skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that as time goes on drive space prices fall as well. If you build backblaze storage pods[1] a petabyte over 3 years costs you a little under 100k. If we assume the average email user uses around half a gigabyte[2], we can accommodate around 2.1 million accounts on the petabyte (more if you compress the data). Throw in another two petabytes for compressed backups and you've got a million email accounts for 150k, or $0.15 an account (over three years). If you show users ads that average more than 15 cents per user over the course of three years you're making money (less paying employees that don't operate the storage, etc.). The actual numbers may even be less. Combined with the fact that the price of storage seems to still be going down at a rate that most likely is faster than user inbox growth, and you'll never hit this particular singularity.

[1] http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...

[2] 200MB more than the amount currently in my gmail; I have email going back six years and I never delete emails, but I'm not a heavy email user.

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No it doesn't. I've booked on AirBNB using paypal.
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Overall, I'm not very impressed with gmail. I'd like to think that a new email service could lure people away, simply by providing a better product.

(Not that the particulars matter, but I find gmail slow, ham-handed in its organization, ugly, and strangely lacking, given its origins, in the searches it supports. Not to mention the fact that the cursor periodically disappears when composing messages on one of the three machines I use it on.)
Reminds of the plot of "The Producers". Sometimes real life can be stranger than fiction..
Unless the cure for cancer relies on some developer tool, in which case the value of the tool is strictly greater.

And really, in this day and age— you think coming up with the cure for cancer isn't going to involve software system upon software system?
This is the last guy I want to see behind the bars (except of course myself).
I follow http://www.r-bloggers.com/ but hopefully I'll be able to contribute something in the future.
A related article talks about how David Patterson and the state of NY has made it illegal to rent your house to others a la AirBnB.

If people want to trust others enough to risk this sort of crime, let them. Get the fuck out of my life, State.
You can't really tell from the picture, but actually per the original page it was actually 8-inch. You see, the MS-DOS disk is not for the IBM PC, but for the SCP 8086 card based S-100 system SCP 86-DOS was originally developed on before MS bought it. Anyone else remember it?
It lets each room get at least some natural light. This is an art project, not civil engineering.
Manipulative Behavior: How to Recognize a "Leech"
I think a big reason why most people go with a career and degree in software engineering as opposed to bioinformatics is because of a bigger job market, a higher salary potential, and a lower commitment to achieve the goal (computer science degree as a 4 or 6 year degree, vs a mandatory 8+ year degree in bioinformatics.) Unless these things change, bioinformatics will remain unappealing to top google engineers who are paid to scale cat pictures at salaries like 250k+.

To add one more thing, perl is huge in the bioinformatics community, which would never win a popularity contest among software developers.
> The Goldmanite trails off. “What do they do? No, seriously. Do you know?”

So not even Goldman Sachs knows what they do? Goldman is also incredibly secretive, so kind of funny to see one of theirs being surprised by that behavior elsewhere.
whatever, dude
I only spent a few seconds on it: The color scheme is not exactly attractive. Especially for a dating site.
First they came for the alleged child predators, and I did not speak out because I support children.
I'm reminded of PayPal's early days when fraud was a big problem (and probably costed a lot more than a trashed apartment). If AirBnB handles the risk well, it may well set up a high barrier of entry to other me-too enterprises trying to do the same thing.
If cache is on, any performance discrepancy can be explained away by "usage patterns" :)

Also, do you really mean turn off write-through, or did you mean write-behind? (I can't see how write-through would cause corruption, but maybe I'm missing something...)

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a discrepancy in the flushing code across systems. God knows flushing a file to disk in cross-platform code is an arcane science :)

And finally, as somebody else pointed out, LevelDB seems to order write access sequentially as much as possible.
Best line - "Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
Future of Computing Looks Thinner, Disk-Free
Makes you wonder what happened to "don't be evil."
The third one is Windows.

edit: I just looked at this thread again. I didn't fully scroll down and see that you already said it was Windows.

Ubuntu/Mac OS X both have distinctively different ways of font rendering. Windows' font rendering looks more readable (in my opinion), and OS X/Ubuntu's were designed for print.

I hastily put this together to better illustrate what I mean.

http://i.imgur.com/Ag5DK.png
Hotmail's got a lot of small neat features now days.

Like Sweep, I can delete or move all the emails from a certain -- or multiple -- addresses in a few clicks. I can even check a single dialog box and make this in to a permanent rule.

If I mark a message as Junk, but they're in my contact book, I get a check box that says "I think this person was hacked!" ... I have no idea what it does, but it seems like a neat idea in theory. Plenty of times I've gotten junk email from someone I know because they were compromised on some level.

