skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that the FB HBase install is also sharding across multiple sub-clusters because of the HDFS namenode SPOF problems [1].

Personally, if I'm going to shard manually I'll stick with postgresql. One of the primary reasons to use something like Cassandra is that it solves that for you.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/brizzzdotcom/facebook-messages-hba...
I don't know how you can say it's "performant as hell" when it's actually slower than even MySQL for simple selects.
You're giving "your side" a bad name. You're heading into self-parody.

Mitt Romney and his sons once rescued a family from drowning when the family's boat sunk on a lake. I imagine you could find some ulterior evil motive in that.
How are those acquisitions doing now?
If they reject it, they look like a massive company with 70 billion dollars yearly revenue turning down an informal offer on Twitter from a guy who founded a car company with 200 million dollars yearly revenue and a space transport company with 4 billion dollars of contracted revenue. I can't imagine anyone an Boeing giving a moment's pause to this offer.
I agree with the general sentiment, although it is worth pointing out that the idea of a unified "mobile webkit" is a fallacy: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/10/there_is_no_...
> There was something else going on in his life that we don't and most probably won't know or ever understand that lead him to take his own life.

Facing prison for even 6 months is reason enough to kill yourself. Facing that plus rapes/AIDS/beatings/overcrowding in prison, plus a large fine, plus multiple years of probation, all for a victimless crime, is even more reason to kill yourself.
Bottom line? Grandma hates it and wants her old computer back.

This fairly accurately describes every time a tech-unsavvy friend or relative of mine has upgraded anything, ever.
i used this guy's hack to get Windows 8 for $15, no official license, but hey, no prev license required either - supposedly lasts until jan 31

http://everymantech.com/post/40133879737/windows-8-for-15-no...
I suspect the most useful help would be helping the FAA come to grips with lithium ion safety issues. Confronted with concerns about a novel technology the FAA is going to have a hard time deciding how to sign off on safety.

I'm sure Musk's people have all sorts of checklists and criteria to be satisfied for large lithium ion batteries in vehicular use. The FAA can then apply those to Boeing's work.
Adding on: John F. Kennedy's disputed election. The entire Nixon administration, and Ford's subsequent pardon of Nixon. The prohibitions of drugs and alcohol. The Bonus Army. Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket". The entire career of J. Edgar Hoover.
This one wasn't one of the reasons I considered, but I find it interesting:

Suppose you upgrade any old OEM Windows XP or later that's bound to the hardware that you bought it with. Once you upgrade, you are no longer bound by the old license but by the new one. So you now have a full Windows 8 Pro, not OEM, that you can move somewhere else, virtualize, etc. That's what the license says, as far as I understand it (IANAL, but I have read it thoroughly).

Edit for clarification: even though you get a Windows 8 Pro, not OEM, it's still a Windows 8 Pro Upgrade. So yes, you can move it somewhere else or virtualize it, but it still needs to be installed over an existing and properly licensed Windows copy (XP or later).
The website is sent to Opera's servers to be compressed into opera binary markup language, not gzipped html. Probably presto-specific.
Hardcode 2013 – Student Secure Coding Competition
site looks much better and is faster on mobile. Maybe less moving objects ?
If the malware is in ads that get loaded when the HN page gets loaded, then HN should be flagged as distributing malware. The reasoning is purely technical. Will loading this page involve loading malware?
It's doable but you need investment skills. 5% after inflation is likely pie in sky for most people. You need a lot more nest egg in the current low interest rate environment. Also at 35 you will still need money to put children through college so the future expense is likely higher than your past experience.
That was fun - thanks Robby and team!
This always reminds me how much neighborhoods can change. I still remember my friends in Bushwick who wouldn't let me ride the subway home (I lived in Flatbush). This was after her dad's bodega had been held up for the third time in a month.

