skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I concur -- org mode is fantastic. I've only started using it recently, but I think it'd be safe to say that I'll use it forever.

Just the tables feature (http://orgmode.org/manual/Tables.html) alone is worth it, but inline LaTeX comes close. Mixing math in LaTeX with a proper table editor (unlike LaTeX) and being able to export to anything that matters (HTML, PDF and LaTeX) -- bliss!
Just bought it -- thanks for all the hard work. I'm a long-time and high-scale App Engine user and now have a couple small but growing projects running on Heroku. I like a lot of what I see!
Neither side especially comes off well in all of this. 9to5mac misspelled his name? I don't see how that's especially funny (and it is childish), but Arment needs to lighten up about that. I also don't see how even the accusations regarding the servers the FBI seized hold water, but there is a polite way to deal with it (read: not blocking a site and making it look like anyone but you is at fault).

Ultimately, I'll still use Instapaper as long as Arment keeps making a quality app and keeps his personal choices out of what I see in the app.
I experienced a server that was slashdoted back in 2001, which resulted in 1,5 million hits, most of it during in a 12 hours period. That should be around 100.000 hits an hour.

If a server get 6000 hits an hour, that is less than two accesses per second. If a server can't handle that, then I'm not impressed.
It's what's on the inside that counts.
I don't like long names because it's much harder to differentiate the following:

someone_else_just_finished_writing?(document)

someone_else.just_finished_writing?(document)

Especially when using underscores, it's too easy to miss a period or a subtraction.

And when you have several lines using such long names, it becomes a wall of text and have you to read everything out loud to understand what's happening.
The could use the same language, but they aren't. Even in this device which is copying the iMac, they copied the look of it, and failed to use the same design language!
>> And finally, http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ is down for everyone because it's over quota

We need a new site:
http://www.is-downforeveryoneorjustme-downforeveryoneorjustm...

Sorry for the useless comment
This, by the way, is the original Democratic "Rockefeller bill" take on the "cybersecurity" problem, and what I was actually invoking when I said Obama's preferred version of CISPA was worse than CISPA; what he actually came up with (this EO) is less bad than what I assumed he'd come up with (the Rockefeller bill).

In short:

The Rockefeller solution to the critical infrastructure problem is:

1. Allow the government to, with some due process mechanism, designate private entities as "critical infrastructure"

2. Allow the government to define, more or less by fiat, a set of qualified auditors for critical infrastructure

3. Mandate that critical infrastructure operators get audited
rat things... great...
Sure, the engineers here are interested in building cool stuff, sometimes it becomes wildly profitable stuff, then a bunch of profit seeking types swarm in and try to figure out how to get that wealth, the snap and fight, much like piranhas stuck in an evaporating side pool, becoming increasingly unethical until it blows up on them. Then they die off and the folks working on stuff get to do so again with fewer interruptions.

Sadly they re-use the office buildings and so we lose the fossil record. It would be a fabulous art installation to do something along the ruins of Pompei but with places like Webvan, Pets.com, and Flooz.com.
In another life I wrote numerous reviews of hardware and software for national magazines. It's a tough beat; if you don't get gear early, your article is too late and gets lost in the crowd. Articles are planned months in advance, so getting stuff lined up from vendors takes a lot of time, and having a good relationship with both vendors and their PR firms is essential to keeping your editor happy. The workflow just required so much lead time between getting the hardware/software, interviewing interesting people, writing the article, creating images, working with copy editors etc. Time is money, and relevancy is always paramount.

Ethically, things have changed a lot. Apple used to be extremely generous with hardware, but as they became more successful (roughly around 2004-2005) they were much slower in answering requests for editorial "loaners." The print industry changed a bit too, and it was unusual to be allowed to keep review gear. So "freebies" aren't acceptable anymore, nor should they be.

Editorial direction is where things can get crazy. I was writing for one publication, and in a review of SMB firewalls, I was told to include one make that was clearly not up to the standard of the three units in the review. I included an honest evaluation, and discovered that this manufacturer was an advertiser in the publication. Later on, review units were always specified in advance, and the publication quickly became a trade/advertisement journal instead of one with honest, critical reviews.

Online pubs have it worse. Their timeframes are even more compressed, and online readers are more fickle. Having an unbiased site is tough, and recognizing biases (as a pub editor) is harder.
I've found that in instances where my ability is 7 and motivation is 34 but opportunity is something like, say, 23, I've had better performance than when my ability is 22 and my motivation is 12 compared with a 13 opportunity.

This is to say that my experience confirms that there probably is some completely subjective formula that will fool people into thinking there is some reason behind my good luck. :-)
I'm probably going to show my ignorance here, but if OnLive can stream a game to you through the internet, is it feasible for Steam to stream a game from your PC through your home network to your TV?
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From ~1950-1970, unions were powerful and they redistributed a lot of income from business owners to employees. Compared to today, there were a lot of high-paying low-skill jobs available.

