skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did the quit and focus thing. It ended up working out, but just barely. I was underwater for a while and my marriage about to fall apart.. I'm not sure I'd recommend the same path even though it did have a happy ending (co-founder of a well funded startup, a cash bonus that wiped out my worst debt, and my wife and I are back on good terms).

Wish I had better advice, but it is a hard problem. If you only have 3-5 hours per week, perhaps you should consider going to meetups instead, and networking outside of your existing communities? You might get more results out of that, or find an opportunity you are willing to leave your current job for.
I conceptually agree with the problems you're describing.

I have absolutely no faith that the government is capable of responsibly managing this ecosystem.

Let the nerds work. Do not bring regulators in whenever architectural decisions need to be made.
So, the fork-me-on-github banner has always kinda rubbed me the wrong way. I don't want to actively encourage forks, I want to encourage people to collaborate on the main repo.

Forks can lead to that, if they're just temporary things that lead to Pull Requests, but I would rather have a ribbon that suggests a message of joining the project, rather than forging off in your own direction.

A small distinction, I know, and probably not one that was ever intended by GitHub, but there it is :)
It's disingenuous to call an opposing opinion "astro-turfing" in an attempt to discredit them. There are 700 total rules to the regulation. We haven't been able to see one of them. This doesn't concern you in any way?

No, because this is the norm - the commissioners draw up a proposal, vote on it, then it's published in the Federal Register as a 'notice of proposed rulemaking,' witht he text of the proposed rule in full, and there is a comment period. Following that, the FCC publishes a 'notice of adoption of final rule,' which may or may not include changes based on the submitted comments. the process is summarized here: http://www.fcc.gov/rulemaking

Most people were afraid to talk about it because the HN community typically down votes everyone to hell that has opposing opinions.

Spare us the ad hominem attacks. Substantive arguments generally do just fine on HN. Rayiner, for example, has been making substantie arguments against the idea of Title II classification for months and it hasn't done his standing any harm whatsoever.

What happened to open and honest discussions?

It's not honest to pretend that this rulemaking process is somehow different and worse from the normal one that has been in place for years.
Incredible Technical Speakers
If you look closely its trying to pick at something that it finds curious. Sledding could possibly be an accidental outcome of it being sitting on a thin edge, not the original purpose.
We just need to implement an HTML renderer (or two or three) in JS and then ship the renderer with your site.
I didn't like this article. It seems more like a pr fluff piece rather than actually talking about the real technical challenges ex. the dev team faced when the first version xbox live wasn't good enough to handle the excess load.

I really wish the xbox live team would put out a more technically focused version of this article, with their thoughts on the trials and tribulations of growth in a similar view to the netflix microarchitecture article.
By making it public infrastructure.

Remember, if not for an accident of history (cable and telephone services running over completely different kinds of wires), it wouldn't be a duopoly, it would be an outright natural monopoly -- a prime candidate for treatment as a public utility.
I'm just amazed that they had to figure out that the "long tail" matters. It seems so obvious. It is almost like the owner of a hardware store coming to the conclusion that his customers want more than just a swiss army tool.
Different types of content have different requirements. Different content within the same type does not. This is not an issue of prioritizing VoIP over a large single file. This is an argument against prioritizing Company A's VoIP over Company B's VoIP.
The title is misleading. Super lame.
Really interesting. I have been diagnosed with both ADHD and Celiac (actual diagnosis on the Celiac side was "gluten sensitivity, likely Celiac, but would need a biopsy to confirm" and I opted to not do the biopsy due to cost.) I had no idea there was a link between the two until I read your post.

I went gluten-free "hardcore" for 2 years and now I supplement with probiotics and can eat gluten on occasion. I feel much better with gluten out of my diet, but by no means is it a "cure" for ADHD, and I still use my ADHD medication (methylphenidate in my case) even when I'm 100% gluten-free.

