skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered if this was an implicit threat to explore bittorrent like protocols for Netflix clients. In general, client to client sends between residential customers would make it more difficult for ISPs to block. In addition, at Netflix's scale, it would likely cause the balance of upload/download from residential clients to shift dramatically. ISPs would have to route a lot more uplink traffic which they generally avoid.
In an interview he emphasized that he was a tiny initial investor / had no idea what they were doing (I'm guessing Peter Thiel convinced him to since Stripe was trying to help make their initial vision for Paypal a reality)
Mantle isn't yet usable either, but my point is, that DX12 was announced as a vaporware to detract attention from Mantle. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
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Unsubstantiated ad hominem against mac users to complain about the open source nature of a cross platform product. Did you burn your breakfast?
Good point, I was wondering how the link was made to the content provider.
He also invested in Panorama Education - http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mark-zuckerberg
> Cross-platform UI is a bad idea on the desktop.

Is it? At the end of the day, that's what the web is, right? Gmail (or even Google Docs) may or may not be your favorite email client, but I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea, per se.

I think you're right about user expectations on mobile. I also agree that we've all seen how terrible the UIs on some cross-platform Java and Flash applications are, but—given the success of the web on the desktop—I'm not sure it's fair to condemn cross-platform UIs on the desktop.
Isn't that why we have judges? To evaluate who is responsible when a crime happens? Why exactly is industry regulation required for that?
The AI winter is very much over, and we're back to the good old days of selling the future. I bet this team is very sharp, but there's still merit to "over-promise, under-deliver."

"Phoenix, the co-founder, says Vicarious aims beyond image recognition. He said the next milestone will be creating a computer that can understand not just shapes and objects, but the textures associated with them. For example, a computer might understand “chair.” It might also comprehend “ice.” Vicarious wants to create a computer that will understand a request like “show me a chair made of ice.”

Phoenix hopes that, eventually, Vicarious’s computers will learn to how to cure diseases, create cheap, renewable energy, and perform the jobs that employ most human beings. “We tell investors that right now, human beings are doing a lot of things that computers should be able to do,” he says."
Aurbnb wrote a set of apps they dub "smart stack" which do the haproxy config for you.

http://nerds.airbnb.com/smartstack-service-discovery-cloud/
Honestly, I really like the design. :)

Simple, round, small.

With this round steel case, you could even exchange the wristband for a brown lethear one and get a more mature look (all this for only 30 bucks).
For typically slow-moving small town/city officials, anything that doesn't look like a 90s relic that probably has no Javascript at all, Bootstrap is a massive improvement.
Weev needs to be in prison for attempting to blackmail and extort a company over private consumer information.

Unfortunately, they put Weev into prison for hacking under CFAA, which on those charges, I agree - He needs to walk because they're utterly bogus.
we see the cookie cutter - the vast majority of people will have zero idea what bootstrap is or notice the similarities. we also are exposed to many more sites using bootstrap than the average user as it is so heavily used in tech circles.
Yup he put his $ where his mouth was, he invested in all 5 (for biology he invested in halcyon molecular, which shut down a year back)
I'm not a designer, so i speak as a consumer.

I disagree with complements on the look of this. I kind of feel it's misisng something, which i can't quite pin down. perhaps it's the look of the maps, that they don't quite match the rest of the feel. The sources text in FF28 W7x64 doesn't look particuarly good, not very ledgible.

maybe it's just an overall static and clinical look that i don't quite like (which is odd as i do like industrial design).

I think it possibly needs a bit more art direction. but i'm a consumer so what do i know.
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Actually, I like the name. It has significant potential.

What I hate is the soccer mom in the video, and the clean polished look that doesn't match the cool name.

Maybe they could get Die Antwoord as celebrity spokespeople or something. If Ninja and Yolandi say something's good, it probably is.
HTML5 was supposed to be the answer when the iPhone 1 was first announced. It still sucks many years later. Draw your own conclusions ....
Sure, but speed of rebuilds is important when you rebuild often, which is not my case.

In my case the Dockerfile is easily replaced with a bash set -e script, which has never gave problems to me: deboostrap, share volumes, aptitude install apache/nginx, mysql/postgresql, php/ruby, copy files, predeployment commands like f.e. bundle install, start services.

And you have the advantage of starting services with `service start ...`, instead of reinventing init scripts.
The liquid seems a bit compressible, more like balls of jello or rubber than water. Is that a difficult or costly problem to resolve when simulating liquids?
A Programmer's Life in Developing Country is Harder than in Silicon Valley
It's hard to be sure, but I think that the author is calling for IPsec to be made mandatory again in IPV6.
What's extra fun is that when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007, he explained that developers could write web apps if they wanted to create software for the iPhone.
What if creationists like your paper about evolution?
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> which is more than the 0 acceptable to a small business where margins are razor-thin already.

