skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot dismiss arguments as marketing-speak just because they don't fit your high-performance viewpoint, and "marketers" have made similar arguments in the past.

The first two paragraphs are about one benefit: using otherwise idle resources. At my lab, we have five powerful servers for data-processing experiments and non-time-critical analytics. Most of the time they sit completely unused. By installing Xen and running things in virtual machines, we have been able to also put tens of differently configured web servers for various small projects on each.

The third paragraph is also very valuable from experience. It has been very useful to keep documentation around how different servers are set up, and verifying that the actual setup still matches the documentation. This has been easiest to ensure by having scripts that create a new VM, install packages and make configuration changes - if in doubt, completely delete the VM and re-create it from scratch with a single command-line.
While we are talking about greatest features and GMail... it would be awfully nice if they would finally implement some sort of sub-string search, given it's almost 2013 and they are synonymous with searching and finding things on the internet.

It is incredibly frustrating that in order to be able to find an email I received years ago I have to figure out exactly how someone might have written a certain term in that mail. And I cannot see any excuse for not offering that feature; limit me to a few substring searches a day if resources are an issue and I don't expect fully-indexed lightning-fast results, a simple "grep", so to speak, would be just fine...but please let me search my mails properly!
Have you ever bought a diamond for your spouse or wife?
We have and it's hard to select THE ONE in hundreds of thousands on the net.
So we launched a new site which can help with it. The higher a diamond rank is, the better deal it should be. Other diamonds comparison sites don't have this feature. Maybe someone will find it useful too. Lets try http://www.diamonderia.com
What do you think about our site?
Definitely agree with the RTW ticket. We bought a one-way flight from Sydney to Buenos Aires, never looked back. It's an incredible amount of freedom not knowing which port will be your way home, or whether your trip will turn from 3 months into a year. Never lock yourself in to something that can't be altered, changed or cancelled without a massive hit to your finances.
Bearing in mind that none of the example models would be what actually gets done, it was not a bad article for someone starting uni to read and get an idea of Quant funds though?

Companies will continue to use old and well worn questions, and variations on the themes, in order to test candidates statistical intuition. Note that the interview questions asked for every job are just as standard and game-able.

I was surprised he didn't even mention the kinds of programming languages that would be useful.
It's just a tax by another name.
i like your sarcasm.
Engineers pave the way towards 3D printing of personal electronics
JPL director: Curiosity may have found organic, not biological molecules
Don't take my word for it, I'm guessing based on my impression of Django. You know some projects you want to avoid the .0 release and others are pretty safe at the beta release. I just have the feeling that Django is at the safe end. I don't have any data to back it up at this point though.
Bingo. And in the case of EC2 the economies of scale almost certainly outweigh the cost of a VM layer.
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works fine for me in Chrome 23.0.1271.64 on Ubuntu 12.10
I can vouch for Console2, it really contributes to improve the 'terminal experience' in Windows. I also use cygwin as my shell and apt-cyg as my 'package manager', they make me feel almost on a Unix when I need to code or do some other task better served by terminal utils.
For Apple at least, they have no motive to gain market share on web-based maps, for them mapping is a means to an end rather than a product line in its own right. Maps on mobile are an expected feature right now, and having their own solution meant more flexibility and control, and less dependence on Google.
another link quoting Elachi
http://www.getradardetectors.com/mars-quotfind-organic-molec...
Me too. I desperately wanted to turn that feature off but never managed to find a way. I can't tell you how many times I was just jiggling a window around (usually the browser, while I thought something through or tried to work out what I was going to do next), and all of a sudden my other windows got minimized.

Before that it used to be holding the shift key for 5 seconds while I paused to think. That was especially infuriating if you didn't notice and ended up with 'sticky keys'.
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WordPress also lets you add a special kind of the image to the post called as a featured image. So have fun while creating new post with featured images in your WordPress blog.
The Mail app on OS X has this for some time now.
Reminds me of Fight Club's Palaniuk "sofa citation":

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5
Yes please :) . If a third party implements this, I might use it as well :) (I don't care how - POP3 offloading to my PC?).

Well, I'll add it to my "startup ideas" list :) .
The repository with all of the formulas is here:
https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-dupes

The two I end up using semi-frequently are gcc and apple-gcc, for those projects that Clang just won't compile.
Does it block cell phones?

