skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you take the frontend servers out of the equation it's still 52 servers for 60 messages per second.
I have a feeling this will be like when we had 16 MB of ram and thought 64 MB was a lot, now it's not uncommon to have 16 GB. Or how we had 32 MB hard drives, thinking we'd never need more space, and now we can get a 3,145,728 MB hard drive for next to nothing.

What if we go from thinking 10 TB is a nice handy amount of space, to having 10,000 TB and still running out?
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Toyota will sell a fuel-cell car around the world in 2015
Interesting to see alienware on the list, since they already sell gaming PCs intended for living room use. How will this fit into their existing lineup?

The only concrete differences I can see would be the OS , which would seem inferior to just shipping windows+steam out of the box at this point; and the controller. But I always assumed the controller would be compatible with regular Windows PCs anyway (and I assume they will be available separately).
There are quite a few companies that run with an 'unconventional' management structure. A recent link on HN was to a HBR study about Morning Star, a mature company that has run with a 'no managers' strategy for years.

Link to HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913879
Link to HBR PDF: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?...

I enjoyed the PDF.
Some of the highest precision CNC manufacturing equipment for particular processes is subject to nuclear non-proliferation arms controls as it can be used to make key components in uranium enrichment equipment. So for machines relevant to those laws, a GPS lowjack might be a sensible precaution. North Korea has been picking up this machinery from someone, so I can imagine Japanese industry and government being very paranoid on the issue.
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Hard disk hacking
They sent a tape with recordings of him having sex with a mistress too.
If this is true this casts a weird light on Elons Musks statements about what he called "fools cells".

Granted, hydrogen production is still pretty energy inefficient but at least the technology in the cars seems to have matured a lot more than what his earlier statements have indicated possible.
The idea of some sort of syndicated media fee has occurred to me in the past.

The main problem I see is that there's a fairly strong argument to paying based on your ability, so that wealth customers ought to pay more.

Pricing information goods is hard.
That sounds like a neat hack. I don't suppose you could mention the name of the game, or link to some YouTube footage of the weapon-trail effect in action?
I'm merely pointing out that GPS outage would be no more than an annoyance. .

If the machinery experiences significant acceleration in an earthquake, it's not necessarily intact or safe to operate afterwards. The enclosing machine shop is also not likely to be in any state to continue operations if something as large as the pictured CNC machine has been thrown across the room. I don't buy that this issue is a big deal either.

From a software freedom standpoint, yes, this is terrible. But I don't think it's as much of a problem for the owner as the parent suggests.
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Just as a reference point: the digital only edition of one of the largest newspapers here in Norway is ~7$ per week and with the paper edition it's ~13$
I am in much the same predicament as you. The only time I get to read my books is during holidays, and as such much of my holidays turns into reading holidays (even when not at home). Though with kids even that can get difficult.
and call ourselves elopers?
I use a fujitsu fi-5120c hopper fed scanner. It's a destructive scanner, i.e. you have to slice the spine off. 400 dpi gives a satisfying result.
Nice. It ran a little slow for my liking, but impressive nevertheless.

How does this project differ from pdftex.js?
https://github.com/manuels/pdftex.js
If it becomes a big deal, and you can't get the data from ThriftDB for some reason, I've got a copy of HN data (submission & comment content, user, points, item date) up to id 7018491, a comment by kashkhan, time-stamped 2014-01-05 23:56:34.

edit: Ack, I just realized that item_id got reset back to 7015126 on the reboot. My data matches HN up to 7015125, and then diverges after that.
Duff's device - the most dramatic use of case label fall-through in the C lang
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Phones can show the info on the lock screen.
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As always, thanks for a great writeup.

I think I speak for everyone when I say that I'm enormously appreciative of your writing, and the internet would be a whole lot duller without you around. More importantly, our wallets would be a whole lot lighter without you around as well. And I say this as someone who doesn't directly do dev-marketing.
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Can you make it available somewhere? I'd be interested in that data, and sure that others would be too. Thanks!
There are also some iOS Limitations that i recently ran in developing a RESS Server that specifically hits some limits. I Think most of it is documented here:
https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/App... (see section "Know iOS Resource Limits")
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Evernote to focus on fixing bugs
What do you use for Geocoding?
(for use in a web app that isn't open, so can't use Google etc.)

MapBox does a great job of the maps but the very next thing I want is to search for an address. Back to square one.

