skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site is just listing the status of the few routers it is monitoring. It's not indicative of all traffic.

Do you really think all traffic in/out of MD goes through a single (2 if you count DC) router?

Put it another way, imagine you're monitoring traffic for SF by monitoring average speeds on the Northbound 280. One pile-up that blocks the road completely brings the average speed at that point to 0mph. Doesn't mean that every road in SF is blocked. Traffic will bail off the 280 and use other routes to get to their destinations (albeit slower and causing average speeds on the surround[ing] road network to drop too), but the one thing you are measuring (average speed on the Northbound 280) has dropped to 0.
How to communicate science visually
Yesware - Email For Salespeople
The memeification of the election has been pretty interesting. The biggest examples:

- "You didn't build that"

- "legitimate rape"

- "Big Bird"

- "binders full of women"

- "the 47%"

- "horses and bayonets"

There's a lot more context to all of these statements, but no one seems to care.
Your second paragraph reminds me of the fantastic South Park episode ("Over Logging;" S12, E6) where The Internet goes down across the entire US, and everyone tracks it to its source in a desperate attempt to fix it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_Logging
I think you mean low standards.
I remember about 10 years ago one of the UK connections to the US dying, which meat a big chunk of the Internet failed and how everyone was a bit puzzled. That was when the Internet using population was much lower, I wonder how an outage like that would affect people now.
Turing was extraordinary, but was he better than Einstein and von Neumann and Claude Shannon and Richard Feynman combined? Because at roughly the same era Turing would have been hatching England's Silicon Valley, Einstein, von Neumann, Shannon, Feynman and others like them were in New Jersey, along all the other smart guys at Princeton, combined with the booming US economy, all the defense spending, with AT&T, joined by Bell Labs, lasers, the transistor...

...And still Silicon Valley ended up in the orchards of California, not the New York suburbs of New Jersey.

Then there's that smelly hippy Steve Jobs, nobody's idea of a brilliant information theorist, who revolutionizes industry after industry. Without Wozniak, he would have done what? Founded Jamba Juice? Had an art gallery in Carmel? Who knows?

Sure, maybe a butterfly in Brazil can produce a hurricane in Florida, but speculating that a specific butterfly, even an unusually large one, might have produced a hurricane eventually is absurd.
Windows 8: The tablet review
Breaking the Code: Biography of Alan Turing (Derek Jacobi, BBC, 1996)
You're confusing 'better' with 'least resistance'. Lots of heads of state have met with the Russian president. They did much more work to get to their position, so this is not the path of least resistance. But they likely had a more productive dialog, and they didn't violate any cultural norms. As someone else pointed out, people can only get away with this as long as they're taking advantage of everyone who doesn't act this way. If everyone was blindly self-interested, nothing would be accomplished, and society would devolve. But a few self-interested people can leverage the normalcy of those around them to accomplish things easily.

I have to give him some respect for getting into YC, but based on everything I've seen, I'm not sure exactly what he 'gets done'. Mostly it seems like bragging and social hacking all the way down.
Your analogy of moving to another cloud provider is incorrect. Unless you've been 100% database agnostic, you can't just migrate your schema and data from say MySQL to Postgres.

With the datastore on GAE, you can get your data out of it and move it into something like MongoDB. I'd argue that it would probably be less code to move to MongoDB because the datastore has all sorts of esoteric issues that you have to code around (like the way that entity groups and transactions are handled).

In terms of the rest of your application, it is just a standard webapp in whatever platform you choose. The .war file I have for GAE will run just fine in Tomcat. The only real lockin is the way you store your data.
I found the answer here http://blog.aisle-zero.com/2012/08/what-price-convenience.ht...
The resiliency of the internet has nothing to do with the uptime of any service running at endpoints. The resiliency is about the resiliency of the network, a router goes down, there are paths around it, not necessarily paths to every endpoint hanging off it or the services they offer.
Thanks. It's often recommended to start at the Sequences (most of which I haven't read yet):
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences

Harry Potter & The Methods of Rationality:
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Methods_Of_Rationality_(fanfi...

