skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@latchkey I think you are missing the point the MatthewPhillips is making. With GAE's DB there is nowhere to move, so if you want to move you would have to migrate your data to a different DB engine. If your hosting/cloud provider uses something standard like MySQL you can find another provider or roll your own if you decide to migrate out.
The backup script was written in a night, and the most complicated part about failover is remembering to sync data when the outage is over.
How Can We Make Middle School Less Awful?
I do wonder what the best form of compression would be and given there web pages if some form of customed compression that was optimised for HTML would be useful.

There again with that volume of data, what would CERN do for storage/access for a data pool that size and still be useable.

Reason being if you wanted to back that lot of up ship copies for research purposes then with todays technology the humble memory stick, even the biggest would fail to even handle the file index on this scale. Scary amount of data. But certainly a data set many would like to play with and try things out, being the geeks we are.
So, I originally signed up with a local bank, which takes 2-3 days (unfortunately). This is the same model that Paypal follows.

Since there is clearly a demand for buying bitcoins _quickly_, I believe Brian is providing both a good UX for those who want to just use their account / routing numbers, while also allowing people to get bitcoins in LESS THAN 10 MINUTES (I bought 1BTC today with coinbase / wells fargo).

I should note that Mint did the same thing in order to get access to transaction history, and they had 5 million registered users as of 2011 (source: http://qr.ae/8QB9G).

If the big banks addressed the need for APIs, startups like Mint and Coinbase could do this in a more sane way, but we're talking about big banks, and in the case of Wells Fargo they actually charge users a monthly fee for using Quicken to talk to their backend.

tl;dr- Mint asked users for bank passwords and got 5 million registrations. Likewise, Coinbase is just providing a "quick" ux path for the people who want to act quickly.
Submittable (YC S12) CEO Michael FitzGerald interviewed by Microsoft BizSpark
I don't know that there's been a court decision covering that specific case, so it might still be in a legal gray area. To me the decision in the Betamax case suggests that it would be legal. Others say the precedent doesn't apply because the Betamax case was looking at time-shifting, and space-shifting is different.

However, in any case avi to mpeg4 is not equivalent to DVD ripping from a legal standpoint. Because of the DMCA, US law makes a distinction between media that is encrypted for copyright protection purposes and media that is not encrypted. So since DVDs are CSS encrypted and AVIs aren't, the two are covered by somewhat different sets of law.
I understand what you mean. It is a social hack but given his situation (aka he is not head of state) I m not sure if there is much else he could have done.
The difference is that Instacart is software.
Ugh. The bezel is very, very ugly.
No, I don't think the case at hand says anything about that. What happened here is that the Copyright Office was asked specifically about DVD/BluRay ripping, and said "no". But that's all they said. The case of music ripping has some precendent, but not here.

Obviously an unprotected file has no "means to effectively control access", so copying it should be legal under the DMCA (it's the circumvention that's illegal, not the copying per se). But m4a files are usually DRM'd, so my guess would be that unless a separate determination is made it's still not kosher.
Your accomplishments & resume where super impressive, you've been featured in Forbes, Engadget and numerous other media publications. You've published awesome security papers, spoken at conferences, etc.

You definitely pass every possible measure of "quality", so we included in you in the auction to see whether any of the companies would be interested in your unique security skills. One company was, but they wanted you onsite in Silicon Valley.

Last time I checked though, your Developer Auction profile said you're in the New York City Area :)
Another interesting comparison would be with the Text::Markdown CPAN module which is Gruber's original code & comments converted to an OO interface with POD documentation added + bug fixes.

This comes (including blank lines, comments & POD) to 1739 loc - https://metacpan.org/source/BOBTFISH/Text-Markdown-1.000031/...
Ubuntu Core On The Nexus 7
Citi analyst fired for leaking info to Eric Eldon, editor of TechCrunch
Apple Posts Snide Apology to Samsung on U.K. Website
I doubt it's a coordinated effort. Most YC companies will fly to front page regardless of content because other YC founders (that obviously hang out on HN) want to see them succeed.

