skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's definitely true, although I'd still be worried about system problems further up the chain. (Load balancers, firewalls, etc). Hopefully even with managed hosting you're still not at the mercy of any one hardware/software failure.

Part of it just boils down to risk tolerance I think, and how comfy you are with sysadmin skills.

I'm responsible a medium sized (< 10 servers) web site that use managed hosting for. Their advice/service is invaluable to me, partially because I trust them enough that I can just hire web programmers without worrying about their advanced linux/networking skills being super high. The host has also helped us debug some fairly deep problems that we don't have a chance at in-house like hypervisor config issues, and even a processor 'errata', AKA processor hardware bug.

It's also nice to have an ops team to ping questions off of, since we're not nearly large enough to hire a dedicated sysadmin otherwise (and they'd be without sysadmin work 50% of the time anyway).

NB: I'm treating 'sysadmin' like it's just one skill set to administer routers and server hardware, configure firewalls and networking, optimize database boxes, etc. This is probably not totally true, but fits for purposes of discussion. YMMV.
APNG-canvas – Display animated PNG files in the browser
In case you want native APNG support on Chrome, you can install this chrome addon from the same author: https://github.com/davidmz/apng-chrome
Those go hand in hand.
Oh he didn't actually. It's just one of those overused internet phrases you'll find all the time on Reddit and Youtube.
Does anyone know where the liability falls for Airbnb rentals? Is it on the owner or the rental agency (Airbnb)? If it falls on the owner, Airbnb should make this clear, and owners should be sure to have insurance in order to protect themselves.
John Henry is not listed in opensecrets, but newsmeat shows his campaign contributions. he doesn't appear to be apolitical:

http://www.newsmeat.com/sports_political_donations/John_W_He...
In case you want native APNG support on Chrome, you can install this open-source Chrome Add-On from the same author: https://github.com/davidmz/apng-chrome

One could say that this is a pendant to: "Animated gifs the easy way" to http://www.sublimetext.com/~jps/animated_gifs_the_hard_way.h...
Essentially, their hair, makeup, clothing, and body language all suggest someone who's getting a glamour shot taken to me, and don't much resemble the women I work with and have worked with. And this is of course a hideously vague and completely subjective standard, and I really do worry that I'm being unfair.

Except.

Except that, when I wrote my first post, there were two people pictured in that article. Now there's only one. There's only one because someone in the comments pointed out that the first woman was not, in fact, an engineer employed by Toptal, but a actress whose glamour shot Toptal had swiped. Now, mysteriously, that comment is gone, there's only one woman in the article, and there's no mention of the edit.

So...I'm not as worried now as I was yesterday.
I wonder who could've done it..
I believe many people (including Obama himself) were surprised by his winning the prize. I don't think race was the primary reason (official or otherwise) behind his being awarded the prize. Among the main reasons for his nomination were "Obama's promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and a 'new climate' in international relations fostered by Obama" [1]. One pessimistic view of this statement is that Obama was essentially awarded this prize for not being Bush, who was perceived by many in the international community as damaging the state of dialog between nations. Arguably, this could promote peace. The view was not without criticisms :)

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize
I write Clojure and Scala, Clojure got me into Emacs and then Emacs+Ensime led me away from IDEA for Scala development. I recommend it fully.

I am a big fan of IDEA and use that for Java and Groovy, and also Jetbrains' AppCode for Obj-C development, but the Scala support in IDEA is currently just not good enough.
And which part of the Dart API or language isn't documented? The Dart language spec has been published since 0.1 with every change in the change log, and every change discussed on public mailing lists. http://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/latest/dart-language-speci... Can you explain to me how this is different than NVidia or ATI publishing an extension for hardware they already spent millions on and 18 months preparing to ship?

OpenGL extensions would be pointless without documentation. If NVidia adds Register Combiners or Multitexture extensions, how else would developers use them without docs? Don't sugar coat what happened in the 3D industry. NVidia would introduce new HW with non-standard features, create an extension for them, and then secretly work with triple-A developers in the industry on it before publishing it in the open. Microsoft's process of herding them into an interoperable spec was actually far better than OpenGL, and yet we still got the whole PS1.2/1.3 vs PS1.4 affair.

All of the development happened in secret, including the final, taped out chip and shipping card, before the first external person got to comment on the extension.

I'm not trying to be insulting here, but this criticism on Dart seems deranged. The Dart Team published a language spec, documentation, held 3 years of open discussion on mailing lists, changed the language 42 times based on feedback, generates most of its documentation directly from standard WebIDL and from MDN (!), and every commit to the dart VM and dart2js compiler has happened in the open.
> How about that Unladden Swallow that was announced with fanfare back in the day?

