skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem may be certain animal contacts, such as eating "bush meat" (mentioned in the article, also discussed in the Laurie Garrett book). Maybe a campaign against those practices could be worthwhile
it's likely all candidate higher-ups in mozilla will be required to reveal all past political affiliations to make sure their beliefs don't conflict with mozilla values such as acceptance and tolerance of people of differing opinions/backgrounds.
According to Netflix in February, no ISP has ever throttled the service. My understanding is that nobody's intentionally slowed down anyone else, they just failed to allocate additional capital to improve congested parts of their network. Comcast should also still be bound by the "net neutrality" principles they agreed to as a condition of their NBC Universal merger. I'd think if they were singling out any service for throttling, at least one of their 136K employees would blow the whistle to the FCC/DOJ.
Good point. I thought most people enabled Find my iPhone (and used iOS 7), but a quick poll of ten people with iOS devices shows that only two meet that criteria.
4-hour-old throwaway account says: "don't trust unnamed sources!"
> If Netflix was able to dispatch its traffic up to each of these squares

That's not how a CDN works.

Look at the diagram in the article, between the fourth and fifth paragraphs. Every other ISP uses transit networks to distribute Netflix traffic (like all other traffic) to its subscribers. Netflix puts its content on CDNs that are conveniently located to make the transit networks' job easier, by making "netflix.com" endpoints closer to large populations of subscribers. Somehow all the other ISPs manage to "route traffic to customer houses" using that arrangement. Why does Comcast have to be different?
Bingo, that was my reasoning too. Bird in hand and all. Probably that's enough money to make every lawyer in their firm a millionaire (not that it's divided evenly) so why take the chance?
I feel like there are so many stories of tech leaders being assholes that perhaps maybe its just a way for the author to sex up a story. That's not to suggest Page didn't act like a dick. But given that its a thread in just about every story about tech founders I have to question the severity of many of the reported actions.
The PowerPC chips fall under the Power ISA standards documents.
This is interesting, and now I have a new book on my reading list. Yay!

But I think that the author's solution is superficial; it would be fine if nobody approached higher education itself with external motivators. But degrees are often a first-pass screen on a path to high-paying jobs which usually involve a certain amount of responsibility. They need to vouch for a certain level of competence in a subject area, otherwise what's the point? If you take grades and tests out of universities and just hand out degrees for participation, doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of having them in the first place?

In a nutshell, if we followed this author's advice and depended on the students developing an intrinsic motivation for learning, people with the external motivation of making money would not be deterred - if anything they would be encouraged. So I think this author misses the context that higher education exists in.
If configured correctly, varnish's cache is lightning fast, and incredibly flexible. Nginx + memcached can make things really fast, but I've seen cases where the time to first byte can be 20-40% faster with a well-tuned Varnish instance (we're talking milliseconds, of course). (Sometimes, I imagine this may be due to the fact that bleeding-edge performance people are more familiar with Varnish, though...).

Nginx has been getting better, and I'm excited to see what happens over the next couple of years.
How many of those 60k do you think would have been willing to put up thousands (or tens of thousands) of dollars in advance with no guarantee that they would win? I'm one of those people and I certainly wouldn't have.
We do all hands support at Buffer as well. At first it started out as to help maintain the inbox, especially during launch days, which was always fun. We quickly realized how important this is. So much of our product decisions, bug fixes and security patches have come from talking first hand to our customers.

I really love this because it's been an opportunity for me to help others and also learn about different areas of our product that I may not deal with on a daily basis. We've started having a support focus be part of the engineering on-boarding process.

We've recently gone to an all hands day rotating system which has been working well. I'm curious what others do. Do you do more a free-for-all, or do you have a more structured system?
Cumulative total energy delivered to date: 4.9 million kWh

That works out to about $250,000, or about $10 per Tesla Model S sold to date. Early days and all, but it looks like about $100† tacked on to the selling price of the car covers lifetime supercharger network power use. Capital expenditures to build them probably dwarf their electric bills.

␄

† To the limits of Fermi Estimation
Yes, even explicitly because of that. I expect to be held accountable for any actions I take, even the seriously horrible ones.
I find the definition of oneself "as a consumer with children". What parent isn't a 'consumer'? Some isolated hill-family that shoots their own food and lives off the land? It sounds like there's some sort of entitlement expected from that definition, the same way people expect entitlement when they say "as a taxpayer..."
Ebola Reston actually infects homo sapiens, but it doesn't produce the deadly hemorrhagic fever symptoms. If Ebola Reston acquired the lethality of Ebola Zaire, it would be a highly dangerous disease.

