skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most electrical equipment, including computers, draw significantly more power as they're starting up than they do at steady-state. If everyone's server were pulling the maximum rated capacity at steady-state, you'd probably trip a breaker when everything started up (for instance, if power had just been restored after a failure, or if several machines were power cycled simultaneously).
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The fact that it's the only cloud storage solution most people have heard of?
I believe utorrent has a remote feature that can be accessed from mobile. Point your torrents to dropbox on your desk/laptop and access on the go. Unless your only computer is your phone this would work just as well...
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Why should renters be "immune" from the fact that the property they occupy is suddenly worth a lot more? This is the gamble you take when you choose to rent rather than buy.

Besides, price booms are the natural result of demand outstripping supply. If rents don't go up to reflect this fact, then how do you cope with the fact that the number of people who want to live in San Francisco outstrips the number of people who can fit into San Francisco?
As someone who doesn't know the London tube stations I was wondering what could be a useful application for this map but these comments give me some idea.
So Google (Protocol Buffers - RPC), Facebook (Thrift - RPC), Twitter (Finagle/Thrift - RPC), GitHub (BERT-RPC), DotCloud (ZeroRPC), Quora (Thrift - RPC) and all major tech companies are wrong? The list of companies using RPC messaging systems is very long.

RPC is widely used. It is mature and well understood. "RPC is bad because network calls look like local calls" is a terrible overused argument.
I was just saying that it's interesting that this number has such a history. I didn't expect it. And from your first reply it seems you didn't either. It is a profile ID not a random number and it has been used multiple times for this exact trick
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Depending on how you define interview. In my experience a rough funnel of 100 people (random people through a job board, not referrals) -> 20 phone screens -> 5-10 actual interviews. Generally at large organizations in the Valley a rate of 10 on campus interviews to one offer is considered inefficient (shoot for ~5 from an efficiency perspective). Too many in person interviews generally suggests a weak filter in an earlier step (you can learn quite a bit from a phone screen, for instance).
100 sounds roughly correct to me. There are a lot of awful developers out there.
Get by id queries are majority when the database is used as a key-value store, and the only reason to such an underuse of RDBMSes is precisely because under heavy load some of them have hard time doing proper queries, with joins, subqueries and all the stuff databases are designed for.
I just noticed that the spool sizes are also accurate indicators of duration. The two spools, how long you've listened for & how long remaining are another elegant way of visualising duration. Sometimes you are interested in time listened and sometimes time remaining, this provides a visual cue for both.

Smart, and again more expressive than a label.
Really cool. I love the keyboard shortcuts but I guess that goes with the territory of being a user on HN.

Dragging works also and it really is RT.

Only thing I can think of right now is distinguish which user added which node. Maybe a new colour for every user.
Of course I don't mean that nonviolence beats violence every time (edit: though in fairness I do see what sounded like that). That would be magic fairy dust. The point about Gandhi is that what he did worked at all.

Power accumulates in the hands of whoever controls large numbers of men with guns.

If you're right, why would the military take Sharp seriously, as the article says they do? Don't they have all the guns?

The few times that nonviolent movements have succeeded, they have done so against a tired power

That smells like hindsight bias to me: if it works, the regime must have been "tired".
This is just a paragraph from the actual story which is here: http://www.theindychannel.com/news/31224633/detail.html
A lot of even fairly tech savvy people I know don't want to have to deal with torrent software and files and all that nonsense. This would have been perfect for them.
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Things like the TSA are great illustrations of the pervasiveness of the surveillance-industrial complex at the beginning of this decade.

Security doesn't need to be a motivating factor, merely sufficient justification - after that things like back scatter body scanners, procedures that require more security staff and any other product or innovation the SIC comes up with can be shoehorned in.

They've worked out they can make money off of people's fear, and there's a neat little feedback loop where more security makes people more paranoid, more afraid leading to more security. Good business, if you can get it.
I'm a college student currently doing a software engineering internship - really learning a lot and working with a large .NET project.

Wish you the best of luck with the website you're working with - personal projects are always good :)
>In addition to pings from too-familiar recruiters, there were two cases that left me especially uneasy. In the first case, a former recruiting agency tried to poach Pete London and then 15 minutes later, wrote to me offering recruiting services! I was being pulled on both ends!

What did you expect them to do? It's not even that scummy. It's their business model.

I also feel that no poaching agreements are also bullshit. You're just attempting (rationally, I might add) to depress the market for your existing talent.

First and for all, especially in the climate we're in, banning two or three recruiting agencies isn't really going to hurt the chances of an employee who could be persuaded to leave. Secondly, if your employee can be persuaded to leave in the first place that's on you, not the recruiter!

I haven't had to make my life depend on employees as of yet, but when the time comes I think I'll find it hard to hold it against them.

