skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a common question and the answer is always the same. Compromise. No matter what your situation (wife, kids, intern, job, etc) you need to compromise time on some things to make time for others. And depending on your situation it will involve compromise from other people in your life as well like friends,social life,wife,kids.

While most commenters here are right about schedules, That can be hard for some people. What I find is most important is communication with your stakeholders (i.e. wife/gf/kids) and maybe not setting an entire schedule for your whole day , but maybe a set time block a few days a week for "pet project work". What is really important here is do the same for your other responsibilities. Like Tuesday nights is "watch TV with the wife and kids" night and wednesday night is "I work on my project" night.

Most important to remember is Keep Trying!
Win 8 challenge, by superuser.stackexchange.com
Windows NT is an entirely different codebase to the MSDOS based Windows 9x series; it isn't simply a marketing name. Comparable to Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X.
Wow, Windows 1.0 desktop is a tiling window manager! I use i3 on Lubuntu and previously awesome. Would be nice if MS compromised and had tiling for apps in Windows 8 desktop mode.
Ask HN: How about a startup traction platform?
I initially developed www.inqvest.com for tech startups to find angel investors. I would like to slightly modify the direction and build a website for startups to partner up with marketing experts. Sort of a dating site for developers to meet up with traction gurus.

Suggestions?
Any deployment tool fab, capistrano, etc. should do this.

My preferred layout is

./releases/<datetime or rev or whatever makes sense for you stamped>

./current symlink to ./releases/<foo>

Keeping releases in directory by themselves make it easy to list them, archive old ones etc.
What conversion tracking can tell you about Google's and Facebook's world views
Great Britain. Friendly locals and no language issues.
Is this limited to US-US payments?
The question would be whether Amazon can go beyond deactivating individual titles and lock you out of or otherwise remotely disable the device itself. It would be a rude surprise to wake up one day and discover that your fancy e-reader has been turned into an expensive paperweight, even if you did have the ebook files backed up somewhere.
I personally use an Android Tablet (one of these $99 HP Touchpads). It is certainly not as comfortable as one of the e-paper readers, but the added functionality is extremely useful. It is just great to not just read stuff, but work with documents, i.e. add notes and highlights to your books, copy&paste excerpts in a text document for future use, etc.
Can you qualify what you mean by "the long time effects"?
I don't have the source (tried to find but buried), but Matt Cutts has stated because so many tech companies use .io as input/output webapp connotation, that behind the scenes, google treats it as a gTLD even though technically it's a ccTLD. I know because I did a ton of research for http://pineapple.io as well as talking to a lot of other people who were ranking their .io domain.

Likewise, there is a movement to get it officially branded as a gTLD just like .me, etc.

I would say choosing a .io domain is just fine.
The Road To $5 Billion Is A Long One
As an aside, I can recommend the alternate history novel Synco, from author Jorge Baradit, based on the Cybersyn project. http://www.amazon.com/Synco-Jorge-Baradit/dp/9563040562
Yes. US only.
This is the thesis of RMS's The Right to Read, written over 30 years ago, and one of the few works to have passed from the genre of science fiction to historical fact, by remaining unchanged while the world changed over time.
OK, I'm starting to get the concept. Here is how I'm understanding the whole thing:

Assume a node size that can hold 1M records in a buffer and 32 links (that's about 16 MiB more or less, more than what you suggest, but it simplifies the explanations).

Assume further that to operate on a node, you read it entirely in memory, modify it, sort it, then write it entirely on disk and that that takes about 1 second. This is pessimistic as there are surely more efficient ways to maintain sorted 1M nodes.

Now consider completely random insertions or 16-byte records and assume that the keys will spilt completely uniformly among the subtrees.

1. Every 1M insertions, you need to spill from level-1 (root buffer) to level-2, which generates about 32 IOs
2. Additionnally, every 32M insertions, you need to spill all level-2 buffers to level-3, which generates 3232 IOs
n. every 32^(n-1) M.insertions, you need an additional 32^n IOs to spill from level-n to level-(n+1)

So, all in all, to insert 32^n M.records, you need a total of (n+1)32^(n+1) I/Os, which means 32(n+1) IO per 1M insertions.

