skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post you linked to confuses "fast lanes" with CDNs. They are not the same thing.

CDNs are about making more copies of content and locating them closer to users, in order to make the average route to users shorter. There's nothing in that that is inconsistent with net neutrality: traffic from a CDN server to a given user doesn't get to the user any faster than any other traffic over the same route.

"Fast lanes" are about privileging some traffic over other traffic over the same route. That is what is inconsistent with net neutrality.

Also, the post makes an invalid assumption about how upgrades to networks get paid for:

> Forcing Comcast to upgrade their network to support Netflix means forcing the majority of low-bandwidth customers to subsidize the high-bandwidth customers.

No, it doesn't. Comcast can simply charge users more for more bandwidth usage. Again, there's nothing in that that is inconsistent with net neutrality, as long as Comcast (or any other ISP) charges just for bandwidth. Then Comcast uses the extra money it gets paid for more bandwidth, to upgrade its network so it can carry more bandwidth. People who don't use the extra bandwidth (like me) pay a lower rate for our service, so the upgrade is really being paid for by precisely the right people, the ones who need the higher bandwidth.

But what Comcast wants to do is charge more for Netflix bandwidth than for other kinds of bandwidth. (It's actually charging Netflix instead of Netflix's users, but that doesn't change the essential point.) That is what is inconsistent with net neutrality.

The post does make one good point:

> government regulators...won't allow another company [besides Comcast] to come in and lay a fiber optic network unless that company agrees to lay fiber everywhere -- even the poor areas of town

This is a good point, but it's completely separate from the Comcast-Netflix question. I agree that governments should not expect for-profit corporations to provide a service that isn't profitable. If governments want to make sure that everybody has Internet access, then governments should provide it themselves.

And local governments have indeed tried to do exactly that--to build municipal fiber networks that cover entire communities. The problem is that every time a local government tries to do that, Comcast and the other major ISPs have kittens and say that they will be driven out of business and file lawsuits.

This tells me that the corporations actually prefer the current regulatory regime, because it allows them to buy protection from competition. If we had a sane court system, that wouldn't matter too much since the lawsuits would just be thrown out; but that doesn't happen.
Criminal proceedings don't generally require hiring private lawyers. It would be up to the local police and prosecutor to decide whether to investigate and bring charges. Which, again, I'm pretty sure they would.

If they wouldn't, I want to know this, because it would be really handy to have this sort of tool at my disposal. (And important to know that others have it at their disposal to potentially use against me!).
Hmmm...I don't see that on FF Nightly 34.0a1 (2014-09-01) on OSX. Given I run Nightly, take that as a grain of salt.
One thing I like about the way subreddit's pages are is they often have a sidebar wiki that contains a recommended book list, some recommended reading, beginner tutorials, related communities and forums etc.

It might be a good idea to add something similar, just an idea.
We're nervous too. This is 2 apps we're dependent on getting acquired and potentially completely mangled. The first amazingly shut off all support for the UK (We're UK-based) immediately. Better for customers? Ha!
I bet they didn't consider the scenario of a cat riding their vacuum, when they located the vision sensor on the top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of2HU3LGdbo
Great idea. Any specific ressources you are thinking about?
Depends where you go. Lots of all that in the right places. Saturn's rings and moons; water is on the moon and on Mars; we can make what we don't find if we have enough energy.
Floating cities around the doldrums could also be fun. However I do think that having a functioning economy off planet helps a lot if we want to tap resources in space. Getting up the gravity well is expensive, once you are up there you might as well hang around.
Typically you would render a single root element and then use the 'after' lifecycle methods (componentDidMount, componentDidUpdate) to grab the root element (with getDOMNode) and make your changes (eg. call a jQuery plugin method on the dom node)

Here's a jsfiddle for the specific lib you're talking about (Odometer):
http://jsfiddle.net/p1h7rn3q/
I have 50/5 cable service and I often can't get even 3Mbps to Netflix for a full-HD stream.

I don't know that regulations regarding advertised vs actual speeds are going to do anything to solve the problem, but I do believe that there is a problem when I can't use even 6% of the theoretical bandwidth that I've theoretically paid for.

