skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a niche newspaper that also employs a paywall - in short, it works great for us. Used correctly, the concept works well for anyone who produces compelling content rather than simply regurgitating the content of others.

Looking forward, Google's attempt at replacing paywalls seems compelling and definitely a step in the right direction(I'd like to give away all of our content for free), but it needs to be refined. There is no guarantee the surveys will deliver accurate results.
Wait.... this article makes no sense. So subscription revenues are going up, and subscription revenue as a percentage of total revenue is going up. That's great. But why is this an indication of success of the paywall? Seriously...
TL;DR Bunch of already known facts strewn together in one article that will get lost in the millions of other articles about how to stay in shape. People, it's easy, eat natural and stay as primally (free weights, free running) active as possible. Done.
Advice for 2013: deliver on your promises
I don't know WTF you're saying but it does seem like you'd appreciate the lengths to which supposedly religious Jews will go to avoid complying with rules regarding the Sabbath.
The interesting thing here really isn't the 200MB footprint (this fails to impress me), but rather union mounting. Seems like something that you could do some very neat things with, particularly if modified to allow unioning local and remote storage, using local as a sort of cache.

A union of, say, your $HOME and your dropbox account could be very neat.
I was planning on using it as the mail reader for a very active mailing list I'm a member of. It doesn't open up threads correctly, so I'm stuck going backwards and opening each individual message.

The design is nice though.
While the porous nature of the paywall makes it pretty brilliant, I'm having a hard time actually hitting it at all.

See if you can reproduce this. Go to nytimes.com and just start clicking on different stories. After about 10 I got a little popup saying "This is your last free article of the month", but the next few articles still displayed with no problem, with the exception of a single full-page click-through ad at one point. Have clicked on about 50 articles now with no impediment. Pretty curious. Does it only count clicks coming from external sources? If so, why does it tell me that I'm on my "last free article" after clicking around for a bit?

Running Firefox on Linux, with no funny business except Ghostery, which I have configured to let ads through.
"The...is strong with this one," is a Star Wars reference.
Depends what you are trying to do and your situation. Machines are safer, so if this is a concern for some reason (injury rehab, age, etc.), then machines in some cases can be better for lifting heavy weights.
While those of us who know how to wield the Internet wisely will have arrived at this conclusion, I still meet many people on a regular basis (especially women) that will try to challenge those ideas.

I don't blame them for thinking that way, the fitness industry has conditioned an entire generation into thinking cardio is the way to go and that high rep work with pink dumbbells is how you 'tone'.

The more articles there are like this, the more likely we will see a shift in how everyone tries to get fit.
Confessions Of A Startup Guy After 2 Months
You know, people who does the work to create the patent for $500 rewards then get's nothing ;)
Netflix Crippled On Christmas Eve By AWS Outages
The person who did all this was not supposed to see the original picture. The whole thing happened because of sharing, tagging and mutual friends. It is a technological problem.
Device Puts Traffic Counts in the Hands of the People, Not Just Planners
If I were to hazard a guess, in this particular case the the 'expense' was mostly time(to interview everyone involved, write a riveting narrative, and produce graphics that tie in with the story as you read). I see this as the future of journalism - mixing in a variety of media and interactive elements with a story. In a sense it's already been done for quite some time, but this story really shows off what can be done.
> but I think there should be an option to manually approve any tags made of you.

There is.
Redis Global Locks Redux
Police Arrest Teenager for Doodling
Infographic: Who earns and spends more money, iOS or Android users?
Infographic comparing average spending and earnings of iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Symbian^3 Toshl users. Sample geographical views of the data as well.
RethinkDB looks to be a better Mongo. It even does MVCC, the lack of which I certainly felt with Mongo (can't do analytics queries on your data or build indexes without DoS-ing your db).
git, github or heroku are not needed at all for web development.

