skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really need to get out of the HN bubble. I could pick 10 random developers off the street and I'm guessing you'll get 1 or 2 that know what git is.
While the media may do stories like this often, I feel like the question is often more along the lines of "how do we save all of the bits!?" and less about other, broader ways we can think about saving the information, as opposed to just saving the data.

For me, the more relevant part of this story was:

"By some estimates, that’s nearly 30 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever published. Even if we had perfectly stable storage, could we ever have enough to preserve everything? The short answer is no — but only because we’re trying to replicate the practices used for decades to maintain paper archives."
My favorite in the "not-getting-it" department from this list is Reed Hastings of NETflix. Way back in 2003, I remember being struck by how brilliant the name NETflix was. If I'd had the idea for DVDsByMail, I would have opened DVDsByMail.com Hastings was smart enough to call the company NETflix, which works fine for DVDs by mail, but really shines as the name of a streaming media company.

So, I find it hilarious to see people writing him off presuming he didn't have a streaming media plan. It is in the name!

Also, Linus shouldn't matter. I've met him. He's a decent guy, and that he "doesn't matter" in the way Steve Jobs does matter, is a good thing. Linux should be bigger than him... at some point if your platform is dependent on you that's a weakness in the platform.
Actually, when you look at articles where experts discuss the results of such bombing simulations, they look positively pathetic compared to our fears of them.

I once saw an article put it like this : if 10 terrorists get loose on the streets of any major city and get to shoot unopposed for 30 minutes, the death toll will be greater than that of an atomic bomb. 100 meter distance from an atomic bomb 100kT blast, behind a normal glass window, you should be safe. Even at 50 meters there's more than 50% chance for survival, unless directly exposed to the blast.

Atomic bombs have zero power to end the world, nor do they have the power to make more than a few buildings collapse. They will, however, ignite lots of fires, which will prove fatal to paper houses, which go up in firestorms in minutes. Those houses, of course, don't really exist anywhere outside of Japan ...
I would need to go over the details but getting this for a lower price would be good. So yes, I would be interested.
How Visa plans to dominate mobile payments
BootCamp 4.0 is Windows 7 only
I'm not a fan of Groupon either, but damn, just because they are easy to poke at doesn't mean we should.

Investors are supposed to perform due diligence before investing in a company, and if they didn't, then they weren't scammed, they were stupid. Groupon's scheme is not that clever to the point where it can obfuscate the truth from an equally clever investor.

This is like blaming McDonald's for having hot coffee.
The Infinite Cat Project
Haha, did you just see that in the lightning talk at the Berlin Desktop Summit?
You're making one very big assumption, which is that professional and well informed investors would not want any part in it if they knew it wasn't a sustainable business model.

They might know better than we do when this thing is going to blow up. Or they might have an idea for a transition to a more sustainable business model once Groupon has reached ubiquity.

Right now it looks to me like they have misjudged how quickly opinions would turn against Groupon's business model or rather against their accounting practices. An SEC investigation isn't something any investor, no matter how professional and knowledgeable, wants or expects to see.
Analyzing the Codes in the Oslo Bomber's Manifesto
Is it the case the group buying model is inherently flawed as a business, or did Groupon screw it up just because they didn't execute properly and over-expanded? (assuming they did screw up, based on the recent reports analyzing their finances.)

In other words, what are the chances that other group buying sites will go downhill as will?
Korea’s Tesco reinvents grocery shopping with QR-code “stores”
Linode down more than 50 mins
My linode server can not be reached via web and ssh.
Posted a support ticket but no answer.

Do you have better choice for web app?

http://notemoz.com/ can not be accessed for longer than 1 hour.
The ability to sue. No tax to America, no suit in American court
I love this idea. I can't own a house or a car without paying tax on it every year. If they insist that its intellectual "property", then they'd best start treating it like property.
TL; DR; ?
There is if you want to keep the copyright. If someone copies your copyright and you knowingly do nothing about it, you'll lose it.
LIBYA: NATO's Objective is to "Create a State of Chaos" | Global Research TV
I have a Unicomp Spacesaver that I've been using for the past several months. I love it, and the RSI I had from before I started using it seems to have diminished significantly (although I have changed a bunch of other variables). It is even hard to go back to the built-in keyboard on my 13" Macbook Pro (so mushy).

People often comment that the Unicomp is loud, but no one has complained. More like "that's legit."
Secure your browsing using a home VPN
Antimatter belt around Earth discovered by Pamela craft
Many a brain have pondered the same question since the beginning of time.
For instance, you can meditate over the following koan:

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The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton.
Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's
closures."

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.

