skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't ever join g+ but this comment is selling google way too short. Sure, they fucked up facebook-like "social" but they have gotten a lot of things right that most companies with their position and size would've missed. Who would've guessed 9 years ago that Maps would become such an integral part to their business?* To most people that seemed to be a cool pet project, just one of the many free goodies they provided.

* There would've been a heck of a lot more startup mapping the world if many people had such foresight were things were going.
I'm with OP on this one. I won't read your page/blog if I have to create any kind of account to do so. Full stop.

Displaying ads is one thing, this is entirely different and the loss of my privacy in that way is disproportionate to whatever benefit I get from reading your page.
What to do when a business concept goes down the drain
That's for the future. Apropos, the source of power for electric cars is a frequent discussion issue among environmentalists. In some parts of the country, for example the Northwest, there's a lot of hydroelectric power, so an electric car is better for the environment than a gas-powered car. But in places where most of the power is generated using coal, it's not so clear-cut -- owning an electric car or a gas-powered car might have roughly equal effects on the environment.
Nice catch! We noticed that error as well but didn't want to poke the NIST folks in the eye on the web page -- we're hoping to win them over with Cryptol, not put them on the defense. We're planning to submit an errata report on their website next week.
I heard a rumor Brendan Eich was going to start working on a new project with a couple of his staunchest and loudest supporters, Eric Raymond and Russell Nelson, who were also forced out of their jobs as leaders of Open Source companies because they were bigots.

Following the precedent of Project GNU's rebranding "FireFox" as "IceCat" for their own political and ethical reasons, they're going to rebrand "FireFox" as "WhistleDog", and develop a web browser aligned with their own political and ethical ideology, which is more inclusive of people who think it's wrong to be intolerant of intolerant people, and less tolerant of communists like RMS, bullies like homosexual activists, and blacks, who Raymond and Nelson describe as "stupid", "violent" and "lazy".
Since you talked around my question by falsely equating governmental and private action, let's revisit -- which of:

People deciding what products they want to use and talking about it.
Companies deciding what to do based on what's good for them and their objectives.

Do you object to? (OKCupid's actions, of course, fall under both categories.) The consequences of any action you could take to prevent this type of behavior would be much more dire, chilling-effect-wise, than the occasional troubling instance such as this one.
Me no reed gud :-\

Yeah, you're correct.
No it is not. ISP throttling their paying customers because of their internal nonsense is user-hostile. Informing consumers that they're being undermined by their ISP is quite possibly the most pro-consumer act you could do. If it gets us one step closer to treating the bandwidth like electricity or water, it's a good thing.
Since the companies are considered people, they should also get jail time. That should motivate shareholders to insist on scrupulous behavior.
Comcast sells access to the internet to households.

To provide the service of access to the internet, Comcast must connect with other networks that the stuff on the internet is connected to. This is the business they're in. That's specifically what customers are paying for when they buy internet access: Comcast gets money from customers, that money goes to connecting Comcast to the internet, then connecting Comcast to the customers' homes. Thus internet service is delivered.

One of these networks they must connect to in order to sell internet access is Cogent's. Behind Cogent were hundreds of thousands of sites and services, including Netflix. These customers all pay for their internet connectivity. Cogent's being paid to connect these customers to the internet (Netflix's bandwidth bill was at least in tens of millions per year), Comcast is being paid to connect its customers to the internet, they both need to connect with an adequately sized pipe to meet their obligations to their respective customers. They're both paid handsomely for the service.

Comcast was being derelict in its duty to its customers by refusing to maintain a wide enough connection between its network and Cogent's network to reliably deliver access to that part of the internet. Customers are paying for that service (unlimited access to the internet at 15+mbps), but if the part of the internet they wanted to reach was Cogent's, they couldn't get anywhere near the advertised speed, and videos sometimes buffered or downgraded bitrates at prime time.