3G and 4G have similar frequencies to wi-fi.
also another filter for meta posts would be nice... oh wait.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559990
Did not (also not sarcasm), thanks.
Almost certainly. Apple stopped updating their tools past the GPLv2 versions, with the most noticeable example being gcc, which was frozen at 4.2 until they removed it.
Why is the link to this job opening posted so often? I see it every 1 - 2 months here. It's not so interesting to see it posted as often as it is.
Outlook.com breaks the 25 million active user mark, releases an Android
"The metapaper also advertises itself as a healthy alternative, since it claims to reduce a person's exposure to electromagnetic waves. Scientists behind the product point to studies that say the overuse of wireless technology could cause harmful heath effects."

Umm..
As a programmer that has occasionally worked in teams that delivered great software in 1/3rd the time that sensible people thought possible, that advert really appeals to me -- to me it sounds like someone who really wants to get stuff done, and that is exciting. Like the GP said, the language in this particular post is interesting -- it feels very different to the usual 'are you a ROCKSTAR NINJA PROGAMMER?!?!?!' stuff that tends to typify the worthless startup guys.

That kind of high-performance environment is all about the team, not the individual. Usually it's hard to know who you will gel with until you have some sort of history of working together, then you self select. However, like I say, this advert really appeals to me and could possibly help me get over that pre-selection process in my head.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/quickdrag/

or as one comment of that extention says:

http://www.firefox.net.cn/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29894
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Unless you're purely serving static content, network bandwidth is not going to be your bottleck.

That's not really the point though, since the big motivator for SSDs isn't bandwidth, it's latency.
I don't know why exactly, but it's really grating me that people have been replying to them. It may go against the spirit of Usenet but it would have been nice if Google disabled replies in their user interface, or at least filtered the display somehow.

It's like going to a museum and seeing chewing gum stuck to the sides of the exhibits. "OMG 30 Years..." - yes mate, thanks for that.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/net.genera...
Yes, I was searching for a read it later app that allows me highlighting and saving stuff for years..
Printing ourselves
The "sorry vegans" remark seems silly. Let me remind any meat-eater (including myself) that some of the greatest minds in history, including Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and possibly Isaac Newton were vegetarians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegetarians
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Hyping one threat to hide another
Highlight any text and right-click. The third option down will offer to search Google using the selected text (though it probably uses your default search engine, rather than hardcoding Google).

You can also highlight any URL (it doesn't need to be a link, just look like a URL) and tell Firefox to load it by either right-clicking or by dragging it to the tab bar. Try it out on any of the following:

google.com
www.google.com
http://www.google.com
I do this too. I also sometimes do it when I scroll down a page to skim the content to see if I want to carry on reading.
One alternative is GSanitizer extension.
Is there an HN event for Los Angeles?
This is my method too. It also means that if I am interrupted I don't have to do anything to keep my place, although I still sometimes select text if I want to keep something above it on screen for context.
Why do Christmas lights all go out when one bulb blows?
When the typography is really bad I use readability, although I'm sure I select text on readability too.
Given the frequencies, I think it would make a nice security layer around microwave ovens, too :)
the android app is outsourced to a company and it's awful.
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They don't. Period.
You can tweak some git grep config settings and get the ack UI and because it's git grep it's got most of the code conveniences too as well as the speed.

http://travisjeffery.com/b/2012/02/search-a-git-repo-like-a-...
regular HN reader here, but i have not seen this posted before.
This blog post explains how to easily added various kinds of borders to images using Cloudinary's cloud-based image transformations. It also demos some useful chained transformations for quickly achieving interesting effects. The post includes sample code in PHP, Ruby, Django and Node.js.
Nice to learn that there's actually a word for this middle road!
For the consumer it certainly looks like that. However, the legal underpinnings are completely different with all sorts of interesting side effects. The basic idea was after WW2 that the radio should be as independent from the government as possible, so a completely separate system of funding was set up. The government has no say in the way the money gets collected or spent and very little ways of influencing how much money gets collected. Now there are some checks and balances and ways how the politicians can actually influence the radio stations, but not via "we'll cut your funding if you don't report what we want."

The system certainly has its flaws and room for improvement, but a purely privately owned system is not a better option.
It's installed by default in 12.10, alongside Python 2.7. Eventually, only Python 3 will be in a default installation, but it will still use the command 'python3'.
What exactly is the relationship between organic molecules & life?
Jun 1982 - First mention of Star Wars Episode 6

"I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a little faster. I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts of the Star Wars series."

- Randal L. Schwartz, 6/9/82

You poor bastard...
Can someone please explain the difference between an organic molecule and a biological molecule?
Network overhead is just one bottleneck.

