skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use proto-bufs, it means you already have a system for internal auto-schematization. Why not pack all the fields together and use a bit-vector header to signify which fields are present and which fields have default values? I'd LOVE to see a document DB with ~1 bit overhead per field.
Is it really hard to believe that rational people can see the Surface Pro as a severely compromised device just based on the specifications? Surface Pro enthusiasts are psyched about the Ivy Bridge CPU and real Windows 8, while detractors are skeptical about the severe compromises in the design: 33% heavier than an iPad with half the battery life and a small screen and pathetic keyboard/trackpad story relative to a real ultrabook.

The enthusiasts could be right, it could end up being a "no compromises" hit of a device. But my money is with the detractors. I think it makes too many compromises relative to a real tablet and a real ultrabook to be a successful device that convinces people to consolidate both.
Well this explains some things I had to deal with this morning. Apparently some people had issues with EC2 as well.
They actually make such tubs that allow one to walk in: http://www.luxuryhousingtrends.com/walk-in-tub-with-massage-...
I'm not really sure I understood the utility of this technique, that I see as an hack (it relies on the hardware not caring on the value of the mantissa in a NaN) but coming from a Java background I'm not used to the roughness of C.

The use of "signalling NaNs" is supported by IEEE 754. It may be a hack, but it's a hack that's in the standard.
He's wrong about AMD and Intel; it's not that they don't patent the stuff they use, they have had cross-licensing agreements for x86 for a long, long time.
more detail: http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/amazon.com.html
That's an interesting take -- I think the Basho team positions Riak as an operations-oriented system (at least that's how I always thought about it, though I haven't used Riak in production).
Again, this is part of the problem. Your argument presupposes that a good job and a happy family would be enough for anyone, that anyone who is unhappy with that life is medically abnormal. Just because someone is superficially content does not mean that their unhappiness is inexplicable. Describing a lifestyle as "objectively wonderful" is patently absurd, based as it is on the belief that it is possible to objectively judge what sort of lifestyle would make someone else happy.

The neurochemical hypothesis is incredibly dangerous, because popular perception has drifted so far from scientific consensus. It is an incredibly weak hypothesis with only the scantiest of evidence, but is accepted as solidly proven by a great many lay people - some people in this comments thread describe it as "scientific fact". Most neuropsychiatrists and psychopharmacologists will freely admit that there is no real understanding of what depression is, let alone what causes it.

Many laypeople perceive depression as a simple chemical deficiency, much like a vitamin deficiency - give someone vitamin C and their scurvy goes away, give them SSRIs and their depression goes away. In fact, SSRIs are only marginally better than placebo and have no statistically-significant effect in the majority of patients. This belief is a strong disincentive to seek out psychosocial interventions, which are at least as effective.
The beginning of the end of the world!
Without revenue coming in their fixed costs will assure they are losing money.
I was told varying different numbers at the time I joined. I'd be curious to know as well.
"Do you have sources for this?"

The two best sources would be

- The Consumer Union's Guide To Licit and Illicit Substances: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cumen... (Written by the same non-profit that writes consumer reports)

- The WHO report on cocaine: http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2009/06/report-they-didn...

"My impression is that cocaine is significantly more addictive than caffeine, which seems like a very large negative."

It's not, the addictive potential is almost identical to that of caffeine. The page you're linking to is wrong, they're comparing people snorting (or smoking) cocaine with people drinking caffeine. They're also not comparing the harms caused by the drugs, but rather the harms caused to users. This might sound pedantic, but it's actually really important because the most hardcore drug addicts are drawn to the drugs that have the reputations of being the most hardcore. Which means that cocaine users on average have more health problems that caffeine users, but that doesn't mean that cocaine is any more dangerous.
> It's agnostic to ... if you render your HTML on the client or the server

I love Angular, but if you are rendering server side HTML (either as partials, or bootstrapping a page) it is currently lacking.
lflux[0] is a new (open-source) journalism effort/plattform, using similar version-control for their articles in order to provide a different view on how online-journalism could work.

The core idea (as far as i understand it) is to have topic-based journalism and a single, evolving main-article per topic. This article always represents the status quo and received updates/changes/additions when news happen, instead of publishing multiple event-based articles over time and relate them by means of categories, tags or else. A "timeline" will give an overview on how the article evolved (using a diffing algorithm similar to the one mentioned in TFA).

So if you want to read about the current state of affairs of - say - Fukushima, you wouldn't have to search through the latest x articles to find out what's going on. You'd rather check the (singleton) "Fukushima" article and could see the chronological changes in its timeline.

They have a showcase-install online [1], which covers a few topics ([2], german) and is in fact maintained and authored by participating journalists.

