skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy Arq user here, but the cost of S3 is why I have it store in Glacier instead. It all really depends how (and how often) you plan on accessing the backups.
But are they harmless? If they’re made with chemicals in an unregulated industrial process, it seems unlikely. Less harmful than ”analog” cigarettes, maybe—but completely harmless seems like an unlikely stretch.
In technical drawing. "Dimension line" is correct.
More specifically a "dimension line indicating a feature".

A single character (usually in a "bubble" or circle) would be a callout. One or more words in combination with an extension-line and an arrow-head would be a "note".
Site is down. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
> Amazingly, none of this was tested until a week or two before the rollout, and the tests failed.

This is absolutely incredible.... two weeks?! Dealing with these legacy systems should have been the absolute first thing tested, is it not the most likely point of failure/bottleneck? Someone on the team had to have been screaming about this and ignored, all the while shitting their pants waiting for go live for the whole thing to crumble.
Unless you're making 100% of your money from CPM ads, you should look into whether that 4% of your users really equates to 4% of your revenue.
I don't know how much of this is true, but I bet the truth is no less hilarious. It wouldn't surprise me if this system has no concept of usability and offline processing queues. No matter how complex it is to process an application it's common sense to just give the user immediate feedback "Thank you for your order. We'll contact you by email within N days to followup and report your application status." Do these people expect Amazon to process orders in realtime and fling physical goods at their door in minutes? Should buying health coverage be zero conf one click instantaneous?
The target audience is very different. Spyder is a kind of Matlab interface replacement, and as such focuses a lot more on interactive aspects. Not sure IDE is even the correct word for it.
It sounds excellent, like a cross between PKD and Charles Stross, please let us know when it's published.
> The one problem they have is that the majority of their instances include local storage, which would make migration impossible

True for AWS. Using VMware vSphere then this could be done with a shared nothing migration which moves compute and storage (vMotion + storage vMotion combined).
>And if you have to tell yourself a comforting lie about what the basic nature of the relationship is to be happy about it, I think that may be a signal that the "good working environment" isn't so good.

Okay - I'll bow out here. I think you've probably latched on to a minor detail that's not really relevant — my main point being that focusing on "selling time to an employer" is only one interpretation of the employee-employer relationship. Maybe I could have described it as "charging a fixed rate to a client and doing interesting research" – the point is, in a market such as the current one for software developers, employment is as much under the control of the employee as the employer.

To be clear, I don't have any intention of misrepresenting or lying about my work environment, so please don't make such assumptions.
The frontend assumed the backend was fast enough. That's the problem. If the frontend was made to handle really slow responses from the backend it would look different. It would not make people wait while transactions occurred. Or if might have a page that that displayed your progress: in other to do this for you we need to contact 10 databases - here is the progress of each:

Database One: [=======----------]
Database Two: [============-----]
Database Three: [==---------------]
Designing game narrative
similar topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6353498
Family has been linux for the past 10 years... I would say about 3/4 years ago the complaints completely stopped with ubuntu 9.10. Since then there has been some pain with unity (which we disabled for a year or two). Older computers run either older versions of ubuntu or Elementary OS or
Chrunchbang OS #! http://crunchbang.org/.

Occassionally people still need help with LibreOffice oddities. Also I've had intercompatibility issues with MS Office with powerpoint.
I tend to agree here.

The siren song of 'outsourcing' sounds great, but it's just moving the goal posts, really. The dept/org/staff still need to understand their internal problems well enough to document and communicate them properly, including translating to the outsourcing company.

Hiring IT people internally to be there long term to really understand the agency/dept/org/staff and their problems from an IT perspective should be a requirement for any org. Without a competent person who understands IT and the business needs, and has a longer term investment in the business itself, there's little chance of being able to choose an appropriate outsourcing company to do the job (or indeed to define the job competently in the first place).
Live migration doesn't have to require this. VMware vSphere for example includes storage vMotion capabilities which remove the need for shared storage.
Indeed. Spyder is the RStudio[1] of Matplotlib + Scipy.

[1] http://www.rstudio.com/ide/
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That's what I hated most about healthcare.gov. Other sites I could get a quote quite easily and decide to go with them or not. healthcare.gov had a bunch of forms that didn't work so I couldn't get a quote after hours of trying. Even if I let long loading pages sit there for long periods of time, some failed out and other times my data was lost.
Well, I've heard there was a "7 second" response time metric that was part of the plan.

