skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> provided the other end is capable

Yeah. I noticed that too -- if a site is slow, I now either blame the location-unaware Google DNS (because of crappy ISP-provided DNS) or I know to blame the site. Even if I hardcode an alkamai address for my favourite streaming site, the only way I get to top speed is by 802.11ac when my Nexus 5 is cooperating (it really likes the stability of G or N) or by plugging in with gigabit Ethernet. But wow, it makes the Internet at work seem blazing slow. A reverse from the 90s, eh? ;-)

Funny. I would have thought more people on HN would chime in with plans $100+. Of course it also makes it harder for me to shop for a dedicated server -- since I really want gigE or 10gigE to serve things fast enough to myself. And the sad truth is I know I'll see 600-1.2gbits over copper before I see fiber optics. I give it another 2-3 years tops. (Why? I'm already hooked up locally to 600mbps, but they only use half right now.) I just hope prices don't double again, as 5 years ago this plan was nearly half off for half the speed.

That said, I'd pay the same to Google Fiber if they chose Toronto next year (yes, I know it's near double), just so I could have a proper, local DNS service from my ISP with no search hijacking. Is it too much to ask a telco for respect to go along with speed?
Got this idea last night, coded it up in a few hours.
Code quality is terrible, was going for more of a proof of concept. Anyways, the overhead is pretty bad, BUT you can use things like <Insert social network here> now to store files. Although < Aforementioned social network> may mangle the UTF-8, so it may not work.
To be fair, that seems like a much more accurate characterization of the TSA.
I'll join you in that! In the meantime, there's Iron Sky.
The people quoted in this article are ridiculous. You either buy enough from Amazon to make Prime worth it or you don't.
Flagging seems a little extreme.
It is related to focus. If you are focused internally, can you compete as well externally, and I say no. HR, Finance, Office Automation is less important.
There are a number of things: packages that use native modules, menu concerns, app packaging, etc.
It's a plugin and the editor is made by GitHub. Did you expect them to not include Git support?
Generally hubbers use QuickTime and gif brewery.
So what? The beauty of the internet is that it lets everyone make themselves look like an asshole if they want. If every service provider took down content from assholes we'd lose 3/4 of the internet.
Good luck with ever using that.

From their T&Cs:

The bandwidth is limited to 10 Mbit/s upstream and downstream. The connection speed also depends on the quality of the Customer's internet connection.

10TB @ 10Mbps == 92.6 days to transfer (up or down)
It's office automation. As opposed to Netops, that operates their business such as video streaming.
When you store your private keys in a centralized repository, where they can be taken by asking nicely (as in SQL injection), you are either not using a blockchain-based currency, or you are using it badly.

The same is true if you generate a private key with a lower entropy source to simplify encoding (called a brain wallet for some reason.) Yes there a longer passphrases that do have more entropy, but you are still limiting the alphabet and the complexity for dictionary attacks.
jeez, they make it sound like every driver on the road is probably going to kill someone at some point.
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His post is filled with hyperbole, yes, but as someone who has spent 18 months looking to move to the US from Australia, I've personally come to the conclusion that for me it's simply not worth it. The risks are too high, and those risks come from things like your legal environment, the health care situation, and the Byzantine labyrinth that is your tax code.

Moving would have opportunity, yeah! And a lot of it. But I'm not willing to trade my standard of living to go somewhere that I'll pay just as much tax as here, with far higher chance of penalties due to mistakes, and with a far worse social safety net (health wise) to cover me (as I won't be poor, Medicaid, etc) than I have here.

Now, you can deal with all those things. There are ways to manage, mitigate or avoid them. I'm well aware of that. But frankly, I shouldn't have to...
You don't need to download locally, rent a server for ~50$ and use it to do the download + upload and even if they shut down in 2.5 years your still saving over 2,000$ which IMO is worth a reasonable effort.
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Cherry Blue switches at home, Cherry Brown switches at work.
Haiti – Bringing clean water to those that need it most
Our mission and our goal is to bring clean water to Haiti and save the lives of thousands of children who are dying everyday from contaminated water. Without clean water, Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas will continue to see the spread of bacterial diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever or the parasites that cause amoebic dysentery. People will not only continue to get sick they will continue to die. Even 4 years after the earthquake and 2 years after Hurricane Sandy, Haiti continues to see a staggering number of deaths amongst children. 80% of the deaths from this contaminated water are children under the age of 5 years old. The future of Haiti will cease to exist if the children continue to die. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/haiti-bringing-clean-water-to-those-that-need-it-most/x/6567634
While the press freedom is important there are different priorities during the wartime.

