skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd personally love it if society had more people like swombat, rather than fewer.

Of course, there is a risk when choosing to ignore rules that you are ignoring them because they you are an inconvenience to you but are generally good for society. Government incented/enforced vaccination would be a good example of such a reasonable though possibly annoying rule. I totally concede that point, and hence, individuals need to be especially mindful about their own self serving biases when choosing to disobey rules.

But on the other hand, imagine if rules that effected tens of millions of people all had scientific studies about their tradeoffs, their risks, and their efficiency. How much less bullshit would we have to deal with?

I think lots of big innovation is done by rule breakers. It's exactly what pg talks about in point 4 about wanting founders who are naughty.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html
Just a year ago, TechCrunch was also being short-sightedly wrong about established major companies being "boring": http://www.peopleprocesstech.com/why-techcrunch-is-boring-sa...
I am aware, but I haven't really had the time to get involved in testing it. I know we'd have to make some code changes because we depend on modules with native extensions in our script, but I don't know that they'd really be prohibitive.

Much easier would be: "Make this Java with one command to a cross-compiler".
Market cap, an "price to buy" are not the same. Anyone who has been through a purchase can tell you that. Why do you think Lucas was so expensive?

Market cap is the price of the outstanding stock, and doesn't reflect the cost of the assets, or the will of the primary holders to keep their shares.
What Mattered in Energy Innovation This Year
What hilariously cryptic commit messages...
Has Facebook Ruined Love?
You seem to be better informed about my businesses than I am. Would you care to show me where, during my career, I've EVER engaged in profiting from the sale of user data and social information?

You sound like you know what you're talking about, but everything you just said is based on a presupposed conclusion, hedged by the word "arguably".
If you think 10 years is too short, Facebook, a $57 billion dollar company, did not exist 10 years ago.

What baffles me is that many major artists argue for more copyright. It's like they are drinking the kool-aid of the corporate masters. What they should be doing is negotiating better contracts. Instead, they have a few stars supporting a majority of losers. The losers never make anything, and the stars make orders of magnitude less than they otherwise would. It's nothing to do with copyright law. It's simply a poor business model post internet.

I still vote, and don't mind doing stuff like this, but I'm afraid unless you have a few million dollars to throw at capitol hill your vote doesn't count for much, even all of hacker news combined.
Why do people undervalue the value brought by by these big companies, it would nice to have flying cars that most of the population would not be able to afford, or more trips to space that the wealthy can enjoy habitually, but the reality is these tech companies have reach their audience globally, call me crazy but I think that itself is amazing, we can always do better though
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Man, since when does a relevant link to a clever solution to a technical problem get downvoted on HN? Y'all need to get over it.
Great idea, I got my first one of those this Christmas, I'll see what use I can put it too tonight.
On GitHub there's a "Branches" tab for each repo which lists how many commits ahead or behind master each branch is. Sounds like it's close to what you're looking for.
Not necessarily. Only if you assume the people that go to movies are a good representation of people in general, which I doubt is true. Considering how important the teenage demographic is (why fewer movies are release with an R rating nowadays, with some movies getting re-edited to go from an R to PG-13 rating), I'd bet teenagers are over-represented from a few years ago. And you'd have to assume any time someone goes to the theaters they pick the best movie for their tastes, not just the "safe bet" on a sequel or the one they've seen the most advertising for.

Top 10 grossing was probably a bad pick, but I don't know a better way to measure the general output of movie studios without considering every movie released, even those shown in like 2 theaters worldwide.
Steam has also shown that if the price is good enough many people will buy it and then never play it.
That startup is Vegetality. And why would it matter if it was started by a woman in this context? (I can't wait until ~50% of startups are by women and it's not considered exceptional.)
QoS of the network is not a requirement for IPTV. IPTV is a definition for Broadcast like experience to a Television display.

Several "IPTV Named Standards" work over Multicast and require "IP Traffic Quality Metrics" this is not "QoS"

PS I authored many of those standards... (I was also on the committee for BD, h264, VC1, and a few other SMPTE standards)
> I bet a majority of "pirates" will pay instead of downloading a dubious torrent.

Yes, that would be true if movie torrents were "dubious", but the vast majority aren't. You don't have to be a genius to find a genuine copy of a movie, indie or blockbuster, on torrents. It's actually quite straightforward.

Though no one wants to talk about it, this is the real reason why Steam has succeeded in such a big way where services for other types of content haven't, and is one of the reasons why I don't think movie and music piracy can be reduced to the same degree Steam has cut into PC video game piracy.

Pirating and installing a video game can actually be quite difficult. You have to use keygens, cracks, and patches to remove the copy protection - executables can be difficult to use and may be deleted on accident by antivirus software for containing malware (because cracks and patches are used to do things seen in malware - modifying other executables, for example). Many people may not want to deal with that.

