skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a big player of MUDs back in the 90s. I probably spent way too many hours staring at green text (when I should have been studying), but I wouldn't trade those hours for anything. Some of my best computing memories of that era are from playing various MUDs, and even 20+ years later I still keep up with some of the friends I met in the games.

Many of the MUDs I played on are sadly long gone, but a few are still around. I still have characters on a couple of them that I connect to every so often, like maybe once a year or so.

The connected player base is just a fraction of what it once was. Which always struck me as odd, seeing as how there are massively more people using the Internet now than there were in the 90s. Even accounting for cultural changes and technology moving on, it always struck me as there should be enough new people interested in the old ways to keep the population level, but alas that doesn't seem to be the case.

I'll go walking around the old worlds, remembering the epic battles involving dozens of players and hundreds of NPCs. These days, most spaces are almost completely abandoned. If you've ever seen the music video for Sting's song Fields of Gold [0], it captures the mood of walking around the old rooms perfectly. It seems like just yesterday we were all having a grand time RPing, but everyone's gone now.

I stopped playing a lot in the late 90s/early 2000s when I left for college. I would still connect occasionally, but I just didn't have the time to devote to it like I did when I was a teenager. In that time, Warcraft and Second Life sucked most of the people I played with away, and I could just never get into either. They're kind of overload for me, and, frankly, just not very interesting. For some reason, my brain just works best with the simple text that MUDs provided.

Walking around the old worlds is sad, true. Nostalgic. But also some happiness. I'm glad I got to be part of that era, and glad for the friendships I made.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVq0IAzh1A
You will somehow need to give your personal information for a social network to work and to receive these services in return. For e.g., u need to identify yourself and your friends to make sure only your friends can see your photos and vice versa. Question is how much info is too much.
>numeric calculations at the boundaries of what is representable.

That sounds like floating point instructions, and cryptography uses integer instructions.
Would you consider (after killing what you've been working towards for the last n·10 years) founding and running a 501(c)(3) non-profit like http://NGLY1.org/ a career for you?

Because if you answer yes, you are full of it.
If there are open marriages then the spouse that was not using this service would not have a problem.

Yes, the public knowing (if this bothered the open couple) is an injury.
AFAIK google doesn't use hardware-based arrays in their servers.

I think the reference to batteries would more likely be in reference to a DRUPS (Diesel Rotary UPS) which most datacenters run, sometimes with some form of battery in combination with the flywheel. Typically the combination of kinetic energy in the flywheel (and potentially batteries) only hold enough power to last for 30 seconds or so (often as low as 10 seconds), which gives the diesel power generators enough time to come online and take over from there.

What I guess is that might have happened is that grid power was lost, they switched over to UPS fine the first time, grid power came back so they swapped back, repeat a few times and on one of those times the batteries didn't have enough charge to keep things going for the generator swap-over.
You know that Amazon owns Zappos, right?
Can't say for sure but I'd doubt it.

(Disclaimer: I work there but have absolutely no knowledge about how Drive stores data)
A crossover between Google docs with OneNote:

- vector graphics/drawings created by freehand / writing
http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934

- handles more complex drawings: (give it time to load)
http://write-live.com/d/7fce10bb-bc39-43d4-a7f1-6bd0d60b9550
http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e

- unlimited* levels of zoom
http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...

- Drawings are stored in the cloud, and can be accessed by multiple devices simultaneously: co-drawing, draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web
http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab
If there's a remote server involved (your VCS?) it's transmission.

Given the occasionally draconic application, if there is a signal (did you use a keyboard?) then it's transmission.
Relevant amusing bit from the Amazon FAQ: "S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability of objects over a given year. This durability level corresponds to an average annual expected loss of 0.000000001% of objects. For example, if you store 10,000 objects with Amazon S3, you can on average expect to incur a loss of a single object once every 10,000,000 years."