After the US opened its borders to global trade -- in particular Nixon's famous visit to China -- the unions became less powerful and wages became lower because companies had to compete with overseas workers, who didn't have troublesome unions, didn't have to pay their workers well, didn't have to enforce good working conditions, didn't have to comply with environmental regulations, et cetera.

In other words, the surplus that used to be captured by US workers has started to go either overseas or to business owners, thanks to our trade policies.
I work in and around politics, and in our business we have a term (lifted from the sports world) for this sort of behavior. It's called "working the refs."

An example: American politicians from the right are constantly complaining about the media being biased in favor of the left. Why? Because the calculus of whether or not to make such a complaint is pretty simple: complaining costs nothing if you're wrong, and if you're right you cause PR problems for the publication you're criticizing. So you make the complaint whenever you have even the slightest reason to do so.

Each complaint forces the publication to respond. (If they don't, you just scream louder about how they're so biased they won't even hear you out.) And each response creates tedious work, going back through old stories and checking them with a fine tooth comb for any hint of bias. This establishes a classic conditioning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning) cause-and-effect relationship: writing a story that the complainer won't like results in extra, redundant work.

Eventually the reporters -- the refs in the game of politics -- pick up (consciously or unconsciously) on the connection between the stimulus and the response, and start gravitating towards the less painful option: framing their coverage in ways that the complaining politician likes. Those stories yield no loud complaints, which means no need to go back and constantly defend yourself. So your reporting gets compromised without you even realizing it.

Marco and Gruber are working the refs here. If you're an Apple fan, it's in your interest for every review of every product even remotely similar to an Apple product to mention that, since doing so both positions the reviewed product as a cheap knock-off and reminds the reader that Apple exists and sells the "real deal." So they've picked this particular review and raised a stink about it. And it's already worked, because Topolsky felt the need to stop whatever other thing he was doing and write a response.

But that's not the real goal of the working-the-refs strategy. The goal is that next time a review of an Apple-ish product crosses Topolsky's desk, he'll ask himself: does this review sufficiently do justice to Apple's competing product? And if it doesn't, is it easier to go through another big public fight defending the story, or to just kick it back to the writer with an editor's note to add a sentence mentioning Apple's offering?

Now go through that thought process enough times and the writers (who don't want to be constantly rewriting their stuff) get the message and just start inserting the sentence on their own. Mission accomplished: the refs have been worked.
New anonymous website
I've created a very simple anonymous messaging board which allows you to post comments about everything anonymously. It's a method which allows people to express themselves freely - without prejudice.
In the first case, you're actually executing two shells.

(cmd 2>&1)

runs in its own subshell, and copies stderr to stdout.

>file

is interpreted in the parent shell, and copies stdout to 'file'.

In the second instance, you run a single shell, first copying stdout to 'file', then copying stderr to the (redirected) stdout, that is, 'file'.
So, I had both upvoted that guy's comment and flagged this entire thread (as in, the top-level post). To me, and I think to many other people, what is actually the core problem with HN is that it is being flooded with a ton of what is pretty much "spam": posts that are either repetitive (either to content from years ago, or even to content from last week) or content that are informing people of things that should be prerequisite knowledge.

In this case, the problem is that DNS is a distributed database, and the idea that people are hosting websites with all of their DNS from a single provider that is at the same time acting as their registrar (whose only purpose in the DNS infrastructure is to mediate your ability to change your DNS servers and renew your account) is horrific: it means something horrendously wrong has occurred in this community.

Meanwhile, the comments here are just strange: people talking about "switching providers without downtime" when the whole point of how DNS works is that you can have arbitrarily many servers and thereby have multiple providers hosting your zones at once. To even have a webpage in the first place you had to setup DNS, and if you somehow skipped that step then you probably skipped tons of other important steps. :(

Reading this entire thread is thereby just depressing: this isn't some advanced corner case of A/B testing leading to improved knowledge of how to do pricing, this is web hosting 101. Yet, somehow, we have 308 upvotes and 238 comments that have been left about an outage of a single provider for the only component in the entire stack of a website where you almost have to go out of your way to not have fault tolerance.

Then, as opposed to trying to get this discussion out of the way as soon as possible, we are just being flooded with a combination of people claiming that this is important, and that those who disagree are being "snarky", combined with opportunistic bloggers submitting tutorials like the "GoDaddy Outage: How to Migrate to AWS Route 53" that was just posted.

