skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, if you're careful then that predictability should be a good thing.

Yes, it's a very good thing. In a high end SSD storage system, you predict early enough based on a calculation of how many drives there are, and what their current wear is, what type they are (SLC, eMLC, cMLC), etc. Then you phone home and have a drive delivered before the user even sees a disk failure.

With HDD's, the failure rate is so random that the disk completely failing is the signal that get's a replacement drive into the enclosure. S.M.A.R.T-type alert systems have been epic failures (too little info too late). The difference is because of the RAID rebuild having a lower probability of failure (let's set aside mulitple URE's for a second) that you can count on the mttf of the next drive failing being longer than the time it takes to get a drive out there.

However this is not much of a guarantee, so most people crazy over provision their storage.

SSDs let you predict this, thus provision correctly, and choose how to replace the drives to least impact the customer. It's win win to have predictable failure. I don't understand people who say otherwise.
They do? I thought they just disliked undebuggable proprietary plugins.
Yeah, the 'Add comment' link is pretty confusing. I'd consider moving the '1 comment' text below the comment box, and display the truncated comment text instead. It felt very much like the comment I'd entered had just disappeared with the current implementation.
I don't have this activated myself, but I assume that Osmium is referring to this setting: Account Settings > Security > Login Approvals
Let sites bid on 1hr blocks of time, they can make one submission that starts with 5 points.
My advice is not to feed this troll. She will dodge and weave, then blame people for not understanding her. She also doesn't know what she's talking about -- she insists there are no progressive genetic conditions without environmental factors. Dozens of such conditions falsify her position.
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As a graduate of (rival) Middlebury College, I am both impressed an un-surprised. Great visualization, but I'm not too surprised by the results. Accompanying percentages might make the results easier to digest.

I would be interested to see similar correlations for more specialized schools (Caltech / MIT for instance) as a contrast to liberal arts education.
Would be cool to also see majors displayed as equally-sized arcs in a separate viz, so that you could discern the relative percentages of each major that go into a given field.
I might look into SimpleLoginSecure, thanks. Good luck with the project.
Why do you assume this happens by design?
A remarkably accurate analysis in my eyes.
Am I the only one that finds appeals to donate actually more irritating that adverts?
If you control the client device, it's not really suitable as a second factor in a two-factor authentication system.

To elaborate: on a PIN debit payment, for example, there are two factors - something you have (the debit card) and something you[1] know (the PIN). In the case of authorizing the purchase of an app, you obviously have physical access to the device, or else you wouldn't be able to get to the checkout screen. For an actual second factor in a MFA scheme, it would be necessary to have a _different_ device that only the user with authority to make a purchase would have access to.

One could argue that if the device is PIN-locked, this is sufficient; however, in this case, you're replacing a physical factor (having the device) with a knowledge factor (knowing the unlock code). Combined with the account password [2], you still only have one-factor auth, it's just two steps. This is like most banking logins: there's a single authentication factor - knowledge - but two different pieces of data are necessary.

Worse yet, that "mother's maiden name"-type info tends to be a) relatively easy to access as an unauthorized user and b) used to authorize password reset, thereby reducing the security of a possibly-great password down to your facebook account's privacy settings.

Suffice to say, proper MFA support when the device often used as the physical factor is part of what's being authenticated is non-trivial, and almost by definition requires additional hardware. Perhaps some sort of NFC/RFID tag that you'd keep in your wallet, or a less clumsy equivalent of an RSA keyfob (which is where TOTP came from in the first place). But the key takeaway here is that you cannot use the device being authenticated as part of the authentication scheme.

[1] and only you, I hope! otherwise there's no point.
[2] or worse, not, as some have suggested for free or even paid apps
Just realized I had KeepAlive on; some people were waiting a bit for a connection—sorry about that!

Also noticed a lot of people are trying to use the 404 page a bit more as a terminal session—I had plans on making that work a bit better, but didn't have time to finish all of it and keep it secure. Soon...
What you are saying makes no sense. I am not talking about manufacturing or brands or trademarks. I am talking about the data. Trademarks are already public, you don't have to pay to look at a logo. How is my argument even tangentially related to trademarks?

I am saying that digital content will one day be freely available (or available on a subscription) because it costs nothing to copy. Never before has content been restricted when it could be copied freely. Radio is free television is free and websites are free. I think that is the natural end point of intangible goods it is just a matter of figuring out how to pay the content creators.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of two national/ethnic groups having claim to the same piece of land. I accept the fact that Israel must compromise with the Palestinians, and relinquish some of the land that it has captured. I remember when this was a radical suggestion among Israelis; it is now quite mainstream, although you wouldn't know it from listening to our elected officials.