To think of that neighborhood as going upscale is almost unimaginable.
Just keep telling yourself that politics is a branch of biology, not of physics. It's messy, unclear, somewhat random and does not operate by simply observable rational rules.
But I don't see a kiss as not-language: it's body language. It still requires agreement between the parties on what it means, and it doesn't require any logic to be understood - just a common psychological framework plus similar cultural experiences. And same with the raised fist.

> The method must be logical in its formation because otherwise it can't be sure it is understood by both parties.

Again I don't know what you mean by "logical". Logic is universal and absolute and doesn't change. But while languages each have an internal consistency, they're all very different from each other, and each of them evolves quite drastically given enough time.

How could language have ever developed if it needed to be logical for it to be understood? Seems to me all you need is a bit of empathy and some dexterous body parts (fingers/arms, vocal cords/tongue) to build a real language starting from pointing and gesturing and grunting, none of which is at all systematic.

Over time, I think modern languages developed that internal consistency because their users needed to express more and more complicated ideas. If the idea I'm conveying to you has lots of actors and actions and nuanced imagery in it, things have to be orderly and highly patterned-based or else I know that you will not understand. So we all mutually agreed on an arbitrary system for these things.
did this really need to be posted again? the original article has been in the top ten posts all day.
> Where in the rulebook does it state that doing the right
> thing must be completely devoid of agenda or beneficial
> byproducts?

When every policy he supports is, both in effect and in spirit, nearly diametrically opposed to the beliefs of the dead person whose name he's using to score political points?
Since Boeing is a huge asset to the US, in image projection and jobs and prestige. This should be something that the US take seriously and throw whatever it takes at it to solve the problem. The airliner being a success is strategic to the US
They chose Lisp because they were comfortable with it - nimble is a social trait, not a language feature.

It's not like Lisp automatically makes everything successful - the market-trailing HN performance and UI iteration times are a strong argument that technical factors frequently do not determine success.
And of course the first thing that will happen is a redefinition of cybersex as we know it.
> It’s because of retina displays.

Or maybe they like Metro in Cupertino...
I think tptacek's point is that he hates Republicans.
It's not about system calls, it's about locks. The getc function is buffered (by default) - that's what's going on behind the scenes in that FILE structure. What is slow about calling getc over and over is synchronization around that FILE object (hence the existence of functions getc_unlocked, &c).
Typecast: preview fonts from typekit, fonts.com, and more in the browser
background "adjustment" in progress :)
Your numbers are off in essentially every area. Car payment is $200-$250 a month, insurance is $100 a month, gas is $50 a month, and call it an amortized $100 a month for repairs and other expenses. In total, an average car costs $500 a month. And never mind the cost for parking. In contrast, passes for public transportation cost somewhere from $50-$100, _but_ you can usually get them subsidized and/or pre-tax. In Boston, I'm able to get an unlimited pass through my employer for $35 pre-tax a month and my car costs me $500 post-tax a month. In major cities, cars are strictly a luxury. Note, I bought one a few months ago and couldn't be happier, but I'm under no illusions: it is a luxury.
The previously posted (and highly voted) source is much better.

Original: http://blog.aubrey.me/twice

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5079098
Article is full of misinformation and not facts.

The problem with covering engineering issues in planes is that journalists have no idea what the hell they're writing about.
Failed pitch turns to great PR.  Fair trade?
Deploying these fixes now - thanks for the feedback!
Why can't you just take the questions at face value and leave it at that.

You are doing the same thing that Carmen Ortiz did to Aaron. You are attacking this guy.
TotalFinder: Better Mac finder
Seconded. How are you going to be posting it?
Testing the API Backend of your Mobile Solution
If the null hypothesis is just that fashion is fashion and fads are fads, I'd like to see more evidence than "I think Letterpress looks fantastic on Retina displays."

And what an insufferable introduction.
I read the article and whilst it claims Opera are going to be using webkit the cnet article it references indirectly (http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20121236-264/hybrid-browse...) does not mention webkit or the lack of presto.

