skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, Man, that'll teach me to look more carefully ;)

Oops.

Thanks for the awesome service. I've used SO for backups on and off, and I appreciate the tech work you do. I particularly like that you do client-side encryption. I just wish your UI was a bit better ;)

I must have been mixing up your service with diomede; IIRC, their techcrunch article was about letting you choose the levels of redundancy you want to keep.

I'll grant you that the bandwidth is certainly a price-factor, but your page talks a LOT about how you're higher latency than S3, and not everyone needs that speed for that price, etc, etc, and then your price comes out to be about 80% of theirs. Honestly, after reading your product positioning, I was envisioning it coming out to like 10%.

You're absolutely right that building a huge in-house storage network is a huge ordeal.. If you're worried about making it fast and scalable. What I want to do is to treat it as the equivalent of a huge tape drive- Just throw stuff onto it, and hope for the best.

I've been toying around with the idea of dealing with it entirely in application logic. Rather than RAIDing the disks, mount each one separately, and keep a hashtable of my files in memory with their full path, including redundant copies. Then, if a file fails, I have application logic try the backup copy.

Anyway, you know a LOT more about this than I do, so I'll shut up before I embarrass myself further.

My point is just that there's a lot of people in the market who have huge datasets currently, for various reasons. Lots of science departments, analytics groups, etc. I'd love to be able to keep an nearline copy of work.

I don't mind if it takes a good 15-20 minutes to be able to access the first byte, I just want to know that I can if I need to, faster than waiting for Iron Mountain to ship me something.

Side note- I considered trying to justify it under BackBlaze's "$5, unlimited space" offer, but I didn't think they'd go for it. ;)
Oh, I agree. They're in a lose/lose situation, and I think they know that whatever they offer would not be enough.
A common way is just script vulnerabilities, allowing execution of arbitrary code. I work at a popular webhosting company, and I've seen cases where apps will execute PHP code inserted as a sooofed User-Agent, POST data, and other weird places. The idea is that you send a payload that executes on the remote host, GETs your shell from some free webhost or another compromised account, and then saves it on the target machine. At that point, you're set.

mod_security can help for people running Apache, and so will using maintained and up to date scripts.
Since HN doesn't have a private messaging system...

VoxelBoy, I noticed your username. I'm a graphics programmer --- I'd love to read about the type of stuff you've done, or simply chat. Have you looked into Sparse Voxel Octrees? Toss me an email (it's in my profile).
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You can also use CONNECT-WITH-SUPPORT for another 1GB.
The benchmark game now only shows one implementation per language. The reasons aren't very satisfying IMO, but see this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pypy/7303/focus=73...
I'm unable to reply to your comment below so I'm replying here.

Edison is a for profit company that run schools in Philadelphia. It used to, I don't know if they do now. Edison has run schools in other districts. Results are mixed as far as I know.

No Child Left Behind has provisions about tutoring and many for profit tutoring companies are making money off of the mandate. Incidentally, one of George Bush's brothers is involved in with a tutoring company. There is a drive to privatize education by going to a for profit model.

For profits (and non profits) don't provide busing. They don't provide school lunches for low income students. The U.S. has dreadful public transportation in most localities and the lack of adequate transportation is a major problem for poor people who get vouchers. For profits don't normally build schools poor neighborhoods. Actually, for profits don't build schools. They get the taxpayers to pay them.

For profits provide workers with sub standard pay and benefits. That's how they become more efficient. For profits provide the corporate leaders with huge salaries though. The realized savings don't occur when one factors in long term damage that will be done.
I have a BS degree and was not exposed to any of that at university. Not to say it wasn't available, I just chose other courses.
Why not a IAMA here?
I like how nobody seems to be able to discuss their systems' compromise for a full paragraph anymore without using terms like, "illegal attack", "criminal act", "illegal cyberattack", etc.

I've been noticing a lot more language like that in recent years, whether the subject is Sony or Wikileaks or a government. I wonder if there's been a recent shift in the language used for this stuff, or if I've just become more sensitive to it recently?

edit: Hmm. Some preliminary digging through Google implies an increase in this kind of language recently. The number of search results for "illegal cyberattack" (unquoted search string) in news.google.com is 150 for 2011, 242 for 2010, 185 for 2008-2009 combined, 72 for 2007, and 55 for 2002-2004, and a number of the older results appear at first glance to be unrelated to actual hacks.

