skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux filesystems like ext(2|3|4) don't zero the contents of the data blocks, and you can use tools to recover the data.
I'm all for the idea of giving away programming time to charity.

I build one website for a charity each year.

But instead of using a market place like this to find a charity, I find it's a bit more rewarding to network through family and friends to find a charity you can help that you have a more personal connection to.
I believe I do get your point; I just disagree with it. I think it's a convenient way to shift blame to a small subset of people rather than the much larger group that benefits from endemic sexism.

I also disagree with your assertion that sexist behavior is particularly worse in our industry than any other, but if you have evidence on the point I'd love to see it.
Good point.

I agree with what you say. The fact that he may not want to return to work is good. That means he can move on to better things.

I've been there. Not wanting to go back made me realize that I needed to move on.

Yes, it is tough. But I'm sure he will overcome this.

Good luck!
How is some anonymous Google Doc posted on the comments section of a Hacker News item an apology????

Make it public on front page of TNW.com
> BI nerds who are Pythonistas

One here. Very interested to see this project evolve.
Oh, choosing activities on the basis of how they extend experience. Thanks, I understand now.
Except, arguably, for QuickTime which, for half the media I care about, just doesn't work.
Which areas are stable and mature? Countering a generalization with another generalization does not an argument make.
Its one local clown making them look bad.
What is the data source?
The Data Hiding Inside Ebooks
Why is there a link to python's documentation on HN frontpage? I mean, it's not like it's a new release or, wait for it, was anything new.

Here are some others:

- Python/C API Reference Manual http://docs.python.org/py3k/c-api/
- Higher-order functions and operations on callable objects http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html
- Google http://www.google.com
I have decided on wanting to use riak as well. I was wondering if anyone had examples of how they used it with their data model?

For example this article mentions "With appropriate logic (set unions, timestamps, etc) it is easy to resolve these conflicts" however timestamps are not an adequate way to do this due to distributed systems having partial ordering. The magicd may be serialising all requests to riak to mitigate this (essentially using the time reference of magicd) in which case they're losing out on the distributed nature of riak (magicd becomes a single point of failure / bottleneck).

Insight into how others have approached this would be awesome.
Very good point. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet but it also isn't feasible to have an entire society (or even just the population of people with undergraduate/graduate degrees) asking the big questions and shaking everything up. Society needs people to keep the cogs turning which involves a lot of "menial" jobs (I use menial not to imply that they do not require intelligence or skill, but instead to point out that they are simply not novel or unique)
"AirPlay also makes it easy to push pirated video available on the Web onto the television, which could lead some people to drop their cable subscriptions."

Really? AirPlay only works with Apple-approved apps. E.g., it doesn't work with HBO Go. Pirated videos, there's no app for that.
Proactive and reactive are complete opposites. You cannot 'react' 'proactively'.
Having #1 and #2 are good for attracting the proverbial greater fools to take it off your hands. Also add #5 - use and/or answers by people the main stream public has heard of. Some more of those, particularly celebrities, politicians, entertainers saying sh*t, could have this become so mainstream that their answers will be quoted on the Nightly News.

So it becomes a complain and explain platform like twitter.
Excel is very familiar to many business users, and SSAS + Excel makes a powerful combo.

Currently I am working with a combination of PostgreSQL and Tableau, and find it a nicer environment to work with (coming from a MSSQL shop). I do not have the same automated aggregation engine supplied by SSAS, but Tableau in part makes up for that with visualization tools that require no coding on the UI side. I can focus my efforts on the data layer.
Indeed, these problems were solved years ago, for single servers. Conflict resolution in distributed systems is a significantly more complex problem, and invariably requires tradeoffs specific to the app. Those 1000 lines are likely declarations like "Merge changes to this list via set union", "Merge changes to this set using 2P-Set CRDTs", and so forth.
Well there is also a strong intelligence requirement for getting into Stanford. The real question is how many people of the same age as Stanford students are just as intelligent but less sheeplike? Personally, I would guess that elite university undergraduates make up a fairly large fraction of the people their age who are as smart as they are.
Amazing Number Trick 
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Sure. Derailing tactics often include perfectly good arguments. Just ones that shift the discussion to other topics so that no privileged person actually has to face their privilege and acknowledge the systemic negative experiences of the unprivileged group.

Also, "trite"? You're going to talk about argument quality and then reject something because it's trite? Because that's purely a stylistic criticism, which is just the opposite of being concerned about argument quality.
No generation ever knows what its all for until they're 40 possibly 35 because you're outside the holy grail of advertising demographic. Coincidence? Yea probably. If you haven't figured it out by then your not paying much attention anyway. There's prescript of zoloft by the door for you.