I don't understand why Ice implies webkit, it could be presto like Opera Mini/Mobile (rendered on server).
If you have any specific idioms you think we should add, let me know here or at robbyw@cueup.com
iOS as the leading edge of the flat design aesthetic? facepalm.
This is interesting: Gruber is attaching the bleeding-edge of web & mobile design to the coming of Retina displays, while it was actually championed by Microsoft's Windows 8. A nice plot twist. Nonetheless, it's very true - with enough resolution all these gimmicks come through as just what they are - gimmicks. Shadows, embossing and heavy textures are tell-tale signs of bad graphic design in printed media.
I wouldn't dream of insulting Mitt Romney by comparing him to John Cornyn.
Check out HyperDex, Hbase and BigTable for systems that provide better guarantees than "eventually."
Thanks for your feedback. I think I now understand your argument and, while I have a hard time believing the claims upon which it rests, I believe that reasonable people could believe them.
Scope out the company you're interviewing for, their goals, their accomplishments, their difficulties. Get their perspective and you'll do much, much, better in the interview.
I can't see any of my downloads, the database exists but is empty on my system (10.6.8). (and I've sure downloaded a lot of files...)
Have you ever downloaded copyrighted material with BitTorrent?
Right, CIA and NSA never said they are not going to store the images, so it's perfectly fine with you ...
Cornyn has for many years been a leader on open access to science. Together with Joe Lieberman he introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) into Congress in 2006. This Act would, if passed, make almost all scientific publications funded by the US Govt openly accessible within 6 months of publication:

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

The act has not yet passed. It was re-proposed in 2010 and 2012, each time with increased support from a bi-partisan group of sponsors, in both Houses. Cornyn is still a sponsor.

My understanding is that Cornyn was instrumental in the passage of the 2008 NIH public access policy, which makes NIH-funded research available within 6 months of publication:

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/

This is by far the largest victory for open access to date. It would, however, be eclipsed by FRPAA, should it pass.

Given all this, I believe it is natural that Cornyn has an interest in the case, and questions.
Google seems to resolve several different things as "terminal.js" - which do you mean?

Or, a shorter answer to your question: no. :)
I guess it depends on one's opinion about copyright law.
I'm not proposing it--the law already recognizes that bars bear some of the responsibility for over-serving their customers. It's rarely-enforced, however, and appears that the drunken driver must harm someone with a bit of pull in the legal system for charges to surface.

http://missoulian.com/news/local/bartender-sentenced-to-jail...
What did Apple even end up paying for though?
This is nice PR by Nokia but not much more.

Nokia are wrong in saying that they are the first to do this. Granted, Apple didn't realese STL files (which are a huge list of coordinates describing the vertices of triangles). But for several years now Apple released very detailed engineering drawings of their products publicly: https://developer.apple.com/resources/cases/. These drawings are actually useful for someone who wants to design and make their own case, whereas Nokia's STL files only let you reproduce whatever Nokia designed for you (modifying STL meshes is possible but the format limits the possibilities).

I also don't understand why Nokia puts a "noncommercial personal use only" license on this. Isn't an accessories ecosystem something they should want? I would have loved to use this design for adding this Nokia phone to an online customization tool for iPhone cases which I run. Thanks to this license my website will stay iPhone4/5 only.

Footnote: One of the Nokia downloads claims to be "mechanical drawings" but it only contains STL files.

Footnote 2: And why on earth do I have to register as a Nokia developer to get this?
You can't just roll back every federal case in the past several years.
I've got the Nexus 4 page bookmarked, and have been checking it so often that it's hit my new tab page in Chrome ...
Marvelous footprints of world cities revealed by Foursquare check-ins
It is worth pointing out that it is not only the people in UK and Germany ho are ordering it. Where I live the 16GB model sells for 600€. This leads people to order the phone trough middlemans in Google Store -countries, like Germany, for roughly 400€.
"The whole default iOS look — the textures, the shadows, the subtle (and sometimes unsubtle) 3D effects — is optimized for non-retina displays. It’s makeup to cover up the fact that 163 pixels per inch, which though better than anything we had before the original iPhone, is still a crude resolution overall. Retina displays are no longer limited in such ways, and need no phony effects to create interfaces that are beautiful."