I think my favorite part of that is "on average", as if you will be making repeated ten-million-year trials of this effectively brand new technology.

The point is that once you get into several nines of reliability, really rare events that are impossible to model start to dominate your risk budget.
Can you work at an Amazon, Uber or Google and have a life?
Selling information is a one-time transaction. In case this was happening, the revenue stream for Facebook would dwindle by now as (a) anybody who wanted some private information would already own some and (b) some players who bought it before might try to recoup their costs by re-selling it, so other potential buyers would buy some "gently used" private information from Nike, Coca-Cola or Progressive Insurance.

Yet, two things are happening.

1) Advertisers keep coming back for more.

2) FB revenues (primarily derived from advertising) are up, not down.

How come?
I trade options and was curious about the Vest startup:
https://www.vestfin.com/

I think how they manage their risk is buy buying a covered call and put for their customers on the open market:

e.g.,

To replicate their SPY hedging strategy by Jan 15th 2016 here:
https://www.vestfin.com/build-strategy/?symbol=SPY&preown=fa...

SPY is trading at 209.93;

"Select how much upside gain you are willing to cap at (235)", so sell a covered call at 235 that expires by 1/15/16; current options market: $0.04 credit

"Select how much downside risk you are willing to lose to (178)", so buy a put at 178 that expires by 1/15/16; current options market: $2.02 debit

Cost basis to implement via open market: $1.98/share

Cost basis to implement via Vest: $5.11/share

So their profit margin should be: $3.13/share or ~$300/option contract (account $13 for their commission and margin fees); now add their 0.5% management fee for the dollar value of this 100-lot SPY position (21504*0.005) or $107.52.

So the total profit they make per 1 SPY option contract is: $407.52!

And their active management involves only and only buying and selling these two option positions at the get-go!

If so, this is a pretty good business to get into!

Can someone else enlighten me if I did the math wrong here or I'm missing something here that I didn't account for their active management?
In a sense, facebook does pay us: it let's us use its platform for free.

In exchange we give facebook our data and usage patterns and the right to put targeted ads in our feed.
Dear Cable Networks:  Please don't add more ads
If you've got a way to make it easy, we'd like to hear it.
With flexbox, wonderful!
Life-Extensionism as a Pursuit of Constancy
I disagree, since the ethics and morality of this service itself is gray, then the ethics of exposing those using the service is at least somewhat gray, whether it breaks a law or not.
Docker and Monitoring with Kickstarter VP of Engineering James Turnbull
You're using "that" when you should use "who": "a wife who", "a person who"
A female founder at Y Combinator: my experience
Not only is it pretty easy to build, it's also pretty easy to contribute to!

We have a bunch of easy issues (https://github.com/servo/servo/labels/E-easy) and are willing to mentor people on them.
Physicists Unveil First Quantum Interconnect
Linden Lab Invites First Virtual Experience Creators to Project Sansar Testing
Howto: Online Upgrade of Galera Cluster to MySQL 5.6
Hah yeah cynical is fair.

It's easy for me to forget especially when commenting here (HN) that not everybody knows what they are doing and I often undervalue services which bridge a knowledge gap when I have that knowledge.

Thinking again, yes I can see the "doing one/few things very well" working during what is going to be a major shift in the market, especially with the intended end goal.

> I've already ordered - who can I talk to about getting my company validated?

I'd propose the answer to that FAQ needs some sort of improvement, to appear less standoffish.
> I fail to see how copying my data to more companies reduces my attack surface.

I'm talking about your privacy and mine-ability, not your attack surface. (Though it does help with that too, in a way - a bigger chance someone will get some of your data, perhaps, but a smaller chance they'll get all of it.)
'flew away' is working, for some values of 'working'
Global broadband prices drop 9% but not in North America
The way I look at it is that the licensing agreement, and penalty clauses, is totally between CERN and the software vendor, and not the particular student.

