skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a really valid point and fair observation but perhaps too simplified. Put another way, had the Times failed at creating a successful paywall then all others could be assumed to be doomed to failure. Now that the Times has proven it's successful, can others borrow some or all of their approach? The answer is partially in your quote above I suspect. Just whacking up a paywall is likely not the answer. However, using your deep resources (relative to other sites and bloggers) to create a superior experience can create a sustainable business. Just as the Internet threatened their traditional business it also dramatically increased their reach in other ways.
There's still plenty of things to keep in mind with Gluster, though. If you use a replicated setup for redundancy, and you get a split network, you can very well end up with an inconsistent state because you can get into situations where you write to different replicas from different clients and replication doesn't succeed.

Gluster will just throw it's hands up during self-heal if that happens, and you'll need to manually resolve it.

Your filesystem structure won't break, but your files certainly can.
> I signed a 10-page membership contract at a corporate-franchise gym, hired my first personal trainer, and became yet another sucker for all the half-baked, largely spurious non-advice cobbled together from doctors, newspapers, magazines, infomercials, websites, government health agencies, and, especially, from the organs of our wonderful $19 billion fitness industry, whose real knack lies in helping us to lose weight around the middle of our wallets.

If that's not a CTA for startups, I don't know what is.
> these languages would be worse off it it weren't for C/C++.

Definitely.

> And the runtimes qualify as important software in their own right, simply because they inherit from the importance of all the software that runs on them written in other languages.

Also agreed.

The only thing I'm trying to disprove is the thesis that "basically" no important software is written in languages other than C/Cpp.
and then there's this: http://www.salon.com/1999/12/22/naughtonwalks/
The most devoted, upstanding employees are the least paid, and the most conniving, disinterested ones are paid the most.

Why can't you be a devoted and upstanding and also treat your relationship with your employer as a business one?
I do not know there isn't free will, but I know there is nothing that suggests there is, other than this strong feeling we seem to have, which can't be trusted. So far, the universe seems to be deterministic, and our choices seem to be the result of deterministic reactions in our brains.
How long did it take you guys to build inky as it is now?
As for the rest of his story, Naughton went on to build some of the most successful web properties of the late 90s before having his life derailed by an FBI online sex sting.
Focussing on good form and slowly increasing the weight are the ways to minimize injuries, whether you're young or old.

Take a video with your phone and either check your form yourself or ask online for a form check.
"How does your two-control one handle a few thousand emails per day?"

A few thousand emails per day?

You're sooooo the target demographic.

They'll be able to show you ads for products able to deal with the problem that getting thousands emails per day is ; )

Seriously: you're 0.000000000001% of the people using email and I don't think they should focus first on solving your issues ; )
How much are you paying for having a staff trainer?
My statement isn't based on pontificating, it's based on lots of people writing structure-editors and everybody hating them.

Despite the end-goal being a correct parse-tree, it turns out that making it impossible to have intermediate "incorrect" states feels very constricting, and people don't like it. The surface text representation may be an irrelevant detail to the compiler, but it's not to humans.

[A lot of the research was aimed at beginners, without previous programming/editor experience, who probably have the most to gain from such assistance (no missing semicolons!), and no prior habits to unlearn. But even there, structure-editors were not popular.]
CMU is privately funded.
You're missing the fact that the university is not profiting here. This money doesn't go into shareholder pockets, it goes back into the university to support further research activities, reducing the need for government subsidy. This isn't a debate about whether universities should pursue their self-interest, but rather about how R&D costs for fundamental research are allocated among the government and industry.

The fact that universities are publicly subsidized does not mean that Marvell should get to use the technology they develop for free. My tax dollars pay for the NYC subway system, but I still have to pay a fare to take a ride.

Indeed, there is a very strong argument in favor of "charging fare" to companies that use publicly-funded technology. The university system is a huge subsidy to companies, particularly technology companies,* that benefit from the free R&D and free training of high-skill engineering workers. Requiring those companies to pay for access to that technology reduces the amount of government subsidy necessary to support the same level of R&D activity.

*) Next time a Microsoft or Google publicly complains about the "shortage of engineers" and how the U.S. needs to educate more people in STEM, realize that they are literally asking for an increase in the subsidization of their labor costs.
I call them iPhone Orphans.

I do not know if it original (if it is you heard it here first) but I remember seeing two young (German) kids at breakfast in a Piccadilly cafe waiting for their parents
Sitting next to them to get off their phones and talk to their own children

At that moment this phrase popped into my mind and has stuck there ever since
Since I didn't see this in any of the comments at the time I wrote this...

While GMail/Google Voice calls are free, they are much more susceptible to noise, echo, etc due to the main codec (G.711) that they use. If you have a newer smartphone with a good 4G or WiFi connection you may be able to get by with this, but in my personal experience I had to move to Skype (and be willing to pay a few dollars a month) to get people to want to talk with me for any extended period of time.

