skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order for humanity to truly achieve an optimal culture [...]"

You lost me here. Optimal by what metric? And making value judgements about cultures strikes me as a risky, risky business...
Speaking of which... I'm going to take a moment to ask a question in the hopes that someone has a suggestion.

I want to do something very similar to WebRTC: transport video from a PC to an Android phone, in real time. I need to do it with open source components and standard Android components that can be integrated into an app. I've been fiddling with gstreamer's RTSP server, and... so far no dice. Anyone got something like that functioning?
We can watch this happen live @ http://map.ipviking.com/

Fascinating traffic floods from various locations, but the attack is not continuous.
Well, sure. Being older is so absolutely amazing in terms of experience, assurance, wealth, power, confidence, and so forth, that all those similar things can actually for a time outweigh the crumbling of your health and your increasing frailty and pain.

But only for a time.

It is a measure of how much people are predisposed to accept the status quo that we don't see far more engaged in serious, scientific efforts to apply modern biotechnology to build rejuvenation treatments. Certain death and present pain is more acceptable than effort, uncertainty, and change.
A question/suggestion to Keybase
This is, unfortunately, affecting us and some of our clients.

Is there anything we can do to mitigate downtime at the level of our DNS provider? It seems unlikely to me, but this is the right group of people to ask.
Very cool! Any plans on open sourcing it?
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Does it have tail calls, dynamic-wind, and hygienic macros? If so, I have a very interesting use for this in creating visualizations of microkanren execution traces.
Yeah, I wrote a 15-page paper on this for my "next china" economics class. My thesis was that although the primary purpose of the Great Firewall appears political, with a goal of censorship, in actuality the CCP keeps it around for economic reasons. Effectively, the GFW is a way of subsidizing domestic tech companies. As long as it exists, it keeps foreign competitors at bay while domestic counterparts launch their own services, often in conduit with the CCP censorship authorities.

My prediction was that we will see the GFW come down in a few years, once the "human rights" debate reaches critical mass, but moreso once the userbases of domestic companies reach critical mass. Once the big Chinese tech companies have enough of a head-start on all their US counterparts, and they're ready to expand Westward, the GFW will come down.

China realizes that it has a population of 2 billion, and therefore wields far more raw economic power potential than any other country. Therefore China wants to develop its own domestic tech economy to serve its users in a way that conforms to its culture and benefits the Chinese economy overall. Furthermore, there's no reason that its domestic companies would not eventually branch westward in the same way that US companies are attempting to branch eastward.

We're starting to see the same thing in Russia. Geographic Internet isolation is becoming a common trend and a useful geopolitical powerplay. I suspect we'll see more of it from large countries interested in nurturing their own domestic tech economy.
Cultural differentiation is not only a basis for art, creativity and innovation, it is also absolutely necessary for adaptability and survival. Over-Specialization and uniformity will have many negative consequences.
Yes, that is what was being aired in the press. Courtesy of Google translate

https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=...

If you know German,

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/gesetzesluecke-...
The Many Hairstyles of David Beckham
People have commented that English is just the international language because of forced colonialization and economic dominance.

As someone whose native language is not English, I am very happy that English has become the standard language. Not because English is particularly good, but because it is A standard.
"The best way to achieve a global, optimal monoculture..."
Why would you assume that the best monoculture is better than an ensemble of locally optimal cultures? It seems unlikely for that to be true when the variables that cultures form in response to differ by locality: climate, native flora/fauna, terrain, economy, demographics, etc.
(Not the person you're replying to, but I'll add a quick note about the military part):

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

I think that having a military 2x as big as the next biggest is a sufficient definition for 'excessive'. And here, it's a lot more than 2x.
Yeehaw! That's exactly what I'm looking for. I think I stumbled upon Killbill over the summer but it wasn't quite where it is today. I'll definitely be taking a hard look at this.
Many sites avoid going all https because of the - sometimes alleged, sometimes real - performance loss.
Two thoughts:

1. Competition? How can open source software be in competition with anything? It's free, its source code is there; if people want it they'll use it, if not they won't. Why would anyone care what other projects are doing or saying? Just build your tools how you want and go on with life. (Unless you're building your tools specifically to make money, in which case I guess PR and 'competition' does matter a lot)

2. On Twitter you suggested things should be 'composable to the extreme' ..... using plugins and drivers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk
I'm still on the hunt for an OSX PostgreSQL client with a table editor as awesome as aqua data studio's [0] (their java client doesn't work great on mac). With ADS you can edit the results of any query as if it was a spreadsheet, hit "save", and ADS will generate the correct insert/update statements for you and run them. It handles copy/paste across multiple rows pretty well, even with thousands of update/inserts, and I haven't found any other editors (I've tried pgadmin, jetbrains thing, navicat, this PSequel, and some others) that do this.

http://www.aquafold.com/aquadatastudio/table_data_editor.htm...
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Not to mention it adds another party you have to trust not to insert unwanted/malicious code into your browser.

