skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Background:

http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/48588149/better

http://www.43folders.com/2008/09/08/gears-shifting
I don't tend to Google for articles and sites I don't know exist.
Work perfectly for me. http://imagesocket.com/view/obama111.png
I might just well say "blahaba" Ok. Blahaba!

Somehow I feel like I'm in bizarro world here.

It's a guess. There is nothing to debate. And no, it's not just noise. It's a guess. We all guess. Come on, you can guess too. Just try it. It's fun.

If I had wanted to give an educated guess, I'd say so (And anybody who tells you they can give you an educated guess about decades in the future is guilty of first-degree BS) I'm very happy with guessing about things. I like guessing, and I plan to continue guessing as much as possible in the future. It is not pointless or a waste of time. I like it.

So there. (grin)
In the end, we feel Spore appeals to those who liked the Sims.

Wow, what a harbinger of doom!

What's the opposite of "damning with faint praise"?

And I'm not sure I admire this cunning strategy of fighting "DRM" in games by astroturfing the hell out of every public review site. Seems to me that all this does is put EA in a good light while making anti-DRM activists seem like lowlife griefers, worse than Youtube commenters and iPhone App Store spammers. Is this the works of agents provocateurs?
Sumo Scandal 2008
thanks ian!
Note that it mentions that SATA has a higher bit-error rate than SAS/SCSI. Apparently through the use of fewer ECC bits.

But yeah, ZFS rocks.
Why, the, commas?
Just Go Ho  | Betty's Big Bad Blog
I like this quote as well: I don’t want to hold 13-year-olds by the ankles and shake them until their allowance falls out of their pockets, but I do want to be sure that when their parents are thinking about a gift for them, the first thing that springs to mind is my latest $20-$25 hardcover.
I like it. I'm continually trying out apps for this purpose but inevitably end up using an editor under Terminal.

(Pretend each hyphen starts a new bullet point)

Problems:
- The cold start is a bit weak on first run. What should I do next? A little tutorial would be good.
- I wish I could create an item without mousing to edit the description. Is this possible?

Ideas:
- Growl integration: Randomly pop up items that need to be done, sortof as a teaser. Perhaps bias towards older or stale items?
- Dependancies?

Wild idea:
- add a server component, via a simple REST api, with a simple PHP version. Let me make a specific project folder be shared with other people. The website can show a simple list of todos/completions ala twitter. (anything you can X, I can social X. sorry.)
Judging from his famous blog, he is also creating it. :-)
And don't forget; they're also launching their satellites into orbit to make their maps better.
The best thing that happened to me in college was almost failing a freshmen physics test, despite having felt I was prepared for it. After getting that grade, I worked nonstop nearly every waking moment.

I ended up getting an A- in the class, even though that test was at least 15% of the final grade. More importantly, I learned that if I want to do well, I needed to work hard.
That was my bad. I typed in # characters in place of 'a''s.
"Higher returns."
Yup, stopped after I quit the app. Intel chip, 10.5.4, Macbook Pro.
"There are some (very social) services that require "critical mass" to be engaging."

The best apps are BETTER with critical mass, but work on their own. del.icio.us works just fine if you're the only user.
While I have to agree with the author that execution is very important and that without great execution you're invention probably won't work out (at least for you), I have to disagree that innovation is a "social disease". The United States and capitalism in general are very innovation driven. Innovation is very rarely a bad thing.
it had to be said.
I know about the Turing test, but it will never be able to test for creativity. Only basic speech - and that's not enough to launch the singularity which require a machine that can invent.
Here's link with a few photos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7595475.stm

I was lucky enough to catch a Sumo tournament in Kyoto a couple years ago while I was there. Very interesting sport to watch. I think that I actually saw Roho in action while I was there.