The prospect is worrisome, since in addition to crab-eating macaques (the animal in which the virus was first discovered), the virus had made the jump to pigs as well. Porcine to human transmission is also a very probable species jump. Since there is more human-pig contact that human-monkey contact, there's a dangerous prospect that a virulent air-spreading form of Ebola could jump the species barrier.

If that occurred we'd be faced with a plague as deadly as Ebola Zaire with the airborne transmission mechanism of Ebola Reston.
I monitor the temperature and humidity in my apartment. I used rrdtool for storing the data and HighCharts for generating the charts: http://pi.tafkas.net/temperatures

The process is described in my blog at http://blog.tafkas.net/2012/10/03/gathering-and-charting-tem...
It is possible, I agree, but Reddit, HN and others have much more active moderation than Google was probably interested in creating.
Client-side Java is dead (2005)
Tested on Chrome 34.0 on Windows, works as expected for me. Again, sorry it's not working for you. Thanks for getting back to me

I will get to the bottom of this. Bugs are to be expected, right? At least I survived 45 minutes on the front page :)
I'm getting NXDOMAIN on the www link. Change it to the bare domain.
> As a cable subscriber, I expect that when paying for N Mbps of bandwidth, I'm entitled to N Mbps of bandwidth of the content of my choosing

100% of the time ? not going to happen

So let's say I'm an ISP and I bring a fiber to your home, and gives you a gigabit ethernet port. You cannot expect all current and future customers to be able to use 1 Gbit/s at the same time. You would need a big non blocking switch with as many ports as subscribers, the technology for this does not exist once you reach a large customer base.

Now do you want me to shape your link to 0.1Mbit/s, because that's the only thing I can guarantee if all customers uses their link at the same time ? Or you'd rather have the 1Gbit/s possible bandwidth ?

Which one is better:

1) guaranteed 0.1Mbit/s for 10$, 5Mbit/s for 100$, 1Gbit/s for 4000$
2) possible 1Gbit/s for 20$ ?

If you take the globalized approach, you cannot have business like Netflix, they destabilize the equation.
Good. This sort of thing has no place as a law. Also, it should always be up to the user whether he wants to enable it or not, if they want to be protected against theft like that. The most companies should do is perhaps prompt them about it in the initial set-up of the phone.
George Grellas talks on "Strategic Legal Planning" in San Jose
He means a button he can press in the browser that does the work for him.
Additionally-- in large cities, the USPS has a key to most apartment outer doors, which allows packages to be left in a secured location instead of on a stoop.
Any engineers who are unhappy with the settlement can opt out and sue on their own.
No problem. Working on getting you a promo code so your number and a bucket of texts are free for testing.
Fiber, NO! Google will discontinue it soon, they just want to force AT&t and others to offer higher speeds. It cost a fortune and even if they get their money back, it messes up their margins.

Everyone and their mom has a self-driving car prototype. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#2010s

I guess Microsoft is "beating" Google with $2.74 Billion a year.
http://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/r_and_d_expense

I think that R&D is too wide of an entry, a breakdown would be useful.
This:

>> "In this way, Comcast is double dipping by getting both its subscribers and Internet content providers to pay for access to each other."

..and this:

>> "Put simply, there is one and only one way to reach Comcast’s subscribers at the last mile: Comcast."

...should be illegal. This really torques me. This smacks of how AT&T acted in the 80's when I was in my 20's and starting out on my own and how Microsoft acted in the 90's before they got busted, which is what lead me to Linux.
But if it is a zero-sum game, 'crime by omission' may be as bad as 'commission' of throttling. So the question is: is it a zero-sum game? If Paying Company A pays for more bandwidth, are they doing so at the cost of revenues for competing nonpaying company, say Nonpaying Company B? In a sense, yes, because then, users are likely switch from the Nonpaying Company B to Paying Company A (whose product/service is superior by being on the 'paid fast lane'). So though it is not directly a zero-sum game, in terms of customers and revenue, it has the potential to be an indirect zero-sum game.
Interesting links -> Pinboard

Interesting articles, blog posts -> Pocket
The TV Tropes folks have categorized this idea as "Magic A is Magic A":

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicAIsMagicA

The description of Magic Engineering in Ra is worked out pretty entertainingly, with people setting up university departments, research programs, companies, etc., to apply magic to things like manufacturing and transportation.

Spoiler alert for Ra (no really, go read the story instead of this spoiler):

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May be true- I was disheartened though to realize how little chance I have of winning 2048 with my naive one-or-two-moves-ahead logic!
Maybe I wasn't clear. Yes I was phrasing it deliberately to contrast with what anyone should consider good journalism :)
How is it thought police for the community around an organization to not want the organization to have a CEO that is diametrically opposed to the beliefs of many in community?
Export and structure your musical activity with schema.org
George Grellas is grellas on HN. This is a rare opportunity to hear him address key legal topics for founders including

navigating the tug of war between dilution and control
pros and cons of positioning your startup as rapidly scaling or lifestyle
pros and cons of using incubators or startup accelerators
Me too. At first I thought it was some existential post about the absurdity of LinkedIn.
Consider adding mechanisms to facilitate bash autocomplete. :-)
The quality of infrastructure is the result of political and cultural factors, which are therefore the more underlying/real problem.

