skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think his reasoning behind freezing is correct; most of what I've previously read suggests that freezing is only a useful trick for bearing damage. If the hard drive is making a rattling noise while running, and then stopping, it likely has a bad bearing, and freezing it for a while (or running it cold) can coax the gimpy bearing into running a little longer. However, you're probably not going to be able to get the entire drive image off of it, so pick and choose what's really important to you.

In the event of an actual head crash, you're usually screwed. If the head crash left a stripe all the way around the platter, the head likely won't seek past it. (I don't know why; it should be able to, but it doesn't -- I tested this recently on a Toshiba drive.)

Head crashes seem to have a tendency to occur close to the spindle, and if that happens, the data on the drive is completely irretrievable.

Occasionally the armature will develop a mechanical fault and will collide with the edge of the platters when the drive powers up. If this happens, you can usually either "adjust" the armature slightly, or replace it with an armature from a matching donor drive.

There are a few other tricks and things too, but those are the most common for internal failures. Sometimes just replacing the logic board is all that's needed -- you have to be able to diagnose what's wrong with the drive. Simply sticking it in the freezer isn't likely to do a darned thing for you.

And I'm a little skeptical that this guy has ever even cracked a drive open. They don't have a "bunch" of platters, they almost always have 2.
Now, here comes the surprise: That's exactly what we want to emulate with Django nonrel. It's exactly the feature set we badly want to have. This is the reason why the SQLQuery/SQLCompiler stuff fits so well (though, you're right, we're only using a fraction of SQLCompiler's code, so we could actually implement a simplified base class which is used by both, but we can discuss this later on the django-developers group).
Great! Let's continue the discussion on the django-nonrel discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/django-non-relational
Major League Soccer 2010 Tickets
We have tickets to all the big World Cup Qualifying games as well as tickets to every world cup game in South Africa 2011
Javascript is always a nice topic to discuss.
Depending on the technical level, you could take it in different directions:

* "good" paradigms in Javascript (using concepts of functional programming). I always recommend Crockford's Javascript: The Good Parts - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748

* Demonstrate some interesting JS libraries such as mootools or Raphaël - http://raphaeljs.com/

* For less technical folks, you could demonstrate new JS graphical capabilities, such as the porting of Quake and the chrome experiments gallery - http://www.chromeexperiments.com/
It's clear after you start reading the post. It's not clear from the title. Hence dunacnj's point that the title is "wrong."
The basic point of this is good, but the post borders on the linkbait side. If you take the title literally, you won't have a business left! You should always listen to your customers. You shouldn't give in to their requests easily of course. But I'd much rather deal with a company that will listen to me and shrug me off than a company that won't even do the first step.

Nothing's more important to me than having a real human being listening to and at least acknowledging my requests.
PSP Gets Fashion Forward | Gadget and Teknologi
I do think, though, that the relaxation of being immersed in warm water definitely helps.
Branching practices
6 poor ways to design requirements
If you take your first experience: "My first crappy product made $8K a year in profit 0 advertisement" You might draw the conclusion that '0 advertising is no way to build a company'. In which case you'd have never bothered trying the others.

Adwords and SEO are extremely valuable and profitable when done well. Bear in mind that Bingo Card Creation is a relatively small niche. There are people doing finance related things with adwords who make millions.
Hedge (linguistics)
That's a good idea. My concern is losing or boring people.
> It didn't take “several minutes”.

It was one minute; were both wrong I guess.

> But even if that were the case, would it be so unusual?

According to all of the material (the video and released statements) a van was identified as ferrying combatants around. In the 39 minute video this is actually touched on and in the statements it is explained this was known by the pilots

(don't forget we have one gun cam video from one of the apaches during the latter stages of the operation - previously more action with other gunships had occurred. Without all of that material I dont think we can make a fully accurate assessment)

> Even if you allow for that, the people in the video never take any clear action constituting engagement. They were addressing a wounded man, and showed 0 evidence of retrieving weapons.

Absolutely; I'd not dispute that, and I agree. This was not what I was disagreeing with :)

Im not going to comment on the rest of what your saying because though I disagree in part it's not what I was disputing.
I'm surprised nobody has said this, but: RAID-1 is not a backup. You're powerless against data damage, and also in trouble if the machine containing the hard drives is damaged.
Javascript is particularly good because we have a lot of it kicking around, but nobody seems to like to read or write it (copying and pasting javascript is much more popular).
Not too long ago someone was kicking around the idea of replacing the IMAP standard: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1101693

There might be people interested in re-vamping SMTP as well...
> Tread carefully - intellectualizing love is existentially rocky territory.

