skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of our current daily experiences are a blip in human history. I'm not concerned about how old the experience of relative anonymity in public spaces is. It's a good thing, that we should strive to keep.
OK, so they use "zones" (beefed up multi-user, which should have less overhead than virtualization) and a fork of OpenSolaris (interesting features, reputed to be very stable).

I wish they'd just say that, as it makes their "Faster than VM" claim seem a lot less wild.

Shared hosting is actually more efficient than VMs, but it got a bad rap due to massively oversold hosts.
30 Webdesign for october inspiration
From the paper linked elsewhere in this thread:

Note that network coding only masks random erasures, and allows
TCP to react to congestion; thus, when there are correlated losses,
TCP/NC also closes its window.

Sounds like they thought of that.
Thanks for idea!
I think the main argument for remote X is that it is so easy to use between 2 true X11 environments. You just `ssh -X` to your target and start running programs.

On Windows or OSX though... If you were going to install X11 why not skip it and just install VNC?
Red herring.

Besides, as far as I understand, Textdrive is in the process of being relaunched, honoring all the lifetime plans.
Paddy, thanks for asking me if I am "familiar with the basics" of a DHT. Just to be clear, I don't think DHTs are the same as messaging systems. But, they touch on a set of related issues.

My assertion was that "Just because software runs on multiple machines it does not mean that there is 'no SPoF'". You seem to have read this as saying "in all cases where there are multiple machines, there is always a SPoF". In any case, I was trying to make a more general point, which is that (A) lots of cases which seem to have no SPoF, in fact do have SPoFs, (B) some cases get accused of having a SPoF, but doing so is a mistake, and Rabbit is in this category because you can set up a number of multi-machine scenarios with the required redundancy, and (C) in many cases having a SPoF is not a problem anyway, and may even be a good thing.

You said "From what I can see in the docs, RabbitMQ is a client/server relationship. Meaning there is a server. Meaning a single point of failure and a bottleneck. I hate those..". With all due respect this represents a misunderstanding of Rabbit. Moreover you assert that 'there is a server' means that there is a 'single point of failure'. Because the conclusion does not follow from the premise, I assumed you must have meant something else.

Perhaps you could explain why you think your system has fewer 'bottlenecks' than RabbitMQ or other messaging systems. I don't think that it does but would love to be enlightened.

From your more recent comment, you seem to be saying that using a DHT is a good thing. Yes, I agree, sometimes this is the case. Are you familiar with how RabbitMQ does any of the following: clustering, HA, federation? You say that "Am I saying my solution is closer to what I want than RabbitMQ is? Yes. Yes I am.". I would love to understand this.
Sorry, It's an important distinction in an absolute sense, and not a matter of personal taste. He did not 'solve' it in the sense that 'all the great mathematicians ever' were trying to solve it, as the article and the clip make out.

Similarly, I am not ringing up the Clay Institute to claim my $1M prize for 'solving' Navier-Stokes because I've just run a toy computational-fluid-dynamics problem in OpenFoam.

There is nothing good to be gained from obfuscation and sensationalisation in the public understanding of science.
Good news for Android scrolling if this sticks. This is probably whats keeping Google from implementing the "glass tilt" effect from the stock 4.0/4.1 home screen system wide.
There is no way they can achieve that uptime claim, nor should they try to say they have 99.9999% aka "six nines". That's 31.5 seconds a year, and even a well-designed network is going to have that much at some level. I mean, the VPSes might be distributed across hardware, but a failure of some component might mean that it's still "up", but seriously degraded during the transition. How useful is that for "uptime"? It becomes a bragging right. How about if all routes to a large provider, like Level(3) are down for a reset period, or are re-routed through Cogent, which is maxed out on all peering with L3 at 99% packet loss levels? Is that really uptime? Sure, that's out of their control, but the situation with their own website being down for some people right now underscores that lofty claims are meant to be broken.

Now that they're beating that Joyent drum a little more: watch them fall down under a DoS attack that Amazon could bat away at this point. I'm by no means supporting Amazon, but Joyent is still a small company with big claims. I predict they will fall apart when Sun stops making hardware, and when their engineers argue over whatever trendy "wrong way to do it" Node-type technologies that they're jacking off over next.
It is more that these can be triggered by events in the timeline of the video.

I don't think the demo that Ryan gave necessarily helps to highlight scenarios where Popcorn would be helpful.

Imagine you are watching a 45 minute video of a presentation about some topic in 1 pane in a window, in others you could have:

- Another pane with the slides that the presenter is showing, in slideshare type format, so you can see them clearly. Changing automatically in time with the video.

- A 3rd pane with a list of sources for that slide, with clickable links where appropriate.

Now I can pause the video and look at the sources easily. I can see the slides clearly at all times. I can send people a link to a particular moment in the video, knowing they will have all this available to them also.

