skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the article they said the 30K core machine would be #42 in the Top500. Except it wasn't submitted as a candidate.

It would be interesting to have a super computer config in one's EC2 portfolio for the quick CFD run, or animation sequence.

It is the latter which I find an interesting question. How hard would it be to create an 'on the fly' CGI studio? Something where your artists and their workstations are around 24/7 but when it comes time to render you pop it off to EC2 and just bill the studio for the time. That could be pretty disruptive in that business.
Setting up your own IPSEC VPN
Stratfor.com hacked | Office of Inadequate Security
that's a pretty rad painting. did you make it yourself?
Nice idea -- more automation would be awesome.

I wrote a simple script at one point for dealing with constant offsets by doing simple analysis on the audio track of a movie and the subtitle file to match up peaks. It worked...okay, although I was using very simple features.

It would be great to make it more robust, although I don't know if there's an easy way to upload some audio from a movie to a website (that wouldn't be a lot of work for the user).
That's just a list of domains that left their name service. A lot of domains that used different name servers probably transferred away too.
Say no to your client
How exactly is that number being calculated?
To be honest, that's really ugly to me, and it requires me to remind myself of exactly what that macro is. I'm definitely not willing to change my code style solely to satisfy a static checker's zero-impact 'bug'.
It does not matter to customers what your costs are
Yes, actually the finance minister himself, Jun Azumi, said that "Japan had reached its limit in relying on debt and said he was aware the global community was watching him in light of the serious debt woes in Europe."

Moreover Debt-servicing is 21.9 trillion yen, a quarter of the planned budget of 90.3 trillion -a mind bending 51% of estimated tax revenue to service debt.

A full 49% of the budget will be financed by bonds. So only half the budget will be financed by taxes!
Fortunately this attack is for 802.11b, which is becoming outdated (it is slower than many DSL/Cable Internet connections). I'd like to know if a similar attack is possible on the newer versions of the protocol.
It seems everyone is just too trigger happy to try to report success with the GoDaddy boycott.

The reality is that everyone need to be patient to get any real numbers. The domain registration transfer process is not immediate, it typically takes 3-5 days to complete, so it's improbable to actually know that exact number (unless you work at goDaddy and are pulling raw transfer request data).
The real numbers on the success or failure of the boycott campaign will be seen in the upcoming weeks.
MG Siegler. (not a snark, check out his previous articles)
In addition to what others have said, Safari 5.1 moved to a subprocess model somewhat like Chrome but the change went severely wrong. Memory usage skyrocketed, and speed and stability both took a big dive. After using Safari pretty much exclusively since it was originally released, the awful 5.1 release prompted me to switch to Chrome and I haven't looked back since.

Apple's attention really is turned to the mobile space today, and the non-mobile Safari suffers for it.
I will give the same answer that many on this page have given, Apple software is horrible on Windows. Safari horrible, Quicktime, horrible, iTunes, the granddaddy of horrible. He really didn't have to go any further with the story, he already answered his own question.

I like the idea of iTunes and open it occasionally but after a day or two of using it, I am reminded of just how bad it really is.
JQuery Let it snow Yet another one
Not especially here is how you can figure it:

$200/kW delivered gets you wholesale Colo space. That includes the building, the power, the cooling, and the cage.

Modern processors are 12 cores/machine (2 sockets, 6 cores per socket), so 30K cores is 30K/12 or 2500 machines. Assuming you use 2U sized machines you get 20 machines / standard 'four post' telco rack or 125 racks. Now power for that rack is probably about 8Kw/rack used unless you're using the GPU in each machine, we'll assume you aren't since Amazon doesn't have that option. So 125 racks @ 8kW per is 1000kW of power.

Now we can get the monthly cost of keeping those lit up to be 200 * 1000 or $200K/month.

There are 720 hours in a 30 day month, so $200K/720 hrs is $278/hr to run your own.

We'll assume your staff costs are nearly the same since you've got someone to run those Amazon instances and they are going to run these machines. We'll also assume that every single one of them is exactly identical configuration wise so your system administration overhead boils down to making sure each machine gets the right host name and IP address.

There are other costs that are built into the Amazon number, but you've $1000/hr head start on them in terms of your local costs.

That being said, the point about going "blam!" and they are there and then "blam!" and they are gone, should not be underestimated. The opportunity cost is large if you don't have a setup like this already.
FYI: That isn't American Apparel on the list — it's an industry group with a similar name that just so happens to count American Apparel as a member — amongst thousands of others.

http://shortformblog.tumblr.com/post/14732754002/sopa-americ...