Did the student sign some type of a indemnification agreement with CERN?
I know a young man, camped with him 100 times (Boy Scouts), who does not get bit by mosquitoes. Think about that. If he could bottle whatever it is, he would be a billionaire.
Yeah, that's totally fair, I just got overly excited.

Even just the total would be awesome. I don't mind entering metadata manually, and looking through a picture of the receipt for each line item if I need to do that, but I've love it to automatically capture the total so I can see those at a glance without manually inputting them. Maybe the date, too, but that's less important if I can just take the photo as soon as I get the receipt. (Getting the vendor would be doubly awesome, but I know that would be nearly impossible, so I wouldn't ever expect that.)

I wrote a web app to do this for myself when I was contracting, but I had to manually enter the vendor, total amount, and date for each receipt, which got really tedious. (The process wasn't fast enough that I would do it on the move, so I saved up receipts and did them in batches, which took a lot of time.) I'd love to just be able to take a picture and enter some metadata (probably just vendor and category) and have at least the total be pulled from the receipt, and the date either pulled or defaulted to today's date.

Yes, please let me know if you ever implement OCR! And feel free to contact me directly in general. My email is sasha1rus@gmail.com. In the meantime, I'm going to give this a try as-is. Thank you!
Nowadays they use Reed–Solomon coding to effectively distribute their data without copying it to 3 places.
OSHA.

In Syria.

Right.
In theory it will be. In practice, not yet because the documentation has a lot of gaps and error messages aren't that good yet. Still, I'm liking it. (I'm trying out the Dart version.)
I'm surprised there is no mention of tsu.co, a Facebook clone that attempts to pay contributors revenue-share based on their social connections. The site rapidly grew to around three million users last year until people began to realize that 1) they couldn't make any money (too many people chasing too little revenue) and 2) the system encouraged feed spam. Also, as a clone it didn't feel different enough to take people away from FB, which has a lot of value as a free tool for managing your friend and family connections.
Launch of World's First Crowdfunded Internet of Things Data Network in Amsterdam
Official Themes from Bootstrap's creators
imgabe implied it's difficult for a company to fire someone. I'm responding that it's trivially easy for a company to make your life a living hell, and make you want to quit.
> Want default transitions on everything or to disable rounded corners? Simply update a variable and recompile.

Oh hell no. But the rest is grand.
I am happy that they now have cards. That is something I can drop from my custom styles.
I sense a future Mr. Robot plot idea.
Let's say that the star-bellied Sneetches are rounding up the plain-bellied Sneetches and sending them to -- well, you're not exactly sure where they're sending them, but none of them have ever come back.

Needless to say, the plain-bellied Sneetches don't think much of being rounded up, so they hide. A few star-bellied Sneetches sympathize with the plight of the plain-bellied Sneetches, and help them hide.

Your neighbor is such a Sneetch, but is not careful enough, and you find out that there are a half-dozen plain-bellied Sneetches hiding in her basement.

Fortunately, when the trucks come around at midnight, it's not your fault just because you've told everybody you know. It's the fault of those damn star-bellied Sneetches.

I'm not sure where this leaves Snowden and Manning. I would probably argue that they exposed a greater evil than might have been perpetrated as a result of their disclosures.

Impact Team, though -- snitchy Sneetches, all of them.
Don't feel too bad, people who are genuinely considering this are likely vindictive enough to deserve getting black balled.
> However, it might save energy on mobile multicore devices.

Multicore devices shut down cores to save energy. How would multithreaded rendering save energy?
Introducing Official Bootstrap Themes from the Founders of Bootstrap
I'm very excited for the move to SASS and ES2015.

Also, the few themes they have on themes.getbootstrap.com look very nice!
People seem to miss the fact that the people who have signed up for this "dating" website aren't in a good place. They are missing something in their relationships, to the point where they are willing to look online for some level of fulfillment. I'm not justifying it, but I'm saying that there is a perspective that is being ignored.

