skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they are planning to make money by charging fees to the government when they have to make changes to a domain name due to a SOPA action? Does the bill require companies like GoDaddy to do this for free?
I'm paranoid, so I have two rules:

1. If you are using a hardware raid solution, then RAID1, and only if one of the drives can be pulled out and used by a standard SATA controller to get the data off. Controllers that munge the MBR just go in the trash.

2. Otherwise software raid1 or raid10.

Raid5 and Raid6 IMHO are more trouble than they are worth. Now, true, I'm not spending $6k on drives, so maybe at that quantity, Raid6 makes more sense. But there I would argue that the money you save on drives, you throw away as soon as it goes tits up. I've tried Raid5 with promise and areca cards and the performance was not as good as software raid10. Plus, on several occasions the transfer to the hot-spare failed and brought the array down. The data was there, but it required operator assistance (me). Until it went down, it was staggeringly slow.

If you really want to make sure that the array is available, use Raid1 with three or more drives. They are just so cheap. I was responsible for a windows server at a start-up a long while ago, and Raid5 sucked ass. Bonus: one day two drives failed. Tape restore is slow. Oh yeah: Don't just buy four drives and slap them in. Quite often a whole batch of drives will be bad. Buy drives from different manufacturers and beware that the sizes will be every so slightly different, so make your partitions smaller than the smallest.

However, all of this is irrelevant if you really want a lot of storage. For that it seems that a distributed, redundant file system would be best. If you want, you should be able to pull a drive or two out of every server, or all the drives out of a few servers, and still have all your data.
Why shouldn't Poettering be allowed to write whatever programs he wishes, useless or not? I think distributions are responsible for choosing the best selection of software, and nobody should be blamed for providing new alternatives to the table.
Lovely to access.

Comment icon feels a little minimized, is it better for power users?

Importantly, unlike official 'comments' links, it is always clickable in same place.
Cost of the website was 30k.
Sauron: keeping an eye on what's going on with Emacs
I'm in the same boat. I only have three domains on GoDaddy, but it doesn't feel like it's worth the hassle. I haven't had a bad experience with GoDaddy, maybe because I don't use them for hosting.
Doing metallurgic tests yourself before using a carabiner is probably not the answer - trusting a brand name, however, should be.
I do consider myself to be a decent programmer, but things like this (being able to break down other people's s/w) always puts how little I know into perspective.

If anyone is interested, here is some gameplay footage...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw
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S3 is more expensive than cheap storage, but S3 provides a level of data protection that you'd have a hard time duplicating at any cost.
Pastebin is moving pastebin.com + 60 other domains away from GoDaddy
I have started the process for most of my domains. There are a few that I'm concerned about making sure don't cause any downtime while they're being transferred.
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No. I've wanted to for a long time but it's a pain. The domains alone are a bit of work but we have almost a dozen Wordpress blogs hosted by them as well. Migrating all of those is a bit more than I'm willing to take on. Maybe if I start slowly and get through one at a time.

Any tips on making that migration easier?
ALSA already is the better sound system as long as you don't need all your applications to have one extra redundant volume control or playing audio on a remote computer over the internet. However de-pulsifying a linux install correctly isn't easy.
Ridiculous approach to security for messages to Members of Congress
Vendors of communication systems on the hill must follow certain security procedures. One of them being if a message is sent to a Member of Congress's contact form has certain sql injection like content then redirect to a 404 page. I'm not sure if the vendors don't implement this correctly or it is Congress's fault but here are the types of words/characters my company has found to be a problem:

; -- select alter drop update declare view rule string create base

Not every form errors when these are entered. Some will not let a message through from a guy named "Walter" for example. Others seem to only check the message field so as long as you don't ask them to declare/select/drop/update/etc something or use proper punctuation (semi-colon, double dashes) you are fine.

For example plug the word "base", the latest locked down word we have found, into this form and click submit...

http://markey.house.gov/index.php?option=com_email_form
13 transferred to namecheap.com just now! All of my new domains are with name.com, but I am giving namecheap a run since they have some coupon codes. Used this (which has codes):

http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g...
> I just want you to be clear on the fact that you are deliberately choosing to leave science behind and have entered the realm of science fiction.

Not really: I'm guessing. Or in more erudite terms, I'm conjecturing.

You seem to be saying that science is what is all wrapped up and solid and that anything else is "science fiction". That's a bit rigid! Also that view would keep us from ever discussing the unknown before it becomes known, and science is a long march through millions of small and dozens of huge cases of the unknown becoming known.

Indeed, if read Einstein's special relativity paper, it reads like conjecture or guessing. That is, when he wrote the paper it was not at all clear that the Lorentz transformation had any physical reality. That paper became accepted as the real physics only later.