Now's a good time to emphasize that not everything an industry group does is supported by individual members.
He means that instead of consuming name-brand goods, they increasingly look to knock-offs or non-premium brands (instead of French and Italian, maybe Uniqlo or low-rent brands).
It's not only in the consumer goods sector either. Japanese are now buying more produce from China --which tend to be cheaper.

Now, it all depends, some of this choice could increase living standards (more PP) or it could decrease them (subpar goods).
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God I love chrome's autocomplete. HN is 'n', reddit is 'r', Facebook is 'f', gmail is 'g'... It's such a great usability feature. Google's approach with Chrome seems to be making the browser as invisible as possible, and I love it.
Browsers are interesting beasts. Sure, you can compete on speed and compatibility with both standards and existing sites, but only to a point. Once you reach that point, then what? Most of the interaction you will have with a browser is outside the control of the browser (i.e. the code of the sites you visit, ultimately, accounts for 95% of your interaction with a browser).

I've found that browsers have become a study in small touches and interesting niches. Firefox, for a long time, had a lock on the "I want to mod the hell out of this" niche. Meanwhile, as trite as it sounds, I couldn't leave Safari for the longest time because I had become addicted to the address bar also showing load progress.

These days, I use Chrome, but not because of speed. I use Chrome because I have become addicted to OpenSearch (the "Press tab to search this site"). Apple's refusal to merge the address bar and search bar used to be forgivable, but it is increasingly becoming a pointless distinction to hold out on (and will cost them market share).
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This is so inspiring.
Forced to is a problematic term though. A company can be "forced to" because they don't want to stand up in court for the rights of their customers. They can be "forced to" because not doing so would subject them to bad press or just look bad.

The problem here is that the terms can be read in a very one-sided way (leaving aside the questions of adherence contract interpretation) and therefore all the power in the interaction is held by the registrar.
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I haven't used this software, but what kind of website that isn't meant to be spam, on loading, changes the web address and breaks my ability to go "back" completely.

Really annoying.
A relevant example:

> In the case of Japan over the last decade, we have seen a significant rise in popularity of inferior goods and a decrease in demand for premium goods. Japan’s most notable inferior good of the moment is “third-category beer” — a beer-like beverage with nearly zero malt content that sells for slightly less than real beer. Japanese consumers facing no economic constraint would choose Japan’s most iconic (and not particularly expensive) mass market beers such as Asahi Super Dry or Kirin Ichiban Shibori over third-category beer. So what does it say about the consumer market when Japan will soon have a majority “fake beer” market for malt-flavored beverages? Even with falling demand for beer-like drinks, third category beer is seeing growth. This is a sign that the consumer living standard considered normal just a decade ago has fallen dramatically into a new “basket of goods” that would once have be seen as only appropriate for the relatively destitute.

http://neojaponisme.com/2011/11/28/the-great-shift-in-japane... linking to http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/drink/2010-looks-bad-real-beer-62...
37 Signals Moving their domain off of Godaddy
You can create and run the ads yourself from Google TV Ads

http://www.google.com/ads/tv/
There is a major flaw in economic logic here. Yes - Chinese labor conditions are bad. Unfortunately, if we boycott companies that use Chinese subcontractors, there will be less demand for Chinese labor, which will reduce the number of available jobs, thus reducing their salaries, and making their labor conditions even worse. A shitty job is better than no job.

If we spend more money on foreign-made goods, we provide more demand for their labor, and effectively increase the available labor options for foreigners, which improves their labor conditions.
I hate to drag this into an atheism debate, but agnosticism is simply not the best option. The question of the existence of a supernatural being has a definite answer, and claiming either we don't or can't know is a cop-out. Either you think the evidence points to the existence of a god, or you don't. I can't see an honest appraisal of the evidence leading to an inconclusive decision.
As a current EECS student at Case, this is really interesting. Thanks!
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To be clear, from what I could tell nothing described in this article is honest to goodness slave labor.
I work for a very large (Fortune 500) retailer whose customers are overwhelmingly Mac users. Safari users make up just shy of 50% of all of our traffic, with Chrome accounting for 25%.

I'd guess that's as much because Safari is the built-in, default option on OS X and iOS as it is because Safari is just super awesome. The more interesting thing to me is that all of my (Mac-using)coworkers have switched over (mostly from Firefox) to Chrome, despite Chrome's overall jankyness on OS X.
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Note: This is a repost from a previous thread.

This is great and all but I don't really see a boycott as being such an effective solution.

The problem with boycotts is they are based on the following things:

1) The spending power of the boycotter. 2) The potential spend of the boycotter on the relevant service/product. 3) The amount of influence you have over others to boycott.

So whilst you can move your handful of personal domains that you were using for your hobby website or small startup elsewhere, the biggest spenders on domains I would imagine are going to be medium-large businesses.