And those are just the features I've noticed, because I don't use Hotmail as my primary email contact.
Maybe to attract employees? Or to try to appear likable as waves of austerity crash ashore & more people grow to hate the likes of Goldman Sachs & such?
How does this compare to other persistent key-value stores such as Membase?
达芙妮
The two main theories of justice in the US is retribution and deterrence. Applying these two theories to the case here it isn't totally unreasonable for him to be punished.

I feel that deterrence is a stronger argument here - maybe you are right in that he'll be a net positive anyway as a free man, but there is some validity in that it will make the next guy who wants to secretly install laptops in server closets to think twice.
ITC to Investigate Samsung Patent Claims Against Apple
Wow! Is it just that I was completely lost, or is the author as much involved in his own 'public masterbation' as he accuses the 'digital hipsters to be'?
>For example, online gambling is illegal in the US, but that doesn't stop legitimate (US-headquartered) credit card companies dealing with online gambling companies in the UK.

you're talking about the things you don't know about. The US processors can't legally process payments coded for gambling (some gambling operators code the transactions as "groceries", etc... - this is how the things still sometimes can fly under radar )

http://www.egrmagazine.com/news/514743/mastercard-crackdown-... :

"implementation of America’s Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), which bans the facilitation of online gambling by payment companies."
I love the insight about how fast compression (Snappy) is like having faster hard drives.
This is as useless as watching stock prices go up and down every day. G+ is a long term project.

It also has another launch in it's future (when it drops the invite only limitation) and they have yet to introduce an API or a game section or a proper photo app, all of which will draw attention and traffic.
I'm sure they wouldn't employ someone who reacts in such a hot-headed manner so quickly. Keep in mind this is the first time this has happened to them, that they've probably never been placed in this sort of situation before, that they most likely exercised a bit of intelligence and consulted a handful of advisers, and that they are trying to take the wisest steps in handling this.

I doubt they're that soulless and cold-hearted; and if you'd just waited a bit, you would've caught Brian's response explaining how he plans on helping her out financially.

You're the one failing on human decency due to your inability to exercise even a shroud of empathy for these guys. They're trying to play it smart while still doing what they can to help.
Based on the referrals the site sends (often 4,000+) I would have thought it was much higher than that. My guess is that there are a lot of lurkers & only something like 2% of site visitors even create an account.
Other key phrase: "upon completion" -- the project date is listed as December 2011 and often these artist concepts don't see the light of day.
"if we had a bunch of frozen folks from the 1600's and we could unfreeze them and bring them back to life, would that be the right choice?"

Kill someone just because they are a bit behind the times? Triage is fine, but we're talking about a chance to save someone healthy and alive when there are plenty of resources.

"So what will be the economic status of these people once thawed?"

Barring drastic economic changes, compound interest from the trust fund should put them in good shape.
out of curiosity why?
Deficit and Debt Ceiling
Personally, I still use Gmail because IMAP and POP access is still available. My machine at home downloads my emails via IMAP while I'm at work. No problem.

But I find it creepy knowing that Google is keeping an eye on everything I do. Therefore, I started to diversify: use Bing for search, use Bing or Yahoo! maps, never stay logged into Google services... actually these are the only Google services I use regularly, so that's pretty much it. I do have to say, for searching programming stuff Bing is kinda "meh" but livable.

I do have a question: suppose you sign into your Google account, and now your account is correlated with your IP address, then you sign out. I wonder if Google keeps track of searches from your IP address while you are signed out and correlates it with your account (perhaps with a little less weight)?

Edit: Forgot to mention Android. Definitely more than creepy.

Also, even if Microsoft is collecting information, it means MS will have only some of the info.
Gmail Snooze with Apps Script
I smell a way to solve the debt crisis here...
I find this quite poorly programmed.

The service looks for emails that end with @gmail.com, but fail to take into account companies with email provided by Google Apps.
Money aside, it is much easier to get someone from the south to move to the coasts than to get someone from the coasts to move to the south.

As someone who just moved from a nowhere town to Austin, and managed to bring three people with me, this is very true.
"If the later is as likely as the first, what exactly is the point of freezing?"

More likely to happen if they have a frozen brain to scan?
...or one could use a credit card with a low limit when making online purchases, just like one would use a separate email account for spammy retailers and web services. Besides, the various issues with Paypal should be known to all by now — no one should ever link a bank account to Paypal.
Xunlei IPO on Nasdaq would have US funding Chinese piracy
> Their business model for folks who got in on the $99 deal now seems be "Want to know your Alzheimer's risk? Pay more to get your DNA resequenced with our latest tools!"

> How much is more? Another $299.

Incorrect on all counts. Current cost of the service is $99 + $9/month subscription which you may cancel. You also have the option to "bank" your saliva/DNA so that when they come up with a new gene chip, you will have results from that without having to repay. You just have to keep up your subscription, obviously. Since I got my results back I think they've been pushing updates about once a month (probably not a coincidence, but I don't feel like checking the exact dates), both times having information on genes covering 5-10 new topics.

