skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would definitely expect the market to vertically integrate so that most SSDs are made by NAND vendors. That would mostly leave us with Samsung, Intel, Micron, and Toshiba.

But by the time the SSD market becomes totally boring PCM may arrive...
The Nature of Code: video lessons
I'd have to check the last crawl settings, but I believe I set the last crawl was set to truncate at 1 MB (response body size, so that could be 1 MB uncompressed or 1 MB compressed depending on what the source web server sent out).

At one point I was tried out a 10 MB limit, but the thing is we try to limit crawls to webpages and few are that big, but occasionally we'd hit sites ISDN-speed connections that would slow down the whole thing.

For the next crawl, we'll mark which pages are truncated and which aren't (an oversight in the last crawl) so at least you can skip over them.

Also, hopefully you'll find the new metadata files to be a little clearer. We switched over the same format Internet Archive uses and it contains quite a bit more data (xpath truncated paths for each link for instance).
SteroidsJs -- Build PhoneGap based apps with native performance.
I think it'll take much longer and be bigger. But don't expect a huge market the first year or two.
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I assume just the branding, really. They did very well with the gamer market.
tl;dr Actively maintaining a blog is incredibly difficult and kudos to you. I hope I eventually have that kind of self discipline.

I really wish I had the drive to do this. Every 6 months I sit down and tell myself that I'm going to start writing a blog or a journal. It usually starts out well. I create content that I truly believe is good, and I post fairly regularly for a while.

This is when problems begin to arise. The better my content becomes, the more I feel the need to make good content. I become snobbish with myself, discarding ideas that I would have deemed worthy when I started. My life begins to take over my time (I have a 40 hour job and 4 college classes right now) and I begin to have less time to post. These things build and build until eventually I am out of ideas that I think are "good", I don't feel properly qualified to post about the ideas I still like (because the things I am curious about tend to be things I'm still actively learning), and I begin to post less and less.

The thing that usually puts the last nail in the coffin is that my start and stop nature, and my ever changing set of interests prevent me from gaining any significant readership. I look back at old posts I have made and always think the same things: "This is no longer relevant.", "People interested in this are probably not interested in my current work.", or "How did I start out so well and fall off so far?".

I have a tremendous amount of respect for people that can actively maintain a blog at all, let alone write 1000 words a day and create truly great content on a weekly basis. All I have to say is keep going, and I hope that one day I have what it takes to keep my fingers moving on the keys for more than a month.
You can fetch a single WARC file directly like say:

s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz

They are around 850 MB each.

The text extracts and metadata files are generated off individual WARC files, so it is pretty easy to get the corresponding sets of files. For the above it would be:

s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/wat/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.wat.gz

s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/wet/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.wet.gz
Three mice are tied up on a tree in China because they steal vegetables
I don't have anything to add to the conversation except for the fact that your comment made me literally laugh out loud at its absurdity and naivete. Thanks, I needed that.
Violin Memory is about to go under as well, less than a year after they IPOed...
my god this is psychotic.

i'm sorry, i try to be polite but.... jesus.

i am 1000% confident that this particular bitcoin implementation of global currency is worth less than $12 billion USD. you are treating this currency like we are dividing up slices of the world money supply. We are not. People are paying $1000 and basically receiving an IOU from no one, with the hope they will be able to sell to future speculators.

If Bitcoin succeeded as an actual currency, it would be trivial to implement new blockchains and many such systems would exist in parallel (Litecoin, Ripple?). But so far, Bitcoin has proven nothing regarding stability, it is just wowing naive investors by increasing in value rapidly.

The problem in your analogy is that Facebook never sold accounts for $1000 because people are not that stupid, except when they start seeing $$ signs flash in front of their eyes. And why does it need to keep increasing in value if its divisible to like 6 decimal places? It's perfectly usable as a currency now. This is the internet, who the fuck needs WHOLE NUMBERS.

Just....... jesus, man.
Inflation isn't the only thing that affects the value of USD. UDS's perceived value fluctuates with regard to investors' value perceptions of other currencies, commodities, etc.

Edit: If you think that USD has a fixed value, you are mistaken. You may use it as your reference point, but that just makes you blind to the fact that the perceived values of all currencies and assets are fluctuating all the time. There are some which are more closely tied together, and some which are less.
Unfortunately that script would take thousands of years to solve the challenge. Whoever does will need to use a much more creative method - probably something circumventing the need to brute-force.
"Life form" subtilely connotes alien life, doesn't it? Especially when you put it in a sentence with NASA and Spacecraft.

