skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter isn't ideal for people who prefer to abstractly snipe into a discussion(which is the overwhelming tendency of hobbyist forums) because it's too personal. You have to follow a whole person, and take in their whole set of interests, and reply to them specifically if their remarks interest you. So for obscure hobbies, starting the conversation becomes much more difficult than on a dedicated site - plus take into account the relative size of the whole Web vs. Twitter.

In exchange for this weakness, Twitter gains vast influence in topics that have some critical mass of interest. Creative fields are an obvious pick - art, music, writing, programming, journalism, video games, among many others - all share a special space on Twitter. The professionals in the field have an easy time networking on Twitter since it's very informal and has "degrees" of friendship built in (comment, follow, follow-back). Plus if they're independent(which is the case for a lot of these creative fields) they have no corporate masters to hold back their thoughts; so subsequently, industry news and rumors flow through very readily - retweeting and hashtagging act to spread a single discussion across many otherwise removed individuals. This is where things get interesting, because it makes radically different perspectives collide with alarming frequency - it can't happen like that on a single forum because the "minority" or "unprivileged" perspective gets suppressed at some point.

Lifestyle and subculture topics are similarly hot on Twitter because they involve the whole person and how they choose to define themselves...often people on Twitter will converge into groups of friendship by transitioning from the "interest topic" to the people involved.
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I think you're wrong.
Unless you want all books to be called 'How to be really good at...' or equivalent, then people have to try to be original to some degree which includes using words in new contexts.

I looked up ninja (http://zillyninja.blogspot.ie/2011/02/origin-of-word-ninja.h...) and apparently it can mean "a person skilled in stealth" or "one who endures." while the ninja themselves were spies for the samurai but haven't been around for a long time (http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/history/q4.html).

I guess that you'd have no problem if someone called their book 'how to become a javascript expert'.
Expert comes from the latin word expertus ( past participle of experīrī to try, experience)
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/expert?s=t) and presumably someone had to import it to english and later on someone else used it in a new unorthodox way.

BTW I looked it up and the word evangelist comes from greek and means 'bearer of good tidings', so it isn't something that has to be tied solely to religion
One thing I've learnt early on my career as a sysadmin is that disk quality is very important, and so is the quality of the RAID controller or software RAID subsystem. After you have a multiple drive failure on a supposedly safe RAID-1, and get forced into stitching it back into operation with a combination of "badblocks" and "dd", you'll quickly understand why...

A good RAID controller won't let a drive with bad sectors continue to operate silently in an array. Once an unreadable sector is detected, the drive is failed immediately, period.

The problem is in the detection, but good RAID controllers "scrub" the whole array periodically. If they don't, or if you are paranoid like me, the same can be accomplished by having "smartd" initiate a long "SMART" self-test on the drives every week.

Good controllers will even fail drives when a transient error happens, one which triggers a bad block reallocation by the drive, for example. This is what makes some people fix failed drives by taking them out and putting them back in. After a rebuild the drive will operate normally without any errors, but you are putting yourself at a serious risk of it failing during a rebuild if another drive happens to fail, so DON'T do this.

Some others will react differently to these transient errors. EMC arrays, for instance, will copy a suspicious drive to the hot-spare and call home for a replacement. This is much faster than a full rebuild, but also much safer because it doesn't increase the risk of a second drive failing while doing it.

Oh, and did I mention that cheap drives lie?

Avoid using desktop drives on production servers for important data, even in a RAID configuration, if you don't have some kind of replicated storage layer above your RAID layer (meaning you can afford recovering one node from backup for speed and resync with the master to make it current).
Calipso as application development framework
Super cool. This makes me want to go and buy a drone + VR.

Actual youtube link just in case you don't want to visit news corp www's. http://youtu.be/ojIz5Mai2Rw
It's obvious that it's impossible to stay current with all of the literature. The deluge of papers was a common complaint even back in the 1960s. Abstracting services like ISI started up to help handle that data flow. I've decided that it's not worth stressing out over it.

There are two primary journals for my field, cheminformatics. These are the "Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling" and "The Journal of Cheminformatics." There are several other journals which will publish on cheminformatics, such as "Algorithms for Molecular Biology."

I have subscribed to the monthly email announcement and/or RSS feeds for those journals.

I also learn about what's important by watching the blogs of others in my field. I going to conferences to see what people are using. For example, one conference I went to 1.5 years ago had several papers on using "Matched Molecular Pairs" (published in JCIM). I talk to people, and see what they are interested in ("Activity cliffs" being another recent hotness).

I'm very demand driven by what I read in depth. I scan the abstract, and only read further if it's something that interests me deeply. This could be something that I've worked in before, or something that I've thought about but haven't seen much in-depth work in. I'll mostly go into a paper when I need to do something related to that topic, which is also how I handle papers outside the field.

