skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't fridges pretty airtight though? Isn't that the whole point here? If so, then crying loud and long is at best a hell of a bet.

I'd be willing to bet that fridges are pretty good sound insulators. The inside is sort of suspended IIRC.
One recurrent issue with Amazon services is that they charge in US$ and currently do not accept euros. European banks charge an arm and a leg for micropayment conversions: last time I got a bill from AWS for 0.02$ it ended up costing me 20 euros or so. Pretty much kills the deal.
One solution could be to pre-pay 100$ on an account and let them debit as needed.
How To Deal With An "Unruly Passenger" On A Cross-Country Flight
"You need to be a nazi", that's quite a conclusion to make. Any evidence of this actually working?
From the retrieval times they are giving, it seems plausible that they could be only booting the servers 5 or 6 times a day, to run the upload and retrieval jobs stored in a buffer system of sorts. Having the servers turned off for the majority of the time would same an immense amount of power, although I wonder about the wear on drives spinning up and down compared to being always on.

Any other theories on how this works on the backend while still being profitable?
It would help if the author actually understood what "positive feedback loop" means in engineering. It's not what he thinks, and social-science terms like "positive feedback" don't translate well in the more rigorous sciences.

In strict engineering terms, feedback loops must always have a gain less than unity, and a stable, reliable system normally has negative net feedback. But this doesn't sound "right" to a social scientist, who understands these terms in an entirely different way.
I think something like a "biotech" age will probably come next. You can see its dawn now, for instance in the DNA data encoder recently or chips that allow parapalegics to control computers through their brain waves. This is where we begin combining the potential of information technologies with biological for advancement. I could easily imagine nanochips that interact with neurons and your retina to allow you to interface with the internet, chat with collegues oversees, etc. As far as the "Space Age" is concerned a think that was a misnomer, we aren't anywhere near capable of beginning the exploration of the vastness of space, and unless we make some ensteinian breakthroughs in physics we probably won't be able to for several centuries to come.
Stackoverflow.
How much for an iPhone 5 hands on? $8000 in China - Gizchina.com
Sometimes the restrictions are due to interfacing with legacy back-ends. No a great excuse, but at least more understandable.
I guess you should take great care to use the exact same HTTP headers (user-agent, accept, encoding etc) and pattern of API access as the corresponding apps, or they'll surely be able to detect anomalies and ban your account :)
Somehow I find it very hard to believe. Remove the logo on the lacoste polo shirt and the Nike shoes and see if they would buy it still.
So I guess that means it would still work well for a scheme like time machine uses, where incremental changes are added but deletions are simply made note of. At least I think that's how it works.
I can't see any way for Tarsnap to use this right now. When you create a new archive, you're only uploading new blocks of data; the server has no way of knowing which old blocks of data are being re-used. As a result, storing any significant portion of a user's data in Amazon Glacier would mean that all archive extracts would need to go out to Glacier for data...

Also, with Tarsnap's average block size (~ 64 kB uncompressed, typically ~ 32 kB compressed) the 50 microdollar cost per Glacier RETRIEVAL request means that I'd need to bump the pricing for tarsnap downloads up to about $1.75 / GB just to cover the AWS costs.

I may find a use for Glacier at some point, but it's not something Tarsnap is going to be using in the near future.
Quick FYI, if it matters: this is from 1958.
I get so annoyed when people don't make (or understand) the distinction between the value of a company, public or private, and the market cap of a publicly traded company. They are not the same, not by a long-shot, and the biggest and most "valuable" companies are usually private.
Steve Jobs, who built what is now the world's most valuable company, at least in part by being intolerable? Parenthetically, I strongly recommend the recent Iverson biography, it's first rate.

I worked with Steve Jobs, I couldn't stand him, and I eventually refused to work with Apple. I am sure there are many others who came to the same conclusion. But this didn't stop Apple as a company.
It would be good to add (1958) to the title -- I doubt such an experiment would fly today, and this presents a fascinating look back in history both at the state of experimental ethics and the development of modern refrigerator doors.

The only experience I have with fridges so old is the one that my grandfather rotated 90 degrees and buried in his yard, to serve as a root cellar. I think the door may have had an actual lock on it, but can't recall; if so, this experiment studying door release mechanisms would make much more sense.

Edit to add: It's possible the invention of magnetic weatherstripping has saved many lives.
I like this idea. But as a novice, how would you, say sign in to gmail? Would you download a file, sign it, and upload it again? That seems quite time consuming as compared to current day password.
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Airtight does not imply soundproof. Well-insulated is better correlated, and fridges do tend to be that as well.
This sounds really appealing as a NAS backup solution, but I'm a bit concerned about security and privacy. Let's say I want to backup and upload my CDs and movies, would Amazon be monitoring what I upload and assume I'm doing something illegal?
Awesome news. For me the most important thing about the update is that the modal popup works with the latest Opera. Also the docs feels easier to use.
I've made two examples to help others discern between positive feedback loop (engineering) and positive feedback (social sciences).