When they discover actual life on Mars and Europa, it's probably going to have a lot less impact due to the lack of self restraint in using desensitizing wording like this among journalists (Scientific American??)
We shouldn't expect journalists to fact-check scientific papers, but if they had waited a whole 48 hours they could have benefited from others' fact checking.
Also interesting for machine learning. Where you can use it as a background collection.
There are a few different reasons I do not agree with this comment. For one, I refuse to subscribe to the idea that it's OK to run away from the problem and let patent trolls win by default. I'm the kind of person that stands up for what they believe is right, and thus I would prefer to stand and fight a patent troll. I applaud the organizations out there that are taking a stand (NewEgg, Rackspace, etc). You win some, and you lose some, but in the end I think it's important that people take a stand for what they believe is right. Another reason I do not agree relates to fragmented markets/laws outside of the US. While I think many will agree that the US Patent System has many problems, the one thing it does do well is remain consistent. When you look at the landscape outside of the US, it becomes very fragmented and inconsistent. You may or may not have rights. You probably won't get sued by a patent troll, but you might get ripped off. As an example, consider the Samwer Brothers and their approach towards respecting intellectual property. Granted, this is the other (extreme) end of the spectrum, but it's something to consider. So while the US System does have some problems, there are also some positives that can actually work in your favor. My takeaway from the entire issue; Do your own due diligence. I'm not a Lawyer, but I do know how to search the USPTO Database for Prior Art. It's not rocket science, anyone can do it. If you are a founder, and you are worried, spend some time researching it. I recently made a pretty major UX change to one of my projects based on this advice. I identified a (Microsoft) patent that related to what I was building, and I made sure that my upcoming product does not infringe. Of course one cannot be expected to catch all prior art, but I believe it should still be included in the process at some level.
No offense taken by your original comment. The fluidity of that JSbin on mobile is much better compared to mine. However, your version doesn't seem to work at all on IE8 or IE9. Also I feel like there's a lot of weight given to the words "jQuery plugin" that makes it feel like unnecessary bloat, but a good plugin is actually quite small (this is <300bytes gzipped+minified) and has a very small footprint if your combining all your scripts anyways.
Maybe there's a way to incorporate the best of both worlds? I'll look into it, but a pull request is always welcome :)
VHS was replaced with DVD and Blu-Ray both of which have a similar (if not thinner) physical presence. You are still able to proudly display your movie collection if thats what you want.
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Mac OS and Windows use UCS-2

Which parts of Mac OS? You'd have a lot of problems with Emoji support if that were true. To the best of my knowledge, it's UTF-16 everywhere.

Or do you actually mean Mac OS as in Mac OS 9, and not OS X?
> truly private money is an inferior alternative to the money that comes with the backing of a political authority.

By the Gresham's law [1] (i.e.: "Bad money drives out good") being an "inferior money" is actually a good thing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
I took this a step further for a recent client with a low budget and used separate social sites to manage the content. I'm certainly not the first to do this, but it's worth mentioning as a viable alternative for a lot of smaller sites.

This particular client produces television advertisements. Videos are pulled in from Vimeo, photos and text updates are pulled from Tumblr. The API data is cached locally with serialized objects to keep it speedy.

Since they already had active accounts on both services, initial content population was minimal. We were even able to use categorization strategies already present on Vimeo to organize content.
Would HN be excluded as a commercial site? :)
It's the title's fault, OP made no effort to explain what he was linking. Pretty annoying actually.
I am also not an economist, but I'd like to frame your Austrian/Keynesian comparison with another one:

Underinvestment (Austrian): There is less investment due to risk being less preferable to steady savings. Example: I won't risk 1 million dollars today on a risky investment if my 1 million dollars next year will be worth more.

Overinvestment (Keynesian): These is over investment due to inflation outpacing savings. People are forced to invest in risky ventures, as at least there is a chance you can earn money as opposed to losing money over time. Example: I risk my 1 million dollars today on a risky (subjective, I'm referring to -10% to 10% gains) investment and if not, will definitely lose 5 percent of that money.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter. Personally, I see strengths in both styles of economic policy, but believe that in our current economical climate, we are overinvesting and through central planning, mis-investing by stimulating the top echelon of investors who simply buy property (real estate asset prices go up), businesses (mergers & acquisitions), and commodities that hold their value. Look at the rise in value of fine art over the last 6 years. These to me, are signs of a bubble.
> On his impossibly beautiful blog

I found the parallax background incredibly distracting. Maybe I just lack focusing skills, but I would much rather read a plain text file than have a slightly laggy background change every time I scroll.
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I hadn't tested it on mobile (I also have an iphone). I should have a decent enough fix for it soon enough. The current implementation uses absolute positioning and a CSS transition rule. It would probably need some CSS transforms (translate3d perhaps?) to be fluid on iOS. I'll look into it.
Most string compare routines in the library offer a case insensitive compare option already, you don't have to normalize it.
The thing is the use of such a high figure means that it is actually the lack of stability that is at issue and not the deflation. Imagine we had a currency that was inflationary at a rate of 90%. Then there would be absolutely no reason for anyone to accept payment in such a currency. I t would be impossible to order materials to create widgets. Widgets would also not get made unless we had a more stable currency (or system of exchange) alongside our inflationary one.

