skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take it you haven't seen the blog posts by Amazon? They are always very interesting, very detailed, and they write them even if the effects only hit some features of a single availability zone. I have written about Amazon's postmortems in the past, with detailed links to examples. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4705110

They also, of course, don't write blog posts for every single incident (as I point out in that previous post), but they do acknowledge incidents on their status pages, and they don't seem to filter their postmortems based on "can I turn this into a PR event" as CloudFlare does; in the example situation I provided that CloudFlare carefully ignored, Amazon would have posted something, even though it only would not have let them come off sounding like heroes.

CloudFlare simply should not be getting happy hacker credit for these exaggerated tales of valor... this is just marketing copy, not a postmortem, and it isn't even clear that we should be believing any of the statements they have made. I mean, can you even imagine an Amazon postmortem requiring a rebuttle by gizmodo, as we see for this CloudFlare article? http://gizmodo.com/5992652
But then, in CL nobody assumes (read) is safe.
>it would be a great way to fund your way through college

Isn't this called a 'student loan'?
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The displayed name is a bit different concept from identity. It's like a server and it's DNS name.

The point is, nothing prevents the site from knowing me as 70BD6432E50DFB65FF679B32364C3C7840DE4453, but displaying me everywhere as "Aleksey".
Facebook makes risky bet on News Feed ads that track you
Well here I think we will have to agree to disagree. I've certainly seen a lot of debate.

I would also add that I find it hard to work through your comments as they are laden with the same extremely emotional language you disapprove of.

Paragraph 1: piling on, condescension, chauvinism, summarily dismissed, perfunctory hand waving, shouting down.

Paragraph 2: underhanded, incompetent, cowardly, race baiting, gender baiting, fraud, manipulative, aggrandise.

Paragraph 3: immediately slapped onto, totally ignored.

Pargraph 4: unambiguously clear, whipped itself into an apoplectic firestorm of outrage, at best shrugged, firestorm of outrage, outpouring of the most vile, vitriolic and disgusting abuse, insults, threats and mockery

Paragraph 5: disturbing, unwillingness to even acknowledge it, blind spot on gender issues.

Look, I will simply point out, again, that I disagree with the abuse that Adria has had to suffer.

However, I think that there are also interesting things that can be said about what is or is not acceptable at a conference, and that that debate is ongoing.
It is real, there was also this piece[1] in The Atlantic earlier this month, and Mike's on the Today show this morning.

I'm Doug Stewart[2] (mentioned in the interactive "Who Owns Mike Merrill?" graph). If anyone has questions, I'll try my best.

[1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/putting-...
[2]: http://www.kmikeym.com/users/137
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> I think the obesity epidemic demonstrates quite clearly how incorrect our understanding of nutrition has been.

No, I think it's an excellent demonstration that for most people 'calories in' is the primary driver of weight gain.

There's not an epidemic of people getting fat from eating 2,500 kcal per day but which is mostly refined carbs.

Most people who are overweight are eating far more calories than that, usually as sugar or fat. They have problems with portion control, and recognising just how much they are eating.

I'm being careful to say 'most' because as this research shows there's a small number of people who might be affected by other things.
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"You make it sound like a drug that performs as good as a placebo is useless."

But it is useless, is it not? The placebo effect is effective, cheap and safe. If the new drug has the same effectiveness, it's probably just another placebo, just far more expensive and probably nowhere near as safe.
It means that not all features they want to include in 2.0 are in yet but there is enough to warrant a release of some kind.

PyPy is generally so stable that people are using nightlies in production, provided they pass all the tests.
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Blogs are just catching up to dead tree media.
I don't think this is about money at all. More likely than not it's some kind of sexual fantasy or something similar. No sane person would sell themselves for a couple thousand bucks like this just for the possibility of turning profit in the future.
Chrome on Windows has horrendous @font-face rendering.
This is something that I've noticed myself. I find that it's much easier to write a paper for school by just writing something, no matter how simple, and using it as a framework for the next iterations. It makes it much easier for me to think of the paper one piece at a time. I've started trying to apply this strategy more rigorously lately. For a four page paper I had to write yesterday, I started by just writing out the structure of the paper:

"Start with a relevant 'hook.' Now lay down your thesis statement. I got to my thesis by starting here. Then I went and saw this. That turned into the other, and here you have the thesis."

Then I took each bit and replaced it with what I actually wanted to say there and continued to iterate from there. In this case, my professor has a very specific structure that he looks for in our papers so putting that first iteration together didn't take much effort.

Similarly, when I'm working on a programming project, I find it's much easier to start with a working iteration, even by stretching the definition of "working," and improving it until I'm happy with it.