Therefore, I will claim that it isn't drivebyacct2 that is indicative of a loss of HN quality: it is instead that somehow any of this was relevant in the first place, and that once posted it keeps spreading. I can understand people being interested when AWS or Heroku or even GitHub goes offline, but no one on Hacker News should care if GoDaddy DNS goes offline.
The Xerox Star computer did not look like a Mac. That was a totally different machine.
GitHub Enterprise 11.10.280 Release
I appreciate this wake up call. I don't think I have problems accepting criticism and I think I deserve it here.
One of my major pain points. A major reason why I have decided to stop moving around and settle down at one place. I am serious.
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Wow, this is a big deal. Even though I don't work with PHP all that much anymore, I really wish I had something like this when I did.
It actually exists: http://isdownforeveryoneorjustmedownforeveryoneorjustme.com/
I think I previously had all the pieces required to do this, but only just figured out that it worked:

Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$ exec 3<> /dev/tcp/<website>/80
Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$ echo "GET / HTTP/1.0" >&3
Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$ echo "" >&3
Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$ cat <& 3
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:43:33 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:42 GMT
ETag: "30525-0-472ed20537a80"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$
Why all the hate? If it's that bad, help out and make it cool.
Make it a brew package, or npm, or gem maybe. Alternative installers for those who dont want the curl script|sh thing.

I think its a great idea!

*edit Actually just noticed that it IS an npm package that can be installed using `npm install yeoman´
Burn baby burn!

I usually don't root against companies but they are exceptionally bad.
> high quality standard libraries, speed, good debugging facilities, being easy to learn, ability to handle large projects, and hardware support among other things.

Hm. C has three, at most four of those desiderata. It lacks good debugging facilities, especially compared to what a real (Smalltalk or Lisp, for example) debugger can do, it is about as easy to learn as driving a car with manual transmission, manual steering, and inadequate brakes, and it is so lacking in support for programming in the large that people were willing to put up with 1990s-era C++.

So is C a toy?
Obsessive-Compulsive Procrastinators (or Information Fire Hose Management)
Just pointing this out, it is entirely possible to be a HN reader and deal with clients who have set up their hosting and ignore your suggestions (pleas) to move to a better service. Sometimes clients with low budgets and non profits like to just "figure it out themselves" instead of let their developers handle the hosting arrangement (we do charge for that sort of thing). Enter: GoDaddy's incessant advertising.
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I really like your revisions. While I agree with the spirit of the 37s post, I've found that megalong method names like the ones they listed are hard to reason about simply because they take up more human memory, thus making it harder to hold other objects in memory at the same time in order to compare.
Someone (I'm looking at you, gandi.net) should give a "GoDaddy is Down" discount for domain registration. I'm ready to migrate the domains I didn't change during the SOPA fiasco ...
"I think I will poke this bear with this pointed stick I'm holding ... what could go wrong?"

Not defending 4Chan here but, wow, this is "walking alone in the bad part of town at midnight" type of stupid.
Its using that later for installing packages using its native package system
Thanks! Much more useful than the other recent alphabetic cheat sheets.
Very useful! Thank you for this.
SaaS?
Marco is correct except for at the end where he makes a veiled charge that neither he (nor Gruber) has substantiated.
After 10-Week Python Training Program, Women Engineers Get Job Offers in SV
I cannot count the number of times I have heard 'Well he would have done X except for Y' from Obama supporters. I no longer believe it - actions speak louder, and all that.
People that can't be bothered to have a dev server running hardly will be bothered to use PDO and specific settings for development and production.
The build is failing because there are a lot of moving parts at this early stage regarding the internals; however, the basics from a usage standpoint work just fine right now.

In other words, the build failing is not ideal; but don't get too hung up on it right now.
Feedback

This is what I get when I try to visit the page:

Your browser does not have window.WebSocket object :-(

Try the lastest version of Chrome or Firefox or Safari.

I know that I have to update, but realize that not everyone has the latest/greatest stuff out there. Also, if I visit your page without JS it doesnt show anything (at all).
Well I don't think that any of us is very dominant. We don't have dominant personalities either.

I do know that when we debate she's very dominant as she always seems to better know or understand the issue than me.
Apple's iPhone 5 Sales Could Add Half a Point to US GDP
Evidently built by someone with a skeued sense of humor.
On the Virtue of Contributing to and Using Open Source Software
Anon is not taking credit for this one.

ETA: Source- http://storify.com/poe/anonymous-lulz-and-godaddy
I have seen my GoDaddy sites coming on one at a time over the last hour. They are making progress.
Imagine being the prey of this robotic dog rather than its master...
I'm a bit upset because this subthread is so vitriolic as a result of my tone and I am sorry for that

What a classy bit of self-reflection. Keep up the good work :)
Another nice options is Cloudflare. Especially for small personal blogs, they are free and even offer to put a CDN in front of your data.
Agree 100% about writers following editorial lead.