I see you've never run a small business that accepts credit cards before. They are far more than 0 risk.
DHL Trojan Mailing [video]
> Why can't Tesla just have regular dealerships and let people buy them?

"Regular dealerships" are a horrendous waste of resources. It's a business structure that made sense 50 years ago and makes very little sense today. Tesla doesn't need regular dealerships, so you're asking why they shouldn't be forced to waste money buying land and buildings and hiring people that could all be doing something MORE useful, just in order to make their company look more like the rest of the industry they're trying to disrupt.

It's like asking "Why can't Apple just use Windows on its computers like everybody else does?" Or "Why can't Walmart just set up tiny little stores that sell a few things - why do they have to make these huge box stores that sell everything?"
Love the animation.
Great, but I feel horrible at the same time because browser just slowly reinvents everything, and is still limited to a single specific implementation. How about just make Javascript frigging fast so everyone can code their own layout system? How about standard NaCl interface for layouting? Browser needs to be an open platform, not a framework.
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Have we cracked the brain's "programming language" yet? I am affraid that until now research has been focused on the biological side of it; and it makes more sense to me to replicate the logic instead of replicating the brain's biological structure.

I believe that dataflow/reactive programming is the answer and the direction to follow as its principles are pretty close to how neurons work; plus it can be made to work on top of von neuman architectures.
The sad part is that he or she isn't 100% wrong.
I really wish there was a non-video summary on the landing page. It looks good, but FWIW here is free data on my 'acquisition funnel': Saw post on HN, opened it and the HN comments each in their own tabs. Got confused at the website not explaining what it is (did not want to watch a video) and closed site tab. Skimmed through the HN comments, saw enthusiasm, reopened site tab. Watched video. Signed up.

edit: Have to say, the post-sign-up onboarding tutorial is REALLY well done!
Have you given cyfe.com a try? Looks like they mention "historical data" where they archive your data history.
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An article on that would be great!
Yes, local governments are complicit in the ISP monopolies, but only government regulation (or ownership) will be able to force companies to share the existing last-mile infrastructure, which is the only way competition can truly exist.
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Anyone else tried dragging the buttons on the landing page ? Spoiler: Not draggable:(.
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Turkish President (@cbabdullahgul) just told his opinions about the ban to public. On Twitter. Oh, I love this country sometimes.
The normal way to exclude a crawler is to use a robots.txt file: http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

Any ethical crawler will respect exclusions defined in that file. The article doesn't mention trying this method before jumping to mod_rewrite, though.

So -- does Semalt's crawler look for and follow robots.txt? As long as it does, they're doing what they should be doing to let site owners opt out of crawling.

EDIT: Found a page on their web site where you can enter a domain to opt it out of crawling: http://semalt.com/project_crawler.php

No instructions for how to opt out via robots.txt, though. That's a big omission. Anyone who's going to do mass crawling needs to support robots.txt.
Looks like a promising product! Unfortunately the Safari extension conflicts with other AngularJS apps and even breaks some. For example you can see the error on http://docs.angularjs.org when using the Dragdis extension.
Netflix says it will pay “tolls” to more ISPs, not just Comcast
Haha, ok good. Because I've been in relationships like that, and they never end well. I just didn't want to be the bearer of bad news :)
As I was told when taking flight lessons and being introduced to this system, it's a device of absolute last resort, since you lose all control of the aircraft once you pop that chute. There's a lot of emergencies you can handle without having to pop the chute in an aircraft. Sadly, there are also a lot of emergencies where a chute would do you no good (such as stalling on approach or take off, the two phases of flight where most (56%) of crashes occur).

Fascinating tool though, and if I purchased a plane, I wouldn't mind having one for those "just in case" times. Of course, aircraft with this installed are generally over $200,000 new, so it's not on my radar anytime soon.
I fully agree. As stated in my article http://www.springenwerk.com/2011/09/thoughts-on-mobile-ui-de... I think that the web is the one place where cross-platform UI actually works. Don't destroy it by using that freedom to mimic a native UI. Plus, in quite a few cases a great mobile website would be a much better solution than an app anyway.
>In a rare act of defiance, the Turkish president, Abdullah Gül, openly criticised the ban – via his Twitter account. "The shutdown of an entire social platform is unacceptable," he tweeted. "Besides, as I have said many times before, it is technically impossible to close down communication technologies like Twitter entirely. I hope this measure will not last long.

Can any Turkish HNers comment on the credibility (clean record, etc) of the President? Is this act of defiance a play for becoming the popular leader in the next few weeks/months if the country breaks out into massive protests? Because it would seem rather risky on the president's part given that PM Erdogan has been entrenching himself as the leader since 2003 and also controls the majority in Parliament.

