skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point is that Netflix's CDNs aren't "decent".

That is, they're probably "decent" (quite good, I'd even imagine), but the load is so high so as to cause traffic problems anyway. The question was "how can I tell if it's Netflix or if it's my ISP?" and the answer is, "You can't."
Seems to me these claims of encryption are like selling full outfits with bulletproof socks and telling customers they're buying bulletproof clothes.

It's technically true, and it does offer protection against a minute range of threats, but it's mostly dangerous snake oil that'll end up with people who think they have protection when they don't.
How many talented people dream of going to work at Comcast today?
NYC at least because each building is like its own little fiefdom that's already wired for at least one competing service. FiOS has the same problems rolling out, a lot of the older buildings would require substantial building-wide upgrades to support fiber, something Google is likely not interested in at this point.
Other than obeying the law and paying taxes, he has no responsibility to the city. Why has it become so fashionable to project obligation onto others? The guy is creating 20+ jobs this year, what more would he need to do to fulfill this "responsibility to the overall city?"
I've been hearing that there will be no real threat to that merger. If that's true, then I see this as a real threat to the new Comcast; basically Google saying "you will have real competition even if you are massive".

Edit: Otherwise, why would they announce this at this stage? They've only announced other cities when they were certain.
I really liked your demo and I'd like to see what your WebGL startup will do. Is http://figma.com/ the right place to sign up to be notified when it launches?

Edit: You might want to add some more visual feedback (e.g., blanking the email input field or hiding it) when you enter your email successfully on the front page of figma.com. I had to launch Firebug to make sure it accepted my email with a 200 OK because that check mark icon appearing briefly while the email field's contents stayed the same seemed suspiciously like a silent request failure.
How many talented people dream of working at a household internet service provider?
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It's true that PyCharm doesn't let you work with files out of project. AFAIK this should change later this year in all IntelliJ IDEA-based products including PyCharm.
> compared to Python which seems slow

This sentence doesnt mean anything. What Python task? What library ? what framework ? on what server? with which version ? ect... I can say PHP is slow too, just look at any PHP framework, lowest scores according to techempower benchmarks :

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=ec...
WebGL is not just for 3D: it can be used for 2D games, where it is way faster than ordinary canvas2d, and allows use of shader effects and such. Major web game engines like Construct 2 [disclaimer: I am developer] use WebGL rendering with effects, and fall back to canvas2d if WebGL is not supported. So at least with Construct 2, it's been in commercial production use for a couple of years already.
Fingers crossed that DC is in the next group of cities :)
Great. Google should just push for it everywhere gradually.
This strikes me so much of mass effect 3 and the "sit on your butt and don't decide" ending.

Actually its a fun thought problem. How would we convey to a follow up intelligent species what we did wrong if things go bad?

Lets assume squid take over the planet (hey why not they're smart), what would we have to do to allow them to understand?

We have to control for a lot of situations:
* Assume they don't consider past relics a heresy to their religion (assuming again that they even have a corrolary). If they're destroyed in that regard its pretty much wasted effort.
* Try and assume how long it would take for intelligent life to re-appear. The timeline for this is somewhat critical to any decision we make on how we build a marker/library of "don't eff this up and get off this rock pronto". Or whatever we choose.

I'm sure there are more but I"m at work so not much time to devote to this thought experiment.
Still no San Diego, but still happy to see this as the more Google Fiber expands within different regions the more the dinosaur ISPs in those regions will be forced to compete, hopefully rising boats even in areas not yet covered by Google Fiber.
> I'm not sure this is a fair assessment. There's been tons of research into nuclear power, for example. Look at the generation IV reactor designs [1].

Research isn't industry. The regulations don't prevent people from designing reactors; just from building nuclear power plants.
I wish Google Fiber could be deployed in NY.

However if you consider the cost of deployment, it's much cheaper to do it in a rural area than in the middle of the dense city. I.e. cost per meter of deployed cable can differ a lot.
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I think that NYC and DC already have Verizon FIOS, as do the suburbs of Boston, but not Boston proper. Why compete with an existing and decent fiber service when you can stick it to Time Warner- sorry, Comcast and AT&T instead?
Play Flappy Bird against the person sitting next to you
The space elevator would be flung out to space, in the event of breakage.
The $500 per month housing stipend seems a little disingenuous. If the concern was truly about employees and rising real estate prices, why not raise wages by $6000 across the board? It isn't like real estate magically drops in value half a mile away or commuting longer distances is free. Is the policy an attempt to remove an excuse why an employee can't be in the office? Do they want the ability to call an employee during the evening and have them on site 10 minutes later? Do they want to ability to lower wages in the future with less resentment (it is a lot easier to cut perks than salary)? Maybe it is cynical, but those all sound like more realistic reasons to have a housing stipend based on proximity to the office than true concern for their employees.
The job of the designer is to solve problems and help their client maintain their identity.