OSM uses MapQuest but I'm unsure how licensing and quality affects real-world apps. Is the open data good enough? Is there a sub-$2500 commercial offering that doesn't suck?

E.g. MapQuest's FAQ:
http://developer.mapquest.com/web/tools/getting-started/plat...

How can I use geocodes?

Geocoding usage in the Community Edition on Licensed Data is limited to only the locations entered by an end user or that you have uploaded through our Data Manager tool. Geocodes under the Community Edition on Licensed Data cannot be stored for use outside the MapQuest service. If you would like more flexible options for geocode use, please contact MapQuest Platform Services to learn more about our extended rights geocoding product. Geocoding on Open Data has different terms, please check the Terms of Use for details.

Wikipedia has many:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding#List_of_geocoding_sys...

What do you use?
> A subtly weakened or defective part from a big mill like the NV5000 might find its way into a vehicle or a high-speed machine, with disastrous consequences.

Which is why - at least according to those awesome TV shows - parts in high-end vehicles and machines are checked via precise 3D measuring instruments as part of the quality control process. Just pointing that out. Pretty sure few companies fully trust CNC machines to deliver perfect results all the time.
I certainly didn't go to medium.
I learned Python first a couple years ago through Udacity (the search engine 101 not the Java 101), and it was awesome. It's a great way to dive in and see how to solve problems with code, not just learn the syntax. That said, I think I have officially defected to the Ruby camp as far as the language I would bring to a desert island inexplicably equipped with computers and electricity. There are a lot of really good intro to programming resources for Ruby as well, just none that are as interactive and broad as Udacity's. One Month Rails is good if you can already program, but it seems like it's really for after you know Ruby.

Overall I would say definitely go for Ruby or Python or Javascript as opposed to C for your friend's first language. The less syntactic pain and more friendly the language is the more the beginner can focus on the concepts.
So you are saying that sysadmins don't have a life, since an outage of any public-facing sites _that they are responsible for_ usually has a significant impact on their lives.
MOOCs have struggled with this avenue unfortunately, but considering CC is so different and more "practical" if you will, I hope they have a much better go at it, as what they're doing is awesome :)
Yeah that sounds like a valid reason, too. These things work with millimeter accuracy; jolt them and the accuracy may be off. Position them just slightly off-level and they might be off.
No privacy in the future, deal with it
S.F. to charge operators of tech commuter buses
(reviving from the old thread), I'd like to point out Doctor_Fegg's http://switch2osm.org/ , which helps switching from using Google Maps (and others) to Open Street Maps, and includes info on APIs, how to set up a local tile server, and lots of other great things.

@Doctor_Fegg: Thanks!
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I'm not sure that matters. For all that I care, a site like HN or Slashdot might as well look as if it came straight from 1997.

What killed Slashdot was the abysmal quality/delay/editing of posted stories.
Snowden showed such actions to reveal government surveillance are still possible.

The bigger question now is whether his revelations can create any change.
Intel’s Vision: Wearables Everywhere In A Post-Windows World
Valve didn't invent this concept.
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Because relatively cheap GPS receiver clocks drift, typically 4 satellites are needed for a position. You can assume an elevation, especially at sea level, and solve a position with three satellites but this introduces other factors (ellipsoid vs geoid, satellite constellation geometry, etc) that can make a good position difficult to obtain.

In practice there are enough satellites that these considerations are theoretical. Most situations that would involve limited satellites also introduce stuff like multi path reflections that further degrade position accuracy.
Just goes to show, you don't need to trust bitcoin to use bitcoin ;)
Another way to quickly discover that Hacker News was back would be to a part of a Facebook group that automatically posts Hacker News stories.

https://www.facebook.com/hnbot
I am mildly interested in seeing a post-mortem at some stage, because

1) We also have to keep our site and services running. Learning from other people's (bad) experiences is always welcome.

2) After an outage of this magnitude on our site and services, a post-mortem would be expected as part of the clean-up. It's not an extra demand, it's normal.

it's not about blame and anger; it's about learning and preventing.
- it could actually be a console that PC gamers love

As an old-school PC gamer, this is the first "console" I've been interested in since the first Playstation. Don't know how big he marked of people like me is though..
Google Hangouts faces criticism after outing trans woman
I find the exact hardware much less exciting than the controller and OS.

