skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really don't think it was malice or lying. Most people are just optimists and want to believe that everything will turn out.

I might say that has the sense of a central-bank chairman saying "the market will be fine" in the middle of a downturn: even though he has information that clearly states otherwise, saying anything negative will only make the market worse. Consequentialism, pure and simple.

In a business's case, you want to lay off exactly as many employees as are needed, with the least essential going first. If employees think the ship is sinking, usually you'll lose more employees than you would have otherwise laid off, and usually those will be the most essential (the good strategists, after all, are the most aware of the zeitgeist.)
Pro Segment #101 - Why use a DBaaS instead of do-it-yourself MySQL in the cloud?
The MtGox employees talk about 10 Gbps of traffic hitting their front-end servers. They are desperately working with Black Lotus and Prolexic to help. That is a textbook network DDoS. "Creation of the accounts" is not the source of the slowness and unresponsiveness of the site.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166578.msg1737375#ms...
Hub Hub Hurrray Gitters!
What happens when we don't need to exchange BTC for another currency anymore? Or will BTC be forever inherently dependant on the existence of a government controlled currency? How would we price things in BTC like groceries or salaries? Would that be always changing because the value of BTC would be forever going up? I'm probably talking beyond our lifetime here..
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One more feature suggestion: Let people customize the short code. That would be your USP. I can't get a preferred short code on more popular url shortner like bitly because chances are it's already taken. You can provide that.

Another: add password protection. Say I want to share my daughter's birthday photos with my friends, I can have a url like fry.io/{hername} and also have it password protected. That will add value over bitly or goo.gl.

Just my $0.02.
Kim Schmitz, on the other hand, has a proven track record of manipulating anything and everything for personal gain and self-aggrandization.
"Did you take the detour"

I couldn't help myself but LOL at that :) I'm envisaging this guy pushing himself to even get started, middle of the night, pouring rain, swollen ankles, muscles aching everywhere, almost being run over 100's of times in one night, cold and miserable - and then thinking 'hey, let's take a detour over the touristic route!'.
If fixing a bug in your product depends on GitHub being up, you're doing something wrong.
Whether the Oculus Rift or Google Glass will change porn more is anybody's guess, but I think we can all agree that this is terrible news for the sex robot industry. [1]

If you own shares in any sex robot manufacturers, you'd be wise to short/sell them immediately.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/sex-robots-meet-roxxxy-robot-comes-sk...
Very creative. And scary! The shell script could download and run any binary.

Would be neat if there were an exploit which injected something to make further injection impossible.
The crushing inevitability of Bitcoin's failure?
Simply upgrading to SSDs is also a huge financial drain. It's a difference of about $1/Gb for SSDs vs $0.05/Gb for HDDs. For consumers, an SSD could easily cost more than the rest of the PC.

Not saying it's a bad idea mind you, it's just another factor to take into consideration.
Racial progress, maybe where their own races are concerned, but not in the Middle East. Maybe that better defined as racial intolerance.
Google App Engine Experimental Sockets API
I fully agree, but that won't stop the masses (average Joe reading about BitCoin on TechCrunch) from plunking down $1-2k per box or 10 boxes to mine BitCoins. I think these guys have a solid hardware play, irrespective of reality.
Yes, and no.

Technically, in DNS all domains are stored with a dot at the end, that is correct. Since you don't see this last dot in most places, including in URLs it is usually ignored.

Example of a dotless domain that is in use today: http://dk/
The very fact that git is distributed means that if github was down for a week your development shouldn't suffer, just become more annoying maybe, but you can easily so without GitHub I'd you know the ABC of how git works.

Your theory doesn't hold when comparing github with infrastructure everybody uses but few people know about, just because its used by many people that write programs that are used by many other users doesn't mean it's an infrastructure like an Internet backbone.
It's actually a very wonderful comment.
Indeed. It's very important to never forget the reality check agencies want you to forget about:

You are paying the agency fees. If they deliver less value than what you pay them, dump them.
Heroku offers one database management system right now: Postgres, and its principal replication technology is not based on statement-based replication, and largely for this reason. Using something like PGPool can make the problem come right back again.

So, I will say that the only credit Heroku's staff (which I am a member of, perhaps pertinent to this opinion) gets is for reviewing the technology in play and deciding something like "supporting statement-based replication is basically going to lure a lot of people into a place they don't want to be," and then ignoring statement-based replication entirely. The same general opinion can be said to have been held by PostgreSQL.org, I think. I also want to stress the fact that statement based replication is only but one form of "logical" replication (as opposed to "physical", like the crash recovery logs), and there has been no shortage of interest in the logical replication feature in-the-works (but won't be seen until 9.4 at the earliest) based on crash-recovery log decoding. The design of that should allow exactness to be in principle possible modulo bugs.