I would definitely try gluten-free with your child, but don't mistake it for a holy grail of eliminating all symptoms. Rather, it will probably help your child focus better and feel better in general (it is hard to concentrate when your stomach is killing you.)

Feel free to email me if you'd like to speak more; I've been public about my diagnosis with both of these.
I understand if you think this is a non-issue, though I don't agree. The speaker I referenced about asked the statisticians at his company about this and they said it was a non-issue because things balanced out. He thought that was an idealization and claimed to have tested it building in some real world data, and reported that interconnected data of this kind drastically affected confidence levels. He didn't get into the details of how he measured interconnectedness, however.

The example you give seems to me to oversimplify the issue of complex interconnections between data points, as if the traffic on a real website came from one set of referrals, while in reality its much more complex, with referrers inducing other referrers and a variety of campaigns, postings, etc. influencing each other, and over time, overlaid in a fairly complex pattern. In other words, a bunch of interrelated data, very little of which is actually independent of other items.

I'm not really asking for an explanation of this in the comment thread here; what I'd like to know is, if there are any studies or other publications that deal with the issue of how to evaluate tests run on interconnected data of this kind.
I've been testing this out for a week or so. It's amazing what you can do, and the latency is not even close to as bad as I was expecting. They do some clever compression, so it's actually quite tolerable and a good option for people with limited or no data plans.
iOS v/s Android
Relax -- the grandparent was being facetious.
Smart idea! I'll do that now.
Well, investing tons of money in lobbyists to pass state laws to prevent the deployment of municipal broadband utilizing public tax monies and breaks, is considered unethical (at least to me).

So, not investing in infrastructure is not the problem, but preventing others from doing so, is scummy.

They do not want to invest AND they don't want to compete.
Ummm, I thought Europeans were supposed to be better than us poor simple Americans at dry wit and irony?

It sounds as if you might want to reinstate your previous system.
One word. Separation of concerns. Okay, three. Why would you want to mix managing files and transistors?
Paying crows peanuts to 'find' money has to be the best business plan ever. This could be bigger than Apple.
Run this through https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447 (www.sansbullshitsans.com) and you end up with something like: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150225/13365130142/heres...
It sounds like a really reasonable explanation.

Until you mount the sundial on the wall.

On a wall-mounted sundial, the shadow moves counter-clockwise (in the Northern hemisphere, the hemisphere referred to throughout this article).

Yes, the idea of mapping the horizontal sundial to a vertically-oriented image in our minds seems to hold a certain sense...

...but the question of the vertically mounted sundial should not be so quickly dismissed.
Ask HN: How do you share passwords around your organization?
Specifically common passwords for servers, VPN accounts, test web accounts, etc.
I'm always surprised to see articles like this upvoted on Hacker News. Not that there is anything wrong with the content, but it surprises me that it is popular on a forum relating to startups and technology.
And when two competing interpretations of an unfinished standard exist, with different semantics because they have not yet been finalized?
“Employees” and other words that make me cringe
Lets scrap the USDA safety measures. We will eat so much better.
That tends to hurt a lot when you have multiple front ends,
and in general, I don't like the front end to have that much access to the database.
We have competitive access in Canada and that hasn't stopped telcos from making money or layout out new technology.
We’re at Graphics of the Americas this week Stop by booth 495 and 694 and say hi
The FCC had to change their definition of "broadband" to get that "quite literally almost no competition" result.

The traditional 4Mbps standard found 2 or more wired and 3 or more wireless providers at about 90% of US addresses.

I like ever-faster service, but the idea that's what most people need or even want – when superfast speeds cost more – isn't well-supported. 4Mbps is already plenty for HD movies and video teleconferencing. When and where people crave more, and if the solo 25Mbps-provider annoys them with pricing or traffic policies, more options will arrive, just as they have been arriving for the past two decades.