I caught a baseball game in Tokyo as well and that was another great experience. Baseball in Japan is quite amazing from a spectators point of view. Each team has songs and cheers that the fans all know and they sing them when their team is up at bat. No booing or fighting between the fans of the different teams, it's all very respectful.
Becoming a Better Developer Part 8: Know Your Archetype
My comments (as neutral as possible):

1. Adsense is way too big and too prominent. Take it away from the fontpage and only put it on the search results page

2. Static frontpage is empty. Boring.

3. The page is aligned leftwards on my macbook widescreen.

4. This is not important, but you are not being careful to properly center align stuff. Like the "Next 30" button

5. The difference in your font sizes on the sidebar is too large. Make it smaller

6. The names of the cities, like 'Paris' have some wierd dots before them

7. "Feature Artists"? Do you mean featured artists?

8. I don't like music auto-playing on a website. Inform me first.

9. Your favicon colors suck. No seriously, those are very dull colors

- Now here are some things you should do

1. Go to one of the online avatar creators and make yourself a vector avatar with big ears. It will give your site a more friendly look

2. Drop that big-ass adsense banner, it makes your site look cheao

3. Change the color scheme slightly to a more appealing color. Mixing gray and brown is not good

4. Importat: When I search I want to see the artists I searched for in the middle, not some features artists. Show more results in the middle, the sideways display is a bit strange

5. Explain what the map does, I could not figure it out.

6. Clicking next did not work

-- Things you did good

1. Nice page after the front page

2. I like the photoshop work

3. It's focused on a problem. I just wish it would just show me what I want, which is musicians in my town this weekend and next weekend.
Are Fibre Channel and SCSI Drives More Reliable (than SATA and PATA drives)?
Hehe, indeed. I think he just woke up one day and got disgusted by the irony of people putting off real work to read his blog.
Interactive Graph Visualization System - Skyrails
Well, maybe I should look into transition my home server from Ubuntu and XFS to Nexenta or OpenSolaris and ZFS...

I'd hate to lose some of the data on that thing, though I'm currently not doing any RAID. Just a disk of important stuff rsnapshotted every 4 hours to another disk.
You could also set smartmon tools to do a short self test every day, and a long one (which reads the entire disk) every week.

At least you'll know if there was an error.
Joshu, thanks for your feedback!

I was concerned about the cold start as well, I'll think of a better way to do a first run.

You can add a new item using cmd-N and then hit 'tab' to edit it. When you're done, hit 'enter' or 'tab' again to edit tags. I'll be changing it so right after adding a new item, it'll go straight to editing it.

I haven't thought of Growl integration, but honestly it sounds like a great idea to show users what to do next in their list.
Once again, thanks for catching this major bug! I'll have the fix for the next release.
My favorite line:

Obama is inclusive in his support for PNGs, accommodating even disadvantaged (Internet Explorer) users.
This is what keeps encryption impractical, especially for laptops.
This was also in New York Magazine and posted here quite a while ago. Great article though.
Actually, I used to work for a VC firm (and I wrote the article), so trust me, I more than "vaguely understand" how companies get funding, and they're not through these events. The companies that get funded would have gotten funding anyway and no one with a great product ever lacked for funding just because they couldn't get in front of a VC. We never went to these types of events looking for things to invest in.

BTW... If your bottom line income (i.e. NY local taxes) is what you optimize for, you're probably not going to want to work for a startup anyway. Try a bank. I hear they have some nice cubes there.
These will be the first sysadmins that get their own series on Discovery or History.
You tell me:

http://www.techcrunch50.com/2007/

How many of those companies do you recognize after a year...
Wow. If you have an 8TB raid, that's 7TB of data so 61,572,651,155,456 bits

A hard disk has a bit error rate of 10^15:

1,000,000,000,000,000

That's about 16 times higher.

That's horrible.

Taken to a single 750GB disk that means you can read the entire disk an average of 155 times before you'll encounter an error! That's shockingly bad.
Why? Assuming you're using CBC mode within each sector, you wouldn't lose any additional data due to a sector error compared to an unencrypted disk.
I don't think Powerset got acquired because of their TC50 appearance. :)
I wonder if they were smoking it for fun or to artificially increase their appetite. I'll assume the former.

