skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think michaelochurch has pushed for open allocation, which solves the main problem in a similar way.
Same for me. Super weird. I can't wait for the blog post that explains what code blew up for this to happen.
Which version of HBase are you running? If we have a node or two go down in our cluster, HBase is completely unaffected. Recoveries can take up to a few minutes, in the old ages it took hours.

I know that MTTR (mean time to recovery) is being worked on together by several large companies to get down to seconds.
I've been using it (0.9) on Mac. Not sure what you're referring to.
The Washington Post is only a small piece of the WPO company, which has a market cap of $4.4 Billion. So by my math Buffett paid $11 million for a 20% share of a company that's now worth $4.4 Billion, or a net return of 80 times over 40 years, which isn't up to Buffett's usual returns, but not too bad.
Just spitballing here, but if I'm Xerox, from a cost-benefit perspective, does it really make sense to do anything other than this?

They have millions of pieces of hardware in production across the world in all kinds of industries handling sensitive data, so the legal issues would overwhelm them if they responded to this with an apology and admittance of guilt of any kind. Sadly it just makes more sense to handle this the way they did. No it isn't the best thing for the users, but it's the best thing for Xerox. And that's how decisions get made most of the time.
Thank you, this is really useful.

Just when I needed it and wanted to write one you posted it. I don't think I would have done half the good job you did.
We are building a generic ETL framework and would love to talk with you about this. My email is on my profile.
5 is pretty equivalent to the mining of precious metals (well those with no practical applications).
The awesome/amazing thing is you can actually do this in properly designed systems -- the key is generated on a separate processor (or, on some ARMs, in a special processor mode), and inaccessible directly to everything else; it can only be used to do operations. If you're superbadass, you can let it put some kinds of access control logic inside the trusted envelope too, so you can rate limit requests, or do additional checks (i.e. "you can't sign a request to pay a bitcoin unless the request signature is valid AND the bitcoin address has >4x that amount, or 2 weeks pass after posting public notice...").

HSMs can do this (no one really does, though); smartcards can too. The problem is no one wants to physically plug a smartcard into a phone, so you're stuck using stuff physically built into the phone. The alternative would be a bt 4.0 le cardholder which talks to the phone, and contains either an internal smartcard or a smartcard slot.

For DOD, there's a badgeholder for the CAC which speaks bluetooth (old, 2.1 I think) to the RIM Blackberry. Updating that to 2013 to work on the iPhone would be pretty awesome, using 4.0le, particularly with a decent smartcard (not sure what the state of the art is; I remember screwing with old javacard stuff with the iButton which sucked.)
I am probably a putty diehard... i love the simplicity of it. I get around this by using screen in just one putty window.
I don't know about HBase but for Cassandra it should be available in the next minor update.

Single row transactions have just recently been added:
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/lightweight-transactions-in...
> For large organizations, domain controls make managing a large number of desktops much easier.

The Unix way of putting the resources on the network, and synchronizing /etc works quite well. I've never seen anybody actually claim that AD is better than it. Most people complaining that the unixes don't have administration tools just want them to work like Windows.

Windows is a hell to administer, you can't just clone machines and you can't centralize your resources. You must do what AD allows you, and beg that this time something won't break, because you can't really test anything.
if you are a putty user, do this. its very time consuming to set up putty especially colors but its easy to keep all your settings in a reg file.
For a given level of service, customer support costs a certain amount C * scaling costs S your predict return on investment is R / probability P.

If C * S > R / P, then don't play.

It wouldn't make sense, for instance, for a company like Google to treat all its customers the same way that enterprise SaaS companies treat their more precious customers. S is too big for them. That level of service is manpower intensive.

On the other hand it's probably something you can afford to at the beginning, when you have few customers - an advantage of being a startup, (as I recall being told a few years back, 'You are your own slave labour.')
I wonder if there might an operator for number of messages in a 'conversation'.
What I took away from the article was that the patent didn't really help the "inventor." That sales didn't really start to take off until very near the end of his royalty period. But yet he was still very successful in the business with a long career.

Maybe it is just confirmation bias, but it sounded a bit like his invention of the fuzzbox did more for his reputation in the industry than it did for his bank account.
Why do you feel you can ignore the terms of a contract you voluntarily signed ?
That's exactly the point. When two businesses come up against each other, the correct response from government is to step back and let them fight it out, not to favor one over the other. Lobbying to curry favor for your business is abominable; lobbying to eliminate favors given to your competitor and level the playing field is completely reasonable.
Image processing tech runs Linux, targets UAV apps
true, but isn't c$ similar in that sense? that one made the list...
I just want to know who the guy that can make the decision to fire you is at places like Github, Valve, and Medium. Either that person doesn't exist or that person is your manager.
Can you be more detailed?
I definitely fell into the latter category. Of the total time I spent doing customer service, there were about ten people I knew on a first-name basis. They had my personal e-mail address and I'd always respond to them within a half hour, often with a call back.

