skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow!

You are the first Westerner I've read or come across that has noticed this! Most of them seem to think things like blocking internet sites matter??? To the Chinese... I don't think it does.

There also seems to be this conspiracy thinking going on as well. Chinese people see conspiracies EVERYWHERE. If an article like that is in the NY Times...

Then, to the Chinese mind... It must be the US Government "trying to keep China down."

Seriously. Whenever I'm in Ningbo these days, I just avoid talking about anything remotely political... it is an exercise in frustration.

Sigh...

I suppose we have a Tin Foil Hat crowd over here as well. However, even though in the States I will concede that that crowd is growing, I don't think it is as big percentage wise as in China.
The iPhone 5 has a different battery, so who cares about that particular comparison. The issue is 4G vs. 3G on the same device, or similar devices. It's not like the 4s battery length is a golden standard where having more is pointless.
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There are other deserving scientists and thinkers, it's true. But there are no other scientists or thinkers that were as grievously and unapologetically wronged by the UK as Turing was. For all he did to help them win what was literally a fight for their existence, they should've put him on the ten pound note in 1946 amid celebration, instead of vacillating about it in 2012.
Agreed. I think the set of people who read HN from China and do not have a VPN account would probably consist of just this one person.
The Chinese government is unlikely to deny claims about sensitive personal issues like this. This is especially the case if the public sentiment (both inside and outside of China) is considered. When people expect something to be true, denials can be perceived as lies and they will make things worse (for the parties being accused). The worse part is, more people will know it and more people will believe in the article.
WYSIWYG always means either 1. proprietary file format and/or 2. Shitty code generation.

Neither works very well with version control or scenarios where you need compatibility between different system.

Plain text ALWAYS works.
> The Bank of England has been including historic characters on its notes since 1970.

The use of the word "characters" here seems comical to me. It makes me think of Dennis the Menace, James Bond, etc.
Except that Java isn't gone and the hackathon being plugged is for Groovy, not Java, projects.
Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi sentenced in tax case
They can arrest people whenever they want with "loopholes" like these, and yet they can't seem to do a damn thing about any of the bankers who helped bring down the economy. Yeah, I just don't buy that.
Traffic over my TW Telecom and Charter links look fine in my data center. I live in southern California.
We had once built a PhoneGap app for WP7 (alongside Android and iOS); the trouble was we didn't have a proper WP device, and the WP emulator has issues with VMware (it makes heavy use of the GPU IIRC). Native apps looked somewhat fine, but (whatever MS calls) WebViews wouldn't render. We ended up shipping it to the store without ever knowing if it even worked or not (faking screenshots via IE); and somehow it got accepted.

(Making this even sillier, Nokia had emailed us right before it got approved asking if we could make a proper Metro app for WP, not being aware of the PhoneGap app. They overnighted us a phone and I cranked out the app over four days, never having used the proper SDK before. Given the circumstances, it turned out pretty sharp. MS knows how to make good tools, I'll give them that.)
If you got hit by a Google Algo update... where do you go?
One of my websites (a forum) that we do no black-hat stuff on got hit by one of the recent Google algo updates. I can't figure out why. It's a forum full of great information, a thriving community.

Can't think of a reason why Google would penalize it. I've done the resubmission form and Google responds back saying no MANUAL action has been taken on the site... so I can only assume all the traffic was pulled because of some algo issue.

I don't know who to contact, I'm at wits end. Anyone know what I can do?

For the record, the site in question is: nexustablets.net
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Use of well established standards. For example BNF or railroad diagrams can cover a majority of a language specificaton without using English.
A MBP 13" is $1199. Just checked the Dell store and an Inspiron 13z is $699. Way to go Apple.
Hacked together a quick script for downloading the videos for viewing offline (requires rtmpdump):

http://pastebin.com/AxZCgcsF
It is also not like Alan Turing would be filling the "only slot" of being honored on currency. Other deserving scientists have been / will be on bills.
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In the software. Noise early in the signal chain counts for more than noise later. If you can get noise-free gain by changing a scalar value in a register, it'd be a mistake to turn it down in favor of increasing the gain in an analog stage later on.