Good thing to know Japan has their priorities in order:

"In 2000, Japanese wrestler Toki hit and killed a pedestrian while driving in Osaka. He was suspended for only one tournament."

From: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/02/sports/AS-SUM-Wres...
Thanks Max,

First off, let me apologize for the stupid mistake with the 'next' page not working. I think I've fixed it now. Testing this morning after google launched a new version of the Map API which broke my site, so ...anyway, my bad...bad me...

I laughed at the 'favicon colors suck' comment, I just haven't had a chance to get a good new favicon going, so I left the old one.

I have two questions for you
1) what would I do with the avatar I would create? you mean for a new logo? or as an avatar? or just stick it somewhere??

2) the site should have shown you musicians in your town, if google could't find you by IP address, than it would show you everything. Or were you saying that it wouldn't show you this or next weekend because of the 'next' buttons not showing up?

Hopefully I'll be able to get 'date ranges' going in the next few weeks, but if you select the 'day' from the filter, it should give you the shows in your area.

Thanks again for the comments. I likely won't be doing a FULL redo of the site again, but I'll be doing another review and will be making more changes of course.
Why Did Google Abandon Firefox?
Marissa Mayer Demos Google's New Online Newspaper Archive Search
No, but it will notify you of a problem. However, I suspect that smartmontools would do an even better job of notifying you of a problem before it even occurs.

If you want something that will actually protect against bit level errors well, generate some extra data using an appropriate Error Correcting Code for your important archives/files. Something like what par2repair generates. This is incredibly slow compared to simple erasure codes like RAID uses, though. There are some filesystems that do this for you automatically, I wrote one:) Actually, other than that I don't know of any filesystems that do this.

If the above is impractical for performance reasons, Google recommends mirroring everything on three disks...
I have to balance this by saying that some of the most satisfying and elegant solutions I have found came from a careful, organised, timely approach to the problem where many options are considered, rather than slapping something together in desperation. It's possible to work very quickly under these conditions - and much more pleasant than "crunch time".

I get high-pressure inspiration too though...
Nethack, for me.

Also, nightmares about C++ syntax. I'm not kidding.
I used to love the bargain bins section at my used cd store, it was always filled with cheap gems. Granted I spent a fair share of time listening to some crap, but it was worth it to find an old song that was quality.

Also, I'll never touch the bargain bin either because there really are no cd stores around anymore, except Best Buy.
He's fighting the wrong battle.

He's sending the hash by email! And then working so hard at securing the wrong part of the process - with SSL of course, when email is not encrypted.
They'd have to treat them the same as oil rigs, at least in theory.

Wow, I've never seen a scenario where I pictured google on the same side as oil lobbyists.
Both the Milgram and Standford Prison experiments, while ugly, are seminal works in psychology and extremely important. One of my best classes while pursuing my MBA was an ethics elective where we discussed Milgram and the Stanford Prison experiments and their implications in modern business. Enron happened because people followed too readily, and the impacts of these issues should be understood by anyone looking to build and lead an ethical business.
any plans on rss support or some kind of weekly digest for my town?
Japan has very well defined and strict laws on drug use. When entering the country customs will take any drugs you have that are not prescription (and in your name). They also ask if you have any porn.

I find the punishment for the death of the pedestrian to be light, but perhaps he was ruled not at fault? If you're driving at the speed limit and actually paying attention, not texting or reaching for something in the back seat, and someone runs out in front of you and you have no time to stop, and they're killed, should you really be punished?
"If I’m not laughing at your joke, complimenting your insight, or leading the Standing O for something you spent 10 seconds pecking up on your phone, it may not be because I don’t get it; it may be because I think we’re both capable of better and just need to find the courage to say so. In as many characters as it takes."

