skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm... I'm somewhat bothered by how the word hacker is used in the article, where it's used to describe criminal activities. Or am I misinterpreting it? I know in one part he uses the term 'cracker,' and in another part he says that perhaps his utility should have used 'preaking' instead of 'hacking,' but in general I think he's using the term hacker to describe breaking into a system.

I know the word in society has a double meaning. It could mean breaking into a system, or engineering an innovative piece of software. I personally wouldn't really care, except nowadays I'm finding myself promoting a hackerspace or a hackathon on the radio, and usually every time I start an interview I have to begin by saying "We're not criminals." It gets tiring after a while. Once we were trying to form a partnership with an organization, and the guy immediately threw us out of his office when he heard the word hacker. He wanted nothing to do with us.
I agree with both your premise and conclusion regarding the on going commoditization of storage. The OP lays out application integration and software integration as routes for storage providers to follow, which I tend to agree with, but the ideas can be better generalized as problems of horizontal and vertical integration (respectively). Different forms of commodity businesses exists in both the horizontal and vertical markets here, so as you point out, storage providers are likely to begin searching for customers with problems that they can build/grow into the function of their platform.
Hi Halit, I'm not sure non-English content are welcomed on HN. Downvoted, sorry.
I believe the title is wrong. Virtually none of the applicants were "dropouts," although some were accepted to prestigious colleges and decided not to go. The program was envisioned as an alternative to college, and most applicants were pre-entry.
125 isn't many compared to the number of employees they have already. I would expect some goodwill to appear on the next quarterly report though.
> the free market will help switching for other sources of energy

The question is: which ones?
FWIW, I have seen mentions in some of the coverage that they plan an Android version (if that indeed would help you). Given the deep integration with the phone dialer and other device hooks as well as the in-app purchasing model, I can understand why they wanted to start with a single mobile platform (whatever it may be).
and if this had happened today, he would have been put in prison for five years! hooray
'Welcome message' is being popped up for every page I visit even for the pages that I'd already visited. A bug? Using chrome 21.0.1180.60 m on Windows 7

Edit: Issue resolved after reloading the page
It looks like he used to make Amazon affiliate revenue, right up until they cut off all affiliates in California over a sales tax collection dispute.
when your target audience are people so devoted to a frivolous activity that they willing buy devices with no other purpose than to consume carefully curated content, it becomes hard to see them as anything other than a paycheck.

Mmmmmm, how deliciously condescending. I wonder if that's how musicians, actors, and iOS developers feel? I make software for desktops, so I respect my target audience (of course, frivolous workstation abuse is quite common, but it's too much effort to maintain a high horse for all those edge cases)
Spreadsheets cant work with XLSX - especially things like pivot tables, etc. In fact if you google around, you will see people having serious problems opening a fairly small (in business terms) XLSX in OO/Libre, which opens in a second in Excel.

Same with Softmaker.
I do about 300,000 - 500,000 concurrent connections on nodejs but it's all short lived web requests.

It took a while to iron out most cases that can crash, right now I have:

web.1: up for 12h

web.2: up for 12h

web.3: up for 12h

web.4: up for 12h

web.5: up for 12h

web.6: up for 4h

web.7: up for 1h

web.8: up for 12h

web.9: up for 12h

web.10: up for 12h

web.11: up for 32m

web.12: up for 12h

web.13: up for 7h

web.14: up for 7h
It still was a $440M pre-tax loss. The $270M figures is post-tax.
Limited edition brown... Microsoft already tried that with a consumer electronics device. And that's all anyone remembers of that line of hardware. I gotta wonder, why brown?
No problem.And This link has some photos.Thanks
The default assumption ascribed to enterprise is that they don't want to contribute to open source because there is no "return" on such an investment. It is a zero-sum mentality which says "I am worse off for having shared my technology".

This may actually be the case in many situations, and where it's not, the possibility of outside contributions subsequently improving the technology is often overlooked.
I use analytics we made ourselves
The limiting factor is the testing and integration, not the new technology.

if it takes X years to do sufficient radiation and integration testing on new technology, you can't possibly include any technology "newer" than X years old. And trying to keep yourself open to include the latest-technology-you-possibly-can means you need to have manpower ready to do that testing at the last possible moment, which has scheduling implications on everything else.

So you need to prioritize which technologies you most want to be able to integrate in their latest/greatest form. And slightly fancier pictures are just not going to be that high on the list.
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Disclaimer: I stopped using SO a while ago because of the uber pedantic mods and the overall unfriendly atmosphere there.

> why would that be bad?

