skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this! We're still waiting on a few changes before we do anything with hosting the old docs, so thanks for helping out in the interim :).
I don't know of any external sources, but this was most definitely the case when I was there (left in 2009.)
Seconding WorkFlowy. I started using it a couple months ago and haven't turned back since. I showed it to my (not very technologically savvy) wife, and she loves it too. It's great for sharing the mobile interface is nice, and I like how simple it is.

(sorry if this sounds like an advertisement but it's great to actually have a to-do list manager that I actually like)
We have created a Social Web OS
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Can You Stop a Hurricane by Nuking It?
Well, good luck to them, both personally and in bringing it back soon.

I only wish Trello hadn't tried to reload on its own, so I could still see the screen before the shutdown. Now all I have is a blank page :(
Climate models get smarter, but uncertainty just won’t go away
How to get on the front page of Hacker News (in 7 lines of Python)
This confirms it for me. Matte black paint jobs on cars show questionable taste.
I know that Arizona is a huge place for DCs just because there aren't any natural disasters there.

There are a few of them out here in Utah that I know of, but none at the scale that they really could be. It would make a lot of sense to put some out here, I would think
Any thoughts on non-spaced language such as Japanese (which I am learning) and Chinese (which I speak)?
We're not doing freelance work, rather, we sell software. But we did wait until our sales were sustainable before deciding to travel.
If you're looking for a client side alternative checkout holder.js - http://imsky.github.com/holder/
Tablet interacts with magnets, how does that work?
Review: Windows 8 core apps OK for tablets, disappointing on desktops
I see. Thanks for the rationale :)
Agreed, I don't see the need for change, the incremental updates have gotten us to the point where iOS functions very well. If you're looking for innovative UI there are over 600,000 apps, many of them with amazing and novel UIs very well suited to the app's function.
"I use Emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor." -Neal Stephenson

"Don't get me wrong: Emacs is a great operating system–it lacks a good editor, though." -Unattributed
There's an open issue on that: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/5688
My first thought is that everyone affected is doing OK. I'm sure that everyone just wants their stuff working too, like electricity. :)

I do hope at a better time, Fogbugz can consider redundancy/failover that Stack Overflow enjoyed.
What it Means Today to be 'Connected'
We once had space in a datacenter in Arizona, but everyone else had the same idea. We had to move out and find a new datacenter when they were at capacity and we couldn't expand. While they were building a new facility, it was over a year away and our expansion needed to happen sooner. As a final point, the added space was already being pre-reserved at a premium, and we couldn't afford the new rates vs. other areas of the U.S.

At the time, physical location wasn't a big deal, but as the company grew, and the data center overhead did as well - it became cheaper to have the core data centers closer to our operations, where our staff could be utilized. Georedunancy ultimately ended up being used for DR and minimum required service availability during major issues.
> its all haskell ideas ported to python land under the covers :)

Well, that's not entirely true. It's based on many of the same ideas which underlie some of the good Haskell ideas, and have a natural expression in Haskell because it's a type algebra on index spaces.

An incomplete list of the inspirations: Paralation Lisp, Merrimac, APL / J / K, Manticore, FORTH, Chapel & ZPL (and VCODE), SISAL, OLAP & MDX, LINQ, various PGAS approaches, etc., etc.
Even though we've been acquired by Monotype (the company behind fonts.com), Typecast will continue to offer web fonts from a range of providers.

We think that designers should be able to experiment with the best type available on the web and that belief doesn't change now that we're part of a bigger company.
Do as Dropbox does, build a feature request forum so that customers have visibility on what is important to others and what is being worked on. Transparency is powerful this way. When a feature is declined by your team, describe why in that forum.
Depends on your mental model of "servers." People have different views of servers from "that nosiy hot thing under my desk" to multiple cages and dozens of racks with 1G, 10G, 40G fiber, rack switches, core switches, edge switches, terminal servers, database servers, application servers, monitoring servers, corporate boxes, .... All with various weights, accessibility, cable routing, and those damn three servers with stripped mounting screws that have been there for six years.

100 TB of high speed RAID-10 would fit in maybe 30 shoe boxes.

Then, after things are moved, you have to deal with drives that have jiggled loose, components that outright fail to work again, or things that get accidentally broken in transit.

Let's just declare an emergency federal holiday until Nov 2 so everybody can recover without dangerous heroic measures.
The “C” in VC Doesn’t Stand for Corporation – But Maybe it Should
Can someone explain to me how someone like Fog Creek would let an app like Trello go dark. Dont their carefully selected and perfectly screened engineers get paid gobs of money to prevent exactly this scenario from happening by having data centers in other locations replicate the one you have in your own house.
> For our cloud customers, we will also being shutting down the infrastructure at this time.

