skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I missed the personal use bit.

Yes, of course you can cobble something together when availability does not matter at all (it might blow the fuse in your apt, though;)).

I was just saying that in an application with most basic availability-requirements you're not getting the cost down like that.

I.e. even though you could fit that into one rack, nobody actually would (redundancy is measured in powers of >=2). And even though you might find an ISP who won't bitch about you drawing >10 Amps in "half a rack" (cough), you should still be a little concerned about other tenants screwing around in the same rack as your only copy of 80T of data that you care about... ;)
I love this idea - I'll always do a bit of volunteer hacking in exchange for fun travel!
Doesn't Tumblr always have problems
Yet we keep upgrading our hardware
Is it really possible to turn the volume up that high on a computer you're likely to encounter? I've yet to encounter a computer-like device that produces any noticeable distortion on the output when turned up all the way, if the other end has a volume control to make the final output happen at a reasonable level.
It's the US putting up the next great firewall :P
Though I disagree, I fail to see why it's being downvoted. (Added my grain of salt to fix it.) The thing is I'm sure there are some exceptions (Wolfram?), but it's quite rare to find a person who's both an outstanding scholar and an outstanding entrepreneur.
The other alternatives were essentially opaque formats (e.g., Word or Pages) that when she & I talked about them and the amount of work that I needed to do, she agreed.

She also writes long hand, so this is a minor adaptation for her to write like she does with emails.

The changes suggested are less natural for most people, and HTML is line noise to most people. If she had to learn HTML, my wife could do so—but it isn't necessary for her to learn HTML. It's also easier for me to have to worry about clean-up than her to do so.

We do have points where we have to figure out how to make certain things work (when she has lyrics, that requires a little more massaging on my part—but I insert the bafflegab bit and she just knows to edit around it or inside it).

It isn't perfect, but the results look very good. (In fact, the second novel looks better than the first, which was laid out in Pages and took me three times as long as learning LaTeX to format the second novel. The only problem with the second novel was finding a good font for the PDF version we use as a print-ready copy.)
Aside from infrastructure woes like this, one of the original premises of the internet's resilience was its decentralized and organic design, however, as developers migrate to the cloud we are going in the exact opposite direction where a single cloud provider going down takes with it a ton of popular web services. We have moved to the mainframe model and the new IT dept is now GAE, AWS etc. While cloud providers try to decentralize their infrastructure it seems that we are in the early days of figuring out how to do this, because for the past few days we have had major disruption to essential services like tumblr (for kitten photos) et al.

Fortunately to date the affected services are all non essential, mainly entertainment/trivial stuff like blogs, instagram, dropbox etc etc, but when we start to see things like water supply and electrical power management systems, hospital records, aviation system etc affected the consequences could be severe.

If the very best IT minds at AWS and GAE can't keep their systems running, what hope have government departments got? Anyone that's ever been to a DMV, or USPS knows just how good the US Government’s IT departments are.
Microsoft Surface Marketing: place all the other brands before your own.
This is why Microsoft marketing management should quit right now. Right after launching surface, on their brand new Windows8 themed site, Microsoft recommends a lot of PC's and Tablets. And where is Surface? Ehh it's right at the end of the list. Click in and do more?
Keep in mind that this is essentially an "upgrade" version. You can't do a clean install with this version. You'll pay $40 only to upgrade it from Windows 7.
Internettrafficreport isn't the most reliable (normally there are lots of zeroes on their graphs), but it does indicate a large change in some numbers.

Another place to check for good information is http://www.outages.org/

There have been a few incidents as of the past few days. Last night, there was a nationwide outage from Frontier that has since been resolved.

The day prior there was a triple failure in the Midwest as reported http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2012/10/windstream-outag... that affected lots of services in a large area.
Hack9 doesn't want us to see their DICKS
The 140 character limit wouldn't exactly be new. Some voters base their decisions on even less information.

Hope, Change, Flip-flop, Romnesia, etc.
> self-righteousness and pompadour

Hair styling is everything when exuding self-righteousness. Choosing the Reagan model is as good a style as anything.
Airline boarding passes reveal how passengers will be screened
The Software Design Handbook
Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake
I'm looking at this going forward. In India, PC penetration is 2-3%. For the 97% remaining if we can build something that satisfies their top 3 information requirments cheap enough, we can really make a difference in people's lives.
you might be interested in this thread: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2012-October/00465...
on the outages mailing list: http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

Most of those zeroes have been zero for a long time. The ITR isn’t
well-maintained and I wouldn’t use the data as a primary source.
People are kind of picking apart his use of the word "mastering," but I'd say that the crux of the article is spot on when it comes to learning techniques.

As an aside, I've never heard it called the "Feynman Techniques." However, one of my favorite things in the world is the so called "Feynman's Algorithm": (1) Write down the problem. (2) Think very hard. (3) Write down the answer. I just found to hilarious, but I digress.

