skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely right in my area of expertise :) It largely depends upon how frequently you use the data and what is your preferred access time.

It's possible to build RAID arrays with 2 TB drives (the sweet post right now in price/capacity), or 1 TB 2.5" drives. With a RAID controller that knows how to spin down idle arrays, it can be pretty cheap, let's see :

-using 2 TB 3.5" drives in 24 disks arrays, you need
1 24 disks supermicro-based server (21 usable disks)
+ 3 45 drives supermicro JBODs gives you 240 TB of usable capacity.

Two similar systems will give you 480 TB in 8*4 =32U of rack. The setup will draw about 8KW of power when running and weigh about 300 Kg.

If you'd rather go with 2.5" drives, 1 24 slots supermicro server chassis + 3 88 slots supermicro JBODs will give you 260 TB of usable capacity.

Two systems will give you 520 TB in 28U, draw about 3.5KW and weigh 200 Kg. So I'd definitely go for the 2.5" version. Furthermore, the 2.5" drives stand much better being put to rest quite often.

Please note that this volume is also largely in the realm of tape archive. Current tape libraries are fast, and LTO-5 are 1.5TB uncompressed. It can definitely be cheaper in the long run.

Caveat lector! this is a quick and dirty, back of the napkin calculation. I'm on my way to install a 96 TB machine at some customer's premises, I've just quickly thrown the numbers together before leaving.
>they also adopt the accent of the English speaking country that they've spent the most time in or watched the most TV from

If it's Britain, which accent ...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ldyx_comedy-tour-of-briti...

I think his North Yorkshire and Blackburn are a bit off, others are a bit caricatured but generally he has them pretty well.

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I use EncFS, a FUSE plugin, to store slightly-more-sensitive data and access it from MacOS and Linux. Works for me.
On the contrary, QuickCheck is brilliant at testing stateful systems, as long as you can model the actions that occur and how they modify state (statem in eqc helps here).
are you sure about the sound thingy?

Italian and spanish sounds seem pretty much identical to the japanese (e.g. five vowels should be enough for everyone), while english is a utter mess (schwab, long and short vowels, th*,r etc).
Possibly you are conflating under "asian" languages a bit too much.
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Sounds like the Chrome OS vision to me.

Dropbox is a great place to store media and created content but doesn't easily accommodate your registry hive or myriad support directories that you need to make programs actually run.

If you re-architect to achieve all of those goals and still have sync, you get ChromeOS. Barring that you have a nice replicated USB key (which Drew describes as the original original vision)
When a minimum wage was introduced in the UK unemployment went down, at least for a while.

This is because politicians are (usually) smart enough to introduce minimum wages only during growth periods and to keep the minimum wage well below market rates.

I won't speak about the UK, but in the US, less than 4.5% of the poor earned minimum wage [1].

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2007.htm

When the minimum wage is raised significantly higher than market rates, the results can be devastating.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/node/127791

[1] I'm dividing 1.7M min wage earners / 37.3M poor people to get an upper bound. The real number is less since many min wage earners are teenagers or spouses from non-poor households.
What I usually do is have multiple repos, one per machine I'm working on. This way they are write-once, read-many so you don't ever have dropbox merge conflicts. It's a bit more overhead, but safer. It's even "easier" to get the semantics right in bazaar due to the branch-as-a-folder paradigm rather than a repo-as-a-folder design of git, although I don't really want to devolve to a "my scm is better than your scm" debate.
At this time and age, I think designers should learn how use git. It's a tool like anything else.

Specially if your only concern is updating the images, the process should be pretty straightforward, you don't need to learn anything advanced.
Sorry for the late reply. I sadly do not understand the concerns of this field very well. There are many very large datasets referenced on ckan, mainly links to huge triple stores. There are many biological data sets also eg flybase as mentioned. These triple stores are too big to do any decent dynamic linking against which is big shame.

If you get the opportunity could you repost this to ckan-discuss@lists.okfn.org. There are people on that list that understand these issues far more than me and they would love to hear from anyone interested.
Could this be combined with the "ciccada" CSS background post idea?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2419347
No Particular order but these blogs are worth following

http://www.raywenderlich.com/

http://www.cocoanetics.com/

http://maniacdev.com/

http://furbo.org/

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/

http://idevblogaday.com/

http://cocoawithlove.com/

http://idevrecipes.com/

Im sure I have missed loads of really good ones, so looking forward to discovering some more via this ask!
Ask HN: Any devs here working for Twitter I can contact?
I've got a geolocation based Twitter application in late alpha right now (functional and designed) that has a direct monetization scheme for businesses using Twitter. As far as being semi-specific, the application utilises Twitter's Search API to retrieve tweets from potential customers nearby. That really is just the tip of the iceburg as far as application features go. I have a grandiose plan for this thing; think Groupon meets CoTweets.

