skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I usually tell non-tech-savy people to do. "Remember to make backups" seems to be too abstract and thus they tend to procrastinate the "make backup" topic away.

"Copy your important stuff to at least one other place, be it an external hard disk, a USB-Stick, a DVD or an online storage service."

And then I usually configure Dropbox for them and show them how to use it. And I tell them not to put sensitive information like online banking PINs on there. And tell them that I can also show them a way to further secure the data with TrueCrypt.

But some are even resistant to this. I don't bother pushing them, because I know they will lose data at some point. When that happens I "told you so" them once and after having a good laugh at their dangling unmentionables I help them setting up backup/redundant storage.
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You were bothered when an operating system started including an internet browser? That's rather silly, don't you think?
I know it's a back-of-the-envelop affair, but one thing I'm a bit unclear is that hiring is not done in batch in January.

So, how do you separate your stripes?

In his example, employee #4 gets 250 shares, while employee #5 gets 50. But in reality, you won't hire the 4 employees at the exact same time, and the next 20 a year later. It will be spread out over time.

I'm sure it's possible to think up a more continuous function for spreading the shares with a similar approach. (but I'm wondering if that's not what already happens somewhat naturally with offer negotiations…)
you don't feel covered by Google's terms of service?
This would be awesome for vim. Not just for the escape key, but also for other often used keys. I love the virtual keyboard in Codea for example.
Macbook Pros went from 5 to 7-8 hours usual time on a charge by making the batteries non-(trivially) removable. You can also pay a modest fee to have the battery replaced, so there's no need to replace your device, as you suggest.
I think git submodules + pathogen is a perfectly legit way to fetch/install/manage vim plugins.
Good points. YouTube is pretty notorious, lots of illegal uploads there. I wonder if that guy is suggesting we should stop using YouTube? Also lots of links on Google to illegal content, such as the whole Google Books thing, Google's pretty clearly a rogue site.

On the other hand, it seems that for many the distinguishing factor of legal vs illegal is that legal sites are financed by venture capitalists and illegal sites are privately owned.
You might consider adding a "skilled writer" option for non-teachers to apply. This would allow people like grad students and retired teachers to participate. Just have an "upload resume" field.
Wait, when did DVI become obsolete?
Database-side aggregation is something in the works. We are incorporating a patch as we speak. We find more and more in house projects using Sensei as a BI tool, we see this functionality more and more important, so stay tuned :)
I hear ya, I'm sure it's good. For me I just think it would zap some of the joy out of cooking and eating. It's hard to beat freshly prepared food. Although to be honest I do eat a bit of Trader Joe's pre-prepared meals.
Yeah, complaining about the CDC's definition just make him sound like someone trying to cover up a problem. Maybe he doesn't have a problem with alcohol, but it's possible to read this essay as "I drank too much at least 4 times last month, and take the opportunity at events to get shitfaced, but I'M FINE."

FD: I have had a binge or two myself in the last month, I'm just not impressed with this article.
There's always a workaround - spending lots of money spread over different people's names, for instance. Of course, you'd have to buy the mules first, and that affects the efficiency, but cheating would still occur.

But anyways, yeah, the hard part would be actually putting this into place. I mean, nobody in power would want this to happen. It would be bad for the lobbyists and bad for the congressmen. No incentive there, and much incentive to fight against it.
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I know this is not an answer to your question, but the way I address these issues (especially since I have to do more system administration that I'd like to already) it to do business with laser focused companies. I.e. email from Fastmail (although they recently got bought by Opera, but so far besides some growing pains as they build out their base system this has not been a problem), rsync.net for backup (yeah, more expensive per GB than S3 but it does exactly what I want and that was "tornado tested" after the Joplin, Missouri May 22nd 2011 EF5 tornado) and Skype (except they were of course bought by Microsoft ... I and my friends are looking for alternatives since we know we'll need one sooner or later).

Companies that do only one thing well are often a better bet than companies that do many things at whatever level of quality (and while I don't advertise, I do perceive the quality of Google's search "product" dropping due to things like removing + from term modifiers).
Do you perhaps see the Apple glass as half full, and the MPAA glass as half empty? As the GP argued, one could just as easily argue that every MPAA policy is for your own good. Further I think it's incredibly unfair to say that the MPAA member companies -- and the many artists and professionals behind it -- don't care about their product. I'm hardly an MPAA booster (when a blu-ray has unskippable ads I hate them just a little more), but I have yet to see an argument that excuses Apple policies that isn't just as applicable to the MPAA, which is exactly why I asked the original question regarding Marco. I found his entry odd given his history.
Yes.

