skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Our infrastructure is absolutely massive when compared to, say, Estonia's (not to pick on them at all, great country). This means that rolling out step improvements is very costly.

You have the math exactly backwards. If you have ten million customers instead of ten thousand then you have a thousand times more customers to spread your costs over and you get greater economies of scale.

>Companies can't roll out new massive infrastructures and throw away investment from the prior generation.

Sure they can. They just don't ever want to, which is why they don't and why regulators are needed to make them do it.

>Our next generation IP infrastructure is being incubated today through experiments and evolution. Perhaps it will take the form of 1Gb/s fiber to the home or something less radical but equally awesome. Only private for-profit enterprise can bring us this.

Kindly explain how some foreign countries with highly regulated or state-operated telecommunications companies already have faster internet connections at lower prices than major American cities.
Chip-based genome sequencer: digitizing your genome now costs $1000
I think it is just a vocal minority of people who take offense to words like fuck. Most people don't care.
I know python support is planned, but will it be integrated alpha/beta or will we have to wait until after the 1.0 release?
I'm curious: what are the specific laws that we should be concerned about?

(Obviously the US has many draconian laws regarding cyber-anything, but I'm curious what specific lines we cross with Tor Exit Node operation. Does it include something like ownership and responsibility of the data that passes through a node that we operate?)
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Massive doesn't even come close. http://www.truthistreason.net/ground-zero-ii-interactive-nuc... allows you to nuke a given area and see the effects. Its biggest "bomb" is the Chicxulub crater - and compared to that, even the Tsabomba are a joke.
I managed to capture a botnet control host, what do I do with it?
Can't you order the circles any way you like?
What I find interesting is that the specifics of how the hack works are usually less interesting than the concept. Like in this case - the exploit I'm sure has been built on a lot of previous exploit-thinking and they simply found a little avenue to get a toehold onto these systems. All the really interesting stuff comes next, from the uniqueness of how complicated and resilient the attack is. Most malware is a numbers game and simply blasts computers in order to install toolbars for profit or whatever. Targeted malware like this is interesting because you can suss out the intent from the choices made.

For example: they really, really didn't want to be detected. Carefully constructed PDFs made to look as innocent as possible. Custom code for every computer makes the hack harder to profile. Tiny, tiny downloader.

Second, the command center approach. Command centers started out as IRC channels for botnets, but are easy to break up once you know the IRC channel name. So there was a lot of thought put into making the command center resilient to shutdown or takeover attempts. In other words, each node can be controlled and rerouted separately. The one error was the log that allowed the security people to see a list of controlled computers - that is a mistake that will probably be fixed in the future.

So for me this is interesting to watch at each step how the hacks are getting more complicated on all levels: the exploit, the control center and the unseen side of it - data gathering/analysis.
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> The suggestion that B&N needs to focus on building a better a ebook reader ... is downright strange.

Most people misread the article. That point was something he said others have said, AND IS WRONG.

Please read the sentence AFTER those bullet points:

Those are all good but I’d argue that doing this wouldn’t solve B&N’s problem in the long term.

His real bullet points are later.
Thanks, but that's from 2009 and isn't entirely relavent. Those stats are for incoming requests that don't specify that they accept gzip, not that they can't use it. Often this is caused by proxies stripping headers from the request.

I remember reading an article, I believe by Google, about using browser sniffing instead of encoding headers to determine if gzip should be used. I can't find it now but the conclusion was that it's almost entirely safe to use gzip 100% of the time.
It sounds almost like you want to recreate a Connection Machine [0] using modern(ish) hardware.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
Its true that USPS is facing changes due to the increase of package delivery and the decline of normal mail delivery, but that is not the current source of their crisis. As OP points out, funding future pension obligations plus the increasing costs of pensions in general is what is killing USPS right now.
"Many people can and will read on smartphones/tablets, but almost nobody prefers long-form reading on a backlit device to an ereader (that's excluding comics and textbooks)."

I agree that e-ink is probably superior for reading but it's going to get harder and harder to find customers who only want to read on their devices.

"As Amazon continues to push the price frontier lower and lower, the ereader will become practically an impulse buy. One can already purchase an Amazon Kindle, the top name in the business, for $50-70. That's 1/3 the price of the cheapest decent tablet."

True but the price point of other devices will also become impulse buys so ereaders will still be competing with tablets etc.

"People make comparisons to the iPod, how it was the best dedicated music player before it, too, was cannibalized by the smartphone. And the same goes for the low-end point and shoot. However the ereader is different in that it is based entirely upon a technology (eink) which has made nearly zero appearances in other devices."

