skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linode upgrades are easier. The whole deal at Linode is more evolved.

This is from Digital Ocean:

FastResize is limited to the resources available on the physical hypervisor that your server is on. If there are no resources available, no sizes will be listed on the FastResize Page.

(Linode automates all these steps...)

If this is the case, you will need to take the slower method of snapshot & redeployment which is not limited to the same hypervisor:

1) create a snapshot of your server
2) delete your server to release the IP
3) immediately after the delete is finished, create a new droplet (choose the same datacentre) "select images" section switch to "my images" select your snapshot

About to do this tonight, fingers crossed!

Droplets look cheap but maybe they're competitive when you look at the number of cores. Seems to me a 4G Linode is faster than a 4G Droplet. But not 2x faster, IMO. A 4G Linode costs 2x the 4G Droplet. Digital Ocean feels like a better deal so far, but I need to upgrade to the 8G Droplet before I can really say for sure--the 4G Droplet isn't quite fast enough.

As far as SSD, can your user tell the difference between a cache file that takes .001s vs .0001s? Probably not. For many of us, I think the more critical question is: How much does SSD improve MySQL performance?
> I fail to see the problem with enabling it because I do believe that content providers have rights

If they need to deliver closed content, then that's their thing. Just don't be delusional and expect to be able to do it by piggybacking on and free-loading off free and open technologies.

If the "fix" for this conflict is closing down the open technology, that is a cost I'm under no circumstances willing to pay.
The role of the university
Barilla, world’s biggest pasta maker, wants restaurants to 3D print your pasta
What's the difference between this and a video.

Given that most cameras nowadays record video this seems rather pointless. Only advantage I can think of is that you can normally record higher quality images with stills vs video.
Webdesignrepo Relaunch - Now with over 500 links
A list I've been working on for the past 12 months or so. I made it because of the amount of questions I see on here (and other sites) asking for the best design blogs or the best places to learn design or whatever. I hope it helps!
1) Yes, casting. You need to do casting in Haskell too, it's just hidden for you by pattern-matching

2) It's for a hypothetical Java implementation that doesn't have null

3) If you really want to, make it an abstract class and do a check in the constructor that this.getClass() == Nothing.class or Just.class.

4) see 2)

5) well if you're using primitive types they are non-nullable already

Edit: to clarify, I don't expect someone to use it for Java today, it's what I would put in the standard library if Java didn't have a null in the first place.
So DO doesn't charge you up front?
I wrote a 15 page essay on this for school. Maybe I'll turn it into a blog post.
God, I knew this was coming. Since you won't accept my strategy of building up to the complete question (because it is in fact your formulation which is incomplete, and thus I, like you, will not respond to it), let me try this instead:

You misunderstand Monty Hall. I would know; I learned about it by being asked the question and getting it right, not by reading someone else's explanation (which leaves room for misinterpretation). The key to Monty Hall is none of what you stated (or rather, rhetorically asked); it's that the host must pick a door that is both a) bad and b) not yours. If your door is good, then he can leave either, but if your door is bad, then he must leave the good one. So, two possibilities: the door he left was either bad or good, BUT the rule driving his choice wasn't 50/50, so the odds of it being bad or good aren't 50/50, so neither are the odds of yours, even though there are only two left. Take a minute, think about it.

Now ask yourself which "door" (read child) the father told you was a boy. There's the gotcha. Under your/the author's formulation of the question, he doesn't remove a door in the BB universe, but he does in the BG universe. There are two BG's because the table acknowledges that he can tell you which of the two is definitely a boy, and thus he has two options for doing so BUT HE DOESN'T, HE HAS ONE BUT THERE ARE TWO BG UNIVERSES, SO IT LOOKS LIKE TWO.
I think the grandparent poster is referring to something subtly different. It's not that people making the bold pronouncements are incompetent, it's that they may be competent but are not quite as competent as other folks who stay silent, and they're okay with that. Oftentimes an "expert" knows more than the person they are explaining things to - it's just that they may know less than someone else who doesn't bother to explain things.

Somewhat relatedly - there's another phenomena where people may be quite aware of the limits of their knowledge, but deliberately choose to hide it to achieve some objective (usually personal gain, but it could also be in service of some organization or mission), because they know that their audience is more likely to believe confident people. You pretty much have to do this to found a startup, because all startups are inherently risky and uncertain and yet few people will follow you if you seem uncertain.
Ok, yes, I get it now :). Thanks for the explanation.
everything is an HTTP GET endpoint, for one.

It looks like they've added things since I last looked because I don't remember the ssh_keys and domains stuff being there. I'll revise my comment accordingly.
As a rule of thumb, what's good for facebook is bad for everybody else. A transnational corporation whose business is surveillance and data gathering planting devices in local businesses replacing wifi internet access by "you don't get to use the internet if you don't submit to our corporate surveillance" is not good news.
Telling a portion of your customers to go fuck themselves is not good for businesses and this is what such facebook routers are doing.
Replace facebook by NSA here and say again you don't see a problem here.
Of course that's a much simpler way to simulate the problem, but then you get people trying to argue that HT and TH should be collapsed into a single state.