You're missing the forest for the trees. While it's true that those particular technologies aren't necessary, professional-grade development does require version control, shareable repositories, and deployment. Git, GitHub, and Heroku are just the solutions I happen to use in the book.
I recently switched my laptop back to Debian. I prefer KDE over Gnome these days, so in that context, I think the number one thing keeping Debian from being a more popular suggestion right now is that the squeeze UI feels about a decade old and wheezy comes with a bunch of warnings about it being in "testing".

I've had zero complaints with wheezy so far (not a common thing for me), so I think it's well worth giving it a shot if you'd like to try Debian on your desktop.
From the looks of the replies here, you have quite a knack for 'inciting'.

Whether the offers you send out to users are enticing or not remains to be seen.
I'm one of the happy subscribers. I prefer the mobile site, even on a Mac, because I find it easier to read and navigate.

On my Nexus 7, I use Firefox instead of Chrome because (1) I can use stylize to make it white text on black background, and (2) it has a built-in reader that makes the articles easy to read.
This is where a lot of R&D happens.
I don't think university research which results in patents can really be considered trolling. CMU does world-class, field-advancing research and actually makes money licensing the resulting patents. Suing random companies for infringement is not their main reason for acquiring patents.
It's not just the employees - if you provide a service that your customers depend on to provide their service, they're not going to appreciate the hassle on a holiday especially when it's not at all their fault. This isn't true so much for GitHub, but is for infrastructure providers like AWS.
Yeah, I'm in Chrome, but have never taken the time to block their cookies. The Google thing takes 2 seconds, and I rarely spend time on the site, or I would.
I wasn't speaking to her motive, only the act. Do what you naturally want to do with whatever enters your sphere of attention. It's not our job to run FB's security, so not a second thought should be given to anything that slips through.
That wouldn't have really helped them here though?
If the closely connected storage nodes were unable to detect whether state was consistent, how would have the storage node in another data center known?

I guess what your saying is in an error making the site entirely read only from another data center. That could be of some use but I would imagine that would require a complete rearchitecture to separate out all writes and also have a method of recombining stuff like logging which will still be written later on.

On the git level though it would be useful for a major use case of github which is to grab code.
So, I subscribed for a couple years, but cancelled six months ago when I left the country for a sojourn in Europe. I am returning to the States next week and I fully intend to re-subscribe to the Times.

I'm curious what price you would be willing to pay for access to all of the Times content.

Personally, I find that 15 USD a month is a fair price for an abundance of news that seems high quality (perhaps I've been duped?). There's all the multimedia, the arts section, the magazine, and, of course the news (both world and US).

Do you not enjoy as many sections as I do? Or do you share my interests but find 15 USD too steep a price for the content?

I also wonder, does means affect your choice? I recognize that the value of money is sometimes inversely related to how much you have.
Totally awesome! It's little details like this that will set your website apart. My only suggestion would be to have the little guy appear on the opposite site when he go's to far to the side ie mario style. Amazing work! Keep up the great work. The devil is in the details.
I took Edward Tufte's course: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ That's interesting but most valuable is probably his books.

I was planning to read Interactive Data Visualization for the Web http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449339739/index.html I think that's mostly an introduction to the tool (D3) but maybe has some info on visualization itself.

Also, this tutorial was an easy intro to D3: http://code.hazzens.com/d3tut/ Hopefully, the author continues to add to it.

Mike Bostock (author of D3) has some interesting blogs at: http://bost.ocks.org and also some great visualizations at http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock

A PHD in my office recommended The Grammar Of Graphics http://www.amazon.com/The-Grammar-Graphics-Statistics-Comput... It seems much more technical and statistical but could be an interesting set of ideas to synthesize. I'm planning on borrowing his copy.