That's not a fair comparison: Unladen Swallow was designed to be completely compatible with CPython, so it wasn't a 'new platform' that people would depend on Google to support. Also, when Unladen Swallow was abandoned, it didn't leave anybody stranded. Unladen Swallow was abandoned because it wasn't appreciably faster than CPython, so nobody was using it anyway.
In the beginning there was no blog. This changed everything.
I need the email for sending notifications mostly.
Backbone is a library, not a full-fledged framework like Ember and Angular. I could see Ember and Angular being implemented with Backbone. Backbone isn't opinionated and makes no design decisions for you. It's also very low-level (no two-way binding).

Not really fair to compare them, they cover very different use cases.
Emacs + nrepl if properly set up is really the killer combo. You get instant popup-style access to documentation, auto-complete, repl and unit test integration.

with paredit the ( ) handle themselves pretty much.

I wrote up some notes on setting it up here:

http://crucialfelix.github.io/clojure/2013/05/16/learn-by-wr...
Notice that your emphasized words clearly state that the NYT (the seller) will pay the pensions, not the Globe's new buyer. So the article is correct.
I have nothing but praise for both Ember and Angular. Both give you real data binding, and delegation rather than events. Compared to Backbone, both are like being in heaven rather than the 4th level of "event" hell.

There are a lot of differences, but if I had to pick, it would depend on the application. If I was building something with complex front-end requirements where the vocabulary was mostly tabs/panes/switches/filter-dropdowns/etc., then I would go with Angular. If I were building something where the data domain was more important, e.g. the vocabulary is more about authors/titles/posts/tags/etc. then I'd go with Ember.

With Ember, persisting a complex model to a backend is a priority for the framework developers. With Angular, it is left as an exercise for the reader.

With Angular, extending the DOM to create new web components is a central focus, but with Ember, it is totally an after thought. Ember Components are a joke compared to Angular directives...

I was about to link to the Ember component source code showing how pointless they are. (A week ago they were useless) The devs have been furiously fixing Ember Components to have the power of Angular JS directives. I am so happy to see the good parts of Anular making their way into Ember. For those that hate Angular terminology, it appears 'isolate' has made its way to Ember. I hope 'transclusion' does as well. Need more than one way to {{yield}}
Are you implying it is the NSA? If so, please state so and why you believe that. Otherwise this comment adds nothing to the discussion.
Your analogy makes no sense. Journalism is hardly outdated.
Another: http://pythex.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_interventionism
I stopped reading when I saw `i = 0xreadbook` and `typdef`. There are typos and there are fundamental misunderstandings -- not sure where these lie
"Out of 86 guests, I've only had problems with 15 guests."

"only"? n.b.: If your business model is renting out luxury condos to people on the Internet, you're going to have a bad time. People will use them for parties.
Because people expect that style of driving. This race thing would be fine if it was all on closed roads, but what happens when he blows by me 16 year old daughter, doing 95 in a 25 when she lacks the experience to deal with his behavior?

95 is great as long as we all agree that that is what the road should be driven at. But you don't get to unilaterally decide the speed limit.
"FT.com articles are only available to registered users"
You could use this service, instead of sending an actual mail, which introduces another step for the user: http://verify-email.org/
The ip address with the iframe seems to be down now? Anyone get a copy of the iframe JS?
Ya, just had a flashback to a former paycheck...
I don't know about that. I think we're having a discussion about how things are vs. how they could be.

I mean, why is it the mindset that we must endure some arbitrary and unrelated pain in order to pursue our passions? Isn't this part of the problem?

Is the need to make a living in a society that values only what is profitable really a meaningful test of one's mettle or determination? Am I more ready to pursue my business/project simply because I hustle and hold down a day job in order to eat? Or, am I simply distracted and spending only half my time pursuing my project, and therefore less efficient and less likely to complete it?

Our tendency to believe that one must struggle in the prescribed way to prove one's self is a product of that same indoctrination. It's just how things are now. But, what if more people could make a living pursuing passions and interests that benefit society? I think they would be even more determined, because it is their own passion/cause/etc.
That may be so, but let's keep in mind that there is no reason to criticize the President for being undeserving of the prize. It's not like he awarded it to himself.
Would you like to elaborate?

"Castro, on the other hand, was convinced that an invasion of Cuba was soon at hand, and on October 26, he sent a telegram to Khrushchev that appeared to call for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the USA." - Wikipedia, on the Cuban Missile Crisis
You can get a few free, and 8 per month if you register.

The quality of their stuff---they compete with The Wall Street Journal---is high enough I had no trouble registering.

On the other hand, major discussion of this is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6152872
It's not a question of "defeat". It's a question of control, whether that be control of infrastructure, control of territory, etc., and the advantage there lies with professional militaries.

Properly supplied and constructed, lines of control can be established that are nearly impregnable against the kind of assault a militia could hope to muster, especially considering that they won't have close air support like the military will.

