skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are disk device level replication like DRBD that mirrors disks synchronously across network. It's a generic solution for any disk mirroring. MySQL just sits on top of it.

Google probably got some super fast cross datacenter links to allow fast replication. Still the latency will be worse than local mirroring for synchronously replication.
Newsflash: People die.

Yes, it's bad, but they do. Deal with it. Stop being so pathetic. Did you even know him in person? If not, why do you think now is the right time for kitsch? Why not yesterday when lots of people - like everyday- died of hunger and poverty all over the planet? Yeah right, those people never sold you overprized gadgets made in Chinese sweat shops, where people commit suicide by the dozen.

http://i.imgur.com/TI5Mt.gif
Ok, that post is pretty hilariously pro-node. But still, it never mentions using node for anything other than a web server. I'm not seeing the "One True Tool" claim that node fanboys allegedly make.
Competition is good. But, compete 10x better.
There was a link here a week or so ago about a fairly grueling hiring process Palantir uses.
I concede the point. It looks like the litmus test used to be "sweat of the brow", overturned to be "creativity". The question then becomes, are time zones facts, or are they somehow creative expressions of categorization? If not, it's hard to imagine this standing up under the ruling you cite.
I gave a talk where I pointed out that node didn't invent much of anything, but rather assembled a lot of already-proven technologies: http://video.nextconf.eu/video/1914374/nodejs-digs-dirt-abou...

Unnecessary invention is the mother of necessity.
Know what? Humorless bores who think that satire and sarcasm has no place in civilized discourse mostly come off as uneducated rubes, and not as they think, champions of great debate.
What I wrote in the sibling reply still stands, but I should probably emphasize that how we interpret your question is really, really important. In particular, you wrote (emphasis mine):

> What are they doing other than protesting for a government response/solution to their woes?

There are two ways to read that "their":

A) Each person is protesting for a solution to his or her individual woes.
B) They are protesting for a solution to the woes of all of them.

The distinction is important because yes, if all you're protesting for is your own personal well-being, then I would agree that you should get off your sorry ass and just improve yourself.

However, if you are genuinely concerned about the well-being of society as a whole, things are suddenly very different.

I suspect that you are implicitly working off an A-type interpretation, while I am working off a B-type interpretation. That's a likely source of misunderstanding.
History shows many luminaries to be like Jobs was or even worse; ruthless and totally unethical.

Thomas Edison (http://www.reformation.org/thomas-edison.html) comes to mind.
Do you love football and startups? You might be a good fit at Yibish
Which bloggers are saying that you should use node for applications that aren't IO-bound?

I ask because I would like to correct them explicitly.
I think you missed the point by a couple light years. Air escaping means there's room in the case for air to be in the first place. Air molecules aren't magic, and can't occupy the same space as other objects.
A letter to Steve Jobs
Apple's Design Spotlight Shifts to Ive
Ask HN: How often startups get acquired and you get nothing?
Today the startup I worked for got bought out. I am one of the first few Developers with employee stock options. I have given 3 years of my life to this startup. I believed in what we were doing.

During this time I have seen one complete product rewrite, Whole top management being replaced (CEO, CTO, etc), numerous product direction changes.

I worked on some of the most critical pieces of the software. I lead the last rewrite as the Principal Architect (with very high control on what to be build). This last rewrite lead the startup being bought out by a very large enterprise company.

In the end I got nothing. They tell me my stock options are worth nothing. This has happen to me second time. How often this happen? Is this normal?

I am frustrated. The only solace is that they are keeping my team so at least i know my team has a good home. I have decide not to be part of this acquisition. I am Frustrated and not sure what to do next.

PS: It was a Venture Capital backed startup
Steve Jobs: World’s greatest imperfection
There is no doubt he left his mark on the world.

However, I'd bet that > 90% of people who are praising him now would never have enjoyed working for him in any capacity.
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He's not a troll. This is simply a clash of cultures.

In the node community, it is considered impolite to discuss performance without reproducible benchmarks and specific numbers. Mr. Dziuba, a newcomer to our shores, did exactly this. While many of us were offended, Glen decided to give him the benefit of the doubt, and provide the example program that Ted had neglected to share.

The results are facts, not opinions. I'm not sure how you could think they're trollish.
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I hope you've held onto your shares!
Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility
Jailbreakme said Thank you Steve
Help Amit Gupta (Photojojo founder) find a bone marrow donor
Contrary to popular belief, the pyramids weren't built by slaves. They needed precision and skill.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/pyramids.html#who
I was more referring to the "cliffhanger" "didn't" suffix.