Here's a good one on the ways in which LessWrong can improve:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/2po/selfimprovement_or_shiny_distrac...

But my 2 favorites are the ones I mentioned:
A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p1/a_failure_to_evaluate_returnonti...

Humans are not automatically strategic: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_str...

Particularly the latter. Digesting those 2 are probably responsible for most of the self-improvement gains I've made. I realized that mostly, we operate on autopilot. Now autopilot is great - when you're the one who programmed it. LessWrong is about programming your autopilot so you chart and stay on the correct course as a matter of course.

Also, it would be remiss of me not to mention OvercomingBias ( http://www.overcomingbias.com/ ).IIRC, LessWrong is something of a spinoff from OB
Is he? I don't see what else could the author be referring to. Sure some people are definitely just assholes, bad seeds and whatnot, but this are rare enough and it's hardly worth stating the obvious about what to do with them.

So we must be talking about the broader issue of simply disgruntled team members, who, as stated, probably have valid reasons these managers and businesses are just plain ignoring.

Mediocre, complacent and just plain bad employees are easy to keep happy and retain. It's the real talent you have to work hard if you want to earn their respect and trust.

That all said, the article isn't even remotely clear on the problem it's talking about, and realistically it really probably is just a "stating the obvious" post about a non-problem. The discussion on HN on the other hand has much more substance and I feel the grandparent comment is relevant in that context.
There's a huge difference between supplying an account number and giving a service the login credentials for your bank account.

As far as I can remember, PayPal has never asked me for my bank account login details.
This sounds like a textbook case of someone being raised to form a "fixed mindset" view of intelligence. Have you read any of Carol Dweck's research, like http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-... ?
Actually, you can use libspotify to extract the contents of playlists, which allows for a richer experience on a playlist site like this.
Java gets criticized for being unusable without IDEs.

C helps selling memory leaks tools, pointer misuse tracking tools and lint.

One was to thank the language deficiencies for the market opportunities they create.
Anonymous hacks 20 million accounts to promote Operation Jubilee
Apple increases App Store prices in Europe
Alan McGovern chose a compromise for MonoTorrent, using async io but processing all the results in a single thread.

The Evolution of MonoTorrent - FOSDEM 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhKpeqIy8o&t=10m10s

Simplified Threading API

http://monotorrent.blogspot.com/2008/10/monotorrent-050-good...
Cloud Recap 10/26 – Amazon Cloud Downed, Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, DevOps
Of course, but that doesn't mean the Chromebook isn't for developers. If you don't need JART or GPIO, the Chromebook is a much better choice.
It's a fair point, and I think you're right to be wary of new services.

We debated offering instant account verification for the reasons you mentioned, but we ultimately went with it for the following reasons:

- we don't store any bank credentials on our servers after the verification completes (or fails), and take care to filter it out of any logs etc

- it allows someone to verify an account and start buying bitcoin in just a few minutes instead of 2-3 days (lowers the hurdle to getting started)

- it's the default in the U.S. for services like Paypal so people are somewhat familiar with it

- for anyone who is uncomfortable with it, the challenge deposit verification is available to them (we make two small deposits to your account and ask you to verify the amounts, which take 2-3 days to arrive)

I think you're right that users should be wary of any site asking for such information, so it's up to each user to make their own decision. We at least wanted to provide it as an option given the above precautions. Anyway, even if you don't agree hopefully this better explains our thought process behind it. We'll continue to evaluate whether to keep it along with help from our lawyers, and I appreciate the feedback - really.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CROSSOVER-27Q-LED-27-Monitor-2560X14...

I'm writing this to you on one right now. I got the slightly more expensive version that swivels. 27" for $363 shipped. LG LCD panel (I opened it and confirmed). A number of dead pixels, but none in the center and they are only visible if you're 2" from the screen. At any reasonable distance, I can't make them out.

