skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should have a look at a Silicon Mechanics[0] and Aberdeen[1]. I know Aberdeen sells re-branded Supermicro chassis, but Silicon Mechanics sells similar products. I've been shopping around for a 36 bay NAS, and both companies seem to offer the best combination of price, quality, and support (Aberdeen has a 5 year warranty). Though if you want to ditch enterprise drives entirely to minimize cost, you should probably go with a Silicon Mechanics system and buy your own drives.

Some quick estimates: You can get a 36 bay server with an attached 45 bay JBOD for about 8.5k [2]. If you use 2TB consumer drives, they'll run about $140 a piece[3]. This comes out to $0.12 / GB, which is a damn good deal, IMO.

[0] http://www.siliconmechanics.com/

[1] http://www.aberdeeninc.com/

[2] http://www.siliconmechanics.com/i28693/4u-storage-server.php and http://www.siliconmechanics.com/i19897/4u-45-drive-jbod-sas-...

[3] WD Caviar Black drives ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?
Item=N82E16822136824 ). You can get WD Greens for $80 a piece, but I don't know how their variable RPM holds up in a RAID.
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Assume for a moment that the OP has received an offer for a large amount of cash.

That cash isn't in his bank yet. The offer isn't final until the cash changes hands.

In that position, it seems like a bad idea to try to micromanage the details of the offer. Just take the money before they change their minds.

Who knows what the OP could accomplish next? I do: if the offer falls through, he'll accomplish whatever his current startup is designed to accomplish. In PG's case, that would've been online stores. YCombinator probably wouldn't have existed.
Except half of Boxcar's functionality is to provide advertising. That's a lot like saying "I don't know why people complain about the Huffington Post and all of their advertising when reputable sites like eBay are nothing but people trying to sell me stuff."

And let's not get ahead of ourselves with the whole "push notifications have always been ads" - push notifications have always been with providing the end user with desired information. That may well come to include advertising, but up until this point advertising in push notifications has been an outlier at best.
Just picked that one because I thought it was particularly interesting, but the other ones are pretty good, too, like the second start-up death march: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/06/how_i_go...

Or you can read the complete series here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/who_am_i/autobio-all-redacte...

If you don't know Charles Stross, he's an SF author and he also has a hacker news account. I read one book by him, Halting State, which is about a break-in in an MMO vault among other things. It had the most real-feeling near future SF settings I've come across.
I think I am going to setup a VM with this. I really want to try the real thing. If it runs well enough in the VM I might just do all my development in and use the host OSX for everyday tasks.

I am looking into getting into Android development. Is it worth doing it without using Eclipse?
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What's the average age of a commercial aircraft? Average lifetime?
Thanks hucker, that book has gone straight into my list. Very keen to read it, as even though I wrote the post and am convinced of the concept, I feel I've only touched the surface with this kind of thinking.
The principle at play is the idea that where there is money to be had, there will be entrepreneurs that want to collect it. How effectively that would work is the subject of plenty of research that I'm not familiar with.

There is no system you can devise within the bounds of a capitalist society in which people with greater means don't achieve better educational outcomes.
This was exactly my thought, but Andy was handwriting his letters and this maybe happened 50 years ago(in the mythical world). I would always value somebody that is persistent but only if he was demonstrating his persistence in a non-trivial way.
Whether it works or not is tangential to whether or not it's a good thing to do.
Agreed. I like Silicon Mechanics, Also used Avadirect in the past, but they weren't as good.

I think the WD's are the way to go. Enterprise-grade drives aren't really much more reliable, and you need to plan capacity assuming they'll fail anyway. Better to get consumer drives that are at least mid-range (avoid Hitachi), and run with it.
I've been following this blog:

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/

It's by a traditionally published author that used to hold much of the same opinion as you and has now moved to self-publishing and argues that newcomers should do the same.

If what publishers provide is good editors it would seem a simple solution would be for good editors to go freelance and take a direct cut of the sales.
I think this is the most insightful reply to the original post. Indeed, thinking about "numbers of students teached" is a really crappy metric for the performance of a teacher; it's far better, for example, to use something like (average increase in standardized test scores per student) * (number of students) / (hours taught) or somethng similar (assuming we do believe in standardized tests), the only problem with this metric being how you evaluate which teacher is responsible for which proportion of the increase in test scores, but this can be solved with proper randomization.

