skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bear in mind that none of these DNS queries are ever sent out of CloudFlare's network - as mentioned in the previous blog entry, none of these incoming responses are valid.

See http://blog.cloudflare.com/65gbps-ddos-no-problem

" What's great is that we can safely respond and ask them to block all DNS requests originating from our network since our IPs should never originate a DNS request to a resolver. "
Am I doing something wrong? It plays the beep noises even if I have my phone set to silent (iPhone 4S).

I know that Siri works this way as well (which I also find irritating). Why won't it obey my settings!
That's like saying gambling is a fad. The novel implementations may change but integrating markers for performance will only come more common in time. Expect to be able to passively track how long you brushed your teeth in the near future.
This article is hugely exaggerated. Once all is said and done, you're simply attaching more relevant data to a photo which helps remember important moments. My grandparent's photo albums and scrapbooks have now been replaced by my TimeHops and SnapJoys.
Lucasfilm:

$7 billion gross over the course of 41 years with 1,001-5,000 employees (http://www.linkedin.com/company/lucasfilm).

Instagram:

$0 over 2 years with 13 employees.

That $7 billion could easily turn out to be negative profit with that number of employees. Looking at the movies Lucasfilms puts out, 90% of their profits comes from Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Its going to be very hard for them to continue sequels to these movies. Then you look at the growth of the market.

I understand Instagram doesn't have profits... but I'm still not convinced
I tested on an iPhone 5, Nexus S and an iPad 2. Most things worked well across the board but there is some weirdness. Eg "what's 2 + 2" returned the correct result on the iPhone 5, worked on the iPad 2 after several tries and just failed every time on the Nexus S.

Some times the failed was result was just weird, but most often it was "what's to plus 2".

What's going on? Still more impressive than Siri.
And here we have it again: the textbook middlebrow dismissal, anchored to the top of the thread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714217

The reality of course is that calling Bootstrap a "framework" isn't at all controversial, that you cannot simply mimic it with a "default stylesheet" as suggested by this poster below, that to find a respected source vouching for the use of grids (and other systems of measure) you need look no further than Robert Bringhurst, that the Bootstrap site is atypically clear about its goals (maybe this poster didn't bother to scroll down half a page to see), and that the use of grid systems isn't remotely controversial in web design (where a good starting point to the use of grid systems in typographical and graphical applications would be Khoi Vinh).
There is another explaination: http://discovermagazine.com/2010/apr/01-back-from-the-future

The future causing the past.
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Do you think so? To my mind, the set of people in that industry, as creatives, who would think "Hmm, I dunno. I'm not really sold / excited about the idea of working for Disney / Pixar / Lucasfilm... Oh, Steve Jobs is involved? That changes ... everything." (sorry, couldn't resist).

These companies appear, at least to me, as the pinnacle of "career as a creative artist in film" employers - I doubt the personality of a board member / part-owner, even one with as much going for him as Jobs did, was ever the deciding factor in their ability to lure talent.
You can kind of do the voice search stuff already (click the microphone on the Google search box). Desktop searches seem more reluctant to fork over Knowledge Graph results for some reason though. Voice Actions are, of course, not possible because that's not possible from a browser.
Which drugs? I've been writing an application for 4-5 years. It's my "learn a new language" project and it's pretty complex and I recently rewrote it and exclusively worked on it under an influence of one or another of things, but nothing like Adderall or Ritalin. I just finished the final version of this project in Go and it is far and away the most readable, performant version I've written. It's also the first version to properly protect against all types of races.
the yammer strategy? copy a consumer service everyone loves, market it for enterprise, sell to microsoft in a couple years...
They are giving out of a serious amount of hardware, an angel or VC investment shows a sign of commitment. Now, I am not saying there aren't very successful and committed bootstrap startups, its just that Meraki needs a metric to filter companies.
Neat, I did something similar a while back. https://github.com/icco/lifeline
Thanks for the typo correction re. Dropbox - fixed.
It would be helpful to have some way to collapse a comment thread that we are not interested in.
That's an insane real world human effort so that geeks can move bits around a screen!
I'd be interested in finding out why investors dislike productivity software so much.

In my experience it can be hard to sell -- you're often stuck explaining to someone why they suck at their job.
This isn't Right, IMO this is a sloppy mess of a way to develop a scalable API, and only lets you barely eek by. There is no joy.
While this is certainly a very rare event, I'm very glad that we've gone with redundant self-hosted solutions. Trello is great and is highly respected by the startup crowd, but to be held hostage to someone else's data decisions does not work for me once you get beyond the most basic level of a functioning company.
Hi Paul, I'm sorry if you felt my answers were insincere. Many of our users are dealing with their client's confidential information so security is a big issue for us. I get several questions about this everyday.

