skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Schmidt still does not see anything wrong with his statement, because if the government is the one to say whats wrong or right, then they shall have access to all and any of your information as soon as they say "its wrong to [insert anything you do here]".

Couldn't help adding for those who are not aware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
You can't stop corruption but you always create an App to make it more efficient.
I'm going to need to mortgage my house to get my hands on some of these, aren't I?
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At least he's Dutch, so there's a decent probability it will be used, even within his lifetime.
I dunno. It's not as if mobile games cost $50 bucks, but ship basically incomplete and you have to buy more stuff in the game itself to really play it. We're starting from a baseline of what is, in general, grossly inefficient "monetization", so seeing someone succeed at actually making some money probably isn't grounds for immediate cynicism. (And I too am a natural cynic.) Compare with MMORPGs that did cost $50 and then you had to have a monthly subscription too, or Diablo III and its real-money auction house.
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It is already over 9000... err i mean 1000000000

Youtube has refreshed the view count:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
Great article.. Setting up CDNs in China is extremely hard without government support and local business being lead investors.
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BitBucket only supported Mercurial for a long time. That's fine with me, but if you prefer Git, it wasn't an option.
The Most Important Charts Of 2012
If you're going to spout off nonsense like the folks at the Discovery Institute, I feel little remorse when you are publicly ridiculed.

Edit:

In my haste I think my reply may have been a little tangential. Intelligent Design is absolutely ridiculous. It carries no basis in scientific theory or observation. It is at best bad science and thinly veiled political and religious dogmatism, and at best a celebration of ignorance. If you want to believe the Earth is flat, or sitting on the shell of a turtle, or 6,000 years old, go for it. You can believe whatever you want. But when you start saying that publicly funded science classrooms should be teaching that drivel, you deserve every ounce of the hate, ridicule and ostracism that is coming your way.
The reason almost everybody uses a vendor like Skype that they solve the problem of helping users find each other and establish connections, despite NAT and firewalls.

I don't know of any non-commercial, distributed software for solving that problem.
Sorry, I don't understand your point. Do you mean we should show respect and consideration for a fraud just because "people are dedicating much of their working lives to"?

I am not worried about your religion, enjoy it as it pleases you. But intelligent design is not science. This has been established even by courts. My problem is when those liars keep on smuggling superstitions into science.
You might be right, in the sense that I probably cannot make profit from your stuff you left in my house, although I'm not sure about it.

But imagine this scenario: I don't know you, but I dump a pile of stuff in your backyard. A lot of stuff, with some relatively valuable stuff in it, like copper.

You get home and what? Are you expected by the law to put your sweat and/or money to get rid of that stuff from your backyard?

Or is it perfectly legal to call somebody which will clean that up for you in exchange for the value of the stuff? They might even profit from that (after all that's profit in exchange for work)
Worth noting that it sounds like hs1.8xlarge is built on magnetic disks (24 2TB HDs - edit: originally put 1TB), each reading some 100MB/sec, yielding the theoretical max of 2.4GB/s in a RAID-0 configuration. No one actually uses disks in such a fashion, and gross throughput of magnetic drives has seldom been of much utility (hence the strong demand for SSDs. Random IO matches the vast majority of workloads more appropriately).

Just caveats. This doesn't look like a terribly interesting option.
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I'm a little slow and can still do it in maybe 2 minutes. It's really one of those things that just takes practice.
No, I don't. (Unfortunately.) I think too many Christian parents leave it up to other people (Sunday school teachers, youth group leaders, private school teachers, etc etc) to teach their children about their (our) beliefs. Schools teach evolution, BFD. I don't believe evolution, but I'm not angry schools teach it. If you want your kids to know about the Bible's creation story, stop complaining about public schools and teach them yourself!
To quote the Chicago Godfather (Mayor), while he was working for Obama, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

Note he's fighting tooth and nail to keep Chicago "subjects" disarmed (can't call them citizens if they're disarmed, at least by historical use of the word), and keeps robosigning mid-6 figure checks to the other side when he loses; here's the latest: http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2012/12/chicagos_latest.ph...
So fast...

I see from CSS files they will change the logo too : https://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/logo_dancing_psy-vflsJl9hC.gif
The better analogy is that Chad got rich by selling the well-stocked garage to someone else. The new owner didn't get rich by hosting your stuff, in fact they have paid good money for the privilege and now want to find a way of making that money back.

Facebook is in the hole for one billion dollars on this deal and so far haven't made back a single cent.
Saying "there are special characters that when put in a certain sequence" can be confusing for a lot of people. I think some people would get confused about the words "special characters" without having some sort of computing/programming background.

