skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with the OP, at first I thought I would miss having a physical book in my hands, but to be honest I don't really miss it at all. There are so many advantages to eBook reading such as light weight (compared to some hard covers), increased font size, etc. I now find myself thinking of buying a hardcover book as more of a painful inconvenience rather than a benefit.
I think we need a little more context?
People are claiming in the comments that this isn't new, but this is the first such _open source_ program I've seen since Unison, which I am badly in need of a replacement for. So I for one will check it out.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0192801422/ref=tmm_pa...

Some of these places say they ship from the UK, some ship from the USA. One ships from Germany. Does this help?
I'd like to make a note on "collectivism".

If there isn't a single person in the western political discourse who proudly adheres to a given characterization, it's a strawman.

That's all. Meanwhile, on Ron Paul / race, that newsletter is a bit of a problem. Maybe you're too young to remember the conflation between states' rights and segregation.

I'm really interested to see what happens if he wins Iowa and comes in 2nd in New Hampshire. I do think it would be good for the Republican party.
EBS volumes are analogous to hard drives. They're reliable... until they fail. So keep backups. This is easily done with EBS snapshots, (which are persisted to S3).
The problem here is when you allow an employee's linkedin account to be your CRM.
> I'd love to, but when you have the volume we do there are going to be false negatives. Bad apples will slip through. And if somebody slips through, we're vulnerable for getting blacklisted.

This doesn't mean you have to auto-ban people - but you could easily setup listings that you can quickly glance at to see what your monitoring found. If you are picking up too many false positives, then you can refine your monitoring. Yes - you can't prevent all of them, but once your system starts getting abused you have to assume that others will do it as well. Additionally, you could very well be losing money in service costs due to these people (I don't know your business model so it's just an assumption) - you want to protect that as well.
Clever? Yes.

But URL shortening services are a public good, and hacking one to be your personal cloud storage platform is kind of a dick move.
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The CSS code isn't confined to a namespace, which could be a problem. For example, I might want to use .rounded for a global CSS style rather than it refering to only progress bars.
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Take a look in plan9 and Sam/acme if you really want to extrapolate on everything is text.
Therefore, with the concept of 'zero' in mind, I'm going to revisit the parent statement:

If I hold up my fingers to indicate elements in an array, zero fingers means the array is empty. One finger is then, naturally, the first item: of index 1.

Counting elements starting at zero (for the first element) is still unnatural...
"Start slow to finish fast" has been my motto for many things. It helps me avoid making mistakes at the beginning that I have to go back and change everything to fix. It also helps me avoid missing details that would make life easier.
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Dailychanges monitors authoritative name server information, this is unrelated to registrar.

You can have your DNS with GoDaddy but still transfer your domain registration to namecheap/gandi/anyone else. In fact, for people not wanting any downtime this is very likely what they did.
Did you notice the little girl reading the kindle on amazon? What I wonder about is what happens when you grow up with only limited exposure to codices. Is a book still a book?
For that I go outdoors. Restaurants in San Francisco are not precisely quiet :)
Which ban? All I can find is his support of DOMA, and the Marriage Protection Act, which would have prevented Federal judges from ruling on the constitutionality of DOMA.
Movies are very expensive to market (average cost in Hollywood is over $20 million in marketing), and a movie _without_ marketing -- virtually regardless of the how much it cost to make -- will do almost no theatrical business at all.

Tarsem's "The Fall" is a great example: the guy spent tens of millions of dollars of his own money making a pretty interesting film, had no marketing, and did just a few million at the box office, despite moviegoers liking the film.
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Of course, you could just go to Spamhaus itself and attempt to remove your domain from the DBL: http://www.spamhaus.org/lookup.lasso?dnsbl=domain

It could be your registrar is just running an automated process based upon that.
But all these devices are useless after 2 or 3 years anyway... why would anyone care about scratching up the metal a bit? These aren't collectors items.
Right, the citeseer link is to the old copy of the paper. The new version has not been finished yet so I doubt you'll find it anywhere. It's actually likely that it will never be finished and instead will be a jumping off point for new research.
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sparkleshare?

edit: seems like i'm the only one mentioning sparkleshare, so here are some links:

http://sparkleshare.org/

https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare

https://github.com/wimh/SparkleShare windows branch
I tend to be of the mind to learn by doing. As many of the others have mentioned, have conversations with your team members and spend time with them. A common practice is to grab lunch with them. This will help you get to know them and become more comfortable talking and listening to them.