It is, of course, important to look at the paper (or other work) holistically to make sure that it all flows together once the pieces are in place.
Heh, certainly sounds like it. Ideally imho a wife should be a partner in all the trials and tribulations as well as happiness that life brings. Once she starts giving orders it seems more like she wants to be a boss, that was usually the point in the relationship I would try to gracefully bow out...
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Answered this below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5454553
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Ask HN: How much more expensive is it to live in Silicon Valley?
I live in Boca Raton, FL now and am contemplating a move to the Santa Clara Valley. All the cost-of-living calculators are assuming that I am going to rent a posh place right in the valley and so I feel like I cannot trust their percentage difference.

I mean, if I lived in Nebraska and was contemplating a job in Boca I would freak at the average rent in the area. But having lived here I know that Delray represents a huge cost savings and a 10 min commute.

Can I trust these cost-of-living calculators?
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Also: I know the state sales/income tax is higher; that's a fixed cost that's easy to calculate.
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calories in' is the primary driver of weight gain

As another poster points out elsewhere in this thread - that's like saying that fuel consumption is the primary cause of auto accidents.

They have problems with portion control, and recognising just how much they are eating.

Nutrition is about far more than calories in. Controlling cravings through controlling the insulin response is enormously important. The types of foods that make up calories is enormously important.
"That isn't quite true anymore either, because of Web Workers and ParallelArray."

Quote from yesterday's discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5451658

"WebWorkers are not really a multithread model. Game engines could be written to leverage message passing based isolates, but in some cases, but doing it in an optimal form isn't exactly developer friendly, it's one of pains of developing the PS3 SPEs is that they didn't share system memory and you had to DMA stuff around."
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>The dollar, too had one vertical bar. Nowadays it has two, in many fonts.

That is not correct. There was not a transition from "two vertical bars" to "one vertical bar" [1]. Please document yourself before posting.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Origin
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Awesome fact! If this ever come sup in a pub quiz, I am prepared haha
Prostitution among animals
Also, courts don't enforce 'unconscionable contracts'
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It was only a matter of time before you guys were acquired. Truly love Redis to Go.
Google Street View Captures Ghost Town in Fukushima’s Evacuation Zone
I think it's pretty clear that there are some things that would be inappropriate. The interesting thing here is that you wouldn't ordinarily expect two people to lose their jobs over a crap joke and a twitter photo.

it appears to be a perfect storm, where the deviations from what might be acceptable are minor, but the results are huge. One thing I take away is that if something isn't done* to deal with the tendency of the internet to make something viral, everyone will be walking on eggshells ... whether making a joke or posting something on twitter.

* I have no idea what that could be, though.
Teespring(YC W13): God is a Woman campaign.
Haha this would be kind of awesome. Obviously this would be bad news for the open resolvers' home networks, but could their upstreams handle it (i.e. maybe they would have to drop resolver traffic but not anything else)? If so maybe this Cloudflare should prepare such a response for the next time someone pulls this.
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He has the overwhelming majority interest. He's promised not to vote with his shared but the option remains open if he's told to do something illegal.
Isn't it exactly a thing in which Java failed about a decade ago? Apps running in a VM using GUI toolkit instead of DOM, delivered right into your browser window? What could be better? Well it's proved to be a total failure on the web.
The articel does not mention what he did, so here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Meijer_%28computer_scienti...

"His work at Microsoft included C#, Visual Basic, LINQ, Volta, and the Reactive programming framework (Reactive Extensions) for .NET"
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>some people may prefer a little comfort than living on Ramen noodles for 4 years

Hm, I'd be wary of investing in someone who was more interested in having nice things than focusing on their education. Is it really that bad for students these days, living without a dishwasher and cocktails three times a week? I know students in NYC and London who don't seem to be complaining about poverty.
Mailstrom, A Machete For Overloaded Inboxes, Makes Its Official Debut
Google Maps Engine Lite beta lets amateurs craft their own location sets
Massive DDoS Attack Explained
"Can the recommendation for a treatment intended to promote the placebo effect be made without deception and also without undermining its therapeutic potential? Consider, for example, the case of a clinician who recommends treatment with acupuncture for a patient with chronic low back pain who has not been helped by standard medical therapy. Aware of the results of the recent acupuncture trials, described above, this clinician thinks that acupuncture may work by promoting a placebo response. The clinician might provide the following disclosure to the patient: “I recommend that you try acupuncture. Several large studies have shown that traditional acupuncture is not better than a fake acupuncture treatment, but that both of these produce considerably greater symptom improvement in patients with chronic low back pain condition as compared with those patients who receive no treatment or conventional medical therapy. Although the specific type of needling doesn't appear to make any difference, it is likely that acupuncture works by a psychological mechanism that promotes self-healing, known as the placebo effect.” On its face, this disclosure appears honest. A patient who received this disclosure and subsequently got better after undergoing acupuncture might nonetheless develop a false belief about why it worked. This does not mean, however, that the patient has been deceived by his physician."