Do you have a choice of multiple ISPs? If yes, then that's the critical difference vs the U.S., not the infrastructure. If no, then why has your monopoly ISP built such good infrastructure?
OpenSSH originates from the OpenBSD developers. While the OpenBSD foundation could always use more money, they are no where near as bad off as the OpenSSL team was/is.
PHP continuous testing with GruntJS and PHPUnit
Simple Grunt task to watch / run PHPUnit tests continuously.
I don't know how to take it.

"A Cryptol implementation of an algorithm resembles its mathematical specification more closely than an implementation in a general purpose language."

So it's some easy-to-read DSL (at least from the authors perspective, but whatever). Well, yeah, it's cool. But there're many cool DSLs. And here we're talking about cryptography, that dangerous mystical beast. It's tricky. Many of those algorithms are invented with hardware performance in mind. So "who uses it" isn't really enough this time. There should be at least implementations of the most widely used algorithms and comparison of those from, say, OpenSSL. Are they fast enough (and on which platforms/architectures)? How complicated machine code is actually produced by this DSL? Aren't there some tricky issues with it, like, say, counting cash misses? Timing attacks? Power attacks? If so, are OpenSSL implementations doing any better? Or maybe they are even worse somehow?

It isn't something that makes me think "Wow, that's cool! I should use it in my next project!" the very moment I see it. It should be explored, and I think the authors are first who should provide some info on how safe is it.
I think that would satisfy SB962 if it became law, though Apple and others would prefer not to be required to do this.
A "truly fair free market" requires perfect information on the part of all stakeholders, which is impossible to achieve.
Sure, you can ask me anything :)

The process so far has involved :

- Figure out how to get access to right of ways [Completed]
- Figure out how to get internet access to sell [Completed]
- Figure out how much it will cost to start a CO [Mostly Completed]
- Acquire a place to put a CO [Completed]
- Acquire high quality, redundant backhaul [Under Construction Now]

- Figure out who's willing to pay to switch away from Comcast [I have some names, but this is definitely not completed]
- Beg them for money [Some have subscribed, but definitely not enough yet]

There's a couple of big things that work against me:

City + State taxes for right of ways are pricy. We're talking multiple thousands of dollars per mile per year, on every single mile, just in taxes. (And I'm lucky, my city still owns a lot of their own right of ways. A lot of cities just wholesale gave them away to AT&T/Comcast).

Backhaul is expensive. Most ISP's are monopolies, so they can safely buy in scale. I have zero scale, so I pay full retail for everything. This is obviously very pricy. (I'm guessing I pay at least 3 times more, per Mbps, than Charter pays for backhaul, and probably 4 - 6+ times more than Comcast pays)

Fiber lines are dirt cheap. Install is expensive. Easily 95% of the cost of the network is that initial installation, and it can run into past the million dollar mark even in the smallest of neighborhoods.

If you want more info, let me know. I'd happily talk more about this, and provide solid numbers.
> Can you imagine any other industry where the people doing most of the work aren't compensated financially and conglomerates make most of the profit.

One that comes to mind, not coincidentally, is also in the academic world: College sports.

Perhaps both are due to the same cause, the misalignment of academic and market values: Academia is not profit-oriented; money is not their priority[1]. When they generate something of financial value (journal articles or football games), someone naturally jumps in (journal publishers, TV networks, NCAA), charges market prices for it, gives the academics producing it (faculty or student-athletes) the wages of academia (fame, status and pride), and keeps the cash for themselves.

[1] Next time someone tells you the free market is the one and only god that solves all problems and anything else is 'socialist', consider the many things that aren't market-oriented: Almost everything ever produced by academia, from relativity to the double helix to the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire; the Internet, World Wide Web, email, LAMP, etc.; the U.S. Constitution, the work of Gandhi and MLK; everything every soldier has accomplished ...
I'm game - I worked for a major national DSL provider doing field work, a major ISP doing support, and a major telecom carrier now doing field support.
Required to perform specific labor full-time in designated offices and give talks to other employees in exchange for $7,500 per month and meals in compensation? Sounds like work to me. IANAL, but I think it'd sound like work to immigration officials too.
I'd guesstimate in the low to mid 8 digits. Apple apparently paid its lawyers more than $60M to beat Samsung. Ubuntu managed to raise $13M from 28 thousand people.

