skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would love if cloud providers offered SSD options for their full range of boxes.

Both CloudSigma and ElasticHosts have SSD options.

On CloudSigma you can even grab a small SSD to use as a L2ARC or ZFS log device :)
Two new iPads, iPhones per year? Not as crazy as it sounds
Honestly, who cares anymore. If you take our current spending rate, that would pay for the Obama/Bush administrations speciality purchases for ~4 hours. No one realizes how far in debt we are, and the madness really has to stop. 2 Billion in taxes is a friggen drop.
I'd also be interested in knowing more about GCM. Hit me up at karl.gluck@gmail.com if you get a chance to write something up! Thanks for a view into a cool project, too.
>"whether you major in Arts or Econ or PolSci or English or Philosophy or Culture Studies....you end up in Law !!"

Law school has been the "go to" graduate option for the "soft" sciences for a long time, since there is no requisite pre-law undergrad. It's also led to a surplus of Law graduates with no job prospects.

>"Is "college education" a proxy for gradschool ?"

I believe that is actually teaching college courses. But I could be wrong.
I would not be interested unless I knew you were using Yodlee or something similarly reliable for access and did not store my raw data.
I don't have a particular issue with the settings system. I forget which category some settings are in sometimes but I'm not sure I can really blame the system since I also forget where I left me keys sometimes.

And I've been using Swype on my 2.x phones for a couple years too. It is a good one for devices that don't have the latest OS.
I've seen your posts rise to the top of HN many times. Who are you though? What is your occupation? Do you have any connection to startups?
Ask HN:  Handling an unscrupulous recruiter
A contingency recruiting with him I do not have a relationship is openly advertising tech positions at my company. I've dealt with this company before and have seen them doing other shady things in the past. Based on what I know, I have a low level of confidence that simply asking them to stop promoting my jobs will do much.

Have any of you dealt with a similar situation? How's you handle it?
Why You Should Be An Office Nomad
When working on ASP.Net MVC pages I use Visual Studio because really, what else can I use realistically? It's fantastic and I love the tools and helpers it gives me.

For Rails I use Sublime Text 2, not because it's 'more leet' but because it works just fine. Plus any IDE's I tried using just sucked and slowed me down for little benefit. As a direct result of using a text editor I memorized the Rails keywords and helpers instead of relying on autocomplete so in that sense it helps.
It seems like a pretty broad brush to equate "people with workplace filters" with "corporate types".

For example, I'm a guy with a CS degree who is a high school teacher. Does that make me a "corporate type"?
> My dad is over 60 and loves his nexus 7, but trying to explain to him how to clear an application's cache is about as effective as educating him on the underpinnings of posix threads.

This is interesting, as it highlights one of the big differences between iOS and Android for me. With Android, a lot of appliance-like convenience was given up for more flexibility and control, which makes it more like a general computer. iOS, on the other hand, takes a more curated approach to UI (not to mention hardware options) and is easier to use since it is a more appliance-like experience. The ability to even clear app cache for an Android app shows that you are using a computer, and with that comes the complexity of operating one (granted Google is making attempts to make things easier in default cases).
I don’t find this appeal to donate irritating because the Internet Archive is a non-profit, and it does necessary work I’m grateful for. Asking for donations is the main way the IA can keep doing the good things it’s doing, so I wouldn’t want to stop that.

I don’t like the idea of good human works being lost, so I’m glad that the Internet Archive archives lots of media, especially scrapes of websites in the Wayback Machine. I’ve used the Wayback Machine usefully multiple times in the past to find information that would otherwise be gone.

(That said, I didn’t donate, because I feel that I can’t afford to.)
Ahh, no it looks like I can't. I think it is my company's web filter. They do block out a fair number of ports.
Williams is a (highly ranked) private liberal arts school[1]. That alone will significantly bias the results of this data. I'm sure a good chunk of those people chose Williams just so they could have a prestigious school to get their undergrad degree from for their application into law school.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_College
Williams College's primary student body composition is affluent upper middle class white persons. It is #1 on the US News & World Report and has a fairly high number of cross admits with Harvard/Yale. So everyone is high achieving/extremely driven. The primary differentiator is that it disproportionately attracts students who are very much sold on the "study a broad liberal arts education for the sake of education and forsake career oriented life skills". I.E. the attitude that gets mocked daily on reddit. I.E. the sort of idealism that led Paul Graham to study Philosophy in college (http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html) is omnipresent on campus. Almost everyone starts an idealist.

This continues at Williams for a few years, until people panic and realize they don't have too many bankable life skills to get a real job. However, everyone is, or is surrounded by affluent, successful, career-oriented people. So they look around to find one of those successful career paths that are still open to them. Unless they are majoring in math/sciences (Williams has a 10% math major population, which is very high compared to the US average), or have already begun the pre-med track, the only clear avenues that aren't blocked off by their past decisions are consulting->MBA, and law school.