For the case where an analog potentiometer immediately follows the DAC, of course, there's no practical difference.
What about the view on 24 hr packet loss pct?

http://www.internetpulse.net/Main.aspx?Period=RH24

I have no idea what those numbers should look like?
SANS is still green:

https://isc.sans.edu/
Java is open source by the completely literal meaning of this word, but it is not in the spirit of open source, i.e. it is not free software (as was recently demonstrated by Oracle's lawsuit).
And here is the individual advisory for Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1618-1/ . Debian's advisory (DSA-2566-1) has not propagated to http://security.debian.org/ yet.
Yep. Stand proud with the silent majority who've decided that a feel-good media popularity contest is not a reason to go out of their way.
> Can you specifically give me examples of why using a cloud provider is better for a startup than, for example, using a couple desktops in your garage?

For us (a small three-man team), the full portfolio of AWS services lets us shove responsibility for some of our infrastructure off to Amazon, which saves us loads of time (EC2, ELB, S3, CloudFront, SQS, Route53, SES, and some light DynamoDB in our case). Even with their repeat EBS issues, we've engineered around the common failure points, and do so with a tiny number of self-managed VMs relative to our traffic. Even if we were to go down every few months, our hosted services do better than a one-man devops team could ever do on his own in his garage, or even in a co-lo. Though AWS is not expensive, we gladly pay up in order to focus on our own software. Sure beats hiring another person, in our case.

The common counter-argument is that if we managed it ourselves, that we'd have the ability to resolve outages on our own, because it'd be our responsibility. That is just the thing, we don't want it to be our responsibility, we've got one ops guy (me), and we need to be iterating on our product fast at this point. We'll instead plan for failure, design our architecture to continue operating under some degree of failure, and keep shipping.

Not to say that the "cloud" is a silver bullet. It's not. However, especially from the developer point of view, it lets our entire (tiny) team stay more focused on product development.

Addendum: I've managed servers in my basement, in co-lo, and in the "cloud". Each of these routes is more (or less) appropriate in various cases, but AWS has been a boon to our particular usage case.
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Scrolling is a pain on the Kindle's experimental browser so I made (yet another) hacker news interface that uses back/next buttons instead of scrolling. Just something I did so I won't be bored on a friday night :p (shoutout to api.ihackernews.com - thanks!)

See it here:
http://toniobox.dreamhosters.com/hnkindle/
So glad someone posted this here. Ricky is an awesome guy! Just met and befriended him at TwilioCON. This is the presentation he did there. It was great. :)
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Yeah, they said their uplink provider. I recently moved my personal "blog" over to tumblr and noticed it was down today.
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Is it at all possible to crowd fund iPhone apps (that are not games)? I'd love to know more about your crowd funding experiences and your take on what we did wrong.
This may be related to the NYT article about China's political elite. A basic tit-for-tat to say "don't think that posting things in the US about us is without consequences".

Of course, they couldn't possibly be that dumb as to make a massive DDoS in retaliation. snicker
A parser should not be an interactive application.
Hong Kong's awesome. Love the food, love the people, love the incredible cityscape, love everything :)

I heard that Beijing's trying to phase out the Cantonese language in Hong Kong. Has it been enforced?
(A pedant writes:) The unknown soldier is in Westminster Abbey. There's nobody in the Cenotaph, by definition (a cenotaph is an empty tomb).
Markdown is fantastic as a first draft of something, when you want to focus almost solely on content.

For subsequent revisions, it makes far less difference to me what format the text is in.

(edit: for that reason any deficiencies in Markdown don't bother me)
Exactly, -dbg packages only contain the debug symbols. This is to ensure that the actual library package is quite small while allowing people to install debug symbols if needed, without compiling from source.
Honoring famous scientists on currency is hardly anything new. I see no problem with this.
That's not true at all. Not only are westerners rather proprietary about their freedoms, but most of the more politically engaged people I know read AlJazeera.

One of the most conservative people I know, a PoliSci major, gets a large portion of his news from AlJ. If you took that away from him he'd hoist the black flag and start slitting throats the next morning.
Agile helps because you say yes to everything, but you give people a timeline.