By using a simulation with repetition it's easier to pose the states as 'TT' and 'not TT' and use frequencies to show 'not TT' occurs more frequently than 'TT'. I find this starts to help convince people that the states shouldn't be collapsed, even if it doesn't explicitly explain why.
Seems more like a Linux Driver/Display Port disagreement (or maybe your hardware) than DisplayPort as a spec. DisplayPort has been spotless on my 2012 MBPr under OS X and Windows. Ditto at work for numerous Lenovo, Dell, and Asus laptops running Windows and various flavors of Ubuntu.

DVI on the other hand, on my MBPr, will occasionally spaz out and display static. I've tried with multiple monitors of the same model with to same effect.

(For what it's worth we pretty much use only Dell 2412 monitors at work).
My crushing student debt
The Guardian are the least bad but they still need their articles dismantling carefully.

Always use multiple sources. Also always make sure that at least 50% of those sources aren't Associated Press who feed into a lot of different papers.
2014 – What Web Developers Will Need to Know
A classic case of "Shut up and take my money!"
Jittery animation.
That depends on the industry and company size, and also on your definition of a breach.

45% of all retail companies DETECTED at least one serious information systems breach in 2013. (Many more would have experienced a breach without knowing.)

According to Trustwave's 2013 Global Security Report, the top 5 most breached industries are 1. Retail 2. Food & Beverage 3. Hospitality 4. Financial Services and 5 Non-Profits, followed by High-Tech.

The Trustwave report doesn't break things down by company size. But you can be sure that large retail companies (Macy's, GoDaddy, Microsoft, Goodyear, Betty Crocker, etc) have many many incident response teams who follow up on multiple incidents each day. Most aren't serious, of course. But they all need to be handled thoroughly because one mishandled serious breach is all it takes to cost a company as much as hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

A quick LinkedIn search shows 150,000 people working in incident response positions in the U.S. A good bit of those work for incident response service providers like Mandiant https://www.mandiant.com/services/incident-response/ Most companies under ~300 employees aren't going to have in-house IR teams (many do though). They'll hire companies like Mandiant to respond to serious incidents while letting insurance handle the less serious incidents.
I think I'd probably agree that the average person who participates online is more skilled than the average person who doesn't. Participating online exposes you to other perspectives and lets you test your experiences against others, after all.

And I wouldn't say that participating online is detrimental. However, I stand by my contention that participating online is not the most effective use of your time if you want to become a better programmer. Programming is. It is a more effective use of time than, say, watching TV (which a fair number of average devs would do), but the information density you learn from grappling with a real problem and trying to solve it with software far exceeds the information density available in blogs and Hacker News comments.
Gates Foundation funds development of a better condom
EU datacenter battling DDoS attack of 400Gbps+
Hiding Apache and PHP version information from your server http response headers
How the NSA Threatens National Security
Bitcoin Mining Pools and DDoS Attacks
> Now, we should mention at this point that we are discussing mathematical children who have no existence outside the world of probabilistic brainteasers. So we’re not worrying about the fact that a disproportionate number of children are born on Mondays and Tuesdays, since C-sections aren’t usually scheduled for the weekends. We’re also not worrying about twins or triplets. Or any other sort of “real world” consideration that might occur to you.

The one that occurred to me is that the probability of getting a boy or girl is not 50%, and the probability of getting two same-gender children is not 50% either. Here are some nice real stats: http://www.in-gender.com/XYU/Odds/Gender_Odds.aspx
Stop sending emails for real time requests
I think there are other variables in play here. Treating it like a court of law and not like the theatre of the internet is the reason why DO have embarrassed themselves. They will definitely have lost customers other than just myself, and that has nothing to do with law. That has to do with principle.

They handled this badly, and they'll pay for it, however small the impact.
"Best thing is to read two equal-but-opposite news sources. I like The Times for my right-wing slant and the New York Times for my slightly less right-wing slant, that way I understand what both sides of the American establishment want me to think."

There, I fixed it for you.
And if we're really going to bring reality into this, then we'll need to consider the ages of the children, because of the at-birth sex ratio (105 newborn boys for every 100 newborn girls[0]) and differing mortality rates for each sex.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_ratio
Database made in rebol under 20kb
It's not Ultrasharp, where did you see that?
> I've been using one of these with the HD screen since the spring,

So not the Haswell version the review is about?
The element index from the WHATWG is pretty nice too:

http://developers.whatwg.org/section-index.html#index
Best thresh EUW
MySQL bug with timezone
Ideally yes. But keeping track of nullability is not impossible, it's not even hard, as any number of existing languages with such checking prove (some of which have very performant compilers).
I imagine they find it really hard to recruit.
I certainly wouldn't put up this. It's WAY too much of my time for a job that I may or may not get.
Is it just me, or is this nonsense?
WiFi is slow though, I just want a lan box.

