skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we assume that Amazon's service survives the next twenty years, I still don't see how we can reasonably expect to be able to read the files we stored there. File formats become obsolete all the time. If you don't maintain your data it is quite likely that it is useless independent of where you store it.
Apache Cloudstack v4.0.0 released
Amazon strongly implies that your data is stored triple redundantly. You'll have to buy more than one disk to get triple redundancy. Also, you'll need to "scrub" the data regularly to detect bit rot (100 bytes per TB are expected to go bad every year). And probably store the files with redundant coding to protect against this bit rot.

Plug: I am working on a startup (submitted to this YC round!) to solve this problem using user^Wcustomer-owned hardware for precisely the sort of reasons you describe. I am looking for co-founders. If anybody wants to talk, email is in my profile.

Plug #2: I wrote and submitted this article about Glacier yesterday but it sank fast: http://psranga.github.com/articles/possible-architecture-of-... Email me if you want to talk about going up against an 800 lb gorilla. :)
If you're scaling up production this is common. You invest a lot in the ability to produce something you can sell. It makes sense to have a loss while you ramp up. It's an investment.
This looks like one of those "sometimes it's better, sometimes it's not" features. If you're using the Django admin, then the many-to-many relationship would be preferable because it's a better way to manage lists. If you're not and you're just storing lists of simple data, then this might be better. YMMV.
Xbox Surface: Microsoft’s 7-inch gaming tablet
No, you posted the correct form. Mine would have a compile error.
Why Is the Surface So Bad?
They seem pretty unrelated, so I'd bet they're side projects of some kind.
It all depends on whether you take "make it look pretty" as an insult or just a simplified statement of what a front-end person does.

I, for one, read "make it look pretty" as "make it look like something people would want to use".
Not Voting Today? Your Excuse Sucks.
I have IPython. I want Light Table as well :)
That's about 50% gain. Unless he put in $1m that doesn't completely explain his ROI.
This was an informative story. Its great to learn how the tech community can make a difference on issues of real relevance.
Wow. This should really make it to the frontpage.
I'd love to see some discussion on this, but with several previous submissions, none has been forthcoming:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4734657

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4747851

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4747856

Or use TwISSt: https://twitter.com/twisst
That does send a message, but I haven't seen it being effective yet.

Over here, we have a very bad municipal government, so when elections came, with a bad officialist candidate that was called a "fridge" and divided opposition, over 15% voted "none".

So far, it hasn't had much of an effect (though the governing party has taken note of it, for the next elections).
Here are the resulting links to each of the three examples I showed:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/surface-disk-space-a-...

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/surface-disk-space-a-...

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/surface-disk-space-a-...

They are 100% identical, no?
This is a big deal, opening up the possibilities for more side channel attacks against VMs located on the same physical hardware sharing CPUs and memory...
I guess the real question is: what was your alpha in that timeframe?
I agree... and I'd be happy to see Tesla really bring innovation in automobile industry not just in electric car segment. But I also fear it being acquired by behemoths like GM or Toyota, that would just kill all the innovation.
How would you use CloudWatch to monitor MongoDB? Or do you mean that you can get statistics from the Amazon EC2 mongo instance(s) with Munin and a cloudwatch plugin?
Nokia’s race to the bottom is targeted at Android
I have some friends that have made a lot of money playing poker. The analogy is very good. But, in poker you have to be willing to deal with much bigger ups and downs than what I had to deal with. You can hit a bad streak and it can hurt - even if you are in fact a really skilled player and do in fact have an edge.

With my program I didn't really have bad streaks because my P&L was averaged out over thousands of trades per day.
You can't win. If you quote the title given, people complain. If you change it to something more accurate, the mods change it back, and then people complain anyway.
Will we ever have Iron Man exoskeletons?
Simple, funny machines like this are mesmerizing in their elegant performance and almost Unix-way determination of doing one thing, but doing it well.