Where from have you drawn that conclusion? Genuine interest.
I believe, in an ideal world you'd have your private key stored safely on a private webserver, or maybe your mobile phone.
Perhaps DropBox et al will be able to make use of this Infrastructure to lower the costs of their service...
Put a microphone inside and outside the fridge. If the noise coming from inside the fridge is louder than the noise from outside the fridge, pop the hatch automatically.

Not a viable solution for 1958x but today we are talking about a few dollars in electronics and an electromagnet.
Any easy to use Windows clients for Glacier (for backing up an OS and/or other files)?

If not, to any developers reading this: there's money in them thar Glacier.
Just use GPG to encrypt your files before you upload them.
US Standard isn't replicated across regions.
Applies to teenage prodigies too.

I should write about the dancing monkey problem sometime.
Comparison of the Anti-Spoofing Techniques
We need anti-spoofing techniques in order to be able to recognize TEAs(Trustworthy Email Addresses), which becomes trustworthy thanks to the use of a TSF(trust/risk based security framework). Obviously, ourtechniques differ regarding their security strength or level of confidence in recognition. However, there is no exact way to say that one technique is weaker than another one. For example, it is not straight forward to choose which of the following offers the higher level of confidence: a valid signature with a very short asymmetric key, which has been used for years, or the ability to show that the sender is able to receive emails sent to a specific email address
Abstract Architecture for Service-oriented Automated Negotiation System
The service-oriented automated negotiation system includes the following four participants: service registration centre, negotiation service requester, negotiation service provider, and protocol.
Service registration centre is a database of service providers‟ information. The negotiation service provider follows a standard service API so that customers can use negotiation services from different service providers. Registration service centre supports all customers and services in the open system, of which negotiation is just one. Service registration centre provides customers with other services such as security and auditing in addition to negotiation service registration
agreed, it would be great to know how this is running from a hardware point of view - just out of personal interest :-)
No, it implies that you think that the other person is stupid AND they use some form of Unix. Any way you put it, your response is unfriendly and rude. And Hacker News should not be known for arrogance. In fact, the person reading this article might not know much about tunnelling, but maybe writing the next greatest app. You won't know who you are displaying your arrogance to, so don't do it.
You mean trillion I think.
<p>You can download the first 25% of the book&nbsp;<strong>here</strong>.</p>

Ummm ... where?
Hack Attack On UK Websites Over Assange
I feel like that's an acceptable level of risk.
Python is great in itself, but it seems to me that there are significantly more jobs for junior Ruby coders than junior Python coders... there is no reason you can't learn one after learning the other, though
Pretty disgusting, maybe we should drown them and burn them also to see how they react.
If you're still interested, the author replied: http://i.imgur.com/LdZ51.png
> It would be good to add (1958) to the title

Won't fit in the 80 character limit.
or finally to break even?
Applying a genetic algorithm to the travelling salesman problem
HN article title should probably have (1958) appended to it.

Incidentally, see http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2586/is-it-impossib... for a bit more on the subject.
Littering is Rude - and 4 More Reasons to Refactor your Code
Actually, a lot of us come for the articles but stay for the conversation. That pointer article may have had an error, but it was discussed in the comments.

That's the hacker ethos - show what you know, if you are wrong someone will point it out and others (and hopefully youtself!) will learn from it.

The sort of attitude you are display is the sort of hypercritical one that prevents people from submitting "Show HN", which is a real pity.
Adobe are now hosting Source Sans Pro on GitHub
SAP hopes to lure startups back with its Startup Forum for HANA
The tablet interface is way more natural than the computer. If you're got the cash, go for the iPad. If not, I might even recommend one of the 7" Nexus tables Google puts out. I'm no Android guy, but that is a great product for its price.
"A constrained elite does seem useful within an organization. I like the idea of distinguishing those engineers who go above and beyond and really create something new. However it can also become a gerontocracy easily and can limit the adoption of innovative ideas in the long run."

Might it be the case that a technology company itself has a limited lifetime? Or more accurately a limited 'innovation potential' after which it becomes a service organisation?
That's really odd, I've never heard of fees that high - in the UK I can use my credit cards with Amazon and only pay a few pennies in transaction fees. Have a look at the CaxtonFX Dollar Traveller, you need to load it with $200 but then there's no transaction fees I think, except a slightly worse exchange rate..
Which is why I think it would be a great idea to have a KickStarter-like system to fund these free courses. As much as someone wants to share their knowledge, it consumes a lot of time and effort. It would be nice if teachers got something in return, other than gratitude :)

A KickStarter-like system would also help in eliminating lurkers, and focus the efforts of both teachers and students on the actual course and assignments, and everyone would benefit if these courses are released for free after they're funded, but at least it guarantees an interested student base for the course to become a success.
Hm, you could be right, AWS says:

> The US Standard Region automatically routes requests to facilities in Northern Virginia or the Pacific Northwest using network maps.