Mike Bostock's stuff also led me to this page on Hive Plots which is a pretty cool description of how to do network visualization better: http://www.hiveplot.com

And I like Flowing Data as a blog: http://flowingdata.com/

This is all of course prior to actually having studied it. I'm hoping using these resources and playing with some toy projects will lead me down further paths. (Assuming I have time which I, of course, probably won't.)
That is an extremely shiny article, but I dare say it actually pulls it off quite well. Thanks for the link!
...including this. Start with body weight training. Convict Conditioning is a great no-BS book & program, for instance.
There's nothing wrong with machines, except being less effective than free weights. They're still solid though, I got in the best shape of my life one time only on weights because I worked really really hard at it. But I accomplish 80% now with 40% of the time with free weights and compound exercises.
The Feynman Series - Beauty (part 1)
Yes, Randi Zuckerberg, Please Lecture Us About `Human Decency'
I love doing major upgrades over Xmas/NY, Easter, and Labor Day. Lower traffic, and much better chances of fixing things if they go wrong.

I've always found that if you compensate people for it, it's not a problem. I personally would prefer 2-3 weeks extra vacation some other time in exchange for working through the holidays. It's way cheaper to travel in Jan/Feb, too.

It depends on your team, though -- if it's a bunch of people with kids who have school holidays at certain times, it might be more of an issue.
Hmm, this made me read a little bit more, and it isn't as easy or cheap as I had made it to be.

However, what I'm talking about is a "real" company, only somebody else took the trouble to do most of the paperwork described in your link (it's the same as is done in my country, you buy a pre-registered company).

There are two kinds of Limited Liability companies in Spain:

http://www.spanish-living.com/starting-business-spain/faqs

"Should I form a new company or buy a ready-made company?

With a ready-made company ('off the shelf') you save the step of registering a new name (8-14 days). As soon as you come to sign at the notary, your company can begin operations."

"What are the differences between Sociedad Limitada (SL) and a Sociedad Anónima (SA)?

An SL is similar to the British 'Ltd' or the American 'LLC'.

Accounting for an SL is fairly simple and in the first three years, you can apply for 'simplified accounting'.

Accounting for an SA is more complicated and yearly auditing is required. An SL requires capital backing of 3006€, while an SA requires 60,000€. "
That isn't a technology problem, it is a people problem.
Then it's not patent trolling as they're actually designing things, not just sitting on their patents and waiting to pounce.
1. I only take notes on substantial material - something I can learn from - so for instance I don't take notes on news articles that I've read, but I do take notes on relevant to me blog articles, books and videos/video lectures.

For instance I just finished reading a Brennan Dunn's book "Double your freelancing rate" and published the summary in here: http://blog.nimblegecko.com/notes-on-double-your-freelancing...

Or here are the notes on second week of Coursera "how to reason and argue" course - https://www.evernote.com/shard/s42/sh/cf6b1dd3-51aa-4bc0-b94...

Hopefully it gives you an idea on how extensive that is.

2. After I finished writing down the note, I copy its contents into a separate note in Evernote and delete everything that I cannot turn into an actionable item.

For each actionable item I add a tickbox (Cmd-Shift-T).

3. Then I estimate how long it's going to take to execute on that item and add a ticket into PivotalTracker. I normally try to group tickets by epics (product, marketing, consulting etc).

Hope it helps.
Thanks for the idea, but apparently google only allows the use this service in conjunction with Google maps, so it won't work for my project.

Maybe there are some open source map databases of GPS coordinates mapped to political/municipal localities?
If you open the website on mac, it shows windows download link at the top and mac download link at the bottom.
Feels like marketing to me. All of the necessary items are there:

{
"Important FB person" : "The sister.",
"Reporter" : "The lady on twitter",
"media" : "the \"private\" photo on FB",
"friendly resolution" : "reporter took it down",
"what is being sold" : "The Poke"
}

Of course, they will never admit to it. Viral marketing usually follows a very precise pattern.
You can also just open an incognito window and post the URL there.
When I step past a public lawn and it has a sign up saying "please don't step on the grass" my first thought is not "gee, this is an insult to my intelligence, they could have at least put up a fence."