I am aware of this. Now after reading your comment I need also a self-confidence and optimism to all that. I am just not sure if I can handle all this. I mean I am smart but not genius for sure.
Is it worth it to persist in this field even if I have no talent in mathematics?
You don't need to get drunk. Alcohol gradually reduces inhibitions, so if everyone has had a few drinks, they'll be able to sustain a conversation about, e.g., which project is actually way behind schedule, or what they really think about the sales team's overpromise-and-let-someone-else-deliver attitude.
More like 2 or 3 years. The singularity is at hand.
Finland students make electric car to compete in X-Prize
Smallest Pc in the world | Gadget and Teknologi
Big companies teach too
Cassandra Explained: An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model
Is this why the iPhone didn't have copy/paste and MMS for the first 2 years?
Build it for yourself
No, it's bang on. The customer needs a Labrador retriever for the fall duck hunt, but if you ask them what they want, you'll get a general sense of water, weeds, fur, four legs and a bill -- you know, like, those, whadayacallem birds you hunt have -- and no matter how carefully you try to clarify things, the best they can actually describe is a platypus. I say that as the builder of many platypii over the years. Customers always come up with a platypus until you show them a Lab -- and it's our job to know what a Lab is in their world.
Yes, that happened to a certain extent.

My point with this submission was to show that the unasked for advice that webby people always seem to be giving newspapers: "focus on your core strength, in depth reporting and expertise" isn't actually a new concept at all. Here's a major metropolitan daily basing an ad campaign around "Take an expert with you." I found that a little surprising.
Next Big Thing is the iPad ? NOT !
For the record, here's an alternate plan for non-relational database support in the Django ORM (I'm considering applying for GSOC with it, in place of the template compilation proposal I already put forwards): http://paste.pocoo.org/show/198394/
Argh, yes, that is due to some Microsoft proxy that caches aggressively. Thanks for reminding me to fix that.
techcrunch or KPKB ?
No, you really just want to use inline CSS. Is it really worth all of the trouble just to cache 3 kilobytes of data (probably 20 milliseconds of download time)?
Given the context I assume he's saying that you are offered "great deals" on things, and you can find them easily. It's still the most ridiculous "x meets y" I've ever heard though. Maybe he tells his affiliates that because it sounds rich.
He is not publishing the data as is. he is publishing his work done over the data.

or am i wrong?

Now can't i publish my thesis because it contains information i got from copyrighted books?
The letter lists 106 patents + 67 applied that Hercules is accused of using, but only two of those were listed in the "we won't sue you for this" category? I am inclined to give IBM some benefit of the doubt here.
It's good that you point it out. Surely it's not a backup, but at least it's a better option than working only with a single harddisk. If you feel comfortable with distributing data in the cloud, cloud storage services like Dropbox are a very good option for backing up everything, as ukmd mentioned it in the comment above.
Art is a fairly subjective thing, and I found literature as presented in high school to be a complete waste of time. And no, I'm not missing the point. Looking back, it really did not have any redeeming value for me. That's the way my brain is wired, and I won't be ashamed of it just because "society" thinks literature is great. I don't, and I'll say so if I please without 'missing the point'.

On the other hand, I loved the visual arts courses I took. Thanks in part to a good teacher, I found a lot to appreciate even in works I found "ugly" at first glance.
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." -- Henry Ford
Why is there no misogyny in the comments? Surely this blog must be underexposed. I will add some questionable comments so as to mark it as highly popular.
Yahoo Considers Buying Foursquare For ~$100 Million
Step one: Get people excited about making money with no time or effort.
Step two: Convince them that all they need to get started is a tiny investment.
Step three: Profit!

Works for Nigerian scammers, works for MLM marketing, works for everyone!
An Outside-In View of Subdomains – Questions
This issue is deeply divisive, and I think the real problem often goes unstated. Here's my take on it.

Traditional grammar - the kind you learn in American grammar schools for example - is kind of a mess. It's jumble of very different things: (reasonable and unreasonable) tips about usage, spelling mnemonics, advice about grammar that has more to do with Latin than English, personal pet peeves and (no doubt) some very good grammatical rules.

This kind of grammar - traditional grammar - has nearly nothing to do with grammar as studied in linguistics departments at the university level. In fact, the scholars of linguistics are quite sure that much of traditional grammar is false, unhelpful and confused. (I'm on their side, but that's not really my point here. I'm just trying to sketch out why people keep fighting about 'grammar'.)

The two groups spend most arguments talking completely past each other and (unfortunately for the rest of us) very very loudly.

(A good test question, by the way, is the split infinitive in English. If you think it's a grammatical mistake, you're following traditional grammar. If you think it's entirely correct usage, you're probably someone with some linguistics training or background.)

Anyhow, the Strunk & White book and Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves are the kind of rulebook that makes linguists spitting angry. See Louis Menand's review of Truss, for another example of this: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/06/28/040628crbo_books...
DAF-16: Aging Gene Governs Lifespan In Humans?
Albert Einstein and electric guitar
I noticed you support Google Checkout. Have you thought about adding Amazon FPS? From my experience, about 20% of people choose Amazon versus 10% for Google. It seems like a really small change to capture a few more percent on conversion.
Climbing the corporate elliptical machine
Actually, let me backpedal a bit. I don't think literature is crap. SOME literature is crap. But if all of it was, we wouldn't have a standard of quality to judge by, would we?

