skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To use a US example. DC, Baltimore, and Richmond are all within 150 mile driving distance. However, I was more thinking of using 2 city's close to each other.

So, for example São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil. However, Campinas is less than 60 miles away and it's #10. Together they avoid a lot of wasted construction and end up much better off in the long term.
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I kinda hoped the devices would actually serve the apps themselves. I guess a URL makes more sense though. But I wonder if it will lead to physical devices that give 404s when they are obsoleted.

Anyway, this seems pretty exciting.
I'm not sure if this could be easily built into PHP, but per-directory options are supported by PHP (when on apache, via a .htaccess file). If you could turn on or off strong typing per directory (or, alternatively, per file much like JS's "use strict"), there wouldn't be much of a practical problem.

It could even be a function modifier.

Unlike static typing or const correctness or immutability, strong typing is a very local feature that doesn't "bubble" across your codebase once you start using it.
Would appreciate any feedback from the HN community!
I'm not a walking set of genes. I'm a human being.

What if I don't feel that my "closest relative with progeny" is in any way related to me?

I don't care about inclusive fitness. Let the nature do that trick. I care about reproducing something resembling of myself. If my nearest genetic relatives don't resemble myself in any way, I don't care if they reproduce.
Why could they not have agreed to cooperate before NASA spent $650M on the Maven program which does the exact same thing that ISRO's $74M Mangalyaan does?

I demand a refund.
Revised AUP is up: https://www.atlantic.net/support/acceptable-use-policy/
Would you rather be forced to fly first-class or have the option to choose?
I realise that, but unless every piece of information in the JSON is dealt with caution (which I doubt from experience) it could be possible to put together an attack. Well, I should probably verify that myself.
I find it interesting that this is published on a University of Massachusetts website rather than an MIT website.

I also think a hefty dose of this paper could apply to grad school in most fields at many top schools.
This is interesting, however I was wondering if it is a topic for HN?

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Current cable modems can negotiate with the CMTS to determine which of several channels to use for communication, even when channel bonding is not in use. This means different customers can be communicating on different channels if the CMTS has sufficient resources. Are you saying that this was not possible with DOCSIS 1.0? Obviously it is more common for channels to be shared than for each customer to get dedicated channels, but I don't think that is a technological limitation.
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I agree that ease of use is the strongest reason to use this.

Just because mperham wants the project to be sustainable doesn't guarantee it. However, if sidekiq Pro would have failed, Sidekiq would easily survive simply because of huge open source community. With inspeqtor it's not so clear.

"Route alerts to your team chat room" is listed as a Pro feature. Any PR implementing it is unlikely to be merge in. And creating a separate fork for a relatively small feature should not really be an answer to an open-source project.
The end of the IOC can't happen soon enough. I just wish it could have happened before the embarrassment of my country licking the IOC boots two years ago.

You want your own private road lanes in this busy city? Yessir!
I get "Unable to locate package inspeqtor" when trying to install on Ubuntu 13.10.

The docs specifically say "12.04 and 14.04" but also "really any Debian system using Upstart".

Is 13.10 not supported?
Ask HN: Ever had a current employer match a job offer?
If so: what were the circumstances, and how much of an increase was the match?

Also, have you ever had an employer offer a raise that wasn't quite a match, but was still an increase over your current salary? Did you accept it? Can you imagine a scenario where you would accept a raise (but not a match) to stay where you are?

Have you experienced any unforeseen consequences of staying with your current company?
This is essentially what killed the bid here in Norway, those outrageous demands.

The interesting thing is that these were the IOC's demands before negotiations. So they obviously didn't expect all of this to actually happen, and perhaps even many of them to be dropped. But instead, what happened was that they fucked themselves over (the Oslo bid was supposedly the preferred one) by driving such a hard initial bargain that their negotiation partner just went "Nope, nope, nope".
That's just a bad argument. Simple code that suddenly breaks because of the contents of a directory shouldn't be possible, whether or not said simple code is unnecessary because of a standard library function. The example stands, weak typing is a horrible vector for difficult-to-catch bugs.
Good on ya! Regarding your college conundrum, take a look at the military tuition assistance route-- it's been a smart play for a lot of guys. They need geeks more than warriors these days... > http://www.military.com/education/money-for-school/tuition-a...
I was heavily addicted to first alcohol and then drugs from ages 14-17. In those three years I went from stealing liquor from my parents to ultimately shooting up IV oxycontin, doing cocaine and any other drug I could find. In those days (mid-late 90s) the internet drug market was just starting, so I would steal money and buy things like ketamine and lots of "research chemicals" (untested hallucinogens) online. I ended up in the ER with severe self-inflicted woulds all over my face and body (I believe I literally pulled my skin off with my bare hands while blacked out on oxycontin--I have no memory of it).

