skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just silly given how much of Amazon's documentation strongly encourages you to use multiple AZs and regions for reliability. I've included a sampling of their whitepapers below; this is also what their salespeople tell you and what you have to click past any time you provision an RDS instance, ELB, etc.

http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_Cloud_Best_Practices....

“Be a pessimist when designing architectures in the cloud”

http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_Web_Hosting_Best_Prac...
“As the AWS web hosting architecture diagram in this paper shows, we recommend that you deploy EC2 hosts across multiple Availability Zones to make your web application more fault-tolerant.”

http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_Operational_Checklist...

“We have deployed critical components of our applications across multiple availability zones, are appropriately replicating data between zones, and have tested how failure within these components affects application availability”
I kind of disagree. The entire point of Wayland is to remove deprecated, crufty stuff to make a new form of display server. Remoting (in its current form) was on the list of stuff to remove.

If you need remoting, for probably a fairly long way into the future, X11 will still be supported and you can use that. If you want the new shininess of Wayland, sorry, you have to live without remote capabilities.
The cookie preferences they mention for FF are no longer in the default list at about:config. I wonder if they've gotten rid of the limit altogether.
Yep, but most of them are third-party cookies. There is no good reason to use them and plenty of bad reasons.
And yet X11 works just fine (network transparency included) on my N900 with 256MB of RAM . . .
This is amazing. One of my persistent nuisances had been when and how to transition from command line to script. This makes it smooth!
Others have pointed out that they don't scale well, but if you mail a plaintext PDF to a special email address associated with your kindle, they'll reformat it for the kindle and deliver it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_p...
You could use it for phishing. It might make users more likely to click through and provide security information if you display their correct full name and even Facebook URL.
2 minutes if you checked the "multi-AZ" box on your RDS instances or ELBs.
Not buying eBooks from suppliers that infest them with DRM doesn't mean not buying eBooks. I love my Kobo reader with all my heart and it has massively increased my consumption of fiction. Just don't support and buy eBooks from suppliers that use DRM.

Baen Books is my favorite for science fiction. (www.baenebooks.com)
O'Reilly Media for technical books. (http://shop.oreilly.com/category/ebooks.do)
Calibre eBook store. (http://drmfree.calibre-ebook.com/)
Project Gutenberg for the classics. (http://www.gutenberg.org/)

There are quite a few more, but I don't want to link them because I haven't personally used them. I'm also hoping DRM-Free eBook bundles catch on (https://www.humblebundle.com/).

If there are books that I "desperately" want to read and can't find them in DRM-Free form, I visit the local library. If the library doesn't have it, I will buy a print version. As long as it isn't a technical reference manual I will use frequently, I then donate it to the library when I'm done with it.
Ask HN: Why is Heroku affected by single zone outages?
I would have thought they would be multi-zone, at least for app serving if not database services. Am I missing something?
I've never understood how DRM can be stripped from a mobi file. I've never been able to find the files when I looked on my ipod. (I think I've shown my lack of hacking on the ipod with this comment--eep!).
Duokan looks great. I had never heard of it. Thanks!
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Aaaaand of course now Samsung is refuting the termination claims. Once again; good times abound.
What Joyent forgot about was that by getting rid of the lifetime account holders (I was one) they were effectively silencing their greatest word of mouth sales. I would always recommend their services to others, and I would purchase many of their other products/services as they came out.

But by pulling out the rug under me[1], it left me distrustful of them. So let's assume that I got my money's worth, but what Joyent has now lost is the word of mouth. Even worse, instead of not telling people about Joyent, I actively turn them away from Joyent.

While Amazon goes down from time to time, at least I have less unknowns with them. With Joyent, I don't know how they are going to fuck me at the last minute when they decide to pivot for the umpteenth time.

[1] Not once, but thrice. First, they cancel the lifetime accounts, forcing me to quickly move to another provider (thank you GAFB and Heroku). Then they say I can get a refund for the service, which when I asked for it they first denied that they gave it out and then told me that the offer was rescinded because the Textdrive service was coming out. Third, they keep calling me telling me that I need to move, even though if they spent 2 seconds checking for account activity they would see that no domain routes to them anymore, nor is any data stored with them.
Well, if you employ yourself and you could collect unemployment insurance after laying yourself off, some would consider that gaming the system.
Recap of the "payroll restructuring":

http://www.informationweek.com/ibm-responds-to-overtime-laws...

Workers' petition, with names and an occasional email:

http://www.petitiononline.com/petitions/ibm1701/signatures

Short legal recap:

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/overtime_calif...
I usually get notes about design decision for my side projects during the day even when I'm in my daily job. Yes, I know that's not cool but my daily job is pretty much boring.