The net effect is the same but the motive is more noble. You could call it "home court advantage."

It's hard to be too upset by this. If I see a friend's startup on HN, I'm much more likely to upvote.
Webvan maintained inventory/warehouses. The modern equivalent is Amazon Fresh ( http://fresh.amazon.com/ ).
Instacart is more like an Exec/Taskrabbit model. Their inventory/warehouse is your local grocery store. They pay drivers to go grab stuff there and bring it to you. So not terribly different in value prop, but pretty wildly different in terms of business model.
I recently launched my project of the past two years: Gimbal, a 2D space shooter.

Gimbal is multiplayer because my best gaming experiences have been in multiplayer games. Multiplayer is a bit of a gamble because it requires a sturdy player base, but I think it is essential. My feature list was also ambitious (physics, custom UI, ship editor), but I just pushed my launch date back until I reached my goals. I'm very happy with the final product. Check it out! There is a free demo as well.
You're not blocking Hacker News in a shallow attempt to keep embarrassing information from supporters and punish those who disclose it.
Tumblr also seems to be affected by this outage.
I find it a somewhat interesting contrast between the video where the Kairos society is marketed with big goals like solving the world's problems (e.g., health care is mentioned) in innovative ways, but then the actual companies often seem much less, eh, ambitious.
pretty cool. A bunch of video tags like below:
<video id="video_1" width="770" height="600" poster="https://ksr-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/team_still_1_alt.jpg onended="this.play()" loop="loop" tabindex="0">
<source type="video/mp4" src="https://ksr-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/team_vid_1_alt_2.mp4>...;
<source type="video/webm" src="https://ksr-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/team_vid_1_alt_2.webm...;
You need an HTML5 capable browser to view this video.
</video>

Really excited for this to be commonplace and flash to disappear.
Maybe. Understanding metacognition and how best you, yourself, learn can have major strides in your own knowledge accumulation. Sometimes working harder at something isn't always the best solution. Sometimes the problem needs to be flipped on its head.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap12.html#1201

"No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."

The only exceptions to the above are the ones determined by the Librarian of Congress. Breaking DRM for any purpose is illegal unless the Librarian of Congress explicitly allows it.
Yes, some media players sound louder than others. I haven't verified, but I suspect that they achieve this by purposely increasing the gain and inducing clipping. That sounds dumb, but weak computer speakers can't compensate for low mastering. The proper thing would be to compress the dynamic range, but that's real work compared to just inducing some clipping. Play a song in iTunes at 100% and compare to VLC @ "33%".
I would much rather see a more mnemonic approach for links, where you would write either _click here_ [http://wherever.com] or _click here_ (http://wherever.com). The underscores look like an underline, which is the traditional appearance of link text in HTML. It's easy to remember. Whether the URL is in square brackets or parentheses (maybe either one would be acceptable as long as they are a matched pair) doesn't matter, but underlining the anchor text is the way to go, IMO.
> Have you never installed Chrome, Office or Photoshop?

You are either completely ignorant of smartphone technology or deliberately missing the point.

I just searched for weather on my iPhone. There are 4055 weather related apps to chose from. It isn't a problem. What's more, is that I know that all 4055 of those apps will in no way prevent me from using my phone 10 minutes after I install them.

> Why can't we have an app store AND allow side-loading?

Why can't we tackle people during a soccer game? Same shit.

I've chosen to play by Apple's rules as many others have. I could also have chosen to play by Google's rules. When I play soccer or hockey, I choose to play by those rules as well. It makes for an overall more enjoyable experience.

Just because I play a weekly soccer game and prefer you not to intrude with your revised soccer-rugby rules does not mean I will limit myself to never playing baseball, or that I don't appreciate your variation. It means that I'm perfectly content playing soccer.

I'm perfectly content with my app-store only iPhone, thank you very much. You as a developer - if you want to play this on this field - need to abide by the rules the rest of use are already playing by. Otherwise, go find your own piece of grass and play whatever game you want there.