To confuse this attitude with the superficial propaganda that our government puts out, and to say that the Palestinians (and not Jews) are the "rightful owners of the land," is a recipe for non-compromise and for continued conflict.

Israel isn't going anywhere, and neither are Israelis. But the Palestinians aren't about to disappear, either. We can work together to try to resolve this conflict, accepting that each side has a claim to the land and attempting to share it -- or we, and our children, and their children, can continue to fight and live in fear.

Remember how Germany and France fought, again and again, for oh-so-many years? After World War II, they decided that it was in their mutual best interest to connect their economies through what would eventually become the European Union. Perhaps, if we can connect and encourage cooperation between the Israeli and Palestinian economies, especially in the high-tech sector, we can begin to see such interdependence and trust in the Middle East, too.
Leone mentions the angel scouts briefly. Curious:

--how do these angels structure the relationship? is it just that they invest out of an angel fund with a single LP?

--what is the real downside of taking an investment from a scout that is backed by a larger VC? he mentions that people get upset about it, but it's unclear why it's such a negative thing.
To some extent, I'd guess that the "high end restaurants" effect has to do with lower customer density.
Windows used to have menus that would re-arrange themselves and show most-used choices at the top a few versions back. People hated it. Destroys memory.
Ultimately this has more to do with employers than police departments, though.
Does anyone else find the section "Don’t use someone else’s file system" a bit confusing? It starts off by convincingly saying O_DIRECT shouldn't be used and then goes on to say O_DIRECT works very well.
I think it's fair to say an environment that is so quiet you can hear a pin drop (i.e. ideal movie theater quiet) is not going to be welcome by most, for the reason you cited. But the same effect can occur in a noisy place as well, if a single individual is sporadically more noisy than the background noise.

So it's more about achieving some constant noise level, above which no sporadic noises rise. IMHO, the "library/whisper quiet" rule achieves this.
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> It's shameful to hear Hacker News readers saying they don't trust their own data to stay safe.

Look, I am a reasonably skilled programmer, and I work for a bank. I know a great deal about keeping data safe and keeping it backed up well. I have written simple cryptography algorithms for addressing these sorts of issues (like secret sharing). And I know enough to realize that these are HARD problems, and leaving them to professionals works better than thinking you are smarter than the rest of the world.

As an example, it sounds like you store your bitcoins in a safe in your house. Nice system... I'm going to assume that your safe is fireproof, and that you were careful about not storing the data elsewhere. Now here's a question: if you die, will your heirs know how to retrieve the value, or will it be lost forever? Those are the sorts of hard problems that an institution can probably handle better than you can.
Jim Gray wrote a classic paper about this. "The 5 Minute Rule for Trading Memory for Disc Accesses and the 5 Byte Rule for Trading Memory for CPU Time". http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-86.1.pdf

There is an updated version that also talks about SSDs.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/7/32091-the-five-minute-r...
Spend $10, put the normal stuff on the normal domain.
Correct. We always marketed Heist as a more experimental part of the framework as a whole. The server and associated API was initially our primary focus.
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I agree that is was a very attractive visualization, but it took a couple minutes to see the significance of the left and right sides. It was very cool once it made sense.
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Those are good points. Perhaps an alternative is to have many multi-use small containers, like I have for hiking. Something's got to be better than always using one-time usage plastic bottles. Of course recycling them helps, but so few people do that.
Can you elaborate on what you mean with sane compiler support in this context?
Why the hell do they call it a hackathon if it is not a hacker-only event? The only thing that happens at a marathon is running. They should come up with their own description and stop trying to trick hackers into showing up.
I code around 16 hours a day and only have to do one call a day. I'd love a library office. Hell, sometimes I have to take my laptop outside to get some big commit done that will take 6 hours of concentration or so, if my various headphones can't block out the constant talking.
Ding ding ding. Just write functions that satisfy a need. Swap out from underneath as needed.
You should especially not require passwords for free app updates.
I misinterpreted the title of the article and this post. I thought Leone was making this point about startups. He's not.

tl;dr: VC is warfare; venture firms themselves need to be aggressive, nimble, and revolve around small teams to thrive. Don't give up too much equity, beware overcommitted angels, and sometimes high growth companies need tons of funding.
I welcome the addition, but I see the word "fragmentation" has yet to be used in this thread. This board is a true departure from previous designs, but it's my experience that Arduino tutorials are getting harder and harder to "plug and play" thanks to the many various boards out there.
Great job on the UI and UX! I think it would be more valuable if the reviewers are from the target customer/market, not just random people on the Internet. That would be a review service worth paying for!
This is a beautiful visualization, but it is very hard to parse, and I have no idea as to what problem it was designed to solve.