Disclosure: I attended Williams. About 25% of students double major. I started off with a clear "1 major for me, 1 for life skills" path, and intended to major in CS and Music. At the end of freshman year I realized I was an exceedingly mediocre composer, and switched my second to Economics (if that seems like a cynical career move, at the time I thought economics was the path to becoming Hari Seldon: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/04/paul-krugman-asi...)
Google services go down worldwide
Agreed. Although certain actions would seem to be pretty black and white. Wiping a device is high-risk, and should obviously require a strong password. Downloading a free app is low risk (unless I'm missing something important about the permissions system on IOS). As for actions that are in the gray area, either let the user configure which password is used, or just err on the safe side and use the strong password.

Also, a really killer feature (admittedly for power users only) would be an API for password manager apps to integrate more deeply into iOS. I love my password manager's browser extensions. If I could have password auto-filling on iOS like I do in the browser, downloading free apps would be much, much easier. For that matter, visiting password-protected websites in iOS would be a lot easier, too. You'd still have to type your crazy master password on the finicky touchscreen. But it's a step up from what we have now.

Apple really should improve this aspect of the user experience. As it stands, I can only assume it leads a great many users to pick a weak password.
VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro")
Approaches to Application Release Automation
Where's Jimmy Wales' face when you need it?
We actually had 13 CS majors in 2010: http://www.cs.williams.edu/people/alumni-directory/. That went up to 20 majors in the class of 2011, so the gradient is positive!
Jason is the founder of http://www.ridejoy.com and a member of the 2011(?) YCombinator class.

Occupation? Startups. Connection to startups? Ycombinator.

He's the real deal. ;)
Actually yes! It's a pretty nice place.
so why did the api have to change? couldn't the compilation be done on first use? is the api change simply a change of the encapsulating monad (guessing wildly)?

not trying to bash haskell, but i think there's an interesting q about how well it (or any other language) can hide changing implementation details (particularly major ones like a compilation phase) behind an unchanging api.

or maybe that would have been possible, but the api changed for other reasons (the general cleanup)?

really interesting article btw. would have loved more detail... an explanation of introducing compilation in haskell with example would be pretty cool (pretty sure either pg or norvig has written one - with lisp - that i vaguely remember reading years ago).
So you're telling me that in 11 years, your server has never been down, even for a reboot, software update or hardware failure?

Going on 11 years here with no real issues.

Define "no real issues" cos I would define GMail going down for some users in parts of the world for a short period of time as "no real issue".
Overall a good idea. Screenshots sometimes takes quite long to load. Would be great to integrate Notable or allow annotation on the screenshot.

Add Comment vs Submit Review is confusing. After adding comment, it just disappeared. You have no idea what happened.
I think it's pretty standard that if you issue a move command, units will not attack and will go around. Players have come to expect this since Starcraft I. The whole idea of tower defence that was made popular stands a testament to the fact that we can place walls and change terrain and units WILL change their path on the fly. If you have played a tower defence in Warcraft III, you know that units can be lured into taking the A* optimal path, and you can block it off just before they get there, forcing them to recalculate a new path (which may be a long way away from where they currently are). Then, you can destroy the new tower you just placed and block off the path they had just changed to, forcing them down the old path again. You can repeat this as long as you have resources to build your cheapest tower (this was an exploit that made certain user-created maps really easy). Tower Defence designers now know about this and most of the well-made maps prevent you from building during level.

TL;DR: Path recalculation has been around since Starcraft I.
EDIT: And probably before that
If you'll forgive my pedantry, I think doubling is traditionally described as "100%" growth, not "200%".
I think you missed the part where these people want to buy HBO. In fact if the first sale doctrine applied to broadcasts then the problem would solve itself, with people selling off their HBO copies at a fair and unbundled price.
Cookies are bad for you
Yup. People are often surprised that I can hear their conversations.

Someone will say something in the next room, with the door open, and I'll answer. They're all WTF you can hear me?

Meanwhile I'm all WTF do you expect, I have LoS and you're only 40 feet away.
Good to hear you have a plan :-)

From my experience, going from one to multiple monitoring nodes gets way more complicated than expected; make sure you have your timestamps across the nodes right, especially when you decide to go down with the interval to 1 minute or less.

