skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The feature set is impressive and I'd certainly look into this if I had the kind of home that could benefit from this much automation.

I do think it highlights a problem with using Polymer out of the box though. Like Bootstrap in its early days, Polymer makes it very easy to quickly throw together a fairly polished and professional looking interface. But as more of these come online this style is going to become increasingly stale and generic. And since the design language of Material is so pervasive and rich I think it's going to take a fair amount of work to customize it enough to differentiate an implementation without destroying the integrity of the design. Just tweaking the theme and accent color isn't going to be enough to cure you of looking like a rebranded Google app.
Why typos and spelling mistakes don't really matter
Until I read this I had no idea that Dante was Youngluck. It all makes so much sense now!
Well, it's hard to make the comparison "the US today is even worse than the USSR today". But it's pretty easy to make a comparison between the US today and the USSR in 1985.

If the USSR was bad, and we're worse, who cares if the hypothetical USSR of today would be even worse than we are today? It's still easy to see that we're (1) worse than something that was (2) awful. The reason for our surpassing awfulness being new technological developments isn't relevant to the idea that we've gone bad.

(Obviously, the USSR of then was much worse than the US of today along a whole host of vastly-more-important dimensions. I'm not talking about that.)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542318
"Luther: "High school's a lot like prison. Bad food, high fences... the sex you want, you ain't getting, the sex you're getting... you don't want."

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheNewGuy
This data shows the fraction of users with IPv6, per ISP: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/

And here is some similar data, but per country:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-c...

The US just recently crossed 10%.
Yes. Url changed from http://www.matthewaid.com/post/101483465701/fbi-begins-secre....
> look around at all the suffering and think this system's working great?

i dont think anyone is saying the system is working great. Capitalism the worst system, except for every other system tried. What do you suggest?
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What kind of suspicions do you have?
Where does the data come from? TMDB is a great source. Letterboxd has a similar design and lots of curation features. Good job.
In response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969
Why JSON string gets shown in the address?
As the others have said, and they have also given to the Washington Post, too. But they seem to have stopped writing about it. Perhaps too focused on trying to support Comey in his war on encryption, these days.

One another thing - I wouldn't trust Pando with these sort of things. Look at another ridiculous thing they've written a few months ago, as if it wasn't already know that Tor was made by the government and part of the funding still comes from it (more than half), now:

http://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/

But Tor is open source and can be verified. I believe almost all of Dan Berstein's protocols are also funded "by the government". Does that mean we shouldn't trust his curves and protocols anymore?

I think we should all have a healthy dose of skepticism regarding these issues, but when it makes sense to do so.
I don't know if it's really fair to call Verified by Visa two-factor authentication as your card number is just another string (that can be replicated). With Verified by Visa you go from one to two "passwords".
Interesting take! I think there's a lot of truth in what you're saying.

In N Out started in 1948 (not too long after McDonalds, and not too far from it, either, in Southern California). Shake Shack started in 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger

It is a great time to be into food. Probably better than ever.
It isn't that simple. Your dichotomy is false.

The reality is that police and federal law enforcement are able to acquire private information using other means including knocking on doors, physically bugging devices and people, hacking into devices and other ground work.

The law can have the power to discover data, but this power can be separate from compulsion statutes that force large corporations to surveil, store and copy customer data as a default.

What if there was a law that required you as a private citizen to spy on other private citizens? You would have to keep files on people, but you would only need to give them up if a search warrant or other court order was given to you. Wouldn't that be wrong? The only difference in this case is that Apple and Google and whomever else have filed to be incorporated.

Yes law enforcement should be able to access individual's data. No, it doesn't have to come in the form of a compulsory digital surveillance apparatus.
Remember the corollary, sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

If he's genuinely worried about public safety and as a result thinks this is a good idea, he should be demonized and driven out of his job, and any related job. If he believes that certain things should be allowed for the good guys but not for the bad guys, he is the bad guys.

But all that is beside the point. I don't live in James Comey's mind, and its internal state is totally irrelevant to me. What he does matters. If he's doing it for what he thinks are good reasons, that just means he's evil and he has terrible judgment -- which doesn't seem like much of a step up from "he's evil".
95% of the biggest nation in the world (or maybe second biggest, no one really knows the exact pop of India and China) lives in far deeper poverty than poor americans. Many of them experience actual suffering - not enough food, no flush toilet, no power.