More to the point, even during the American Revolutionary War itself a great proportion of the people had better things to do than join the militia or the Continental Army to overthrow the British. Many were avowed patriots. Some were Loyalists who were willing to fight for King and country. But most just wanted to get on with their lives and didn't do much to support or harass either side, and the effect would be even worse nowadays.

I mean if you could get 120 million militia in one spot to attack somewhere, that place would likely fall if only due to running out of ammunition. But 120 million people in one spot, fighting a military, is something that would not long last once the artillery and bombers are vectored in.
I posted a comment here yesterday in which I was deeply conflicted and felt like kind of an asshole even for that.

Yesterday, there were pictures of two women in that article.

Today, there's only one. Because someone in the comments pointed out that the first woman was not in fact a Toptal-employed engineer, but a glamour shot of a professional actress. Now, she's mysteriously vanished from the article and Toptal is moderating their comments.

So, look, I'm just going to say it: LinkedIn was 100% right, Toptal is trying to sex up their professional ads with completely irrelevant pictures of hot women, and when they were called on it they threw a sanctimonious hissy-fit and made themselves out to be innocent victims of sexism, the hypocritical sexist fucks.

And it worked. LinkedIn has given them their ads back.

I deeply regret ever defending Toptal. I just hope that none of this causes problems for the remaining woman in the article, who actually is an engineer and bears no guilt for Toptal's bullshit on her behalf.
You can read it without registering here - http://www.cnbc.com/id/100937213
Link not requiring registration:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100937213
This is one of those times where there are 2 sides to every story and the truth lays somewhere in the middle. Interesting read though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba
How about the fact that a young clever men with top salary, beautiful girlfriend and comfortable life in one of the (supposedly) most developed country in entire world couldn't stand his own government's abuse, and decided to break the silence, knowing (Bradley M?) that his life is over.

Is that good enough reason for you? How about this: he promoted the truth, because otherwise had he not done it, we could have ended in a North Korea type dictatorship.

Hats off to Mr. Snowden.

http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.14361929.4039/flat,550x550,07...
don't spend your money on anything except apple stock for the next 4 years.
Funnily enough the IP address in the iframe location is in a /11 formerly belonging to D.C.-headquartered MCI Communications, now under Verizon, and traceroute points to it being in D.C. as well.

This could be faked, but it's interesting on its own.
You know what. I'm outta here for awhile. It's people like you that make me depressed to read HN or try to be involved. The guidelines even say "if you wouldn't say it to their face, then don't say it." Yet you were such an asshole to me right there without even an apology. That would've been okay if I had received an actual answer to my question, but instead I got a context-free link to a Wikipedia article with no way to interpret the complexities of how it relates to the issue at hand. The result is an unhelpful, unhealthy, negative state of mind. And that would be okay if I actually learned something from the experience. But the only thing I've learned from this is that you personally attack and belittle anyone who doesn't know the same things you know.
Historically, weakening hegemony has led to periods of strife, not peace.
There must be someone spooky in that massive city who's looking directly at the camera.
It was awarded upon the rhetoric of hope he espoused, but failed to follow up with in action. But your statement is factually correct.
Organize your Galaxy S4 Apps without downloading another App
Programming instrumental music from scratch
Hundreds of milliseconds across how large an index?

My email corpus is on the order of ten million messages. Needless to say, seeing the words "can index roughly four messages per second" made me cringe rather hard.
Dunno, wanting standards is one thing, but I don't think it would result in these long rants. I have to think they're motivated by fear, and I'm only speculating as to what that fear is.
Probably because they have a hard-on for snooping and TOR, by design, makes it extremely hard to correlate usage with a person without owning exit nodes and/or social engineering.
> I think he's saying that Google gets negative a million HN points for everything bad they do, and zero points for everything good they do.

Well, Google does get treated better than Microsoft.
In the sense that, if they can give it to Henry Kissinger, the prize is therefore meaningless, and they might as well give it to Mugabe, or Castro, or Ríos Montt, or Reagan.
NZ's Fonterra recalls baby formula due to botulism risk
there goes my country's economy
Go was pretty much bad received when it pops over here..
after a long and difficult road, its receiving its deserved momentum

But unlike Go, Dart is in the web terrain.. things will be much more difficult.. because there are much more people married with javascript .. and the fanatism and emotional reaction is much worse
Perhaps he was criticizing the Nobel committee, not the president?
besides ending the Iraq war, he's done a lot of stuff that is somewhat subtle. off the top of my head: a concerted and sustained nuclear arms reduction effort[1], and the specific way he handled the Libya situation[2].

still it remains that Obama is fundamentally pragmatic, for better or worse in any given issue.