Most places in the US had zero 4Mbps options 20 years ago, and now they have 5+. Options and speeds have been steadily growing, not shrinking. But utility-style federal regulation, without regard to local competitive possibilities, slowed telephone-network dynamism for decades. It will similarly constrain rather than expand 'broadband' choices, by forcing them into a nationally-managed utility mould.
80s Robot Running for University of Alberta SU President
The only constant is change. Working-class culture isn't static either, and it's pretty patronising to imply that it is.

It's also weird that the article states that the middle-class are priced out by rent and head towards working-class areas for the cheaper rent, then blames the middle-class for doing so.
I really really hope Microsoft adopts the strategy from competing browsers:

- Make one version of Spartan and keep it AUTO-UPDATED, instead of shipping a new version every couple of years that is, more or less, completely decoupled from the previous version.

- Decouple the browser from the operating system. I don't really care if they make it cross-platform (though it would be nice), but if the browser stops updating unless you upgrade to the next version of Windows you WILL end up with legacy sites again and again that cater to a specific version, and then we can start over and just replace every rant against IE 6-7-8 with Spartan 1-2-3.
Waitrose Reusable Cups – recalled due to leaks
We have added an initial solution for this issue in Chrome 42. Users can set the following preference:

"webrtc": {
"multiple_routes_enabled": false
},

For the location of the prefs file, see http://www.chromium.org/administrators/configuring-other-pre....

This forces all WebRTC connections to only use server-reflexive and relay ICE candidates, and only on the default IP route. While this may cause a QoS hit (two users behind NAT can no longer keep their traffic internal to the NAT), it does allow the issue mentioned here to be fully addressed without disabling WebRTC altogether.
3) Selling a domain name to yahoo.com[1]

[1] http://broadcast.com
Grpc-java
Bingo :) But it makes me wonder how well is asm.js supported by the new IE?
Real MITM attacks enabled by Komodia's software might have already happened
Which is fine, but I didn't mention books.
And I think dumb pipes open for everyone is best.

After all ... it would be inconvenient if your utility company told you what can you use your electricity for.
This is side project I undertook this past winter-break. It's far from finished, but I though it would be great to show HN what I am currently working on. The app was more of scratching personal itch, rather than trying to bring order to the dozen blogging platforms. The app is just an attempt to give a different take on what could be if the intimacy of journaling and the power of the web where to come together.
A clear line between offense and defense
Some interesting information to the contrary:

http://rainypixels.com/words/the-story-of-the-new-microsoft-...

http://paravelinc.com/work/microsoft.php
New Anti-Drug Campaign Uses Gesture Recognition Technology and a Facebook Game
You can skip the web tier entirely and have Pg returning JSON documents via an HTTP endpoint to a rich MVC js browser application that synchs to a local cache.

Thus re-inventing Lotus Notes.
These ids work just like cookies; scoped to each user and origin. If you clear cookies, the ids are cleared as well.
Devices.json
How to Install PostgreSQL on CentOS 6
Do you do visa sponsorship? (long shot I know)
Develop WordPress plugins and themes using Docker
My apologies, then. I read it as the common Internet usage of "always interesting" where it means "I think this is completely stupid."
You are correct in assuming that, technically, gRPC could be built on top of WebSockets. Building directly over HTTP/2 allows for a leaner protocol stack.
I think perspective matters here somewhat. If you're scooped as an established scientist, it is a kind of validation of the importance of your work. If you're scooped as a graduate student or post-doc, it can be a disheartening loss of credit for years of work. The difference is the PI gets credit (rightly so) for the direction of the research, which is validated by being scooped, while the graduate student or post-doc is blamed for the speed of the work.
That's a pretty good karma rate! I think my account was probably weeks old before I got to 6.
My side project is an escape from my real job where process, politics, and domain experts outside of their domain prevent progress...
> I find all of your arguments to be talking points.

Please define "talking points"... I find it often means an often repeated argument that my side doesn't agree with.
PostgreSQL is King Last week was quite busy being a servant
FILLED HOUSE WITH BALLOONS WHILE FAMILY WERE AWAY PRANK
Signed languages are incredibly fluid. Grammar order (more like English, or more quote-unquote 'pure' ASL style?), nouns and verbs (drive 100 miles in any direction, and at least some signs will be different with the locals), even 'accents' based on city, race, culture.