Anyway, This essay is much the same that Allan Watts articulated in the 60s and I think he did it with much more panache and charm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4

I find its best to laugh because it really has been a well executed practical joke.
Which market isn't changing?. No good business is build assuming that market wont change.
Does this report in combination with the board members who resigned ~2 weeks ago smell somewhat...fishy...to anyone else? If things were going so well, why did 2 board members bail?
> There needs to be some sort of standard for citing other peoples work

You mean like <a href>, <cite>, <blockquote cite>, ...
What a delight. I look forward to playing GTA with a cheese controller.
I'll agree they are not operational nightmares, but now that we're set up with Riak we can do things that I'm pretty sure your Postgres/MySQL/etc. setup cannot.

1. Add individual nodes to the cluster and have it automatically rebalance over the new nodes.

2. Have it function without intervention in the face of node failure and network partitions.

3. Query any node in the cluster for any data point (even if it doesn't have that data locally).

I'm sure there's other things I'm missing, but the point made by timdoug is the key one. We're at a scale now where it's worth trading up-front application code for reliability and stability down the line.
It's a single photo of the entire earth from space. 121 megapixels is good, but it's only 10x the 12 megapixel sensor of my current camera. It's good, but it's not Gigapixel good. However, it is the highest resolution single photo that contains the whole earth in it. You can find better ones that are stitched together, but none that are a single image from a single instance in time.
When Intent And Content Align, Online Ads Suck A Whole Lot Less
Our own data. We collect, cleanse and analyze data from the local commerce industry. Our database contains about 3M deals which represent around $4B in consumer spending. We currently track about 260 deal sites in North America, including Groupon.

Our platform is continually monitoring the industry from a variety of sources. The reporting platform and API runs off a dimensionally modeled DB. The UI is pretty rough at this point, really just a MVP to demonstrate our data and the direction we are headed.
I don't think a world in which everyone is trying to be (or thinks they are) the next Steve Jobs would be so great.
I was there at the time this happened. They were doing backups, but not testing them. The version of tar being used, from IRIX, I think, used 32-bit file offsets and couldn't back up more than 4GB of data to one file. The TS2 models and animation files took up more than that and it overflowed the maximum file size. The moral is that untested backups aren't backups.
Amazon Payments Epic Fail
That's textbook Reddit garbage right there. When you don't have good insight on people, they all look the same.
Apple to Release Thinner MacBook Pro at WWDC
Only 3 GBP / MB when roaming. Remotely viewing a movie with a high-res encoding might only cost approximately the same as a car.
what, did he want more attention?

I have a hard time giving his work the respect it admittedly deserves because of the weight of his ego.
Be Cordial or Be on Your Way
Uhm..... no.

This is backwards. Multi-DC capability is a feature. Eventual Consistency is an explicit tradeoff in a desired characteristic (Consistency) to allow other features.
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PostgreSQL 9.2 Release now in Beta
I will be really sad to see it go. Perian is one of the first five things I download when I'm on a clean install of OS X. Support has sadly been lagging when it comes to MKV, and for that I still keep VideoLan around; but otherwise I love having full system-wide QuickTime support for all common video formats (AVI).
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I view quora as a highend QA website that connects me to experts. I have access to people with deep understandsings of technology, business, science, lingustics and culuture all while being "peer reviewed". I dont think the lower class and noneducated will flock to it, but it would be invaluable to anyone in the knowledge economy.
WozOS : hey we are here ...

need to find a hardware model is all . because software is not paying alone . Apple now gives a free OS with proprietary hardware ... all is well ...
It's a shame, but I hope some other devs consider picking up development where the Perian guys left off. Perian is one of my favorite Mac utilities because I love using QuickTime for everything when possible.

To the team, thanks for all your years of hard work and best of luck on future projects.
The Apple song and dance involves creating developer certificates, project-specific code-signing certs, installing them all on your Mac and your device, and then setting up XCode to use the correct certificate combinations for the correct projects in the correct environments when signing the code (I can't say for certain how this all works because I basically trial-and-errored it until it miraculously started working). It is free (with your account) as long as you don't want to distribute your application on the app store, or even use it on your own device without having to renew your code-signing certificates every few months. Otherwise it's $100/year.
I still have a 6 year old Vista partition from when it first launched somewhere (which has since been updated with SP2 ofc).

I have written off ever trying to make that drive look pretty again without breaking everything, but it does still boot and I think all the applications start. Baby steps M$!
Incredible story, thank you for sharing.
You don't find a technical co-founder, what options do you have?
There are a several ways to approach this. The simplest is to just take last-write-wins, which is the only option some distributed databases give you. For cases where this isn't ideal, you resolve write-conflicts in a couple ways.