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Anton van Straaten in
http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
The Groupon IPO could easily not happen, given the current market turmoil and the SEC scrutiny. If forced to wait several months before the IPO, the company may need to raise more money privately, or could basically fail and fall into the arms of a suitor like Google.
Ironically, there were some pretty powerful investors scammed by Madoff as well. Herd mentality occurs everywhere.
Someone who isn't me had this to say:

"Be careful, the mail archive contains dozens of .exe virus files. Verified by SecurityEssentials. If you accidentally run them then you'll infect yourself. (This implies many of the officers are using infected computers, since these exes are in their email.)"
Pongr: The picture-sharing game
First, if you can't afford an UX guy, even just paying him something fair, then why even hire one? Work with him as contractor first but for a fix rate rate. That way he doesn't have to leave his paying job and gets to work with the team. Nights or weekends whatever works for him.

Second, again you probably don't need an UX guy now. Dig into your heart, whats not working for Minutebox? User adoption or just the plain old people are just not finding it. If that's is the problem, then you won't turn it around by hiring a great UX guy. You only need the UX guy when you get tons of users and you need someone to make the experience of using minutebox better for them.
Spoiler: for small values of infinite apparently.. 1720 in this case
He ... doesn't have an attorney, of course. Because if you're not paying people you owe, how you gonna get a lawyer?

Good luck to you. (At least you can be guaranteed you won't be coming up against a brilliant legal defense.)
@watchandwait: They could also stop customer acquisition temporarily to get costs in line at the risk of not growing. Better than going BK which seems possible given how much they are spending for each customer.

Other companies have already gone public that filed around the same time as them (although raising less $) - which may hint that institutional investors aren't buying their story (the SEC making them disclose their actual losses instead of a BS metric certainly isn't going to help either).
You have a high chance of being able to use a DMCA request to take down the work as well.

If he's scamming instead of not actually having money, this may compel payment.
Steven Rambam. Privacy is Dead - Get Over It (PI's view)
Tesla got a bit of backlash when they sued Top Gear, but it seems they were right to do it all along.
I've found a 20% deposit be an issue for no corporation (high fours to high five figures)
For reference, here's the discussion of Top Gear's response to the Tesla lawsuit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2400822
Ask HN: Recommend an honest, decent recruiter in NYC?
Could anyone recommend a good recruiter in NYC, i.e. not a sleazy ratbag.

I need to find a Java gig at a faceless megacorp to pay the bills.

Thanks.
SPOILER ALERT: The first link's top comment reads "You have to give the guy credit for <foo and bar and baz>", ruining the story. :/
Why are programmers afraid of not using semicolons in JavaScript?
Startups Can Make You Work Hard and Still Be Happy
To be fair to the writers of this article, M. Zuckerberg took the criticism of himself seriously and worked hard to become a great executive -- the news affected reality. One could argue that if all the press about Facebook (and Zuckerberg)at the time was positive, Facebook might not be as successful today.
I'm curious why Dancer keep being attacked.. It was recently attacked on http://cpanratings.perl.org/ as well (but those "ratings" have now been removed).
Top Gear is a great show. Its funny,witty and soooo different from the usual PC shite on the beeb (extreme individualism or Libertarianism,extreme are they serious?),which is why its so popular.

Long live Clarkson.
This may apply with OS X apps, but with iOS apps it doesn't make sense. For $0.99 you have little to lose if you download my app and you hate it, but to make a dumbed down free version that will entice you to buy my paid app I have to redesign it. I have to think from a marketing perspective. What can I take out to make it painful enough for you to buy? Do I put in a nag screen? Do I put it on a timer? If I am going to do all that I might as well make the app free and put in iAds.
Most characters in the show are much older than in the books[1]. That's especially apparent in children, a few years make quite a difference. Apart from the age, I find Cersei and Sandor misrepresented.

[1] http://alexandral.livejournal.com/347217.html
I find this extremely frustrating. It must be hard enough attempting to push forward a big change with a new product that many consumers don't know about and when a program with such a large audience actively tries to sabotage the effort I just don't understand it.

At least this time they're not trying to take down a new company, but the damage they try and cause to electric vehicles' reputation is unfair. The strange thing is that there are some reasons not to get an electric car (if you need to make extremely long trips often, the potential battery replacement issue after ten years) and rather than discuss these they make up reasons and fake failures. For many people electric vehicles are a great option and hopefully the direction manufacturers continue to go in.

Why try to destroy them?
or Imap
I wish this distinction was so hard and true. It has unfortunately been my experience that to address the assumptions of most economic thinkers, political engagement is required. Bringing up heterodox or marxist _economic_ arguments tends to be met with political resistance. I will redouble my efforts to keep the distinction alive.
I suspect part of the problem is Americans gravitate towards "cool", when the innovation needed is often mundane. Case in point: the massively expensive, relatively unreliable (manned) space shuttle vs the low cost, highly reliable Soyuz rocket.
It's the front end that the github people have created which is desirable. They could have created something very similar with Darcs or Mercurial and it would of been just as nice to use.
"Its funny,witty..."

