skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used this extension but my guess is that it's defeating the host redirection that ISPs do to point you at their extremely shitty and underprovisioned edge caches. Most ISPs run them to cache popular youtube content and save on out of network bandwidth, however as with most things they are terrible at it and extremely cheap. The solution I've been most happy with is to run all traffic over VPN to an endpoint not under Comcast - keeps everything nice and speedy, albeit with slightly more latency.
Indeed, it just creates and reenforces the dichotomy.
Its not the math but the execution risk that is the issue.
How has mongodb worked out for you in the long-run? Have you looked at tokumx?
Yeah, I immediately thought series of tubes.
Heh, privilege, the way leftist flagellate see it is: If your life is better than someone else's, you are privileged. It is relative apparently. It is usually used to reinforce guilt and self-doubt in an attempt to shame you into caring about the plight of others. It is a devious ploy and attack on the self. You are right to question it.

Strictly speaking, by the definition of privilege, they're right in that you are in a position that not all can attain in practice. Whether it's because you weren't born a crack baby, or because you weren't implicitly discriminated against obviously for some historically known reason (sex, race, handicap).

But life isn't fair, and never will. Others will argue that they will continue to level the playing field, but there will those who are still privileged and those who aren't, for things like being born better looking, or being smarter, or being at the right place or the right time.

Ultimately people chaff against the label of 'privilege' because it has such a negative connotation. And implies that life was easy for you to begin with. You weren't privileged then, but now you are as it were.

For those that call you that, most want you to have the perspective that your life is better than others and that by noblesse oblige you have a duty to the less privileged, by some moral code be it Christian, Bushido, Chivalry what have you.

Consider it a social tax on your success.
Hey guys, any advice or feedback will be much appreciated.

I've been building this on and off for the past year with my brother: I'm the engineer, he's the industry expert.

This is our first serious attempt at a startup, so any input will help tremendously. Thanks in advance.
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Of course I would expect not to get shot. Is this a trick question?
Are you by any chance using non-TWC DNS servers? I had this same frustrating problem on Comcast, and it turned out that their CDN works by using DNS to direct you to local servers; by using the Google 8.8.8.8 etc I wasn't getting that.

Even still, though, I run into certain Youtube videos that absolutely refuse to ever fully load -- it's always non-popular ones, and it's like they cache miss and just never get surfaced for me to watch the whole way through.
> It's very rare these days to find people who are willing to stick to their principles; we should respect those who do, rather than criticize them for not compromising on their principles

Why should I respect someone for sticking with principles that are misguided? The whole idea that "sticking to principles" is a virtue independent of the merits of the principles involved is perverse.

Its even more perverse when the "principles" being stuck too are tactical judgments about how to best acheive strategic aims, and they are being stuck too even when they are operating against the strategic aims -- which is, precisely, the charge ESR is levelling against the anti-plugin policy vis-a-vis the stated goals of the FSF with regard to GCC.

> asking the FSF to do something that they believe hinders free software is like asking MADD to open a drive-through liquor store

ESR's argument is that FSF is wrong that this hinders free software, and in fact that FSF's status quo approach inhibits the FSF's stated goals for GCC.
Why force it to sync to the cloud?

Not sure i wan't to exchange my private bookmark collection with a cloud i know nothing about, without any privacy terms or even company information.
So, you're not running Docker in production at this point?

Are you putting the whole stack in one big container and running one container per Vagrant VM? Or are you spreading a client stack across multiple containers?
To me that comes across as trying too hard.

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Alas, rural is pretty much anywhere outside a few city centers, and even in London there are parts where you can get stuck with an unstable 4 MBit/s DSL link (from personal experience).
A fair point. In my excitement of finding an available domain, perhaps I tried to force the name :P
> Since quite some time most Lisp systems don't use a JIT. They compile the code ahead of time or explicitly incrementally.

I am aware of type hints, but given Lisp's dynamic nature, wouldn't a JIT provide more optimized code than AOT?
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Is it really easier than email?
Great level-headedness.

I just wanted to point out, it's _not just the economic marginalization_, it's the cultural mismatch that fuels so much frustration for those in the outside group.

Of course the economic stuff is easy to measure (being numbers!), but stuff like calling yourself a robot (the develop calls himself a robot in his soul), having employees wear different colored badges according to their privileges and so on are cultural differences that people don't like and feel compelled to call out.
Exactly, Game 1 with multplayer, real time, start together, and the one who stays the last gets a point, the first who get 10 points wins :)
Just checked my company's Trello board. Can confirm, it's faster.
I find it amusing that their big support button[1] ends up at an error page[2], given the bad reputation of Google's consumer customer support.

