skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minus the awful solutions, the best long term strategy to reduce resource consumption is to reduce population growth.

It doesn't miss the central concern, it reasons through it within some reasonable moral framework.
That would be the definition of "freedom of speech" in many western countries. (or at-least i believe it is similar in similar countries other than my own, i have not fact checked that.)

For example in Sweden we have laws that provide "freedom of speech".

It means that one can ALMOST say what one wants to anyone. One may however not say/or behave in a way that is intended to offend a group of people.
Saying such a thing leads either to Jail or a Fine.
Many people think more bass == better sound. Go figure.
I think to an individual at the moment the segments MAY be more useful than the metric itself; however, the value of the metric becomes more apparent when comparing individuals or populations. I know I get really excited about the prospect of being able to better index cities, states, etc. That is really interesting observation though.
Effort reduction is a fair point. However, most of the shortcuts presented are for tasks I do so rarely that having a quick shortcut to them adds relatively little value.

The few that I do use frequently from that list already have their own key bindings, or I can find them with 2-3 keystrokes after pulling up the windows start menu (something you can't do with Windows 8 if they aren't regular applications; you have to type and then select a different application category to search in).

Ctrl-Shift-Escape == Task manager

Win-D == Desktop

Win-R == Run

Alt-F4 (from Desktop) == Shutdown

The net result is that this is not enough of a value add to elevate Windows 8 above Windows 7.
The foreign filing may have issued (i didn't look at the time), so they may have a valid trademark somewhere already.
Maybe it's because I'm semi-technical, but "$0.001 each" is clearer to me than "1 cent for every 10 uses." I mean, I recognize that they're synonymous, but the former clicks in my mind faster than the latter.

So, if, as you admit, the service's audience is semi-technical, and if the average semi-technical person's brain works like me (big assumption, I know), I would argue that they should stick with $0.001.
Backblaze employee here -> Yes, this gets a SMALL amount of allowance. The datacenter team begs us to buy the Hitachi drives even at twice the price, but it would bankrupt us. But if the Hitachis are only $2 or $3 more expensive per drive (including the failure rate in that calculation) then we're willing to buy them for the reduced hassle.

I think the calculation is replacing one drive takes about 15 minutes of work. If we have 30,000 drives and 2 percent fail, it takes 150 hours to replace those. In other words, one employee for one month of 8 hour days. Getting the failure rate down to 1 percent means you save 2 weeks of employee salary - maybe $5,000 total? The 30,000 drives costs you $4 million, so who cares about $5k here or there?
I originally went into an in depth explanation of this in my original post, but decided it was a rabbit trail. Oh well.

Essentially, artists have a lot of "credit" (i.e. they can elicit services for cheap due to the massive exposure it might get), but very little cashflow. They usually pay their living expenses through signing bonuses and use the rest of the contract money to finance the production of the album. In this specific case Kanye used a large amount of his own signing bonus for Late Registration to pay for the videos, while using the bare minimum the studio would give him to pay for just the directors. While theoretically he still would have had a lot of earning potential, and probably would have kept at least some of his "credit" if LR failed, he still would have been extremely cash poor. Kanye frequently talks about how bad he is with money and spending habits, so his financial situation was most likely pretty precarious.

Side note: this is part of the "scam" of record labels... they purposely keep the economic buying power away from the artists' wallet and keep it tied to the artists' image, which just so happens to be very dependent on the studio's continued marketing efforts. Kanye actually addresses this in an interview, where he talks about "who is really free?" when comparing an up and coming artist in a Maybach to a homeless man on the side of the street.
Lee's answer[0] is a good one, and worth a look, but there are other good answers there as well. Andrea Martin's answer[1] just below Lee's is especially interesting because it takes an entirely different viewpoint to the question than the typical "intellectual biases" or "networking/superficial social skills" type of answers:

"Fail to develop and maintain mutual support systems among mature, benevolent, competent people. Without a good support system, anyone can begin to slide down a slippery slope when they encounter hardship, miscalculate something major, or fall victim to the misdeeds of others."

Go read the whole thing. It's worth it.

[0] Permalink to Lee's answer: http://www.quora.com/Human-Behavior/What-are-some-stupid-thi...

[1] Permalink to Andrea's answer: http://www.quora.com/Human-Behavior/What-are-some-stupid-thi...
The original basis was listed as 44(d), which would be a foreign filing.
I didn't look to see if it changed to 44(e), which would be based on a foreign registration.

Looking now, it looks like it issued in the EU, and the status changed to 44(e), so they have a valid registration in the EU for something, but OHIM is being a pain in the ass, so i can't look up all the details.
May be a small matter, but I feel the slogan "nudge yourself" to be a little ... odd. "Give yourself a nudge" sounds better to me. YMMV
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Admittedly, if you're the type of person who purely bases their purchasing decisions on the trailing number in a product name and whether it's bigger or smaller than that of an alternative, yes, this would be confusing. However, if you take other factors into account (price, weight, size, looks, maybe even - gasp - technical specifications) then it becomes a fair bit easier to determine which is the most current and advanced.
I probably wouldnt unless I have spares (which I do) but regardless of wether the SSD is used for backups or for a primary drive I would still like to see a list like this one.
A sort of index.
> There are still slums and pockets of poverty, but by and large when I visit there now I think, “Wow, most people who live here are middle-class. What a miracle.”