Offtopic: Pretty amazed about your wellhub project. How is it doing? Any sales? Actually I'm working on something similar and would like to extrapolate your experience to my case.
you could be interested in cravify.com too :)
Ha ha! Executives are dumb and also terrible people!

/sigh
Happened a long time ago, but my site (http://isitup.org :P) hit the front page of Reddit: http://imgur.com/a/UUY8d

Unfortunately I seem to have lost the bandwidth stats, but the load is the cool one. And my poor VPS didn't actually crash through all that.
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Yeah it is considered short-term and people are howling about how they are going to lose their benefits at January first, it used to be four years rather than two.
This is my thinking. The guys pursuing these patent cases typically are well aware that their patents are not non-obvious, and quite often aren't even novel. Lodsys is my typical whipping boy; if they weren't shocked that "click for upgrade" got through the patent office, it's only due to their familiarity with patent trolling. They should suffer damages for using a ridiculous patent in the first place, and they should pay the court costs for the defendants. I'd like there to be an "invalidation with prejudice" that would allow this, if the court decides that the patent is outrageously improper. I think that would both discourage trolling and encourage defending against obviously invalid patents. Otherwise, it's almost always better (economically) to suffer the extortion than to try and fight it.
You may not be a social Darwinist, but your ideas do suffer from the same weaknesses as anarcho-capitalism. See the above.
I have no iPhone, but this looks interesting.

How will they make money? I'm assuming they'll sell the iP app? How will they keep making money to make more blinks, when I've only bought the app once?
Why Technology Makes Us Fat: the Answer Isn't as Simple as You Think
As a new Nexus 7 owner my favourite tablet feature is: I can do my Android stuff without worrying about running my phone out of battery. Now if it only fit in my pocket...
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Most core dev of Gitlab are based on the Ukraine. But it is quickly getting more international on https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/graphs/contributors
(I'm @dosire, the founder of Gitlab.com)
Only 33 participants, I don't think that it is statistically significative.
That the choice between security and convenience can be made, in this situation, is a reason I value these combined services less than I value identical services provided from separate organizations.

If all of my eggs are in one basket, tradeoffs between security and convenience will be too tempting.
What constitutes "getting f..... lucky?" "Luck" happens when opportunity meets preparation. So, you can argue that pivoting is a quest for opportunity, whereas a solid team and ditto work-ethic makes up the preparation part.
Each item at TED is mainstream to people in the same field as the speaker, otherwise the speaker wouldn't be famous enough to get the organizers' attention.
> But considering everything, they had no other choice legally.

Patents are not Trademarks. Patents are valid and legal even if you don't enforce them (where trademarks become invalid if you don't enforce them).

So no, they did have a choice. In fact, they had 3:

1. They could have not gotten the patent at all. This could open them up to legal liability if someone else got it and sued them.

2. They could have kept it for defensive purposes only. Using it if they were sued for patent abuse (and to prevent others from suing on this idea).

3. They could use it offensively.

They chose #3. So yes, they did have a choice.

Additionally, I love your choice of words for the final sentence:

> What would've you done to protect ideas you spent years refining?

I think it hits the key point. They didn't invent the vast majority of what they are suing over. They just refined it. They didn't invent multi-touch, they just polished it. Now, whether that polish is worth a patent is one thing, but the concept is not.

And that's the absurdity of it all. This is not about protecting invention. This is not about protecting innovation. It's about protecting market position.

And if there's a clearer abuse of the patent system than this, I'd love to see it...
Thats not a backdoor its a front door
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It seems obvious the chart starts in September so the reader can compare like to like. If the chart had started in January but ended with the most recent available month (September) that would dishonestly bias an endpoint comparison since January is almost always colder than September. So the article text might be misleading - not a rare event with newspaper articles on technical subjects - but the chart is fine.
Wow, that's quite a list of demands.

Is this a more common thing with Japanese women, do they go into dating with a very specific set of criteria rather than "winging it" as western women would?

"Someone who plays at most only 1 hour of videogames a day, or at most only 30 minutes of TV."

Most good TV shows are at least an hour long per episode, I assume you have to split them over 2 days.
Apple's 'Rubber Banding' Patent Key to Samsung Lawsuit Preliminarily Invalidated
That's pretty much what happened if you were foolish enough to try and run a production system on ZFS back then, I think.
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There are heaps of blog posts on HN, digg, reddit, slashdot etc from overly excited dudes who can't wait to show us what a one day spike then decline back to nothing looks like in Google Analytics.
http://joyent.com/blog/network-storage-in-the-cloud-deliciou...
http://joyent.com/blog/on-cascading-failures-and-amazons-ela...
http://joyent.com/blog/magical-block-store-when-abstractions...
> So moral of the story?
The Amazon giveth, but the Amazon mostly taketh away.
The last stream I had to install QuickTime, though I believe VLC can play it by opening the source URL (check the HTML).
I think this is just how language sounds when crafted by committee.
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While I agree with you that no press is bad press, in the Internet realm you also have to be aware of keywords. HN comments right now are littered with none-to-flattering words for Joyent, which then get indexed by Bing/Google and can hurt the reputation for Joyent.