What you describe did exist back when they switched from the v1 to the v2 gene chip (and I think the price was $399 at the time, no subscription existed), but now (v3) they have figured things out. I got in on "DNA day" this past April and paid $0 + subscription (so $100 for a year) and I chose the option to bank it, etc.
Observations aren't the same thing as complaints.
I kind of agree.

Every great company with a strong culture has some cult-like aspects.

But this firm does have a rep for being particularly weird. Like, if you don't get into the habit of calling people out for any mistakes or shortcomings sufficiently often, in a sufficiently impersonal brutally honest way, it will limit your career.
I find the 1TBS style maximizes the number of lines I can get on the screen which helps in understanding what the code is doing.

I don't miss the opening brace because when I see the closing brace I can go straight up to the controlling statement.

A variant that Sun used to use was that for functions you defined them thusly:

int
function_name(args) {
...
}

The benefit was that grep '^function_name' *.c would turn up the file with the definition (vs the prototypes which were of the form int function_name(...))
Beware of Asshole VCs
Going public? (though they explictly said they won't). Hedge funds are notoriously sensitive about privacy. The fact that Bridgewater has been featured in a number of high profile articles in main stream media makes me wonder if they are looking to go public, or to attract further funding (i.e. more clients).

Alternately, it could be as simple as Mr. Dalio wanting to do a bit of self PR before an impending book release?
Yeah, the search results when I linked them had those results. The index was subsequently updated, so the top hits are now this thread, and this article. Oops.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5057/5474607769_1edc4494a4.jp...
It must be a truly great place to work if the sentences "I quit this project" and "I quit this company" don't end up with the same result.

How many companies let the employee choose to stop working on a project they are assigned to?
This is one of the problems with the perception of science -- which is that scientists always are right. They're not. Falsifying existing claims is part of science. If no claims were ever debunked then I'd be suspicious that it was more faith than science.

With that said, sloppy research does happen. And Ioannidis has pointed this out. But pointing out that there's a high correlation between people who eat blueberries and IQ, in one study is useful. It's not a conclusive -- especially since there was no hypothesis going in. But it gives the pretext for double-blind studies. It advances science.

Of course, there is also flat out corruption, which I have no answers for. That's just part of human life.
you're mistaking the insurance with risk swap contracts, options, CDS and the likes. The insurance is when you own the interest in the property subject to the risk you're insuring against and the limit of the insurance payment is generally the amount of the actual market value/damage/replacement cost to your interest in the property. Thus it is illegal to double(triple...) insure in order to receive double(triple...) insurance payment. I.e. owning a 100K house you can't get 10 insurances and receive 1M when your house is burnt. You also can't get an insurance for your neighbor's house.

What you can, if you find a dealer, is to buy a risk swap contract that will pay you the contracted amount in the case of some house burnt or some earthquake happens or some bonds go south. This isn't an insurance in the sense of regulated insurance business. In stocks it is called options, in mortgage bonds it is CDS.
Find people at Burning Man easily....
Hell, I'm white, male, straight (ok, and an atheist), and I wouldn't want to move to the South...

But face it, there are significant "network-like-effects" in places like Silicon Valley. The talent (and money) tends to congregate. Not saying there's no talent, or strictly lesser talent elsewhere, but you can't argue with reality.
Carapace - wrap a shell around any node.js process
You shouldn't rely on the results, certainly, but I don't think they should be taken with a grain of salt. I would suggest the problem with most people (and I'm not claiming to know your background) is that they aren't familiar with the statistics used in reporting the risks. For 23andMe, these are basically just relative risk and absolute risk. But when you look at relative risk (I'm five times as likely to develop Type 1 diabetes), it's much more upsetting than the absolute risk (my risk is 5% over my lifetime instead of the usual 1%). I do think they try and mitigate it with their population pictures (100 figures and X many are colored in to show your likelihood) but I think that at the heart of it their user base (and the population at large) just doesn't really understand statistics well.
My local library is like that. I've had to wait on checking out a PDF because all available copies were taken.

Yay, future!
Financial porn or not, the article still offers an interesting look at how a company or a group of people could be structured and how a "value driven approach" may (or may not) beget success.

The debate on the social "value" of hedge funds and the like is a horse that has been flogged so hard, one doesn't know if it is dead or a sofa. My take is that speculation and trading have been a part of society since we stopped being hunter gatherers and started living in settlements. The difference is that now, a single speculator, given enough technical and financial means (read - leverage) has the ability to truly disrupt the global market, not just the local village market.

