skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noprocrast page is entirely different page from "Unknown or expired link"
Seems expensive.

2TB drives are now around $70 (Maybe even cheaper if you buy in bulk).

135TB = 68 drives.

68 * $70 = $4,760

Is that rack so expensive?
I see. Indeed, the rules are so simple it's insulting.
The problem could made less painful by including a link back to http://news.ycombinator.com on the "Unknown or expired link" page. That would save me fishing around with the mouse and the back button to get a new start.
Can you expand a little further on your pain point?
For those who want to roll their own automated backup of GMail (or any other service that offers IMAP):

http://offlineimap.org/
It's a cool hack, but if you are going to have a server in front of a web server why not use something like Varnish instead and get caching as well as load balancing.
> CoffeeScript is meant to be synaptic sugar on top of JS. Dart is a language with different semantics that happens to compile to JS. As such it includes a lot of runtime code. More appropriate examples would be Emscripten, Parenscript, or ClojureScript.

I think you are correct here. But there is still something very worrying about what Dart compiles into. It isn't just the amount of code, which is what most people are discussing. It's the content too.

The content of the code makes it look like much of that code will be run all the time. In other words, it isn't just some library functions that are called rarely, it is stuff that will end up being called from your inner loops. I might be wrong here, but that's what the code suggests to me.

In that respect, the Dart compiler looks different from both CoffeeScript and Emscripten. CoffeeScript by design compiles into straightforward JS, and Emscripten manages to compile into mostly-straightforward JS as well, which is why it has decent performance. But what Dart compiles into looks like it would not run very fast on most JS engines. It might run fast on Chrome, if they tune its inlining and other capabilities for Dart-like code, but I doubt that would hold anywhere else.

Again, though, I have not profiled the generated code, I just took a look at it, so I might be wrong.
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Full list of tutorials http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Category:Articles . I am sure more gems will be added in future. Great find. Thanks shawndumas :).
Spotify operating at a loss due to music licensing fees
Please don't call people or their work 'moronic' (or the like) here.
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Clearly it is licensing fees that are killing music streaming.
Considering this is a new language, why allow nullable references in the first place? What you call good practice I actually consider a curse.
Fascinating read and absolutely gorgeous to look at. This is the guy behind Magic Ink http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk
Consider SoundManager2 (http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/). It allows controlling sounds via HTML5 or Flash via a JavaScript API without any UI overhead.
Yeah, it'd be much better to plunge the economy back into the apartheid-era embargo days* and let AIDS ravage the country even more.

*It was "cowardice" in the face of economic reprisal that was responsible for the end of apartheid, I might add.
They're using 3TB drives
The prices are entirely laid out in part 3, titled "Real World Backblaze Costs". http://bioteam.net/2011/08/real-world-backblaze-costs/
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For anyone who is interested in the article, I strongly recommend reading "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said

It's about how the counter-culture attitude of the 60s helped inspire the PC wave of innovation. Drug use is one of the core topics, but it is not romanticized. The book is very "matter of fact" in its analysis of how drugs were involved in the evolution of the PC.
The box has 48 slots, so they must use 3 TB drives. They may be not completely crazy and use professional, not desktop drives. A 3TB pro drive costs about $200.
Don't know why there is hatred about slashdot here? There is still some quality discussion with insightful comment happening in slashdot like this following link

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/1438230/ask-slashdot-...
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This is essentially a measure of how much turd polishing has been applied to your browser. To people who think that furious effort mummifying design faults with a flurry of band-aids is a good substitute for fundamental design quality and objective, external results this is fantastic. To people who think otherwise this is decidedly underwhelming.
I just calculated the cost of me owning my car. I don't commute to work via car, I pay a bit under 300/mo pre-tax for an express bus to/from work at about 25-45 minute ride.

My wife has been doing bike commuting to work whenever possible.

Hard to get my daughter to her pre-school without car.

Ok so here goes, in 2 years when my lease is up:

I will save $5500 on my car payments + insurance (NYC). I will then save probably another 3-4k or so on gas costs... So that's about 8-9k give or take.

From 8-9k, subtract about 2k in car needs. We will have additional expenses that are met with a car like taking kid to doctor that is not easily reachable. So a cab here or there (eh its not expensive) and renting zipcar here and there.

We already shop fresh direct so it wont change our shopping too much.