[1] good report here: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/46790266#46790266

[2] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-obamas-war-...
I see lots of negativity in Go and AngularJS articles, too. And most of these articles never make it to the front page, while these rants get instant upvotes. Certainly, there is a happy silent majority, but that is much harder to measure and react to than constant angry hate.
notmuch isn't really a client so much as a backend. A better question might be why this isn't using/building upon it.
The point is that the bar for "safe" for a motorsport event is way lower than for public roads.
If 'democracy' entails equating the political state with civil society, than 'democracy' is just a euphemism for 'totalitarianism'.

In a free society, 'democracy' refers exactly to distinguishing the state from the rest of society, so as to ensure that the former remains subordinate and accountable to the latter.
Oops, I hadn't looked - I haven't played with Clojurescript yet, but it's on my list.
I recently did the math with the help of a friend who uses Amazon AWS. I have three primary servers in a data center and by running them myself versus relying upon Amazon, I have saved my company about $5,000 per year, each year, over six years.
It was awarded, in part, I believe upon campaign rhetoric that was not followed though on. There is something to be said for the crowds that turned out for his first speech in Germany and his most recent. Actions matter.
IP is irrelevant, even though it's fun to draw conclusions, you simply cannot tie a person/organization to an IP.
Not an Internet service, but the Long Now Foundation has started construction on a physical clock that's designed tot to last 10,000 years.

-http://longnow.org/clock/
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
He was awarded the prize in the hope of influencing him to actually promote peace in the future.

The idea was that accepting the peace prize would have led Obama to see himself as a Nobel peace prize winner, and thus as someone promoting peace, and that he thus would subconsciously actually try to promote peace to avoid the cognitive dissonance.

It didn't work as well as it could, but maybe it worked to some extent.
I don't really like to mess with front-end stuff. Can someone explain why ember/angular are so amazing? What does it enable you to do so much more easily?
If you have a $2.5 million condo, what are you doing using Airbnb?
My thoughts on colocation? When choosing a data center, look at your neighbors. Mine were Dropbox, Netflix, Splunk, and Etsy. Best tools for finding a good data center: www.peeringdb.com, www.datacentermap.com.
I don't think that's a copyright issue, rather something more related to trademark (although I don't think you can trademark the title of a book either, there are a bunch of more obscure IP-related protections and this might fall under one of them).

Nobody can copyright a three word phrase. [edit: almost never, see [1]]

Copyright also applies if you copy enough story elements, but that doesn't apply because 50 Cent's movie is not in any meaningful way a copy of Achebe's story. And if that were the case, even changing the title completely wouldn't avoid infringement. You would violate Rowling's copyright, for instance, if you took a Harry Potter book, outlined the plot (even with character and place names changed), and wrote a new novel from scratch using that outline.

"The novel with the said title was initially produced in 1958 (that is 17 years before [50] was born)," replied his lawyers, according to Naijan. "[It is] listed as the most-read book in modern African literature, and won't be sold for even £1bn."

I think this was IP bullying by Achebe's legal team (if were laywers at all). They claim to have a monopoly to use the very generic title (even when separated from the underlying story), and when offered a lot of money (I'd love to hear 50 Cent's lawyers reason for offering a million dollars to use that title), they make a category error, confusing rights to the book itself with rights to a fairly generic title.

[1] http://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection_...
I've wanted the Obama administration to take serious action for patent reform for awhile. This is not at all the direction I was thinking he'd take, and it's disappointing to see.
Bay Area colocation has been expensive since they started billing based on power, rather than physical space. I had a good thing going in the 90s to ~2005ish with a long term contract I signed giving me a full cabinet on a 100mbit unmetered line for ~$600/mo. When that contract expired it promptly jumped to ~$1500/mo.

I know that's not much space compared to the big boys, but it fit our needs at the time pretty well.

If you're looking for colocation stuff these days, and you're not huge and need to be in San Jose, I'd look at some of the spaces in Sacramento.

Other great spots around the country: Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, and in Virginia around MAE-East.
The question is, how do they maintain full control over the grid for a month, when all the network equipment they rely on to hack the grid relies on electricity to operate?
Who is the finnish guy?
Doesn't anyone else find it odd that command-line tools would be a barrier to entry for programmers? Sure, I see it all the time; I just don't get what people are expecting.
AirBnb has an insurance policy on each rental made to through the site. I believe it is up to $1 million.

However, they obviously don't want to use the insurance regularly, as that will likely mean an increase in the rates they pay.

Both sides of this story could very well be true. He could have been a bad host AND a guest may have done a lot of damage to his apartment. BUT, if he's had problems with 15 guests, I'm sure that each time their is an issue, AirBnb tracks what owners are most problematic, and after this incident, they decided to sever ties.

It is possible AirBnb has an unspoken rule that if they spend x amount on a host with a specified period of time, they cancel the hosts account.
17% of guests doing damage to your apartment seems like quite a lot to me.