skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I'm from Norway, and this story seems legit - although it hasn't (yet) blown up in dead tree media over here. I think it just might.

On a related note (unfortunately not an alternative to everything Amazon offers):

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/07/torforge-e-books-are-now-dr...
I suspect that Andy found it through the aforementioned "Best of Craigslist" and was not the woman looking for a boyfriend.
According to this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=1000

1000 points happened around a month ago as well, but before that there doesn't seem to be any, though I'd expect Steve Job's death to be much higher - perhaps it was hidden after a time?
5 Things Brands Shouldn’t Do on Facebook
Rongorongo from Easter Island seems to be either another example of this or an independent invention of writing. It is also undeciphered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo
Love, love the art on this.

You should host a playable demo on your site!
Samsung denies severing ties with Apple
HomeOS: An Operating System for Dwellings
Most of us have demands for a partner, even if you aren't consciously aware of them. Perhaps not this specific, but who knows? Try writing down the qualities of what your "perfect" mate would be and see what you end up with.

Of course, it's a completely different thing to do that as an exercise for yourself compared to actually publishing it on a social developer site, but to each their own I guess.
Can one simply upgrade from 2.4 -> 2.6? No data migration involved?

Side topic: It's pretty cool that you guys have dedicated pages for administration. http://redis.io/topics/admin
Why Microsoft Wants To Be Like Apple
The social pressure does exist, but the Christmas cake thing died down with the Showa era. Nowadays the average wedding age is closer to 30 than to 25.
Uhm. One thing I struggle a bit with when clicking through and answering the questions is to see what orientation (front/back/rotated(?)) the bones have, especially around the hips. Perhaps some cards at the beginning of the lower extremity to prime that aspect could be useful. My 2 cents. :)
Has a 'normal job market' ever existed outside of an ivory tower?
I'm guessing one Michael Murphy is polishing up the old resume right about now.
http://translate.google.no/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&j...

A comment from the Norwegian Government's "Consumer Council" - charged with protecting (private) consumer rights.
How Fusion-io "self heals" nand flash failures
I'm confused by one thing. I found this awesome jpg checked in on the GitLab Django demo project: http://demo.gitlabhq.com/uploads/note/attachment/2449/687474... Seems like everything else on the demo repo requires me to log in but I can access this file without authorization... Why is that?
Found it in the Django demo project attachments tab: http://demo.gitlabhq.com/django/files which requires login.

It's gloriously ironic! A photo mocking Rails security attached to a private repo... that's not secure.
I just checked facebook people search page does not show user's email address.

http://www.facebook.com/directory/people
"but that's not how Google's services have ever worked."

That's not totally true. A few services (Wallet, Account Activity) require you to re-authorize yourself.

It's unfortunate that most Google products request "Full Account Access" (along with specific services) -- especially as most third party apps request only what they need. See: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens?hl=en
Not a good article: 3 paragraphs in, I have a big question: "Why is everything about Tee Vee episodes so disjoint?"

For crying out loud, NPR, answer the super-obvious, elphant-in-the-room question. NBC Universal set up this stupid, byzantine arrangement on purpose. What was that purpose? Does this stupid, byzantine arrangement fulfill that purpose?

I expect more from NPR than mass media "he said/she said" dodging of any ethical implications of the actions they report on. Pin some blame, or let us know why this behavior emerges.
It would be great if they offered reddit a 1 year deal with guaranteed %99.9999 uptime or their money back. But then, I suppose hackers of the world just wouldn't stand down to that challenge.
That's like saying "don't think of a camel". My immediate reaction to your comment was to click on the link - which I otherwise wouldn't have. This is not a criticism, just an observation.
Coincidence -- I know the Block Storage team has been working very very hard on this product for a long time :-)
Wayland for other OSes can be paid for by users of those OSes.
Account norinori2222 on github has no public projects (except for test repos), no commits to any public projects, what is this, a joke?!
Creating new job opportunities
I'm wondering why the traditional OEMs would feel betrayed by new cloud services. I guess it fits the general "post-PC" theme.
Reminds me of the YC-funded Movity which was acquired a couple years ago by Trulia. Good work, guys!
Mono 3.0 debuts, casting a wider .NET
Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should upgrade from Windows 7
> We would like to conclude the post saying that it was not a marketing gimmick from our end. Being hackers ourselves, we just wanted to check if HN algo was vulnerable to such tricks.

Ok does anyone buy this?
It told me that the City and some parts of London south of the river were 20 minutes away from Highgate. While I have managed to drive from Highgate to Moorgate in seven minutes, it relied on every traffic light along the way being green, it being 7am on a public holiday and a loose regard to the posted speed limit. Any other time forty minutes would be more accurate.

