skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately there isnt much to be had FLOSS-wise over android with FX-os as they use the same shitty closed source driver model as android.

I dont know why anyone would want these phones.
"The terminology used is somewhat confusing… I’m not really sure what is meant by a “cone.”"

I think the linked-to Wikipedia page makes it pretty clear, it's simply a reference to the conical (funnel-like) shape of the right-hand side of the illustration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_cone_NAT#Methods_of_port_t...).

Full-cone NAT allows inbound connections from any external host, i.e. it's an unrestricted funnel (or cone).
VR? We call that "minecraft" these days. In all seriousness, the analogy

netscape : 2D_text :: minecraft : 3D_voxels

is far more accurate than many people realize. Most importantly, minecraft provides the same "easy, accessable editing" that netscape (via HTML) provided. Just as anybody can learn some very basic HTML and immediately see successful results in the browser was a big reason the web took off, and minecraft has added a similar ease-of-use to 3D/VR.

As cool as stereo rendering is (and oculous certainly raised the cool-factor by an impressive amount), it's still just an effect that depends on what you do with it.
Tumblr doesn't pay their designers
I find it nevertheless amusing that there is some sort of 'special' line in the sand between these apparently two 'divergent fields of focus', because with all computing, from day one, you can't run your software on thin air. (Not yet anyway.) Hardware is where all computing starts - at the very off-switch, which is a physical device. As is all software too, a physical device. You can't have it in the ether .. well you can, and in fact 'the ether' is all software really is, but nevertheless: those bits don't charge/discharge themselves. Well, they do, but.. its a physical thing, dictated across the universe by the distance between a working computer and its conscious user. No user: no usage. No computer: no use. Software can be composed of anything possible between the distance of two real, physical points in the universe: Computer, user. And software always, always, depends on both entities being functionally operational.

The point being, all software efforts are hardware efforts too, whether its considered relevant or not to the budget-sheets being run by the economics of the activity, but in the case where hardware is being designed, built, shipped and used by a customer base, there are some tight ropes to walk.
When will it happen again?
On a TV screen are pixels, small points of data that make a seamless image if you stand back, they said. Scientists think that the universe’s information may be contained in the same way, and that the natural “pixel size” of space is roughly 10 trillion trillion times smaller than an atom, a distance that physicists refer to as the Planck scale.

Hmm, I've seen better analogies for holograms, to put it mildly. Pixels on a screen don't convey any sense of self-similarity at multiple scales.
You can learn Java syntax, basic libraries and control structures in a couple of weeks. You cannot learn to be a good Java programmer in a couple of weeks; that takes months or years even if you are already a good programmer in other languages.
I assumed that there were even neater HTML/CSS hacks on that site, but couldn't find them. Are there any? It's pretty hard to navigate the site.
I never met more scammier taxi drivers than in Sydney.
Once you stated you destination they would always ask which way you wanted to go in order to check if you knew the way. If I didn't they would almost always take a longer route than necessary. From the airport on a quiet day I would say don't take the tunnel I don't want to pay toll. They would sometimes take it anyway despite my instructions and we would then have an argument because I refused to pay. You can be sure many people don't. Worst taxis ever.
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Is that really an advert on the radio at the moment? That's insane.
I don't hear adverts for supermarkets highlighting the excitement of a shopper before going to the checkout to have money extracted from them or their wild delectation and delight relating to browsing the store and knowing that it'll COST them to leave with any of the products.

A phone that advertises to you? Bonkers!
I took ~100 Ryanair flights for a while, and I can't see the benefit of this. You learn quick enough how to avoid all the charges and you don't pay more. Why would I pay €5, when I know how to get the flight for €30?
Thanks. I do actually have a couple of potential use cases. Got to have a look at the github folder later today. Would be dfntly great to stay in contact with you.
PeterisP explains it above. Financial services are already very heavily regulated in the EU through legislation specific to financial services.
I'm happy you brought up clustering. Internally we've been quite frustrated with this part of the product, but until a few months ago we held off the development on it for two reasons: we wanted to collect more information from users on real use cases and behavior, and there were more immediate bottlenecks in the product.

We restarted heavy development on the clustering infrastructure two months ago, and just yesterday I played with the prototype of the first upcoming upgrade. It's a WIP but is absolutely delightful (you can see my tongue in cheek review of it at https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/2957).

Here are the parts that are already done and will be shipped soon:

- Vector clocks conflicts are now resolved automatically, no
more manual conflict resolution
- There is now a ReQL API for clustering that's dramatically
better than the current `rethinkdb admin` tool
- Much love has been put into presenting the abstractions to
users. Everything is cleaned up and simplified, it's easier
to understand and change, and even in advanced cases you
won't have to know anything about blueprints/semilattices.
- Really, this is about to get dramatically better. I can't
summarize it in a bullet point, we put an enormous amount of
effort into this in a thousand different places.