Netflix should not have had to pay to correct this, Comcast should've. The connection between Netflix and Comcast customers wasn't poor because Netflix refused to send the bits fast enough, but only because Comcast refused to accept them fast enough. That's Comcast's responsibility to address. Providing that network on their end is the business they're in. Netflix is not trying to pay for any special "fast lane" speed that other sites don't get, and its' already paid for its internet access, it's just trying to avoid going out of business as a side effect of Comcast screwing its own customers by failing to provide the service it's been paid for.
It must damage the battery somehow. If it didn't, Tesla would have said so in the FAQ, instead of trying to sidestep the question.
"You still ignored his main point, get the money now without delay and without the possibility of appeals court striking it down or lowering the amount won--if they win. Appeal after appeal can take a few years."

Lawyers don't get money unless clients want the money and are willing to settle.
Period.
The clients agree because they don't want this risk. They don't want to wait 7 years. It's easy to blame lawyers because they are essentially enablers, but ...

Behind every crappy settlement is a crappy plaintiff. There may be a shady lawyer somewhere, but laying the blame solely on the lawyer is silly.

For anyone who thinks the settlement is unfair, besides objecting, they can opt out. If he really thinks it is so cheap, easy, and low risk to win a lawsuit, he should do it.

"The attorneys are not the ones agreeing to settle, and they actually can't do things without the okay of their plaintiffs. Can they "strongly suggest" it to the plaintiffs?
"

They can give their plaintiff candid advice, which is usually "This will take 3-7 years of your life, decide whether you'd rather spend that sitting in depositions or with a small amount of money"

The vast majority of good class action attorneys are fine with either. They can often win much larger amounts than the settlement amounts to. No court in the world would let them drop out of the lawsuit at this point (fun fact: You can't withdraw in most cases unless the judge lets you, and the judge is not going to let you just because you didn't settle)

I'm not going to claim there isn certainly a cottage industry of suing to settle in certain areas. Trotting out this lawsuit as an example of that (when for example, we still don't even know the settlement amount) seems silly.
NIST finally dumps NSA-tainted random number algorithm
IC engines are far from infinite. In fact, most can "only" burn in the neighborhood of 3-5K gallons of fuel per cylinder before requiring a major overhaul.

It's admittedly quite a bit more than the supercharger equivalent, but it's far from infinite.
Yeah, but Gmail's inbox view is paginated. I don't think the number of conversations shown on a single page has changed since then. Maybe the conversations themselves have gotten longer?

I'm sure Google's engineers could get the page load time down if it was a priority. I think at this point everyone is so invested in Gmail they just aren't that worried about losing users because of slower UI load times.
> I'm aware of the Chrome sync passphrase. If I used Chrome on Android (I don't—I use Firefox), would Chrome back my passphrase up to Google's systems? I dunno.

At least the docs claim that it's only saved on your device. You can believe it or not. There may be a way to verify that it's not being backed up with your normal Android data, but I'm not sure.

> Is the crypto behind Chrome's sync anywhere near as good as that behind Firefox's? Not last time I looked.

It's never been not good. Maybe you're thinking of back when they didn't have the option to encrypt all your sync data locally, just your passwords? It uses Nigori[1] and the source is all available[2].

This is a little old, but it compares browser syncing security: http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2012/04/08/comparing-the-securi...

> I'm also aware that email often travels via SSL—but it's always cleartext to the sending and receiving hosts

Fair enough, but if you're using PGP, those hosts are only the actual sender and recipient (and anyone the recipient shares an email with, of course).

[1] http://www.links.org/files/nigori-overview.pdf

[2] https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/sync/util/n...
> So the trust issue reverts into trusting that the creators + early adopters to not abuse the system. This is the exact argument used against single-authority systems that the authority may abuse the system.

This is not exactly true. Look at Napster vs BitTorrent. Napster failed because it was a single-authority system. BitTorrent has succeeded because it is (mostly) decentralized. Trackers might go the way of the block chain in the not-too-distant future.