The field of course draws from many other fields. For those I use the approach that I do for buying computers: mostly ignore things but every once in a while read a paper and make sure I understand the key concepts. When I need to get into that field, dig up the literature and work on a task.

For example, one of the things I'm interested in involves postings lists. This is classic information retrieval, which I knew about from reading "Managing Gigabytes" and "Mining of Massive Dataasets." That was enough to be able to understand the literature when I did a search last summer.
"Yes its hard. But this is Startup life."
I think Founding Fathers acted like adults when they established the government. They actually wrote quite a lot explaining why they did it, and a lot of it makes sense if you read it. Government is a service, and it makes sense to make it specialized just as any other service - because specialization makes it efficient, that's why you don't make your own car, you buy it. Government, however, is a very dangerous thing, so there are some ways to manage it so it does not kill the people or make their lives miserable (think about a nuclear reactor - very useful thing if you do it right, very very dangerous thing if you let it go wrong). Unfortunately, American citizens seem to be letting their government to grow way beyond the planned sizes and do what it was never meant to do and never is going to do well. They are getting their ample share of misery for that, unfortunately.

As for the Plato's saying, there's also another one - "Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas". I do not, of course, claim to be Plato's friend, but I hope truth still has the same appeal for me as it did for the great Greeks.
> json_decode() without the second param or with it as false will create an object for you that is typed, loosely only if you mess with it afterwards.

First, let me point out that we have moved on to a slightly different topic. The tools that json_decode gives you is available in Go (it would be syntactically awkward, out of a necessity born of Go being statically typed). An example: http://play.golang.org/p/OvshdY1oVQ

However, I would write it as follows http://play.golang.org/p/pODFi9Jrve. This is merely a different way of doing the same thing.

Now, to the topic that we are talking about is the claim that the latter is nicer. I was not comparing PHP and Go when I said that it was nicer (although I have some experience with PHP). I was drawing from my experience with working with JSON in statically typed languages. In particular, working with JSON in C++, Objective-C and Go. In all of these languages, the JSON libraries I used were essentially dynamically typed. I claimed merely that having the JSON library use reflection to deserialize into typed structures is nicer than using NSDictionary's various methods or maps in C++.

In PHP, the syntactic overhead of walking dynamic structures is obviously much lower than the languages I was thinking about, so that criticism is blunted when referring to that language. But I still believe there is some advantage there. A large part of what I find nicer about the latter is indeed the same reason I prefer static typing to dynamic typing. It is impossible to mistype the latter (try changing the ".Foo" to ".Fo" and trying to run the snippet). Consider that doing the equivalent in PHP will simply return NULL (I think), as it is really just doing a dictionary lookup. I fully admit that this is a static versus dynamic thing, not about JSON in particular.

As to the performance thing, I think you too easily discount the importance of low latency. But regardless, I was really comparing to Go's statically typed brethren. They essentially use hashtables for representing parsed JSON objects which is far less than ideal. Note that they don't employ the clever tricks that dynamic languages use. V8, for example, makes JS's objects (which are essentially hashtables) perform significantly better than a mere hashtable.
I don't understand this comment, or any of the replies. It's not like anyone makes an Android app and thinks "well, since the iPhone is more popular, I'll go with that for the screenshot".

Maybe for mobile websites, but I don't see anyone screenshotting those...
Also, here's a great discussion with Erik Davis of Expanding Mind with the author of Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, Bron Taylor.

http://expandingmind.podbean.com/mf/web/9kvav7/ExpandingMind...
Ashton Kutcher's iPhone home screen
That's a good read. It's hard to understand the motivation of someone who's prepared to put in that many hours pirating a single book. It's seems a bit pathetic
"The RAID card writes DCBs on disks that are read by the new RAID card upon replacement."

Which also makes for very nice RAID failures, like this one that has happened to me on an HP controller:

A drive fails because of some SCSI electronics problem and when you replace it, the controller gives it a different SCSI ID. Now, the controller maps RAID arrays to drives, and it is now impossible to add the replacement drive to the degraded array because SCSI IDs in these controllers aren't user defined and the controller doesn't allow the degraded array to be modified.

And since the controller has now happily written it's configuration onto the drives, it doesn't matter that you shuffle the drives around to try to force the controller into giving up it's internal configuration.

Oh, and the controller is an onboard controller, so you can't just replace it with another one (which would also read the configuration on disk and put himself in the same stupid state, I suppose).
This seems like something that'd get you locked up in America.
Very nice, thank you, I will try that. I am rather dismayed, however, by learning in this thread that my disks have 4K sector sizes and ZFS autodetected 512 bytes, which means I'll have to destroy the pool and recreate it...
Cool Animated Visualization of All Edits Made to Open Street Map During 2012
I get the impression this isn't exactly legal in France either.
its a psychological trick to make them shut up?
Show HN: A delicious client for Android
Out of interest, what is the comparison between a constitution and a religious book, like the bible or Koran?