I could even introduce a 4th pane that allows people to comment on certain slides, so discussions can be centered around certain topics in the presentation.

My point is - the technology is cool, and opens up more options to us. Sure, some people will use it in poor ways, but I think other people could make some awesome stuff happen with this.
I think what people miss is the fact that many scientists considered a 16 year lull in warming as very unlikely. Not impossible, but unlikely. It doesn't mean they have it all wrong or that it's just a hoax, and says nothing about the long term trend, but it does mean that they have to probably evolve their models and predictions to cater for natural short term variability better.

I find it very entertaining these accusations of cherry picking data for a cause, and then get countered with a different shape of cherry picking. For example proving a trend by using only land based surface temperatures, or only the past 30 years, or only the Northern Hemisphere, or neglecting the warming periods over the past 2000 years, or excluding the uncertainties of past reconstructions. It's a highly polarised debate so there is a lot of bias on both sides of the argument.
You're right, they held a big conference to reassure people that everything is OK and they should remain in their houses. One week later the big one came and some of those who listened to the scientists died.

Not as outrageous as what the media is reporting, but probably more interesting from the point of view of a scientist's responsibility.
The Feature Matrix
It's not the right wing thing so much (though that is a factor), it's more their hypocritical social conservatism mixed with over-sexualisation of anything they can spin a coin from.
That would be fantastic, but the logisitics of it can be difficult to work out in advance.

You need to rent out the whole resort (or a good part of it to get the right atmosphere), and provide a little help with getting VISA entry to the appropriate country and the such.

Understand, that tourist VISAs may be denied because you're not strictly a tourist in this case but are going there to work for a month or two.
I couldn't agree with you more. I believe the ability to spot the error and bias in the one while being blind to that of the other is a good indicator of a person's own bias.
It's annoying that the two people that try to tell me that "Rails doesn't scale" are also Joyent customers. I tell them, "no, you can't scale Rails".
I do not remember buying a William Gibson: Neuromancer License

It clearly said William Gibson: Neuromancer -> Buy
Yes, FF took 50% of my CPU just by browsing this page.
Considering that you are naming a new company some of these points are not valid/applicable. Being memorable is not easy unless people can repeatedly bump on to you which requires that your keep it in the news/advertising or that people can find you through mental or google searches. If you choose an abstract name people are not likely to find you again through search. I believe it's important for the name or part of the name to contain something descriptive. Names like "apple" "stripe" "zynga" are completely random; it would be a bad idea to name your bookmarking app after a tree or a liquor. Now, 'paypal', that's a great name. In the end however, a name is just a name, and doesn't really matter that much.
(Mostly an edited repost of a comment I made in yesterday's discussion on the same topic.)

A blog post on Nature.com about a month ago explains better why they were
on trial, which is not the misprediction that an earthquake was
imminent:

The prosecution’s closing arguments [...] made it clear that
the scientists are not accused of failing to predict the
earthquake. “Even six-year old kids know that earthquakes can not be
predicted,” he said. “The goal of the meeting was very different:
the scientists were supposed to evaluate whether the seismic
sequence could be considered a precursor event, to assess what
damages had already happened at that point, to discuss how to
mitigate risks.” Picuti said the panel members did not fulfill these
commitments, and that their risk analysis was “flawed, inadequate,
negligent and deceptive”, resulting in wrong information being given
to citizens.

Source: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/09/porsecution-asks-for-fo...

If you can read Italian, there are a few online newspapers have comprehensive explanations about the trial matter:

[1]: http://www.giornalettismo.com/archives/548491/terremoto-laqu...

[2]: http://newrassegna.camera.it/chiosco_new/pagweb/getPDFartico...

[3]: http://www.cattivamaestra.it/2012/10/sentenza-processo-aquil...
> curl http://joyent.com/

curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

Doesn't look like an SSL issue...

Tracing the route to joyent.com (165.225.132.33)

[...]

8 * * *

9 65.125.14.38 [AS 209] 312 msec 316 msec 308 msec

10

command timed-out
Huh? There's no SSL on joyent.com. Their login form, however, has it, on a different domain: https://my.joyentcloud.com.

Not sure how this can be classified as "not configured correctly". It's HTTPS Everywhere who's incorrect there.
It's 2012 and you're still letting Flash run automatically on arbitrary web pages? Next you'll be telling me you still have the Java plugin enabled...
Because that is a very poor solution to most problems in the world.
Ah, so now we uncover the real problem- our legal system. I have to admit that that's a real shame.

I hope cheap diagnostics become common place over the next twenty years so at least some countries can start taking advantage of more information to improve patient outcomes.
My biggest take away was that, and I can't believe I didn't know this already, the Voyager probes relied on once-in-a-couple-centuries planetary alignments. I wonder how long until propulsion technologies make that irrelevant.
Heck! That’s around forty million ignorant bigots including myself! The Daily Mail has the second largest English language readership worldwide, a figure which must contribute to a pessimistic view of humanity for bien pesant like yourself.

