skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think that through a bit :-). So what counts as a 'retrieval' ? Well in the tarsnap case it appears to be a block which as far as glacier is concerned it probably thinks it is a file.

[ NB: huge huge guesses here about how tarsnap works ]

Now consider de-dupe in blocks (vs de-dupe in files) with an object store, combined with a backup. Now lets say you have a file that is 5 'blocks' long. You can get the original 5 blocks (5x fetches) then each block where deltas reside, to recreate the file you want at the time you want it.

Compare that to the 'stupid' way of doing it which is to store a full image of the file system for each time period. Where you have one fetch to get back the file from the copy of the file system that you were interested in.

But this is where the assumptions that make that stupid need to be evaluated. It is a poor choice because the expensive thing is the storage, and you trade compute cycles for storage. That is normally a winning idea because you only 'spend' the compute cycles when you reconstruct the file you want, but you continually pay for storage month after month.

Except that the pricing model of Glacier makes bulk storage cheaper and algorithmic reconstruction expensive.

Presumably the folks at Amazon are de-duping, after all they get to charge per the GB and if they can sell that exact same GB to two people, well that is a win!

So back to the question at hand.

Lets say your middleware layer is just like it is today, figures out just the deltas in your file system from the last backup and then pushes those. You've got a file system image plus a delta image and by applying the delta to the full image you can get back to the current image. However, since storage is now less expensive than compute, at the Amazon instance you take the delta apply it to the latest full backup, and create a new full backup which you then store in Glacier.

So can this possibly make sense? That is the question, if you keep full copies of the latest copy of every file, and pointers to the reconstructed previous versions in your S3 meta data. Can you get a lower net cost for the service implementation?
We checked our app's push notification token database against the leaked list, and there are intersections (who we then notified). So I'm inclined to believe that the list is genuine.

However, the story as to how they got released and from where is anyone's guess at this point.
Could you say, are you in SF? Also, your email isn't visible in your profile unless you put it in the 'about' box.
Nothing happens in IE8 when i click on "Create Deck". I get blank.
Juggling Priorities
I couldn't find mine on the list, but I assume if a good number of people do then we can assume they're real.

My first suspicion was that they're faked with generic names attached just to get some press coverage.
Or "Go Code Yourself"
A big improvement, but as with ad blockers, you still have search results crammed into a fairly narrow box. Obviously, you won't be able to get Google to show longer titles and descriptions, but you should be able to widen the box so that the two-line descriptions end up on one line, which would fit more results on each page.
Im not going to comment or speculate on that individual situation but suicide is usually caused by a pattern of unhealthy cognition that can be changed. If an entreprenuer is considering suicide I would strongly advise them to tackle their depression and anxiety directly through professional therapy rather than dropping entreprenuership with the assumption it will cure their depression. In other words entreprenuership is not the direct cause of depression although it may somewhat exacerbate a person's depression who is more susceptible to it (just like any other lifestyle situation could).
or they may know that there's no agent with the name/job description specified, or they may know the true origin of the information in question. There are a lot of ways the FBI could be sure the information didn't come from them.
And yet they flatly deny it instead of say they're investigating or they're not sure.

They don't deny it. They say that "At this time there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised". That's different. The evidence is just not here at this time.
You can take a look here: http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/
Facebook Announces $2 Billion Share Buy-Back
In the image where you show the 18.5% organic footprint vs 81.5% ad footprint, you are lumping in a lot of page real estate used for navigation and search tools. The entire left hand side is not add related.

I'd be a more accurate/fairer way to represent the info by providing 3 categories: organic, ads, navigation/misc. If you did this, you'd provably see a closer to 40/60 split, still in favor of ads. Similar to what you showed in your screenshot from the past.
I've been using Tomorrow Night for a while now and I think it's my favorite dark theme.
Am I missing something here? Already our motorways / highways are not being used at this higher capacity but when something bad happens there is no redundancy. Everything grinds to a halt. What's the desire to make this worse? Also does it not put even more pressure on the roads leading to the highway? - increasing congestion to the point where having higher usage of highways is pointless.
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I just wish you could get it to expand rightwards and get the longer descriptions back, the amount of space they've wasted to 'integrate' G+ really annoys me.
Arguably, from a design perspective, a wider column of text is harder to read than a narrower column of text. I personally find Google to be more legible than it was before at 53% result space. That's just me, though.
You underestimate the ingenuity of geeks. If Google decided to prevent people from using Ad-blockers, 24 hours later a new Ad-blocker would be released to get around it, or the existing ones would be updated.
"The FBI is aware of published reports alleging that an FBI laptop was compromised and private data regarding Apple UDIDs was exposed. At this time, there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or obtained this data."
The UDIDs are valid. The leak is certainly real. The claimed source, however, may be suspect.
Code-First Web Development - Or - the Death of the PSD
Why would the packaging say "The New iPhone"?