So thats about 6-7k that I save per year. That means I can pay about 500-580 more for an apartment. Or just buy an ipad every month, or just save that money for future needs. Maybe spend an extra 1-2k on transportation needs a year. Basically cars are expensive. Incredible that people would work for minimum wage and still commute like this, its unthinkable.
What would the electric bill and cooling cost be? Power bill is quite expensive in data center.
> I had mystical experiences where I thought I understood that the whole world was connected together, and I was connected to the world, and other deep insights. I think this was just brain-addled delusion, not any insight into how things really are.

Hasn't this view been borne out by modern science? The fact that we are made of the same stuff as the dirt and the stars, and that there really is no dividing line between us and the universe, and by extension each other is, I think, a supremely important revelation. I'm curious as to why you dismissed this as a delusion?
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Temp does not matter as much as has been thought. See:

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.html

IIRC, up to about 40 C, failure rates are pretty flat as a function of temperature. The paper has some nice graphs.

There is one other large-scale study in circulation that showed the same thing, but I don't recall the source.
What I really like about this article is that after the graphs, he gives a full data table with the actual data he used to generate the graphs. I would love to see that in more articles. As it is, it's very unusual to see actual raw data even in peer reviewed science articles, which is something that has always amazed me there isn't more complaints about.
You need to go back to the top of the page (not the "related posts" at the bottom ... >_>) and find part 3:

http://bioteam.net/2011/08/real-world-backblaze-costs/

Projected cost from Backblaze was $7384, for drives at $120 each and other parts sourced in quantity. A lot of the expense for these guys came from the $5400 everything-but-the-drives kit from Protocase.

The drives were more expensive because a certain model of 3TB Hitachi drives are the parts recommended by Backblaze; they didn't get whatever happened to be on sale at Newegg that day. The drives were supposed to be $120 each in Backblaze's quantities. They ended up finding a sales rep at CDW.com who sold them for $129 in quantity, but they were more expensive elsewhere.
A side point: is it a gmail "nightmare" or a cloud nightmare? the case in question doesn't describe a gmail specific vulnerability yet the alarmist headline hints otherwise. Backing up cloud data might a good hygiene but I call foul on the link-bail headline.
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This must be the worst password policy ever
An example when a==a is when a is NaN
You can also set up a filter in gmail to forward all emails to other free providers. Multiple free backups that you don't have to maintain.
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I wonder how many blog posts are abandoned before they're fully fleshed out. If the percentage is too high it could be a downer for this idea.

Your tool combined with my wondering led to this trolltacular literary masterpiece. http://www.postary.com/twitter/Detrus/abandoning-a-post
If you build this, you may want to look at Google's Web Audio API (http://chromium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/audio/index...)
You dawg I heard you like relying on the cloud for backup, so I backed up your cloud data on the cloud so you can rely on the cloud while you rely on the cloud.
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I had been meaning to do this for so long and never did because I preferred Gmail over any native app that was available.

Luckily I tried Sparrow (http://sparrowmailapp.com) about 2 months ago and never looked back. I think the initial download of my "All Mail" folder took 12+ hours but I can rest assure I have a backup of my email on my hard drive and my backup hard drive (for which SuperDuper is awesome: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper).
Certainly... if I wanted to create an app where a user could play a virtual "instrument" via the computer keyboard, I would want to trigger a specific audio sample (e.g. a piano note or a drum hit) when the user presses a key. There are already several libraries out there (SoundManager2 comes to mind) that allow for fairly simple cross-browser audio output, but the problem is procuring the audio samples themselves. I could go to the trouble of scouring the internet for solid sound samples, uploading all of them to my server, and setting up all of the note/sample mappings... however, much like Google has made it unnecessary for every web developer to upload all the custom fonts they want to their server, I'd like an API that allows me to browse and include instrument sample packs without having to first track down the samples, upload them, and manually map everything.

The goal is to make client-side samplers as painless as possible, lowering the barrier to real-time music generation on the web... kind of like a modern alternative to simple MIDI instruments.

I could see this being useful not only for virtual web instruments, but also for any website that wants to utilize some form of dynamic musical feedback.

EDIT:

I could see this being implemented in a lightweight or a heavy-duty fashion:

1) Lightweight: API merely provides note-mapped URLs to the audio samples, up to the developer to decide how to pull in each sample and store/output it.

2) Heavy-duty: API takes care of storage and output. Creates an instrument object with a play method that takes a note value (MIDI value?) as input. This is more in line with what ecaroth suggested.
See the construction plans for a high-speed train from staten island to manhattan (nyc). It should make going from SI -> Manhattan take about 20-30 mintues saving an average commuter about 20-40 minutes per ride. Gets a ton of cars off the road, thus making the other commutes faster, less cost, etc. Commuting in NYC is quite problematic.
It's worth keeping an eye on the current development version goes stable. 1.1.4[1] introduced preliminary HTTP/1.1 reverse proxying which means persistent connections to the backend and thus less overhead.

