skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens if the connection between the controller and packet forwarder is lost? Would the switch revert back to inserting its own hardware entries without the help from the controller software?

I have no experience with Openflow. I have some experience with PBB-TE and MPLS provisioning systems and this is always my first question. What happens when these controllers are down from the perspective of the switch? Distributing the controller is better but even that might become unreachable.

The concept is great and I hope this gains more traction. But I'm going to remain doubtful until I see more demos with people pulling links and more real world implementations.

Disclaimer: My day job is as a Test Engineer for a switch manufacturer. So I just see flaws in things.
If you hit a pothole, and your tire pops, you bring it to Jim, your mechanic. "I can fix your tire for $150", Jim says, dreaming of the used boat he can afford with your money. He takes your car into the garage, and puts it up on the lift. He looks up at it, then pulls out a calculator, his eyes glinting. Jim can get the new FishHunter model, with double engines and a built-in beer cooler. Built in! "I'm sorry, the pothole broke your axle and damaged your suspension. The total price is $1279."

This is why you quote for one item, not "I'll do whatever needs to be done". The thatcher should have said "It's one price to just re-thatch, but since I have to rebuild the roof, it's more. What do you want me to do?"
Or maybe that brand new thing the kids are all excited about is the same old thing re-hashed...and the old folks know it.

What we really need to do is go watch Spinal Tap one more time:

Limo Driver: But it's...it's a passing thing...it's uh.... I mean I would never tell them this but this is uh...this is a fad.
You are performing a GET for the same key each time?

Don't quote me on this but I took a quick glance at the code and it looks like all gets are [currently] serialized at the vnode level. Since your key will always hash to the same vnodes (increasing machine count doesn't help) it means that request will pile up on the vnodes' mailbox.

I also see an asynchronous get defined in the vnode but don't see anyway to use it.

That said, if this isn't an artificial use case then I'd probably throw a short-lived cache in front of Riak for situations like this. I mean, if this were a more traditional database, you wouldn't run the same query 5000 times if you know the answer isn't likely to change.
Parent alluded ALL corporate news organizations have bias.
It makes it no more or less wrong if he were a Scientologist.
"Free speech" doesn't mean you get to say whatever you want, wherever you want, and whenever you want. Fundamentally it just means that the government can't pass a law to prevent you from expressing your opinion. It in no way implies that every private venue (e.g. Facebook) is required to accomadate your opinions. The corollary to my free speech is that you have a right to not have to listen to me if you so choose.
Is this your project? Have you seen colab[1]?

[1] https://github.com/caseywstark/colab
[2] http://colabscience.com/
Sooo the government can't stop itself? And we are the government. So we cannot stop ourselves from spying on ourselves. It makes sense and it is a positive feedback cycle that will destroy this country. I blame not stopping WWII.
You have never watched al-jazeera, have you?
I don't know. The Open Invention Network is Linux centric so it is not really what I was referring to above which would be more of a cross-industry entity.
CSS3 Modal with no JS or Images FTW
Some people do not watch tv and use the internet to get their news.

Interesting how we use possesive pronouns when talking about news (your, their, my), no?

It is all biased.
the article misses a big point on why Apple products are slow to come to India. the Indian government has imposed a 51% FDI (foreign ownership) cap on single-brand retail stores, hence the most apple could own if they started apple stores in India is 51%.

India sells very little electronics online as of yet so most of Apple sales happen online. so if you are Apple and you arbitrarily have to give up 49% for no reason wouldn't you wait for regulations to change instead of helping prop up some arbitrary partner that you are forced to do business with? moreover, if you have to prioritize markets, wouldn't you prioritize markets where you own all of the business that you created before giving inventory that is in short-supply to a market where you are forced to sell through 3rd parties?

also, this does not even start to address the duties and other fees imposed on apple for selling in India which jacks up prices for their products and reduces their addressable market. again, if you have to prioritize wouldn't you choose markets that were more friendly assuming limited supplies of your product were available. wouldn't you only come in when supplies were high enough or products were saturated enough in other markets that were more favorable to you?

the article also confuses the population for India with Apple's available market in India, because of income levels in India a very small portion of the population has the income and desire to buy Apple products (Remember, India is the market of the TATA Nano, the 1 lakh car or about $2000 to $2500 USD based on the USD-INR exchange rate). Indians tend to very cost sensitive. Yes, India has over a billion people, but I bet Apple's market in India is 0.1% of the population or 1 million people max (and even then I think that 0.11% is high and overly generous). Compare that to Dubai or Singapore or Belgium where the population is much smaller but Apple's addressable market is higher due to incomes and purchasing behaviors.