For example:

Sure, Mr./Ms. Project Manager this can work in offline mode, but that story is worth 46368 points. At the current rate of 50 points a week, it will take the team approximately 18.6 years to complete. Do you really want us to start working on it, or should we think of another way to make this work?
This is internet traffic report, which has been in existence like forever.
The Germans referred to a Schwerpunkt (focal point and also known as Schwerpunktprinzip or concentration principle) in the planning of operations; it was a center of gravity or point of maximum effort, where a decisive action could be achieved. Ground, mechanised and tactical air forces were concentrated at this point of maximum effort whenever possible. By local success at the Schwerpunkt, a small force achieved a breakthrough and gained advantages by fighting in the enemy's rear. It is summarized by Guderian as “Klotzen, nicht kleckern!” (literally "boulders, not blots" and means "act powerfully, not superficially"). [1]

For a product prototype, the initial primary goal is "get it online so that we can start validating our assumptions". System administration skills and in-house server administration teams are valuable but not necessary.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg#Schwerpunkt
Is that your sincere opinion or are you being sarcastic?
Have you used the google webmaster tools? Any clues there?
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While your cynicism is understandable, people need to be educated in order to make informed decisions, otherwise voting becomes pointless; that is a basic tenet of Democracy.
I would hope he would have fun with it, like try to use bills with himself as photo identification.
Then they could go down the road to the local coffee shop/home/mobile network and browse the internet, unblocked. No?

They have options. I'm not sure the Chinese population have (such an easy) option to get around it.
Yes, that is the question to ask!

What bothered me most about this essay was one point near the end:
"Ask yourself, 'Am I being grumpy right now?'. If the answer is yes, then stop!"

This is a non-realistic response to an issue of moral with a real underlying cause. What bothers me most about this is that it will only cause further issues with the developer as they cover the problems with the group they are working with. Their proposed solution is what someone would say to someone suffering from depression, 'Just stop being unhappy and cheer up!'.

This does not work, what they suggest will not work and will only further the decline of morale, company culture, and retention of developers. Grumpiness is a symptom of underlying causes within a company.
You are such an acute observer, sir. This is the most accurate description about the matter by someone not Chinese I ever read. For that you have my respect.
Wow! Thanks for replying. I have already been down-voted once for what I posted and was beginning to think my comment was a huge mistake.

As hackers we get trained to look at details. So I was hoping others on "Hacker News" would understand where I was coming from. It's not about right or wrong. It's not about ego. I just thought I could help.
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Yeah, the cloud is much more accessible "for everyone" than this chip. If you want to learn parallel programming rent a GPU instance.
It's funny because the students at the competitive schools work their ass off for the entire semester/ quarter to learn this material. If you use the weakest possible definition for "learn," then you can claim you have learned anything you want. But that doesn't mean your skill will be comparable to someone who spent 3-5 months practicing non-stop.
Of censorship, sure.
Freemind looking OK on Ubuntu 12.10 with stock Unity desktop. I've just downloaded freeplane 1.2.20 from freeplane.org as the version in Ubuntu repos is 1.1.3. Looks nice with useful additions to the mind map. Seems to run OK with the same java and libraries as were installed for freemind.

Do you have other java based software installed? Does that look ok?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/freemind

Ubuntu repos show freemind depending on openjdk (or Oracle) and that has a font package shown as a dependency.
I think you're absolutely right and it's not the first time and I'm sure it will not be the last time that a very verbose post (read well structured with references and mentioning technical terms) gets much more credit than it deserves.

It would be nice to have some statistics about the number of lines of a reply on SO or HN and the amount of 'upvotes'. I think a lot of people would be surprised...
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Yes, it is a stretch, and that stretch actually has a well-established name: strawman.
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I play all the games that the cool kids play, I just play them a year later. I'm in no rush.
Ok, first, I have to say that I never expected to see "The interwebs are borked" become a national thing. Every where I've worked, at some point folks would start wandering around saying "the internet is down" which was code for "help us, we can't use the web" and various folks would then figure out what their particular issue was, then that problem migrated to my home when we got always on 24/7 internet, something that started out "why would I use that?" has become like oxygen "ZOMG I can't get to the webz!" and here we have an interesting variant on it that a transit monitoring service notes a lot of disruption. Clearly whom ever is currently the current CIO of the US [1] is not doing their job :-)

That said, there are no doubt folks on the other side of those down links with calls in to three or four NOCs, a couple of trouble tickets being escalated, and people driving out to non-nondescript buildings near railroad tracks and in industrial areas carrying weird looking devices which can measure the intensity of laser light and do time-domain reflectometry (TDR) measurements. We can only wait and see what they discover. If we were playing the Ops edition of the game Clue I'd guess "Colonel Mustard with a Backhoe in New Jersey" :-)

[1] http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2011/nr11-124.h...
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Looks like its no longer blocked in China... http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=www.ny...
Other posts here are making the point that the range in digital controls often includes some dB gain by the time you get to MAX. That digital boost can be very useful when using a laptop with barely audible speakers. I like how VLC makes it explicit with a volume control that goes up to 200%. It would be nice if OS level volume knobs worked the same way so you could always chose your level of distortion vs gain.
Yes, and no clues whatsoever. We did turn off the Off-Topic section from being visible to guests, so that triggered a bunch of Soft 404 errors which I've now added to robots.txt -- we did this to try and clean up any perception of the site having low quality content. Though, honestly, I think the off-topic stuff should be fine anyway... we are kind of grasping at straws.
Thanks for publishing this, it's very instructive to see why people think things went wrong.

