skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it is mysterious.

Was that drive known good then?

Also what is the track sense mechanism?

Optical shaft encoder? Could have been just a bunch of dust.

Also a lot of drives used a Hall sensor or even an opto-coupler with a slot to detect track zero. First thing was to calibrate the head with a track zero seek.

Another thing. Those flat ribbon cables are prone to a lot of RFI over long distances, especially when you have them hanging around on the bench. Notice some of the other ribbon cables are twisted pair. A lot better!

I've wire wrapped my own disk controllers back in the early 80's. This series is serious nostalgia! <3

Curious to know what the final problem will end up being diagnosed as.

The smell of old hardware like that is literally burned in my brain!
That seems really off, considering that the top 1% (down with the 1%, etc.) make at least $428k nationwide.[1] Where are you getting the information?

[1]: http://www.kiplinger.com/article/taxes/T054-C000-S001-what-s...
"Routine> 18.6 million"

Holy crap.
Ehhh, I dunno:

> The schtick behind the Rich Dad books was that Kiyosaki was sharing secret money-making strategies of the wealthy with his wage slave readers. The tips ran the gamut from ridiculous to illegal and downright hurtful and included advocating for insider trading, arguing for the purchase of multiple real estate properties with little or no money down and telling followers they could purchase stocks on margin via unfunded brokerage accounts.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/helaineolen/2012/10/10/rich-dad-...
Thanks, that was literally my first thought on reading the title and seeing the URL.

I imagine this is a trial balloon of some sort; I wonder if http://mail.google is going to be next?
They are also including a string library: G String. It's a very thin layer.
People in general are comforted by talking about arbitrary thresholds rather than derivatives, probability distributions, etc. It's unfortunate, but thresholding appears to be an effective way to communicate.
Could you have recommended hardware configurations for Linux? I guess it would limit your market though.

I would love to leave Windows completely, but I need Ableton Live to work. Microsoft have completely lost what little goodwill I had towards them with Windows 10 and it's spying.
Trees do spread naturally. We're revegetating 10 acres of land with native plants and its amazing to see the spread every year.

But that's not relevant in a situation where you're planting them for an end result like sequestering carbon (e.g. a renewable pine plantation).

Then you obtain the land, plant the heck out of it with seedlings, then thin them out http://www.gfc.state.ga.us/resources/publications/PineThinni... at regular intervals. Way more bang for the buck than planting a few and hoping for natural propagation.
Author of stack here.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the project.

see: https://github.com/Stackvana/stack
Do you have user behavior tracking (mouse position, scroll events) on the site?
Not in Singapore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_gum_ban_in_Singapore There's a $700 fine for spitting gum on the streets there.

I wish we'd do something similar in the US, but with schoolrooms, particularly in college courses where the salivary chorus of smacking and popping gum can be quite irritating.
Oh man I've used a Nova. Never come close to using an Alto.

You guys are rocking it. Really enjoying dropping by and seeing how you are doing.

Really cool!
I think a lot of programmers stucked into programming language/framework trap – keep learn new lanaguages and new frameworks to make yourself believe you have more exp, but this just make your skill more like learn drive different brand cars. Even myself in this trap for really long time.

The true power to make you senior is how you train your brain to think and abstract. This will boost your capability of design rather than just coding
I agree with you but you picked bad examples.

I can hire an accountant, I can hire a lawyer. I can't hire someone to interact with other people for me in a way that gives off the "I'm one of you" vibe.
Why would the packaging tape make recipient lie (or err) more about not recieving a package? And if there's no conceivable reason then why have you brought it up?

I know your point is that USPS has high variance but I think statistical tests should account for this.
I don't think anyone is truly independently successful. We might be able to make rough comparisons that one person is more independently successful than another, but we all share in the success and failure of other people.

I think it's more constructive to talk about whether or not people took full advantage of the opportunities that they had and whether they had more and better opportunities than others.
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But IME is distinct from "Intel TXT & UEFI Secure Boot" ("this"'s referent).

> Intel didn't force [Intel TXT & UEFI Secure Boot] upon the consumers

is true. Both of those things can be disabled on most hardware. In fact, I disabled them on the laptop the I just bought, because I wanted to install OSes that aren't SecureBoot signed.
Musk, Thiel etc. are the last people you should be listening to on the subject - moreover - their statements have nothing to do with 'standard of living'.

Musk and Thiel are just old enough to remember and era when technology was making seemingly huge advances: 'men on the moon', 'breaking the sound barrier' etc.. They want to see 'that level' of innovation. I think it's narrow minded and arrogant: Airplanes don't 'seem' like they have changed a lot, but there has been an enormous degree of incremental innovation - just not in the direction they want, i.e. 'faster, higher' etc.. The 'innovation' has been in safety, reliability, fuel efficiency, price, sophistication etc. - all of which has benefited 'the people' far more than someone making a new Concorde that can do Mach 5 but costs $20K/hour per seat.