For example, in a 16TiB data store, i.e. with n=8, you need 288 IOs per million insertions, or about 2400 random insertions/second at 1s/random IO.

In comparison, a B-Tree with a fanout 1024 and a block size 16KiB would generate about 4 random IOs per insertion. These IOs would be dominated by the seek time (~10ms), so you could get only 25 insertions per second.

On the other hand, a point query in this B-Tree would take 4 IOs instead of 8 random I/Os in the fractal tree. So, that's the tradeoff: much better insertion rate vs. slightly worse query time.

Note that a small fanout (about square root of the equivalent B-tree fanout) is important. If you take 1024 as fanout in the fractal tree, the tree has half the height, but the number of IOs per 1M insertions drops to 10245 instead of 32*9.

Have I got it right?
I read this as "Non-fiction API" and got really excited. Alas, I guess I'll just have to keep working on that one. https://gitenberg.github.com
Yea there are things- like Checks, Paypal, ACH, and others. We tried to build the cheapest and easiest thing possible to help merchants pay out.
Dealing With Client Pushback
No - more needs to be done than simply mounting the filesystem.

He explains that: "With the ability to replace arbitrary kernel memory with arbitrary data, one has lots of options to choose from in order to hijack ring-0 code execution flow." and then goes on to mention "I decided to go with HalDispatchTable, being the easiest and most commonly used technique."

Something has to be run locally that exploits the ntfs filesystem driver bug (introduced by the usb stick) and uses that to write arbitrary data to kernel memory, but then has to divert ring-0 code execution flow (he chooses to overwriting the nt!HalDispatchTable+sizeof(void*) function pointer).

Check out the video to verify
Can't afford it at the moment, don't have the cash. Hence renewing the lease for another year until we can stash some savings.
I am happy with my Sony Reader.

Also, for DRM free books: if you like science fiction, look at Baen. They are a publisher that sells DRM free ebooks in a half-dozen formats at sane prices.
No no, it was actually sincere. I think that the UK's financial ecosystem is far more advanced than ours in the US... Money transfers are faster, more secure, and there's more of a general sense of progress...
This is what I mean by worked:

It leads Latin American nations in human development, competitiveness, income per capita, globalization, economic freedom, and low perception of corruption. It also ranks high regionally in sustainability of the state, democratic development and state of peace. However, it has a high economic inequality, as measured by the Gini index.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile
I can only think of one instance in two years I've owned it when I needed to get online but didn't have internet access. I used offline gmail to respond to a few emails so not a big deal.

The CR48 has built in 3G but I decided against buying the $330 one and paying for a plan and will instead use my phone to tether when needed. I use FoxFi for free tethering and it's worked surprisingly well. I don't travel often - and wifi + occasional tethering is good enough for me.
> ...because the experience of consciousness is so subjective, I doubt that science will be able to explain it. After all, science is designed to work on objective reality

The experience is subjective. But what are the actual details that produce that experience? We just don't know. But if it has an explanation there is no reason to presume that that explanation must have the same sorts of properties as what is being explained.

An analogy: before we understood what is actually going on with fire (a kind of molecular reaction), it could seem as if it was a separate category of stuff - what else was there that was like fire? But it would have been wrong to assume that therefore "fireness" was some fundamental, intrinsic property of fire.

As to subjective conscious experience, we don't know what it is, and I don't think there's any reason to think that the explanation will itself be 'subjective', and that it can't be something objective (even if it's some different kind of objective detail, different from anything else we currently understand).
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Russians selling access to private company servers in just $4
I still have the CR-48 google shipped out for beta testers a few years back. Its uprising what it can do, considering the low-end hardware its composed of.

For web browsing it is great. And if you do a lot of work from ssh, you'll be fine. With the added RAM and beefed specs, this thing may even be OK at playing video.
Very nice. Simple, clean design and does what it says on the tin.