Edit: mandatory notice of: great article, would read again, A++!
Like VPN services, their remote computer is downloading for you but instead of forwarding the traffic to your computer directly it forwards it to Dropbox, and then Dropbox puts it in your computer.
One question is what happens to a component that fails a major OEM's QC standards, where does it go? In to the garbage? Or into the whitebox channel?

For example, some have speculated that "Gamer RAM" with mean looking heatsinks is actually poorer quality stuff that requires additional cooling to work correctly.
I friended Pete London on linkedin, because having connections with fictional recruiter honeypots is awesome.

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=60565153
Would love to try it, but wondered if it supported the language(s) I want to use first. I gave up trying to find the list of supported languages. Consider making the text "and 23 other languages" on the home page a link.
You didn't like Downcast, or Instacast, or Pocket Cast?

I use Downcast and like it a lot. I wasn't a major podcast person before --- I'd grab the "podcast version" of the latest episodes of things I'd listen to on NPR --- but having a client keep up with all that stuff for me is a bit of a revelation.
So they should be paid better, and the burden spread among the constituents of those services. Not pinned on landlords.
If your goal is to make money, then sure, selling should be your goal.

If your goal is to make something that might change the world some day, then maybe it shouldn't be.

Hyperbole aside, if you really believe in what you're working on and want to see it live on, an acquisition might not be the best option. Many acquisitions lead to product deaths as the team gets integrated into the acquiring company (meebo is a recent example).
Apologies, must've misread something. Removed that point.
the doc page is beautiful!!
Disgraceful. How does the TSA constantly get away with shit like this?
My first programming language
My reason why I'm going with Python as my first language.
But buddhists generally aren't vague, they are extremely expressive about what they are talking about. Are you refering to something specific?
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You could have gained a lot more nerd-cred by mentioning this monstrosity instead of that trivial rps5 version: http://www.umop.com/rps101.htm I would actually be impressed if they implemented 101 different gestures instead of just 3 or even 5. (They'd need a second hand though.)
There have been protests or at least a discussion about it in Europe; Western Europe as well as Eastern Europe. The US has already signed it without much problem. Surely the majority of Americans would not have wanted their President to sign it, but now that it has been signed it would take a lot more effort to kill it.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/318690
Op-Ed: Obama signed ACTA in violation of Constitution, say critics
Actually, Eclipse's Python support is decent. You can infer a lot about what a type is by what methods and properties are accessed. It's not perfect, but it can do a decent job of it in a lot of cases.
> riding Muni is less like public transport and more like a homeless shelter.

Douchebag alert. Sorry regular people interfere with your nerd boner.

Edit: See what I did there, I mocked you for being a "nerd". Really just different from me. See, it sucks when people stereotype you as homeless or whatever you don't like because you don't scroll & pinch their way home everyday.
I know what you mean. It's all about the underlying patterns and concepts and their relations to one another.
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> Having lived in a predominantly Buddhist society during two different three-year stays as that society transformed from Third World colonialized poverty to First World free and democratic modernity, I'm not at all sure that most people would be more happy if most people were doing more mindfulness meditation.

Could you expand on this baffling non-sequitur? I truly can't make heads or tails of it.
It still uses bandwidth to download to your local Dropbox.
Metered PDU's are awesome, they have a nice LED display on the front showing the current used amps. We use Tripp lite, cheaper than APC, and hold up solid.
Did anybody see the other article in WSJ about SF real-estate? The title is "China in Talks With U.S. Home Builder / State Bank in Talks to Provide Lennar $1.7 Billion for Two Long-Stalled Projects [for 20,000 units in SF]"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230445860457748...

Pwn'd is the word that comes to mind.
To some degree, it's a fair critique. RPC is a loaded term, because there were far too many implementations that tried to hide the network, which is a recipe for disaster. We were hesitant of going forward with the name ZeroRPC ourselves because of the historical baggage.

That said, most of the faults people have placed on RPC have been products of individual implementations and not the concept itself, and there really is much more momentum behind RPC engines than anything else. For my Master's thesis, I implemented a generative communication [1] engine. While I still feel like it's a "beautiful" model, it turns out no one cares. Developers understand RPC calls. Not that many get tuples / tuplespaces / pattern matching and why that can be nice.

1: http://theory.sci.univr.it/papers/Isa-orig/Varie/Linda2.pdf
Its this. You need the headroom for power-on/reboots. Blade chassis are smart enough to stagger starting up each blade for this reason. 1Us don't know about each other.
BS - dropbox is NOT taking a moral stand. They are under the control of corporate council in a highly visible silicon valley company.

Give me access to Drew Houston's home machines and I will likely be able to prove he has torrent software installed and content downloaded. Let's not be morons here - this is about corporate governance to appear responsible regardless of morals.