Over the 'long haul' - the standard of living has improved as much since the 1970's as it has been on average for the last 200 years - roughly. The 1940s-1970s was a little bit of a bubble due to the war and the resulting economic effects.

This idea of 'wage stagnation' is an unfair economic characterization of what is going on, and it's used by the populist left to fight their ideological battle.

Though it's true that a disproportionate amount of returns is going to the 1% - it's not really at the cost of the 99%. The 99% are living a very high standard of living - so long as they have jobs. Employment issues I think are more important than the false canary of 'stagnant wages'
Lol, disable USB to save power!

The battery life is amazing when you can't do anything!
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What nonsense.

Yes, compared to 1910 there are more people in administrative positions, and this has nothing to do with capitalism. It's government. It's because there are more rules, more laws, more restrictions. Rules, laws, and restrictions, by the way, that are very popular with voters.

You can do away with all these "bullshit jobs" if you're prepared to do without environmental restrictions, a nontrivial tax code, employment regulations, etc. Do we really want to live in the non-rose-tinted world of 1910, where you can legally pipe your toxic wasted into the nearest river, where you can fire your secretary if she won't sleep with you, where you can chop down the tree with the last spotted owl?

There's a cost to economic organization. One that you can't just wave away. The idea a job is a "bullshit job" if the person holding that job isn't swinging a hammer is just childish.
Okay, that's a fair point that I hadn't considered.
This shows really well that if you care about privacy, you should always take the precaution of cleaning up any photo you upload to the internet of Exif tags and metadata.
Ingress, at peak, probably had only a small fraction the users Pokemon Go had in the first month of launch. So their experience of working at that scale was basically nonexistent. It's a whole other ball parks when you increase your player base by 2-3 orders of magnitude.

That being said, they really should've done better at predicting hype, especially since they had beta sign up and all.
In Montreal there has recently been a giant upheaval of the taxi system as a result of Uber. The taxi industry here was incredibly broken and dysfunctional. They were n unchallenged monopoly, with not enough taxis to go around as the the population began growing again.

Uber came in and was very clearly illegal here, but they offered significantly better service and had more drivers available. A couple years on after fighting the government for a long time, Uber finally came to an agreement with the government and new regulation was passed. Rides sharing vehicles will now require nearly all the same regulations as a taxi, but the larger affect is more competition to traditional all taxis.
Have you actually tried to use this for something real? Sphinx source doesn't
seem suited for man pages at all, and formatting seems the least important bit
that doesn't fit.
DARPA does a great job when they design competitions especially. Look at what they did for self-driving cars (they held all their competitions before Google or any company was putting any effort into it). A couple years later and suddenly it's a burgeoning field and now companies are being acquired. Their competition for humanoid robots likewise resulted in teams building real hardware on a deadline with impressive results.
So the other theory is that any worded tape (or knowing that package might contain shoes) makes Americans (but not Europeans) behave worse. Sure, that sounds like something absolutely essential to be checked.
Yes, they have always marketed themselves as the computer for "creatives", while PC-compatibles are for "geeks".
Good idea. Now tell me how you plan to offset the carbon emissions from land use change... You weren't planning on building dense housing with wood, were you?
Reminds me of Cringely's metaphor of "Commandos, Infantry, and Police" [0]. Not quite the same, though: The military analogy assumes that there are a fundamental tradeoffs between strengths and weaknesses (esp. getting-it-done vs. doing-it-right.) In contrast, it looks like "Finders" aren't described as having any particular weaknesses relative to Implementors.

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/commandos-infantry-and-police/
I was suggesting that those comments be read, not necessarily replied to.
Maybe, but I would argue it's probably a bit easier to get a $1m loan if you already have $1m in assets to use as leverage.
Once you hit the accept button it should forward you to a random episode on Netflix.
Note that this also works with position: absolute, if you want to support old browsers.
Not exactly any of the above although it can be approximated by (b). See http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/06/a-satu...

for some details
I will second this.

Moving to Fastmail from Gmail was a massive improvement for me. Being able to quickly hook up custom domains to the same inbox is a big boon. Plus it costs less.
paulmd said it on HN 21 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12456063
According to Wikipedia, some US states regulated some engineering titles. It's not really specific but here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...
Holy hell, how did they manage to add more layers of complexity to their pricing? Thought if anything the automatic discounts of Google Cloud would influence AWS to simplify their model
There's probably some surivor bias going on there - we don't really notice the threats that are easy to solve, because we solve them.
Add the following to your .vimrc:

if !&insertmode
inoremap jk <esc>
snoremap jk <esc>
endif

(the insertmode bit can probably be dropped, but it's technically correct)

With this mapping, typing "jk" in insert mode acts as if you'd hit escape instead (so it doesn't type the j or the k). To type jk in insert mode without exiting, you either wait a second after hitting the j (once it shows up on screen you're good) before hitting the k, or if you're impatient you hit another key and then hit delete before the k, e.g. "jj<delete>k". The reason this mapping is popular is because "jk" is extremely rare to type in insert mode; you usually only type it if you're typing out the alphabet, or if you're talking about how you map jk to escape.

