skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yev here ;-) -> http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/11/12/how-long-do-disk-drives... We posted this earlier in the month. The drives inside the external drives that were shucked performed pretty well. We were guessing that they would fail more frequently but that just didn't turn out to be the case. We're currently collecting even more data and hope to release it soonishly :)
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Thank you, I will definitely do so.
This seems like something that should be part of their business instead of waiting for catastrophes.
Great article. I have been living in Silicon Valley for the last tree months because I accepted a contracting gig at Google. My wife absolutely loves Mountain View and she would like to move there. I resist because our home is in the mountains of Central Arizona - a very affordable area to live. My argument against living in high cost areas like Silicon Valley is that for a lot of knowledge work, location does not much matter. Remote work is very easy to get especially if consulting rates are adjusted for lower cost of living and no commuting costs.

I view Silicon Valley as a really fun place to visit and live for a while, but if I was not very wealthy I would not make it a permanent home.
The 7zip difference is indeed shocking.
Virgin Mobile sucks. I've been on their network for about 2.5 years now. Coverage is poor and data speed is terrible. The only good thing is that it's cheap but it seems like T-Mobile is cheaper and better.

Also, one other thing - their customer service told me that I wouldn't be able to use an unlocked Nexus 4 on their network - so make sure your phone is usable with them before buying one.

I myself am planning to get myself either a N5 or a MotoG and switch to T-Mobile.
As others have pointed out, the reason why this works is that Git for Windows is bundled with msys.

You could achieve the same ends by installing msys standalone, but I guess many already have Git for Windows so this is a simpler path.

The key benefits msys has over cygwin, from my experience, are how lightweight it is, and how easy and fast it is to set up. I wrangled with cygwin for far too long (for no good purpose) before switching to msys and then GNU/Linux.
"Devops" can be considered a philosophy, a methodology, or a movement. It doesn't mean "ops monkey smart enough to code."

Referring to a human as a "devop" is equivalent to calling someone an "agile".
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If you want a particularly nauseating example of the latter phenomenon, look at the question Cameron was asked immediately after the "Islamic extremism" question...
Quick question that I couldn't figure out from reading documentation. Can this download a file from bittorrent and http simultaneously? A number of Linux ISOs are downloadable from http mirrors as well as a torrent.
> survived the biggest thread, global nuclear war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doomsday_Clock_graph.svg seems to disagree.
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You can also write a pretty simple program to do essentially `tail -F /var/log/nginx/access.log | logger --server some.host`. I'm doing something like that. It works, but I still don't like it. The idea of nginx hanging while trying to write to FIFOs I like even less.
Ooh ohh I've got an idea. Put things back how they were. YouTube doesn't make sense as a primary Google-branded property. It's users have a different of needs than other Google-branded products do. Hell, YouTube isn't even housed in Mountain View. It's in a different city.
"Small note on the mmap thing; a lot of people consider the mmap based storage engine a big issue (I tend to agree)."

This. Aside from general reliability issues I've had in the past, which are definitely fixable and might be now, this design decision is the thing that will cripple, and continue to cripple the db. The idea that some how the kernel is going to better at managing a db's memory is ridiculous. Kernel paging was designed for a completely different use case, it's not optimized to manage the memory of a database. The idea that somehow this line of reasoning: "oh hey guys, those Linux kernel hackers are smart and they can do it way better then use so let's just use their memory management system" was ok in the mind of the MongoDB creators really puts me off. It doesn't matter how many geniuses work on kernel memory management when they are solving a completely different problem then you need to solve, all memory management schemes aren't equal. When providing a db you need full control to be able to probably tune memory management to fit your needs, there is no magical fix for this.
I think this is creative and shows some serious design skills. I am looking to hire a designer and this got my attention, so I'm reaching out.

So I'd say it works as a resume.
Be sure to add in "Bed-wetters need not apply" or else you'll be sifting through a mountain of resumes.
Just calculate the boat's water displayment via some very approximate measure. Then use that to determine buoyancy relative to boat weight and just integrate that overtime and add some dampening to represent friction/inertia.

