skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a home server with three disks and ZFS, for my photos and things, so I'm not an expert. However, Ubuntu's md-raid includes scrubbing once a week by default, and I added scrubbing to my ZFS setup via crontab, again once a week (I'm not sure if ZFS does it automatically, but I don't think it does. I would appreciate a correction, if someone knows for sure).

The article assumes no scrubbing, which is a stupid thing to run without, as detailed from the article. So it's basically "why pointing a gun at your foot and pulling the trigger is bad", "because you're going to shoot yourself in the foot".
I don't use google apps for my domains so Gmail MX wouldn't really work, plus I have some aliases that I think are maybe too complicated for Gmail. What do you think of roundcube? I haven't tried it yet, since php puts me off.
you can add tags, instead of just searching based on language (and description). Hopefully as things begin the flesh out, you will be able to more easily find other similar repos and repos of interest (through the "similar repos by tags" and "similar repos by stars"/"users who star this repo all star these other repos" functionality).

Very soon, besides being able to sort by popularity/star count, you will be able to sort (and search) by created date, updated date, and forks.

Also, there have been some requests to make this more service agnostic outside of just github.

So those are some points that hopefully make it more useful than github's current search functionality.
It's quite an assumption to think that after playing petville for 2 years and seeing the plug pulled, these people will be flocking to other Zynga games.
You keep talking like what you experience would be real. I would like to remind you that in your worldview everything you experience is brain chemistry, also the notion of self. You are not more real than the dream that you had last night.

>However, if you round a corner on your bike and slam into an oncoming car, THAT is real.

The pain isn't real. The notion that you are on a bike is not real. The only thing that is real is that matter slams into matter. Everything else is a product of consciousness which in materialism is nothing but a fluke of nature, but certainly has nothing to do with reality.

> Stop robbing everyone of their experiences with beauty just because you believe in a hypothetical, invisible, vengeful, biased, super being. Leave us mortals who have to deal with reality every day to enjoy our postings in peace.

Oh, I didn't know that the only thing you want is people patting you on the back so that you can enjoy your happy life. Sorry for waking you up and question your existence. Dream on then.

Thank you.
Facebook: Poke fix for sneaky video saving coming “shortly”
There are better reasons for RAID not being back than this obscure rare fault condition.
When adjusted for inflation, it's not a box office record; that honor belongs to 2002:

http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2386/annual-revenu...
This is why I try to focus on books with exercises and force myself to finish all the exercises - "Thinking in C++" (volumes 1 and 2) was especially good for this. If nothing else, typing in examples helps. Also, try slowing down and forcing yourself to think of better/alternate ways to do something. Just having read the docs, your mind will be more open to using different options, and by forcing yourself to do it differently (even if you have to look it up again), will help to reinforce.
You can get the current emitting object via e.currentTarget. Modifying 'this', while cute, just makes yet another thing that must be explained to people when you start talking about 'this'.
I'm sorry for all this. I'm an ass.
I'd say the same about night owls, so you've really said nothing about anything but the company you keep.
Hmm, never thought of that, excellent idea mamcx!

I'll start scoping that out and see what a solution would look like, seems like it would helpful for a lot of projects.

Thanks for the idea mamcx!
It ended
Making Software that Doesn't Suck
I'm using zfsonlinux on Ubuntu, and so far (months) it has been solid. Granted, it's just for media storage, but it's fine.
That my mind produces ideas and features a LOT faster than my fingers can code them up.

One of the great frustrations I'm finding in being a self-taught, 1-man developer. I'm learning, and it's intensely satisfying, and it's going well.

But MAN does it take a long time to do things. I know I'll get faster, but things that I think should take a few minutes take a few hours. Designs I think I should be able to put together in a day take a week.

So the painful realization is that I'm going to get a lot less done in 2013 than I'd like. I'll still get a lot done, but it's sobering to realize the limits of your execution.
I suspect the post was written in order to be posted on hacker news, rather than the other way round.
I think that's his point. If a large newspaper such as the New York Times isn't able to sustainably charge for content, even with readers that largely depend on it for their livelihoods, then how is a smaller newspaper going to get away with similar practices without losing much of their consumer base.
How does ZFS discover bit rot if you don't read the bits? I have mine scrubbing once a week, is that unnecessary?
Introduction to Rails Engines
Is there a digital version?
I feel like I am alone in not liking sticky navs. They completely break the physical metaphor while cluttering the content; and I am still not sure of what the benefits are.
I am 25 years old and I don't have the $100,000 job that everyone seems to have no trouble getting =(
I switched from running my own servers to GMail. It's easily worth $5/mo to not have to worry about security bulletins, kernel updates, etc. Self-hosting is fine for stuff like my personal website, but I live and die by my email.
The Curious Case of Sony and Universal's Missing YouTube Views
I hope this works out for you. I've taken up learning vim this year, but my main problem is forgetting the things I've learned. I tried cue cards but they fill up far too quickly; so my answer was to store my notes on a wiki: http://wiki.jbud.me/index.php?title=Vim
I'd recommend hitting the JREF forums.[0] For best results, approach them with a single thing you can do that others cannot, rather than a list of things. Minor is actually better, as long as it's something with a causal impact that shouldn't be possible in conventional neurology. They'll help you whittle your ability down to a falsifiable claim, and then design a repeatable, properly-blinded protocol to definitively test whether the phenomenon is real, or has a mundane explanation.

