skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The X network transparency is already hugely inefficient compared to RDP or VNC. I also really hope when Dalaa 1.0 comes out (soon, please?) someone starts an initiative to make first class networked display / video streaming a reality on it. You don't really need a new protocol, just vnc-dalaa or rdp-dalaa rather than pixel buffer updates. See how Steam / Nvidia streaming works, or Miracast, except substitute hardware accelerated h264 with opencl accelerated Dalaa for a nice open standard.
Javascript doesn't have operator overloading, but it doesn't stop you from doing

"foo".replace('oo', 'ood') + " tasty"

I don't see why PHP can't treat strings specially as well.
FPGAs crank 1000 TOPS to study stellar galaxy evolution
And with this comment you made more of a point than the entire original post.
Fullscreen Form Interface
If you guys like this NOAA app, you'll probably like NASA Worldview too: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/worldview/

It's more focused on Earth sensing data products, but it has great satellite imagery and overlays.
My concern is, in 10 years, a generation of people will think this is how it has always been.
We changed the url from http://www.droid-life.com/2014/07/30/12-a-month-for-facebook.... Better url suggestions welcome.
US Unable to Account for $626M Worth of Weapons in Afghanistan
Exercise Can Change How You See the World
Additionally, Linux wasn't as secure as it is now out of starting gates. It's a very effective and well-written piece of software, but there have been high profile bugs and exploits. C code isn't impossible to make safe, but there is an argument to be made that it needs more attention towards safety (and therefore developer time) than a language that makes certain types of bugs impossible. The space shuttle software was written in assembly language, but it damn sure had a ton of people working on it who valued safety (not necessarily security as we know it now) as one of the highest priorities.
Record Label Lawsuit Could Jeopardize Online Content Communities
This is pure evil. and exactly why we need Net Neutrality.

http://willchatham.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/net.png

They really want to make this real. :|
This whole article feels like the author is trying to pull something from nothing. House-poor seems like a stretch. I would suggest a more plausible theory: people, in general, just aren't that creative, especially when it comes to interior decorating.
The secret to staying focused
How does this even work though? Most of the things that are interesting on twitter or pinterest are links to other sites. They really lost their value if you can't even click through the links.
404 Simulator
“Will it scale?” is a less important question than “will it ever matter?”
There is no reason that can't be done by just selling them bandwidth, regardless. Facebook isn't a massive bandwidth cost.
> porting their code over.

They have been stuck with x86 based hardware since the ARM GPU drivers are a collective wreck and they use X, so the shitty Android blobs aren't even close to being an option.

I think it was just premature. We need Lima / Freedreno / that open Tegra project to mature into their own, so we can have first class Mesa GPU acceleration on ARM systems, before we can try bringing desktop Linux to said devices. It is the same mistake Canonical made with Mir, and I think it is a mistake with Wayland - the Android GPU stack is a lost cause, and trying to work around it and have the tumor of Qualcomms / ARMs shitty blobs is doomed from the start.
My fear is these kind of "disruptive innovation" will cause violence.
Can anyone more familiar with ZeroVM point out what's new?

Previous submissions/discussions:

Two years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746222

About a year ago, acquisition by Rackspace:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6588566
> I have yet to know such a Christian.

I'm sorry for you?

> Gentiles were not allowed to have relationship with Jesus and God for 10 years after Jesus ascended. But God told Peter that Gentiles were allowed to have relationship with Him and Jesus. It was word of God, again not evolution by any means.

Gentiles were initially not allowed to have relationships with jesus, then tack changed and they were allowed. How is that not doctrine evolving?

> Are you kidding me? Not sure which Bible you read.

