skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the steering the ship logic - I'm just using a different approach to sending the message.

The vote here is actually irrelevant (other than I refuse to not practice what I preach). The important part is spreading the idea of not limiting votes to the two main parties if you feel a third party candidate better aligns with your views. I want people to stop trying to outwit each other when voting and just vote for who they actually want in office.

It's also partially due to the fact that I feel both mainstream candidates are equally poor choices, just for different reasons. On the issues I care about, they tend to have the same policies (maintain the status quo, just wrap different politician-speak around it).

The reality is that I have effectively no chance of eliciting real, substancial change in the political system without becoming a part of it (either by running for office or buying off someone already in office - err, sorry, donating to their reelection campaign), and I'm having difficulty thinking of something I'd like to do less. So long as a principled message will have no substancial effect regardless of the route I take, I'd at least like that pointless principled message to be in line with my own views.
"Everyone less nerdy than me is stupid and everyone more nerdy than my is a no-life". I think it's pathetic, not funny.
any details on the kinks you worked out?
A polite cease and desist letter
We've been trying to build something supporting that, but so far with far less than full steam. Too busy with client projects right now :)

http://woboq.im/
VCs who really believe that they are adding value not money should prove it by making investments on the sort of terms YC gets.

Reading his remarks was the first time I seriously started to think about applying to YC for my next startup. It gave me the sense that YC has really cracked the code for company building and raising investment.
Would love to hear how getting access to the US Mint will do that.
Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip
But conversely, there's nothing wrong with a computer of that spec, if you're doing web browsing, word processing and the like. It's just not being used efficiently.
Google Apps cut support for Internet Explorer 8 and below
I believe they're all (most?) MJPEG:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_JPEG
You could use TeX or LaTeX. Create an individual file for each song, containing whatever information you want to print for it. Presumably there are music-oriented LaTeX extensions that can pretty-print the lines and clefs or whatever (not a musician, so I don't know what, exactly, a set list should look like).

Then your play list for each night consists of a sequence of songs you want to play:

\input songs/stairway-to-heaven.tex
\input songs/take-me-out-to-the-ballgame.tex
\input songs/venus-in-furs.tex

As you get more sophisticated, or as your needs grow, you can define macros that control what gets printed, or how.
Yeah, Playlist is exactly what I'm talking about. I didn't know you could print a playlist.
Look, I'm no fan of Twitter(their practices lately have put me in a position of really hating the company), but this was an obvious case of "If we did bring it to court, we'd lose in a heartbeat." There's no reason to go further when you know you've already lost.
I'd like to second that Facebook is a non-starter for me. You should provide an alternative that doesnt connect to facebook, twitter etc unless you want to.
Erlang is intimidating? How? It's a braindead simple language.
FairSearch.org (and Microsoft) is a ****ing joke.
Mr. and soon-to-be-Mrs. Smith here. Where do we check our bags?
Do you plan to run it again next year? Would you ever consider branching out to SF?

(Though the idea of a 3 month retreat in NY is extremely appealing, based on love of the city alone...)

Is your location dog-friendly?
Agree, this is a good point... you would need dedicated spaces or what not, if not re-purposing unused. Depending on the economics of sq ft and energy needs, it may or not be good math.
I was shocked at the dropped call rates. I can't recall the last time I got a dropped call, a 4.6% has to bee annoying.
I recently discovered who Elon Musk was and I'm always astonished to read about him, and realize that he seems to have all the dreams that I have; plus the money, the wisdom and the experience to accomplish them.

I never had a model or a 'hero' in my life, but I find it hard to deny Elon this role. He's kind of imposing himself to me.

For some parts, he pisses me off. He doing it removes me the feeling that my dreams were mine. On the other sides, my pride motivates me to accept his theft as a challenge to try at surpassing him.

Now I'm only 25, so I guess I still have the time required to get on par, if I keep working hard enough.
Wow, that's cool. It's an instrument from a 1980's sci-fi novel!
I used to suffer with Cygwin. It is really slow to work with if you are used to native UNIX.

I never seriously tried this but I'm curious if it works:

http://www.suacommunity.com/tool_warehouse.htm
I'd crank up the presses to pay all my new workers.
Khosla is simply stating the fact that some quality investors shy away from "hot/overhyped" investment opportunities. You can't argue with fact. However, some quality investors are also attracted to "hot/overhyped" startups. Which effect dominates?
Full Show 9/13/12: Obama the One-Term President?
My understanding is if Apple discovers the machinery to make their cases (or a part of their widget or whatever they want) doesn't exist, they'll pull out their checkbooks to make sure the machinery and factories get built.

E.g. http://www.core77.com/blog/materials/apple_continues_pushing...
Sure. Maybe I should do a writeup for it on my blog at some point in the near future :).