The only annoyance here is if you type j by itself, you don't actually see the letter show up immediately. This is because Vim is waiting to see if you're going to type a k. If you type nothing, after a second Vim will timeout and decide you're not invoking the jk mapping after all (and will then show the j). Or if you hit anything besides k then you're obviously not triggering the mapping. You can observe this behavior with any other multi-character mapping you might have as well (e.g. anything with <leader> or <localleader>).
No need for an XMLHttpRequest when you've got a websocket open to retrieve such scripts. In fact, loading your scripts via a websocket can be faster than loading them via parallel vanilla HTTP requests because the websocket won't have the overhead associated with GETs (no new TCP connections or headers to slow you down).

Furthermore, if you cache said scripts in, say, IndexedDB you can just perform out-of-date checks via the websocket and only re-sync those scripts that have changed on the server resulting in even faster load times.

This works and it's great. How do I know? I implemented such a solution in Gate One a few years ago:

https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne

It also has the added benefit of making embedding a web application into another so much easier. Because you can just load a tiny little script on a page that makes just one connection to an external websocket and can load everything from that in an instant.
Clearly you have not lived in other countries :P
The Samsung recall didn't seem so bad to me. People were offered a replacement, not long after the problem was recognized. Yes it's bad that there was a problem, but they did what they could, and quickly.

Apple is terrible with problems with their hardware. Look at the Iphone 6 Plus touch fiasco, and there's millions of other examples.

I'm trying to think of the name of that Apple hardware fixit guy with the youtube channel who did the awesome "fuck Apple" rant. Ask him how far ahead of the competitors Apple is.
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If anyone from Google is reading this, love the idea. I subscribed via the ancient RSS, but would love full articles in the RSS feed (not sure why it's just snippets).
You've really looked after those computers — nice job :)
Yeah most of my friends in Australia barely afford the basic things that we take for granted in USA and that surprised me because their job seems to be almost identical to my.
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it's completely understandable, especially for those missing cases, angel Gabriel took them by the lord's command.

eat those stinky shoes, you atheist scums, none can escape the lord's wrath.
Tricky, depending on the volume you run into problems if you forward the mails.

What works pretty nice and what I'm doing is let gmail fetch the mails via POP3 and configure it to send outgoing mail via the SMTP Server from the domain.

No hassle about SPF/DKIM/DMARC and you can keep a copy from the mails on your server with the MTA and don't depend on Gmail. The from: is also from your domain and Gmail is clever enough to reply with the correct from: to mails that reached you that way.

I'm using this with all my mail accounts and it's working fine.
Which reinforces @mikeash's point.

1 cell phone minute today is 1 cell phone minute tomorrow - it's a real thing with real utility. Not so with BTC.
This is really cool. This makes it possible to use Visual Studio Code in the browser, and that means you can use Code on a Chromebook. Perfect for editing Markdown.
Yea I was really excited. Hoping to see something with webrtc and webtorrent for sending all of the stylesheets and what not.

This is not "serverless" anymore than the JVM is serverless just because it's running on a VM/HAL.
This report is a little lacking, here is a PDF of the study http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/document/pdf/201640/C... from the nz herald. And their take on it http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
Gladwell's entire podcast that is mentioned in the article is excellent and well worth your time if you have not heard it already. IIRC it was 10 episodes.
>A hostile foreign power hacking a government related server containing potential sensitive data and then spewing that data such as to disrupt a US election is vastly more significant than putting that data on the server in the first place.

Not when that hostile foreign power hacks the Democrats in an election year. Then they're just doing the world a favor. Allegedly.
If you're using eval() you can cache scripts wherever you want! I personally prefer IndexedDB but there's nothing stopping you from using localStorage or a even a service worker (with a little bit of cache trickery).

Also, if you use a websocket you can pretty much forget about the content security restrictions. Websockets have no origin restrictions so you can load whatever you want from anywhere.
Ask HN: Why is Angular 2 size acceptable?
The recent release of Angular 2 + Router weighs in at a whopping 697k minified. How does this represent progress considering Angular 1 + Router minified is only 166k? Is this really acceptable for CPU-constrained mobile devices?
SQLite is more tested (as in code tests) than most other databases. Its downside is that you can essentially only use it from one app at a time, and not over a network.
Alright. I'll apply. I'm barely through the business model stage, but I'll do it. I'll lose some sleep, but if YC is serious about hardware then ok.
Ask HN: Why is data recovery so expensive?
Hi,

My laptop recently suffered a hard drive failure. The boot-time diagnostics said "Short self test unsuccessful". It started as a file transfer slowing to 0 mb/s, then explorer.exe wouldn't display anything when I attempted to open "My Computer", then it wouldn't restart then it wouldn't boot.

