skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This must not be affecting everyone because my ssh connection from Toronto to Portland is working just fine without additional latency.

Edit:

The Ontario router seems to be dropping packets:

$ ping gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com
PING gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com (66.185.86.254) 56(84) bytes of data.
From <snip> icmp_seq=1 Packet filtered
From <snip> icmp_seq=2 Packet filtered
From <snip> icmp_seq=3 Packet filtered

--- gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 10206ms

Though I have no issue with routers under that sub-domain:

$ traceroute <snip>
traceroute to <snip> (<snip>), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 <snip> (192.168.1.1) 1.489 ms 2.038 ms 2.669 ms
2 * * *
3 69.63.243.69 (69.63.243.69) 17.599 ms 17.584 ms 17.339 ms
4 so-4-0-0.gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com (66.185.82.97) 31.992 ms 31.972 ms 31.819 ms
5 69.63.253.65 (69.63.253.65) 33.198 ms 34.687 ms 34.596 ms
6 * * *
7 pos-3-15-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.25) 35.557 ms 28.952 ms 28.818 ms
8 68.86.85.14 (68.86.85.14) 33.029 ms 42.176 ms 41.924 ms
9 he-0-4-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.88.146) 49.244 ms 45.218 ms 44.940 ms
10 pos-1-2-0-0-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.78) 37.146 ms 40.169 ms 40.372 ms

Note: so-4-0-0.gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com is having no issues. I don't know how Rogers' internal network is setup, but it seems like if there are issues they are handling them so that customers (or at least I) don't see them.
HL7py Beta HL7 parser in Python
One method to teach them the infallibility of the web is to have them research the endangered tree octopus.

I had a friend's rather brilliant fourth grade son accept this creature without a thought. I hope he's more vigilant now.
You don't even need to move a centimeter. All you need is an iPhone with 3G.

Or is that not allowed for students of the university? Sorry, I didn't read the full article.
BZB Breadboard with built in Arduino, A New Way To Teach STEM Electronics
Quite a few other people fought in the war, and quite a lot of people paid with their lives.

Not to downplay Turings own contribution, but I wish the hyperbole and the "he was persecuted!" angle could be reined in somehow.

Also if anything I think scientists/thinkers have had more than their fair share of slots in banknotes. Perhaps the turn of former PMs, artists, charity founders etc.
Yeah I was initially thinking of something like desktop Google Maps where if you search "food manhattan" you get hundreds of clickable points. Obviously as you said that wouldn't scale (in a user experience sense) to hundreds of thousands though!
Reported attacks for 10/25 doubled from 10/24 (!)

https://isc.sans.edu/submissions.html

8,000 attacks reported for 10/24
17,000+ attacks reported so far today
How about a deck of cards ? It can last for a looong time.

I only had an opportunity to play Eclipse once, so I don't know how much longevity that particular game has. But I never miss a chance to play Dixit, Neuroshima Hex or Dominion.

Good board games have no upper limit of how much you can play them. In contrast, many computer 'games' nowadays are story-based, and stories are almost always linear. How often can you read a (fiction) book ? With board games, you stop playing them once you're bored with them. There's no arbitrary limit.

I wish computer games returned back to roots (board games and pen&paper RPG games). The reason is highly value innovation and variety. With board games, rules are the distinguishing factor. By default, every board game tries to do something differently, if not by coming up with new things then by making a good mix of already known mechanics.
Oh do pay attention, Apple were not asked to apologise.
Wikipedia articles aren't intended to express a graph the way a "who's who" database does. Every article in the encyclopedia is expected to do a good job summarizing it subject and providing a guide to reputable sources on that subject.

The problem with stub articles about people that serve only to map a person to every Wikipedia subject they've touched is WP:BLP.

To sum that up: every article about a living person has to meet a higher standard of "not being wrong about that person", because when Wikipedia lists something wrong about (say) Tom Preston-Werner, it's plastering that wrongness at the top of every Google SERP, and this tends to piss people off. For obvious reasons, BLP articles are also a magnet for the most insidious kind of vandalism WP deals with: negative claims about real people that are difficult or impossible to refute "automatically", which is how virtually all vandalism on WP is handled. WP BLP articles thus incur a liability for the project.

Often, that liability is more than offset by the value of the article itself. But here, it seems like much of the value of a T.P-W article is simply in making it slightly easier to search for T.P-W in WP. But WP already does a pretty good job of doing that. Marginal value, maximum liability.
Question is who is providing the information that makes us informed?
Various news outlets are starting to report on the outage:

http://www.theaustralianeye.com/current-news/widespread-inte...