I am Indian and live in Mumbai and would prefer new Apple products to be available in India sooner rather than later (I have a iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, and MacBook Pro), but I understand why Apple has made certain business decisions in how they prioritize their markets.
I pretty much use it in all of the ways specified above:

Sometimes I use it for development: I may need a development environment that I can not set up on my desktop for some random reason.

Other times, I use it to test software on various OS installs. As an example, I recently had the need to test an installer and software on Vista 32/64, XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008. That would've been a pain in the butt for me without VMs. (Handy tip that I use, I often take snapshots of my VMs after I first set them up. This allows me to roll back to a 'fresh' install any time I want.)

Other times, I'm setting up multiple linux boxes to test how I want the multiple machines to interact or to test multi-server deployment without actually having to pay to bring up more servers.

Sometimes I just need to set something up that matches my production environment so that I can test possible changes and see what's going to work and what's going to break.

I have a full dual monitor linux development environment setup on my windows box as well so that I can do my development from there if I need to.

Essentially: Your options are limitless.
Peldi's talk was awesome at BoS last year. He embodies the combination of humor, humility and smarts that makes for a great entrepreneur. Well worth it.
Did you try GoodData or PowerPivot ?
Googlers: Single With No Kids & Drinking Mountain View
I noticed that as well. After looking at the waterfall chart [1], it looks like Facebook is screwing up the numbers, not anything they can control.

[1]: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110322_BT_74V1/1/details/
Very smooth, interesting use of RTMFP.

Couple of thoughts; you might want to consider a conditional note somewhere that Flash is required for those without.

Selecting and sending multiple files worked perfectly/instantly on my local network, though I could not select a folder.

I noticed that the list of successfully transferred files on the receiving end is partially hidden/obscured by a fixed height div. Also, files in that list are not autoamtically selected; it seems safe to assume the recipient would want to select and download all (rather than having to manually select or check the box.)

Good work, and good luck!
Truly Bizarre Programming Languages
I am confident that India is on Apple's radar screen, and they are certainly interested in broadening their international markets. The fact that they don't discuss their strategy is well known and not surprising in this case. I also don't think anybody should be surprised that the business issues are different and complex compared to the US. This is probably further complicated by the fact that Apple wants to do things on its own terms most of the time.

As an aside for those who get tired of the news about Apple on HN, I find it a very good source of study for anybody interested in business. In particular you see Apple going against the conventional wisdom sometimes and they come up a winner. They have managed to put together a very robust team and are still in a period of explosive revenue growth. What's not to talk about?
Nope, it's: "I want to buy your product, here's my credit card".

And: "thanks for making xyz, I've just recommended it to my friends"
Indeed, I wonder how different the results would have been had they asked, "do you believe in a deity?" or "are you spiritual?"
I fall more in the philosophical camp than the sociological camp with regards to religion, as I use the term to describe a subject of thought rather than a cultural institution, which is how your sociologists seem to be characterizing it.

I'm not sure that your linguistic argument holds in this case, because we're actually discussing the specifics of what "religion" means and so we can't appeal to standard usage. I, for instance, wouldn't call someone's personal beliefs on God a "religion" any more than I would call someone's personal beliefs on mental illness a "psychology" or their views on continental drift a "geography". In my mind, it just doesn't make sense for someone to possess a subject of thought.

If religion requires active participation in a community, then the existence of hermits who feel drawn to separate themselves from society to focus more on God seems to be a strong enough counterpoint that there's more going on. Like you say, there's disagreement about the term, but I'm just pointing out that this study only seems to make sense in a purely social way. People in these nine countries aren't going to stop thinking about God, death or any of the other usual subjects of religious materials, so I think calling for the extinction of religion is a bit premature.
It was the 17 inch model(which to be fair was the last one that even Apple phased out). The store I went to was on RK Salai.
I had gone to the store soon after the 2010 models were released. I thought it was mid-2010. But it seems the release date was April 13 2010. So I probably went within a week of that date.
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Well actually I do. If they don't want me as a customer, so be it, but that's their choice to make. I'll usually import the DVD box from somewhere around the world (mostly the UK, Singapore or Hong Kong) as soon as I can find it.

These DVD's end up being converted in Handbrake, and end up as a digital copy anyway. It's also a bag of hurt... but let's hope Apple brings movies to iTunes here soon.
Every spy organization on the planet is running tor exit nodes.
I recently created a business model for a new product/service and sent it to a colleague of mine. He tore me apart and basically said "Doesn't make sense to me, it won't work because XYZ". BAM! Pivoted the business model before I even started developing.

True unadulterated feedback is gold.
Which version of Al Jazeera? The English language version content differs widely from the Arabic language content.
As a friend used to say: "choose your own mind control".
Yes, this is my project. I haven't seen colab before, thanks for the pointer, it looks very cool. I'll get in touch with Casey.
Public and private religiosity was ramping down in the Roman Empire around 30 AD as well.