Start small in a part of the city populated by mostly young people - like university students. Buy ad time on the Discovery Channel. Run your cables through the air between buildings and over trees - it will fail with every storm, but it's cheap to replace. Hopefully you'll get big enough fast enough to put some proper cabling before regulation catches up with you.
Because the world is a complex place and the truth is often subjective. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, as the old saying goes.

There is also the factor that news outlets are commercial enterprises and have a certain vested interest in telling their audience what they want to hear. I used to work for Reuters, and news is a horribly expensive business to be in, the margins are razor thin. Some organizations have workarounds for that (Reuters subsidizes news with financial services, Al Jazeera has a Sheik, the BBC has the taxpayer and so on). The Guardian makes a loss, but someone is footing the bill - what does that someone want you to think?

But as I say, as an individual, you can defend yourself against this, by reading two newspapers, or at least, cross-checking stories. If the Guardian and the Daily Mail ever agreed on anything, then that thing would probably be "the truth" in an objective sense...
How Startup Marketers Stay Productive: Christophe Primault of GetApp
Yep, that's one that I've been seeing for a while, but never quite got around to filing a bug report, since it was a bit hard to characterize, and for some reason I got a blank screen when I tried to do a screen recording of it.

Mostly hit Wikipedia, but occasionally saw it in other places too.
What I dislike about this question is the flavor text. It seems designed to mislead the reader by invoking their “realism node,” and then requiring them to suspend it.

From archgoon’s link:

> "This puzzle confounds people legitimately, however, because most of the ways in which you are likely to find out that X has at least one boy contain an implicit bias which changes the answer.”

Exactly right. The phrasing in the problem asks the reader to consider a particular scenario, not isolated facts. Consider what happens if you take the question at its word:

> If a person on the street says to you, "I have two children," what is the probability that they're both boys?

Hell if I know. Maybe one is a boy and the other is a grown man? Or maybe he has five children, BBGGG. “I have two children, both of which are boys” is technically correct if there’s two boys and three girls, right? Or maybe he’s just outright lying! How do I assign a probability to any of those?

Consider this phrasing instead:

“If you flip a coin twice, and the first and/or the second is heads, what’s the probability that both are heads?” I’d expect more people to get this right than the boy/girl question.

Also, as an aside, punctuation is important:

“I have two children. At least, one of them is a boy.”

(Yikes!)
I think this is cool, but I think the true power of this really is in the answers bit. Wouldn't it be cool - after getting engagement from a few thousand people taking pictures and asking questions - to snap a picture of something and have the answer pop up automatically without asking the question?

If they did that - i.e. compare the photo to other similar looking photos - it would reduce a lot of redundant questions and also make it immensely powerful. At that point it isn't a social network anymore; it's a collective intelligence search engine.

But I doubt they'll do that.
I wasn't trying to be accurate, just reflect how absurd the parent was.
Two guilty over abusive tweets to Caroline Criado-Perez
Except that The Times is a British newspaper and IIRC has been since before America.

Thanks for playing.
You are quite right, and there is an older commentator than Palahniuk to invoke. The original quote comes from John Maynard Keynes in his 1923 "Tract on Monetary Reform":

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.

Pray that we will always have someone standing up against the surveillance state.
link to issue: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=236298
Misinterpret how? By expecting that the sides will be four times larger? That exists, and it's called 8K.

"Megapixels" already exists as an entrenched concept, and I don't think it's deceptive to call 4K 4x larger than 1080p or 8K 16x larger than 1080p.
I think you will find one by just networking although you can also try to do it by yourself is not that difficult

In the meanwhile try:
Google Adwords keyword/display planner and facebook ad planner to know how big your potential audience is and how much money you will need to spend to acquire a customer via online.

I can help you since I have some free time now job hunting in Japan, If you would like you can send me tweet @kenjisano

Please don't misunderstand this as a way for me to land a job I just want to keep updated in my industry.
One disadvantage of the macro-based approach - and it looks like greatest suffers from the same problem - which isn't actually that unusual - is the difficulty of setting a breakpoint on the code that fails a test. This comes in handy when a test fails and you'd like to investigate.

