skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I am looking for other work actively, but at 19 with only 2 years experience and no degree, it's pretty hard to find another job in my area, I can't even get in the door unless I studied at Uni, it's irrelevant that I'm actually talented in the subject matter.
> There is a case to be made that charging less than $10/month for a service is not good business. People like patio11 make it constantly. The reason is that people who pay low amounts are the most demanding in terms of support, and don't actually contribute much to the bottom line.

Well right now they're charging $0 which is even less of a business for the same amount of hassle. I'm in a similar boat, I would like more than 2GB but am not interested in 100GB. Regardless of the money, it's the psychological thing of paying for something that I know I won't use.
Reminds me a lot of "Dancing on the Timeline", a slitscan version of a classic scene from "Singing in the Rain"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmWljCI_4Ok
But if the 'unit of service' being provided is a full server, that may be the natural atom of enforcement... or even the only practical one.

Let's concern ourselves with the general case, setting aside the specifics of the WPMU/ServerBeach service arrangement.

A customer could be purchasing a full server, or perhaps just rack space, and the provider might not have (or reasonably want) finer-grained server access or traffic-blocking options.

Faced with a DMCA notice, and in the sort of knee-jerk cover-thyself mode of thinking that the DMCA encourages, such a service provider may have only one crude switch to throw.

Reckless/automated notifiers face few penalties for misdirected or overbroad notifications. For example, they can ignore a particular website's DMCA contact information, and just start firing away at more foundational services whose contact info can be auto-discovered, like the IP-block managers or even domain-name service providers.

Those are a problems arising from the DMCA's liability/incentive setup, not the service provider.
Thanks for clarifying. I agree with you on the usability issues, but would have expected you to say "won't recommend" instead of "won't use". I have noticed a surprising number of non-technical (70-year old couple at church) people using dropbox, but that could be due to access to technical friends and family (their 25 year old programmer son).
Was going to note the same thing. Pearson executed an appropriate request for taking down copyrighted material with all the rights for opposition that the DMCA enables.

The question, which the link-bait-y article didn't bother answering, is whether or not ServerBeach expressly outlined its response to DMCA takedowns beforehand. If not, they have more than a PR problem. If so, then not a very good idea to host a blog site (or any user-generated content site) with them ...

Also, at $75k/yr seems they're well beyond hosting and should be collocating their own hardware.
I'm going to defend the copyright holder today. It's not what I usually end up doing, but I think it is only fair in this case.

It seems to me that the original takedown notice was legally justified. It doesn't matter that it was a little harsh; that isn't enough to make it DMCA abuse.

The only thing that went wrong here was the hosting company's harsh response, by going far beyond what the DMCA required of them. The DMCA didn't cause the problem; the problem was caused by the hosting company's decision to shut down the site when it was not required by law and not demanded in the takedown request. And that's simple to resolve: switch hosting provider to a more reasonable one.
Good question, and one we've already looked into a fair bit as we already host all of our uploads on Amazon.

Back in the day we figured that it would probably be cheaper and more extensible to use Amazon... however given that things weren't broken, and the amount of time and effort we'd put into our SB setup we decide that it wasn't worth switching.

We're lucky enough to have one of the best SysAdmins in the business, I wouldn't trade him for his weight in gold, but even with him and his assistants working flat out at that the cost and time of moving to another setup would far outweigh the other cost benefit... after all we're pretty freaking big:

http://www.quantcast.com/edublogs.org

So previously that's how we've figured it out... if SB agree that they won't do something like this to us again without first at least making sure they call and speak to us, then we'll probably continue... it just makes sense.

With a bit of luck all this publicity will make them realise how important it is.
I never understood the FTC's position on this anti-competitive case. Google is promoting their own services on their own website.. how is that anti-competitive? They should be able to make their products the number one result of every search if they wanted to but they obviously wouldn't do that.

Microsoft was anti-competitive because there was a significant roadblock to use competitor's services. With Google, all you have to do is type in bing.com/yahoo.com/duckduckgo.com instead of google.com.
Google's I'm feeling lucky button is feeling Hungry (mouse over)
Really high performance pads make white dust, and much less of it (ceramic, usually a $5-10k option)
That's true as far as it goes, but one can still argue that this situation shows a weakness of DMCA. Whenever the host is in doubt about how to respond to a takedown, the law encourages them to over-react.
Talk about burying the lede.