I understand not getting 100% downloads all day every day from every website on the internet. Not all have fast enough servers or fast enough primary links or whatever. I understand not getting even say 50% downloads all day every day because I know how TCP backoff works; it's exponential and a lot of downloads are short.

I might even understand not being able to use all 25% of my connection 24/7 again because there are things like peak usage where everyone gets home from work and starts doing stuff online at home and the local loops that the cable company has provisioned might be too big to provide everyone with 100% throughput. I'm not necessarily complaining about that as there are realities to life that aren't necessarily pretty but still real.

But what I can't understand is that my ISP which advertises a specific download capability would throttle it at the SOURCE (or the input to their network) when there is enough bandwidth at the last mile to support the connection.

For the vast majority of internet history (admittedly only 25 years or so) the limiting factor was almost always the LAST MILE. We're now finding out that it's not the last mile anymore but still something within the ISP's control and they're not doing much to alleviate the problem.

This to many folks feels like a betrayal because according to a certain "the last mile is always the slowest" mindset, it is! People aren't wrong to think that because that's how it's always been. ISPs are creating a paradigm shift that they're not telling anyone about and are in fact doing a good job to obfuscate.

You might disagree that it is a betrayal but it feels like that to many folks. You can try to tell them they're wrong but I suspect that because of the many years of assumptions people have had about the way the world works you won't have a lot of luck.
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Why do the plugins have to be dynamically loaded? Would a source-based plugin/package system be an alternative?
I made this with Jing (http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html) super awesome tool.
I'd be concerned that locations like "NELA-GAZA" would be confusing, as Gaza is a real place.
Its a nice little thought experiment, but current place names have been optimized for human memory. Objects, names, events are all synaptically linked to enable the average human to master a relatively complex set of locations. The provided system also completely excludes cultural background (also important for how "good" a location name is for a given person). tl;dr: Systems like this already exist (e.g. longitude/lattitude). The proposed system is on the same usability scale for individuals like existing systems. Does not improve anything.
HFTs nearly all provide liquidity rather than take it, which means that the exchange pays them to trade. You are simply wrong - the exchange loses money on most HFTs.

https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/markets/nyse-arca/NYSE_...

http://nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=PriceListTrading2

Ask yourself: why would the exchanges pay market makers to provide liquidity?
I think that the intelligence agencies would rather have the vulnerabilities for their own use and roll the dice on being on the receiving end rather than buy up everything and close it, making it so they can't use it either.
6 Key Areas in Mobile Game Testing
Really important do A/B testing for validating your MVP. But often it takes more time.
Thanks for the advice michaelq, I will change the slide to get to the rel life apps first and explain the concept later!.
What do you mean by "major system"?, could you explain more?.

The idea is to use what we already have now, "Names" but encoding information inside them, if you get to the Location Aware Street Names slides, you can see how it can be used to make some very interesting stuff, fast forward to slide 55.
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Fair enough, I think I just disagree with you on how much new information is created in a second that needs to be priced into the market.
My wife would love this
Not sure why but for me (Mac/Chrome) the page keeps jumping to the top every 5 seconds when I'm viewing a comment thread on Bootstrappers.io
Fair enough. But then why bother with a Show HN? Why bother with a login and all the how-to info?
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Well, sure, but the mere fact that any real estate is available for such a pittance is incredible as compared to prices in traditional tech hubs (San Fran, Boston, NYC, etc).
Dunno - it seems like the 6 thing is mistaken. Simple enough to look at the graphical representation to see reality.
I thought of a math edu-game similar to CeeBot.

In CeeBot you learn programming concepts and whole languages by writing instructions for virtual robots. You can see how they move around and perform different tasks. (Actually Mehran Sahami from Stanford teaches the programming methodology course with a little virtual robot named Karel with exactly the same principle).

The player in my game would be a spacecraft captain. But unlike in other games, where you just press a button and the vessel goes to any direction, this ship had been hit by a meteoroid and its main computer is broken. Therefore all the commands have to be done manually and any computation is performed on a piece of paper and just put into the command line.