What, precisely, do you believe poor Americans are suffering from? The only concrete answer I usually hear is envy (I.e. "oh noes the inequality").

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-t...
>will be any unintended consequences of extensive uptake of this technology. For example could this increase levels of O2/CO2/N2 dissolved in the worlds oceans...

No. There will be no measurable effect whatsoever. The waves on the ocean's surface do a fine job of aeration, and cover an area millions of times larger than the ships' surfaces.
HTTP/1.1 will be around for approximately forever.
I suspect he shouldn't have even said this much, before the agreed-upon full-disclosure date.
> But kleinbl00 was also a tough-as-nails moderator when he needed to be, knocking heads of unassuming redditors who broke the rules.

From what I can tell, that was an understatement. I don't think there was any one big incident, but he often came off as pretentious and very confrontational and rude, and I guess enough people heard about that behavior that his comments stopped being well received, no matter how good they were.

A couple examples of what people didn't like:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kleinbl00/comments/e59s8/on_aggress...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/j8sk9/am_i_being...
Ok. But thinking aloud here, when and how does exchange rate come into play? The only reason I have been lifted out of poverty living in India is because of "Western" consumers - I do work for which my employer gets paid in dollars, and they give me a fraction which is enough for me to lead an upper middle class lifestyle in India. No Indian company will pay, or has the ability to pay, as much money as I am getting now doing the same work for Indian consumers. So if a large percentage of "Western" consumers don't consume as much as they used to, it directly affects my livelihood. Is it a paradoxical situation that I am probably taking away the job of someone in US thereby temporarily improving my livelihood in the short term, whereas I actually don't have a livelihood in the medium / long term?
I know that, and I can fiddle with settings and get it working as I like. Family members less so.

There are many data plans in Europe where SMS are charged at rip off rates, and are something to be avoided. Even just the risk of sending SMS is enough to put anyone off using the application. Especially when competing solutions work as expected - i.e. they will not send SMS at all, ever.
> If he had any understanding of the other uses like multiparty transactions, timestamping, identity management, voting, derivatives, and trustfree contracts, then he failed to say anything to convey that awareness in his writing.

He wrote nothing about whether he requires oxygen to live, but I'll wager with you he needs it.

He spoke negatively of Bitcoin as a currency (and currencies aren't used for much of what you describe), but he highlighted a number of aspects of Bitcoin that he thought were useful and where he expecting to see it having a huge, innovative impact. He didn't make a laundry list of everything awesome one might be able to do with Bitcoin, but given that his essay was about the future of payments, you can see where perhaps speaking of its use for voting might have resulted in the essay becoming meandering and without focus...

> I didn't misread anything.

Trust me, you did.

> Rather, he miswrote by conflating his opinions of a single bitcoin service with the entire underlying protocol.

No he didn't. Actually, he hardly got two paragraphs in before he said, "I did not actually have anything against Bitcoin in this particular case."

So no, he's quite aware that his issues with "a single bitcoin service" are removed from the underlying protocol.
Isn't that the reason TeX was created though to be able to automatically generate good typography for a document? Couldnt the algorithims used in TeX to decide these features just be used by eBook readers?
I was using the phrase to specifically mean the organisations that structurally underpin modern capitalist economies and have now come to represent it. Sorry if I did not make that clear enough from context.

Now you can argue that what happened was bad economic theory, however the intent behind bailing out the banks was not to steer away from capitalism, but to prop it up, so even if you think it stinks from an economic theory perspective, it was at least intended as capitalist.
The reason government is inefficient is that it has a monopoly and no competitive pressure. But the incumbent ISPs are in the same situation. There is a reason Verizon stopped rolling out FiOS and it's not that nobody wants it.

> Fundamentally, if the state owned the wires and the switching stations, they would own all the infrastructure.

The part of a communications network which is a natural monopoly is the part that creates a path between a central location and every subscribing household in the region. From there you can find plenty of competing providers to sell transit to the rest of the world.

The optimal model goes like this: The regulated or municipal last mile provider runs a fiber pair from the central office to every household in the service area. That is the totality of their business. The fiber pairs and rack space for terminating equipment are leased at a regulated rate by competing ISPs. The ISPs provide (and individually upgrade) their own terminating equipment on both ends and from there provide connectivity with the rest of the internet.
Correctly, as I am a GUI oriented person and no longer see a strong value in Emacs vs InteliJ|Netbeans|Eclipse(CDT)|Visual Studio|KDevelop.
What's happening with scrolling on websites lately? Does this website really need some badly implemented custom scrolling?