It does not matter whether the designer have their own style. Most aren't hired for that and shouldn't be.
What would a simple quantum program look like?
Journalist(from Russian media Vesti) was killed by protesters. I think government must shut the terror down.
I currently live in NYC, and I've lived in Raleigh. It seems pretty clear that tearing up New York City to lay fiber is a much more expensive and tedious process than it would be in Raleigh. The state and local governments also seem much more friendly to that kind of thing.
Really? I think I would rather sit around and fantasize about being fit than put in the effort to lose 25 pounds. If I get the emotional reward before the work, why do the work?
I work in the shadow of Comcast Center, and here in Phila plenty of talented people would love to go work for them.
> Yes, it's called pre-coding, every modern wireless system does it.

Present cell systems don't adjust phase to maximize reception quality in a coordinated way for each of several transmitting antennas, for each packet, for each participating device. That's new.

> Doing it across wireless stations is distributed beamforming which Perleman did not invent.

That's certainly true -- phased array radars have been doing this for decades. But Perlman should be able to get a patent anyway, based on the combination of ideas this scheme represents. Multiple, physically separate antennas, the use of a data center to compute solutions on the fly to accommodate multiple antennas and different devices with different locations, that's new.
A language without a global lock to make threads useless.
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They're making themselves more vulnerable to disruption, I don't think it's such a great move.

Intel confirmed some time ago that HP is on the decline, while SuperMicro and others are on the rise:

www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/29853/
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YUP.

The short answer is: it's much easier to build in a greenfield environment where there is a "helpful" local government, ready access to rights-of-way, and underserved population, easy construction costs, access to labor, favorable tax climate, and a host of other reasons that come before "lots of people who want gigabit speeds".

The economics of building (or overbuilding) a gigabit fiber network drive you towards areas where you can get a high degree of penetration for your investment. That's not going to happen in a place like NYC or SF. The construction costs (directional boring) and tax regime (network cables are "property" for property tax purposes) mean that SF and NYC are probably going to be the LAST places to get Google Fiber.
If they're actually overloaded, as opposed to there being peering failures to the consumer ISPs, why would there be a difference between VPN and not-VPN?
I would frame it the other way which is that Google has had to dogfood the inhouse services so has spent a bunch of time troubleshooting/bug fixing internally ;)

I know that Google as a whole has a rep for support which isn't great. However, I also know that Cloud is trying really hard to show that isn't the case with Cloud products (as is the company as a whole, my personal experience with support phone lines at Google Play, for example, have been really good). We have Stack Overflow (which we as devs check in on to see if there are problems we can help with e.g. [1]), we have support packages which have real live human beings on the other end [2].

I know everyone here in my dev team is 110% behind support being great, but it's one of those things where we'll be judged by execution rather than words (as it should be).

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21774738/google-cloud-sql...
[2] https://cloud.google.com/support/
I think he believes HP is focusing on certain kind of enterprise customers (I guess big, large-margin ones).
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Can current beamforming systems send multiple signals to different devices at once?
Just ask any NYC folks. How many of us are still waiting for that FIOS? I am waiting and waiting. And they promised to complete by 2014. We are almost three months into 2014 and I still have no FiOS access here. A bit above my area has already gotten FiOS two-three years ago and my area still hasn't gotten any!

I am angry. We need to break this franchises.

> The company also appears to be blaming landlords for any hold ups in deployments

Yeah. Excuse. I haven't heard any landlord in my neighborhood ever complain about this. A lot of my neighbor landlords (they don't actually live there, just for rent), when they come by we would have conversation about these things (because they know I do some computer stuff and they would come and ask for advice when TW goes down), they say they'd make more rent if FiOS was here.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Accused-of-Laggin...
It's a question of granularity. Can your developers deal with high level requirements and fill in the details, do they require every detail to be spec'd out? It's also a question of does the management trust the developers to fill in the detail without an agreed on spec or will management freak out if the developer decided to get creative? Ideally both developers and management are mature enough to trust developers to interpret needs and create solutions rather than grinding away at one small task at time.
> Linux is barely well known to the general population. Let alone getting them to differentiate the Ubuntu brand.