There's no solid proof that we can't go faster than light (FTL), and I have much more than enough math and plenty of science to have seen the arguments.

Sure, for any particle with ordinary mass as we know it, as it goes faster through space and approaches light speed, its mass increases and at the speed of light would be infinitely large. Right. So, for that case, FTL would be impossible.

But we don't really know the deeper mechanism for this mass increase. Thus we are like someone in the 18th century saying that travel faster than 60 MPH would be impossible because no horse could move its legs fast enough. That is, once we understand the deeper mechanism that establishes the speed of light speed limit, maybe we could find a way around the mechanism and the limit. The mechanism seems likely connected with the Higgs field, and we don't understand that very well yet.

E.g., we know so little about dark matter we can't be very sure it can't go faster than the speed of light.

For dark energy, we are assuming conservation of energy much as we understand it, estimating the energy of dark energy, assuming that E = mc^2 also applies there, assuming that how matter and energy curve space in general relativity continues to apply, and then concluding the huge mass of dark energy. That's a lot of assumptions from extrapolations. We're assuming that what we see for ordinary matter in accelerators applies to dark energy; that's a GUESS.

So, in science we need to be able to talk about possibilities not yet established. Such "talk" is not the best science, but it's also not "science fiction".
Actually everywhere in the world the big problem is the law makers of every country does not fully understand what law they are going to make. They just follow their party stand to save their political position.
Wow.. moving piece.
>disable optimisations in parts of the code because they were found to cause bugs elsewhere.

Well that is exactly what I meant. Compiler optimizations by themselves do not cause bugs - they reveal bugs. They are specfically designed to be sematically equivalent[1]. Without the compiler optimizations the bugs may not manifest themselves, or only manifest themselves in particular conditions that may not be spotted by QA - but the bugged/unsafe code is still present. Any functional discrepancy between compiler-optimized and non-optimized code should be cause for concern.

>Creating a rich interactive world the size of Skyrim is a considerable technical achievement,

I wouldnt say that the size is a technical acheivement - the credit would mostly go to the artists there - and they did an amazing job. Although it would cerainly not be possible without a decent quality engine.

Don't get me wrong. I really like skyrim, and have spent a lot of time with it. But I simply get the feeling that performance receives less and less attention in the modern products.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler_optimization
1080p? Nope.. It's 720p on consoles. Butter smooth? Many people would say that 25-30 FPS is far cry from butter smooth, especially if compared to modern PC which can achieve up to 120 FPS.

edit: About the cost of GPU; according to Tom's Hardware[1], even sub-$100 GPUs are capable of providing console-like performance (30 FPS, medium details, sub-HD resolution) with Skyrim.

[1] http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/skyrim-performance-bench...
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Ask HN: What happened to Rolling.fm?
You could try this link from the mint community as a starting point: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/114 and also this article: http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1384637.htm
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Looks nice. I'd like to see the vote count for posts if possible (mostly because I like to see how old/popular a post is)
I don't understand what the big deal is. If his systems aren't useful distros won't adopt them and no harm is done. If they are useful and distros adopt them then he has advanced the state of the entire Linux community.

This petition seems childish.
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I don’t know what it is, this attitude seems so common among gamers.
It's important to also continue striving for self-improvement. If you hit a level where you've stopped wanting to learn more and started wanting to simply compare yourself to others, of course you'll look good by comparison - but you're not getting any better.

I started programming using Python. When I started, I wanted to understand the "feel" of Python programming, and that was all my mind could comprehend. Now that I have a decent smattering of Python knowledge, I now realize I don't have a total grasp of transfer protocols and I should probably learn a lower-level C language as well. I started off not knowing one thing, now I have added two more.

I'm still a better programmer, but now I realize I'm clueless about even more stuff than I was before.
If you move away from GoDaddy you can also:
Return or reject products created or distributed by SOPA supporters. (worldwide)

Cancel, return or reject most sports related products and offers. (in america or american sports related)

Return, reject and cancel most music related products and offers. This also includes offers like online subscriptions to online music streaming services that have direct or indirect deals with SOPA listed (umbrealla) companies. Probably the majority of services. Not sure how Apple and Amazon are indirectly involved. (worldwide)

Don't forget about: Books/Magazines (Random House/Bertelsmann, Time Inc.), Pharmaceuticals (Viagra=Pfizer), Games (Activision Blizzard <- Vivendi -> Universal), MTV, VH1, HBO, Marvel, DC Comics, Nickelodeon, Hulu, Nestle, The Body Shop.