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/26/major-sites-and-pla...

http://investorplace.com/2012/10/tumblr-comes-tumbling-down-...
Only two handfuls of games are worth playing on Windows as well.
Loop Unrolling in sh
Low-level ninja reporting for duty.

Software router, possibly.
Might be completely unrelated but we had some DNS issues the last few days because of Level3.
Yes, this is so true. I even wrote a blog post about how bad Core Data for iCloud is: (http://loneyeti.com/posts/17). We even see it on Apple's own implementation of features ahemiTunes Matchahem. They are just trying to do too much too fast.

A lot of people criticize Apple for not being very innovative lately, but I'm on the opposite side of the spectrum. I wish they would slow down and take a breath and realize that they don't need to implement major changes every year. I almost wonder if Steve Jobs was pushing too hard for things to be released before he died.
Erm, if anything I would say his contribution to the sciences is what is commonly overblown, not what his government did to him. Perhaps what he contributed is being overblown because of what his government did?

In any event, I think the reality of the man is enough to warrant honoring on some bill.
Facebook app requests is broken
there is temporary solution(in comments by M.j. Slemko), but you'll see you app only as a facebook iframe.
What a waste of time. And it's Python, not "Phyton," you illiterate halfwit.
Measuring Facebook mobile app install ads
An influential Dutch researcher in cultural economics identified, in 1981, a cultural dimension he terms "power distance", defined as "the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally".

On PDI, scaled zero to one hundred, the U.S. scores 40 and China scores 80 (Russia scores 93).

Another dimension of significance is individualism, defined as "the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members".

On IDV the U.S. scores 91 and China 20 (Russia scores 39).

China (and Russia) value social cohesion along implicitly informative, i.e. highly contextual, information flows. Leaders are given tremendous leeway to do their jobs and are to be questioned only in cases of extreme breach of obligation, i.e. when they threaten social harmony.

Note that Russians, in surveys, explicitly prefer social stability to free speech and a free media. Chinese find the legalistic contortions American politicians have to go through to do something generally favoured as awkward and wasteful. We see allowing elites to enrich themselves off market reforms to help them buy into the idea of change as distasteful whereas from a social utilitarian perspective it's strategically kosher.
I was struck when we incorporated our company and raised financing how much we still use ink and paper to keep track of things like corporate ownership. When signing so many documents I wanted to seal them with paraffin wax and send them to our lawyers via carrier pigeon.

In the case of Facebook, a multi-billion dollar company, it seems amazing that someone can come out of the woodwork and with a little effort in document tampering cause such a hullabaloo. It seems like too important of an issue to be inpart determined by "spacing, columns, and margins of page one of the Alleged Contract."

Of course, I don't know of a better system, just that the current system seems archaic. (You probably couldn't create a centralized "contract bureau" in the federal government, because many contracts are private, until someone sues.)
Hackers steal 3.4 million SSNs, 387k Credit Cards from SC Dept of Revenue
Sexual Economics, Culture, Men, and Modern Sexual Trends
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3260639
Show HN: request a way to build a custom error notice when App Engine is down
Are you saying he wasn't persecuted, or that it doesn't matter that he was? Serious question.
I read this imagining Woody Allen reading it out, excellent.
Alan Turing was treated really, really horribly by the government of the UK. I very much doubt he would like to be honored by the exact people who persecuted and destroyed his life.
Well, clearly at least 3700 people want to get familiar with it based on the number of backers so far, which is pretty good for a niche platform like this.

We'll find out soon enough.
What about just heroku in a different physical region, like replicate from east coast to west coast?
I think you're unintentionally moving the goalposts here. The idea I was questioning wasn't "Specs should be written in something other than English," it was "Specs should take the form of an executable reference implementation." AFAIK railroad diagrams are not executable. I'm also not sure how BNF is supposed to specify things like "the map function applies a function passed in to each argument in a list".
It is ok to be grumpy. We are all human beings after all. What is not ok is when you start using your grumpiness against the people you work with. If team morale is down because of your grumpiness, no one really gives a shit how good of a developer you are. It is that simple.

I remember one of those project management training sessions where we were taught

T E A M = Together Everyone Achieves More
Having access to Google Maps... there's a Starbucks (and Panera) basically next door. Granted the area isn't all that walkable and "next door" is still kind of far without a car.
The Postal Inspection Service is a useful tool. Mail fraud brings down a lot of sleazeballs that would otherwise have gotten away. Maybe because that's the last thing they would think to cover up.
It's not hill climbing. Gradient descent has some severe limitations.