But, yes, Amazon's "eventually consistent" system takes its time, e.g. while it's never happened to me, I know that somewhat delayed confirmation email is only made when the whole system has reserved a book for me, even if there's only one copy in stock and someone else made an order for it at about the same time. Etc.
#Starbucks accused of handing over customers first names to the #NSA
Please, show, how do you make tables that work like CSS columns, i.e. reflow the content to fill the specified number of columns. Unless you hardcode content for each TD, but what the point then?
And that's exactly what's wrong with tables (semantic purity aside)—they shackle you content to one specific structure, meanwhile using CSS for layout you can move your blocks around more or less freely.
I won't let you down! We are very much out of the concept phase and into production mode. Our factory is currently set up to be able to produce 50 aircraft in 2014. The waiting game right now is with Certification with the FAA, which will not be a problem for us since our plane meets all Light Sport standards - it will just take a few months because the FAA is slow.
"... for some inexplicable reason the administration decided to make the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services the integration lead for a massive IT project despite the fact that CMS has no experience managing large IT projects"

Time Magazine's "Bitter Pill" article stated Medicare had an IT system that made them more efficient than private health insurance providers. Isn't such a system large enough?
While not really general image scaling, there's a lot of work being done on post-processing in emulators to try to emulate CRT displays (like the aperture grille) or even the quirks of NTSC.

http://emulation-general.wikia.com/wiki/Shaders_and_Filters
That work load should have no effect on risk of depression sounds downright whack. In none of the summaries of the three linked articles do I see that part of the claim documented by their data.

Below are the "results" sections from the summaries of the two non-saliva articles among the 3 referenced in the posted "article".

From "A two-year follow-up study of risk of depression according to work-unit measures of psychological demands and decision latitude."

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22885721):

RESULTS:
The OR for depression according to psychological demands was 1.07 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.42-2.49] for every unit of change on a 5-point scale. The corresponding OR for decision latitude was 1.85 (95% CI 0.55-6.26). No interactive effects of psychological demands and decision latitude were observed.

CONCLUSION:
These findings suggest that low decision latitude may predict depression, but confidence intervals are wide and findings are also compatible with no increased risk.

From "Work-unit measures of organisational justice and risk of depression--a 2-year cohort study."

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23476045):

RESULTS:
Working in a work unit with low procedural justice (adjusted ORs of 2.50, 95% CI 1.06 to 5.88) and low relational justice (3.14, 95% CI 1.37 to 7.19) predicted onset of depression.

CONCLUSIONS:
Our results indicate that a work environment characterised by low levels of justice is a risk factor for depression.
Android isn't freedom, because Google is closed
Propaganda: The Media's Coverage of the NSA Affair
It depends on what you use it for, yeah. For company backups, it's not expensive at all, for my holiday videos, it's very prohibitive.
Wow, looking through your citation, almost all of the reports are because the user had a lung condition prior, or an allergy to glycol. This is merely confirmation bias in a report, at best. This is why they SHOULD be regulated, so the adequate warnings can be expressed and the low quality one thrown out of the market, but it does not show that ALL should just be removed.

We already see that your experience has shaped your worldview, but dont impose that on others.
Konfect - manage connections accross social networks
I have not followed the development of this news closely, but skimming these updates has been amusing. I do have a couple very basic questions. If these are stupid, I apologize ahead of time.

My understanding from previous coverage is that some of the state exchange sites, such as California's, are performing acceptably. If that is true, do those state sites also connect to and query the same legacy systems as the federal site? If so, why doesn't the federal government simply ask for or take that code? Surely it's been made available to them? If not, are the legal requirements for the states' exchanges somehow different than the federal site? That seems unlikely since my understanding is the federal site is simply standing in for states that elected to not create exchange sites. I don't see why it would be subject to extra requirements.

What am I missing here?
Why Doesn’t Highest Paid CEO, Zuckerberg, Quit?
It looks like the forum thread has been updated with the following comment from Luke@AWS

> I just looked into your instance a bit further, it does appear this was due to an issue with the underlying host on which your instance resided upon when you encountered the issues today.

> I do want to clarify here as our original reply mentioned a scheduled retirement, this was not the case and no notice was sent out because of this.

It looks like the original email was incorrect.

To add to this though if people rely on advance email notifications with AWS then they are putting at risk their availability. Just because it is on the cloud doesn't insulate you from hardware issues, these need to be planned for. AWS does provide some building blocks to address this (auto-scalaing and load balancers come to mind).
> [insert correct technical term]

In most MPEG-family video codecs video is split between brightness (luma) and color channels (chroma). This looks like error in one of chroma channels.

Image is divided into blocks and average intensity of each block (called DC) is stored as difference from a previous block.

It looks like the first block on that line had invalid, out-of-range DC value stored, and this value has been propagated through entire line.
What about Duplicity [1] ? Seems to hit all the right points - encrypted, remote, based off of differentials.