There could be no graphics at all. Just the roar of your enginges.

In the beginning the tasks are simple, but the more you play the more complicated the calculations become. It begins with simple arithmetics and trade. Later you need trigonometry to fire a "torpedo". It would be great if you could progress it even further, with advanced math and phisics, and also chemistry - you need to combine different substances in order to burn them as fuel or to produce oxygen to breathe or combine nitrogen and carbondiaxide in order to grow food in the farm.

It would be great if instead of taking tests the teacher would just say: "John, you are still on level 8, you should go to Alpha Centauri and fight with pirates. Play more!" - which would mean - learn to solve problems with two unknowns and calculate volume of spheres.

And imagine a multiplayer with students on the same level who have to make accurate calclulations fast because without it they would just float in the dark and cold outerspace.

I will never make it - I don't know math and programming that well - but I'd play the game!
another vote for multiple recipes per day
"Neither the name “Markdown” nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission."

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/license
I'm by no means an economic expert, but more of these discussions need more discussion about "natural monopoly"

anyone here against the idea that the last-mile/access network is a natural monopoly?
If all bootstrap sites look the same, that's the fault of the developers/designers (or likely the lack of a designer), not bootstrap. Bootstrap should be used as a base, not as a theme.

That said, if you're going to use base bootstrap with no customizations for your project documentation or something like that, more power to you...
"This is the way English works: adding modifiers to words that designate one instance of a concept to designate other instances of the same concept."

So you think anyone would think it was totally cool if someone released things called 'Standard Excel' and 'Standard MacOS'? That wouldn't get by without criticism, why should this?
But do you agree that automating market making has lead to lower spreads and thus lowered the cost of trading?
Will dig into this. Any other persons experiencing this issue? The project still might have a few glitches. By the way, thanks for the feedback.
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A/b testing is very important in our sphere
"The SNP probably brought in voting for 16 and 17 year olds on the basis that it might counter the strong 'No' vote in the 60+ group."

Support for votes at 16 is long-standing. As is support for the same measure by most UK parties.

On the subject of 16-24s being 'equally split' - note the same could be said of other age-groups (apart from the more strongly No cohort old people), so 16-24s being the same doesn't say much for a resurgence of Britishness amongst the young.
Is it possible to enter your own recipes to add to the drag and drop recipe list?
Sorta like how Iran isn't quite as theocratic as Saudi Arabia is? I mean, they let women drive in Iran!

As a EUian, that's how I'd feel about California.
I'm not sure how you measure which park in the USA is "the largest urban park". I immediately thought of Forest Park in Portland Oregon, which is larger than anything in SF.

I found this list of largest city parks:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0933260.html

I'm not sure what counts as 'urban' in your definition.

Also, redwoods might be the largest trees on earth, but not the largest organisms. And they're not the oldest trees on earth either.
The US has debit cards and you can activate that kind of behavior if you want (I know Visa will do it).
MySQL Cache Warming for Amazon RDS
Worth noting that HN does already have that functionality on a domain-by-domain basis. Not sure which domains exactly, but in 30 seconds found examples for blogspot.com, pinboard.in and github.io (example links below)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8256653
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8249953
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8252208
This is simply untrue.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/12/02/us-highfrequency-i...

A Senator quoted against high frequency trading at least 5 years ago. Principal Financial is also quoted.
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> object (not guaranteed to be ordered)

This is true as per the ECMAScript spec, but realistically you can count on it (unless your keys are stringified numbers). On the server side of things, this is explicitly depended on in a number of places - the most visible that I know of is Mongo's REPL and its node.js drivers (specifying complex sorting/indexing depends on the objects being ordered).
Could make some classic songs interesting...

"I found my thrill / on MARAMUT-GACIRA"

"JODEGE-SIFAJAR is in my ears and in my eyes"

"JACEGE-RURAJA forever"
It's pretty much set in stone in the license.

"Neither the name “Markdown” nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission."

