skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or Atlassian's Stash, which is is also really affordable for small teams.
"War" is also a wildly different prospect for a society in which a person cannot be considered a man until he has ambushed and killed a random stranger from another tribe and fashioned their body parts into a trophy, to a society so accustomed to peace it requires ever-more-complex rationalizations to breach it, having invented Geneva conventions, treaties and the concept of being "humane" along the way. At the end, you're just as dead whether killed by the ruthless efficiency of an atomic bomb or a Holocaust in a protracted as you are if ambushed by a lone member of another tribe that's just moved into your area.

Let's put things into perspective: a tribe lives in total isolation from the rest of the world for 65000 years, eating an abundance of fish, and the most advanced technology they develop over that time is weapons, which they default to brandishing at the first sign of any outsiders or unexplained phenomenon. That's hardly a great advertisement for the ability of their simpler social structures and lack of external threats to yield peace and harmony.
They are not going to say "this person did this error", so "we have a DDOS" sounds more pro.
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Are you unable to see the differences between buying a lock on a door to protect your children and being constantly reminded to pick a secure password to protect national security?
> I've tried outlook.com and it was OK. I wonder if this can help make hotmail relevant again.

Not without IMAP it can't. I can't believe Microsoft is dragging their feet on this.
Neither are comments like this
I've been a fan of ContrastRebellion, though I've lately simply taken to modifying websites' CSS that I visit often enough that it annoys me. E.g., I've swapped the border and content background colors on Hacker News.

What the heck, here it is: http://stylebot.me/styles/2945

I use Stylebot, but Stylish or other CSS management plugins should work just fine, copy/paste the CSS source.
> is "measured in zettabytes"

Yah right. That would require the ENTIRE worlds production of hard disks for several years.

At 3TB per hard disk you need 350 million of them. Total world production is about 600 million - but the vast majority are much smaller than 3TB.

And that would require a building 1/5 of a mile on each side - just to hold the hard disks, never mind power, cooling, computers or network.

It would require 2.5GW to power just the hard disks - and never mind cool them, or power the computers and routers.

So: Yah Right.
For They Conquer Who Believe They Can
Oh really? How were episodes 2 and 3? I'm mostly hearing "good, but not as good as Spin" comments. I'll give them a look then, thanks. Hey, or maybe just wait till they pop up in an upcoming Humble Bundle :P
You, guys, have very engaged friends who created accounts only to upvote your post.

Your platform is NOT a curation platform it's a like-aggregator.

Finish your product then post on HN.
Change the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx option in about:config to deal with the zoom/dpi issue.
Of course a piece of software that you intend to distribute to others must be reusable - that's the whole point. However, there are plenty of software systems that are one-offs. In the case of Stack Overflow, they wanted to see if the overall solution (which is much more than just the underlying code) would be good for different types of users or whether they had built a one-off.

With Discourse they are setting out from the beginning to make a reusable piece of software but that doesn't mean they are guaranteed to do so. Hence the extended development time before they offer it more widely.
Civil wars over distinctions without a difference are the ugliest kind.
You raise a good point, but we can't get complacent. While the Internet makes it hard to cut off access to a book altogether, the technology exists to make books harder to find. Imagine slow- or errorbanning[0], but applied to authors and books rather than users and comments. There have been strides toward securing net neutrality, but it remains an issue. [1]

[0]: If you aren't familiar with these terms, Coding Horror has a good introduction: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h.... Most people here know of these techniques already because Hacker News uses hellbanning.

[1]: See https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality
Damn, I'm 100% Italian and don't understand half of the words in it. Gotta hate dialects.
I prefer higher-contrast sites. I've restyled HN swapping the border and body background colors, and with slightly larger fonts. CSS and screenshot on stylebot.me:

http://stylebot.me/styles/2945
Whistleblowing Is the New Civil Disobedience: Why Edward Snowden Matters
Trucks are larger and heavier. That means they take a lot longer to stop, so you have predict things around you further ahead. Also, you can't jackknife a car - I'm guessing the physics of driving a Mac truck with a heavy trailer and 18 wheels is a lot more complex.
Risk management of skunk works projects
well, strictly speaking, pg decides that. In the current constitutional arrangement though, he (mostly) delegates his powers to the electorate.
Is there a good counter-measure against DDoS? I believe there is none. Commercial services help but only up to certain traffic level.

Tomorrow Bitbucket can get under the same attack.
In a lexically scoped language I would assume that the scoping follows the lexical representation of the code.

In a lexically scoped language the variables belong to the containing lexical scope. That that lexical scope can be a function rather than a block doesn't make Javascript any less lexically scoped (in cases other than the dynamic this).

The variable i is not even defined before it is refered to in the inner function.