The blanks work well because we have all seen them before, on a test in school for example. It is easy for everyone to replace the blanks with the words in bold. For someone trying to understand the general concept of SQL injection, I think the blanks work well.
Flagged. ExtremeTech is a garbage site that forcibly redirects me to an utterly broken mobile garbage page.
It's not stretching the definition: HTML and the web are where RESTful principles are defined from. They're the OG hypermedia API.

> it's not an API in the sense most people understand

Neither are hypermedia APIs in general.
I'd love to read a book detailing how he went about it. (Other then the bible.) It looks beautiful. That he had the forethought to put a restaurant and theater in is topping on the cake.
Cool, though I think 20 years of time and however much that cost could have been put toward something that actually helps a fellow human. Maybe build a bunch of smaller houses for poor people instead of a giant houseboat for your stuffed animals.

Then again, maybe that's just me...
Interestingly, one of the managing partners of IV, Peter Detkin, is credited for popularizing the term "patent troll".
Maybe skeptical is not exactly the right word, but I feel like having a post like that should not be part of HN.
Did you?

At least for me, the site is still down.
On-demand pricing is $4.60 at the moment which isn't bad considering what you get ($110 per day; $3300ish per month).

I just ran some 'Reserved Instances' quotes and for 12 months I got $3968.00 upfront and then $2.24 per hour OR $9200.00 upfront and then $1.38 per hour. For 3 years you can go as far as $16924.00 upfront and then $0.76 per hour (for a long term effective rate of $1.404/hr).
I agree the colour change is too tacky. The moving screen slideshow seems more like an ad and the eyes automatically ignores it. Check this link out if you need guidelines for how to build a landing page http://unbounce.com/landing-page-examples/your-landing-page-...
How one startup traded user acquisition for dollar acquisition
I'd say that's impossible to determine even for youtube.
I don't understand the disagreements.

>Well, I'm this close to not giving him any more stuff.

>That'll teach him.

The point is, unless you're paying them money, you have nothing to threaten them with. You can't stop paying for their service (like you can with other businesses), since you weren't paying in the first place. They're a business and they're not beholden to you in any way.

Maybe it would be more clear if we had another panel explaining that Chad has no job, yet recently took a large loan from the mob. And you still decided to put your stuff in Chad's garage.

The final punchline of course is that you're not going to do anything about it.
It's funny but the analogy doesn't really hold.
Why would one prefer to use LLVM over GCC?
You can't brute force if you don't know the cipher. Heres an example: Imagine a code that smartly encodes and hides spoken voice. No amount of brute force would be able to crack that.
Why the link URL is like this?
Ah, I see your point and I think maybe there is a misunderstanding. To me, intelligent design is part of my religion. So when people call intelligent design a fraud, but invite me to carry on believing my religion, I see a sort of disconnect. Maybe it shouldn't be espoused as science per se, but I think calling it a fraud is equivalent to my calling your belief system a fraud.

Does that make sense or am I sounding ridiculous?
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Yeah, I can definitely see value and interest in a book about i's construction, or even a documentary (which would probably have to have been planned in advance, oh well).
But that solves the users' problem. No advertiser will ever send them spams or any promotional message.

I do see value in this for busy people. Who want to receive message by urgency. So yeah, if it's urgent then only contact me like use case certainly exists.

I actually liked the concept of pay to send message. Want to contact a star no problem. Pay the highest or set number of credits and you are in.
I'd be curious what rationale was behind this design decision. (ie was it as simple as expediency?)
"Do stock brokers broadcast tips to their competitors? Does Warren Buffet tell the world where he’s investing next? Does Disney broadcast which plots of land it is planning to buy for its next theme park? Of course not, and IV takes a similar approach to our investments."

Does North Korea say where it's nuclear silos are located?
To be fair, I know nothing about the DI. I just read the article and thought that the first sentence was a little harsh. Given their use of half-baked greenscreening, I'm sure they earned it.
You can't make a replica of something that never existed
It's pretty much consensus at this point that the current CA model is highly broken. Among other problems, there are trusted CAs providing interception capabilities to local governments, and there are CAs that have been compromised and used by criminals.

For more, see the EFF's SSL Observatory.

Further proof that people take this problem seriously are some features Google has added to Chrome: they keep a list of important websites (particularly Google's own) and refuse to accept perfectly valid certificates for those sites if the certificates are signed by an unexpected CA.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
- Sigmund Freud
Good point, but their blog post does give a few possible uses: "Storage instances are ideal for data-intensive applications including Hadoop workloads, log processing and data warehousing, and parallel file systems to process and analyze large data sets in the AWS Cloud". If your code fits the pattern, a high-storage instance may fit well.