The two main issues we encountered both had to do with search for products/categories on our sites. The first was that Galera/WSREP doesn't support MyISAM replication (It has beta support, but I wouldn't trust it). This meant that we had to transition our fulltext data to something else. The something else in this case was Solr which has been a much better solution anyway (fulltext based search was legacy anyway so this I can kind of count as a win).

The second issue and the one that was causing random OOM crashes was partly due to a bug, partly due to the way the developer responsible for the search changes implemented things. The bug part is that galera doesn't specifically differentiate between a normal table and a temp table. When you have very very small/fast temporary tables that are created and truncated before the creation of the table is replicated across the cluster it can leave some of these tables open in memory (memory leak whoo!). We were able to fix for this and have been happy ever since.

If there's any interest I can do a larger writeup about actual implementation of the cluster, caveats and the like.
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That's a strawman argument. The author says nothing about the Officialness of the Unix. His complaint is that he can't get at the guts of the system, nothing to do with branding.
Is this not the same hacker news where people get bent out of shape when Apple bends the truth on their iPhone marketing copy?

Er, no, it really isn't.

The implication here is that he is actually working on these things, having had a "breakthrough" over the summer. It could be absolute crap, yes. But he has a number of previous successes that indicate he is capable of delivering. The overall point is that he isn't just dreaming, he is clearly spending a lot of money on doing as well.
I would love to see people find all the people responsible for this law, repeatedly break into their wifi networks and download infringing content until they themselves get dragged into court. Only when that happens will they realize what a terrible law hadopi is.
The part of this post that really blew my mind:

We host our status site on Heroku to ensure its availability
during an outage. However, during our downtime on Tuesday
our status site experienced some availability issues.

As traffic to the status site began to ramp up, we increased
the number of dynos running from 8 to 64 and finally 90.
This had a negative effect since we were running an old
development database addon (shared database). The number of
dynos maxed out the available connections to the database
causing additional processes to crash.

Ninety dynos for a status page? What was going on there?
Aw, Foobar2000! I remember using early releases back when I mostly used Winamp. I'll keep it in mind for my VMs or in case I switch back to Windows.

Thanks!
Age is just a number. Anyone can build.
Session Buddy. The best tool I have used so far!
Can you break the ten thousand hour rule?
I just wanted to get the thoughts and opinions of HN. I have been learning to program for the last two years. Does it really take ten years to master a new skill? When did you start calling yourself a programmer?
Anyone tested S3's static page hosting under heavy load? I would think you could just update the static file as a result of some events fired by your internal monitoring process.
my dad loves dropbox. he would be lost with s3. for most people it's not "arguably value added"; it's the difference between possible and not.

(another vote for a log scale (or something equivalent, like a separate "units" that sets the scale to 1s, 10s, 100s...). also, the tick marks should be on reasonable, round values)
You're paying for a service that auto syncs your data across multiple devices efficiently and keeps versioned backups of everything.
The fact that they currently use s3 for storage is an implementation detail.
Interesting to read about github using MySQL instead of Postgres. Anyone know why? I am just curious because of all the MySQL bashing I hear in the echo chamber.
Here are the makings of a bad week (Monday of all things)

- MySQL schema migration causes high load, automated HA solution causes cascading database failure

- MySQL cluster becomes out of sync

- HA solution segfaults

- Redis and MySQL become out of sync

- Incorrect users have access to private repositories!

Cleanup and recovery takes time, all I can say is, I'm glad it was not me who had that mess to clean up. I'm sure they are still working on it too!

This brings to mind some my bad days.. OOM killer decides your Sybase database is using too much memory. Hardware error on DRBD master causes silent data corruption (this took a lot of recovery time on TBs of data). I've been bitten by the MySQL master/slave become out of sync. That is a bad place to be in.. do you copy your master database to the slaves.. that takes a long time even of a fast network.
God dammit. Yet another cool service that uses Facebook logins. As someone who has quit the Facebook crack addiction a year ago, I'm deeply disappointed.
Good. The request shouldn't have even been made.
Because it's always better for only the "bad guys" to know about these exploits? If it's as dead easy broken as the article claims then you can be damn sure a lot of other people already know about it and aren't advertising it. And with such a poorly designed security model do you really expect the App developer to care enough to essentially sepuku in the app stores till they fix it? unlikely.

You else where claim the author doesn't do enough to get the attention of non techie users to justify publishing this? What else could he have done? Spelled it out simpler? he only has his tech blog unless you think maybe he has funds to take out adverts and wishes to spend a small fortune alerting everyone that way?
That's pretty cynical. High-end mattresses are generally intended to last decades--and whether they need to be rotated depends on the material.

The mattress I own now is non-flippable, and came with a 20 year warranty.
I'd like to welcome the github ops/dbas to the club of people who've learned the hard way that automated database failover usually causes more downtime than it prevents.