I would also recommend regular work oriented meetings with them. Some may disagree, but I think regular meetings to review work, and go over tasks has a lot of value. You will see when they are finishing up their work and be able to hand off tasks more readily. Also do what you can to get feedback from them on you, and don't take it personally when they are critical and learn from it.

Ultimately there is no one answer and you have to find your own style as well as a style that works for your team. A conscious effort and trial and error will be better than books.
I've got a copy of that on my mirror, including the postcript diagram:

http://root.org/ip-development/e2e/end19940314-diagram.ps

In summary, RTT variance as a congestion signal is actually quite bad. It's normal to have variation even without congestion, so utilization would be worse if you backed off every time RTT increased.
Unfortunately there's no guarantee that anyone would escape Spamhaus' "love" - they and other RBLs do more damage than spammers, in my opinion. The real WTF in this story is Bluehost's reaction: shutting down DNS on one notice from Spamhaus, really!?
I think these issues are clearly answered by the rfc http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1737.

* Global uniqueness: The same URN will never be assigned to two different resources. ((the encoding would be part of the URN))

* Independence: It is solely the responsibility of a name issuing authority to determine the conditions under which it will issue a name. ((a URN wouldn't necessarily be a hash of the resource in question))

The second point makes it pretty clear that the assignment of URN's would be done by some authoritative parties, which makes sense if you think that in their initial view URN's would have been useful in linking citations, references; for research papers. Just that the Internet has far time ago branched from that scope.
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You really believe connecting two computers would not happen without government "bootstrapping"? I hope this is not a serious position.

I personally enjoy your simplistic vision of how an economy works. It's as simple as having the government water little seeds of innovation, and to simply hand it off to the "free market" to flourish and capitalize.

You see, entrepreneurs operate in a market, in which they compete to create value. A monopoly on violence is not an entrepreneurial entity.
Instead of the first excess packet being dropped, it gets queued somewhere.

So to update our detection scheme, we need routers to get feedback about the >queueing<.
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Hmm, I tend to agree with samwillis. I'm not trying to tear down the contributions of others, but it's worth stating that although the shadows and gradients are nice, there's nothing about these progress bars that requires CSS3.
There should be a ton of R packages to download here:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages

This change is propagating to the mirror websites. For some it might mean downtime with their statistical analysis.

EDIT: Actually, you can still get the packages source code here:

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/

Binaries for mac os x are here:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/

But I don't know where to get the PDF documentation for the individual packages.

EDIT2: Google keeps cached PDFs, you can view them using Google docs pdf reader.

P.S. I've contacted Uwe, Kurt, and Stefan but probably they are already gone for the day.
"is there any possible way to not get randomly nuked by Spamhaus?"

Get the list (like the level1) of "evil" corporations/governments ip ranges and show a picture of a pink elephant to them instead of your real content.
> They need to wean themselves from the largely mistaken belief that uber-expensive movie stars drive box office attendance (overseas, they do; domestically, there's almost zero correlation).

I hate to tell you this, but the formula of using big movie stars for oversees growth won't be changing anytime soon: Hollywood had another record year in their _actual_ growth market, which is the foreign box office.

I'd love to see a more robust domestic box office, but wishing won't make it so. At the cost of films these days, global box office results will continue to dominate, and I expect 2012 to be even more lopsided.

Before the decade is out, I expect the US to be down to less than 20% of total worldwide box office.
There's no guarantee that the "FTL travel problem" is in any way solvable. If we wait to solve and unsolvable problem then we will never go.
His name does not appear on the vote for the Defense of Marriage Act. Please give us an example for your claim he supported it.

Apparently he didn't even show up to vote for it, so much was his "support":
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1996/roll316.xml
he's racist, anti-semite and a homophobe

I don't believe that's true. But even if he were, the elegance of his philosophy is such that it renders him powerless to do anything about it.

He wants to take power away from the presidency and the rest of the federal government. He's not looking for power to oppress somebody he doesn't like (or favor the corporations he does like). He wants to make it so that it's impossible to curry favor or harm on groups according to a politician's whim.
Not sure how you'd make the progress bars move without some Javascript.
Very good point. I'll put them in a proper namespace.
I've seen assertions he supported the DOMA, but he didn't vote for it, so he couldn't have supported it very much.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1996/roll316.xml

Further, he supports human rights in virtually every context, including marriage.

Paul wants the government out of the marriage business. Obama wants the government in the marriage business, AND he wants to keep gay marriage banned.

Thus if support of DOMA is your criteria, then Paul is a better choice than Obama.

Of course this has nothing to do with SOPA. It's just the leftist talking points for bashing Paul whenever his name comes up so we have to respond to these insinuations.
And when I'm out of states that share my views?
What the US government and many other non computer-savvy people in power need to realize is that linking is speech!

