism.
"Those servers were never intended for widespread public use, ..."

What is the test for "intended for widespread public use"?

If a server is configured to accept queries from any IP
address, can we conclude anything about "intent"?

If the server admin does nothing to stop widespread public
use (which is trivial to do of course), can we conclude
anything about intent?

Is there some other clue we need to look for?

Under your reasoning, it's "reasonable" to provide
open resolvers and hijack NXDOMAIN responses, so
long as there is no "intent" for widespread public
use.

Interesting.
Throws a 404. Is it a public repo?
Bootcamp can even install Windows to your macbook pro from an ISO. Works great.
"Your margin is my opportunity" - Jeff Bezos

Such is life when competing against anything Amazon. Price is feature of their product, just like UI, etc. If they find a way to make it cheaper - they will.
A better way to pay workers
Is a mathematical object physical? Nope. Yet we need those to talk about "physical" things.

I asked you to define physical. Not to state what you mean being a mind being physical. If you try a bit, you would find out that dualism, materialism are all equally idiotic or equally truthful.
MPTCP and MPRTP to the rescue... these also have inbuilt algorithms to pick the best interface.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-singh-avtcore-mprtp (for skype and multimedia)

https://tools.ietf.org/wg/mptcp/ (for everything else, even Siri)
That doesn't necessarily change the answer.
Most notably, this is an Amazon original show and available for free to Amazon Prime members on their streaming video service.
I can't reply to you directly. Why is your faith not blind or unreasoning? Can you give me just one specific example of empirical evidence for God's existence? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'm guessing you're going to give me some unverifiable testimony from people who died long ago and expect that to have a person question heaps of contrary empirical evidence. I don't think that works.

And you are resorting to faith because the evidence isn't good enough. The evidence that explain the things that I believe in, like the existence of this computer in front of me, don't require any faith at all.
The problem, for me, is that HTML5 video is a technical solution with no social advantage. There are so many places on the web where images are allowed that videos will never be allowed -- for good reason. Forums, comment threads, etc.

What we need is an image container format that allows for a silent (and only silent) video stream to be embedded. A better GIF. Something that site maintainers would feel entirely comfortable in allowing.
Brave Tech World
An interview: The Macintosh Design Team
An 11.88” Retina MacBook Air
> It doesn't help that life or death issues for men, like testicular cancer, are almost completely ignored.

This isn't a great example, because testicular cancer is rarely fatal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicular_cancer

> Testicular cancer has one of the highest cure rates of all cancers: a five-year survival rate in excess of 90 percent overall, and almost 100 percent if it has not spread (metastasized).[6] Even for the relatively few cases in which malignant cancer has spread widely, modern chemotherapy offers a cure rate of at least 80%.[7]

Obviously, awareness still helps. (And openness. I had an ultrasound when I was 16 (turned out to be a hydrocele), but I think it was a few weeks from when I noticed the lumy to when I told my mum about it, because how do you bring something like that up?)
And similar to Snitch[1] except Snitch doesn't seem to have launched yet.

[1]: http://trysnitch.com/
It's a years-long story; the crux of it is that the blogger Dr. Isis had been boycotting Nature for publishing "Womanspace," a short fiction piece about women and shopping, in 2011, as well as a more recent letter by some random non-scientist guy from Texas saying it's not surprising that women don't get published in Nature because they're just not that good. That's where the sexism thing originally comes in, not the current events per se.

There is some discussion of the fact that this senior editor at Nature is outing an early-career scientist, and maybe the fact that he feels free to do so is a sign of sexism ("she" might be easier to take down than a "he"). Draw your own conclusions on that one.
It probably doesn't. It can still take advantage of the pooling by, for example, routing your Skype call through your neighbor's connection because yours is already busy streaming Netflix in another room.

My concern would be my neighbor downloading movie torrents on my connection while I'm asleep. We'd need a really strong legal precedent that the person paying for the connection isn't responsible for what others do on it before this kind of thing could catch on in most countries.
I think that's not the question. Things don't have a meaning by themselves.

What does hydrogen mean?
> But as VC money flows into SoundCloud it will become crappy like ...

I hear you, but I'm quite confident the site is going to stay good for a while. Then, given that storage and bandwidth might become cheaper, we would see some startups emerge and target those who would have been "abandoned" by this hypothetical evil, VC-funded Soundcloud. Musicians would then leave Soundcloud like they left Myspace, so let's not worry too much and enjoy Soundcloud for the moment, because it's still a good product.