The idea behind this is that one should consider that a bad teacher is far more likely to fail his students (as lon as he doesn't control the exams), while a good teacher will send his students to the best univerisities/high schools/jobs availiable.
Can you give the example that breaks car/cdr? They seem to be evaluating their args here:

fst $ repl "(car (cons 1 (quote ())))"
Number 1
I wonder if your inexpensive flash drive operates at - 60 °C...
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How do you decide what a company with traction is worth pre-rev for a low millions round?
What exactly do you mean by "can't be minified to the extent that js can"? Why is that? CoffeeScript files are usually about 1/3 smaller than corresponding JS to begin with.
I only found out about Ganeti today and thought I'd post it here.

I'm currently looking over the docs and seeing how best to implement to play around with it.

Finding it particularly funny that back in 2009 the source code was moved off of Google Code and onto a hosted git server: http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/wiki/SourceCode
Outlier now, but a pretty unavoidable future. Telemarketers and spammers were outliers at one point.
Or being submerged for days in salt water.
As far as I can tell, they're closed down ... their blog (http://diomedeblog.wordpress.com/) has been inactive for over a year, and as far as I can see there's nowhere for existing users to log in (they had open signups at one point last year...)

Edit: Actually, it looks like they closed on Mar 19, according to an email they sent to existing users. They say they might reopen "with a new approach" near the end of the year.
$10,000 per week sounds like a good haul, but his personal share was closer to $3000. If the initial rush of sales dies down, he'll be making less than he would at a job... and that's excluding the opportunity cost from all the unpaid time it took to write the book. I guess what they say about writing a book being a labor of love is true.
You guys post the same thing every month. Are you just collecting resumes or something?
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Also of note, a syntax extension for OCaml adding do-notation to the language: http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/pa_monad/
Self policing is working fairly well so far. Any developer who uses AirPush is taking a huge gamble. Personally I will uninstall the app, report it as malicious malware, and write a scathing review of any app that uses AirPush. I hope others are doing the same. The problem is going to be what happens when the carriers pre-load applications using AirPush along with a locked boot loader to prevent you from rooting your phone to remove it. That's the point where you'll see an exodus from Android. I really don't think people will put up with it. The carriers will almost certainly try it because what do they have to lose? They will probably start up-selling ad/bloatware removal like Best Buy does with PCs.
is there an explanation for that?
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Did you paste the link you intended to? I don't see how it supports the idea that there is work being done to make Haskell place nicely with XCode.
Well, I meant that whitespace is significant in coffeescript whereas it isn't in javascript. You have a point though, coffeescript isn't nearly as wordy as javascript so it's much less code.
How will you know which app is using AirPush? There is no way to know where a notification comes from in Android, and as the article explains, it's possible for developers to delay the notification for days.
But one can devise a system in which those without means have feasible access to quality education.
> He committed the crime

Unless I misread the article, camming was not a crime where he lived at the time he was arrested. What the article describes is the police harassing someone because someone with lots of resources asked politely for an illegal favor. Or, to put it more bluntly, the police decided it was OK to break the law because the MPAA asked for it.
I am not currently looking for work, but I love BioWare and was curious which positions were available. The question about experience popped into my head as I was reading over the job description and I thought that other people who are looking to apply may have been wondering the same thing. Thanks for the prompt reply!
There are a number of Erlang devs out there looking for projects - I know because I run erlanginside.com and they often send me their CVs - so not filling a position like that is for some other reason than that there are no talented devs w/experience.
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Sorry, that was my fault. I didn't make lambdas evaluate their arguments and I didn't notice this in my code. I.e. car/cdr work correctly, fun doesn't.
I was really blown away by the quality of the two minute video at the bottom of the post. Anybody have an idea about how much a video of that caliber costs?
The aircraft involved, http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20090601-0 was built in 2005. The wiki tells me flash drives first became available in 2000.

Perhaps my question is why aren't today's aircraft built with this sort of much more redundant system?

Aircraft already have redundant hydraulics, redundant data, flight controllers, fuel tanks, engines, wheels, pilots, .... Why not have "inexpensive" redundant data recorders?
> The default basis library does not attempt to segregate effects into a monad, but it is perfectly straightforward to do this yourself, by providing your own layer over the standard basis

This comment is somewhat silly. The whole notion of segregating effects is about what a programmer cannot do, and not about what they can.

In ML, maybe you can segregate effects, but it is of limited value, as all of the code you use might be hiding procedural effects behind the seemingly innocent types.