Literature can be wonderful, and reading good stuff can help you write better, too. But different styles of writing serve different purposes. I love Billy Collins' poetry, but it doesn't help me write good business-related emails. Neither does journalism help much when writing a love song.
I'd ask what your product is but someone who created an account an hour ago and pulled out some unsubstantiated large figures probably won't give specifics.

Sure certain products can pull in stupidly large revenues, but this is an example of a person with limited time applying a small amount of time to a niche and being nicely profitable.
This was a clear victory for property rights. They own the equipment; they should get to control how their property is used (in accordance with their contracts).

The problem here isn't the lack of regulation, it's the lack of competition (as other's have pointed out). No ISP can afford to be shackling their users in the face of unshackled competition.

I hope we'll have a vibrant 4G broadband market in the next 5 years.
Customers are great at finding bugs, but not so great at developing features.
This isn't exactly new behavior for IBM. It's more like tradition there. IBM has an astonishing patent portfolio, routinely topping the list of annual patent counts, and yet does next to nothing with the vast majority of them... until someone else makes money with something that IBM has a patent on. And then the blue-suited lawyers arrive and shake the infringer down for money. Even Sun's been on the receiving end of that.

Anyone familiar with IBM's history would, I think, not be at all surprised by this.
Faster Ruby Gem installs
The first request is slow because lazy loading means news has to load stuff from disk. That's why the second request is much faster.

I could fix this by only loading stuff the moment I need to display it. Right now I load enough to generate 7 pages of threads, but people rarely click on the More link, so I'm dragging a lot of items into memory unnecessarily.

I'll try fixing this when I have time. Unfortunately I have to write a talk right now, and this is going to require turning some code inside out.
Was dueling rational?
Interesting find, the site linked from the article to the manufacturer, in turn links to this, a high speed link called 'spacewire':

http://spacewire.esa.int/content/Home/HomeIntro.php

Apparently that tiny cube has two of those links on board.

Much more info:

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

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/tiny-space-cu...

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/07/03/introducing-the-spac...

The images are from 2006, so this thingy is not quite new. Has anybody seen them 'in the wild' ?
The singularity has been due Real Soon Now for a looooong time.
So you are arguing that the FCC should have more power? Fuck I'd better hurry up and swear on the internet while it's legal.
in trouble if the machine containing the hard drives is damaged

Not all RAID-1 has that particular limit. I work with both hardware- and software-based RAID-1 implementations that work just fine across multiple hosts, and that can operate across separations of hundreds of kilometers.

And while you're correct about RAID-1 not being a backup; that a volume corruption, errant delete or sufficient degrees of user disgruntlement can still nuke the data. That written, the software RAID-1 solution I use can be used as a component of a backup procedure; you can pull disks out of the RAIDset, clone or archive, and then merge the volumes back into the RAIDset using a delta of the changes.

FWIW.

edit: added a missing "; that"
I doubt he's saying the entirety of literature is a waste of time, just the way his literature class (and by extension most of them) was run.
Teach Design: The Importance of Failure
A glimpse inside a filthy blog spammer's tools
Dean Kamen On Colbert Report: Segway Inventor Has New Device For Injured Troops
"Work from home! Earn peanuts! Hasten the apocolypse by destroying the privacy of everyone around you!"
A look at Apple's iPad Marketing Blitz
He offered to distribute the data as-is to whoever was interested.
But why does a blog post have to be formal in the first place?
5 Ways to Benchmark Your iPad
32 Reasons Why iPad and Apple are Wrong For Us
Price Anchoring, Or Why a $499 iPad Seems Inexpensive
If anyone here supports Net Neutrality, I challenge you to explain why you want the FCC to have more power. Do you approve of its regulation of content? Would you like to see such regulation occur on the internet?

The FCC regulating the internet is a sure path to speech restrictions (censorship, etc.) and taxation of the internet. Why? Because it becomes a one stop shop for cultural conservatives who want the internet regulated.
Well, let's revisit the state of the art in towel folding in 5 years.
This situation looks similar to natural gas transportation. There needs to be separate companies who provide internet access and who own and operate transmition cables. Cable operators would not care about what kind of traffic flows through their wires as long as it's paid for. ISP's would rent bandwidth from cable providers and re-sell it to customers. Since there will be less of an entry barrier to become and ISP there would be more competition and customers in an area would not depend on the whim of one company.
I got excited in the hopes that it was an article on model-view-presenter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-presenter)
The Internet of Things: An Analog Coffee Cup, Digitized
Very helpful. Thanks.
Just wondering, why you decided on going with RoR and if you considered any other frameworks such as Django?
NagiosGrapher on CentOS
Don't the FCC's own regulations say that ISPs aren't common carriers? Don't recent acts of Congress (e.g. the Telecommunications Act) overrule ancient common law precedents?
Moving tera-scale data (Intel Labs @ ISSCC part 1)
I think it's important to point out that firms like Google which have supported net neutrality, have done so to support their own business models.