I never did have good tracking metrics in place for time spent per customer. I was a one-man shop and this was in 2000-2003, so there were limited open source options.

Customer support ate up a little more than half my time. This took away from programming and business development. Of the customer support time, maybe five or ten percent was spent on these ten customers -- and that is out of ten thousand paying customers and a few hundred thousand free users.

I never got a four million dollar phone call, but I also don't know how much these ten users evangelized my services. Who knows -- maybe they were responsible for a thousand paying customers?

There's an old phrase: "I know half of my ad dollars are wasted, but I don't know which half!" Nowadays it's a lot easier to measure return, but I still think we're not at the point where we can quantify good will from customer service.
Glio (YC S13) Aims To Be The “Yelp of Brazil” And Beyond in Latin America
I've been editing typescript using JetBrains webstorm. It works pretty well.
Basically the formula is supposed to be customizable. Ie. more protein for body builders etc.

If it becomes big, which, I guess is possible, it only makes sense for the Soylent community to hack away. Im thinking it may evolve into few solid recipes that can be mass-distributed and then for those who want fine grained control they can get the separate ingredients/supplements themselves and either modify an existing recipe or create one from scratch.

This whole thing would be pretty stupid-er if it was only going to be one recipe.
The root comment of this thread was talking about government regulation. You responded with a comment about contracts with landlords or condo associations, to which the response was that those are voluntary agreements (by contrast with government regulation). Nothing in that is talking about ignoring the terms of a voluntary contract; the point is that the government regulations that affect businesses like Uber and AirBnB are not voluntary contracts.
They'll keep making VS the best environment for it but all the tools are open source and written in typescript itself so unlikely it will be Windows only anytime soon.
I assume you could run the app in an Android virtual machine on the PC, if you don't mind being restricted to that single PC for logins.

Regarding security, I'd say just the opposite, I'd expect a random PC to be more secure than a random Android phone.
Tor is a C/C++ wrapper around Firefox. This is a Java Internet browser.
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Even lightweight transactions in 2.0 for linearizability: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/lightweight-transactions-in...
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Interesting that neither person has anything to do with Apache HBase. Both are in a position to belittle it.
Same link twice, friend.
It's pretty obvious that's their goal.

"...you can develop TypeScript code using the online playground tool or Visual Studio 2012. But this is not it! You can also use Sublime Text, Vim or eMacs as the team has kicked off work on syntax files for these popular editors JavaScript developers love to use. And as the specification is public, anyone can create their own syntax files for other editors as well."

http://msopentech.com/blog/2012/10/01/sublime-text-vi-emacs-...
We can also create one-time pads for tokens, so the number of samples will ramp up pretty so quickly which will make these kind of attack unfeasible.

And I guess we can tweak gzip Huffman tables so user inputs were poorly compressed compared to rest of the page content.
MongoDB is actually great to use with Hadoop as well. Laugh away...
Amazon is working on displays that Apple and Samsung can’t match
Is IBM stock a shorting opportunity here?
Then in future dont make comments, it's part of the HN etiquette is it not, to actually read the subject matter you're talking about?
Facebook News Feed Update makes Feed more Relevant
A thought experiment, at the risk of being downvoted to oblivion:

Imagine a new online service, which allows people to rent out their existing accounts at various other SAAS services to tenants, in exchange for a cut (specifically eg. you can share your seomoz account with 2 other people, tossing the $99 + cut inbetween them, each tenant taking one of the slots).

Consumers benefit from radically lowered prices, enabled by "more fine grained transaction in property".

Would you accomodate this sort of usage on your own sites? If not, what specific principle would you suggest, which still allows for AirBNB?
It's just that Micro$oft and people from the evil empire keep making all these good tools and technology. Then, they try to force me to use it by making it available to people. And then they con those people into getting projects done and telling other people that the tools and technology made it easier to do better work. Then they make a bunch of this stuff open source and do all the things that make it so that when I say, "I hate them and their tiles!" it makes me look like a fool... Because they are behaving, many times, exactly the way one would hope a company would given the constantly evolving nature of technology and the marketplace. I mean Ballmer looks like people I don't like.