I suspect the above post is getting moderated into oblivion because the impression is that I'm complaining about the Jobs coverage, but that's not the case at all. I'm not at all bothered by all the Jobs submissions. He did so much to make me not hate computers.

I don't think comparisons made between he and Edison/Ford/etc are hyperbole at all.
+1 for absolute relative social local time!
Steve jobs "a marketing Jesus" by CNN - about right.. [fwd to 3:50]
Incredible list. Here's a user-friendly crowd sourced version: http://toolz.me/
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"In the end, that's all most Americans are asking for. It's not a lot. You don't expect government to solve all your problems. You want to be self-reliant and independent. You want to be responsible for your own lives and take care of your own families. But what you do expect is a government that isn't run by the special interests. What you do expect is that if you're willing to work hard, you should be able to find a job that pays a decent wage, that you shouldn't go bankrupt when you get sick, that you should be able to send your children to college even if you're not rich, and that you should be able to retire with dignity and security." -Barack Obama

"Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people." -John F. Kennedy

"In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; . . ." -FDR
Not to sounds too spammy, but it's something I've been working on fixing. Giving people a chance to list on their own profile: http://Toolz.me
The first time I have gone onto /. in years and the first comment reconfirms my decision to leave:

Is this the type of crap we can come to expect now that CmdrTaco is gone?

And it is scored 5 "Insightful" sigh

/me hugs HN and will never compare it to Reddit again.
No link included. One of these?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Wealthcare%3A+Any+Rand%27s+Impact+...
For SSH I use Prompt (by Panic) on my iPad. It is excellent.
It includes autocompletion for past commands, which makes using it with the touch screen keyboard much easier.

For heavy use, you probably want to get a physical keyboard.

I don't have any experience with RDP apps, so can't comment there.

http://panic.com/prompt/support.html
Tim Berners-Lee: Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer
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If anything could make his family feel a little better it would be this.
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I'll bet some of the people who willingly did so for years didn't really like "working for Steve". If you get enough satisfaction out of the results, though, that doesn't really matter as much.

People sometimes stay in otherwise intolerably boring jobs for years because they really like their bosses and/or coworkers, and sometimes they stay in incredibly exciting and fulfilling jobs for years despite loathing same.
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'just on how to present data the "right" way'

If you're involved with data and humans, I can think of few things more professional than spending the time to understand how they come together.

It's highly ironic that you're arguing for TL;DR and using the Powerpoint work as an example -- his argument was precisely that deeper thought and attention were warranted than was generally possible given the presentation formats commonly in use.
I like the "awful prophets/awesome profits" contrast. Cleverly phrased. It really underlines the truth about the tremendous success Apple has with all kinds of people, all over the world, no matter what all the "haters" say.
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It has its flaws (a bit of laginess on 3G) but Panic's Prompt is my favourite of the several I've used. It has support for CTRL and arrow keys on Bluetooth keyboards, which a few of the other's didn't support the last time I tried them.
Although they competed very strongly there was still very deep respect. Very admirable.

The quote “It’s your heart running around outside your body.”in reference to his own children is how I think we can perceive his love for his products and why we in turn loved his creations. Same passion.
If this continues, we'll need a pirate bay for open source.
Amit's a friend-of-several-of-my-friends (we overlapped at Amherst for 3 years), so this has been making the rounds within my social networks. It's interesting to see it show up here - I kinda wonder if I know the submitter but don't know that I know the submitter...

Getting on the National Barrow Marrow Registry can be very rewarding in ways beyond helping just one startup founder. I'm not of South Asian descent, so I can probably do nothing for Amit, but I registered at a marrow drive at Google a couple years back, and it was literally the most painless thing ever (just a cheek swab and fill out a form). Actually donating marrow is not quite so painless, but I had a friend who donated stem cells, and she said that despite the discomfort, it was one of the most rewarding things she'd ever done.
I would be very interested to see a single real-world use for a fixed-point combinator. I have a reasonable understanding of what one does, but I still haven't got the faintest idea why you would ever need one, nor have I seen a single situation in which applying one doesn't make the situation unimaginably more complicated to understand.
Most of their money comes from leeching off the government, so their history comes as no surprise. It's also why their reputation factors not a whit until citizens demand that government contractors behave themselves. Palantir should have lost their ability to profit on the taxpayer dime for what they were involved in.
This probably the best Jobs's obituary. It's very personal. The admiration and respect that Eric Schmidt have for Steve is heart-warming and the eloquence is impressive.
So what would happen if I dropped an Iphone 5 in water?
Statistically, it will always be just about lunch time, so I think we can just dispense with clocks.
Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest "Reshape" Our Web
You know, I'm generally a huge fan of Fry's, but this article left much to be desired. He was simply factually wrong on a great many points.