Wikipedia says that the office of the President is mostly ceremonial but it also states that the President is elected by citizens through a public vote (since 2007). Previously the President was elected by members of the Turkish Parliament [1].

Edit: The President also has a bunch of other tweets [2], using google translate, here is what they say:

> Social media platforms can not be closed completely approve of.

> Also, as I mentioned many times before, in the culmination of communication technologies such as Twitter today all over the world. /.

> . /. blocking access to the platform used allround already technically impossible.

> As violating the secrecy of the private lives of people if there are criminal matters, but only by a court decision related pages can be turned off.

> Hopefully this application will not last long.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Turkey

[2] https://twitter.com/cbabdullahgul
Vicarious seems similar to Numenta. Which makes sense since they share the same cofounder.
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So you're looking for high quality abandoned apps? I think you're looking for a needle in a haystack.
I guess that is one valid point, assuming it can harvest more energy with day and night operation than solar panels during the day, which I doubt.
Would you rather sites look like crap and have bad functionality, or look the same and have good functionality and UX?
Does anyone know why Dileep George left Numenta? Wasn't he a co-founder there with Jeff Hawkins?

Is there much difference between the goals of Vicarious and Numenta?
Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies
Could the correlation in grades within a social group be caused by smart kids being more likely to hang out with other smart kids, and vice versa?
Who is suggesting they should?
>please don't rebut with a public good argument.

Since you anticipate one, why not preemptively respond to the best examples of one that you can think of rather than begging internet strangers to be nice to you?
It's probably better to think of the browser as another platform. In the sense that users have specific expectations about how it behaves, what it can be used for and how to use it.

Attempting to build a UI shared between, say, Windows and the browser would be a bad idea.
First thing I did. Doh!
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Models of NYC traffic show that increasing the number of cabs would not cause a proportional decrease in the number of private cars, and that the congestion would make the average taxi trip take longer, even including the time spent waiting for a taxi.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/31/157477611/does-new...
I agree that the web is the exception to this rule (see http://www.springenwerk.com/2011/09/thoughts-on-mobile-ui-de...). I quote: "Surprisingly, cross-platform UI works on the web. People are used to it. People don't think it's odd that GMail doesn't look like Outlook or Mail.app. They don't complain that the buttons on Twitter look different from the button of the other apps they use. They are able to use Google+ and Facebook although the UI looks "foreign" in comparison to other apps on their platform. Strangely enough, all those things that make cross-platform UI a bad idea seem to be absolutely OK on the web. Why is that? It has to do with expectation. When users open their web browser, they know that they are entering a very diverse space."
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I know there are ways around it - but its annoying to have to take an extra minute to read something that I find interesting.

For every article posted thats behind a paywall, there are likely hundreds of others that aren't and still from a reputible source.
We're discussing both. The original question posed was something like "what amazing stuff has been built on crumbling foundations", and the response was "wikipedia". I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment of the question, but wikipedia is not a good example of amazing technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU Have you seen this TED talk about porn addiction and how it has similar effects like some sort of hard drug addiction on the brain. Everything uses the same pipeline.
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Small quibble about your comment. This product is not made just for hackers so how about we cut them some hacker slack and concentrate on actual praise or critique of the product/implementation?
Cheers

P.S. This would have been great as part of a product I made a couple of years ago. Nice job guys!
At first reading, I thought the redacted part was about how to tell if _your_ router was compromised but on closer reading, it looks like it covers routers owned by others that the NSA have cracked but they want to know if the Chinese or anyone else has done the same.
For the record, Jack Daniels sent us a Cease & Desist recently and it was not nearly as nice as this one. It was your standard "stop doing this or we will take action" C&D. (We had parody t-shirt designs in our user gallery.) A letter like this would've been easier to swallow.
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"Phoenix hopes that, eventually, Vicarious’s computers will learn to how to cure diseases, create cheap, renewable energy, and perform the jobs that employ most human beings."

This line made me laugh. Which of the three goals is the most likely and desired outcome? (I'll give you a hint, it isnt curing diseases or finding energy)

That's like saying: 'my robots will cure cancer, bring world peace and replace most manual human jobs.'
What makes you think other sites aren't being attacked as well?
I've been making great progress just spamming "AWEAWEAWEAWEAWEAWEAWEAWEAWE"... and then realized that it's going to take hours. I'm done. Fun, though.
Netflix and Level 3 only telling half the story on net neutrality
drag anything, as long as it's not in safari, to anywhere, as long as it's within your browser and you only wanted to drop it in your dragdis plugin and then move it somewhere else from there.

dumb.
It's not a question of whether we can or not, but how to do it.