A harddisk seek + reading 1 MB sequentially is something like 30 times slower than SSD and 120 times slower than reading from RAM. Disk seeks are what really kills you, as a disk seek is 20 times slower than a roundtrip within the same datacenter.

Sending 1 MB of data over a 1Gbps network using a disk seek and a sequential read is 3.6 times slower than doing the same with SSD. For big files with a server that has to serve many concurrent requests you'll end up doing several disk seeks for the same file. And we've been talking about the ideal too, because data on disks can get fragmented and so reading from the same file does not guarantee a sequential read.

This is why Varnish does caching, even when serving static files. If you want high performance with low latency, then Varnish works better than something like Nginx.

As an example, right now I'm working on integrating with an OpenRTB ads exchange platform. My server has to respond within 100ms total roundtrip (with an upper bound of 200ms, but they complain if you consistently respond in over 100ms). It's enough to say that everything to be served has to be already in memory, as doing anything else means that window cannot be met (consider how a single disk seek can cost something like 10ms).

So yeah, SSDs can be useful.
The majority of any existing life would be subterranean as the article states.
have a look in the wiki, some users are doing this
http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox_DIY
Why do you limit IPv6 addresses? Just kidding! Yes, IPv4 addys are in short supply.
Will Samsung receive more stringent investigations and sanctions than Huawei had, given that Samsung is caught red-handed?
On most boards this filter is also known by name 'moderators'.
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I'm not much of an admin, but is it so much easier to transfer a virtual image to another server than to transfer an installation from one server to another?

Presumably as long as the server your VM sits on has more memory than your VM, you can increase memory easily. But the maximum might only be what a dedicated server would have given you from the start?

Edit: I just checked, seems Hetzner has a server with 16GB RAM for 49€/month (64$). The maximum Linode VM with 8GB sets you back 320€/month.

It seems the 49€ is the cheapest standard Hetzner server atm, but you can get cheaper ones via their auctions. Of course then if you need more memory you have to move server, not sure how complicated that really is...
For myself I usually use this function below that is useful if you do a lot of code grep.

function g! { grep -nr --exclude=.git --exclude=.hg --exclude=.svn --include="*.$1" "$2" ${3-"."} --colour; }

And then:

g! py "some python code"

https://coderwall.com/p/uhzc0a
Rewards set to halve for digital money miners
"Under the deal, the student will promise not to break copyright laws again in the knowledge that he will be liable for prosecution if he does."

If that's literally what the deal says, I contend that is a completely impossible promise to keep.
I'm just curious, what does a service policy on a chef's knife get you btw? Will they sharpen it for you, or something? There's not much that can break on a chef's knife unless you really maltreat it, is there?
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That was kind of insensitive considering the positive question hat he asked. Nigeria is a huge vibrant economy.
I used to do this several years ago. Not doing anymore. :-)
Organic in this context means carbon-bearing - a necessity for life (as we know it), but not direct evidence of it. Encouraging, though!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry
Edit: It seems more Italian newspapers are reporting this quote than just this one site, but for an announcement of this importance, I'm still not going to believe it until we get some more confirmation.
Organic molecules simply refer to carbon-based compounds. They don't necessarily have to be biological in nature.
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Strange that none of the mainstream media has covered this.

Can anybody verify if this news is true? Or its from a trust worthy source?
Gasoline is an organic molecule. (Quoth wikipedia: An organic compound is any member of a large class of gaseous, liquid, or solid chemical compounds whose molecules contain carbon.)

DNA is a biological molecule - a molecule used more or less exclusively in biology and not spontaneously occurring outside the context of life.
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As a matter of interest, which hardware (specifically laptop) did you take along? I'm about to do a trip and am unsure whether to take a MBA on the road with me.
Organic compounds and organic chemistry are thus named for historical reasons, not that they necessarily have anything to do with organisms (although they can). Generally it's carbon-hydrogen based molecules, for example, methane (CH4) is the simplest organic molecule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compounds

As to what is a biological molecule, well, that's a harder question. In a somewhat tautological way I'd probably say that's something coming from a biological organism.
None. The life on earth as we know it in a traditional sense is based on carbon-based compounds. You can use anything else that forms polymers essentially, but carbon happened to happen.
Slate specializes in punditry rather than reportage, I wouldn't worry too much about it. If it's BS NASA will clarify or deny within a few hours, but there have been hints leaking from several sources about some exciting news that was still under embargo while they continue testing. I think it's OK to post since it includes a legit source/scientific forum.
Highlight the varied and vibrant Nigerian economy. Publicize 419 prosecution efforts with a great well designed web campaign.