The order that variables appear within a scope has no effect on the scoping rules.
For example, in C#:

void Foo() {
i = 10;
int i;
}

Gives "error CS0841: Cannot use local variable 'i' before it is declared". It knows exactly what variable "i = 10" is referring to because it's declared in the same scope, but the language designers have decided to add the rule that you're not allowed to reference it before it's declared (because doing so is most likely a bug).

Incidentally, Javascript made the opposite decision; you can refer to variables before their declaration, they're just "undefined". But in both cases the compiler knows what "i" it's referring to by the lexical scope.
None of that is gesture based but:

- Forza head-tracking is really immersive and extends your screen.

- Ally control by voice is great too because it's a lot more expressive and parallel than buttons (and it frees up buttons).
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I'm afraid you missed my point. I didn't think it was an example of a good question. I thought it was an example of a good answer.
Switching from Gmail to FastMail
So they kill Reader and "socialize" email. What's next google, and what are you going to do to keep us techies folded in?
Among my circle of nerd friends, we generally believe that if you aren't even considering a custom distribution, Ubuntu is the only way to go.

But on HN, I'm sure 'them's fightin' words'.
As long as they're programmed correctly, and not like the probes in Star Control II, I have no issue.
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Just being able to continue working and committing locally and pushing to Github when it comes back up is still a DVCS win over SVN. People may not use the distributed part of git to its fullest, but they do use it.
Couldnt agree more, the writing style of the author is amazing(especially considering the topic). The use of humor to make what could be a dry subject pretty damn good is a rare talent.
Why This Hacker Stood Up Against ‘Verbal Abuse’ in Linux Land
Wow, this just made me lol as well
Ahhh- that's why it's an issue that we don't accept the approval of other governments too.
What's wrong with 80% effectiveness? I didn't know anything about the effectiveness of vaccines, but 80% effective struck me as being 'pretty good'. I looked up the effectiveness of flu vaccines for comparison, and found a source [1] that said it varies in effectiveness from 70 to 90%, so just about the same.

I've never felt compelled to be more careless after taking a vaccine (I'm not even sure what I'd do differently if I did); I just get vaccines to minimize the expected number of times I get a disease in my lifetime.

[1] http://www.webmd.com/vaccines/how-effective-is-flu-vaccine
in the words of will smith in men in black, "please keep that kinda shi* to yourself"
You are mistaken. Calculus is hard.
http://foaas.com/donut/HATEOAS/foaas.com
> the Milky Way, which is ~100 light years across.

Make that ~100,000 light years.
So if something doesn't cost you money, you have no business complaining about something you don't like? Weird logic. If someone offers something under any terms, it seems ok to me to say what I think of it. Your position seems to be that if it's free, it's illegitimate to comment on it.
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I'm not sure that your OCD is their problem.
You don't need to pretend to both be "person1" to share the screen.

Person 1 (in screen):

^a:acladd person2

Person 2

screen -x person1/
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Can you really slingshot around a star? Doesn't that require the star to be moving relative to your destination?

But aren't the stars more or less moving together? Normally you expect the outer vs inner ones to move at different speeds, but the whole issue with the galactic rotation curve is that they are all moving at the same speed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GalacticRotation2.svg
haha, and probably at some point someone will write "FOP 2.0 and the Road to Hell"
Self-replicating, though. Exponential growth in number of probes.
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Maybe you just evolved to think that.
Ah, you beat me to the edit. Indeed, 100k
You said:

>I'd love for Google to work out how much money they make from me in a year, and then to offer to go ad-free for 50% more than that.

How do you know that the $50 per user per year isn't exactly calculated that way? I'm actually inclined to guess that the value Google gets out of you by showing ads might be significantly higher than the $33 your calculation would allow them to earn from you.
Viruses?
The LHC grid (as of 2010) had storage capacity of 150 petabytes. So yes it is feasible. Efficient compression could probably increase that capacity 5-10x if you're storing primarily textual data.
I don't use them, so I wouldn't know.
I've been running my own mail, jabber and www server for over three years now, and I am extremely happy with it. If anybody is interested in my setup and/or would like to run their own, I'll be happy to write a quick guide/howto.
How An Engineering Toy For Girls Went From Kickstarter To Bestseller
How would a pneumatic cannon that launched my package from the truck at the curb be any different from the current driver who slings it from the driveway onto my doorstep?
Yeah, that is a great point. Our lead ops guy was pushing for just hosting a bare bone git repository inside the firewall and not even buying a commercial product. Our problem was that we didn't have enough servers for our product, let alone our code.
Candy Crush takes this to the extreme. There is no long-running purchase options, everything you buy are one-off boosts or (I'm serious here), 5 more turns on your current level. And none of these guarantee that you will actually pass the current level. In fact, you learn quickly that most levels will be deemed "winnable" within the first few moves, whereas the rest are exercises in frustration and randomness.

