skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a few theories--I'd love to be corrected.

1. "Cloud" basically didn't matter until we had widespread broadband internet access. Around the beginning of the 00's, that still wasn't the case for many businesses.

2. Consumers hadn't really accepted that the 'net was going to be a big deal, because there really wasn't a lot of stuff there yet that put them in contact with it every day--maybe, for younger people, Xanga or LiveJournal, or whatever, but the massive publishing empires you see today hadn't really formed yet.

3. Sun was very invested in workstation and server hardware, big iron stuff. That core business supported a whole lot of growth, but once Linux and comparatively cheap commodity server hardware became available, that core business got eroded hardcore.

4. Computers were still pretty weak, as were phones and wireless networking. Technology just wasn't primed for mass adoption yet.
OpenDNS worked the way it was supposed to. It wasn't the right DNS solution for this situation.

I also don't think OpenDNS is a tool of censorship, as it is so easily circumvented. I hope my children learn how to circumvent tools of censorship and this can be their first practice... Until then it reduces the risk of accidentally going to phishing websites.
It's iOS' performance problem because Chrome is forced to use a UIWebView instead of the Nitro engine: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/ios/overview.
> I like how an industry that exists in its current state due to local monopoly grants and subsidized infrastructure deployment (and billions in taxpayer money for infrastructure never built) wants a "free market"

The vast majority of the existing fiber-coax cable networks were built with private money after exclusive cable franchises were made illegal in 1992.
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Consulting gigs, particularly good ones, seem easier to get for people who have built a network. People want to hire a consultant who is a proven entity, often referred by a first or secondhand contact. Referrals are really key unless you are interested in the lowest hanging fruit of gigs.
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Hmm, I think the YC News people are not the average users :)

The problem really came in Africa and the Middle East were overall IT literacy is low. People could often use a computer but were not familiar enough with it/scared to break something that they were afraid to really problem solve - esp human rights defenders in their late 40/50s in these places.

So for example, if taught A then B = C, TC was fine. The problem often came when A then B = Z, then TC became a problem. It's UI/UX and use of language (why call something "Mount"? Just use the word "Decrypt" for gods sake! - yes its not perfectly accurate but its easier for people to understand.) was pretty intimidating for many of the people who's lives really depend on it.
Interesting physical attack using specially made printed circuit boards that slide into the card reader slot. Designing a robust ATM has got to be up there in terms of safety platform engineering.
Reason #2 is chicken and egg.

I'm not excusing OpenGL for this fact, I'm just stating that if people cared about the quality of OpenGL drivers and made purchasing decisions based on that, then you bet your ass the manufacturers would make the OpenGL drivers better.
> Who will want to invest tens of billions of dollars into "dumb pipes," just so software/internet companies can take all the profits because they're not regulated?

It looks to me like US ISPs aren't investing in infrastructure now anyway, so I don't see how new regulations could make things worse.

To me the key issue is that there are two separate businesses that are conflated in current US ISPs: selling users a pipe to the Internet, and selling users particular content that comes over that pipe. Current ISPs take advantage of monopolies granted to them in particular geographic areas by state and local governments to force users to buy a package that combines both of these things, even if that's not really what users want.

Common carrier regulation of the "pipe to the Internet" business would force the two things to be separated. If Comcast wants to be a content company because that's where all the profits are, fine: but then they shouldn't be able to force users to buy their pipe to the Internet to get their content (still less should they be able to charge other content providers extra to get faster access to their users' pipe to the Internet).
It certainly does.

I personally would still prefer a router but I know of a project which was written almost entirely in sprawling, procedural PHP that might benefit from this. Although I do wonder what the performance hit would be.
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$29/mo is simply outrageous!
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+1

Terrible name.
this would only work in cities. any towns and smaller villages would henceforth be without service.

and each city would be disconnected from the next big city, as there is no realistic way to span that amount of space in between for hobbyists.

but it would be great, despite these limitations. governments would no longer be able to kill all communication... until they adapted anyway. nothing easier than spamming these networks with useless entries to hide the actually worthwhile ones
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Isn't that guy on the left in the top photo the guy who doesn't want people on his public beach in NorCal somewhere?
I had some issues loading the article; here is the Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YOzSV2s...
I'm just amazed anyone is willing to pay that much for an ice cube.
One way to get a good software engineer job is to zero-in on firms that look like they are doing interesting work. Don't send them a resume. Instead, approach individuals in a friendly peer-level manner. Start a conversation-- as a fellow coder, I was curious about the work you do.
Clean rooms are very old technology, they are made at least since photography exists. And, of course, you only need them if the features you want to press are very small (and a better one the smaller feature size), big components can go without.