I think that story changes somewhat on a country-by-country basis. India, for example, has a relatively high Ubuntu adoption rate. Of course, the numbers aren't huge anywhere, and I agree that relying on the Ubuntu brand name alone isn't going to move products.

> Totally different environments that share only the fact they are powered by electricity.

At least in tech companies, specifically web development, that isn't an irrelevant thing. If your personal dev machine is running the same environment as the server where your app is running, that greatly simplifies package dependencies and deployment. If your personal dev machine is also your company-issued phone, that's very convenient.

> While I think we'll get there, we are far away from our smartphones having the power to run a full PC OS with our current workloads. Perhaps Ubuntu is looking too much into the future... personally I think they need the revenue of today's reality.

I think we're already there. With smartphone tech running rich 3D applications and powering 4K displays, I don't think any more horsepower is required for your average word processing/email/web scenario. And if we're not there yet, we certainly will be in under 5 years, and planning for a future that will soon exist is exactly how tech companies get the jump on competition (See: iPhone).

> I won't even comment the phrase about Windows applications as it makes no sense.

It makes perfect sense. Many companies now deliver the standard MS Office suite to employees via cloud solutions like Citrix (http://www.citrix.com/). And with MS and Office heading even further in that direction with native cloud implementations, having a Windows OS is becoming increasingly unnecessary. Having a DESKTOP OS is mandatory, but it doesn't need to be Windows anymore.

If these Ubuntu phones are powerful enough to run a browser smoothly in the desktop configuration, they'll be incredibly useful.

Another potential boon for Ubuntu phones is Steam on Linux. As history shows, the platform with the most games is usually the most successful. As Steamboxes begin to roll out and the platform gains more developer support, owners of Ubuntu phones will find that the device they're already carrying around is also a microconsole.
Here is the answer I posted on Quora http://qr.ae/tswXk about dropshipping in ecommerce. Main points to note -

Pros of dropshipping
- You are not sinking your cash into inventory. So, dropshipping is better for your cashflow.
- You can vastly increase your product offering at very low cost because you are just displaying the pictures of someone else's product. You are not buying the product up front.
- You don't need to worry about shipping goods, managing a warehouse etc. You just focus on marketing and selling the goods, and you keep the margin (Diff between what the customer paid you and what you owe to the supplier)

Cons of dropshipping
- You are trusting your brand with some one else. If the supplier doesn't ship on time, the customer is gonna scream at you, not at the supplier.
- Margins are much lower. Since the supplier carries all the inventory risk, they will also eat up the margin correspondingly.

PS: My company Ordoro (http://www.ordoro.com/) offers software that helps ecommerce retailers manage their dropshipping workflow. This includes rules-based notification to your suppliers, and shipping notifications to your customers.
Atlanta! Looks like they're targeting the nicer suburbs too. My mom's going to get fiber before I am.
Yeah, tungsten telephone poles in orbit could do some serious damage, as much as a small nuke. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rods_from_god#Project_Thor
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Hypothetical: Suppose you owned a car, and this was stolen. If the car were sold intact, then presumably you could reclaim the car from the buyer because of the nemo dat rule.

But now suppose the thief sold the car to a salvage yard. The salvage yard breaks the car down into scrap metal, which is melted down and recycled for use in other products.

I'm not very familiar with this area of law, but presumably you would no longer have a claim to the car or the scrap because the original piece of property to which you had title, the car, was destroyed. You might have a claim against the scrap yard for not checking title on the car and could recover the fair market value of the vehicle.

Same with bitcoin -- once someone comingles the stolen coins with other coins, the original balance of coins has been destroyed. There is no action against parties further down the blockchain. Your only remedy should be to recover the fair market value of the coins from the party that "destroyed" the coins.

<standard "this is not legal advice" disclaimer goes here>
Do you ask the designer to create the basic styles / example markup as well? General things like buttons, alerts, perhaps some generic layouts. Or just take the template they provide and have your in house devs hash that out?
We may sound similar in concept but we focus on a cluster of neuroimmune and autoimmune patients.

Many of our users found Patientslikeme overwhelming to use on a daily basis, so we wanted to design HealClick to be primarily a social platform that would make users want to come back to and track the most important health changes over time, i.e. frequency over quantity.
Bitcoin is a peer to peer payment network; the value is in the network and the new abilities it brings with it. If you don't see value in a superior replacement for credit cards on the Internet and international money transfers, I don't think you're looking hard enough.
How is the residential Internet in the San Jose area cities listed? I'm in SF, and I can't believe how bad the Internet service is. It's worse and more expensive than what I had 4 years ago in my Midwest town of 100k people.
I can't speak for the other three cities, but San Francisco has a number of problems that would make it difficult for a Google Fiber rollout.

