skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent, I've been trying to learn Ember over the last few days and it's kind of breaking my brain at the moment so have defaulted to backbone as the initial learning curve seems shallower.
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I'm confused on what information the HEAD request gives after a chunk has failed. Suppose a client concurrently uploads chunks 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; chunks 2 and 4 fail, and the rest work. What information does the HEAD give to tell the client that it needs to re-send the data that was in chunks 2 and 4? Wouldn't it make more sense for the client to store the success of each of its chunk uploads?

I'm also not seeing how the client indicates that the upload is complete. It could be done server-side, by just detecting when a file has no more holes in it, but that seems hacky. Holes can also be useful; suppose I make a 32GB .vmdk file (non-sparse) and put 2GB of data on it. If the server can support holes, then I can upload (and the server only has to store) about 2GB of data; if the server can't support holes, then I'll have to upload a bit more data (assuming compression), and the server will have to store a lot more data. If there were some final message the client could submit to the resource saying "I'm done, commit it!", I think the protocol would be a bit more complete.
It's a (very nice) html game. Works on Chrome, FWIW
Why would I want this? I can use CrashPlan to backup my files to the 'cloud' safely. I don't care where it's stored, as long as it's safe. For fast access and high availability I could just buy a hard drive instead of a device that acts like a hard drive but instead stores other people's files on it.
Recording video of someone out in the streets sounds like a fair game. It is a game of diminishing returns though. Personally, I'd like to see greater transparency on how different defense/intelligence/law enforcement agencies spend their money.

Winding down (and ultimately dismantling) the TSA would be a good way to come to a common ground.
It'd be nice if this was paired with BTC microtransactions for paying the owners of the devices that your blocks are on.
I'm a big proponent of SSL-everywhere, but paying Heroku $20 / month to have a custom endpoint seems absolutely obscene (especially for a small shop worried about simple once-off payments). I guess you could forward non-encrypted requests from your custom domain name to the Heroku-branded endpoint, but that is awfully ugly (and potentially scary to the end user).

Almost best to roll with a cheap $5 plan from Digital Ocean - except then you lose all of the ease of use this project is meant to solve.

At the very least he should probably highlight the possibility of MITM attacks when not serving the original page over HTTPS, but I'm not sure how to solve the SSL issue in a way that's as simple as what Heroku offers without dropping a lot of money in monthly fees.
From the first image:

1: ALONE
2: BROWN

... Very classy, 4chan. :-|
I'm waiting for the day that a hacker takes over their central update server and bricks all devices worldwide and makes them non-upgradable (or makes them into bots).
How would you deal with that? Ask them all to send it in?

Not sure if I like this. $10/month for a TB is the same as Amazon glacier. Sure that's not the same since Glacier is for archival but still... It's not THAT cheap.
He's not calling the exchanges worthless, he's calling the exchanges presently offering shorts worthless. I actually didn't even knew there were BTC exchanges offering shorts...
If you see a setting, you've lost
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Am I the only one that thinks the latest What Ifs aren't quite as good as the first few? It seems the first ones took a lot of research, time and energy while the last several were whipped up in half an hour.
Google is better designed than that. No single cable failure could cause a user-facing outage of more than a few minutes.
I absolutely agree, but I don't think it would be all that difficult to have a network of peers judge the reputation of a node. Yes, it would be possible for individuals to inject bad information, but unless they can compromise an extensive portion of the network, that information would be overridden by that of legitimate nodes. Then all you have to do is make it so that it would cost more to compromise the network than you would gain by compromising it.

If bitcoin can use a peer-to-peer system to come to a consensus on the validity of financial transactions, it should be possible for a peer-to-peer cloud storage system to come to a consensus on how reliable a node is, and how valuable it is to the network.
This thing doesn't surprise me too much. The pirate movement has for a long time said that if you constantly call people criminals, the risk that they later actually will commit crimes goes up. I can understand if a person going through the circus called the pirate bay trial is slightly resentful of the Swedish state, and might not feel too respectful of its law.

Still a crime of course, and still wrong.
tl;dr Space Monkey is a subscription-based Dropbox with a home NAS that replicates data offsite.

They require hardware/software/network engineering, manufacturing, support, sales, and more scaling to support these products.

I still don't understand how exactly they store all the data since this is supposed to be removing datacenter overhead, not adding to it. From what i've read it sounds like the home devices themselves are the redundant storage for all the other customers. Which sounds terrible.
This is very interesting. Crowdsourced law enforcement is a little creepy but hopefully they will get these guys!
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I strongly second this, and thinking making sure they have an outlet for concerns/ideas about career growth and other interpersonal, HR, culture or other "soft" things from time to time is important too. It's amazing how easy it is to go a year without bringing any of this up, only to have someone give notice when it could have been avoided through a few important if perhaps slightly uncomfortable conversations.