I wouldn't make leds at home, but that's because of the chemistry, not because it can't be done...
The license issues surrounding TC are reason enough to not restart the project.
Yes, I'm in the Midwest. How do you get started? Dunno. A friend knew someone who wanted some work done, introduced me to him and I guess that was how the first one got done.

I don't pursue it actively. If I see someone online who wants something built that fits my schedule, I offer to do it for them. To me, consulting is just a way to learn about new industries that I can build products for.

My focus is really on getting the product business generating a steady stream of cash instead of the small spurts it's doing right now.
Did any of them get the Super Mario reference? Why didn't you go with something more current as your theme?
These are fantastic stories.
Filters are passe but these are amazingly beautiful. They did a nice job.
Is that still true with the new unified memory architecture (hUMA) that AMD introduced?
I agree GPUs probably can't handle more complicated comparators well, but Arrays.sort() could optimize at least for the primitive types.
I was just thinking the same thing. I'm more likely to use them in Clojure. Pretty cool.
Imagine you're me. I work in a hospital with no wi-fi or cell network near my office. With this, I could take pictures with my iphone from my magnifi adapter and share them with my colleagues in other offices. Maybe we could even facetime a consult. And I could do it all without dealing with the hospital's IT department.

Crazy? Actually, I have it on good report that the chairman of pathology at the Mayo Clinic just bought all the pathologists Magnifi adapters to do exactly that (the exact words were "Hey, Mayo's chairman just bought all the pathologists adapters, just like yours, to facetime consults to each other).

Presumably, the chairman at Mayo has more clout than a resident at a military hospital though. If I want to introduce innovation, it's going to have to be on my own, provably separate from the institution. So this is perfect for my use case.
The official Republican party platform had opposition to FCC imposed net neutrality and opposition to applying old telecom regulation to the internet added in 2012.

This bill is in strong alignment with that platform. I would be surprised if it does not get strong GOP support.
If each user created their own key for a .ngrok.com subdomain, could ngrok then sign those, rather than giving out the private key? Would user agents consider the subdomain's signed cert sufficient in that case? This is an odd little corner of SSL logic that I'm not as clear on.
He's talking about regulations made by executive branch agencies, not statutes. Take a look at the Federal Register:

https://www.federalregister.gov/

Everything in there is regulations that were never passed explicitly by Congress or signed by the President. Congress passes laws giving broad regulatory guidelines, and executive agencies then write the detailed regulations that actually matter. The FCC is one such agency.

One could argue (and I would not disagree) that this is not really what the people who wrote the US Constitution intended. But it's how the system currently works.
Respond [1] seems promising. We have been using it for a year now for a small website, and it offers most functions we need, with the ability to customize reasonably if you know your Bootstrap.

[1] http://respondcms.com
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Hi, I'm Chris, the developer of Flux Animations/Transitions. I've been working on it since January. I built it to solve my own problem of working with a UX guy, going back and forwards with him just tweaking an animation, so I decided to make an app for him to use where I could just plug in the result.

I hope you find it useful, any questions, just ask!
Needs to be steroscopic or else you'd be nailing bonds down in the wrong location. No substitute for a good stereo microscope for microelectronics work.
The paper is at http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4927. The blog post adds a little context, though, so I guess we won't change the url.
I've been trying for weeks now to get a system running that can handle larger than RAM datasets and returns queries in an acceptable time. It's running ok now but far from optimal (size of DB is ~100 GB and it contains a few hundred million entries).

Does anyone here have experience with any implementations (such as likelike, lshkit, etc.) and can recommend something that can handle larger sets? All the implementations I have found were either not maintained, old, not running or not suitable for production use.

Will definitely take a look at the paper but unfortunately it's always a very long way from here to an actual implementation (there is no code published as far as I could see).
Probably uniformity & capital. The profit margins on LED aren't what they used to be.
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If you put ice in Macallan 18, you suck. Sorry for the light epithet, but it deserves worse.

and as I read more: "Gläce states that the cubes are ideal for high-end cocktails -- those that employ splashes of $38,000-per-bottle liquors, and must not be diluted or contaminated by mere tap ice." ... ICE NUMBS YOUR TASTE BUDS. Fancy water or not.

edit: Downvoted to -1? I'll double down. If you are going to drink a nice scotch on the rocks, do yourself a favor and buy cheap scotch instead. Go enjoy a Johnnie Walker Red or Cutty Sark. There are aldehydes and esters from the peating of the grain and the oak cask aging that you are not appreciating when it's chilled. If it's cask strength (around 125 proof) then by all means dilute with spring water so you don't burn out your palate. But if you drink it on the rocks, try not doing that and see if you enjoy it differently.
They're not. They're actually paying for the del... illusion it brings.