One problem with his analysis: Apple's skeuomorphic applications look bad on both high and low DPI displays.
I used this too. I'm thinking of wiping my machine and reinstalling everything in a few months; I guess I should buy another key now while they're cheap and hold on to it!
There's something strange going on around breathing. By combining it with body postures, or focusing on certain parts of the body, or repeating (mentally or out loud) certain sounds, or just breathing in a certain way, all sorts of strange unexpected things happen, either purely at the consciousness level or even physical sometimes.

These techniques must put pressure on some deep, otherwise unconscious levels of the mind, and then produce responses closer to the "hardware" level. I'd love to see more research done in this area.

(Note: I don't practice Vipassana, but different, yet overall somewhat similar, techniques of a school of yoga - and I mean yoga in the traditional sense, not the bastardized "female yuppie gymnastics".)
Good lord, you don't have to agree with Aaron's left-wing politics to be concerned about federal abuse of power. Seeing justice done isn't a partisan issue.
Over a decade ago I redesigned the website / web UI of a major global bank. Pure flat, pure css, very forward thinking if I say so myself. After months of work, and weeks final revisions and testing, days before going live, the client came back and asked for one final change: "Can the main navigation be glossy buttons like Apple's?"

It's not fashion. It's just that bad taste is finally being sidelined by better graphic design literacy among general users. We drank cheap wine for years, but now we have a more refined palette. That's not going away.

(Back then? I fought that fight and lost. Today? Same design, flat elements in its place.)
Freedom from Everything: Freelancers and Mercenaries
The many computational linguists who have discussed these papers in public fora have expressed disgust with the scientific naïveity of the Rao et al. paper; the pushback is due to its very poor scientific merits (in contrast with its very high publication profile), not some ethnic bias as you seem to allege.
Let me sketch out my own interpretation of the problem.

JavaScript programs lack declarative structure.

There is no way to declare a class with a fixed set of fields and methods. Instead JavaScript program creates functions and sets up their prototype property as it executes.

No way to declare a module. Instead developers create and immediately invoke a nameless closure.

One can say that the structure (things that people view as "classes" and "modules") behind JavaScript program is the side-effect of this very program executing. There is no clear border between "structure initialization" and execution.

So the first issue arises: to snapshot something you need to guarantee that deserialized snapshot will result in the very same "structure" that would arise from executing this code from scratch. This imposes certain restrictions on the way the JavaScript code should be written and how its initialization should be laid out. If for example application starts interacting with DOM early in its "initialization" phase then this is hard to snapshot correctly.

But an opposite is true as well: other programs (scripts) executing in the same environment might affect the structure that JavaScript program weavers as it runs.

Consider for example the following code:

function Point() {
}
Point.prototype.distance = function () { /* ... */ };

It might look like we could snapshot it and then unconditionally deserialize it into a Point function with a distance property on an object in its prototype property. But this is not true. If our deserialization does not happen in the clean environment (e.g. we are not the very first thing that is running on the page) then somebody can install "distance" property with a setter on the Object.prototype thus altering execution of our initialization entirely. This means that deserialization code must account for that.

So we have two points to care about:

(a) JS code must be written in a special way to benefit from snapshotting, serializer must bail out from the attempt to snapshot "unsound" initialization code;

(b) deserializer must ensure correctness when unpacking.

If you ensure that both hold then you can actually snapshot your JS code and benefit from it.