I bet they didn't use a decent license. I mean why is TypeScript on CODEPLEX??? Oh... Apache License.

Well, I bet you have to install SilverLight and Windoze 8 (worst dis-operating system ever) to download... right, OK, but it's from jerks just trying to sell stuff! I hate what they did to NETSCAPE!!! and they keep on stopping Linux desktop... what? oh right... yeah... I'M NOT CRAZY!!!

Well, I'm using node and... oh they npm?

I have a gnome tattoo. Fuck you. I'm not crazy.
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In what city? Poughkeepsie? Rochester MN? Austin?
Just wanted to correct this understanding.

Just because I sell something doesn't make me exempt from the legal consequences of my actions prior. If I negligently claim that a product will make you healthier and it cripples you, then you can sue me regardless of whether I still own the product. Similarly, I could be prosecuted for dishonest advertising type offences (which aren't wiped clean simply by selling a business!).

You might be talking about a products liability type claim.

Only an incompetent acquirer would take liability for any latent claims in a target acquiree. Most likely they will get strong warranties from the seller about the existence of claims and rely on their own due diligence to ensure they aren't buying a product which is likely to cripple people in the future.

In 90% of cases the seller will retain liability for incidents which pre-date the sale of their business.
> BTW, if you want to roll your own ARM you have to negotiate for an architectural license.

I would hope not for a personal FPGA... that's hilariously unenforcable.
Really?

Soylent sounds like it's made of soy, but the name essentially means cannibalism. I'd expect the former to kill enthusiasm from the energy drink market (where the cannibalism angle makes it sound more extreme) and the latter to put off everyone else.
Personally I've just found the architecture clean and well-designed. Even if this only helps the developers I'd say it's worth it.
It's not a coincidence that the thing that looks most like a blurred number is another blurred number.

A document will be covered in numbers, and the compression algorithm looks for similar blocks it can re-use; the side effect is sometimes it says "that blurry 4 looks pretty close to this blurry two, so I'll just store that block once and reuse it"

The problem is that this is a minor side effect to a programmer and an absolutely massive issue to an end user that no-one had thought of previously, and now we all have to be worried that all our scanned documents might be incorrect. (just because this was found in fuji-xerox scanners doesn't mean other brands don't also have the issue)
Console2 looks good.

I played with "Putty Session Manager" for a while before moving entirely to Mintty under Cygwin.
CrowdTilt, Soylent, and Coinbase oh my
Insufficient Data.
Tuesday does solve the 3 day weekend problem. What do you do if Monday is a holiday? Trade on Monday morning and meet up outside of work, or just hold it till Tuesday. Most of the time we just hold it.

The reason for this discussion is because up until a certain seniority level, you get "hazard pay" for carrying the pager. You get paid 1 hour for every so many you're on call. A weekend/holiday is 24 hours instead of 8 on the day your receive it or 16 on a weekday.

You should also cover rules for holding the pager. Ours include no alcohol, and no more than 1 hour away from the site (certain emergencies may require on-site visits). You also need to respond within 20 minutes, otherwise it gets escalated, or in certain larger locations, sent to the backup on-call person.
DataWrapper: Open-source embeddable charts
> He's not allowed to say "Big", but you can say "mass produced"? Those are pretty close.

No, because "Big _____" is a Progressive catchphrase that is normally used to villify whatever their target is and rationalize taking away some freedom from the marketplace, wheras "mass produced" just means "mass produced."

Of course, some people might use "Big _____" in a useful way, but it's definitely like a code smell but for English.
Actually, "hand crank" doesn't sound to bad: Power's out? Just crank the door knob a couple of times and you've generated enough power to open the door once. (Dunno how feasible that is though.)
From what I know of the space, ARM is not used very much at all in cars or aviation. These are both areas where PowerPC dominates. I'd guess most modern cars have at least a dozen PowerPC chips.

And both ARM and PowerPC outsel x86 by a hell of a lot more than a factor of 2. It's at least a factor of 10, and that's almost certainly low too. x86, in terms of units sold, is an extremely small market.
Thanks for mentioning LaunchKey (https://launchkey.com/). I am a co-founder and can confirm that we are doing something very similar but are only in the Authentication space. LaunchKey supports Private Keys stored on your device among other factors. We have iOS, Android, PHP, Ruby, Python and Javascript SDKs with a WordPress plugin and other integrations coming soon. Our system also allows session based or transactional authentication.

That is all good, but one of LaunchKey's biggest features is the Privacy. Each site/app you login to is provided a unique ID that cannot be traced or tracked among sites, ad networks, etc. If twitter opens their 2-factor login up for 3rd Party, it will surely be using this login data in other ways.