My only question is why you feel that the answer to the most important question - "Is there any interest in this product in the market?" - is "Yes"? You've identified that they way you went about promoting and raising money could be improved, but assessing the biggest problem as one of promotion is not obvious.
The Google app engine page down as well!
The Django admin interface is indispensable, too. Plus, you have all the pluggable apps for everything you might need.
Downformeoreveryone.com malware?
downformeoreveryone.com seems to be a bogus variation of downforeveryoneorjustme.com and gives a .exe download for flash which seems suspicious.
I hate to always leave comments about UI, but it's important to let people know about problems with their sites.

When viewing your site from an iPhone the page doesn't scale to the browser size. The right third or so of the page is cut off. Vertical scrolling works fine, but there's no way to view anything past a certain point
as another example of stuff in go, there is a window-manager called "wingo" that is still pretty alpha, but kinda-sorta-works https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo
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That's not what the "location" column means- you don't think there are exactly two cords leading into the state of Texas, do you? It's just the physical location of that router.
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This is a much more succinct explanation than my own. This is the point I was trying to make.

Even given that I have a good bit of sysadmin skills, I am needed more as a software developer right now in the early goings. I expect, as you've pointed out, that priorities will change with time and growth. We may even move to bare metal eventually, if we find ourselves needing and able to do so.

Excellent analogy.
There is also Marker Clusterer for this:
http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/tru...

I very much like this fresh solution though, particularly fond of the animation.
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I considered building such a site about a couple of months ago, the problem is getting the streaming results. From my research there is no public api that allows you access to results in real time at the level of granularity you would need (atleast county level). I suppose you could scrape the data off from the sites of the networks but you don't know how that's going to be formatted until election day at which point it's too late.
Haskell's type system may be sophisticated, but it's also very simple. There's no sub-typing of any sort, for example.

With a bit of mathematical notation--which may be a little foreign but is not that complicated--you can fit all of Haskell's type inference rules on a single page. These rules specify how the type system behaves and how to infer types! (The type inference, which may seem magical, is just a constraint satisfaction problem and so is easy to specify.)

I would not be surprised if Go's typing rules are more complex than Haskell's. All while giving you less static guarantees and less thorough type inference.
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Oh, that is the general consensus. I'm sure of it and I have a sea of negative reviews to back that up.

From the Anandtech review, final words - "If you're ok being an early adopter, and ok dealing with the fact that mobile devices are still being significantly revved every year, Surface is worth your consideration."

That's a big "If". So, we're left with a single positive review by ZDNet out of many, many, many negative reviews.
>Because we should move away from languages that are designed for security exploits.

Are you seriously claiming that C was designed for security exploits?

>Lets not forget how many security exploits we have to thank C for exactly this mis-feature.

No actually we have to thank sloppy and/or naive programmers. The C language is clear in that it doesn't hold your hand.

>The Native Oberon and Blue Bottle operating systems were even used for several years as desktop systems at ETHZ.

You can write an operating system in lots of languages besides C (and it has been done aswell), yet all the operating systems/kernels in wide use these days are all mainly written in C or a combination of C/C++.

That you can write an operating system in language X is nothing new, the performance you get with language X however is. We've seem numerous 'safe language' operating system attempts which have died due to inactivity or as in Singularity's case been passed off to academia because MIcrosoft realised it had no commercial relevance.

>The only area where I concede it is hard to replace C is in embedded space, specially if we consider many developers are still using Assembly.

I disagree, in everything where performance and/or footprint is paramount there will be a need for languages such as C, as always there is room for competition but Go certainly isn't a candidate in my opinion. I haven't really looked into Rust yet, D on the other hand seems to have gained zero traction and is from what I gather primarily positioning itself against C++.
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If I was considering computer science in the UK during the 50's, I would have immediately left after Turing's death.

That man could have lead a revolution, could have started one of the most influential and powerful corporations on this planet. He had that potential. To say otherwise is disingenuous.