Were you to take the existing road times and triple them, you'd like get a more realistic circle IMO.
The important thing to determine that isn't specified (but implied) in the article is whether or not random access is a hard requirement. If yes then it would probably be cheaper to go with a disk-based solution. From the sounds of the article the radio telescope array they mention faces largely archival problems and doesn't necessarily need random access to the data.
EU Said to Loosen Female Board Rule in Bid For Support
Where do i find the url? The page's html has only one url that looks like a video/stream but it is 404.

http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jun/12oibwefsvihbsdfvpihb...
The Founder's Workbook - Companion to The Startup Owner's Manual by Blank/Dorf
SlipScript: First Server-Side Scripting?
'iPad mini' Apple plans 12 configurations in two colors
All Microsoft Surface RT Models Are Now Sold Out
The NoSQL Movement: Document Databases
See also http://www.where-can-i-live.com
Openreach inherited the original infrastructure yes, it was built when it was owned by the UK government, then passed to BT, then Openreach (a BT subsidiary).

Openreach have since been responsible for the upkeep, and are rolling out fibre to the cabinet using largely BT's own money, rather than government funded.

As to their efficiency, well I'm not sure who else has as similar setup of firewalls between their retail business (BT selling to normal people and businesses), wholesale business (sells to ISPs and telcos), and network infrastructure (sells to BT wholesale and larger telcos), so it is a hard one to judge, but if they could do it with 5,000 people, I'm not sure why they wouldn't.

Over the years BT have got rid of an awful lot of staff, they're definitely more efficient now than they have been previously.
I wouldn't say that. Wired offered a good synopsis to what apprenticealf's site contains which is all a lot of people want, including me.
(Disclosure: I work for Rackspace in Cloud Block Storage)

Hey gtaylor, I can tell you that this was purely a coincidence. We actually were going to ship this a couple of weeks ago but decided to delay a few days to get some updates from OpenStack. I think what happen yesterday is unfortunate for all those customers who were affected and certainly not cause for celebration. We do believe however that we have a great block storage service to offer and are looking forward to competing.
Because a) it's the default, b) nobody remembers (or knows) to change it, and c) only folks like us even care.
As a tablet owner who had high expectations when buying one, I - to my dismay - found out that it's mostly useless. I mean, it's a great device for consuming news and playing games, but other than that it hardly has any practical / creative application that a PC wouldn't do better.

I understand that it's a new and young technology, but it hurts me to see that something that could be much more, goes in the direction of wasting people's time with games and apps that Do Only One Thing, But Do Them Poory. That's why what I would like to see is a debate about how to make tablets more practical; how those big, handheld, multitouch screens can be used for making the world a better place.
Web Tools to Show How Much Different College Majors Earn
No.

You need to have a unique ID set in the header. You can do this in calibre.

Specifically, a unique 4 byte character sequence at the 32 byte offset in the header (MOBI header). See: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/MOBI

If that's set (easy in calibre), you will sync across your devices.
I agree, normally in a research the size of sample should be proportional to the size of the population. The sample size of 33 doesn’t say anything while the size of population is a few million. Specially, when it is easy to access this population, this is not a research on a rare type of disease.
It add nothing other than exposing Apprentice Alf's blog posting to their large readership - which is more than nothing.
Gawker, Reddit, Free Speech
A new kind of fractal? Part 2
I understand y people might be annoyed with it.. but the point is we were trying this trick and if we actually were scammers i would continue doing that and generating traffic.
How the Big Data trend enhances HealthCare Innovation.
I'm not talking about employment. It is the 21st century for God's sake, and we have the internet. )) For example, USPTO can setup a review system in cooperation with the top tier schools. Students can serve their country while they are earning their degree.

The patent system can be made more reasonable if we address the problem of bogus patents issued by an overwhelmed USPTO. This would be a step in the right direction.

All that said, if tech heads aren't willing to serve their country, even for a one lousy year, they really should stop complaining about the broken services.
I have never seen a 486 running X11 at 1080p. Now days there are tons of layers of crap on top of X11.
I think the reason we haven't is many-fold:

- We all believe we're above average in our field, and unions would hold us back.

- We all know people who have skated by on incompetence, and wouldn't want a union to protect their jobs.

- Our field moves quickly, and we don't want a union that would hamper our ability to make quick moves.

- Union is a dirty word, especially when the mind disease of libertarianism is more prevalent among tech workers.

I think the easier way to solve this is for IT/computer workers to stop being paid salaries, and get paid hourly. If it weren't for a special exemption from congress that was passed in the 90s, we would be paid hourly as a matter of law. I know I've been treated MUCH better since I switched to consulting.