Here's the last sentence: "The unit was developed in response to American and Israeli cyberattacks on the Iranian nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz."
The point the earth actually orbits around isn't actually in the middle of the sun. It is at the center of mass between us and the sun. A planet orbiting a dual star system will do the same thing, but the center of mass winds up being somewhere between the two stars.
I'm completely with you on the reckless automated DMCA notice system. That does not seem to be the case here at all.
It's so not link-baity, it's trying to change stuff for the better... I tried emailing them before, they palmed me off and ignored me to such an extent that we didn't have a choice... either go public about it or shuffle off and change hosts at great cost and pains to ourselves.

they could at least have called us!
I'm surprised that Redis cannot handle your traffic. What are you throwing at it? Or are you on EC2, with frequent BGSAVEs or AOF enabled on an EBS volume?
We don't, but we will certainly get one, thanks for the pointer...
I've tried about 8 different ways to modelling that and so far all of them have the planet being ripped apart as soon as its orbit is elongated by the traversing between the two pairs of binaries. Bizarre doesn't begin to describe it.
You keep using that word "meritocracy"
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Interesting that you mentioned Georgia Tech (BS '06, MS '09), as I was thinking that it's disappointing that no systems or compilers classes are required anymore.

The new Threads curriculum doesn't (or didn't when I last paid attention to it) require anything nearly this complicated. I have a friend who graduated under Threads without having taken CS2200 (Systems and Networks) or ECE2030 (Intro ECE). He's a talented computer scientist, but he's had to learn a lot of the bits of systems that are relevant to his day-to-day work on his own.

That said, I feel like this goes beyond anything that was ever strictly "required". The most complicated VM or language related work I had that was in a core class was Olin Shivers's[0] CS3240 (Languages and Computation). That concluded with us building a basic Scheme interpreter in Java. The other work I did on the subject was in specialization or elective classes (or grad school).

[0]: To folks who might happen to be at Northeastern, do take any class you can with Olin. He is a fantastic professor, and I can't recommend his classes enough. Favorite class I took at tech, hands down.
But there are two of them, so that would mean closer to the moon's brightness, right? If I'm following, the sun would be about 40% as bright ast he full moon at 1000AU, so with the second start being smaller than, it may be 60%?

(Mock my math if need be, I'm not really trying here. :)
One should always be open to the possibility that a pet theory can be falsified, but doubting some form of evolution and the big bang theory is probably irrational at this point. Quite simply, there are no better explanations for the universe and the diversity of life on earth. If you doubt some form of evolution, then you will have your work cut out for you to find a better theory. An alternative theory will have to explain geological and biological data at least as well as evolution without falling prey to falsifying data. It'll also have to make non-trivial predictions about future geological and biological observations. If you're determined to doubt something you can certainly do better than doubting evolution and big bang theories.
This workflow only needs one extra step: treat master (git) / default (hg) as the unstable branch, and have a stable branch for stable release. There, 2 branches with simple CI setup and low cognitive overhead, suitable for a small non-1337 team doing B2B development. (unstable branch: User Acceptance Test, stable branch: training and scheduled deployment)
There is a mechanism for tearing the helium envelope which causes the capsule to fall, at some point parachutes are released and the capsule makes a soft landing and is recovered.
I agree, ServerBeach screwed the pooch on this. But, the link-baity part is in pointing this out as a problem with the DMCA, when the actual problem is ServerBeach.

You do have backups, I hope? You can just be up and running on a new provider within a day or so?
Hi bw, oops, an oversight. The accommodation in Amsterdam (the plane converted into a living space) must have overwhelmed our good judgement. I suspect a taxi would still fit within the budget, but certainly sub optimal as you suggested.
Actually after the Space Race I canceled my paid subscription because +8GB will make the free subscription enough for me. I wonder how many other people did the same?
No, one cannot. The law left the door wide open for service providers to work out the situation with customers, so long as they do it quickly (I believe the actual term in law is "expeditiously").

Blaming the law because the service provider isn't following it is absurd.
Well, it's a very poorly sourced article, but TI has been trying to unload its old baseband mobile chip division so it could focus on OMAP 4.
I recognized their names from the first example in the classic book "Algorithm Design" by Kleinberg and Tardos. But there it was called Gale-Shapley Algorithm.
I think you need the re-examine the term "all in".

All In implies something like IBM with System/360. Spending more than annual revenue (5,000,000,000? in 1960's - I can't find a great source for the actual number)on a product line that still drives significant profit 40 years later... That's all-in. Buying IFTTT so people can post tweets to Twitter and App.net? Not quite in the same league.
Not very important, but unblock-us.com is not a VPN service, it's a specialized DNS service.
Well, the actual keyword is retum. It turns out that most humans can't tell the difference between an r and an n next to each other, or the letter m, so they just decided to go with the quicker to type 'm' instead or 'rn' You've just been reading it wrong.