In Germany it is allowed to make a small number of copies for friends and family (Privatkopie). So if I transfer a song to DB for a friend, the evidentary trail will also show that the file has only been downloaded very few time, which is legal.
Look, MegaUpload was a total criminal site. I remember stumbling over it and being amazed - it was like the BBS days of The Pirate Cove and others - blatant 'We are crims' culture.

When I saw that Kimble was involved in it, I laughed out loud! He's such a pathological narcissist, he will leave a BIG crater when he goes down!

In closing, they waved their dicks at the cops, that's why they got busted so bad.
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Apparently, it's a fake. I have no sources (except this French page: http://www.pcinpact.com/breve/68443-megaupload-fake-phishing...) that claims they've contacted representatives.
Options are great (and thanks for contributing to the OS community), but the biggest barrier to adoption will be confusion about all the NoSQL solutions floating around right now (including two others from LinkedIn). Therefore, I recommend that you spend more time on the homepage comparing Sensei with other NoSQL stores. Perhaps take a two-tier approach for those coming from Oracle or MySQL: why NoSQL, and if NoSQL, why Sensei NoSQL?
Given the numbers you've presented, then yes, it seems like a bad deal for an early employee. But here's how I think the market may correct for that:

1. If I'm a startup founder, I want to recruit smart employees. Smart employees will do the math you describe above, and they'll know if I'm offering a raw deal. So, in order to attract smart employees, I'll have to offer a fair balance of equity and cash. If I fail to do that, I won't be able to fill my job openings. Or, I'll fill them with people who are irrational or bad at basic math, neither of which would help my company succeed.

2. If I'm an employee, I'll be weighing more job offers than just the startup's. I'll have high-paying jobs at established organizations available to me. If you're offering $70,000 at 80 hours a week, and MegaCorp is offering $120,000 at 40 hours a week, you need to offer something to make up for that enormous difference. If that something is equity, it needs to be a decent amount of it, and you need to convince me of its future value. If you fail to do that, I'll go work for MegaCorp.

Granted, there are plenty of people who won't reason this out. Employees sometimes accept a bad deal without realizing it. But as a business owner, I want employees who are capable of making smart business decisions, even if they're not in an executive position. I'd much rather pay fairly than build a company entirely from the subset of people that I can scam.
I think he makes a valid point but then gets lost in emotionalism.

Here’s the thing. They don’t hate you. The people who work at the companies that support the MPAA absolutely don’t hate you. They simply like themselves and like the money they’re getting now. If anything they’re afraid of you because they think you want to eliminate the way they make a living.

The problem is people on the other side don’t agree on what they want. Some want media to be free, some want studios to die and artists and directors to find ways to get paid directly and some just want laws that aren’t as draconian as SOPA.

So to the labels and the studios people like Mr. Arment are terrorizing them. Threatening to take their livelihood away while offering no alternative system. That’s why not supporting member companies won’t work. Because it just reinforces their fears.

What technology companies and people who are passionate about technology really need to do is suggest an alternate solution. The world works in opposites. Republican/Democrat, Liberal/Conservative, and so on. The only way to deal with the labels is to create another side and coalesce around a common ideology. One that still allows the system that currently creates media to work but which allows people control over their media.

Because the one thing Mr. Arment is absolutely right about is this: You haven’t won anything as of now. In fact, what you have done is sent a clear message that laws like SOPA need to be done under the radar from now on and that’s a step backwards not forwards.
When I left Yahoo in 2008, they had such a "swat team", at least for software development (they called it a "tiger team"). Unfortunately, I don't think Yahoo's main problems at that time were technological. Maybe they needed a similar approach to product management?
Where does that page claim perfect ACID semantics? It's meant to describe what Sensei gives you for each aspect of ACID.

And they're all well and good features! I can tell SenseiDB isn't transactional. Like I said, I skimmed the source and understand at a high level what it's does. I could see it being very useful in certain conditions as LinkedIn currently does and I'm sure others will.

However, I think the copy is confusing (at least it was for me). On the guarantees page there's an "ACID-ity" headline. For each aspect of ACID, as you say, the page describes what Sensei offers. The confusing part was that I was mentally comparing each aspect against what I understand to be the common semantics of ACID. I think it would be more clear if there was some distinction under the main headline that acknowledges this difference.

hth!
atroche was somewhat humorously referencing your exclamation points in your reply to smalter.
I'd go if I lived in the US.
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You have to understand that all those years ago, Microsoft occupied the position Google does now - if they did or announced anything at all, it was obviously sinister in the eyes of a lot of geeks.
Bah! I've had this idea for a long time; I just never took the time to build it.