Also, investing time in a testing setup where all scenarios can be tested paid off greatly. Having scripts covering all edge cases lets you sleep better when you have paying customers :-)

Good luck!
Honest to God -- do you actually want people to read your article? Are unreadable articles the latest fad in Web design? Choose any colors other than dark gray on black!
So the vast majority of students

- study majors that have little or nothing to do with their eventual work, and

- end up in fields that were considered desirable by our grandfathers, but today are fodder for jokes?
Sorry, I was referring to Sebastian Marshall. I didn't make that clear enough.
Let's Build NSMutableArray
The article credits it, but fwiw, this is done via CIRCOS, an open-source piece of software specialized for visualizing things as these circular graphs: http://circos.ca/
I like the idea but I fear for the lack of quality. Whenever you have "outsourced" n-to-1 projects to platforms like Mechanical Turk you know you need something to guard the quality of the input that people are entering. It's good to get positive feedback on your work, but what do the comments mean otherwise?

"Very clean, I like it" - clean in what sense? Design-wise? Or is the HTML markup nice & tidy?

"Nice big calls to action" - Nice & big, but is bigger better? Do they work?

Etc.

I am keeping my eye on this one, could definitely evolve in something (even more) valuable. Keep it up!
Trello for Windows 8
Still overwhelmingly true with a few buildings that are exceptions.
Interesting concept. It actually has some of the ideas we'll be introducing in Wikipedia's mobile website (specifically some of the sidebar functionality).
Thanks, and am in full agreement with both the difficulty of multi-node sync and testing. I have test coverage of most of the front-end, but I need to do more with the backend to make sure what is working great now works great a year from now.
Show HN: Inventarium - we will rock your feedback forms
Hey atomical - I'm Jason Shen. I'm an entrepreneur based in San Francisco. I cofounded a nonprofit in college, worked at a startup called isocket (now known as BuyAds) and cofounded a YC backed startup called Ridejoy.

You might also be wondering about Sebastian Marshall. He's a friend of mine, an entrepreneur in his own right and wrote a book called Ikigai. More on him here: http://sebastianmarshall.com/about
Bitcoins sent, my pleasure. Apparently they have received over 560 BTC... very cool.
I can definitely believe there is some truth to the casino carpet one. Las Vegas carpets are the only thing that has ever made me suspect I might have photosensitive epilepsy. I don't, but those carpets more than anything else in that city give me crippling headaches.
The pull request referenced in the post can be seen here: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6127
hacker at heart. For those that do not want to bother with downloading installing and possibly being watched by the En Kay via their new installation: found a review on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnYQyxjv4s in case you want to consider the pro's and con's of this operation system to win8 or osx before you make your switch
I've never understood that argument. If anything, it's the other way around: Reduce taxes on the middle class so they buy more cars and iPhones. Reducing tax on corporations and the wealthy doesn't do much. Is a rich person going to buy another car if you reduce their taxes?
I was looking for MAX last week, but I couldn't remember the name. I finally found it and was thrilled when I discovered there's an open source clone called MAX Reloaded [1].

[1] http://www.maxr.org/
Yes, Sequoia was the biggest LP in the two funds we had in the past, as everyone already knew. Beyond that, I don't have any insights about this article.
I agree! If your friends don't know of any openings, Craigslist might be your best bet. I recommend setting up multiple viewings (at least 4) in the same day. That way, as you walk or travel from place to place you not only get a vibe of the neighborhood, but you might run across other for rent signs. If you have the time, I suggest you stay the night in the neighborhood you're considering to make sure it's not too loud/busy,etc. At least check a crime map!

Sometimes there are city-specific rental sites. If you're in San Francisco, this might help: http://rentsfnow.com
Obligatory:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-... February 2004

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-09-14/gillettes-fiv... September 2005
Which iPhone were you comparing to the S3? The iPhone 5?
Love it, very nice and simple - best of luck. With a site that simple, A/B testing is going to be much easier and more productive I think.

My feedback would be:

- I'd be happy to pay twice as much if you offered 1-minute monitoring (or even 2 or 5, worth testing those)

- If you're going after small businesses (for whom a 15-min interval is sufficient) then I'd go all out on the branding for that. "Uptime monitoring for the rest of us" kind of thing. Make the 'no bells and whistles' approach the primary feature! That's how https://openexchangerates.org became popular (it's the simplest API to work with, and accurate enough for most users, while not needing to be the absolute gold-standard...)
Yes, but I'm sure someone in Congress or White House will let us know how OUTRAGED they are.
I think Israel will not willingly give right of return to the refugees, regardless if it's justified or not, giving all Palestinian refugees rights to go back as equal Israeli citizens will mean majority to the Palestinians in the next Israeli elections and the end of the state of Israel. Not something the state of Israel will likely accept as it will mean a Palestinian prime minister ruling the state which includes commanding the Israeli army, Israeli police, intelligence etc. This is one of the top debate issues between the Palestinians and Israel - what to do with the refugees. Monetary compensation is most likely what will happen in a final agreement, and some Palestinians accept it as a fact, even though the public voice there is for physical return of refugees, they know that they can't force Israel to make a decision that will result in it's elimination.
Bundler is a tool to manage which versions of which gems a project depends on – I don’t see how this API could go “into” Bundler. I think you mean that you want somebody to write a gem that provides a Ruby wrapper for this API.
His about page [1] says "strategist, entrepreneur, technologist, avid reader and writer, casual historian, cowboy scientist, and I like doing some adventure and travel type stuff".