[1] http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?27,215419,215419#msg-215419

There are also a ton of bug fixes related to CPU hogging and caching that makes it worth upgrading, especially considering how painless it is.
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Can the title change APPL to either Apple or AAPL? I honestly didn't know what company the article was talking about until I clicked.
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A Google study about hard drive failure indicated that they couldn't find any conclusive relationship between temperature and failure rate. However, they did mention it had some effect at the extreme high end of the temperature spectrum (based on the graph, above 45 °C or so).

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
The run-time distinction
They usually change policy, or enforce existing ones before an algo update that doesn't prove any connection in you case and it's not like they are dependent on your ad expenditure.
Exactly, very well written.
It's sometimes terrifying how much people don't understand why privacy matters.
Gauche Scheme has a bcrypt implementation, but I don't know what the compatibility story is between mzscheme and Gauche. I think they're both R5RS compliant, so it should work.

I see that newer versions of Arc run on Racket, but I have no idea if that's what HN is using or not.

I haven't seen a scheme powered PBKDF2 implementation so I'd guess that's out.

The only other expensive KDF I can think of is scrypt, but I would be pretty surprised if that's got a scheme implementation.

Of course, I guess pg could have decided to call out to the OS to run any of those functions too.
I've never done LSD but the stories I hear from people I have are sometimes hillarious.

I heard one where a guy thought he was a glass of orange juice, and was terrified of laying down b/c he was afraid he'd pour himself out.

Another was a bit less creative but no less scary - a giant spider eating his leg from the foot up.

I have to say, neither is particularly something I want to experience...
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I have a blog I posted fairly consistently to for 2 1/2 years. I just checked the stats and in that time I have had a total of 1,530 hits. Total. And for my efforts I have earned $2.35. The reason I abandoned my blog is very simple. It never got any traction and I have bills to pay. Perhaps when I get a decent exit I'll give it another try but until then, I have bigger priorities.
May be offtopic, I am thinking about toying around a linux distro, configure with my own preference. Which distro should I choose? Gentoo or Arch linux? There was a post about Arch linux in HN few days ago where people praised about its configurablility. Can someone put some more insight about it?
Agreed, uploading could be easier. It also needs a scraper so people can link a website (especially things like imgur).

Definitely something to iterate on :)

Right now I just wanted to see if people would even send cards in the first place.
"He's using the tragic death of a public figure as an excuse to suck all the oxygen out of the room and replace it with something else."

The problem is that the fact that Steve Jobs even is a public figure is due mostly to random luck, that is he wasn't one of the people who got sent to prison for 10+ years for possession or whatever.
Totally speechless. Feel like this is what I ought to be working on/with. I look forward to the day when online news sources take advantage of the medium to cover wars and budget proposals in this format.
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You know, you're absolutely right. Any suggestions?
What a terrible list. One of the most important things to do in a review is to keep it focused on improvement and not turn it into a kibitizing session. That's why so many sources recommend avoiding "why" questions altogether. It's nice to have "why" explained, but "what" and "how" are far more important. This list contains no fewer than ten explicit "why" questions, and even more implicit ones. Some others are just too vague or subjective ("How does this make you feel?" or "Where's the idea?") to elicit any useful response. Worst of all are the questions that embed (usually negative) assumptions. Here's a thoroughly predictable and counterproductive example of someone using this list.

"Why isn't that clear?"
"Why do you say it isn't?"

Anybody who has ever been in a design review before should be running for the exit at this point, afraid of being caught in the crossfire. If you want to improve your design reviews, by all means use this list . . . as examples of questions to avoid.
I do write recursive code. However, I certainly do my best not to write bad recursive code...
Unless the post office's price listing was lying, it should be international yeah :)
Yah, that's the hilarious part about them being so excited about Google saving them from having to get visas, supposedly... #RealNames...
Hey, some Perl hackers are not business types working on serious software, but some of them are great hackers nonetheless ... it's also a good thing you haven't seen Damian Conway in a presentation talking about programming in a Klingon dialect. Your head might have exploded from the sheer absurdity of it - but me, I was standing there thinking about a time when programming was fun for me and I loved every second of it.

Also, calling an ad-hominem while insulting an entire community? Really?
While there are plenty of cautionary tales of fora that failed their original purpose due popularity, growth and loss of focus, there are equally many cautionary tales of fora that failed due insular communities, group-think and stagnation.