Here's sortof the seminal post on the matter in the mysql community: http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/08/30/failure-scenarios-and-s...

Though it turns into an MMM pile-on the tool doesn't matter so much as the scenarios. Automated failover is simply unlikely to make things better, and likely to make things worse, in most scenarios.
Could you explain the 99designs reference

I have looked into getting a professional designer for two sites now, instead opted for the faster route of buying a template and hacking

next time out I want a human but why not 99designs?
This is good. Can you add some voting thingie. There is a lot of trivial stuff, easily available on the bootstrap documentation itself.
Learn Drupal with a video a day
My point had nothing to do with OS X being Unix (TM). It's just that OS X is a different platform than Linux and it shouldn't be surprising that things don't work the same way even though they're both Unix-y.

When Linux started to take over for old Unix workstations around the 2002-2004 time frame a lot of the old Solaris people would complain that "Linux doesn't have truss" or that "Linux's RPC headers are completely FUBAR." I would imagine they'd say even more vile things about OS X even though it has some fancy stamp of Unix approval.
Thanks, maybe it would be cool to go the other way as well!
You're probably right, and one easily preventible reason will be ISPs giving out too-small or dynamic prefix assignments. There may be legitimate reasons for IPv6 NAT, but this isn't one of them.
More App.net tools: Keep ‘em coming
Unfortunately, electrical superconductors are terrible conductors of heat. Metals conduct heat well because the conduction electrons occassionally scatter off of a thermal vibration, are accelerated, and the travel a good long distance before scattering again.

But in a superconductor, the conduction electrons are bonded to each other by quantum mechanics magic. It takes a lot of energy to break one loose, more than you can get from heat. In fact, if the material was hot enough to scatter many of the electrons (the critical temperature), it would stop superconducting. Basically, superconding electrons are a perfect mirror for heat.

I have some hope for composite materials made with superconductors. Long nanowhiskers might be able to serve as antennas that carry infrared signals from point A to point B.
At the time of the outage, the status site was seeing upwards of 30,000/req minute.

AS we scaled up dynos, we would see temporary performance improvements until the status site would stop responding again. In the short term, this led to us massively increasing dynos as quickly as we could as it appeared that CPU burn was a significant cause of the slowness (at the time). This was in part caused by all the dynos repeatedly crashing. That's how we ended up going from 8 previously to 90.

Once the database problem for the status site was identified and resolved, we began scaling down dynos to a smaller number.
The point anovikov was making is that AC is not intrinsically more efficient. In fact, it is less efficient over very long distances dues to radiative losses. We don't use AC because it lets us use more efficient voltages today. We use AC because 100 years ago we didn't have the technology to boost direct current to high voltages.
S3 is great for static content. I was taking the AWS ops course and the instructor mentioned some very large organizations redirect their site to S3 when under DDOS so they can remain on-line. In fact, he said that AWS recommended this solution to them?! Can you fathom someone who is under DDOS, and you tell them, hey, just redirect that our way ;)
Mostly because of legacy reasons, at this point.
Developers, what headphones do you find best to wear while coding?
Context:

I like to listen to ambiant music while writing code, stuff like SomaFM or Jet City Lounge works well for me & helps maintain my focus for longer.

For the last year I have been using Sennheiser earbuds & found them to be excellent, however earbuds cannot deliver the range of sounds that headphones can or at least that is my understanding, also without intending to gross anyone out, they do contribute to some nasty earwax build-up if worn for extended periods.

I am not an audiophile nor do I have a huge budget for headphones (< $120). My criteria are 1. Obviously that they deliver decent sound, 2. that they are comfortable to wear for 6-8 hours at a time but don't slide off of my head and 3. they are well built.

After a few hours of research I have just ordered a pair of Sennheiser HD 429 Headphones from Amazon for $67.

Question(s):

What headphones have you tried, which have failed and which do you find work best for you?
it's a product where you need a salesman.

I found the articles at http://www.us-mattress.com to be helpful enough that I could make an informed decision.
Is the bar graph an example of what the end product might look like? It seems like (slightly ugly) stock art. If your product is redesigned slides, you should show well designed slides.

Why aren't there more before/after examples?
What about water vapor? It has a lot of heat capacity, and should have about half the momentum exchange with the hard drive head assembly. Preventing condensation would be the trick.
She just doesn't get me
Actually, stress does seem to be a significant cause of stomach ulcers. It seems to be a common myth that H.Pylori entirely causes ulcers, but in fact 50% of the world population are infected by H.Pylori and it generally doesn't cause ulcers. Stress seems to be a significant cause. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptic_ulcer#Stress

Anyway, I'm not sure what this has to do with the original post.
Why is the White House even making that request? At which point does religious appeasement start to become institutionalized through fear?
The point is that it's "no different than any other unix variant" in that none of them share a common toolset once you get beyond the basics. Go and try to develop on AIX or HP/UX with your Linux knowledge and you won't get very far.
Thanks for the feedback, and sorry to hear -- our goal in connecting to Facebook is to make it easier to add friends (so you can see how you spend time with people IRL). We could allow for adding via email+pw, but then we run into the problems I outlined above, and having friends on the service would be much more difficult.