Employers value your time when they have to pay for those extra 2 hours of meetings each day, when they have you work a Saturday, or stay a couple hours late to push to the finish line. In addition, things like software efficiency upgrades where I can show 10 hour savings for 3 hours of cost are suddenly on the table, where on a salary you're not a "team player" if don't just put in the extra hours for free to save the company some bucks.
Definitely been waiting for this feature, was frustrating firing up a new instance every 300gb. We have 100+ instances in Rackspace and its been interesting to watch them over last couple years. They have had their own share of troubles of course but actually having support is huge when it happens.
The final statement in the article engages in a fallacy that all members in a job market have the same level of mobility without consideration of individual factors, such as:

* Potential age-bias for older workers ([1] is an example of the discussion related to this, without being exhaustive obviously)
* Local job market (relevant and equivalent positions)
* Physical mobility (family situation, value of house in market relative to mortgage for re-location)
* Spousal situation (Spouse may not be able to relocate)

It's always so easy to dismiss the workers in these cases and say "they should just leave," but this meme gets out-of-hand. The reality is it's often no easier to leave than to stay, and in some situations quite difficult to do so. This should never be used to excuse abusive practices by employers with the line "well, the market will take care of it."

[1] http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html
Unless they're doing dedicated disks per user (which they aren't, it seems) and dedicated networking, there's really no reason to think they'll do better than AWS, once there are a significant number of users on the system.

The idea of pooling large numbers of drives, dividing it up by space, and then sharing it over a network (IP or not) will never get you the kind of performance you get from dedicated locally-attached drives.

For server storage, it just makes more sense (IMHO) to have local disks with unquestionably reliable performance characteristics. The flexibility of EBS-type solutions is nice, but it comes at too high a cost.
The fluffy box thrown around in the audience is a microphone called Catchbox, developed by students at Aalto University. http://thecatchbox.com/

We had some problems with the Catchbox during the beginning of the talk (the sound didn't get through to the live stream) but it worked surprisingly well after that. I could hear myself chuckle when holding the box as I listened to the video afterwards.
Ask HN: Do startups still use JVM?
Are startups still using the Java platform? Keeping in mind the rise of Clojure and Scala, is the JVM the shiny new thing to keep an eye on for the future?
Apple to start live streaming their events
VC funds see a power law distribution of returns (including YC). This is unusually lopsided, and suggests several possible explanations. For example:

- All these startups compete in winner-take-all markets, where the luck factor would amplify enormously. This may be true for consumer web startups where people vote with their fingers, but it's hard to imagine how it would be true for all startups in every industry VCs invest.

- All VCs are really bad at identifying people who are really good. This is very doubtful, especially for YC. YC seems to be better than most at identifying very competent people.

- Luck is really a huge factor. So far, all the evidence I've seen suggests this is the more plausible explanation.
Continuuity: startup for big data cloud service
I'm not seeing it. What is the censor fail in line 66?
> You're redefining it to mean "physical things that aren't worth keeping".

Of course, because we're talking about reducing clutter from our lives. So by definition if something is not worth keeping, you should get rid of it.

> what's the name for the "stuff" that is worth keeping?

Sometimes I use the word "possessions", or more verbose, the things I own that I get great enjoyment from.

People seem to think this is all black and white - i.e. OMG, you need to get rid of your bed and toothbrush and soap otherwise you have too much "stuff". Move over into the grey area.
The Three Agile Use Cases: Where Do You Fit In?
This works only for entries that are in HN's memory cache. Older stories don't appear, unless somebody has read them soon.

For a full list of stories with high-scores you can consult HNSearch [1]

[1]: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&sortb...
If covering ass means saying something like "I predict <5% change of X happening" instead of saying it's not going to happen... why not. Maybe publishing more raw data for others instead of just a 2-word summary would be a good solution in general.
I suppose any 15 year old with programming skill can do this. Create an app (kill zombies!) and then when the popularity dies down, sell out your users info to the highest bidder.

Kinda sensationalist at the end - "DO YOU STILL FEEL SECURE?" Uh yeah, I do. I get hundreds of spam a day that Google puts into a little folder for me to erase. Go ahead and email me, and join that exclusive folder right away.

Oh you want to send me a private message on Facebook? Facebook is kind enough to put messages from non-friends in a special folder too, and I never check that.

I feel secure.
If I look at the sky and it's blue and I tell you that it's blue but you're convinced that it's yellow, should I compromise and agree henceforth to tell people that the sky is green or some shade of yellow?

If the cost of winning certain potential allies to your cause would amount to the complete subversion and hollowing out of your cause, maybe it's better to forge ahead without those allies. If your vision is correct, some of them may come around to the correct position, your position, as time goes on. Or maybe not.
Are you the dumb money in the Cloud?
When I sit down and write out a list of qualities I want in my perfect mate I find that I rarely deal in absolutes. And the absolutes are more of the negative kind like I wouldnt want my new spouse to be doing drugs or anything like that. I think the appropriate way is to apply fuzzy logic to the good attributes and average it out.