I'd also make some room for praise, given in private and in detail.
This is great! Watched a couple so far and followed along right on jsbin.
This is actually a really interesting device. I wonder how it works for a household though. Can there be different accounts setup per user?
How much of your terabyte is yours? The duplication seems to be at least three times (more?), so that would be 333GB. Note: it doesn't matter how finely you cut it up, you need duplication to avoid loss.

It can be ameliorated by the cloud tricks of compression and git-like copy-detection across nodes (people downloaded the same movie, music, image, document, software etc) giving aggregate savings.

Of course, most people won't use their full quota initially, and meanwhile more adopters come online with fresh excess capacity... a kind of ponzi-scheme/chain-letter (to be fair, as drive prices fall over years, units will likely become 2TB, 4TB etc).
Come to think of it, there's really no reason you couldn't do both, and I wonder if this system does.
A rather fun pool game, which runs fine in Chrome.
I did last week. From a newbie's perspective. This comparison was way better than mine. Mine focused more on the learning curve aspect and is a much shorter read. You can read it at http://www.martywong.com/blog/backbone-vs-ember-vs-angular-v...
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Perhaps they encrypt your unique personal files, but share duplicates among all the users? In one tb, there must be a lot of common mp3s, movie files, etc.
> uptime percentages are a useless measure

Uptime is only useless if you don't care about high availability. Many startups don't, but Google sure does.
Confidence in the system is more or less exactly the say of the users.
Only weak point is that once you line up on a shot and pull the cue back, you can't alter the angle, you're committed to the one you chose. But then it's meant to be played for speed rather than accuracy.
I believe the investigation protocol (FUP) will be public once the court case begins but I am not sure.

I guess we will see.
I wouldn't say that futures markets make the price of a commodity less volatile. They do however let you lock into contracts at certain price levels to let you manage your risk in a volatile market. Which makes all the difference
Er, it's an open source HTML5 game that runs perfectly in Chrome (just spent the last 20 minutes playing it in Chrome on OS X). What does this have to do with IE?
btrace is a complete DTrace-like implementation for the JVM that doesn't require DTrace (but can integrate with it if you want). It allows complete runtime instrumentation of the code - you can profile specific methods, trace argument values and much more.
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I bet many of the wire-wielding programmers of the old IBM systems were women - a higher proportion in those days than today.
It would be interesting to get object tracking placed onto all the available video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GhNXHCQGsM).
You're right. People could do that to save their upload bandwidth, because unless you route your network through the device it can't know how much of your bandwidth it's stealing and if you're currently using it etc. I suspect most of the target audience doesn't have QoS properly setup in their routers.

I'm not sure how valid the torrent analogy is in this case.
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It doesn't just replicate data off-site, it duplicates and distributes your data to other spacemonkey users. It's like P2P cloud storage.
As much as the scandal with Linode is worrying their support is second to none
The state of Linux in 2013
from the kickstarter page "For $10 per month, you get a full Terabyte (1000 Gigabytes) of storage you can use anywhere, any time". the devices' actual capacity is larger.
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Any particular agenda? Irrespective of that, I'm in.
Google Glass almost at 100k USD on eBay
I do "apt-get upgrade" as a nervous habit. Sometimes more than once per day.

I find this truly fascinating.
Probabilistic programming is not really "programming" as we might use the term without qualification. It's wholly focused on the specification of probabilistic models, their structure, data, and evaluation pattern.

Consider BUGS as it's a very prototypical probabilistic programming example. If your goal is to specify that you have a model where you observe the "wetness of the grass outside" and infer whether it "rained previously" then you can use BUGS to express it easily.

model {
rained ~ dbinom(0.1) /* prior probability */
for (i in 1:N) {
grass[i] ~ rained
}
}

for some data grass[i].

(That was a very sketchy example, don't read into it too closely)

The heart of this is that quantitative methods are getting so well understood that we can express the algebra of models as a formal language. When we do this we get many of the benefits that programming has done for formal expressions of flow-charts.
The whole terabyte is yours. The device has extra capacity to account for the rest.
ryanflorence is really, really good at breaking things down and showing how powerful Ember can be with simple examples.

Good job.
Bitcoin has no use? And after saying this, you find yourself qualified to comment on the "real value of a bitcoin"?