Worse yet, Joyent's PR may backfire and make them look like naive idiots for making claims they can't back up...especially when it comes to throwing rocks at the Amazon juggernaut.
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That's employee abuse, just like this article is talking about! You should quit and find a better job, the market always provides! (sarcasm).
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You're going to always have a better experience from Web Frameworks that officially support and have tested their stuff on Mono.
We've added special normalizing support to match the behaviour of IIS/ASP.NET where we can, e.g. imitate redirects + case-insensitive file paths, etc. This reduces the differences when porting your ASP.NET app across to run on Linux.

Now that it's open source and MVC is accepting patches, MVC3 might be more stable on Mono.
According to Google this is not an issue but rather it was specifically designed this way:

http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/drive/SpN5gNF33Ys/3N0N...
I've never experienced this with Amazon. Presumably it is a publisher problem, not a retailer problem. What publishers have you experienced this with?
This is a good outcome and something that should probably be enshrined in law: if you've purchased ebooks (or in fact any digital media) then you should absolutely have access to it regardless of the state of your account. The only time this shouldn't apply (IMHO) is when the payment itself is in question (eg you used a credit card that got reported stolen so any items bought on suspect transactions may be suspended pending investigation).

It shouldn't surprise me that some give credence to conspiracy theories but it does. Amazon panicked and reversed itself because a story about removing DRM was on the front page of HN? Seriously?

What you'll find with customer service departments is that what they do is largely prescribed by scripts. Call centers work like this (to the point of there being checking to see that people don't deviate from the script). They will have procedures that must be followed.

The Mark Fiore example [1] springs to mind. Some saw some global conspiracy. The more likely explanation is that the procedures defined for those approving apps just hadn't taken such a scenario into account when being written ie it was an oversight (a "mistake" as Steve Jobs called it).

We're all too willing to accept bugs in software. Procedures that humans need to follow--particularly if they need to follow them rigidly--have bugs too. The more discretion you give those following the procedures, the more you tend to just add inconsistency.

[1]: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/pulitzer-wi...

EDIT: to clarify, I think the original story getting as much of an audience as it did certainly helped and may well have been instrumental. It's kind of sad that that's the case. I was referring to some commenters putting forward theories about the DRM removal story being the catalyst for action here, which is ludicrous.
Nope, American comma. Now that you mention it, it seems high to me as well. I just figured out why:

That is cached or buffered reads.[0] The buffer appears to be a small amount of memory that sits on the HDD. In addition to housekeeping, it seems mostly useful for read-ahead, which seems like it helps a little bit when you are accessing the same part of the HDD repeatedly (i.e., usually). On my HDD it is 8 GB.

RAM is faster than cache though. My RAM has a peak transfer rate of 10666 MB/s (DDR3 1333). Stuff sits around in your RAM after being loaded until something else needs the space. So buffers help with initial loads from the HDD. But after that, RAM is king.

For sequential reads/writes to my actual disk, the speeds are 15,000 KB/s to 50,000 KB/s (faster for larger files).

So yeah. SSD still the way to go for any form-factor that can handle it. But it's nice to know that SD cards have gotten to the point where they rival and sometimes beat HDDs in terms of real-world performance. The range of possible applications for the Pi and its ilk just expanded in my mind.

Yay, learning!

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_buffer
I'm sure it wouldn't be unlike assessors for home value property tax. A bit trickier, but I'm sure it's doable.
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>If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
"mails, games, social networking,& search"

Isn't that what computers in general are mostly used for?
As difficult a time as EBS is having, it's good to see some other alternatives pop up. This will definitely put the pressure on the EBS team to clean up, if they weren't already under immense pressure to do so.

A word of caution, though: Rackspace is just getting into this ballgame of on-demand virtual block devices. There will probably be gaffes (though, hopefully not as bad as EBS of late), so, as per the virtualization commandments, build expecting failure.

Edit: Also, Rackspace had perfect timing for this announcement, the day after catastrophic EBS failure. Coincidence, or astute choice in launch dates? :)
I know what you mean, but I really don't want to call REST correctness a matter of opinion. The examples he just gave are well-established.
> "do they go into dating with a very specific set of criteria rather than "winging it" as western women would?"