The thought that just because the mate watches an hour of tv a day instead of the required half hour she would never be interested is horrible to me. This kind of thinking would reduce the act of dating down to just meeting up for five minutes, filling out questionaires and comparing them.
Are you going to force people to join?
Brazil enacts new forest code
We're very excited to partner with Steve and Bob to release The Founder's Workbook. It's an interactive step-by-step guide to growing a successful startup following the approach that they wrote about in The Startup Owner's Manual. If you're familiar with Steve Blank and Bob Dorf, you know the quality of their content. Let me know if you have any questions.
The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company
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I think the answer to this question is "not". The "gamed" post was flagged and killed.
So when do we start slapping lawsuits on failing to predict floods and hurricanes?
What sites, out of curiosity? Obviously all the like-like (likesque) buttons would no longer function, but I don't care about those. I was wondering what valid use case there is for 3rd party cookies that actually benefits the user and not the service provider.
Actually, I think some of us are a bit surprised by this because Amazon mostly does have pretty good customer service. There have been tons of stories about Google pulling this kind of stunt, but far fewer about Amazon.
But it's a normal assumption on this kind of discussion to deal with employees of the same quality. You can always pay lower and get less.
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer era begins with a lift as firm posts 'solid' results
How to Know Which Are the Best Drain Cleaners?
It's reasonable to think that this will have similar performance to 'cloudfiles' as from what i've read it's pretty much just a block file on there.

their cloud servers already have locally attached storage, but it's limited, because they're not just going to chuck disks in servers at user demand. if you want that you need to go with a dedicated server.

I really see this product as being more for people who want to use something like cloudfiles but who's software can't deal with it.
I shudder to think of all the guys who will use this article as ammunition the next time their wives ask them to toss out the old cassette collection once and for all.

Seriously, though, I think that this is great news. If this really gains any traction this could represent a resurgence for some Japanese companies which hold patents on cassette tape technology. After the recent Fukushima debacle, they could certainly use it.
Congrats! I've been waiting on mine for a while now, looking forward to getting it! Also looking forward to commodity pricing on them after a while, the problem with having one device is that I already see needs for 5 or 6...
I removed a whole section from the site at the same time. Webmaster Tools shows the incoming links for every page in the section as other pages in that section. It's a whole loop of pages linking to each other and generating inbound links even though they all no longer exist and haven't for many months.
12? Is that really necessary? So much for Apple's simplicity.
Why does the article talk about lack of overtime as if it was a bad thing?
mruby - latest Ruby implementation from Matz
NuoDB, ParElastic Racing to Build Databases of the Future (and Next Oracle)
Good read. Are your blog posts weekly?
At least that is 18 months more recent, that should help a bit.
On a Mac I used to use Marco Polo to detect my location and it would change my symlinks to ~/.ssh/config. You can use Marco Polo to detect SSIDs or various other changes.
aka Consumption, consumption, consumption. I think this has been known to be the best use for tablets for awhile now. Not saying you can't create with a tablet but the cases where it is the best device for content creation are fairly few and far between IMO.

Not saying any of the above is bad. Most people do exactly the above on the web, consume content while contributing small bits here and there (a photo, a tweet, etc.) Hence the popularity of the tablet format.
Basically I was hoping to do a deep dive into one tech. Like I said, I've been already playing with the mentioned 3 tech but neither an expert nor know enough about them. By working on my side project I would like to see myself move into a promising tech that will help me stay in the job market. So if you were me, what would you do?
I find I'm actually more productive now that I have a wife and 2 kids. When I have an hour to work on writing a play, programming, or even playing video games I'm much more focused. When I had tons of free time I spent a lot more time getting a whole lot of nothing done.

Limited amounts of time can make you incredibly productive.
"3 terabytes" should be "3 petabytes".

ADDED. Withdrawn: see child comment.
Good.

Now, what is the recommanded layout of the node buffers (the 4MiB buffers). I've read about Packed Memory Arrays, but don't quite get the complete idea. Can we really do better than read, merge, write ?

(A pity there's no preview button on this forum...)
Wow I didn't actually know that. I started using Rails seriously around 2.3 so I always wondered why everyone was always using find(:first) instead of just first. I never even knew about #find_first!
In VLC, is it a simple network stream? Or RTP? UDP?

Here's the URL, by the way http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1210pibasdfvoihbadsv/a...
We're solving this problem at OpenRent [1], for rentals at least. All of our properties, if stated as live, are available to rent now. We can do this because we talk directly to landlords.

[1] Take a look: http://www.openrent.co.uk
The table of activities in the study confirms my worries about tablets: that they are primarily used for consumption. I'm noticing a trend amongst people (in general) to whom I speak with that they are no longer creating and instead consuming. This is akin to the mis-interpreted version of "Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out" [1] where your devices turn you into a zombie.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out
It surprises me that this doesn't count as "constructive dismissal".
The Myths with Alignment