One way is to write domain-specific logic that knows how
to resolve your values. For example, your models might
have some state that only happen-after another state,
so conflicts of this nature resolve to the 'later' state.

Another approach is to use data-structures or a library
designed for this, like CRDTs. Some resources below:

A comprehensive study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00555588/

https://github.com/reiddraper/knockbox
https://github.com/aphyr/meangirls
https://github.com/ericmoritz/crdt
https://github.com/mochi/statebox
The actual video interview wherein wozniak speaks with his own larynx is at
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-10/apple-co-founder-refle...
Unraveling the mysteries of Kingsmouth in The Secret World
I'm waiting for the 1 pixel = i minecraft block map now.
How appraisals can kill your company
Wozniak interviewed in Australia
> Apple's biggest strength to me is timing and execution. They didn't invent the tablet, but they made it better and at a time when more people were ready for it.

Kind of the similar to what happened with their implementation of the mouse and the MP3 player, they didn't invent these things, but they improved upon them or made them more accessible to consumers at the right time. But I am really keen to see if Apple can continue this pattern without Jobs at the helm.
Inflated rounds tend to build on each other because no one wants to take a down round and as long as their is forward progress there should always be more value in the business than six months ago.
> Pirated videos, there's no app for that.

Torrent -> HandBrake -> iTunes -> Apple TV
Yahoo CEO will get no severance but keeps $7 million of cash
I really want to a real time version of this as a Desktop. There are a million virtual Earths but there's something alluring about the idea of seeing a real time image of the planet.
Won't the GIL really limit the performance of this?
Precisely. Apple is all about hoop jumping.

Remember your first iPod?

Chances are you were forced to use something called iTunes. Now people do not think twice about iTunes.

But back then there was just no sensible reason, from the user's perspective, not to let a user add/remove music from an iPod without jumping through an additional hoop. People had to spend countless hours deciphering the protocol in order to build programs that could do what iTunes did: add/remove music.

Out of the box, the iPod was literally unusable without first installing some Apple software.

No matter how wonderful the design of an Apple device, the hoop jumping just becomes increasingly tiresome. I'm too tired to do the Apple dance.
I'm very scared that this is something I have to learn. I have been jumping around between ideas for the last 6 months now. I want to do something in health or education that moves forward mankind ... but its hard to find a problem that has these constraints.
I like staunch's answers, plus

5. Investors are hunting for an Instagram-like Facebook spillover win.
they didn't cite him originally. that was added after the fact. read the article.
Thank you, both. If you have any questions or suggestions, drop me a line or much better: discuss it on the cubes-discuss google group [1]. I would appreciate feedback from more experienced BI people than I am.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/cubes-dis...
Actor model concurrency is way more fun and easy to use than handling threads on your own. It's really nice to see this coming to Python. Let's just hope that this project doesn't get neglected like the one for Ruby.
> I dont think the lower class and noneducated

this is what's so creepy about the place. why does class need to come into it? class has never been an issue with hn - even in its better days - yet it's become something core to quora.
People can talk about elite team, synergetic community, excellent quality content, usability, etc but it all comes down 95% to one thing: SEO.
SEEKING FREELANCER - I'm specifically seeking a freelancer or agency that can slice .PSDs into strict XHTML, CSS, and some JavaScript.

The work can be remote.

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If you're thinking about using Riak, make sure you benchmark the write (put) throughput for a sustained period before you start coding. I got burnt with this.

I was using the LevelDB backend with Riak 1.1.2, as my keys are too big to fit in RAM.

I ran tests on a 5 node dedicated server cluster (fast CPU, 8GB ram, 15k RPM spinning drives), and after 10 hours Riak was only able to write 250 new objects per second.

Here's a graph showing the drop from 400/s to 300/s: http://twitpic.com/9jtjmu/full

The tests were done using Basho's own benchmarking tool, with the partitioned sequential integer key generator, and 250 byte values. I tried adjusting the ring_size (1024 and 128), and tried adjusting the LevelDB cache_size etc and it didn't help.

Be aware of the poor write throughput if you are going to use it.
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uh. I wasn't disagreeing with you...?
I think it will make a bigger difference in some circumstances. I guess the only way to resolve this is to run a few million simulations and see if the answers are different :)
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The infrastructure to maintain authority on terabytes of data on late 90's hardware in a distributed fashion would be a pretty significant amount of development effort.

It'd be much easier to just get a giant RAID NAS, and manage it all there, which should in theory be quite sufficient assuming you are keeping proper backups. Many of the render nodes will have copies of the needed data, but the authoritative copy needs to live somewhere.
Jr Web App Developer
Rocklin, CA based company seeking part time jr. level or beyond employee for web application development.