You must read this rag pretty regularly to have such a commanding view of its misogynistic bigoted views though I am quite sure you avert your eyes from the soft porn pictures of women on beaches. I am not up to managing that, yet.

By the way, your powers of generalization are impressive. Any chance of a few links to the painstakingly gathered statistics that,no doubt overwhelmingly support your searing analysis.
No problem, I've only really become versed in these events recently myself after a trip to Chile. During the reign of Augusto Pinochet thousands of people were 'disappeared' - most were executed and buried in the desert, there's a decent bit of information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet#Suppression_of...

Nowadays relatives (mostly female) of those missing still systematically search the deserts of northern Chile for the remains of their loved ones. For anyone interested there's a film - Nostalgia for the Light (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1556190/) which examines the search of the families alongside the rather different 'searching' of the astronomers working in the same deserts. Personally I wasn't crazy on some aspects of the film, but it's a good insight into the ongoing work that victim's families are doing in the Atacama desert around the city of Calama.
Well, sure thing, noone can predict earthquakes. But the same is true for claiming that there won't be one.

Prior to the earthquake on April 6th, 2009, there have been several smaller ones. On March 30th, there was a quake with a magnitude of 4.1. People were really concerned that something was about to happen shortly. So the day after these scientists claimed, that there won't be an earthquake in the near future. This was surely to calm the public. However, they were wrong. And according to the court, they didn't make their point clear enough, that they are basically unable to make such predictions.

Although I don't follow the sentence, I somehow get the judge's point.

More info here [german]: http://podcast-mp3.dradio.de/podcast/2012/10/22/dlf_20121022...
If the upkeep is smaller than the cost of capital to the company, such an arrangement probably remains mutually beneficial. Given that the cost of computing resources was falling enormously and continues doing so, I can see why TextDrive expected this arrangement to be profitable for them. Note that pensions and annuities, arrangements with terms best described as "pay $X/month for as long as I live", exist.

(Of course, they pivoted out of the hosting business and found that supporting a one-off machine is an expensive headache. But it's not impossible for such an arrangement to work.)
That's an old version of this tool. The 1.0 version will be released at the Mozilla Festival in a month (http://mozillafestival.org), and they are currently doing QA: https://wiki.mozilla.org/PopcornMaker/QA
App is at https://popcorn.webmaker.org
Am I the only one finding the post a bit sexist as well? Since when are successful 9gag memes like "Overly attached girlfriend" pc?
The Problem With APIs and a Possible Solution
Ceefax: The early days
Which had a very different architecture than current smartphones or PCs. There was no OpenGL in 1990...
All I know is I get a time-out when connecting to joyent with https-everywhere running, and a normal webpage when it's disabled!
Mind you if they keep up with the kick-arse-- volunteer --coding then they are ok with me.
Try disabling https-everywhere for joyent.com. Worked for me!
> Specialists wrongly predict something

> Charge them for manslaughter

> Suddenly no one wants to be a specialist

> Don't get any predictions good or bad at all anymore
I'm pretty sure they have a decent idea of what's involved running a hosting company being as how they're a huge hosting company.

I think what they've done is great, they're appealing to the users by showing they are users and they'll probably get a crapload of traffic because of it whether they land Reddit or not. It's already landed them the #1 slot on HN, a site where AWS staff post AWS updates!
Another way to achieve a dense feature matrix is to expose an API that fully exposes every feature.
As much as I hate to admit it, the threat of a lawsuit seems to be helpful in keeping many people and corporations in line.
>Can you imagine future potential employees being able to type your name into a web page, getting an image of you, and then through the magic of facial recognition, seeing a long list of geo tagged photos of you going about your normal daily life? Who you associate with, where you go, etc.

Easily, but what do you propose to do about it?

Creating such a database will become easy and cheap; the technology is inevitable, and there will always be a large userbase who don't care much about privacy concerns; in the "worst" case a large company could hire a bunch of people to walk around taking pictures of everywhere.

You could make taking the pictures illegal, but I don't like the implications of that one bit. Making aggregating them illegal would be very difficult to police and wouldn't stop governments. It probably wouldn't stop large corporations either (they'd do the processing offshore or find some other way around it).

