skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> One woman in the area described it sounding “like a bomb went off in the middle of the night” & a man said “I couldn’t
>> have written a scene like this in a move” with the engine flying 50-60 yards from the car.

> Yes. That's what actual car accidents are like. The movies don't prepare you for that.

Eh... I don't know about that. For what it's worth, I was a firefighter for about a decade in the 90's and I personally responded to hundreds of car wrecks over that time. In my experience, engines do not leave the rest of the vehicle, fires are uncommon and explosions are essentially unheard of. Cars really do not just burst into flames with the slightest provocation, like in movies. If anything, movies dramatically overstate the fiery / explosive aspect of most car wrecks.
It's especially bizarre given how trivial such a script is - as far as I am aware, it's a glorified symlink-maker.

Hrm, looking now, a2ensite is 340 lines long...
I'm not sure what is meant by supporting Scala and python.

* Here is an example of a simple job written using Scala for hadoop (and uses Mahout libraries) - https://github.com/sandys/distributed-scala-mahout/tree/wiki...

* you can embed pig inside jython

* you can write UDFs using jruby or jython.

* I didn't try to figure out how, but I'm pretty sure you can build a standalone job jar using jruby and warbler

There might be a different way of hooking into Spark through Scala or python, but I'm pretty sure that fundamental support is not the big advantage here.

Pig has a repl - but as I quickly realized from playing around, that you end up mucking around with classpath problems (and questions of having your Jars in distributed
cache) once you attempt to build UDFs involving a few different libraries.

Plus, I haven't used and so cannot comment on the ecosystem of Cascalog/Clojure - which is as functional as you can get.
> over $100,000 based on a very conservative and unrealistic estimate only factoring in the cost of removing and installing 600 hard drives.

I don't think datacenter monkeys cost that much... are you including the costs of the drives themselves?
> Oh well, the real story here is an app.net link at #1 on HN.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or a serious comment. Could you elaborate on this comment? I don't get why a link by app.net would be news worthy.
Very neat.

I love that the first one is named gross.gif.

Wait a minute, one of them is named opticalsorter3.gif? Why that means...

Yes! Some bonus gifs for us!

http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2013/06/pm-recycling/optica...

http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2013/06/pm-recycling/optica...

When I was a kid finding gems like that online always made me feel really clever.
JavaScript Genetic Algorithm Visualization
I guess because it's not twitter!
I've been on the fence about trying this on Instrumental; we've been looking at moving to DynamoDB, but I wanted to at least see if it would give drop-in magic performance benefits, so I spun off a new SQS queue of our incoming data this evening and did a write throughput test.

These are only initial impressions, but:

* It's definitely faster. Our write behavior is largely upserts against integers and doubles, and I'm seeing roughly 100% improvement against stock Mongo 2.4. The machine in question is an m2.2xlarge with a 1000 piops EBS volume attached, and it's doing about 7000 update operations a second. ( safe mode )

* I'm seeing consistently lower IO util than stock Mongo. Stock tends to vary wildly between 200-750 write ops, while under sustained write traffic, I see about 250 write ops.

* CPU usage is pretty well balanced against all cores, as opposed to stock's behavior.

* It's too early to say whether or not the storage savings will be as good as claimed, but at this point it seems that the TokuMX reprs are about 40% of the stock reprs. Like I said, most of our data is ints and doubles tho.

VERY LARGE CAVEAT I'm not running the database in a replica set because I'm lazy. So, the write throughput numbers are likely the best case scenario of what you'd actually be running in production.

(edit: line spacing)

If you've got to use MongoDB, it seems pretty nice. If it came with a tiny person that maintained the database for you as well, it'd be a no brainer.
FWIW I do believe Bradley Manning deserves moral and legal support. But this video is both propagandistic and vague. Like, except for 3 or 4 Hollywood celebrities, who are these people? And are they doing more than making a video?
https://twitter.com/LinkedIn/status/347530092886519808
Why would anyone need to search LowEndBox, when they can get top tier cloud servers from DigitalOcean(which is linked on the original post)? There is absolutely no reason to use providers from LowEndBox with grandma's SolusVM, when you can spin up a server with DO anytime you want and pay by the hour?

