skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Site's back up, we scaled up some dynos. Thanks Heroku :-)
But Windows 95 came out 94 versions too early according to that naming scheme. The advantage of "big cat" or similar names is that they don't really impart any meaning, other than acting as a unique label.
Programming in a text editor designed by a programmer for programming? Sounds...logical?
One idea that works for some people is to carry your entire computer to a "fast connection", for example your workplace. Plug it in, leave it running for 24 hours to power through the initial upload, then carry your computer home again for the incrementals. Just an idea.
Stylecow: full featured node package to parse and manipulate your CSS code
The main purpose of Stylecow is to bring more CSS support to all browsers. You write CSS and you get CSS. You don't have to learn another different language such LESS, SASS, etc. Stylecow converts your code to be more compatible with all browsers throught plugins without writing any non-standard code. So you can use Stylecow just to fix your modern CSS code and make it compatible with old browsers. And if you stop using Stylecow, your CSS code will remain CSS code.
That's a good point. It's not possible right now (unless you wrap it into a shell script) but we want to add some sort of "continuous scanning" option over the coming days/weeks.
If you get the same news, and you were happy with what you were paying to get high quality news (you're not buying a sheet of paper, you're buying the news), then what's the problem?

Why should moving to digital mean reducing the price versus print?

Perhaps the NY Times should keep the margin difference as profit, helping to restore their financial condition from the recent disaster it has been, so they don't have to go crawling to Carlos Slim again. Building up their financial position would assist in their independence as a news source.

Perhaps the NY Times should put that margin back into the business, and create more / better content, thus more than justifying the price staying the same.

Either way, the argument in favor of reducing prices just because of cheaper distribution, is not inherently a good one.
Yeah, I've always been disappointed at the lack of statistical information that hosts provide about drive failures, especially failure correlation in RAID situations. When I'm trying to price out some servers on a typical bare metal host's website it is hard to evaluate different configurations, and they are the ones that have the most real-world information, sitting in their support system. Very few publish this kind of info, so I really appreciate the efforts of Backblaze.
During protests after 2009 Iran presidential election there was a lot of concern that the government will use this sort of technology to find protesters. Some people advised that one should remove the battery altogether near protest centers, because putting the cell phone in airplane or even turning it off wouldn't prevent the telecommunication companies from tracking it. The reason they provided was simple: if it doesn't transmit any data while it's turned off, how does it say a different message to the caller when the called number is turned off vs when battery is removed.

I mostly forgot about it until I saw this article. Anyone here care to explain if this is true?
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Yes absolutely, we have reached out to them but haven't heard anything back yet unfortunately.
The fewer platters the better for vibration and noise as well. Though I wouldn't necessary restrict myself to single-platter drives, 2 platters is generally fine.
> But Windows 95 came out 94 versions too early according to that naming scheme.

91 versions too early, since Windows 95 followed Windows 3.x.
"Finally, I’d like to address the claim made by some critics that Bitcoin is a haven for bad behavior..."

Just need more examples like Dogecoin funding the Jamaican Bobsled team[1] to keep the narrative going in the right direction.

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/20/jamaican-b...
Note: This has been edited to change it from the Forbes link to the raw Quora post. The post I was attempting to highlight was by "Lee Semel"
the easiest way is to use build.phonegap.com and connect it to your github.com repo, as well as your src directory in the grunt build tool.

Cordova is the open source project uses the same code magic that phonegap does, and can be installed on your local machine. I have not mixed it into the grunt built tool yet, but I think the hardest part is installing cordova & ready the documentation
In this case the problem is that it's blogspam, a direct link to the metafilter thread would have been sufficient, it gives all the context we need.
One can make a microcontroller (not much space for government trojan horses here, huh) handle crypto. Or build a computer on FPGA.

It won't have much processing power, but it will still be sufficiently fast to handle strong crypto on text messages.

Or, if they're really really paranoid, there is always an option to use old trusty TTL components.
>reliability is a much more important engineering goal to focus on.

Wireless is and can be very reliable. Just go get a FCC spectrum licence for a dedicated and unshared frequency and watch your reliability issues disappear. It's just expensive.

Reliability on open spectrums is always going to be an issue, and one you should never depend fully on. There will always be old equipment running that doesn't work well with the new standards and tosses it's new found gains out the window. Unless you can convince each of your neighbors to throw away that ancient 2.4GHz phone handset and old B router.