Also, I have mentioned it before but if you are charged 1% and someone makes you 2%, I don't understand why you wouldn't buy from them. (On a side note: we earn our sellers more than 2% on average)
no, not two cords, two very wide tubes that trucks can go through.
It's not a good analogy because Liberty is a private, evangelical Christian school whose population is there by choice and China is a secular nation whose population is largely there by birth.

Those who make up Liberty's "population" are students attending by their own volition and are there specifically because they share the same cultural worldview as the institution -whatever its censorship tactics or however similar they may seem to China's.
Yes you are right that you could interpret it as being a mere location, however there are courts that cover all of the UK , e.g. the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kin... ). Likewise, a german court would have no juristicion over the rest of the EU (say).

If it was a german court decision it would be misleading to say "it was a EU ruling from a EU court which has no jurisdiction in any other countries/supranational bodies.", since that implies the court could have power over the whole of the EU. Likewise "UK court" might imply juristiction over all of UK.
Hi Scott,

I'm interested in these co-working spaces in Bali. I could only find one named Hubud but it seems not currently running. Could you name any others?
GAE applications are distributed across multiple data centers[1], so in theory you get "scale wide" automatically. Unfortunately it looks like there was some sort of flaw in the architecture. I believe this is the first systemwide failure of the HRD.

The real question is: Can you and your ops team build a "scale wide" system better than Google?[2] How much effort are you willing to put into it, when those development resources could be put into making features instead?

[1] For apps which use the high-replication datastore. Old (deprecated) master/slave apps are served out of a single datacenter.

[2] This is a reasonably serious question to ask. In GAE, you're one app among many, so a you-specific scaling solution might be easier and more robust than the generalized one Google builds. But not necessarily.
Before you go hiring all those "happy developers" I would suggest searching for "grumpy employee productivity". You can cross reference it with estimates of the GDP affect of various fields.

Your grumpy developers are in the state where they identify the most problems and introduce the least bugs. They also might not be grumpy when not concentrating on your train wrecks.

But not to worry, giving bad management advice is a great way to make us more productive.
I'm sure many people think "mp3" means "digital audio file"
A GPU has a totally different architecture and programming model. It is interesting for very different types of uses.
It's an ongoing living project, the largest of its kind in the world. The problem isn't the accuracy of any article at any one moment in time; the problem is the difficulty of ensuring the article remains accurate, so that 2 years from now, when people stop caring about the WP article about T.P-W, the project can still be sure that what's on that page (and thus the top of Google's SERPs) is accurate.

As an aside: I'm not sure you're entitled to be comfortable with Wikipedia's role. They didn't ask your permission to start the project; they just did it. The Wikipedia project, it seems to me, is entitled to set its own norms. If you don't like them, start a competing project. There's a whole big Internet out there to build on top of.

Many of the problems hackers seem to have with Wikipedia seem more like problems hackers have with encyclopedias. For instance, hackers want facts and ideas that they can verify from first principles to have a home on Wikipedia, but encyclopedias are never supposed to be venues for original research (they're supposed to be guides to the existing research). So, before you chime in and say "Wikipedia has an insurmountable first-mover advantage as the Internet's encyclopedia", ask, "do we want to be investing the content we're hoping to build in an encyclopedia, or do we want to create some kind of new venue that wouldn't even compete with Wikipedia but instead augment it, instead"?
Talking to people, the single most frequent first response is “I don’t get it”. Then we take the time to explain it and then they are like “Oh, I see. That’s cool”.

You said you failed to connect with people on an emotional level, but I would contend that you failed to solve a problem perceived by the customer.

Only when you solve a customer's problem will you get that emotional connection. It's not something you need to work at, it's something you either succeed at doing, or fail. I would say that your application just didn't solve anything someone was looking for.

Your questions led you down the wrong path. Your very first questions should have been:

1) What is the pain point that X have?
2) How can I solve that with an iPhone app?

Where X is anybody you thought you were solving a problem for.
Everyone who does any development should read this paper. It is not just for SSL specialists!
Apple Posts 'Apology' to Samsung on U.K. Website
> I would think so. It has many of the properties you would like in implementing a database system. First, the language is statically typed and executes surprisingly quickly. Second, it can handle high concurrency which is needed in a database since you will have many clients connection. Third, the libraries letting you interface with protobufs and HTTP provides two pretty simple ways to connect your Database interface to the rest of the world.

But that is not unique to Go, it may as well apply to Java, Scala, etc...
Ha! I loved your technical comment though. It was hard to respond to because I couldn't disagree about how difficult pricing can actually be.

