skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throughput to S3 is ok if you initiate a multipart upload and then do several parallel chunk uploads.
Same for me in France, impossible to access the panel and IMAP SMTP down on Thundebird.

And i don't have the "PIIIN" !!
Doesn't most (smart) phones already have this? (I know iOS does.)
Any facts to support these claims? As a counterargument:

Deflation can solve number of problems like eliminate the debt spiral, restrain evergrowing unproductive governments, restore the right to have savings for people and protect their future. Currently with centrally controlled inflation we are deprived of this fundamental right.

This is from the merchant perspective: because of chargebacks my customers pay about 7% more for the service. 7% is to compensate direct cost of chargebacks, I don't count my time and cost of software I had to write to reduce fraud. The most painful however is that chargebacks are horribly immoral - the extra percent we all pay for everything goes to thieves who abuse the system.
If you write all of your code to run on the server then you need to pull down a full page from the server every time you want to update your data.

There's plenty of reasons you might want to avoid this in some cases.
For example, you might want your forms to be validated without waiting for the user to push submit. You might have rich content in some markup language (like markdown) and you want the user to have a live preview on the same page as they are editing. Or you might have an app with real time data that changes frequently and you don't want the user to sit there pushing refresh constantly.
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I need to hock hacki.ng. Make me an offer, a reasonable one. My aging dev machine needs a worthy successor. Thanks
It seems like the handling of concurrent access has been neglected in this protocol. What if multiple clients try to resume uploading the same file?
Have you even read the indictment? A casual look seems to indicate that the investigation is very thorough. (See another post here for link)

And if anyone is a flight risk who would never be granted bail it is Gottfried, He has already fled a sentence once - that is not to say that being in a 'häkte' is fun or humane, depending on circumstances.

Finally:

>I'm from Sweden and I'm very sad to say that I don't consider Sweden to fulfil all the requirements for rule of law and legal security.
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https://coinfly.com does the same thing, easy way to send invoices with Stripe.
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Gmail, Google Drive And Docs Currently Experiencing Partial Outage
Shameless self link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5564268
Yeah, military and space hardware feels like a given. You could always say the Voyager is the oldest running program.

I'd be more interested to hear about computers that are in use being actively changed, with new software coming out on them to support whatever unique need they have.

That or highly specialized one-trick-ponies that cannot change due to their complex nature.

The military mass producing 100,000 <insert thing> from the 70's with computers on them, or a person maintaining their BBS doesn't really feel the same.
automation.whatismyip.com used to exist; it's what whatismyip.com suggested you use when making a large number of easily parseable requests. I assume since the redesign (read: monetization attempt) it's disappeared.
I'm wondering if this is related to the new update they did to the admin control panel.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/make-g...
There are only two results, one of whom is me, and I am 350-400 km from Moscow, which is kinda far, even to see a fellow HNer.
I live in Novosibirsk, Russia. If any HNers are out here in Siberia (unlikely), I'd like to meet them!
Almost every top level comment is people being skeptical and urging caution. What were you saying about credulous idiots?
Let's hope those startups find their mojo...
He's not our hero, he's not being sued and the case is strong.
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We might not know if the universe is a simulation, but we know enough about the properties of the universe to put some constraints on its properties. For instance: We know about entropy. We know that there is an upper bound on the amount of information that can be contained within a given space, and it is proportional to surface area of that space. (The upper bound is realized when the space becomes a black hole.)

These values constrain any simulation of the physics of our universe in any universe which has the same physics. We know that in the case of accurately simulating the entire physical universe, you're going to need a LOT of space and energy.
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My son (in high school) took into use a HP-15c that my wife bought in 1987. Alas, it broke after travelling back and forth between home and school for a few months. A true loss, but it wasn't as strong as I thought it would be.

In 1985, I was preparing for the matriculation exam (at end of high school). I was worried that my Sharp EL-506 battery would run out in the middle of this important exam, because it was already 3 years old. However, I did not change it. It lasted the matriculation exam. It lasted also my MSc studies and army, 9 years altogether. And beginning of my working career. And it actually still works, though nowadays I don't need it so it's just at the bottom of the drawer. But it is OK, 31 years after buying it, with original batteries and some significant use during high school and uni. I just don't understand.
As long as you don't work for an airline ... :)
Internals to the Couchbase Java SDK
I love this video and the story of "The Umbrella Man." This is a perfect example of quantum coincidences.
This web designer made $15 000+ with an e-book he wrote in 3 weeks
This reminds me of the politically correct, relativist nonsense that one often sees in response to the existence of multiple, mutually exclusive religions.