With your homies, probably not a big deal. For a sales call or interview, or when you and your SO are trying to arrange to meet at a hospital due to an emergency, yeah you want the clearer call.
Facebook's Product Strategy: Decisive, Distracted or Disaster?
I think exposing students to architectures and patterns can't be bad. As a student myself, I'm glad to have this exposure as I can now look at frameworks I couldn't really understand before, and at least make some (more) sense out of it. I can recognize the way things are named and organized.

Also, when facing a particular problem in a project or homework, instead of unconsciously reinventing the wheel, I can refer by name to a solution that is already implemented, or at least be aware that I'm reinventing a wheel.

While I'm not about to design an Enterprise Application by myself, I think I can at least work in such a context and understand better where's my part in the whole.

*

In my previous life as a platoon commander in the army, I was specifically trained to command a platoon. I was however given exposure as to what higher levels were doing, so that I could work with the whole formation.
Here's a video of James Gosling showing the the Star7 PDA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg8OBYixL0

It's absolutely mindblowing what they built in one year in 1992(!). It had had a touch screen and inertial scrolling.
NZ Herald: Kim Dotcom "has been good for this country."
Wow, is this ever a big bag of mendacious tripe. I have no love for the Facebooks, but the OP's tactic of tarring Zuckerberg with her brother's company's actions is utterly without merit.
It's interesting that at the end of the article the author mentions that the end game is often the creation of a newer better vault. I often wonder what it would be like if everything that was in the biggest best vaults was unleashed to change the wasteland into something better. As it stands so much money and technology gets sequestered away to be used in emergencies or to maintain the advantage. The world could really use some of that vault tech everyone stores away.

Edit: Almost forgot to mention that hopefully the trend of creating new vaults goes away and is replaced with that openness that would let our wasteland prosper.
Six Years of Rands
Some people are emotionally unable to tolerate any mention of the Bible, even a literary one. I once quoted Saint Paul in a way I (smugly) thought was rather witty, and one of the people in the room freaked out.
They should hurry up and use Opus then.
>Knowing where over-performance leads-- getting attacked by envious/insecure idiots and ending up unemployed

This sounds like what you're saying--

Law 1: never outshine the master.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ldbjR2trg
I use mu [1] (via mu4e) on my Mac, and it's plenty fast and has great search. Admittedly, it doesn't look like Mail.app, but it works great.

[1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
This is Hart of Duda and Hart, BTW.
The other comment was closer to the heart of it: if those projects used Github's paid hosting maybe they'd have a reason to complain.

Part of the beauty of git is that it would be absolutely _trivial_ to have a secondary "backup URL" located somewhere else if Github were down. And git would automatically handle the rest.
This is one of the best fitness articles I've read. Of course, that's me suffering from confirmation bias, because in 3 years of being on a health kick, I came to the same conclusions after talking to various people with a similar interest.

My progression went:-

Cycling -> Running -> Machines -> Body Weight Exercises -> Discovering Rippetoe/SS -> Barbell (Power Rack)

The barbell is the king, and the great thing is in my gym it's always (95%) free. Everyone is on the cable machines.

Now I try and get all my friends and family doing some sort of 3x5/SS program because it. just. works. I even have my daughters doing it!
What astonishes me about the AR-15 is the cost, roughly $900. I'm not sure that it's practical for hunting, which leaves you two practical (and legal) uses: target shooting, and self defense in the event of a zombie apocalypse. I haven't gone target shooting in a while (since Nixon was president), and at $900 I'll take my chances with the zombie apocalypse.
For me it's not necessarily books: it can be essays, blog entries, thesis, articles, etc.

But basically the "writings" that means the most to me are the ones making 75% of those that matter the most to you irrelevant ; )

"Pattern means 'I have run out of language'"
Probably not. Work at a small, software-based company and you end up dealing with lots of email, period. Server notifications, bug reports, user feedback, third-party service provider emails of all kinds, and all that happens before personal emails or ones between employees.

But, outside of that, my 5 accounts tend to get a few dozen per day, a handful more if I don't do any filtering. And they're specifically targeting people with multiple accounts. If this doesn't include work volumes, what does it include, and why do they have multiple accounts? It's not targeting the 99%, period, because it's not part of the OS or Office suite, so who are they targeting?
Human Touch Camera
This article on Amish hackers might be interesting to you: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/amish_hackers...
Think about the best military movies you've seen. Do they "dumb down" the technology? In my experience, no.

It's accurately portrayed. At the same time, it's not the center of the story. That is still the human component.

They spent a lot of time/effort in "Saving Private Ryan" getting the sound of the M1 clip ejection right. But nobody ever comments on or explains this in the movie.

Veterans watching the movie said they "got that right".