And not to mention, how these providers are ddosing and hacking one another regularly.
Oh, to be clear I mostly meant removing the mic on a laptop. And it's pretty easy to open a laptop, just takes some screwdrivers. Or you can take a pin and stab the microphone until it no longer functions. No extreme difficulty here.
It's the name of the site.
Beyond the technical start-up, meet Chicago's king of the question.
The DNS was not exactly hijacked, there were issues inside of LinkedIn's top level DNS provider whom were delegating www.linkedin.com authorization to unauthorized nameservers, namely NS[SOMETHING].ztomy.com. The ztomy DNS replaces its delegated domains to point to a domain parking page if there is no record exiting. These changes were then propagated to other nameservers and thus to the end user. End result, dns doesn't point where you think it does.
My understanding is app.net is trying to be a paid version of twitter. There was/is much debate whether it could ever take off. This is the first time I've ever seen someone link to it. Although now I realize that the link is to the app.net cofounder so that doesn't really say much.
Can anyone think of a good reason LinkedIn didn't mark their cookies as HTTPS-only?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Secure_and_HttpOnly
How many HDMI inputs does a blu-ray-playing digital-media-playing console need? I think they're assuming you're not going to wire a Playstation or an Apple TV into it, there's no need to plug in a blu-ray player, so that just leaves the cable box...

... oh, and the old Xbox 360, I guess. That'll have to just use the composite input to the TV.
I would to a lot of soul searching if you even imagine that the alpha of this world is "HN, Reddit...".

Try Delta+ Gamma-. A well kept secret by Condé Nast is how young / low on the wage curve their readers are compared to others in the same professions.

Alpha ‎(“the upper class”)‎
‎Beta ‎(“the second upper class”)‎
‎Gamma ‎(“the middle class”)‎
‎Delta ‎(“the second lower class”)‎
‎Epsilon ‎(“the lower class”)‎
‎Double-Plus ‎(“the superior subdivision among Alphas”)‎
‎Plus ‎(“the superior subdivision among Alphas, Betas, Gammas or Deltas, but inferior to Double-Plus”)‎
‎Minus ‎(“the inferior subdivision among Alphas, Betas, Gammas or Deltas”)‎
‎savage ‎(“a person outside the integrated portions of society, and therefore separate from all classes”)‎

Since we're referencing Huxley, I'd recommend "Island". And for everyone jumping on this dystopian bandwagon, I'd recommend "Stand on Zanzibar" as far more accurate.
Palotta is just providing cover for the parasitic fundraising class.

He has zero connection to actual work in the field of charity accountability and measuring effectiveness. Contrast against GiveDirectly, Against Malaria Foundation, GiveWell, and J-PAL.
Most people aren't aware that the difference in energy efficiency between glass and aluminum recycling is enormous. Here are some choice quotes from National Geographic...

"each 10 percent of cullet in the mix reduces the energy required to make new [glass] containers by 2 to 3 percent"

At 70% cullet (the max), that's only 14-21% in energy savings for glass.

"creating an aluminum can out of recycled materials requires only 5 percent as much energy as creating a brand new can from bauxite ore"

That's 95% energy savings for aluminum. Big difference!

Source: http://greenliving.nationalgeographic.com/energy-recycle-gla...
A friend posited the theory that all of this was a calculated move on Microsoft's part.

First, they throw up the idea of some draconian DRM, which they then later retract. The first move gets them tons of publicity and tongue-wagging, the second move starts to make that positive publicity. They're banking on gamers being so addicted, they won't really care that they've been played for idiot chumps.

If the market for the new XBox was 12-year old children, they wouldn't even have bothered. But, since they're really marketing to adults 20-35 or so, they have to look like good guys to the people they're talking out of their money.

This was calculated. Reddit and everyone else got played. Hard and dry.
The NSA has always been spying on you
Aptitude is awesome and it's in my fingers, but it's slightly different from apt-get... which may turn into a problem if you do stuff with something like puppet, which uses apt-get.