I have put in over 2 full months of development time (full-time) with additional sweat equity on nights and weekends. The problem is, I'm having a hard time convincing my employer to allow me to finalize development due to the trade-off of not bringing home the bacon on client projects.

I'm really interested in having a point of contact at Twitter to try and get this thing off the ground running. I have high hopes for this application and believe I've got the makings of a great product offering. My boss is actually open to ideas on what to do with this project, whether it be angel funding or giving someone else rights to the codebase so it never hits the deadpool.

Please help. You can respond here or email me (in my profile).

- Corey
I've used unison in the past and liked it. May not fulfill the "zero knowledge" criteria but IIRC it's fairly simple to set up.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Yep, same reason strongly applies to Italy too. (also Italian dubbers are among the best in the world, Italian versions of popular US shows won prizes for the best dubbed edition, so from time to time I even happen to see original versions thinking I enjoyed more the Italian one).

I tried to put my son in front of a TV with just English things, but it is hard for a 10 years old to accept to understand just one word from time to time in a moment that should be about relax (cartoons time).
Should the design proliferate into other DCs, it would provide a ready disaster recovery base (perhaps even sharing agreements between different operators).

Was anything mentioned about the OS running the servers ? I presume it is an optimized linux, but who knows.
Why did LOL infiltrate the language?
What a horrible idea for a piece of software. That's just mean spirited.
Blackberry is the same, you can scan for other BBM users but implementing the camera as a barcode scanner would help with QR code popularity.
Can you go into more details on this? I spec'ed out a WMS, and had a prototype, but I am very curious to see what you have come up with.
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Perhaps this is a shortsighted and gross overgeneralization, but I would imagine CS conference attendees are more interested in the content of a presentation than the humanities. Presentation style and stylistic elements that can make or break some presentations are more important in a digital media oriented field than more academic or technical fields.
I agree that it has been adopted by manufacturers but I also believe that they also need to educate the users on how they can interact with QR codes. Like another comment stats, until Barcode scanning becomes a standard for all mobiles or other portable devices it will not create a mass following.
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to be honest. i feel like its going to be bigger than either, med-long term
The problem with this idea is that when things are defunded, people leave the field and do other things. And they don't come back. It's not like science is a spigot you can just turn on when you want and then turn off again.

Look at the situation with nuclear energy, over the past two decades noone in their right mind (without tenure) would have gone into nuclear energy research. The result is that now, when people are once again talking about the need for new reactors and whatnot, the field is a pale shadow of what it was 30 years ago.

This is why long-term efforts like research can't be subject to the year-by-year fluctuations. "Disinvesting in the University of California is like eating our seed corn," is what the UC researchers said about the cuts to the UC budget, which applies equally well anywhere else.
Thanks for your answer, but actually I wanted to have an opinion or feedback on using Amazon EC or GoDaddy and similar over self hosting.

Basically is it really not recommended to self host at the beginning to stay focused on the product, or does it worth it in order to save some cash.
Ask HN: What's the average salary for a Web Python Developer in California?
I know it's a question that doesn't have an exact answer. But you will help me if you give an average range. I am being interviewed now for a software company located in California and I want to be more informed about this aspect. Thanks!
I foresee a lot of very uptight men in India's future, combined with a booming brothel industry staffed by women brought in from outside. Then there is the usual war with China angle which is facing the same demographic issues.
The full report describes their methodology as including (but not limited to) results from people who took an online test at ef.com - this is the test: http://www.ef.com/master/tests/
Not sure this is relevant progress but 18 march bing for "HG download" gave no mercurial results (hg was assumed to be a mistyping of HD), by 24 march it was giving all mercurial results. I twittered about both.

That is at least anecdotal evidence that things are progressing in some way or another.
Indeed. Saying "Michael fucking Burrows" made me look him up (as intended, I guess :) )

"Michael Burrows (born circa 1963) is widely known as the creator of the Burrows/Wheeler transform. He also was, with Louis Monier, one of the two main creators of AltaVista" (which I guess was the point!). He ironically now works to Google according to Wikipedia.
I like the new structuring. I find it interesting to note that these SVPs are people who may become VCs and the tech superpowers when they leave google. IF they leave google.
The great thing about org-mode being text based and easy to structure is that you can put anything and everything into it. As I get older and more forgetful I get better at recording all the details of projects so hopefully in a few years I will have my project context-switching time down to zero.
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Oddly enough that he should mention this, but last week or so I was thinking, "my how I have lost some of my mathematical prowess".