With regards to this visualization in particular, it is hard to judge which majors are disproportionately represented in any individual field.

There are in some places gaps in the spacing which make it appear as if a particular area is underrepresented; for instance, observe the apparent gap in Div I majors between Engineering and Health/Medicine.

It is very hard to judge the relative distribution of fields for small majors, such as Geoscience.

Path density seems exaggerated when the paths are drawn between nearby cells; compare the apparent density of paths between Div I <-> Arts/Writing/Social Science/Govt/etc with Div I <-> Education/Health. This seems to be because of the thinning of lines in the middle of the figure.

In reading about this type of figure, I managed to find possibly the most incomprehensible infographic I've ever seen:

http://circos.ca/intro/general_data/img/circos-car-purchase-...
Cheers, I really want a dashboard as well :). And perhaps Bloomberg needs a cheaper alternative too.
I forget who originally said it, but as the saying goes, "the dose makes the poison".

Most of the things you listed are present in vaccines, but only a tiny fraction of the amount already in your bloodstream (formaldehyde, aluminum, mercury), or amounts too small to possibly be harmful (phenol).

Thimerosal breaks down into ethylmercury, which is way less toxic (on the order of 1/1000th) as methylmercury, the common pollutant that you have to worry about when you eat fish. It can cause brain injury, but not autism.

I don't know much about the specific antibiotics you mentioned, other than to say there is a good reason the person administering the vaccine asks you if you have any allergies, and gives you some symptoms to watch out for. This is one of the (few) real risks of vaccinating, but long-term harm is extraordinarily rare. Much more rare than potential long-term complications of the flu.

No vaccine contains ethylene glycol (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/index.html#appendi...). I've never read the definitive explanation for how this myth started, perhaps because the name sounds similar to other chemicals used in vaccines. However its repetition is a pretty clear signal that the source you're reading is repeating something without verification, or willfully ignoring the facts when it's convenient to their point.
Forget two passwords.

Apple needs to accommodate two IDs. Single ID is a problem.

I have my ID for whatever is "mine": stuff which I wish to exclude everyone else from. I need another ID for my family: stuff which should be shared among others who have a practical right thereto by relationship. Next I need another ID for work: identifying me, but shared with my company and which I renounce access to should I leave. All of these would overlap, recognizing that data in my life is compartmentalized in Venn diagram fashion.
Radioshack still has a great hobbyist section. It's just hidden behind all the warranties and cellphones.
A minimalist's working example of the design guide rules for Firefox OS
All trades would be real, auto posted trades from linked brokerage account.

The data would be entirely made up of trades, no opinions, comments and noise.

Searching would be possible by any criteria such as sector, market cap... To find investors who invest the way you'd like to.
Nice idea, but the article kind of sucks.
Great stuff. This is also the editor that is used in Light Table. I also use it in my pastebin. I evaluated ace for this purpose, but it turned out to be much more of a pain to use, though I can't remember the specifics of why. 4Clojure previously used Ace, but we switched to codemirror a while back.
I'm shocked at how many people here find loud environments to be totally OK, some even preferring those to quiet ones.

If you are working in absolute silence and start to feel uncomfortably, you can always introduce some custom noise, be it a rain sound or ocean shore or noise of any color you like. Feeling chatty? Take Bob to a cooler and chat what you want, he's a chatter, too. On the other hand, it is very problematic (and really rarely effective) to just stand up in the middle of the noisy room and ask everyone, however kindly you manage to do that, to shut up at least for ten minutes, because you absolutely cannot concentrate in this goddamn noise that's been driving you nuts since said Bob came in at 9:05.

The point being, I want to be in control of my sound environment. Preferably without the need of earplugs or bulky headphones or other extreme measures like showing up at 7 a.m. or staying late just to get some shit done when the office is finally empty. I cannot concentrate, cannot even think clearly if there is almost any kind of noise - chatter, music, phone talks nearby, traffic noise from the street when the window is open or almost anything else, including my own voice. I know a lot of folks that, like me, would rather spend a night in the forest than an hour in the open space office.

From some comments I presume that it is probably impossible to convey to some lucky people with their extreme tolerance towards loud sounds how excruciatingly painful constant, unavoidable noise may be, but let me try anyways: it is a real damn torture resulting in days of not zero but of negative productivity. It's been my worst enemy at every place that I've worked at (close second are constant distractions, but I think these two are cousins), to the extent that my only special requirement for any job or workplace now is: please, let me sit in a quiet place.
Just read your post, njyx. While it's solid and thorough, my first impression is that it's a bit too high-level for an audience of application developers.
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> </pendant>

</pedant>
People move and post stuff to facebook. Or their friends post photos to Facebook. Some criminals aren't bright.