The video also instantly reminds me of another guy having fun with little colored candies - the one that conducted M&Ms breeding experiments (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20...).
Ironically, svbtle has centrally controlled themes in an attempt to make each blog distinct.
I believe you mean 'sharding' not 'sharing':
"Unique indexes and sharing"

And

"Process Limits in Linux"
If you experience segfaults under load with MongoDB, you may find it’s beacuse of low or default open files / process limits
Diff Tool - As easy as it should be
I know exactly what you mean. It's like it want's to be born.
As is the case where the person you are replying to, where I live, a 17 years old is a minor. You claim to be living on another side of the planet ... then you should restrict to comment about things you know about on "your" side of the planet.
IOS6 App Store: What's the same & what changed
Reputation and details. The poster just joined youtube today. If this were fraud, wouldn't you tell friends, and wouldn't one of those friends already have a youtube account? Where was this? Why isn't that specific information included?
Student here, it's a mixture of filling my portfolio and trying out new technologies. If I limit my learning to the knowledge shared in class - I'd know next to nothing. Side projects give me the ability to perfect my craft, learning some awesome (fresh) technologies, and promote myself when searching for internships - which is coming up soon!
It is worth noting that the average HN reader should probably subscribe read-only. Unless you have your own AS and enable on routers, you should probably call your ISP with any issues. (though an unfortunate number of people disregard this advice, which results in smaller private splinter mailing lists sigh)
That calculator seems incorrect to me.

In particular the assumption that "Retrieval time is how long it takes Amazon to fulfull your request. Retrieval time has nothing to do with your download speed." seems to be the root cause.

Plugging in numbers from Amazon's worked example from https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_much_data_can_I_ret... gives different numbers than that web page.

My estimate for downloading 1 TB continuously for 1 MB/sec is a retrieval fee of approx $25 in addition to data transfer fees.
Find sample data: https://quantquote.com/
API (Colo): http://www.lightspeedinstitutional.com/automated-trading/
"Conspiracy" is loaded language that is generally used to marginalize.

Taken literally, just about everything a corporation does is a "conspiracy". In real world uses though the world conjures images of green men, truthers, bigfoot enthusiasts, etc.

Using more neutral terminology, what he is suggesting is that Microsoft has a business strategy with their App Store. Doesn't sound quite so outlandish when you put it like that, does it?
I don't know if this is the core issue in the article, but this is my take:

I think the real issue is Microsoft's horribly Apple-esque policy on Windows 8 RT: you can only install software from the app store.

The core worry is that this is going to transcend ARM in future releases. Given the unified branding--both products are called "Windows 8"--I think this is a very real worry.

Even if it doesn't transcend onto x86 and desktop Windows 8, it's still every bit as bad Apple's policy and should not be condoned even only on RT.
Isn't this a good thing since it is actually representative of the divided electorate? Most polling data seems to indicate a genuinely divided nation on key legislative issues.

Filibuster reform is not a constitutional crisis. If Senate Democrats refuse to tackle it when they hold the Upper chamber it's on them. Senator Jeff Merkley's gang of nine [0] seem enthusiastic about getting it done.

My hope is that states will begin to take proactive roles to fill the vacuum and it is one of my greatest aggravations the extent to which the federal judiciary has expanded the power and meaning of the commerce clause to cover basically everything in order to prevent states from taking action.

[0] http://bitly.com/U71kL4
But i feel Facebook plugin is still not very stable. Their JS SDK always had trouble with Chrome and Safari. Off late, Chrome has been stable but people still complain a lot about issues on Safari (iOS).
You can get those beneficial effects with trade secrets and NDAs, if _those_ are legally protected. All without a f*ing monopoly grant.
Got this error too. I think you need the 32bits version of `nss`.

EDIT 1: Also, lib32-gconf.