There may not be a single right way to develop all software, but as with questions of morality, there are certainly better or worse ways, and in principle, we can find them through science. Hopefully we can at least come to some definitive conclusions about "worst practices", if not best practices.
A-theism is generally understood to mean the confident proclamation that there is no deity. "Agnosticism has nothing meaningful to say" is, frankly, my point; we thought we could confidently proclaim the impossibility of a deity in the 20th century, and now we can not honestly.

As for the 'correct' conclusion that none is due, that is itself an awfully confident statement about a deity you know little about, even whether it exists. Some might consider the fact that we are left alone, rather than driven like puppets in some manner, to be a positive factor on its own, after all. You may not like that we are not handed a life of total goodness and light and luxury, or whatever your ideal universe looks like, but it could also be a great great deal worse.
I'm a Google Apps reseller and thought, oh no, I should call all my clients and let them know about this outage before they call me! Where can I get a full customer list.. the admin panel.. oh.
Barleyz in Kormangala is great! Very near to my place. Can make it.
Google Apps down
I think this is another example of why we must start with apriori approach to economics (and all learning for that matter) and only resort to posteriori methods as a secondary methodology. In this case we can prove logically that inflation reduces the investment capital available and that will always result in a decrease of production. If that is accepted arguing about how bad we can make something before X milestone seems a little less important.
Ricin: What is it?
I would say that I have.

It's a B2B product that has a couple substantial value adds over the competition. I created the MVP and got a core group of people in a paid beta. There were tons of bugs, but because of the unique value add I offered everyone was more than willing to put up for it and pay for it (and they knew they would get locked in at beta pricing for when it improved).

I was then able to quickly and easily iterate fixes and improvements, based on my vision as well as what I heard from my paying customers.

So on launch day I was already profitable, I knew what my users wanted, all the major bugs were completely sorted out, and I had ~100 paying beta users (all of whom were referred directly by me or by word of mouth through a beta user) who felt like they had a vested interest in the success of the product who helped me reach a critical mass.

With that being said I don't consider my company to be a lean startup (I hate labels like that), and I didn't set out to do a lean startup, but a lot of what I did is consistent with the lean startup approach.
Hello Keiferski, thanks, yes your "vision" is true, I will think something for the next upgrade!
Bad at software? What about Bitcoin!?

(just kidding, as far as I know)
Ask HN: How to speed up wifi?
I live in an apartment complex, and have FIOS. I get great speed when wired, but it's like 20% lan speed when using wifi. I'm assuming the literally 50+ wifi signals have something to do with it. Would getting a new router and switching the spectrum do the trick? Any suggestions?
Honestly, I've never heard of automation.whatismyip.com until today. But after Googling around a but, it looks like they've only taken that domain offline two or three months ago. So I guess the QB64 devs haven't been made aware yet (or haven't had time to update their WAN IP library yet).
The phone calls from my clients have started to come in already...!
Your only copy of your customers, is in a third party reseller control panel?
Evan Williams’ Medium acquires long-form journalism site Matter
I was using ITCH data to try to test the matching algorithm. However, I found that the number of hidden trades made it fairly poor for validation, which was what I was most interested in.

I _was_ using the ITCH format for messages and switched away from it. I may revisit that decision in the future.

I agree that it would be really interesting to look at the messaging protocols of real exchanges, and I have made a quick stab at it. But I am focused on getting something very simple working right now.

If you wanted to play around with ITCH files the executable generated in the itch directory will run any ITCH file through the matching engine sort of like a debugger, allowing you to step forwards and backwards in time and see how the internal state of the matching engine changes.
Yeah, don't plan on upgrading. Really little more than a "glorified typewriter", but still very cute & light.
Yea I know, that's boring. Btw I guess I'll wait some more little enhancements before sending the update
Provided, as you say, that the parent universe has the same physical laws. We would have no way to know that.
You make it sound like analysts have more imagination—was that intentional?

Not intentional. I was trying to be fair, but my interests are clearly on the analysis side, and that shows.
There are API endpoints for that. Not sure if they're affected.
Me too, I was really scared. Now I know is Google's problem I am breading again.
Hi, my original reply was too short, sorry.

If you had said you bought BTC at $88 and sold at $260, I would have thought cool, good job. But you didn't stop there. You said it wasn't hard, you just used common sense. That's when my alarm bells went off and my brain started printing you a "Congratulations, you have been fooled by randomness" certificate to put on your wall.

I'm not saying you are not really smart. I'm not saying your reasoning was wrong. Maybe you did get it totally right, and for the right reasons. But in another dimension, you bought at $88 and it went down to $20. Or you sold at $260 right before it went to $1000.

You placed a bet and this time you won, and I'm glad. But you seem to think you won because you fully understood. That's almost certainly wrong. That's why the guy wrote the book. That's pretty much all his book says.