We realize that the need for custom branding is great, and have plans to give our users control over of that, it just hasn't happened yet.
Some of it is funded by taxes. So are some businesses, and some art. That's all indirect support. Crowdfunding is direct support. Kickstarter has show that can work for businesses and art.
I would think this leads quickly to another question people might not want to answer... Does empathy increase the probability that the actions you decide to take will reduce or increase suffering?

I am a fan of an old German saying: "Good intentions are the opposite of good actions."

Every tragedy in human history that I know of was born from good intentions. Make society stronger, make the majority happier, make people safer, make them healthier, etc. The bottom line is that good intentions have no influence on the consequences of actions. To determine what the consequences will be and whether a course of action is likely to help or hurt, we might have to abandon empathy during the discussion. Of course, we shouldn't ignore empathy when considering whether we want the consequences or not.
Students certainly benefit from interaction with slightly stronger students, regardless of absolute academic strength. The most able student in any class is unlikely to actually learn much, but let's stipulate that we don't care about her needs. I still don't agree that any student benefits from sharing a class with others who are far more advanced. It's not like they're somehow going to catch up (rare exceptions exist, but clearly the system isn't about rare exceptions). Not everyone should be groomed to go $10k in debt for 1.5 years of college, or worse, $50k in debt for a degree that will never pay for itself. We need alternatives to this path for those who are never going to write a convincing essay or calculate a derivative (here we shouldn't just criticize the education establishment; the business community should be creating better opportunities as well).

Public schools benefit much less from economies of scale than their administrators, architects, and accountants (who do so benefit) would have us believe. This is why one of the most effective public-only reforms is to break up large schools into smaller ones. The principals don't have any army of vice-principals behind whom to hide, and there is some accountability for what happens in class. Very few charter, private, or parochial schools ever become the behemoths that public schools are, and few of the parents and students who choose them would want them to.

I agree that students with special challenges should have commensurately larger vouchers they can take with them to whatever school their parents judge to be the best for them. It's hard to imagine that alternative schools would do worse for those with IEPs than most public schools do.
Well, I did learn not to hide in discarded refrigerators from Punky Brewster.

That's funny; another of Mr. Lucas' fine films taught me that you can survive a direct nuclear explosion by hiding in a discarded refrigerator.
It's amazing, when you ask "why would you need a whole page for composing an email?" there is no good answer. Someone dozens of years ago probably made that decision and it's just stuck.
Thank you. I had never seen "Fine Structure" and enjoyed it.

It's of varying quality

It's worth a lot more than what I paid for it. ;)
Wow! By what method does Microsoft determine who gets, and who does not get, the SDK? Do they usually pick winners in these sorts of contests?
Really?

I learned the exact opposite from Indiana Jones!
<speculation>

This is a cost to them so they want to increase the likelihood that the startup will do something useful that will feed back into future revenue. There are not a lot of indicators that have reasonable validity and are easy to assess, so they've picked something where others have done some heavy lifting.

</speculation>
It's not a legal requirement. It's a moral requirement. It's your country, your state, your city. It's your government. You are legally allowed to shirk some of your duties, although not all of them, but that doesn't make you less of a shirker..

Parenting is similar: there are a lot of ways to be a shitty parent that don't rise to the legal level of neglect.
Yep. Not convinced that they are really tracking what I'd like them to track.
Wait, what? Which Indiana Jones?
Anticipating this very objection, I evoked the graph of Disney's revenue from Princess properties to further carry the point.
"The superhuman folks at the data center are hauling 55 gallon drums of diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs."

I can't for the life of me think why someone would put a backup generator 17 floors up, these guys don't know you can buy mains cables longer than 4 feet?

If it absolutely has to be 17 floors up, buy a fucking pump.

Geeks. Sometimes we're so dumb it hurts.
Patrick's version sounds less rosy
Jaron Lanier is a cynical charlatan. It takes a pretty negative worldview to say that the relationships people have on Facebook are the sum total of the nature of human relations, that the entire social phenomenon is a lowest-common denominator operation. The human spirit doesn't have to be strong enough, even without hope. "Facebook killing the human spirit" is an instance of a phenomenon that has never happened.
Are you seriously saying that any of those outfits uses a fill-in-the-bubble standardized test to make decisions about hiring, firing, and promotion for their software developers?

If not, I don't see what your point is.

I also don't believe you really don't understand where education and test prep diverge. I think that's a rhetorical technique.
Fuck this pardon my french.

This is bullshit squatter scumbag.
Yeah, sad, isn't it.
In most buildings, the generator is at the top floor, just saying.
Source: I worked @ cbc on Queen street in ottawa,ON, and the generator is on the top floor.
"I'm convinced that News Corporation is entirely mercenary in its agenda and only started Fox News because right-wing cable news was a wide open opportunity in the late 1990's."