Er…

> Depending on what apocrypha you believe

the event in question is part of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas
2FA released for Fastly
Unless I’m severely misremembering, Cortex-A8 had ECC support, and appeared ~6 years ago.
Lords: right to be forgotten is wrong, unworkable, unreasonable
Why would you link to the Github page instead of the project’s home page (http://sympy.org/)? Is this a thing now?
AOL all over again.
Louis CK is from Mass and lives in Manhattan, so his Brooklyn tour is probably not what you're looking for.
Yeah I am familiar with the theory of alternative methods in a general way (CSP, message passing between full or light procs, green threads, etc.) but what is the story with OCaml and Mirage. I am curious because if it is the same as OCaml I am curious how much performance can be eeked out of it without SMP.
Thailand actually has unusually good healthcare; it's a major destination for health tourism.

None of the cities on the list so far are anywhere I'd be desperately worried about being sick.
Read my favorite book (Richard Preston's The Hot Zone) while barricading myself in my apartment for awhile and waiting for things to blow over.
"Create groups, send links, share files and we’ll organize them so you don’t have to" <- This doesn't mean much to me. Maybe I didn't 'identify' with the problem you're trying to solve.

If I understand correctly, you're a service that uploads e-mail attachments to a central location? Kinda like sending all -mail attachments to google Drive, then sorting by who you send to?
If you're small, Wistia might be a good fit.

http://wistia.com/pricing
Well, sometimes it's good to be able to tell whether some code is of the language in question or not. That's were a spec comes in handy, whether it's considered ongoing or not.
He just wanted his privacy. On HN, I am kind of surprised that had to be explained. Is that not the norm we are fighting for when discussing such things?
Tangental: did anyone else see that video of the woman talking about a nuclear Jesuit semen bomb (not making this up)? Is she frighteningly schizophrenic or just pulling yarn?
Boston Viridis ARM server supported ECC memory.

Too bad it wasn't competitively priced.
Intel's data center strategy for ARM is greater integration density.

For example, in less than a year Intel will be selling a Xeon socket compatible chip with 72 Atom cores with the same power envelope as a normal Xeon server chip. And each core will have two 512-bit vector pipelines (AVX3?), so the throughput for compute intensive operations should be impressive. It will undoubtedly be expensive but if you look at the overall dollars per compute, and how many VMs and similar you could run on it simultaneously, it starts to look very attractive in terms of data center economics.
Most tip calculator apps are really limited - they can do what a basic calculator can do, but slower. The front page is filled with these apps. Mine can do a lot more - it can handle groups pretty well. And it's genuinely faster and easier to use for every use case the first page ones cover as well. Also it finds out the sales tax in your area for you.

I haven't updated it because it contains a fatal flaw that, I think, keeps it from being anything more than just a better mouse trap: It can't split a single item between multiple users. It's designed for everyone to put in their own values independently.

If I were to do it again, I would add a "table sharing" feature with Parse and find some decent way of splitting individual items that didn't do it by hand. It could be very novel - but tip calculators just aren't very useful. It's much faster, easier and involves less friction to do it in your head and just round out the differences. Alternatively, just ask the waiter to split the bill.

It's called Tipsy Tip Calculator if you're interested.
There haven't really been any usable ARM server chips. There was supposed to be the Armada XP, but by the time it came out it was obsolete. There was supposed to be Calxeda but they went out of business. Maybe the nth time's the charm.
technically, and legally, because of the workaround, it's not. ethically it is
If you took a Prius C and drove really conservatively, I think you're only off by a factor of 2 or so.

I think a better analogy might be something like water or electricity. Imagine separate line items on your electric bill for the refrigerator, the TV, the lights, etc. You bought a game console, that's $50/month extra for the game console electrical package.
Avoid the cities and head for the beach or mountains...
The similarities with Joyent's Manta is quite interesting:

(From January 2014):
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/zerovm-design-summit-day-1-dig...

While I haven't played with Manta, the architecture really appeals to me -- it's nice to see more implementations along similar lines (but sadly, presumably, without zfs or equivalent ...).
thanks! Yes, Class C = /24. So a class C is only $2500 to $5k, minus 25% is not worth the work of selling it.

