skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't the next issue become bandwidth? Sure, you have cheap storage, but you still need to manipulate the data somehow. I know S3 only charges for outbound data. What about the other companies? Is bandwidth free and plenty?
Thanks! And yup, it changes based on how many miles you've covered.
For very _common_ or very _uncommon_ ?
Let's say A wants to find B's IP address. In the case of email, A would need to trick B into replying to an email (and also use an email service that adds the client IP header). In the case of most IM servces, B would need to accept a friend request federated from a server. If I'm understanding this correctly, with Skype, A merely has to query B's status to get B's IP address.
London's had driverless train since the 1980s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway
So you could say bash is the Internet Explorer of shells. It's the default, it's what most people use, and it's good enough.
Wait until there are major media stories about it. Pass this to Wired or Ars or whoever and then they'll start promising a fix.

Interesting to hear that they're deleting it, though.
I found the problem occurred most frequently when testing APIs with cURL. Repeat the last command (with output) a few times, and then the cursor loses position when you decide to edit it.
Why Your Riak Cluster Should Have At Least Five Nodes
A friend added the urls to the bookmarks bar which is sweet when one of your hands already on the mouse.
If both hands on keyboard, then of course Ctrl/Command + L to highlight the adress bar and then change the number.
The author simply said that there are much easier and more sure ways to make money.
I would love too do that, but most of my customers wouldn't be able to access the server afterwards. That's the only thing that's holding me back.
Cool idea. Unfortunately I signed up and linked my fitbit, and it didn't load any of my data. Though I did enjoy the "creating suspense.." loading animation.
This reminds me of how ridiculous TV ads look in foreign countries. It's not like they're any more ridiculous in your own country, but when they're presented in a new way and a new language with new products, they just seem so... inane, and you can't believe anyone would be persuaded by them. But of course, we all are...
Show HN: Facebook timeline for friendships
I'm dreading the day Facebook flips my profile to Timeline. It takes away the focus from what I think is/used to be the best part of Facebook, a fun way to communicate with friends (by posting to their wall). So, my best friend and I built the kind of timeline we wish Facebook had. (Yes, it requires FB login. No, we won't spam.)
Sophisticated Attacks Put Security Managers’ Focus Back on Incident Response
should be easy to do file sharing over skype when you have the receiver's ip and an open udp port through the firewall. maybe someone will release an app. can the mpaa sue microsoft?
Scalable content generation using DBpedia (and a hint of oDesk)
Methinks the "Bobby" part is fictional. Probably a reference to Bobby Tables.
yes. A friend started a blog, simply as compilation of technology of a specific type. A publisher contacted him and offered to publish if he wrote a book. Blogging is really priceless exposure.
I can see the appeal in using SAT tests as they are pretty standardized but I don't think SAT scores would be a good indicator of whether or not you should hire someone for a couple reasons.

1. SAT scores can be greatly inflated simply by taking an SAT class.
2. The SATs are pretty bias towards native English speakers (as 2/3 of is reading and writing and the 1/3 that is "math" has a lot of reading comprehension required)
3. SAT scores aren't really a good indicator of the prospect employee's work habits or ability to play nice with others, both of which are pretty important points to consider when hiring someone.

Well. I suppose points 1 and 3 also apply to IQ tests.
When AOL first started allowing screen names longer than 8 characters, I knew someone who registered the name "My Documents". That got some ... interesting emails from people trying to save their downloads.
So... let me get this straight. You came up with an idea which requires building a strong brand which takes a lot of money and that Amazon can squelch any second there's a hint of possibility of a success. And this made HackerNews frontpage. What?
>> This article is basically advocating RAID 5 across many storage providers.

> That is correct.

The diagram in the article and text description is RAID 1+0 aka RAID 10.
Does not appear David agreed to participate or actually made this account, looks like it was made for him. In which case, I hope Askolo was deliberately planning to get a lot of bad press. David has specifically complained about other companies doing this recently.
This is so much fun. Thanks to whomever created this. Will give it a spin starting now.
This is a really interesting question.