If valve wants this to succeed they better pour a lot of money into the making current steam libraries work on linux properly. I want linux as my daily driver.
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Hi,

I created a simple bitcoin browser wallet for everyday use, as i see that simplicity in the bitcoin space has not yet arrived here.

its not super secure, as its uses the blockchain.info API and there is some trust (see my blog post). But its very easy to use stits in the chrome bar ready to use at all times. gets addresses from the current website and is just - simple.

I hope you enjoy it, i also think i addressed every security concern in my blogpost.

Definitely dont use it for your savings, but its very useful with 10 bucks for everyday use, like paywalls or donations!
Kinetic sand, when Lego gets boring
A couple things are neat about this that aren't necessarily obvious.

First off, the Falcon 9 v1.1, of which this is the 3rd launch, uses a reusable first stage. Whether that stage is used in an expendable launch profile or in a reusable launch profile it's still the same hardware, the only significant difference is whether or not it has landing gear bolted on (which apparently they'll try to do for the next ISS cargo resupply launch). That's pretty significant because it means that they get additional testing and validation of their reusable first stage in a full up flight profile even on expendable launches like this one. The more they launch with this stage the more experience and confidence they get and the easier it will be to transition to a reusable flight profile.

Secondly, this launch should complete the certification program that enables the Falcon 9 v1.1 to be able to compete in EELV launches from NASA and DoD. Currently only the Atlas 5 and Delta IV fill that role (the original launchers developed out of the EELV program) and as a result United Launch Alliance (which operates both vehicles) get a significant amount of highly lucrative business. In 2014 there are 8 EELV launches, for example, and by around 2016 SpaceX could be launching EELV payloads. That's a tremendous amount of potential income for SpaceX (up to billions of dollars a year).
Truly... this was some fine shit.
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Here you go, I gave you one back.
Someone should write a twitter bot that monitors HN status and tweets "Hacker News down, productivity up".

What the hell, I'll do it.
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If you are more familiar with HTML/Javascript you could take a look at PhoneGap/Cordova https://build.phonegap.com/ http://cordova.apache.org/ .
The detonation apparatus for a fission bomb is trivial. Students can build them, and they have. Someone even brought one onto the floor of Congress to prove a point in a committee hearing on nuclear proliferation. Without the uranium, of course.

Achieving fusion is tricky and requires extremely precise machining (you basically have to build a perfect sphere). The detonation condition for fission is simply a critical mass of U-235 sitting in one place. Typical design is two piles of uranium in a container, separated by a lead wall. TNT blows the wall and drives the piles into each other; nature does the rest.

Fortunately, enriching uranium is a massive (expensive, time-consuming, and not particularly subtle) operation. Really only within the reach of states. But if you got your hands on weapons-grade uranium, the bomb part wouldn't be hard at all.

Source: my high school chem teacher.
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Well from what I've seen, the online version has no ads, while I'm sure the print version does; that'd compensate for the difference in price. They could reduce the online price if they plastered it with ads, but then, people would complain even more because they're paying for a site with ads (???) (and they don't complain about a newspaper with ads because they know it reduces the price).

tl;dr: you pay for content without ads, instead of a disposable paper version with ads.
Steam machines
Google acquires Timely alarm app developer Bitspin
I also noticed loss of data.

For example:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:r53Zl8w...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7017250
"when Lego gets boring" is not a valid length of time.
Hi,

I created a simple bitcoin browser wallet for everyday use, as i see that simplicity in the bitcoin space has not yet arrived here.

its not super secure, as its uses the blockchain.info API and there is some trust (see my blog post). But its very easy to use stits in the chrome bar ready to use at all times. gets addresses from the current website and is just - simple.

I hope you enjoy it, i also think i addressed every security concern in my blogpost.

Definitely dont use it for your savings, but its very useful with 10 bucks for everyday use, like paywalls or donations!
I am still a little confused how this works... Must i TRY it to find out? A "How it works" page for the proof-readers would be most helpful
CloudFlare really messes a lot of things up. I've seen CloudFlare refuse to give me error responses from forms before. Enter a bad value, get a cached page of the empty form, lol. Server was trying to return a page explaining the wrong entry, but CloudFlare refused to send it to me because it had a non-200 response.
Fills my head with awe. Best thing on HN since ever.
Regarding 3, I would consider compiling a simple lisp - if you're coding in scheme that will take care of the parsing, so you can concentrate on the code generation side.
"Steam, now on Origin" will be a great slogan.
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It's pretty useful for Google Glass hacking. Google has decided not to include the Google Maps Android API for now, maybe to force you to use their crippled Mirror API options that are more battery friendly, but OpenStreetMap works good. And there are uses cases that only it and the Android API can handle.
So why do we pass that work from the compiler,the tool, to the programmer? Except that I think I know the reason, as I have looked upon the specification and it was not sane.
I would focus on JavaScript. No CoffeeScript [1]. Start with basic HTML and CSS on the frontend; nothing fancy with HTML/CSS yet, just a couple of workshops. Then basics of JavaScript. Then jQuery (leave the DOM for another day). Then you can consider branching out into select (can't cover them all) advanced topics like D3.js, HTML5 canvas, SVG, WebGL (using three.js).