The list will be very long consididering all parents and subsidiaries that are involved.

tl;dr turn off the tv. don't pay or consume sport (events). don't pay for music/movies.
IMessages going to stolen iPhones? There may be a fix in the works
SOPA
Just watch the video
To become a good C programmer
I was looking to take a break from Pandora, and realized that http://rolling.fm is gone. Disclaimer: turntable was not letting people in at the time.
Linux user since 1999, redhat 6.2 days I think, kernel 2.2. Messed with getting audio to work on an old ISA card, setting some ports in some config files, recompiling the kernel. I got it working, no big deal, even from several sources at the same time, with no artsD or esd, but I did try those to just for fun.

Invested same amount of time and effort, still have only horrible memories of pulseaudio. I shiver anytime I see puslea. Argh.arhgh.why,.asdhj as.
I would hardly call Jennifer's Body a dumb movie.
Room for optimization suggests when time is taken you get a faster code. After all this time and all these optimizations the JVM is still terrible for 3D code and zero blockbuster games uses it. Sure, it's possible for JVM code to be on par with poorly optimized code, but that does not mean there is equal headroom for optimization. Worse yet, for web code you can't use the old standby of having the JVM call C or ASM code for truly critical code.

EX: You could probably get a minecraft clone to run faster on the JVM but that's because the game engine is crap not because JVM has any advantage.
"Microsoft effectively shut down the alternative market by making Windows-hardware coupling mandatory for large hardware vendors."

How did they do that, how?!

That is exactly why GNU/Linux on the desktop isnt used by more people.
So your son won't answer publicly, but here's my perspective:

It's not about penalizing him, or anyone else who are wealthy.

I don't consider myself rich - I live in a normal terraced house in a London suburb the same size as my decidedly working class neighbors, and I don't have huge piles of cash anywhere, though I do have some investments

But I'm well enough off to have it nice and comfortable, and I make several times what most of my neighbors do with according benefits in terms of how I lead my life.

Yet despite paying significantly higher taxes (about 10% points more than someone on an average UK salary), the net effect of the reduction in my spending ability from taxes is far less than the effect on my neighbors.

I won't even notice a 1% difference in my tax rate. I don't even know how much I spend on groceries each month - it doesn't matter and isn't worth my attention; I waste more than 1% each month on stuff from Amazon I probably don't really need. A 5% difference would be noticeable, but not painful.

For my neighbors, a 1% difference can easily mean the difference between making rent next month, or wait longer before fixing the car they depend on to get to work, or having to count the coins and watch every penny to even be able to make the paycheck last the whole month. A 5% tax hike for most of my neighbors would mean they'd be in big, serious trouble.

This is one large reason why many people believe higher taxes on top earners is justified. Whether in the US or UK, or most other places, the current tax bands most places means the burden of tax in terms of the effect it actually has on peoples lives is far greater on those who makes least to start with.

Yet people argued the economy would collapse with a new 10% higher tax band for people making even far more than I do..

Any argument about what's "fair" is arbitrary and based on personal value systems anyway. Why is a specific function of income to tax rate more fair than another? It boils down to your values. Personally I don't consider it fair that many of those who take all the shitty jobs I don't want to do, and who struggle to keep things afloat, carry a heavier burden than me. After all - without a well functioning society around me, there would have been no basis for me to achieve the relative wealth I do have.

In another vein, I'd also prefer to have less misery around me. I can pay to move somewhere where it's better hidden behind fences, or I can support changes that actually helps make life better for others, whether in terms of the tax system or others. The latter seems like a better investment.
I run it at 1440x900 on a Core2Quad (Q6600), 8GB RAM and an AMD HD4850 GPU. For the most part it's pretty smooth at high settings with FXAA turned on, but there are times when there's a bit of stutter or freezing especially when I quicksave (something you need to do often since Skyrim is so crash-prone).

The reason I agree that Bethesda are lazy (probably more accurate to say apathetic) with fixing the PC version is that they've been doing this for years with previous Elder Scrolls games and Fallout 3 where they've just allowed the "safety net" of the modding community to do their work for them. Of course, that's only possible because of the modding tools they provide, which apparently are great since they get the job done. But, I find that sort of attitude rather insulting as a PC player. Yes, consoles have gone mainstream and are more popular than PC gaming probably by orders of magnitude, but that doesn't mean that PC gaming has declined and that the needs of PC gamers shouldn't be taken seriously.
I honestly cannot understand why, in this day and age, smart people still buy domains via GoDaddy. There are so many options, all of which are more simplistic and just as inexpensive.
From the Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supp...