At scale, this could be managed, I think, through a combination of (a) shipping hard drives around, (b) caching, and (c) peering between storage providers. For example, shipping hard drives around would be expedient if you wanted to switch out a raw storage provider. The optimal strategy also depends on the access patterns and latency requirements.

It seems solvable, but not trivial.
Really bad title, really awesome app.
This is a great start. For me, staying motivated to be healthy and work out is all about having fun while doing it, and I think you're definitely on the right track with Notch. keep it up mate!
What a super talk and what a super project.

be sure to check out the faq:

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/plan-28-analytical-engine-faq.ht...
GitHub doesn't actually use Resque directly (well, except some rare cases). defunkt built RockQueue to be our internal queue interface while he migrate the app from DelayedJob to Resque. This looks like the same concept.
I imagine things have changed in seven years, although I won't say that Linux would win.

C# is definitely better than Java as a language. It's arguably better than Objective-C (whose main advantage is ease of talking to C APIs), and I have no idea about Go but I imagine there are probably decent reasons to prefer C# over it at least in some cases.
I get to finally actually be "Michele" which is usually not available (or that would be my HN handle as well).

Thanks.
Heh, some of the most effective marketing can be done by introverts who are good with numbers. Understanding both customers and code is more achievable and fun than finding just the right "business" cofounder.

Great article.
Agree. This app made me smile, a rare thing while coding.
Deicide's Fuck Your God was used in American prisons in Iraq. Metallica's Enter Sandman was and still is used in Gitmo as far as I know. AC/DC and Barney have been used as well. Psyops doesn't leave scars so it's not torture, naturally.

Multiple Sources: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=music+played+at+gitmo
As a (ex-)physicist, I don't particularly care where the experiments are taking place: cool science is being done, and the people at CERN are a pretty international bunch. They're also scattered around the world: I know a few people at the University of Michigan involved in the project, albeit mostly on the data analysis side of things.

As an American... well, we've demonstrated that we don't plan to do any big particle physics locally anytime soon.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-30/news/ct-met-fe...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider

sigh
This is freakin' awesome guys! Android/IOS app and maybe facebook will buy you for 1B ;)
The editors at the Times know what they're doing. This pretty much makes him untouchable.
I do this too. It helps me to have a blank line between invocations of different commands.

[prakash@kaveri 16:39:05 ~ :) ]
>> sleep 10
^C

[prakash@kaveri 16:39:18 ~ :( ]
Too bad this has been discontinued! Would have been an awesome course to take.
I think it's funny how [negative] some of these comments are. I think the negative reactions here are a perfect example of Louis C.K.'s joke/rant: [1] "Today's Tech is Wasted on the Crappiest Generation"

[1] http://videosift.com/video/Louie-CK-on-Conan-Oct-1st-2008?fr...

Edit: angry -> negative
Reasons not to listen to this guy:

1. Not all CEO's work 20 hour days, and he probably doesn't either

2. Starting your own company can give you the ability to challenge the outdated 9-to-5 sit-at-your-desk status quo more than working for someone else can

3. His skewed view of upcoming entrepreneurs as only the subset that bother him for advice doesn't reflect on you or your ability to successfully launch your own business

4. Seriously, Evernote? It's cloud data with a bow around it.

5. Working long hours doesn't mean slaving away at the office for long hours, it means that you're always "on". If you start a business around something you're passionate about, you'll be thinking about it all day anyway.

6. Ryan Carson just told us last week that he works 32 hours a week, and his company impacts the world a whole lot more than Evernote IMO (subjective, yes, but Treehouse and Carsonified educate and connect people in a way they couldn't have done otherwise, whereas you can eliminate the need for Evernote by creating a folder or two on Dropbox).

7. If you fail, you can always try again and/or re-join the work force.

8. Most people would feel a lot better about trying and failing than not trying at all.

And the number one reason I'd say this video should be completely ignored is that you might actually succeed.