As long as you approach it in good faith, with an earnest desire to discover the truth and the willingness to be proven wrong if the facts go that way, I think you will find they are generally intelligent, respectful people; they do this stuff all the time. Remember that skeptics want to see paranormal phenomena validated more than anyone does; the proper skeptical response to an unlikely claim is, "Well, my impulse is to doubt that, since it goes against every experience I've had so far. But it would be really cool if true-- Show me!"

I'd only also ask, just for me, that you make an agreement with yourself that if the experiment returns a mundane result, you won't discard it but will seek medical help. It may indicate a life-threatening condition.

[0] http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7
A Long View on Planet Earth From the Perspective of Water
Life is precious and brief; we squander it by griefing, and we never respawn.
awesome, thanks wise young man, this is exactly one of the problems I personally experienced that I was hoping to solve.

I am also interested in how this plays out. Maybe this project will succeed, or maybe something else better solves the problem. Either way I think it will be awesome.

There is so much out there, it can sometimes be hard to make sense of it or manage it in a way that suites someone the best. This is just my stab at trying to solve the problem.

If you have any other input on how to make it more useful please just let me know! Thanks again!
See the comment thread below. You can buy an ebook direct from the publisher, or get it from the publisher with purchase of the physical copy
Cast your mind back to 1983 and ask yourself if 1983-you would have felt deprived not knowing the latest from Ireland unless and until a non-Irish news source

Fun fact: What happened in 1983 in Ireland was relevant to India in 2012.

In 1983, Ireland passed a pro-life consitutional amendment, banning abortion in all cases (in practice)¹. In 2012, an dentist from India living in Ireland who was miscarrying and dying asked for a termination to save her life, she was refused one, and eventually died².

¹: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_of_the_Constit...
²: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar
I purchased this book as a MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) in august 2008. Never expected it to take this long.
Are you writing software or running a company?

As a business person it's fiscal suicide to release a product for which there is no market. Most people see more benefit from a mediocre mechanic than a world-class buggy whip manufacture.

If the people who will see your product on the first iteration are the majority of your potential customers then chances are your business is a failure anyway.

How many of us think less of PG because HN uses tables?
You are right. Done. I'm an ass.
Show HN: A year of Foursquare Checkins --  Show me yours
Kickstarter Project - AL13: Ultra-Thin Aerospace Aluminium Bumper for iPhone
Use promotional code "bestof2012" to get it half off.
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs172/1101335703814/archi...
That I'm an alcoholic, that I have ADHD, depression and social anxiety. I've got a lot to fix in 2013.
like a personal tag cloud that applies just to the tags of that users starred repos? actually that's not a bad idea
I would be happier. It would mean they're not trying to play tricks with anchoring and they can't easily push the price up even higher later. They wouldn't have people "compromising" with the $4 version or being tricked into thinking $5 is suddenly a 'deal' because it's only a dollar!! more.
There is no Silicon Valley problem.

She assumes that everyone shares her progressive/leftist view of government.

Why is it Silicon Valley's responsibility to "fix government" and not hers?
Working at a successful startup is no fun at all.
The author can argue that OpenGL is not a 3D library. That argument would be wrong.

This is an old debate. Scene-graph APIs have been around for a long time, and include PHIGS and VRML. As http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHIGS#The_rise_of_OpenGL_and_th... comments, OpenGL requires tuning, but the end result can be much faster than the "automatic" tuning in PHIGS.