Candy Crush is the epitome of Pay 2 Win when you remove all scruples from the equation. Candy Crush is a literal slot machine but without the chance of winning anything.
"62,000 years before the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids at Giza" - this is probably mistake.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there very little someone can do to mitigate a DDoS attack?

Github just happens to be a very large target; BitBucket or alternatives are just as vulnerable.
UFTP
wouldn't capturing enough mass to create a duplicate probe at least halve your speed?
Tilled into the soil
Depends on the sample size and the statistical relevance! ;-) DoE anyone?
I guess great sail era was full of drunkards.
Do you know of an economic or finance course that can help me understand how to use Bitcoin or any other currency. There's all the articles explaining Bitcoin but none treating it like a foreign currency and teaching how to apply foreign trade. I'll just search foreign trading at the library in the mean time...
>Also, what limits the usage rights is the app store, NOT the GPL.

Exactly, but it is forbidden to limit the rights when redistributing (section 6) that are granted (running, copying, distribution and modification, section 0). Therefore redistribution of GPL app is forbidden on the AppStore. LGPL does not have those dispositions.
Whatever licensing terms you choose for your software, I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't call legitimate complaints about other people breaking those terms "a hissy fit". I suggest you refrain from doing that to other people's complaints.
Pretty sure it's this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gEz2eE048M His office is in the same room as this tar drop experiment.
Sure, but the conclusion drawn was that it indicated "no probe-building civilizations"
> That's true, but that any "dynamically-typed and lexically scoped languages" with closures and first-class functions could be considered mainstream is fairly new.

When I first started thinking about writing this post, I was considering going from the angle of "JS was Scheme when Crockford said that but now every language has caught up and we're all Scheme now" but somehow a different post fell out of my head when I started writing.
Arrogant solution to Fermi paradox why we don't see life is that we might be one of the first civilizations. Life is hard. It took third of the age of universe for life do develop to the point of touching anything outside the Earth. And before that to have chemistry we needed first stars to turn into novas and dust from those novas to mix and re-condense into new stars. It ought to take some time. Some time for our galaxy to form before that... There's still a lot of time so it's as I said arrogant claim but we might belong to the first generation of civilizations in our universe.
Just wanted to say thanks again for your feedback and let you know I have secured a three week bioinformatics exchange.
Replace the word "company" in "a company's public standing" with "well-established startup that's already known for good service" and I 100% agree.

If Twilio's overall service wasn't excellent, people wouldn't be nearly as willing to view this from the positive angle. If Twilio weren't a startup - if it were, say, SalesForce.com - this also would hurt more than it would help.

Fortunately, Twilio seems to know this. They're absolutely in no way resting on their existing positive reputation. Even though they've earned the trust and respect of so many customers, they're still treating each and every customer as if they must still continue to earn their trust and respect.

Word of advice to Twilio execs: when this is all done and over with give your PR people a bonus and/or a raise. They did a fantastic job here in a nearly impossible situation, and I'm sure the recruiters are circling like sharks.
GitHub enterprise has absolutely no dependencies on the mother ship, except for expiring license packs.

And, in my experience, they'll very freely give you 1-2 month temporary packs, even if you're late with the renewals. Very good customer service.
If you find this interesting, you may also like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha
Isn't this old news? It's very interesting, because on top of the ad placement, the binning of promotions may radically reduce the efficacy of email-based sales. Fab, Groupon, Grand St., etc, are probably not too happy about this.
What to do? Technical interview where interviewer stubbornly gets Big-O wrong.
Very similar approach as this article by Tucker Max.

http://tuckermax.me/dont-look-for-talent-find-people-who-do-...
> You cannot tell me with a straight face that Harry Potter has been meaningfully banned in the Western world.

The only effect of a library banning Harry Potter was increased sales at the local Wal-Mart.
Avoid the Wall of Text with better copywriting
it breaks the connection between JavaScript and Java.

This is a good point. The defining characteristic of Scheme in the minds of many is really just closures. Almost every modern language except Java has those, so "Scheme" has inadvertently turned into a weird shorthand for "inverse of Java".

I think that's too blunt of an instrument to help you reason about any of the languages in question, but I do appreciate encouraging people to think functionally.
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Hey they're wrong about the amount of the data, therefore we've got nothing to worry about!
so how big a data center would it take to store, cool and operate more than 300 billion 4TB hard drives.
If that truly becomes an issue, people will use Tor.
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I don't think many will leave unless it causes issues in deployment.

It would be nice if githubformac/windows could cache the wiki and issues for my starred/cloned repos automatically, this would be more than enough to satisfy me personally.
I would add Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_Man:_A_Technical_Manual_for...
> Who benefits from a college being better than others?

Everyone. Basically, everyone wants to be surrounded by smarter, harder-working, and more talented people.

