skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good catch, in fact it totally fits with the description of the service as a store and forget for compliance and access only a small subset in the case of retrieval requests — for example when storing customer records.

I also must say that the way you calculate the retrieval fee is really looking like black magic at first sight. I hope they will add a simple calculator to evaluate some scenario and provide the expected bandwidth available from Glacier to an EC2 instance.
My point was not that all scripts are evil, but if you want me to trust your site, then dont require me to trust 50 domains I do not know for a minescule 10ms potential performance improvement.

I find that a perfectly reasonable attitude.
I love reading these Gen Y articles. Me being 28, I am the embodiment of this generation. We, afterall, are the generation of the "can do" attitude.

We grew up on Captain Planet, Ghost Writer, Harry Potter, etc. We've always felt that if the adults can't get it right, we'll just do it ourselves. Like John Mayer's song says, we're "Waiting for the World To Change". But our version of waiting is totally different from our parents.

Waiting means really "until I can get myself in a decent position to thrive". Entry level and beyond are those positions that we're gunning at. Like a virus, we can make a difference once we get past the skin.

I noticed this when I first stared 5 years ago. Here I am, only having an A.A. degree and finally getting a position at a Help Desk. The first day was scary. It was overwhelming, but once I got the gist of it I was alright. But that was the start. Once I got the gist of it I realized what was wrong with it. So I, and the rest of us gen-yers tend to do, took the initiative. I received a lot of flak for leaving my post (I had to answer phones, but knew that I could help fix computers, Google yo!), but I single handedly changed the way we operate. It wasn't an ego thing, I just saw something wrong and NEEDED it fixed. 5 years later I'm leading a team of web developers maintaining a very important system for doctors.

Now, we'll all won't get to that point. But we sure as hell are not going down without a fight. I believe this is great for the office. I see a lot of barriers being brought down because of our audacity. Its exciting to be a part of this!
Well, if his Internet connection is open, then he's open to being prosecuted for what other people might download on it.

As a celebrity, he probably has some substantial de facto immunity against this. (One blog post, and "the Internet" will show up on his side.) The rest of us... not so much.
None of these have over 350W PSU's, and I don't think any of these rigs will draw anywhere close to that power. All I have is anecdotal evidence that my electric bill has increased by maybe $14-$20 a year. Running my stereo for a day probably eats more power than these things take all year. Plus, my livingroom in my apartment stays nice and warm during the midwest winters. I'm pretty happy with spaceheaters with processing power :)

edit: the real issue is that I can't get a cable connection in my neighborhood with higher than .7mbit up, so it's not like I 'm serving loads of content. I use these for running different tasks usually. Two are dedicated DB servers and the other 3 run whatever projects I'm consulting on this/ that week.
First, the reason the "peak hourly retrieval rate" of "1 gigabyte per hour" is there in the article is to answer this question. At a relative allowance of 5.12 GB/day and 1 GB/hour transfer rate, that gives you a "peak hourly retrieval" of .79 GB (at 5.12/24, your first .21 is free), and so we multiply:

.79 * 720 * .01

Giving me a little less than $6.

Now, do you think Amazon is likely to think they can get away with selling a service that charges you $22k for a 3TB retrieval?

Second, you have ranged GETs and tape headers; use them to avoid transferring all of your data out of the system at once. [Edit: looks like ranged GETs are on job data, not on archival retrieval itself. My bad.]
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let's me pick the hashing algo,

All of the choices are hash functions designed to be fast (like SHA-256, the default), which you do not want for password derivation because being fast to compute means easy to brute-force. You can test billions of digests per second with a PC graphics card.

let's me specify a different salt (domain of the site is the default)

Then every user shares the same salt for a given site, which largely defeats the purpose of salting (to prevent rainbow tables).
I think what he is saying is to be very prudent with the sorts of links you create. In fact, get referrals and vet them out, to qualify a link building person's skills. And of course, as you know, you get what you pay for, even on Fivrr.
I'm actually finding Mountain Lion much more stable than Lion or Snow Leopard. Lion had some really weird memory things and I did get multiple kernel panics in early Snow Leopard.
It was certainly true at large LAN parties. I had to reinstall Windows at QuakeCon one year, and it was nearly impossible to win the race against the malware floating around the network. Putting your computer on the same LAN as 3000 gamers (most of whom download a lot of warez) isn't exactly the same as connecting your computer to the internet through a firewall, so I'm not sure if my experience at QuakeCon generalizes to a typical PC setup.
Similar scenario happened where I was working one summer. The printer in the office I was borrowing started printing porn while I was out. "I swear it wasn't me!" Not sure if they identified the guilty party.
Newcomer question, how can I know if my comment / post fits the HN "good" or "bad" qualification? is it something describable? or is a bozo doomed to be a bozo?
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"but only has to deal with one experienced shareholder."