And then there is the fact that most people don't seem to know that AM has the same business model as OK Cupid. You don't pay until you want to message someone. So, someone on a lonely night signs up for AM, forgets, and now their name is in a database when all they did was sign up, maybe search, but never took action. Now that person could lose their relationship.

Again, not defending these individuals, but offering an unpopular perspective.
> There's no recourse for this

If they grossly misrepresented the job you can just leave in the first month or two and not mention it on your resume. It's not like it's a tough job market out there.
Ask HN: Good places to see live music in NYC this weekend?
Howdy!

I live in Texas and my gf and I will be visiting NYC (staying in East Village) this weekend and we have been finding it difficult to find some good live music spots.

Do you have any recommendations of your favorite spots? We don't mind going out of our way and any type of live music is fine with us!
A stop loss is one way of having downside protection but you would use a put option for temporary downside protection i.e. the market can move against you in the short term and rebound. If you had a stop loss, you can prematurely close your position; with the put you have some insurance for the short term which allows you hold on to your position for a rebound.
Why Luke's Lobster Owns Their Supply Chain to Control Quality
That's not the problem. We could easily run our parallel screen layout and then just use Skia (or the local system)'s PDF backend. The trouble is that this doesn't implement the printing spec. As Simon mentioned above, the problem is the various CSS rules that control pagination.
Getting work done faster lets you put the CPU to sleep faster.
That's not the limitation — the limitation is the effects of pagination on layout, especially given control of where page breaks occur and restrictions on widows and orphans.
Get Rich With: Your Own Urban Tribe
This isn't true anymore. There's plenty of sites that are just sluggish even after they loaded. Netflix, for instance. Or any modern "content" site. It's really quite intolerable, especially as there's no new functionality in these sites. It's not like my experience on Netflix, for instance, has improved in a decade (player UI aside, which still lags behind any real playback program.)
Also launching official bootstrap themes: http://themes.getbootstrap.com/collections/all

Edit: unfortunately though, the 'dashboard' theme is not fully responsive (tables (order history) in mobile view)
Multipeer Connectivity Basics
np, thanks for listening!
you also need a specific number of points.
I haven't really been a loyalist to Bootstrap, but this is the shiz.
To be clear: It's optional. Off by default.
"just 0.000001% of disk space was permanently affected."

So Google just exhausted their 11 9's for centuries to come.
They seem pretty confident about Sass; It seems outdated and clunky to me, in part because it's always going to be the only Ruby dependency in any of my projects. The Javascript parser never found parity from what I know.

By contrast, PostCSS is faster and has massive adoption. Seems like the way forward. Anybody think this is wrong?

> PostCSS can do the same work as preprocessors like Sass, Less, and Stylus. But PostCSS is modular, 3-30 times faster, and much more powerful.

https://github.com/postcss/postcss
I've been using Strider for a few months now and I'm very pleased so far. Simple, easy to setup, slick UI and good integration with GitHub out of the box. I always keep build server configs very simple, basically only running shell scripts, and Strider fits well with that.
How long am i php free – an Important Power Tool written in Rust
Society kinda does. If all your peers use it to communicate, you would be a hermit if you did not participate.
Mad Max: Paintball War (with Gokarts)
Putting aside her feelings of infidelity, and talk about it from the perspective of the spouse that is being cheated on.

Perhaps the people who is having the affair should be outed, but what about their spouse? Shouldn't the pain of the extra marital affair be more than enough? Now you have to add in public shame as well?
True, especially in the really old archives... but there's a big different between missing content from the archive and being unable to find content you know is in the archive because of an apparently broken UI.
WhatsApp's web client now works for iPhone users too
The other datasets could be storing passwords in plaintext, which could be hashed using Facebook's algorithm and then compared to what Facebook stores.
Good write up. Another excellent resource straight out of the UC Berkeley Database Group that I keep close by is "Architecture of a Database System"[1] by three researchers in the field. It is very readable.