> do the researchers get published more easily?

No, this doesn't matter. Publishing is mostly fair, and to the extent it's not, people are biased in favor of people they know more than universities.

>It seems obvious that undergraduate students should be more aware of their financial prospects after graduation, but it seems like no one in the system cares.

Perhaps so. But this depends on individual choices. Frankly, given the bleak job market here, I think that the first step motivated graduating seniors at USC should take is to leave South Carolina permanently --- but individual choices may vary. Needless to say the university administration will not recommend this to its students, and neither should I except on an individual basis.

That said, this reflects my extreme biases. Just as I was a straight-A student and don't have a very good understanding of how to do the minimal amount of work to pass, I don't really understand what is required to get and succeed in an "okay" job.
You're injecting a parochial view of political history. The path dependency varies from country to country. That there is convergence to me suggests that it's an attractor in the space of policy settings.
There are some good counter measures. CloudFlare, the CDN that I'm using for my site http://gitignore.io helps mitigate DDoS's [1]. Github also took a good step by separating the source code domain github.com from the pages domain github.io [2]. I agree that tomorrow Atlassian could suffer a DDoS attack but I feel like since they are a more mature company, they have a lot more experience dealing with that type of attack.

[1] - http://www.cloudflare.com/ddos

[2] - https://github.com/blog/1452-new-github-pages-domain-github-...
Anyone have an idea what is happening to their margins by the way? Who is competing against the same ad dollars as Google (FB seems a bit different), if cost per click is going down, why?
In the hacker/open source community, I'm fairly sure it is.
Source (git repo) is available here: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc-ports/ios.git;a=summary

It's missing external dependencies which seems to be the goal of the included buildAspenProject.sh, but I can't get it to run 100%. I'll report back here when I can successfully build it.

EDIT: The git repo is missing the necessary patches to vendored code. i.e.:

git am ../../patches/*.patch
Modern medicine, physics, modern housing, sanitation, plumbing, etc, etc. They have a massive amount to gain. You can romanticize their situation, or we can decide to leave them there for other reasons but claiming they have nothing to gain is just plain wrong.
Thinking about it, it makes sense to me.

Everybody makes mistakes, and everybody experiences bad luck.

If you only experience good times with a company, then you have no idea how they respond to bad times. They might be great, or they might be awful. You just have no idea.

If you experience a problem with a company, then you know how they respond to problems. If they do poorly, you'll avoid them. But if they do well, you now know that they handle problems well.

The time then comes to choose a company for something. Which do you choose: an unknown, or a company that you know handles problems well?
Probe would probably accelerate up to its max speed compensating for speed loss.
Every time I'm searching for something Flask related Google tries to be an smart ass and "corrects" my search to "Flash". Incredibly annoying. Sometimes the link that forces to search the original query that you entered is not visible.
Arcade machines never took credit cards. If they had, our parallels would be drawn differently.
I don't think they are, but it's the right thing to do. One would hope the banks would be understanding enough about the situation (haha, I know, right?) to reverse the fees. But even in that case Twilio is still causing you to, at a minimum, call your bank, wait on hold, spend 15 minutes getting transferred around to someone who has the ability to reverse the fees, etc. If they want minimal impact for their customers, they'll just reimburse the fees.

I played this game with Dreamhost and SunTrust back with their whole billing debacle in Jan 2008. Dreamhost didn't respond to my support requests to reimburse "non-sufficient funds fees", The bank manager at SunTrust said that regardless of the reason funds weren't available in my account when the other transactions posted, so the NSF fees that I was incurring were legitimate.

In the end I think I paid a little over $300 for their mistake.
That would still only support them in the short term. They've likely been searching for a longterm revenue plan that didn't compromise their reporting style for a while.
Pretty sure Linus is on a Chromebook Pixel now.
Well, in that case, sure.

His statement was a little broad (or even ambiguous) and I think my interpretation was the most obvious/straightforward one.
anycast + lot of bandwidth are the best solution against DDoS.
After reading the lkml archives I find it hard not to conclude that Linus has done his best and it's time for him to step down. Linux is just too important to have such lousy leadership.
In which case I'm sure Google will provide an unsubscribe option.
That pricing is totally feasible. I've run large Exchange implementations where a large mailbox costs around $50/year, and a small webmail costs around $20-25.

That was a few years ago, based on Exchange 2007 and 2010 -- meaning using fibre channel SAN for storage, tape backups, F5, etc. If you implemented today with Exchange 2013, you'd probably be able to cut costs 30% or more. There are a ton of costs areas embedded in there.

If you're operating a simple (ie. no calendar, no hooks into other services) service with custom code, open source infrastructure, and no (or minimal) external licensing, you can absolutely offer a $5/year 100MB mailbox profitably. They are making higher margins on the enhanced plans as well.