Anyways, I would love to talk to you about some ideas I think would be helpful. It doesn't seem like you have any contact information on the site (a big problem), nor on your profile. If you want to talk, you can find my contact information in my profile.

I would definitely suggest adding your contact information on the site first. That'd be helpful for anybody who wants more information.
So all those folks who always say "memory is cheap" and who make fun of others who write small conservative programs might not be so smart after all.

Because they can't run their "feature-rich" unconstrained applications on wimpy nodes. And thus they can't cut their employer's energy and real estate costs.

Why did Google abandon its plans to supply its own energy?
He's a rascal for the ages for sure. I hope his career isn't over, he's quite entertaining.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Use.2C_effectiveness_...

Looks like research has been done. Yes.
My apologies for the confusion! The intent of the page is to provide a transparency of data guarantees in the database language. And the goal is to provide an explanation of trade-offs between respect performance and data distribution and the strong ACID guarantees of a database. Any suggestions of wording changes is greatly appreciated!
I don't understand your points at all - and your last sentence sounds ironic. Should I be taking you at face value?

Anyways, your 3rd party situation has one pitfall: how would it get into power? The 2 party system's devisors have us beat; nobody believes an independent can even get elected. There's an enormous barrier to entry.
It's always controversial to claim performance numbers without any actual evidence. Note that shootout numbers are by far not evidence about web-server performance.
I not advocating for changing the JSON spec. I'm saying, as a human-readable data format, it could be more compact. Perhaps this observation can be useful to those who are designing a new language.
Nice catch on the typo. Thanks for the color help. On my monitor it there's more contrast but I just tried it on some friends computers and I see what you mean.
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There will always exist groups of people who want to abrogate the rights of the average person for the benefit of a select class. What makes people think this struggle is unique to the MPAA or the RIAA or even media on the internet?

It's time to think about how we can restructure our government to avoid this class of problems, not just the next SOPA. In the words of Eric S. Raymond,

"For freedom to flourish, the Internet must be kept free of government control. The Internet needs to be kept free of corporate control, too. But, as we have seen with the DMCA, corporations that want to control the net have to do so by buying bad laws from the government — they can't jail or kill you themselves. Thus, the most important front in the battle is still heading off bad laws and regulations."
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I think that's a good idea. Limit campaign donations only to individuals and at a $1000 cap. No single individual, and especially corporations, should be able to dramatically influence the results by leveraging his wealth. Just like votes are equal, donations from everyone should be more or less equal, too. It would also remove the incentive for politicians to go and beg for the corporations' money.

Basically, campaign donations should be more like Kickstarter. If enough people like your idea and support you with money, then you will have enough momentum and money anyway.
or if you want some more details, in no particular order -

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

http://pod2g-ios.blogspot.com/
Exactly. Mail to you goes to where ever your DNS MX record is pointing to (obviously in my case that is my home IP) and local delivery is configured how ever you choose to do local delivery. Sending is simply configured how ever smart relaying is configured on your MTA of choice. All mail sent from your MTA is sent directly to your smart relay and goes out to the world from there.

There is a trusted type of relationship between your MTA and the smart relay so the smart relay is not set up as an open relay. If your smart relay is an open relay, it may end up on blacklists as well, for different reasons than originating from a residential IP block.
Because if you use your own shortener, then you can switch the storage without breaking the links. And using you own domain and service gives you control.

Obviously this only works when you use your own personal URL-Shortener and not one of the ubiqious cost free shortening services like bit.ly et.al.
I read Hacker News on a delay so that the best comments have had time to be posted and to be floated to the top. It used to work well -- mean comments have generally floated to the bottom. But on this story the mean comments have floated to the top: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3469927
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Lessig's suggestion would significantly increase the amount of money available to politicians relative to now. The difference is that it would all come in small dollar amounts to make politicians accountable to constituents instead of the corporations currently financing them. More money might conceivably be sufficient incentive for those in power to act.
Cloud storage is clearly being marketed as safer than self storage, with multiple location, site backups and even diesel generators touted to prove their supposed reliability.