EDIT 2: Finally, you might need to create a link to /usr/lib32/libudev.so called `libudev.so.0`. My system (arch) provided the .1 version of it.
My guess is that over a billion dollars can buy you some pretty damn sophisticated marketing. What email campaigns have more on the line than these?
I can't imagine Valve want the extra work of maintaining a Linux distro. Even if it was just a rebranding, they'd still have to deal with thousands of bug reports about hardware and software problems.

There was a vague rumour that they might build a Linux-based games console. That sounds more plausible - by controlling the hardware, they could avoid a lot of problems, and if it doesn't look like a PC, people don't expect to be able to install Windows software. But moving to hardware would still be a significant change.
I agree. I am not sure where the video was taken. I bet this will be national news soon.
Imagine the power that this could have. Move On could use this to change several elections in a Day.
Sounds like a list of justifications for things that become side projects
Could Light Table, from the start, think about a "server mode"? Eclipse can be run in server mode (even headless if you want) and you can then connect to Eclipse using, say, vim + eclim or emacs + emacs-eclim.

This would be great because I don't doubt there are going to be features from Light Table that I'm going to love and that I'm going to want.

But I also don't doubt that there's no way that the "text editor" part of Light Table will come anywhere close to what vim and/or Emacs do provide.
That is a problem, but it's a problem that you have with "roll your own infrastructure" as well. Digital data isn't like paper -- archiving doesn't mean keeping tapes in a vault. You need to periodically refresh and check the integrity of the media.

Amazon's service gives you an expectation that 99.999999999% of your data will survive intact on average every year. So while you need to maintain your data logically, you can set clear expectations with respect to the integrity of that data.

The fact that Amazon's infrastructure may not be around in 20 years isn't especially relevant either -- neither will any maintained infrastructure. Tapes need to be refreshed, archival storage infrastructure usually ages out in a 8-12 years, and you need to do a TCO analysis each time to refresh.

The other thing is that you get physical isolation. Flooding hasn't been a problem in lower Manhattan or Staten Island in recent memory. How many safe deposit boxes do you think were destroyed in those two places recently?
[img] Facebook messes up the title
Non-designer here - I've never been able to get gradients right (the ones on the buttons, headers, etc). Is there a comprehensive guide to crafting this look?
While this does make sense if I abstract out what a BGP is, I wish I had a deeper knowledge of how the Internet works.

Does anyone know of a book that goes from the basics of networking up to how it's all assembled on a large scale?

A "big book of internet" if you will.
"please teach him something about database normalization"
I'm on the same boat. After dabbling in many programming languages, databases, various Linux and BSD distros, I made up my mind to be productive (solve problems) instead of to keep on learning and use my brain less.

These days I tend to be pragmatic and keep a set of tools: Java, JavaScript, and Python (may change to Ruby...), PostgreSQL, Linux (ubuntu, may switch to RH if I decided to pursue RH certification) and try to become extremely proficient in each of them.

I'd prefer to be full-stack as opposed to polyglot.
I got lucky to use this while it was in private beta - author is HN user webmonks. Would love to hear feedback on this.

I like this better than the way Twitter was integrated by Google on Search:

1. It is not inbetween search results. It doesn't distract esp since the plugin isn't smart right now to distinguish query as worth for "real time" results

2. It always gives the real time results. We had mild tremors couple of months ago and this would instantly confirm when I searched.

I don't like tweets from other languages crowd the results sometimes, but it is just as smart as twitter search :)
I agree Ideas is worth a try but would like to add there would be huge challenge in "Spam filter" for voice based comments.
The child process could be run inside a chroot jail, or a virtual machine.
Thats why many people have been archiving every advertised route going back to the mid-90's.

http://archive.routeviews.org/oix-route-views/
http://www.pch.net/resources/data.php?dir=/routing-tables (link appears to be temporarily broken)
Wikipedia enhanced with Augmented 3D models
Is this serious? How does stance actually have an effect on keypress recognition speed?
As much as I heart ArsTechnica, the actual research was posted here on HN when it came out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4705147