(I'm not saying that "Saving Private Ryan" doesn't bend reality in some ways for the sake of the story. But they didn't... have Rambo take out a platoon with his bowie knife.)

("Band of Brothers" is another good choice -- the mini-series precursor to "Saving Private Ryan".

Then there are, for example, some of the older, somewhat spartan but impactfully understated British films, whose titles I can't think of right now. It was actually films like these that I was thinking more of, when I started writing this, before those contemporary items came to mind.)

If done properly, such portrayals can convey a quiet, authoritative air that is actually more convincing than some of the "explained"... "exaggeration" and/or simplification that exists in many movies including some big budget production.

Aiding this might be spending some time actually explaining these things, in some depth, to the actors, so that they can portray them with some understanding, rather than simply parroting the script.

Of course, you might have to convince/sell a potential purchaser/producer on this idea, to help the technical content go down.

P.S. I should probably shut up, now.

But, I think there is something to an accurate portrayal that is the richer for not being too self-conscious (on screen).

P.P.S. A few random films, with different topics, where this might apply, that I'm happening to think of upon this unplanned attempt to come up with some relevant examples.

"China Syndrome" (although I'm a bit hesitant, having only seen this with commercials and while somewhat distracted)

"Traffic" -- the older, European mini-series version, from the 1980s

Watch "Eat Drink Man Woman" and see how much of a feel for 90's (upper classs-ish) Taipei you walk away with. (Although, admittedly, as I understand it Ang Lee brings a certain outside or cross-cultural perspective to it from his having spent significant time abroad.)

There are probably many better examples, but that's what my tired mind can dredge up, at the moment. And I think this represents a variety of things where authenticity enhances rather than confuses or degrades.

P.P.P.S. See P.S., above. ;-)
Being 'little-girl weak' after some time following a regime at a commercial gym sort of is evidence. And squatting 40lbs definitely is little-girl weak.
No it does not distract. Perhaps you should go tell the Daala people it distracts from their project to mention other such video technology projects on their website. If you're going to nitpick at me about it, then you should also bug them about it. I see nothing odd about mentioning those technologies in relation to a video codec project.

There is nothing wrong with taking inspiration, and I never said there was anything wrong with it. I mentioned it to note that Dylan16807's suggestion of H265/Daala having no similar use cases or relation to current generation video technology was not really correct.
CMU CS alum and Pittsburgh resident here. While $1.17 billion would more than double the university's endowment, it's hard to be excited about this. I don't understand how this settlement is remotely proportional to the damage Marvell could have done to CMU.

This case was also decided by a Pittsburgh jury, which doesn't seem right.
Lessons Learned from Going "Profitable" in Under an Hour
Too bad Google has never been that serious about these VOIP options. I mean, where's my "VOIP Call" button next to the normal Call button in my Android phone? Why isn't the "Video Call" button there as well, like Facetime is in the iPhone? I've been expecting this to happen since Froyo in 2010, and I'm still waiting for it to happen.

Google only keeps them deep in the Google Talk app, and I bet most people using Android phones have no idea they are even there, so it's almost like they don't even exist. Google needs to do a better job of deeply integrating VOIP into Android, and I don't care that carriers won't like it. Same goes for their "Google Voice" service.
I've recently heard good things about Hover. https://www.hover.com/

I'm still using Dotster. They're not awesome, and they're not the cheapest, but they've never done anything that would make me want to leave, either.
I might be wrong, but I think the title should be 'The Seven Habits of Steve Ballmer'
Actually I think you'll find that they're not widely known.

(Sweeping generalisation) Most women avoid free weights because they don't want to put on muscle and look like a body builder. Doesn't happen. Hell, some men have that same attitude because "hey I don't want to get bulky". My comment is "well if you discover that secret, you should market it because millions of people will buy it"
Discussion from 2011 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287213
No, it doesn't warn, it raises an error and prevents the application from booting: https://github.com/democrats/voter-registration/commit/2fa87...
Ask HN: Sydney startups
Does anyone know about startup hiring in Sydney?
Or where would be the best place to look at?
thanks
Agenda 21 and the New World Economy: where happiness 'matters'
Most modern distributions use initramfs. It usually contains a minimal shell and set of command-line tools (often Busybox-based).

In most distributions, initramfs's main responsibility is to figure out where the OS the user wants to run is installed, mount it, and hand off PID #1 to the init binary in the mounted FS.

The reason initramfs exists is to allow the logic to do this to be part of the distribution, not the kernel. That way, distributions can have arbitrarily complicated procedures for accomplishing the above tasks. Or even deviate from the standard "find, mount, exec" pattern described above entirely: For example, if you're creating a simple embedded system where space is at a premium and your system will only ever execute one program, you might be able to save some space by statically linking the program and saving it as 'init' in your initramfs. If you compile your own kernel, there's even an option to meld the kernel and initramfs into a single file.