[1] Rightmost, here: http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/#a_faster_web

[2] https://support.google.com/youtube/checklist/3480866?p=video...
Although at least it's a testable prediction.
Of course, and ericcumbee's point is well made; people who've never put any actual thought into what it's like to go armed are generally very quick to assume that those who do go armed see putting holes in things as a handy means of resolving any situation, from an argument in traffic to a panhandler begging change. (Far be it from me, of course, to speculate on any personal qualities, or lack thereof, which might be inadvertently revealed, by those who make this unwarranted assumption, in the process of doing same.)

That said, if I am effectively trapped in my home by a currently non-violent protest which has as its manifesto the sort of manifest lunacy on display in the linked article, I am going to want to be able to defend family and self with force majeure, should matters proceed beyond noisy and foolish hot-headedness into an outright attack.
+1 that was useful! Took 20 seconds to see how my local ISP does relative to other providers.
Why wouldn't they just run those same FOSS programs on Windows or OS X instead? It's not like Linux has a monopoly on running open source apps. In general, people use computers in order to use computers, not to make a political statement about how much they disapprove of ways in which everybody else uses computers.
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> McKinlay had popped up in her search for 6-foot guys with blue eyes near UCLA...

I find it interesting that he did so much analysis based on interests, beliefs, etc. and he ended up getting messaged because of a search that was pretty superficial.
> I imagine these will be popular with CPU based mining such as primecoin?

Huh, my first thought was VM's. I guess I'm just not one of the cool kids anymore.
Dude! This is so boss. I've been looking for exactly this for Techendo - as you can guess our traffic varies by time of day. Being able to ramp services up as I need them would help tremendously.

Congrats on the launch and thanks for helping!
No, it's the math, because you can't wish the execution risk away.
Maybe they used that imagery because a series of tubes is an apt metaphor for internet bandwidth.
Good stuff. I like how quick it is to make and post a question.
I have "cocks" as part of my name. This can cause havoc with some electronic systems (a Google page wouldn't allow me to submit feedback because my Google account has "cocks" in it. A weird bit of suboptimality) so have you considered the fact that some sub-optimal systems will hinder your product?
This is not an error page for me.
People talked about Internet "pipes" for many years, but somehow Stevens was a moron for saying "tubes".
Pay peanuts you get monkeys.

They charge $19 PER PAGE just to have "permission" to remove their name. That should be all the proof you need of their business model.

If you need more though, the "$39 a page" actually ends up being $254 a page, if you want..

* responsive..
* tested/compatible with Chrome, Safari or Opera...
* accessible
* commented css
* commented markup
* using a css grid framework
* html5
* microformats
* speed optimisation
* sprites
* a favicon
* PERMISSION TO REMOVE THEIR NAME FROM THE PAGE

This is why people think "PSD to HTML" services are a thing of the past - operators who are stuck in the past and think using modern standards is a reason to charge 2x or 3x the stated price. Seriously look at their pricing page - they add the per-page price again just to use HTML5 instead of XHTML Transitional, and again to use a CSS grid framework.
"Note: the app will be running in an environment where there is no Internet. Hence push notification will not work here."

Emphasis original.

The author did not say they have no network connection, they said they have no Internet connection. The two are not synonyms. This makes perfect sense. It is factually wrong to laugh at that.

Now, it is possible that shiplu.mokadd.im is using the terms synonymously, but the text of the question leads me to believe that it is entirely possible that a local network resource is being used over Wifi and that he understands this quite well.
This is a beautiful, visionary optimization of something that desperately needs work. Bookmarks are a hilariously shitty way of organizing knowledge, and without them, you only have information.

Yet. The problems addressed aren't the problems I have.

I'm wondering what kind of UX research was done putting this together. To me it looks like the research was hyper-focused, and didn't give the subjects enough scope to ask questions or bend the research away from optimization of kinetics and ask about their deeper goals, and this has inflected the goals of the product itself. I think this happens often in UX research, as well as psychology and sociology. (The three are related.)

For example. "Subject files bookmarks 0.5% faster" is not an interesting goal, but it is very easy to measure, which is why UX research often degenerates into wild local minima chases.

It feels good to get technical on a problem with a nice clean metric, it feels disciplined to value gains measured in a single percent or less. It feels like progress. But it can be little more than a distraction if there are bigger gains left on the table; worthy goals passed over because of the difficulty characterizing them and hence of evaluating the outcome of an attempt to achieve them.

To me, this is a shining example of how you can do everything right and still get it not quite right. That's the sort of thing that tells you your theory of how something works (UX innovation, in this case) can come apart from practice.