This might be more plausible if their News wing didn't represent the interests of its Founder.
Can be an issue.

AOL deidentifed search data still allowed some people to be identified. When name is tied to some medical condition related search terms, it gets embarrassing...
> Purchasing my copy of grid Systems in Graphic Design, by Josef Muller-Brockmann, was the best money I've ever spent on a design text. I was a relatively seasoned designer with 6 years of pro-experience when I was fortunate enough to find a copy of this masterpiece. I was largely self-taught however, and while I knew from working in various layout programs about grids, I had no idea how powerfully they could be utilized. Within a weekend of reading and absorbing this book, my designs had improved substantially.

Sounds about right!
most subjects aren't best taught through rote - the best way to learn US history is NOT to be quizzed repeatedly on which year the Missouri Compromise was passed or how many men died at Sharpsburg

As far as I know, there aren't any subjects that are best taught through rote. (The confusion between rote learning and practicing skills is a pet peeve of mine.) Learning and testing don't need to resemble each other, not at all, not any more than a physical exam at the doctor's office needs to include a balanced meal, eight hours of sleep, and some light exercise. I think I established that pretty well in my comment: the way I was taught calculus was very different from how I was tested. I was taught calculus through lecture, demonstration, and practice, using applications to motive a new concept, covering the concept intuitively before learning the mechanics, and finally learning and practicing the relevant computational skills. My ex was the one who was taught according to the philosophy that learning should consist of mimicking the test over and over again.

Most elementary/middle and even high school tests aren't nearly as good as AP tests.... Now AP tests do (at least partially) solve for this with their free response and short answer sections, but Standards of Learning (or other state tests) may not.

In other words, standardized tests are capable of reflecting and encouraging progressive teaching ideals OR regressive fact-regurgitation models of learning. I have no doubt at all that poor tests can be written, have been used in the past, and are currently in use in some places. Tests can't help but reflect the beliefs and competence of the people who write them, but that applies to everything else in education. Nothing is immune to being screwed up by individual or institutional incompetence. If you assume competent, progressive teachers and incompetent, benighted test-writers, it's easy to conclude that tests will drag down educational standards. That isn't fair, though. There's no reason to assume that the test designers are any less enlightened and competent than the teachers manning the classrooms.

in the real world (or in college), I'm less likely to have to pick WW2 generals out of a lineup and more like to need to come up with a few paragraphs on what caused it or how it was won or something

I have to disagree with you there. That NEVER happens in the real world. In real life, you most commonly draw on historical knowledge to generate context for things you read or hear. You often have to rely on little factoids such as names and dates to generate connections between what you're reading and what you already know, because you might be hearing something from somebody who doesn't know the context themselves. (Or you might be reading something by a political pundit who is being selective with the facts.) Knowing dates is highly underrated. In a classroom, you learn that dates are the most sterile and inert form of historical knowledge. That may be true for academics or for students, but for laypeople applying a casual knowledge of history in the real world, dates come in really handy. They're the Kevin Bacon of historical connections.
Do you really think there are only two modes of thought? Pure science and wish fulfillment?

That would explain why you'd cling to cargo-cult science rather than admit that the current use of standardized testing is not scientific in any way.
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Raster Systeme of course being one of the more famous graphic design books of the 20th century.
Hello HN!

I'm Patrick from this thread. I agreed to having this thread published because I thought it might do good for interns out there. Not everyone works for very established tech companies, and there's inherently more risk in that. However, there's a lot of potential to learn from the experience as well.

Some things that I hope people take away form this thread:

- The dream is out there, but don't let anyone sell it to you easily. Do the research, check your facts, and be aware. However, people in Silicon Valley are generally good people, and they remember and understand what it is like to be young and not know what to do. I always will.

- Do what you think is the right thing: I would never have left my prior engagement if my would-be boss had not okayed it (we had a very long conversation at the time). This is a small world, and your word holds a lot of weight. It's probably best not to throw your word around when you can't keep your promises.

- Take a risk, once you feel you're ready for it. By venturing into the unknown, a lot could have happened to me, but I felt prepared to take on any challenges. I am under the impression that not taking a conscious, calculated risk (with positive expected value) is the biggest risk of all

Cheers,
Patrick
OK, it's indoctrination. Teaching kids to use toilet, wipe their butts, wash their hands and not put a fork into an electrical outlet is an indoctrination too. So what?
Good points.

What is truly horrifying about sex.ly is that it so utterly and absolutely cheapens the experience of something very important.