These are much more cautious to join a boycott unless there is obvious PR benefit (e.g fairtrade or animal testing free products spring to mind) because they are beholden to shareholders and are generally conservative when it comes to changing suppliers unless there is a clear cost-benefit. The only people in the organization that are likely to care about this will be the techies who unless they are the CIO/CTO do not have the influence to affect domain purchasing decisions.

The conversation probably goes approximately like this:

Boss: Good day underling! Please secure us the following list of 100 domain names from the great godaddy, lord of the DNS!

Techie: But sir , we shouldn't use godaddy. There is an active boycott because of SOPA, how about company X instead?

Boss: What is this SOPA of which you speak?

Techie: explains SOPA

Boss: Damn hippies! I neither understand nor care for their plight, godaddy is cheaper and we already have an account with them. I know not of this company X, do they advertise at the superbowl?

Techie: but...

Boss: Please do as I command and grace godaddy with our pieces of silver.

Techie: enters company credit card details at godaddy.com
The paper describes a completely false dichotomy between powerful and simple. In the context of an extremely simple and powerful language like Scheme or other Lisps, the argument is almost meaningless.
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Having beautiful eyes can really be very attractive for your face. But having a beautiful eye naturally is very good than using a makeup and making them look. Make-up can make your eyes look amazing and beautiful, but it cannot last for a long time.
The worst thing you can do for a kid's intelligence is to let them think they are smart. I was led to believe I was smart as a child. The resulting intellectual cockiness I had... "I'm too smart for this shit." or "I don't need to study for this crap."

In the end, I don't really like to think about how far it set me back.
- The recession disproportionately affected rural Japan. In Tokyo you see lots of shopping and commerce. However, prefectures in places like Kyushu have unemployment rates above 10%

- An entire generation of baby-boomers working as middle-manager types got highly-inflated mortgages during the bubble, only to be downsized or have their pay/benefits cut in the aftermath. These people have been hit very hard.

- I'm not sure of the latest numbers, but Japan has a deficit problem that rivals the US. As a % of GDP it might be worse.
The Daily Show is much worse than other comedy news shows. The tradition Carson/Leno/Letterman format is to present the News story and then say something funny about it. The daily show formula is to misrepresent the facts in a manner that makes them amenable to mocking the intended victim. To the point that most bits aren't very funny if you know the real backstory.
I had the reverse idea. A plugin for VLC that takes the MD5SUM of whatever file you're watching and looks for the matching/appropriate subtitle file and autoloads it.
Yeah, this Fingleton guy, he seems to like being an antagonist. Whereas even Japanese manufacturers themselves fear a "hollowing out" of Japanese manufacturing, due in part to decreasing domestic demand and also Yen valuation[1], he says there is little to fear and presents some trade numbers to support his assertion.

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Money/Story/STIStor...

"'The yen's historic rise, coupled with catch-ups by emerging nations, has caused a crisis of unprecedented industrial hollowing-out,' Yoshihiko Noda told lawmakers in his first major policy speech."

and
http://academic.csuohio.edu/makelaa/history/courses/his373/N...
"A survey last summer for the financial newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun found that half of Japan's largest companies planned to increase production overseas — and 71 percent of those planned to do it in China. At the same time, in a second poll, 65 percent of people surveyed believed that imports from China threatened the Japanese economy."
And registered more than that.

New Domains
(32,437)

Transferred In
(20,034)

Transferred Out
(21,054)

Deleted Domains
(31,047)
About 25 domains, though I found out there was a catch around transferring domains within 30 days of their expiration date, so it's more like 21.
New Domains
(32,437)

Transferred In
(20,034)

Transferred Out
(21,054)

Deleted Domains
(31,047)
Relevant comment on reddit as to why this isn't exactly accurate:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/npj2q/godaddy_lost...
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God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\HUCKFINN.TXT

paddled over to the towhead and hid
in the cottonwoods and was safe.

One of these fellows was about seventy or upwards, and had a bald head
and very gray whiskers. He had an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a
greasy blue woollen shirt, and ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed
into his boot-tops, and home-knit galluses--no, he only had one. He had
an old long-tailed blue jeans coat with slick brass buttons flung over
his arm, and both of them had big, fat, ratty-looking carpet-bags.

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I really dislike these hyperbolic titles.

Yes, there are labor rights abuses in China, but nowhere does it come close to slave labor.

"According to him “the workers can not earn more than 154 euros a month, so they need those extra hours.""

Tossing around numbers means nothing. Chinese is a middle income country. 154 euros per month works out to be roughly half of China's GDP per capita, which is a pretty reasonable number. No you aren't going to be getting your own apartment on that, but it is a lot higher than say working on a farm.