But there is a better way of doing interactive waves from a boat, wave particles:

http://www.cemyuksel.com/research/waveparticles/waveparticle...
It's down now :)
Actually, it sounds like the logic of Java proponents.
Interesting Census Data Visualization
especially the one that shows migration in and out of California over years.
a lot of the central node community started on couch
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the HN scoring algorithm and penalty policy?
I personally think that there is good content being missed and am annoyed when something gets randomly pushed down when it's obviously getting a lot of attention. Just curious what others think.
The senators are pushing a surveillance reform bill. It does them no good to question the motives of the intelligence community, the majority of which are employees like most of us. On the other hand, accusing them would just make them enemies instead of allies. Hence the paragraph.
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http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis
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Craig,
is the zero-charge for bitcoins purchased with dollars? If so, is it applied when we place the order on Friday, or when the order is executed by coinbase?
I read it as the Chinese government has banned Google services. Since Google phones have the services baked in the phones are also banned.
Without "legal fictions", what's to keep someone more capable than you to simply take it from you?

Laws don't keep people from taking tangible items, they only punish afterwards. The only thing that stops someone from taking something tangible from you is your ability to stop them. Nothing stops someone from making a copy of information they already have.

Think of all the "priests" throughout various cultures in history. Think of why encryption exists. Think of why the CIA and NSA exist.

Secret versus public knowledge. They are two entirely different things. This discussion is about intentionally published knowledge.

Wait, by (1) you mean if rape, murder, theft ever become the common case, it will be OK? You know, like when it happens during wars?

Even during war none of those is the common case. That's why we prosecute people for those crimes in times of war too. If those things actually become the common case, we can cross that bridge when we come it.

But you know what is rivalrous? The food, shelter and clothing creators need to live to create new works.

Yes sir, Mr Valenti!

Would you share here all your private information

Again, secret versus public.
I don't disagree with the sentiment expressed by Sens. Udall, Wyden, etc. This (sub-) thread isn't about whether the surveillance program is "OK" but about this comment that spawned this thread: "Senators have to go to the press to try to stop the government from doing what clearly breaks the law."

Most of the NSA programs that have been exposed to date are not "clear" violations of the law. They are attempts to operate at the boundaries of the law as currently understood, but they seem to reflect a genuine attempt to stay within those boundaries.

Distinctions that people on Hacker News dismiss because they have a broad-based ideological opposition to surveillance, like "metadata versus data" or "U.S. persons versus foreigners" are in fact the operative markers delineating the bounds of the law.

Merely following the law doesn't turn a bad idea into a good idea, or justify a program, but it does say something about whether people are acting in good faith. What doesn't advance the debate is saying that people in the government must be acting in bad faith because they are "clearly" violating the law, when in fact you just don't understand what the law is.
I can't believe someone else on HN saw "Prada"... but yeah, from what I can remember. The other thing, though, was that the employees were willing to put up with a lot of BS just because of the cultural cachet of that magazine where they worked. I'm saying that same kind of cachet that PA has is why someone who is way overqualified would want to work there for peanuts...now mind you, I'm not saying it's a good idea or that I would do it (although after years of web dev and support, I would be eminently qualified) - but I would wager they get swamped with qualified candidates just because they are who they are.
Android phones in China use a fork of AOSP which doesn't have Google services.
I'm experiencing the same issue still -- had to view source to get the project's GitHub URL. :-)

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While this is true, I think the OP was making the point that Labour would not have got in to Westminster (or certainly not have had so long in government) without the Scottish vote, and the Labour government in Westminster until 2010 was certainly backed by the scots.
Relevant comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799328

" CloudFlare generates 50gb/s of logs globally and have handled collecting this volume in two ways. Historically the logs are sent to a local syslog-ng through the use of a PIPE and the forwarded to central logger. This can be done with nginx with no patches by just treating the PIPE as file. Just make sure you do a little buffering inside nginx.

access_log /dev/nginx_access log_format_name buffer=64k flush=10s;

Since this is a pipe there is still some blocking IO, but no worse off then writing to local file."
My buddy Corey designed it - https://twitter.com/cdugd
You can use the ADD build instruction in the Dockerfile to upload any part of your source repo into the container. Then more RUN instructions to manipulate that, for example compile the code etc.

Here are 2 examples:

https://github.com/steeve/docker-opencv
https://github.com/shykes/docker-znc
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MongoDB therefore, is not a general purpose database. I recommend http://www.amisalabs.com
Right now, the Americans spend billions to defend against men with $5 boxcutters from Wal-Mart. Defense is more expensive than offense by a large multiple. A little more capability to attack requires an immense amount of additional capability to defend against.
Cool.