The three.js which the author points out is a scene graph library. There's no reason to restrict, as the author asserts, 3D graphics libraries to only scene graph libraries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_3D_graphics_APIs categorizes them correctly as low-level and high-level 3D libraries.
That I should pay taxes first and invest later, not vice versa.
My impression is that the tech culture pervading SV is built on a foundation of decentralized problem solving on a global scale, finding people who share an interest in the solution to some problem they're faced with, and working towards that solution with them. Intermediaries such as NGOs and governing bodies are not valued, because their operation isn't transparent or accessible. National borders and the government agencies they contain are becoming increasingly irrelevant as we are able to work and play with people regardless of locality, and the influence of national organizations is seen as a liability for more global-minded projects. The author seems to place a great deal of faith and value in institutions which have failed to keep pace with the workings of modern human society.
Leave aside that I don't think the analogy to African aid is quite relevant here, I agree with you. Charity alone isn't necessarily helpful nor does it define the good a person has done. But the lack of philanthropy in SV is indicative of the attitude and culture I'm trying to describe: individualistic, not integrated into a diverse community, divorced from a sense of civic responsibility.
I find a laptop very comfortable in my lap, not on a desk.
I pre-ordered this book when it was first announced. At the time I was a JS novice and now I'm quite accomplished. Hoping there's still something useful to get out of it.
Lower communism is formally known as socialism among Marxist scholars. To say that Marx never spoke of socialism when the academic understanding has been that the terminology maps over is very misleading.

Marx & Engels criticized utopian socialism that was utopian for simply lacking a vision of bringing itself about. That's what made it utopian. Marx and Engels critiqued utopianism, market socialism, and liberal democracy, not socialism itself. To say that their critiques of dreamy, ungrounded utopianism were somehow a critique of one of the utopian hobby-horses (socialism) is...a severe misunderstanding of Marx.

They themselves saw the revolutionary state that would midwife the ushering in of Communism as being socialist by necessity. The Paris Commune would later serve to change Marx's attitude about the midwife state a bit though.

You're just compounding your misunderstandings and further propagating misinformation about Marx. Please stop. This isn't even about the original conversation for me anymore, I just want you to stop spreading untruths.
hard to say if it is more or less useful, but hopefully easier (and therefor more useful).

this hopes to centralize the search for good repos, instead of having to turn to a generalized search engine, and ideally add some functionality that facilitates the search (search/sort by created date, updated date, popularity, find similar repos, etc.).
Is there the option to continue adding data, but make sure the new data are bogus? Poison the well, so to speak. Change personal data, etc. Alter metadata in photos.

Do this for a bit, then close the account.
Also:

"Why donate money when people can just download my app and instantly have a better life?"

She's talking almost directly to Steve Jobs. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/the-mystery-of-steve-... The quote is a caricature of a more nuanced position, but articles like this are equally nuts: http://blogs.hbr.org/pallotta/2011/09/steve-jobs-worlds-grea...
I was really hoping that this would be a service that would allow me to organize my private repositories into folders. I know I can do this with submodules, but I was hoping for an easy user interface. I'm guessing this is an area where you could make money, until GitHub solves the problem.

I find it difficult to track the 100+ private repos we have for various projects and such. Giving me some ability to organize them by folders along with some general notes, would be useful and something I'd pay a small bit of cash for.
It's my responsibility too. I'm working on it. Just coming off the Obama campaign and rolling into a new gig in the coming weeks. Not ready to announce it yet, but I'm proud of it and think it's part of the solution.
ha, thanks! I knew I was lucky with a useful 6 letter domain. If you have any ideas that you had wanted to implement but don't see please let me know!

and thanks for the domain brandon!
That describes my bike perfectly. '86 Trek. I love the thing, but I don't exactly have a lot of experience to rate it against. All of my other bikes were either mountain bikes or Xmart specials. Great for what they were. But not something I'd want to ride every day to work.

of course, I realize I do things wrong by taking advantage of the speed my bike can get. I put the smallest tires I could easily find on them and have been having a blast with how easy hills are. Probably not the safest riding on the planet, but I have learned not to overtake cars if I can avoid it now.
I would be cautious on your labeling them as incompetent--perhaps they are very competent at protecting their positions, you just have a different agenda.

Of course, I don't know your exact situation. But, people act according to their alignment of incentives. If one is more motivated by the work they're doing rather than the pay they're receiving, then you get one set of behaviors. Likewise, if they're motivated by power, you get another set of behaviors. It's folly to assign your values and incentives onto somebody else and call them incompetent because they're different.

You may just be golfing, and they're bowling, and looking at the scoreboard, you think they have a miserable score, when in fact, they're a strike away from a perfect game.

If you understand how folks like that behave, you can work with them to make decisions that will be in your best (or at least better) interests.
> I've seen many, many people who are much better than their portfolio or past accomplishments indicated-especially people in their 20s who've just happened to work at crappy companies and end up on bad projects.

This hits too close to home. I am trying to figure out what to do about it.
Just because you find it comfortable doesn't mean it's ergonomic. A laptop on a desk is bad for your arms and hands, while a laptop on your lap is bad for your neck and head. As explained in this document from Berkeley[0]:

> Unfortunately, the laptop’s compact design, with attached screen and keyboard, forces laptop users into awkward postures. When the screen is at the right height, the keyboard position is too high; and when the keyboard is at the right height, the screen is too low.