If Dropbox wanted to take an actual moral stand it would implement a system which would fingerprint the .avi and .mp4 files (as examples) stored by its users, compare them to torrent files it could download in an automated fashion And delete/block syncing of said fingerprinted files.

This is in no way a moral stand it's a legal circle jerk making sure VC funding credibility is retained.
Being a good external recruiter in Silicon Valley is a tricky balancing act. Everyone in the Valley wants the superstars, so competition is ridiculous. Additionally, cultural fit in small startups is of utmost importance, so you have to learn the culture of the company your engaged with. The culture is also highly insular and revolves around being a jedi master of code, so if you're a recruiter you're expected to have a deep understanding of the technical needs of the company in addition to the cultural ones. Plus most startups want people who have an active understanding of new languages/frameworks/methodologies, so you also have to have thorough knowledge of the bleeding edge of tech. Lastly, this person needs to have good in-person skills, network, and ability to sell a position against whatever the competition is offering.

Since each company is different, every time you get a new client you need to recalibrate and get up to speed on what they need. This is why it's rare to find a truly good external recruiter (and impossible to find a good contingency recruiter for a short term engagement). In my opinion the best arrangements are long-term engagements, giving the recruiting firm time to understand exactly what you're looking for and calibrate their searches against that. Of course these engagements are expensive and time-consuming, so it's also why I'm a big fan of internal recruiters since they a) absorb and presumably live your culture and b) can have a much deeper understanding of your technology and team dynamics.
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That shouldn't be any harder than updating one pointer atomically, modern x64s have two-pointer sized atomic exchange operations.
Surprised the author was able to get 100mbps unmetered for such low prices. Would guess the bandwidth is not multi-homed and single carrier. Usually you pay for a standard 100mbps drop, but then 95th percentile based on the number of purchased megabits in your contract.
That's called the free market, no?

If someplace is paying minimum wage and can't find people to fill the positions (due to high housing/transportation costs), they'll have to raise the wages or close down.

This actually happened in Calgary, Canada a few years back. McDonald's was paying 50-100% more than minimum wage in order to attract employees. Stores actually closed on Sunday because they couldn't find staff.
"There is genuine suffering in the world that it is important to do something about"

You're right. But as the Buddhists say "Start where you are." How are you going to address all the suffering in the world if you can't address the suffering in your own heart or your own home? I would even say that, for some people at least, their frantic efforts to fix the world outside are simply a way of avoiding dealing with the world inside.

And it is certainly true that efforts to bring peace are probably more effective when they come from people who are living in peace with themselves.
I suspect you could, or an entity with sufficient motivation could.

For casual purposes, which encompasses much of my present threat model, the measures I'm taking should be reasonably sufficient.

The point I and others are making is that:

0. There's a growing default assumption that individuals have no privacy, that privacy is dead, and that we should all just roll over and forget about it.

1. Even if you trust your service provider today, you may not trust them tomorrow.

2. Even if you trust your service provider, you may not trust those who have access to your data through your service provider. Intentionally or otherwise.

I'm well aware that roughly 32 bits of leaked information should be sufficient to identify me, if not precisely, then with reasonable accuracy. This doesn't mean I'm going to hand over my SSN and DOB to anyone who asks.

It may also be the case that I'm deliberately trying to create various associated identities.

That said: if you're interested in trying to link this identity to others, you can GMail me any of your prospective linkings.
I understand you want nobody on your lawn...and i'm sure newsql/nosql is just IMS again...and you have an opinion that either functional or OOP sucks. They're all tools / approaches. In general, each has several perfectly valid applications. I've used RPC in the past and it was a great approach (a fairly standard XML-RPC interface). Would it have been better as REST with JSON? Probably...at the time REST and JSON didn't exist (late 90s). It certainly felt better than CORBA.

From a naive perspective of someone greater than 25, bridge looks interesting. I would expect some (not all) others who have "been there" would feel the same. I don't think the hyperbolic condescending attitude is really called for. I apologize if I'm inferring incorrectly the tone of your post.

EDIT: corrected a typo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Electrical_Code#Actual...

I'm not sure why this came about in the first place, though. AFAIK in Europe breakers are rated at 100%.
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Yeah I've been waiting to use AeroFS for years.. I don't understand why it would take so long for a product that has incredibly small marginal costs (unlike say, Dropbox or Gmail where there were/are real server storage costs involved).

They claim that if you invite 5-10 of your friends you can get an invite, but I don't want to invite 10 people just to be a beta user of the product, it's unfair to my friends to do so unless I'm a rabid evangelist who genuinely loves the product (which I'm not, yet).

