skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm...your examples are dissimilar: Yahoo and Microsoft have very different challenges than Blackberry or Nokia (they're in a much better position), and I'd put Zynga in a third category.

That said: some notorious companies have executed big turnarounds from near-death to leading.

The most notorious is of course Apple :) .

In the tech sector we've witnessed the reinvention of IBM (from mainframes to services), mostly copied by HP.

Some articles:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americas-ten-biggest-corpor...

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/turnaround/
Internet Explorer’s new official mascot is a robot-fighting anime heroine
> then word would get around quickly and insurance companies would lose business as honest rivals emerge.

I can never tell if someone actually believes the free market opinion they give, or if they're parodying stuff other people say.

People buy insurance by price. Insurers cut price by not paying out.
And now Mozilla will hide or get rid of that feature because ignorant users accidentally enable it and break the web. ;-)
This is 2013. Why are we still talking about backups as a lesson learned? Is it because startups are skimping on Sys Admins?
With good opsec (i.e. only PGP-encrypted messages) sellers should still be able to operate safely.

Buyers slightly less, considering that the sellers might be cops (which is also the case on a non-honeypot site), or because the PGP-keys of the sellers might be fake (for MITM).

But considering that feds generally seem to target sellers, I don't think the usefulness of this as a honeypot would be huge. But it's definitely possible, especially given that the feds have the source code and all.
Hm, this strategy, of overloading the system with false positives, is cleverer than the standard warrant canary, but it also forces you to understate your privacy protections.
Was this really a dual drive failure, or was this the rather common single drive failure plus undetected errors on a backup drive, that show up when trying to rebuild?

Because that happens a lot, and it's very important to do a full read of every drive in the array at least weekly! You have two options for doing that:

If you are using linux md raid then run the "check" command, which automatically does the test using background I/O (but does still impact things). On debian, and perhaps other distros too the mdadm command will do it every month by default. Make sure to set a minimum speed or it might never finish if you have a busy system.

You can also use the built in SMART on the disk to do a long self test. This also uses background I/O and I think it has a bit less impact on existing operations. (But you have to have some idle time on the disk or it will never finish.) If you install smartmontools you can set smartd to do this test for you every week, and keep an eye on the results.

I personally do both, plus a short self test of the disk every night.
What is the best/cost effectiv way to backup a windows server?
By what measure?

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

Also, a single number will be misleading. France has fewer immigrants and thus a different cultural structure. It also has very different neighbors and trade partners.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-bo...

"I think you need a lot of context to seriously examine anything." -- The Wire, Season 5
This is not really a safety net Vincent, but you are really talking investments. How would a state judge your capabilities in this.

I think the basic support is in place besides some counterproductive conditions that go with it, eg (as you said) the obligatory job applications.

So essentially anyone with entrepreneurial spirit can start kicking it. A safety net seems very unsafe method to foster/filter entrepreneurs.

Best method in my opinion is to support growth and activity as much as you can as a government and provide low thresholds for startup needs.

In short, i am a Brad Feld schooled adept ;) Entrepreneurs are the leaders, others, like government are feeders and should not sit on the leader chair in any way.
No one in the government cares because this only effects poor people and they don't have the money to make a difference.

If Obama wanted to make a real change he would have stopped the war on drugs already.
Atomic precision or atomically precise design?
As long as you issue the pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup pair and keep the WAL logs. If you don't, then you've got a corrupt backup.

At least you would catch that problem in your first test restore.
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pg_dump is a logical backup, that is, as you've seen, it queries the all of the data in your database in writes to a file in the form of queries that will re-create all of your data in a new database. This great and very flexible, but as you've seen has some limitations.

You probably want to look into physical backups, where you basically copy the actual files that postgres is actually using to store your databases on disk (although it's not quite that simple, so do some googling on it). This has the nice advantage of not requiring you to run queries against your database to back it up. It also gives you a consistent point-in-time backup of your database.
That's blatantly not true. You have to press:
ctrl+esc, up arrow, enter, c, m, d, enter, alt+m, enter
(or something along those lines)
And in the end I'm pretty sure the windows command prompt doesn't allow you to maximise it because it can't adapt to the changing line and row number.

Also how do you get Windows 95 to manage your X session? ;)
Seriously though, we're all talking about Linux here.

edit: I understand your confusion now, I think you failed to realise that meta+enter also opens the said terminal
> And if you just launched and have a single instance running, let your alpha users know that there will probably be some downtime.