> Laptops pose less risk when used for short periods of time, but nowadays, many people use laptops as their main computer. This creates an ongoing tradeoff between poor neck/head posture and poor hand/wrist posture.

In your case, you are simply avoiding poor hand/wrist posture at the expense of having poor neck/head posture. However, having the laptop on your lap is better than having it on a desk. But even then, it should only be used occasionally, and not full-time.

0: http://uhs.berkeley.edu/facstaff/pdf/ergonomics/laptop.pdf
You're still young .. not everyone has a $100,000 per year job :-)

Live within your means, learn at a pace that'll allow you to absorb, rather than simply skim, and you'll be on your way to success eventually.
My experience with groups was bad a few years ago, it seemed that nobody indeed was listening. I remember posting something to a hundred of thousands members Marketing group and nobody clicked... it would be interesting to hear your experiences.
Wordpress E-commerce plugin. Stay. Away. From. It.

There's a reason why it has such terrible ratings and reviews and complaints. It has a lot of features that the others don't, and that tricks you into thinking it's right for your online store. Only to be 1 month in, and start discovering all the terrible programming, glitches, bugs, php errors, and short commings.

Stay away from WP E-Commerce. You've been warned.
Yup.

Just about everybody else on this thread seems to be thinking at the wrong granularity.

I've been thinking about your problem all year. http://akkartik.name/blog/libraries2
Interesting choice of a samurai for the cover image, considering the book's title.
Can't you easily rewrite the critical parts in Java? (That should be much easier than writing C extensions for CPython.)
I'm back at my desk, so I wanted to write a little more about where I'm coming from.

In an attempt to get off on the right foot, I do not think that you have, or ever had, the same product as Facebook. Facebook's product is a straight social media business. However, if advertising was your primary source of income, you were in the same business: selling advertising. I will also grant that because of their product model, there is an implicit level of trust that is easily violated. This implicit trust is not as big of an issue for content companies, because the reader isn't trusting you with the gory details of their life on a day-to-day basis.

I learned enough in my time as a direct marketer to know that advertisers don't buy advertising on impulse. They buy it based on some criteria. That criteria can be really simple, like vertical alignment, or it can be more subtle. Vertical alignment is simple: E.g., I'm selling phones, so I want to advertise on a gadget website. Easy, but you can't build a business on easy alone.

A more subtle case is when an advertiser wants to target a demographic. Anyone with advertising inventory must go through some effort to identify who their inventory is comprised of. You're selling views, but views by whom? That is the question that advertisers must answer before they can buy, except in simplistic cases mentioned above.

This means that anyone in the business of advertising must have some means of identifying their readership. This is the same kind of private information that people fear Facebook is building and leveraging. The more targeted this information, the higher the premium one can charge to advertisers. The difference is that Facebook's product is a funnel for the information that drives their business.

As usual, matters are not black & white, but business like the ones you founded are on the same spectrum as companies like Facebook. I know that can be hard to see from the inside. You're looking around you, and you're feeling out the context. You're probably thinking, there's no way my business is in any way similar to what Facebook is doing. From a product perspective, I'd agree, but from a business perspective, it's not all that dissimilar.

EDIT: My post didn't even touch on the topic of list sharing and marketing "partners", because I don't want to be accusatory. I have no idea if you ever engaged in those practices, and they're becoming less common, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
I ran my own DNS server from my own home DSL static IP address 10+ years ago. It's fairly innocuous as long as you only respond to DNS requests for your own domain and don't forward requests. But it ends up being more hassle than its worth.

As recently as a few months ago, I hosted my own DNS server on a Linksys SLUG, but after I suffered a power outage and realized that there's no reason for hosting this stuff myself, I just decided to use namecheap.com for their Free DNS service.
The compile-debug-refresh cycle is exactly the problem. Tools that watch the file system are no substitute for servers that can guarantee you get the latest version when you hit f5.

Quickly and reliably seeing your code in action is one of the more important things you do when coding, and anything that messes with that makes your life less fun, more painful and less productive.
That's a profound thought that transcends technology, thanks.
Same experience here with TDI VWs. Even "friends and family" don't get good deals....you're just lucky to ge the car you want.
Yeah, roundcube is the only reason I have installed PHP. I really would prefer not to use PHP. I don't personally like roundcube too much. For sure it's not great, but it does still work okish. I'm usually using proper mail client(s), so roundcube is just a backup. Btw. roundcube is also the reason why I'm running MySQL too. I'm using Python 3 & MongoDB with all of my own apps.
Not to mention that lots of office workers start at 8:00 or 8:30am and have to commute an hour or more to get to work. Lots of schools start at 8:00am, so teachers have to wake up early and parents have to wake up early to get their children ready for school and themselves ready for work. Having a choice about when we want to wake up in the morning is a luxury that very few working people get to enjoy.