</rant>
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Capitalism has not gone off the rail. It is just the concept that has worked better than almost every other thing known to humanity.

This inequality business is a new modern day scam just like communism of last century. Some anointed people want power for themselves and want to still money from people like us who are working hard in the name of poor people nothing else.

When government creates incentives where it steals money from hardworking people like us and gives it to irresponsible people like teenage mothers in the name of "compassion", we are creating incentives for many people to remain poor. This is a perpetual poverty into which we have let the government condemn them. That is the problem.

Capitalism is a hope.
That is actually why I made this thread. I found an old link to a HN meetup on meetup.com. It was dead, and I had no info. I was actually looking for a good meetup. Once again, I am not a legendary developer, but I know my way around the command line. I am picking up rails, was hping to find a reasonable meetup. The one a mate went to said it was like 4 people in panera watching youtube videos...
Lyft driver in California slams into tree, kills passenger
If you're a small web shop, having stuff like this fixed as a general solution in nginx and apache is a huge benefit. It means that spriting, domain sharding, and all the other hacks people do to reduce round trips aren't necessary any more, and average speed should improve.
I don't get that argument. Perhaps you want something like Demurrage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_(currency)), which could give you that incentive without debasing the currency.
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Console for debugging web apps on mobile devices
This. Gandi is a remarkably good 'no bullshit' (their motto) registrar.
What do you think of Ninjasphere/Ninjablocks, since you are pretty much scratching the same itch.
Absolutely. I'm still looking for a BCM43142 driver :(
http://aboutbrowser.com -- share browser details via a link or email. Enables better troubleshooting than "What browser are you using?"
Thanks for this fantastic comment. It appears things are actually (a little) worse than I thought.

[edit: related -- I just found this:

http://www.dcglug.org.uk/archive/2014/08/msg00180.html

No mention of refresh rate... no real 10bit support with the r290 under Linux doesn't sound good either :-/
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Lattice C! I haven't seen that book in ages.
Yes, so much that they haven't returned anything back to the community that helped them save development resources (money), or did they?
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of QR codes and profile pics
Of Cox'es and their hackings"

http://hackaday.com/2012/04/13/qart-codes-the-better-way-to-...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DGzr5UFEIXM/AAAAAAAAAAI/A...
This would be appropriate to post in the monthly "Who Wants to be Hired" thread that appears on the first of every month. If you don't see it on the front page then, you can find it via https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring.

It's off-topic to post as a story to HN, though, so I'm going to kill the post now.
I saw Tom give this talk at Ruby Manor. It melted my brain, but it was completely worth it, and challenged lots of assumptions I had about programming but never realised I had. Highly recommended!
This was bound to happen.

Attacking just Windows was just a consequence of it being the most widespread consumer OS.
It's been how many years? And it's still 8-bit?

Maybe the GIMP needs a fork. I like it, but it's a bit crap.
> There should not be a way for a bad actor to use the pool to affect appliances or compromise instances.

How do you accomplish this?
> 30% faster... IF you've got your page split up into 78 requests on 12 different hosts using 1.2 MB.

Take a look at the web page of any company in the content business that is actually trying to make the page pay for itself...
We're not giving up anything (1.1 support will be around for quite some time). The benefits won't be for small site owners, but for end users. At a guess, I'd say at least 60% of my daily web use is to big company sites (facebook, google, twitter, news organisations etc). This will result in a huge speed increase for most end users.
You must be joking. Any publically traded co these days is hardly family owned: the family members, in those rare example cases are by far the minority shareholders. Compare that with 100 years ago.
>This is not an important article, it is a rant against people with "tacky mansions"

Did you even read the article? It's a four-page, in-depth consideration of global economic issues; "tacky" does not even begin to play into it.
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Facebook Is Affecting the Popularity of YouTube
I bought this a Samsung 40" UHD TV (UN40HU7000F) a few months ago. In this page somebody ask if the TV has support for HDMI 2.0. As far as I can tell (using a poor translation by Google) it support said version of HDMI by changing the the HDMI Color Mode.