EDIT: post was to a cryptoanalyst's dissection of the research, as was pointed out in the comments. I'll take that over a journalist blogger, though!
It's a lot easier now. =)

TAOS had a contest to build an M&M sorter based on their integrated color sensor. The winning design was nice and simple (and a lot simpler than this Skittles machine)

http://candyaddict.com/blog/2005/12/02/how-to-make-an-mm-sor...
Learn new tools, learn the marketing aspect (side projects with no users seem less challenging for me), and make some profit.
If it were to happen today or in the near future, there would barely be any games for it, and nothing too interesting that would make people want to buy one. Only Valve's recent games would be ported to Linux while almost all third party games would not be port (look at Mac Steam's games).
Was there a big change in development direction, and a lot more capital is needed?
I feel the heart of this article is here:

For many designers, the process often feels like an effort to design an engine, wheel or windshield without really knowing in what kind of car these parts will need to be integrated.

If people are designing in sprints without a clear idea of what they are building then something has gone horribly wrong. I think Agile works best when you have a clear understanding of what you're trying to do. If a design strategy hasn't discovered this in Sprint 0 then I think there will be ongoing problems.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel that the whole nature of Agile is that at the end of a sprint you've got some self-contained feature working. I don't think their is anything in the agile philosophy saying that what you have in sprint n will continue to exist in spring n+10. Like code you may refactor as more information comes in. As designers we need to accept that when designing in Agile that what we do 2 weeks ago may not exist tomorrow.

I think as designers that's a hard thing to do because we don't like 'waste', we want to avoid re-work and we also like to design the best solution with ALL the information we can get, but doing so requires a lot of upfront thinking and is just taking us back to waterfall.
Intuit goes all out to escape the innovator's dilemma. Is it working?
Hacking mruby onto Heroku
What's your github account?
Side channel attacks always strike me as the coolest.

How practicable is this? You've got to be on the same physical machine for this to work. Is that easily engineered for, say, EC2? Even if you can't control whether on you're the same machine, is it possible to get any information on the VMs that you're sharing it with?
A few of answers match actually. I do it "for fun", "to earn some side income", "to try out some new technologies", "to learn sth new", "to have some projects in my portfolio".
I've tried the online tutorial, and it's surprising how quick I've noticed some muscle memory for the most frequent chords (for letters r, h, d, l).

I think they've found something with the "always use the same finger as in QWERTY, plus another one". I was skeptical that users could ever adapt to a new layout, but this isn't exactly that, so it has potential.

The best thing is that it doesn't interfere with the existing skill on the QWERTY keyboard.
I just finished a class in my CS graduate program where we used this book for part of the class. It was very interesting and has widened my perspective on languages quite a bit (including giving me a bit of a functional language interest). I've only done C/C++/Perl in the past so working with some of the languages in the book was a bit of a mind bending experience, but very rewarding. I may have to check out APL as well.
Silicon Valley Objects to Online Privacy Rule Proposals for Children
Sometimes I see other people's ideas and wish I had thought of that. Sometimes I'm just happy there exist people who love doing this kind of thing.
No. This is not. Not ONE gambling. It is thousands of thousands of gamblings with a consistent winning ratio. cannot be oversimplified to a symmetric chance of win or lose.
I'm really curious about the architecture and stack of lighttable. Please Chris if you could answer some questions it would be great.

How does it work internally?

What are the 'under the hood' differences between 0.2 and 0.1 and why?

Could you share some of those things learnt through all this time building this interactive platform?

How are you doing to get a cross platform desktop app with web tech? (I guess you still use cljs for it)

I'm really curious, and I wonder myself why nobody asks this kind of questions
Opera 12.10 launches with SPDY And WebSocket, Win 8 And OS X Improvements
When faced with a situation where software would make life easier: Creating for the sake of creation.
OK, thanks.