There's even a front end of it called Deja Dup [2] being distributed by the GNOME team and used in Ubuntu.

[1]: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

[2]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DejaDup
I'm the baretorrent developer.

> This is an interesting space to watch. Over the years, we've seen the cycle happen half a dozen times

This is not specific to torrent clients. Feature-creep is common. Since this was posted to HN, there's been a couple of posts of the baretorrent forums (and I've received a few emails) about feature requests. Software does not necessarily get bloated because developers keep coming up with new ideas, it's mostly because every user wants something more.

Saying no pisses people off, but I'm hoping I can move most of the requests over to extensions.

> Then somebody starts offering enough ad money that maybe the idea of a tiny little banner ad isn't such a bad idea after all.

Don't worry, I'll tag the source just before that happens so someone sane can fork it.

[edit: also, I'm really sad that I didn't think of "scrunchyTorrent" before]
I tried that on 500 KB when I was testing it and it took a few minutes to back things up. I'm not sure if it's linear, but I wouldn't want to try the full set if it's that slow...
I highly doubt that anyone will allow such ugly looking tombstones in their graveyard any time soon.
> And not only are height and width affected by
> padding+borders, they are affected in different ways,
> respectively

What do you mean by that? Difference between block and inline elements, collapsing margins or something else?
> last week i ordered a logo from a contractor on odesk and 24 hours later costing us 44 dollars, i got a logo for my new startup.

And your logo looks like a $44/24hr logo. It's unbalanced, uses simple stock colors, stock fonts and was probably tossed together in a matter of minutes. It looks like something a professional design firm would whip up internally as a way to start building mood boards and ideas to build off of.

> this logo would cost me hundreds of dollars going the normal path and will take forever.

No it wouldn't. If you're typically paying hundreds of dollars for something that looks like this you're either very bad at writing a branding/logo/identity brief or you're hiring the wrong people.

> there is a never ending stream of ... horror stories about odesk.

And your story is now one of them.
My guess would be avoiding legal headaches. It is easy to know what is allowed or not in your own country, but you have no idea in other parts of the world. That and less maintenance.
Very cool, this is on my own TODO list of things I would like to build for myself at one point.

I just posted it on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6622332

Can you give some more details? Can I easily get the data and safe it on my disk? Can I add further metadata to each contact?

Is the software Open Source?

Will there be plugins/extensions such that when I'm on Facebook or in GMail or whereever, that it can easily show me more contact details? (A bit like rapportive for GMail.)
Whilst targeting criminals is what Police do the aspect that they are buying the data seems wrong. With that this is a trawling approach and data mining for criminals. I would of thought that would of been in Ebay interest and not to charge somebody else to be doing it.

What next details sold to the TAX man so he can work out your taxes!
I have mixed feelings about the fact that right off the bat it sledgehammers home the fact that programming is for everyone and not just white anglo saxon males.
As a pilot, I hope not. Ballistic parachute systems are a great safety feature, but they are not something that you ever want to have to depend on.
Former spy chief overheard giving off-the-record interview from Acela train
The original intention was for all the states to build their own exchanges. The more liberal democrats wanted a single federal exchange, but compromised to state-level exchanges to get enough votes for passage. Then the conservative states declined to make their own exchanges so the federal government had to do it anyway, because the American political system makes no sense.
Alex3917 said... Do you seriously believe that second hand propylene glycol vapor can pose any medical risk, either short term or long term?

Strawman argument. Is Propylene Glycol the only ingredient in e-cigarettes? Are e-cigarettes regulated by a governmental agency to ensure that they only include listed ingredients? The answer to both these questions is, "no" and you in reality have no idea what ingredients the Chinese manufacturers are putting into their vapors. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

worrying about second hand risks strikes me as being completely crazy.

Irrational name-calling. For decades a tobacco industry told us that cigarette smoking and second hand smoking were completely harmless. What credibility do they have to rest on? It's not even the slightest bit crazy to want fewer chemicals in the air you breathe especially when they are put there for no discernible benefit.

EDIT I see you deleted your response, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Alex3917
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It's interesting that a core competence of government isn't IT. How much does the government depend on IT to run its day-to-day business?

If the answer is 'not much,' I can understand the opinion that work should be outsourced.

If the answer is 'a lot,' then IT should be a core competence and the government should invest in acquiring in-house IT expertise.

I'd guess the answer is 'a lot'.
You can specify the passphrase on the command line, but it's less secure. Automated backups are my use case, so that's what it's meant to be used for.