If anything, the developing world's outsourcing so much low-end factory work to China has resulted in more people getting out of poverty faster than ever before in history.

That's not to say there aren't plenty of violations, which should be corrected, but I would hardly consider these workers to be systematically exploited.
Sure, maybe huge productions like "Lost" would become comparatively rarer, but is that necessarily bad? More to the point, is it worth the other costs to society to grant these monopolies?

I don't claim to have the answers at all, but I'm just pointing out that these questions should be asked. It's important to actually weigh the pros and cons and figure it out rather than assuming that the existing system is definitely the correct one.
While I can't find fault with your argument, it doesn't seem to match reality. GoDaddy very publicly dismissed the boycott and then rapidly turned around and caved in to it. If it's not an effective solution, surely that wouldn't have happened.
Jumping the gun also doesn't allow people like myself time to transfer after the holiday. As much as I would love to transfer now I do have to travel and visit family. Its on my todo list but won't happen till next week.
It's a strawman to assume that they'd all be hobbyists. (Also in practice, most writers start off doing it on the side, then become full-time.)

However, we should zoom out: I don't claim that what I'm proposing is the correct solution. I'm just pointing out that we should ask these questions and weigh the pros/cons, and not just jump straight into figuring out how to preserve the current system.
Just having a nice way to define datatypes is already a big win against dynamic languages:

type tree = Empty
| Leaf of int
| Node of tree * tree

What I would like to know is: could it have Python's community/libraries, or the language itself somehow prevents this blossoming from happening?
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Yeah, I don't mean to excuse the poor conditions, but it's not slavery if the workers are choosing to be there.
like others have said, directly monetizing HN isn't really in line with the goals of the site.

But, an easy way to monetize it if you were looking would probably be a paid job board. Given the audience, it would be easy to charge a lot per listing.

also, your stats are way off, as of April:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2401131
MBAs aren't the problem; a refusal to acknowledge a changed market and the reality of the digital world is.
Listen, no matter how large or small a domain is - it is still a single entity. Wikipedia moving off of GoDaddy is the same as thisisthebestdomaineverwtf.com moving off of GoDaddy.

Unfortunately, it is going to take a lot more to make an impact on GoDaddy. For GoDaddy, this is a fart in the wind.
No one mentioned http://www.umplayer.com/ ? It can automatically find/download subtitles for the currently running movie or tv show.
It's hundreds of thousands of dollars of gross revenues.

Their brand took a hit too.

It's a real thing, they really didn't like that this happened.
there's so many to-do apps out there... but there's still room for good players.. the problem is most apps don't even utilize what we know about GTD/psychology in developing a framework that helps you get more done. They just give you the tools and hope you figure it out yourself. They provide a technical solution, when getting stuff done requires a more in depth psychological one.
Wrong. It clearly has had an effect, even if it hasn't changed go daddy's actual position. There has been a huge backlash against them, it has focused SOPA opposition, and created a lot of news, which is what we need.

Suggesting we should only do one thing is foolish.
My bad. I misunderstood what he said.
exactly, plus their once double-digit savings rate dipped into negative territory just recently. As the bulk of their population retires and draws down on their savings, Japan is going to resemble a giant retirement home: serene and crime-free, but isolated and inactive.
Also a Ruby programmer, and I'm currently on lecture 5 and assignment 2 of the Stanford course, and I'm finding it very good. I've dabbled here and there with various Obj-C tutorials, but this course takes you from knowing nothing about Obj-C, Cocoa Touch, and XCode, right into building apps. Because it is targeted at Computer Science majors who already know other languages there is no basic-level stuff like, "This is a loop", "This is what object orientation means", etc.

I don't think of myself as a visual learner and I tend to avoid screencasts in favour of reading, experimenting, and hands-on learning, but the difference between web development with Ruby and mobile development on iOS is so big that the methodical, step-by-step nature of this course is helping me.
In reply to the dead comment by oelewapperke, I just want to say that while the poor in many countries are worse off, this kind of palliative comparison should not make anyone feel better.

America as a whole puts its best and brightest to work on playing zero-sum wall street games and making trivial things like FarmVille, while America's poor and the world's poor descend into barbarism and resurrect horrible forms of social organization long thought on their way out, from slavery to theocracy to communism.

"Even the IMF was forced to admit in a 2000 report that "in recent decades, nearly one-fifth of the world’s population has regressed. This is arguably one of the greatest economic failures of the 20th century"."

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111130121...

The most powerful and wealthy nation to have ever existed, spanning a continent, with a global empire and previously unimagined technology, is overseeing global economic collapse because it is too short sighted to even look 5 years in the future and reign in blatant destabilizing social injustice.
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