Those two descriptions are a matter of opinion, not everyone agrees with that. I'm a huge car guy, yet personally I think Clarkson is a clown. I understand the show is more geared towards entertainment but they use their massively popular show to blatantly lie and misguide people to push their own agendas.
I wouldn't necessarily say that it's human nature, but Western culture. Yes, there are those who most value surpassing others at any cost, but that is their personal culture, and not the singularity of human nature. I think that people choose which roles of their multi-faceted human nature to act upon and which ones to avoid.

It's possible that an education that teaches the values mentioned in the article would give similar advantages as those in the past. The difficulty is that a large source of people's education is the surrounding culture itself, so people pick up values that they see others pursuing. So if young people see the example of adults endlessly accumulating wealth and spending frivolously, then those observing think, "hm, maybe this is a good idea," and so they emulate, and the problem continues. And for those who have been doing and valuing the same the same thing as their neighbours for so long, just assume that it's "human nature," and not some human choice with many advantages and disadvantages.
Yuck. She claims that what we're doing to preserve old data isn't working[1], so the solution is to emulate what vintage video game fans do - keep circulating the same old games and pouring a great deal of time into preserving them and (rarely) making marginal improvements. Not a very radical idea, given that that's already what people do, well outside video game groups. (The torrent/"piracy" society is the most obvious example.)

The other idea she has is that experts in the field should make decisions about what to keep and what to ditch. Aside from her example (curators to decide what data is good and what data is bad? Have you never taken a science class?), this is a good idea - and an obvious one.

[1] A dubious claim that she doesn't bother to back up with any specific and correct examples.

(<flame necessary="no">This is what happens when english professors write about technology.</flame> )
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I can't believe in 80+ comments no one has defended Ballmer. They basically predicted his imminent retirement but in reality Windows 7 was released and became the best-selling of version of Windows ever. Also, it looks as if he has locked in his CEO position of Microsoft for years to come. You don't have to be a Microsoft fan-boy to point out this article was wrong in their future prediction of Steve Ballmer.
Living On The Edge
Direct links to the four parts of the video, in MP4 format:

http://stream.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:8080/download/podcast/HPIK_...

http://stream.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:8080/download/podcast/HPIK_...

http://stream.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:8080/download/podcast/HPIK_...

http://stream.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:8080/download/podcast/HPIK_...
Here is a good discussion about overriding include to act like extend. This craziness is all over the place.

http://yehudakatz.com/2009/11/12/better-ruby-idioms/
Major iOS Hackers Spotted At DEFCON'19 In Las Vegas
Enjoy Paris Hilton:the famous actress live on tv
Google - Klingon
Battles of Khalkhin Gol ( 1939 )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol#Afterma...

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"	Historians rethink key Soviet role in Japan defeat (google.com) "

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1608923

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=11402184

The impact of the lightning Soviet advance comes through in the words of Japan's wartime prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki, urging his cabinet to surrender.

He is quoted in Hasegawa's book as saying, "If we miss (the chance) today, the Soviet Union will take not only Manchuria, Korea and Sakhalin, but also Hokkaido. We must end the war while we can deal with the United States."

V-J Day, the day Japan ceased fighting, came on Aug. 15 (Aug. 14 in the U.S.), and Japan's formal surrender followed on Sept. 2.

Dominic Lieven, a professor of Russian government at the London School of Economics, said anti-Soviet sentiment in the West tended to minimize Soviet military achievements.

Also, "very few Anglo-Americans saw the Soviet offensive in the Far East with their own eyes, and Soviet archives were not open to Western historians subsequently," he said.

More surprising, even in Russia the campaign was largely ignored. Although the scale of the Soviet victory was unprecedented, 12,000 dead against Japan hardly compared with the life-and-death struggle against Nazi Germany, in which 27 million Soviets died.

"The importance of the operation was huge," said retired Gen. Makhmut Gareyev, president of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences, who took part in the 1945 campaign. "By entering the war with militarist Japan ... the Soviet Union precipitated the end of World War II."
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"Look and feel" has been tested in court and found not to be something you can protect via IP, a couple of decades ago, and on a few occasions since. Just as a steering wheel is not something car makers could lay exclusive claim to, a touchscreen UI or a windows and mouse UI are not ideas that can be protected via patents; though, currently specific implementations could be (but, I'm opposed to that).

