skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That takes a lot of incompetence.

"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

https://support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/HT...

We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html
But you specify the maximum that you are willing to pay per click. Presumably he knew what he could pay per click for average users while maintaining profitability, and set the maximum accordingly. He doesn't seem to have a problem with his cost per click.

The point of the post is that the "users" became increasingly less valuable as the volume of clicks he purchased rose. It shows that you cannot obtain large numbers of legitimate clicks/likes through FB ads. As the reach of the campaign grows, the percentage of authentic users clicking on ads appears to rise dramatically. That is a huge problem. My personal belief is that the percentage of fake accounts and bot activity is far in excess of Facebook's estimates, and there is little that they can do about it.
I pay people (not many of them yet, but I like gittip and hope to do more) who I want to be free to create something interesting in the future. I do not see it as recompense for their previous work but as a way for me to help them keep doing the things that make us all great.
Not everything is direct. If Google makes a higher quality email product, they get more eyeballs for their ads.
Comcast will likely get better customer retention, less service calls for higher quality netflix streams, a direct line to Netflix's core networking team to resolve problems, and a transfer of cash for the initial peering.

Comcast will also likely work with Netflix to estimate traffic growth and make sure their infrastructure scales before they have problems.

Again, we don't know the details of the deal. Assuming net neutrality was not damaged is also speculation. We need more information to know what is going on.
Whoa. Glad I came in here if for no other reason than to see this. I always get a kick out of people copying quirky new mechanics onto other games to see what happens.
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My cable subscription is "Internet". I do not have a cable television subscription, and have no desire to have one; even back when Comcast was offering cable TV for $1 added to the Internet price and seemed shocked that I wouldn't want it...I replied, "I don't have a TV. WTF would I do with it?"
It gives some level of protection against buggy server-side code leaking the plain-text password. I remember a case where a site logged all request information (including the plain-text password) directly to a log file. Oops!
I don't know. The word terrorism already doesn't mean anything anymore thanks the government and media so I think it fits just fine.
Since this problem comes around a lot as a programmer interview question, it seems like a good idea to discuss actual systems stuff associated with it. I mean, if I'm hiring a programmer I want them to be good at useful software, not at perfect condition algorithms.
The warden lying is in the same category as the universe exploding (I.e., the universe might explode next week, should I still get a coffee?).

It's fine if you think games are stupid, maybe try to get to the point a little quicker though.
One thing which would be great when posting these webgl thingies (and this is a very nice one, by the way!) is some idea of the toolchain used to make it - what bits of middleware/helper code/creation apps did you use? Or is it just hand-edited js and flat images from photoshop?

As someone who loves playing around with 3d stuff but doesn't have time to devote proper attention to it (and I would guess that applies to many people here), it'd be nice to see the state of the available webgl tools as you guys (ie, webgl hackers) see them.

Thanks for posting.
Is it me or does this solution rely on the belief in a certain order to the random picking of prisoners? If the counter switches to an off state 44 times, that doesn't tell him that all 22 other prisoners gave toured through the room. A guard (random algorithm) could have just selected the same two prisoners -- the counter and another guy -- 22 times. Am I missing something?
Oh, then it just loaded extremely slowly for some other reason... Obviously I didn't actually read the article before commenting. :P
His homebrew version, for self education does way less harm than the millions of ROMs out there running on MAME. It is a single level, not a full clone that gets sold for profit at Target.
One possible alternative is to offload at least some of the photo editing computation to the cloud.

That of course just leads to a different tradeoff of latency and (likely metered) data... so it may or may not make sense
But he can buy a Porsche now :)
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I find it frustrating how many sites still use Flash. YouTube still has an annoyingly high proportion of videos only available in Flash, while Spotify's web UI also requires it. I've found that youtube-dl[0] is a nice solution for watching videos (especially given that live streaming is often not possible with all the traffic congestion issues as of late), but there's nothing I can do with Spotify.

0: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Mesa, Interlisp, Smalltalk each had their own instruction sets, effectively VMs, which were written by hand. The D-machines' native instructions were wide words with multiple dedicated timesliced hardware 'threads'. The interpreter ran in one 'thread' and core system functions, also handwritten, ran in the others. It's never turtles all the way down.

(I currently own a Dandetiger and two Daybreaks.)
Because it's part of the Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Robots....
By the "fairness rule" from the warden ("given enough time, everyone will eventually visit the switch room as many times as everyone else"), eventually every normal prisoner has to visit the switches.
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I admit I was a bit afraid to click this link on mobile...
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That's a cop-out. Services in the UK are either over the Virgin cable (HFC) network, or BT-owned copper/FTTC. The reason there's competition is a solid system of regulation which ensures fair and reasonable access to the infrastructure.
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Capitalism wins again!
Comcast Profit Jumps 28.6% on Growth of Broadband:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/business/media/comcast-pro...
We need a new word for this bullshit (though it's by no means a new phenomenon).

