skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to see it from a different perspective: customers are paying (my guess) $800 per rack, per month, plus power and bandwidth charges; and a rack takes up 30 square feet once you include the space around that rack.

So almost $30 per square foot for just the raw space alone. $360 per square foot per year is a high rent, even for NYC.

And what is the client supposed to get for his money? Reliability! The engineering and facilities management expertise to ensure this, is baked into the costs.

You ask, "so now they are expected to move 55 gallon drums of fuel"? ABSOLUTELY they are expected to do that. The only "appropriate perspective" is that the clients are paying a lot of money for the datacenter to do whatever needs to be done.

They had a week of warning to source these; they already have a long-standing relationship with their fuel supplier for diesel delivery, so they call him up and say "Joe, we need 20 drums of diesel in addition to topping up the tanks we have" and they arrive in the next 2 days.

These diesel generators are basically modified / tuned versions of a big truck or marine diesel, which has a rebuild interval of 500K to 1 million miles if used as a truck engine or some high number of operating hours (like 10,000 hours). Perhaps you are thinking of LPG, natgas or gasoline powered gensets, which are designed for less frequent use.

I researched all aspects of building a DC years ago and realized that even if I could raise the $5 million to do an entry level one, my effort was best spent elsewhere.

Customers punish downtime, this DC will lose clients, be sure of it.

Aside: there was a guy in New Orleans who kept his DC running all through Hurricane Katrina and after it - if you search the site at http://mgno.com with terms like "diesel drums" you will find his old posts. Can't seem to easily link to these old posts, though.
http://3dfile.io (powered by teamplatform.com) supports almost all major CAD formats.
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Shopify currently powers over 5 TVs around the office with this. It helps visualize key metrics such as customer counts, signups, shop sales, etc...
In raw geographical terms, Ohio only barely counts as "the Midwest"; I think it is included in that region primarily for cultural/economic reasons. What about Kansas City or Omaha?

I lived in KC for some years and we'd occasionally get remnants of gulf hurricanes, but they'd just be severe storm systems that would pass through. We rarely lost power, but if we did, it was never for protracted time periods, and generators in data centers should easily be able to deal with power loss from severe storms.

Tornadoes are pretty much the least threatening natural disaster out there, as their area of effect is usually small and their duration is usually short, so I think "tornado alley" is actually a fine place for a data center meteorlogically.
I've used Braintree for about 5 years. They've always been excellent to work with. I know a couple of other customers of theirs, and all have had good things to say about them.

I've also used Stripe for billing (more recently), and they've been great as well.

If I were starting a new project that required billing, I would absolutely be looking at both Braintree and Stripe. Anyone who doesn't is doing themselves and their business a disservice.
I'd expect people who are affect to be more likely to vote "no", out of a desire to not use (or appear to use) the disaster to their advantage. They want a level playing field, and that means to them not getting special treatment because of outside circumstances.

I'd expect a lot of people not affected to vote "yes" out of a desire to not gain (or appear to gain) at the expense of other's suffering a disaster. They want a level playing field, and that means to them not having the competition disadvantaged because of outside circumstances.

It's the same reason Inigo Montoya let the Man in Black rest after the latter's climb up the Cliffs of Insanity, even though the Man in Black was willing to fight as soon as he got to the top.
Employees shouldn't be blogging on company time (except on a company blog, where the IP issues are unambiguous). I don't think it's unethical, because most companies no longer seriously invest in employees' career advancement, so employees have to sneak away time for that, and everyone successful "steals" a lot of education. I do think it's sloppy and reckless to perform side work you actually intend to use on company time. If you are going to go ahead and do it, at least show you're not a total fucking moron by turning off timestamps.

I understand that it's annoying if you suspect someone's "wasting company time", but I the larger issue that people have with this is mostly irrespective of whether the blogging happens during work hours, especially as those become increasingly vague in definition. The issue, for the Baby Boomer clientele of WSJ, is that it punctures the illusion that people are supposed to keep that they're 100% dedicated to the corporate goals and working as hard as they can. (If you have side projects, even if they occur outside of work, they will decrease short-term work performance from a manager's perspective. If you work 80 hours per week in total and give your boss 40, what you're actually giving is worth 25-30, tops, because of the per-hour productivity slide.)

Baby Boomers had to put forward an image of total loyalty: no side projects, no interest in independent credibility, happy to work on whatever they were assigned to do. Millennials don't buy into that, not in the least. They put their careers ahead of management's objectives and it shows, and it's making a lot of people angry, but it's a rational response to a new economic reality.
What's it like to work with him?
It is interesting how Braintree, Paypal, Stripe, WePay* all offer 2.9% + $0.30 as their pricing model for processing credit cards.