That bit made me chuckle.
I would tend to disagree with you jrock. Nearly all the models talked about this storm wrecking this type of havoc.
You might have good luck with the background removal techniques because your background is stationary. In our case the camera was stationary but the board constantly moved so that tactic was not very useful in our case.

Edit: also something to consider is using a kalman filter to help predict and smooth out noisy predictions. We did that and it helped considerably.
Clients who think like that will find a way anyway, process or no process. They are toxic and are to be avoided at all cost.
How small companies can compete with Amazon
Just found this ...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.servalproj...

http://www.servalproject.org/

I am unable to become an access point. I believe you need a rooted phone to do this. However, you can connect as a client on non-rooted phones.
MOOC Manifest Destiny
Why does Windows use backslashes for paths and Unix forward slashes?
I'm sorry, but these chaps have been around the block a few times, they're not new start-ups. They know that there is no way on earth you can guarantee (or even reasonably be sure that) a single datacenter won't fail, even under non-emergency conditions, so their customers (I'm not one) should be calling them out on why they said that all would be A-OK.

It would have been much better to say something like "We have put all reasonable preparations & precautions in place (see above), and we feel confident they will deal with most things the storm will throw at us. However please be aware that we have no fail-over datacenter available so please plan accordingly."
This reminds me of some PadMapper discussions on HN where people noted that scraping Craigslist for public data (addresses) was "against their TOS" so of course it's wrong. Well guess what, Craigslist's TOS is a browsewrap and completely unenforceable.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use

They even have the "we can change this at any time" part that is especially pathetic:

> CL may post changes to the TOU at any time, and any such changes will be applicable to all subsequent access to or use of craigslist.
Are you on a tourist visa? How are you managing to stay for 6 months?
How Flutter Hopes To Kill Gesture Control’s Point-And-Click Crutch
Ask HN: What PaaS do you use and why?
Hi. My app (written in node.js) is currently hosted on OpenShift, which is cool because of the git integration. However, I'd like to know about other PaaS services, like AppFog, Heroku, DotCloud, etc... There's not much online to compare services, and many of the articles that are there are outdated - so I'd like to know what services you use and how they compare...

What services do you use/recommend?
Huge pool fan here:
Put this in a mobile device that I can mount from any angle and record all my games anywhere - I would pay a lot more than $0.99 for it!
Edge detection algorithms are fairly slow and noisy from what I found. To do this in realtime you have to have fast algorithms or cut down on the information to process over.
The problem is that the existing spec is something one guy wrote up years ago, and there are edge cases that aren't handled. There is also a buggy implementation from the same guy, also from years ago, that sets behavior for those edge cases, but also does stuff that isn't in the spec. So if you want to write "MarkDown", do you write to the spec or to the implementation or what? And Gruber's response is "I'm happy with it as it is", which isn't even an answer to the question.
Why are they allowing the Twitter app to have a square background? At least force it into a circle background even with its own square background. I actually like the consistency of having every icon a circle no matter matter. It makes it look much cleaner than how Android icons look (all different shapes and sizes). I suggest they fully enforce the circle backgrounds.
It's a Mark Twain quote where Twain was making the point ironically.
That's a lot of retina.
1. The relevant part of the quoted CL language is, "CL may post changes to the TOU at any time, and any such changes will be applicable to all subsequent access to or use of craigslist." EDIT: The qualifier about subsequent use likely makes the language enforceable.

2. Browsewraps are not necessarily unenforceable; courts tend to focus on whether the user had sufficient notice that continued use would constitute agreement to a contract [1].

[1] http://www.oncontracts.com/browse-wrap-agreement-enforceabil...
No doubt. I'm was implying that the fraud was pervasive in all of the company's strata, that it was not the invention of your average low-level employee and manager.
"Unfortunately, this idea, which has been around in some form since the 1960s, wouldn't work." :-(
Last time I checked, Trello was a free app...
I don't understand your point. When a problem that needs ML materializes, someone uses it to solve said problem. When someone's working on games, firmware, operating systems and compilers, why would they need to come up with creative ways to use ML when they could be doing higher priority stuff (like actually producing a good game?)