It's a fine line to walk and it may not be wise to rely on programming bugs to point the way.
>I heard one where a guy thought he was a glass of orange juice, and was terrified of laying down b/c he was afraid he'd pour himself out.

That is one of the original pieces of anti-LSD mythology, along with "I heard about this guy who thought he could fly, so he jumped off a building." The story you quote usually ends with, "and then he fell over by accident and he died of a heart attack."

This is why you are being downvoted.
You could run these commands on regular basis

grep -R "document.write(unescape" * > js_malware.txt

grep -iR --include ".php" "[a-zA-Z0-9\/\+]\{255,\}" > php_malware.txt

Once the commands complete, examine the .txt files and see if any files are compromised.
If you're sufficiently crazy to trust your data to a Backblaze pod, you're probably going to go full retard and use desktop disks anyway. If you cared about your data you probably wouldn't be building one of these things in the first place. :)

Also: depends what you're considering "pro drives", but enterprise SATA 3TB disks are in the $250 - $300 range -- about 2x the price of a similar consumer-grade disk.
As an iOS developer that seems like a moot point. There are device bugs that cannot be replicate in the simulator, but everyone knows that. That's why you need devices.

But for general everyday development, I much prefer the simulator - I can look at the result of a code change in under 5 seconds with a simple keystroke, and not even have to pick up a device off my desk. It's empowering to be able to tweak your UIs and see the results in almost-real-time. I cannot do that if I'm forced to push the app to devices every single time.

Not to mention the debugger runs a hell of a lot faster on the host machine than any device - for the vast majority of bugs that isn't based on device quirks, it makes them much quicker to isolate and resolve.
I think you underestimate how annoying the issue is. It's one of those things you put up with because of the content, but which are annoying enough that they detract from the site experience.

So far I'd rate the user experience of the site around 3/5 and the content 5/5. You don't need to work any more on the content unless it starts dropping!
I will still not use dart!
You might think that, but rechargable devices basicly just guess based on past preformance. Google "Laptop Battery Self Test"
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It was hinted in one of the other Dart threads here (or maybe on reddit) that if enough people got on the mailing list and made a good, reasoned case for it that null could still go away.
I agree with the fact that Square numbers are not as impressive they seem, but I keep reading bloggers that suggest that the current Square model is enough to attract high volume merchants, and I can't see that happening: If having an iPhone in the cashier stays as a requisite to use the Square PoS it'll be a long shot to get those kind of merchants.

In the current state it's hard to see how an SmartPhone based product can handle merchants with multiple cashiers or those with ERP integration.

I also support the idea that a really disruptive payment instrument must include an alternative to big card processors (i.e. VISA. MC, AMEX, etc), until then you'll just have a very cute PoS machine.
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The point of the website. is: If you are running Windows, see how safe our browser is and ignore the other browsers because they're obviously of a lesser value with lower levels of security.
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What are you actually trying to say?
Ron Paul got better results than Perry, but he's not in your top two? If anything this demonstrates a major flaw in using this technique to predict elections

(as much as I wish Ron Paul got the nomination)
It's a lot more typing. :)

If one really wanted that kind of behavior (and not getting errors when trying to add strings and number) you could make it so:

class String
def +(o)
warn "You are adding a #{o.class} to a string." unless o.is_a? String
"#{self}#{o}"
end
end

for example.

Whether this leads to other issues is left as an exercise for the reader and whomever ends up maintaining the reader's code.
Submissions site http://www.uavforge.net (unfortunately 100% flash)
I don't know why you speak in the past tense, but I consider Go still not being "innovative" enough and also broken by design. We'll talk in about 2 years from now when they'll finally add generics to the language, in a broken way nonetheless, as generics do have to be baked in right from the start to pull it off. And it badly needs generics.

But you see, Go got all this attention just because it is a language released by Google. And in the meantime version 2.0 of a real systems programming language that is innovative and kick-ass is largely going unnoticed.
Just out of curiosity, if only 30% of your results are from organic search, why did your hits drop by more than 30% after you stopped getting organic search hits?
I wish more bloggers knew that they could auction off their blog if it's got a bit of traffic and collect a check, rather than abandoning it and letting it die.
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There is a large (and growing) number of people using the iPad to play and record music. It's a great alternative to expensive and specific hardware instruments and controllers for many purposes.
Agree with you on all points. Its not trivializing what Square Offers and its achievements, but they have a long way to go.
that is the google analytics for just organic traffic from google. the site gets ~1000 visitors a day.