When I get binaries from Mozilla, I only have to trust Mozilla. When I get binaries from my distro's repositories, I only have to trust Mozilla and my distro's maintainers. Both of those are entities I know and trust already, so I'm comfortable with that. But I don't know anything about Pale Moon.
The if part is meant to illustrate the idea, that if P is not a perfect square, then (m+1)^2 will give the nearest perfect square.
Obviously, doing this is not super-readable, but it can be fun thought-experiments or brain-teasers.

There was a post I wrote about doing something similar a little while back [1]

[1]: http://tech.pro/blog/2097/clever-way-to-demethodize-native-js-methods
I concur, Knockout is awesome despite being un-hyped. Small, stable, reliable, compatible with IE6+.

If you want a modern ES5 alternative there's also Vue.js
I think these two graphs are interesting. Fiber and low prices for broadband seems to be correlated (Japan, Korea). Unfortunately there isn't more data points in the Economist graph.

I think it helps if the fiber is owned by a party other than the access provider, e.g. the community or city, to avoid having a monopoly squeeze out all the consumer surplus.

How will this work with Google Fiber?

http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac...

http://www.nbr.co.nz/sites/default/files/images/oecd-broadba...

Full html pages (where images were found):
- http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/oecd-broadband-stats-show-nz-im...
- http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2014/03/telecoms-m...
"They are free to use Docker as a single container format."

Yes please, that's my preferred format.
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Depends how you want it defined - in the completely objective sense - a "state of existence".

In a subjective way, it's whatever you make of it.
> That's like getting free internet for 6 and a half years from current providers after 6 months.

Is internet in Kansas really that bad? I'm paying $50/month for 30/21 (I'm paying for 25/25 but oh well) here in New Jersey [0]. I can't imagine doing much with that internet besides basic web browsing. Even low-res video is choppy at that speed.

[0] http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3952406450
I think the rocket vs docker idea of open specifications are very different. Docker is fundamentally an API. In theory, you could create a C# version of docker that implements the docker api ontop of windows (when Microsoft adds namespacing support) and it would "just work TM". The same could be said for FreeBSD or anything else really.

Rocket looks very cool, and while it certainly does prevent some of the issues with docker security, it misses some of the benefits... like a remote API as there isn't a rktd, and many people will undoubtedly write them. So in that regard, I'd have to say rocket offers less openness.

With the current docker design, I see no reason why libcontainer couldn't add a rocket or lxd backend and be done with it however. As a sysadmin/developer to builds things, I see this as healthy for the container ecosystem even if it does certainly come off as a bit uncool from @phillips and the coreos crew. I'm kind of biased in that I think the only good multi-host docker / container manager will ultimately be mesos with kubernetes ontop.
Microsoft is killing off Clip Art in favor of Bing Images
dope, good luck guys : )
Comcast is reporting 20% operating income for a network that is largely already paid for. There's reasons to believe that Verizon isn't doing a great job recouping it's up-front costs on FiOS: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_13/b42210461.... For the FiOS rollout, the capital costs alone are $1,000-2,000 per house: http://nypost.com/2010/04/01/why-i-think-verizon-had-to-pull....

There's no reason to believe that Google's per-household costs are any less. These companies all likely outsource to the same local companies that put fiber in the ground. To the extent that Google has an advantage, it's with uptake rates. Verizon and Comcast have to wire whole cities, pursuant to build-out clauses in local franchises. Google refuses to accept such clauses, and only builds in neighborhoods with demonstrated interest. The economics of building fiber make this a huge advantage. Most of the cost of building the network is in passing by the house, which is a cost you pay whether or not the house subscribes. If your uptake rate is 40% versus 20%, your per-house capital cost drops dramatically.
This looks nice - Sequel Pro is great for MySQL but for working with PostgreSQL the only GUI I could find for the Mac, last I checked, was Valentina Studio, which, whilst it does pretty much everything you would probably want of a DB GUI, also satisfies every stereotype of cross-platform applications (ie. it doesn't offer a very Mac-like experience).

Looking forward to giving this a try.
Probably the most exciting computer technology company in Canada ever since Blackberry's heyday in the mid 00's.
Spacecraft Bound for Pluto Prepares for Its Close Encounter
Another aspect to consider is that given the sensitive nature of our work and access to what is often crown-jewel intellectual property, we have several clients who require we work from their offices. They are sometimes unwilling to cover travel costs. With a more geographically distributed base of employees we'd either have to eat the costs of bringing someone remote in for these projects, or rely more heavily on the now smaller subset of our staff that is present in these geographies. Neither is a desirable scenario.

Most of us like working in an office close to home, and don't like traveling a lot. It works for us.
No degree. Best advice you will ever receive: dive head first into your work. Get certified. Meet people and make connections/relationships (at work). Go above and beyond what you are paid to do (if you see something that should be done but no one is necessarily telling you to do it, then do it and do it very well).