There was a room of 4 males and 10 females, now there was 5 other guys who were to be paired with someone in that room. What is the probability that the pairs would be as follows
(MM,MM,MM,MF,MF) where M=Males and F=Females.

This was a real life problem I create for myself to determine the bias by the selector. I struggled to work it out by pen and paper. This was a problem 8 years ago it wouldn't take a minute to do, most of the work would be in punching numbers in the calculator. Eventually, I said when I go home I will program it up. Between the time it took for a friend to restart her computer, I had whipped up a simulation. This is something I wouldn't have been able to do 8 years ago.

So in a sense, I call it a skills exchange. I lose some skills and gain some skills. I'm sure with practice I would be back up to par, the same goes for this guy.
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A Swedish friend of my was an au pair for 2 years with a posh family, so it is quite amusing to hear her speak.
As someone else in this thread mentions, I think version management is becoming indispensable for the modern designer, and also feasible given the prevalence of vector graphics.

Besides that, there are some great, easy to use git clients (Tower, GitBox, SmartGit). I have non-CS colleagues who adopted git in no-time with SmartGit (for LaTeX documents).
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QR Codes are already common place in Japan. Every Japanese mobile comes with a QR code reader, and it is common to see them on print advertisements, coupons, and so on.
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I wonder if the better plan would be to insert another layer between TCP and HTTP (or any app layer protocol) that provides for multiple streams between the same points.

(If that's exactly what SPDY is, never mind.)
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>Most mysterious to me is what is Sergey doing right now?

According to the article he is "focused on major strategic initiatives"

>Page and fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who is focused on major strategic initiatives, have offices next to each other in a recently renovated building on the campus. They are down the hall from executive chairman Eric Schmidt and surrounded by engineers working at key products for Google.
"The Vatican" isn't an authority on this, nor is this article connected to the Vatican in any substantive way. Fr. Antonio might be an authority due to studying hacker culture, but it isn't clear.
This really hits on a key point: there is practically no money to be made B2C on Android. And this is normal. Historically there has rarely been a software business made rich by B2C. It's much easier to sell large-volume to businesses than it is to deal with fickle individual users.

Adobe doesn't sell most Photoshop licenses to individual users, they sell to businesses for whom the cost of pirating is not worth it. Windows licenses sold to individual users are dwarfed by Windows licenses sold to manufacturers, who buy it because that's what their customers expect. Opera gives away its various browsers, then uses the expertise and the satisfied customer base as arguments when licensing preloaded versions to manufacturers. Swype isn't selling its product to individual users in the app store for $4.99, they're selling to manufacturers whose customers appreciate or demand this software out of the box. Facebook isn't selling its apps or website access because it's so much easier to just sell eyeballs to advertisers.

Games are the major exception, but they only account for so much.

In the physical world, it's by and large the intermediaries that sell to individual users. Most companies producing physical stuff — especially non-premium products that are supposed to sell at scale — don't open their own stores and often outsource issues like individual warranty handling to third parties.

I heavily suspect the iPhone B2C model is an anomaly that may soon be corrected.
I'm not a fan of Zed Shaw, but he sometimes brings up interesting points: http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-11-6.html
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Your attitude does come across as hostile, mainly because of this sentence:
"I am increasingly annoyed at foreigners decrying our classification scheme as uniformly bad".

It's irrelevant if someone is foreign. What matters if people are informed.

Australian censorship system is expensive with unclear benefits. So I'd take two counter positions:

1. The money could be better spent elsewhere.
2. Let's see how well the system is working in five years time after feature creep sets in.
Have you considered whether you're following a fantasy? Maybe you should seek advice from someone you trust who doesn't drink the HN/TechCrunch Kool-Aid. Somehow I doubt you were rejected from YC due to lack of effort.
True! But then again i have an external HDD filled of sitcoms. That's how i think of storage space, as 10K seasons of House MD :-)
TIOBE is not particularly accurate, but that doesn't mean that counting Github projects is better.
Yes, fair point. The hardest part of learning Swedish for me was learning how to pronounce å ä ö and associated words. Took about 6 months of frustration, but after that it got quite a bit easier.
His Geordie accent is quite weird as well. Talking high doesn't make you a Geordie.
There is a lot of work on learning distance functions. A quick Google search will turn up tens, if not hundreds, of papers on this topic (search for learning distance metric or learning distance function).
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Also highly recommend their The Complete Friday Q&A; it's a book compiled from their Friday articles that covers advanced topics in Mac OS X and iOS programming.
Ok, now we're talking lulz. Tracking people's children? All's fair, I guess.