That's clearly a stab at Twitter. It'll be interesting to see if Merlin's new focus will cause others to question their Twitter use (and interesting to see if it makes any difference in Twitter's traffic.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
Generating files with this XML format should let you get something into excel. The only others I know of are Java based as I'm fairly anti-ms : http://poi.apache.org/ and http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/
Because the submitter wanted it to read like a James, T., Kirk narrative?
These are bit level errors. So instead of losing a bit or two, you lose a massive chunk. That's the difference between a strange character in your Doc file and losing the whole thing.

I think it's 128 bits for truecrypt, although internet searches point to many people using higher (1024 and 4096).
And if the bit level error rates are as high as he says, looks bad.
"Example: What Twitter experienced at SXSW."

Twitter wasn't just on display. It served a real function. The audience WAS the conference goers. You can't really use it as a comparable example in this case. I seriously doubt a social network aimed at kids will achieve even a fraction of growth from TC50.
Looking forward to part 2!
Way to go pedalpete!
Sometimes reading the tech business press is like listening to fish talk about bicycling.

Here we have an entire article discussing Google's strategic motivation for selecting one open-source project over another for a given task. And there's not a single mention of the possibility that the Google engineers sat down to design a stripped-down Browser of the Future, took a good look at the Firefox source, took a good look at the Webkit source, took a look at each other, and said "Webkit".

In Pundit World the amount of work required to turn one buzzword into another buzzword is always O(1).
Great tune. Too bad about the lyrics.

Hint: Find the jazz arrangement of it with the lead trumpet performance by Maynard Ferguson :)
Maybe it was a rhetorical question but xobni, mint and flock are the only ones I recognize and the only one I really use everyday is xobni. Mint is OK but I really only read the summary emails and don't log in often.
Google Chrome, Chromium, Gears, V8 & Blob API
Hey pedalpete,

Good show. Tons of smaller feedback:
-"Feature Artists" -- should be "featured"
-you have 3 distinct styles on the rhs list, for date/pic/details. I'd say go with one and make it work, it looks cluttered. Otherwise the design got a lot slicker! nice!
-"featured artists" -- two-line genres go on out of bounds.
-right column header should left-align to that column's boundary (it's sticking out left, at least in chrome)
-orange-colored div is duplicate content w/featured artists (at least in my area) and pushes the map below the fold.
-okay, taking another look, I get it now: the orange-colored div is associated with the map. you could make that clearer by grouping them visually -- bunched in one div, for instance. but I actually don't like that choice for what goes on the homepage map: I'd say put the featured artist events on the map, and kill the orange div.
-I second utnick's suggestion for a weekly digest
-I still don't like the adsense, but I like maxklein's suggestion to only show it on secondary pages: you'll keep most of your money (I'd guess that you'd get 5-7 pageviews per visitor on avg, which means you'd lose 15-20% of your ad revenue) and make a much better first impression.
-The player needs to be higher on the page! that's a rad feature and it needs to be above the fold. Kill one of the "artist" sections (featured, rhs, orange-top).
You kid right?

1. Larger talent pool - yes.
2. Lots of universities with excellent tech programs - Stanford, UC-B. Anything else? No
3. Very favorable laws? No. California has some of the worst labor laws and tax laws in the country. You only start companies here because you need the talent. There's no other reason to be in CA
4. Favorable taxes for tech workers? Compared to what? Marginal tax rates on Scandinavian billionaires?
5. Capital gains taxes in CA are insane. Entrepreneurs beware.

I'm not an East coaster or West coaster but you sir need a reality check.
I am wondering if this can have any negative ecological side-effects. I know a large issue with nuclear powerplants was them using local rivers for cooling. In the end, they raised the temperature of local lakes enough to make algae produce less oxygen, fish be wiped out, and overall adversely effect water life.

If you put enough of these in close proximity (the wake/wind 'sweetspots'), can they potentially heat up their surroundings enough to make a difference? I understand the ocean is a different beast from lakes, but if you can heat up a square mile, that's a lot of sea life existing in that mile. As quoted, 40MW of power is not exactly little heat.
I've been running opensol/zfs for almost a year now. Zero problems, good perf & reliability. My research is on two mirrored sata/160gb drives. The most important stuff is on a FS on there with copies=2, making 2 copies on each drive.