(http://www.tampabaycriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/2009/10/sea...)
Ah, the author's name is Daniel Cook, so you can see how I would make that mistake! :-)
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>the android settings browser is a bit of a train wreck

I have to say, I really don't understand this criticism. I go to settings and I have really simple categories: Sound, Display, etc with the settings inside. I guess I don't know how it could be easier...

I wonder if this person is aware of the swiping keyboard. No mention of that, easily one of my favorite 4.2-specific features.
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Because when companies sell books to poor people in developing countries at steep discounts, rich people in the US buy them at the discount rate and "import" them back into the US.

Book authors are generally thinking more about which second job they're going to get to pay their rent, because apart from some notable outliers, it's extraordinarily difficult to make a living as an author. But, by all means, let's make their work product even less marketable!
that's exactly how i use an recommend to anyone - one appleid for things which need purchasing and are shareable across a family ( basically iTunes and the Mac App Store) and one for individual services such as iCloud, facetime and iMessages.

something like

A single shared
family-email@gmail.com
which every family member uses for
iTunes and MAS on their iDevices and Macs

while each person uses their own
email@gmail.com as Apple ids for Facetime, iCloud and iMessage.
A Public Service Announcement: shill is not a bad word!

If it's the same or different Mr. Scruff, I really enjoyed the dancing taco and fat cats :) would watch again, 10/10
And look how well that's worked out.
Interesting, .xxx could be a useful way to filter out corporate types, I'm wondering when that might be useful.
Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking
Nokia is defiantly doing something behind the curtains. However, their Lumia series is dismantling other mobile makers - especially Samsung and Google(Android). Here is why - http://ow.ly/fZ5yj
They also accept Bitcoins :)
If you haven't seen the Settings app in 4.1 / 4.2, it got a lot better, IIRC.
What is your point? You want to have your apartheid and eat it too and no one should dare call it what it is? Do you support the rights of the Jaffa-born and Haifa-born and Deir Yaseen-born Palestinians to return to their land and have at least the rights a US-born settler has? Currently the wing nuts of Israel (I.e. the rightist as well as leftists) are not willing to give those rights and neither is the wide majority of Israeli Jews. Until they are forced to give equal rights they should be boycotted and you should stand for the boycott, not against.

Germany had to end the occupation of France and the rights of French were not that of second class citizens when they did all the nice cooperative things you mentioned.
That seems pretty cool. Do you have a prototype?
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Is it just me or are the 37S blog posts getting shorter and shorter? Can we expect to be reading haikus from them in 6 months?
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I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more fanfare. As age-old as this question is, I only figured out the answer just over a month ago. I've been programming in PHP for several years. It may seem like a rather idiotic thing for me to not know, but I'm glad to see this show up regardless.
I don't disagree with the conclusions, but don't you have to short stroke those ssds pretty significantly in a high transaction environment to avoid write amplification?

It's too bad longevity worries are keeping them out of the no commitment market.
We still keep some of the magic by allowing you to run the old "interpreted" style splices at load time. These don't have access to dynamic data, but they do have recursion/composability. This combination retains most of the power while allowing a huge speed increase. It just means that to take advantage of both you have to structure things in a certain way.

At this point it seems to me that this structure also ends up being a desirable one for organizational reasons. But the jury is still out as far as whether there will still be reason to want more. We're aware that there might be good reasons to support this extra power and I have a pretty good idea of how it would be implemented. But I want to get more people using it in the real world before we address that issue.
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To something like the Internet Archive? Yes. Yes you are.
I thought Chromium still had all the google tie-in issue. If I remember correctly what they pulled out was license encumbered features like font rendering. I know there were forks like iron that pull out the privacy features.
You could build your HTML as a hierarchical data structure instead of a string.
Sometimes a concise blog post is refreshing. If you really want more content, though, check the comments.
iOS 6 appears to have dropped the password check for all updates.
I heard during some NetApp training I took (not certain how authoritative my instructor was)that Data OnTap was a customized version of FreeBSD 4.x, which has long since been EOL. While I believe NetApp did contribute back some things to the FreeBSD tree way back in the day, I would guess they haven't in many, many years (but that's pure speculation on my part).
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Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've been using ConnectBot[1] for the past year or so and it has worked great. I've never used it with a physical keyboard, though, so YMMV.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.connectbot