1. In August of next year, is it really necessary to have "new iPhone" plastered all over the device when it really isn't new? The "new iPad" just says iPad on it.

2. Apple's media invitation had a shadow of a 5 on it. That seems more likely to "confirm" what the iPhone is going to be called than some random image that, in reality, could have been taken by anyone looking for a little bit of internet fame. Unless, of course, someone can point out why this particular photo is legitimate.
I made duckduckgo.com my home page several months ago after I saw http://donttrack.us/, and it has been working fine. The presentation is nicer than google. I have AdBlock enabled, so I don't see the ads on either site.

I like the infinite scroll on duckduckgo; I have AutoPager plugin on chrome to get something similar with google.
What other curated multi-program themes are out there?
Neither are more popular than the original
Question for people more familiar with google ads that me:

I quite often type in a search term for something that I imagine must be a very common search term and I don't get any adverts whatsoever.

Does this mean that nobody has bid on this keyword (because it's too expensive?) or are some search terms simply not allowed to be advertised on?
I switch between light and dark themes. I am often working on more than 1 thing, and I think it helps me mentally separate them by having different background colors for different tasks.
I disagree that this shows mathematical illiteracy. What you've overlooked is that eating at a restaurant is, in game theory terms, a repeated game. You have to analyze it in terms of multiple plays.

If I go into a restaurant on some random night, and their price list tells me a steak is $25, but they also tell me they are having a discount that night and I can have the steak for $20, then they have established in my mind that a steak at that restaurant costs $25, and that sometimes they offer discounts.

If I go in some other random night, and am charged $25, I'm OK with that. I've planned for it. I've decided my budget can handles a $25 steak. If I happen to hit some kind of discount night, great. I save some money.

Suppose instead the first time they charged me $20, but did not tell me that was some kind of discount. I see $20 printed on the menu, and no indication that the price is higher at other times. That sets in my mind that a steak at this place is $20. I expect now to be able to go in any time and get a steak for $20.

I then go in another random night, and it is $25. Now I'm not OK. I had planned on $20. They've stuck me with an extra $5 that I had not budgeted for. No I can't have popcorn at the movie I'm going to afterward. :-(

What it comes down to is that people want the "normal" price to be the highest price that the place charges. They can then plan for that, and if they happen to hit a sale, then they get a windfall. Windfalls don't screw up budgets. They are surprises--but they are pleasant surprises.

When the "normal" price is not the highest price, people get surprises, but not the pleasant kind.

When I go out to eat, I do not want unpleasant surprises. Hence it is more acceptable to me for restaurants to offer discounts on non-busy nights rather the surcharges on busy night. The former only gives me pleasant surprises, the latter only unpleasant surprises.
Light, though only with off-white backgrounds.
Well this will totally get cut the rope ported... oh wait... it's free... along with most of my favourite apps....
It'd be nice if startups shared more of this information with each other.
The Plunge: No Time for Panic
> That takes some hubris. And that's a trait that has gotten more than one organization owned by Anonymous/*sec in the past.

That would require acknowledging them as a real threat. I don't think the government is really there yet. They seem to perpetuate the opinion of the parent post:

> the kids who posted the file.

Note the usage of 'kids'.
The search in our isn't considered 'search'?!
Wow. Not only has he just demolished the ABC conjecture as a mere afterthought to his pathbreaking research into inter-universal Teichmüller theory... he's also an awesome Geocities-style web designer:

http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/top-english.html

Clearly this man is a force to be reckoned with.
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I get the reference, but I think this better belongs on Reddit.
Why can't the TSA make me a suit? They already have the measurements. I'm barely half joking here. Seems like this is one of those unsolved "solved problems".
If some independent person owns it might be more profitable to create a https://signup.netflix.com/Affiliates landing page than to redirect to blockbuster
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mil not "percent"
> There are a lot of ways the FBI could be sure the information didn't come from them.

And far more ways that they couldn't be sure.
Well, as was pointed out in another comment, it looks like a random domain squatter. The reason that the squatter has it pointing to Blockbuster is that they are probably interested in selling the domain to Netflix, and having it point to a competitor would theoretically inflict enough pain to make them want to buy it. Or, to make Blockbuster buy the domain, so they could remove the redirect (after all, it makes them look like bad guys).
If you're looking for a bespoke tailor in SF that does this, visit Spoon Tailor in Chinatown. Hong Kong tailors are some of the best in the world, and I believe suits start at $700+ depending on fabric.
I'm not following those edge cases at all. Those all sound pretty fatal to humans too, or invoke driver skills ("feather the brakes", seriously?) that real-world drivers don't have. The point here isn't to be perfect, it's to be better. And that is, frankly, a very low bar.