The decision to ignore statement based replication has not been without cost: many simple workloads can work with statement based replication, and it would enable support for (with those simple workloads) on-line upgrades to new database versions sooner, but the bizarre (and silent) ways in which statement based replication can break and the seeming impossibility of making statement based replication predictable and exact stayed our hand. Many people fail to read fine print or, sometimes, even big blinking warnings, so inevitably there would be a lot of aggravation for those affected and the staff, who will have to tow a fine line between "told you not to do that..." and digging into a problem that was caused by unsupported use of a feature to assist in fixing it (on a case by case basis, for something like this probably) so everyone can be somewhat more happy. This is no fun for all involved, and when I can see it coming, I try to avoid that position. That said, not everything will be foreseen...but such is software.
I was hoping for a notation that describes midi values against timbre

Dream on. You could show controller automation lanes as digital audio workstations do, but those are only as informative as they are consistent with some scheme like General MIDI and a standard sound architecture. Once you start resampling or using modular routings any kind of timbral notation schema goes out the window.

I've seen attempts at this, and if you email I'll try and dig you out a reference but the particular book I'm thinking of is in a box in my attic right now. However I can't say I've found them very informative. When I think about timbre I think about the whole synth architecture and program it in my head, for many timbral ideas it's just a matter of walking up to the synth later and dialing it in.

Most electronic musicians stick with simple diatonic scales or within modes, at most switching in and out of relative minor. Harmonic complexity and timbral complexity don't go very well together.
I have no idea how much time I lost to playing EV Nova as a teenager... I hope they don't fold after all this.
I agree that there is a lack of transparency regarding penalties for spammy pages, but the copyright stuff (and censorship requests by the government) is clearly forced upon them.
At least they release a transparency report about the nature and amount of censorship/copyright removals. (it also shows which party requested the removal, and what exactly was removed)
I am not aware of any other search engine that releases this information.

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/

Edit: Here's a list of all removal requests:
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...
What I find funny about most of the comments on here and everywhere else is that many of it reminds me of the investment bulletin boards and forums I've been frequenting over the years. There is always a lot of people talking the price up (since they are invested in it), and when there is a dip it is a 'buying opportunity' (so that others can buy and help the value of their holdings)

What to me the most striking is the firm belief that demand will keep on growing, just like people believed property prices will keep on going up since the population is growing and land is finite. Sure, but demand spikes can still price these things too high.
The reason Bitcoin Crashed today
Omg. I took the train from Sydney to Wollongong once. That was already a long trip..
The saddest layoff story i ever heard:

The CEO called an all hands and gave the canonical "we're too
far ahead of our time but now we're out of cash" spiel.

Somebody raised his hand and asked "just to clarify, does that mean we
put our stuff in boxes and don't come back tomorrow?"

The CEO said "Well, actually, we don't have money for
boxes. We do have garbage bags, or you could go to
Safeway (supermarket) and get boxes."
You need to be able to read code to write it, you do not need to be able to read musical notation to play it.
> If you own shares in any sex robot manufacturers, you'd be wise to short/sell them immediately.

Qualified investment advice on an internet forum, great, wait right here while I put my pension on the line to follow your directions.
Out of curiosity, how would you describe the Iraq adventure? Is there anything good that can be said about it?
I met a man from Kirkuk 2 days ago - family scattered around the globe, and says he can't go home, or he will be dead in a week. The country is in ruins.
I don't know about the others, but Uplink was just a port from Introversion - http://www.introversion.co.uk/.
As long as it's not winter. I almost got hypothermia cross country skiing in a city park.
Actually, read the history of how github got started, they started exactly the way you describe: a hack put together by developers that needed that and built it as a side project without thinking about releasing it as a product.
You confusing musicianship with musicology. I'm a better musicologist than I am a musician (which is to say I understand music theory quite a bit better than I can play it), and I really think your claim that 'these concepts can only be understood and visualized by using notation' is utter bullshit.
Actually, in Python 3.3 they can (sort of). See PEP 380: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0380/
wow! he says:

"And I'm never doing it again."

good conclusion!
I wish all the cab-alternative companies using unlicensed drivers would get together and form some kind of industry association. Standardize a background check, safety check on the vehicle, incident reporting, etc., through this independent non-profit. Essentially they could neutralize the moral argument for licensing ("safety! think of the children") at minimal cost, then get back to innovating.
Because all the good domains are running out.
"no pair of glasses will ever produce high definition video as good as an actual camera"

If there is one thing the last 20 years should have taught us, it's that people who say 'x will never be as good as y' are, in the medium to long term, almost always fabulously wrong.
Can someone explain how this image relates to the title?
The ports were few and far between. Most were made either entirely in house or with the lead programmer being a freelancer (they allowed people to pitch their ideas, then would supply artists, their various code libraries, support, testing etc.).
Gold, Long a Secure Investment, Loses Its Luster
I thought council tax was property tax.
The best way to build a company on the web is to build one that does not overly rely on single traffic sources to begin with, and that imo includes google. Lest the next update of their algo puts you out of business.