Just further proof that marketing doesn't actually need a product to succeed.
Reminds me of Apocalypse Now.
Kurtz: We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
For what it's worth, it's somewhat easier to terraform a planet that doesn't have any residents. You can afford to do extreme stuff. Not saying it's at all realistic at this point though... ;-)
Tranquillity peer-to-peer solution for secure collaboration
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Amazing that the oldest male names do not include biblical Old Testament names but the youngest male names do! A sign of increasing religious fundamentalism?
Simple, CockroachDB is a CP system, while Riak is an AP system.

If you need multi-key ACID transactions, and can tolerate potential downtime in the event that some partition loses a majority of its Raft replicas, you might want to use CockroachDB.

If high availability is a concern, and you can tolerate the occasional data conflict in the case of incomparable vector clocks due to writes accepted during a network partition, or, if your schema can be modeled with CRDTs (LWW register, PN counter, Union-Set, etc), you might want to use Riak.
Throwing money at an already failing system isn't going to do anything. Look at how his donation to New Jersey played out. He's just putting money into a dying system. The entire educational system needs to be reworked completely. And the changes we need won't be made by politicians, we need hackers to do it.
I know this is about price point but I feel that some things are being glossed over a bit - mainly the release date and the competition. At that time Mass Effect 2 was just killing it and all other games were feeling the heat. Other good titles run over at that time included Homefront, Rift, Crysis 2, etc. My memory is a bit vague but I do remember thinking about how terrible they were marketing Bulletstorm.
You can use MathJax inside Pollen today. As far as building more integrated support for math typesetting, I'd like to do that, but what I'm not sure about yet are the ergonomics. Ideally, you'd just be able to drop TeX-style math expressions into the markup, indicating whether they're inline or block, and Pollen would do the right thing in terms of handling the rendering (based on whether the output is a web page vs. something else).
>Nuclear weapons have been used to murder around 260.000 people over the course of human history. The people who committed that crime have never been held to account

Plus a lot of Nazis were murdered, what a joke. Who the fuck is stupid enough to up vote this shit?
Received. Much appreciated!
I actually thought about this when a read an article a couple of years ago about a company that sells "designer" bottles of water for $80 EACH.
There are many wealthy people on the planet who don't have a clue on how to spend their money. They are a brilliant target audience to sell overpriced everyday products to.
I don't agree at all that 'dynamic with caching' is like static from a security perspective.

It's very easy to bust the cache (simply affix a random bit of nonsense to the end of the urls) and force dynamic execution of every request you make, opening you up to all the security issues that a direct dynamic front-end would give.
Do those appeals still happen with a life sentence though? Did you compare the yearly cost of housing an inmate vs the cost to execute (including appeals etc)?
I'm all out of invites for now! I'll make another post if I get another batch. Enjoy!
Gah, why doesn't Priceonomics have an RSS feed? :(

Edit: Oh, they do! Thanks! I'll amend my comment to "why doesn't Priceonomics advertise their RSS feed in their site's header for easy discovery?" ;)
This is awesome - though I'm amused that the site that clearly represents US data, is hosted on an overseas domain... (.io = British Indian Ocean Territory).

Edit: All snark aside though, this really is awesome. I can imagine all kinds of useful things that come out of this sort of structured data, including just interesting information (like demographic patterns of various politicians, etc).
Maybe I should start selling Läce Oxygen, the better breathing experience certified to be fresh as it was extracted directly from a sealed room filled with plants.

Don't breathe secondhand air from the mouths of peasants! Get Läce Oxygen!

:/

EDIT: I was kidding, folks. ^^;
Great example of creating a market for your product...
I may be stupid, but I found Xamarin too bugged. And to use it well, i have to know C#, iOS and Android well. With Phonegap I need to know web dev well, phonegap, and much less of the underlying platform.
A chrome extension I created to sync links to other browser that I want to read but don't have time for. A better solution then using bookmarks.
Static can give you RSS feeds, and most of the other bits & pieces can be outsourced these days to parties that specialize in exactly that.
Clearly, but I would just be using Riak to store the single command that indicates an update of multiple balances should be scheduled. Given sound guarantees at that level, I'll be able to implement the transaction myself in any number of ways, inclusive of interop with external services.
Buried as dupe, among other reasons.
That's the first thing I thought. If anybody from the team is looking, how about something like BlattoDB[0]?

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blattaria
They do http://priceonomics.com/latest.rss
Ya I was really just responding in context of the parent comment, not necessarily my views. I oppose capital punishment and I don't think someone get's peace/closure from the death penalty.
For OpenGL 1.2 there was nothing better than http://nehe.gamedev.net/ (e.g. http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorial/lessons_01__05/22004/), but I don't know if something similar exists for modern OpenGL.
Is this a sarcastic comment on all Priceonomics posts being semi-automatically posted on HN? :-)

In case this is not a joke:
http://priceonomics.com/latest.rss
Sounds cool but the website should explain what it is at the top of the home page... Why make people hunt? A short tagline would be helpful.
Ha! Bundle that with a fan that "mists" the pure air and you've got yourself a product!