I think I'll continue using it for OpenVPN, where its nice that my real IP addresses never conflict with any private network, and keep my network for a few more years.
There is nothing stopping people from implementing something similar in other languages.

The developer using this doesn't need to know anything about Xen, they just see a single address space system that runs their code.
Facebook now needs to proxy the real Internet and profit from it...
Jesus. That change-when-you-scroll profile picture is annoying. When I scroll, the motion in my peripheral jerks my attention away from the content of the page.
Tax and work permit are different. In Thailand you need to be there more than half the year before you need to declare income.
Uff, so good that you've commented, thanks. There is a huge misunderstanding. We let you create folders (groups) with a chat built in. All shared content is shared with a message. It is made so that it is later possible to understand who sent what, when and why.
Our next app (spend Bitcoin at Target)
Awesome deal if the one app is my VPN endpoint
I used to volunteer at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in the Space Odyssey section. They have had one of these systems there for several years now, so one of my main tasks was to present data displayed on the sphere and offer explanations/answer questions. The system we had used about 4 projectors with the sphere, with images synced to make the projections aligned. The set up we had wasn't perfect (it didn't completely cover the bottom pole). However, we had a couple of Wii controllers set up to allow rotation, panning, and timescaling of the projected images, to make up for this. On the whole we had a lot of cool animations to show the visitors and it was really enjoyable showing that data. The biggest problem was getting (younger) visitors to not try to constantly touch the sphere.

My understanding is that this system has become very common for museums showing space or earth science content. It is a neat format to use, and individual museums can set up their own controls for setting up individual animations, creating playlists, and setting up controls for manually operating the system if they use it in shows or presentations, etc. If you have your own data you can put in up on the SOS; we were always looking for the cool things that noaa and sometimes other museums would put up.
Why not G++?
... hmm, if a tip calculator could tell you what to tip in every situation (hotel, restaurant, house cleaning) and in every country, that could be useful.
That would definitely be bad and certainly not qualify as "better for everyone". It's important to have inspirational visions of the future, not just nightmares.
> That's the beauty of having a kernel though. If one of those userland processes is broken it won't affect the whole system.

With a Unikernel there is nothing else to affect. You are running a virtual machine anyway so even if you kill the kernel you only took down yourself.

> This assumes that the OCaml compiler/interpreter and the hardware are free of bugs...

They are not free of bugs. For most purposes you can consider everything to have bugs in it. However there is a big difference between a compiler/interpreter bug (which usually just makes your system run differently) and a service bug (which can lead to all kinds of problems).
Hack has actually dropped support for that format, the only place I've ever seen it used seriously is in wordpress.
There are languages whose communities everybody hates, but it doesn't seem to be that everybody hates Ruby or Clojure or whatever. Just that everybody hates their trendiness.
> " The question is where that line will be in the myriad of situations that will be more complex due to the the introduction of automation."

It will be determined via litigation, as it is now. Technological complexity of subject matter has yet to present any serious roadblock, or cause any significant change, in the prosecution of the law.

Similarly, whether neglected maintenance (or third-party modifications/parts) contributed to a collision will be determined in court, just as it is now.

As a side note: given the service opportunities afforded by self-driving vehicles, I would be surprised if operators and insurers didn't subsidize or operate "while you sleep" maintenance service plans. e.g. Once a month or so, while you sleep, your car will drive itself to the shop to get checked out, ensure updates are received, recall services performed, etc.

Manufacturers would add a revenue stream and lower their legal costs/exposure and consumers would have yet-another-hassle of car ownership removed.
I believe C++ is not hated universally and is still used like everywhere.
I take some myself, and have a whole bunch in backlog from when I bought it. I've bought one from an artist I knew and liked.

Now that my kids are old enough to travel easily, I plan on taking picture-taking vacations to some cool places once a year - and let them take a shot at learning photography on the job.
That's my point of comparison. Best case, if Seattle can be slightly faster than Avoton with better I/O and the customers get high on ARM hype, AMD could charge at most the same price as Avoton. Most likely it will be cheaper.
I hardy think it is only the "tech" community that will realize this plan is "dumb".