Also, backing up zfs is really, really easy. 48 lines of shell scripts do daily incrementals and weekly snapshot backups.

But, do yourself a favor and put /usr/gnu/bin first in your path. oh, and alias tar=gtar. Old solarisisms will otherwise be irritating.
haha, we just realized that future digital pirates can be /actual pirates/.
I keep waiting for a product that solves the failing hard drive problem at the consumer level. For most people I know, the most likely cause of data loss is hardware failure.

Are any manufacturers offering a package that contains multiple hard drives but behaves as one?

If performance isn't a factor, is there something I don't understand that makes this impossible?
there is always more to come.

by weekly digest, I'm guessing you mean - what's coming to my town that suits me?

If so, I sure hope so. Very challenging thing to do (I think), but I love a good challenge!
A Short Course in Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler and Daniel Kahneman
The authors talk of determining attractive human faces, and present the startling conclusion that virtual faces far outshine their human counterparts.

In reality, what they've found is that static images of virtual, averaged human faces are perceived as more beautiful than photographs of humans. But images are just that, images. In my experience, faces are defined not so much by their static features, but by their animation. The face of a person is a window into their feelings, and expressions tell so much more about someone's personality that a static, neutral image can convey.

Were it possible, I'd love to see the same study attempt to capture gestures and expressions. One might find very different conclusions.
I have never understood the concept of a "productivity blog." Assuming a person can be maximally productive each post read would have diminishing returns for the reader.

To put it more simply -- how can following a productivity blog make me more productive?
thanks for the comments shawn,

unfortunately ads can't go on 'secondary' pages (I'm pretty sure) as you aren't allowed to load adsense in an ajax request (terms of use).

When you say 'kill one of the artist sections' you mean kill one of the styles? or actually get rid of a section?

I might not be understanding what you mean by orange-top, which you mention twice, but I'm guessing you mean the artist you just selected which shows with an orange bar at the top? I think people might get lost if I don't show them what the artist is that all the new data is pointing too.
Drobo? Time Capsule?
If the hard disk detects the bit error, it will return an I/O error instead of the corrupt data. Likewise, ZFS will not return corrupt data. So there are plenty of cases where bit errors are promoted to block errors. I can understand the desire to minimize propagation of corruption, but I'd rather just use RAID.
http://iphonexe.com did this a while ago -
it was all over the tubes last week
A couple of excerpts to get an idea of what is inside:

'During the mid-morning break (with cookies), Richard Thaler shows videos from a 40-year-old study (Walter Mischel, 1973) of children offered one cookie now or two if they wait. The observed behavior correlates strongly, by almost any measure, with both the economic success of the parents and the child's future success. Hypothesis: small behavioral shifts might produce (or "nudge") large economic results.'

and

'Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel laureate for his work in behavioral economics told us about priming—how a subtle influence radically shifts how people act. So, in one experiment people are asked to fill out a survey. In the corner of the room is a computer, with a screen saver running. That's it—nothing overt, just a background image in the room. If the screen saver shows pictures of money, the survey answers are radically different. Danny went through example after example like this where occurred. The first impulse one has in hearing this is no, this can't be the case. People can't be that easily and subconsciously influenced. You don't want to believe it. But Danny in his professorial way says, "Look, this is science. Belief isn't an option". Repeated randomized trials confirm the results. Get over it.'

'The second impression is perhaps even more surprising—the influences are quite predictable. Show people images of money, and they tend to be more selfish and less willing to help others. Make people plot points on graph paper that are far apart, and they act more distant in lots of way. Make them plot points that are close together, and damned if they don't act closer. Again, it seems absurd, but cheap metaphors capture our minds. Humans, it seems, are like drunken poets, who can't glimpse a screen saver in the corner, or plot some points on graph paper without swooning under the metaphorical load and going off on tangents these stray images inspire...'