skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laughing at 'Bill Gates is an asshole.' I've heard this anecdotally about everyone on your list, but not about him. People malign Microsoft and Windows, but please show me anecdotes about Gates the person being an asshole.
Please put (2012) in the title.
This does not seem to take into account the fact that the bottom quartile start with horses and outhouses and end up with motorized vehicles and indoor plumbing.
What’s New in Node.js v0.12 – Performance Optimizations
Speed doesn't necessarily correlate with reliability, though.
In Freemind it's the tab key, which is both intuitive and easy to find.
Is it possible to get a full list of all such notebooks by Norvig?
Agreed, this is unusable for us until there's international support. We have a large percentage of international users in 130 different countries. Doesn't make sense to use this over, say, MapQuest.
Oh my gosh, you just gave me some serious flashbacks to college.
MacPorts is full of useless junk. MacPorts will install a new sandboxed python, ruby, perl, etc when just want to get wget (the built in versions are fine!). The libraries are all broken out where brew keeps them simple and a lot of the packages are old silly packages that no one on the Mac really cares about (every single GNOME library for example).

brew isn't just moving forward quickly, it has really just out right replaced MacPorts and anyone still using MacPorts is living in 2007.
Sean's issue was unfortunate. I think he posted the blog a little prematurely, our support is in contact with him and we're trying to figure out what happened. We restored a lot of data over Backblaze's life (over 5 billion files) and normally the .zip restores are rock solid, and we didn't have any outages yesterday. We're trying to collect his logs and see exactly what broke down. He said that he'd update his posts after the issue was resolved, so keep an eye on it!
Have you seen a different failure rate between the drives that were sold as internal vs. the drives that were sold as external and "shucked" ?
From the article and throughout the comments here it seems Backblaze prefers cheaper drives over a few percentage points of reliability. It would be interesting to see some data showing the tradeoff, but I suspect it reveals too much of their operation. At first glance it appears you can get a drive with .9% failure rate (HGST 7K3000) for $127[1], and yet BB really likes the WD Red, which has a higher failure rate (3.2%) and cost[2].

What might shed light without revealing too much is information about where they source drives today (their sourcing coverage during the shortage was very cool!). I suspect they're finding some nice bulk discounts somewhere.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Hitachi-Deskstar-7K3000-HDS723030ALA64...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/WD-Red-NAS-Hard-Drive/dp/B008JJLW4M/
(both seem to be market consumer prices)
sigh... You are a bit naive if you believe that money is the be all end all risk here.
Thanks for the 8.1 idea everyone! Surely 9.0 would be fine again.

7 for example is feels good, and comfortable, and XP was my best friend, and still have good fond memories of NT4 (or was it NT5) along with Windows 2000.

If Microsoft simply skipped all other versions (okay they needed 95), then I would've not had much to complain about Windows really...
an additional possible outcome is a paradigm shift w/o revolution. As more people become unemployed, destitute etc, they will command a greater amount of democratic power (votes). Additional forces bringing the products towards free are: 1) If all the consumers are poor, the capitalist/business owner will need to reduce the price of goods in order to maximize the total value of sales (better to sell 100 widgets at $1 each than 1 at $50 each), because the automated labor force has (presumably) a low operating cost they can bring the price down to the cost of materials + electricity. 2) Because the business owner doesnt mix his own labor with the goods, he/she has little claim on the product (Locke's labor theory of property) .
Seems that I can't 'shuffle' play my own library by genre (or 'mood'). Which makes Beats about the thousandth company to not offer this (common sense?) option. I can do this with Google Play Music (thankfully). Personally, there are plenty of ways to get 'curated' music...make it easy for me to play what I want.

Also, spent about 15 minutes on their site and still couldn't find the web player...maybe launch day issue?

Edit: found listen.beatsmusic.com (thanks to a comment here)
Hi,

I understand that it's a different role, hence my interest.

I'm not sure I agree that a contractor is there to merely practice his craft, compared to the consultant who is there to make sure a company in a better position than before. It should be a contractor's job to do that as well.