That's odd.

edit 2: Massaging the search terms a bit seems to yield proportional results. For example, compare the language in this article from 2007 (http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3966047) against the language of similar articles today.

I know it's off-topic, but now I'm quite curious why around 2009 or 2010 everyone suddenly decided that they needed to emphasize the illegality or criminality of compromising systems?
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You first concern will be to define just what makes for a functional programming language. Is having first-class functions enough? What about referential transparency or immutable state? Does it have to adhere to the Lambda Calculus?

You might get some ideas here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

However, "What's FP?" is ripe for flame wars so you may do better to ask abut languages that offer specific characteristics rather than whether or not people call it a functional programming language.

That said, I'd suggest Haskell. I mean, what the hell, might as well go hardcore. Start with Learn You a Haskell For Great Good, and/or Real World Haskell.

Both available free online, both available as for-purchase books, both well worth the money.

http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/
Camera 2.0: New computing platforms for computational photography
You can still point to gcc vs CINT to make that point dramatically.

The help page has your answer, anyway. "Because I want to do fewer chores not more!" http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php
All pensions invest in the stock market

I believe that statement is untrue. Regardless, let me rephrase my question: are you guaranteed a certain retirement benefit regardless of market performance?

It is my understanding that pension programs typically guarantee some percentage of your highest salary, with a multiplier for length of service.
They only posted two vacancies for these two more junior roles a month ago: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=1526321
Yes, there are schools where everyone gets a good education without a pre selection criteria. They do not, however, posses the property that almost all of the students pass and almost all of the students know the material. You can't get all three conditions to be true simultaneously.

Of course there are bad teachers.

The onus of learning should be on the students? Sure. But then you aren't going to get almost everyone knowing the material because most people don't want to learn.
It's not part of the culture I think. IAMAs are a reddit thing. My educated guess is that if it was a less notable person, it would be downvoted and flagged into oblivion.
Show HN: Converse of "If you build it, they will come"
The data on the phone isn't observations made by the phone of the location of base stations and access points. It's just a cached subset of access point / location (and base station / location) pairs from an existing, online database.
Those overall results show that LuaJIT doesn't really compete much the JVM running under server mode.
It's kind of bizarre. The government takes the people's money, using its militarized police powers, and then "gives it back" in the form of school funding. If the person then wants to CHOOSE which school they would like their children to attend, which is paid for with the money they had in the first place, then suddenly every lunatic crawls out of their cupboard and starts shouting "But the government is funding religion!"

News flash. The government isn't funding anything. The government produces nothing and their only source of income is theft from productive individuals who do produce things.
The Cost of SETI Infographic
Both of the authors are Web developers with a deep interest in software quality and automated testing. Etsy has followed the same software quality model as Facebook: a dedicated testing team, but no dedicated manual QA team. See also http://b.qr.ae/hJVb4W

Etsy's engineering culture puts great emphasis on personal responsibility and taking pride in the quality of one's work. Because of that, no, there has never yet been a problem with people taking tests offline simply so they could deploy. The issue is more that tests "wear out" over time and need to be either rewritten, replaced or discarded (for more on this phenomenon see Boris Beizer and his "pesticide paradox").
Apple's moral compass is pretty much dictated by image, especially amongst the userbase of it's products.

As far as I can surmise, an app would be banned if:

* it would offend a large potential group of customers

* it offends even a moderate but vocal set of existing customers

* it spews and/or supports the spewing of FUD

* it makes the iPhone or Apple look bad

All in all, these are pretty easy to guess guidelines. They're also very geared towards keeping and attracting customers, and thus, the bottom line.
As a competitive cyclist, I disagree with the premise of the study, but I suspect it was given such a title to encourage readership.

When you get to the pro level and all you need is 1% more power than the guy next to you, hormones like HGH absolutely make a difference. Does that make them acceptable? Absolutely not. But, to dismiss all performance enhancing drugs as ineffective is reaching.