What's really amazing about it is that despite this, someone very fluent in Sign can usually communicate with locals very quickly, and pick up the local signs in a short time.
> There's no such thing as lib1 version 3.x. lib1 is a single version.

I don't agree with this part (or we are talking about different things), but thanks for the second part of reply. At least something :)
EFF unearths evidence of possible Superfish-style attacks in the wild
Apple Opens Up 'iWork for iCloud' to Everyone, No Apple Device Required
The two can be melded together: There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who suffer off-by-one errors.
Better Machine Learning
TSA Issues Secret Warning on ‘Catastrophic’ Threat to Aviation
I don't think the amount of carefulness that a keybase user needs to do is unreasonable. (In other words, the person who gets tricked here may be unreasonably lazy)

For instance, the hypothetical "I want to track twitter.com/ev" person, who tries "keybase track ev".

Keybase client responds with:

✔ public key fingerprint: 1206 AE26 8AD6 8171 5390 7EC5 2E5D F3D2 4DC0 DE19
✔ "not_ev" on twitter: https://twitter.com/not_ev/status/448871129671680001
Is this the ev you wanted? [y/N] n

...To which, it's not unreasonable to expect any person to note that this person is "not_ev". It would be really sloppy to pull the trigger on this.

I would recommend personally clicking through all the Twitter/Github links to make sure they're not some carefully made impersonator account, but even doing the bare minimum (reading the output of "keybase track") should get you there.
Yes, nerfing pitching was what I was thinking, and I think lowering the mound would be an excellent idea.

Not that MLB is listening to me. :-)
> The point of good argument isn't to convince the other party they are woefully wrong and everyone should just eventually come to the same conclusion.

Applied to both parties in the argument, yes it is. Argument is digging for truth. The most productive outcome is for some or all of the parties involved shift their beliefs to more accurately reflect reality.

Just to clarify - when you argue, are you attempting to present the actual reasons you believe your point to be true? If not, then you are arguing in bad faith, and contributing heat to the discussion rather than light. If you really are arguing in good faith, then it's just plain crazy to strengthen your position upon being confronted with flaws in your reasoning.

> Some debate for sport/fun

In the context of a serious discussion, I believe the term for this is "trolling".
> Different traffic has different requirements & performance characteristics. From a pure engineering perspective, this is a very poor decision and treating all traffic equally provides artificial and often unnecessary constraints.

Banning paid prioritization does not stop the ISP from prioritizing traffic for engineering reasons.

What it bans is prioritizing traffic because a content provider paid for their traffic to be prioritized. For example, Amazon would not be able to pay to have Amazon video prioritized over Netflix video, and Netflix would not be able to pay to have Netflix video prioritized over Amazon video.
I don't know about Underscore, but lo-dash [0] supports lazy execution of a chained query without generating intermediate arrays (see docs [1]). It offers something pretty similar to LINQ queries on collections (except you don't get the benefit of strong typing).

[0]: https://lodash.com/

[1]: https://lodash.com/docs#_
Can anyone find benchmarks? I can't spend much time looking at it unless they back up their claims.
CassTcl, a Tcl C extension providing a Tcl interface to the Cassandra database
Does anyone know if this could this replace boot2docker on the Mac? I just tried it and it seems to have similar functionality.
Can someone clarify "paid prioritization" and "fast lane"?

If I buy the 50Mbps ISP plan and someone else buys the 10Mbps isn't that a faster lane / paid prioritization?

What about if a company decides to put their server in a datacenter instead of hosting out of their office? Aren't they paying for better access?

What about CDNs? Aren't those "fast lanes"?

It doesn't seem like this is the intent but based on how it is worded, it seems like it would apply.
I mentioned Mark Cuban in context of the parent comment. Whatever our opinion of Mr Cuban, his arguments are essentially the same as the telecom people.