This is why I'm seeing quite a grey area between what constitutes a consultant, and a contractor, or freelancer.

I'll check out the book link, thanks.
I interpret "passive" to mean "not directly trading time for money".
Trying to signup it asks for my weight but doesn't say what unit of measurement is expected.
Thanks a Latte: Starbucks App Leaves Passwords Exposed
> Prior to 8, I've found that Windows has been easier to work with than Mac OS.

I agree, for much the same reason that you state:

> And that's always been sort of illustrative of my dealing with Mac. As long as you're doing exactly what is expected, the experience is simple.

Right. That's long been Apple's strength: simple as long as you're doing exactly what's expected, and having the strength of design to "expect" things that hit a pretty large segment of the market.
Useless, not so much. The best solution all the time? Also not so much.

I agree with the points about it being just a large set of declarations, there aren't a lot of good ways to lazy load CSS (that I know of) so in some cases you're pushing a lot of bytes that you don't need to and creating dead weight.

Also the presentation in markup point is one I have been saying for years. We hear about the death of tables and why it needed to happen and go back and do similar stuff. But without extensive use of something like jQuery you have to do it.

I think these frameworks are awesome for people like me. I'm a backend coder, and I am not that good at CSS. I love being able to whip out a layout and interfaces in a fraction of the time, so I can focus on what I do best. It's not that I'm afraid of CSS (I can write it) it's just that I'm afraid of wasting time.

This is the primary reason these frameworks have flourished IMO. Useless? Not even close.
Data Breach Déjà vu? Target Announces 70 Million More Victims
Pretty similar to what might have happened to Snowden had he stuck around? Agreed, not comparing the two seriously, because they arn't the same thing at all, but perhaps they should have left then returned after all had settled?
Unfortunately it is only in lbs right now - metric coming later this week though. Sorry for the inconvenience, but thanks for pointing that out!
I really dislike the "do a startup" language that prevails now. Whatever happened to "start a business"?
LibreOffice retains the 'classic' menu structure and is an excellent transition to a *nix distro that looks like XP.
Weakly-typed lambda expressions and LINQ in Visual Studio debugger
I really appreciate this; as someone who has had a number of SSD and HDD failures due to lackluster manufacturers (OCZ and Seagate respectively).
Nice answer on Twitter.

I totally agree, the first attempt probably won't solve the problem. And many startups actually found a solution first, then try to fit into a problem paradigm, pivot to solve that 'need'.

However Games might be another example, where was there a Problem people were complaining that there need to be an Alien vs Human strategy game? No matter how entertaining, is there study prior to building towards that?

So as a follow-up thought based on your above analysis, should big companies just keep experimenting in-house on a 'non-problem' until reaching a need? - also lends a bit to Innovators Dilemma
From a compliance standpoint, these are pretty meaningless. Sounds like Dropbox marketing isn't taking security and compliance very seriously.

Actually, it really bothers me that Dropbox touts these things as compliance factors (vs. features of the underlying storage system). Dropbox is the user-facing service, not Amazon S3.

If I put a bunch of money in some super-duper safe, chain it to a flatbed truck, and then leave the truck unlocked with the engine running, the safe doesn't make that money secure.
I have the same conflicting feelings about it. One the one hand, yes the HTML should be semantic and not have things in it like "col-2". My thinking is that it's not so terrible as long as it's classnames. The tags and IDs can be more semantic and the classnames I kinda allow the cheating in my mind, considering it to be meta-data.

At a certain point we do actually have to produce a site or an app. If I mange to get the product released while keeping the code clean, organized and consistent then I feel like I'm doing OK.
Thing is most reviews are written immediately after recieving, and I'd rather get a defective drive in the mail and just RMA it on day 1 with the confidence when I get a working drive it will last longer than to have a drive that always works flawlessly out of the box (some 3tb seagate model I know got like 4.5 stars) but usually fails in a year.