It is easy to argue that it would be the rate of movement and not the direction that causes problems in transactions.
Being in <store> is now freedom? Should Google allow virus/spy/spamware to run free on their store? Libertas! How different is spamware from software that can brick one's device?
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i think i answered that question already, which is yes, but technically no. here is a rough Javascript version of the original example:

makeObj[] := Module[{obj, i = 0},
obj["inc"] := ++i;
obj["dec"] := --i;
obj[] := i;
obj];

makeObj = function() {
var i = 0;

var obj = function(in) {
switch(in) {
case "inc" : return ++i;
case "dec" : return --i;
case undefined: return i;
};
};

return obj;
};
Great job Lorenzo!

I'm excited to see where you take this.
I would be great if common crawl (or anyone else) would also release a document-term index for it's data. If you had an index, you could do a lot more things with this data.
To me, it just feels like Apple is dancing around just doing it the Windows way. Revision after revision they keep poking at the problem but don't want to do it the right way, and if feels like it's just because it was done first at Microsoft...which is silly IMHO.

All that being said, Windows needs to get on the multiple-desktop/workspace bandwagon. OS X's treatment of the subject is brilliant.
Yeah. Also, how do you computationally distinguish between a commercial and non-commercial site? Loads of grey areas.
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Customers buy a phone. That phone is loaded with terrible, awful, software and unpleasant branding. Customers want to remove that software and that branding.

One way is to use scary software like Cyanogenmod.

There is not other way.

Maybe Google and customers need to start pressuring carriers to stop loading phones with this awful software?
You sound almost exactly like me 2 years ago.
1. House in default, to be foreclosed
2. 3 kids under 6, wife was pregnant
3. Years of trying startups and all out of cash
4. Utilities all to be soon cut off
5. Getting any bit of cash to buy food

What I did.

1. As much as I swore never to return to work, I got a contract job (6 months). It stung, I wasn't in a good headspace at that time.

2. Borrowed some money from my family to cover the mortgage.

3. Saved my house from foreclosure by 6 hours using the borrowed money and my salary.

4. Kept the business running in the background and working on it at night.

5. Worked for 12 months, paying back everything, enjoying seeing my family eat good food once again and getting the occasional night out. What a treat to go and see a movie once in a while :) I can tell you going to the bottom gives you an incredible perspective on money and not what you think either.

6. Built up my contacts and pivoted my business. Lots of hard work and 2 years later I have 2 offices and a team of 7 people. (this is obviously a longer story, but for another day)

I recommend you get a job for the short term and get your life back in order. I can tell you that trying to grow a business while you are incredibly stressed about how you are going to eat or keep the lights on will only result in panic decisions and they will be bad.

If you have a passion to change the world, your families life and your own for the better, you will get back to business soon enough. Business owners have a burning passion to succeed at all costs and only consider this a temporary set back.

(Just a side note, some people have a fantasy of working hard (but not really), having lots of fun, getting traction easily, getting investment, get bought for a few billion and live happily ever after. If this is your plan, I would suggest setting up a career path, it will lead to a much happier life than a startup, in which the failure rate is very high and you have to be prepared to fail many times. Not work towards failure, just accept it as part of the journey.)
Dammit, it is not a drone if you control it with a radio. It is just an RC copter.
IS this all really that big of a deal? Everything you've described above shouldn't really shatter any sort of economic models, it just increases the velocity at which money is exchanged, and reduces any frictions that might occur during transactions. Nothing that can't be accounted for in existing models.
Replicant is the only project committed to software freedom that I know of.
Fair criticism. But the idea of a shared typed array is appealing, just for the simplicity. If you must have shared memory in JS, this is not a bad way to do it.
Agreed. I've almost given up on using a CMS. Developing on the Drupal platform (as mentioned by the author) was really painful. I've only found a few CMS' that get the heck out of my way and just let me write code.

This days if I have a static site around 10 pages, I just use .Net MVC project and use partial views to store the content. Much easier than using a CMS and I still retain all the control I want.
I think it's very readable; I read it in my head like a dialogue where you're trying to quickly confirm something with someone.

Lunch? Ok, we'll go to Chipotle. No? Ok, we'll stay here and work. (the colon becomes the "no?")

After years of JavaScript the little voices in my head have at least become useful.
No, not as far I know.