We sense this as an absence of insight, like the creator of the software didn't quite understand how we want to be with it.

That said, thumbprick shows promise, and insight is overrated. This is a near miss that could easily become a hit, check back soon.
OP: I think this is great. I've been looking for something lightweight that will keep my bookmarks better grouped and organized almost like an enhanced bookmarks bar without cluttering me with features. At first glance this seems like a real solution to that problem, and it seems to do it with good design in mind. I signed up and I'm going to give it an honest try before making any judgments on it.

HN: the negativity in this thread should be embarrassing.

You think the name will turn people off? Who cares. It's not your product, and no one is polling you for your opinion.

You think it's another bookmark synchronization tool? So what. Everything is just another something.

You think there is zero info on the homepage? Wrong. Theres a video that tells you exactly what the product offers in under a minute.

You think that 95% of the time went into the video? You have no support for this claim. It's a beta anyway.

None of these comments are constructive and it seems to me that they are only offered as a way for the poster to satisfy some self-aggrandizing superiority complex. Keep that garbage on reddit.

OP, don't let these comments discourage you. You may be onto something here.
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Ask HN: your bitcoin ideas for 2014? 
My idea: distributed encrypted dropbox that rewards storage providers with bitcoin based on usage. Anyone can join as a storage provider and users decide exactly how many servers they want to rent out, and where to rent out that is, in which part of the world.
Does GCC need to compete with clang at all? What's that mean exactly? Other than in terms of compile speed, it just seems like most modern compilers sort of reach some level of maturity and you really have to fabricate benchmarks to demonstrate that interesting of a difference between them.

ESR is just trolling. What his bug is, I don't know. Seems like he's dancing around something that might be interesting and more inline with the social observation that he's a little better at. I assert that GCC doesn't actually compete and doesn't need to compete. It just has to be available and it simply has to have hackers that are willing to work on it for the principle. Let's just assume that clang takes over the world, consistently produced better code than GCC, etc.. What exactly does that matter to GCC? Presumably hackers will stop working on GCC, but guile, hurd, and numerous other GNU projects show that that isn't always the case. I think that as long as GNU exists and they have some money and fans, there will be GCC contributors. Is there some other fear of what will happen if people use a different tool chain? Conversely, BSD has depended upon GCC for decades and I'm not convinced that that has affected it in any way and their switch to clang I suspect isn't going to radially alter things either. If we go back a week or two, I don't know that emacs' choice of revision control software makes any difference to its use, it may have some amount of impact on people contributing to it but I don't think that is clear cut either, there are A LOT of emacs contributions that aren't in the main tree... Also these projects don't want 'drive by' contributions, they want actively involved supporters.

Seems like he's dancing around some social observations that he wants to be true but can't prove or they might not be true. People hack on stuff because they have an itch, that itch might be technical need, it might be some sense of aesthetic that they think isn't being answered, it could also be related to something like freedom. When do other factors outweigh the itch? Now maybe GCC is GNU's most important software asset and there is some larger social thing ESR is worried about or has observed.
I should have elaborated a bit. I meant has the person that received the bitcoins providing updates recently (ie. Spending my millions on a private island in the Caribbean).
Great, but I can't see my country (Brazil) in there, even though Netflix operates here.
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> That's not a business tactic that should be encouraged.

Why not?
Um, folks, this is a non-peer reviewed paper written by some Princeton students. It's not, contrary to what at least three news organizations suggested, the considered opinion of the faculty of "Princeton's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering."

Now, the paper's conclusions may or may not be correct; I'm expressing no opinion here. My point is really about standards of journalism -- would it really kill reporters to include the word "student" somewhere in the text of an article trumpeting a paper written by students?

Vocativ (which I generally like, BTW) did this as well with this amazingly declarative headline yesterday: "Facebook Will Lose 80% of Its User Base by 2017" No question mark! Not even attribution. I noted this on Twitter and their reporter replied by saying: "So?" https://twitter.com/declanm/status/425699497092460545

For those of you who may not have been online in the early 1990s, Time magazine did this to CMU undergrad Marty Rimm's paper in its "Cyberporn" cover story. A U.S. senator subsequently waved it around on the floor of the Senate to justify an Internet censorship law:
http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Declan_McCullagh/www/rim...

That was the good Sen. Chuck Grassley, in June 1995:
"Mr. President, Georgetown University Law School has released a remarkable study conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. This study raises important questions about the availability and the nature of cyberporn."

The Communications Decency Act became law some six months later.
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Ouch. App stores often take 30%, which means that only 52.5% (0.7*0.75) of what the user pays goes to the developer. That is quite a significant number.
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Upvoted.