The other argument in favor of class action contingency structure is the alignment of interest between plaintiffs and attorneys. Although as already pointed out in other parts of this thread, perhaps the incentives begin to mis-align when settlements reach a certain size?
Hosting static sites with Docker and Nginx
Please tell me, what do I need to do to sell to nation states? I've found lots of remotely-exploitable (as in root or direct financial gain) in open source and commercial software. Vendors have poor responses[1] so I've stopped disclosing but if I could legally convert them into cash I'd be very interested in knowing how. For now I'm just keeping them because I might decide to open an auditing company some day and they'd be good marketing.

1: Once a company got angry and blamed me for delaying their shipping cycle. Another time they laughed when I suggested their memory corruption might be leveraged for escalation. And another vendor told me "buffer overflows would only happen maybe if you had a very fast network IO".
Apple, Google agree to pay over $300 million to settle conspiracy lawsuit
> "Click here to find Netflix Certified providers in your area."

Followed by:

"I'm sorry, there are no Netflix Certified providers in your area."

When Comcast is rated as one of the worst companies for customer satisfaction, customers aren't staying with them because they are ignorant when it comes to the alternatives. They are staying with them because there are no alternatives.
Democratizing deep learning with an iPhone app and open source SDK
This specific article doesn't make too much sense, however, the grand mix up of everything (most notably bringing Android in from the cold) is the real elephant in the room, not G+. G+ was just a symptom of typical big company soviet style central planning which now seems to be par for the course in what was, during the golden era of technology growth, a shining beacon of libertarianism inside and outside the organisation.

Maybe Google x somehow does keep the magic spirit they used to have but there's a definite anti-user marketing droid led trend with everything from Hangouts to Maps that should be far more concerning than the G+ fallout.

EDIT: To add, what always killed me about G+ was it wasn't the Googly answer to the problem. What they should have done to counter FB was to get behind something like Diaspora (i.e. an open source federated social platform, where they happen to offer hosting for free if that's what you want), and encouraged something like Persona as the ID system. Basically take the oxygen away from FB, and provide a boost to the "open web" which they can index in the normal manner.
Look out, Europe: Data scientists are coming your way
64k engineers ought to be enough for anyone (to reconstruct the initial settlement value).
We aggressively speculate the cheap branches (which are the common type) and we aggressively inline, but mostly its to software pipeline loops (which make up 80% of most code).
Obstruction of justice? The emails explicitly state that the planning should be taken offline, presumably to thwart any future investigation.
This would make sense but for one point. The graph of service quality spiked as soon as Netflix began paying Comcast. If they're weren't throttling then how could such a spike be possible? You can't see those kind of performance gains by throwing a ton of hardware at it. You couldn't even provision the amount of hardware needed to see those gains in that short of a time frame (less than one day by the chart).
Can we stop linking nytimes articles? Paywall is annoying.
Seconded, both comments. Google has a real chance to become a dominant ISP without becoming a despicable one.
Not sure I have a good answer for you. All the options I know of, in general, suck. Fortunately this thread hasn't gone too far off the rails so far.
Probably what is better (or at least fairer) is a token bucket with a low guaranteed rate and a very large burst. http://blog.felter.org/post/64832783299/apropos-of-a-recent-...
> But no, the broadcasters want to be paid for not-providing a signal to those customers. Instead of investing to improve their infrastructure, they want to be paid for not improving it.

This is the best one paragraph summary of the Aereo case I've heard. Certainly makes it absolutely plain why it needs to be allowed to continue.
Thanks for posting that, it is exactly what I need.

I want to scrape a diverse selection of web pages for 'the gist' of the main content purely to put into a solr search engine. At the moment I am doing surprisingly well just going on the meta descriptions - in essence meta descriptions should be what I am after - but meaningfully scraped content is the ideal and what I need if no meta description available.

I am sure you have lots of grand plans for this, however, one thing that I wish I could do is search through my web history, at a content level.

For instance, earlier today I found some code was no longer working properly. I could remember bits of the tutorial I needed first time around but finding it again was a chore (on a narrow subject then every search result from Google is purple/visited, so you can't immediately identify the link).

If I could have done some 'search my previous browsing history' then I could have got there a lot quicker. In this 'imaginary search' only the pages that are kept open and scrolled through get 'internally archived'. There could also be snapshots of the pages in question in the results as an aid to memory.

Another thing I would like to see done with this type of tool is a sensible spell check. For decades we have had spell checks in text entry areas but never on a finished web page. A little widget to show the words with problem spellings with wavy underlining that would work on any web page would save no end of woes for people that have to proof read things online. If it also highlighted sentences too long for good copy that would be very useful too.

Can these sorts of applications be built on what you have here?

P.S. Funny that you wrote this 186 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6581317

Times have changed...