:D Honestly, I think either ret or return is fine, but I'd match other keywords. So if you're using pub and priv instead of public and private, I'd use ret instead of return as well.
Agreed, this seems to fall into the bucket of "rediscovering" something that was solved decades ago.
http://www.quora.com/Computer-Programming/What-are-the-best-...
Ask HN: What calendar app(s) do you use?
I'm struggling to find a calendar app that isn't tedious to start an event, has too many unnecessary inputs, isn't difficult to see what upcoming events I have, has the ability to view my schedule at a glance, etc etc. Some days I require a task list and some days I require more of a meeting schedule. I've tried a few calendar apps (mostly on Android Market) and I end up not using them because they are just lacking for me.

What do you use? Any other organizational software you would recommend?
It's the blog of a hosted Redis service.

Make sense?
Reading through the FAQ, you must be fluent in Farsi and have a "reasonable" command of English.

All the job postings are in English, presumably targeting a Farsi audience, creating a filter for those who do not have a good command of English. (Whether this is effective or not can be debated due online translators)
I've been working on a similar kind of problem (linking to AWS); the right thing is to walk users through IAM credential creation (if you must have the keys), explaining exactly what rights are needed, why, and how to verify, and to not take anything more than you need.

I'd also encapsulate use of any user-provided sensitive data in an API then called by your service, and put some logic within the API (because I don't want a random web UI screwup to dump everything for everyone) -- rate limits, etc.
The 'r' is the zeroth character of course.
I've been working on a similar kind of problem (linking to AWS); the right thing is to walk users through IAM credential creation (if you must have the keys), explaining exactly what rights are needed, why, and how to verify, and to not take anything more than you need.
I will definitely read this. Thanks.
Everything I do is on the master branch, because this branch represents the focus of my attention. If there's stuff I'm unsure about I feature flip whenever possible, and if I must do large scale refactoring it happens on the main branch so that I have to get something working to get it out of the way. It only ends up as a feature branch — namespaced under discarded/ — if the refactoring doesn't pan out.
Maybe the orbit is perpendicular to the stars' plane of orbit?
Oh boy I can't count. That criteria is a little tongue-in-cheek. Basically the core developers decided saving those extra three characters wasn't worth it. We implicitly return the last expression, so "return" is typically only used for an early exit. Therefore it's more approachable to new users, and pretty rare so it doesn't add much clutter.
> I wouldn't want to see comments like the above if I were your investor or your employee.

Why? He called you out and he's 100% correct, why would it matter who he is? Personally, I think it speaks to his "personal image" that he doesn't give a shit about your feel-good CEO image demands. There's also no shortage of hilariousness that you think him taking a shot at you lowers his "personal image"; no harm done for telling the truth, you just don't see it that way because you're on the wrong end of it.

If I were shopping around for a company to invest in and I came across a comment like that, I'd be more likely to toss my money at him. You know why? Because I know I'm dealing with a person, not someone repressing all personal feelings and emotion to create this caricature of someone that they're really not. A person like that is more invested in their failures and successes, and, in my experience, is a better person to work for.

Becoming the leader of a company, as you know, is not a magic threshold after which you have to change who you are. I wish we'd get over this ridiculous assumption that we must hold people to a higher standard based on who they are. It underlies pretty much all of politics, and makes it a newsworthy event when Obama is seen drinking a beer. It's depressing.
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'Desk checking' (proof reading) is almost a lost art in 1993
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Might be worth changing the submission title ("You keep using that word") to include the word "Meritocracy". It's really opaque right now.
I wish your link had been submitted instead. It looks like a pretty simple case of miscommunication, except that ServerBeach is blowing it by not working with you to fix it.

Go find a new host, you don't want to stay there.
>The most common use for the session information is to store a user ID and/or a session ID, but I believe it not uncommon to use this to store additional small bits of information if this will take some load off of your database and/or cache, and to help the server be more RESTful/stateless.

Ah, another reason to hold REST in contempt...
Agreed.

I'm not into tour groups. I'm much more into going somewhere and having the freedom to explore. At the same time, due to limited time available, I would like to maximize my experiences once I do get somewhere.

I also would love some sort of service that is somehow able to look at my past browsing behavior and remember/suggest places to go.

To elaborate, I see lot of places online that I think: "Man, that would be cool to see someday". But when it comes time that I actually have an opportunity to go somewhere, sometimes I forget about something I wanted to see previously. Being able to solve that disconnect problem would be fantastic.
In order to have broken Kittinger's record Baumgartner would have had to fall for an additional 16 seconds. At 170 mph (250 ft/s) or so that would have translated into falling an additional 4,000 feet, and deploying his parachute at a height of only about 1,000 feet within 4 seconds of impact.