I think I also had to install aptitude on this box (ub 12.04) as it only came with apt-get installed - apt-get is more universal.

Edit: Hrm. 'aptitude' is not the tool of choice for dist-upgrading Debian. I was fresh-installing my debian laptop last year from testing to sid and it was failing to work properly. Hunting down the issue online, it turns out that for dist-upgrades, you just use apt-get. One of those domain-knowledge gotchas :/ Used apt-get, and it went flawlessly.
Was api.linkedin.com compromised/hijacked? If so, that means they'll need to reset a lot of OAuth token/secrets which will be very painful indeed (worse than just a site-wide session reset).
The thing that makes me most skeptical of secret government hit squads is how totally unnecessary they are.

The US government can utterly ruin anyone's life through prosecution if it so chooses. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to think of all of the leakers, nonviolent noncompliers, and activist who have been targeted over the years. Prosecution is zero risk for the individuals ordering it. The brief flurry of attention the prosecuted receive is insignificant compared to the cost to them in time, credibility, and money. And prosecution sends a very clear message to deter others.

As a tool for punishing critics in a country like the US, prosecution is simply unmatched.
I'm going to blatantly advertise my own project "RubyDNS" - it can be a lot of fun, and it is especially relevant because it allows you to perform these kinds of attacks in a controlled environment. http://www.codeotaku.com/projects/rubydns/index.en
Why is there no push for "the looser pays all the costs" in the US? It works in many countries around the world, and it would prevent unjustified legal bullying.
Just like the guy that discovered Bush Jr's coke bust "committed suicide":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hatfield

This wasn't just a hit, it was personal. Someone really disliked Hastings.
As a quick fiddle, dramatic results can be had with just changing the line:
if((i%4)===1)

A "1" means it favors green, obviously "0" would favor red and "2" would favor blue. There is a 4th component for alpha channel, but I personally haven't gotten too far into the fitness function finangling to decide if it is useful.

This was motivated by the ludicrously over-complicated genetic algorithm example in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5904182

While they do require finesse in their configuration, genetic algorithms do not have to be terribly complex in code.
Happy Birthday Copyright Could Finally Be Ended
Let me introduce you to my friends Gmail and Facebook.
I take it he's using Jetbrains Webstorm for his IDE? It looks pretty nice.
Google Reader closes in 11 days, which service are you using?
It's been a little over 3 months since Google announced that they are discontinuing service for Reader on July 1st. Now that the alternatives have had just about all the time they're going to get before the last of Reader's users find a new service, I am wondering what HN's recommendations are. How are your new services treating you and who is best to replace the gap which Reader is leaving?
College students in China try many ways to cool down
I like the use of gifs, although it loads really poorly on my computer. Half of them don't animate, and the other ones stutter. It feels really laggy scrolling through the page.

I wish browsers could handle animated gifs better, and (from an end user perspective) make them essentially work like an embedded Vine.
My traceroute is going thru prolexic.com so there might be something else at play here. "Prolexic is the world’s largest and most trusted distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation service provider"
I've found that anyone who has an interest in drawing can get the basics down in a few weeks to a month. 30min/day seems fine.

It's not so much becoming an artist as training your brain to make a thing on paper based on what you see or what you are imagining. Heck, draw the same thing every day – someone's ear is a good one – and watch when you get better and better.

It's very much like photography and cinematography and ties into what the author is trying to achieve by telling someone to draw.

You see differently when you have an objective. Just as you train yourself to see opportunities when becoming an entrepreneur (and realize ideas are 'worthless' because there are too many of them to chase them all down), you will train yourself to see that the world is not just lines, but degrees of shadow and reflection.

I was a professional artist (painting, sculpture, drawing) before my software career and when I've been out of practice for a while, I find that I lose this faculty. A little time over the table with pencils, some clay, or watercolors and my brain clicks back into seeing and not just glancing over things.

I agree that just drawing, design theory, writing, and ux are not guaranteed to make you a brilliant, original, designer. However, understanding typography, whitespace, color, and being able to apply that to a goal is a big lever.