I'm now in my 30s, have a family and haven't touched a drug like that since. I tried smoking marijuana a few times in my 20s but no longer enjoyed it--all it did was make me extremely paranoid and withdrawn, and I felt hung over the next day.

These days I drink moderately. I have a glass of wine with dinner but never get drunk (nor have any desire to). I never go out to bars, never drink hard liquor, etc. A couple beers or glasses of wine is as far as it goes.

I believe my drug addiction was primarily caused by a miserable, unstable and abusive home life growing up. I had no way of coping other than escape and self-destruction. Once I was independent and out the house there was no longer a need for any of it. I'm profoundly grateful I lived through that period and I have a lot of empathy for children and teenagers who go down the road of addiction. I believe firmly that it is a failure in parenting, although not necessarily intentional on the part of the parents. Children need stability, love and structure.
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> "The number of smart devices is going to explode (...)"

But why? Why are you/they so sure? Why do we assume that humans will just appropriate any kind of technology thrown at them?

I assume this comes from educated tech guys, who are thorough with their work, tools and respective usage. How can they be so lighthearted with the premises which relate to human usage of technology?
"I'm not a walking set of genes. I'm a human being."

Certainly. But then I'd say that a huge portion of what makes you you is not genetic at all, and like I said much earlier you can always pass on memes.
> Second thought: why arrest a guy for simple property damage? A hundred dollars damage or so. Isn't that a civil case?

First, intentional damage to or destruction of property is different from "simple property damage" and is usually criminal for the same reason other intentional acts depriving an owner of their property (e.g., theft) are.

Second, in many places discharging a firearm is generally prohibited except in specifically enumerated circumstances where it allowed. (Its a very common prohibition in urban/suburban areas.)
The general idea of the essay is, i think, spot on. However, like you say it's a bit idealistic. In practice the mountain of student debt facing your average college grad changes the nature of the discussion.
I am getting tired of this "modern" attribute (nothing against the parent comment) attached to everything in the new standard. There is nothing modern about the new features of C++11/14, yet the proponents of the "modern style" behave as if they just discovered sliced bread. I was hoping that the C++ community was above this.
I edited my original post to include a working XSS exploit.
Inspeqtor compares itself to monit, god, supervisord, etc, but it looks like it only handles the monitoring of processes and not stop/start/restart, correct? It seems like it would be difficult to decouple those when we use monit for things like "if mem > 200m for 2 cycles then restart".
I would consider technical collaboration in this space (pardon the pun) to generally be a great thing. Missions to Mars have historically been very difficult:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars

Hopefully, this kind of partnership doesn't get weighed down too heavily by the intricacies of international politics.
If you're asking me, I think a sailing/wind-powered ship would be fine as well.

But, I agree, it takes a bit away when you have all the planes, snowmobiles, etc...
I have conflicting feelings on what I want from C++ in the future. I think the language needs meat-and-potatoes standard libraries like std::socket, std::filesystem, std::json, std::xml, and so on, to make it more attractive compared to Batteries Included languages like Java, Python, Go. But realistically, very few existing large C++ projects would ever switch to these libraries, so they are only useful for new projects. New language features like auto and lambdas in C++11 are more likely to make their way into existing large code bases and make life easier for their maintainers.
IF this works, this will surely accelerate the process of sending humans to other planets (may be not Mars)
While that makes a lot of sense, it would also limit the number of cities that could host the games, since they'd have to be part of a city cluster collectively willing to host all the events. Maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing.

I don't know how many spectators would want to take bus or taxi rides between cities even if they were 1-2 hours apart. That increases logistics problems for everyone, travel plans, complexity of hotel bookings, etc.

I think my last concern might be the most significant. Scattering the olympics between two or three cities means the energy of the olympics wouldn't be the same: multiple olympic villages, and less mingling of athletes and spectators there for different sports.

Costs would be spread out between cities, but so would advantages, and the cost/benefit ratio might actually increase. It would be an interesting thing to study.
We put some WebRTC things on github, like AppRTC:

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/webrtc/tree/master/samples/w...
Forget to add "already been done" or "too trivial a problem" after "2.1 Solving the world". The secret to being a PhD is enough knowledge of the field to choose the "right size problem" to churn another paper in six months, a degree in four years, and tenure in seven years.