Microsoft 'cloned' google and created Bing in a very short time. As computing power increases this task gets easier and easier. Plausibly, comcast could create its own "google" and direct all search traffic there. It could sell ads and use the ad revenue to lower monthly subscription fees to its customers.

If the service works well enough (i.e., if google is actually clonable) then most consumers wouldn't care. That's precisely Google's concern. Why should it give up its revenue so that Comcast can start its own revenue stream?

Think about Google's share price and all the billions of dollars of ad revenue. That's what this issue is about. Google has invested hugely in becoming "infrastructure" but the price of cloning that infrastructure is quickly decreasing... so Google is trying to stop it by any means necessary.
The link doesn't work because the HN software strips out the single quote after "wikileaks" in the URL. This works: http://tinyurl.com/ylydrlj.
Time. You will need a lawyer working for you nearly fulltime for months. I imagine that when you work for someone fulltime for months, you expect to get paid well enough that you can eat, pay rent, bills and maybe have some disposable income. Even the cheapest lawyer will have the same expectations.
Languages Use Different Parts Of Brain
Well, imagine what Apple would have lost if they took another two years to work out these features with nothing actually on the market. They smartly decided being a first mover with a completely radical design would outweigh ticking off every box in the feature list.

Besides, both those features are purely a software matter--a perfect place to iterate after the hardware is in people's hands.
N. Korea launches out-of-date OS
Interviewed by Gabriel Weinberg [video]
I smile to myself that all my data is replicated in a Venti store and accessible by date. Bonus smiles when I tell you one of the redundancies is I keep it in 500Mb encrypted blocks on an insecure server.
All good bloggers know how to linkbait every once in a while... it's the most reliable way to sustain traffic.
I got a lot more out of journalism because it was about how to effectively communicate something to other people, which is an extremely valuable skill. "Learning" to "analyze" (i.e. parrot something the teacher told us. And as far as I can tell he never consulted the author of the work to verify the correctness of his assertions) the symbolism in Ionesco's plays is to me, worthless.

> It's difficult to find a competent teacher

Great teachers in any field are rare, but I found the lit ones to be particularly mediocre. I think it's a field where you can do ok even if you talk out your ass and hand-wave, whereas, say, a physics teacher at least ought to know the material he's teaching, even if he's not the best at conveying it. Truth be told though, the physics teacher I had in HS was one of the really good ones. He was a smart guy, and while at first seemed quite 'harsh', in reality he was demanding and expected precision. I learned a lot from him.
An Outside-In View Of Websites
Some observations on first glance:
Love someone taking another stab at the virtual assistant market. Landing page needs some help. 15 tasks for $30 seems insanely cheap, but it is not clear exactly exactly what the limit on the requested task would be.
Outstanding resource - most of the projects that I've built over the years I've found the domain names from JustDropped.com (and in the past deleteddomains.com) - but there are some excellent tools here
>You're extrapolating way beyond anything I said, implied, or thought

In other words, I'm asking for you to be consistent in applying your principles across different situations. If you don't extrapolate, you'll never know whether or not you have double standards. And it's really easy to have double standards when considering the acts of your fellow countrymen vs. those of people who you don't like.
This happens to be an oldie but a goody. On the same topic, I might as well spread the wealth of links I've amassed for learning and understanding Cassandra:

Up and Running With Cassandra
http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/07/06/up-and-runnin...

Building A Small Cassandra Cluster
http://posulliv.com/?p=149

Cassandra PHP CRUD Class (Pandra)
http://github.com/mjpearson/Pandra

Getting Started - CassandraWiki
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted

Cassandra In Action
http://spyced.blogspot.com/2010/03/cassandra-in-action.html
I was also taught that the introduction must consist of a sentence that brings the reader to the topic, followed by the topic itself, and then a short description of points 1, 2 and 3. Again, any deviation will be penalized to the full extent of the law.
I agree with you, but I don't see how it goes against what I was saying.
Let's just keep in mind, the court is not ruling against Net Neutrality itself, only that the FCC in particular does not have the authority/jurisdiction to enforce Net Neutrality. A legislative action, or possibly even an executive order, could mandate net neutrality and/or expand the FCC's powers to make that decision on its own. Time for you web startup types to call up your senator and express concern about your small business being shafted. Put it in terms they can understand: if my web traffic is a second class citizen and my page loads 0.1 second slower, I lose $X,000 a month.