This video tells me very little about entrepreneurship. The real message is that Evernote is run by a pretty unlikeable guy who would advise you, without getting to know you, to be a working stiff your entire life instead of taking chances. Advice that he obviously would not have taken himself.
How to survive a Tech Conference
Network availability 99% is very bad, it's about 3 days/year of downtime. (If you have clients - they will kill you)
FB's email policy is equally braindead. My email address used to be mail@sriramkrishnan.com - they disallow names like 'mail', 'admin', etc. So I had to come up with a new alias just for FB.

But I keep getting hit by this in odd ways. Like with the FB+Heroku integration - I couldn't get FB to accept that my Heroku login was valid because it was failing the 'Is this a suspicious alias' test.

If someone from FB is watching, you would save me a great deal of annoyance if you help me get around this.
Amazon to begin collecting sales tax in Texas June 1
Hi asolve, we invited dhh to join Askolo and he created that account. We only changed the default picture (the askolo mascot) to his picture found online.
1) Platinum is not what they are basing their business on. It's just an example of mining asteroids not their only goal. Good old H20 is probably the safest bet to start with.

2) This is why people don't 'mine' platinum. They extract it from the leftovers when they mine copper / gold etc. The important question when evaluating the response to increased supply is the cost of just that refining step not including all the costs associated with getting to that point.

3) See 2. Unless they drive down the price of copper. However, flooding the market drives down prices so rather than saying they can provide X you need to look at how much they could sell 100 tons of platinum a year for. They can also supply 100 tons of water into LEO a year but you can't look at the current 1k to 20k/lb price of water in LEO and assume that's a constant when their supplying a 100 ton's of the stuff.
people still use flash?
FaceBook's Idea = Printing Money
Great idea on FaceBook's part to get better meta data on posts.
Hey! If it doesn't go well or you change your mind you can always come back to journalism now. We are all desperate for people who can write good code and most of us aren't formally schooled either.
Scientists unravel mystery of pigeon GPS ability
Isn't this largely determined by the number of employees? My impression was that for internet startups the valuation to # of employees ratio tended to be close to constant (since when valuations rise companies raise more money, of which almost all gets spent on employees); which suggests that the valuation to # of founders ratio is proportional to the total # of employees to # of founders ratio.
Actually...

Making all programmers experts on accounting is a hopeless task. But what if we taught everyone (including the programmers) enough about accounting to understand why we would care that some of their time qualifies as "capitalizable" and some doesn't and what difference it makes? I think that basic level of understanding would be beneficial to everyone.
Wow,

The article kind of ignores the massive overhang of bad debt that is essentially being kicked down the road.

In normal times, the argument that we need more stimulus is legitimate. These are not normal times.

The Japanese Zombie economy was visible for all the world to see after the collapse of their bubble.
Which angry comments?
Props. This is a very cool project.
When we lived in Austria, where I never learned much German, things were a bit like that. Much to my regret, I never told any of the smokers in the cafes to fuck off, even though they thoroughly deserved it, lighting up around children and my pregnant wife. ( I've always loved this comic: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/Kaiser0929/que4/smoki... )

Having lived on and off in Italy for far longer, and with a much more thorough grasp of the language, I don't hesitate to snap back at people when they deserve it. Although, truth be told, lately I've just been answering the telemarketers in English - I think it must be at least novel for them to hear a foreign language in what must otherwise be a fairly boring job, even though my interaction is pretty much limited to explaining that I'm not interested, thanks, bye.

I don't know about decision making processes though, I can't say I can recall which languages various decisions in my family were discussed in. I wonder if there's a threshold above which the language is not 'foreign' enough to cause the effect.
You're probably right, it was actually Micron's claim that we used (end of first paragraph: http://www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage/enterpris...).

They're still ridiculously fast. Once we can justify the expense, I would love to get Fusion-IO's or the Micron P320h's on our platform.