Russia today is ready to go to war with the West in order to keep Ukraine from joining NATO. "Russia regards this as an existential threat and will do whatever it takes to prevent it happening. (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26566452)"

The banned sites are considered enemy propaganda outfits by Kremlin.
Most German banks already have this with the open HBCI standard, allowing pretty much everything with a bank account. There are lots of apps for every OS providing a wide range of banking features (simple tx list, sending tx, some even placing recurring charges or draft other accounts).

German bank Fidor is known for sending a tx notify email immediately after each transaction with your account card.
Or An Lushan. Makes Mao look like a rank amateur. If propaganda is necessary to modern atrocities, what changed to make it so?
They aren't he'll bent on crushing you. Oh no, propaganda is about seducing you. They want you on their side, not crushed. Convincing you that you're much too clever to be sold a lie. Why this is the truth! Those others, why they don't want you to know the truth. That you are truly one of the smart ones, that's found the one true way. Some might call it brain washing, I just call it sales. Turn you into a believer, a loyal true believer because by god these people only wants best for you. And bam, your hooked.

Don't be fooled, power isnt about crushing, not all all, it's about developing large adoring flocks of people that have seen the way, and don't need to hear another word. You don't crush your troops. You mold them into Super fans, adoring acolytes.

True propaganda entices, it never ever crushes.
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2048-AI can solve this one too, and I think with a little refinement 8192 is definitely possible.

See the screenshot at the bottom: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22389702/1056032
Can someone explain the final paragraph to me? I don't see how losing $800 million while gaining $150 million is a net positive, which is what the article implies. Similarly, I don't follow how $800M can be (mere) 1% while $150M "would be a lot". In what way did NYT fail math - bad calculation of one of the two, or not being able to subtract in the correct order?
You're just going to replace the time you don't spend on yourself with time you spend at work. I'd rather be taking time to make and eat food (and my team takes hour long lunches at minimum) than gulping something down and then wondering "what now?" as I sit in front of the workstation. Meals are incredible. They are social, they are spiritual, they are international, tasteful, satisfying, new, nostalgic. Soylent is a bland smoothie that supposedly meets your body's "needs" without meeting your body's needs.
It'd be great if Netflix (or some other company) manages to do some heavy lifting in creating a viable, modern, certificate-based authentication and authorization stack, that's easier to deploy. Essentially an upgraded take on kerberos (move off shared secrets, perhaps), AFS (I still don't know what a viable way forward for secure, distributed, locally cacheable network filesystem is -- maybe DAV+TLS+regular caching?). I suppose LDAP might be fine as a user/principal/authorization database, but some distribution that uses internal CA and demands TLS as default would be a good start.

The last "innovation" I'm aware of in this area, is skolelinux/edulinux work with packaging samba/ldap/kerberos/lts in a easy(ier) to manage package for Debian:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Archi...
Loving SailsJS right now for building out API's and if I ever want to integrate sockets with it I can.
In my experience, projects written without frameworks like rails or Django have a tendency be worse than those that used a framework.
Ask HN: My technical co-founder is yes-www, I'm no-www. Is this the end for us?
My argument is that a shorter URL is better. We've read both sides of the yes/no-www argument and it seems like it doesn't matter as long as we redirect one to the other?
That big comfy car that protects you from highway collisions accomplishes that by shifting the impact toward the smaller car. It doesn't increase overall highway safety, just steals it from others in your favor.
> I unfortunately read this one thinking it was actually a parody, but since there was no punchline . . ..

Yeah Me too, guess we were the punchline.
This one?

http://www.cultofmac.com/269222/steve-jobs-hated-idea-multi-...
get back to me after you've been driving every day for ten years and we will see what your interpretation of "full attention"means. you can't be 100% vigilante 100% of the time.
If this fisher price thing is loaded, pointed at someone, and you pull the trigger will it hurt or possibly even kill that someone?

Another question: if a bunch of well trained delta force operatives went up against an equally numbered random thugs where delta force had the fisher price thing and the thugs had whatever you said was better, who would win you think?

I don't get some people's attitudes when it comes to guns.
and you are at fault

That's the tricky phrase. How do you prove fault in a car collision, to the same degree that's required for a charge and conviction of manslaughter or murder?

In New Jersey, we have "no-fault" laws for insurance, which basically means that when there is an accident there's no way to prove that either party is more at-fault than the other, so legally neither is at fault. In practice, both parties are treated as if the accident is their fault, and both are penalized with higher insurance rates at minimum.

My concern with any law that holds drivers responsible for deaths in accidents they're involved in by charging them with manslaughter or murder is that the same logic will be applied: every driver in every accident where someone dies will go to jail, unless they're rich enough to bend the rules and escape the charge. That's unfair, because many accidents really are accidents, and many people who die in accidents are at least as responsible as the people who survive.