Requirements are as follows:
* Able to code in languages: PHP, Ruby, Python...
* Good working knowledge of logic flow in general
* Experience with some of the more common web frameworks like RoR, CakePHP, Symphony, Django, etc...
* Ability to write clean, concise, and at least somewhat moderately documented code
* Communicates well with others and works well in a team or solo
* Able to communicate well with clients

Optional Skills (not required, but any of these are a bonus):
* Experience with general MVC architecture concepts
* Experience working with software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
* Experience with revision control systems such as cvs, svn, git, hg, etc…
* Decent level of comfort with unix-type systems.
* Any kind of professional IT support experience
* Skilled with HTML5 and CSS3 and it's predecessors
* Design and layout skills -- ability to make visually appealing pages/templates and UI components
* Well versed with coding in Javascript and using the jQuery framework
* Be able and willing to develop pages with high levels of compatibility (don't worry, we don't care about IE6 -- just IE7+, FF, Safari, Opera, Chrome)
We've created a winner-take-all society where the cost of losing is a soul-sucking micro-managed job and the constant worry that getting sick could mean medical bills that can never be paid off. In this society you do not get points for asking big questions. You get points for getting the right degrees to serve the right signaling functions to get the right jobs which offer luxuries like health insurance and the flexibility to leave the office for 15 minutes during the day to take care of an errand.

Kids aren't stupid. They tailor their behavior to the incentives they are offered. All of the author's political science students from Stanford are going to keep their head down then head to boring corporate jobs in consulting, law, or finance because those jobs pay the bills and offer health insurance. They might go and live a life of asking big questions if we lived in a country where your baby can fall and hit its head and you can take it to the ER without weighing the benefit versus the staggering cost of the ER visit, but we don't live in that kind of country. And under those circumstances only irrational people are willing to take the risk of asking big questions.
I couldn't find an easy way to disable subtitles completely for all videos I watched. After searching through the forums, the way to do that is to set the default subtitle track in the advanced Input/Codecs settings to a really high number, or you have to go to the advanced Video section and disable "sub pictures". WTF. It's those kind of things that drive me crazy. They do a lot of great things to make their system flexible, and then stop just short of making it usable. Instead of calling it "sub pictures", just call it "sub titles", and it'd be obvious to me how to disable sub titles. Or in the codecs section, have a checkbox to disable subtitles (which would set the default track to some high number for me). I would consider that "unfriendly".
This American Life may fact check David Sedaris stories
yeah . in WozOS it cost 10 or whatever he says ... only ...
Not at all surprised bostinno never linked you, they're literally a spam site complete with 20+ HN accounts.
If it's not useful to post random tutorials, how much less useful is it to post links to documentation for obscure Python versions which hardly anybody uses? Do you even use Python for anything?
I grew up thinking extremely highly of Linus— my first commit to the Gnome project was in the early 2000s at the age of 15 (and it was far from perfect, but the project maintainers were extremely kind and showed me how to become a better open source hacker), and it definitely wouldn't have happened without Linus' influence as a developer.

The recent events are disappointing. It's always sad when you realize that your childhood heroes, no matter how big their accomplishments, can be stupid mean human beings just as much as anyone else.
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I'm not familiar with this form of education, but are the students of these schools actually representative of the population as a whole?
I think it's far more likely that the faculty of elite schools are selected for being really excellent sheep.

They have jumped through many more hoops for a much longer period of time.

I could buy that the student body were largely using the elite schools for their own ultimately non-conformist ends, but it's much harder to convince myself that the faculty is doing so.
Quel est le Secret pour réussir sa vie à coup sûr?
I can't source this or anything but I seem to recall someone mentioning that the extra green/purple is actually near infrared that is getting scattered back and interpreted by the camera for scientific purposes.
Jr WEb App Developer
Rocklin, CA based company seeking part time jr. level or beyond employee for web application development.<p>Requirements are as follows:
* Able to code in languages: PHP, Ruby, Python...
* Good working knowledge of logic flow in general
* Experience with some of the more common web frameworks like RoR, CakePHP, Symphony, Django, etc...
* Ability to write clean, concise, and at least somewhat moderately documented code
* Communicates well with others and works well in a team or solo
* Able to communicate well with clients<p>Optional Skills (not required, but any of these are a bonus):
* Experience with general MVC architecture concepts
* Experience working with software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
* Experience with revision control systems such as cvs, svn, git, hg, etc…
* Decent level of comfort with unix-type systems.
* Any kind of professional IT support experience
* Skilled with HTML5 and CSS3 and it's predecessors
* Design and layout skills -- ability to make visually appealing pages/templates and UI components
* Well versed with coding in Javascript and using the jQuery framework
* Be able and willing to develop pages with high levels of compatibility (don't worry, we don't care about IE6 -- just IE7+, FF, Safari, Opera, Chrome)