The NYT paywall is meant to be a deterrent or an annoyance, not an iron curtain.

Felix Salmon from Reuters wrote a good piece about the psychology of it all a while back: http://www.wired.com/business/2011/08/new-york-times-paywall...
There's an important distinction to be made here, that the article overlooks, and skimming through the comments that others have overlooked too... there is a difference unprovoked generosity and expected generosity.

I'll quite happily give up my time to make others happy, because doing so is its own reward. However, when that generosity is expected (people repeatedly asking for favours, etc...), that's when resentment starts to build.

So you see, for some people (myself included), I'm happy being 'nice' without expecting anything in return, but I'm not happy for that to be taken for granted.
There are two ways to look at Lua. There's Lua-the-abstract-language which can certainly be used as a broad-spectrum scripting language. I certainly use it in that capacity.

Then there's Lua-the-implementation(s) (PUC + LuaJIT), both of which are designed from the start to be maximally easy to embed in a host C program, or to delegate work to shared libraries written in C. In my opinion, it is an order of magnitude better at this than Python or Ruby; some of this is a matter of taste but I believe most of the advantages are objective.

Not to put words in the GP's mouth, but I take the "domain tool" comment to mean: "You really should try to use this in close cooperation with C, and not just as a stand-alone language. If you don't you'll miss a significant portion of the value." Note that using it in concert with C need not be done in a single person's head (though this case is also common); Lua+C is an extremely productive way for a systems programmer and an applications programmer to work in harmony while enjoying most of the best of both worlds.
Most academic departments don't dedicate classes to practical skills, but they do acknowledge them in curriculum planning. A history major won't see "How to structure a research paper" on the syllabus of any class they take, but that doesn't mean the professors don't intend to teach them. How to organize research notes, how to read a book, how to structure a paper or a program, and so on are supposed to be learned alongside the academic subjects that are listed on course syllabuses.

There's a limit to what can be learned in college, though. You can't teach CS undergrads patterns of enterprise architecture in a meaningful way any more than you can teach history undergrads the craft of writing a book when they're still only writing papers. Teaching them to absorb rules of craftsmanship without any personal experience to judge them by will only encourage them to become astronauts and "best practices" prigs. (Not to mention that the professors themselves might be relatively inexperienced and mediocre at those things.)
It's the duty of a POW to use every opportunity to escape.

Also, it turns out the medic thing goes the other way around--medics are frequently armed so you can't distinguish them from ordinary troops, because fairly frequently the medics are singled out to be shot at first.
Category XIX is a placeholder for a proposed rule to clarify what constitutes a "gas turbine engine" for export control purposes.

It's primarily intended to alleviate blanket restrictions on components that don't really warrant regulation under the Arms Export Control Act.

From "FR Doc No: 2011-30977"[1] (slightly altered for readability):

This proposed rule establishes USML Category XIX to cover gas turbine engines and associated equipment currently covered in Categories VI, VII, and VIII.

The USML identifies engine subcategories in all three of these categories, but there has been confusion concerning the controls in:

- Category VI: currently lists only "naval nuclear propulsion plants"

- Category VII: controls both diesel and gas turbine engines under the same general term "engines"

- Category VIII: controls "military aircraft engines" but not reciprocating engines.

[1]: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-12-06/html/2011-30977.h...
An article with more details - http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_22263081/marvell-sl...
The interesting thing is that the new Apple hardware starting with the iMac certainly started out as lickable, and very similar to the original OSX software (with pinstripes and all). Both the software (OSX) and hardware has gradually become more and more clean and "sterile" with time. The exceptions have mainly been certain applications and a few UI widgets / icons.
Glitch imperils swath of encrypted records
My friends don't want to see my pictures of you, they want to see your pictures of me.
it only breeds contempt and distrust as they look at you as someone with one foot out the door.