Here's what's coming immediately after that:

- Automatic failover
- Always-on resharding (no more resharding downtime)

(The reason why these latter updates are coming after the API overhaul is because they require a lot of simplification/refactoring/redesign internally as well as externally, and we wanted to do it piecemeal).

Thanks for writing up your feedback and sticking with RethinkDB despite the limitations of clustering 1.x. Multiple people are currently working very hard on this, and things are about to get a lot better.
http://flywaydb.org/
yeah, because users will die if content is not cantered strictly vertically in their IE10.
> Not so much with heroin.

Do you have a source for that?

Some quick googling found this study which suggests it happens

[1] http://www.jrf.org.uk/system/files/1859354254.pdf
Yes. They have that many employees.

I am not sure that the people running around Amazon's warehouses and doing marathon distances every day would be happy to buy the phone, however. But they do still count as employees.
Statements like this remind me of "MySQL does not support transactions".
Uber could write itself a code of conduct that states that they maintain X accessible cars per Y inhabitants in any covered area. And that they will cover the entire region with certain price controls (which is a form of network neutrality), not just the meaty routes. And so on.

Those things likely cost extra, and that will shuffle money around a bit in a non-linear way - Uber will have to find a way to sort that out, one way or the other (unless they're shut down). It might be better for them if they find a solution on their own terms, before the regulators step in.
Thx Colin. Sounds great for analytical purposes as well as concensus building research! Am dfntly looking forward to give it a try.
While that may be true for this site, I do think CSS could be very useful for icons, since the it's infinitely zoomable, and a PNG isn't.
Citation: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazo...
Thanks.

I can see the bug: The function is overloaded as taking uint64_t or a pointer and I'm passing "0UL" to it, which on 64-bit is an exact match for uint64_t but when 0UL is 32-bit it doesn't know whether to convert it to a uint64_t or a NUL pointer. It probably just needs a cast to uint64_t.
The feature hasn't been specced out yet, so to be entirely honest I don't know. We'll go through our usual process -- we'll think about this problem hard, talk to users and find specific use cases, and see what others are doing in the field. Most of the time it produces something really pleasant (occasionally it doesn't, and we go back and fix it).

I should have a better idea of what the comparison looks like after we get a little further along.
I worked at Lab126 on this project when this project was just started (a number of years ago). Given the environment in the team and the people hired to lead it, the fact that anything shipped at all is a miracle of gargantuan proportions, trust me.
No, but that's not the point. The e-commerce space is very different than the product space. They are applying the same logic in both, which is a mistake.
Neither the IP address nor the MAC address contain enough entropy to make that secure. Even assuming they were completely random, 32 and 48 bit keys can be bruteforced in no time. Additionally the MAC address contains mostly static or easily guessable values and the public IP address is, well, public. Thus even key strengthening along the lines of PBKDF2/bcrypt/scrypt is hopeless.
I've been using https://github.com/bitemyapp/revise (Clojure Driver) for a few months and its pretty good. Its two versions behind right now, however, though work is slowly going on to bring it back up to date.
Do Apple really push it though? I mean I have an iPad and survive very well with all my real physical CDs instead of music from iTunes. It isn't like it pushes you to buy from them or notifies you to buy.
Am I right in remembering that the old Amazon tablets used to advertise on the lock screen?

BTW, I didn't realise that they were renaming iBooks to a daft name like Beats. Thanks.
> The irony of the cigarette lighter outlet in a modern car is that it's not likely to be used for its original purpose, but it won't disappear from cars because it's a convenient way to charge a small electronic device.

I subscribe to a car-sharing service that uses exclusively Volvos and they all have USB ports. And the cigarette lighters are marked "12V" instead of "cigarette lighter". I can see the 12V ports disappearing in favor of USB in a couple years.
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I'm not sure if this is related -- because it doesn't require Docker or Linux -- but I've got a small shell tool for transparent development on remote machines. Gives you the ability to do something similiar (`ws shell`), and drop directly into the remote environment you're working in.

I use it to work on my Mac, but develop on a Linux box:

https://github.com/matadon/workspace
Uber paying a 3-figure for getting new drivers? Not a sabotage for me, but a big bet on user acquisition with a referral system.
Very interesting, thanks. Here in the UK I see many many iPhones but also many Samsung devices, and few others.

Which flagship was it, out of interest?
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Those interested in MediaGoblin might also find Trovebox interesting.

https://github.com/photo
http://trovebox.com/

I just hope they are talking to each other to share their federation. Would be dumb not to.
This makes me very happy to hear. I've been using RethinkDB for a few months now and I love it, but the manual failover has made me a bit uneasy.