Beware taking 20 years worth of data points and drawing century long lines from them.
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I really think they should have should have said something about Notion Ink. While there have been bumps in the road, Indians aren't just waiting for Apple or Samsung to smile on them. Some Indians are making tablets of their own.
First take on Amazon Android app stor: a work in progress
This is a really great idea...

I'd love to see an RSS feed with each days albums with a simple format something like;

<artist> <albumname> <spotifylink>

I'm not sure how good the Spotify API is, but could you not also have a spotify playlist of the top ten albums?

Anyway, well done!
Firefox 4 is here
This question implies that Dropbox is the only successful file sync service, which is incorrect. I use JungleDisk and I'm happy with it.

Much cheaper than DB and I use my own S3 account.
It's not a "rhetorical attack". Al Jazeera is financed by the Emir of Qatar, that's a fact. The Emir of Qatar is essentially the ruler of that nation, which is an absolute monarchy (ie, the king effectively rules the country).

These are all known facts. "Al Jazeera is widely respected in the journalism world" is not a known fact, to me. From what I see, it is respected by some and less respected by others.
Most techcrunch articles make it to the front page. As does most news about YC startups.
But what about black swan events? Say a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on the cost demolishing some old nuclear reactors? Might nuclear radiation be so severe that it would wipe off life from the planet, or at least fry thousands, and eliminate its considerable lead in saftey? It is possible, but not likely.

Which is kind of amusing, if you take out the middle of the paragraph:

But what about black swan events? ... It is possible, but not likely.
Demand is too strong of a word here. America is the land of free thinking and tolerance. People here, for the most part, appreciate and respect the differences in opinions. If Al Jazeera wants to establish presence here, no one would tell them to get out. In reality, this would be the best place for any news organization.
This kind of mapping does not require that you use your work email to sign up for the loyalty card.

I've talked to a company who does the same thing for retail shopping. They're cagey about it, but it sounds like they'll map your work email to any credit card spending you've done under that address -- which in turn maps to your billing address and opens up the entire pandora's box of your shopping behavior. The loyalty card is tied to your cc from spending, but you don't even need that -- name combined ZIP+4 has a pretty viable level of uniqueness.
There's much more concern with asymmetric algorithms like RSA or elliptic curve crypto. I don't know the details on symmetric ciphers like AES, but nobody really seems to be worried about them.

However, it's also not necessarily true that all asymmetric cryptosystems would be broken by quantum computing. For example, the McEliece cryptosystem is gaining attention lately because it's not known to be vulnerable to any quantum attacks. If you're interested in finding out more, google for post-quantum cryptography; there's lots of interesting info out there.
Future of Smartphones and tablets
Some info about it:

* Like Firefox, it is open source! http://github.com/potch/glow

* Counter was started this morning at 6am PST.

* Each dot represents one download.

* Map is generated using SVG, "pings" are divs with rounded corners, country radial charts are canvas.

* The bars across the bottom shows downloads per minute.

* You can drill down to the city level, to see how many downloads from your town. (Click the bottom left circle graph)

* Created by Matthew Claypotch (http://potch.me) and Jeff Balogh (http://jbalogh.me) on the Mozilla Web Dev team.

[edit: added open source information]
There are two quite different possible complaints.

1. "I want good journalism but can't find it."

2. "The general public is being fed a diet of bad journalism."

To someone who's making complaint 1, it's very reasonable to reply "It's out there, you're just looking in the wrong places" (assuming that's true, which seems plausible).

To someone who's making complaint 2 -- which is how I read Tim Bray here -- that doesn't seem like such a helpful response. Telling Tim to look for better news won't do anything to raise the overall level of journalism.

(Of course a good response to complaint 2 may be "This is an insoluble problem; people will watch and read what they want to watch and read, and it turns out they don't want what you consider good journalism".)
Here in the UK, ASOS (http://asos.com) have an amazing returns policy.

My girlfriend (and me to a certain extent) generally returns around 50% of her ASOS purchases after trying them on at home. You can return them in the same bag, have them picked up or drop them to any Collect Plus (http://www.collectplus.co.uk) location.
I haven't used Riak but just in general, if I had that kind of load I would use Varnish in front or use a lighter protocol than http like protobufs.
I didn't get the sense that Al Jazeera was an unbiased news source after reading David Marash's interview in the Columbia Journalism Review [1]. All news sources have bias, but the way that Al Jazeera is being upheld as a beacon of truth and light is a little disingenuous. I admit my own bias against them for acting as the mouthpiece of bin Laden by airing his tapes. I know there are those that feel this is a journalistic responsibility, but, then again, I don't think the New York Times should have published the Unabomber's letter either.