I am now also aware that there seems to have been a transient error between Hyderabad and my Linode. It's back up now though.
Which is a legal impossibility that sadly has not been fully tested yet.
That's our source! This is what I mainly used to find new books. The idea was to make this beautiful and more fun. We're going to add discovery via genres soon too, hopefully making it even more useful.
Not a fan of classmates.com, but they are digitizing yearbooks.
The user had no copyright claim on that work, but he/she did have a reasonable expectation that a "purchased" good was hers to dispose of as she saw fit after completion of the sale, within the confines of the law. What people are objecting to is Amazon's redefinition of the rights of the seller at the expense of the rights of the buyer.
that's great, thanks (i think i found out about red plenty from crookedtimber, but i had never seen that post). do you know of any other books that are vaguely connected? i once read "machine dreams" http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Dreams-Economics-Becomes-Scien... and enjoyed it hugely, but have never found anything even remotely similar.
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"Canonical is contributing engineering to Google under contract" doesn't necessarily equal "Chrome OS is based on Ubuntu". In fact, CrOS uses Portage[0] as a package manager, so if there (still) is any Ubuntu connection, I'd imagine it's extremely weak.

[0] http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/packages/portage
No TV at all.

Use time trackers like Toggl to watch what you do with your time. Cut the fat out.

Also get enough sleep. All these answers with sleeping 5 hours a night are bullshit. You cannot do stuff that requires concentration quickly if you are not well-rested.
I completely agree with your comment about building a community around the playgrounds. We've been discussing that feature, and how to introduce it once we've rolled out the app.

We've gotten a lot of feedback from parents who travel with their kids to a new town/city and want to know where nearby playgrounds are, so that is where the feature came from.
I should have qualified that my experience was from ~2001 or so. I guess it's also possible that the person doing the purchasing was incompetent, or didn't care about the savings because it wasn't their money.
This is exactly what I do. The device doesn't have the password to my wifi so it can't phone home. I have no need to connect it to the internet — I just transfer files from my computer over USB. Couldn't be happier with the setup.
"And the first kid is on the way."
"I have all the time I need."

Would love to hear your story 9 months from now to see how all your advice holds up ;).
See above my clarification on "worked", but I am quite aware that these effects were "bought" with a lot of blood.
One reason is that these services provide a much better upstream/outbound connection than most consumer ISPs.
The loss of books has nothing to do with the speech act of libel.
Worth mentioning that Clever is now making a few key engineering hires.. if improving education through data sounds exciting, shoot me a note and say hello! Or check out https://getclever.com/about/jobs
BJ Fogg’s Behavior Design Bootcamp: The Motivation Wave
Sorry this is hurting your head, maybe you should take a nap?
If they are not confident enough that they've accurately linked you to a fraudulent user to tell you the details of that account, they should not feel confident enough to CLOSE YOUR ACCOUNT on that basis.
Few thoughts:

- Don't worry about code backups, assuming you have the following:
1. Local copy
2. Local backups
3. GitHub
4. GitHub's own backups
5. Copy on Heroku
6. Heroku's backups (?)
7. Any server backups

That's a hell of a lot of backups.

- Make sure you can time how fast you can provision a new server and restore backups. When you actually have to, it'll give you some peace of mind knowing that your backups can be restored, and that you can reliably guess how long it'll take.

- Make sure your domains are "Locked" in NetworkSolutions, which prevents transfer-out requests. I'm still mixed on whois privacy, but you're probably okay using it with NetworkSolutions.

- I've also struggled with figuring out what to do if I can't run the business suddenly. For your domain, you can register it for several years or set it up on auto-renew, so that's not really an issue. As far as GitHub/Heroku, ... that's a tough question.
I don't agree with a lot of what Chris says, but the logic he's using is pretty clear.

There are millions of willing potential immigrants living terrible lives in dire rural poverty without access to running water, antibiotics, or electricity, for whom lives in the United States mowing lawns and cleaning bathrooms would be a dramatic step forwards in quality of life, and an immeasurable improvement for the prospects of their children.