"If different companies are making the firmware, software, chips, screens, operating system, radios and cases the results will always be far less coherent and usable devices."

I hope he's just being sloppy with his language (unlikely for Fry) and not actually suggesting that Apple makes all of these components. The latter would suggest an insufficient level of familiarity with the products he extols to be taken seriously. He sounds very much like the ignorant "fanboi" he laments that some will call him.

"The frustratingly silly patent wars that are raging around the world between Google, Samsung, Apple and dozens of other companies would be a sad obsequy to Jobs’s colossal achievements, but with such gigantic sums of money in so huge a market at stake it is little wonder that others will do all they can to “crack” Apple."

What? He seems to think that Apple is the defensive party in the patent mess? Again, a disconnect from reality that is disappointing from someone I hold in such high regard.

I usually quite enjoy Fry's writing, but this piece was sloppy and poorly-researched, if indeed it was researched at all. Disappointing.
Palantir is one of the few unsung heros of the valley. I've had a few opportunities to hangout there, it's something to see. These guys are sharp.

Are they still throwing cards "everywhere". My only criticism is, it's a guy shop. I don't think any girls work there.
I switched to doing a lot of Flex/Flash/Actionscript and JavaScript related work. I was basically working along the entire stack when I was doing .NET work.
"But I can definitely say that the mythos of the well-earning "self-made" IT man was a major blemish on the idea, not an asset."

Yes.
Why? What does the US have to offer to Sweden in return for implementing this legislation by their design?
Steve Jobs Was Not God
This happens more often than not. So many things could have influenced why you got next to nothing in your stock options. Depending on how much money was taken by the company, your stock options that you received on day one were likely diluted over and over and over again. (Whereas, investors likely kept their percentage of the company by maintaining their stake). It's the unfortunate part of the investment game. Employees (and employee stock option pools) often are the last ones to benefit from the dilution.
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I can be convinced otherwise, but this doesn't seem to be within the spirit of my free agreement with Dropbox. It's as if I took my host's invitation to "make myself at home" literally, and ate all his ice cream while he was at work.
Ya, I picked up a wireless keyboard from Apple today for exactly that reason.
No, it's not "definitely" anything in Europe, the database copyright issue is much more nuanced and has assorted exceptions, limitations, and requirements that normal copyrighted works do not, and courts tend to write small novels on the subject whenever an applicable case comes up.

(Not defending it, the concept of database copyright is mostly stupid, but you can't just say "databases are copyrightable", because that's not how the law actually works anywhere.)
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I have no respect for Stephen Wolfram. He is completely shameless. This article made me more cynical about him than I ever have been.

I mean I went into this article assuming he'd talk a little about his products because that's just how he is, but somehow he managed to work every last one of his god damned products in great detail into this "memorial" for Steve Jobs. He manages to turn everything into a promotional piece for himself or for his company's shit - even someone else's death. It is nauseating.

Just compare this to any other post about Steve from any other executive. It's completely tasteless and inappropriate.
I stopped buying physical media since I've started traveling, but I am still putting them on my wish lists for when I'm home and people want to spend money. So practically both.
While we're at it:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -TJ

"If a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists." -MLK Jr.
Amazing piece.

I've always had this mental image of all the tech greats knowing each other personally. I presumed Tim Berners-Lee and Steve Jobs had long discussions over a cup of coffee or beer. I'm somewhat bummed that's not the case.
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meh, get rid of daylight savings time first, then we can talk about unifying time zones. baby steps.
In this case it just wasn't funny.

(Yes, I know, subjective, blah blah blah. I don't care.)
That's not how I read the second point.

As I understood it, he is saying the fact that Apple is the offensive party in the patent mess is a sad obsequy to Jobs’s otherwise colossal achievements.
>the issue hinges on intent - if you know that you're exceeding authorized access to obtain something of value.

entertainment value?
I bet your start-up isn't a business
No air bubbles -- it doesn't exist.
Thanks for both corrections. I just downloaded the beta and both methods of invoking the dictionary work. Great news, I am a happy switcher now.
Being a cancer battler myself, i'd buy one, especially if it went to a charity that is actually doing good things with the money (and not one of the "foundations" that just use donations to fund their nice offices and TV ads).
Maybe we can put color lines back. Sorry for bad english.
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And the fact that Google likes to shut down services.
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The US wields all kinds of influence over a nation like Sweden. If the US raised a few barriers to trade with Sweden, it would have a drastic effect on Sweden's economy. Many Swedish industries depend on exporting to the US, and while US citizens could just import similar goods from elsewhere if Swedish goods became more expensive, Swedish businesses would lose a gigantic and wealthy market that they depend on selling to.