Regarding Ubuntu, we're just using the vanilla Ubuntu 12.04 server distribution for our image templates. Of course, if people wanted OpenStack we would support it and possibly create another template for easy provisioning.
The military actually does run it's own movie theater chain. I'm not sure who pays for it, but the showings are free. Although I think the movies are released a month or two after the normal release date. And I doubt that the military actually has a theater somewhere in Iraq or Afghanistan

http://www.mwrguam.com/company_detail.php?keyword=movies
Appreciate this list a lot! Inspires me to play around and really think about how to show our data beautifully.
This is from 2006. Is it even still accurate?
It could very easily be real. I was in a Fantasy Football league on Yahoo a few years ago, and there was a player named Keith Null who played briefly after another player was injured. His name just showed up as Keith.
I can hack/design for hours without even knowing it while listening to Kap Slap.

It also helps you run a 5K faster than you might have originally imagined :)

Anyone who likes remixes/house/dubstep I'd encourage you check it out! The spring break mix is an hour long and it's full of goodies.

http://soundcloud.com/kapslap/kap-slap-spring-break-mix

p.s. I'm only evangelizing this stuff so much because honestly if I set out to run 10k I'll listen to this and it will help me get there more than anything else. Or if I wanna kill a new comp or a handful of bugs, [PLAY] and it sucks me in like a vortex.
A friend told me that her programmer husband once used the cat's name to test a system he was working on. They soon had credit card offers for the cat. Yet, like this lady and others here, I recently ran up against frustration I can't seem to fix when a brand new account was deleted.

I used to naively think my name issues were limited to people being unable to spell or pronounce my names. But, no, it gets betterer.
Thanks, exactly what i was looking for.
When you use this in your prompt this will not show any result

$ echo -n foo bar
> Obama promised to promote the peace corp and I've never seen one ad, but plenty for the military.

Perhaps because the Peace Corps isn't such a tough sell (you aren't going to war!), so they don't need to advertise to expand. Just more funding. Obama has increased the Peace Corps budget and as such there are more participants. I'm sure they receive plenty of DVDs from their loved ones.
Citibank creates Android tablet app exclusively for Kindle Fire
VeriSign Set to Support up to 220 New Internet Top Level Domains
VeriSign CEO James Bidzos said during the company's earnings call that VeriSign applied directly for 14 new gTLDs.Going beyond its own ownership of new gTLDs, VeriSign is also positioned to help other applicants in their bids. Bidzos noted that applicants for approximately 220 new gTLDs selected VeriSign to provide back-end registry services.
Then again, there's no speed limit: http://sivers.org/kimo
Next time use is_int() instead of is_numeric().

is_int() checks the type of the field, while is_numeric() looks for strings that look like numbers.

You will also need to use settype() when getting your data from the database since integers from the database will pass through as strings (since the database range and PHP range aren't necessarily the same, use a float if you need unsigned ints).

Or just use the built in json_encode().
People who mock LDAP for not being lightweight have obviously never dealt with DAP.
It's really important to recognize that the causal link is very, very specific here: thinking in a foreign language reduces the framing effect. That's the whole of the claim.

Expecting it to make all of your other decision-making events more rational is more than a little silly.
I really like the interface. It's a joy to click around and building little songs!

But if you record a composition and instantly stop the recording, it will delete your whole composition. I think this isn't intentional.
This (or at least the shuffle mode) reminds me of AlgoMusic, a music generator for the Amiga that, back in the day, provided me many hours of coding music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyUnXjVgx44

I'm going to throw Incredibox into shuffle mode for a while to see how long it takes me to switch back to Daft Punk.
Ubuntu 12.04: Unity removes "dodge windows" which has been default for a year
And as for " I’ve never met anybody who thought that Netscape was a good acquisition for AOL": Netscape could have been a great acquisition for AOL if we had any idea how to properly acquire a company. It brought years of true, native Internet experience at a time when we were just starting to transition away from being a proprietary thick client.

Sadly, we made the classic mistake: Let's acquire this brilliant team that works well together, and then let's split up the team and sprinkle the individuals around our existing organization in the hope they'll influence our old-school thinking.