As far as abuse: It is up to early adopters to sniff out the scams. Unfortunately that is how free markets work. If those adopters stay and continue to promote the new system, it may have a chance with the populace at large. The small localization of failure is a feature not a bug.
Jpd750- I have a startup I would really like to talk to you about. Please shoot me an email at whostherellc@gmail.com.

I'm the founder and looking for some help in building out this product
Google and NASA Team Up to Build Floating Robots
Facebook acquires Moves
> This really makes me lose a lot of respect for Mr. Jobs.

Jobs was a player. Look at how he played Wozniak, the mother of his daughter, & his daughter.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/tech/innovation/steve-jobs-mov...
The antitrust laws have criminal and civil components as well as governmental and private aspects. The government may prosecute violators of the antitrust laws and impose criminal or civil punishments. These are punitive. Private plaintiffs may then sue for monetary injuries they personally suffered. The fact that it takes the form of a class action just means a bunch of private claims are considered as a class. It does not change the fact that they are private claims.

This particular case was pursued by the government. The companies settled with the DOJ: http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f272300/272393.htm. See: http://www.mintz.com/newsletter/2011/Advisories/0858-0111-NA....

The DOJ has a policy against entering into confidential settlement agreements: http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/50.23. While it is in theory legal for them to do so, this regulation makes any such attempt potentially subject to litigation.
Another point that strengths your arguments is that they are going to use mirrors to concentrate light on the panels, and reflective film is much lighter and cheaper than the solar panels.

It means that it's possible to occupy 5x-10x more area in the space with the same amount of solar batteries as on Earth. Yes, the harvest per square meter may be smaller, due to smaller efficiency of mirror->solar panel transition, but the cost/watt may be much smaller.
PureWrite.net
I don't know if it's OK to make those jokes, but it's infinitely preferable to say it out loud explicitly and deal with it with humor than to just make fun of them for being weird and acting different like on big bang theory, where sheldon is clearly modeled after someone on the spectrum but with few redeeming qualities.
At the risk of a trite response, it's the evil you know versus the evil you don't, and frankly getting rid of the evil I know (pretty consistent 5-10% packet loss across the board, spiking during bad weather, repeatedly tracked to terrible work in the outdoor cable boxes, but that I get charged 40$ a pop to temporarily have them fix) is worth a gamble in my books.
The power of origami
its funny to me that two companies that hate each other so much have to do business together
Said link on apache vs nginx (among others):

http://www.atlanticdynamic.com/web-server-performance-analys...
I dropped Netflix about a month ago when I first heard they made this agreement with Comcast. They are part of the problem.
I second the EconTalk podcasts. I've been listening to them for over 5 years. They are hour long interviews on a wide variety of subjects. The host, Russ Roberts, does a great job of letting the guest get his or her point across even when you suspect he disagrees. The tone is polite and non-confrontational. It is more about accurately presenting a position than debating, although there is some point/counter-point.

I cannot exaggerate how much I've learned from EconTalk. Plus, there's even an episode with Paul Graham about ycombinator and startups:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/08/graham_on_start.htm...
Gecko Adhesives Moving from Robot Feet to Your Walls
Disappointed there weren't more House of Cards puns.
> Having enough capacity to meet the streaming demand of your current customers during peak times is a solvable problem that doesn't require a full gigabit for everybody, all the time.

With adaptive streaming technology, there is not such thing as "today streaming demand"

If whenever you raise the pipe size, it is automatically filled by an higher resolution/quality/bitrate stream, it is a never ending game.

What I mean is that, whatever the state/quality of ISP networks is or could have been, we are doomed to face that "Netflix problem". If networks were better, then Netflix would already offer 4k or dual/triple HD streams and so there would be saturation anyway.

> (Ironically, and despite its protestations, Netflix's ability to pay this rent is a barrier to entry for its own future competitors.)