V8 in fact does this internally: some JavaScript builtins are written in JavaScript and "snapshotted" to speed up their initialization. But V8 snapshots are cutting corners:

- Point (a) is ensured manually. "Unsound" initialization code in builtins just leads to mysterious bugs. There is no verification, toolchain does not reject any code.

- Point (b) is guaranteed because deserializer is applied when the world is empty and untouched by the user code.

This is not something you can use for an arbitrary JS code AS IS... and filling up the gaps requires hard efforts on both VM and application side.

Dart does not have any problems like that because the structure behind the program is static. So snapshotting is simple to implement and it works for any application, not requiring any "restructuring" from the app developer.
It started with Windows Phone 7. Not that I think Gruber is likely to admit it.
Thanks for the rapid response! All of those changes work perfectly here, and the interface feels much more comfortable now.

I kinda expected "x chips" and "x radionuclides" to do something, at least as a joke. (Out of curiosity, did you get some inspiration from "no tea" there?)

Also, how about "x me", "talk to me", and "help help"?

Any way you could provide scrollback?
The article makes some great points, but is entirely undermined by Gruber stating that "iOS - and the iPhone in particular - is its leading edge", with "its" referring to flat design. At the same time, he reduces Windows Phone/Metro to a footnote, and can't even stomach mentioning Google's Holo design.

That is nothing short of insane. Just because a few applications on iOS use a flat(ter) design, iOS is the leading edge of flat design? That makes no sense, when there's Windows Phone and Windows 8, two high-profile products from one of the largest technology companies in the world which have adopted this design style to its very extremes.

Heck, even Google has adopted this flat design to a great degree with Holo and, by lack of a better name, the "Google Now"-theme.

Yes, there is a trend towards this flat design, but if you're looking for its leading edge, iOS, and Apple as a whole, is about as far removed from said edge as possible.

I'm not sure if Gruber is intentionally dishonest, or if he actually believes what he's writing here. I'm not sure which is worse.
John Cornyn and science get along great, as long as the science doesn't involve stem cell research (which he has casted Senate votes to ban) or climate change.
Face-off: Snapchat vs. Facebook Poke
Definitely, impressed with the app. Animation, graphics, and game design is great, but I am really excited about the analytics. Do you plan on showing average scores across different age groups? I have a 6 year old and would like to be able to see how he is performing in comparison to his peers.
Sigh. Let's blame video games and mental illness instead of tackling the real problem. This is going to work out great.
You forgot Alameda, Berkley, Rockridge, San Leadro, Pleasanton, Dublin, etc etc.
Well I learned something from this discussion. Advocacy for Open Access is a new side project of mine, and now I know that Cornyn will be a strong ally.
Lack of tactile feedback will always be an obstacle to that. Still, I share your optimism. Sounds like a great idea in principle, and we're closer to it than ever now.
Someone in a previous HN post suggested that companies sometimes release limited stock in the first run so that they can then get a 'high demand' PR boost for the second. Could this be what is happening here?
Dearest mother,

Your son will never die. For the soul never dies.
Also his beauty lives in our memory, and learned aspiration.
This world wil never be the same again, as he left a very strong mark, the mark of a beautiful soul. The world has been touched. Your son is a legend.

Your son brought me closer to you.

Katia leitao
Some line-spacing would do some good too!
He actually says Letterpress is on the leading edge of this trend. From Gruber:

"Wiskus rightly cites Loren Brichter’s Letterpress for being at the leading edge of this trend."

It may be true that Letterpress is setting an example for iOS apps, but it's hardly true of software interfaces in general. Windows Phone metro UI has been around a lot longer than Letterpress.
Sure, but I think a lot of people have inconsistent opinions re: copyright law. I find it a little odd that people who oppose copyright on freedom grounds have no problem with advertising, even though advertising industry wouldn't exist at anywhere near its present scale without trademark law, which creates far more dire freedom-related concerns.

I'd go further to say that this cognitive dissonance is the product of how money is made in Silicon Valley 2.0: through advertising rather than sales of content.