Clearly we now see that cloud storage is not reliable at all and can not be trusted because even though my data is completely legal, just because someone else misused the service in violation of its TOS, everybody's data property gets confiscated by the feds. That's not safe at all. Cloud is not safe. Owning your own server, at least you have control over what else is on it.
It's a point of pride, but only between other nerds. They're taking it back. It's also because "geek" got co-opted by people who aren't actually geeky, so we needed a more specific word for "the type of person who would watch the GSL".
I'd conjecture that one of the biggest barriers for HN folk is acknowledging that they are ignorant about a certain topic. In the Western culture, we are trained from a young age that admitting ignorance is one of the worst things you can do. Initial reactions are to dismiss a subject as "boring" or "irrelevant" but as we get older, we tend to rather bullshit than be seen as short on knowledge.
that sounds like the Labor Theory of Value espoused by Ricardo and later Marx. Although it may sound intuitive to some, it's just plain wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_the_labour_theory...

The price of a product is not determined by the effort put into it but by the value it provides to the buyer.
Fair enough. Being employed by a startup is akin to taking a vow of poverty.

But it's not about getting "utterly screwed". It's about making a rational decision that some things in life are worth more than financial reward.

Working at a startup has a multitude of non-financial benefits. You'll work with the latest new technologies. You'll play a key role in a small team. You'll be forced to learn all kinds of new skills. You'll meet lots of people. You'll acquire a sense of ownership and confidence that you may never feel when working in a large corp.

If you've got a family to raise and you're worried about your retirement savings, by all means, follow the math and don't expose yourself to the near-certain financial ruin of a startup.

But if you're young, adventurous, or simply value interesting work over a high salary, it can be a lot of fun to get utterly screwed with your measly 2%. I enjoyed my last shot.
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To your first point, yes, that's how it worked. You don't pay, you don't get a diploma. I personally had to pay something like $120 to replace a physics textbook that I apparently didn't return at some point, despite the numerous angles 18-year-old me tried to play to get out of it.

To the second, most school districts, as far as I know, have central warehouses for textbooks, so why wouldn't at least a portion of a warehouse be converted to secure iPad storage?
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A few... :) I think each has its own strengths and weaknesses and we use them in different projects with different requirements.
They might not hate you, but they are surely trying to criminalize pretty much everyone who comes even close to infringing anything.
I contacted WorldStream.nl, owner of the IP. I'll report back if they respond.
People are harder to change than companies.
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Well that certainly sounds reasonable. Maybe I'm just being overly cynical, but I'm wondering if there's a catch to this.
Yeah, not a good idea to upload stuff to YouTube, you're right. I don't think it's completely fair to call Eric Schmidt a known crook though. He did ransack the company for a $100 million "bonus", but he retired last year.
Remap caps-lock to escape

Ugh, why? Remapping caps-lock to Ctrl makes more sense to me. The Escape key is still in the upper-left, and banging somewhere in that vicinity usually hits it. Also Ctrl-C equals Escape in vim, so you still have quick access to it from the home row if you want.
I hate to say it, but I'd try to find a new domain if possible.
With domain hacks like this, They feel a bit dated, but worse, I never remember where the splits are.

Sec.ret.ly?
Se.cret.ly?
S.ecret.ly?

Also, how big is the use case? I don't think one load URLs are something I'd ever really want. What if they accidentily closed it?

And it doesn't prevent sharing, since they could just save it and re-upload..
Basically, either I trust them, or I don't. I don't see where a one-use URL helps.
This is a very strange post. nginx is highly mainstream and anyone working with webservers in any capacity should have come across it a number of years ago.
I think "approval voting" would help weaken the 2 party system, and eliminate the need to vote for the "lesser evil" in elections:

http://www.electology.org/approval-voting
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I think you're discounting the other benefits of working at a startup vs. a larger company. More freedom, more high-tech, more excitement. This pays you back as well.

Not everything is just a cash value.
Today, Mozilla is using SeaMicro’s older 512-core machines to handle downloads of its Firefox browser

Can anyone comment on the accuracy of this? "Handling downloads" is pretty vague, but still it seems like a pretty braindead job, and I know Mozilla is leveraging lots of mirrors and probably CDNs for this.
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The last part should be stressed. If you are just out to make money don't join a startup. Even employee #1 (after the cofounders) in most startups will get next to nothing in a multi-million dollar buy out. I witnessed this first hand a few months ago. People who joined the company extremely early and worked their asses off for 4 years got very little when the company sold for 20mm.

Of course money isn't everything, and the real reward in joining a startup early is to have a huge impact on the company, and potentially the world.
Haha. I am embarrassed how long it took me to catch on.
Note, as of yet due to its dependency on Intel's Atom line SeaMicro on only can't offer much memory per chip but they also can't offer parity or ECC, which is a much bigger deal killer for me.
All sites that use Cloudflare will show as using NGINX and they did 25 billion page views in December...
http://blog.cloudflare.com/100-billion-page-views

So I would have thought that helps a fair bit with NGINX's market share stats.