I know a few Backblaze people are reading/posting in these comments, so I'll ask here:

Do you guys know the approximate price of when you can purchase them direct in 10,000 blocks?
Then you'd rather live in a world where inventors and their corresponding corporations can't actually sell anything, lest advantageous innards be studied and duplicated. Instead, they have to hire armies of lawyers to issue non-disclosure agreements to all their customers, who are greatly constrained in their use of new inventions because of the need for secrecy. It's all the same to the lawyers.
Recap of Python's Jessica McKellar talk at recent conference
There's something about (consevative, Liberal) that itches akward, although you may be right in a narrow sense.
btrfs will probably compare favorably to lvm.. But it's just an educated guess at this point.
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You can apply this logic to several other topics of the day as well. What about bitcoin posts? What about all the Linux/MogoDB posts?

I find it interesting only the NSA articles get penalized. When in reality, you can make the same argument for a host of other topics not getting penalized.
I sincerely hope you're joking, at least among programmers!

You're right about national identity, though, a concept I would happily burn if it were possible. Worldview[1] is a terrible thing.

[1] http://www.skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-now-freel...
Introvert/extrovert/oral/anal/hysteric aren't meaningless in any sense of the word. They describe specific and intelligible concepts that are now irreversibly ingrained in cultural discourse. Whether you like it or not, they do and will continue to mean something for a very long time.

I suspect you meant to make claims about plausibility or truth within scientific discourse rather than about the meanings of words.
Pedantic, perhaps, but the word you are looking for is "cachet", not "cache". They have very different meanings.
I'm working on a mobile/web app that lets users track their medication intake. It will use nfc tags that you tap each time you take the medication, so there's no risk of taking it more than the recommended number of times daily. It will also keep track of an side-effects you experience and prompt you to call the nearest pharmacy for refills. At the moment, I think I will target Android for the mobile app.
> When things go wrong in California or New York or Massachusetts, those states aren't blamed: the individuals take the heat! (What a concept!)

Well, as a Florida resident, I think we must be some exception to your rule then. It seems we always get blamed as a whole for the actions of the few.
The guys at MongoDB are working on moving this to a more fine-grained lock in the future. In practice, it's not usually a problem but it'll be less so going forward.
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That is about as far from "terrible" as I can imagine the process being for a minor (in the United States) traveling internationally unaccompanied by their legal (in the United States) guardian.
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I am on latest chrome on win8, I still get that message. I guess it needs something more powerful than the onboard GPU I have.
Perhaps you can explain?
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It scares me that we now have 6 blade razors: http://www.dorcousa.com/sxa1000-6-blade-system-for-men/

I'll stick with a single blade.
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"flatten" is a simplification, what I mean is that the devicemapper thin provisioning module uses a data structure on disk that has a complexity that is independent of the snapshot depth. I did not mean that the Docker image itself is somehow flattened.

I don't think there will be any performance problems with deep layering of images, either on dm or ads.
This doesn't seem like a "terrible" TSA experience at all? I know everyone loves to hate the TSA/Government, but this seems like a relatively normal procedure, especially for a 16 year old traveling with a 19 year old.

According to his description of events, the first TSA officer did nothing wrong but check his note and then send him through to make sure everything checked out. I know the OP might be insulted (because he's 16, he doesn't need a note), but that doesn't mean it's a terrible TSA experience when someone asks.

I'm all for hating the TSA, but I would not call this terribly by any stretch of the word, it's about as far from terrible as one could get.
Its a wonderful analysis, kens if you would ever like to come work for me identifying robot search clients just give a shout :-). I chafed a bit though at calling it a 'penalty'. Isn't it really a 'moderation' ? The scoring is adjusted by the moderators to be more the site they want to have and so they moderate articles that they feel aren't appropriately more heavily than those that are appropriate?

I understand that for some people the moderation choices offend them, I think that is unavoidable, but the goal is, I believe, to make a 'better' collection not to shoot down particular articles.
Yeah I don't see that in the OP, I just see him saying that we've gone way overboard in terms of how afraid we are of things that are or at least should be laughably small risks.
But can we please have multi-segmented downloads without having to use 2nd party wrapper?
Do you know what version that happens in? I tested on my 32 and 64 bit platforms with golang 1.1 and a static definition of an integer results in type int (which is explicitly 32 bit)

package main
import "fmt"
import "reflect"
func main() {
i := 3
z := reflect.ValueOf(i)
fmt.Printf("%s\n", z.Kind())
}
// $./test
// int
// $

It's my understanding that this intentional and won't change, only explicit declarations of int64 are 64-bit.
China is taking over the world
Relevant: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/04/27/473096/romney-b....

Although it is a weird dichotomy if you think about it. People let parents pay for their college to the tune of $100k+ and don't feel any obligation to justify or defend the investment.
And btw, the system won't operate now if anyone actually tries to test it. Too many dependent systems doing things that I spun down.