Otoh it also gets a potentially vocal group that can create much noise if they disagree with the actions of the company (and much more quotable by the press for that matter).
If I don't breathe, the environment will "grade" me with death. Now, let's expand our view just a wee bit and move up seven levels in Maslow's hierarchy. Do you really think fully actualized people are paying all that much attention to things like markets? Great poets and writers have labored in obscurity, died unknown, only to be discovered a hundred years later. Now consider the unknown numbers of people just as good, still unknown. Did they waste their lives because "the market" told them they were worthless? Galileo was told, rather directly, that "the market" did not value his work, to the point of death threats. Did that in any way devalue his knowledge or understanding?
It does seem like they're slowly getting better. The marketing I've seen for the tablet (what little there is.. problem #1) makes it look slick.

The "Windows 7 was my idea" series was pretty neat too.
Stop saying no all the time
>This doesn't address the real issue. The issue isn't that people are voting up comments or submissions that don't fit with what HN is supposed to be, the problem is that those submissions and comments are being made.

The solution then is to autohide comments with low scores(configurable on the page) like Slashdot does. Some of the HN comment threads have grown too long these days. It would be nice to skim the comments that the community thinks are the most valuable.
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Agreed. More likely a catastrophic and significant loss for a small number of customers rather than a fraction of a percentage of loss for a large number.

Similar deal for hard drive bit error rates, where the quoted average BER may not necessarily accurately represent what can happen in the real world. For example, an unrecoverable read error loses 4096 bits (512 byte sectors) or 32768 bits (4k sectors) all at once, rather than individual bits randomly flipped over a long period.
The title of this article is "Don't Use OAuth 1 for your API" instead of "Don't Use OAuth for your API"
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I am sure there are many if you google it. Eg: Eloquent Javascript and you just copy it to Kindle
Ask HN: Anyone have any contact info at MSFT for developer.xboxlive.com access?
I'm a hobbyist Xbox dev and ex-MSFT employee, so I've had a few people within the Xbox group to which I can ask this question, but so far I'm coming up blank on any ideas from those folks.

I have a friend at a regional cable provider that wants to create an XBox app for their company, along the lines of the Netflix/Hulu/Verizon/Xfinity streaming apps that are out now for the console.

The Silverlight stuff for XBox is a completely different project with different requirements than plebian XNA devs like me, and I'm having a hard time finding out who they can contact to work out the NDA and the relevant agreements.

I'm coming up completely snake-eyes on finding even an email address at MSFT for them to contact.

As kind of a last resort, anyone here know anyone there that I could hook them up with that might even know anything about the process?

Thanks!

(first "Ask HN" submission from me, if this is inappropriate, I'll gladly remove and ask elsewhere.)
Wow, does any service offer something like that? RAID6 would be pretty interesting across s3, google drive, (hrmm, what else? skydrive? rsync.net?)
For an allegedly "simple" archival service, that's a bizarre pricing scheme that will be hard to code around. If you wrote an automated script to safely pull a full archive, a simple coding mistake, pulling all data at once, would lead you to be charged up to 720 times what you should be charged!
Yes, I did actually try to do it. The popup is only on the index page, from one of those dynamic Github watcher-count widgets, and can be ignored by either opening the page of documentation you need instead or holding down escape, or deleting the offending widget.

I'm not sure what you're talking about with the JavaScript. JavaScript runs on the client, not the server. Twitter hosts these docs on Github Pages already... static files, no server-side code.
I also have a sheeva plug as my server, but if i did it over I would choose to grab an mac mini. My big jump to the sheeva was the power usage, but then I found out the mini only uses 12W! Along with the 12W you get a x86, with hd, cd drive, wifi, etc on a box that I can easily load linux (upgrading the sheeva's kernel isn't the easiest...) and in a few years when done with it I can easily sell the mini unlike the sheeva.
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The best counterculture now is in biology. As far as I can tell, biohackers are all adventurous young people, incredibly athletic, and they’re all traveling the world.

If you reflect on a creator's willingness to work outside of polite society, the web seems so very static and conservative now. I am not necessarily comparing it to some bygone days where hackers were cowboys, because I only recently discovered the web - I'm comparing it to the potential of any community.