Actually, moving all Netflix traffic to private pipes will free the shared ones, so a new freeloader can use them and cut Netflix prices ;)
You lost me at "No ISP in the country has been a stronger supporter of the Open Internet than Comcast"

I'm sorry Comcast but if you can't fullfil our agreement (Internet access) then you aren't an ISP in my mind. I pay you for an Internet connection, not for the ability to send packets at someone else -- they get to respond to me as well, that's part of our deal.
The decision to bypass the I-80 corridor in favor of a more northernly route is curious. Wonder what spawned that?
Here's the rub - the noninvasive stuff has never had as good symptomatic results. The papers like to find numbers with good statistical significance but in practice, the results from DBS in Parkinson's, and dystonia are impressive, and persistent, while the TMS results have been modest at best, and stop when you turn off the stimulator.

It'd be nice to have a non-invasive device that works just as well but the nice thing about DBS is that it's all internalized and the patient never forgets to turn it on or take it off accidentally...
I like to imagine the cognitive dissonance this is causing in Google employees ("Google is good" / "Those emails are damning evidence of a conspiracy to break the law") leading to explosive outbursts and aggressive responses on eng-misc.
If you were designing a new transport to replace TLS, would you build a flexible record layer protocol to run it on top of, in the sense that TLS provides?
What are other examples of companies that have agreements with Comcast?
I certainly do mind spending several hundred dollars on some second-hand paperbacks -- when the things should just've been made available for reprint (and as ebooks). Not to mention that it pretty much rules them out as curriculum for any kind of course on hypermedia. That said, I do think they're great books.
Although I haven't had anything like that happen in my 26 years of running unix boxes and marvel that it has reportedly happened to you, I agree that there is room for better dependency management in the startup process.

That nevertheless doesn't have anything to do with hotplugging devices, nor does it suggest that we should create an init system which handles dhcp, qr codes, and, no shit, takes core files and jams them into its binary log.
Wow, that was a surreal, emotionally moving experience. I recommend everyone to go through it even if you don't want to enable it.
I worked for one of these firms during the time period mentioned (as I suspect many other readers here did). Does that automatically make me one of the class members? How do I find out more?
Cutting edge Canvas, WebGL and SVG app released on Github by Warp Record Label
What? That was Schmidt.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/23/3906310/the-no-hire-paper-...
I guess it's more acceptable to make jokes about a mental illness that (a) has been abandoned as meaningless, and that (b) can make you rich and/or famous (Bill Gates and Albert Einstein were both assigned the diagnosis).

It can't be compared to the cruel jokes I would hear in school about anyone below average either physically or mentally. It's in a different category.
Takeaways from the Aereo Supreme Court Oral Argument
Probably other CDNs like Akamai. The lack of transparency here is a big part of the problem, because it's hard to tell what is or is not a common industry practice if everything is covered in NDAs.
Cry me a river Comcast and you actually quoted AT&T, laughable. Piss off.
A private manufacturer being told by politicians how to design their own product for reasons other than consumer or environmental protection is not right. The traditional example is the auto industry regulation... Requiring seat belts in new cars for example. Or requiring private companies to properly dispose of waste because pollutants in the environment is a health risk. But this issue is not a case of safety. Nobody will be injured by a device that doesn't brick itself. That is overreaching into an area not controlled by the government. It wouldn't be good for Apple to implement and support an unnecessary feature.
> It possibly already is

Quite, with this article plus regarding the recently resurrected Andy Warhol works from ~1985 floppy disks [and somesuch.

I anticipate more so as time goes on. "USB? My word, I doubt my father heard that since his youth..."
I'd likely say that the records are AEAD ciphertext and let the AEAD decide on what that means.

But as for allowing handshake messages, alert messages etc to mix with application data, no.

(See the QUIC design as an example: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g5nIXAIkN_Y-7XJW5K45IblH...)
HAProxy is awesome for load balancing IMO.
It is absolutely true. Even in the middle of silicon valley for many houses comcast is the only viable option. In that regard, internet service is very similar to public utility like electricity, water, sewage and phone service.