When Apple starts forcing everyone to play soccer, come talk to me. If you want to play in the soccer tourney though, I expect you to play the right game.

>You're on the wrong side in the war

You know who says shit like this? Zealots. Unthinking, self righteous, dangerous zealots. Like the Taliban. Or the Tea Party.

My phone is a fucking phone! It's not a damn religious crusade. There is no war to fight. There is no freedom to lose. I'm not trading liberty for security when I play soccer anymore than I'm doing so by making a fucking phone call.
It deserves the Nobel Peace Prize as thoroughly as Barack Obama, and rather more than Henry Kissinger or Le Duc Tho. It deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature as thoroughly as any of a number of writers. (Pardon me for not supplying the list, but we can all think of two or three, and few lists would coincide.)
Well thanks, definitely appreciate the chance! And you're right -- I did say "Metro NYC Area", as I'm a fairly close by, despite being in the 'middle of nowhere' by my own standards haha.

Anyway, I'm really bullish on Developer Auction. It's the first innovative thing I've seen in recruiting in a long, long time. I think it's going to be a Big Deal (TM).
Mint asked for bank passwords, and had 5m registered users as of 2011. They sold for $170 million. I believe Coinbase is copying common UX patterns which have been proven to be palatable with users.
Just ran the same benchmark on Perl 5.12.3 (because it came installed by default on my machine), and got the same exponential-time matching behavior. If you have a more recent version of Perl than I do, I'd be interested in hearing the results. This takes about 10 seconds on my machine, but should be nigh-instantaneous if they've fixed the problem in a later version of Perl:

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" =~ /a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/
meta: This is the second time in several weeks that we've seen a virool post at the top of HN with loads of votes within just an hour of its posting. It sure isn't suspicious that a company based around viral marketing just happens to have excellent luck getting their HN posts in the top spot on the front page.

If all of their marketing tactics are this transparent, I don't think I would be very inclined to do business with them.
How many Paypal users do you think there are? How many of those also have given Paypal their account information?

(honestly would like to know)
Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files
google does something interesting when you use google.com to convert that number to say gigabytes by doing a search such as: 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes to gigabytes

the result is 9.31323e6

Notice the e... because it's in the same font your eye might miss it like mine and then you'd say to yourself... 10 gigabytes is so small who cares... but if you do the same search again but this time to petabytes you'll realize it was an 'e' in the gigabyte number...

So google says 8.88178 petabytes that's a lot
A result of the Apple lawsuit, I imagine.
> "Self-driving cars ... won't be materially different than having a good bus route."

By this definition a cell phone is not materially different than having a personal land-line available regardless of where you live, work, eat, play, etc. That seems like a fairly silly thing to say when you compare the two. One because it points out the absurdity of the notion of perfect coverage/perfect availability of a 'good bus route' and two because there's obviously much more you can do with a cell phone because it's everywhere, that not even a wired phone at every destination could achieve. (e.g. the entirety of pocket computing)

Similarly, you see no societal advance in bringing something only the very wealthy can afford (personal servants) to the middle class? (initially, and then trending down with commoditization)

That's nearly the definition of massive social change: making the quality of life of royalty affordable to the middle class.
"Ten Petabytes (10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of cultural material saved!"

Not quite 10 petabytes: (10 * 1024^5) > 10^16

edit: this is wrong, silly me.
Didn't work in Firefox, Safari, or Chrome on OSX 10.6.8.
My daughter's chemistry teacher had the class research this. Unfortunately, my daughter thought it was just "stupid nerd humor" and missed the point.
Because it is ridiculous.
Coin-operated lockers are commonplace in commuter stations - this is no different. Your argument seems like a problem specific to the UK, or other countries with such draconian laws.
It sure seems that way, doesn't it. That was brought up previously in one of the articles here about their model, and there was no response to questions about it.
Spirituality and Programming
Altairs, Altos and Ataris, oh my: Allen’s Living Computer Museum opens to public
> South Park episode ("Over Logging;" S12, E6)