from:

Placebo Effects: Biological, Clinical and Ethical Advances
(Damien G Finniss, Ted J Kaptchuk, Franklin Miller, and Fabrizio Benedetti

PMCID: PMC2832199 / NIHMSID: NIHMS169379

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2832199/
It's not surprising that is the better solution. Humans do stuff the same way in real world. They repeat something until they get it right, and that's the learning process. The same with neural nets. You don't get to do something perfect from first try.
And this: "[G]radual wearing away of the vehicle’s skin as it reached stress tolerance limits was expected. However, larger than anticipated portions of the vehicle’s skin peeled from the aerostructure."

And, dated: April 20, 2012
13 Years and 11 Startups
1. regular exercise (find something you enjoy): it's almost impossible, biologically speaking, to feel depressed if you're active.

2. meditation (if non-religious) or prayer (if religious): to steady and tame your brain.

3. Do some research about mood enhancing diets. Many pop foods can cause mild depression in the long run.

4. Therapist and/or friend to bounce your ideas off of. You need someone to tell you that reality is not as bad a you think it is. It seems silly but it makes a tremendous difference.

5. Most important --> baby steps
It is expensive to live in SV.

Check sfbay.craigslist.org to see what apartments are going for.

If you live in the Valley you're going to spend quite a bit of money (and time) commuting anywhere useful. If you live in SF your rent will be higher, but lower transportation costs.
Google alters AdWords rules to ban phone numbers in ad text
Yes. (disclaimer I don't live there, but have been a number of times)

Highest cost of living in the country in my opinion. There are ways to beat the system, but half the population are looking for those exceptions.
Interesting use of goroutines/channels to implement a memory recycler. They could be used to implement a thread-safe alloc/free pool of objects.
I think that there is a clear distinction between pure negativity and "snark" or sardonicism. It is possible to be genuinely, objectively critical of things without being arrogant or sarcastic. Criticism is a necessary facet of discussion, and is indicative of a thoughtful community. "Asshole-sim" is not. I'm of the belief that the discussion on HN tends towards the former.

>This behavior sometimes doesn't get swatted down fast enough nor ruthlessly enough and bad comments are left to stand. People see these comments and think they're acceptable. And the standards erode.

>Flag ruthlessly, downvote comments that don't belong here, based on tone rather than disagreement.

I'm unsure of what you're advocating for. Are you for expunging the hyper-negative, misogynistic near-spam of Reddit, or for doing away with negativity entirely? (My hunch is latter, as fighting spam is trivially excepted and needn't be argued.) The latter is incredibly dangerous and will work to the detriment of the community inasmuch as HN, as a community of generally-intelligent individuals, is capable of analyzing a story to a greater extend than most news organizations or communities; and some sort of assault on negativity would remove the ability for one to introduce warranted skepticism or to dissent from general discussion. Skepticism, contrarianism, criticism, etc. are incredibly valuable tools and are fundamental to HN and to discourse in general. One should not have the merits of their ideas judged solely on the "tone" articulated by them, and HN should certainly not seek to create institutionalized positivity.
Thanks, we love it too and we will be growing the team to make it even more amazing in the future.
New U.S. Cyber-Security Law May Hinder Lenovo’s Sales Growth
Are they going to open source it?
Wow, just wow. This is what the page looks like to me, completely different: http://i.imgur.com/kgKMGg4.png

Some possible fixes: http://niteodesign.com/web-design/how-to-clean-up-chrome-and...
Using OpenDNS does not provide all the benefits of running your own DNS server where "benefits" includes fine grained control.

Additionally OpenDNS has some behaviors that network admins aren't crazy about. OpenDNS will return an answer for queries with no authoritative match. For example, if you query `dig noexist.example.com @208.67.222.222` (that's an OpenDNS resolver IP), you'll get answer: 1 and an IP address. This is considered a "feature" by OpenDNS, but from a purist's perspective, it is a breakage.

We do not run our own DNS server for client name-resolution, because we don't have any need for the control it provides. I acknowledge that some people do, however.
Attaque DDoS à grande échelle contre Spamhaus
Une des attaques DDoS les plus agressives de l'histoire et qui est passée quasi inaperçue a été réalisée la semaine dernière. Du moins c'est ce que le New York Times rapporte, se référant aux déclarations faites par un membre de haut rang d'Akamai. Cette attaque visait l'organisation anti-spam Spamhaus.
I think your first step should be counselling. If you try one and it doesn't 'click', try another. Counselling can be unbelievably helpful.