Make your manager love you. Make your coworkers love you. Start building a resume listing the major accomplishments you do at work. Stick with the job for a minimum of 2 years.

In your spare time, be learning more (if you have spare time, considering you will be studying for certs, etc.). Just learn a little something on your own everyday. Learn about the web, network programming, various programming paradigms, and maybe a new language or two (at most -- don't go overboard with learning a ton of languages). See if you can apply something you are learning about on your own to your work. If you can't apply what you are learning about to your job, then build something (small) with what you are learning in your spare time. If you can't even begin to use the things you are learning about at all, then stop learning about them and instead, focus on learning things that you can make use of now.

At work: begin to think business-y instead of just technically. Think about: how my skills can accomplish the 1. Business Requirements 2. Project Requirements 3. System Requirements, etc.

If you get good at Python or such, see if you can write a few scripts to automate some of the common tasks your coworkers do. Nothing major, but something that can be useful.

Then after 2 years, put yourself out there with that resume you have been building up and see what kind of bites you get. It's completely possible that 2 years from now the economy is collapsed and the world is broken, but if it's not then following the above will get you a lot farther than taking some classes at a Uni.
That's not what is meant.

An attacker who wants to find out of if the person with "example@example.com" has on account on your website, could try signing up with "example@example.com". If they get an error message, they know the person has an account on the website.
> Docker's 'new' direction is to direct its attention towards solving the orchestration and management problems involved in actually running infrastructure on Docker.

IME examining Docker, this is actually the hard problem.
well, few minutes ago switched into the browser out from the VNC console of my Linux workstation (where i was doing something productive for almost 20 minutes) to check something on the wiki... i'm still to reach that wiki page tab :)
Obviously, the point of this essay is that it is supposed to be easy to disagree with. But I feel obligated to take the bait for some reason..

The idea of a single global culture is a pretty dark path, historically speaking. It is a utopian concept that assumes there is a path that can be followed in order to pursue a more perfect mankind. It stems from the belief that ambiguity and difference are negative forces, to be eliminated instead of embraced.

I think the argument is that the darker historical paths were 'simulation' where 'emulation' would be a better model. The difference (from what I could tell) being that the underlying mechanism of cultural change are copied, instead of just the effects. It could be argued that this is already taking place - the massive reach of the internet is expanding so that more people are being influenced by the same information streams. Internet culture makes the assumption, predictably, that internet culture is good/best. But what if that isn't true? What about those who don't fit into the 'internet' cultural norms?

The author talks of of making subjective judgements about the optimal performance of certain cultures. That's a bit problematic. What about the cultures that are not "optimal performers"? What is optimal? Those who work the most hours? Those who laugh the most? Those who have the least number of fistfights? Those with the greatest GDP?
What's with all the drama? Did we read the same announcement?

What is it that we end users don't know?
It's probably relevant that early/dominant character encoding schemes were largely created by English speakers. Of course English is easier to represent.

I'd be interested to see what advantages other languages pose. I wouldn't be surprised if there are foreign natural languages that are much easier to parse for meaning programmatically than English (i.e. languages where conjugation and word endings provide explicit information that must otherwise be inferred from context/knowledge of the world that it's much harder for a computer to acquire.)
same question here - how did you do this while dnsimple.com is inaccessible?
Are these live attacks on any servers?
The business account is $30 more, which is normal (presumably goes to better support, no word on improved upload/ratios?). But I will say it is a little odd that it doesn't ship with at least one static IP. Plus $30 per IP is kind of crazy.

Most host providers, even REALLY inexpensive ones, charge $3-5/month/IP. So I consider $20-30 a massive markup for something pretty useful for a business account.
It's not that the Intelligence Community has their act together any better, it's that they have more money to throw at the problems. Less regulation and oversight probably "help" things, too.
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I looked up nop sleds but don't see why they're used here. Explanation?
People are probably more likely to fun a startup with a few million in hopes of cashing out later for 50-100x the initial investment. Not spend $84 million to build out a city like Kansas City, and then who knows how much income they get back from subscribers or how much it costs to support.
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The problem is that ISPs don't need disruption- local politics does. As hard as starting a new bank or writing a new OS is, who wants to sign up for disrupting every local and state government in the country and incur the cost of laying all that fiber? This is why only Google is doing it. They have the money to burn and the clout to get municipalities to cooperate through all or nothing deals.
He obviously missed this guy sneaking in the side:

https://goo.gl/maps/CsUJE
I think this idea might blow a lot of A/B testing and conversion rates. People would have to check their e-mail address for actually creating their accounts, although e-mails are already obsolete for even activating the account ( You can just sign-up and sign-in later with your password you entered ).

May be behind this the author put some good deeds, but in the end I think it's overkill.