It's like a scientist saying "we found the cure for cancer" knowing full-well that each cancer is a completely different disease.
With Khan Academy you have one guy providing supplemental help to motivated people. You do not have 1 billion people be taught. Do you know of any cases where Khan Academy (with nothing else) has taught a person enough about a subject so that person could pass a final exam for a corresponding course at a university? I really haven't heard of this and would like to know. My question is not a snarky one.

Actually, there are lots of a cases where underfunded schools improve student performance with more money. There is a strong correlation between school funding level and student test scores.
Interesting, the codes work, it does not seem anywhere as refined as DropBox. Jut redeeming the codes I got a connection error on each one.....
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H1B is a possibility (haven't checked officially, but if there's interest I'll inquire)

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I used the one-two in my job applications. Cover letter that describes how I'm a high school drop-out who will probably od in a very near future, then a resume that blows the mind.
As the page says, "No. Which programming language implementations have the fastest benchmark programs?"

Which begs the question - aside from macho bragging rights, exactly what good is this kind of information?

Assume I did have a specific problem case for which performance in terms of memory, time or LoC mattered. As a first step, I'd write a specific benchmarkable implementation of my own problem (or one very like it.) Then I'd need to profile and optimise that implementation in my chosen language(s), as well as stop and think laterally about ways I might be able to optimise around that specific problem.

This is all assuming I'm working on a greenfields project where I have absolute free choice of language & runtime environment. Which happens for my personal projects, but never yet for a professional one.

Not to mention that in all other cases apart from this hypothetical where performance matters, I would take the most human-readable program over the most fast, lean or concise one.

Long story short, at no point can I see myself stopping and saying to myself. "You know what I need now? I need to see which programming language can generate a Mandelbrot set bitmap with the smallest memory footprint, without using any 'unfair' optimisation techniques."
Another is don't run PHP scripts in the uploads directory. [0].

[0] "Pass Non-PHP Requests to PHP." http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls
I-READ-TOOLTIPS adds another 512MB.
I'm sorry, I still don't understand how these three things can't be filled simultaneously, you just keep saying they can't without giving me any more reason. Feel free to respond by explaining or not, I'm just curious why that's the case. I agree that a large number of students don't want to learn, but a lot of those students also just don't learn, in which case why are we paying to "teach" them?
I don't think this is significant at all because of the information boom. As the Internet and Storage has boomed and become more cheap and available, more content and data is hosted on the web. More and more is indexed by Google. May be we need to adjust the stats graph that are based on Google Scholar with the inflation of data in the last decade.
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Ask HN: Does never having a "real" job hurt me
So I am sure this topic has come up before, but I couldn't find much on the search feature. I am basically just looking for some opinions on this subject.

A little about me:

24, college dropout, 1 exit (which is why I dropped out)

I founded a small software company while in college as a business/political science double major and accidentally sold it to a much larger company at the beginning of my senior year. They wanted me on as a consultant for a minimum of 8 months and after i finished up almost a year consulting for them I moved back to my home town and began doing mainly freelance work and living off of savings as well.

I'm getting to a point in life where I need a daily challenge and I want to get excited about working on a product on a daily basis again. I have a few ideas and always have some sort of small project going on, however I look at a lot of companies out there and think I would love to go to work for a company out there that is already making a dent in their market (e.g. Twilio) but I just don't know if I am "qualified" enough to work for some of these companies.

I do not really have a resume and even the one I have put together just consists of the companies I have owned over the years basically.

What have you done in this situation? anyone with some advice of what a guy like me can/should do?

Keep working on my own things? Apply fo jobs at a few interesting companies and just see what happens?

Thanks in advance for your input!
Not all negotiations are about pay and benefits. Presumably there is some benefit in being organized at the state and national levels or unions wouldn't bother to do so.
They view the App Store as, well, a store. Just like virtually any other store, online or off, they restrict what they choose to sell. Ordinarily this isn't controversial, but for the fact that in Apple's case, the App Store is the only way to get native apps.