Just because someone is poor doesn't mean they are an idiot... The real fear is other carriers will adopt this idea and then jack up the prices on normal data plans which will railroad poorer people into these types of plans.
He said "over the year" so its $5/day X 30 X 12 I believe. I could be wrong though.
It's even cheaper - you can get calls+text+3G for $25 at republic wireless - which has same coverage areas as sprint. And once you add calls+text to the sprint plans it will not be much cheaper than $25 , surely.
Join a hacker space, and found a RoboCup Junior league team. Junior league is one of the cheapest and easiest classes in robot soccer, and its normal that the kids have adults to help them. evil grin Our hacker space Junior team has good support from B-Human players, who is one of the strongest teams in standard league.
This is why we desperately need net neutrality laws.
A robot should always assume the person might suddenly enter the street regardless of body language or other clues and drive at speeds that allow safe stopping if that occurs.

A person driving should do the same.

I don't see the discrepancy.
I can't imagine Facebook is in favor since they wouldn't be able to get any mobile ad revenue
The Impact of Meta-Tracing on VM Design and Implementation [pdf]
i didn't say there was, but it's still complicating the task.

i'm not saying it isn't cool, but it's a very round about way of doing something, and as such it becomes more expensive in development time and skill required
The Truffle Oil Shuffle
Thank you, anonymous non-Australian for updating the Wikipedia page!
Thats the default appearance in Yosemite: http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/
The Sympy guys have a good comparison:

https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/SymPy-vs.-Sage
If you like the quiet life Battambang is very pleasant. As for Siem Reap, I guess if you stayed for long enough the hawkers would start to recognise you.
Sage uses sympy, among many other tools.
I haven't driven any traffic yet. I have a SEO tool that I've been developing and finally finished, and was going to use this site as my test case. With no text it has no search engine traffic, the picture names are horrible from an seo perspective...there's a lot I can do if I ever have time.
...and don't forget Nasa's Java SDK, World Wind, which is specifically designed for this type of data. One of the first projecs I worked on, in order to learn Java, was a simple project using world wind. It's a really fun tool.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/
For me this is the important part.

I have a team with java/php/javascript experience. PHP will not be an option for my use case. I need a json based rest interface with a decently discoverable web interface. Java has stupidly powerful rest interface libraries with jersey or full application servers, and javascript has hugely powerful frontend interfaces with angular or other frameworks, based on a strong rest interface. And the strong rest interface goes right back at java.

And we are just a limited team with java* experience. I don't know what teams with django or other twisted libraries will do, or what ruby shops will do. The era of "just make it easy to print html" is gone.
Countdown to TCP-over-TwitterDM in 3... 2.... (in the same vein as tcp-over-over ping and tcp-over-dns-txt)
Remember the joke? "On the Internet, 'forever' is 2 years from now."
Interesting. Makes me wonder how we evolved our taste buds.
Bitcoin Raises Its Washington Profile
That is odd, but perhaps they're using the user data for a larger survey or to better their product.
>I have yet to know such a Christian.

Who are you? You're one person. There have been billions of Christians from various countries over thousands of years. What you personally know or don't know doesn't really mean much.

But since you've decided to argue your personal interpretation of the Bible as an absolute, I will choose to end my role in this conversation.
I could tell that was going to be in New Zealand before I even clicked it, somehow it looks Maori
Leverage Your JavaScript Skills To Build Full Stack Mobile Applications
No Revenue for me yet, but I've been inspired by patio11 and Amy Hoy to build a product. I'm starting very small with a premium wordpress plugin focused on food bloggers.

Progress has been slower than I'd hoped due to personal distractions.