In Haskell, when I read an API, I know no effects lurk behind the pure type signatures.
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I think you sailed past the fact that the professor for your course had a TA to help with grading. I TAed a junior level computing systems course, derived from the CMU offering: http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ Some weeks I would get very little research done because the grading and office hour help duties were so substantial - and that's even with farming the work out to other TAs.

If the professors in the course had to have done both teaching and grading, there's no way they could have sustained the level of instruction and assignments required by this substantial course. One or the other would have suffered. I assume the same was true for your courses.

My point: college courses with TAs don't neatly map to pre-college courses because in elementary, middle and high school, one teacher has to do it all.
I'm not sure it's as effective for 'big bang' types of things like this where you want to sell as much as possible in a brief period, but to me, starting with a Kindle version only makes a lot of sense:

http://blog.liberwriter.com/2011/04/22/self-publishing-the-i...

That way you don't have all the typesetting and print on demand overhead; you just get it out there and see how it goes before investing in that stuff.
Here's the job description: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qw49Vfwo&...
I agree, none of these features have much to do with the difficulty of just-in-time compilation. The stellar performance results Mike Pall is getting with LuaJIT, which has all of those features, kind of prove that. They do, however, have a lot to do with the usability and dynamic feeling of a language. This makes their absence from most Schemes less understandable.

> As for reflection, I see that mainly as a tools/debugging aid

You can use it that way, but you can also use it for metaprogramming.

> "Dynamic" languages have reflection in their definition because they are mostly defined by implementation.

Plausible.

> That said, the Scheme standard doesn't preclude reflectivity at all, nor seems particularly compile-oriented to me. Nowhere it is assumed that implementations be compilers at all.

True.
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I wonder if could it be possible to design an Image Processing algorithm with some sort of genetic programming / neural network to separate intelligible images from noise... Nonetheless it is quite interesting to think about a brute force attack on pictures, a nice aproach to steganography!!
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That has never happened to me - I only use MacVim when I need the power features. I'd love to have vim-style modal editing, but my eyes overrule my hands. MacVim is simply too ugly.
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I like your blog
The first thing that struck me was the amount of money AppSumo was keeping.
Oh God, not again:

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The main value publisher's can add is paying for promotion and giving an advance on sales. Self-publishing authors are either going to have to foot the bill on travel expenses to promote their books or they're going to have to stick to twitter and facebook. I think old style promotions is still necessary to have a big hit, if that's what you're going for.
The point of that part of my comment wasn't to issue a who-was-busiest challenge (though I'm pretty sure I'd win such a challenge, against either the OP or any of the profs I was TAing for), but to say that long hours grading and regrade requests are to be expected, and especially that the latter are not just the result of unreasonable expectations on the part of the students. Grading is not always fun, but that's why someone gives you money to do it.

And even though it's apples to oranges, I'll state for the record if I hadn't been taking three classes, working on my startup (which I launched during school), and (one quarter) interning at NASA, I think I would easily have had time to put together and deliver lectures in addition to the office hours/recitations/review sessions I was holding, problem sets I was grading, exams I was helping write, robots I was admining, class logistics I was organizing, and whatever else happened to fall under the umbrella of my TA duties any given week.
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> In Haskell, when I read an API, I know no effects lurk behind the pure type signatures.

I wonder how often unsafePerformIO : IO 'a -> 'a is employed
The project lead gave a presentation at ICFP 2010 (because the project uses Haskell for some of the key algorithmic portions). The associated PDF is here: http://k1024.org/~iusty/papers/icfp10-haskell-reagent.pdf
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It's the same model as Groupon.

The article mentions that the author only requested a 30% share - to ensure that it was featured on AppSumo from what I understood. I'd imagine the normal cut is closer to 50-50.
Close! It'd still be great to be able pass to a file or directory path to have opened...
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I believe the cost of installing reliable data drives will be significantly minuscule compared to the actual price of the aircraft and their inherent value of holding extremely valuable data.
This sounds VERY cool. Too bad my experience is in web development.
Isn't this concept the whole rationale towards foreign outsourcing?
You're criticizing someone's argument by using a parallel argument. There's also no reason for it to not work, at least that you've demonstrated. The web server analogy falls apart because the server is analogous to a single school, so a series of web servers may work... The point is that, in general, private education spends less per student. That's compelling evidence to at least investigate the effect of single employer, unionized employment systems on education quality. You can argue that vouchers will have some sort of distribution issues between socioeconomic levels and education quality, but as to whether they could allow realized savings on education (with the savings being used to subsidize failing schools), that seems pretty settled.