There are two points of his with which I agree 100%.

Firstly, the process of writing a short summary paragraph of what you just read after reading a chapter or big section of a technical book. There is actually a fantastic book -- maybe one of my favorites of all time -- called, somewhat strangely, How to Read a Book. It's all about very active reading over passive, almost to the point of having a "conversation" with the text you're reading.

Ever since reading that book, I've gotten into the habit of writing a summary of each thing that I read. It really forces you to confront whether or not you "got" the point of what the book is saying. I usually find that there are quite a few bits that I either missed, or didn't quite understand, at which point I go through and search for the pieces I'm missing.

Secondly, looking at all of the low level pieces to understand the whole. This is something Salman Khan, of the Khan Academy talks about in (I believe it was) his TED presentation. Quite often, I find that there is some early concept that I glossed over which is slowing my understanding of the current material significantly. For me, doing this makes me being 'honest' with myself over the state of my current understanding -- which was kind of hard at first when I took this new approach to learning. So much of my 'ego' seems to be unfortunately wrapped up in 'what I know,' and thus I convince myself incorrectly that I do understand something, even when I don't, just because it's something that I "should" already know. Admitting to myself that I didn't understand, for instance, some basic math concept that I should have learned in high school was somewhat difficult -- as odd as that may sound. I suppose I have a fragile ego! But sometimes, getting a good grasp on my modern course work, meant stopping what I was doing, and going back a couple of levels and starting at the beginning.

The question of "What do I need to know in order to understand this" is, I find, an extraordinarily powerful one.
DoS vulnerability affects older iPhones, Droids, even a Ford car
Can You Hear the Shape of a Bubble?
More in depth coverage of the same Scientist on this Topic: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6106/472.full?rss=1
Hopefully this phase of centralising the cloud will quickly succumb.
Stuart Memo: JavaScript is the new Punk Rock -- JSConf EU 2012
While we're at it - please use a logarithmic scale for your volume slider if you're implementing one.
xD that's a good one! I haven't seen that hoax before. One of my personal favorites is DHMO, though it's of a slightly different flavor: http://dhmo.org/
Do we actually need metrics for 'social media influence?' How is this any different from an e-popularity contest? How does it change online communication for the better? It seems like it is more a play for advertising.

I grew up in the age of the Internet being this nerdy and niche thing where what we said online didn't quite have the levity of offline speech. That doesn't mean it wasn't important; but instead, the disconnected and semi-anonymous nature of the Internet made it such that the boring power hierarchy was not as much of a factor in communication as it would be in real life.

Now, it seems like we want to re-create that using questionable metrics. Remember, if there's one thing humans always get right, it is using metrics properly!
It's not meant for consumers.
I should imagine that Wired can write about whatever their editors choose, they are writing about tech companies and have done so in the past so I don't see why this should be of any surprise. Wired might very well have better insight than the financial media at large because they have intimate knowledge of the workings of the tech industry, and since the "financial media" completely failed to notice the impeding doom that was (is) the housing crisis, it's not like the established financial sources are any better at this stuff.

As for #2, this shows you have no clue about how the stock market works. Life in the financial world is far far more complex than you imply.
Tech people who are at least a bit social are usually quite good at sales. Not the slimy, golf course sales, but just selling products/projects they are passionate about. It's always a shame people take to hiring 'sales people' right out the door instead of trying it themselves. For instance I like doing sales, especially to capable buyers; it's a great feeling when someone signs a $100k contract with you instead of, say, Oracle, because they think you are more capable than the smooth talking, suited guys from the big companies.

I would definitely recommend trying it yourself first and these are quite good points.
I'm thrilled to announce my latest book focused on designing web applications. After the success of my last book, The App Design Handbook, I had a lot of people asking me to write something specific to web applications. I actually started writing the outline for this book back in 2009, but it wasn't until a few months ago that I actually started writing.

Happy to answer any questions about it!
Even here in Amsterdam, The Netherlands I get reports from friends their DSL lines dropping. Loos like traffic re-routing is choking up core routers here and there.
Is there anything particularly British about that, though? Harking back to a "better time" in the past seems like it's almost a global trait.
It is in retrospect. So are thousands of things people used to do.
Instacart has same day (3 hour and 1 hour) delivery options. Freshdirect is next-day. As a startup founder, this kind of flexibility is great. Instacart also has a slick mobile app, which is a more pleasurable shopping experience.
Welcome Windows 8 to a Post-Desktop World
67.215.65.132 is OpenDNS's "not available" redirector, so you aren't actually pinging the router. It's listed as the ip address for at least one other router that is listed down.
A few thoughts:

1. When Ceglia first filed his claims, I called it a "lawsuit full of holes [that was] built up by sensationalist reporting into a supposed major threat to Facebook and to Mr. Zuckerberg" and concluded that, "in the courts, this thing is going nowhere." (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537158) My sense of this had nothing to do with any fraudulent tampering with evidence as alleged now in the criminal prosecution but instead with the whole smell of the thing: a flaky 2-page contract with basically incoherent terms used as a basis for a lawsuit brought by a backwater lawyer who drafted a complaint that would have been an embarrassment to a first-year law student. It looked like a joke on the face of it, notwithstanding that a small-town judge had initially entered a TRO based on the filing.