Available online along with all the other South Park episodes on their official website: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s12e06-over-lo...
If he's presenting them with what looks to be evidence, then what's the problem? Hindsight is 20/20.
When I was living in North Carolina, I was reading 'The Mythical Man-Month' and decided to check the wiki page for Fred P. Brooks Jr. (the author). I was surprised to find that he actually worked for UNC Chapel Hill. I found a faculty email address and I was sitting in his living room the following week!
Thanks Rohan! Rdegges, hope to meet you at future events!
Get in touch with the accelerators in the hubs.

growlab.com - Vancouver
extremestartups.com - Toronto
founderfuel.com - Montreal

There are many others, but those are ones I can rattle off quick. They'll know the people with the need for your skills, in Canada.
The internet archive is a wonderful thing. I recovered much of my web site when my server burned in a fire, it was cheaper than the $2400 to try to pull it off the melted hard drives. It has also provided fodder for a ton of lawsuits, of the patent/IP/he-said vs she-said varieties.

Given the latter use, and subsequent 'retro-takedowns' that have occurred on the archive, I wonder if there is a market for 'a copy of the archive right now' which would be hard to retro-actively modify? And I wonder what the legal theory would be around having a tape archive of something that was 'clear' at the time you took it, but then later 'redacted'. Could you use your copy of the unredacted information?
Are you in the Norwalk-Greenwich-Stamford area by any chance? I moved there about a year ago. Really enjoy living there but the area feels like the middle of nowhere from the perspective of afterwork tech scene. I used to go to Manhattan to attend meetups but MetroNorth got really tiring. I've been thinking of starting a hacker space or a meetup but haven't figured out if there will be any interest.
Not if it removes DRM.
Politics has always been about arousing emotions with rhetoric, whether the medium is a speech, a newspaper column, a TV interview, a blog or a tweet. Social media simply democratizes the means of engagement, which lessens the impact of any given instance of manipulation.
How Basho Pulled Off Our First Developer Conference
Can anyone give a reasonable argument for why mail fraud carries a maximum sentence of 20 years? That seems ludicrous in the extreme. Why does mail fraud incur a greater penalty than rape, kidnapping, and most forms of murder?
So what about removing DRM from eBooks, etc.?
I wonder how effective this will be for developers who are still in school. I feel like a lot of success stories will come from people who can get jobs without it.
So you are saying it is illegal to transform a device that cannot play DVD into a device that can play DVD?

Again, you can have some buffering, but not too long as it would be circumvention.
As they say in chess... A bad plan is better than no plan at all
> "it's not clear to me how/if you are negating my claim for evens (and it's just a claim)."

I assumed, from context and stuff, that you had thought you had a proof of the Collatz conjecture, or at least a claim that seemed to prove it, or at least a claim that might be tweaked and extended and refined a little to produce a proof.

I aimed to show that all claims like yours were unsuitable for a proof of the Collatz conjecture, because either they could not be iterated or they could not show a decrease for all inputs.

If all you are saying is "If n is 4 mod 8, then four successive applications of f will produce (3/8)n + 1/2; this is an isolated mathematical fact interesting by itself", and don't believe it's a proof of the Collatz conjecture, then I have no complaint.

I've even written a few functions that will tell you what happens to n after k steps, given that n is x mod 2^m. Here is some output for anyone who is interested: http://pastebin.com/MjzahMFV

> "The fact that you can come up with strings that abitrarily begin with (or contain within them) these "worst case" alternations does not necessarily mean that it can cycle from it:"

Of course not. If I could produce a cycle that involved n getting bigger, then I would have disproved the Collatz conjecture. I wasn't attempting to do that, merely disproving a class of attempted proofs.
a manufacturer shouldn't be expected to provide any support whatsoever to something which the explicitly do not intend as a use.

