skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat true. In "winner takes all" naturally the asymptotic end point is that all the wealth is on one agent at a time, and it is passed around in transactions randomly.

It would be more interesting to look at where the agents end up from their starting positions. Besides looking at wealth inequality, one could look at "consistency" or whatever you call it.
No, you don't need all this, there are tools to help. Look at Susy for example. God knows how many times I deleted '<div class="row">' out of markup templates.
This looks really good! A couple of things that I noticed watching the video and reading the site:

- are you responsible for creating the variables in the xcode project yourself, and ensuring they're exactly the same as the ones in the SpriteBuilder project? Couldn't that be done automatically for me?

- saying that it converts to Android when really it uses Apportable, which requires a license (and cash for some purposes), seems a little disingenuous. Unless you really have added something to help with that which I didn't see. (Please correct me if I'm wrong).
> Not cooperating is legal, unlike not paying taxes

Right. I was just highlighting the similarity between those two things: if you disobey "authorities", something bad will happen to you. Here it's good to notice that extortion is illegal unless it's called "taxation", in which case, attempting to avoid extortion is illegal.
Definitely wish I had seen this a couple months ago before I bought two 3TB seagates. Although to be fair I was already pretty sure that seagates sucked (its good to see data backing that up) but getting two for $85 each was too hard to pass up. I'm a sucker for a deal. I buy HDs in pairs now so I'm not too worried about losing anything.

I am intrigued by backblaze's service though. A part of me feels like there must be a catch somewhere. I have a good 10TB I'd be happy to pay $5/month to backup but somehow I feel like they'd pull a comcast and say their "unlimited" claim doesn't apply to the 1% of users (or in this case maybe the .001%).
I did warm up the JVMs, actually. Those Rails numbers are far too low for TorqBox. Perhaps the best thing to do is add this to the techempower benchmark suite so a 3rd party can run and present the results.
her missive, actually
sounds like twofishes doesn't do addresses, only city names. That puts it in a different category of product.
just b/c it's not a language feature doesn't mean that you can't make your own sort of thing. for instance, the play framework has a TODO result object that is indeed quite handy for stubbing out api endpoints and the like.

like the typed/untyped debate, the amount of primitives a language ought to have seems to be a topic of disagreement even among experts (touched on here http://www.infoq.com/presentations/functional-pros-cons although not the main topic). also, like type systems, primitives seem like something that, while important to consider, are easy to get hung up on, to take a stance and apply it to all languages without the consideration that different languages are good for different types of problems. my own snap judgements of perl were that its notions of context and pragmas make it easy to express one or two ideas both quickly and intuitively, but that its type system makes it difficult to reason about larger programs.

so to cap off this ramble, my question to the perl people: what problems are you solving with perl? to me, perl seems to mainly fit two use cases: sys-admin stuff (where it's basically used like bash++, although i realize it's much more powerful than that) and an embedded language for c programs.
You assume that sound quality is the only thing that matters in a pair of headphones. A lot of people care more about how they look and the branding then the sound, which is totally fine. I work in a small tech store and I've convinced people to buy better headphones to have them come back a few days later and exchanging them for Beats. Yes, they sound horrible, but different people have different needs and desires. It's not wasted money if they enjoy them, which I believe to a large part people do. Who are we to tell people they should buy headphones they don't want?

Branding and design is a legitimate category for a company to compete in and the people behind the headphones are certainly successful in it. They recognized that most people don't really care how they sound because the vast majority of people are not audiophiles and just want to look cool.
I've used novocaine on a hackathon project. Very fun little library, thanks! It was 10,000 times easier than setting up the audio unit chain, etc. I had done it the old fashioned way for my first app but there was an incredible amount of error-prone boilerplate code when all I really wanted was a callback function to populate output buffers.

This thing also looks pretty cool: http://theamazingaudioengine.com/
They said in the article that the 1.5TB drives were largely warranty replacements, and they suspect they were refurbs.
The title of the post is Which Hard Drive Should I Buy?

Not which Hard Drive should Back Blaze buy again.

As a consumer I wouldnt consider buying a HDD ever again. I would be more interested in a post that details the reliability of SSD manufactures/models.
I love the title: "Bootstrap a crossplatform Desktop Application using tools you probably never heard of."
My guess is because they are also geo-dependent. Your fake person gets a valid SSN for where they are from.
I've only glanced at the paper and haven't looked at the code at all so forgive me if I'm asking something that's easily answered in one of the two.

Regarding your scanner, is it possible to "set it up and forget it"? I work for an ISP and have plenty of machines and bandwidth available. If I can set this up on a box and let it do its thing without needing to babysit it or look after it constantly, it makes it much easier for others (like me) to help out with the "crowd sourcing".
He's not complaining about how challenging starting a business is. He's complaining about how London is not actually a good environment to start it in. And he did something about it - he packed his bags and headed for the healthier environment of Silicon Valley. He did what's good for him and his business.