Reliability on telco wireless is a different issue. They would rather run more customers on a segment, reducing reliability, but increasing profits.
I love love LOVE the SSD drive in my laptop for performance reasons (I can't ever go back, seriously). Emotionally I'm also glad it doesn't have spinning parts anymore, but in the end your laptop can still get stolen or break or fail. No matter what, in 100 percent of all situations, you need a backup. (Yes, I work at Backblaze, but seriously, you don't have to use our product, JUST USE SOMETHING!!)
I don't totally disagree but... What about encrypting your message on a fully offline computer, like what Schneier is now doing if I'm not mistaken?

What if both him and his recipient do the same? Then you need physical access (and unnoticed physical access I'd add) to the offline computer to be able to decrypt right?

And physical access doesn't scale.
FYI here is the github repo with a detailed readme.

https://github.com/crosbymichael/skydock
That's all great, but without a commensurate increase in broadband speeds, will real life consumers see any benefit? I'm thinking you might if you live in S Korea, but probably not the USA.
But I don't like nytimes and almost never read their articles, just looking if it's of any interest to me, because it was posted here.
Thanks for writing the post, you gave me the impetus to finally spit out what's been rolling around in my head for so long.

Your comparison to Zuck seems very apt... The Black Eyed Peas had a song ("Gone Going") on Elephunk that (rather ironically) talks about an artist that gets famous and rich and falls out of touch with his fans because of that. I've always felt like Kanye has been the antithesis of that image, he continues to make "dopeness" (his word, not mine), and the fact that even his most avant-garde music continues to go platinum is great affirmation of that ideal.
Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466
I really like this detailed write up. A certain large company in Mountain View suggested years ago that they had collected a great deal of metrics on consumer grade hard disks performing in a data center capacity, but refused to publish the data.

The fact that Backblaze isn't embarrassed to share this with the rest of this gives me the warm fuzzies. Thanks for the hard work!

I recently purchased a new Seagate, and I'm feeling a bit of buyer's remorse. That's not to say this article triggered the feeling completely (though it did push me over the edge). Taking this information and the knowledge that recent model Barracudas appear to have aggressive APM that loads/unloads the heads after a minute or so of inactivity (unless disabled, but it doesn't persist between reboots) AND seems to borrow from laptop-grade design... I think I'd be better off replacing it. Again. ;)

I wonder if the poor longevity of Seagate drives is due to changes in quality control or design? I have older ones that don't utilize the APM load/unload features and are still running fine after many years. Then again, they were also pre-flood drives.

I'd also be curious to know if there's a correlation with where the drive was manufactured and its survival rate, though I suspect that might be a much more difficult metric to collect.
Ask HN: Where/How to get a good startup name?
Any idea where/how to get an enduring name for a startup? Every name I think up is taken either at the U.S. Patent Trademark Office or the .com domain is already owned.
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Actually the Arabic one is pretty accurate.
The arabic one is pretty accurate.
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Mobile phone batteries are not ready for 2014.
Surface / Surface Pro are the current names. The complaints were with the original names "Surface RT + Surface Pro." I think later on they renamed Surface RT to Surface which caused confusion since it seemed like 3 devices were available for purchase, when in reality Surface / Surface RT were the same product.
Should journals stop publishing research funded by the drug industry?
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How can I best inform and thereby attract the niche group of clients who would want to utilize my Speech and Voice services? My customers like the results they get and so these services need and deserve promotion.
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You can pound on a small portion to increase to meet the goal of making the total increase.

The crisis is some STEM grads make more than minimum wage. This must be eliminated by all means necessary, such as intense PR to push the supply / demand equation. You can do the divide and conqueror boys vs girls thing to distract the proles from the real purpose.
For those visiting now: this submission used to point to a Forbes repost of Lee Semel's answer on the Quora page. Looks like the mods changed it.
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I've heard this rumor from everywhere, that the Deskstar drives were unreliable. If you look at the reviews from NewEgg they were TERRIBLE for that product. But I'm completely suspicious of where that reputation came from, because the statistics just don't bear it out. Often "common wisdom" is wrong - I suspect this is one of those cases.
I think myth number 3, that saving children’s lives leads to overpopulation, misses the central concern. People are concerned about world resource depletion, not overpopulation. And while it is 100% true that bringing countries out of poverty reduces population growth, it does not reduce consumption. In fact, it does the opposite.
Remember: Everything with a sensor is core to Google’s business
Jeff, When are the m3.medium and m3.large instances going to be available for use in Elastic Beanstalk in USEAST1?
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Using an editor designed by programmers means you're most likely not getting a well-designed interface.