More importantly, you also have to manually torrent and install updates - a true pain in the ass when games these days are often released with many bugs intact, since updates can easily be issued over the internet. And equally important is that you often miss out on multiplayer features that require a genuine key.
Super advanced use: Use them to make a "digital sundown". For instance, if you want to go to bed at 11:59, you have the lights in some rooms go off at 11, and in the last rooms at 11:30.
Ask HN: Would you like a buddy/mentor/mentee for 2013?
----IN SHORT-----

Would others on HN like to pair up/group up for the New Year (via email or in-person) to help each other out/hold each other to account throughout 2013? Tracking your buddy's progress, offering feedback on ideas and products, etc.

------------------

HN likes getting things done.

In the New Year I want to realise a no. ideas that I have been thinking about for while, and finish a couple of side projects.

But I am more productive when I am accountable to someone. Even---or especially when---I do not know the person.

Feeding back to someone every week, or so, keeps my mind on the project, so it does not fall by the wayside. Plus, neutral, honest feedback always makes for a better final product. Finally, I feel, rightly or wrongly, more motivated when I have someone rooting for me.

In college, friends and I would grab weekly coffees and talk through our progress on ideas/projects/essays/etc. Unfortunately/fortunately I have now graduated, I have moved to a new city, and I am living independently.

Would others on HN like to pair up/group up---digitally or in-person---in the New Year to hold each other to account throughout 2013?

Drop a brief description of your idea(s)/project(s) below alongside your location and email address; then, shoot potential matches an email.

(I wondered whether using a Google spreadsheet might be more effective, but I think we sometime unnecessarily complicate processes. Sometimes it's quicker to just get the ball rolling: MVP, etc, etc.)
If you believe any "traditional microeconomic principles" are used to set any price in 2013, you're deluded. Today, a price is what the market will bear, and nothing else.
Companies behind MPAA and RIAA are representing a huge part of the US economy. Pirate Party and simillar movements
are mostly based in Europe and have marginal influence on the economy of any country. Now if you are the president of the United Stated, whose advices would you trust more?
Ask HN: Are there tech jobs in oil and gas? 
What are some of the more interesting roles?
Best Audio Journal / Diary PC Software
I've decided to start keeping a daily audio journal, and I'm looking for software recommendations.

I'm open to any suggestion, but ideally:

- Freeware / open source

- Windows PC

- Stores an individual compressed file for each entry

- Minimal effort to record an entry (e.g. one click)
"Self-flying planes" have become ubiquitous for a long time and we are still seeing pilots in every plane!
> I've sat in a cinema where the volume was so low

I've sat in a cinema where the volume was so high the audio setup was saturating unless that was a quiet, whispery scene. The film was really good, so we stayed. Although silent, I took action: it was the last time I went to a theatre since three years.
Using RAID-5 is the primary error here. RAID-5 (or single parity RAID of any kind) is obsolete, period. The story here doesn't ring true to me to be honest; I'm currently herding several hundred multi-terabytes servers, and multiple drive failures appear in one and only case: when using Seagate Barracuda ES2 1TB or WD desktop class drives. These are the two very problematic setups. In all other cases, use RAID-6 and all will be well.

I'd add that current "enhanced format" drives are tremendously better than most older drives. If your drive is a 1 or 2 TB old (512B sectors) drive, use it only for backup or whatever menial use for unimportant data.
We'll put up a few new android stages up in a few hours.
No, but why not go halfway? Lower the iOS price to half and raise the Android price to the same as iOS.
all hail neckbeard fatalerrorx3
ZFS is beautiful and wonderful, but my perhaps outdated understanding is that the Linux port isn't as stable or mature as it is elsewhere. Is that not true? Or is it that the advantages of ZFS are so great that people should switch to illumos or some BSD?
Interesting! Can i subscribe to your feed?
> I used to own a camera, a video camera, a personal organizer, a landline phone, a cell phone, a discman, a gameboy, etc. I now have all these things in one device that's smaller and lighter than any of them used to be.

And it isn't as good of a camera as a modern dedicated camera is. In fact, it might not even be as good as the camera you replaced it with, especially when it comes to ergonomics. Similarly, a dedicated gaming device often has better ergonomics for gaming than trying to play the same games on a phone.

I understand convergence. I understand satisficing. I also understand why people still make SLRs, and it isn't just to keep dust out of the various lenses. If you really want a good camera, you aren't going to be fully satisfied with a phone that has a megapixel count. The gaming world is more fluid because games themselves can adapt to new hardware and interface styles, but specific games often really do go better when you have buttons as opposed to a touch screen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing

And, finally, my little quirk: I refuse to believe that decluttering is a valid end in itself. Having a closet full of stuff I enjoy owning isn't a personal failing or a personality flaw.
This article is 100% trolling. Don't feed.
A general rule of thumb is that if you have the time/energy, you should always sell yourself and never ever trade in.