Im not saying there are no differences, but I see a lot of parallels, and I see lot of the same down sides or mistakes. US folk do seem to worship and argue the meaning of the constitution like people do with religious texts.

If the parallel works, the main issue I see is that religious groups and US citizens do seem to waste time and become paralysed by arguing meaning and intent, while action gets neglected. Again, from an out side POV, it look like the US constitution makes the US its self politically seize up, while US international policy seems wild and uncontrolled. My out side assumption is that the US constitution says a lot about internal politics, but nothing controls or governs its foreign policy. And, in that respect, may I suggest the adoption of Star Trek's Prime Directive as a start?

Lastly, does any one see a time when the US gets divided over how the constitution is interpreted? Will we see fundamental constitutionalists? Will we see something like a Catholic / Anglican split? Or different groups following different interpretations like with Islam? It seems that the right in the US is fairly constitutionally fundamental, could the extremes of them, with all their guns, become insurgents or terrorists to try to enforce their notion of the constitution? It seems to me, that the constitution actually allows for that. I mean, they do seem to see the centre right, or what the US might call the democrat left, as an internal threat to the US and its constitution. OK, perhaps laughable now, but what if this nasty vicious election process continues to get worse and worse? What if people begin to believe the lies? At what point might that tip over in to a violence the authorities can and wont suppress? Could US troops really fire on US citizens fighting for the constitution?

Just a New Years Day thought......
Unless your site is for people who know what a "domain hack" is, you need a .com domain. People in the real world either go directly to the .com version or Google it. They're not going to remember your name or domain name if it's something impossible to remember like iluv.che.er.ios.
Condé Nast no longer own reddit, Advance Publications (Condé Nast's parent company) do. I believe reddit's admins have commented somewhere saying this allowed them to hire more people and rent more servers as they weren't being pressured into avoiding costs anymore, but I can't find a source for that at the moment.
aviraldg didn't say it was comparable, he said it outspecs and outclasses the macbook.
Speed up the Linux Kernel
Chrome 22 here - totally working! Might be your end. Anybody else having problems with the demos?
It happens all the time...

If you run "camcontrol identify ada0" (or whatever your device is) you can find out before it is too late:

sector size logical 512, physical 512, offset 0

This is from a lucky drive of course :)
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Reddit is a lot like Twitter (Twitter is who you follow) in that Reddit is what you subscribe to. It's pretty easy to kill the noise.
Its semantics are still silly and extremely error-prone.

Also, that's not the point. There's already Roy and Elm for simpler compilation and decent semantics with interesting features. Fay lets you share code between server and client.
How do they know what space is used or unused?
That audio is totally free and Creative Commons licensed—no need to buy it. While we would love for you come back and buy something, we'd also love it if you downloaded the audio and enjoyed it.

But you points about the way the preview is edited are well taken.
Hmm, there's no such command in Ubuntu, maybe it's from BSD?
Building a hardware security module
Your advice is ok for someone who is willing to take no risks and to spend the money on that. It is not strictly correct for all situations. In fact storage arrays are not likely to drop a disk on the first medium error since medium errors are a fact of life and do not necessarily indicate a bad disk. Ofcourse, given that there is a medium error it warrants a long term inspection to make sure that the medium errors are not consistent and come too often on a specific drive, that is a cause of concern but a single medium error is of no real significance.

I also found that higher-end drives lie, I used SAS Nearline drives that failed easy and often and I used standard SATA drives that were more resilient. It depends on the vendor and make. May also depend on the batch but I never found a proof for that in my work.
I do not think ads will be efficient on reddit.com due users who are quite anti-ads.
Programming in Lua, Third Edition released
XVoice: speech control of Linux desktop applications
Missing white woman syndrome
No doubt there's a lot of hard work ahead, for both of us. But you know what? I never saw anything in this life that was worth a damn that didn't involve hard work. The idea is not to shun the hard work but to embrace it. Embrace it with both arms, squeeze it hard, and accept it, not with fateful resignation but with the sure knowledge that if you do embrace it, good things will come, eventually. The alternative, giving up, is unthinkable.

That, exactly that, is what life is all about. If you don't get it don't bother living life until you get it. Simply put, because your existence won't have any meaning to drive yourself through the hard work ahead through the path that will change a life beside your own.

To the OP, people like you still give me hope about the mankind. All my best feelings and thoughts will be with you and your beloved one. I'm sure you'll get through that, and live happy. It's just a matter of time.
Your premise is largely wrong, at least from my experience as an advertiser.