Right, iPod was based on a different technology (digital media) and the point and shoot was based on a different technology (digital image capture). Smartphones/tablets added both and now those markets are diminishing. How does this make ereaders different?
in FF, on every page load the page scroll jumps to around the "Opera just moved to WebKit. How does that play out?" section. is this intentional?
Apparently their logo is ";-)". At first I thought they just had this annoying tendency to overuse the wink emoticon and found it a bit creepy. Then I saw it all over their menus and found it a bit creepy. Then I realized they appeared to be using it as their logo and I found it creepy.
They are not associated, although yes they are quite similar. DNA11 (a cool service) is really focused on just a business around selling art, while Kishan has bigger plans -- art is just a logical first step in visualizations.
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Actually... It does say lower in the page that pricing is $0.02 per notification, but you're to prepay for them. That's kind of conflicting with the "$25 per month" that I saw above that. I assume if I prepay $25 and don't use all of them then it carries to the next month?
It would be nice if there was a page that covered this without (a) calling us "boffins" and (b) missing the major point that the coolant boils and (c) being full of factual errors, as you'd expect from an article that uses the term "boffin". (After all, if you're smart enough to get the basic facts right on a story like this, you're probably a "boffin" yourself.)

But http://blog.iceotope.com/2012/03/iceotope-liquid-cools-cabin... omits the crucial detail that the Novec boils inside your server, which is why it can work so well, and http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/NA-DataCenters/D... of course doesn't mention Iceotope at all.

(Thanks to uvdiv for digging up the actual information!)
If your 3rd gen Kindle is a first class reading device then what class is a paperback/hardback book in?
I'm the opposite. I have two Kindles (eInk and Fire) and I always read on my smartphone. I mostly read in bed before sleeping so having a back-lit screen (black background, green text) allows me to read in the dark and not bother my wife. It is also very comfortable to hold in one hand and turn pages with the flick of my thumb. If I had time to read during the day I would definitely choose my eInk Kindle though.
Oh sorry. I fixed it. Sorry Geoffrey!
poor robot :(
Meg Whitman changes position on same-sex marriage
How to get self motivation when you exhausted at work
If you lose your energy at workplace.How you will get energy back to attack the work? Simply, What are your mantras when you feel like solving the hardest problem you think?
Stack Size Exceeded when trying to open a ~3500 line clojure app :(.
This is a favorite of mine, awesome example of innovative discovery of unused energy!
These are terrible, but really funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFkb0d1kbU
EBay-Owned Social Shopping Site Svpply Debuts A New Android App
He has a few photos posted on his page at Science Exchange https://www.scienceexchange.com/facilities/genetik-ink
Yeah I bought and read tons of books on my Palm OS devices. I didn't bother downloading any of them from Peanut Press.
I think you make a great point about perceived value of testing vs SEO/design. However, with the increased proliferation of downloading software through app stores, which favors apps with better reviews/ratings, the perceived value of testing should increase. For example, take a look at apps with mixed or low ratings on the AppStore and most of them will contain complaints about bugs in the app.

(random point + small shameless plug: I founded http://www.testelf.com as flat priced testing service for iOS apps)
4 lines of text? How many toolbars do you have? I'm viewing it on my iPad 2 at 1024x768 and it looks good. The header takes up 1/2 the screen and then I see the large paragraph (4 lines) plus 2 lines of the next paragraph.

That said, I agree that a base font size of 18px is too large.
Uhm, that just moves the heat to another place... usually rather closeby. Not really a solution for datacenters (although they are used there, too, sometimes - but just to move the heat slightly further away from components so the main cooling can get to them). I suppose you could build them longer than you usually see them these days, but that would make them quite a lot more expensive.
How to Interview Users to Find Out What They Really Want
Haha, a little bit better than that.
The article clearly states that they're using GeoIP:

"Geolocation was performed against the IP addresses using the Free GeoIP API"

That quote even contained a hyperlink to Free GeoIP's website.
a ~3500 line file? What do you mean by open? Could you put up an issue [1] with a bit more information so we can track it down?

[1]: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues
The fact that the cheap ass idiots at the company had cancelled their backup protection at Rackspace, and lacked any other form of backup is just complete incompetence.

If it hadn't been a junior developer who nobody noticed or cared was using the prod DB for dev work, it would have been an outright failure. DBs fail, and if you don't have backups you are not doing your damn job.