Moreover, his reserve parachute would have automatically deployed at a height of 2,000 feet, which would have left him about 4 seconds short of the record regardless.
WWPGD - What Would Paul Graham Do?
This is either a dedicated or co-located server. Either way, unless they have a fully managed hosting plan ServerBeach has no login to the server. Likely the only things in their power are to cut the power or stop routing the IP. Possibly they could use a more fine-grained firewall rule but ... they don't have to. They only have to control the service they are offering, which is probably just power and bandwidth. Furthermore, if they don't respond satisfactorily to the DMCA the complaint can go to THEIR upstream who has the same sort of choices to make.
Interesting. Any more details about how they were able to do this?
Why Y Combinator News is so popular?
Sometimes newbie questions are the most interesting , it isn't this case, but let's see what happen.

The point is that I can't understand why Hacker News has so success..
Design is very poor and seems like 90's websites, the submit form is saddest of all the web. Social interaction is almost zero, is an involution of forums (which we know that they went out of fashion).

I know that I has some innovative business logic with its submissions, positive votes and karma. But I am sure that if anyone try to do something like this, (now or at 2007 when Hacker News was born), it would have less than ten visits per day.

I have to say that it generate me a great confusion, because as you know, all technologies and web sites move toward social media, innovated designs, javascript... We spend hours and hours trying to javascript works and making the best look & feel. And then you see how simple is Hacker News and I don't know if I have mistaken of profession and I had to be lawyer.

So, WHY we love it?

I hope you understand my humor, because my English is not the best.
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It's statistically very likely.
The session information is cryptographically signed, so you don't have to trust it! These stateless server frameworks are just using the client as a state cache.
The Phillips Bros. (Tony & Marcus) are fantastic. I can't wait to see the front-end engineers this course produces.

If you're looking into an accelerated development training course and are confused by the many courses similar to Dev Bootcamp, Catalyst seems like the best option for front-end development. I'd wager that starting salaries of Catalyst grads will confirm this.
Syncing a single arbitrary directory would be enough for me. It would be very neat if I could simply sync the Documents folder on OS X instead of the Dropbox folder, which I use as my Documents folder.
Who said they broke the law? I'm no expert on antitrust law but as I understand the FTC will basically try to argue a theory in front of a judge, and if it's indeed concerning which results rank where it's not a particularly strong theory.

At this point it's really inertia that is keeping the FTC on track towards a lawsuit.
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I met Phil at Scaladays in 2011. He was such a nice guy. I remember having some ideas about how to improve the efficiency of hash array trie maps for certain cases and types of data and I remember how encouraging our conversation was. He'll be missed.
> I don't understand, can you elaborate? How can advertisements be targeted without tracking?

Keywords is how Google does it. Try using Google in Incognito mode (or whatever your browser of choice calls it) and note the relevant ads. Obviously this does not work as well in all apps, but to say you can't do targeted advertising without tracking is not true.
The correct statement about lower bounds is this: "In the worst case, any comparison based sorting algorithm must make Ω(n log(n)) comparisons."

You are making the same mistake that people that have Misconception 1 make. "The algorithm must make <a set of functions> comparisons." is a nonsensical statement.
This doesn't make sense to me. The two pairs of binaries are around 6 light-days apart. The gravitational forces they have on each other are miniscule, but they are persistent enough to cause the two systems to orbit each other with a period longer than the duration of human civilization.
The headline seems misleading. Pearson seems to have executed a valid DMCA claim on a single dis-used blog from 2007. Maybe a little silly, but within their rights, and certainly not egregious.

And then ServerBeach decided to pull the plug on an entire rack of servers with no real notice, no real justification, and AFTER the customer had removed the content. Unless ServerBeach has a really amazing explanation (and frankly I can't imagine what that might be) this is simply horrifying.

If ServerBeach will pull the plug on a customer paying $7k/month without warning and with essentially no justification, imagine what they'd do to someone smaller?

My takeaway from this: DMCA still not a serious problem. Pearson no more assholeish than any other publisher. ServerBeach a bunch of dangerous loons who need to be kept away from your servers.
It appears to be true, until you look at this graph: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/
The number of DMCA requests is exponentially rising. Many of them are bogus, too broad and request removal of the entire domain. There are no effective legal penalties for overly broad requests. If you operate a large hosting or web company, it is unfortunately becoming economically unfeasible to examine each request to narrow down its scope and/or to even determine its legitimacy, and the most cost-efficient route is to comply blindly. This is not to say that ServerBeach is a good hosting company: I hope it's a good lesson for them: turning off such a large customer without getting on the phone with them is setting a precedent that is suicidal for their business.
How weird. I submitted this story this morning but it was instantly marked DEAD due to the source. shrugs
nitpick:
"The values are almost inconsequential since THEIR just numbers" should be either THEY ARE or THEY'RE
As with all things, community (i.e. network-effect) is what's most important.

e.g. craigslist
Because it's just imitation of www.matthew-epstein.com/land-a-job-at-google-journey and others.
I disagree, and so did the founders when they made two houses, one based on population and one based on states. I don't think the current electoral college is the right answer, but I don't think a pure populist vote is right, either.
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