We don't have a lot of marketing people on our team, so our whole idea of marketing is: If we had to explain it to a child how would we do it? Sorry if the approach appears elementary, between the three cofounders we are Math @ Columbia (Me), MS in Software Engineer from USC (CTO) and Stanford Econ/Harvard Law (COO), we don't have a lot of marketing people around so I think we may over compensate and make it too simple sometimes.
Throughout history, people sometimes make bad calls. With hindsight, it's easy to see what those were. Clearly some of his treatment was in the 'bad call' camp, but I don't think that was clear at the time.

Do you think he'd rather be remembered for his contribution to science, or for being 'persecuted by the government'? Personally, I expect it'd be the former.

I think it's useful to put things in perspective though... People fought in the war and DIED.
Replying to myself here. Sorry, but it's obviously not clear. I don't know if Microsoft wants to hide this or they are assuming everyone has a copy of Windows already or what.

Anyway, I just ran through this process at work. I downloaded the executable. Purchased Windows 8 for the price shown, $39.99.

It took me through some steps. At the end, it gave me the option to create an ISO. I have done this and will try it later tonight when I get home to see if it lets me do a clean install of Windows 8 on VMWare.
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Some of the games available for Mac through Steam are using Mono or a Wine wrapper. Those games should be very easy to port to Linux.

And while you can do gaming inside a VM with the right combination of hardware and software, it is very tricky to set up.
Ask HN: Danger of raising money for a consumer web startup
I'm posting this under a pseudonym in order to protect the naive. I'm involved in a consumer web commerce/entertainment startup. We've spent a significant amount of time refining our prototype and we're just getting ready to start accepting content in anticipation of a public beta launch. We would ultimately expect to burn through a few million dollars to reach profitability, largely bandwidth, but we're bootstrapping as far as we can.

We've quite randomly encountered a team of would-be startup incubator / money finders / placeholder executives who after meeting somewhat briefly with us and looking over our (slightly informative) business plan and partially functioning demo site, suggested that we re-form as an S Corp in Delaware, which would be preferable to our current LLC in California. They then sent over an offer to pay them $7k (half up-front) for the preparation of an investment kit (incorporation, business plan, stock purchase agreement, etc.), and mentioned a 4% commission on money raised and 4-7% founders' share equity for them with a ~$3M series A open-ended round, and that we would be able to keep majority share for the founders at that valuation.

Now, given the fact that we would apparently be their first clients, this is the point where most sane people would run away screaming. We declined their generous offer for the investment kit preparation as too risky for us given their lack of track record, but they would like to meet for more in-depth discussion and possibly some other kind of arrangement.

It's probably unrealistic for us to think about a series A round before we have content licensed, let alone users and revenue. That said, what do you think about involving people like this in a startup? Are there any red lines that we shouldn't cross here, for fear of making us unattractive to investors? What are some ways of minimizing our risk as we seek partners in raising money? Are there any particular resources you might suggest for us?
This is a pretty neat clone. But wasn't Facebook's own implementation a ripoff of Google+?
Chrome for Windows 8
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/10/get-your-google-back.html
Isn't kickstarter would be perfect for companies to create games for linux platform?

This way they will know in which games people are really interested and I also think that people will gladly support those kickstarter. Overall much less risk on investment.
I think now, I will wait maybe 6 months before building anything for the Windows Store.
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We also perform our own backups regardless of PG Backups and use Continuous Protection to protect recent data, even in the event of irrecoverable volume failure: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-docume...
You are taking the word "grumpy" literally. In my opinion, the author is talking about a broader issue where you don't add value to a team/project when your attitude (grumpiness or whatever) is not in line with the rest of the team. Sure developers who identify most problems and introduce least bugs are great. But if they do that by constantly putting down others is being "bad grumpy".
Codeonfire,

Thanks for the reply. I'll try to write something up but pitch has to be sale like. I want to tell them why buying up our startup technology and idea would be beneficial for them.

Thanks,
Well, similarly, every Chinese person annoyed at the censorship just needs a short-wave radio to pick up global broadcasts. (unless they're jamming that frequency somehow) That doesn't make it any less bad. Personally, I have yet to own a phone with internet access.
Well, kinda. The DAC would convert the signal at full power, then the pre-amp stage would boost it according to you OS loudness setting in the analogue domain. This is possible, but I don't know if sound cards are actually implemented that way.

I know professional mixing consoles are not (at least not exclusively), but they offset that by calculating everything in 32 bit float and using very high bit length DACs. Sound cards do have a pre-amp stage but I don't know if they are software-controlled.
For another approach to this problem, see the Urbanspoon iPad app. It shows every restaurant in a city, drawing them as dots in a map overlay then swapping for pins when you zoom in enough that a manageable number would be shown.

This doesn't deal with clustering, of course. It's a different UI solution.
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