The best way would be for people to speak up about search engines, what they are doing and to give newcomers a certain benefit of the doubt so we get some diversity in online search.

Google controls as much as 90% of online search and spends accordingly to maintain and increase that share. It's hard to run a business without 90% of people.
I've done it in jeans. Admittedly with padded shorts underneath.

One of the guys I met along the way on that occasion was in regular jeans and no padded shorts. He also didn't bring water or food. He made it to the end, with the biggest grin on his face that you can imagine.

He now randomly delivers free muffins to people across London: http://www.wakeuptomuff.com/how-to-get-muffed-up/
So true - whenever I see that phrase my bullshit detector jumps up into the red.
"old school" guys really shouldn't be raising eyebrows at MySQL blowing up in dumbass ways; they should be quietly congratulating themselves - yet again - on abandoning that inept piece of idiocy years ago.
Google apparently want to destroy the current very well used concept of local domain name, and which mean they either need to change how computers resolve names or introduce inconsistency and large delays in what developer get when their programs do name resolving. Beyond that, inconsistency in users experience means all from confusion to security issues.

Maybe they should first try this with their own browser experience? Make chrome eat up local domain names and see how good that goes. At worst, they just send users and business users to a other browser such as Firefox, and if its such a good idea, they can show graphs of people that flocked to use chrome because of this idea.
You're insane, and an inspiration. I haven't touched my skateboard in close to a decade, but this is driving me to pick it back up.
Not to mention (well, I just did) that with $50 or less anyone can point millions of spammy links to a $1 Million domain. Buy another $million domain now because Google can't manage that?
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> It's not yet clear whether BTC is a currency, a buy-and-hold investment vehicle, or some schizophrenic combination of the two.

Where is gold on that spectrum? As far as I can tell, Bitcoin seems to have all the properties of gold (except that it's easier to transport.)

I'm pretty sure that gold is not considered to be a "currency" in any sense in the modern era; it's traded as a commodity, like oil. But people still can use it (or any other commodity, like oil--or, say, laundry detergent[1]) for under-the-table anonymous transactions as well.

[1] http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/03/12/031212-news-tide-the...
Following Twitter Tirade, Microsoft Creative Director Adam Orth Resigns
Purely anecdotal, but I'm currently in the market to replace my now 4 year old laptop. My problem? The top of the line laptops do not have touch screens. If I want to have a touch screen I have to settle for compromises elsewhere. It seems, a high resolution touch screen is a hard thing to do. If I buy a laptop now I will actually have to accept a downgrade over my 4 year old laptop. Even if it's not a real issue, psychologically that is very hard to do. So I wait. I think a lot of other people are waiting too - first they waited for RT, then they waited for the Surface Pro, and now we're all waiting for better laptops.

I think this is only one factor that's problematic for Win8. Another is that it now as a touch-first OS, looks and feels like it is competing with the iPad. So perversely, MS may have opened themselves to even worse competition with tablets because they have conflated the desktop and tablet ecosystems together. Instead of people buying a laptop when they need laptop and a tablet when they need a tablet, MS seems to be saying "Hey, you think you need a laptop, but maybe you actually need a tablet?". This is so confusing. People don't know what Windows really is any more. So they either wait, or they buy the less confusing option, which turns out to be the tablet.
If it makes you feel better, spoken Continental Portuguese can be somewhat hard to understand even for us Brazilians. Roughly speaking, it's like the difference between a Southern US accent and a (non-RP) British or Scottish accent.

Although, to be fair, Brazilian dialects too vary a lot in terms of pronunciation.
Ignoring the banking issues that have dominated the economy in recent years, I largely associate the decline in PC sales with increasing copyright enforcement, DRM, etc.

In particular, I find it interesting that XP hung on so long and was the one that MS started its Geniune Advantage program with. I suspect it's the first one that many people paid for (to shut up GA) and they felt more ownership of, and commitment to, making it a harder sell for them to upgrade. For better or worse, in earlier years, Microsoft did not really prioritize copyright enforcement as much as they do today. In fact, Gates is on record over this. In 2007, Bill Gates said in Fortune Magazine "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not." A year earlier he said "as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." (LA Times) I think the strong change from the lax enforcement approach in the late 90s and early 2000s (before the XP GA stuff) is a major source of Microsoft's decline in sales. Their OS sales 15 years ago, IMHO, benefited greatly from social effects and word of mouth. I'm sure I'll get some flack for that sentiment, but they deliberately worked to eliminated that effect and now people, at their request, are treating software more like a valuable asset -- and hanging onto what they bought for much longer.