If we had a functional market, the excesses of the ICC would be a cautionary tale of great impact. Unfortunately the behavior of the ISPs has illustrated that we don't have that functional marketplace. I think we should follow the path successfully implemented (in most places) for utilities like water, electricity and the legacy telephone service.
The Linux kernel already supports directly managing Flash without a controller. The JFFS2 filesystem is designed to run directly on top of the Flash device. This is used in most routers and other small Linux devices in order to keep costs down.
No more than encrypting information causes encryption to lose its meaning. Something that should be declassified still can be. It just means that the default state is different.

Would you say that if your innocuous slashdot browsing was encrypted even though it "shouldn't be", someone like you or me would become unable to differentiate between what is important to keep secret and what isn't?
That's not what I said. I'm talking about the default state of information being a more protected one. Not the state it ends up in after some negotiation. To tie it to your analogy, it would be as if you could initially decline any search demand, and then the police would have to go get a warrant.
Yeah, but you don't even need a stun server for that. The browser itself provides the local IP addresses.
cross-platform would be awesome. Would make it so much easier to develop for Microsoft's browser while not using Windows.
Thanks!

I understand. From my experience, the most important items here are:

1. Keep the lines of communication open in your relationship. Sometimes, these feelings and lack-of-understanding that she is expressing may be because you are out of sync with her needs (i.e., she may feel like your work is taking precedence over your relationship and her). I know that finding balance is easier said than done, but, I feel the secret may be in:

2. Strive to carve out time to work in the early-morning or late-evening, whichever works best for your relationship. That way, you can attempt to perform a, "separation of concerns", if you will, in your life. This will serve to reduce the impact of your side project on your relationship. You may find that she is more understanding if you have a set schedule of working that is balanced and low-impact on your quality time together. Plus, with a set-schedule, your focus, stress-levels, and output will be better, because you will be working in a more balanced way.

Hope that helps. I know it's tough for creatives like us to find balance, as we work during the day at the mine, then try to create time for our side projects while juggling exercise, relationships, family, etc.
The psychology of Facebook, digested
Not for naught, AMLogic is an American company founded and HQ'd in Santa Clara CA - though that shouldn't detract from their source releases.
Speaking of ads, what can block that obnoxious "THE BEST OF VB, DELIVERED" that pops up like a visual air horn just as you're starting to grasp the content of the first paragraph?
At least it finds a Halifax. My location is set as Hampshire which it has never heard of, and for some reason it compared me to other Scala people in Guyana, the country. :)

Though meetup.com is not much better. Their geoip correctly identifies my town as Alton, Hampshire, then shows all the meetups near the village Alton in Staffordshire...

Facebook is not much better. My town is not an accepted location but any of the surrounding villages are...

Geoip and location is hard.
Personally, i believe his armchair dismissal of FTL requires far more justification than he gives. This blog post is pure postulation that doesn't even attempt to take up the argument of the dissertation, let alone take that argument far enough to justify that title.

In fact in the thesis' abstract, the proposed solution is still a layer of indirection. Instead of the FTL giving an abstracted address space, the "device" is given the responsibility of controlling wear, gc, and parallelism by dynamically reallocating blocks itself, and the filesystem picking up some more of the management stuff.

I am certainly not qualified enough to read this dissertation critically enough to know if it is fundamentally sound theoretically, but as a scientist I know that it is close to meaningless until it has been experimentally tested and reviewed..
Doesn't the MLS feed follow the RET specification ?
At what point do we start calling them "people"?
Yes, the SATA interface to flash storage is obsolete. Just like internal combustion engines! And it will be almost as hard to get rid of.
Power plant built inside a geodesic dome
The only real way I'd get on board with a network is if they had access to relevant advertisers in my particular industry that I didn't already have.

I've chosen to direct sell advertisements to companies in my site's industry which takes a lot more work than handing the reins over to a network or dropping in a widget, but the results are definitely worth it.