Developers are notorious for not knowing much (if anything) about good UI design.
Newton, not Darwin.
Hey Mac - great looking stuff. The marketability of a single healthy living score is pretty clear, but isn't it a fairly artificial and opaque approach to making an actual measurement? The measures inherent to the donut chart-y UI element that's part of your site's hero loop (appears to be hydration, nutrition, sleep, activity) looks more useful to me than the single score.
I fully agree with you. For example when I look at Amazon reviews I never look at 5 star or 1 star review. Always 2,3,4 - those come from people that actually had issues - some smaller some larger. Then I can decide: ok, I might encounter these problems but it's something I can live with.
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You're thinking like an engineer. Good on you. But most people aren't engineers.

iPad [1-5] parses well but is meaningless to customers who don't ogle tech news and spec sheets. iPad Air conveys what Apple wants to convey and goes down easy for non-engies.

> Try explaining that to a non-Apple following family member and watch their face contort.

This is part of the brilliance. They don't want you to be comparing products to the old models they don't sell anymore. Partly because it gets confusing fast, and partly because they don't want you to think about anything besides the gorgeous product you have in your hands at the Apple store. Everything else is a distraction and it loses them money, for better or for worse.

I appreciate structure and monotonic sequences as much as the next hacker. But I think the "non-crazy" naming you seem to be suggesting is precisely how the insane naming in the rest of the industry is birthed, and Apple's done a great job steering away from it.
Thanks for the feedback. Would love to hear about better embedded options. As far as we can tell, they almost all have drawbacks.
Because one ran Windows RT and one ran Windows 8, and that distinction was massive, despite the fact that the Surface/Surface Pro distinction wasn't that huge in terms of names or looks. And people expected "Windows RT" to be compatible with "Windows", since before then, pretty much all things that were marketed as "Windows" were compatible, to some extent. And no-one understood what "RT" meant.

Contrast this situation with Apple: all the mobile devices (from really small to pretty large) run iOS, and many of the Apps are cross-platform. The desktops run something completely different; contrast this back again with Microsoft's attempt to get the same thing running on desktops AND tablets, but - of course - only SOME tablets. That approach is a complete mind.
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Lol. I agree the argument is a bit misleading. Apple products can be considered to be just as confusing.

Apple Product Names:

- iPad
- iPad 2
- iPad
- iPad /w Retina
- iPad Air

Which iPad do I buy!? I'm thinking, maybe, the iPad 2 because it must be the most current and advanced model :P
The AFR is 2.3 percentage points less (0.9% vs 3.2%), which in this case means that a single unit of the inferior brand is 3.5 times more likely to die during a full year of use. I'd love to see their calculations that justifies buying non-Hitachi drives.
Ah thanks! That's what I get for writing this the first thing in the morning before coffee. :|
Non-mobile version: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/
It's a darn shame. We would love to pay less for hard drives. Even at our current capacity, we're still a "small fish". And since we try to run lean we likely could buy 10,000 drives and keep inventory, but that doesn't necessarily work out for us in the long run as hard drive prices tend to fall monthly.
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An admirably quick response, both to my question here, and to the email I sent.

People, this is a lesson. If you post a "Show HN" then be ready to respond to people's questions and comments. Posting and then going silent for hours is not a good message to send
to people who you want using your service. It says you haven't thought enough about your level of service.

Kudos to GeoCod.io.
I don't believe in global warming
I recently bought two Green drives for my NAS not knowing the difference. Do your research :).

Having said that, the NAS is working out pretty well so far with ZFS running on top of them.
I would recommend you to use PouchDB, its a similar approach, but in this case you use CouchDB as a database, it can be used offline and it syncs http://pouchdb.com/
Partially true. Depends on how many millions, I guess. If it was in the low millions, it's definitely not "fuck you money", especially at a relatively young age with 50+ years of life left. It's enough to be comfortable, but I don't know if that's equivalent to "financially set".
> Not everyone acts as rational machines

OK, but now you're arguing that Yale students shouldn't be exposed to free expression because they're incapable of handling its consequences. I think that's silly, but fine: it's a real argument. But let's stop pretending this kind of paternalism is consistent with even a modest notion of free expression, because it's very clearly not. It says "you can only say things we approve of, because we know best." Being right about knowing best doesn't make it not a limitation on free expression. Free expression as a principle necessarily doesn't hinge on whether you think the individual expressions are right. That's, like, the whole point of it. [1]

You're also arguing that 1-5 rating systems are silly and Yale shouldn't bother collecting them, but that has nothing to do with the YBB+ website or how students will interpret it. For example, wouldn't those perverse incentives you mention be in place already, given that providing feedback to professors was the whole point? Ratings don't magically transform from useful evaluation tools to misguided oversimplifications just because students have convenient access to them. Either they carry useful information or they don't.