On Ubuntu- (and AFAIK most Debian-like systems), a set of scripts in the initramfs-tools package is used to rebuild the initramfs when a new kernel version is installed, or manually upon user request. (The most common reason for manually running update-initramfs is adding kernel modules for drivers that are necessary to access the filesystem you want to use as root, e.g. LVM or NFS.)
Yes, you can use nearest neighbors to implement collaborative filtering. Truly you can use numpy.linalg.norm to implement collaborative filtering recommendations. The trick is always to figure out what "distance" or "similarity" between two products really means.
It's to do with the attitude of people in banking specifically; that people are easily controlled with money, and those with the most money have the most power. And that's why I brought up prostitution in such a crude way; because it is a power relation that cuts through to things that make us human. It's hard work for the women involved in prostitution to mask that, to retain humanity in the face of their job, as intimate and naked as it is. Working for a banker, with their mindset and contempt for people, feels analogous - not quite as bad, but analogous.
Smalltalkers will tell you that Squeak is a very complete and cohesive environment. Also if you look at the demo scene thinking of 200MB is "obscene".
The protection though only extends to medics who are not armed with a weapon which 'can be used offensively'.
My point is rather that you cannot argue meaningfully about "will" by pointing to physical causality; the two are at different levels of abstraction. It gives absurd results.
Or just use an incognito window. Much easier.
That's a very strange view. It's clearly not a free service, but part of what you pay for. In fact is a large part of what you pay for -- very few organizations are going to be hosting their own name servers these days.

But more importantly, I don't see how this can possibly be an unfair criticism. They are providing a uniquely crappy service, and have shown what I consider to be a flagrant disregard for their customers by degrading their service for no benefit at all to name.com. It's stupid, it's evil, and it's bad business. Why in the world would I trust or recommend them?

(Just to be clear: I'm not complaining that there's a wildcard DNS record by default. Parking domains by default seems to be how everyone in the business works. I'm complaining about the fact that the wildcard DNS record stays in effect even after you configure the comain, and can only be disabled by defining your own bogus wildcard record instead. Basically it turns every user of their service into an unintentional typosquatter.)
I have found kettlebells to be very useful also. There is a sub-reddit on them: http://reddit.com/r/kettlebell . I will have to look into the Starting Strength book, I always had problems when trying to do squats before - perhaps bad technique.
See my reply to potatolicious, here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971723

The other jobs you mention have different power relations compared to the employee / employer relationship, and it's the dynamics of that relationship in investment banks, and their culture, that disgusts me.
Are there? Who are these magical people?

If you've got data sitting in one place and then data sitting in another, it's generally a massive fucking pain in the ass.

Speaking from my experience anyway. Bonus points if one of them was written by a company in the early 2000s who didn't trust those newfangled RDBMSes to get it right. Extra bonus points if they thought UTF-8 was for sissies.
> What do you mean by 'we get it wrong?'

Creating a world where some people can never be happy and satisfied.

> What is 'it'?

The meaning of existence and how to achieve a good existence.
I haven't read the book that he linked to, but in the blog post or the journal article I didn't see any true exploration of causation vs. correlation.

What if these are 7 habits that make people likely to become CEOs? It would follow, then, that CEOs that failed would also exhibit these habits. I'd like to see the article provide some evidence that these are habits specific to "spectacularly unsuccessful" CEOs as opposed to CEOs at large.

Without having to provide such evidence, I would propose an 8th habit common to all spectacularly unsuccessful CEO: they all breathed air. If your CEO or senior execs breath air, it may be a warning sign.
2013 Cloud Predictions (appreciating and hating on AWS)
Ask HN: How have HN readers bought diamond engagement rings?
I need to buy a diamond engagement ring, but buying a diamond is really expensive and really confusing; to learn enough to understand what I'm doing would take weeks or months of study, and even then I might do it wrong. Plus, investing the time isn't worthwhile for something that I'll buy at most a couple of times in my life.

So, HN readers who are engaged or married: How did you buy your ring? Has anyone founded a startup to try and make this process easier? The closest thing I've found is My Trio Rings: http://www.mytriorings.com/ . Has anyone used them?

(Background: Diamonds are basically a cartel, as was discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611 . In my case, not buying a diamond is not an option, although I have tried to explore this option.)
Cloud on cloud on cloud...can it work?
During the recent AWS outage, I noticed companies like Heroku saying they were down, and other companies saying they were down because Heroku was down.

At what point will this madness end? Does it ever make sense to be a cloud service, built on a cloud service, built on another cloud service?
Thanks for the hint! Already fixed most of these attacks and looking forward to fix them all.

Btw: This fix only applies to new mails.
Business Model Questions
I don't know about an article, but tell me what you've learned so far and I can try telling you what to do next.