The problem isn't him, it's London. If it's so unhelpful to good founders that they feel a need to pack up and leave, then London has a cultural problem.
The author doesn't have a limited definition of literature, he's merely using one. It's pretty clear from context that he's talking about well-regarded prose novels, which is a perfectly cromulent usage of the word.
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At the end of 2013 I launched http://www.comedylib.com/. It's a site with curated Youtube videos of comedians, comedy shows and comedy movies.

I built this out of my passion for comedy and because I wanted to have only comedy videos in one place and not the mix that Youtube offers. It's not making any money yet, but I haven't put much effort into promoting it so far.
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Asic/FPGA's? Or just GPU/CPU? Which currencies? I was one of those that mined a few blocks of bc and spent it all before it was worth anything, and then thought that fpga's and asics took it out of my price range. Have considered trying my hand at it again.
He has changed recently but he used to be a soulful person who talked openly about his own life. I find that inspiring.
from his blog: (the blog is taken down but this image can still be found on the internet)
http://api.ning.com/files/2B9YJ2tmCwrwvNVAh7nc-3GXR2XCD8LwdS...
I think a lot of thought goes into a name. If you've worked on a product for long enough, it becomes family. Giving that product a name is like naming your own child.

I appreciate the subtle and nuanced names Apple comes up with. Even the name "Apple" itself I think a lot about. It conjures up images of Newton, Adam and Eve, The wicked witch from snow white -- just to name a few. I appreciate how much the apple object itself has been such a subtle not-so-subtle member of our culture, yet often overlooked as being simple.

I think in this simplicity we are allowed to explore our own imaginations and make some things better than they could ever explicitly be. I'd say strive for basic, simple names and don't pass up the easily overlooked.
I don't think thats really true at all. His music is looked at very critically, because he pushes a lot of boundaries and he is such an outspoken character. People love to hate him, so the fact that his music is so acclaimed is evidence of just how good it is, that many people like it despite his antics.
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The New York Times is professional journalism. You don't need to be rich to afford $3.75/week. This is about $200/yr, on the order of the price of a print subscription. Working class families have been reading newspapers for decades.

Occasionally we find that professional, full-time newsrooms produce better content than the blogosphere. Producing that content took a staff of educated, full-time professionals with families and mortgages. I don't find it particularly offensive that people who regularly consume their output are expected to help fund their salaries so they can keep producing.
Maybe too late but

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What the hell. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to remark on. It was presented as a conundrum, and it turns out it's something disappointing to the grandparent. You're the one dramatising things.
How does that compare to SSD failure rates? Are they much better?
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You can use any Objective-C compiler with SpriteBuilder. We happen to make a really good one, but it's not the only option for compiling Objective-C on Android.
Really simple user experience. Love it.

I had a similar add-friend-then-add-thing UX idea for a personal project with a different goal.
Any laptop with a mechanical hard drive makes my hair stand on its end. In 2014, it's just an unnecessary liability.

When my girlfriend and I started getting serious a few years back, the first thing I did was to replace her aging MacBook Pro with a SSD MacBook Air. It was the only way the relationship could move forward.
Typo in your second sentence = I stop reading
In the last two year, I have stopped all buying of Seagate drives. We had a rather large rash of failures in RAIDs and desktops (50% of about 50 drives). Then the "every drive shipped by HP is failing" problems of the netbooks (70 total replace 50 drives) were also Seagate drives.

We are basically an WD house now.
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Idiocy of product naming goes even further when the only difference between two incomprehensible model names IS the name: two different products differ only by name for the sole purpose of ensuring that competing retailers don't carry the same product. Retailer BB doesn't want customers saying "your price for the SNY FB-1234 is higher than Fris' SNY FB-1234", so BB (being a big customer[1]) persuades SNY to produce the FB-1235, which nobody can prove is the very same device with a different SKU label (though BB, when pressed, vaguely promises is "superior").

[1] - And there's the problem: companies big enough they forget who their customer is. Dazzled by large-volume sales contracts, they focus on negotiation points and big numbers ... overlooking who is actually buying the product to use, not just re-sell. I saw this at Kodak: when faced with the rise of digital photography, their resellers threatened to cancel contracts if Kodak pursued this new tech which would undermine their ulterior motives for selling film-based photography consumables (customers enter the store 3 times - to buy film, to drop off film, to pick up prints - and likely buy other stuff on each visit); they weren't interested in the product itself, only that it was "sticky" and increased sales of other stuff. Hence we get product names geared for large-warehouse retailers, products loaded with crapware paid for by advertising departments, and general ignoring of the people who actually buy the stuff for what it is. Apple, however, knows that they must delight each user, not just people signing for pallets of product.
> I always avoided Hitachi drives in my deck for some reason

Probably because Hitachi bought IBM's line of Deathstar drives that were notoriously unreliable. It appears they have done far better with the product.
Of course, because digital edition has distribution costs just like printed editions.
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Sometimes it works in private window. But I agree, this is ridiculous, I cannot access most of the links to nytimes either, especially blog ones, even in private window.
How is it unreliable?
The key word is "Offer". So long as neither you nor your countrymen are foolish enough to accept such an offer, nothing is lost.