All of your arguments in this comment are about look and feel, and not about patentable technology.

So, you believe current patent law is not broad enough and should cover even more? I don't see how you could defend such a position, if you're a software developer...if you write any non-trivial software, you're already violating dozens, if not hundreds, of patents. How could you possibly believe adding more scope to software patents could be a positive force for good in the world?
Del Casher and the Story of the Wah-Wah Pedal
tl;dr: Time to masturbate.
they didn't fake anything, they just showed what would happen if your car ran out of juice.

what is it with companies, who expect the media to suspend critical thinking when covering their products.

Electrical cars are great...but the logistics of them still need to be highlighted for consumers to make an informed decision.

to ignore that you are literally up shit's creek if your car runs out of juice...is just intellectually dishonest
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Great recommendation. Bored with your life? HAVE KIDS! Listen to this man.
My short answer to this riddle is a combination of factors -- incompetent bureaucracies in the public and private sector that discourage unique (or sometimes brilliantly common sense) solutions to problems, an educational system that's increasingly based around useless metrics at the expense of true cognitive growth, and an overall crisis of integrity brought on by decades of crass commercialism and the erosion of basic respect for oneself and other people.
Rackspace Cloud.
I use and recommend rackspace.
On the other hand, Google probably isn't expecting ITA to abandon Lisp anytime soon.
I think people can take what they want from Top Gear, it's entertainment, not factual TV.

That episode made me wish I could afford a Leaf, it seemed really well engineered and I knew they were being silly about electric cars on purpose because they are "neanderthal" car dinosaurs that refuse to adapt.

They were trying really hard to find ways to insult the Leaf but fell far short - "range" was all they could come up with. Sad to learn they actually had to fake it though, it's pathetic on their part. I'd still buy it with their demonstrated range - if it was twice that, even better.

But 60mpg+ gas/diesel cars are common in the UK anyway, so the Leaf is less dramatic there. I'd love this one too but they will never let Americans have it:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_37/b40990604...

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/02/ford-will-give/
http://status.linode.com/
When electric cars become more reliable, easy-to-use, less expensive (overall) then gasoline powered cars, then nothing anyone says will stop the takeover. Short of destroying the company itself, the cars will sell themselves. You can't fool all the people all the time. The happy customers will tell their friends, and nothing the Pope, President and Top Gear can say to hinder that.
What affects your customer shopping decisions?
To be honest, there is no proof that the developer made up false reviews. In fact, the description in the middle of the page states pretty clearly that this App provides perceived notion of security and it's just a decoy.

So what to take away from this? For one, 99% of AppStore users don't fucking read the description. In fact I would have bet that the only two things that made them bought the app what the icon and name.
The Nixon Shock. How Nixon stopped backing the dollar with gold
My 27" Imac has been a real pleasure to use. I program 80% of the time, and that much screen real estate can really help you keep everything you need for a certain development task visible at a glance. I have a larger 30" 2560x1600 screen on my linux box, and the more the merrier. It is worth it.

Also, I bought mine through apple's refurb program, and it's been running perfectly. I would suggest that as a good way to save some money.
Id stick with linode still
I wonder if there is a comparison between this form of online shopping vs. traditional online shopping via Freshdirect. Perhaps, the visual experience makes it more appealing and gives it the feel of real shopping as opposed to using a text search or link clicking.
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I think it can safely be said now that if you're using Top Gear as a buyer's guide when shopping for a car (and considering an electric car), you're doing it wrong.

I love the show. It's the most entertaining "car show" on television. But I've never had the inclination to take what these guys say to heart. By that I mean, 90% of the time the hosts are reviewing Bugattis, Ferraris and Lambos, which is a world completely disconnected from my own. Can one really expect practical reviews?
I'm an ultra low Frequency trader. Bought some index funds 5 years ago. Talk to my broker once a year. Recently got out of one fund, into another. Whoo hoo!

I need a product that notifies me if there's something I need to do, like deal with a bankruptcy or a fund is being discontinued and I need to reinvest. As it is, the process is a) receive half a dozen mailing each month about funds and b) throw them all away (too much information).

I know, my broker can deal with all that. So, can he be replaced? Yes, surely. Anybody got ideas?
I'm glad you used the words "intellectually dishonest." sure, you can show what would happen if you ran out of electricity. You could show leaving on your journey with only half the electricity needed to make the trip, you could show the car telling you how far it could go before requiring a charge, you could show the GPS telling you you can't make it to your destination, and you could show the car being driven around a loop to run out of charge.

Would that be intellectually honest?
Only one facility of many is affected. Appears to be the DC rather than just Linode's racks.

Outages are inevitable with any provider, redundant architecture across multiple providers is what you need, not moving to a different provider.