Can anyone with fluid Korean can confirm?

http://www.samsungsvc.co.kr/online/faqView.do?domainId=NODE0...
There have been multiple, very different systems labeled "capitalism" for political purposes. The strong-labor, domestic-demand-driven social-democratic model of capitalism worked far better than today's rentier and financial capitalism.
It's interesting that modern web developers don't consider that maybe websites are slow because they keep stuffing them to the brim with every conceivable script and other resources from 30 different domains. No, of course that's not why the web is slow. The web is obviously slow because HTTP is too slow.
If you do not like an argument, factually refute it, rather than labelling its author. Otherwise your ad hominem style looks too much like Lenin's or Mao's
Please stop spouting this "the free market is always the best solution" bullshit. The large cable companies have colluded to stay out of each other's markets with or with out local laws giving them a monopoly. There are plenty of states/local cities that don't have these laws. Why aren't those places internet utopias?

If you're opposed to common carrier regulations (I certainly am not) you should be pushing for what was done in the UK where all internet providers must lease out their wires to any competition that wants to use them. That will create something that is actually closer to a free market than expecting another company to come in and tear up every city in America with redundant wires.
Actually, in some of the most egregious examples (Walmart), management and/or owners are paid enough to make a real difference in what workers are paid. The six Walton heirs hold as much money as the entire bottom 42% of Americans combined. A pay raise of $2/hour for every non-management Walmart worker (raising hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty), and/or giving them reasonable benefits, would not change that statistic in dramatic fashion.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/sam-waltons-fortune-...

It's not enough to explain it, but it is a relevant piece of the puzzle.
These are all really good points, let me just address one or two.

> We are talking about ~300 bytes of data per header ... are the bandwidth gains really so superior to outweigh the CPU costs in having to compress the data?

The commonly-cited reason for pursuing header compression is making the very first request of a session, when your initial congestion window is small. The goal is to make the request small enough that it can fit in one round-trip so that you don't have to wait for all the ACKs.

Reducing duplication is great and will help for a lot of cases as well, but my impression from the WG has been that it's less important than that first round trip.

Note also that HPACK is really quite efficient in terms of CPU cycles. It takes relatively few to compress the headers very heavily.

Finally, if you really don't like it, you can turn HPACK off. That gives an out for constrained devices that genuinely can't spare the cycles.

> Does anyone know how clients are going to go about requesting HTTP/2 capabilities? Is there a special HTTP/1.1 header? Because Apache will respond to "GET / HTTP/2.0" with an HTTP/1.1 OK response at present.

Yes, because there's a draft spec. I invite you to read it[0]. The summary is that you have three options:

1. For plaintext HTTP/2, you use a HTTP Upgrade: header, just as everyone expects you to.
2. For HTTP/2 over TLS you use ALPN, a feature of TLS that lets you request a protocol in the TLS negotiation (to avoid an extra round trip).
3. Alternatively, you might be able to use HTTP Alternative Services (a WIP draft).

The behaviour Apache is using is clearly a bug.

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2
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The new Nvidia 970 / 980 seem to be able to do HDMI 2: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/776257/geforce-900-... (read the last post in the thread).
Oh man, kleinbl00, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. His comments on reddit were solid. Like, metafilter level status comments. A lot of thought went into them and were the gold standard of why you read comments on reddit. Now the site is so huge, you'd either get lucky to find such comments or browse r/bestof.
HTTP/2 is redesigning the application layer protocol for the modern internet. QUIC is an attempt to redesign the transport layer. The two should work hand-in-hand. It'll be interesting to see how it works out!
In practice it very nearly does. Only IE plan to support plaintext HTTP/2, all other browsers will only support it over TLS.

Opportunistic Encryption is still on the table as well.
The main problem with Z80 it's the lack of a good C compiler. SDCC is not enough.
All Austrian-school ideology is capitalist, but not all of capitalism is the Austrian school. Both ideas were capitalist: private ownership of the means of production, with production being for profitable exchange.
Internet of Things vs. Internet of Everything
"Fix it, but, uh, not until I leave."

As a homeowner in the Bay Area, my politics are: "Let's fix it!" But with as much equity as I've got pulling in the other direction, it is damn hard to toe that line.
I think maybe you are both right. You can have individuals who think they are doing good working within the confines of a body that is sometimes and in some capacity malignant.

Law enforcement as a practice is ultimately the act of treating your own citizens as enemies. I think for the most part we have extremely well intentioned people in those roles. I don't think Hoover had outwardly malicious intentions - for example - but I do think an agency with an agenda to disrupt civilians that have political ideas that run contrary to policy goals or administrative priorities, even if its composed of nuns, will inevitably be malicious.
What's so special about this news that deserves to be in HN?