Every six weeks I get the same email from the same recruiter trying to sell me on a "Senior Developer" position in Southern California that pays $70k/year. That mail has come in like clockwork for the last half dozen years now, and still seemingly nobody has been foolish enough to take it, since the position is still open.

Sadly, there seems to be a group of developers in London who actually take those crazy lowball offers, thus making it more difficult for the good ones to explain why they're four times as expensive.

You're right though. It's not acceptable. Good on you for not accepting it.
So what would you have everyone do instead, in your world where complying with overheads imposed by PCI and the like don't matter?

Sure, you could mandate that every legitimate small business collecting credit card information be subject to heavyweight audit processes and be compelled to institute enterprise-grade everything.

If you could actually get away with that, then most small businesses would either switch to charging via other mechanisms and/or fail. It still wouldn't stop fraudsters who don't care what you or PCI or anyone else says from putting convincing-looking forms on their convincing-looking sites and exploiting anyone who is willing to put their numbers in.

In practice, I doubt you actually would get away with that kind of clamp down today. If the card industry really decided to cause serious harm in a part of the economy that generally drives growth and recovery by enforcing its antiquated rules against small businesses, sooner or later it could wind up facing anything up to primary legislation to put it back in its place as governments acted to protect their national interests. Not only would that make economic sense, it would also probably be a big win for just about any politician to do it, given the current anti-bank sentiment almost everywhere.

Of course this is all absurdly hypothetical, because in reality as long as small businesses are being reasonable and using common sense when it comes to securing their facilities, it is very unlikely the card schemes have anything to gain by hassling them or the modern payment services they use. I imagine they're more worried about national chain stores losing card details by the hundreds of thousands or millions.
The catch is that the initial upload can take a while if your internet connection has limited upstream – not something Backblaze can help but I'm sure it has made some people think twice before having their external drives mirrored in the cloud.
Provisioned IOPS EBS volumes are SSD based. From the product page (http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/details/):

""Backed by Solid-State Drives (SSDs), Provisioned IOPS volumes support up to 30 IOPS per GB which enables you to provision 4000 IOPS on a volume as small as 134 GB.""
The only way I see this getting any traction is if some wildly popular editor (Emacs?) implements it as a built-in, braindead-simple feature. Then users will start to demand it of other editors.
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I just wrapped up a project not using this full workflow, but using node-webkit + grunt-node-webkit-builder.

To answer a few questions posed here:
1) It worked great for me, but we were doing a very simple presentation type app

2) grunt-node-webkit-builder is pretty great, saves ~15 minutes for each build, grunt takes a little bit to get going, but is easier than most php / ruby tools I've used

3) You don't have to use Angular, Jade, or Coffescript

4) While I did not take advantage of using a database, I suspect someone else has and it's not a big deal.

Also for anyone interested the same code we ran through node-webkit, worked well with build.phonegap.com, which means it would also work with Cordova (http://cordova.apache.org/) adding mobile device support into the build process would be very impressive, as would a node-webkit GUI build tool.

If I had all the time & attention span in the world, combining a node desktop+mobile build tool with an IDE like light table into a complete package that had a simple installer & GIT integration would be pretty great, and mostly assembling parts instead of re inventing the wheel.

However, I have bills to pay so I need to get back to figuring out how a big corporations's imaginary friends will make purchasing decisions ;)
> The drives that just don’t work in our environment are Western Digital Green 3TB drives and Seagate LP (low power) 2TB drives. Both of these drives start accumulating errors as soon as they are put into production. We think this is related to vibration. The drives do somewhat better in the new low-vibration Backblaze Storage Pod, but still not well enough.

Another reason to avoid the WD Green 3TB: these drives aggressively put themselves to sleep to save power. It's literally a matter of streaming a video from disk and if the OS caches enough of the file, the drive will see there haven't been any accesses in a few seconds and stop spinning.