Why is ML superior to (say) model checking, numerical analysis and compilers that everyone needs to be doing it?
Deep Inside a DNS Amplification DDoS Attack
The relationship between willingness to opine on a topic and knowledge of that topic:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2475
Apple CEO Tim Cook also cashed out all of his vested shares around the same time. Does that indicate a lack of faith in the company? No. When you have a ton of shares and the stock is at an all-time high, and you have even more shares vesting, it makes sense to sell. In fact, executives have very little say over when they can sell--as the ultimate insiders, they usually arrange to sell their stock months, if not years, in advance, by filing a plan under SEC Rule 10b5-1. These plans typically say "sell x shares whenever the stock goes above y". In this way, shares can be eventually sold, but not at the executive's discretion.
A better analogy: If Twitter had an API, and then had a spec for that API, and they didn't match, would it be out of line to call on Twitter to fix the API spec? And to put out a third-party spec if they didn't?
For those interested in tightly-coded procedural graphics, have a look here: http://pouet.net/top10.php?type=procedural+graphics&plat...
of Propaganda at it's ugliest.

Really? A rar file in an email? Iran?

Tell me more about this state sponsered RAR file please :)
> Does anyone have a link either to a slightly more leisurely exposition of the theory behind it, or perhaps a more user-focused summary of what kind of features and optimisations this new magic might enable?

No, but those will be forthcoming as we build out more of it. We are targeting an end-of-November preview release, as the slides indicate, and it will give people a much more concrete idea of the things Blaze can do.

> the idea is to use a fairly flexible and expressive metadata language under the hood to specify the physical memory layout of a multi-dimensional array

Yep, that's exactly right. The challenge is to constrain this is that it is not too general, i.e. enters into PhD research land, but still useful for a large number of use cases.

One of the core ideas is to more coherently represent the metadata about location, locality/compute affinity, and index spaces. Numpy has the beginnings of some of these ideas in its various flags and View object semantics, but it's all stuck in its very rigid, contiguous-memory origins.

> At which point does one decide that traversal is now excessively complicated and the thing should be copied into a flat layout.

This would be a great Master's research project. :-) The hope and the belief is that one can punt on resolving this in generality, and still solve a number of interesting, concrete problems in an efficient way.
Probably not, I'd like to know how many of them have Dropbox now :).

But at lest they can try to filter aggressively all the internet traffic (probably it is not possible to do right, and probably the people will complain because the filter block many innocent sites). It's (almost) impossible to put some guard at the door and force everyone to scan all the physical drives they have (and remember to scan the mp3, and smartphones, and ...).
They decide that the cost is not worth the benefit.

Excluding back-seat systems engineers on sites like this, I suspect that most of their customers will be a bit upset, but give them the benefit of the doubt and be glad to pay slightly less monthly (or nothing for Trello) and suffer a short outage.
Those are so NOT facts. You're such a bean counter. Civility is totally in the eye of the beholder. It's defined as politeness, which is a disgustingly relative concept.

Perhaps there is some gradation of civility, where you are holier than I am, but the question for HN is not who is the holiest, the question is where the threshold is, and what action to take.

My argument is that censorship is far more objectionable than the problem it supposedly solves.

Let's grant that you're more civil than I am. Does that make you RIGHT? Does that make you BETTER THAN ME? What is your payoff for that? Are you going to Heaven and I'm going to Hell?

pg asks people to be civil, therefore civility is more important than intellectual contribution, civility is more important than quality content? Civility becomes a higher value than the PURPOSE of the forum? No.

Civility is at best a 3rd order value. The primary value of the forum is interesting content, and lame ass Wikipedia editors DO NOT provide that.

I'll take 1 tptacek, who is passionate enough to tell complete idiots to STFU, rather than 100 perfectly civil but dry and worthless unoriginal pedants who quote the Bible and worship rule books.

"NEENER NEENER I'M MORE CIVIL THAN YOU!" Congratu-fucking-lations. That's really not much of an accomplishment is it?
Wasn't it previously released or quoted from Eric Schmidt that Apple terminated their Google Maps contract far ahead of schedule? Jobs said he would spend every dollar in the bank and his last breath going thermonuclear on Google/Android so the meme, as it were, didn't just appear out of thin air.
That's good to hear, and I appreciate the response.
Lessons learned after a month of freelancing full time
The scientific quest to find the lost Da Vinci
Science has found the lost Da Vinci..it's behind another fresco...Italian politics is preventing it being recovered.
1. This is great!
2. Does this bring an interesting/problematic angle to net neutrality? (Not really right?)
Secunia launches Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager 4.0
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It's not even clear what kind of prep you would do for a hurricane that ensures service will be available in a hurricane.
Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so High? 20 Possible Explanations
This result, although positive, may have much bigger drawback in the not-so-long term: this is a first blow to net neutrality.

First net neutrality is broken for obviously good sites: Wikipedia & Co. Then it is broken for obviously useful sites: Google, Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook. Then news sites. Then some sport sites. In the end new sites (let's call them competitors) will find themselves confined in the "for pay" area, unable to enjoy the growth of the other sites (let's call them incumbent) because they cannot afford the expensive fees that the carries will charge to move you to the "for free area".