Why? Because in the used car supply chain, the trade-in is the start of the chain - the lowest possible price, and the worse possible deal.

The supply chain (in its longest form) looks like this: Used car retailer sells a car (end of chain). He buys the car from a wholesaler. Wholesaler buys a car from an auction. Auction gets its supplies from dealerships. And what cars are dealerships putting in the auctions? Trade-ins.

Now, that chain can be broken at any time -- that's just the longest version. But dealers calculate trade-in prices with the assumption of a worst-case scenario (that they won't be able to sell on the lot and that they'll have to dump it to an auction).

So moral of the story - if you have the time and know-how to sell direct, do it!
If you're really sitting on +4 sigma talent and are lacking the money to move your plans forward, drop an email address here so I can contact you.

I am planning on putting up a 'Proposition HN' in a week, with this exact thing in mind. I want to pay talented HNers to work on their dream/vision/side-project in exchange for participation/equity.

Watch this space.
jdrake3, from your comment history it appears that you have been hell-banned.
Ok i smell spam upvoting. There is no way 50 people thought this navel gazing article deserved an upvote. He does not even say anything.

Pg, time to tweak the algorithms again.
I'm not a Unx sysadmin at all and don't know much about hard drive: I'm just a software dev.

But from the beginning of TFA, after reading this:

"Bad blocks. Two of them. However, as the blocks aren't anywhere near the active volumes they go largely undetected."

The FIRST* thing that came to my mind was: "What!? Isn't that a long-solved problem!? Aren't disks / controllers / RAID setups much better now at detecting such problem right away".

I've got a huge issue with the "largely undetected". I may, at one point, need storage for a gig I'm working on. And I certainly don't want stuff problems like that to go "largely undetected".

So quickly skipping most of the article and going to the comments:

"It's worth pointing out that many hardware RAID controller support a periodic "scrubbing" operation ("Patrol Read" on Dell PERC controllers, "background scrub" on HP Smart Array controllers), and some software RAID implementations can do something similar (the "check" functionality in Linux md-style software RAID, for example). Running these kinds of tasks periodically will help maintain the "health" of your RAID arrays by forcing disks to perform block-level relocations for media defects and to accurately report uncorrectable errors up to the RAID controller or software RAID in a timely fashion."

To which the author of TFA himself replies:

"Yes, that is something I should have made clearer.
This is the very reason that RAID systems have background processes that scan all the blocks."

Which leaves me all a bit confused about TFA, despite all the shiny graphs.

Basically, I don't really understand the premises of "bad blocks going largely undetected" in 2013...
Someone should get on the horn to the grandchildren of the newspaper executives; they need to explain the tubes again.
As for the SSH attempts just move it to a different port, disable password logins. SSH shouldn't really be accessible on the same IP as any publicly facing service for your domain. It invites this kind of automated scanning, which is actually a huge risk unless you're on top of your patches. Also change your SSH config to misreport the OS/SSH version.

The IP for SSH access should then be heavily filtered to only SSH and the requisite ICMP packets.

Have you considered using Route53 / Cloudflare?
>>Tweaked troopers could run afoul of international law, potentially sparking a diplomatic crisis every time the U.S. deploys troops overseas. <<
Err.. Because US troop deployments are usually incident free?
Privacy by the Numbers: A New Approach to Safeguarding Data
Not very efficient but I try to avoid placing all volumes on a single raid set.
Respectfully, I have to disagree. I have plenty of great experiences cycling the city, and the quality of the "cycle routes" varies greatly across the boroughs. Yes, if you're out an about in south london, it's pretty clear that you're in "car is king" suburban planning, and the density of rail lines makes planning good routes difficult (as there are few ways to cross, everything is funnelled though a few major junctions). In spite of the blue paint, the A3 is NOT a cycle route, the most ironic thing being that most of it can be ridden on residential streets directly parallel for a much improved experience.

I ride 12 miles from dalston to gunnersbury most days, even though the overground goes direct (and the overground is infinitely more pleasant than the picadilly), because it's extremely pleasant. I don't take the obvious route, straight down through angel and bloomsbury, heading for bayswater and goldhawk road, that would just be silly. Instead I took a look at a map and plotted a slightly longer course through camden going north of regent's park (and also skipping to the north of shepherd's bush. And it's great, very little traffic, not even many buses.

tl;dr

You can't expect all roads in a big old city to be "pleasant" to cycle, hell, many of them are unpleasant in a car. But you have the freedom on a bike to plot massively more different routes to your destination, ugly roads are rarely unavoidable.