Though my current storage drive is a 3tb seagate one, that has been working fine for 2 years with no smart errors. Problem is I need to get the money to build a more appropriate backup raid for all my music / movies / games / etc, but that would be a pretty penny. I've just been using old dvd-rs (I mean, who uses those anymore?) as an impasse with anything really important on my 1TB external disks.
Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction [Book Review]
CEZ Virtual tour
Oh man, prepare for the backlash. These articles are supposed to go the other way or else you're just an arrogant American.
I don't think it's so much that as that the insert key isn't used much, so it's a non-obvious choice. Honestly, any keyboard actions aren't obvious since I feel it's a mouse-based ui (less typing text, of course).
The article does a pretty good job summing it up, actually. But there's another huge reason: time.

I'm married to a physician; work tends to spill over into personal time, the demands of running a practice are real and nontrivial, and a lot of times your doctor just doesn't have the luxury of free time to spend fiddling with computers.

That fiddly time is often the difference between your average tech savvy individual and a Luddite.

My wife is still doing her residency. She's in her twenties, has an android phone, she likes the idea of Linux, and she knows there are real benefits to using an EMR system when it becomes time to start her own practice. She isn't a Luddite.

But she doesn't have time to go out and educate herself on security and technology to the point that she will be making an informed purchase. I imagine many doctors are in a similar situation.
Have you looked at MindMup?
http://www.mindmup.com
Currently Moves, RunKeeper, MapMyRun, MapMyRide, other MapMy's... have another coming really soon!
You can compile Bootstrap yourself from LESS or SASS, pushing your own values into the Bootstrap variables (and ideally sharing this configuration with your custom styles). In the process you can choose not to include some Bootstrap components, reducing it's weight significantly. It's NOT a lightweight framework.
Risky Assumptions and the Assumption of Risk
Interestingly, we think they do as well if not better (http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/12/04/enterprise-drive-reliab...). We think it's because external drives are meant to be jostled around by Joe Schmo, so they do well in our storage pods, whereas internal drives and especially enterprise drives are meant to live in a perfectly Utopian environment.
acronO that's the trap that a LOT of people fall into so you're not alone. But don't go to the grave realizing your decisions were based on making a mortgage payment or a 401K payment or a retirement payment or a college savings plan or a something other very "sensible" sounding. Trust me, your boy is going to love and remember his Dad way more if he saw him doing something he was passionate about and lived in a rental than living in a mortgaged house with a bigger room and a Dad with no spark.
REST Superman – Parallel Async HTTP Client as a Service Open-Sourced
Fast Parallel Async HTTP/REST/SOAP client as a service to monitor and manage 10,000 web servers.
Sends requests to 1000 servers with response aggregation in 10 seconds. or 10,000 servers in 50 seconds.
I suppose it has an indirect benefits to Backblaze too. For a start the publishing of this useful information brings them to our attention (or refreshed our existing memory of the existence of their services) in a positive manner, and publishing honest information drive reliability might make the manufacturers case that little bit more about the overall quality of their consumer grade hardware (which means we all, including Backblaze, get better products to use).
Seconding the usefulness of that service - has worked well for me before now. Would be interested to know if this service is using it.
I remember reading somewhere they patched the software to fix that overnight loss to just a few watts.

It is used to keep the battery warm and electronics running.
The market dynamic in London is to recycle money in the banker’s boys club, whereas SV recycles it in tech. In SV, this is all based on the value of a Pay it Forward™ economy. London is based on a forecasting spreadsheet. NYC has caught on, what gives London?

I’ve been in San Francisco for 23 days now. [...]

The California niceness is superficial. Europeans tell you, point-blank, that they think your idea sucks. Californians say "Let's keep in touch" or "If you can find a co-lead, we're definitely in". They kick the rejection can down the road and it can cost you months. New Yorkers are between the two on that spectrum: not as blunt and harsh as Europeans, but closer to it than Californians.