Sometimes it is more valuable to accept what you do not know instead of pretending. Bitcoin may drop to $0 or bounce back to $250. I do not know, but I know why it made it this far and that is something that I would suggest you attempt to grasp before making any broad, unsubstantiated statements.
Make an offer not give an opinion
Disclaimer: I'm a friend of the main author and have been peripherally involved (mostly watching from the sidelines) in this project.

Valid points, IMO. Those sound like use cases that might not have been contemplated originally (the idea for the spec grew out of the author's work here: https://transloadit.com).

That said, the spec, and the code around it are both still very much evolving, and are welcoming of input. You can join us on GitHub or in #tusio on Freenode.
Still getting errors sending transactional messages to users on gmail

Apr 17 10:23:30 postfix/smtp: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:4002:c02::1a]:25: Network is unreachable
It's easier than it seems. Not all people have good taste for classic music, books, or anything...

How can you improve your tastes o knowledge in anything? Just observing, consuming and reading. I spent some minutes a day watching presentations, infographics and reading articles about design. I also take a deeper look when I end up to a blog which design I like.

Sometimes you'll learn something about colors and how they match, another day you will discover the angled stripes people use in backgrounds, or you will find out details in (sans) serif typography... Within this work you will also discover your own taste.

Eventually you will find out that you can appreciate how many of all learned topics have been taken in consideration when designing something...

Long story short, just reading and observing.
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PHP 5.3 enters end-of-life cycle, receives only critical patches
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Respected news organizations were no different. Notice the mention of "Saudi National" when someone was a potential suspect. Would they do that for any other crime or any non-Muslim associated country? 4chan at least isn't pretending to be above it like others do, give them credit for that. I'll take honesty over false piety any day.

Don't get me wrong, it's still classless.
It'd be worth the cost of a cheap ticket.

Problem is: the reservation system's down.
Give me a break dude, there's a huge difference between taking photos at a huge public event and government drones. I can't believe this even has to be addressed.

You are at a public event, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy and could not argue so in court.

If you are in your backyard and your neighbor is videotaping you, then that's illegal if you have the expectation of privacy. The government can basically do the same with impunity with drones without it being illegal.

See the difference?
EU men with guns: a comedy of errors
This is exciting news for the validity of HTML5 games in the browser!
Yes, the flow/layout of that box is confusing. My eyes don't know where to look. I'm no UI expert, so I don't have suggestions on how to fix it.
Do you know why Congress banned onion futures? That seems... random.
2008 wasn't a bubble so to speak. It was driven by de-levering contagion.

You'd do better to apply it to a 2001 tech index.

The difference is a bubble is driven by greed, and "greater fool" behaviors turning to fear and panic selling. De-levering contagion is driven by a position going down triggering margin calls which necessitate selling other positions which drive down prices which furthers the cycle.
>Sharp had[has?] their own panels but the quality wasn't uniformly high and they were overly dependent on their home TV market anyway.

Sharp's supplying Samsung with LCD panels: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-19/sharp-affirms-opera...
> Things have real value.

That's dodging the question. And in a rather clumsy way. The "use value" of things depends heavily on epoch, person, even fashion and weather. So what is exactly "real" in real value?

> the present value of future cash flows

You don't say! Sorry but a) future cash flows is an estimation at best b) the present value of future cash flows depends heavily on the circumstances of the valuator.

On whether you have a debt to a mobster to pay, or an angry girlfriend to placate..
More productive language/framework/platform will shorten your contract, so you will earn less in result.
Microsoft's Xbox team testing smartwatch prototypes with a Surface connector
File stores like this have been pretty common place for a long time now actually -- systems like Freenet, WASTE, etc.

Interesting to see someone stepping up and delivering a consumer-friendly experience on top of such technology. It's incredibly useful but reliant on a healthy network of peers. A plug-in-and-forget solution with good clients that integrate well into the ecosystem of devices we use today, I think, is very clever.

I'd prefer to see something open-source but this is definitely a step in an interesting direction. Personally I limit my use of "cloud," services because I don't trust other people hosting things like my contacts list, calendar appointments, etc. I do see the benefit and convenience of such services though and if this device/service is capable of synchronizing more of that data from my applications between my devices I would buy into it in a heartbeat.

I hope the kickstarter goes well and this thing takes off (or something similar... again, open source is preferable).
No, it's just karma whoring because the previous submission finally passed the age threshold.
Anyone here able to develop a flash sales site within 3 months?
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> Keep in mind that Ember.js and other frameworks like it are really only valuable to people who are writing single page javascript applications. If you aren't, or you are against the idea of building single-page applications, then these frameworks won't really do much for you. Although, you can still get some value out of them.