Translation: I see other people doing something in a way that I don't like. This is wrong and their values are wrong. This makes me feel funny. They should not do as they do. Instead, they should do as I do. Then they will be right, like me.
Awesome. Tangentially, I use Nagios to verify that outside access to all my hosts (including HTTP) is restricted to my IP space.
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Mind you they are in lower Manhattan, not some random suburban office park.
Makes sense actually, probably in case of flooding.

Doesn't make that pump any less sensible though!
You are correct, that analytical thought is necessary to have a shot at seeing how another person is thinking... but to believe that you have seen how another person is thinking requires only intuition.

It's wrong, of course, wrong in drastic, often tragic, degrees as often as it is right (performs no better than random chance). This has been known for a long time in behavioral neuroscience. How we respond to another persons face when they are feeling different emotions is extremely inaccurate and quite useless, but we are all weak to believing that our conclusions are valid. This is why polygraphs do not work. They rely on the intuition of the examiner rather than science. So, they perform the same as random guessing. In addition to just being wrong half the time, such intuitions are easily manipulated by some people (either trained or an ability they just develop naturally).

The human mind has a great many very reliable flaws. They were probably useful for survival at some point as they seem endemic to the structure of the brain itself (and we learn more all the time about their neurophysiological origin) but almost certainly useless at best and dangerous at worst today. We certainly don't live in anything that resembles the environment our brains evolved to survive in for thousands of years. (In small extremely intimate groups on the savannah with rare intense bursts of life-or-death stress but life mostly consisting of eating, having sex, and sleeping.)

Long experienced cops believe they can tell when people are lying. When tested, they perform the same as random chance. Average people believe they can tell what someone is feeling by looking at their face. When tested, they perform the same as random chance. It's hard for many to accept that their ability to read other people is only as accurate as flipping a coin, but that's what we've got evidence for. In some ways, this is odd, since we have mirror neurons that specifically make us unconsciously mimic other people when physically close to them, and I would think this would lead to being able to understand them better, but it doesn't seem to work that way.
Based on my experience of enterprise s/w sales for about 6-7 years, the answer depends on the ticket size of the deal and service delivery model. If it is SaaS based ($1-$10K p.a) then a lot of what applies to Dropbox applies to your b2b product too. At $15-20K or above you need to have inside sales reps who smile and dial. You start breaking even at this point. when you hit $500K deal sizes its time to bring in the rainmakers. Happy to chat more if you need specific help. buzz me at adass at filepicker.io
It's a good talk! He's a good speaker.
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I am having trouble taking you seriously.

You argue in one place that scientific metrics are the only way to evaluate educators. And then here you are arguing that managerial judgment is a serious metric. Even though it's entirely non-numeric, personal, unstandardized, unrepeatable, and unreliable.

The same thing was used for teachers: it's called the judgment of their employers. If you're happy with that, then there's no particular need for all the NCLB standardized testing.
You were repulsed by the above description of this imaginary site. But not because of some prudish reasons, not even because it had to do with sex. No. You were repulsed because sex.ly violates something very deep and fundamental about humanity. But what, in particular?

Mind read much?

My feeling upon reading this was hardly the horror that the writer anticipated. Probably more of a "meh, it takes all kinds".

I can see this being a private, niche site for swingers or exhibitionists. Most people probably wouldn't go for it. But that doesn't make it wrong or horrible or the emblem of what is, in the author's mind, wrong with social media.

Reduction ad absurdum fail.
I wish that I had a better response for this. I don't. Scaling is hard. It's work, It's not usually magic and you have to understand a lot about your system to get it right. Peppering in a few cache statements and figuring out the proper querysets isn't that bad. I know that I can't be seen as an impartial observer in this situation since I commit to Tastypie, but I got involved with the project because it did this stuff right. If you've got any suggestions on improvements I'm all ears and my email is in my profile
The one that most of us would prefer to forget. www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/

For a while, it seemed like "nuking the fridge" was going to replace "jumping the shark" as a metaphor for creative failure.
Supply shocks and demand shocks are somewhat different. Yglesias has plenty of money, so he doesn't want to have his time gouged. On the other hand, a well-supplied Yglesias (at a higher cost) is of no more benefit to the local economy than a less well-off person whose access to storm supplies is protected by laws against price gouging.

Yglesias' time is more valuable since he as a comparative advantage in a lucrative market (political punditry), and so it is more efficient for him to maximize his available time...in the long run. In the short run, he's not going to hire any more interns or increase his personal or local economic output, so there's no particular reason that he should be able to preferentially minimize his time cost. He's overstating his case and ignoring the fact that many retailers seek to extract economic profits while showing little inclination to temporarily exit the market.

tl;dr contrarian linkbait.
If you'd read the previous articles about the hurricane's effects on datacenters, you'd know that the diesel pumps in many buildings were wiped out by flooding.
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