Let's not forget that we're talking about D series, and if they could keep this focus so far, I'd say we can at least try to have a bit of faith in them.
I've found that you can reply directly by clicking the [link] link, which gives you a reply box.

"The evidence that explain the things that I believe in, like the existence of this computer in front of me, don't require any faith at all."

Not so. You have faith in what your parents told you about the circumstances of your birth. You have no memory of the first year of your life, so it could very well have been made up. But you believe it by faith mixed with reason.
Chrome: From NSS to OpenSSL
I don't understand a word you are saying.
Is it under the GPL?
A Guide to Optimized Napping
DI isn't scary sounding, it's just unnecessary most of the time I've seen it, especially in public facing APIs that third party developers use. Most classes don't have so many varied amounts of diverse dependencies where you have to resort to convoluting the constructors for the sake of testing. You could just use inheritance.

Dependency injection takes a thing that should be one line of code and makes it twenty lines. It requires third party developers to have know all kinds of unnecessary implementation details. DI is a piece of shit that should be a measure of last resort and if you find yourself resorting to it often maybe question your entire architecture.

I have yet to meet one person to convince me that DI is not unnecessary in most cases. It always boils down to making writing tests easier. Well you should not shit all over your public APIs for the sake of testing.
There is no stationary spacetime in our Universe.

The universe as a whole is not stationary, nor even close to being so; but portions of the universe are very close to being stationary. The solar system, for example. Black holes do not have to be exactly stationary; if they are as close to being stationary as the solar system, that's plenty close enough.

Black hole is pretty artificial model

The exactly spherically symmetric solution is an idealization, yes; but there are plenty of numerical simulations that show that non-symmetric spacetimes still form event horizons.

where pure mathematical artifacts of singularity at the horizon is taken for the real thing.

There is no physical singularity at the horizon. Some coordinate charts have a coordinate singularity at the horizon, but that's easily fixed by just using a different coordinate chart. The only physical singularity is at r = 0.

Taking a big chunk of space and calculating escape speed from its gravitational field

Escape to where? You can't escape from the universe as a whole. The concept of "escape speed" has no meaning for the universe as a whole.
A heroic and brave person no matter who he worked for. Rest well kind stranger.
True enough but this has happened more than once
you are right about http. it should be https, I'll pass it on. But request is already authorized with headers? you can email them info@instapush.im and let them know how you'd love to do it, I'm sure they will listen.
I guess it's just to live as long as possible rather than never dying.
You have started arguments and confrontations in this thread, where it really isn't relevant, and you haven't backed anything up, and that makes you look like a bit of a zealot. Maybe consider your own behavior instead of pleading for respect of an idealized Christian (who you pretty obviously intend to be yourself). You aren't a martyr here.
Startups, Business, And The Value Of Doing Good
> Not really thrilled with the idea of using Google DNS.

You can use your own dns server. Just install a recursive dns server on your own network like https://www.powerdns.com/recursor.html or https://unbound.net/
>Hillis is what good scientists call a very bright guy -- creative, imaginative, but not quite a genius.

What an odd classification.
Ask HN: I made $5000 from company options, how can I put them to good use?
The startup I work for was acquired and to my and my coworkers' disappointment only a handful of people gained from the deal, while our share was a joke. Instead of resenting this money I'd rather not touch them personally and try to put them to good use it ways I wouldn’t normally think of (since I’m just a twenty something dev from eastern Europe with no real savings)

It might be naive and far fetched, but maybe I could put together a small hackathon or something with collective impact (a physical event might be out of the question with this budget.) Problem is I have no experience in organizing anything since I’ve been on my own most of the time, which is why this would be most beneficial for me as well

Any ideas?
Here's a good short article on the Resurrection of Jesus[1].

[1]: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12789a.htm
I have a little script I use to "flush out" and de-romanticize business ideas. It asks some of the hard questions you need to consider to turn an idea into a proper business: http://ivanistheone.github.io/ideacollector/

Also for community projects: http://ivanistheone.github.io/ideacollector/#community

And science papers: http://ivanistheone.github.io/ideacollector/#paper

Inspired by ZeFrank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8&feature=youtu.be&...
Get one of samknows boxes[1] to measure your broadband. It is like a bandwidth test but mainly measures when you are not using your home network, i.e., it senses for traffic before making measurements. You'll be able to see a historic graph of the available bandwidth, average RTT (to some popular sites) and losses (if any), DNS response times, etc.

They run some of the above tests once every hour. The good thing with this initiative is it attempts to build an IETF standard [2] that can be incorporated by all ISPs to make sure that their deployed network is performant.