This sentence

> Apple has complete control over the kind of information you can get on your phone, and it exercises that right seemingly capriciously.

is just blatantly wrong, of course. It only has (near) complete control over the native apps you can get on your phone. There are several other obvious channels of information that it does not control.
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Hi everyone,

I wouldn't generally post something for sale on HN, but I have a collection of startup / tech / web related books that I've read over the last two years and I figure posting them here makes a lot more sense in case anyone wants some good tech books without going to Amazon. :)

"SuperFreakonomics", "Web Form Design", "Handcrafted CSS", "Ordering Disorder", "Don't Make Me Think", "Landing Page Optimization", "Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type", "The Ten-Day MBA 3rd Ed.", "Outliers: The Story of Success", "Designing the Obvious" and more...

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/bks/2357046321.html

My wife and I are about to take off on a trip around the world, and we're basically liquidating everything we don't need. Otherwise, I'd keep my books forever.

Thanks, and happy reading.

Jeremy
I am not advocating for the abolition of public education, but rather true equal "opportunity." You do cite valid concerns about private educational facilities, but that does not mean parents shouldn't have the opportunity to send their child to a school if they so desire. There's never anything wrong with maximizing someone's choice. I'll have to look more into these for-profit companies running schools. That's too bad that public money is being used to fund them. I also don't like the assumption that a for-profit company will do "damage" to education by virtue of the fact that it is for-profit. Although, they may ultimately not be effective in serving students needs.
I also find it surprising to see in which countries the term is most popular according to g-trends.
None of the top 10 is part of the G8. Also English is only the third most frequent language. I suppose they are lagging behind, but I might be wrong.
At my Uni, the only course that had some focus on NN felt pretty outdated.
tl;dr: professional-grade trolling
I'd be offering the 30days PSplus to non subscribers, but to existing ones, I'd be offering them 6 months free - or something that gave the impression that I really was trying. These muppets have caused a lot of stress to millions of people in the form of wondering if their personal credit card details are safe, and they're offering them the equivalent of less than $5USD of value? does not compute...
Eh, I can't draw myself, so I probably can't comment on good logo design. I think as long as it's clean and distinctive - branding your app - it should work well. You can always hire a designer to redo it when you gain some traction.
I don't understand why flight data cannot be transmitted to a ground recording station in (near) real time, eliminating the need for expensive post-crash searches for the on-board recorders. I know that sometimes aircraft are out of radio/radar contact, but satellite coverage should be nearly ubiquitous. If airlines can offer in-flight internet service, surely they could be streaming their flight data back to a server somewhere.
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Alternatively, the company is run by a comparatively moralistic CEO. Apple and Steve Jobs are not as superficial as their many detractors accuse them of being. In fact, they're among the least superficial entities in the business.
Exactly, I can't believe (what seems like a) majority of developers are still talking about language performance (and optimization). It matters for a small subsegment of our industry. The rest, speed/cost to implement and maintain far outweigh raw language performance.
Awkward 'smart' people could improve their prospects a great deal by not spending so much time thinking about how 'smart' they are, not to mention incessantly posting on-line about it.

I am still mildly horrified about how frequently discussions like this turn into thinly (or not so thinly) veiled self-praise... "oh, the reason I have such problems socially is because I'm so goddamn smart". Good luck with that, pal.

Here's a tip: Stop. Being. So. Fucking. Smug.

My experience with the 'smartest guy in the room' syndrome is that it seems to be most rife amongst people that haven't exactly been seeking out rooms full of smart (or smarter) people.
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Sure, I will. I'm currently doing game development with Unity and I haven't dabbled in self-contained graphics research. I would hazard that you know more about me when it comes to voxel data and rendering; regardless, it's a topic I'm very interested in. Aside: Voxatron by Lexaloffle is doing some cool things with voxels, check it out sometime.
This completely misses the point of these drugs. PEDs including 'blood doping' improve longevity, decrease performance degradation and speed recovery. Their purpose is to maintain your skill level under extreme exertion, not improve skill level. There is no question that, when engaging in an aerobic sport, muscles demand more O², if you can produce more O² than your competition, you will move faster, think more clearly, and recover faster the day after.