Also: I'm very amused by your assertion that the interstate highway system (probably 10% of which is under expansion at any given time in any give metro area, and the remainder of which is rapidly approaching capacity and/or experiencing routine unplanned congestion) is "done".
Presumably, the ability to make more than $11,000.
This is two years old and has been discussed into the dirt.
Several people, both here on HN and elsewhere have confirmed that their UDID is on the list.
Music Ownership versus Music Rental
Solarized is perhaps the most well known.

http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

Monokai also has wide support in a lot of editors.
http://www.google.com/search?q=saas+help+desk

How is DDG any better really?
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Would a designer please rip this site apart? It looks like it was designed in 2005. Image buttons, image gradients. Ugh.
Do you know where to get this theme for Sublime Text?
You got a problem right away in that Glacier only keeps your files on the staging disk for 24 hours. Unless you're planning on doing your disk in a set of separate archives, you're going to run into issues. And if you do separate archives you have to worry about the $0.05/thousand requests problem.

You do still have to worry about bandwidth costs, $0.12 per GB, which adds another $120 to the cost of your restore: http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/

I can't speak for you but restores that cost $185 and take 5 days sound like a losing backup strategy for me.
More revenue? It's not clear how the $10K promise works (the official site[0] doesn't have the T&C populated yet[1]), but there's surely some time within which you must earn between $1k and $10k. After that time, I'd guess that more purchases would still be yours. But it's unclear until the official rules and conditions are posted.

[0] https://developer.blackberry.com/builtforblackberry/commitme...

[1] https://developer.blackberry.com/builtforblackberry/document...
Also about 14m users [1] of Ad Blockers for Chrome. Those numbers are nothing to sneeze at, I wonder how it will play out in a few years if more and more people default to no ads.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/popular
my version from about a year ago
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CZONTO-54lo/Tno6O3aK56I/A...
You may have something here. You wouldn't even need millimeter waves to do it. Just a 3D scanner setup, which can amount to an old projector and some webcams. We should be able to use technology from 3D motion capture to build a physical model of someone's skeleto-muscular system. The hard part would be the domain knowledge. Someone would have to work closely with a tailor to convert his/her specialized knowledge about fabrics and seams and how clothing hangs off the body into algorithms. (And even then, you'd probably need a trained operator with a sense of design.)
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The thing that really makes me wonder is why not come out and say that a) they do/do not an agent named Christopher Stangl and b) If they do, that his equipment is secure.
Is This You? - lifelogging, privacy and scandal
The truth about Chromebooks: do they worth a second look?
I think the problem with maintaining the fork is the speed of development of the community, and let's face it, it is much easier to monetize hardware than software in the open source world. The fear of being left behind and weird vendor specific errors should not be discounted.

I agree though, someone would try. I just think Linux would have done just as well with a BSD license being released at the time it was. The people and the timing deserve more credit than the license.
Squeezed middle motorists drive toward ‘old banger Britain’
Would we really be better off in bespoke suits? It doesn't sound like this Frew has a very good life if he's having to work in his living room and can't afford his own suits. Wanting to have a someone personally spend 75 hours on your suit seems terribly egotistical; if they do it for the love of it then fair enough, but honestly I'd feel more comfortable in a suit I knew hadn't consumed so much human life energy.
A friend of mine (@tomscott) recorded a talk he's done recently about Privacy, I assumed it had been posted but it's not so here it is..

"A five-minute story of a possible future: lifelogging, privacy, and a member of Parliament caught in a scandal"
where is the komodo theme of this?
Yes, I get that Jane and Joan are fictional and that your story is real. Perhaps I didn't state things clearly so I'll try again:

If you'll allow me to propose a hypothetical: let's say you did have recurring painful merges because (borrowing from the fictional story) someone was continually adding new features while someone else was continually tweaking error messages such that there were many conflicts which needed resolving upon every code check-in. You likely would have put the error messages into resource files much sooner and avoided these recurring painful merges. But because you didn't have this hypothetical situation (it ain't broke, thus you didn't fix it) it made sense to push the pain of localization off to when it was actually needed.
Quality matters. You don't qualify if you earn more than 10k. You qualify if you earn more than 1k. Therefore if you earn more than 1k and less than 10k you have created a quality app otherwise your app is junk.

RIM and FAIL are synonyms.

Hire someone for PR please. Your previous commercial dissed your future phones. The ones without keyboards.
Given the weasely non-denial denial, it's probably safer to assume the FBI is the source. If they were sure it couldn't come back to them why would they leave room to mea culpa?
Of course they may have ulterior motives. Any action performed by a human might have ulterior motives. Anything anyone say might be a intentional lie to mislead.