You don't have to invite the backlog of users straight away, but try to invite say 5-10% of the beta-requested users every month (I don't mind giving 3 months warning for AeroFS to get its systems ready, so AT MOST by September/November it should begin this)

Every time I search around the web for AeroFS I see claims of it being vaporware but then there also always seems to be pro-AeroFS employees astroturfing. Even here, the CEO (not a regular user) is linking to a company blog-post (a practise which I don't necessarily have any against, but it's worth noting)

AeroFS can be so much - it fills an incredible important niche (like someone said in another comment - an easy to setup P2P rsync). Local, cross-computer syncing is an important thing - many places in the developed and developing world have limited internet bandwidth but heaps of local network bandwidth. Hundreds of gigabytes to multiple terabytes of media, documents and data need to be shared and Dropbox would require immense amounts of money to do so.

It may not be as profitable as Dropbox on a per-user basis, but it doesn't need to be since we are using our own bandwidth so it doesn't cost AeroFS anything.

They had YC-funding, have like 15-ish employees last I checked. With that, Dropbox arguable is in the process of changing the internet forever. AeroFS can do the same.
I found two studies from 2010: one by a Princeton student[1] and one by the University of Ballarat (Australia) [2].
Both of then found that the vast majority of bittorrent traffic, not surprisingly, is illegal and both were heavily critiziced.
I quote:

"...89.9 per cent of them were illegal and, of the remainder, 8.2 per cent was porn."[2]

"Overall, about one percent of the total files were categorized as "likely noninfringing."[1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/01/bittorrent-census-ab...
[2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/07/only-03-of-files-...
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Interesting that the author chose to use a Kill-a-Watt for power consumption monitoring.. seems like a better idea to use the planning applications available from the major vendors to determine usage depending on workload, etc. Dell and HP both have a calculator where you set the system (RAM, CPU, # HDs, etc.) and the load and it will provide you with an approximate power use, along with a peak load.
Another big question for colos is redundant power. Preferably they have two separate lines all the way to the utility and test their generators on a regular basis.
The article says that you're are not allowed to use the full rated capacity of a circuit. Can anyone tell me why? This seems weird to me.

I think this is an NFPA/NEC[1] standard.

You could look at it another way: circuits are breakered such that you can temporarily peak 25% above their normal capacity without tripping the breaker. I don't know why the standard isn't more conservative, except to guess that it's because typical household/office uses are likely to have low continuous and high intermittent loads (e.g. vacuum cleaner), making it a good trade-off.

[1] USA (and Canada?) only. Anyone know how it is in other countries?
You have a link to the [bridge] tag on Stack Overflow, even though that tag is supposedly dead:

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/bridge/info
Are Internet trolls the new religious nuts?
Would you apply the same logic to cars? If you happen to own a car that suddenly became desirable, should the gov't step in and prevent you from getting the best price for it?

How about if you own a start-up? Was Instagram guilty of "predator" pricing when Facebook bought them?

What people don't seem to understand is that in a free-market system, there is no free lunch. Look at the rental market in SF. People pay "key money" to secure a place. Or the landlord rents to their friend, not the best tenant because if he can't get fair market value in terms of a rental rate, he'll get it someway else (and buyers will pay, because they value it the same way).
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I recently worked with a recruiting agency that operated like a talent agency. The receiiters were not paid on comission. Instead, a team worked with me, and each pitched different companies to me. They prepped me for interviews, analyzed my strengths and weaknesses, and reviewed my past work and projects.

In the end I had to choose between two offers. They encouraged me to take the slightly lesser paying one because they thought I would be happier in that position.

Talent agency model is definitely the way to go.
Yes, it is the transitions of the tooltips, the circles that appear when you hover over a datapoint and the colour changes.

All of these stutter sometimes, especially if you are moving your mouse to a point and happen to trigger a few other events on the way.

Firefox 13.0, Kubuntu 10.04
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16GB RAM
I disagree. Just because I could open a grocery store which found it morally repugnant to sell animal-derived products does not mean everyone should share the same values. People and firms should be able to do the same within the framework of law
I agree w.r.t. San Francisco proper (it's already very dense, certainly by American standards), but I think quite a bit more could be done in the Valley, which would also ease some of the pressure on SF. A lot of jobs are in the Valley, but people (esp. young people) end up living in SF because the Valley refuses to build anything other than suburban housing for the most part.

San Jose has been building condos and apartment buildings near the Diridon Caltrain station, so that's something. But much of the rest of the Valley between SJ and SF is extremely anti-development. Try to get approval to put in a condo tower in Palo Alto! I don't even mean that jokingly: given the demand created by the Palo Alto tech businesses and Stanford, it could easily support several condo towers near the downtown area. The fact that the city government bans them means that that demand is displaced elsewhere, e.g. to SF.