One of my first employers was at a public television station. In his mind, he had to ask the other party permission to link to them. That is thinking of a link as a physical thing, as if it was a copper wire or a metal house key. It's not. It's just information. Needing permission to link to something is exactly like needing permission to talk about something. That shouldn't be. If we live in a society that believes in free speech, we should all be free to link to anything we want to!
Point (b) isn't related to relative dominance in space, it's achievable with only a minimum absolute degree of capability. They could still deploy space weapons, even if their capabilities are far inferior.

Point (a) just begs the question. What is the value of "US domination of the space"? What does it cost us if the Chinese strength increases in some way?

I submit that in the same way we say that the space program helps the USA broadly, it's also true that in the long run, success in space by anyone in the world helps everyone in the world.
> it's pretty naive to think that racists in Mississippi
> and Alabama, who never went away, wouldn't seize on the
> chance to reinstitute something resembling Jim Crow laws.

He's the naive one? Frankly, what you're suggesting is absurd and borderline offensive. As if the enlightened North and federal legislation are all that prevents the re-institution of Jim Crow laws! Give me a break.
Try voting.
My employer has a non-compete clause. It's not specific to the industry, I'm permitted to leave and work in the field. What I'm not permitted to do within the two year term is work with the same clients.

I can keep my linked in Rolodex but I have to look for new leads for the first two years.

In the industry I'm in, the clause is boilerplate at this point.

As an employee I don't like it, as a potential employer I'll be including the clause
EC2 instances are not reliable: they degrade all the time

You have an interesting definition of "all the time". In my experience, EC2 instances fail less often than dedicated servers.
I find it very similar to the motto I follow when jogging (and also what I"m trying to apply to other things): keeping a steady pace. By keeping a pace, you don't burn out towards later stages.
I think the packages directory was removed?
I refuse to buy a Kindle.

TL;DR: ePub > Mobi, I do not support RAAS (reading as a service)

Don't get me wrong, I love eBooks, and I will probably buy a Nook or Sony Reader some day. (For now my iPad is a decent substitute.)

Why does the Kindle rub me the wrong way? It doesn't render ePub books. I think the ePub spec, though flawed, is a great tool that generally follows the spirit of Unix. It's just complicated enough to be flexible but is something that you can pretty easily craft by hand. (I'm in the middle of building a library that will make that a one-line command.)

Mobipocket, on the other hand, is an ugly format. It's binary. It's over-engineered. It's legacy. Mobipocket represents each book, magazine, or comic book on your Kindle as a database for basically the same reasons that Windows still uses the Registry. I cannot deal with such an ugly format or support an ecosystem that refuses to support better standards.

Side note: I will never invest in a proprietary book "platform" because, I like to own my books. And book "platforms" are the road to RAAS (reading as a service). Amazon doesn't have a great track record for making you feel warm and fuzzy about owning your eBooks [1]. Giving up physical books is something I might do. Giving up the right to read them when and how I want is another.

[0]: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/MOBI#MOBI_Header

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...
These are not credible at all. These are, when its all said and done, lies used to paint Ron Paul.

The very interesting thing is, why? What is the motivation of such people to bash Paul as a homophobe when there's decades of actions on his part that are anything but? What's the motivation of people to bash Paul as a racist, when he has freely associated with people of every color without any hatred his whole life? When in the 1970s he gave a poor family free medical care because he was a doctor and they couldn't pay? (and it didn't matter to him that they weren't white.)

I'll tell you the motivation. The people attacking paul now do not give a damn about the rights of gay people or about racism... after all, they themselves are racist, and they support a guy-- Obama-- who opposes gay marriage and gay rights and is widely known to be a homophobe, by his actions.

The motivation is that Ron Paul represents a credible threat to change the US federal government to one that protects rights of the people, limits itself from controlling the economy, and lets people be free to pursue their ambitions.

This is very threatening to people whose sole career has been peddling influence.
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EBS performance is notoriously variable by orders of magnitude. Amazon is working on this, however my personal belief is that using block storage creates an undesirable link between your storage and compute layers. Using S3, RDS or another NoSQL solution is a far more modular approach.

That being said, all apps are different and some may need block storage. I'm not saying it should not be used, however when making that decision the relation and hard dependencies created should be understood.
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Nintendo, Sony, EA back off of SOPA support
And if SOPA passes you will see suspiciously simil overzealuos attempts to stop piracy. Same song, different verse but this time you get the federal government involved which is a whole new level of fun.
VJ talks about something called "Evolutionary Pressures" at the end of his Google Talk a few years ago. Watch the video if you haven't already.