[0] https://github.com/luminousflux/lflux

[1] http://onon.at/

[2] http://onon.at/wehrpflicht/
I said it is often a symptom, not always. Of course it is possible to have a happy team in almost any environment.
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Maybe they should consider hosting in the cloud.
It's up now! But it's strange that they were down. And don't they run on AWS themselves?
But... I can't read my front page letter from Jeff?
And that's when things are going well.
I remember working my way through the GW-BASIC manual alphabetically and finally getting to the 'SCREEN' statement so that I could switch to graphics mode and do something interesting (using all the alphabetically-preceding graphics-mode-only commands I'd failed to get working).
It's January, so not much is being lost here. We're looking at the slowest shopping season of the year. My unscientific estimate based on previous experience in retail would suggest sales are probably 1/50th peak Thanksgiving/Xmas volume.

Still, downtime is money, even if it isn't a world-changing amount of it.
I would like to add (not to edit original post one more time), that in one of those things I like is query language. I remember how it felt weird initially doing simple things in Mongo, language is very simple and queries make sense and are easy to read.
MongoDB IS durable now by default, has a third party MVCC implementation (MongoMVCC) and has pretty decent admin tools.

And this idea that joins is a requirement for a "serious" database makes absolutely no sense. Database level joins are toxic for scalability and IMHO should always be done in the application layer.
... or go to costco.com, which is a great site that oftentimes can beat amazon's price.
Maybe they forgot to pay their EC2 bill
I think that's true of anything, not just startups. Nothing out of your control should be so central to your life.
Seems to me that it's probably the caching layer that's borked.
> Facebook's new monetization strategy is to do what the checkout lane at my local supermarket has been doing for years.

If you put it that way Google’s monetization strategy is what Yellow Pages has been doing for decades. Does’t seem to be working that bad so far.
They are optimizing for market share and innovation rather than profits. It's a world domination thing.

I think it's awesome. Imagine if Google had run a bunch of low-rent punch-the-monkey display ads early on. It would have killed them. Facebook vs MySpace is another good example of what happens when you focus on long-term value creation versus short-term profit taking.
Do you sit with your legs together so you can support the device with two points of contact, or do you manage to balance the whole thing on one thigh? The problem with the kickstand/keyboard setup is that the keyboard isn't rigidly attached to the screen. You can use force on the palm rests of a laptop to support it in a wide variety of positions that seems really awkward with the Surface.
I remember you guys wanted to create simplified MNG 2.0, without stuff like MAGN and delta-PNG. What happened to it?
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I think that's exactly the point. So the whole world gets to trade after they've digested the news, not the guy with the fastest computer or the shortest wire to the exchange.
Never thought I'd say this but thank you Microsoft.
For a more detailed description of Jared Diamond's experience with the dead tree in New Guinea:

http://www.edge.org/conversation/tales-from-the-world-before...

And if you're in London, consider adding yourself to the waiting list: http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events/the-world-until-yest...
It's still down http://cl.ly/MZNo
I wonder how many millions they've lost
The urge to plug your blog resist you must.
Funny. I followed the "down=yes" link and got the "Service unavailable" page, as expected.

Then I clicked on the "down=no" link for fun, and the page partially loaded for me. I refreshed it and got the whole front page loaded. And then one more time and got the "Service unavailable" again...
You mention comparing against Hadoop for computationally-intensive data analysis. Would Rethink be suitable for a several-terabyte dataset with non-computationally-intensive analytics?

Currently we're using Hive and Python over streaming Hadoop. There's no significant ongoing data accumulation; we're just analyzing the data we have.
not 100%, but more and more teams are moving over; it's a goal that's pursued aggressively, but not reached yet.
Because you need to know what events you care about.

If instead you declaratively define the state of a component via a shared model then you don't have to care how something was updated, just that it was. Any new way you come up with mutating the object will be reflected in all of the components that watch the object.
Ah, that makes sense. I was half expecting an article on how they haven't recovered his body and there were plane tickets to Guatemala purchased in his name...
Some GIF's compress to less data, even after running pngout/optipng/pngcrush.
It appears just to be the homepage, but all deep links are unauthenticated. That is: if you were logged in before the site started misbehaving, and use a deep link, you're not logged in on the page that loads.
It's not so much brainwashing founders - well I suppose it is with the young 'uns that come in and are told this is an easy way to riches just follow steps 1, 2, 3.

It's just the reality of choosing this career path, which some of us old enough to know better, still choose - for whatever our reasons.

This is why one should be skeptical when dealing with the investor side of ht equation. They will talk a good game, about their love for entrepreneurs, but what they love is those who make them money. They don't really care about those left burnt out. Similarly the media which fetishizes startup success/failure and creates the false narrative, from the safety of a paycheck and never having put it all on the line.