And it should be treated as such.
It's a free country, if they can pull it off, more power to them!
> This really makes me lose a lot of respect for Mr. Jobs.

I tried to work with Jobs in the late 70s and early 80s, and I couldn't stand him. After a brief spell I refused to work with Apple any more. Since then I've been waiting for the world to catch up with my already low opinion. :)

Apropos, everyone should read the Isaacson biography. Regardless of how you feel about the topic, it's a terrific book.
Apple/Samsung are another example.
That's more recent.
I'm curious, do you use Google History? If so, does it not meet your needs?
Where's the actual response, there's more disclaimer than content there
there's an extended version if you have a kindle
ok lets not decide if the att link is valid, no one at comcast thought you know who we should align ourselves with att. Another ISP and telecom company that made the consumerist quarterfinals for worst company in america 2013
Probably because it's still experimental - trials are still ongoing at Toronto and Emory, and are still considered in the pilot phase. I don't think more than 40 people have had it done so far, and it's definitely been more inconsistent in terms of effectiveness compared with Parkinsonism. That being said, you're right about the epidemiology - there's a lot of depression (and um....the potential market, which is how Medtronic, the company funding a lot of the studies, is looking at it). The appropriate clinical selection criteria for depression surgery, should it ever get approved by the FDA, will have to be carefully put together...
> Comcast has a multiplicity of other agreements just like the one Netflix approached us to negotiate, and so has every other Internet service provider for the last two decades.

I may just be ignorant here, but in what sense is Netflix an "Internet service provider?"
Making the right job for the tool
Because he was very good negotiating. Apple can do that on a case by case basis but announcing it like that will just increase their HR expenses A LOT.
Datomic is bundled with a REST server: http://docs.datomic.com/rest.html. And it includes an endpoint to subscribe to a stream of Server-Sent Events, which lets you drink from the transaction-report firehose. But there is a lot of data in that stream. I'm writing a production Pedestal app, and I could definitely use the capability to store my data on the client in the same shape as Datomic and query it with Datalog.
Banks may be greedy but in exchange for their greed they protect my money. As an analogy, Governments may be lacking in integrity, but they offer protection such as police, laws, and human rights. Putting your faith in Bitcoin is like trying to live at sea so that you can be "free" of all governments. But I would rather put up with the ills of Government than the ills of piracy and the instability of the ocean.
This article cannot be taken seriously if it will not address the recent problems with Bitcoin (thefts, illegal markets etc) and offer explanations and reassurances.
Maybe I'm wrong but the excitement around Bitcoin seems to be an extension of the old Utopian ideas born out of the anarchist movements: if only we remove the Government and the status quo from the equation all our problems will be solved.

No matter what security measures people devise for Bitcoin or anything else on the web, they will never be perfect. Look at heartbleed! What protects us is the system: laws, repercussions, investigations, insurance. Once you have laws and police to protect the banks, the banks are happy guaranteeing you your money back if you are a victim of fraud or theft.
Bitcoins biggest selling point is also its Achilles heel. I'll keep my money in the bank until Bitcoin is legislated and protected.
Can't even login to the main site now, must be getting hammered.

Any IFTTT recipes for sending a text when you're within a certain radius of a target? That'd be nice.
I think that is a real problem, yes; I also think that problem is endemic to open standards groups.
Additional discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/23mdhx/netflix_officia...
I'm laughing so hard at this. I'm definitely stealing this and using this later!
A HT is my primary grocery store. Every time I'm there someone is out front getting loaded up.
I think it's a misplaced modifier:

"Comcast, as well as every other ISP for the last two decades, has a multiplicity of agreements just like the one Netflix approached Comcast to negotiate."
oh gosh it's too long. who can post a brief version here? if it's a story, what's the end?