If I had (only) 500m USD the chance of me letting it ride with 2x return and 50% chance of winning is precisely zero.

So, with the roulette example, I would never win 1bn USD. From what you say about Buffet's early buy-out, the same may apply in this case.
Are those 10 people really the only regular posters? Or are those 10 friends that Facebook has decided to spotlight on your news feed? I never feel like I'm getting everybody's updates because Facebook is trying to only show me "important" updates.
This comment isn't responsive either to 'patio11 or to the thread. The question is, "are VC's missing out on lots of successful exits because they're allergic to 50MM outcomes?". The answer seems to be "no", because the returns on 2 50MM exits in a 10 company portfolio don't make up for the goose eggs from the other 8.

The fact that many of us believe that any given "billion dollar" prospect is counterfeit is neither here nor there. Sure, most VCs also fail with the "bet on billion dollar companies" strategy. Most VCs fail. But that doesn't mean that they should select instead a strategy that appears to be mathematically predetermined to fail.
Ask HN: Why have Ukraine-related posts disappeared from top places?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7103031 used to be #1 an hour ago or so, but it has abruptly plummeted to well below #100. It appears to have been downscored manually. Why so?
Huh? It's free for commercial use. You really can't beat that. I doubt you will need the advanced (paid) features of Unity unless you are established and have a team of developers. In which case, you can surely afford $1500.
As far as I know the LLVM tools (and it's not just clang there are others as well like clang-analyzer and lldb) that come with XCode are just binaries of the open source project. If there are any differences I haven't noticed them and I've built and used LLVM tools from source builds as well as Apple's binaries.

Since Apple has so much influence over the project they can simply get the changes they want into the project so that diminishes their need for their own changes.

The things they want to hold back almost entirely go into XCode's IDE. For instance XCode's IDE has a very nice visualization for the clang-analyzer. The visualization is just using the output from the open source analyzer. You can even replace the clang-analyzer with a newer version and use it from XCode. By keeping the visualization implementation in XCode itself they can maintain an advantage for their platform.

I'd say that this just proves his point since Apple has chosen not to produce a proprietary compiler and instead to contribute to LLVM.
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>It's a lot harder to "see a target and hit it" when you have absolutely no interest or passion in the target.

Then those people are not entitled to anything. I have no interest or passion in becoming a surgeon, and since they make so much more than me I should go start a ruckus down at the hospital, using this logic.
That being said, OkCupid has a HUGE male-seeking-male population (from anecdotal evidence, larger than it's women-seeking-women population).
As far as I can tell, it's a necessary consequence of any mention of firearms on HN, in any context. There seems little point in blaming any one participant, in any one instance, for the perennial argument over what is perhaps the most immediately, or at least the most reliably, polarizing issue ever raised on HN.
If one takes "kind of" to mean "not," then yes. Otherwise, no, the point of protest is not to threaten anything or anyone, including revolution.

Seriously, just look up protest in a dictionary. It's an expression, a communication. It's a chance for people to respond. It's a visible, recordable effort, as opposed to an anecdote.
Oops. Yes, I should have read the column headings.
It's not a conspiracy theory. Could you point to the 'debunking' because I don't see one that contains any actual evidence?. There are lots and lots of public mailing list posts by RMS and other GCC engineers explaining their reasoning for not making GCC more modular. The reasons were political.

For example RMS vetoed the first attempts to add support for Java bytecode to GCC because he thought it would allow people to interact with GCC from other non-free software: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-02/msg00895.html

That same reasoning is why there is no GCC equivalent to LLVM IR or libclang or libtooling.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-12/msg00...

Part of the reason why clang/llvm weakens our commnity, compared with GCC, is that the clang front ends can feed their data to nonfree tools.

There are some links in this wiki page that cover some of the arguments made against adding support for plugins to GCC. http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC_Plugins under 'Potential disadvantages of supporting a plugin architecture in GCC'

Here is a post from a GCC maintainer explaining that RMS was personally blocking the inclusion of this much desired basic functionality for political reasons: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-11/msg00193.html

> Is there any progress in the gcc-plugin project ?

Non-technical holdups. RMS is worried that this will make it too easy to integrate proprietary code directly with GCC.
Worse yet, the "about" link shows a drawing of a bike and a windmill. Not very useful.
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At peak times it isn't out of the question that the video service itself is a bit under the weather. I've had some troubles with Amazon at peak time, and it's always been with fresh content, such as yesterday's television show that just became available on Amazon four hours ago. It wasn't obviously my network, as switching over to Netflix worked just fine at full quality. (That's not a proof it's not still somehow network related, but it strongly suggests it wasn't my ISP.)