I always encourage "back end" developers to work on design. Even if it's bog-standard bootstrap with some tweaks, it ends up being better for a client or an employer. Keep in mind that most web apps lack pulchritude.

Plus, I hate it when people refuse to do front-end work because they're "back-end" people.
Yeah, getting the statement text right makes a big difference. FWIW, Payouts was mostly designed for user-facing services (Lyft, Exec, Homejoy et al) where they want their own name to appear on card statements. If you're using Connect, each seller would have their own Stripe account and could have different card statement text.
Yes, my personal experience bares that out. If one has the notion of trying a genetic algorithm, one should first try hill-climbing. The GA is useful insomuch as the intermediate results are interesting.
Seems legit.

www.ztomy.com
Oddly enough, if you read the link that you posted, you'd learn that contrary to your statement, prostitution is illegal in Reno and Las Vegas, and in fact in great swathes of Nevada (in particular, it's illegal in the areas where most NV residents live).
That makes sense since we just saw the same problem with USPS realtime shipping rates via production.shippingapis.com, which seems like an odd attack target.

edit: and I mean the exact same issue, it was resolving to a confluence owned IP that was serving a squatter page for the domain.
Google HR Boss Explains Why GPA And Most Interviews Are Useless
The gifs are some of the best ones I've ever seen. They are almost perfectly seamless!
As a counter anecdote, I've seen that happen several times. A few months back, a truck struck a tree, the engine block was 50' away, and the transmission actually busted through a wall almost 70' away.

Post-crash fires are certainly not common, but I'm sure you'll agree they do happen.

I don't see any indication that there was an explosion (other than your typical bangs and pops as various gas cylinders detonate), and I wouldn't read too much into the quote about it sounding like a bomb. The initial impact could certainly have been loud enough to sound 'like a bomb'
Build the in-app communication in-house; that's pretty simple. You can use Mixpanel to do a lot of the user tracking stuff for free.

If you just want a way to contact segments of your customers, and don't care that it happens outside your app, try http://customer.io/
SlimSurveys Goes Live We're Ready for Primetime.
Doing an nslookup here in Vancouver, Canada got me this:

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: linkedin.com
Address: 216.52.242.86

Does that mean I'm still pointing to the legitimate server?
You're right about that, I'm thinking of a different model. OTOH the price of an MQ-9 is a lot higher than that f a helicopter, and it's not the case that you can just throw thousands of them up in the air for a panopticon.
We should start a consortium whose sole purpose is to put million dollar backings behind small companies trying to ward off trolls and assholes.
Would that also prevent smaller entities from suing larger ones for fear of having to eat the gigantic legal fees if they lost?

I see the benefits from both systems, not sure which I would be a proponent of.
Leverage what you know and keep the firehose going into your brain. Immersion, commitment, and resourcefulness will get you surprisingly far.
It astounds me that the costs of these plants (plus the costs of getting the raw/recycled material there) can be amortized to some fraction of the $2 we pay for a bottled beverage.
We will continue to differ about this. I consider public institutions to be more responsive than you do, so I suppose we are looking at it from quite different perspectives.
I applaud your zeal in the pursuit of fairness, but it's NSA that is on the spot. There's no fair game when it comes to national security. At least not for the public.

Alexander would not be heading the agency if he bluntly asked for blanket immunity or talked about spying on citizens. (How much was said about PRISM?) The article deduced what is possible within the proposal. And knowing some history, I say it's likely to happen.

So yes, it is biased and baity, but hardly prompts a "fuckety fuck" rant :)
Wait... more likely than not?

People die in crashes every day... fiery wrecks happen all the time... Parts fly out of vehicles in high impact collisions... None of these things are uncommon, so how do you possibly make the leap that it's 'more likely than not'?
Greenify, keep android phone's battery lasting 2x.
Collisions make a loud noise. I've seen a car crash like that. The person survived with minor injuries after being thrown from the wreck. Definitely the exception and not the rule.
pc, any word on if you'll be supporting ACH debits through stripe api anytime soon? (aka charging customers via bank accounts).
> And don't even try to feed me that BS about "companies exist to make money". No. They. Do. Not.