Of course, getting that much data into and out of the cloud is its own problem.
From the article:

"For Huibers, a builder by trade, it all began with a nightmare he had in 1992, when the low-lying Netherlands was flooded, as it has been many times throughout its history."
So we shouldn't teach those wanting to learn more about a particular topic...? I don't understand your abrasive attitude towards someone trying to learn more about a topic.
http://clang.llvm.org/comparison.html
re: edit.

I don't know if anyone "deserve[s] every ounce of the hate [....] that is coming [their] way." I disagree with people, people disagree with me. I'm not sure when we started handing out hate so freely.
It's actually done pretty commonly. Usually as a "hey, I love working here and would love to stay, but I have an offer from company XYZ for $X. Is there any way we can work toward that number?" My friend just got a $10k raise in a day doing that last week. Granted, you have to actually have an offer in case they tell you to GTFO.
What Startups can learn from the Mayans
Well I am not an expert here but keeping into consideration the buzz about the Mayans and their predictions I have come up with this list of few interesting things. This is just for fun but who knows it might help some of you. Feel free to add more lessons learnt and have a safe 12-21-12.

Mayans were extremely confident and precise in their astronomy and that’s the reason they have predicted that the World will come to an end on 21st Dec 2012.

Lesson learnt: If you believe in your product then sell it with conviction.

We came to know about the Mayans and their predictions by watching and listening to famous astronomers, geologists and archaeologists who were having full faith in what Mayans have predicted.

Lesson learnt: A good product is not only conspicuous to the VC but proper marketing also plays an important role in introducing the product to the World.

With some comfort now I can say that the myth of 21st Dec is almost over, but we have to wait for another scary prediction and who knows it might be better than the one what Mayans have predicted.

Lesson learnt: Prepare for the failure. No matter how awesome is your product, there are always chances someone might come up with a better one.
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I'm biased in favor or Arch Linux. It's fairly similar in spirit with Gentoo, but offers binaries rather than forcing users to build everything from scratch.

AUR packages usually require compiling from source code though.
You can either use the 'W' movement (instead of 'w') or use the 'iskeyword' option to change what is considered a word character.
Word movement: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_03.html#03.1
The first time I go to a machine for the first time, and I need an editor, I fire up emacs. If it isn't there, I do [apt-get|yum] install emacs, and then I fire up emacs.
when will consumer internet businesses start charging people real money, and when will users realize that they need to open their wallets? there is no free lunch...
a direct business relationship (customer x company) is better for everyone.
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>The proposed changes were actually better for users, as they would have limited the existing advertising ability to be "about or around" the user content, but now we're sticking with the ability to modify user content for advert purposes.

Pretty much bullshit. The current TOS already has that clause:

"Some of the Instagram Services are supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions, and you hereby agree that Instagram may place such advertising and promotions on the Instagram Services or on, about, or in conjunction with your Content. The manner, mode and extent of such advertising and promotions are subject to change without specific notice to you."

http://instagram.com/legal/terms/
It says that a read message demands a reply, and a replied to message can be rated upon by the receiver.

There was a service years back that did something similar via the phone -- you could register as an expert of something and people would call and pay them for time with you. It is a good idea, fundamentally, though voice was a horrendous medium for it.
The last time legislation was posted in a knee-jerk fashion was 2001. Are you a fan of the Patriot Act?

Nothing will be lost by having a sensible discussion and resisting the urge to pass whatever half-baked legislation gets written up the quickest.
It's true. I spend less on vegetables to make a gallon of stock than I do to buy one quart at a grocery store, and mine is better. Even when I'm doing a beef stock and have to buy the bones it's still a little cheaper, though in that case not much. But the difference in quality between homemade beef stock and store bought is far larger than the same difference in chicken stock.
First of all I hope you do get a job out of the leads here, you indeed sound like a normal real person.

Niggler below did a good job of specifying some of my concerns of why I am skeptical, but I hope the biggest point I got across is that in my opinion HN isn't the place for this. It feels like you are in the middle of a party and you stood up and yelled "I need a job" - you might be serious and smart, but I'll still feel skeptical about you because you can't fit your message to the audience.

The thing is - the audience here mostly did offer advice and leads, so I might not really know what it wants, so I'm just speaking for me :)
very happy to hear that they are taking Zombie attack into consideration, I am constantly amazed by the number of companies that do not factor in this potential threat.
> “I will kill everything, except the floating ones and the swimming ones, who will get out due to a loophole.”

-- Eddie Izzard, speaking as god

I've never understood why bible fanatics are so fixated on that story, it's one of the bible's most conspicuous flaws.

Edit: When I say "bible fanatics" I'm referring specifically to bible fanatics: people who are obsessed with the bible and view it as the literal word of god. I'm not trying to classify all bible followers as "fanatics", nor do I mean to impart any negative connotation to that word.