His LinkedIn [2] says "Real Estate, Project Management, Technology, Philanthropy, Writing".

His youtube channel [3] is full of lectures about strategy.

Sooo..."life coach" mashed up with "strategy consultant" or something equivalent? Of course, you could ask, "Does it matter what his credentials are?"

[1] http://sebastianmarshall.com/new-start-here

[2] http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=81632430

[3] http://www.youtube.com/user/yousebastianmarshall
An eye for an eye, etc.
Why is this game so godlike? I think people might have missed it because they are too used to thinking about what could happen on a real board, where arms would get tangled and whatnot. The strategies in place, like leaving your king wide open to get taken, but dodging at the last second to bait a power piece in are awesome!
As someone who has worked in music for several years, I find that listening to it makes focusing on any other task, like coding, much more difficult. Even without vocals, I can't help getting distracted by details of the production or composition ("oh that's a great snare sound" or "I would have used a tele for that part"). So I tend to work in complete silence, if possible, and an ironic consequence of devoting myself to music is that I never listen to it anymore.
As I have already said, I am not an individual data point.

I am not looking to extrapolate the experience to others. I am trying to figure out how to share my best understanding. What I have done is not "unique". I have, at best, gone farther, faster than others. A lot of people are pursuing alternative treatments and better nutrition to help themselves. Most people are far less open about that fact. It gets seriously bashed on CF lists.

The climate used to be a lot more rejecting of anything proactive and filled with a lot of prayer requests on the assumption that no human could really do much, not even doctors. The one thing I have managed to do so far is to change the discussion from "My child needs surgery. Please pray for us." to "My child needs surgery. Please tell me your experiences with this specific surgery. Did it help? Do you regret it? Were there complications? What is the best way to prepare for this?"

I do not really know what you mean by your last question. I have gotten off multiple drugs. I no longer have constant excruciating pain. I no longer dehydrate so readily. I am more resilient to both heat and cold. My skin does not tear as readily. My blood sugar is more stable. And on and on. There are significant physical changes. Those are not the result of some kind of magical thinking. They are the result of sustained effort to resolve the underlying problem.
one day per week isn't enough (as we both know). long term projects require long term concentration. From what I've seen, most good 'management' stuff is communication and collaborative, but somehow that earns a 100% door, but the people who need the quiet concentration are forced to sit next to people who eat at their desk and talk on the phone.

I'm not even meaning just developers here - I've known accountants/financial people who complained about ability to concentrate when sharing a cubicle with others.

Offices simply need to have a decent number of private office spaces that people can move in to when they need 'alone' time, open collaboration areas, and larger closed off meeting areas for small group meetings. People beyond software devs would benefit from this too, but it doesn't seem to be a high priority for office planners and managers. :/
Dead Instrument - Violent Death
Show HN: PlateFork, an easy way to share recipes at parties
It is fixed.

CSS may color visited links red, but they hacked getComputedStyle to return the normal color instead. So, you can't tell if that link to Amazon you just created is visited or not.

And you can no longer set, for example, font-weight:bold for visited links, because that would change the size of the element, and they decided, unlike in the color case, that it would be too complicated to get all the APIs to lie about the new geometry.
Google is not the only company doing this. Hundreds of other are as well. A few billion here, a few billion there and pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Go has unicode symbols, but I meant just for operators. The reasons listed are important some of the time, but for example when you're a bunch of Chinese developers working on a project it seems sensible to use chinese identifiers in the code (especially if you all only have basic english.)

In this situation, everyone is going to have a computer set up to use the character set, so the ����� + ��� situation shouldn't arise.

In terms of confusing things at linking / runtime stage, I didn't think of that - maybe you're right! Go gets away with it by being completely compiled down to binary (and requiring the source of all the libraries locally, IIRC.)
Thirteen Months of Audiobus, part 1.
I completely agree! Users should be better educated about the risks they put themselves to, but we all should also be aware of the crazy social engineering exploits that we expose are precious machines to.

This article made me certainly think twice about my password policies: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-hona...
using DAOs for database access does not preclude the usage of SQL abstraction layers and/or ORMs within that DAO.

Though taking the hardline "purity" approach of hand-coding all the marshaling of data to/from business objects into the DAO layer on a field-by-field basis, or writing an ad-hoc automation system for this task, basically reinvents what an ORM already does out of the box.