Yes they do.

> People don't start companies thinking "I'm going to start a company to make money" .

Yes they do.

You've clearly never met any business majors.
No worries, it's certified by TRUSTe http://clicktoverify.truste.com/pvr.php?page=validate&url=ww...

edit: not that TRUSTe claims to test this sort of exposure, to my knowledge. But simply to contrast the feeling of trust a label like that gives you, against the reality.
That's because glass doesn't take a whole lot of energy in the first place. And it's not like the primary goal of recycling is energy saving.
Netflix has always been behind the Xbox Live gold paywall, but it has never been behind the PS+ paywall, and won't be on the PS4 either. So I don't really see this as a point in Microsoft's favor.
(I work at Stripe.) When you create a seller via the API, both Stripe and Balanced do the exact same thing: verify the identity of seller. You can run a marketplace on either.

Edit: I'm using the words seller and recipient interchangeably: https://stripe.com/docs/api#update_recipient
I find byliners quite useful, too.
How has app.net adoption been going?
Thanks. I actually like customer.io, and only switched to testing intercom.io because it had the in-app communication. But now I think its better sticking with customer.io and building the in-app functionality ourselves, as you mentioned.

Thanks!
my beef with your post.

"There is no evidence that anyone died as a result of the leaked information...". Contrast with "The information that Bradley gave to the public has been a catalyst for pro-democracy movements in the Arab world..."

IMO, it's normal to read "There is no evidence that anyone died as a result of the leaked information..." as "There is no evidence that [US soldiers, intelligence assets, allies] died as a result of the leaked information"
I love flexible designers who come from print who have adapted to web/mobile/etc.. Getting PSDs with intelligent layout and absolute color references, offsets, etc. are a dream compared to sloppy html, css, and canned javascript that so many 'designers' deliver without validating on anything but the browser they use on a daily basis.
Au contraire; having the delegation going somewhere unwanted is practically the definition of a DNS hijack. The question is - how did that happen? A malicious third party? a blundering sysadmin? or a bug in some provisioning code?

It does sound like LinkedIn's NOC are playing the blame game already. Well, I guess they've gotta get all those spamming recruiters & sales reps back online.

EDIT: heh, maybe it was The New Guy:
http://www.simplyhired.com/job-id/y5bvoz46k6
it's probably because she is not completely inaccurate with her analysis. but that is also why the whole concept of peace in star trek was based on the fact that everyone was speaking one language, dressing one way etc. it took me over ten years after growing up with star trek to actually realize how poisonous those thoughts are.

I also counted the amount of cameras between green park station and victoria, just walking through the tube one day. I think the number was something around 30, but it's been a while.
I hate it. It's a lazy way to avoid editing a short video and doing some narration. This is what you get when you have cameras that record quality video on the cheap but people who can't be bothered to learn any of the technique to use them effectively.
Totally agreed. Everyone hates surveillance until their daughter goes missing. On one hand it's a nessessity for security in a world where the average person is given tremendious killing power, and on the other hand uncontrolled surveillance is probably the biggest threat to government change, democracy and freedom.

There needs to be a system of checks and balances on the people who use surveillance. Heavy penalties, transparent operations, etc... Until this system gets balanced out everyone's going to be on edge for a while.
I've seen cars burn like that after hitting trees, guardrails, other cars... just about any high speed collision has the risk of starting a fire.

It's certainly not majority of wrecks, but it's a high enough percentage that most departments have an SOP that the first engine company in on the wreck will stretch a handline (they might not charge it, but fire is enough of a concern that they'll be ready to deal with it very quickly should the need arise).
This looks incredibly dubious. Im going to try it now and see if it helps when I run my ELISA.
Interesting that this has over 100 comments in reddit, and none here. Anyone knows why?
PDF is excellent for presenting information on the web, but sribd certainly sucks.
Rather, it is because electrolytic smelting of bauxite is enormously energy intensive, compared to the melting of sand, glass, or aluminum.