There are fields outside my own where I have significant book knowledge. But I dont know enough about the research frontier to choose the right size problem.
Oh, bullshit.

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-differences-between-NA...
I only provide LTS binaries since that's what most people run in production.

You can change your distro name to be precise or trusty in the packagecloud repo in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. It's a Go binary so it doesn't depend on anything distro-specific.
Thought of the same thing. Anyone know?
Spoofed TCP connections can be annoying even if they don't actually breach the security of a system?
Inspeqtor uses your init system to restart services. It does not manage arbitrary processes.
While I'm a big supporter of international co-operation, remember that the US has been striking a number of technical deals with India, as a part of a long-term political investment in bringing up a large democratic power to balance China. I think this has as much to do with that goal as it does with sharing technical information.
Who the hell licenses SOFTWARE as creative commons these days? :S
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Allowing .htaccess comes with a performance hit (Apache has to scan the directory and all of its parents for a .htaccess file on every pageview) and should generally not be used unless strictly necessary.
Has the canary sung or are the pros crying wolf over burn rates?
> On the other hand, "international cooperation" is often the death of many projects, particularly space projects.

There are plenty of counter-examples. The ISS is an effort that spans the US, Canada, Japan, Russia and Europe (ESA). Hubble is NASA-ESA.
I was really hoping India's Mars probe would mean that the public in general would finally have a new independent source of information and data.

However this is great news and I'm sure the joint effort will speed up the tough task of uncovering the planet's secrets.
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No, 38/9Mbps PER CHANNEL. Multiple customers may be on a single channel yes, but there is a fairly large number of available channels on modern QAM-based cable networks, and has been for some time. 3-5 DOCSIS channels would normally be sufficient back in 97 for the number of customers attached to each head-end.
In specific contexts like a 1v1 fighting game, you can get clever. GGPO*. Every move in the game has a specified "startup" time which is generally a) too fast to react to & b) consistent.

When you jump & throw a punch you send the frame along with your attack. My client speeds up your character's game state to match what your client experiences.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/177508/The_lagfighting_te...
This looks much more like how I imagined this kind of service to work. Thanks for sharing, shame it's apparently incompatible on my Android device :(
This last link is a gem. They refer to the TRIBES Networking Model in the talk, explained here also: http://gamedevs.org/uploads/tribes-networking-model.pdf

There is a beautiful implementation of this in the old OpenTNL that seems to be still alive in the newer Torque engine: https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque2D/tree/master/engine/s...

The original article does not discuss the aspect of scaling fast-paced games to handle large numbers of replicated objects and players under constrained network conditions but I found the approach proposed in the original TRIBES model to be the most (only?) credible so far. I don't see support for this in any of the popular, modern network libraries (RakNet, enet, lidgren, ...). They all seem to have taken the 'multiple reliable channels' direction but that just doesn't seem to scale to many connected players the way the TRIBES model does.

I would love to hear from anyone who has had experience with that!
The way I see it, this is better implemented with AR and CV using specific items as "markers" than with a "nearby lookup" table. The thing you want may be across a highway and still be near making the listing somewhat imprecise.

The range of interactions is also greater with AR, as it gives the ability to be triggered (eg. highlighted) just by looking at it with the AR camera.
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Long story short: I'm new to Go and wasn't sure how to manage the codebases for both an OSS product and commercial product together so I built the two in tandem to work out the kinks. Since the commercial product was already written, why not sell it from day one?

The OSS product is targeted to small teams, individuals and hobbyists. Pro was designed to target larger teams and the features they would need.
Thanks for this. I was looking for a solution for this specific problem.

I have a couple of questions though.
1- Do we have to place a .vimrc in each folder for projects we need specific settings for? In your example, it seems that the code is just part of the global .vimrc.

2- When you say that it will overwrite the global .vimrc, will the other project specific .vimrcs completely overwrite, or will it only take the new settings into account?

Thanks!
Is there something in the USB spec that requires the internal processor to be updatable? Couldn't they just lock the firmware down at the factory?
Agree. I would potentially rent a laptop at an airport.
Wow very cool.

Because Erlang systems are easily decomposed in actors and links / message between this kind of visualization becomes possible.
There's no reason it couldn't mean that anyway - if a device is open to the Internet then the URL it serves via Physical Web could easily be its own. But it allows for less-smart devices too.