Impressionist painters in the 1870's struck out in defiance of the academic community. Sculpture followed twenty or so years on. Architecture made equally bold moves counter to the norm and expectations. All of these are conservative arts now for the most part. One of the most popular trends now in architecture is the International Style of 80 years ago.

Every so often a new field erupts that is democratic and allows the novitiate to explore and express (and to be honest about the human condition and not play politics to preserve one's rank). The web had that potential, but I don't see it being fulfilled.

[EDIT] It is interesting to find this piece on Brand, who I know best through his How Buildings Learn, which is one of the best works I've read on man's place in the built environment: he studies the historical records of structures that have survived man's use, and identified the general attributes that contribute to those successes. It is an empirical view of architecture and by extension, planning. It is a conservative view, in that it values the preservation of things past, but it is a liberal view in that it seeks the freedom of the building and tenant.
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How can the "griefers" operate from their floating base? How are they able to leave the floating platform to get to the ground and back? And why couldn't the players of the other guilds simply take the same way up onto the floating base?
It wasn't until it was pointed out to the author that the article was completely incorrect.
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Everything is learnable. For the poster-child of good posts, see Patio11's comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11

Also, know the official etiquette/guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I use a VIA x86 system for my server.

18W peak from the wall, no fan (which is one less moving part to fail). Since it replaced an old P4 system (200W from the wall), I shaved $30/month off my electric bill
I don't claim to know what other upstream maintainers would've done, but if I had been one in the 1990s, and Debian and Redhat had agreed on a std for ld flags, I would've announced that libtool would be removed from my project in 24 months, so other Unix-likes should get on the train.
> He was previously thought to be a married straight guy.

Not sure why this is relevant. Are you saying Lockheed has/had a don't-ask-don't-tell policy?
I would be very interested to see this implemented in a side by side comparison. I think it would be great to see the type of content that would float to the top of HN.

I also have to say that I love this site. I feel that the content of the posts have made me a better programmer in general and I really appreciate everyone's input. Even if the discussion threads spiral out of control quickly.

It would be nice to have expandable comments so that when people begin name calling we have an easy way of filtering them out on screen and just viewing the people who directly address the post.
Wow, that's almost entirely the opposite problem I've found in Bristol (UK). There seems to be a lot of people that have stuck with Java after graduating from university and a severe lack of any mid-to-senior level .NET developers.

Out of interest, how do these guys find the switch to Java from C#, assuming they're not VB.NET guys?
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so far as I can tell Americans are only entitled to Free Outrage and only then if it doesn't interfere with someone's profit motive or business model.
People have been talking about "fixing it" since day one. It's a reoccurring theme and typically goes in waves.

However, I've been on here for 3+ years. I've seen the community decline unfortunately. It's only been in the last year that I've seen more than 100 comments (although this probably a cognitive bias) consistently frontpage articles and in my opinion is a bad thing. The quantity has certainly increased, but technically the quality hasn't diminished, it's just much harder to dig through the crap to find it.

TL;DR - The signal to noise ratio has gotten much worse, but the signal quality seems to be the same.
So I don't really see causing a deliberate account lockout as a primary attack vector other than trying to exploit weaknesses in password reset processes across multiple sites (like what happened to Dan Harmon).

You're assuming that the lockout is aimed at an individual. In my experience it's aimed at the site. They're trying to lock out N% of users. In which case going for common names, email addresses, etc. will get you a surprisingly large chunk of the user base.

And that's ignoring the many sites where usernames are public, or easily accessible by a "normal" user that can be used to scrape them for the DOS/password bot.

Therefore, I would say that having a lockout mechanism is better than not having one.

Since I've seen DOS attacks that use them - I'd tend to disagree :-)

Unless you're in an environment that makes them effective.

For example my bank uses a lockout - but it has a private customer number that's not visible to others, along with a separate password and a 8 digit PIN (of which it only asks for three random digits). It's only when two of the three bits of information are correct that the lockout count starts - making bulk lockouts for the site pretty much impossible. So there it's an effective tool to prevent password cracking.
If you like NeWS then I can recommend trying to find out about Arthur van Hoff's HyperNeWS which was, as the name suggests, a HyperCard like system but written in NeWS.

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html
In a way the article yells out trouble for Microsoft and friends. If their customers hardware from the last five years is "good enough" they wont go looking for an upgrade. (They will go looking for a _new_ toy with the ipad though). If next generation consoles really did drive desktop sales it would have been in Microsoft's interests to get out the next generation xbox sooner right?
I hope Rachel filed a patent (unless this is her venture):

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

:-)
Do you intend to support projects in other languages, like Perl?
If you really want the organization to survive for a long term, you need to make it a religion.