I wanted to also add GPG encryption, but I'd be unable to store the key locally, so I couldnt find a way to get it for subsequent backups. I'll have to see how duplicity does it.
That's very true. And this is the very reason why tablets and smartphones are so popular - most people need only a screen with the Internet access to consume content, but those who produce the content will still need a bigger device.
Downloaded it and it seems as it could be really cool, especially with some more content and polish! Some feedback that I discovered right now:
- The video view can't be rotated, not even in fullscreen.
- Sometimes I got the same thing as I had before when pressing the shuffle button.
- In the main view you should perhaps indicate what the different colors mean, with an icon or some text.
- In the quiz section the layout is sometimes a bit awkward with long questions. There seems to be a lot of whitespace above the question, but you still have to scroll within a tiny scrollview.
- The Pong-game seems to have a bit of a low frame rate at my iPhone 5.
- The bee game seems a bit pointless to me, especially with the time counter having the hh:mm:ss format. It rarely took more than a few seconds for me to find the bee.

I however like the concept. And I think that if you perhaps focus your effort on a few of the categories and make them filled with nice content in a slick manner, this could really be a great app.
It doesn't load in my browser.
Should I use infiniband on my Hadoop cluster?
All my cool friends say infiniband is a must, but I think that it's too expensive. Who is right, why should I believe them?
That's probably my favorite research paper ever. The web link in the PDF is offline, but it looks like they moved everything to the Microsoft site -- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/. I just spent a good 15 minutes mousing over the image comparisons again
High-Trust clouds, or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the NSA
Create snap polls or lists that last for a limited number of seconds
I don't get your point. Obviously if it's a really bad convention (naming all predicates '{something}Th1s1sAFuncT10nThatReturnsABooleanValueAndILikeCheese', say), it might be worth breaking, even if it's initially distracting. Presumably you want to be making the point that this is a convention that isn't worth breaking?
Nice. The 2-stroke engine puts me off a little bit, although I guess you won't do yourself much damage at 40mph if you have a shoulder harness (I assume that's CAS rather than IAS).
I feel that the main problem with online backups is simply a matter of bandwidth. I have in excess of 3 TB of data and even if I only backed up things I considered _critical_, it would still be so much that it would take a week to upload and cost me hundreds of dollars of data overages. Such is Canada.

It's very telling that I'm even considering this, but if there existed a backup service where I could mail them a hard drive to load my data initially, and then upload only incremental changes, I would be all over that. Of course, uploading videos and such would still be out of the question.
i run Ubuntu as well (13.10, Dual Core 1.1GHz - though i set the clock to 800MHz, Intel HD) and nothing unusual happened when the animations were being displayed - if a shitty Intel chip can run the animations - i can't help and wonder you tweaked something you weren't suppose to?
Since people here talk about the difference of e-cigs and cigarettes , i.e. the lack of effects on MAOI, have anybody tried any juice that claims to have that effect on MAOI, for example "aroma ejuice" ?

How were the results for you ? And does anybody know about research or regulation of this types of ejuices ?

And since those same MAOI affecting compounds(probably beta carbolates) found in tobacco ,are found in brewed coffee, kinds of seasoning, grilled foods and other stuff, have anybody noticed a combination of vaping and some food more effective ?
I'm the baretorrent developer.

> it appears to be c++ (which is fine)

It also supports python extensions.

> but also entirely without tests? Or did I miss something?

You did not, but I'm up to a point where this is becoming very difficult to manage without unit testing, and it slows down and reduces the quality of my releases. I'm actively using baretorrent on debian and developing it on windows, but my tests on osx are limited. It also became a complex system much quicker than I anticipated (like most systems do).

Automated tests will come soon.
Bug Checker - analyze paths taken in binaries to find bugs
"I bet the requirements document for this thing doesn't exist...."

The NYT reported that in the last 10 months CMS on up made 7 major requirements changes. We've heard that the one requiring up front thoroughly verified registration was made rather late, August or September. And we've heard from multiple sources changes were made *through the week before launch".

Someone in CMS probably drafted one ... well, maybe, they aren't experienced in their former role as integrator. I'll bet it has less of a relation to reality than any requirements document I read in my quarter century career as a programmer....

Very interesting theory about Daschle. At the time, I thought it was "one scandal too many for an appointee" ... but as you note, the administration did allow others through, with Geithner as the head of the department that collects taxes being intergalacticly beyond the pale. So, yeah, why drop Daschle? And I can't think of anyone on the Cabinet with as much juice as he, excepting perhaps Holder, an old Clinton Justice Department hand, and the special case of holding over Gates for the DoD, which is not unheard of when you're in the middle of a war (while it was intraparty, Truman and LBJ did it).