Kafkaware?
It's actually 2(n-1), because the designated switch can start in either state.
Or better yet, let someone else do the work for you:

http://watch32.com

I'm curious to see how this plays out because the endgame for the internet is free-fast-failsafe. I wonder how long it will take for companies to litigate themselves into irrelevance. I actually feel kind of bad for netflix in this case, because when you make a deal with the devil, he always wins, and I hate to see them go someday :-(
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7277128
Every industry has operational knowledge that is passed from person to person; that's why you'll often see younger companies hiring experienced people from older companies. In many cases you could rediscover that knowledge from first-hand experience, but it would take 10-15 years.
Did they just break the internet?
I agree. I am not arguing that Comcast should be allowed to go unregulated either. I strongly support net neutrality and do not want to see it thrown under the bus.

Assuming it wasn't harmed is also speculation and we should definitely be concerned about the deal and what it means for net neutrality.
I thought it was just trying to load 1gb and I was quite scared.
Comcast is a residential ISP. What possible traffic could there be to flow out of their network, other than requests for other data? By that logic, everyone has to pay to peer with Comcast because "Ha ha, we have all the customers. Darn, it sure is a shame that our customers don't have any data to send to you. Darn it, we really wish we could do free peering, but we just can't, aw, darn it. [cue South Park cable company responses]"

No, what happened was Comcast discovered another place they could fuck over the customer - by charging for peering even though it benefits their customers to not do so, and decided to spin it into some way that makes people feel like Comcast was somehow being injured by Netflix under the old settlement-free peering model.
Because there's no limit to the amount of time they can play. Not just if P2 is never at the switch, but imagine even if the "counter" player is never at the switch too. Statistically, when talking about an infinite run-time, there's no such thing as "never". Even if it takes a million years, they'll eventually all get turns in the switch room.

Or, if you want to look at it more realistically, the run-time is limited by their lifespans I suppose. But given that they're prisoners who all presumably have life sentences, then they'll just play until they die, since the alternative is to simply be in prison until then anyway.
Everyone's talking about "correlation vs. causation" but I'm pretty sure the page explicitly states that that's not what this is about:

> if its axes are chosen unwisely

The graph is misleading because it makes it look like the transistor count and the life expectancy grow at the exact same rate. It pretends there's a linear correlation. And that's the misleading part.
Actually, robot traffic accounts for a much larger share of traffic for any of the big websites than you think.
When Comcast has a packet that needs to get to Netflix, they can now hand it off directly to Netflix. That's all that peering means.
This is really freaking cool. That's all I've got.
n. You have to account for the case that the light is on and the tallyer is the first to enter the room.
I had RSI even after 2-3 months of quitting full-time work, plus I would wake up with CTS, but eventually it has gone away but after spending significant amounts of time away from typing heavy work.
We would have needed hardware support for GC if it was to be used in systems 30 years ago. We simply didn't have the memory bandwidth or the cpu cycles to run GCd languages.
I currently live in Zambia, and employees are frequently provided housing; either housing or a housing allowance is standard in most contracts. This is obviously the extreme, but there are tons of people in the world for whom owning property is functionally if not legally impossible.
Little bit from my sibling response and a little bit more from the fact that they drained the ratepayers, government (through tax credits and accelerated depreciation), and the USF to the tune of $200 billion to provide universal broadband access (which they didn't do.)

We paid for the network, anybody selling transit across it should be able to use it.
The tradition when backbones peer with each other was for traffic to be balanced. When a content provider peers with an eyeball ISP, free peering makes sense regardless of balance.
I'm a bit uncomfortable with the server_name being sent in the clear. Couldn't it have been a hash or something?
If this is a problem, then build physical infrastructure so your business isn't dependent on someone else's pipes. If states and municipalities put up roadblocks to it, then let's focus on tearing down those roadblocks.

I think it's ridiculous and self-serving for internet companies to complain about this. Getting bits to customers is a critical part of any online business. You can either do it yourself, or pay someone to do it. Does Amazon complain that UPS charges them to deliver packages to customers?
Android can be built and configured to run on some very stingy hardware, like 800mhz single core SoCs. If this is a new SoC, it's probably at least that fast.
I finally removed Java from all of my machines recently, when it had its most recent major security flaw, for the same reason, though at least Oracle has the decency to provide a checkbox you can uncheck (it is checked by default, however, which is bad enough).