My plan is to spend equal parts on marketing and development. I have released a free version of the plugin in order to get it listed on the wordpress repository and to start seeding my mailing list. So far I have 20 people that signed up for "product updates and early release pricing".
Paul's talks have been my favorite, pretty much every time he's spoken at Startup School. I've seen a couple of them in person a few years back, and one (maybe more?) on YouTube. He's among the brightest, humblest, folks I've met who've done really awesome things. The humility can actually be a little deceptive...when I first met him, I thought, "This is the guy that created GMail?" Most of us (myself included), could probably learn something from that.

Interestingly, I think that indicates that paul is more of a Woz than a Jobs. I think it's interesting that he chose to use Jobs as an example of someone we need more of (I'm not really in agreement...had he said the world needs more of Woz or Larry or even Elon Musk, I wouldn't have argued).
I like the piece. It exposes a melancholic beauty to the ticky-tacky hedge rows and webcam uniformity of the Western existence. Peering past the facades and in to the lives of American suburbanites we see a million people separated by their screens yet united in their droll simplicity.

There's more to life than just the exuberance, progress, and extraordinary creations that we obsess over here in the Bay Area. For every amazing success story there's a thousand people shuffling their feet and walking in circles just to be our customers. On the other side of almost every IP packet is a person sitting alone in a room. It's important for us to realize the implications of our creations. It is important for us to realize what's real and what's just an idealized vision of the future. It'll keep us thinking about a path forward that includes everyone. It'll keep us from thinking that we're special and different and more entitled to life's pleasures. When we turn our heads most of us see the same pale white walls.

Well Frisco's a mighty rich town, now that ain't no lie

Why they got some buildings that reach a mile into the sky

Yet no one can even afford the time just to tell me why

Here's a world filled with people and so many people alone

- Frisco Depot by Mickey Newbury
There's nothing obvious about how to use persistent nested variables, or how to assign key/value pairs to a blessed file handle typeglob, or the difference between calling a package subroutine as either a method or a function. The more complicated your data structure gets, the more convoluted ways you can reference it. The subtle yet different ways to do the same thing (or almost do the same thing), like int@_ vs $#_ . Does the camel book explain the magic of $VERSION? Sure it's documented, but you'd have to read every perl doc to finally get to what it is and how it works, and then somehow remember its quirks amongst the pages and pages of docs you just read.

Evaluating true and false, or just simple comparisons, can be a mystery. Heck, just figuring out what's going to be a syntax error or not depending on if a variable was declared, defined, interpolated. Or referencing a nested data structure when one of the elements doesn't exist. Even just general conventions and best practices fills its own O'Reilly book. We haven't even begun talking about regular expressions.... Then there's the autoloader, and constants, namespaces, scalar/list context, signal handling, ....

Part of the difficulty of Perl is that you can write code that works perfectly until the clearly-obvious hole you left is triggered and a fatal error occurs, and then you get to learn about the debugger. It takes years to use all the parts of Perl that have weird magic or complex, non-obvious functionality tied to them. Saying you could use it all without problems after only a few weeks is really misleading.

The fact that there is a "strict" mode at all speaks to how difficult it can be to get the language right.
A preview of a world without net neutrality. In the future, your $60 internet connection includes "access to 500 premium websites!" The rest of the Internet isn't necessary to the "average" consumer. Like with cable television...

Or maybe I'm wrong about the corporate vision.
The issue for me is that I'll need a working video driver and framebuffer on the remote device, whereas with X I only need to set those up on the viewing end. Theoretically, someone could make a Wayland server that didn't render locally, but no one has made one of those yet.
> * But, the companies fighting against becoming dumb pipes much prefer to charge $5/mth for a base data plan, plus the $12 unlimited social package, plus the $10 for 40 hours of music package, etc.*

I work at an ISP. You hit the nail very squarely on the head, these conversations are happening every day.

I believe we're soon going to introduce a "NetFlix" package where all netflix data will not count towards your usage cap. (Of course, the entire Netflix catalog is already locally cached inside our network anyway)