[1] http://www.samknows.com/broadband/
[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/lmap/
The one-function protocols strike me as unidiomatic; why not use functions directly? `(fn […] …)` would work just as well as `(reify P (f [this …] …))` (`this` is never used).

Update: I looked at the code again and noticed that `stdin-transport` implements two protocols. Guess I need to think a little bit more about this.
An entertaining article by Hillis about Richard Feynman's involvement in Thinking Machines: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
Let's rephrase and see if we get anywhere new.

Frank discussion of scientific ideas, methods and conclusions requires a focus on those subjects, and an absolute ignorance of the personalities behind those subjects.

Where either a scientist or a party whose opinion can significantly influence a scientist's career steps over that bound and focuses on persons and politics, frank discussion of that breach may require anonymity or pseudonymity to prevent further retaliation, etc., by the influencing party or by any of their allies who may be given to the same violation of boundaries.

An influencer of some significance violated those boundaries in a public forum, though one that may not widely followed (twitter may be widely used, but individual accounts vary, of course).

A scientist wrote pseudonymously to the influencer's employer to a) ensure the employer was aware of the breach and b) to ensure that other scientists were aware of the breach, given how that influencer may affect their reputations without their knowing, since the influencer has at least once strayed across the boundary in a most public way.

Might the scientist also have written c) out of petulance? Perhaps. But that ain't relevant, because the scientist's motivation can be explained entirely and reasonably by A and B, and C is neither relevant nor necessary, because other scientists whose careers may be affected by influencer deserve to know that this person has strayed beyond their bounds, and making this known in a letter to the employer is the most effective of achieving this.
It's the last point in the article, but I think it deserves special mention: writing your ideas down is a great first step in coping with them.

In a way writing ideas down serves the same purpose as rubber duck debugging, in that you can figure out if you have a "real" idea or if it's just some sort of dream-like emotions that make you think it's one.

Techniques described in Allen's book (Getting Things Done) and stuff like the Pomodoro technique works wonders for me on this sort of issue.
What else do you expect? You're not supposed to find most of it acceptable. Why are you surprised when a book that records the fall of man into sin and depravity is both shocking and FULL of stories of man pushing the bounds of depravity? It is brutally authentic and you should be reeling at the accounts of the depths of what mankind has done to himself.

The Bible doesn't "advocate" anything by those verses. Surely you wouldn't read a historical account of World War II and be so naive as to say that the book is "advocating" genocide, would you? That would be totally irrational.

To say that God "advocated" mankind's actions because they are recorded in the Old Testament is completely, utterly false and naive. It's like saying two parents "advocate" drug use when they recount the story of their child's drug addiction and how they attempted to bring their child back to being clean. The parents might even have a part in their story where they demanded their child keep the drug habit to the basement, or maybe even offered clean needles in lieu of the potentially infected ones off the street. But to say they "advocated" for that behavior? Hogwash!

No, the motive you are looking for is "merciful allowance, with a loving hope for restoration."
I agree about SoundCloud and use it for most of my music listening but I don't agree about YouTube. If you're into EDM YouTube is great as long as you follow the channels that promote the music you listen to. Very similar to SoundCloud actually.
Anecdotally, at my last job, we had used them on several of our internal file and VM servers (because they were cheap), and they had a nasty habit of falling off the bus overnight, causing the RAID controller to go berserk.
The article is very light on technical details, and tries to imply some advanced things with the whole "mesh network" terminology.

In almost every product like this I've seen, it's not load-sharing a single session (like a Skype call) across multiple Internet connections, but instead sharing/routing particular sessions to particular networks.

Skype for instance is relatively low-bandwidth, but latency sensitive. Downloads are high bandwidth, and less concerned with latency (within reason). The router can make decisions, most likely based on the protocols and/or ports of the session, and route each session to the most appropriate outbound Internet connection.

You can aggregate multiple pipes into one larger "bonded" connection, but this would generally require equipment on both ends of that connection. Technically, feasible, but most likely not in this case.

They could also use the mesh network to route some packets, or segments (eg: bunch of packets in a row) to the best outbound pipe, which would be selected based some continuous ping tests (in essence). You could probably make that happen with transparency to the end user, even in Skype.

In the end, from the very limited info, this sounds like the next rev of basic multi-homed "load sharing" routers that have been around forever, just with a new twist.
This is super awesome!!
> I'm guessing you're going to give me some unverifiable testimony from people who died long ago and expect that to have a person question heaps of contrary empirical evidence.