They have two main problems: 1) huge amount of adult/offensive/drug related etc traffic that most mainstream advertisers/adsense etc don't want. 2) antiquated ad infrastructure/targeting options.

The biggest problem: you have only two targeting options. a) no targeting at all - just random traffic ($20/day). b) buy space at the top of a specific reddit ($30/day).

b) is obviously going to be preferable for every single advertiser given how different each community is, but very few reddits have enough traffic to justify it. Nobody is going to pay $30/day to advertise on a subreddit with 5k subscribers, for instance.

Simply putting a PM, a few devs and a few sales reps full-time on it should work wonders. Hell, if they just gave the option to buy CPM ads targeted by subreddit, with no minimum spend per subreddit, it would be a vast improvement.
as described, the 'relatively common' providing under-specified cards with loopback tricks to make a user think it's full-sized - surely that's breaking an explicit part of the contract, not to mention wilful fraud?
>I'm disappointed that so many cowards are watching our videos, being afraid of government taking away your liberties at the first sign of you using them. grow a﻿ pair

(from their youtube link).
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And yet, when I was working on an antivirus, back in 1989 (yes, that's 1989), we already had these viruses, and we were detecting them without problems - it wasn't just a static signature, granted, and back then we wrote a recognizer for each polymorphic virus (a quick first stage would have been served by a regular language back then, but we didn't use them for speed reasons; the whole program was assembly!)
Hackulous, the pirated iOS app community, abruptly closes
Hackers Use Internet Explorer 8 Zero-Day Vulnerability
If a site gets you to download an executable, it's now 3 mouse clicks to get it to run on an average desktop setup (As opposed to 0 in the Win2K days and 1 in the early XP days).

In Unixes, it's still "open an xterm and chmod a+x executable". There's still a huge difference.
IE flaw may allow Windows PCs to be hijacked, Microsoft warns
Ubuntu surprise
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I Sent My First Tweet in 1986
don't you think that was a small number ?
Or perhaps you missed the irony.
Log archive & analysis with Amazon S3 and Glacier - Part III
The future doesn't happen overnight; everything is an incremental improvement ;) SSDs are designed as a drop-in-replacement for spinning hard disks. i.e. they work in systems designed for spinning hard disks. Systems adapted to how they work takes time.

things which are "the f-ing future" aren't on the mass market yet. When they finally are, you could say with some justification that "this is just an incremental improvement of the real breakthrough of 2012" ;)
> So fail2ban could be a problem if you work from the road.

Your config is bad. Mine is set up for a 12 hour ban. From my logs, it's perfectly sufficient to drop all scanners (I rarely see an IP banned more than twice, and even twice is not common).

If I were to login from a place where an attacker is trying to log in, I would actually appreciate not being exposed - they might only be using networks, but they might also be using cameras and other stuff that would compromise my info.
It's a psychological trick to make them think you are a jerk.
Beyond the Game of Life
"While space is full of radiation, the earth's magnetic field generally protects the planet and people in low earth orbit from these particles."

The magnetic field protects only against charged particles (usually coming from the Sun). Galactic cosmic rays or solar flares are not blocked. The atmosphere blocks most of that, as well as the planet itself. In low-Earth orbit, you have half the horizon covered by the planet, so you get only half the radiation.

On Mars, you would get a little lower radiation as you would in low-Earth orbit. The atmosphere albeit thin does provide some shielding and the planet itself removes half the radiation (as in LEO). Greater distance from the Sun also reduces the impact of solar radiation.

Normal radiation levels pose little danger in space, you mainly have to worry about shielding during solar coronal mass ejections. When that happens, you usually have a few minutes to hours of warning (courtesy of our fleet of solar observing satellites). For adequate shielding you need to design a 'storm shelter' in the middle of the spacecraft, surrounded by the crew's food, water and waste.

Note that we've had astronauts spend years in space and the physiological damage was from low gravity rather than radiation. I don't understand why NASA has never built a rotating space habitat to solve this problem.
I was not saying that. Rather I was pointing out that having exclusive content in the magazine is not a valid argument against making the site work properly in every browser and discontinuing the iOS version.
From his/her post:

> The total number of downloads are not much. But this is not bad at all if I consider the fact that this is my first app, total time I spent to develop this app and features provided by this app.
And Wikimedia is a not for profit organization. Giving to a for profit is always going to be different.
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Why the coyness?

What is that better software?

Some people might have weird definitions of "better", so it might also be handy to say why that software is better.
What they said:

> $1,000,000! [...] enough to purchase 4 petabytes of storage. Beyond that, this will help us archive books, music, video and web sites.

I think this means that $1MM is an amount of capital that allows them to buy 4PB of storage, while also spending on their other needs. Not that they will simply turn $1MM into 4PB of spinning rust.