2. Then, in April, 2011, this case looked like it had taken a major turn: Ceglia had dumped his original lawyer and retained the prestigious firm of DLA Piper; he also produced a mountain of emails "documenting" that he and Mr. Zuckerberg had, in effect, entered into a legal partnership giving him a major ownership piece in the FB venture; he also (via the lawyers) put together a compelling story in his complaint making it appear that FB and Mr. Zuckerberg were in deep legal trouble concerning his claims. (Here is my comment at the time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438063) Once again, there was a sensationalist wave of reporting across the web rejoicing about how Mark Zuckerberg was about to get his comeuppance.

3. Since that time, through the work of very able lawyers for Facebook, the Ceglia case has been progressively torn to shreds in the federal court to which it had been removed and, as the case has disintegrated, it has drawn progressively less interest (the DLA firm withdrew at the first sign of serious trouble). Indeed, without the dramatic turn of a federal criminal indictment, I doubt that it would done more than draw a few yawns as it eventually headed to the judicial graveyard where most flaky cases ultimately find their rest.

4. The lesson here is how prejudice and crowd-think can dramatically affect and distort perceptions. When someone takes on the role of villain (as Mr. Zuckerberg has in some circles), there are those who so desperately want to see him torn down that they will suspend their better judgment just to see it happen, whether he was right or wrong in what he had done. This is not to excuse him in things he may have done wrong in other contexts, but he had done nothing wrong here and it is just amazing to me how many people were willing to take it as a given that he had even with little or no evidence to back it up.

5. The other (major) lesson here is that there are serious limits to playing fast and loose with the courts. It is true that there is much abusive litigation but there is obviously a line that cannot be crossed without inviting horrific consequences. It doesn't happen often enough that abusive litigants get what they deserve but, when it does occasionally happen, it is very nice to see. At least it sets an outer bound on what people can do to abuse one another in the courts.
Because to them, you're just another vote and your opinion doesn't matter. You are expected by people like this to just follow instructions. And if you don't just follow instructions and you decide you need to learn something about the subject, chances are you are in the minority and don't matter to them.

Or less cynically, there was advertising money left to spend and not much of it. A quick "vote yes on prop 2" is a great way to spend money and maybe get the result you want if you are the beneficiary of the proposal.
Show HN: Archive the content of your Pinboard bookmarks in Evernote.
The Ultimate Guide to Content Curation
Mistakes To Avoid When Going From Corporate To Indie
The 3 hour option is really reasonable.
the graphs show that latency has not been affected, which is also odd.
Cashvertising is more marketing than sales, but really great read.
Touch Events, Pointer Events and Hardware Acceleration
It's well known that many people manipulate followers, retweets, video views, fan page counts, like, shares, SEO results etc to make it appear as if a given candidate has more momentum than they really do.
We are actually planning to build gadgets based on fixed function chips which are significantly greener than microprocessor based solutions. Intel et al at the same time are taking microprocessor based design to its logical next steps. We want to highlight that there's an inherent flaw in making the assumption that programmable function == more utilitarian == makes more sense because that's the way its been done the last 40 years. There is a lot of bloat in today's gadgets which fixed function alternatives will completely get rid of.
Paul Ceglia charged with trying to defraud Facebook
I block Hacker News in my hosts file at work to maintain productivity, so I guess I'm no better than China either.
Lots of computers I've used allow audio gain to be set above unity, with noticeable distortion as a result. Next time you're in alsamixer on Linux, look at the fourth line down on the top which says "dB gain". It's not uncommon for it to go all the way up to +6 dB or +12 dB, which will almost certainly distort with common source material.

This happens both on my desktop Linux system and my Linux laptop.
Nostalgia is universal, but Britain is in the somewhat unique position of having once been a hyperpower and today being substantially less relevant on the world stage.
It won't. In fact it will likely get worse as more and more companies deal with big data. There is just too much of a performance benefit to be had by colocating in the same or neigbouring data center.
Everyone's allowed to take pride in a job well done. What's pathetic in that?
So to summarize you both: You want a rapid development platform that doubles as a production system and costs nothing to maintain. That does sound useful!
What Two Tech Startups Learned at a Business Accelerator
I've found that when someone is grumpy/angry (i.e. a customer who is pissed off), the best way to disarm it is to just empathize a little. Example:

Customer: "Your site went down right in the middle of an edit I was making."