You may find that that's all you can cover in a semester. If not, I think it's important to also cover the server-side. Start with jQuery AJAX calls against an already created RESTful API to teach the basic request-response HTTP model. Then have students implement the API (no database needed) in Node.js. If you still have time (I doubt it), introduce the concepts of databases with MongoDB [2].

Python and Ruby are great ecosystems, but if you still have to teach JS, I feel like it's a bit hard on beginners to juggle multiple languages. Also, I'm divided on the utility of teaching a huge framework like RoR/Django vs. a lighter framework like Sinatra, Flask, or Express.js (node).

[1] You want to minimize cognitive overhead, especially with 2/3 non-CS-majors. And since anyone learning CoffeeScript needs to know JS, you might as well start with JS.

[2] MongoDB is a lot quicker for hacks than SQL.
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> .5 terabytes of search data.

500 gibabytes isn't cool enough ?
Stormpulse seems interesting. Enterprisy but not the run-of-the-mill CRUD application, so probably more fun to make.
Search result ranking is an obvious casualty, but it's not the only one. My Firefox start page (as an example) now has a cached but empty version of the HN pages that doesn't really look quite right. Any system that pulls content automatically, like that, or an offline reader, etc. is going to get confused.

It's simply good practice to get the HTTP status codes correct in the ways you outline.
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Interesting price points. According to Engadget they are from $500 all the way to $6000, although not all of them have been announced.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/valve-steam-machines-spec...
Intel is silicon company. They are myopically focused on this, and this alone. They feed the OEMs and for the most part, try not to step on their toes. Intel will never, ever build something to compete with RPi because that's not where Intel plays. Intel might build something to compete with the Broadcom chips which power the RPi, but honestly I think the revenue stream of the entire hobbyist/educational market combined is just barely a blip on Intel's radar. They like the margins, but the volume just isn't there.

All that said, that doesn't mean that Intel's technical marketing departments aren't taking risks in areas such as the hobbyist market. Companies as large as Intel are often quite good at this. However, I wouldn't trust the longevity (and therefore future) of anything out of Intel that isn't a high volume silicon product line.
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linksys routers are piece of shit; cant believe this people are still in biz with all the crap they sell...
What's shoddy about this?

> -webkit-animation: spin 2s infinite linear;

And please don't presume you know my code or my specifications.
Haven't found many books that piqued my interest, but I must say this web page is so simple and beautifully designed. Well done.
And IIRC the compiler translates usages of None to null, so any complaint about inefficiency probably does not apply in this case, either.
Still Stuck in a Climate Argument
patio11, no idea if this is applicable in Japan, but in certain conditions here in Italy (you work as an independent consultant), you have to pay into Social Security rather than the Italian equivalent. This saved me a bundle of money, but it's not a widely known fact, and I didn't realize it before I found an accountant that knows how to deal with financial stuff for US persons living in Italy. Worth looking into for other Americans living abroad. I found that H&R Block had an office near the US base in Vicenza with a guy that knows both systems pretty well. It was a very happy discovery for me, because I've always felt that the US-based guys were just kind of guessing about how things worked with my living abroad.
That doesn't hold water. How grossly incompetent would the engineering have to be if the machine can't tell the difference between being moved a few hundred feet vs. out of the country? If the vendor knows the original ("approved") location of the machine, it can figure out where the nearest border of an embargoed country is.

This policy is thus bullshit.
One caveat is that "developer marketing" already exists as a term representing the effort to market a product/technology to developers for adoption. (ex: developer evangelist)
Valve is run more like a FOSS project with no official hierarchy. Holocracy is about refactoring the traditional org chart into a more task-based model. Brian Robertson, one of the guys who started the concept, explains the differences here:
http://holacracy.org/blog/whats-wrong-with-your-organization...