For example, if you're not from Harvard, Stanford, or MIT, you're a second-class citizen in the Valley. Here's the thing, though. Unlike European-style snobbery, which is overt but actually relatively harmless, you're never told that and unless you're unusually attuned, you'll have no idea what's going on. You just aren't as likely to get good projects, promotions, or introductions that make your career what it should be.

The VC-funded, Silicon Valley game is also a Good Ol' Boy network. Don't let the fact that they dress poorly fool you.
RunKeeper saw a 235% increase in non-running activities with mobile AB Testing
Wonderful!! I wish I could export to FreePlane format as well.
To Protect Its Empire, ESPN Pays Off Congress (Aereo needs to win)
How To cook Turkey Breast | tumblr
Did no one else feel that the biggest issue with the original ip block was not the motivation for the block but rather Yale's blocking of a website on copyright grounds in the first place?

Maybe Yale is indeed in the right to try to control use of this data. But Yale most certainly is not in the right to unilaterally block access, regardless of the reasoning.

(NB., my concern is not with legal rights, but rather a higher standard of moral or ethical rights that Yale, as a purportedly high-minded institution, should hold itself to.)
didn't Scalia say regarding torture that the man wasn't legally a "person" and no rights applied or something like that?
If the university no longer provides the data this seems like a good opportunity for the application developers to manage that data themselves. They already have the students' course information so they could email them at the end of term and get their own evaluations -- removing Yale from the equation entirely.
(you've omitted Vista from your timeline)
Calling All Data Scientists: Let's Crush this 1 Billion Challenge
Added "Tab" as well.
I read this stuff and just think "so the SoCs just have to be 3x as expensive and power consuming to manage double / triple the channels, while still broadcasting at a higher frequency, plus doing computations for beamforming and its ilk".

Pretty much all this guarantees is that wireless n routers will stay $50, AC will stay $100 - 150, and AC-2013 will be $200+, due to complexity. Maybe in a few years n routers will spin down demand and AC will have market effects drop the price, but then I worry about spectrum limitations. We already see huge issues with n routers congesting on the 2.4 band, and making channels even wider for AC means congestion leads to even worse bandwidth and range loss.
You should check out Bourbon Neat: http://neat.bourbon.io/, or leverage Sass' @extend directive.

Your CSS could easily be shortened to:

.body {
@extend .container;
}

.nav-header {
@extend .row;
}

.my-logo {
@extend .col-sm-2;
}

And your markup could be much cleaner:

<body>
<nav class="nav-header">
<div class="my-logo">
<!-- your stuff -->
</div>
</nav>
</body>
There's an option in Internet Options > Programs to always open IE in desktop mode, which might be simpler for your dentist.
Tab added five minutes ago :)
I will, but it cast serious shadow over your service :) however awesome other aspects are
Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support
I know I can do this, but I don't because I prefer to just download the boostrap latest vanilla, and override as needed. That way every time there is a new version I don't have to do mental gymnastics on what variables are new or renamed.
Please submit this feature request to GitHub's issue tracker...
Introducing CodePlayer: Watch your code like a movie
Very cool. I'm in the telematics industry and forward geo-coding is something in which I am always interested, since it can be quite the bitch of a task. How did you go about assembling the shape files?
TLDR; Kanye West is a gay fish.
It'd be great if you could have dropbox for business but be able to deploy it and maintain it on your own servers.
I think they both merit discussion, as one enables the other. Ignoring corruption, the super wealthy can set the topic if not the tone of discourse for entire nations (and increasingly do).
Why can HN never miss an opportunity to bash MBAs? It's so sadly predictable it's almost like parody now.
in fixed resources like land...

What is this resource you talk about?

Land values are f(productivity, past productivity).

That is they are derivatives of income and wealth.

Notwithstanding the critique of the author, the GP has a point that the science of economics is about the relationship between (production, distribution).

Eliminate that feedback loop, and ... yes, you are just looking at the diffusion of "fake games" people play.

Which are only insightful in the assumptions, but broadly speaking, not so much

All of that in mind, this type of essay/article is just a demonstration of ~technique in a very broad sense.