Besides, there are already additional penalties for drivers in these situations. Their insurance pays out substantially to the victims or their families, and the driver's insurance rates go up, potentially to the point that the driver is no longer insurable and they can't drive anymore. So the article is wrong in saying that drivers can get away with murder with no consequences.
Here's an idea. Every organization that believes in freedom may consider repurposing their websites to allow access to censored sites.

Let's say you're in Russia and instead of configuring a proxy you simply go to eff.org or nyt.com or columbia.edu and you go to a special page there that then lets you go to all the sites that are censored in that country. The net result is that that country would then need to censor an ever growing list of sites to the extent that they either give up or blackhole the entire country. You could design a system that had distributed rate limiting, crowd sourced censorship lists and all you would have to do is drop some javascript lib in your site and some proxy on your backend. Ya, it's some work, but hey, it's time for the free world to put its money where its mouth is.
I think you misunderstood the point of the article. I wanted to illustrate how these methods work underneath the hood so that students understand that instead of using more Rails magic to obfuscate what's really happening.

I also mention that at the beginning of the article as a viable option along with Devise.

Thanks for your feedback!
Both GNOME and Apple had written HIG (human interface guidelines) and I thought GNOME 2's UI was especially well thought out for applications. (I'd perhaps move your date range forward a bit though.)

And it's not just devices, but the web, too! Every web application must, practically by necessity, reinvent some or most of the basic UI controls.¹ Most professional websites do, and each is different. In many ways, the web makes me think that many of the concepts discussed by HIGs (simple, non-graphical stuff like, "put the 'accept action' button in the same place) have been lost.

Even Chrome disobeys my system preference for UI, and rolls it's own. Then the websites it displays roll their own.

Some of the comments below you remark that many applications disobeyed (or ignored) good UI principals, but nothing's changed with the web; there's still plenty of bad examples². If anything, its worse, as there is no system HIG to fall back on as "correct": it's not what a bunch of people decided was a good idea, it's not what I want, it's just whatever the designer liked.

HTML is still playing catch up in UI: we just got flexbox for layouts (which you need, imho), but some things are still just plain hard. (Pinning a header row and header column on a table, for example.)

This doesn't even begin to scrape the "flat UI" fad, which I think is bad because you can no longer discern actionable areas like buttons. With desktops, I could choose my UI theme. With the web, I'm again stuck with whatever some designer liked, instead of what I want.

¹HTML provides the simple stuff like checkboxes and buttons, but a tree-list-view? Good luck!

²We will have reached UI nirvana when I never see another checkbox used as a radio button.
Sure, but I think it's useful to show that, even taking them at their word, metadata alone is dangerous.
Actually, the smaller number that appears is 2, and if you are lucky the last two numbers you get are 4. The smaller number must be repeated to start the massive collapse. So the greatest winnable version is 4+4+8+16+...+65536 = 131072 = 2^17.
Are we solving the wrong problems?
> That doesn't make (current favorite UI) a good one, though.

There are plenty of things with great user interfaces, and the way you can recognize them is if the interface "disappears" when you use the thing. If you can use the thing without thinking, without having to read a sign, without having a cheat-sheet, when you're very sleepy, and you still do the right thing, then the interface is good.

My pet peeve is household appliances that are just in the way, that do the wrong thing, that make you do unnecessary steps to get what you want.

I still miss my old microwave with its huge digital knob for setting time and power. I developed muscle-memory for using that thing, because it just felt right, my body knew exactly how much to turn the knob to get a certain time.

My current one is atrocious, it has a number pad. No.

And it doesn't have to be that way, I'm always concious about user interfaces of things I buy, and go out of my way to buy stuff that has good interfaces. I hope that by supporting companies that put in the effort, they'll win in the end. (It's a slim hope, though.)
"In 10 years, this UI list may look laughably small. We’ll probably be discussing the operating systems on our tube socks and dust pans. What can be done?" really makes you think.
> The PC seems alright to me (after all, how much CPU do you need to open a bridge...), but the floppies seem a bit fragile and unreliable, they lose data pretty fast.

Floppy disks are fragile, but consider the application.

They're not trying to archive data for 100 years. They just need to be able to load the bridge control program when the computer boots up. If a floppy disk fails, just take it out and insert a duplicate.

There are textile mills that are still running their machines off 3.5" floppies. When they heard that Sony ended production of 3.5" floppies, they simply went out and bought the last production run. Put them in climate-controlled storage, and they had enough to use for the remaining life of their machines.
I think you touch a bit on that, but the game mechanics are interesting:

* you have a limited time every day to review people at the border.