Read the related chapter in The Handbook of Christian Apologetics[1] for reasons why the Gospel stories are reliable eyewitness accounts.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Christian-Apologetics-Peter-K...
I didn't realize Amazon had exclusives. Is this new that they're getting into their own original series, like Netflix?
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A nice touch in PowerShell is that this kind of thing is already included, as the cmdlet help is structured into different sections, one of which is examples. So Get-Help Get-Foo -Examples gives you them directly.
> At the least it’s leaking, in clear text on the wire, things that I expected to be sent to an encypted DDG search. If there was sensitive search terms or information in that query, it just dropped into Level3′s logfiles.

He must not realize that even if the DNS server was working correctly, the original request that should result in NXDOMAIN is also passed in clear text over the wire and naturally potentially logged by the DNS server. The lesson is not to rely on DNS security. Your ISP can see what servers (IPs) you communicate with anyway.
I don't understand why you are thinking about spending $5000 like that if you have no savings
I don't claim to be perfect. But I'm also not shoving anything down anyone's throats. And I don't see how anything I've said on here constitutes arguing. I think you're confusing me with someone else maybe?
These are all witness accounts from superstitious people who died long ago. Nothing listed is verifiable. This is not good evidence. Witness accounts from dead people should not be enough to discount the mountains of empirical evidence that imply that resurrection after having been dead for three days is not possible.
Simple iPad multitasking gestures
I haven't; I'll check it out, out of curiosity.
It's still hijacking, but they're under no obligation to provide service.
What I do personally is keep a simple Google Doc (which I call a Spark File) where I just write down ideas as soon as I get them, in the most pristine way, and then forget about them.

Sometimes I get very interesting ideas, note them down, and after a while I come back to them and decide to build them. While I'm building I'll also note down any idea I get (be it related to the project I'm working on or something else) and just forget about it for the time being. Once I'm done with what I'm supposed to do, I'll open my Spark File again and scavenge for interesting ideas to either expand my project or start a new one.
What i don't understand is why they haven't implemented a "buy song" or at least "tip the artist" a-la flattr. I don't think it would degrade the experience and would remove the hassle of setting up a separate bandcamp/whatever page.
Brain Crack – ZeFrank on never executing on ideas
This is genius, I have a feeling that I will have to use that one pretty soon.
I believe there is a coffeelint plugin that will warn you if you reassign a variable from an outer scope
A good idea, but I see it taking some backlash for the name, which would be unfortunate because, aside from the name, it really is not perpetuating "bro"gramming, etc.
To be more precise, in the current climate, it's undervalued.
> Yes, it can screw up caches and return unexpected content.

Then the cache is broken. Obviously not getting a response is going to confuse things, but there is a way to send back REFUSED without giving a positive or negative answer.

Take HN's authoritative DNS server and ask it for information on yahoo.com.

$ dig @sue.ns.cloudflare.com. yahoo.com.
...
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 28595
...

They are perfectly right to refuse service to non-customers, but I think it's bad network practice (legally right or not) to return incorrect information.
You're absolutely right. I thought it was based on nom, but it's not.
Note that this show is terrible.

They are trying to make Silicon Valley and startups look like Hollywood and scriptwriting. The first episode has the main characters (startup co-founders) hanging out at a trendy bar and programming there. Of course one is a stereo-typical aspie guy with no social skills but is a genius with computers. Then they go to a house party thrown by a big name VC that I think is supposed to be Ron Conway; the house is filled with professional models glomming all over the VC and everyone is generally gorgeous. The guys sneak in to pitch him on their new social networking app that somehow has data "hacked" from some government database or something. They just know that if only they can get 5 minutes of their time with this VC, they will be able to land funding-- which will... make their business successful somehow?

You know, exactly like real startup life.
Out of curiosity, why did you leave Softlayer for EC2? I am looking at hosting for a new venture. Past experience with EC2 pricing and performance has left me feeling a bit burned, so SoftLayer is among the options I am looking at.
Shouldn't this (in a better world), be the opposite however? We'd need a really strong legal precedent that the person paying for the connection IS responsible for what others do on it
The same can be said about pretty much any country. This article is an opinion and isn't backed by examples or facts. If anything to be said about French roads, we have automated speed controls and it's a heavy burden on our lower-wealth population.

I wouldn't imagine a police force with a reputation to be lenient. Is it like this for the Irish Guarda? Do they still succeed in keeping the death rates low?
This video by ZeFrank is really great. It's a problem I certainly suffer from, with ideas from two or more years ago that I still kind of plan on executing on at some point… later… when I have time… but it will be great, I can tell you that much! Just wait, it will be worth it!

…or not.