Why is it exactly the same across all of these providers?

Credit card companies must be setting their prices so that all these companies need to compete on the same level.

What happens when one of them decides to do 2.89% or $0.29? Everyone is fighting over portions of pennies these days.

* WePay originally had 3.5% to try to buck the trend, but even they are now moving towards the 2.9+.30 model.
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A $100-500 set of headphones, decent headphone amp ($50-500), and FLAC files will probably get you to "98" on the log scale, too.

(I'm a little wary of buying used headphones, at least without replacing all the soft parts and cleaning thoroughly, though.)
Sure, and I'll bet it's all in the family of psychological rationalization. I've never read it, but maybe one can come out of "What Color Is Your Parachute?" with the answer, "be Steve Jobs," or one of those old-timey employment predictors like "You are: A Jerk; Possible careers: Steve Jobs or bad police officer."
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Any Intel employees in the crowd? What's the level of worry surrounding ARM these days?

Given Intel's high levels of competitive paranoia, news like this must have people fairly worried. Not to mention the explosive growth in adoption of the ISA over the past few years.
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How to fund a non-IT idea?
We have a great idea, already patented on the US and Europe. It is a medical device.

We did ask lots of companys for funding, but the answer has always been a negative one.

How can we get help?
AMD could package them with their ATI/Radeon graphics processors.
There aren't that many people using any 2.2.0-specific features in the wild yet, though, which is what the OP was posting to.
Funny, the opposite lesson is sometimes true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Royal

In fact, there aren't a lot of paper homes in the United States (There are none.) Most Americans prefer brick homes but they're relatively expensive and don't really protect you from the worst of hurricanes. They also don't protect your power supply so that fridge full of food better not be perishable.
"no purpose or value to it", really?

For those who want to get a site up with good defaults, typography, and widgets, Bootstrap is a huge timesaver. If you have a better framework for those of us who "can't design" then point us in the right direction.
"reasonable cost?"

The "reasonable cost" is a good point of course. Also relative to what they are able to charge and how that would change their business model. One type of customer might be willing to pay for a more robust service, others wouldn't. Take any garden variety website hosting service where the charge is under $10 per month and try to operate it giving better uptime and charging, say, $20 per month and see your customer base vanish. People expect it to work 24x7 but aren't willing to pay for it. They would rather take their chances.

That said one thing they might be able to do at a "reasonable" cost is simply spread their customer base over multiple data centers. So the failure of one would only bring down a smaller percentage of their customers.
You can customize it, there are even generators. It gives you a cross-browser grid and a lot of goodies. It is maintained and tested across nearly every device. A huge help, if you ask me.
A bit disappointed that the truncate bit wasn't mentioned. So, for the open resolver owners playing along at home:
Instead of dropping suspect requests send the truncate bit back. There's no byte amplification in the response, which defeats the attacks raison d'etre.

By dropping the incoming packets you're punishing well behaved resolvers. They're going to take a 2-500ms latency hit before retrying another resolver or over tcp. A well behaved resolver will respond to a truncate by sending the same query over tcp. That's only a latency hit of the rtt.

The tcp connection also effectively authenticates control of that source ip address. Now add that src ip to your whitelist of known good resolvers.

Attacker mitigated, other customers not impacted.
What's wrong with grids? Everything I have read about design seems to advocate laying things out in the fashion.

The nice thing about bootstrap is it enables things like having say, 2 columns at the top of the page then 3 columns underneath then finally going to a single column for the footer very easily.

Doing these things in manual CSS if you don't know about all the various browser quirks and tricks can be a pain.
> Markdown is not some amazing patented invention that John Gruber is entitled to perpetual dictatorial rights to forever.

Completely wrong. Markdown is John Gruber's creation, and he is quite entitled to perpetual dictatorial rights forever (although copyright is limited, his estate is perfectly capable of renewing if he wishes). John Gruber is the copyright holder on Markdown (the idea and implementation, which most of this thread is overlooking). It says so right here:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/license

In the same license, it says:

> Neither the name “Markdown” nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

Think about that while I repeat: You do not get to take over someone's creation and trade on its name simply because you are not satisfied with the stewardship of its creator.
How much data do you have?

My personal gmail has less than 3gb, and I dont notice any performance issues.
> What both Jeff and Gruber bring to the party is profile. As the article points out, there are already variants of Markdown that fix many of the problems but it would seem none of them have gained traction.