That's true. But there's no reason for extended downtime even if that instance goes down. Make sure your whole setup is described in chef/puppet/salt/ansible/cf/whatever and even a rebuild from scratch takes only minutes then. There's really little reason to skip that these days.
Sometimes they don't resolve properly too. And for vide, it's worse, they don't set the Mime type sometimes, which is quite irritating, for example say Mp4, because the video tag needs this to be set for it to work consistently :(
A Step by Step Guide to Pre-selling
I've submitted them to the wayback machine just in case.
"Where is everybody?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
Yes but if they are all leaving India to make technological advancements elsewhere, then how is that protecting India from thugs?
"Return to Justinia" - or How I kept three kids engaged for over four hours
am a fan of strongly-typed languages

Nit-pick: suspect you are actually a fan of statically-typed languages. Python is a strongly-typed language, but not statically-typed.

(general easy way to tell them apart: in a statically-typed language, both the name and the value bound to it have a type, and those types must match; in a dynamically-typed language only the value has a type; in a weakly-typed language, operations on incompatible types are permitted, and they may be coerced for compatibility; in a strongly-typed language, operations on incompatible types are an error -- usually at compile-time or equivalent for statically-typed, usually run-time for dynamically-typed)
This goes to show that Microsoft employees, too, procrastinate on HN.
Easy way to find out buy something cheap and ship it to your neighbor. Your neighbor will have a bad day but won't won't get in trouble and there won't be any evidence that he bought it only that someone shipped it to him/her.
Perhaps life is common, but sentient space-fairing species aren't
Isn't that pretty much what Vipul's Razor does? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipul%27s_Razor
EDIT: I mixed up high vs low frequencies, as the reply pointed out, so I've edited this to be correct now.

The reason we can get away with throwing away low frequencies in JPEG is because humans are prone to notice significant details rather than tiny details.

High frequencies of a Fourier transform of an image == tiny detail (like being able to distinguish individual hairs)

Low frequencies of a Fourier transform of an image == huge details (like someone's face).

So you transform, set part of the result to zeroes, and compress. To display it you uncompress, transform back, and display it. The zeroes manifest themselves as an almost-imperceptible blur.
One thing all turnarounds had in common: change starts at the top. Out with the old CEO (and preferrably most of the upper management).

As you said, morale and bad press are huge issues. I think Yahoo! did pretty well on those fronts with Mayer.
Isn't that a terrible idea considering the feds have the source code?

Would be fine if the HTML is the same but the backend should be redone
With 190,000 Smartwatches Sold, Pebble Boosts iPhone Support
Pebble Announces SDK 2.0 & ANCS Support
Statement by Sarah Harrison
I'm also interested in how many hours. Additionally, were you employed full time or taking some sort of hiatus while learning?
Here comes the backtracking via public announcement; something we've come to expect from Apple over the past few years.
Just adding my personal experience: my sites went from a 30ms response time (measured by Google's webmaster tools, as Googlebot sees it) to over 250ms on CloudFlare, for static (cacheable) content.

Turning it back off gave a very clear improvement both in my own experience and according to Google's chart.
Nope. FF24 on Mac.

Edit: updated to FF25, still smooth.
This looks awesome. Interestingly, I started writing something similar to this myself not too long ago. I was using DynamoDB as the backer though.

I think some more aggregate functions would be useful:

- Count (not listed on the Functions page, but used in the query examples?)
- Sum
- Standard Deviation
- First
- Last
Turing plutonium waste and furnace slag into glass could reduce waste 90%
This is a good start, but the guide is actually really old - the copyright is from 2010.

Some of this stuff is no longer valid.
I use postgres and ran into this issue as well.

Inside postgres.conf for the slave I have the following:

# These settings are ignored on a master server.

hot_standby = on # "on" allows queries during recovery
# (change requires restart)
max_standby_archive_delay = 900s # max delay before canceling queries
# when reading WAL from archive;
# -1 allows indefinite delay
max_standby_streaming_delay = 900s # max delay before canceling queries
# when reading streaming WAL;
# -1 allows indefinite delay
#wal_receiver_status_interval = 10s # send replies at least this often
# 0 disables
#hot_standby_feedback = off # send info from standby to prevent
# query conflicts

So I set it to 15 minutes for this specific backup server which I am okay with. I already have another server with much shorter time delays.
I probably spent 3 - 5 hours per day, 6 days per week. I kept myself motivated mostly by choosing the easiest resources to learn from I could find, which made it much easier to make measurable progress. I didn't have anyone else helping me in real life, so I just relied on the Udacity forums, Stack Overflow, and IRC. But again, because I was using really easy materials to learn from, fortunately I never got stuck that badly. Usually it was just a matter of putting down the book and doing a couple YouTube/Google searches.
Amazon vs. Ben and Jerry's
I agree. It's hard. But think that's a different type of problem. This is not a case of disagreement about a moral question. This is a case of politicians choosing politically convenient over moral paths and effectively being dishonest about their judgment.