I'm sure that Sweden depends on the US as a military ally as well, it provides visas for many Swedish citizens regularly, and much more. At the end of the day, Sweden just needs the US more than the US needs Sweden, and that's why the US can argue from a position of power for its own industries.
I don't think that's really justified. Jobs had a long career, and only two real industry-dominating hits: the Apple II (most of which was Woz's work) and the iPhone. A lot of the hyperbole we're seeing right now is because Jobs had the mis/fortune to die at the very peak of his hit.

Had we all been doing the same analysis in the mid-90's when NeXT was failing and Pixar a mostly academic curiosity, I doubt anyone would be talking about how great a judge of the "cost-benefit analysis of perfection" he was.
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I'm pretty sure this happens a lot. Reporters get word of famous persons's death and then frantically try to be the first to get a reaction from the deceased's family, friends, etc.

But yes, it's quite terrible.
"Dario Autiero [...] counters that"

"Contaldi admits"

"Contaldi already has some company"

I wish they'd stop this. It's not a fight between the OPERA team and the world. They're not trying to get people to accept their result. This is everybody collectively trying to figure out why the data came out this way, with the expected result that there's a mistake somewhere.

Contaldi pointed out what he thought it might be, OPERA is saying "we don't think that's it, here's why", not "you're wrong, our results are correct".
Show HN: Branded QR Code Generator
Release Post - http://thinglet.com/releases/branded-qr-code-generator

It's in extreme alpha form, showing off and taking feedback on utilitarian usage right now. Hope you guys enjoy and find some use out of it. Design coming soon, I promise!
Release Post - http://thinglet.com/releases/branded-qr-code-generator

It's in extreme alpha form, showing off and taking feedback on utilitarian usage right now. Hope you guys enjoy and find some use out of it. Design coming soon, I promise!
Google+ entrenches itself, while Facebook stumbles all over itself
This has been a feature of Android since launch, it's part of the w3c spec for protocol specific handlers (and is already implemented in Chrome Dev [Google Calendar offered to handle all webcal: links for me]), and it will be better suited via Web Intents in the coming months.

Also, there's really no explaination by the author as to how fb://profile/drivebyacct2 is any better than http://facebook.com/profile/drivebyacct2. Now there will be a landrush of people trying to claim protocol prefixes now too? Why bother, domains are already intrensic enough to online brands, why create a whole new area to deal with? Not to mention user confusion. Yes, that's "eff-bee colon slash slash", "no, don't put www first", etc.
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I know of a lot of female Palantir employees. They're mainly working in Palantir Finance, not Palantir Government, and in a variety of roles, not particularly programming. This is pretty standard for Silicon Valley too, unfortunately.
What about Asana for time management?
Anyone care to do a tldr;?
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Love it. We're using shopify under ecommerce and I've looked at quite a few others.

Shopify - minimum $29
Amazon Web Stores - $24.99
BigCommerce - $24.95

I could add more data in a sheet and share it if you want.
> That said, how can that old game be more fun that TF2?

EMP Grenades.
I'd much rather each community select a few people who they think are the best at knowing what time it is and then take an average of them.
If everyone used UTC you'd still have many of the same problems, just in reverse. For example, you can reasonably guess that in any country, an office will be staffed on weekdays from roughly 9-5 local time. If we all operated on UTC, then you'd need to look up in a big table what times the Sydney office operated.

It is useful to have a shared understanding of where in the day you expect an event to happen. E.g. 1pm is going to be around lunchtime whether you are in Sydney or New York.

Also, dates have exactly the same problems as time zones - the date starts at midnight local time. If lcoal time changes, then for part of the day, so does the date.
Read the second part of the second point again.

"but with such gigantic sums of money in so huge a market at stake it is little wonder that others will do all they can to “crack” Apple."
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I couldn't read the whole thing. Once I saw the he mentioned NKS in the first paragraph, I had to x-out.
Why am i required to enable javascript just to read text on Joe Hewitt's blog? No degradation at all? :(
> I don't know about his diet, but I do know it's virtually impossible to have healthy lifestyle with the responsibilities he has. He might have needed Apple, but there is a chance he put his body over the limit and ignored symptoms

How do you know? He is reported to have spent a lot of time with his family. It is, in fact, quite possible to lead a very busy lifestyle and still remain healthy. I'm sure many of us here do exactly that.
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