Tell Salesforce to hold an open judging and I'll spin them back up. And EVERYONE should get a chance to show off their applications.
Thinking by analogy is limited. An algorithm is no more a house than the Internet is a "series of tubes".

If Juan and I each claim the house then our furniture and our bodies would be in each other's way if we used it at the same time.

If you use my algorithm (add each value in order and check against a checksum provided from another account) to balance your check book, it won't keep me from balancing mine.

Comparisons to the industrial revolution and medical devices are likewise bogus analogies because it takes time and resources to turn designs into physical products. I can use my algorithm and profit from it as soon as I've worked it out. And, as RMS would point out, we write software to do things. Make money off doing the thing, not trying to sell an idea.

Software patents are relatively new in the world. So far, they have only led to damage.
I don't disagree, but my point is that the code people freely contributed prior to this change is still freely available to the public.

If they are rejecting patches for features that impinge on their enterprise offerings and you have an issue with how the project is run now, you are welcome to not contribute, fork, or use another project.
"Energy" is a metaphor to which most people relate so it gets used a lot. Stress level might be a good thing to examine on the other side. If I spend too much time in traditionally extroverted activities I start to get fuzzy-headed and show signs of fatigue, then irritability and stress. There's a balance point where I'm at my best, and that point is when I'm getting lots of uninterrupted solitude but having daily interaction with my core group of people (family, close friends). For other people the balance point is very different. Being far away from your balance point for extended periods leaves one feeling out of sorts, stressed, and maybe even a bit desperate.

I guess what I'm saying is that it's not so much that one side is a source of energy. It's just normal. It's more that the opposite side is draining.
I don't see that happening anytime soon. Google has invested too much into the Google+ brand to no apply it to one of the biggest properties. To them, having messy Google+ integration is better than not integrating Google+ at all.
I mean, of course there was cheating and favoritism... lol, kqed.
RethinkDB 1.11 is out: query profiler, new streaming algorithm, devops features
To my knowledge there are currently no known exploits. It's more a matter of risk management: newer codebases are less secure because we had less time to find bugs and spread best practices. That problem is amplified for larger codebases (but diminished by a more active developer community).
That's as much of a problem as it is IMHO because hacker news doesn't appear to be designed to handle a wide variety of topics, a broad userbase and complexity of discussion.

The first is stifled by the lack of metadata (tags, categories, subboards, pick your poison) so everything rises or sinks within the same channel.

A broader userbase means groups of people who want to see posts about x and others who think x is destroying the community, and the strife caused by what may be the inevitable fact that some users want variety and others want bubbles.

This leading to the third problem, complex threads which can in practice be composed of more than 40 comments and more comments than upvotes without necessarily being a flamewar. Hacker news appears to be set up to promote upvotes and comments directly to the OP post, and discourage discussion between users. If that's what their ideal model represents then they should just move to a flat commenting system which makes it more obvious, visually.
I somehow manage to watch that video once a year or so, but I am missing something. How does a presentation on how to collect payments as a freelancer apply to this?

Listen, I get the "charge more than you think you're worth," but I suspect there is a huge contingent of developers who would attach a significant dollar value to many of the intangible perks that PennyArcade has to offer.
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Correct. Thank you for catching the typo.
Chicken and egg problem. There are no (few) pre-paid data plans because there were no (few) contract-less phones. Now one end of the equation seems to be loosening up, the other can be expected to follow.
Is it hard to make a web app that makes $1000 in MRR?
excellent work, thanks for sharing. my wavyness simulation resulted in more literal results [1] so i'm glad to have code to study for improvements.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnG6I1nsHy4
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This doesn't answer the question of why FDA bans products and services instead of simply informing consumers of possible dangers and letting them decide for themselves. Government has the largest resources to reach out to people, so any message it would want to communicate, it could.

If the government really cared about consumers, it would go after homeopathy dealers, religious leaders and other charlatans. Never gonna happen. Why do you think that is? Why homeopathy existed for such a long time and never had any problems with authorities, but a startup that actually provides some value to people, suddenly is a threat that needs to be shut down?
Google Play is blocked at the national firewall level in China, along with Google+ and Docs. And no doubt other services.
There isn't a single model that will fit all cases. But for your specific example, micropayments.

Advertising has kind of starved out the development of micropayment systems over the last decade, but it looks like bitcoin has a chance at filling that niche.

http://gigaom.com/2013/08/06/can-bitcoin-enable-the-fabled-m...