The video will of course glitch when the cached data runs out and the drive needs to spin up. Great design.
I love the interweb.
The 'boring' remark is the only thing that set me off. The post without that would seem reasonable - as it stands though, it looks like someone complaining about not having something more interesting to read about, not someone expressing disappointment there wasn't something more meaningful to her heirs.
The price we pay as consumers isn't going to be the same as that paid by Backblaze when they buy 100 drives at a time. The fact that they pick the WD Red implies that they're getting a better deal on those, otherwise they wouldn't settle for the higher failure rates.

EDIT: comments from BB employees below actually say they often buy off the shelf from NewEgg and Amazon.
I'm going to toss this out there - I've considered building an affiliate site in the porn space. I've looked at a couple API's and it looks easy. However, I have never built anything in this space - I just hear that there's money to be made so have been tempted. Let the flogging begin!
Can someone please tell me what exactly they are using Grunt for? I just don't see what problem it solves.
SO Question asker here - funny how advice from 6 years ago looks really odd now! Just as a bit of context, the state of the art was BluePrint and YUI. Oh how far we've come.
Edit your post and use double-enter to create paragraphs; single-enter is treated as a continuation of paragraph.

HN uses a very sparse markdown format...
Yes, if things get more reliable without going up in cost, we are happy. Though, it's true that the exposure is nice too.
What do you mean by reliable?

My main snag with WiFi right now is its half-duplex nature and dropped packets. 100Mbps WLAN is horrendously worse than 100Mbps LAN for networked storage
10Gb Ethernet would be fantastic, but the cards are still expensive.

Anyway, can't beat 1GbE for low latencies and high speeds, it's still faster than an AC router, unless maybe your computer is right next to it.
We posted a calculator that does exactly this: https://scalyr.com/cloud. It will let you compute a "normalized" monthly cost for the various reserved and non-reserved options, customized for your usage and cost of capital, so that you can make an apples-to-apples comparison. You can also compare with other providers.

Always happy to get feedback on this tool.
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>Computers are weird things...

That's not very encouraging, coming from a data storage company employee.
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Who could say no to some extra exposure? Plus we feel good about sharing this type of stuff. Not many other folks seem to be willing to do it, we can't fathom why. The discussions around it alone are interesting at the very least.
Oh - if anyone has any info on this please email me via my profile. I'm open to reason not to do it as well as I don't have my heart set on it, more of a curiosity than anything.
It's just personal choice I'd say. It should be rather trivial to fork my repo, throw out all the stuff I used from https://github.com/scotch/angular-brunch-seed and add the skeleton you want from http://brunch.io/skeletons.html since they're similar. This way you can keep all the scripts and tools for the workflow, but use the meta-languages you like. :)
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Cryptography is very dead. Cryptography relies on the keys being kept private. The keys must be on computers to be usable. Computers can be compromised, therefore the keys can be compromised, therefore they encrypted payloads can be decrypted. Any question?

And by "Computers can be compromised", this means computers also cannot be trusted to hold any sensitive data.
Reminds me of the condom vs Android phone names list http://insideintercom.io/whats-in-a-name/
Adoption of this sort of disruptive tech is a chicken or egg problem. For BTC, it seems that the market is forming first (available uses). As these dominoes fall in early adopting industries on the fringe (casinos, gambling sites, pornographers, e-commerce), consumers will begin to find its advantages more compelling - anonymity, decentralized, etc. I would think subsidiaries of larger organizations, like Zappos, and platforms like gaming sites and platforms will fall next. How long until ice-cream can be bought using a BTC wallet at a Square POS machine?
Hortonworks marks Hadoop 2.0 for Windows as GA
HN is all about scalability at least WRT software and operations, but at the networking level, its no contest, switch and cables scales about a hundred times better than wireless, although the HN hive mind never understands that.

Go ahead, do whatever you want with the laptop on the wireless, the roku won't care because its wired.

Buying cables and hooking everything up that you can, is by far the cheapest, fastest, and easiest way to upgrade your wireless experience.
Yes, but the problem is, hard drive $/GB has not recovered to the pre-flood trendline, even if prices have (4 years later) finally hit parity. The trendline has been badly hurt by the floods, it's pretty amazing. (I did a little tracking and was impressed how my predictions of the consequences were still insufficiently pessimistic: http://www.gwern.net/Slowing%20Moore%27s%20Law#kryders-law )
1) You can get still get around it by Googling "NYTimes" + [article title] and then opening the link in a private browse window.

2) I don't think it's "ridiculous" for the NYT to want to monetize their work. After all, their employees don't work for free.
'div class="span-24"' is no better than a table

Even within the strict scope of CSS this post shows it's age. The phrase above in particular reaks of being written in a time before philosophies such as OOCSS. Additionally, popular frameworks are no longer tied as tightly to fixed-pixel values.

If somebody were vehemently arguing these sorts of points today, I would be concerned that I was dealing with the type of developer who resists change or is opposed to exploring and understanding the approaches of others.