Any chance of a clue as to the kind of timeframe for this? Even a very rough idea would be fine as I can appreciate you might not want to (or be able to) commit to anything yet.
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Not really. For firefox anyone can build from source (see also iceweasel), disable automatic updates. For chrome it's mostly the same, but then for Chromium instead.
What is not useful about the Kindle Fire? I have never seen one in the flesh.
Do you still find that you use your original Kindle, the eInk display one I presume?

I am trying to get rid of the books that I have and digitise them or get digital copies if I can. I ought to use one of those book-scanning services to digitise them and make the house empty. I feel bad getting rid of real books given the effort someone has gone through to write them, but they do get recycled I suppose.
I think we'll be able to ship the new clustering API in ~two months (note, it's a huge and a massively delightful change). I'm hoping we'll be able to get failover out two months after that, but it's hard to give precise estimates looking that far out.
You would generally get a bigger sign up if there were multiple price points with different levels of service.
Little remark about the map 'Unemployment in Europe'

I can't speak for other countries, but in France the official metric is heavily manipulated and does not make sense anymore.
Basically, if you are unemployed long enough (~2 year), you do not get money from the unemployment insurance, and thereby are no longer unemployed.

Beside that, extremely cool collection of maps.
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Nice... but I would prefer some self hosting alternatives, like Zerobin http://sebsauvage.net/paste/ (https://github.com/sebsauvage/ZeroBin)

or http://yaap.it/ (https://github.com/SeyZ/yaapit)

or even http://g0bin-demo.appspot.com/new/ (https://github.com/jyap808/g0bin)
I wonder if it is Android itself that has made strides? I have been using it since the G1 and 2.3 felt different to 1.6, but the real change for me came with 4.0 (I had 3 on my Xoom but it felt awkward). I am not sure what whizz-bang features they have been adding in recently, as everything post 4.1 looks different for different's sake to me; more investigation likely required.

Do you think the hardware has got better with the Motorola, or just the software and general less clunkiness?
A bigger iPhone will be better for you, even if you don’t realize it yet
That's not true, the first version of Java came with Java Applets, which are interactive applications.
How was html5 supposed to solve it? All it did is to introduce more elements, so instead of generic DIV you can use ARTICLE, but it was not going to solve the problem of superfluous elements in any way. If you can reduce the number of your nodes in html5, you can do the same in html4.
> if they want to use and continue to throw their life away

This is exactly the marginalization he was talking about.
Some of the smartest people I know love hard drugs and are very successful, are they throwing their life away because they use on a regular basis?

Maybe you are only talking about the outright stoners that just get high every day, but are they really any different to the other lazy people that don't work?
Not doing anything ever is generally what I would consider to be throwing your life away.

I don't think drug use has much to do with throwing your life away, apart from the depression that comes from being marginalized.
People that wish to throw their life away will do so with or without drugs.
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Maybe I'm different (hey, it's possible), but I like UberX for the inverse reason. When I do one of the "ridesharing" things, I'm usually half awake, coming off of a shift at work, and I just want to go home or wherever else I'm going. I wish there was a socially acceptable way to say "I'm grumpy and don't want to talk, please just hush." Since Lyft has a reputation for being more open and friendly, I stick with Uber/UberX because they're usually quiet drivers.
Define 'always' ?

IIRC the USA hasn't really bee around all that long...
> There is such a thing as responsible, low-level alcohol consumption

That responsible low-level use tends to need strong laws to enforce it.

Minimum unit pricing (which only affects the very cheap, poor quality end of the market); tight alcohol and drivng limits; time restrictions on serving alcohol.

See eg the measures that France brought in (less dead people from cirrhosis; less dead and injured from traffic accidents; more profitable drinks industry) to England, which has seen a five fold increase in cirrhosis over the same time.

Alcohol has enormous costs which are mostly hidden because people don't want to accept the truth.
I'm less interested in questions like "how much credit do the original designers of CL deserve?" and more interested in "what languages should I consider for my new project?". Is Dylan a viable option? If not, why not? "It's not because it inherits common lisp's non-interoperability" is then an interesting point.
Thanks Slava,

I know I have popped up on IRC and Github about these things before so it's really great to see you guys are making progress.

Keen to check out the new ReQL methods for manipulating the cluster state.

At the moment we are using the mostly undocumented HTTP API to make clustering changes etc.
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So what happened to the Amazon "Working Backwards" methodology of writing up a one-page PR release & customer FAQ, and working back from that to designing/creating the product? Wasn't that designed to reduce scope creep? Is Amazon still using that method?
The problem with meteor (and similar frameworks):

curl -s https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/08/26/meteor-090-new-packaging-system \
| sed -e '/[<]head[>]/,/[<]\/head[>]/ d'
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

</body>
</html>

If you want someone to read your article, actually sending that article would be useful. If that article has advanced features that require javascript, flash, or video/audio, you should probably give me a reason to whitelist the page. Sending and empty body tag, on the other hand, looks more like a rendering error than any kind of real content.