[1] I'm not taking a free expression absolutist position here. (I'm tempted to, but it's totally unnecessary for this discussion.) The point is that to the degree to which you make rules about what kind of thing people can express is, well, trivially the degree to which you limit free expression. And limiting the ability of students to transmit truthful data about the courses they're taking is a very strong limitation, and it would be hard to formulate a consistent, principled policy that permits this kind of restriction and doesn't just say, "you can't say things we don't like".
Pretty much. Best Buy hard drives, for example - I Google, NewEgg and Amazon search to price match, but those model numbers are only at Best Buy, unsurprisingly.
I believe Tictrac (https://www.tictrac.com/) is working on a similar system
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>The criticism that merchants will not accept Bitcoin due to its volatility is also incorrect. Bitcoin can be used entirely as a payment system; merchants do not need to hold any Bitcoin currency or be exposed to Bitcoin volatility at any time. Any consumer or merchant can trade in and out of Bitcoin and other currencies any time they want.

I don't understand this. Someone is taking the risk right now. Currently it's the exchanges and merchants directly, because they rely on the exchanges. With high volatility merchants wouldn't be getting about the same amount in 1 hour turnover time right now.
Everything in the process should be synced according to current exchange rates. Obviously technology makes this possible, but the technical implementation effort would be huge for widespread adoption.

BTC as it stands now seems to be somewhat stabilizing, but anything is still possible until it becomes more widespread and trusted. Kind of paradoxical.
Love it. I'll keep using my current service for now (SmartyStreets), but I'll let you know two things I noticed:

1) Most services will accept shortcuts for names, like "SF" for San Francisco or NYC for New York, but in both cases, I got error messages instead of geocodes.

2) Addresses that aren't "properly" formatted (i.e., without commas or something) often return very incorrect information. Here's an example:

2680 NW 8th Pl, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311 - returns correct info

2680 NW 8th Pl Fort Lauderdale FL 33311 - returns incorrect info (see suffix, formatted_address)

For what it's worth, SmartyStreets mangles even the first address that you got correct, but on the other hand, they're very good at correctly returning data for improperly formatted addresses like the second one.

Anyway, good luck. Great tool.
The AT&T trial ($15/mo) .. once you complete the trial, do you begin paying Beats? Or AT&T? Is it included on your data plan, or does it supersede? This whole thing strikes me as ... shady. But everything about the Beats brand strikes me as shady.
> The other day I was wondering why we, as a population, keep arguing about what economic model would work the best? Don't we have computers that can run simulations and provide answers?

(1) Because "works the best" is a question of subjective value, not one of objective fact, so it cannot be answered factually, and
(2) Because while computers can run simulations, that doesn't even help answer factual questions until you have both a reliable model to use in the simulation that covers the specific area of interest and a complete description of the model-relevant facts from the economic context in which the proposals is to be evaluated. Good luck with that when it comes to any significant question of economic policy.
It's not about distribution. Much like ordering a book from Amazon, buying software, or going to see a movie, distribution is typically not the most relevant cost.

I think the NYTimes is one of the best bargains out there, and lucky for those who don't pay the benefits spillover to other journalism, especially the blog/twitter world.
Your "try it now" link doesn't go straight into trying it. I have to either pay money or share to FB. It may seem fine to you, but that's a redirect in the customer's mind. That was enough to stop me from trying it--even though I am struggling to get a freelance practice started and need hour tracking and invoicing help. You haven't shown me anything and are asking me to part with my money or my privacy just to see whether your products sucks or not.

Freelancers are going to be really used to trying tech for free before buying. They are a good market for freemium or even ad supported.

Not sure about this one but to be honest I was distracted by that robot cartoon character. I'm not even sure what he has in his mouth. It's just weird and makes me think you are 17. Hope that wasn't harsh, I would wager there's an emotional attachment to that robot, you or someone close is a great artist. Ditch the emotion and get something more product specific.
Browsing some books for a Buddhist friend tripped their "recommend similar items" algorithm. They got a bug report and I got a fiver credit.