The CEO should be ashamed of himself, but the lead engineers and the people at the company who were nasty to this guy should all be even more ashamed of themselves.
Re higher prices; the recent evidence in in California where the Public Utility Commission decided to no longer regulate tariffs for normal phone service, I believe they still have a tariff for low cost service for low income households. Not surprisingly, AT&T has raised their prices. Sure there's some competition, but I can't continue DSL service from my preferred ISP (Sonic.net) without an AT&T land line, because I'm behind a remote terminal.
My guess is that making it really easy to move things between lists, easier than dd and p in vim, makes it more likely for people to actually update the list(s) than if it were just a text file.
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I would absolutely hire a freelance tester.
> George Lucas's daughter foes [sic] from 'wimpy fat kid' to pro MMA fighter

She "foes" from wimpy fat kid? Wait, a better question -- why didn't you copy the linked article's title instead of typing your own:

"George Lucas' daughter Amanda goes from 'wimpy fat kid' to pro MMA fighter"

Three seconds.
I think that might be a bug in CodeMirror[1], does it happen consistently? I'll see what I can track down.

[1]: http://codemirror.net/
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I always thought it stood for Self Propelled Advertising Mechanism or something like that.
Well, in your example, the American spelling wouldn't help unfortunately...
It's a general editor and can open most things out there, however the eval stuff is limited to Clojure, ClojureScript, JavaScript, and CSS.
As mentioned in this thread by nicholasjarnold, Jeff Hawkins work on HTM (detailed in his excellent book "On Intelligence") seems superficially similar to this. Has anyone had experience of both approaches. HTM seems to have much more structure in the network, but I know next to nothing about AI and would love to hear from those who know a bit more.
This is a very pretty editor. That said, I have no freaking idea what I'm supposed to do. I've been messing around with it for around 15 minutes now, and I still don't understand it.

I added a PHP website folder and got no code hinting or anything else beyond "here is the match for your parenthesis" for either PHP or Javascript. This also resulted in my "navigate" tab being filled with SVN meta-files. I am quite confused.

Looking around on the site and some of the comments here, it appears you're using Clojure. Does this IDE only support Clojure?
Has anyone started using LT? Is it productive? Should java devs even bother with this? Thank you.
Tam, it's not easy to determine value. Are you going to charge for the value you might deliver, or the value you actually deliver? How will you determine the value you actually deliver? It's a tricky issue, I admit. But keep in mind that IDEO, having studied this issue hard, ultimately settled on charging by the hour.
Amalgamated breakups worked out ok for Gotye, in "Somebody that I used to know".
Reminds me Kevin Warwick's project. I take it both he and his wife implanted electrode arrays into arms (interfacing to a median nerve). And they've been able to perform simple communications. First direct and purely electronic communication between the nervous systems of two humans. It was done in 2002.
It'll definitely be before 1.0, but I'm not exactly sure when. Right now it's still just me on the code side, so it depends a bit on how hiring goes.
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According to WikiLeaks, he tried to send it to NYT as well as WP, but they "rebuffed" him:

Manning on stand says tried to send info to Washington Post and NYT - they rebuffed him. Then he turned to WikiLeaks.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/307168010483933184
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I'm not sold on the name Bank Payments. I can pay many things at a bank.

In (financial) layman a terms this is ACH credits and debits.
Note, hall of fame link has since changed: http://www.btcguild.com/index.php?page=rankings
Ask HN: Is it practical to have many (4+) simultaneous co-founders?
Some context: I am a university student with some ambitious ideas about a robotics startup. I'm asking HN about many co-founders because I feel that this forum is frequented by founders and technologists - which lends verisimilitude to the answers I'll receive.<p>So, here it is: I am considering starting a company with many co-founders. I have a large pool of motivated and intelligent people with whom I'd consider starting a company. Most startups that I read about have 2-3 co-founders. However, if I were to start a robotics company, there would be a very large set of responsibilities from the start (hardware engineering, branding/marketing, supply chain, operations, software, manufacturing, original science) and thus I would think these tasks should be distributed amongst 4 or more specialised founders. Obviously, this question mainly applies to companies that produce actual physical, manufactured products.<p>What are some of the (dis)advantages of starting a company with many cofounders? Sun Microsystems and Fairchild Semiconductor were started by 4 and 8 people respectively. Does HN have any stories or advice?
For your first example it depends on various factors. Sometimes having the links inside a list is more efficient in terms of styling versus having a series of repeating anchors. Then again, in most cases you can just as easily wrap the anchors in a div with similar outcomes.

About this:

<div id="header"><h1>header</h1></div>

There are reasons to do this. If all your doing is simply wrapping a block element with a block element then that's likely not a good idea. You are right in that if any styling done to the div can be done to the h1 then you might as well skip using the div in the first place.