[1]http://www.cjr.org/the_water_cooler/dave_marash_why_i_quit.p...
I agree with you: what do people think happen to the brightest and the best from a few decades ago? They grow old and retire, of course. Perhaps the reason they don't sound like experts to younger folks is because they've become experts in a field we don't care about: how to view life once you have the proper perspective. After a certain point, how many lines of code or how fast your site can scale takes a back seat to how to lower your blood pressure and how to maximize your enjoyment from "simple" pleasure like family and food.
well, criticizing Israel is part of free speech. the page was calling for uprising against Israeli occupation. how different is this from calling to oust corrupt Mubarak? why is it ok not to have a venue to criticize israel while it is ok to insult the prophet of islam?
It's good to see Linux finally address one of its biggest (if not the biggest) weaknesses: the display stack. Interesting that several groups have tried this same thing [1] but it wasn't until Wayland that it got traction. Still, I'm happy to see it happening at all.

[1] e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectFB
I want to learn all sorts of new things, but my problem is mostly an inability to decide on what to learn next. For a while, I was looking at Django, and then decided Rails probably had more traction, but then thought "wait! Perhaps node.js is the next big thing and I should start looking at that!" So I tend to graze and have a very shallow understanding of almost everything.
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Yes an easy and obvious position to take, although not backed up with any evidence I note. You realise that Al Jazeera - not twitter or facebook - was a big driver of the recent political events in the north africa and the mid east, and caused a lot of resentment, anger amongst the current encumbents in these countries? Whilst it's true that the channel is rarely critical of events at home in Qatar, as far as international reporting goes it's been pretty balanced, and doing a lot to promote democracy in the region (Just take a look at their recent coverage of Egypt)

The point about Al Jazeera is that the events they cover are far broader and researched in much more depth than any other station. They have more local staff in more foreign bureaus than any other network, and report on issues and incidents around the world that will pass completely under the radar with the other networks. Obviously a lot of airtime is been given over to the mid-east at the moment but look at the other stuff on their UK schedule today:

- Elections in Haiti again...Could a third round of Presidential elections resolve political stalemate... and what challenges face the new leader?

- Midwives in rural Ethiopia battle to give Ethiopian mothers the chance of a safe birth and a life free from the devastating consequences of Fistula

- Native American Tish Keahna returns to her childhood reservation to see the impact of a language immersion school to restore the Arapaho language.

- Sir David Frost talks to Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key, former UK environment minister Michael Meacher and UNICEF goodwill ambassador Mia Farrow.

- 101 East looks at one of Asia’s most densely populated countries - the Philippines - where family planning remains a controversial issue.

You'll find that all these stories are covered in depth with interviews and opinion from people who are actually qualified to discuss the issues, usually encompassing a variety of views and positions. Stimulating, educational and truly informative.

http://english.aljazeera.net/Services/Schedule/ProgramSchedu...

Edit: Ah - judging from your blog you're from Israel.
One day I will understand the popularity of Vi; until then (and I have used it), I find it so frustrating to use that the first command that always springs to mind is :q!.

I confess I was surprised not to see EditPad register at all; I don't any more have a regular use for it in my work but when I did I found it absolutely superb, and it used to be that I wasn't alone in that opinion. Has it fallen behind that far in the last few years?
They're free, why not try it and find out? ;)

But yes, as far as I remember, they do work on IE6. The root certs dont really change between browser versions I think, its more a matter of the the different vendors.
http://xkcd.com/833/ ;-)
It doesn't happen only in the Ruby community. A lot of people are switching.

The hacker in me wanted something more raw and more powerful and I switched for Vim which is amazing IMHO compared to TextMate. Others are moving to Coda or Espresso. TM2 has to be VERY good to make all of us come back.
The second complaint seems to be complaining about Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap); historically, Sturgeon's law has been nearly as inviolable as conservation of angular momentum.

If anything, I suspect that mainstream journalism has never been orders of magnitude better than it is now. It's just that back in the day, we didn't have bloggers with photo essays showing us what we could be reading instead, so our standards were different.
The FDI cap easy workarounds involving setting up a wholesale business and signing up your customers as members (the CostCo model). Many other brands already do this.

But otherwise, all valid points.
We have fixed the bug because of which you were not able to see your direct Fb connections on Hachi. Do check it out, and let us know in case it's still not working for you!
Nice map. ;-)
Anyway, when Chrome and IE9 both seems to surpass Firefox, do you guys think this browser still have a future?
The relevant feedback in this story was from speakers and attendees. Until you get that feedback, disruptive is indistinguishable from just plain wrong. The incumbent's feedback would have been the same in either case.