The way I see it there's no way to stop the big corporations getting this ability, so the best thing we can do is level the playing field.
They do not serve https for the site, what else are you expecting to see?
Ask HN: Is anyone working on an app for the Windows 8 Store?
Microsoft are sending me a lot of "Get ready for Windows 8" style mails. However, neither I nor any of the other developers I'm spoken to about this are working on anything (specifically) for Windows 8. Is anyone? Are there lots of you out there? Here's your chance to promote you up coming app!
They corrupted the Corruption Perceptions Index
During the second-to-last Amazon EBS outage (that affected our RDS instances, I started migrating our database over to Joyent. Before RDS was completely restored, I had a MySQL instance up and running and our production servers pointing to the new host via SSH tunneling. As far as pricing goes, they're competitive with EC2, but, you need to factor in the amount of time that it'll take to move off of Linux and onto Solaris/SmartOS (which isn't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things)...
Live streaming of Linus Torvalds's talk in 30 min
unrelated to the article, sorry for hijacking but I'm very curios why people like SparrowOS post things like that?

What do they have to gain from it?
Yes. But as an aside, it's a good thing she lives in Norway and will have easy access to the pirate bay to get her books back.
Show HN: My geekiest resume (responsive design + device orientation)
Why is this the top post?
They have a non-Flash tag cloud as well that it falls back to. But the larger question is why they need any tag cloud at all in 2012, they were fun for about 3 seconds and then they became just another tool for SEO.
If as a business you decide to offer a lifetime plan, it is assumed that you have accounted for the up-keep of the service. Joyent should be held responsible for not holding up their end of the deal.
Mozilla Sweet.js: Extending JavaScript with Macros
Financial planning for SaaS Startups
> The problem? Microsoft has your operating system, Google has your email, eBay has your stuff, PayPal has your money, Amazon has your books, Facebook has your social life, etc.
And they can yank all of that away.

There's an opportunity here to make an automated backup service for people who want to keep greedy bastards from stealing the stuff they care for.

How much someone would pay to have their emails, profiles, or content safe?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flashblock/gofhjkj...
Thanks for your view. It's more or less what I hear from everyone who doesn't like that I consider their favoured newspaper to be imperfect.

I do check it frequently, yes. I do note that it continues to be dross. The soft porn is exactly as expected; just enough to satisfy its target audience without having to cross the line into actual porn like The Sun or similar, enabling Mail readers to feel good about themselves. I don't avert my eyes from it. I like looking at attractive women, although when I want porn, I just go to the internet. Why the hell would I avert my eyes? The obscenities in the Mail are in the written text; not the pictures.

"Any chance of a few links to the painstakingly gathered statistics that,no doubt overwhelmingly support your searing analysis."
I think you're being facetious, so no, do your own research. There is lots and lots out there. Start with (the sadly no longer maintained) DailyMailWatch and go from there. What I've said isn't new. Please either say what you mean (which is at least something the Mail manages to do) or take your passive-aggressive nonsense somewhere else. You read the Mail? Then you know what I've said is true, unless actually you only read the mail and you just don't realise, in which case you've got a sample-size of one and anything you say about the subject is hopelessly ill-informed.
I guess their killer algorithm is going to be on determining the "relevant" picture to be kept in full resolution.
There's some interesting psychological research that suggests "random" photos taken at fixed intervals are better at triggering memories than posed photographs.
That was not the question - I am paying to have a small office to reduce my distractions, and allow focusing. I am just interested in how people manage the distractions, and with 100 tabs open I would presume that they are not all open regarding the same single task at hand.
Umm The blog post is down. If you can't handle traffic to a blogpost, I don't see how reddit would take your offer about "no downtime" seriously.
XPRA seems quite cool, and not that well known, but it occasionally gets mentioned when Wayland Remoting comes up

http://xpra.org/

"Screen for X"
But you can do that already:

setTimeout(displaySomeImage, offsetInVideoWhereImageIsMentioned);

video.on('pause', pauseTimeouts);

Give me a few weeks and I can build a rich JS video control which allows all that and more.

You can resize video elements, move them, respond to pausing, hovering. Control the video from the page, the page from the video. All in HTML5+JS.

There's also things like this:

http://taxi.ba.com/

(feel free to use my postcode NN26JP if you need a UK postcode)

Which I feel take video beyond the static - it takes streetview data and shows the plane literally taxiing down my street. Real time!

Or things like http://www.takethislollipop.com/
GitLab, open source github clone, reaches 3.0
Nothing new here. Digtal Fountain was using Tornado codes ten years ago to eliminate the need for retransmits to overcome TCP's crap retransmit logic [1], and at Orbital Data we patented numerous techniques to vastly improve retransmit performance while maintaining TCP wire format.

Most of all, the article implies that the system bandwidth is increased with these techniques. In fact, individual client bandwidth can be increased but the system bandwidth is unchanged.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.24....
The option to build a full stack with LBs, Databases, Webservers and everything else, without spending millions in hardware that is perhaps running on 50% of it's actual capacity.
There be treasure in Favorites, but nobody explores.

I favorite funny.
Git tips and tricks
Very nice. Only a small problem: The accordion items never 'close' in an animated way, such as sliding up.
Meanwhile, http://nodejs.org is down. http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/nodejs.org
I was expecting something more like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Golay_code