I know you were kidding, but that doesn't mean you couldn't make a lot of money with that idea.

Ridiculous products can make tons of money.
Since the truecrypt story broke i checked and discovered that I'm using version 6 and it seems to date from 2008.
Will your audit have anything to say about older versions?
You know that Oxygen bars are a thing, right?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_bar
What kind of plants? I can see that idea working.
Strange, I developed on Xbox/Xbox 360/Xbox One for many years. Never realized they supported OpenGL...
> I would imagine, then, that in these scenarios most people would be holding their iPhones with one hand and only touching the screen with one thumb.

I don't think it was meant to be used frequently. More comparable to press-and-hold to enter the app removal/dragging state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDgpKaFbZY

Please breathe responsibly.
It would be wonderful if Apple virtualized the UIWebView process so it could safely use nitro. Not only would it help Chrome (not that I bet Apple cares :), but also a huge number of applications. And, if apps were fully virtualized, it could possibly open up new, interesting possibilities that have been heretofore deemed unsafe.
How do you think about MathJax vs. pre-rendering formulae to images and using those, with the TeX input as the alt attribute? Oh, and using STIX or whatever as web font.
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What next? Will they force google to pay taxes?
There's a lot of potential scope for covering all the crypto that has ever come into contact with Truecrypt; the amount of it we actually cover will depend on the response we get from the community.
This is, of course, ridiculous. Still, there's logic to it: find some mass-market component that is used in a luxury service, and provide a high-end alternative. The kind of idio^H^H^H^Hcustomers who want luxury certainly don't want it contaminiated by something from Walmart, regardless of the actual quality. It's the same reason as for those gold-plated cables for audiophiles.
Sounds a lot like "blotto", which is the last state I want my DB in.
Heaven forbid someone enjoy a product in the manner of their choosing.
Because today, despite 60% of college grads being female, only 16% of comp sci students are women. Choices. Agency. Isn't that what equality is supposed to be about?
I have achieved burnout on "find a job" sites. One time I spent an hour registering and making a profile for a (different!) "find startups" site and got told, after all that, that I'd have to indicate a willingness to relocate to Boston, SF, or NYC if I wanted my profile to be searchable.

I'm sure their A/B metrics were better by waiting until the end for that distracting information.

Again, that was a different site. That's probably unfair for this site. It's just that I anticipate having my time wasted now.

EDIT I just tried to upload my .rtf resume and it said it wasn't an acceptable format. "Word, PDF, text, and HTML only."
Why? Because the database runs around like a chicken with its head cut off?
> Its nice to say "we stopped doing it because we love our users" but I always feel like there is something more behind the scenes that makes these things happen.

The decision very well was probably made because they love their users. You just have to think about why they love their users (even free ones). The vast size of their userbase is what enables them to sell security services. Without a significant userbase overall, the ability to detect anomolies and security threats diminishes which in turn devalues their security offerings. By making the experience better for their free users, they retain users better and potentially grow their userbase, which improves the capabilities of their paid security services.
Consider the air pollution in some countries, such as China, your idea is brilliant.
The joke is that for very nice liquor (whiskey especially) you should definitely not be adding ice, no matter how "deserving" the ice is. If you want the drink cold, chill the liquor itself or even the glass.

In hindsight, fuck it. There is no point in dissecting this, it is what it is. It's ice for people who want to spend money just to spend it.
So now we have aisles full of water in bottles, you can buy air in cans in China, and gourmet ice. I'm waiting for bottles of vacuum, but I am sure they will suck.
While perhaps there is some form of utility here for those more familiar with high end cocktails (I'm more of a dollar beer kind of guy, sometimes I'll splurge on a 22oz), this reminds me a lot of that "wealth badge [1]" or whatever it was -

"Yeah, I've got money, I spend $8 on ice cubes"

[1]http://www.vocativ.com/money/business/size-quarter-made-meta...
As someone who has spent his professional life developing games I have very mixed feelings about the growth of academic programs for games.

On one hand, teaching is a great late career transition for video game devlopers. I have a lot of friends who I have worked with over the years who teach.

On the other hand, it seems like a degree, like getting an MFA in film or television, where it is unlikely you are going to get a reasonable return on what you spend. People like to be in school, and they like to study what they are interested in, so that is fine. But if someone represents this as a good way to launch a career I am dubious.
It's not just the ultra-wealthy that fall for this crap. Consider SF's $4 toast. Cheap enough that anyone can buy it but still way overpriced.