Therefore, it makes sense for us to simultaneously improve millions of lives and staff millions of menial jobs with low-cost labor, as it's a win-win for both sides: a net benefit to our economy, and a gigantic quality of life boost for the laborers.

Meanwhile, there are hundreds of thousands of people already residing in the United States who came here illegally. We have virtually no signals on the suitability of most potential immigrants to life in the US, but the one signal we have from illegal immigrants is "willingness to break the law".

I do not agree with this point for a variety of reasons but it is not a hard point to understand.
presumably the result of the quake would have been the same if the scientists didn't give a reassuring message?
And now they are in jail, if another quake strikes, the same will happen again.
Surely it is better that scientists are at least trying to predict the quakes, even if they get it wrong sometimes?
> Without network connectivity the thing is basically unusable right?

nope. you can use html5 "offline" apps http://diveintohtml5.info/offline.html
After my experience of Capistrano and Fabric, I think it's a wheel that needs to be reinvented. Capistrano: hardcodes way too many things, underdocumented. Fabric: reimplements ssh (poorly). Moving from Capistrano to a custom script I ended up with less code and higher maintainability.
We're only hearing one side, has anyone else questioned how true this story is?
The whale that talked: a captive beluga was able to mimic speech
It probably wouldn't be a "law" per se in terms of statutes, it would be down to case law. In other words we won't know until this (or something very similar) goes to court.

It's not so much about DRM per se but rather about what rights you can expect when "buying" an e-book.
Agreed, cool but ultimately shouldn't be used.
As a windows user, you should know by now that you are a second class git user. You'll have to wait.
Am I the only one who will take Amazon's action and level of customer service into consideration when deciding on a cloud hosting provider, Amazon Web Services vs. others?

Accounts are accounts on Amazon and will they link a consumer account you or your developers use with an account you use for hosting business web sites on EC2?

Or, reading the blog entry, will they mistakenly link another account with your other Amazon accounts, including the one you use for EC2?...
If this were a 10" 3G color eInk table instead it would be perfect for browsing, emailing and terminal based programming on the go.

I would absolutely love such a device...
Paypal MassPay is what everyone already uses. %2 transaction fee, capped at $1. Dwolla is a bit cheaper, but the price difference is meaningless in most cases. This just brings Dwolla closer to feature parity. I pay about 100 people using the paypal masspay api every quarter, and I wouldn't even consider allowing Dwolla unless they had this feature.
Can it run a useful OS? If so, it's probably worth the $250 flyer to play around.
If they do that with books, this could happen with AWS?!

Dear Sir/Madam,

We've deleted your EC2, S3... Services and Permanently suspended your AWS account due to it's been linked to another account somewhere on the internet. In other words your companies services/product/startup is offline without notice and we don't care.
> get her books back?

They aren't her books, they aren't even books in the physical sense. They are the copyright owner's "books". All she had (and paid for) were licenses to display (in limited fashion) "books".

Linn might not like this, she should fight (infinite, broad) copyright which is the root of all this evil, not Amazon.
Essentially ...

"There’s much to be excited about. Yet, not many in the channel are excited. In fact, the Microsoft ecosystem – component makers, PC manufacturers, distributors and resellers – is bracing for a lull rather than a surge in Windows-related sales."
I keep getting "server busy". Why share a link if it won't be able to handle the traffic?
Icelanders vote to base new constitution on crowdsourced draft
Pretty sure the actual law clarifies that the speaker must have a reason to believe the claim even after engaging in some research. And that reason to disbelieve the claim is not a defense.
We're actually already using amazon associates. We could probably make our affiliate links bigger though!
"Second, the person must prove that the statement caused harm."
> My Thinkpad gets 10 hours of battery life

Which Thinkpad?
More Oppo Find 5 Photo's Leaked Looks fatter than claimed - Gizchina
I can wholeheartedly recommend a documentary called Draquila – L'Italia che trema [1] about the L'Aquila earthquake.