If you read it the latter way, it's most likely a projection of your own bias -- either towards excessive political correctness or anti-theism.
I cringe every time I hear "Date" and "Java" in the same sentence.
according to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl9oFHRJ6kE It is 1:14th size
I was on my way to school, the train got stuck about 100m out of the station because there were ground up leaves causing adhesion problems. The train sat there for about an hour, no announcements or anything, it was packed, people were jammed right up against each other and it was getting hot. Someone lost it, forced the doors open and jumped out, then lots of people just followed them. It was a pretty dangerous thing to do because the third rail was right below the doors and you had to sit on the step and then drop down about 1.5m onto the ballast right beside it. After the first couple of people jumped out I think the train crew probably got the traction current switched off and got some steps out but by then most people had jumped out and started walking on to the next station. So you probably did the right thing there!
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Don't get a discount card. Pay cash. Problem solved.
Good morning - I'm kind of bummed out that I still don't have an email from you all, and concerned that my order didn't go through.

Will the sale be extended through today for those of us who threw money at Jetbrains, but were unable to put it in your pocket?
The title given is "Instagram", not "Chad's Garage". I got the joke. I would find it funnier if that something were something other than what happened in this instance. It's not sour grapes either, I've never been an Instagram user.
Well, it's the night side, so obviously there's not the same kind of shading that you get with direct sunlight.
Anyone using LLVM/Clang on Windows? If so did you have to do anything special to get it to work? I have not really looked into it much myself as the last time I did Windows was basically a no go. Any advice would be great thanks!
He who smelt it dealt it.
The real solution is to get timezones thrown out. All they do is waste the time of everyone involved and create complicated issues around travel, finance, computing, etc.

They have no real benefit - if you want to come into work later in winter because it's dark where you live then just come in later! Changing time to suite this madness is insane, broken, and requires immediate fixes.

If we could get all the OS markets/net service providers to agree to a boycott, then nobody would even notice DST is gone as they just get their time from their phone/computer/radio/etc anyway.

I'll get the pitchforks and we can get this started. Anybody with me?! :)
Well, I see it a lot different.

First let me suggest that there might not be a contradiction between Christianity and Evolution, since some Christian denominations are absolutely comfortable with it (e.g. Anglicans, Lutherans and Catholics). Although I have no religion (agnostic, as some call) my wife is Catholic and has no problem in giving Darwin biographies to my children.

Second, you can believe in Creationism and doubt science if it pleases you. What you can't do is to pretend that Creationism is science, as I.D. and the Discovery Institute do. It is this last bit what I call a fraud.
"Want to talk to someone fast? Purchase credits to get to the top of their inbox."

Honestly, this looks more like a scam. I hope I am wrong.
I liked the idea too, and was pretty impressed when using it.
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Ok, now lets try to fit every female and male of every species into that boat!
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Then you're cringing for the wrong reasons - nearly every deployed language gets this wrong also (numeric timezones instead of descriptive ones) - java is actually one of the first to fix this stuff up.
Thanks, I've already tried that. My main issue is EBS performance when writing the dump file to disk. The backups themselves don't impact on database performace much, but writing up to 20 Gigs of a dump file to an EBS disk on a nightly basis is extremely slow. Maybe this Data Pipeline service will help bypass that.
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There isn't one, all-encompassing web team. The Interactive News department (as Jeremy has described) is in the newsroom, while teams like the one I am a member of (which make more structural stuff, for want of a better word) are a few floors away from the newsroom.

It's kind of a reflection of how deeply the web is (and will continue to be) integrated into organisations like NYT.
Let's stop death!
I think thats the old version. He now built a 1:1 version. http://www.arkvannoach.com/informatie/geschiedenis/
I wish GitHub would offer unlimited private repos and just charge for collaborators. I don't mind paying $12/month for 10 repos, but I've gotten to the point where I have old projects sitting around that I still want access to but can't make public.
"There are even vending machines because 'Man cannot live on bread alone'"
I'm pretty sure MTV was ad-free when it began. Same with HBO, etc. I'm thinking early 80s. I'm sure not every cable channel was ad-free, but plenty of them were because they got enough revenue from subscriptions.

The thing is, services that start out free can't begin charging users without losing more users than it's worth. But services that start out being paid for can easily find ways to grow revenue by monetizing their user base and selling ads, in addition to maintaining or raising subscription fees. Satellite radio is yet another example.
Indeed, then they would not be able to focus on their business.
"Bible fanatics" is a little insulting to several religions. Anyway a lot of things that look like they took a lot of time (I think the Grand Canyon is the canonical example) are alternatively explained as being results of the Flood.