SOPA if it passes may create such pressure. It's main target is DNS.

CDN's like Akamai rely on universal use of one DNS, the one that SOPA aims to regulate, to accomplish their kludge.

Food for thought.

I prefer "Chicago" to any of the other alternatives.

End-to-end can be realised. Overlays work for small groups. Small groups can share with each other. Networks connecting to other networks. It's been done. ;)

Evolutionary pressures may help.
Novels and light non-fiction is easy to read on the Kindle but for non-fiction with lots of ideas that are new I often have to buy the hard copy as well and underline and notate. Still I like the Kindle version because I travel a lot.
Nintendo, EA, and Sony no longer support SOPA
Nested routines in classical Pascal support downwards funargs; they are closures lite, i.e. actually more expressive than C functions. But we are talking classical Pascal; every practical commercial Pascal implementation supports function pointers directly, just like C does.
Nice write-up. I would just add iTerm2 (http://www.iterm2.com/), which has made using the command line all day a much nicer experience even after all of the improvements in Lion's Terminal app.
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TLDR for your non net-savvy friends and relatives:

SOPA = takedown of websites without due process = censorship for those (corporations) who can afford big legal teams

Restriction of where you can link to = restricting dissemination of information = censorship for commercial interest over free speech.

Simple as that.
I always liked the concept I read about in an Asimov short story years ago; the (rough) idea being that you somehow "pin" a ship/probe to the CBR/fabric of the universe and let the solar system / galaxy accelerate away at 2.1 million km/hr.

Note: I am obviously not a physicist, so feel free to demolish my fantasy :)
This is bad. I would have thought the overwhelming stupidity of this bill would have, if not killed it, then at least signaled its demise by now. The so-called "nuclear option" of everyone who is opposed to SOPA blacking out their sites is looking like it might be a necessity.
I think most dedicated hosting often demands a setup fee of 50$+ or a 1 year commitment.

And even not taking in account the setup fee and the commitment, at 27$/month, you get a lot of power for your buck comparing to the cheapest dedicated server available at maybe something like 60$/month.

Cheapest dedicated box I could quickly find is at 59$/m, and even with a 2 years commitment you get "only" a 25% reduction which put you price at ~45$/m:

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I'd hesitate to describe HN as non-political. The majority of HNer's are very pro-capitalist and pro-business from what I've observed, which makes sense given the community's focus on start-ups. The popular political sentiments that you'll find on Reddit are very different from those you'll find on HN.
Well, your Mountain Pass Mine is reopening this upcoming year. It appears to have passed most of the required regulations already. If they can match their previous output, this single mine alone will be able to supply a substantial fraction of China's current output. China has been tightening supply for a number of years now. While reopening mines is a long term project, we've had 2-5 years to begin reopening mines already (as Mountain Pass's progress shows).

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The connection you aren't making is that politics leads to flame wars, on the internet. "Politics" regards deeply held beliefs people hold about how the world ought to be run. Also, the same discussions tend to be run over and over on ad infinitum. Hacker news doesn't need it. It does well by having a tight focus.
Your number for SF is a bit outdated, add an extra $1k.
Unless we can come up with some as-yet-entirely-unknown mechanism to convert matter directly into antimatter, the only known methods of producing antimatter require you to pour energy into subatomic particles, smash them together, and hope to collect antimatter from the wreckage, which means you are bounded by the energy you can put into those subatomic particles. This may be somewhat practical for a Kardeshev[1] type 2 civilization who, hypothetically, have the technology to fully automatically construct the relevant hardware and enough energy that if that was the only way to cross the stars, they might be able to put together enough antimatter to do it. But it's completely hopelessly infeasible within our (non-augmented) lifetimes.

As far as I know, there's no known physics which "forbids" directly converting matter to antimatter with substantially less energy than going via energy (no conservations violated, etc), but to the best of my knowledge there aren't even any far-out fringe ideas on how to do it. That is, nobody even has any ideas on how to do it more efficiently than with rather large particle accelerators and with mind-bogglingly bad efficiencies.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
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Right, that works really well for YouTube. The great problem that is created when one tries to apply rules in this way is that, look, big companies won't suffer, and small ones will unduly.

The internet is full of user-generated-content sites and the core objection to SOPA is that we cannot police every posting. We do not currently have a legal obligation to do anything other than respond to complaints.

Further, as a veteran of the hosting industry, I'm really disappointed in BlueHost for taking action against a paying customer's domain name. Be sure to read the SLA and TOS when you sign up for services.