If you want an immaculate, brand name, warrantied monitor ... yeah, it's 1K. If you're willing to compromise on a few things, there are other options.

I imagine the disparity in availability has to do with the manufacturing technology. It's probably very difficult to make a zero-dead-pixel screen that is high resolution and very large.
Is it me, or does it seem like his combined stupidity and incompetence (two different things) is what caused him to not realise the shit he pulled of leaves a trace?

Take it from a non developer scumbag thief "wannatrepenur" to not have the God damn decency to read up on how email works before trying a stunt like this.
Uber under fire from regulators and competitors in Chicago
You're a startup, in search of a business model.

Don't let things like distract you. What matters here is building someone people and will pay for. Focus on that. Not about things like valuation, investment kits, and management fees (eww)
Well, don't use bitcoin then? The reason why there are so many services is because there is demand. Certain people will continue using bitcoin, no matter what (unless better alternative comes along). In the long run the more stable and secure services will survive.

And there has been some bitcoin services which have been pretty stable and solid all the time. They just don't get in to the news...
Software design has a very specific meaning to us programmers which is about the background architecture. It's a very confusing title.

Looks to be an excellent and interesting book though, I'm just doing the Human Computer Interaction course on coursera and I can see it being a nice addition to fleshing out some of the topics.
me too.

my profile http://victorantos.com/resume.aspx
And they've sent the all-clear:

At this point, we have stabilized service to App Engine applications. App Engine is now successfully serving at our normal daily traffic level, and we are closely monitoring the situation and working to prevent recurrence of this incident.

This morning around 7:30AM US/Pacific time, a large percentage of App Engine’s load balancing infrastructure began failing. As the system recovered, individual jobs became overloaded with backed-up traffic, resulting in cascading failures. Affected applications experienced increased latencies and error rates. Once we confirmed this cycle, we temporarily shut down all traffic and then slowly ramped it back up to avoid overloading the load balancing infrastructure as it recovered. This restored normal serving behavior for all applications.

We’ll be posting a more detailed analysis of this incident once we have fully investigated and analyzed the root cause.

Regards,

Christina Ilvento on behalf of the Google App Engine Team

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine-dow...
There's only three if you check the script out - Mac, .rpm and .deb. Is it really that hard to set up packages for three things? Depending on what's in there, it could also just be a node package.
It seems there is no spotify for linxus :(
Agreed, and thanks for bringing this up. I added a response below with some more info: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4703853
No, they did it in the hope that it would make him less prone to being compromised and giving away secrets to the enemy. That doesn't make it any less wrong, but to claim they were basically just a bunch of gay-haters is a bit silly.
I still need my developer token.. which I don't have yet (I applied. Waiting on approval). I'm also going to show number of subscribers, and number of tracks.
I was actually hoping that it would be a book about software design for web applications. Oh well..
Recruiting for telecommuting positions in general is a lot easier... it's getting talented people to show up in your office in the SF Bay Area or NYC that's usually the bigger challenge and where the greatest supply-demand imbalance lies, and that's the problem we're trying to tackle.
I'm trying to understand 78 Million in bids. Let's say 10 companies make a bid of 150K to the same single developer, then that is 1.5 Million in bids right?
any plans for expanding into Berkeley?
Found the info, interesting. Easy to think plain text is safe and forget about the parser.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001777.html

http://blog.reddit.com/2009/09/we-had-some-bugs-and-it-hurt-...
What? Did you read any of what was written? Point-by-point breakdown for you:

> You want a rapid development platform

No, we want low-maintenance infrastructure.

> that doubles as a production system

It is a production system. It does successfully serve many thousands of users for us every day. We've yet to have an outage that wasn't our own fault.

> and costs nothing to maintain

What? I specifically said we're willing to pay more not to have to spend as much time on infrastructure.

It's OK if you're too set in your ways to even attempt to level with alternative points of view, but at least try to read a little more thoroughly. And maybe admit that you're not willing to budge, so nobody wastes time trying to explain an alternative point of view.
Looks like Paypal will also asks for your bank username and password for instant verification and has the same fallback option of 2 Random deposits.