There are certain issues (drugs prohibition is a big example) where politicians often 'come out' about their true position after leaving office. They don't want to be the "weed guy," so they don't publicly support legalization while in office. This is different from genuinely disagreeing about the correct policy.

Even just honesty would be an improvement. "I think marijuana/gay marriage/whatever should be legal, but I don't think the majority want that/it's not worth pursuing right now/insert real reason they aren't pushing this." I don't think that's impossible. It requires a change from us. We need to be willing to let politicians openly hold a position while not pursuing it in legislation.

For example (I'm not American, so this is contrived), my view on the American gun issues is that widespread ownership of firearms for self defense is bad, but it's going to be very difficult to pursue disarmament effectively when so many people disagree so strongly.
Backup the data and configuration information to an object store (AWS S3), use configuration management tools so you can programmatically provision a new server (dedicated or virtual, doesn't matter) in the event of failure. Provisioning should include functionality to deploy your application, and to restore your data to whatever data storage application (SQL, NoSQL, etc) you're using.

If you have questions, more than happy you provide free advice.
Fantastic tut on Angular. I wish you wrote on a different blog engine.
This is almost like an Onion article
any experiences with Google's PageSpeed?
Sounds to me like you have no choice but to shard your database in order to reduce the write load on a single database.

Or upgrade your database servers' hardware (more RAM, faster CPU, faster SSD) to the point where you can dump the database.
We've always been spied on and we will be. Just be honest souls. And let them spy or do whatever; This talk is kinda tiring now. I'll not worry as long as there are checks in the system that someone inside is not misusing this information.
really? i think you might be mistaking exception logging for quick debug lines, like when a certain line isn't being hit for some reason and you just want to quickly know if it does hit. you would clearly delete these quick messages before checking in. No need to get so dramatic ...
> Google's inter-dc links are way too big for any appliance type of thing to encrypt

Frankly, no.

There are numerous network devices that can handle AES-256 on 10 Gbps links, as a matter of routine, whilst doing 'mundane' switching for the day job.

If you have the money there are dedicated hardware that can handle the same at 100 Gbps. IP Cores is one from memory that produces the circuitry for that. They can throw compression in there as well if you like.

Encrypting data links isn't magic. Google just didn't do it.
The Fermi paradox is "why a highly developed civilization isn't behaving like a Western colonialists or tourists toward primitive natives of some remote wilderness".
Exactly. Theoretical potentialities regarding the subversion of the using population thereafter by the government is too speculative and too far ahead to worry about.

I agree that the government usually messes things up, but in this case, we need to think of the people suffering the most; the people serving prison time for this drug. Once we can get them freed, and have the using population treated as law abiding citizens, we'll see how it goes IMO.
Not unexpected of course, the demand for narcotics and other services is still out there. I can't help but wonder if this isn't a bit like becoming the new head of some terrorist organization, the target is now painted day-glo orange and we know that it is not only on the 'radar' of law enforcement, its a priority target. The clock starts, and a number of resources are now tasked with taking you out.

Of course the genius of the Princess Bride with respect to the DPR character is that the character cannot be killed or captured or prosecuted, because it isn't really a person, it is an idea. And that was wonderfully illustrated in the book, film, and now in world around us.
You'd have to be a complete moron or a huge addict to use this. How much do you want to bet this is run by the FBI and filled with various browser exploits designed to de-anonymize you? I wouldn't even connect to it, let alone buy or sell drugs on it.
By the way if you need help feel free to e-mail/ping me.
The greatest weird diet story ever written:

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2002/mar/09/restandrelaxat...
DealScoopr gets a makeover
Show HN: Mindie is MTV for mobile.
Lonely Planet's Best Destinations of 2014
@edit 2: IIRC, that's just the launcher and Sailfish SDK, but it's a start.
I have only a very small data set: myself.

Amazon tried to recruit me (I have almost 30 years experience, much of it as team lead). However, when I found out about the corporate "death march" culture, I decided not to pursue it. My annual salary would go up, but my hourly compensation would go down.

It might not matter to your wife and kids, but it matters to mine.

Otherwise, the work there did in fact sound pretty interesting, but the opportunity cost was too high.
Although I am a supporter of (and user of) free public health care, doesn't it make sense to charge people more for insurance if they are doing something that is proven to seriously damage their health?
If the "Principal/Architect's" equity grant affords him a definitive say in the direction of the company, then he's an owner, not a worker. If it doesn't, then the grant is indistinguishable from an ESPP with a larger discount, in terms of raw compensation, and any hours he works over 40 is unpaid (i.e. 'free' work).