Someone said to me once that she thought everyone should see a counsellor once every few years. She meant it as a joke, but after sitting with a good counsellor once myself, I agree completely.

A good counsellor can help you put everything in perspective. One helped me out of an EPIC rut a few years back. Really: JUST DO IT.
A winning wager? Experts see a $20B market for gambling in games
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Well for apps like Mathematica or simulation staff it could make sense.
Also running things like 3D Studio in the browser while the rendering is done in the cloud could work fairly well. This wouldnt require the frontend to be in the browser obv, but when i work on something in the office, get home and see the same state of the app on my pc at home, that would be pretty nice.
My first instinct is to dismiss this as a crazy idea, except that if the CEO is speaking publicly about it with a major world news organization, then it's probably past the "crazy idea someone wrote on a bar napkin one night" stage.

The biggest WTF, of course, is how do you insure against fraud and liability...but courier services have presumably come up with a system, and so Walmart "just" has to innovate on industrializing the system. So it's obviously not a trivial task, but Walmart (and its competitors, such as Amazon) have already managed the seemingly-impossibly complicated logistics behind every other part of the shipping, cataloging, and, in Walmart's case, the manufacturing process. Those parts don't seem innovative because the everyday person doesn't have to think about them...however, the everyday person can relate to delivering items to strangers and all the ways that could possibly go wrong, so of course that task seems even more impossible and unlikely...from our perspective.

It may very well be harder than the logistics Walmart has already mastered...but I don't really know that, so I guess Walmart deserves some benefit of the doubt.

In any case, it'll be interesting to see how a behemoth can reinvent itself in this space...sure, startups have the nimbleness of no legacy baggage...but it's possible a company with hundreds of millions of dollars to throw at the problem may also be enough to spur the needed innovation.
It's a necessary discussion insofar as it was major news and will have a non-trivial effect on how gender-identity is interpreted and argued within the community.
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<conspiranoia>
1) People in Cyprus (and investment funds?) start using Bitcoin.
2) "Biggest" attack in Internet ever, latency increase.
3) ECB send trucks with cash to Cypruss
4) Guys are caught cutting cables that can affect trading (increase latency again).
</conspiranoia>
ZTE Posts Second Straight Net Loss Of $183M In Q4 On Emerging Market Woes
One small correction/addition:
For Stream.anyMatch(), Stream.findFirst() and Stream.findAny() it is mentioned that these are short-circuiting operations.
This is however also true for Stream.allMatch() and Stream.noneMatch().
It's quite funny, and a consequent move in a robotic system. We can all live like robots if we want, he is taking it seriously.

At least on average, the more robotic you live your life, the more money you get. 9 to 7 instead of 9 to 5? Working on weekends? He is taking it to the extreme, he will be working 24/7. He is selling responsibility for his life for anyone giving enough money.
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/mit/ai/aim/
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- CS degree or equivalent work experience
- Strong Objective-C background (iOS) & familiarity with Cocoa, Xcode
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- Passionate about software, apps and innovations
- Strong sense of User Experience
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Proactive and energetic work ethic, willing to own the product
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- Full-time position at development labs in Berlin, Germany
- Learn and grow alongside other passionate developers
- Inspiring, international team

We are looking forward to receiving your CV (English or German) and a portfolio of apps you’ve developed.
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To be honest, I don't have a clue - I'm not now nor have ever been a college level student, I taught myself, but in the UK, students seem to live pretty poorly.
That's already possible with NaCl, and will soon also be possible with PNaCl.
I just went to the leap dev meetup in nyc, (i also dev for leap). My feeling is that its a great UI instrument, for UI focused applications. What do i mean by that? Well, think of museums, aquariums, jobs such as architecture, perhaps autocad. Jobs/tasks where it would be way more fun and efficient to do the action with your hands.
Does Nvidia’s position on consoles really matter?
2TiB per LUN on ESX until recently actually. We have a single filesystem that is 19TiB.
Show HN: My tool to divide up stuff between two people
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And also that weight isn't the variable you should be optimizing, but rather body composition.
We've just launched this tool to help people fairly divide stuff between them. It uses linear programming to calculate the maximin allocation. This is the allocation that gives the worst off person as much as possible.

I have a use case describing a divorce example use case [here](http://fairandsquare.ie/products/example.html). I would love to hear any comments or questions you have.

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