I guess this means that the data is automatically geographically sharded?
How do you think they could use this service? I can't think of a use case for them.
Virgin (200+ businesses operating or having operated, under the Virgin brand, ranging from infrastructures - trains, airlines - to records, banking, bridal saloons under the name Virgin Bride...).

Mitsubishi and Samsung springs to mind as two of the best known ones internationally where their brands are known in multiple markets internationally, though many of their businesses are less known outside Asia (e.g. Mitsubishi's bank is Japans largest). Any number of other Asian conglomerates.

ITT used to fall in that category back in the day: Fridges, PC's, hotels, insurance, schools,telecoms and lots more. I remember we at one point had both an ITT PC and fridge. The name was well known in many of its markets.

The large, sprawling, unfocused conglomerate have fallen a bit out of favor in Europe and the US. ITT was often criticized for their lack of focus even back in the 80's, and have since broken itself into more and more pieces and renamed and/or sold off many of them (e.g. the hotel group is now owned by Starwood).
Signed up as 'patient' (with UC), and am looking forward to contributing (both as patient and with site feedback if you like also).
I was thinking more along the lines of screaming being a great way to use up all your oxygen. That too is an assumption though...
Anyone who can flag this submission, should.
guylhem mentioned a few TCP-over-DNS applications in the seventh paragraph of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4410722

Also, a quick search for "dns-over-tcp" yields several results.
So much scrolling ...

For example skimming through the table css options, you see a lot less on one screen.

2.1 seems solid though, invaluable tool at my job.
Steve Jobs: Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
He wasn't an ordinary cop, he was a high-ranking "deputy director of security for counterterrorism" in NYC.
As madison wrote, "The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable", I wonder if he could have imagined the newly formed government would wander this far... I applaud Ecuador for bravely standing against yet another example of US imperialism and violation of human rights.
bit.ly still works though...?
I've changed password on one of my emails, typed it wrong in one input line, so I've ctrl+C and ctrl+V it from one input to the another. Stil didn't work, so I copied it the other way (I wasn't really thinking, then :)).

It worked, but I couldn't log in to that email for a few days, until I understood, that I've changed my password to
I currently just backup my digital photos (~20Gb) to S3 via replication from my QNAP NAS... works out about $3 per month... I'll probably use the option they mention here to auto move content to Glacier from S3 coming soon...

"In the coming months, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) plans to introduce an option that will allow you to seamlessly move data between Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier using data lifecycle policies."
Displaying Web Bugs: Gmail vs. Apple Mail
The Gmail option 'Ask before displaying external content' does not work as expected, i.e. external content such as web bugs gets displayed anyway. The linked screenshot shows an example:

http://oi48.tinypic.com/2uqoroj.jpg

I used Reeder to mail myself a New York Times article. I usually use Mailplane to access Gmail and Mailplane enjoys free web access. After an update of my personal firewall Little Snitch, however, I had to reassign access rights and Little Snitch showed a request to nytimes.com. That is what I call 'displaying external content WITHOUT asking' …

The issue is reproducible in Mailplane as well as in Gmail in common browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Apple Mail, by the way, does not try to load the same external content:

http://oi47.tinypic.com/6ieams.jpg
sigh Dropbox should not be used as a backup system. A system that synchronizes live should never get that role, except if they can guarantee that old data is never overwritten, new is always appended. This is not the case with dropbox - I've experienced multiple scary occurrences of old versions going to the nirvana with certain user actions. In certain cases the old data just appears to be gone, in other cases the web interface shows them but a restore results in an error message. Especially data move appears to be buggy. Dropbox appears to be simple, but the backend processes are really not and there is too much going on for it to be a reliable backup system, especially if you also share some of your data to team mates.

edit: emphasis formatting, niceifying.
The paper is behind a paywall, but this 2009 Scientopia post has some more interesting details: http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2009/07/17/friday-wei...

It sounds as though the ethical aspects of the experiment were considered pretty carefully, for example.
A lot of people on here are probably too young for Slashdot, and have never seen these techniques before: https://xkcd.com/1053/
In general, high-density or supercompute systems are installed with custom racks, cooling, power supplies, etc. This doesn't need anything custom, just something that isn't always the default in some DCs.

They're ARMs, they don't need much cooling anyway.
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Anyway, "stealing makes you a good artist" doesn't follow.
Systemd to support forward secure sealing, making logs impossible to forge
This looks like exactly what I need. I'm currently using S3 for backup and archiving by regularly running s3cmd to sync my data on my NAS.