At least that's my experience in the north. I often feel a bit exposed cycling clapham / stockwell / brixton areas late at night, but that's because I haven't invested in the local knowledge...
Why? Who was big in 1889? Hell, in 1960? How many classic books have you read? Those books have been in print over 100 years, yet have you read them?
More than worrying about what to read next, I'd worry about fully understanding how a command is used in practice. It's one thing to read (say) the xargs man page and another thing to have a sense where it'll come in handy. Similarly, some commands have dozens of options, while you only need to understand a few for most of the common uses.

So I'd recommend doing a bit more than reading the man page. The best suggestion I can think of is to also read the top 3-5 questions on StackExchange that mention that command.

PS: after reading the man page for man itself, I recommend 'man apropos'. :)
Right now suspend / resume is non-functional from a user's perspective: that is, suspend works, and I can resume, but the screen does not turn back on. I hope that this can be fixed for 9.2.

Some related recent links:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-Dece...
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/174504
The Use of Architectural Patterns in MMORPGs 2005
One thing that's fun to do when the present loses appeal is to envision the future. Write out in a journal page what a day in your envisioned future is like.
Show HN: WebGL (three.js) based music video card service
I've created a small project with Three.js. You can send a YouTube video wrapped in a virutal gift box.

The is for all HN readers :)
http://musicasgift.com/3d/?card=HQoRIhu4y

Cheers!
This is one of the reasons that Disney initially disliked the video business.

Disney have been involved in a number of weird IP protection stuff. They developed a cassette that could only be rewound with a special device. It was supposed to be a "watch once per payment" mechanism. They also developed a DVD that would oxidise slowly once it got contact with air. They'd burn a movie, seal it in a special case, and ship it to people. Once you opened the packet you'd get about 2 days to watch the movie.
isn't this what raid scrubbing is for? http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Software_RAID_Install#Data_Sc...

for raid in /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action; do
echo "check" >> ${raid}

does that fix the issue? i run that once a week. i thought i was ok. am i not? if i am, isn't this old news?
Kick starter.
Solution to this - evaluate your expenses and adjust price constantly. This way if it turned out that it is usually 10+ friends watching particular movie, charge for it 10x more. (but not 10x more what you want to get from one person, but rather what this person want to pay you)
This doesn't seem like a good deal for any involved. As sort of an NEA for movies with a popularity based disbursement instead of money up front. Not only will people complain about additional taxes or special interests (regardless of the long history of public art funding), but the customer (entity responsible for allocating funds) ends up being corporations and institutions. I doubt they will nurture the kind of art that you're looking to protect.

What about a voluntary optional pricing system, a la Reznor's Ghosts[1]? Lucas also made a substantial amount of money from merchandising, which is far easier to regulate[2].

Also, box office revenues are still high[3]. That only helps about a hundred films a year, but it still generates healthy revenue for major studios.

[1 http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2008/03/re... ]

[2 http://www.statisticbrain.com/star-wars-total-franchise-reve...]

[3 http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-hollywood-sets-10-billion-bo...]
Unfortunately, when something has legal monopoly and the monopolists are unwilling to change prices, the only way to skirt that monopoly is through "piracy". And this goes beyond the entertainment industries.
"To host your own DNS servers the registrars require you to list two IP addresses "

Registrar here. This may be a requirement of some registrars but not a requirement of all registrars. And in any case you can fake this (see warning) by simply using the same IP address with a different host name or by using a different IP address with a made up IP address.

Warning: Obviously you should have two valid DNS servers no doubt. I am simply pointing out that there are work arounds to this especially if you are trying to get up and running and won't have the 2nd dns operational for a short period of time you can at least get started with DNS that should work (since it only takes one and assuming that one is working you will be serving up records.)
"To host your own DNS servers the registrars require you to list two IP addresses with the idea that you'll be providing redundant service. The one thing you don't want is downtime with DNS, it screws everything up."

I've got around this by having two hostnames for one machine.

The way I see it, since all my services are on this one machine anyway, I'll have bigger problems than DNS if the machine is down: there will be nothing at the address the names are pointing to, so who cares if they resolve properly?
You must be right since you got your numbers from Obama's proposed budget that did not get even one vote in the House of representatives. If you are going to accuse me of not using the facts, than why resort to that piece of science fiction? I hope you understand the budget you just posted is not the actual spending that happened in 2012. It never became law.
I honestly believe that this is happening to most papers already. There are notice exceptions, but they are few.
"VC-istan's "serial entrepreneurs" are just glorified PMs whose egos make them unemployable".

Notable quote that I agree with somewhat.