Check out LaunchKey (https://launchkey.com) and let me know if you have any questions.

p.s. Our app and system also lets you log out from your device.
From time to time? So 5 out of the top 10 on the top500 is from time to time?
To add to this: I was in the same boat. Tried Nestle Boost because I didn't want to wait for Soylent.

It left me hungry.

Reportedly, Soylent doesn't do that.

I also tried Ensure very briefly, and got the same impression, but I'm only like 98% sure that, like Boost, it will also leave me hungry.
Blink tag removed from Firefox
That's cool! I wonder if this would be (much) faster than just letting nginx or this embedded httpd read the files directly and serve them. I would hope that the OS or server would cache things enough to make it unnecessary, but it would be interesting to find out.

HTML isn't that big, so if you used linked resources, it would be pretty simple to make a C program and compile it to a binary for any purely "static" site.
Bug hunters: Big bucks paid to keep ahead of hackers
In fact if we go by this article isn't Apple doing the same thing. He says Bezos/Amazon didn't show their cards for long and will eventually surprise people and win over. How does that not apply to Apple who is hoarding cash and not giving a hint of their future plans ?

Absurd writing.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11858448

Wouldn't want to actually stfw or anything.
Asus G55VW, classified as a gaming laptop.
I do not game.

- 15.6 inch screen on 1920 x 1080, 16GB of RAM, excellent cooling and noise control.

- Windows 8/Ubuntu.

The only regret so far is not getting the 17 inch model.

How about you share your configuration as well since you started the discussion? :)
I read that whole thought experiment assuming that "something very rare, which has no practical uses but which is easy to give to others" was cash.

Which is awkward.
This is hacker news -- I don't expect everyone to know how jbig2 or other compression scheme works. But before you insinuate that the scanner has semantic awareness of the document and is altering that meaning in a less-than-coincidental way, I would hope that you could have a cursory look at how such compression works.

The issue only involves small letters, because the compression scheme breaks up the image into patches and then tries to identify visually similar blocks and reuse them. Certain settings can allow for small blocks of text to be deemed identical, within a threshold, and thus replaced. That's all. Coincidence, not semantic awareness.

Hence the advisory notice to use a higher resolution -- smaller block sizes.
I'm much less worried about almost any other country seeing my data, as long as they don't share with the NSA.
Launching an Info Course part 2: MVP Style
So the founders are personally responsible for the actions of their corporation?
Yes, using it, large project. TypeScript + Webstorm is very productive.
I hope they are more ethical than Yelp.
Too bad they require a facebook account to even view their website...
I heard that at Valve, it's by team consensus. I may be wrong though.
Try Glucerna. It tastes pretty good, has a good glycermic index, and is pretty filling.
Just tried signing up and I'm in a stuck position.

• I generate very long passwords (50 characters by default) with 1Password. I usually include special characters—the one I used included ',{<' and the asterisk.

• The signup field accepted my password—and the signup email included the password I had provided in cleartext…at least it did up until the '<' (where there were probably another ~20 characters left).

• Neither the password as I used it nor the truncated version that I was sent works to log me in.

Implementing PBKDF2 isn't that hard, even in PHP (http://mark-story.com/posts/view/using-bcrypt-for-passwords-... it took me two days to implement, test, and deploy a migration on Rails (and that's only because I'm a cautious SOB who doesn't want to make a mistake affecting customers and we had two tables to do it against with two different password types). If you're offering this to businesses, you should do everything you can to protect their data—even if you are in beta. POF can get away with storing plaintext passwords, or sending them to customers, but you shouldn't do that.
Am justing waiting for them to implement "await".
Just a note for anyone asking/looking - I will respond to all questions first thing tomorrow morning. Keep them coming!
Thanks, I've been testing out a bunch of hare-brained schemes and it didn't even occur to me to just use HDFS directly (and seeing you and karterk both suggest it helps).

Basically, at a high level, the system I'm working on aggregates and processes security information (It's a SIEM, if that product category means anything to you). At the point the logs get ingested, the server determines if they're "actionable" (which is determined by rules I load into Redis), in which case it parses them and stores them in a Postgres event table; or "not individually actionable, but may cause an action in conjunction with some other log" that I want to just store somewhere for batch processing.

I don't really need to tokenize those logs, as at the point I care about them I'm just going to be searching through them. So, they're "unstructured" in the sense that there's about 15 different collection points, each with it's own format (many just an ugly facsimile of syslog with some JSON in the middle).

So, I think your suggestion will work out very well.

Thanks again.