Its useful to mention/caveat any extrapolations are problematic, but no need to dwell or be overyly crtitical here. IMHO.
2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor
As someone who works with simulation models for a living, this was a fascinating read. Thanks for linking it.
But where's the subscription ? isn't 8.1 a regular purchase?
Don't you think you need some customer feed back on why its not that useful and incorporate those feedback on your products?

To get feedback you can simply ask someone who uses a similar tool to spend time on it and give a harsh but true review flat on your face. :P
:)

Open source lecture material

"These are the course materials for the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization on Coursera"

https://github.com/DataScienceSpecialization/courses
A Map of Each State's Deepest Desires, According to Google
Salman Rushdie has to get his story ideas from somewhere.
They have great reviews on Amazon, though.
Are You Deep Linking? 8 Reasons Why Your App Should
Simply because it was something I was unaware of, not that is particularly surprising in general.
Energy costs about $6 a day.
It's painful to do a tech startup anywhere but in my experience, what London suffers the most from is the cost of living.

I spent the last 3 years working in Shoreditch and most of the startup founders I came across were either bootstrapping to the extreme (spending nothing but sweat capital on their project) or freelancing at least 2-3 days a week to cover costs. I think in practice this makes a lot of the work look more amateurish in comparison to seed/angel funded teams in the US. In practice, you would see a technically very talented founder without the right UI/design, a visually polished MVP with no user traction, a businessy founder outsourcing technical work to East Asia etc.
I have been looking for a Markdown-aware pastebin for ages. If you add this one function I will use your service extensively / exclusively. Good luck!
I propose we form a group and apply some stochastic techniques to robustly analyze and create some brackets. The $500 million lump sum could be split among all participants. Any takers?
You mean 'God' not douche right? This is the guy who wrote a song proclaiming he was God (its the title and chorus in fact)?
I would say its as good an economic model as it would be an epidemiological model, if we changed 'wealth' to 'infection'.
I think this is supposed to be a parody of someone who got into tech because it was trendy and may or may not have a trust fund.

"Disruptive Technologies and Forces in Business Technology"

"We use the Business Model Canvas to help our clients provide clarity around many of the challenging aspects that every business must endeavour."
Interesting.

Side note:

How can London startups hiring "rockstar" devs offer 40k? Have they seen the rent prices here?

I can earn at least x2 in the City and x3 contracting. It's just not acceptable.
>>big bankroll...you can afford to ride out the bumps
>>small bankroll...you'll probably get wiped out by random chance pretty quickly

>>doesn't seem to have much bearing on actual economics

Don't be too quick to assume that, I think your post actually contains everything you're looking for...
I like the idea and the overall design but on the 'Log' page the top circles are a little confusing. I was trying to tap on them initially and it took me a few minutes to realize that they just showed the status. If they were different then the rest in some way it might make it more obvious.

I would also love Fitbit integration. I know a lot of people who have them (myself included) and because I would still have to use two apps might prevent me from using Nudge long term.
If systems are designed with the expectation that hardware can and will fail often, better reliability drives aren't worth the cost as long as cheaper drives are relatively comparable. In addition to cost savings, your system has better robustness when it is decoupled from hardware reliability.

For example, Google's Map Reduce paper has a section on fault tolerance that goes into detail about how they handle the issue of failing workers:

http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html
No. I just think it's unethical to make money from someone else's work without compensating them.

"But everyone else is doing it" is the kind of reasoning small children use.
Cumbria University to accept fees in Bitcoin
Pinterest marketing startup Ahalogy raises $3.1m Series A
Nope, I wasn't aware it existed. At first glance it looks very useful, although I don't think I'm a fan of the bubbly look and the spider leg edges (my maps tend to be fairly large, so I suppose I like a more compressed look).
Not the kind of vulnerability I inferred the parent commenter to be referring to, or the kind considered by the reaction to the President's NSA committee and new NSA guidelines. I agree, BULLRUN is one of the very significant and important disclosures; probably the most important.