I guess the repeated security issues, and the fact that the only security exploit I've dealt with on any of my personal machines in a decade was due to Java about a year ago, also contributed to the anger and subsequent removal. I am on the verge of making the same choice for Flash. I think I've finally convinced YouTube to always serve me the HTML5 version of videos, anyway...not sure what else I'd lose. Might be worth a try. Especially since the worst advertising offenders (autoplay looping video ads with sound on at the bottom of the page) are always Flash. My web browsing experience would probably actually improve...

Hmm...does Soundcloud use Flash?
Because its a commodity space where you should be using the cheapest provider?
Answer: Bad.
Baffled by the 25 upvotes on the article (?)
I don't think you would do 'photoshop-style' heavy editing on mobile.
Instagram-like filters or crops run fine and don't need that much. It won't add seconds to the processing if you use a low-grade $25 phone, it will probably just add something like a few milliseconds.

The first sentence of the quote, however, is ridiculous.
The OS doesn't "live mostly in the cloud". The OS and default apps are installed on the phone and don't need internet to run, they live on the phone. Web technologies != cloud.

I guess you can't expect technical details to be right when you're talking to some non-technical guy ("Wayne Lam, senior analyst for consumer and communications at IHS").
Every now and then you find someone who thinks differently from everyone else. In this case, you.
Funny to see this.

Posting to subject area forums (particularly communities using the familiar vBulletin) to gain your first 100 users, is a great way to get started. Posted this suggestion to the first 100 users thread recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7250358
So how does this work exactly? I'd assume it just looks for a link in the email that says "Unsubscribe" and just makes that same link more prominent, but does anyone know for sure?

I wonder how it identifies the link? CAN-SPAM doesn't require the link be called "Unsubscribe" - it could be "Stop Receiving Emails From Us" or something like that. Hopefully it will avoid false positives like a patio11-type informative email with a link to an article on "Limiting the Unsubscribes" or something.

I ask because it seems like a useful feature and I just want to make sure that my site takes advantage of it.
Yale medical students remix Beyonce's Partition and it's absolutely amazing.
Watch now. Thank me later.
The whole article is based around the idea the machine is dedicated to one large process, and that the working set fits in RAM. If that is the case, great turn on boot time 1GB page preallocation and have don't look back.

If either of those two assumptions are false, then the TLB miss times are swamped by the page in time. Paging a 1GB page in is _NOT_ a fast operation, especially when only a tiny percentage of the data is going to be touched, or its promptly going to be paged out again. If he has a machine with 32GB of ram he should retest with a 64GB working set.
Good luck if the leader is the 22nd person to go in.
I thought the fairness rule was basically just dice roll-equivalence. Which makes this whole "precisely 44 times" thing basically just a guess. It's a probabilities game but they pretend it has an exact solution.
I was pretty gobsmacked when it showed up missing.

For a while there, before Google's "you will be assimilated* policy really showed itself, Search was about the best thing about G+. I've since abandoned it largely for Reddit, which does have a featureful search, though it's not comprehensive (comments aren't indexed).
> Or better yet, let someone else do the work for you:

> http://watch32.com

Unfortunately, this (and most other similar) sites use Flash, something I'm trying to avoid[0]. They also tend to have only low-quality, grainy video (not that Netflix is much better even when buffering isn't an issue).

There is also the issue of these sites/videos coming and going. If they host the files on 3rd party platforms (like this site is doing), then once the site is popular those videos quickly get taken down. Then you're stuck clicking through trying to find that one site (if there's even one left) that still hasn't taken down the video. OTOH, if the files are self-hosted, then when the site becomes popular, it can no longer support the bandwidth costs, and goes under.

Torrent sites, however, have lasted for years. I've been using the same private torrent site for nearly a decade. It's reliable and fast, and it has a wide selection of content, both old and new. And I never have to deal with Flash.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7287151
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That would screw up intonation/pitch.
This article seems to suggest that we should spend our time better. Yet, all the comments here are about tech workarounds/alternatives to typing.

Yes, I know this is HN, but I find it kinda funny anyway. :)
[Show HN]: Create GIF selfies with Internet Famous (launch hackathon project)
Hey all, this was a fun little app I built for a hackathon this weekend. It runs a bit slow when not on my local machine but it lets you record silly GIFs of yourself and uploads them to a public gallery you can browse through. Still needs a lot of work but was fun to make!

Hit 'Record GIF' and it will record for 5 seconds (it looks like nothing is happening, be patient!). You can style it and, if you are logged in, save it.