And while not super-duper expensive, s3 provides much more than I really need, and hence a more limited (but cheaper) service would definitely be appreciated.

If there is anything with the easy of use like s3cmd to accompany this service I will be switching in a heartbeat.
High-density ARM servers are not ideal for every application. However, there are plenty of applications where you don't need massive amounts of computational grunt in each CPU, such as web serving, hadoop, mail and DNS servers, etc. Also, the density and lower power/cooling requirements can often offset the lack of performance. Each slab has a 260W PSU. The whole system can't pull more than 260W, ever. Some Intel CPUs need 200W just on their own.
Any desktop apps out there that will let you add folders for backup to Glacier and have them be automatically synced up to the cloud as they change? That would be quite useful.
Thanks -- I had no idea you could just buy a tape library off the rack (more or less).
The multiple-hour window could give you a lot of wiggle room here though. It's unlikely to take 3 hours to restore from a single tape, so even if you have to visit 2-3 tapes then you have plenty of time.

I'm sure that there is a general tiered storage platform (as mentioned above) which keeps some of the data online as well. That would let you run a "defrag" algorithm later if you find you need it.
While I have no idea how you would fit it in your current infrastructure, I certainly see a (BIG) use-case for: I have this 100 GB, store it somewhere safe (in glacier), I won't need it for the next year (unless my house burns down).
I agree that is a bit different from ongoing daily backups with changes, but its also not THAT different from a customer perspective.
That it doesn't fit with how you store blocks on the backend won't matter to a lot of customers.
preclude is the third negative.

edit: There are testable positive claims - things like the mirror test. Yes, it is hard to define consciousness, but dealing with things that are hard to define doesn't mean something 'is not science'. Like I said above, we worked for a century with a model of the atom that we knew was wrong, yet we did a lot of good science with it. People didn't run around saying 'oh, the atom is just philosophy', they accepted that there were shortcomings and took that in as part of their work.
Anyone know what the TOS are for this? I couldn't find them on a scan of the announcement.

A lot of the consumer-level services refuse any liability for any data loss. Does Amazon do the same for this?
DNS tunneling is actually possible:

http://dnstunnel.de/

It's also interesting to note that Julian Assange (AFAIK) was the first person to come up with this idea back in 2006.

http://re-iq.blogspot.com/2006/12/ip-over-ppp-over-dns-over-...
Does information technology destroy or create jobs?
Instead of setting up a standard proxy, you set up a standard ssh server, which can act as and/or tunnel to an internal proxy (e.g. by using the ssh -D option to create a SOCKS proxy).
Self-taught programmers get a bad rap for multiple reasons; because people with degrees want to protect their market value and ego, because programmers have a tendency to act very competitively and arrogantly toward other programmers, and because the industry's business culture is so absolutely intolerant of perceived weakness and negativity. There are hardly any companies which did not decide that they require 'A players' which means not having a single apparent dent or scratch anywhere in your record, regardless of what ability you have manifested.

Basically, this is a hostile industry and being self-taught is blood in the water, a lot like being female (this needn't be explicit sexism, just a prevailing macho culture where if you seem weak in any way you don't belong).

Nothing I have said affects the ability of a life-long learner to have fun and do good work in any way. Getting respect and getting paid are another issue.
I agree with most of this.

In fact I agree so strongly that having witnessed the rise and fall of many a community I've run or been a member of that I think that there is a natural lifecycle of a community.

I also believe that whilst you can artificially lengthen the life by controlling inputs, you can also kill a community by the very same methods... possible to do but very difficult in the long term.

Instead of trying to control the inputs (censor, dictate), I'm embracing the side effects of a lack of censorship... a shorter life span perhaps, but a community that burns brighter during it's life.

Effectively what this means is that I'm building community software that has at the very heart of it the notion that a community will die, and that a successful community will schism during the death phase as members attempt to preserve the bits they love.

The idea being that communities rip themselves apart, and that at some point HN will do so too. And when it does it won't be replaced by a single "new HN", but instead by many smaller communities each serving a niche that existed within the larger.

Even though those niches appear smaller than the thing they emerged from, they are likely to be larger in volume (active users, posts per day, upvotes) than HN itself was before it.

As a metaphor for this, think of a kind of community cellular division: the splitting of a community into smaller microcosms that will eventually grow and then split themselves.

In some ways you could argue that StackOverflow actually did this preserving the dictatorship through the Stack Exchange network. Except, I don't really accept that a dictatorship can know when a specific community needs to sub-divide itself to survive. I think that comes from within the community.

In the software I'm creating, the very tools to gradually manage the creation of new microcosms is given to the users... in much the way that users can create subreddits and that helps reddit to grow.
I know the upvote is for this, but can I just say that that's a brilliant idea!