First, AT&T is already in the process of rolling out fiber to the home, or in some cases, fiber to the node with last mile copper. They have faced nothing but problems trying to do this from people in the city: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Groups-sue-S-F-trying-...

Density can be a nice benefit, but lack of space makes it hard to place the equipment necessary to serve fiber.

Second, a local provider Sonic.net is also rolling out fiber by taking the approach of starting in the closest thing San Francisco has to a less dense suburb (the Sunset). They've faced exactly the same issue (battles over placing Utility boxes).
In theory, nuclear power should have been a vital part of a comprehensive strategy to stop climate change in its tracks.

In practice, human greed and stupidity makes them more dangerous and expensive than they should be as well as reflexively feared by the marching morons who prefer the status quo of belching coal into the atmosphere without limit and inadvertently providing them with more radiation exposure than nuclear power.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-r...

So I think nuclear power is a great example actually of what really happens when the monkeys get their hands on otherwise cool technology.
A few that I've come around and evaluated are

https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Libfast + http://www.clearsilver.net/

http://appwebserver.org/products/appweb/server-side-javascri...

http://duda.io/

http://luci.subsignal.org/
Honestly?

Probably the same number that dream of going to work at the intensely-hated digital utilities, aka cable companies.

Who in the world has ever said "My dream is to work at Time Warner Cable"? I wouldn't tell people I worked for them. My house might get egged.

Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if companies that design and operate water treatment plants aren't often more innovative than a company like TWC that has no competition on many of its markets.
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Another group already done it. check it out
The developer have also two other interesting projects on their website:

* jx9 - programming language based on JSON (like Lua with a JS syntax): http://jx9.symisc.net/

* unQLite - NoSQL database engine (like SQLite but NoSQL): http://unqlite.org/
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Should I write unit tests? Yes and I’ll tell you why.
> It's not terribly difficult provided that you've got enough directional antennas in your base station.

This scheme doesn't rely on directional antennas, it relies on computing an optimal set of phase solutions for multiple antennas to maximize reception quality. Each antenna is an ordinary omnidirectional dipole, but several of them working together, with calculated phase delays, provide a kind of directionality if you want to think about it that way.
I'm really, really glad they chose Kansas City as the pilot city despite not living there. If they had just gone and chosen San Francisco, Chicago or New York, it would have been no more of an experiment than offering more cable channels to the big cities in the 1990s—It just is completely uninteresting.

On a side note, If you haven't been to KC's Startup Village, the climate is electric! It feels like something really real is going on there. It is just awesome to see someone with a coding question, you can walk literally a few doors down to a different house to ask one of the startups there. When you walk inside, you see rooms that should be living rooms with hackers on laptops and would-be dining rooms with iMacs setup on tables. Meanwhile a sleepy hacker is waking up and making breakfast in the kitchen. The climate is wonderful.
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"in this type of culture its expected that you earn less"

Serious question: is there any other for-profit industry where candidates wouldn't laugh in your face for saying something like this?
I've heard Palantir does #1. I live in SF and my office is in SOMA- still takes me about 45 minutes to get to work on Muni. Living in SOMA would be more expensive but palatable with the stipend. That would be very convenient.
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I'd normally agree, but "embedded device" in this situation means "network router" (which are reasonably powerful computers in their own rights), and the application is not mission critical with hard deadlines and strict memory requirements, but just a web interface that is rarely active and can take as long as it wants running in the background. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to set aside some portion of memory for the web interface, give the PH7 process low priority, and hire some PHP web devs that actually know what they're doing to make the interface for them. More sense than letting the firmware developers hack something together in C anyway.
For embedded device normally LUA is used, how does PH7 compare to LUA? as PHP/LUA is normally used to provide web interface, how does PH7 do CGI?
I load them in as separate files. See here for details: http://www.pheelicks.com/2014/02/working-better-with-glsl-so...
Really excited if they offer service between SLC and Provo
Lua is pretty widely used. C is also favoured but it's pretty easy to misuse so there are teams that shy away from it. I've seen Perl, Python and PHP, too, as well as some obscure languages. I distinctly remember seeing Tcl, but I don't remember the context so I might be bullshitting here.

It greatly depends on flash and RAM though. Past a certain point, Python or PHP are just too large.
None of the cities listed on that page are "rural" by any stretch of the imagination.
Utah: large NSA datacencer -> Good. See how this works?