So, please, lets not talk about social value - that is irrelevant. In a capitalist system, if there is profit to be made, people will bend whatever rules there are to make that profit. Let us focus instead on the rules and the framework within which hedge funds operate and see what can or cannot be done. But that is way off topic. Apologies.
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interesting - but I didn't totally buy into it. new web communication tools are helping to bring down governments and giving people new freedoms

it is like telling alexander graham bell to not waste his time on the telephone since people are just going to use it to spread gossip and rumor
Cool, I'll check him out, thanks
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>I think it is preferable to teach the children to obey unless there is a moral imperative against doing so

// I'm not teaching my kids to be anarchists ;0) But equally well I'm not happy for them to be drones or to accept the word of others without reflection on the truth/moral good/right action.

>while there is no reason to do this work other than the teacher said so

// That's a pretty good reason and one that, within the school framework is hard to argue against. The only sorts of arguments that will work against such reasoning are those arguing for a greater moral good or similar.

>Things go much smoother this way than they do if people are constantly nagging and arguing over things that really have no incident;

Who decides what has no incident. Things that matter to one don't to another.

Let me give an example of the sorts of issues that he currently has to address, they're pretty low level: The school has a policy where the teachers lead a class out at a time from the building to be met by parents/carers. The teacher tells them to put their coats on, but it's often too hot to do so and my lad is there in summer in a jumper and coat (causing a minor harm to himself) because he's being obedient. Weather here is very changeable. His jumper and coat should rightly be in his bag. I say he should tell the teacher "it's too hot to wear my coat, can I put it in my bag please". The teacher is possibly menopausal and may be having difficulty assessing the temperature - should he just put his coat on, or should he make a [albeit small] stand with the possible outcome being the greater comfort of all the class [ie they wear appropriate levels of clothing]?

>disrespect to authority

I don't consider it disrespectful to question someone’s reason or motive in giving an instruction. Indeed if you can't explain why one should carry out your instructions then you need to question them.

I could be wrong but I think the child questioning the reason to put on a coat in hot weather today, if they learn to reason an argument, is better equipped to question those who have authority in more vital questions tomorrow.

If something has no incident then why demand it's fulfilment?
Facebook is stoppable since it does not model real life social networks
The article started rather well, but then fizzled out. I wish I could write that well though (in form, not the content) :)
No his crime was breaking into a room and placing a computer there accessing a network without permission.
You are correct...I should have said "my introduction to the concept" was courtesy of the game Balance of Power. Which is interesting, but perhaps not HN comment-worthy.
I'd love to hear the experiences of people who've used Munch On Me. I've never bought a coupon for a specific food item before, and am wondering if that feels normal.
Not too likely for a grow house since that takes a while, but meth is quick. If that's what this was, I'm sure it's not the first time (and won't be the last). It's probably a better scam if you don't destroy the place.
Can someone explain when one might choose VVVV.js over processing.js (and vice versa)?
I live in Wenatchee, but work for a company out of Seattle (Downtown). I'd be interested in attending!
Really, downvoted for this? Seriously, I'm tired of the soap opera crap.

802.1X is infinitely more interesting.
Who knows what they are doing behind.

What I'm annoyed about is that they seem like they are trying to commit suicide. I can understand they want to "leverage" their existing assets, but the sacrifice is too much.

As you said, there's no problem if you use IMAP and POP access with your desktop client, and therein lies the problem. Google is supposed to bring everything to the cloud. They used to be good at it. But they are now going backwards and making people become dependent on devices. I already see many people using the mail client Sparrow just for that reason.

I think they've lost their mind being too obsessed with Facebook and Twitter.
It's not clear to me how one is meant to reach that beanbag.
Summary: site specific search is the best way to get illegal download links, not BT.
Why is the author so angry that people in college experiment with radical ideology? Is that a new thing? Why are PDF e-books bad? Why is the economic collapse in quotes and "so-called"?

The only actual philosophy the author ascribes to the dipsters seems to be that they care more about "appearing" than "being", but that's not a new criticism for a new time. It's basically the main theme in The Society of the Spectacle, and that was written in 67.

What am I supposed to do with the information in this article?
> "it could be 'bad' where thawed people are treated like the property of the person who paid to thaw them."

The majority of funding goes into the patient care trust, which is used for upkeep of the patients and (hopefully) eventual revival.

http://www.alcor.org/AboutAlcor/patientcaretrustfund.html

At least with Alcor, your scenario is impossible and I'd be very surprised if CI didn't have an analog.
No, I agree with you. I think the article is a perfect example of what it's trying to criticize.

Re the article: People have always been running their mouths; technology makes that easier, but doesn't fundamentally change it, I think.
Isn't the whole house one big closet?
second lesson - use wireless. One laptop (or better - "gumstix" http://www.gumstix.com/ ) reads and transmits. Another, not physically connected, not in the same room, etc. - receives.