[1] http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf
That might have been true in 1999.

Today Google knows:

- What you search for
- What websites you visit
- Who you communicate with
- The contents of your email
- Your physical location

...and the list goes on.
What percentage of critical vulnerabilities in Firefox were due to memory safety issues? Is it changing dramatically?
Whatever kinds of creative accounting that they're currently using cannot be as accurate as properly pricing the value and costs in a standard double-entry manner.

While having the overall inputs and outputs accounted for is enough to give earnings reports for public investors, it certainly doesn't give their management very much to work with! How would they have enough information to make strategic decisions on, as a simple example, "should we cater to lower-end content creators or higher-end content creators?".

Compare that to the information say, a spark plug manufacturer, has on their business. They can make reasonable assumptions about deciding to build higher quality spark plugs with more expensive materials and selling to less customers with higher margins or they can decide to make lower quality spark plugs with lower margins sold to more customers (and many other scenarios). They can do this because they know exactly the cost and value of the various inputs and outputs in their business. The miracle of accounting!
http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/examples/justified-nav/

broken for anyone else?

also: http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/examples/sticky-footer-navb...
This is S3 which isn't comparable to Google's persistent disks. S3 is equivalent to Google Cloud Storage which has "99.999999999%" durability as per https://cloud.google.com/storage/

To accurately compare them you'd need to look at AWS EBS: "Amazon EBS volumes are designed for an annual failure rate (AFR) of between 0.1% - 0.2%, where failure refers to a complete or partial loss of the volume, depending on the size and performance of the volume."
Agreed, in order for full adoption to take place, a significant portion of the market needs to believe that using bitcoin over current methods will provide significant benefits and avoid unbearable pain points.

With bitcoin hovering around $230/coin for more that 6 months, it looks like the general public has lost faith in its "powers."

Perhaps the best course of action for Coinbase and other vendors offering bitcoin services is to target the markets that need a decentralized, secure currency the most. As mentioned in the article, it looks as though those engaged in international remittance as well as underground trade/services need bitcoin the most. Perhaps this is the right place to start...
progress bars has changed
http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/components/progress/
If I'm going to have to choose between Ruby and Node as a dependency for my project, I'll go with Ruby, and be unhappy regardless. Installing a whole programming language/framework and package manager just for a transpiler isn't my idea of fun.
Ruby? Yeah sure, if you're a sucker. https://github.com/sass/libsass
Add 'happy hunting' in a comment string for additional fun.
Something that I was impressed by when I interviewed at my current job was not just that the company said that they value work-life balance, but that they demonstrated it: they pay time-and-a-half for overtime specifically in order to dissuade management from ever having us work overtime. And in the year I've been here we've had one period where we could optionally work overtime, but we've had no mandatory overtime.

I didn't appreciate how great of a boon this was until I learned more about what it's like to work at other companies. Overtime isn't just about making more money, it's also about having realistic expectations of workers and not burning them out.
Yeah that threw me too when I thought the same thing I never thought about how difficult it would be to get rid of heat in space I figured just let it go out into space not thinking there isn't anything to send the heat into; no medium.

NASA has a nice info page about it:

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/as...
One comment you could make - is she pro-life/choice? (You don't have to answer to us). Would she feel the same if she was pro-choice and Planned Parenthood's databases were compromised by religious hackers? (I know that termination is only a small percentage of what they do).
I'm a Boostrap lightweight, but I always respect an organization willing to drop support for old technology (IE8) and rewrite libraries with an improved technology (ES6).
This was closer to a colocated server than a cloud service. GCE gives you a VM that you install your favorite OS on. Google keeps the VM running, but the rest (such as whether the server backs itself up) is up to you.
They mentioned they're using libsass, a C/C++ port of the compiler. Although it's only an issue if you're using the source and not the compiled CSS. The same issue exists with v3 needing a LESS compiler.