This is fairly true of ember specifically, but much less so for some of the other frameworks. Backbone and Angular, in particular, are very well suited for building "islands of richness" in otherwise traditional sites. Even if you're doing something relatively simple, like a form with live validations and inline error messages, you're going to have an easier time writing it with something to handle the DOM manipulation for you.

If you're wanting to get into frontend JS, start with Backbone. It's much less powerful than the other frameworks, but is by far the easiest to grok, and having it under your belt will give you enough tools to start moving larger and larger chunks of functionality into the browser. Come back to Ember once you outgrow that.
Your argument is mostly valid, but it assumes a couple of premises that are likely to be false:

1. All (or even most) users fully utilize their entire 1 TB quota. In reality, the vast majority of users will probably not even use half of their quota. By the time that changes, hard drive technology is likely to have advanced, and they can start selling larger boxes. Then the cycle repeats.

2. The data on the drives is not compressible. While people certainly could store only compressed files, that's not very convenient, and the reality is that most people will have at least some portion of content that is readily compressible.

Just by exploiting those two facts, the network can probably work without any external cloud assistance. But the smart way to design it would be to also have traditional cloud storage as a fallback. And that would be safer than traditional cloud storage, while still saving money since the fallback would only be used in special circumstances.
It is, it also shows what innovative ways Jagex go to in bring both the web and gaming industry closer, and forward.

Just for clarification; I'm not an employee of Jagex, I'm a long time player of RuneScape though. I'm also a huge fan of what they've accomplished when you look at the systems they use, and the hardware required to enjoy their products.
Also depends on the army of meat-based drones analyzing the data on the ground.
While I never used BeOS, and haven't tried Haiku either, I can't help but hope that something not Unix-based* gains some popularity sometime. At lot of the "innovation" happening in desktop OS's today seems incremental. In fact, I'd argue that there's a bit of a monoculture among the various Unix-derivatives that discourages radical changes, for compatibility reasons (which is reasonable). Though I don't think the various Linux distros and BSDs have all that much of a competitive effect on one another, anyway.

Or have we reached a point where OS's aren't that interesting any more?

* - Other than Windows, that is.
It depends. You can look back at a year and say "We had 100% uptime". You can also make an assurance that you have %90 uptime, %99, 99.9, or even %99.99 and beyond which all actually carry a meaning about load balancing, fall over, and redundancy.
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That's what has me on the fence between existing Scala/Play framework server-side and some-js-framework client-side.

Would be thrilled with my stack if it weren't for the slow-ish build times, so the thought of offloading the view to the client has some appeal.

For now coffeescript does the trick for client-side functionality -- may entertain a client-side MVC framework with a less complex/involved project to test the waters.
Do e-readers inhibit reading comprehension?
Communicating architectural value: "Selling SOA" on Form Follows Function
except you can't deduplicate against what other people have backed up (multiple people backing up the same movie, etc) and encrypt your backups. If my backups are being put on a device owned by someone else, I want that encrypted so they can't read it.
I'm pretty sure he was joking
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Internet. Still better than news actually.
Flash vaporization during earthquakes evidenced by gold deposits
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
Why would you measure "real value" with future cash flows when cash itself clearly has no "real value" at all beyond toilet paper?
I don't have a study to link to

but I'm seen how one slow driving cop can cause a bottle neck behind him as noone wants to pass him

some links about about how seemingly minor factors can cause traffic jams

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/accidents-h...

http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/03072...
Compared to Unix, is Haiku built with modularity and simplicity in mind?
You mean to say, it protects the future of people so long as they don't have a lease or a mortgage, or debt of any sort, or long term contract obligations.
And We're up.
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Sure. The "futures market" is primarily composed of call / put options. I'll focus on a call option.

A call option is a contract, allowing you to buy the asset at a specific price at a specific time. I'll put parenthesis to make it easier to understand... IE: I'll sell you a (contract to buy 10 BTC for $30 each on April 30, 2013) for $300.

So today, you can buy the contract from me. In April 30, if BTC remains high in price, you can execute the contract and buy 10 BTC @ $30. If BTC crashes in price, the contract is worthless, and you can instead buy BTC from the market. You make a profit if on April 30, the price of BTC is $60 or higher.

The opposite is true for put options. You buy put options to sell BTC on the market at a particular price at a particular time.

Here's the kicker: options are bought and sold on the open market. IE: The futures market. So the spot price of $300 for this contract will go up / down based on what speculators believe the price of BTC will be in 30 days. (The terms of the contract don't change. Only the cost of the contract changes)

For businessmen who primarily work in USD, getting a spot price of BTC way off in the future will help solidify his business.

The underlying asset may be volatile, but futures allow the businessman to guarantee a price on the BTC <--> USD exchange.
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