I find many western women are quite specific also, and men too. Treating potential mates as a checklist instead of unique individuals seems to be a global problem.
All you lawyers: Is removing / tampering with Kindle DRM legal in this case? Considering we bought the material?
I've checked one of my pages and it's putting requests to my sub domain (static.example...) under third party.
Title of s nonensical but aggregated content images/videos are nifty.
White women make up such lists of demands too, I have read several. It is sort of funny and sort of self-directed/self-indulgent. If you don't like it, then obviously you should not apply for the position ;)
> That doesn't sound good. It seems that Wayland will have a hard time to replace X11 in the next decade. Currently I see no reason why I should switch.

The reason you will switch is that plain X11 goes unsupported and will not work on modern systems.

The initial thing you will switch is not Wayland proper, it's just X11 sitting on top of Wayland. Thinking of Wayland as a competing display server is as of now not really realistic -- it's much better to think it as a refactoring of the internals of the system that uses X and compositors, taking the parts of both that need privileges on the system and really fast communication and merging them together in Wayland, leaving the rest of the parts into X.
Welcome to Europe!

I'm also based in the UK. Cambridge to be exact. I commute by bike in any weather. English weather is actually quite tame.
Toronto Start Up Debuts Brain Controlled Computing Device
Technically that is a third party ;-)
Help me out: should I filter those?
Hello gigantic security backdoor!

This probably happens because Google Drive's windows service caches your credentials (or the special password you 2-factor users have to make for programs that can't do 2-factor), in order to authenticate and sync between cloud and desktop.

Clicking the link uses those cached creds to authenticate you and pass you to the website...then since you're already authenticated, clicking "Gmail" takes you to your inbox.

So maybe the credentials we give to Drive shouldn't have permissions to Gmail? Can we set the permissions for the 2-factor passwords we create? Why not?
Amazon have a policy of doing the same to any customer that returns more than a tiny number of physical items, as I recall.
How is it even possible to speed in DC traffic?
This is sort of like saying that RAM will be replaced by HDDs because HDDs are so much bigger. It's comparing apples to oranges. It's fascinating that tape drives are making a comeback, but to suggest that they can replace HDDs is just a fantasy

This quote:

The downside of tapes is that they are slower to access than hard discs because they have to be fetched by a robotic mechanism, inserted in a reader and spooled to the right point. But the Linear Tape File System, which is being developed, expedites this process to make it comparable to disc drives, Eleftheriou says.

indicates that the reporter did not understand what he was being told. LTFS offers an abstraction layer so that software can treat a tape drive like a hard drive. That makes programming easier, but it will not have any effect on performance. A file system cannot, after all, magically bestow random access unto a sequential access medium.

So if tape is to make a comeback in storing data for, say, the web (as implied by the article's opening paragraph, then it's still going to have a HDD based system in front of it as a cache. It would be an interesting future where viewing a post that hadn't been accessed in a few years took several minutes as you waited for that old data to be recached from tape.
My expectation has always been that if I loaded a book back onto the device after stripping the DRM, it would appear as a different book to the Kindle than the original. I doubt that highlighting and page synchronization will work.

So, yes, the main purpose of DRM stripping -- at least for me -- is as part of backing the books up into my Calibre collection. I don't bother to copy the stripped copies back onto my Kindle, there's just not any compelling reason to.
If I log out of my Google account I get logged out of the Google Drive client too, so I'm not sure there's a problem here.

[edit] Oh, wait. That's what happened the first time I tried, but the next log out worked exactly as described in the article.
True, though I didn't mean objectively short, just that there's a distinction between the part of the welfare system that addresses long-term social problems (homeless, chronically unemployed, etc.), which is the regular state welfare system, and the decentralized, privately administered system with a time limit that's intended to smooth over finite periods of unemployment.

There's a hard to quantify cultural element to the difference, which I think is part of what makes it work reasonably well, at least in many cases. The a-kasse project a fairly positive image, of job-finding assistance for people temporarily out of work. People are both assumed to be finding a job in good faith (at least initially), and are encouraged to view the chance of getting one as likely (perhaps with assistance or upskilling). So it doesn't have the same aura of charity/leecher/etc. or dead-endness that Americans tend to associate with welfare (and which even many Danes associate with the "regular" welfare system, e.g. people receiving Kontanthjælp).

There's even some hope that it'll produce a sort of win-win, viewing unemployed people who aren't long-term unemployed as untapped resources that can be used to solve various labor shortages in Denmark. Part of the a-kasse's job is monitoring their sector for what kinds of skills are needed, developing relationships with companies, and figuring out how to plug their unemployed members (perhaps after training) into unfilled needs of those companies.
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Direct link https://github.com/norinori2222/boyfriend_require/blob/maste...
First time I saw this, I actually thought this was a repost of the gay guy on github who had a list of requirements for a boyfriend so I didn't read it.

Normally women keep this sort of list as a secret hidden agenda which we're meant to guess. Nice to see some transparency. ;-)
Reminds me of the Application to be my Boyfriend from Best of Craigslist (2009)

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/vic/1396835868.html