Sounds like the market has spoken.
Before laying down any money, I'd recommend heading over to hydrogen audio (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/) and reading around for a while, or asking questions. As part of their terms of service, they require listening test data to back up any claims of audible differences. It makes for some pretty interesting discussions, and it's changed my outlook quite a bit. It's also probably saved me quite a bit of money.
Answer: how much have you got?
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What gmail really needs to change is the "reply" box. When I'm composing a regular email I get a nice big box in which to type my email. When I'm typing a reply email I just have a little tiny (vertically tiny) box to type my reply. Why?????? So annoying.
that is not how a siphon works. The destination must be at a lower elevation than the supply reservoir.
"dams burst (...) it'll only last as long as we expend energy to maintain it" - true

But as our construction techniques improve, maintainance cost are reduced (or alternatively reconstruction costs are reduced - it's all a tradeoff)

Also, look at what happened as a consequence of the tsunamis - we are getting better at monitoring them.

We will also certainly get a better understanding on how they behave, and maybe how to mitigate them (IIRC wavefronts of opposing frequency cancel out- maybe someday we'll be able to do something like that)

It all takes time- if only to develop understanding on what to do, what to avoid, and technology on how to actually do something.

I'm not denying the fact that we are not able to fix the weather - yet. But in the long run, we will.

It certainly is premature to put much faith in that, yet look at the ideas for geoengineering- it's very inspiring.

I don't want to be overtly optimistic - humans are great - but we also have flaws, mostly social. There are indeed very concerning in the short run - especially in the west and in Europe, where something is going wrong (less interest in science, less willpower, lesser will to live?). But the world is a big place, and if the current powerhouses stop innovating, someone else will take the lead. It doesn't really matters who does.

So in the long run, I'm sure the human race will win against nature (as in total win - incluing whole brain emulation), if we just manage to not destroy ourselves due to existential risks in the process.

These are IMHO the only real obstacles to acheiving that.
I thought that way for a long time too - but ultimately I think the limited/artificial soundstage with headphones has to hold them back a bit, in the realm of merely "very good" rather than "nearly perfect".

My headphone rig objectively sounds better than my speaker rig, but the speakers ultimately sound more natural, even if by objective measurements (e.g. frequency response) they're markedly inferior.

(Neither rig is super high end, not too far above the ~$1000 system at the end of the article, but they are all properly chosen and installed components.)
This would have never happened on Android. Typical Apple over reaching bullshit. BRB selling my iPhone for something that RESPECTS my sexual desires.
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Do you have "compact mode" turned on?

I mostly like it, except the contact info side bar can cut into my email pane when I dont have my browser fullscreened.
Unless they intend to make a mobile GPU like Nvidia did with Tegra, how will their Brazos GPU's compete in performance/Watt with something like the ARM Mali GPU, which would probably be a default choice for Calxeda.
"and they’ll have to wait up to 15 minutes for the DNS changes to propagate"

Not sure I see the need for a propagation delay if customers can be pointed to the new site by simply using domainbackup.com instead of domain.com (in other words completely separate dns as well as a completely different domain (even through a completely separate registrar) to a site hosted elsewhere. They can know this in advance of course.
if we do win over nature, why?
It's not science if there's no metric. If your hypothesis can't be falsified there's no scientific method.

I'm not sure what you're advocating, but it seems to be wish-based education.
As I understand it, incorrect branch prediction becomes significantly more expensive (power-/time-wise) as pipeline length increases, so getting the prediction right and being able to correct quickly is quite important.
I'm at A < 1.0 (even 6 weeks of vacation, which I always take with plenty of notice), but have no problem getting or keeping a job long term. I'm A < 1.0 because I'm ambitious about "working to live", rather than "living to work" like the A > 1.0 types. I do expect to be "managed out", but only because everyone but top management gets laid off eventually, to keep the staff young.
This is astonishingly good. Especially things like the Flickr sample app included in here. That said, I'd love to see URL-based state supported so that I could, say, share the Flickr sample app that I think is so impressive[1].

[1] For now, http://enyojs.com/sampler/ -> Layout -> List -> Lazy-loading list
The logarithmic scale is the key insight. It would be interesting to ponder whether there are any hobbies that involve buying stuff regularly that don't feature this. I know from experience wine is very similar (and, of course, value can be had if you know what you want to compromise).
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Does anyone have a comprehensive/good solution to how to move all your stuff out of Gmail?

Midway while typing this post, I did a search and boom: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3581613
Markdown is a specific implementation, a concept lost on the majority of the people in this thread.
That very adorable kitten is way too distracting, and made it very hard to focus on the article.
It wouldn't. It would be a 16-CPU-core beast with a Radeon GPU aimed at competing with x86-64 performance/Watt.
I assume that's before Braintree Instant? Else it's apples and oranges.