Don't bother replying with the usual nonsense assertions that "everybody has js", variations of "js is mandatory/expected", or that not running js in stupid/luddite. Sorry, with pages asking for js from 10-20 hosts and the current drama about network security, js is whitelist only. So give me a reason if you want to be added to that whitelist. This means actual content, not "I'm too lazy to statically render a copy on the server".
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Does anyone actually have good memories of the responsiveness of Applets?

If anything, Applets is still to an extent responsible for a lot of the negative opinions of Java's performance and suitability for interactive applications.
Wrong way round. Captive portals need to provide a better user experience for browsers that doesn't involve an MITM! See 802.11u: no excuse for not using it.
Given the fact that entire 'Lab126' commented on the matter[1], I had the chance to read some of these people's resumes... Which makes your quote hard to believe :-)

[1] That's why I love HN anyway.
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It is a strong behaviour. The 1st ranking website in Greece is a price-comparison website called 'Skroutz'. That's because every one I know, makes 'Skroutz search' before buying an item and compares the price of the item with the online counter-part.

The thing with Skroutz is that you know the shipping cost is about 2 to 4 EUR. But with Amazon you can't tell how much the shipping cost might be, from Amazon-UK/FR/DE/IT to GR.
Is the comparison usefull? I think many drivers use both Uber and Lyft.

And at the end the good care belongs to the driver not to the services behind them.
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I have some issues with this list.

1. If we know who they are, are they really the best? David Smith is, as the article says, the only person to go to jail for writing a Macro virus, the past time of script kiddies everywhere (at one point at least; I'm not sure if you can still perform the necessary tricks with overwriting the default template, etc). I find that rather telling.

2. I would never call Hotz a "Black Hat" for hacking on hardware he owned. I wouldn't describe RTM, Lamo, or James that way either, though they accessed systems that weren't theres. Only three of the people on this list sought any kind of material gain; the rest of them have questionable ethics, but are mostly motivated by curiosity. Even McKinnon, for whom black hat is probably a fitting epitaph, was in search of information he believed was being unjustly withheld from the public.

Maybe this is just me, but I think of someone as a black hat if they are out to do harm; to destroy systems, steal money, or sap resources.

3. Maybe this is a nitpick, but packet sniffing is a passive attack by someone with access to a router, switch, WiFi encryption keys, etc. ARP spoofing is an active attack performed by ordinary hosts on the same LAN as the target that can achieve similar goals.
For simple lookups, pretty much in my experience, especially as it doesn't seem to have seen much by way of updates since IE9.

Though quirksmode does go into more detailed analysis in places which can be pretty useful, particularly for when you are stuck supporting legacy browsers, so caniuse isn't a complete drop-in replacement.
Seems kinda similar to justleak.it. But I would have to give the link to the person manually.

See, the thing is, having seen Leak i immediately wanted to use it, and actually did use it.
Seeing your thing, I just tried it for myself and don't really see a use in my life for it.

So what's your plan on the service?
This would be great, some of us are a long way away. :)
It's an insult, so it's sort-of exclusionary by default. It refers to those nerdy guys who don't know how to dress themselves, compulsively collect arcane knowledge and probably smell bad.

Maybe we ought to come up with a female stereotype to match, or a genderless one. Or maybe this will do just fine - you don't want to be a 'neckbeard' regardless of gender, it's not a good thing.
In the book "Atomic Accidents" James Mahaffey points out that the Convair B-58 Hustler bomber actually gave off more radiation than the nuclear weapon it carried as its airframe was made of an alloy of magnesium and thorium ("mag-thor")

http://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Accidents-Meltdowns-Disasters-M...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mag-Thor
Jesus christ that's brilliant
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I honestly cannot imagine paying money for this service. Going by recent trends, that means a tech giant will acquire it for several billion in a year or two.
Java Applets were TERRIBLE. Seriously. Native apps, and web pages were better.

If you had a $30k work station with 8 times the ram of a high end PC at the time they weren't too bad.
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Barely, considering the Kin was not really available to buy (at least not in Europe, and only partially in the US)
The GC, and the JIT are the two main problems with Java for this use case. Both require pauses in execution, which for real time apps is a mode of failure.

Also, doing things in separate threads means that scheduling of tasks also causes pauses in execution.
On a side note, why don't justleak.it use AWS SES?
One more follow-up: I've just read the first chapter of Gregory Clark's Farewell to Alms (available online) which looks at the three questions of the Industrial Revolution, Demographic Transition, and Great Divergence. I suspect you might enjoy that as well.
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