* you are paid per person processed.

* mistakes result in unpaid work. More than 3 mistakes results in penalty on your pay.

* regulations get more and more complicated as you go, making it more difficult to process many people, and making yourself prone to mistakes.

* your family well-being is conditioned by how much you make every day.

* events and personal situations try to touch on your emotional side to incite you to let some people pass (or refuse passage) - making it more difficult to earn your money as well - while giving some hope of later positive effects.

It's really intricate.

The only issue with the game is that it's kind of short, and the main point of the game after a while is to try to go through the story several times to see how your actions can make a difference in the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLR3faI7lU
Disgusting, first they started blocking random sites for "promoting suicide" or "promoting drug use", and now they don't even try to mask the censorship.

As a Russian citizen, I'm also very interested what Internet Hero Edward Snowden thinks about this.
I'd love to speed read for pleasure. That's because most of my pleasure reading is nonfiction. I don't particularly enjoy the reading; I just like learning new things and having my mind expanded a bit. If I could breeze through nonfiction at 1000wpm with great understanding, I'd be all over that. The ability to do so would be worth thousands of dollars to me.

But in my experience, things like Spritz, Spreeder, or just moving eyes faster are fine when the sentences are short and repetitive: "Most people read at 250wpm. You are now reading at 350 wpm. That is 40% faster than most people. And this isn't even hard, right?" When I try to use such techniques to read about, say, relativity, quantum mechanics, or international development, my comprehension approaches 0.
Yes please. Start putting fiber in Leawood Kansas already.
I'd rather get the natural light and grow plants in unnatural light (double standard!).

We don't get storms where I live. Heat is more of a problem actually; I routinely have to shade or lose some plants through heatwaves in Summer. I think growing plants in a more controlled situation could also control pest problems. Right now I have to bait rodents or snails/slugs and protect things like brassicas with netting to stop them being destroyed by moths/caterpillars.
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Not to detract from your point, but you neglected two of the archetype of the tragedies arising from State-controlled media propaganda:

The role of the Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian media in the wars following the break up of Yugoslavia[1].

The role of state controlled radio and TV in the Rwandan genocide[2][3]. To quote from [2]:

From October 1993 to late 1994, RTLM was used by Hutu leaders to advance an extremist Hutu message and anti-Tutsi disinformation, spreading fear of a Tutsi genocide against Hutu, identifying specific Tutsi targets or areas where they could be found, and encouraging the progress of the genocide. In April 1994, Radio Rwanda began to advance a similar message, speaking for the national authorities, issuing directives on how and where to kill Tutsis, and congratulating those who had already taken part.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_the_media_in_the_Yugosl...

[2] http://migs.concordia.ca/links/RwandaRadioTranscripts.htm

[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3257748.stm
feels that that would be the true score of the game, least number of moves to win.
Likely broccoli seedlings?
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I just picked up a WASD (http://www.wasdkeyboards.com) with Cherry blues, and I love it. I'd previously used a flat Apple keyboard for years and I was concerned that it would be a difficult transition - but it only took a few minutes to get acclimated.
This was not a very serious article.
I don't know this for certain, but I think there are at least some safety standards. One thing I've noticed while driving around my town is that school buses have an odd design. In most vehicles the tires are placed fairly close to the corners of the vehicle, which I assume increases stability and improves maneuverability.

But in school buses the tires are set far back from the corners, especially the rear tires. In a large bus the tires are 5-10 feet from the rear bumper. School buses also tend to have a very high ground clearance. I assume that these design features are for safety: if the bus hits a child while starting to move, either backward or forward, the driver will have a lot more time to react to the thud against the bumper before the tires reach the child. It takes a moment for the driver to notice the thud and move his foot from the gas to the brake; if the tires were at the corners that moment is all it would take for the bus to roll over the child.

So, I think this is an example where the vehicle is designed explicitly to protect pedestrians, even though it probably makes the vehicle less stable and harder to maneuver.
Netflix has been on AWS for awhile, and I've never once had any stability or continuity problems with it. Whatever garbage is going on in the background, they've done a good job of preventing it from becoming a never-ending tax on end users.
The guy is completely insane.

Or he just likes attention and knows how to get it.
It's probably the case that nobody asked for the particular concessions Google asked for, so it's impossible to say that cities wouldn't have granted them. But it sure looks like Google is getting special deals that probably weren't available to either incumbents or smaller ISPs. I would be interested in hearing the perspective of ISPs that have already tried to deploy fiber.
I guess a good compromise would be to make that decision optional and up to the user.
That anecdote appears to relate to Broadcom rather than Qualcomm.