Copy and publication editors always prefer anodyne comments in my experience. Almost every time I stated a strong or very strong opinion, I was encourage to moderate my tone. Regardless of how strong the evidence was to back up my statements.

Not quite sure that Arment/Gruber are "working" the refs as much as feeling like they need to continually remind people of how things used to be. Apple users (I'm one) have a lingering sense that things might revert to how Apple was during the Dark Times when Jobs wasn't around.
Developers don't like being branded as scrapers, as it carries the implication that the service in question is stealing content from others to provide its service.

The absolute worst thing Instapaper can be accused of is implementing an old-Readability style function that strips pages of non-article content, most frequently ads.

By that definition Safari Reader is a scraper, so is AdBlock, Reeder, or any other app that tries to improve on the average abysmal reading environment most websites provide.
It feels threatening knowing that your partner is always right, and thereby when you argue makes you always (mostly) wrong.

It also feels threatening knowing that she's capable of doing whatever it is you're doing just better.
because Wacom makes pressure sensitive tablets/screens specifically for cases where pressure sensitive is necessary.

Apple would need to outright purchase Wacom if they were going to incorporate pressure sensitive screens - because to do it right, you need to license Wacom's patent library. Which Wacom won't do because they make a killing already by having exclusive technology.
For direct synthetic tests we do see about 50ms response times in the US. For real user (recursive) tests we see lookups in the low 100ms range.
Reminds me of a quote by Stephen Colbert (at 1:35):
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/37542...
Normally, a company wouldn't break their DNS service on their production servers on Monday morning. They've been down all day and must be bleeding customers. This is probably some last-minute stop-gap replacement to get the minimum working again.
This is seriously so fantastic. In my case, the biggest barrier to me contributing to projects that use PHP is the pain of setting up Apache/nginx, making sure permissions are right on the directory for apache to serve it, setting up virtual hosts, etc.

This built-in web server has singlehandedly influenced me to actually look at using PHP for projects.
Is any DNS/host outside of GoDaddy also effected right now? We're not on GoDaddy but having plenty of intermittent issues.
The network pseudo filehandles (/dev/tcp/<host>/<port> and /dev/udp/<host>/<port>) are explicitly disabled in certain distros (notably Debian). Ubuntu appears to support it.

Though not limited to just shell redirections, one of the true masters of bash (and zsh) is Larry Peek whose written/given multiple books, articles, and presentations on the topic.
I'm laughing my head off at all of those Apple haters and conspiracy theorists right now over the collective brain explosions when facts come out that Apple wasn't colluding with the government.
well it's more than that,

Its walking alone in the bad part of town at midnight having a student skirt with a sign that is saying rape me" type of stupid.

What can go wrong?? huh...
Don't let the callousness of some posters on HN get to you. I think HN is full of decent, caring people, even if it's not always obvious. No one deserves blame for what a criminal did to them.
She's capable of studying any new topic much faster than I. Even topic that she has no experience in and I have been working on for several years. She's doing an MD in Medicine and a bsc in computer science simultaneously. She's also a Marathon runner and a quite successful artist.
This all-in-one is ok but their Z1 workstation is actually pretty nice. It actually has easily accessible internals.
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I'd imagine from their POV, when you continue doing business with a company they find morally reprehensible, you're no longer "honest people". If their end goal is killing GoDaddy, these collateral losses might be worth it. Also, it might have a positive side-effect of people associating more risk with dealing with shady companies.
Also, note that you cannot downvote anyone who replies to you.
What hackers are saying about Forward (MongoDB + open source e-commerce)
www.godaddy.com DNS is back and site is up with a "we're down" message.
That's a cute idea actually. I just hope she won't comment about my looks. I really hope there's something else there :)
Ahh, thanks for the clarification.
In an email to Buzzfeed, Marco stated (as he posted on Twitter) that it was 9to5Mac's willingness to write potentially libelous statements that he didn't want to deal with:

...I really don't foresee doing this for any other site unless they explicitly request it.
What 9to5 has consistently written about me and Instapaper goes far beyond what's acceptable, is potentially libelous, and could cause potential legal issues. This has never happened to this degree from any other site, and would certainly never happen from a professionally run publication.
I will not tolerate their behavior or the potential legal risks of interacting with 9to5 or Seth at all, so I removed the ability for Instapaper to interact with their site.

[edit]
Marco's tweet: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/245163432758878208
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See to me, some of these examples aren't skeuomorphic. This for example, I've never seen a leather item in meat-space with aluminum buttons. Or a big platic/glass button.

http://skeu.it/post/29492973628/in-space-no-one-can-see-you-...
What's the (tax) basis?
this is genius. Do you a link to the article perhaps?
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Recommend them too. Great interface and support DNS features that allow you to point a naked domain at a Heroku app.