Because I don't want some bozo messing around with something I wrote. If he wants to add something he should write a comment but not change my original contribution. I see this as a personal attack.
You don't need to own the market to disrupt the market. Even if they don't sell a single unit beyond the preorders, selling 60k units of a gaming device is enough to make studios take notice that there is a demand. Compare it with minor political parties, where the goal often isn't to become president but rather to force the hands of larger, established parties.
The long term solution to electric cars is electrified highways not better battery's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Irisbus_Cristalis_ETB18_C1... Also, we use
~474 exajoules of energy per year, the sun provides ~3,850,000 exajules. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy Collecting 1% of that energy could easily support a western style lifestyle for 10 billion people.
This is where NodeJS really starts to shine - persistant connections and background operations let you do a whole bunch of cool stuff to mitigate that.

In my case I have entire db tables and collections replicated in memory and kept in sync via redis pubsub, and the 100,000s of concurrent users I have are all sharing just a few dozen persistant redis and mongodb connections between them.
Scaling the backend is a lot easier than dealing with concurrent front-end connections!
Even these days VB is often forgotten about, and can still be used in interesting ways.
Yes, that's the rule and I disagreed so I left the site. I'm interested in a site to augment the wizardly elisp or Haskell guy you run into occasionally, who you know could show you "the way". I don't use elisp in my day job, for example, but when I get the rare chance to play with it, it would nice to have a deeper repository of questions from which to learn.
They're hotlinked from The Atlantic. Might as well go there, they're better displayed too:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/08/curiosity-just-da...
Then answer the old question. Or suggest an edit to one of the old answers if it's out of date. Anyone can do those things, even with only 1 reputation point. The system was designed specifically so answers can change over time.
>I notice that this looks to be printing in unreinforced concrete. What about some rebar for the load-bearing elements?

Well then you didn't watch the video in your haste to comment on it. ~5:50.
CBC Ombudsman complaint: using the word hacker to describe criminals [pdf]
Excellent idea about the screenshot. I've added it to my todo list.

I'd love someone to test this https://buddycloud.org/wiki/Buddycloud_nginx_setup and provide feedback about what else is needed to get bc running on nginx. And also about the best way to manage presenting of the CA certs in Nginx.
10 practices of highly ineffective software developers
I absolutely LOVE stackoverflow. I've been working on my own for about 9 months, and without SO, there would have been zero chance I would be able to make any progress.

But I do agree about the criticism of the moderators. I also think that there is almost a "Stanford Prison Experiment" level of power-wielding amongst some of the mods. There are examples of someone/me asking a question, and then someone closing it as a dupe, when in fact the question isn't a dupe. It might be superficially similar, but the mods don't take enough time to actually read the question and see if it's a dupe or not. And the rest of us are powerless to do anything about it.

But this is the minority of cases for me. For the most part, SO is a completely invaluable tool, and I love it immensely.

I think removing "Thanks" is a bit too abrasive. Maybe 10+ years ago, the NYC subway system tried getting ticketing agents to stop saying "Thanks" because they thought it would make things more efficient, and all it did was piss off the passengers. It's trivial, but there has to be a base level of civility between participants. I get that upvoting is "Thanks", but we're still humans (at this point), and trying to make communication more "efficient" by removing natural human responses makes it too terse, and almost insulting sometimes. It's a small thing, and I think it's better to just leave it in, because it's nice to say "thanks".
Dotcom should not be a poster boy for "innocent" victim. He has a long criminal history. As far as anything Dotcom says, how can you believe him? He's been convicted of insider trading, embezzlement, computer fraud, handling stolen goods, selling stolen credit card numbers.. Those credit card numbers were attached to real people who had their lives highly inconvenienced by a thief. Why the hell do people celebrate Dotcom? He's not a crusader. He's just trying to get paid. If he did it all for free, I might be inclined to respect him, despite disagreeing with his actions. But this punk lived it up in a mansion like some kind of player and he wants us to feel sorry for him? This is like feeling sorry for Scarface.
Ah, I definitely read that wrong. That's a whole different dilemma if the issue is, "I love this technology but it's more than the market will bear." So will you go back to your old job? I know you have a runway for a while should you choose to use it...
I do, sort of. I'm just getting off the ground, but I have these cards: Inbox/Unsorted, Next Actions, Waiting On, Ideas, Reference, and Done.