Are there any anecdotes or anything about this actually having an effect on anybody's job, or that it actually exists at all? Surely there are people here who have managed those who have gone down this path who can speak to its practical results.
Wall Street Journal does the same. My guess is that it's intentional - they don't want to necessarily block you from reason their content, just convince those who can to pay.
If you are interested in free weights, Starting Strength is the best book out there. In free weights you have to be extremely careful about your form otherwise you could seriously injure yourself. This book goes deep in the human anatomy and mechanics to teach you how to approach free weights.

http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-3rd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp...
Yes, and we can always trust advertisements to be truthful....

If you accidentally delete a file in Dropbox on one computer, Dropbox will helpfully and immediately propagate that deletion to all of your other computers. It can be used for backup, but it's not very good at it.
this looks awesome - going to give it a whirl.
"It basically says that low weights, high rep actually builds as much muscle mass as high weights, low reps.."

Interesting. But I would still be skeptical because of one thing: bone/tendon resistance

Not sure small weights/high reps can create the kind of bone changes (and tendon resistance) that bigger weights do. And this may be critical in some situations.
lol freudian slip! Redcube should have read Roundcube :D
That's an interesting paper. I'd like to see more research done on this as I think being able to minimize injuries (which I suspect are more common when you're lifting 80+% of your max) while still gaining muscle mass would be the holy grail for those of us in middle age. :-)
It's more than a little reminiscent of the history of chemotherapy. All the commonly used drugs, the mustards, the folate antagonists, the vinca alkaloids, the platinum drugs, the taxanes, camphotecins, anthracyclins and nitrosoureas, and combination therapy were discovered at universities, financed with public funds and brought to market by pharmaceutical companies.

The same questions apply, the same dilemmas. Should research funded by taxpayers' money be free, or should it be licensed to private entities, so that the university can continue its mission. Should a university be allowed to do so in the face of shrinking public funds? Should a private entity be allowed to profit from publically funded research?

These aren't easy questions to answer, but they must be thought over before giving an answer.
AWS downtime: possible solution?
Nearly every time for AWS downtime the culprit is US East(N. Virginia) data centre , this was the first and the default on AWS console.

dont you think if they make some other data centre as default, all new customers might use them, and we would have lesser downtime, like we had on christmas eve with netflix and heroku
At Betable, four of us do CrossFit. It's not sadistic as the title says, though I'm sure that can depend on the gym. The one in SOMA is pretty supportive and accommodating, probably because they deal with a lot of startup engineers :)

Anyway, was struck me about CrossFit and really any group exercise routine is how much more it makes you tax your own body. When you're at the gym, you don't push yourself. You run comfortably fast on the treadmill, lift a comfortable amount of weight, and do it at a comfortable pace. Group exercise is great for breaking you out of that habit and making you push your limits. It's too easy to pretend that 45 minutes at the gym, 15 of which is "cardio" and 15 of which is "cooldown", is going to change anything.
Development costs in EE are typically smaller than those in medicine. In software engineering development costs are minimal.
Or you know, maybe many readers of the Times want to support the great journalism that the paper produces, since they realize that without their subscriptions, the paper could not exist in its current form.
Script to set background color in Terminal when you ssh on OS X
This is a Ruby script for MacOS X to set the Terminal background color based on the host name you ssh to. It uses Applescript to set the Terminal color.
Tips from Google's SEO guideline
> Never, ever state that you were looking for work for four months or something to that affect

well...
By that simplistic logic then Arista 7500-series [1] would give you a 384-port aggregation (per device) with 48-port rack switches hung off it for something like 8000+ servers.

What stops someone from having multiple zones within a datacenter interconnected with suitably large LAGs thereby avoiding being limited by the port capacity of any one device?

Why is the exact number of servers important to the topic, or is it just to satisfy your curiosity? :)

[1] http://www.aristanetworks.com/en/products/7500series
Seems more like a result of the flat materials used to make the sink.