[Insert obligatory MAN IN TH ARENA quotes here..]
There's no ACL for most git clients, they use standard HTTP credentials. Transport security is handled by SSL, we obviously don't expect you to pass this stuff around in plaintext!
it is up.
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A lot of people wrote off the iPad, and thrn 7" tablets based purely on specifications, and look how they turned out.

There is an awful lot of negativity around the Surface Pro from some people, and its pretty obvious a lot of it is purely because its a Microsoft product. I think we should at least wait until the damn thing has launched before we we come to any conclusions about it.
"by nbashaw 28 minutes ago"

I thought for sure I'd have missed it and this would be one of those reports where the service was back up before the story gained traction, but as of 12:07 PM Pacific/US time I cannot navigate to Amazon's home page..

The amazing thing about this for me is that it reminds me that it was only a few years ago that even the biggest sites would have fairly frequent multi-hour outages, but these days it is pretty rare for this sort of thing to happen, particularly on a retail or otherwise direct-money generating site.
I think part of the problem is that many companies are already incapable of managing on-site employees effectively (we've all experienced this!). If you can't effectively manage the people you see face to face, I imagine remote workers would be a disaster.
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Apart from it being down all hits from hackers are bound to just create load on the server. :)
If the release of information could affect you, don't trade until after its released. You are free to pretend the market is closed whenever you like.

And it's not like this risk isn't there anyway. Earthquakes rarely coordinate their timing with market hours, to name one example.
I think it's more than that. Not too long ago, Facebook acquired Karma (http://getkarma.com), which had quickly become one of my favorite services because they made gift-giving into a fun and dead-simple process. In fact, it was addictive - I remember sending at least three gifts within the first two weeks of downloading Karma on my iPhone. And since Karma was already built on top of Facebook's social graph, the acquisition made perfect sense and enhanced the overall experience even more for its small but loyal users. I think introducing a gift card was the next logical step to bring it to the mainstream.
We have been looking at NewSQL(or even NoSQL) platforms for our databases at my place of work, and we also stumbled upon RethinkDB. While everything these guys say does sound amazing, we were looking for someone who has implemented it, or any third party case study about it. Since we couldn't find any, we decided not to go with RethinkDB for now.

Does anyone here know any big website/service which uses RethinkDB?
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It's brand-new, and not recommended for production use yet, so I highly doubt that anything like that exists.
Trading is always open on exchanges around the world. So traders would duke it out by proxy instruments on a different exchange.
So will FB (eventually) make a timeline post on my behalf when I buy coffee?
> It is a bit slimy on the author's part to conflate the racism of the anti-cocaine movement with Coke's removal of cocaine without some substantiation.

Not really. It's a plausible claim and roughly the best that can be done without actual documents or a time traveling mind reader.
I hope we get a nice detailed postmortem on this one.
Does that mean its a big bate and switch model? Get market share with cheap prices, destroy the competition then ramp up your prices.
Not completely zero - I can easily imagine how someone trying to buy a gift during a fifteen-minute break would go to barnesandnoble.com or whatever.
I use PNG Monster for very good lossless PNG compression http://www.vbgore.com/PNG_Monster Might be worth testing to see if it can reduce the sizes to an acceptable level.
And pixie dust and sugar pills and wishes.
We are working on 4) Programmatic app submission and developer APIs and 5) Load a native app immediately by hitting a website/URL for Android.

We call it In App App Distribution. It enables any Android app to distribute other Android apps without Side Loading.

This technology can be used to create a browser that does exactly what Vibhu suggests. Some other ideas are an A/B Testing service, subscription service, house ads service, In App App Store or a bug fixing service. We are putting the beta together now. If you are interested please sign up: www.inAppSquared.com
That's assuming that they're revenue is spread out evenly over every day and every minute. Which is not the case. Think Christmas, deals, weekends, time of the day, etc...
still down from western europe. And to isup.me : http://www.isup.me/amazon.com
Apple is a threat to the Steambox like smartphone games are a threat to the PSP, Nintendo DS, etc.

If Valve never intended the Steambox gain more than the hardcore gamer niche, then no it isn't a threat. But Apple could capture the much larger mainstream consumer with cheap casual games that are optimized for TV.
Does money just grow on trees in the magic stock market? The amount of sustained non-bubble growth the stock market can generate is limited, not unbounded. It follows that if the HFT bots steals a slice of it, then the slice the regular gamblers get is smaller than it would otherwise have been.
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It breaks you mentally bit by bit, and I personally experiencing this a few years ago on a startup. It was horrible and unexpected to find myself mentally unable to get my work done. Essentially it seems that the stress hormones released by constant physical & mental stress physically damages/alters the emotional centers of your brain. And over time the damage becomes more-or-less permanent. There is some research to support this, but it's a very new field (Some good research is coming out of the PTSD research being funded by the military.) I don't think it's far off to say that at least mentally, starting a company is a lot like going off to war. Less risk of physical injury perhaps, but similar risks for mental injury.