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2009/2/12...

PS: That or that blog's part of a great phishing scam.
Reminds me a book "Never Eat Alone" by Keith Ferrazzi.
Well, the company (Virool) is a company that makes your content go viral, so if this is true it's almost like credentials for their company... although shady...
Why Your Social Media Dashboard Doesn’t Have Google+ - What You Can Do About It
Not to gainsay everything you've written here, because I think that I think there's plenty of room in my universe for new regex engines, but the article is five years old and benchmarks Perl 5.8.7.

We are of course up to 5.16.1 these days, and I'd be more inclined to pay attention to benchmarks if they were performed with remotely current versions of the software.

Otherwise, thanks for the enlightening post.
Programming Scala - OFPS - O'Reilly Media
Samsung Nexus 10 with Android 4.2
Most consumer-hardware I know will have positive gain on the computer output (all built-in audio for my devices, the PCI cards with Ensoniq 1370 or 1371 I used earlier). On the other hand, a lot of the professional audio equipment I know have mixer-applications that has either 0dB as a maximum setting, or clearly labeled 0dB marks/buttons on the mixer application).

You can verify it easily by playing either a 0dB sine-wave mp3 (first google hit: http://www.dr-lex.be/software/testsounds.html) or trying to get a sine-wave test-tone generator. You'll hear the point where distortion kicks in pretty drastic as soon as you reach the clipping level. With a spectrum-analyzer (e.g. FrequenSee on Android) even slight clipping will be very visible (peaks at 3x, 5x, 7x, ... the base frequency will suddenly appear).
> Take the example of a guitarist. He turns his guitar up as high as he can, then the amp gain as high without distorting it. Then at the sound console. etc

Without distorting it? Are you sure you have some sound knowledge? That doesn't sound like you know many guitarists... ;)

qv. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gDsbOraiqg
I find it absolutely incredible that they are asking for online banking username, password and PIN number to "instantly verify" an account.

I'm not saying this company is a scam, but if I wanted to create an elaborate phishing scam, this is exactly the type of setup I would create.

Hopefully no one is stupid enough to give this key online banking information to this company or anyone else that asks for it.
you HAVE to be kidding me. http://addyosmani.github.com/todomvc/
Cloud-based operating systems?
I'm currently looking for a cloud-based operating system to install on my old laptop, but all of the ones I've found are either too expensive (like the ChromeBook by Google) or just aren't for me (like JoliCloud). Does anybody know of any other cloud-based operating systems so I can just boot up straight into a the web? Thanks.
I love the tiny black text on a dark gray background.
The reality distortion field is in the consumer’s brain
It's also the extremely limited use case. There's not that many I/O requests to a disk that you can do at a time while getting a performance speed-up. Having to use a thread pool ends up not being such a problem -- you don't really hurt your performance benchmarks. On the other hand, a system that talks on a network to thousands or millions of clients will benefit greatly from avoiding 4-8KB of stack overhead per connection.
I think Instacart is a fantastic concept / service but for me it doesn't come without some internal conflict. When I was in grad school and didn't have a car, it was a huge pain to go grocery shopping. I had to bike a mile to the nearest grocery store and I could only fit a few items in my backpack. On top of that, it would rain often (thank you Florida), making the whole experience absolutely miserable. I always wished there was some service that could do "maintenance shopping" for me and always deliver the weekly essentials. I thought the same about laundry as well.

Now that I have a job and live a few blocks from the nearest store and have a car, is it right to pay someone else to do my shopping for me? Am I really that lazy? Do I really value other's time less than my own? I have often pondered these questions ever since services like Taskrabbit started and I saw people (able-bodied 20-somethings) using TR to do things like screw new light bulbs in.

So I'm not saying services like this shouldn't exist, because there is clearly a need...but I worry about what it means for our culture.
Can you actually buy anything legitimate with BTC yet?