If it is with Braintree Instant I'd love to hear more on why Stripe was easier.
Does anyone else get annoyed when replying to threads with multiple people?

I always want to reply to the most recent message, but usually someone else responds while I am composing. So I have to view their message and reply to that instead of to the original message. Does this happen to anyone else, or am I taking crazy pills?
Usually priceonomics provides statistics from a large poll of customer/purchase record, .etc. That is information you couldn't gain elsewhere. Somewhat like an analytics publication.

This article is just a description of a shopping experience, together with the research result you have to do before you buy something that is a new category to you.

Oh well.
> Neither the name “Markdown” nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/license
I hate hate HATE new windows. It reminds me of IE or MS outlook manage this particular problem. I like this idea of a smaller chat like window, it's really blurring the line between chat and email once again. (Like google did when they started chaining emails together. Remember when that wasn't even a thing! I do, cuz I was amazed when google started doing it.) I think google really gets me when it comes to how I like to communicate via email..
I bet that's a forced decision since their store is much smaller than the others. Everyone will try to find a way to proclaim that they're #1.

Eventually, they'll all have tons of apps, both good and bad. So, for me, #1 will go to the app store with the best app discovery service.
I spoke to my friend @ Intel a while back, and he said that the company viewed Samsung as their main rival (not AMD, not ARM). His argument was that Intel's main competitive advantage (and where the majority of spending/R&D happens) was their fabs, and Samsung was the only other company that could come close to competing on that front.
In terms of branding Braintree has been around for a long time and is a very trusted name. They're very well known for being developer friendly and having great customer service.

I'm using Stripe right now but a brand goes well beyond the name...especially when you're talking about financial services companies.
Tornado Alley runs from northern Texas through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
This is for me the most interesting part of the whole teleportation / entanglement research.

When these papers started coming out we debated the notion of 'faster than light' communication. The counter argument was that you had to move the particles apart and that was constrained by the speed of light. Then the question of "when" the state was resolved was pondered. There were two thought experiments proposed at this meetup.

In the first, two highly accurate clocks, separated by enough distance that that speed of light issues were unambiguously resolved by the clocks, which where triggered by the resolution of the quantum state of an entangled particle. Capturing the exact time when the state was known (detangled) on each clock, and then comparing the times on the clocks to determine whether or not it was truly 'instant'.

The second experiment was to set up a 'set' of entangled particles at a distance and resolve only 'some' of them. The set representing 'bits' and the resolved set representing the 'information.'

The question of course is whether or not you can move information this way. Seems like we are getting closer to answering those questions in a definitive way.

I always thought it would be fun to write a short story about someone doing this and discovering that it was the galactic equivalent of 'shortwave' radio and have the alien equivalent of the FCC come out to the planet to arrest the scientists for transmitting without a license :-)
I gathered he let him rest because that was what was written in the script.
For Music:

1. USB DAC
2. Magnepan Speakers
3. Stereo Receiver

For movies or games you'll want surround and a sub
Django-Piston is not longer being worked on. It may be risky to use a tool that isn't being regularly maintained.
Honestly, it's not FC vs. self-hosted, it's FC vs. an alternate product.

Preferably one not locate in a hurricane path, flood plain, earthquake zone, fire area, landslide track, or subject to political or economic instability.

Or highly redundant with tested failover paths.

All of which costs money, and still doesn't assure reliability. Look at last week's AWS EBS outage and root cause analysis: the service was brought down by its own monitoring (exacerbating an existing memory bug).

It's not easy. Sandy is the most extreme hurricane to hit NYC in a century (though the second in as many years). NYC is a sufficiently important commerce and financial hub to have excellent services and recovery capabilities, but it still isn't immune to perturbations.
If you're in China and are having finding prostitutes, you haven't either walked through you hotel lobby, onto a main shopping street, or really been anywhere. They are quite literally everywhere in the cities and larger towns.

I can not think of a single day, except deep in the mountainous countryside, where I have not been approached by women selling themselves, or guys trying to sell me 'sexy lady massage'. Even in the mountains we're seen roadside brothels.

If the search feature was to find quality prostitutes, then that's quite probably another issue and for some a positive development.
You can fix the soundstage somewhat using an xfeed filter. It's simplistic, but does help move the soundstage out from inside your head to being perceived more in front.
It's pretty easy to set this up for most software sources, sadly not typically supported by hardware players or phones.
The datacenter is in Zone A, which did receive the mandatory evacuation order from the city, but we have a few people from Fog Creek onsite or nearby right now and there is at least one person from PEER 1 there right now. Roads to the area are open, life is returning.