But unfortunately the 419 jokes are too often funny, so it's going to be hard to ever get rid of them.

I hope to visit the Lagos tech scene / hub some day soon.
This is just a regurgitation of a speculative statement by an uninvolved scientist. What is this, TMZ?
It was in a conference in Rome, that's why the first at reporting it are italian newspapers. It is on the BIG newspapers, so I think is trustwothy:
http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2012/11/28/news/curiosity_m...
It's a newspaper, not a blog, and the cited source, ANSA, is "the leading wire service in Italy": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenzia_Nazionale_Stampa_Associ...

Ultimately, the weak link is the guy at the conference, not the site where it's reported.
Yes, by which point they hope that they won't need to keep interest rates down.

In fact, this statement and others made at the time are an attempt to get additional traction with expectations about future interest rates.
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The problem is that "as long as it works" is vague. All browsers? ALL? All except IE7? IE6? iOS4?
"La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno" is not a blog, it's a newspaper. The news was reported by other Italian newspapers too, quoting Charles Elachi's words during a speech held in Rome.
I think that if something like this comes from a NASA director, it is not made up or speculative. A speculation like that not being true would mean the end of his career.
Getting reports of brute force attacks is useful, but is not an indication of bad security. Hiding the reports under the carpet does not increase security either.

Preventing brute force attacks is not the bare minimum. The bare minimum is to not be vulnerable to brute force attacks in the first place. ssh already has built in protection for this, and it slows brute force attacks to the point where such an attack is impossible in practice, unless you have weak passwords. Mandate large enough keys only, ban passwords, and you're done. Allow password authentication is your real security vulnerability here. Patching over it with fail2ban just hides the issue.

I do understand how fail2ban works. "Just" monitoring logs isn't good enough. The data that appears in logs is not generally considered to be a security sensitive channel. It's string data with poorly defined delineation. It should not be trusted for automatic use, since every channel that dumps data into log files is not vetted for security.

> You've been lucky.

I disagree. You claim I'm advocating security by obscurity, but you're the one who seems to think that hiding version strings gains in security. That's security by obscurity, since you can determine the version of software by observing its behaviour (or just not caring and trying your attack anyway).

I'm not advocating complacency. We just disagree on what complacency is. I claim that if you keep your software up to date (easiest if you do follow distribution defaults), then you are sufficiently secure. The overwhelming majority of security compromises happen because people fail to run updates. The second largest cause is because of vulnerable misconfigurations that people have introduced. Only a tiny fraction of compromises come through a default distribution installation that your hardening would catch, and these holes are rapidly patched by vendors and a simple update will close them. I think that it is much more likely that you'll open the second cause (an introduced misconfiguration) if you try hardening and you don't know what you're doing. Which is why I recommend sticking to distribution defaults.
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Based on this article A-GPL sounds like a good idea for applications and maybe for libraries used in products. Probably not so good idea for libraries used primarily by sysadmins and other in-house engineers.
I don't agree. Sure, "ninja rockstar" has been over/misused to the point where it's beyond cliché, but at the core is a requirement for essentially supernatural skills and the implicit understanding that those are not realistic, so only the best need apply.

The language requirements gives the ad a certain solemnity in today's context, but I don't think it would have conveyed anything out of the ordinary in 1994.
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Interesting, I've been developing a very similar idea independently.
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A big part of the problem is that everyone, of course, wants rockstars, they want the top 25, 10, or 1% of the talent pool. But not every company actually needs them. Not every company even knows what to do with them or can make effective use of them.

And not every company wants to pay for them. If you need rockstar results expect to pay rockstar prices.
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/17/beercamp-an-ex...
Yeah, looks like it.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.outlook.Z7

They could at least include screenshots of the inbox. Not that interested in the composing and welcome screens.
The keyword here is 'perhaps'.
From what I've learned, Don't find a co-founder because most internet reports say that a business needs two co-founders to be sucessful. (Despite statistically proven)

I would of have be much leaner/faster going solo and not worrying who number 2 was, and did the vast majority of work early on anyway of which those co-founders left. If you know the task you need a co-founder to do, find a co-founder... otherwise keep moving and find a co-founder/employee later...
Most of the time they sit completely unused.
Nice. I'm on a pretty decent connection but quite often google's redirection page takes forever to load.

For anyone struggling to install this: Download the .crx file to your computer, open chrome://extensions/ then drag the file to that page.