For healthy people, but particularly people genetically susceptible to stress-related disorders, startup work can trigger full-blown depression and bi-polar manic/depressive cycles. That's just part of the job, and you need to be prepared for it and take care of yourself.

IMO, successful founders are the ones that successfully cope with the inevitable manic/depressive cycles. Self-awareness of our limitations, and good medication are life-savers. Once you start testing out different medication options, prepare to spend up to a year finding a combination that works to help keep you stable through the most stressful and depressed times. Don't give up hope. Ever.
So how exactly do you define "race"?
We just review each other's code within teams at my place of work, and sometimes it is even reviewed by people from other teams. It is a mandate any code should go for an honest line by line review by someone else before it goes into production. We get a lot of feedback about code organization, cleanup, improving flow, etc.
I just reviewed two small node.js projects in the last week.
The only reason I linked to my blog because it is directly relevant (discussion is about Font Awesome, and I've done a lot of development with it).

If there was a way to show off Font Awesome without providing a link to a case where I actually used it, I would. (screenshots won't be as effective since I incorporate on:hover effects.)
Given their annual revenues of $60B and they were down for ~ 20-25 minutes. So they must have lost ~$3M in revenues during entire downtime.

P.S. Wild guess. No idea about how much sale do they make during peak hours.
I don't know, there's valentine's day around the corner and I was actually shopping on amazon today.
How heavy is the pro keyboard attachment? More than .38 lbs?
Finally a feature browsers can compete on! :)
Another related one is http://interior.substance.io/, an "open platform for collaborative composition and sharing of digital documents."
Trading stock is, and pretty much always has been, gambling. So your strategy should be the same as blackjack: Know the rules and know your limits. For the market, you should also be in for the long term, and always use limit orders.

Limit orders make sure that your buy or sell order are done exactly at what you want. Legally, the trade cannot execute unless it's at or below your limit if you're buying, or at or above if you're selling. That, more than anything else, protects you from small time fluctuations caused by HFT.

Going for the long term is really where the focus should be, though. HFT algos tend to fight cents or fractions of a cent(the event referenced here caused a 2% drop in the futures price, which came out to around 6 cents per : http://quotes.ino.com/charting/index.html?s=NYMEX_NG.H13.E&#... ). As a private investor, your focus shouldn't be on getting rich in a week. It should be making sure that the pile of money you have now gets bigger every year. Your limits shouldn't be the HFT-like fractions of a cent or tiny percentages, they should be in the 5-10% range for a return.

Also, since you're not going to win fighting HFT, don't bother. What they do shouldn't effect your overall strategy, because you're not in that space.
There is no other way to fix it than to get more and timely sleep. You won't be able to wake up early if you have late nights with your laptop. Force yourself to stop working after 10pm. Read books if you feel the need to do something.
Integrating Asana and Git
That's less than I expected! Back at the height of their popularity, I remember hearing that AOL could lose a lot of money every second their servers weren't showing ads.
In a manner of speaking, isn't that what the Great Chinese Firewall is?
2009 called, they want their link back
On the paypal competitor front, FB payments (formerly credits) can be used in mobile apps as well as FB platform apps, so the infrastructure is largely in place. That's a tough space though; Google Wallet and Amazon Payments are both more established non-Paypal players already.
Not for me (America).
I just went to amazon to buy something I wanted overnight shipping on. It is down, so I am probably going to have to get it somewhere else.

On a side note, the first thing I did was google, amazon down, and saw it was (http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/amazon.com.html) then I came here, and I am proud to say, this post was #1.
http://aws.amazon.com/console/ and aws is still up.
Yes, that's pretty much what we're going to do. It's a bit hard to guarantee everything in a fully concurrent, sharded environment so it'll take a bit of time, but that's basically the plan.
Sure you can "stack" them. If you place a sell order larger than any of the buy orders on the exchange, then what you will see is a "stack" of executed orders beginning with the highest-priced buy order and working down to cheaper ones.

In any case, the bounce back looks to happen over ~100 ms or so, which is plenty of time for anyone's strategy to catch up. I don't see how you can conclude there is some big player who knew "well before the event."
A git post-commit script to comment on and close Asana tickets
There would be no way to quantify it....it would be qualitative questions I guess...e.g "Most interesting books you've read" or "what different projects are you working on"
It's usually an egg/chicken problem. Employers want you to have a visa first, and visa wants you to have an employer first.
v8 doesn't use this technique - the use SMI.

Read also http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/05/18/value-representation...
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12:18 PST, still down. Someone must be getting his ass chewed about this.
No it's about providing market liquidity in order to optimise the efficiency of production. /sarcasm