And due to C's limitations, you will actually have to do this quite often, on a wide range of failures, because the failure messages don't seem to print any details about the values being compared. So you'll need to hit the debugger to find out anything out.
I don't know if this is Facebook's case, but when I've seen stuff like that happening, it was because a bunch of (otherwise smart) developers were far too arrogant about the quality of their own work, too derogatory and, to some degree, too superficial about the quality of other programmers' work, and -- perhaps fatally -- too driven by the can-do-no-matter-what attitude that is so obnoxiously prevalent in today's corporate world, at the expense of common sense. Between the technical debt and the management pressure, I've seen a bunch of people refusing to admit it's their fault and cleverly save their asses (and earn a hefty bonus on one or two occasions) by doing something any sane programmer would have, in fact, fired them for.
What made Brave New World far more interesting to me than 1984 is that the bad guys in 1984 are really clearly bad guys who hide behind an impossibly thin veneer of public mindedness in order to live exactly as grandly as they want whereas in Brave New World the man at the top truly believes that he is a force for good in the world. His life is not a selfish one, not in the same way, he just believes that most people are happier living in his pleasure dome. He doesn't hate or fear the protagonist but instead he wants to help him by spiriting him away from the happy drugged masses to let him live out his life with the other people who don't want to live that way. It's an entirely different kind of conflict and much much more compelling.
"With the way that Linode recently handled the hack which exposed customer CC's and data[1], I would find it hard to have any peace of mind with them."

I hear this repeated over and over but did you just read the headline and draw your own conclusion? From all the articles I read, the hacker maybe got some worthless encrypted cc data. I don't think anyone lost sleep over this and kudos to Linode for encrypting user data. Also the breach had nothing to do with the individual VPS accounts.

Around that same time Amazon had the most epic multi-day outage in history and their storage servers were leaking user data. By comparison, the Linode hack wasn't a big deal, IMO.

PS: As far as Linode holding back information, were you a Linode cusotomer last year or are you just repeating rumors? Your Slashdot article was posted April 15th. Linode announced the "security incident" on the 12th https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/12/security-notice-linode-ma... also https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/ I did not get the impression they were holding back information.
>We haven't added any artificial ordering into the problem.

Yes you have! To run the experiment, you have to treat TH and HT as different but you "pretend" not to do so by adding them into the same pile. You're pretending to know that the father tells you which child is the "known boy", but by the statement of the problem, you don't know that. Why is this an error? Because the father must follow a rule - he must give you a boy, and there are two ways for him to do that in BB but you only recognize one. If you go the "table-minus" route, which both the author and your experiment do. But you can't do that without affecting the odds! By telling you they aren't both girls, he lowers the chance that either of them might be. Yes, I'm serious.

Correct formulation of table:

a) BG; b) GB; c) BB and he gives you the first; d) BB and he gives you the second.
"Our choice isn't between a digital world where the agency can eavesdrop and one where it cannot; our choice is between a digital world that is vulnerable to any attacker and one that is secure for all users."
French-UAE Intel Satellite Deal in Doubt – US Parts Raise Security Concerns
I've had those speakers since 2005, amazingly good hardware.
I wasn't trying to be accurate, just reflecting how absurd your comment was.
Here is the entire series on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAD989035A4E8883D

Edit: It's there alright, but it's blocked by the BBC. Sorry guys. It's on the interwebs but you'll have to do a quick look. I highly recommend it.
"Decision-making power in the US is too spread out to make that feasible!"

If you wanted to run a fiber-optic line between SFO and SJC, you'd probably have to ask at least three or four different county governments, never mind the state, federal, or municipal governments. Take a look, for example, at the mess that is keeping Caltrain funded every year.
"I met a man on the street, he said he had two children. I asked him, is at least one of them a boy? He said yes. What's the probability both of them are boys?"

This removes the whole ambiguity of why he would assert "at least one of them is a boy," but still makes the question a bit tricky/counter-intuitive, which is useful for teaching the quirks of probability.
Or just offer the choice of either.

A lot of people under-perform in a whiteboard/monitored situation, and for most it does not represent a real-life work environment at all.
Don't follow the lemmings, choose your own path!
Hahahaha oh my god what a response. The fact that you think you're pointing anything out to anyone with that second paragraph is just priceless.

In GB and BG, he has only one way of telling you which is the boy. In BB, he has two. Thus, four possibilities a) GB, b) BG, c) BB and he gave you the first, d) BB and he gave you the second.

Your brain will of course refuse to process the above due to your earlier remark and the sweet, sweet motherfucking irony it would mean.
Facebook acquires Indian start-up 'Little Eye Labs'
I'm running a custom installation of FreeBSD on CloudSigma ("custom" meaning custom ISO, custom installer, custom packages, etc.). CPU, disk and memory are configured separately, so no weird "profiles" to choose from. IIRC ElasticHosts allows the same.
Zora Neale Hurston Gets A Google Doodle
That's a generational perspective. For developers fresh out of college promises, async, continuations and so forth are the norm now.
Google bought Git devs, Facebook bought Mercurial devs - wise choice for companies that even order custom CPUs.
Pity this didn't get more votes. Seems like a big deal.
Does it support not checking-out files that were edited but did not change in the end or you still have to revert them manually?