That's like trying to get a vaccination from a homeopath.
Indexing the 10GB Harvard data dump using Python and Whoosh
Null is a name, Fake is a name, almost anything could be. Don't make assumptions.
Non-profit videogame museum in Oakland teaches kids Scratch, Python
Very cool! Keep it up. This is awesome.
I'm dreading the day Facebook flips my profile to Timeline. It takes away the focus from what I think is/used to be the best part of Facebook, a fun way to communicate with friends (by posting to their wall). So, my best friend and I built the kind of timeline we wish Facebook had. (Yes, it requires FB login. No, we won't spam.)
Any hardware hackers in Brno? - I have a project for you
Please ping me at jakubr101@gmail.com
What makes you happy?
Ok, now I don't feel so bad about having worked on a system that was confounded by people having the letter ñ in their name. (Surprisingly, it had no problem with someone else whose middle initial is the number 8.)
Ha, glad you liked that part. Right now it's setup to only show the last month or so of data, so if you haven't tracked any steps since 3/27 it won't show you much. (if you've logged some steps since then though, please shoot me an email and we'll figure it out!)
Jennifer 8 Lee?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_8._Lee
Signup doesnt appear to work. Chrome Dev Tools tells me:
Uncaught ReferenceError: _gat is not defined
This fellow Adam https://twitter.com/#!/undefined signed up for twitter as "undefined", scaring up twitter bugs like this one: "While visiting websites like Twitter & ESPN, the webpage will suddenly switch to the twitter page of the username 'undefined', who is not one of my twitter friends or followers"... https://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/when_i_visit_twit....
I like it! I emailed you, would love to chat more.
Suppose the prices of _x_ amount of storage was halved recently. If they stored their data in three replicas, shouldn't their price become (1/2)^3, or 1/8th the original price? That would only serve to prove his point further, or I'm missing something.
It once took me more time than I would like to admit to realize that the string "false" is still true.
I'm going out on a limb and assume someone has already considered a ClojureScript JVM backend? Or is there some other strategy for moving towards self-hosting?
Consider that there are kids out there who are 10 years old, but weren't alive to experience 9/11.
The first reason has been explained already: They are afraid of (online) credit card and identify theft.

The second reason, why a lot of people (especially from Germany) will not be asked to provide a scan, is that they have a credit history in Germany.
It is really common to check your credit history first. The german credit agency they are using probably has no information about you, that is why Hetzner wants to make sure that you are not trying to defraud them.

It can be really tough to buy stuff online in Germany if the local credit agencies don't have information about your credit history.
Amazon uses Xeons and Opterons where ECC is pretty much mandatory. They don't have an option for ECC because all their servers have it.
CISPA Is Ridiculously Hideous (And It Just Passed The House)
Yeah, traffic sucks. But there's no traffic where I live.
Another likely influence is that you just aren't good at feeling strong emotions in the foreign language. Like a weaker side effect of how you almost always swear in your native language, however infrequently you use it. Anger is the emotion that tells you you need to be uncooperative and unreasonable, but your brain's not used to being angry in French, so you just... aren't.

I'd be curious if this would improve if you got together with a group of drinking buddies or something and try just hurling insults at each other for a couple hours.
Take a look at this great list of questions too by Francis Dierick who created an iPhone app too. http://fr.anc.is/2012/01/21/top-100-startup-questions/
Make Leisure Suit Larry come again
While this is a perfectly valid example, I think that it doesn't really show the crux of the issue, since the types involved (int or string) are simple and the temporal aspect of the type changing really doesn't come very often.

The bit where dynamic languages get really complicated is that they allow for you to use types that hadn't been taken into consideration when the language was designed. For example, in Python you can write code using duck typing and it will Just Work(TM) but if you want to do something equivalent in Haskell you would need tell GHC to use one of those weird language extensions just to have the program typecheck. The monkeypatching you mention goes more along this line, I think.