Right, but no support is completely different from doing everything in your power to prevent it. If Jailbreaking is legal, there should be a “run arbitrary code & full access to file system” checkbox along with a “you are on your own, we won't support it” warning.

Since we are playing with crazy analogies here, the lawnmower manufacturer won't release a new model that makes it intentionally and artificially harder for you to switch the blades just so you don't cannibalize the sales of their hair trimmer.
Coinbase is neither Mint nor Paypal. We have no idea if they will survive 6 months, and we can't trust they don't store credentials on their servers, even though they say they do. Have they been security audited? Or do we just take a one-line comment on Hacker News as the truth?

If they reach a level of legitimacy, then maybe it might fly with some users. But I personally think it's way too premature to ask for usernames and passwords for banks, especially given how much fraud, hacking, security problems, and monetary loss associated with Bitcoin companies.
hipster.. overload..
When node switched to libuv it didn't degrade io performance on unix hosts; io in threads has been competitive with evented io. I don't think async io was even considered, but let me know if you dig up anything.
I was trying to name it using "Handbook" like my last book, but "The Web Application Design Handbook" was already taken.

I would love better ideas!
I'm in Monroe (not far from Trumbull). Moved from Manhattan 2 or 3 months ago, but I'm very much in the same place as you; I love it here, but it's a bit isolating. I don't know how close you are to NESIT (hackerspace up near Waterbury) but I've heard some good things about it from friends; planning on heading up there and giving a little talk soon. There's another hackerspace somewhere on the Eastern side of the state, but don't recall where.
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It's kind of cool and not slowing down too much my machine and what's best: they did not include sound !

Seriously I hate sound playing in my web browser, specially when it's ads :/
While I agree with your general feelings regarding this article, I would like to point out the difference between "not green" versus simply "resource intensive".

Brains are certainly resource intensive, but the benefits derived from those far out-weight the cost. You could say that as an investment wetware pays off. A different issue is if those are sustainable, but given that those have existed for thousands of millions of years across multiple species, we can say they are.

Human interactions have not been around for such a long time, but it can be argued that since human populations can survive (and have survived) for centuries within the restrictions of resources available to local ecosystems, those are potentially "green" too, though not necessarily to the scale we see in today's world. I will not try to discuss the benefits of human interaction or civilization, but I believe most of us will agree that it is so big that it will continue to exist for as long human beings have any amount of resources beyond the bare minimum for physical survival.

Computing is a tricky one though. I do not think that in its current form those are sustainable in the long term, regardless of the benefits that we may get from them. But it does not have to do so much with the per unit cost, but with the economies of scale and huge capital investment needed for semiconductor production to be cost effective. Even if operation cost keep dropping, the race to sustain the Moore's Law calls for even more expensive and environment unfriendly manufacturing processes to be relied on.

For me, this is the biggest flaw in the article. A call for manufacturing hoards of dissimilar purpose-specific chips would break the economies of scale needed to make the production of electronics viable (versus the energy consumption issue).

The qualifier here is that "computing" is an abstract capability, that in this day and age we happen to realize by the application of semiconductor technology. For the long term future, I hope that we will eventually move to a different, leaner and cleaner form of technology that will fulfill the same functions.
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I think by now we have more or less standarized on 10^15 as a Petabyte, as this is consistent with the SI system.
For the powers-of-2 based approach, the -bi- prefixes are now well established. So:

1 Petabyte = 10^15 Bytes

1 Pebibyte = 1024^5 Bytes = 2^50 Bytes.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte .

This way we no longer need to abuse/redefine the SI prefixes!

edit: definition of Petabyte corrected from 10^16
Ten petabytes is 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.
Ten pebibytes is 11,258,999,068,426,240 bytes.
So the article is correct.
Facebook is down in parts of the US and Canada
It looks like their page could still use some work.

http://puu.sh/1j15D
Dell's Ultrasharp monitors go on sale quite often. Here in Canada they have their top-of-the-line 27" monitor on sale for $899... and actually it was $750 a couple of days ago.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Monitors_Flat_Pa...