"Yep, yep, I just thought it through and used my brain and kept my eyes open and placed my trade and made a big profit, not too hard really" -> fooled by randomness.
Agreed. As a former Sony fanboy, I've noted that the hardware is very good/innovative - insofar as it is exactly what it claims and no more. The software has driven me away. A representative anecdote: my Sony Bluray player, a flagship device, is smothered in irritations...the Netflix software is hideous compared to AppleTV, network operations end with me having to positively acknowledge every success ("Update complete, select OK" - well duh, just move on to what I obviously want to do without waiting for me!), the "Play" button just doesn't (on a movie menu, have to go find the remote and hit the Select button instead of just pressing Play on the player), the demo apps/"channels" are awful (the promotion of movie "Salt" tried to be oh-wow with...cheezy webcam resolution on a 1080p display? WTF?), and just one little grating doesn't-just-work after another. I've gone thru this "95% is great but 5% destroys the experience" with at least a dozen devices...ya know, I'm just not going to buy Sony stuff any more, mostly because of "last inch" software.
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The quality in the iPhone comes from great design and choice of materials. There is nothing particularly good (or bad) about the quality of its manufacturing. You'll also notice that non of the actually important components like the CPU or the screen come from Chines companies (yet)
Why the ad hominem, bob13579?
>Apple on the other hand made one device for all the markets.

That was a risky move. Samsung did the opposite (many devices for all markets) and is clearly doing very well.
If you took interest in 1Password's old 1-bit suboptimality yesterday, you might feel like helping to get the word to fellow developers about this very real possibility of 256-bit decryption attacks today.
"But the thing is, the exact same thing is true for your brain too!"

That is pure speculation. Just because we can observe similarities between two phenomenons it doesn't mean they are the same thing. You're erroneously assuming that the universe can only work in a way that fits our theories and models.
Still using a HP-16C (the computer scientist) bought in the mid 80s, the first set of batteries lasted about 10 years.
Or emergent.

Think of the Deist philosophy of the 18th century: that of God as a "clockmaker," who wound up the universe and then left it to tick. Whatever outcomes emerged were not necessarily the results of his actions or intentions; they were the effects of his original cause. It was a quirky and relatively short-lived philosophy, especially in the Western cannon. But it's eerily applicable here.

If this is all a computer simulation, it's possible the creator(s) of the simulation programmed only the fundamental physics and set up the Big Bang, allowing everything else to unfold and develop as it has.

In effect, this wouldn't be very different (to us) from a non-simultated reality. Hell, it's possible that we're in a simulation that people in the "real" universe set up as a scientific study, to model their own universe's birth and evolution.
Legal liability.
Everything else flows from that. They can't be careless and ruin lives; they're on the hook for what they do.

But a bunch of people on a forum? Will they even feel responsible for their individual small part of participation in a thread that ruins someone's life? It's very similar, psychologically, to a mob. And that's why it's so dangerous.
A call to arms for obfuscated Tor bridges
This is really cool. Thank you, I will use it.
Is the code somehow stored on the server?

As unwind said you can't share your selection, some kind of a pointer to "show" things might be a good feature.
> Doesn't every stereotypical American have a giant bottle of water in hand / on his/her lips every two minutes?

s/water/soda if you enjoy stereotyping so much.
Japan's electronic giants fell because there's no longer an electronic industry. The computer industry has "annexed" the electronics industry and the Japanese companies were never good at computers.
Especially if we accelerate that baseball to relativistic speeds: http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
A univeristy should look into a Mems helmet. This is a primo project because the NFL would throw funding at you.
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Their skin color seems to be very common on all the pictures. These guys stands out for other reasons.
They tried to "vertically integrate". Really hard. Thing is, they hung the hardware on MemoryStick and the software on ATRAC. Oops.
I'll still go with dirty hobo look, thank you very much.
Where are they? Any public examples?

http://builtwith.angularjs.org/
Extending REST APIs
REST APIs are too chatty for their own good. This problem is critical on mobile apps due to the large latency of wireless networks. We present a demo of a mobile app consuming a REST API, this app uses API Aggregator to reduce its page load times by a factor of three. API Aggregator is a system that combines lua and nginx to have a sandbox environment where you can safely run user generated scripts that do API aggregation. Stored procedures anyone? This is the API "version" of them.
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Google Groups also failing.
Amazing lineup, I can't wait to see Salomon of dotCloud on stage.
Such a wasted opportunity.

Yeah, but there were a lot of explosions.
Both apps- and non-apps working fine here in the UK.