Look forward to your future announcements.
Facebook Native Authentication on Android
In fact, IPython has a notion of a kernel, a process speaking a documented protocol over ZeroMQ to execute code, provide tab completions, and so on. The way LightTable talks about 'starting a client' makes me wonder if it could use IPython to provide some of those features.
Seeing how tightly they control their GPU drivers for Linux, future Imagination "SoC's" probably won't be very compelling for Linux users.
This is very cool and something I am very much looking forward to. What's even great is that it is available in my country. Good things never are.
It is not practical to put an NDA on a mass marketed product.
Gamma Gallery: A Responsive Image Gallery Experiment
Getting Mac OS X to run on ARM is no big deal. I'm sure there are internal test systems doing this already.

Getting the entire ecosystem moved over is a very big deal. I don't see how an emulation approach can work this time, as the ARM chips would not be significantly faster than the chips they are replacing.
Same problem here.

Edit: Arch x86_64
Ie., if you made 500k in one period, but then lost 50k a year for the next 10 years, you've made a net profit of 0. All I know is that you had one good run, similar to how some mutual funds have a good run for a while.

How much did you spend before you "tuned" it? How much did you spend afterwards? What were the tax consequences of your trades? Did you make exactly 500k? Have you traded at all since then?

You mentioned that you occasionally "sat in" and took some large losing positions. Were these on purpose? Bugs? Was your exposure actually much higher than you thought? Was limiting contract size enough risk management?
This seems to be a simple case of poor calibration. These machines tend to sit in warehouses, only getting turned on a few times a year. This can lead to drift in the touchscreens that needs to be recalibrated. Poll workers aren't always trained on how to do this, or do it improperly.

The text with the video states that it wasn't a calibration issue, but they don't have any video evidence to back that up. I'd like some more evidence before we assume anything nefarious.
Relax with the vitriol. The guy is sharing an interesting personal story, not providing a step-by-step HOWTO or recommending people follow his suit. In fact, the article is really an ad for his startup Courseware.
+1.
To quote the article: " I realized the other day that the only time I actually open vim now is when I manage to hose my instance of Light Table. "

True vim users can't work without their muscle-memory, so there's gotta be a vim-mode for light table, right?
By that definition you could start claiming everything as blind luck. Why bother doing anything at all, let luck do the work.
Watching the video it seems that the keyboard is active as long as a text-entry widget is focused, so it works exactly like a visible virtual keyboard - although introducing a mode with no visual feedback may sometimes induce errors.
It's been my experience that activist mayors that do so (flaunt regulations & selectively adhere to the law) really are more interested in seeking higher office. Best mayors are ones that realize their job is to keep the streets safe, the garbage hauled, and the sewer working.

I do agree that county and state legislatures are much more effective places for real change if only our federal judiciary would quit hamstring their efforts.
ascendant, FYI looks like you're hellbanned
DreamHost, CloudSigma Among Cloud Hosting Providers Added to Linux Foundations
Suppose we stipulate that what you write is true. Does that good to society make up for the crippling costs and side effects of the very idea of ownership of ideas, and the current implementation of "intellectual property"?

Just as an example, a really tight "intellectual property" regime would have to have laws banning unapproved operating systems (to prevent copying) and laws banning unapproved encryption (to prevent transferring "IP"). Maybe the encryption would have official backdoor keys to allow for inspection of encrypted data. Possession of encrypted data would possibly become criminal, too. Then there's the money price of enforcement, which won't be trivial.

Is all that worth it so we can have a MIPS?
if you look in the file you'll see a Disallow entry for /product-reviews/B0069IY63Y.
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Sorry, failed to follow up on this. It does work well now.
This website can show you the schedule of the ISS and many other satellites ten days in advance: http://www.heavens-above.com
That is an interesting point. In fact, till last week, spam filter of facebook comment plugin was not very good. There were so many "ad based" posts on TechCrunch. But now they have fixed it which is good.

Spam filter for voice content will be an interesting thing and challenging too. I am not sure if how does youtube does it ?? It can be a new direction to think for "Spam masters" like Akismet.