It doesn't help that Vista was poorly received, nor does it help that tablets are filling a lot of the appliance use-cases (video chat, YouTube - another nightmare for copyright - and pocket gaming), and it certainly doesn't help that Windows 8 is also launching like a lead balloon. People never like change. But tablets are still benefiting from the "cool new thing" network effect that has largely left PCs over the past decade, usurped largely by Apple, proving that it hasn't gone away.

People aren't interested in having a better PC than their neighbor any more though because, due largely to copyright enforcement and DRM, they feel less welcomed/excited by the PC+Internet environment and, to top it off, they are already putting their "bling" money into tablets smartphones, etc.

The last time PC sales tanked like this was in 2001, after the IT bubble burst (interestingly, Napster was shut down in July 2001). If we ignore that as an oddball (but one that's consistent with my assertion), from the early 90s to the time of Genuine Advantage, things were lined up very well for the PC market to see strong growth: copyright law was ambiguous or unenforced, and people were actually enjoying buying PCs because they could do new/exciting things every day (music, movies, games, and sharing over the internet) in spite of the specter of copyright litigation. Furthermore, desktops and laptops (full systems, allowing even the OS to change) were the only game in town - so it was the thing being talked about around the water cooler (today it's the tablet, etc).
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That's a little bit of confirmation bias, there are plenty of xs that have never become as good as ys.
301 days ago when the bidding started I posted this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109767

I guess I told you so?
Not only that, but how does ICAAN expect to get around DNS search domains that aren't there by choice, but by default?

Almost every ISP I've used has provided a DNS name as part of their DHCP info, and if apex of TLDs start having anything more than NS records, it seems like a lot of things could break until browsers/netadmins/etc. can come up with a fix. Based on how the IPv6 rollout is going, that doesn't inspire confidence...
How The Internet Will Tell You What To Eat, Where To Go, And Even Who To Date
Can we please, pretty please with a cherry on top invent a new word for "public-facing official API that exposes some of a company's core services"?

Because I get annoyed every time someone uses "APIs" to make general statements while assuming that specific narrow meaning.
The whole point of any new, better musical notation is avoiding the need to deeply understand the current traditional notation.

It is enough if machines can translate the existing sheet music to the new system.
Did not know about Google's bonus for covering taxes. So they leave it to the employees to declare whatever they think the value of their holiday gifts were? I wonder if this leaves Google liable for underreported compensation like restaurants. [1]

"Just because you prefer to do less work and get less compensation doesn't make something not compensation."

I lost your train of thought. (Really, not trying to be facetious.)

"Using your line of argument, if you ask your boss to go golfing because you think it will l help your career, you should deduct that from your taxes."

Only if he's not really your friend. [2]

"The hotel seems completely unambiguous as compensation to me."

Your intuition and the law differ. The hotel is deemed an ordinary and necessary cost of doing business for the employer. Putting your employee in another place for a period of time is just the nature of the biz. For some reason, putting up a migrant worker is not?

"About coffee being an intermediate product; you might be right."

Really, I'm just trying to point out that taxes are an arcane, complex issue. Going with whatever you think is intuitive is not necessarily how they work.

[1] http://ledgerlink.monster.com/training/articles/102-irs-goin...

[2] http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040sca.pdf (see 4th point on page A-11)
The absurdity is the duplication of infrastructure. Half of the money being spent on providing fibre connections is effectively wasted, because the market incentives do not align with the priorities of society.

You present a false dichotomy between libertarianism and plutocracy. The US is exceptionally bad at market regulation by developed-world standards, largely because of how politics in the US is funded. The obvious counter-example is South Korea, where the government are providing billions of usd in funding to ensure universal service of high-speed broadband. That's no free lunch either, but the costs of a digital divide can't be ignored.

Broadband is an increasingly vital infrastructure, arguably as important as roads or mains water. The national economy is increasingly dependent on the ubiquitous availability of fast internet connections. We should take seriously the social responsibility to provide and maintain that infrastructure.
Hardware is what Apple does best. When I use iOS it always feels half hearted. Like it only exists because Apple needed something to run on their amazing hardware. Never the other way around.
Or how about an app that pays you a monthly fee in exchange for law enforcement being able to "borrow your eyes" whenever they want.
Launching a startup in Iraq
If I read that chart correctly, price fluctuated from 266 to ~100 during one day?!?!?

That tells a bit about the correlation of volume and volatility.