I haven't yet, but I think a lot of people use labels extensively to further organize (e.g. is this to do at #home, #work, an #errand...? will this action take #5mins, #30mins, etc).
And what about this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E76uJi744Do ?
Ask HN: Are there any credit monitoring services that don't drive you nuts?
I'm looking for a half decent credit monitoring service. I've been using a paid membership over at freecreditscore.com and the experience is terrible. The website is super confusing and when I forgot my password and tried to reset it, I go through the whole process of confirming my identity only to finish with a "sorry, there was an error" message (currently waiting up to 48 hours for their technical team to get back to me). Also, if I wanted to cancel my account, I have to CALL customer service, which entails being on hold for 5 minutes, etc. This is unacceptable! I just want a nice, simple service that can deliver me credit monitoring for a decent price. Is there anything out there like this?
One thing I really appreciated at a recent interview with a startup was when they said, "the most likely outcome for startups in our position is Chapter 11 bankruptcy. We believe in our product and of course don't think that will happen, but that's what usually happens."
You're downoting a link to some awesome images because it's a non-English site? Downvoted, sorry.
VBA is the big beast - but here is a question from me. What will it take to implement VBA on top of Lua (or any other lightweight,embedded runtimes/VM). Hell, what will it take to implement VBA on top of the V8 engine [1] ? If one can achieve that, then you can pretty much build a spreadsheet as a browser plugin for 80% of the cases. For the rest 20% pathological cases - fine, reboot to windows.

Now, thats's an idea for a Kickstarter. This is the kind of thing that goes on to transform businesses in third world countries - Excel is what prevents the move to Linux more than ANYTHING else.

[1] http://ramblings.mcpher.com/
I see grey area sites that have had years of harsh and aggressive treatment. See, for examples, pirate bay (prison sentences etc); oink (years of legal stuff (http://torrentfreak.com/oink-admin-found-not-guilty-walks-fr...); demonoid shut down; and MegaUpload. (Whether these sites needed legal action is another discussion. I mention them here merely as evidence that it's not as easy as hosting something outside the US.)

Being outside the US does nothing to make a person immune to US laws and law enforcement.
The type of person that will succeed without college won't really need it because they have the drive to succeed.

Most people aren't like this.
I can't speak for everyone but it seems to me one does gain something. If you didn't, why bother at all? Whatever you gain may be small and it probably doesn't have any monetary value but there should be some extrinsic motivation to answer. There are plenty of alternative uses of your time.

Thus, my greater point is: when you have decided to answer, you should give the best answer you can reasonably give in the time you want to use. It wont hurt you and will improve the world a little bit.
Even if this fails (I don't expect it to but of course it could), I'm willing to throw some money at serious research into what's so hard about making tiny $99 consoles, and how to address those problems in the next project.
Definetly looks interesting! However the corperate network I am on at the moment does not display the page correctly (could be anything from outdated html5 or just regular blocking).

Either way, I really enjoy the iPhone/Android app!

I agree though, I don't like the IE logo on the top right of the page. Call my crazy, but I am really fond of the simple, clean, eligant display on the iPhone/Android. Plus I just don't like IE.

As far as requiring an account - While I do see the merit in requiring registration, I think it should just load up the interface, and require registration if they would like to save their list of sources for when they visit the website later. Not to mention, noting that the sources and everything sync's across platforms is definetly a plus.

Good luck to you!
ZFS has NT ACLs, not POSIX ACLs.
Yeah right, you're talking as if he invented this technology
Federal court gives middle finger to Americans, warrantless wiretaps ruled okay
The Highest-Paying Jobs You Can Get Without a Bachelor's Degree - Yahoo Finance
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FWIW, Things Cloud is turned off by default, and is not required for the operation of the software.
You've pasted this link in every Mars thread. And submitted it on its own. Multiple times. I had a look at your submission list out of curiosity and all your submissions are just self-promotion. I don't think that's in the spirit of HN.

Best self-promotion you can do is make quality posts and submissions and then link to your blog from your profile page instead.
Wow! Look at the date! 2004. Amazing!
Disclaimer: I am a developer in the HFT space.

This is utter crap.

As long as there has been a transfer of money, there has always been a market for faster access to information and faster use of that information. Its only in the last ten years that the speed is so fast it has to be done electronically.

There's a autobiography of a stock trader written in the early 1900s called Reminiscence of a Stock Operator where, in 1907/1908, the author is complaining that the time to execute a trade is too long. Specifically, he would notice a price movement on the tape, tell his runner to go (for example) buy 100 at $60, but by the time the runner was actually able to execute, the price was at $80, hence he's getting a worse price. The solution back then was faster runners, then faster communication (such as hand signals), then computers, etc.

Wall Street is not just HFT. Different firms have different ways of trying to make money. Some are speculators, some are value investors, some are arbitrageurs, some are market makers. Some companies trade to hedge risk in, for example, commodities that they expect to buy in the future. Others trade to hedge currency risk against countries they do business with.