Jolla CEO Tomi Pienimäki went on record last month stating that devices will ship with its own app store partner, Yandex http://store.yandex.com I believe, not Google Play.

So apps consuming Play Services might work if a user was able to install the play services .apk, but I guess this would not be in a supported fashion.

Seems all very murky. Jolla claims full Android compatibility but I don't believe it has Android(™) compatibility. Would be a good developer FAQ.
> it obviously phases out as income increases.

Yes; if you'd bothered to read the last paragraph of my comment before responding to it, you would have seen that I reached the same conclusion.

> I really dislike how little people think BI systems through before dismissing them

I really dislike how people like you can't be bothered to read and comprehend someone's comments before making these little dismissive responses. You should work on your reading comprehension before you accuse other people of not thinking things through.
Seems like he improved readability just now. :)

https://github.com/ENFOS/FlowupLabels.js/commit/eac25eda2534...
You could have said the same for PayPal.
I think you should make it free with in-app purchases.
I think he's making a liquidity point. It may be easy from a process standpoint to cash out, but the question is how much the value of your bitcoins may change whenever you cash out.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/liquidity.asp

Part of the value of dollars as a medium of exchange is that the value does not fluctuate greatly from day to day or minute to minute. In the short term, you can rely on prices remaining fairly stable.
It feels exactly the same arguing from the other side. I think that means we're working with fundamentally different premises.
> if you don't have to pay taxes by working in an alternate currency, then you would obviously want to use that

Unless you want to legally live and do business in a country, in which case you're going to have to pay the taxes that country levies in the legal tender currency.

The value of the US dollar, in essence, is the value of being able to live and do business in the US plus the avoided cost and risk of doing so illegally (which is generally quite high).
That's a valid point. My train of thought was probably something like: "This is a pretty simple plugin, I can get away with this" mixed in with simply not knowing how long that line was going to be when I started writing it that way.
I've just updated the code to be more legible. I completely agree with your observation.
> Mozilla is too much focused on Brendan Eich baby. They should really move forward because JavaScript is becoming new IE6.

How is a language which all browsers implement comparable to an obsolete browser?

In any case, JavaScript is alive and well. Look at the continuous growth of node.js: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=node.js
That's what I meant, should have been clearer sorry. I searched on this thread for a link to it. I should have searched the actual site - obviously a Marco post would be there...
Overengineered software systems are like sex - every generation thinks they invented it.
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Do you still have your health? Then you have everything. Go work hard and try again. Start a less stupid company next time around. At least you tried.
Are you saying PayPal has upended monetary economics?
The three main reasons the article gives for why bit coin will fail:

"Its value is uncertain, its legal status is unclear, and it could easily become valueless if users lose faith"

Is this not also true of state run currency? Have we not seen massive deflation during the great depression, in Israel, in Russian and in many other part of the world?

The legal status is an interesting one, but given that the feds got some 31million (and rising) USD worth of BTC from the Silk Road seizure I doubt they will make BTC illegal.... But it could happen in the future.

Loosing faith, well believe it or not this is true of all currencies. That is why it's called Fiat, there is nothing other than faith behind currencies.

So really the only issue is the legality, which basically translates into government regulation, which is what we already have for "state run currencies", so at worst BTC becomes regulated by the state and becomes more of a "state run currency". In some views I guess that is failing, but that means that worst case it will end up like cash but with a lot of technical benefits.

I think the real issue with BTC is deflation, and that will probably continue for a long time. At least until all the BTC are out, if not for much longer.
I am thankful that life isn't worse than it currently is. That is the only thing to _ever_ be thankful for.
If some claim to title is omitted from the public record, how exactly would this guard against it?
Ideas as a service, you're young an full of creativity "Express ya self".
Claiming Bitcoin's Bug Bounty
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Please tell me about these other countries that respect your privacy. I'm all ears.
Is there anyone who wants to discuss this?
I like how http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ doesn't really tell you what it is or why I would want it.
The article is stating that developers should lean towards going static versus using any content management system. Would you like to provide a meaningful comment about how Prismic voids this author's argument?
Google is a new Apple?
In German, 'ß' is definitely not just a ligature of 'ss'.

Consider 'Masse' (mass) vs. 'Maße' (dimensions).

Uppercasing these words will necessarily produce ambiguity.

It would be equally tempting -- and wrong -- to treat the German characters 'ä', 'ö' and 'ü' as ligatures of 'ae', 'oe' and 'ue'. They're pronounced the same, and the latter forms commonly occur as substitutions in informal writing, but they also occur in proper names, where it would be incorrect to substitute them with the former. However, if you want to sort German strings, 'ä', 'ö' and 'ü' sort as 'ae', 'oe' and 'ue'.