I do not like this trend. I especially do not like Wikipedia and Africa being used as pilot cases for breaking the network neutrality.
France Stands By Threat To Write Law Forcing Google To Pay To Link To News Sites
Related to bookmarks...

I no longer use Firefox and have long since switched to Chrome, but in doing so my bookmarks have become effectively useless. What I mean by this is, in Firefox, one of the greatest (and probably underused) features was the ability to tag individual bookmarks instead of simply pushing them into a single folder.

This meant that, when I wanted to revisit a bookmark later on, I simply had to start typing in the tags (which I always made broad and diverse). By typing in more and more tags that I thought would likely relate to the article I wanted to reach, it would narrow it down. I never had to remember what the article was called, or where it was, or anything like that.

Now if this automatically happened while bookmarking? Some intelligent manner in which the page could be skimmed for keywords or something. Bookmarking and retrieval becomes much simpler...

Just wanted to throw that out as something to consider :)

(Now, one Chrome, I usually just leave tabs open or try to organize into folders and fail miserably :/ )
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That's the first thing I thought of too. Seems like there should be a new rule that your backup generator infrastructure should be on at least the second floor.
I realize what you are saying, I just dont think its is processing in my brain.

There are people who have died. There are possibly people who applied to YC already... who have been killed or ... No.

You may have the approach of you should of prepared.. and thats fine to have as your opinion, but I hope to god you aren't the person applying as your companies CEO.

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, memphis is a poor place for the most part but the people there will go out of their way to encumber you with hospitality. Now when New Orleans flooded, we didn't get the majority of people from Katrina, but we had a lot come our way, my high school classes swelled, and it was overall hard to see the faces every day of those who lost their homes, or friends, or family, but the point is, we went out of our way to do our duty as human.

This is the point where we all are given two options, we can realize that this natural disaster could have been (http://xkcd.com/1037/), perhaps an earthquake, lets say you and your friends were in an attic hiding away from a fire that was slowly moving its way up a stairs.

If you can honestly tell me that you would find falt in that sort of a situation with someone protecting their family instead of hitting a submit button, let me know.
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I don't know what Fogbugz costs, but they really should start charging for Trello now, esp. if they can use some of that revenue to add geo-redundancy.

Trello is fantastic, but now I'm worried that I'm too dependent on it and I should arrange an offline alternative.

Take my money, Fog Creek.
This is a great site with lots of interesting models, but I'm genuinely curious about how the Hacker News community is going to help you get into YC W13. What are you asking us to do? (I really don't mean to be snarky, I'm just not sure what you want here other than page views)
You can be right, and civil, at the same time. There's not a dichotomy here.
Trello is now down. We're simultaneously working on migrating to AWS, as well as physically moving the hardware as mentioned above.
Sure, the situation is not ideal. Trello is a boon to my productivity and has been a gift at being free. Spolsky has given so much to the community that I, personally, can tolerate this inconvenience to my workflow.
FWIW I agreed with you but downvoted because of the posting style.

The decision to avoid cross data center replication was probably a carefully considered one instead of amateurish. They probably have multiple layers of redundancy in their setup and decided that the cost and overhead of cross data centre replication was not justified.

In hindsight this doesn't seem like such a good decision, but I don't see how that makes someone an amateur or a fraud.
Yes, that's what I quoted... An agreement that is not displayed to the user and can change at anytime is not enforceable.
Really glad to hear this, but IMO, one of the greatest advantages of going JRuby is gaining access to the "Java way". TorqueBox, in particular, is interesting because it includes many of the ad hoc add-ons that Ruby devs source from various locations. There are environments where you really want a single-source stack, rather than pulling from multiple sources.
" Zurb isn't desperate for HN traffic or users"

Then why are you posting on a completely un-related post for Bootstrap, instead of letting it stand on it's own merits?
Joel is down, too.
I meant ordinary citizens, not emergency planners. Despite being told that they could be without power, many of my friends did not believe it. "How could Manhattan lose power?"
Data should be backed up to staging nightly anyway. There should also be scripts in place to start this process at an arbitrary point in time and to import the data into the staging server. You do not need to match the hardware if you use cloud hosting since you can scale up whenever you want.

Here's where it gets really simple. Resize the staging instance to match live. Put live into maintenance mode and begin the data transfer to staging (with a lot of cloud providers, step #1 and #2 can be done in parallel). As soon as it finishes copying, take live down, point the DNS records at staging and wait for a few minutes. Staging is now live, with all of live's data. Problem solved. Total downtime: hardly anything compared to not being prepared. Total dataloss: none.
That's what they're doing, and calling it rockdown.