One reason to do that is for a header with a defined size that has a background image for display and the h1 is text inside that header that can be placed via positioning. Although more than likely the h1 is not a good choice for that role.
Using open source software as a counterexample is not a good idea, since we don't have the foggiest idea what the rate of success is. What percentage of people who sit down to produce open source software are actually successful, and what percentage just read HN/Reddit instead? Is it 10%? 1%? 0.1%? We never hear about the failures, so who knows.
Retaining any optimism when it comes to ATT and the FCC is a difficult task. Every FCC hearing involving ATT seems to be the same old song and dance. So yes, having a conversation would be nice, but it won't be allowed. Not a real conversation or even small talk about the weather.

Genachowski (and whoever his replacement happens to be) will smile and do what Randall Stephenson tells him to do. McDowell will threaten to sue himself and the FCC, saying the FCC has no right to do anything, under any circumstances and any action is a socialist affront to God and Country. Clyburn will do her "what does this do for the black community" bit and if we miss the saving throw a few red necks will get pissed off, further derailing things. Unsure of Rosenworcel and Pai, hopefully one of them will say something useful, but that is only praying for Judy and Punch.

Meanwhile both representatives standing in front of the chair persons will really be lobbyists for ATT. One will say that any action suggested will never be enough and the other will say that any action will be too much. Blah, blah, blah, some things never change.

I'd genuinely love to see a conversation (on anything), but that conversation will never really happen.
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Patent troll goes after popular podcasters
I'm interested to see whether Opera's move to WebKit means the end of the Dragonfly suite of tools (which are fantastic, by the way).
Think of LT as something more akin to an editor in spirit - you won't see watch windows and all the craziness you often see in "big" IDE's. In that regard, you use it like you use any editor. If you're working with Clojure, ClojureScript, or Javascript code, however, you can evaluate a block inline by pressing Cmd-Enter (or Ctrl-Enter).

Now that we have an experience we plan to stick with more documentation and getting started content will be coming in the next few days. :)

EDIT: I didn't think about SVN, we do filter out Git, but this should just be customizable. Added an issue for it [1].

[1]: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues/266
You could also check your code against JSLint or CoffeeLint
Thanks for the input. I tried to figure out a better name with the developer community, but couldn't come to anything we liked. Would you mind chiming in with your thoughts on our github issue: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/2#issuecomme...
> A comet hit Jupiter in the 90's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9) we watched it and did nothing about it.

and don't think for a second that the Jovians have forgotten about that. :(
The problem with stuff like this is 16Mhz * 100 is far less than 3500Mhz * 4. So doing this in software on the desktop is generally a much better idea let alone 750Mhz * 1000+ if you can get a good GPU implementation. You also hit significant speed of light and bandwidth issues if you want to network a lot of these together because neurons don't just talk to there 4 closest friends.

PS: Still a fun project, just harder than you might think to scale.
I guess this is a cool business idea. The science of decoding the genome into useful information is still in its infancy (I think). This means that right now having your genome sequence is of limited use because there will so much of your genome that we don't understand yet (again, I could be mistaken).

These individuals have found a way take this developing technology and sell it. Kudos to them.

Does anyone know what type of sequencing technology they are using? Would the authors care to share?
Sure a properly maintained M60 may be reliable. The M60 just does not compare to the 240 in any way. The 240 is so reliable you can hold a belt of ammo, pull the trigger and watch the gun pull its-self toward the belt of ammo!

The point is I should be able to pick up any weapon, take it apart and put it back together without knowing much about it. I, of course, was well trained. There's no telling how much training the next person has and we should expect that they will have little to none.
I also spent time in a platoon with three gun teams.
You may find the Kickstarter page informative-

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306316578/light-table

"What languages will it support?

The first two languages it will support are Javascript and Clojure, but the application will be written in such a way that adding new languages can happen through plugins."
I had once attempted to build a genetic algorithm for manipulating the synapse weights, specifically because of the problems of traditional back-propagation falling into local minima (unfortunately, some serious shit at work made it drop by the wayside).

There are many ways to avoid this, for example have a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rprop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_gradient_method

In traditional (I am not talking about the "deep" stuff) neural networks optimization is hardly ever the problem though, most often under- or over- fitting is the issue that produces poor performance.

One of the performance problems with neural networks is that the number of cores on a typical machine are far less than the number of input and intermediate nodes in the network.

This sounds odd. Certainly doing neural networks in hardware is interesting, but it sounds a bit like an imagined problem, I mean, when multiplying 20 numbers one does not complain that the number of cores is less than 20. And most often it is the training of the network that is resource-intensive not the actual running of it.
It's not going to be more useful to a Java developer than Eclipse is currently, but that's because we're going after a very different end goal. FWIW, all our work is done in LT and it is far more efficient than I used to be with Vim.
It's a project with a bunch of files, totals around 3500 lines. I'll post an issue.
You probably also advocate using shared folders to collaborate on code development too? Those darn kids and their 'innovations' ...