But to assume everyone is lying until proved correct will not work. Reading news would be impossible, as would most other actives involving other people. The only working method then is to assume people are telling the truth until indication (not proof) is presented of the opposite. Blind trust would be only if we disregarded indication of falsehood when said indications exist.
I would guess whoever grabbed the file also grabbed a few more. We'll see what happens.
Can we please change the headline to something a bit less invalid and full of sensationalism? This is a perfect example of distorting statistics to serve ones purpose.

* Author has a small screen.

* Author compares results space vs everything else, and then calls it "ads"

On my 1920x1200 screen, overall ad space and results space actually take up the same amount of space. There's a ton of UI and white-space though. While Google could arguably make better use of their empty space, suggesting the remainder is entirely ads is absurd.

Screenshot with results in red and ads in blue: http://i.imgur.com/YTspx.png
>Trying to remember my reality distortion field skills from my entrepreneurial days I convinced her to let us on.

I'd really like to know how he did that. Inspiring post (that I needed today!)
Ask HN: your favorite self hosted web services?
hey,

i really like kolab on my server and owncloud but iam looking for good web services that you like and maybe i will like them too :)
Some terms don't display advertisements - if the combination of relevance and google's profit potential on a specific query is not above a certain level (which is always changing I'm sure based on yield management and user data tests), then no ads will display for that query.

Most navigational queries fall into this class.
"I'm not sure I follow you in the above sentence."

I'm saying that if one is going to attack someone personally for dishonesty, as opposed to critiquing the state of the field in general, the bar for that is high and one had better be more than careful with one's own particulars. Reasonable people can interpret this stuff differently. The post linked to upthread [1] didn't strike me as dishonest (though of course it's only one side).

I'm glad you've been looking for solid ground in the swamp and finding it swampy. I think that's valuable. What bothers me are the hints in the OP, comments here, and elsewhere I've seen (including people talking about your work) that this is about one guy making shit up when in reality the problem is endemic to the entire field. Unless he's been egregiously dishonest, which I doubt, it's a distraction.

On another note, you seem like a good person to ask: is there any finding in the software engineering literature that you think holds up? i.e. have you found any solid ground in the swamp? I'm not sure I have (but I haven't looked nearly as hard as you). If there really isn't anything, that alone is kind of shocking.

[1] http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2011/01/09...
Actually, there's no way to really block ad-block.

It wouldn't be too hard to make an ad-blocker that used CSS and Javascript to do all of the blocking during page render. It'd be an inefficient use of bandwidth and rendering time, but it'd be able to block 100% of ads and undetectable from the web server.

In fact, before Opera had a built-in ad-blocker, I think there was an ad-block extension built on its "User Javascript" and custom CSS abilities.
Seek-previews for HTML5
Should be up now. Sorry. http://www.nirandfar.com/2012/09/habit-zone.html
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For a query like "credit card", those non-organic results seem much more, if not just as, relevant than the organic results. Why do people assume that if it's an ad that it must be non-relevant? Advertisers wouldn't be advertising on these keywords unless they were converting a good percentage of users ... that means a good percentage of users are finding those links relevant.

I don't use AdBlock, don't really see the reason to as I find most of the search ads to be relevant whenever I'm searching for a term that actually shows search ads (which isn't really that often). Hate for search ads just because they are ads is kind of an odd imo ...
I love solarized dark at night, but I like this a little better for the daytime. Well done.
Whoops, that's embarrassing! I'll take a look. Thanks for catching that.
Entrepreneurs are the New Labor (Forbes)
Part II
http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepreneurs-are-the-new-labor-part-ii-2/
Eircom, the largest teleco in Ireland shipped routers for ages where the wep key was easily derived from the ssid. There are 3 of these on the street where I live.
By definition if no one has bid on the keyword, you can easily win the auction by bidding the minimum amount. It is likely that the terms you were searching for are not ideal targets for effective ads. Can you give an example of such query?
Not mentioned in the article, but if you're willing to wait, some of those Saville Row suitmakers will produce a bespoke suit for much cheaper than $4000. The trick is to add a 4 week wait time and ship the measurements off to India. And of course, if you can make the trip to India yourself (or plenty of other countries in SE Asia), then a bespoke suit will cost you less than $100.
X-rays used to be very popular for shoe fitting. I strongly suspect that millimeter waves have similar long term health issues.
And I don't see many getting naked in front of a 3D video camera set-up.
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This is the same in Australia. I went round to a friends house to help secure their router, only to find it was already done by default.
The Brooks Brothers on Madison Ave got a "digital tailor" setup about five years ago.
I assume its tied to device, so it's more like:

Build $1 app; purchase 1000 blackberry phones on 1000 contracts; purchase 1000 copies; profit???
"Cut for you" in Berlin uses a 3D body scanner:

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