But taking down the PlayStation Network, well...that's over the line.

> "Anonymous is not attacking the PSN at this time," said the document. "Sony's official position is that the PSN is undergoing maintenance. We realize that targeting the PSN is not a good idea. We have therefore temporarily suspended our action, until a method is found that will not severely impact Sony customers. Anonymous is on your side, standing up for your rights. We are not aiming to attack customers of Sony. This attack is aimed solely at Sony, and we will try our best to not affect the gamers, as this would defeat the purpose of our actions. If we did inconvenience users, please know that this was not our goal."
Well, that's one of looking at it. However, I think, we must not discount cultural factors that play a part on how a society deals with it. Some societies arrive at a more pacifist solution such as Polyandry. Societies in the state of Kerala (and other as well) had Polyandry as a social arrangement at some point in history, I believe, partly as a result of skewed sex ratios.
A little off topic: What's a good way to convert epub (or other ebook format) into HTML? Not all in one page like pdftohtml does but as tree nodes and a table of contents and all that.
I'd felt exactly the same a couple years back, but the root cause was rather amusing. When I started working on stuff for Directed Edge I dove into a lot of academic research. I found myself struggling with a lot of it. I really believed that my math abilities had slipped significantly since my glory days and continued with this perception for several months...

...until I picked up some stuff that I'd thought was hard in college. I was dumbfounded at how easy it was. What had changed was not my math abilities, but my perception of what constituted hard math.
Any reason you can't use truecrypt/whatever your favourite OS provides on top of Dropbox?
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Finnish is in the Finno-Ugric family, not an Altaic language (at least according to the wiki, there are no mentions of Altaic for the Finnish entry, or vice versa).

In any case, it's completely different than anything most people ever heard (I've been living in Finland for close to 5 years, and it just hasn't clicked for me yet, despite being very fluent in 3 languages and dabbling in 3 others).
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That quote made it seem like the incoming air was at 65% relative humidity, but...

"which in turns lets Facebook rely on evaporative cooling instead of air conditioning."

So it runs at 65% relative humidity after the swamp coolers.

I doubt this would be possible in datacenters in more tropical environments (south Florida). Thoughts?
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My take is that most purchasers of Android phones are probably quite disappointed with the experience. Whether it's because of battery life, lousy app selection, annoying add-ons by the carrier, or clunky app design

In the Eclaire days, with sparse apps and a clunky, half-broken OS, you were absolutely right.

Today, however, you couldn't be further off the mark. A Gingerbread phone is a delightful, delightful beast. The app selection and quality has improved at a blistering pace.

I think this will all bite Google when few people decide to upgrade to a new Android phone. The experience is so mediocre that even a few minutes playing with an iPhone, browsing the app store, or talking to the owner about battery life will cause tremendous buyers remorse.

You mention the Evo yet EVERY SINGLE REVIEW criticized the battery life. How could you possibly not know about that?

Experience so mediocre? Your obsolete bias shows through. I would argue that a good Froyo device, or a normal Gingerbread phone, provides a far better experience to most users.

This page is thinly veiled fanboyism (and, unsurprisingly, was linked by Gruber, which speaks volumes). Worse, it isn't even CORRECT -- they used both an ancient Meebo app, and an ancient Facebook app, to demonstrate their poorly-demonstrated-anyways point. I would seriously consider Marcos Arment as a suspect behind it: His desperation has grown obvious.
Yes, but I think the parent wants to point out that it is popular in humanities as in academics (who are also interested in content).

To me the difference seems to be that CS people are more aware of current technical possibilities, and take a "we've been there before" attitude. To humanities people, it's all new and spectacular. And who doesn't want to impress their peers?

As someone who works on the border between both fields, I can only hope this soon blows over. It tends to be overused and annoying, though I can see it as beneficial in non-academic fields.
Also any of these cloud backups solutions available, that run on Ubuntu?

i know of Ubuntu One, wondering if there're cheaper/better alternatives.
No, I don't abstain entirely. But I downvote much more sparingly than I upvote.
I use Duplicity for remote incremental encrypted backups.

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

It fulfills the "zero-knowledge" and reliable criteria. It's based on rsync. I'm not sure whether you can use it for synchronisation, though, never tried that.