I've had apps where I've been hesitant to connect with Facebook, but it's when I'm concerned the app will post to my wall or my friends' walls without my consent -- given that we don't do this, what is it about connecting to Facebook that turns you off? Is it a concern that Facebook would have access to the information in the app (they don't) or something else?

Thanks for the post -- trying to best understand so we can develop the best solution.
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> huge amount of software built on the assumption that you can store an IP address in a scalar

The truly huge universe of code is at the application level. Sane applications use strings for remote hosts, or work with URL's, and let library- or OS-level code deal with the details of turning that into an address.

OS'es -- even Windows -- have supported IPv6 for nearly a decade. Most networking libraries I've come across also have IPv6 support.

The main problem isn't software, it's configuration. Namely the configuration of the interface between the customer network and the ISP. The ISP doesn't want to turn on IPv6 because it might break some customers, and the customer can't test IPv6 functionality since their ISP doesn't support it.

These problems are compounded for residential ISP's, since most of their customers can't be bothered to learn anything technical.
Designers tend to dislike 99designs because it's spec work. Twenty designers will do work, and only one will get paid -- and for a fraction of what a real designer should be paid for a logo.

At 99Designs, people are entrusting the branding of their site/firm/etc to someone willing to maybe make $100 for a logo. Exceptions aside (Nike, Google), branding should has more thought and work put into it than someone can do for a few bucks.
>the professor writes the exam expecting that you have attended all the classes, read all the textbook chapters, and understood all the notes //

As opposed to?

Seriously the exams should test your knowledge and application of elements from the whole range of the course material. Giving that as a reason why you can take the exam home and [have someone else] do it sounds entirely absurd to me.
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As GP said, read Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma". He's the guy who first came up with the term "disruptive innovation", and it's more than just a TechCrunch buzzword -- there's a whole theory behind how disruption actually works.
That line is incorrect. They author should have stated that "Mac OS X is like Linux, but some of the familiar Linux tools don't work."
Use Jekyll and push the site to S3:

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki

https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/jekyll-s3#readme
>>The overall point is that he isn't just dreaming, he is clearly spending a lot of money on doing as well.

Furthermore, he is putting his money where his mouth is, by spending his own money.
Because you shouldn't be using gcc on a modern (post full 64-bit transition) OS X system. The llvm/clang/dtrace toolset is far superior.

Honestly, the gcc tools were never that great. On Sun systems, the Sun Studio set was always far superior and the other vendors had their own equivalents. Linux has just been "stuck" with gcc and the related Gnu tools since no one ever made anything better.
"Hopefully not on impact"
Re: “Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.”

I respect what the guy has done. But a vertical liftoff supersonic jet is going to be more difficult than anything he had encountered, including rockets.
What a joke. Obama et al just lost a lot of my respect.
Not to mention you can now run OSX within OSX using VMWare and the like - easy way to run multiple speculative profile branches and snapshot back to a known good state whenever you want.

I tend to use Linux while developing, however so I do OSX host, Linux guest -> deploy to fabric or cloud host for system/performance testing.
"16 of these repositories were private, and for seven minutes from 8:19 AM to 8:26 AM PDT on Tuesday, Sept 11th, were accessible to people outside of the repository's list of collaborators or team members"

ouch!
Le Meridien and St. Regis are both higher-end than W hotels, and are also part of SPG.
Well Google voluntarily pulled the video from Libya and Egypt
Hacker News Invited to Beta Test New Craigslist Posting Tool [code: HACKNEWS]
Windows 7 makes most hardware run better then XP unless it's really old. Really old means older then 2003. For example I have a horrible 2006 Compaq laptop that runs better with Windows 7 then it did with XP. I would have someone look at her setup because it could just be a faulty disk causing the problems.
Coming to this conclusion on acid is much more gripping and powerful than while watching star trek.
From what I can gather, the White House didn't explicitly ask for the clip to be removed. Rather, they suggested the clip might violate YouTube's own terms of service.

From the article:

> White House officials had asked Google earlier on Friday to reconsider whether the video had violated YouTube's terms of service

Still, the net effect is the same. The gesture was made with the goal of having the video removed from YouTube. It's unfortunate that our administration went down this path at all.
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Yeah.

If Romney had made his little spiel about "not apologizing for American values" after this development had been made public, I would have agreed with it.
So I give you the most actionable feedback, hands down, and I don't receive any upvotes? WTF?
Regular copyright infringement is a tort and not a crime either.
A vintage game "Karateka". Now with speedrun.