From the status page: "This issue is affecting less than 0.007% of the Google Mail user base"
It seemed to work for me on Windows Chrome 26
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>The interesting thing about this campaign is that it shows how strangers are far more complimentary about how people look than those people would be about themselves.

No, it asserts that. It does not show it. To show it would require a valid methodology.
IBM seems to have a penchant for that, their series i computers run software written for even the previous system/36 and system/38. The i relies on a Technology-Independent Machine Interface to allow the hardware to change without requiring code changes at the software, for many release upgrades user written code simply is recompiled when the upgrade is done without source being needed or user action.
Sony's media divisions are the dog that walks the owner. DRM must be slathered on everything and Sony wanted lock-in like formats, like ATRAC. The only two Sony divisions that have played nice with the real world is, first, their eBook division -- but even they couldn't do Android right on the latest Readers and so didn't garner the support and sales of the rooting community that the Nook Touch has. Second was the division that did the PalmOS-based CLIEs. And that division is long gone. Now Sony is trying to play catch-up with Android -- but their media divisions are still the dog walking the owner.
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Your second point is essentially what was being said. We probably don't want everyone to buy an electric car right now, but we need enough that it forces the changes to be made.

As for the car charging, I'm not exactly sure on the figures for a typical coal-fired power station, but the UK has capacity for about 3 million electric cars right now, although that would be pushing it, bringing us right up to the maximum power generation we can handle. And remember, that's falling at the moment as a few plants are being turned off.
Even after an edit you seem to have missed that Sony also own global movie and TV studios.

However they lacked the internal structure and strategy to really deploy them effectively. Plus someone would have had to choose a suboptimal strategy for their division's financial results if they were to avoid selling some rights or exclusivity externally but to use it for joined up strategies. (Or the low profit hardware arm would have had to paid commercial rates.)

It also surprisingly gets harder in many ways to negotiate for other rights when you have your own studio/record label and who wants to only watch/listen to Sony content. Anti-trust law may be a factor in this (as a content owner Sony couldn't legally do an Apple and tell their competitors what pricing model to accept) but also it changes the tone of the negotiation and attitude of other parties when they are your competitor.

And finally just when the network technology and the products are getting to the point where a useful internet delivered content ecosystem can be established somebody high up the organisation decides to split the platform and bend over for Google in order for the honour of making the Google TV for US only under ridiculous contract terms based on Intel hardware costs and to be supported by a dreadful marketing campaign it still sows FUD amongst content partners.

[Former Sony (Software Engineer, Product Planner, Biz Dev - all in European TV business)].
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Well, their email services are still working, because I got a message about our trial ending today and that we need to start paying. I hope this comes up before we get automatically cut off..
> Me too, I was really scared. Now I know is Google's problem I am breading again.

I hate it when Google get in the way of my sandwich making ;-)
> and that ultra thin Sharp PC-UM10 (from '01) that looks like a small MacBook Air and has an 8-hour battery life

You should definitely do a write up on how you're getting 8 hours out of a PC-UM10. Didn't they get like 3 hours under Windows? I could use a simple Linux laptop, even if it's terminal only.
I am not an expert in this. The speakers however are, and are the ones researching the new cables. The answer is that they need to be High-voltage DC. The high voltage to increase efficiency, and the DC in order to make them compatible around the world.
1. If Intel collapses, who will make the processors? I guess AMD is still out there, but their capacity, might not be high enough (which would drive up the price of the processors).

2. If Intel enters a death spiral, it seems to only make sense that it would attempt to raise the price on its processors, which could drive up the cost of desktops/laptops. Sure the market may respond by attempting to go with AMD (for example), but this may require retooling of processes and would probably incur a time delay (it may even drive some PC makers out of business, depending on their financial situation).

3. If Intel collapses who would buy up their assets (manufacture plants, design, research, etc)?
~ $1500 seems a bit steep for a domain name, no?
The cable I mentioned in the UK that is carrying up to 2.2GW is an HVDC cable. That will supposedly work.
Calling them a traitor is pretty preposterous. Your argument also seems to indicate that monetary gain is the only motivation for these folks doing what they do. It is possible that they are true patriots for their country fighting injustice at the cost of their own homes.
Where is the PTO located? Can some local HNer just, apply for a job there? I think interested technical parties should try to "infiltrate" the organization to get more information and be able to answer some of the questions that just keep getting asked in every forum ad-nauseum and maybe do a reddit AMA or something.
But your assessment of legal liability is completely wrong.

Law enforcement has absolutely zero legal liability for anything they do in the course of their job. Anything. This is well-settled law.

On the other hand the forum mob is legally liable for their actions.

So if your sole criterion was legal liability, we should expect greater care, consideration and accuracy from the forum mob than from law enforcement members.