To claim that Wall Street used to bet on companies that build things but now only bet on companies that make money is terrible mass-market journalism at best.
Don't forget about IBM Lotus Symphony. I really wish IBM would merge their efforts with the LibreOffice team, but I know it won't happen.
Or used an Apache-style license.
> Hmm... I'm somewhat bothered by how the word hacker is used in the article, where it's used to describe criminal activities.

This culture war has been going on for like three decades.

I eventually settled on just calling "hackers" phreakers. Because the people who started the whole "break into computers" meme were phreakers, and called it such at the time.

Besides, actual whistle-into-the-phone phreaking isn't possible anymore, the community eventually morphed into computer "hacking".
Samsung didn't know user experience until Apple slapped them in the face with it
Viewers opted for the Web over TV to watch Curiosity's landing
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> There are examples...

Where are these examples? This is the internet. Please provide links.

> And the rest of us are powerless to do anything about it.

That's simply not true. Stack Exchange provides a Meta site where you can take up issues with the entire community. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ You can also email the company. They do read your emails.

As for removing "thanks," we really don't recommend doing that if it's the only thing you're going to change. However, it's not supposed to be included, so removing it while making other edits is encouraged.
They have sent back at least one color photo, which has been released [1] as a test that the cameras are working. They're still getting everything operational (and I believe they have a software upgrade to do yet) before the major operations get underway. The black and white cameras don't need to be deployed and calibrated like the color/high-res cameras do.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/08/us-usa-mars-idUSBR...
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A good fact to keep in mind is that ZFS is meant to run on adequate hardware. ECC Ram (ZFS is more prone to corruption from random memory errors than most other filesystems, it assumes your ram is reliable), drives that don't lie about writes, adequate CPU overhead. it was designed to go BIG - and when you go big, these things are a given. If you skimp on any of these, it doesn't look as good - but small-scale wasn't it's target market.
(And I'm not saying nobody should use ZFS on a small scale... but it was designed with some specific assumptions that are perfectly fair given it's target market)

If you are runninga a system at a scale where ZFS makes sense and not making backups of critical data, your operations process is fundamentally broken anyway. ZFS doesn't change the need for backups one bit (and it brings to the table some novel ways of doing offsite snapshots and whatnot, to boot)
I think one of the issues with the thesis that oil prices will lead to a drop in globalization is that it's actually quite fuel-efficient to ship goods. Grabbing fast stats from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_transportati...), we see that it takes 246kJ to transport 1 tonne (2,204.6 pounds) 1km by freight rail in the United States. By contrast, a car carrying a single person takes 3,594kJ to transport that person 1km. Also, I think ocean-borne freight is even more favorable than rail, but I would assume that we would also have the option of creating nuclear-powered ocean-borne freight transportation given that we do this today for military vessels.

Freight has the advantage that it often doesn't care if it arrives 6 hours late or has to wait around a bunch. That means that we can hit maximal loads nicely. Businesses also tend to pre-plan (at least the ones that do well) so that they can take advantages of the efficiencies offered by going slower.

Passenger transportation just isn't as efficient and would seem to be under a greater squeeze. Even if you go by Amtrak's rail service, to transport a tonne of humans (assuming the average North American body weight of 80.7kg) would use 80x as much fuel as transporting a tonne of freight.

Getting back to freight, a lot of the world's goods are transported by freight truck over land. Freight trucks use 2,426kJ per tonne-kilometer. So, something coming from China over water to the Western US would use considerably less fuel than something from New York trying to get to the Western US. It's under 8,000mi from China to SF and (as the crow flys) 2,500mi from New York to SF. If water-borne transit is 10x more efficient, goods from China still have a fuel advantage over freight truck.

If anything, we'd see the end of freight trucks before we saw the end of globalization. Something coming from China to the Western US and then onto New York by rail would likely use less fuel than something coming from the Western US to New York by fright truck.

I guess I just see freight trucking and passenger trips ending considerably sooner than the water-borne and rail transit that would enable globalization to continue.
He used to talk exclusively to my boobs. good riddance.
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I'm not sure the people behind Ouya are as inexperienced as the ones behind Diaspora. At least they somehow got Yves Behar to help with the industrial design.
Probably makes sense, since it's relatively easier for the car to be spirited off to mainland Europe and beyond.
If someone re-writes an entire sentence, I can see how you may feel it as a personal attack.

If someone is fixing spelling and grammar and other things like formatting for linking to keywords etc., I think it is very useful. I don't know why you would think that such edits are personal attack. This is the Internet, you need to relax a bit.