No ifs, and, or buts. It is what it is. It didn't meet that condition. It's in breach of copyright.
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/license
Just use the arrow.
As good an idea, and decent an implementation. Can we please change the title from this very sexist and heteronormative language?
This assertion is often put forth by naive Libertarian types, but it's simply not true. Cartels routinely emerge in markets with high barriers to entry. This happens even if there are laws against direct coordination and those laws are obeyed.

The market players aren't dumb, and they realize that if the barrier to entry is high enough, they can maximize profits by simply not competing. Price wars are terrible things for companies in such situations.

That said, there's no point in discussing history (such as turbine pricing) with you, because you've already demonstrated that you're a completely typical closed-minded religious zealot with an aversion to reality.
I thought apple discovered it was a social hack, not a technical one... Or is this just PR?
Exchanges subsidise market-making, because that is the unquestionably beneficial activity.

But the high-frequency aspect of it is separate from the algorithmic-trading aspect of it, so one can criticise high-frequency trading for its uselessness, while accepting that algorithmic trading is hugely beneficial.
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I think you're taking that article somewhat out of context. Saying that this "mushroom" is a new branch on the tree of life has a factual, falsifiable meaning.

There is a real thing that we can't really reconstruct in its entirety: the family tree for all life on Earth. Saying it's a new branch means that it diverged so long ago we can't find anything that looks like a common ancestor.
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This is what really sucks about that Michael Lewis book. He could have told a great story to the public about how everything they had been told was wrong and that the HFT nerds (just like the baseball nerds) had used technology to make the world a better place. He has the talent to do this so well.

But he fucked up and bought the story the buy side scammers were selling him hook, line, and sinker.

It's such a bummer.
How about 3D Langton's (or Langtonish) ants? Or more dimensions? :)
In other news, burglars say they would invade homes and take stuff if they were paid not to.
Absolutely. https://p.ota.to/jobs/internships/
No. You didn't say those words that you quoted. You're ranting and raving like a lunatic, so maybe you should just take a minute to think about that.

XML is not being used "because they can". First of all - they couldn't use XML inline, which is the reason they invented JSX. Then they could. So, they actually went out of their way to use XML.

I didn't link to the article so that you could get a description of JSX, you rude jerk. I linked so you could get the reasoning. Unfortunately, you're being a complete asshole so just like, never-mind I guess. Have a nice day! :)

(Oh and - You haven't given one valid reason why you think it's a bad idea. Just rubbish appeals to authority. Your rant contains no logic. What's your reasoning? You asked "Why is it an advantage to express a route as XML-like JSX?" and the answer is in the rationale given on the JSX spec page. There are 1,000 ways to put together a JS object. There is one way to put together XML. It's a better, simpler standard that lends itself to better tooling and simpler parsers that don't need to parse the entire JS language.)
I had a similar idea for pool builders. Find streets where the majority of houses have pools and sell lists of the people without pools.
Well, it might not be much. Maybe even at some point it really is a race to the bottom kind of situation but why make judgement about it ?

If ISPs compete offering bigger and bigger bandwidth and faster and faster ping then it becomes pointless at some point again as only thing new competitor achieves is taking place of the incumbent without contributing significantly to what customers get. 100GB/sec or 1TB/sec, who cares. 1 second tick is similar to 100GB cap - supposedly there is no point at making the technology more efficient any more.
Your argument comes down to: "The cost of providing new technology is higher than gains customer get and that is achieved by putting previous provider of the services out of business - hence waste".

It might be true or it might not. We just usually don't care much because that is one of the situations where free market/competition does well in practice.
Those technological arm races have other benefits as well, you never know what other uses the technology is going to have or what kinds of scientific advancement it stimulates.
One day you may have 35% faster ping from Tokyo to New York because instead of optic fibers the connection will use some of technology mentioned in the article.
> Can we please change the title from this very sexist and heteronormative language?

He made it for his wife, not for housewives in general (in fact for me there's no implication that it's specifically for housewives or that he does no cooking himself)

This is yet another instance of PC gone mad
Yes, I agree. Was that not clear? If not, I expressed myself poorly.
You're fresh meat and cheaper. There are no downsides for hiring college grads. You take a low pay and learn the exact technology stack the company is using. But when you decide to change jobs, that's when the real fun starts.