Me: "Argh! That sucks! You're probably really frustrated right now. Let's see what we can do to get the bottom of it."

Just showing a little empathy can go a long way .
When you say "70% productivity", how do you measure this? (It sounds like there's a standard for this that I missed.)
Ask HN: What tools do you use to write API documentation
We are getting ready to write and deploy the documentation for our API. We have several SDKs in multiple languages that we need to document. We also need a centralized CMS-like repository that isn't tied to our application.

So what does your company use? Are there any favorite CMS or wikis? Is there one auto-documentation system that will generate from multiple languages?
Thanks, it looks like it works now. This will be great for my research group!
Perhaps a stupid question, but if this guy had hand-delivered all the documents to the court, he'd be totally in the clear with regard to criminal activity? Why isn't he being charged with providing fabricated evidence to a federal court?
Disable the extreme scroll acceleration in Mountain Lion
Hmm. No. If Twitter had lost energy then you could expect them to start holding hackathons- as it is, they have no need to do so. Their API is everywhere.

While I'd like to believe that their rule changes are driving developers away, I don't see much evidence- the huge user base is more than enough to make up for it.
Gentlemen, start your benches: Measuring Windows 8′s performance
Legality of fraud should have nothing to do with whether the mail was used.
Yeh no. China has banned countless US sites. NYT is just another one and not even the most high profile.

And China isn't some rogue state despite perceptions within the US. They aren't going to deliberately attack core routers out of spite.
Windows 8: The desktop review
Not to dispute what you're saying, but I can't think of anything likely to cause a shift in momentum as Steam on Linux.
They already do it with torrent websites and nobody cares, how much of a stretch is other politically inconvenient sites being unilaterally blocked?
I probably spend no more than an hour a week on ops, and most of that is reading emails from our service providers.
No. I was curious and checked - this: https://github.com/waylan/Python-Markdown is slightly below 3k loc mark (2977) excluding extensions, and by the look of it it's much more heavily commented (I didn't strip blank lines or comments at all). Markdown.pl has 1450 loc.

So - no, bullshit, you need to multiply by 2 at most in case of Python :)
Non-Legit Windows Users can Legally Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro at Offer Price
Declaring war on orbital space debris
Packet filtered is an ICMP response that indicates that the ping request was actively responded to with something other than icmp reply. Most likely cause is that the router, or some other router en-route rejected the request with icmp prohibited.
I believe even NodeJS's libuv came to the same unfortunate conclusion for non windows hosts.

https://github.com/joyent/libuv
http://nikhilm.github.com/uvbook/filesystem.html
Buy Or Sell Bitcoin By Connecting Any U.S. Bank Account
I wonder what they pay to serve it though, I wonder if there are enough hits to it for it to be non-trivial (where non-trivial for a drop site is more than spare change a month)
Developer Auction Racks Up $78 Million More Bids, Expands To LA
Elves?
No actual evidence provided of degree to which developer grumpiness affects other people.
It would be easy enough to test -- download Right Mark Audio (free, but Windows only), connect your audio input to output with a patch cable, and test at different volume levels.
Leslie Lamport in the 80's "“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable”
Felix Baumgartner: Mars is a waste of money
the line breaks make it very difficult to read for me - here's a copy of the text: https://gist.github.com/3960408
Are you going to school online or on campus? Full or part time? Working?
My experience with Linux and buffered IO (ext4) from multiple threads has been very positive. The only beef I have is that you can't prevent the data you write/read from polluting the cache without resorting to madvise which isn't available from Java. I don't usually care about the contents of the page cache so it isn't a showstopper.

You can do hundreds of thousands of random reads a second from a single thread submitting tasks to a thread pool on an in memory data set. You can do tens of thousands of reads for a > memory data set with an SSD and I was able to get the advertised number of 4k IOPs out of the SSD (Crucial m4) and an Intel i5 desktop CPU.

I frequently have to multiplex data as it becomes available into a single file (to keep the IO sequential for the disk and filesystem) and I always use a thread per file and I got up to 250 megabytes/sec on a 4 disk RAID-0. I don't currently have a use case for needing more sequential write throughput than that so I haven't tried to attaching more disk and SSDs weren't as fast or common at the time.

My reading of buffered IO in Linux is that it translates to a combination of page cache interactions and async IO under the hood so we are technically always using async IO.
I'm guessing all those 100 servers are the same hardware, or a few variations.
Nice write-up. I suspect the poor implementation of async I/O suggests how often it is actually used in practice. Signal handling definitely feels like the wrong design here, especially for a library author.

I'm also not surprised that Windows fared better here; with IOCP they had a chance to redo async I/O completely.
Nothing To Envy - Crowdfunded Animated Film about North Korea
Could 'Frankenstorm' Lead To Another AWS Outage?