Journalism has been struggling a lot to come up with ways to make money from their content without messing the user experience.
So when will these filters be available on WolframAlpha?
>If all you are doing is reading single rows from a single table using an index, then yes Postgres is overkill and other solutions may perform better

Honest question... Why someone with this usage would use a RDBMS?

Would be a poor choice IMHO.
Agreed on watching what Musk does. He seems to have a knack for brazenly pushing the technological envelope.
Funny to think that instead of curing diseases or making cheap renewable energy, we'd instead try to spend resources to invent a computer to do that for us...
There are some videos of these in use; they are very effective when used within the chute's operational parameters: when the airplane is at altitude and moving at an appropriate (not too fast) speed, particularly over harsh terrain.

However, like all emergency devices, they are not a panacea. They don't protect against one of the most common fatal GA accident scenarios: loss of control at low altitude (base/final turn when landing). In that case, there is not enough time for the parachute to inflate before the airplane hits the ground.

I'm all in favor of BRS being available as options and after-market STCs on all small airplanes, but we also need to make sure emergency training isn't reduced to just "pull the chute", since there's a lot that can still go wrong outside of the chute's operational parameters.
Oh god, Probabilistic Graphical Models is coming back to haunt me viewing this.
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"Never" is much too strong a word to use, but I think that it is very very very unlikely that any major mobile vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft) will invest much time and money to make the web a first-class citizen for apps on their platform. Each company wants to offer the best experience on THEIR platform and offer features that are only available on THEIR platform so that more developers develop apps for only their platform which in turns means more sales of their products. They are interested in exclusivity.
> It's not like you cut a check, "Ok, here's your corrupt deal sir".

Well, actually, in truly corrupt places, that is exactly what you do. Perhaps in ways that are less traceable than a check, but yes, you pay people personally to do things in a fairly direct way. That or you intimidate them, like this boy who was held hostage for years, and then disolved in nitric acid in order to get his father to recant his testimony:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omicidio_di_Giuseppe_Di_Matteo

That kind of thing happens in the US and elsewhere too, for sure. And I'm not saying money does not buy influence, but it's a different kind of thing. It'd be very difficult to completely level the playing field for those with and without money.
That's the point, isn't it? Truly good ideas are rare.
Roller coaster design is one of the areas where you can actually use the 3rd time derivate of position, the jerk, to good effect. So the jerk is the change in acceleration over time. A typical motion with high jerk is when you are riding in a car and the driver turns the wheel quickly, not a very comfortable experience.

The same is true for roller coasters; high jerk motions are uncomfortable. So you have to not only take the limits of comfortable acceleration into consideration but also try to minimize the jerk.
> Weev needs to be in prison for attempting to blackmail and extort a company over private consumer information.

Can you back that up? I thought that Weev joked with friends about doing that but never took it anywhere or did anything that I would regard even as "attempting" to blackmail or extort instead just told Gawker.

Would be interested if there is something but in the absence of further information my view is that all these charges should probably be dropped.

Edit: From what I've read he isn't a good guy and there may have been a case to charge him on unrelated matter (stalking/harassment) but he should still go free on this stuff.
+1 on Pocket here too. If you sync 2 ways with Pocket it'd get the benefits of their mobile apps and IFTTT too.
>Except that taken as a whole, the bailout money was already been paid back in full, with interest over 2 years ago.

This sounds very truthy, but there was no market rate on the interest on loans to insolvent banks that was less than infinity%. The reason the government loaned them money was because they were completely uncreditworthy, and at those rates, they could have (and did) just invest the money in treasuries and take the favorable difference in the interest rate as a gift.

Simultaneously, we started a massive program of buying all of their shit debt at par.
No it doesn't; idiots running terrible businesses will always exist no matter what currency and their existence doesn't reflect on the currency.
Re font problem: same experience on Mac, tested on both Chrome and Firefox nightly. The creator should choose a different font. Some images are small and the font and color of texts used in some of these images make reading hard.

Another pet peeve is I hate scrolling down. I hate this kind of design. Why leaving 1/4 of the page statically useless... I don't have to constantly scroll back and forth just to navigate around.

Anyway, this is a cool presentation. though it'd be really nice if audio is supplemented. This would be make a great video presentation.
You're making it sound comical by making it over precise. Business comply with the law because the law has the capacity to punish them. That's it, plain and simple. It's about enforcement.
It's also a problem if you'd like to preserve old art or repurpose it for the modern era. The tragedy isn't Mickey cartoons, it's all the less-famous art that is being lost forever with the passage of time. Which could have been reissued by whoever came across it, were it not for perpetual copyrights making that impossible to do legally.