The biggest problem I can see, as with all proximity devices, is spoofing. How do I know the item listed as "Bus Stop" is actually the bus stop, and not someone's malicious Raspberry Pi hidden in the bush next to it?
Why couldn't they just do what the article suggests: Quirks mode.

That's how Internet Explorer managed to move forward. The entire web was written for IE 6, and it seemed like progression would be impossible, so they just had everything render in an IE 6 compatible rendering engine unless the site told them it could handle something better (via DOCTYPE).

PHP could do the same thing. Everything renders in the current PHP rendering engine unless the *.PHP expressly tells the renderer "I'm modern!" and at that point the new renderer is utilised.

You could even have mixed old/new sites so that old libraries can be accessed via a modern PHP page. It might require some serious architecture work behinds the scenes but to get a brand spanking new PHP environment with backwards compatibility (when needed) would be a worthy goal.
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You should always use === unless you want problems.
Actually, after asking around, I must have misremembered about inference on statics being impossible, it's merely difficult. :) In lieu of full inference, there are proposals to allow statics to have the same sort of very simple inference scheme that C++ and Go have: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/296
I like the idea, but the first version seems quite limited. It is more of a GPS based webapp discovery tool. You click on the button, the app sends your GPS coordinate to the main server, which returns all useful webapps in the neighborhood.

I think that using NFC chips, which are extremely cheap, is very appropriate here. Use case: You point your phone to the vending machine/renting car and the respective webapp is shown automatically on your phone.
are we going to get pursued legally if we share this document?
WE the taxpayers already paid Verizon for that infrastructure with the tax breaks we gave them for the EXPLICIT PURPOSE of deploying fiber.
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A simple application based structure can be viewed with a built-in GUI debug/inspector.

$ erl
> observer:start().

Then can explore application structure and process hierarchy. It is not as dynamic as this and is coarser grained. But can inspect process state, loading, scheduler utilization.
Thanks. I noticed there's nothing in the article that says where the shotgun was discharged; nor where the drone was when it was damaged. Also, magically the drone owner was able to point out where the shotgun was discharged. That is notoriously difficult to do - echoes, shotgun noise similar to car backfires etc.

I think its all made up.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "appropriating technology". The number of smart devices is going to explode because we want to automate all the things, and collect lots of data. It'd be great if I could ask my stove what food I've eaten this month, how healthy it was, how expensive it was, maybe even tell it to start preparing dinner at a certain time. The way to do that is to put a computer in everything.
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Just put QR codes everywhere.
That was in my mind when I posted. I live in Ontario, so the news has kept positive about the Olympics influence, and with family from the UK I've heard similar on the Olympic Village in London. I mean London is trying to convert dockland into housing areas to meet the massive housing shortage.

The images of the aftermath of Sochi are just terrible. Russia pumped and dumped the city. They knew reporters only stick around for the Olympics and within a week they can abandon the city.
You have a culture that produced you. Maybe we can craft a cultural-selection story.
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Well, other than bees and termites I guess? What is that but group selection.
I have a dumb question. What's a large democratic power, and how does it differ from China? I'm not implying China is in any way democratic, but rather inviting someone to further explain what the goal of the US is.

Is it likely that this is simply empire expansion rather than an altruistic goal of balancing China? Mainly I'm just wondering what the concerns might be if a large democratic power (and I'd still like to know what exactly that is, and how it differs from other modern powers) isn't brought up in the region.

Forgive my ignorance. I probably should have taught myself these things long ago rather than invested all of my time in programming and other pursuits.

Also, just to clarify, I am aware of the textbook definition of "democracy," "republic," etc, but it seems like those names are more of a flag for people to fight under than a definition for a state of being in the modern era. So I'm quite curious to understand the issues at play here.
Using websockets myself for my projects! Love the simplicity and speed.
Sure, just like probably the biggest reason the US put a man on the Moon is because of the Cold War. Still pretty cool.
Certainly, go to http://127.0.0.1:631/ in your browser. CUPS is still actively developed by Apple.
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I played with an old Asteroids Deluxe machine just last weekend! They have one at Barcade in Manhatten on West 24th.

The vector display sits face up in the bottom of the cabinet, and the game is reflected on a one-way mirror set up in front of a backdrop. Those super-bright vector graphics are even more impressive when they look like they're floating!
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Official press release: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/us-india-to-collabo...

And, NISAR Earth observation mission looks very exciting as well: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32478.msg12...
Wow...impressive. Even though this is not so much a weakness o f Goldenlayout as rather the particular image component I use on the startpage. Still though, thanks. Remind me to hire you if I want to get back at someone.