If you can figure out a way to convince a few dozen people every decade that the best way to glorify God is to isolate themselves off somewhere maintaining your archival data, you'll be set for centuries.
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You can generally get around windows' 255 absolute character length limits by using UNC paths. We had that problem at my last company, where the system would allow you to write files into a path but not delete them.

There isn't a modern reason for the limit either. NTFS supports longer path names, as does FAT if I remember correctly. Rather irritating.
I'm in the same boat. I really like W8, and I think it's a shame it's getting a bad rap because it's different. I'd give it a shot with an open mind for a day or two.

It's fantastic on a multi-monitor setup; the start screen and full screen apps can be anchored to one screen. So if you want to read a PDF full screen, for example, while doing desktop work on another, it works very well.

Also, you can have multiple task bars on multiple screens if you want. And you can do almost everything with the keyboard that I used to use the mouse for.

If you miss the start menu, try this: hit the windows key and start typing the name of the program you want to open.
Check out ninjablocks too, really cool stuff they're building
Looks like a fine lineup with lots of startups useful for businesses.

Profig: when is this coming to Europe!

I find Easel very interesting as I've been looking for a hi-fi alternative to Balsamiq.

Coinbase sounds interesting but I have no idea what they are actually doing based on what it says on the web site. Also, I'm pretty skeptical when it comes to security and the BitCoin industry.

Submittable.com: two persistent feedback tools on the front page...? Anyways, the service sounds great for content heavy orgs.
First, a modern car is likely not more complex than an operating system. That the car "contains several operating systems in itself" isn't especially meaningful, because operating systems are not fungible. The "OS" controlling your ABS system (for example) is going to be as simple as possible. Windows on the other hand is aiming for as general as possible.

Second, you do have licensing agreements with your car. You have warranties that become void if you do X or Y, if you fail to properly maintain Q or R, etc. And those various OSes in the car are not sold to you any more than Windows is. They are licensed, under what specific terms I don't really know.
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Yeah I saw that on Kickstarter - looks pretty awesome, similar to Twine (http://supermechanical.com/) and DaisyWorks (http://daisyworks.com/)
To be fair, I don't think the integrated device model is worse than the beige box model per se. Tablets and smartphones afford us completely new ways to interact with computers (and each other). Recent ones, such as the Nexus 7, are reasonably priced to boot. There are some perhaps unavoidable consequences of replacing whole devices rather than individual components (environmental, to say the least), but in the abstract I think it's hard to say whether one model is necessarily worse than the other.
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Majority ownership a decade ago, at least. It's obviously not currently true, but not as much of a slam dunk example as it could be :p
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In Minecraft you can swim up a stream of falling water. The griefers used a lever to open/close the stream down to the ground. I assume one of the griefers had to stay up there and operate that lever.
Apologies. I'm an idiot who can't read a question :-)

bcrypting the md5s sounds like a good approach.
To everyone else replying, i think it's using a whole bunch of different cdns he's complaining about.

Having that many disparat cdns is a net loss anyways by the time you do dns lookup on each one, you've lost the latency savings.
its not reasonable to draw conclusions from the parent without comparing to the cost of archiving and retrieving 3TB on other services.
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They're not. It's the same license as the previous full Retail(i.e. $500+) Windows licenses, with the addition of VM install rights.

Previously, VM install was only allowed with the Professional SKU or above.
I know this sounds true, but I somewhat doubt that it is. Google, for instance, has a reputation for preferring candidates from top schools. But it is also hiring out of many of the subfields where the talent shortage is most acute. I'm pretty familiar with one of those (appsec), and my perspective is that Google is (a) absolutely not passing on people because of credentials, and (b) having as hard a time as anyone staffing.

Similarly: it is very hard for us to hire (in particular, it's very hard to fill the top of the recruiting funnel) --- and we could obviously give a shit where anyone went to school. Again: same prickly subfield. But I've got reason to believe this is true of mobile development, Rails, customer acquisition/marketing, and high-end UI as well.

I'm sure there are people who know Java and C++ and went to SIU instead of UIUC who are having a hard time, and that they'd have had an easier time if they went to a different school. But they'd also have an easier time if they watched the market and made sure to cultivate aptitude in the subfields with the most demand.
Two projects now have had repeated problems with issues regressing and features being lost between builds. I had never considered it might be an issue with Git until someone else mentioned it to me. We need to do some proper investigation but at the moment under the gun to finish a release. When I have more details happy to share via support.