PS - Only works in Chrome right now.
I would rather call that a 'disorder'... mental disorder to be specific.
I disagree. Node and MongoDb have both had very strong growth for several years now across a wide variety of users from individual hackers to the largest companies. While I'm skeptical of MongoDb's long term prospects due to its underlying technology and tight sponsorship I can understand the appeal of it's ease of use, especially for development. Node and JavaScript, on the other hand, seem clearly here to stay. While far from perfect are becoming deeply embedded in many key areas.

And even if you don't like MongoDb or Node, JSON is clearly one of the most popular data formats - better support is surely a good thing.
Even after TWC and Comcast combine, they will be the only wired TV choice for only 9% of customers.
So my two cents. Awesome job. I wouldn't have been able to approach anything like this five months after I started teaching myself to code.

I don't know how anyone could watch the vid and be so cynical about the choice of game, language or library. It's a clear example of autodidactic exploration.

Have you seen the portal gun mario? [1] (I hadn't until five minutes ago; link stolen from a comment down the page here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7284719 )

Might be interesting to think of different and/or bizarre ways you could potentially alter the game mechanics as you go along to create a new experience. I like those kinds of exercises because they help me think about structuring things in a decoupled way so I can arbitrarily modify part of the mechanics without having to rewrite everything. Might be a cool/informative exercise if you keep playing with the game.

Either, cool project.

[1] http://stabyourself.net/mari0/
> "FireFox OS has less processing and memory requirements, since the OS and the services live mostly in the cloud. For example, most of the apps written for Firefox OS are written in HTML5 and can be run within a mobile browser."

this statement makes no sense. HTML/CSS/JS is not run "in the cloud" it is run on your hardware.

what services exactly are run in the cloud? gps? phonebook? baseband? camera? mic? wifi chip? the cpu scheduler?

i dont see anything running in the cloud that will significantly reduce hardware requirements like Opera Mobile (maybe Mini, i forget) did with actual server-side html/css/js processing and passing back a serialized image with hit locations
I knew why I always hated these games, because there are some rules which apparently aren't a big deal, while others seem to matter a lot.

In this case, the problem asked for a precise solution, which was given in the resolution example, with no thought at all to that nagging little probability problem. So in order to "solve" this, I would have to know that everybody is basically supposed to disregard certain aspects of the problem. That's gotcha-type stuff that I always get wrong.
There was a notice on header saying it will be offline for maintenance today.
I had CTS surgery on my left hand back in 1998. Pretty ok since but the thing that killed me to start with was a big old mechanical IBM Model M and Windows Alt-Tab. The only keyboards I've used since are Cherry value line, IBM ThinkPad and MacBook Pro. No problems so far. I've also gone uber-careful on posture and working environment. I still have problems holding smart phones and touch devices.

CTS surgery recovery is horrid though. You can't hold anything for a few days. Forget work for a month at least and this wasn't even my dominant hand. The most annoying thing is that it really takes 6 months to heal properly and occasionally your hand just stops working. Didn't hurt a bit though after surgery.

Agree with the author - make every keystroke count.
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Until I see hard data supporting one way or another, it's all bunk and personal anecdote.

Though I will comment and say I do like the one about "just show up" rather than waiting for being in the mood.
On Firefox 26 and newer, plugins.click_to_play is 'true' by default, so you no longer have to manually set it in about:config. However, this doesn't actually set all plugins to click-to-play, but rather enables the click-to-play subsystem.

You can set Flash (or another plugin) to click-to-play by going to Tools->Add-ons->Plugins and selecting "Ask to Activate" in the drop-down box next to the plugin. I believe this is by default only the setting for Java.
There's something to it. It's anecdotal, but looking at the trends in political discussions in Poland among my generation (folks in their 20s), it seems to me that they want changes in the very direction of what people in US have and complain about...
The terrible consequences of competition.
I usually don't go mountain biking in an eighteen wheeler, so for casual web browsing and data apps a basic phone with web capabilities might be enough.

So yes, there is a market for that too.

As a developer I say, bring it on.
Hey all, this was a fun little app I built for a hackathon this weekend. It runs a bit slow when not on my local machine but it lets you record silly GIFs of yourself and uploads them to a public gallery you can browse through. Still needs a lot of work but was fun to make!

Hit 'Record GIF' and it will record for 5 seconds (it looks like nothing is happening, be patient!). You can style it and, if you are logged in, save it.

PS - Only works in Chrome right now.
Occams's razor is a pithy statement, not a fact, not proven theory. Pithy statements don't make things more true than non-pithy statements.
Each coverage area is a separate market, and AFAIK cable companies have 60-70% share within their areas (mostly because cable is so much less bad than DSL, so the market is working somewhat).