Apparently you can use the coupon code BYEBYEGD and save some money transferring to Namecheap.
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A non-plain text syslog? That sounds stupid to me. Plain text is one of the reasons I love Unix in the first place.
He already answered your question in the post you are replying to:

>because you can easily use it without buying into the whole MVC and routing paradigm

As much as I think the zend framework is terrible, you can pick and choose whatever bits of it you like and ignore the rest. There's no working around assumptions or anything, it is just a normal way of using the framework.
A manager from Namecheap said that there's a deal when you transfer 50+ domains. You might be able to work something out with them for 20+, but the manager didn't respond to a request for a 43 domain transfer, so it seems unlikely.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supp...
Compiler optimizations by themselves do not cause bugs - they reveal bugs.

This is incorrect. Optimizations do often reveal bugs rather than causing them, but turning on optimizations can also cause bugs in itself. See for example:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?short_desc=optimizat...
" or playing audio on a remote computer over the internet".

I thought thats the point of pulseaudio and really wanted to try it.

How can I say... it FAILS at even that! I got it working with ssh and mpd faster than... oh dont make remember.
Very nice! Would love j and k keyboard movement and loading of more stories when you scroll near the end.
He could have improved esd or jack. But no.
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According to Wikipedia, RHEL 6.2 was released on 2011-12-06, so this really was quite quick. Good show!
I've never been a fan of his work, but I have used his driver a few times in London and from conversations with him I suspect I'd like Pratchett as a person a great deal more than his writing. So, thanks for the suggestion, will make sure to watch it some time soon.
Perhaps its an internet company thing? Maybe a California/SV thing? I don't know of anybody asking for this.(Located East Coast and rural). The company I work for is on linkedin and has gotten resumes from it before, although none good enough for an interview. They have never asked any candidates for any outside information like that. Describe the design and code for a project is a standard interview question, but even then only for people just out of college.

The type of work we do though doesn't require cutting edge coding skills, though. I guess we look for people who can really think through things and come up with a good design. I think evaluating this is easier in interview discussions than looking at code, especially if the evaluator has never thought about the problem before.
monopolistic behaviour and a solid, conservative set of well-documented APIs.
I'm proud that my country does not prohibit assisted suicide. If a person is lucid and has the will to die it's their own decision. It's not like you go to one of these organizations and 2 hours later you're dead.

"Switzerland's laws that prohibit killing continue to apply in full. Direct, active euthanasia (deliberate killing in order to end the suffering of another person) is therefore also forbidden. By contrast, both indirect, active euthanasia (the use of means having side-effects that may shorten life) and passive euthanasia (rejecting or discontinuing life-prolonging measures) – while not governed by any specific statutory provisions – are not treated as criminal offences provided certain conditions are fulfilled."

Source: http://www.bj.admin.ch/content/bj/en/home/themen/gesellschaf...
He's a Red Hat employee so everything he does ends up in Fedora at some point.
Should I also check the medicine I get from my pharmacist for myself?
And some argue that this is the only reason why these things actually make it into the Linux desktop ecosystem. If he wasn't a Red Hat employee would they ever make it into a distribution?
To be fair, Google doesn't support Firefox 3.5 and others in Gmail: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-plans-to-support-m...
Why would a hardware vendor care about APIs or monopolistic behaviour?

Why would a hardware vendor make a deal which said vendor can only use this software on the hardware they make but not other?
The primary purpose of income tax (unlike, say, the cigarette tax), isn't to reward or penalize people for making less or more money. It's to generate revenue for the government.
In this case they already have a CDN which keeps 1 or more copy's of their data already and they just want a backup which makes S3 cost prohibitive. (You can save significant cash by using a service which gives much lower bandwidth access to that backup data.)

PS: Honestly, if their custom solution only add's one 9 of redundancy that may be fine. Their CDN is probably at 98+% up time or so which bumps them into the 99.8+ range which is better than most services out there.
I haven't bought the idea of expansionary austerity, but I really believe that the debt levels are far too high, and only managed to get that way because of a huge bubble, largely in the banking sector. Spain borrowed the other day because temporary measures to reflate worked briefly. Monetization or default are the two real options, or a combination.

Spain's problem never was the government, it was private sector housing, funded from abroad. The solution to that is structural, and also involves getting the private sector debts written off, which also means the banks are bust. Bailing these out will add another huge hole on the governments balance sheet, and make it even harder to fund debt.
Very cool. Some sites, like the Google 10,000 house article are blocking pages rendered in frames. Perhaps there is a way to do DIVs?
That would be a useful additional method.

But still, selling pillboxes under the name of "Foo" if your company in fact isn't called "Foo" should constitute some kind of fraud in my opinion.
Seeing the background being drawn remind me of the Last Ninja on C64. Each screen started with the world being laid out using 2D sprites, in slow motion.

Anyone know if this was done for effect or if it actually was as fast as it could be?