When I was last involved (2 years ago), the entire economy seemed to be an amusing dance between get rich quick miners / speculators and a relative handful of early adopters and pool operators siphoning cash off of the former.
Paypal doesn't have my bank account information either.
Windows 8 Launch Tracker - how quickly is Windows 8 adopted?
Generally speaking, the layperson's understanding of computers is that Bill Gates made Windows and Office, Steve Jobs made the iPhone, and artificial intelligence tries to pass the Turing Test.

I'm not saying that's a good thing, though; but using these as paths to entry, there are a wealth of rewards for the curious who begin their learning through searching Wikipedia for this Turing guy.
As long as "anyone" has a Gravatar account with an easy to guess email address. I don't think you'll get Medvev's or Clinton's email in this way...
While I agree that stronger is better (and thus someone founding a contracts bureau for this should use the latest/greatest hash), I'm not sure collisions are a real risk here, since my understanding is that a collision is going to include a lot of junk to make the collision work. So any collision-based forgery is going to include large instances of complete gobbledegook so that it'll be really obvious in court that there was tampering.
Get ready for the coming employment roller coaster
Yes. This allows you to have the "when any of these socket's state changes" semantics in your controller/dispatcher function. I would like it if they had such an interface in stdlib...

If you really do just need to take data from one Reader and send it to a Writer, you can make a new Pipe.
>why legally you're not supposed to phase shift or rip them even though you technically can

This is wrong, AFAIK. DMCA forbids manufacturing and distribution of anti-DRM tools, but not their use for personal copying.
I wonder about that too. As a firm with a reputation to guard, I assumed they had vetted their client to some degree, and relied heavily on what I assumed was their good judgment in trying to guess the future progress of the case. I wonder if they simply got $ signs in their eyes?
A million more pixels than the iPad 3/4, yet it wastes a bunch of them on those stupid on-screen virtual buttons instead of differentiating with real physical buttons. Also no micro SD, and it looks like more cheap plastic, just like the Nexus 7.

I really want to get on board with a modern Android tablet, but they're not making it easy.
I think half your problemwastgat you were selling something with a predictable market price of $0, and asking people to pay early. They woukd only pay if there's some huge, non- app based benefit for them, otherwise you'd wind up with tragedy of the commons (especially because normal people dont realize that apps take more than 2 weeks to make, and they see them as disposable).
> You shouldn't be putting your OS volume at 100%

Isn't that only true if you're using your sound card's analog output? If you're using a digital output, I would imagine you would want to keep it at 0dB (no gain and no attenuation). Am I right or am I missing something?
Cool! I shortened the link to http://bit.ly/hnkindle because I won't remember the full URL on my Kindle.
That might be because gamers aren't big on Macs, because they're expensive and difficult to upgrade. A lot of gamers prefer desktops, but the iMac isn't ugpradeable and the Mac Pro uses custom parts and hasn't received significant updates in recent years.
First hit for a AC97 codec: AC ’97 SoundMAX® Codec AD1981B has an analog mixer stage between ADC/DAC and analog input/outputs.

http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards/ml505/datasheets/87560...
Psychonauts? Sure, it's from an indie developer, but one with no history of Mac ports (actually, a history of being very Xbox-centric). When they got the publishing rights back, they made and released a Mac/Steam port (and then a Linux port).

And Steam has been pretty good at picking up pre-existing Mac ports, notably Civilization IV, Assassin's Creed 2, and several Star Wars games. I think Steam is also largely responsible for the Mac port of Civilization V being a first-class platform instead of the port being outsourced and late (though cross-platform multiplayer support took a while, and so did some of the DLC).
It is a certain hippie thing trying to get bitcoin accepted directly, but the exchanging process is getting better, faster and easier all the time so I don't know how much would it matter... If bitcoin is really easy to liquiditate to usable currencies, it doesn't matter that much if the purchase happens with bitcoin or with conversion process. (example: polish anonymous debit card)