The local "Geek Squad" said recovery would likely be between $1k-$10k, depending on the severity of the failure. Other 'data recovery' services online quote similar amounts- always in the thousands of dollars.

I understand it could require swapping the platters into a working drive, but I don't imagine that being such a costly procedure. Quite possibly I'm wrong on this assumption.

I can't help but wonder if these businesses are capitalizing on the hostage-like nature of data recovery & are price-gouging based on that.

Does anyone here have experience with this sort of thing & could enlighten me on it?

Thanks,

-c
I love the idea of "pumping entropy out of a system" and getting people do that vs. leaving more in than there was before.
What happens if you eat 6 eggs in a day?
But scaling laws should predict that you should need many, many more transistors than qubits to beat a gate quantum computer. For an adiabatic quantum computer something similar should hold.
The US justice system is one of the best arguments against the US being a first world country. In New Zealand your police force would probably be classified as a mildly racist armed gang or militia, instead of law enforcement.

And the idea that rape in jail is normal and even something to joke about? People over there need to take a long hard look at themselves.

Although of course you could say the same about the preposterous notion of a modern, developed country not having a proper universal healthcare system as well.
Read this book if you want the sources, they are cited there and are too many to list here.
If someone influential had a plan to buy out some beloved public property and make a golf course there I'd bet there would be a lot of meetings of anti-golfers discussing of not so much how they hate golf but how much it's pointless and adversly affects their community.
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The book describes the studies they used. (Correction, it's 80%. I had misremembered it.) You can get the book for $2.50 from Amazon, not a bad investment if you are interested in the topic.
There was no marketing? It was being talked about everywhere. If they didn't spend any money on marketing then good for them!

But in all seriousness this is Pokemon; they sold over 3 million copies of a remake of a game on a niche portable console in just 3 days; elevating its brand to an open platform for FREE that can be downloaded and installed on theoretically, what, a billion or more devices? Seems incredibly doable for Pokemon. Few other brands could do the same. Even Mario wouldn't be able to come close to competing with Pokemon's brand power.

I would be very interested in the real numbers :)
You can always use something else.

That said, CPU-constrained doesn't matter at all when it comes to size, an 1MB codebase could use less CPU than a 200K one.

Memory-constrained on the other hand, yes.
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If you possess this technology, you can sell yourself to either Amazon, Google or Microsoft for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars.

2.5 million dollars for such capability is by far the most abusive prize ever.

If you have seen "Pirates of Silicon Valley", you would be the equivalent of the guy that sold DOS to Microsoft for $50,000.
Thanks for elucidating - makes sense.
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One small problem with all this inhabiting other planets nonesense - oxygen.
They're taking the Alphabet thing a little too literally.
> three trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide

Billion not trillion (10^9). All the rest of your numbers are off by a similar factor.

> That is a huge hole to dig

Actually, using the correct numbers (.4 cubic km), if you made a 50 foot deep hole it would be about 3 miles by 3 miles. Not that big - a couple of city blocks.

A typical landfill is larger than that, and we have tons of those.
Of course this makes you wonder if this is at all necessary and the right design decision.
Invert the classroom to deliver much more value to more people. College should be for socializing, small groups, labs and certification.
When Ads became a thing. Most of that 3mb is 3rd party ad scripts and analytics trackers.

Basically - when it became obvious that people wouldn't pay for content and companies had to monitize the users.

It's lame, but.. well... suggestions?
How gaudy. I hope that the next generation of naming technologies will choose to interoperate with DNS by filing all this recent TLD pollution to an appropriate home under .icann.
> it clearly was offensive to you since you called it "low brow".

Everyone these days is so quick to accuse others of being offended, it's very tiresome.

Just because someone points out that a phrase like "shitpost" isn't really language cromulent with the general discourse on HN doesn't mean they're offended, it's pointing out a quality standards issue.

And anyway, at half a century old I don't waste time and energy getting "offended", pass the gin.
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DSK conspiracy theories are a fun example of French intelligence services in hotels. Certainly, the phrase has a titillating James Bond aspect to it.

If you haven't heard the phrase before it sounds weird, I do understand it's not intended maliciously.

I don't think I'd use the term without quotes in my own writing.
I don't find it creepy because no person in FB doesn't actually know it is me, to them I'm a number in an algorithm. The only way it could become creepy is if they publicly associate my name with the actions and start displaying this information publicly, but I trust them not to complete suicide by taking that action, just like I trust that my ISP won't post all my info somewhere with a history of all the sites that I visit.