With respect to #2: A raise is not, in fact, compensation. It's a promise of future compensation based on future work. Calling it anything else is, frankly, less than honest.
The author is sweet, his conclusion was "always backup your data" if it was me I would probably say "I'm moving away, will never trust them again on my data" ..
Self-correcting crystal may lead to next generation communication tech
Why The Deep Web Has Washington Worried
I sometimes think the answer is both boring and sad: everybody is just really, really, unimaginably, far away.

Even if we manage to continue for another 10,000 years without causing our own extinction, will we come up with anything capable of moving people even 10% of the speed of light? If we do, will we bother to go to the stars?
...or marketing!
This is bunk. You're paid to do work which can be done in 40 hours/wk or you're being exploited (and so are a lot of other people). When you're 60 would you rather have memories with your kids, or have the satisfaction of writing lots of code in the 2010s that is not being used anymore because it got obsolete/automated? (don't believe that can happen? Talk to rule-based AI researchers from the 80s)

The only reasons to do long hours are because a) you need a temporary career boost, and b) you're Batman and the world depends on you.
Open source robot kit lets you BYO Arduino or Pi
>This also misses the point - projects start on time and end late. at the time the deadline was agreed to, we happily accepted payment.

Deadlines are artificial constructs in software development, usually built up and justified using completely fictional inputs. It amazes me how many can input assumptions and guesses and then treat the output as some concrete statement of fact.

This isn't to use the too common "it'll be done when it's done, man" Dude-ism, but it is a complete cop-out to point to some initial, often agreed-to-under-duress calendar mark as the agreement to unlimited overtime. It never means that.

I remember being in an agile meeting once where everyone estimated out some features and gave them durations (span of weeks based essentially on gut feel). These were all studiously entered into the workboard, where the manager then said "okay so that is n hours assuming 6.5 hours of work a day [assuming administrative overhead, bug fixes, etc]. So now if we just put in 9 hours of work a day we'll be done by [some calendar date]". That is the nonsense that yields most "deadlines".
If you're referring to the Orange team yes, they're pretty good.

Brandon Downey has proved time and time again that his incompetence gets in the way of protecting Google's network. Perhaps if he spent less time posting garbage on eng-misc and more doing his job we could have implemented security measures to prevent this way sooner.

Point your browser at go/privacyboost and search on Moma for Autobahn and the related CLs.
> Why does anyone deserve anything? Nature itself does not act that way.

And yet we've progressed from our prehistoric roots and have decided as a society that everyone does deserve basic rights.

> How about those of us born into a life of privilege work harder until suffering is alleviated, until pain is removed, until equality is reached.

Working harder at a mundane job won't achieve this. At best it means you'll just have less family time, leisure time, and be unhappier. At worst it means you're taking a bigger slice of the global economic pie, and contributing to inequality.
Me too. As I know the DO backup is saved on Amazon no?
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APM survival guide for Black Friday 2013: the perfect storm of online shopping
As a kid, weed is easier to get than alcohol. Heroin might be less common but only because its not as popular.
We work with a home-rolled solution. What don't you like about it?
I'm getting a 404 on this page: https://mist.io/pricingconfirm, when I try to confirm my registration.
Nice! I've been thinking, if there were more open-source apps for iOS, then the developer account could become the new (albeit pricey) jailbreak.

Maybe someone could even build a nice installer or wrapper around Xcode so that non-technical people can install such apps (and pretend to the phone they were developing them).

(Disclaimer: I'm more familiar with Android than with iOS development, don't know for sure this would work)
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A serious question: while I have nothing against Silk Road (the drug war is a waste of money anyways), aren't people afraid of putting stuff in their body that they had an anonymous person send to them? I mean, unless the seller has a reputation, isn't there is a substantial risk of using that drug?

Are my fears unfound? On one hand, the idea of buying drugs online is probably more safe than doing it on the streets, but the anonymity this offers has a potential downside like the one I mentioned above.
Perhaps the better thing to do for this would be that no changes are made between the last release candidate and the final release. Some projects do it, some don't.

Mistakes can be made if you have to do version number tweaks in various places before releasing.
Wouldn't it be a great honeypot for one big bust? Delay the launch as long as possible due to "load issues" to bring in as many sellers as possible and then take them all down after their first transaction.
"Stopping a war on drugs waged by the police and courts and prisons doesn't have to include giving up on discouraging drug use."

There's big business in prisons and law enforcement. There's also big business in rehab and pharma. Getting the monied interests to shift their focus from one of incarceration to one of health shouldn't be this hard. We just need to shift dollars from one big industry to another. Perhaps pharma and health companies need bigger lobbying efforts?