As many of my Italian friends tell me, Italy is an absolutely corrupt shit hole. I remember a scene where they showed recordings of civil protection officials gloating about the disaster on the phone, right after it happened. They talked about the opportunity to make money [2].

The head of the national civil protection service is / was notorious in his blatant abuse of emergency powers to give government contracts (construction) without oversight to his crooked friends.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draquila_%E2%80%93_LItalia_che_...

[2] At the end of the trailer: http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/lTyjwBhD9HOI/en/...
On non-ascii editors we could benefit from fancier typography, like borders (rounded, angle, padded, etc), to distinguish between types.
That chart is misleading. V8 supports (and has supported it for a long time) the vast majority of ES5. Since version 13 it's supported every ES5 features with the exception of Zero-width chars in identifiers, and I don't know when, but it was implemented somewhere between 16 and 23.

http://kangax.github.com/es5-compat-table/
I like to remind Dwolla about Canada once in a while on twitter. I never get a response though.
I haven't used ChromeOS in a while, but I remember you could use it without a Google account. You won't have access to the Chrome webstore without one, though, but you should be able to use it as a normal browser.
Which version of ARM does this use?
Agreed, the design overwhelmed the quotes.
Hi

I did not downvote your comment, but it is fundamentally incorrect. If your JavaScript program has been designed well, then asynchronisity by using an event driven model is the way to go. But that is very different to what I said about functions stopping the execution of the current function. This is true. For example

var func1 = function() {
//Execute something here
}

var func2 = function() {
//Execute something here
func1(); //Stop execution of this function, and rather execute func2
//Execute something here
}

I hope the above explains this a bit better.
Decent is not enough, it has to be awesome. At least according to my standards. :)

On the design challenge I'll give you a tip. Fill the screen with content. If you don't have enough of it, create new views. I'll give you an example: imagine the main output for your app is some tabbed data; instead of showing as it is plot some graphs and add some buttons to flip the view to reveal the data. The key is to think visually.
Yes, there are lots of books that are cheaper on kindle, but shouldn't all kindle books be cheaper than their dead tree brothers? May be someday.
Interview with Delane Parnell, Co-Founder of The App Room
CSS 3D dropdown concept
"It was not immediately known if they planned to appeal." of course they do, it's on many Italian media.

And in Italy there is a 3-tier system, this was only the first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_Italy
Perhaps I'm not reading this correctly, but it looks to me like Amazon does not hold the right to delete books in the case of a ToS abuse, which means that they shouldn't have deleted the books in this case.
Paypal only lets you send in up to 250 rows, right? We've set that to 2,000 - and also uncap it for trusted users... At 250 records, the fee difference might not be much, but at 2,000 - it can quickly add up to a nice sizable sum, don't you agree?
The biggest problem every communist country had was indeed coordination. The USSR was famous for this, in fact the Nazi invasion was a success at first partly because of Soviet disarray: you had spies warning about the impending attack for months while factories churned tanks but not supply trucks, and the army trained soldiers but didn't make enough rifles for all of them.

And this happened on a day-to-day basis: you had factories making 10,000 units when only 1,000 were needed, or worse when the demand was of 100,000. Food supply was always a problem and still is in countries like Cuba and NK. I have friends a bit older than me that lived under such conditions and still remember having to wake up at 4AM to grab a nice spot at the store line. "Show up late and there was no food left" they said.

This Chilean system was without a doubt the right solution for the problem, too bad that it was destroyed before it could do what it was meant to do.
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Especially when browsers are stateless and request things at different times anyways. If you have a lot of requests, you can expect a few of them to get the HTML from one version and the javascript and CSS from another anyways, no matter your strategy.

I still think this is a valuable deployment strategy, just because you can rollback and switch deployed versions easily, which is always useful. And it's certainly better than rsyncing to a live directory, at any rate.
Um: 3. Stop using the service the company provides.
I can. Take a look at Query Shark for an agent's perspective on this kind of issue: http://queryshark.blogspot.com/ . See, for example, this post: http://queryshark.blogspot.com/2010/05/159.html .