Overall I enjoyed his letter, but I find this quote a bit deceptive. A recent photo (http://i.imgur.com/atxDiw6.jpg) of the poverty line in Mexico City paints a very different picture than Gates' conclusion that most people there are "middle-class." Another source (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/30/us-mexico-poverty-...) claims that Mexico's poverty line is nearly 50%, far different than "pockets of poverty."
OP was a bit oddly worded but I think nawitus meant that he or she would be happy with 100Mbps wireless if it were as reliable as a wired connection, so basically exactly what you're saying.

I personally ended up using power-line ethernet to replace a lot of the wireless throughout my apartment. While the wireless connection was much faster in theory (and in practice when everything was perfect) than the powerline ethernet speeds, trying to stream HD movies and such was always an exercise in frustration with the wifi no matter how good the routers and/or repeaters were on the wifi connection and how well they were set up. With the powerline ethernet adapters, OTOH, I just plugged them in and everything Just Worked, much slower peak speed, but nice and consistent and more than enough bandwidth for HD movie streaming.

In any case the horrible state of US ISPs is the bottleneck for networking at home for me right now regardless of how I wire myself internally. My two options are Time Warner Cable (which cuts out between the modem and their headend for minutes multiple times a day and was never fixed despite half a dozen on-site technician visits) or AT&T DSL which has been much more reliable but is annoyingly slow for big downloads and such. I'm currently using the AT&T connection, but both options are terrible in their own way and nothing else usable is available to me.

Fuck you, US ISPs.
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We’re a public radio show in Boston thinking about the legacy of the young Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who killed himself a year ago in the cause of free information. On Thursday we will talk to his Harvard Law School mentor Lawrence Lessig, who is on two-week march — the New Hampshire Rebellion, he calls it — to save a vision and a future Swartz helped to create.

We’d love to start the show with some other voices and thoughts that illuminate the life, death and legacy of Aaron Swartz. A year later, Aaron Swartz has multiple meanings: he was an Internet geek but also prolific reader, writer, culture vulture and political rebel, a law breaker and maybe even a martyr. Please help us through your comments - how should we remember him?

You can read more about the upcoming show or call into our voicemail line to have your voice on our radio show here: http://www.radioopensource.org/aaron-swartz-one-year-later/
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If mystery was not known then no one could say it was 20-year-old mystery. Media headlines.
The part about bitcoin entirely as a payment system makes no sense, because both the consumer and the merchant need an existing payment system, to convert into and out of bitcoin for this to work, in which case bitcoin is just a middleman doing no work. I suppose some payment systems are localized and bitcoin can work as a global bridge, but that seems like a trivial legal hack that will be shut down soon.
All wealth is redistributed at some point. Many people just want to redistribute it to their kids.

I'd be happy with a flat tax for all, as long as there's a significant death tax. Maybe cap inheritances to (average household income x average life expectancy) for each child. The rest would be distributed to everyone else, equally.
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Some of those attacks are resource-intensive though. Only governments have the financing to carry them off, at least at the current time, and into the near-future.
So if we were to define "market" as "compilers that people pay money for", would Intel be market leader then? (Certainly not a common definition, I agree.)
Indeed:

def not_impl(reason = 'unknown reason')
raise NotImplementedError.new reason
end
not_impl #=> NotImplementedError: unknown reason
not_impl 'TODO' #=> NotImplementedError: TODO

You can even define a "..." method:

define_method("...") { raise NotImplementedError }
send "..." #=> NotImplementedError: NotImplementedError

But, as chromatic said, the point is the three dots operator feature
I'm gonna bet that the advisory committee is going to be made up only or at least largely faculty and administration. If they want to do things right, any such advisory committee on the matter should be approximately 50/50 students and faculty with administrative people there to listen and figure out how to overcome and legal issues that may exist that would inhibit the solution that faculty and students come up with together.
"Backblaze employee here"

CTO, unless that's changed....
I don't suppose beamforming also self-moderates the power used to send?

I have plenty of 100mW APs, and AFAIK they use that power all the time. Sure would be considerate if they'd scale down to use the appropriate amount of power required to reach each particular node.
Fair point; I was working backwards from Windows 7, which obviously makes even less sense than this naming scheme :)
Yeah there are some great platforms out there like TicTrac and Runkeeper but the value in our platform is certainly going to be the algorithm. Aggregating data for personal use is something those companies are doing well, but we thought there was an interesting niche in regards to quantified selfers being able to compare each other, independent of lifestyles or tracking applications.
Agreed, and this group as much as any should understand that just because the product is made of bits and can be distributed virtually free, it should not be free of cost.

Just like any good software company, the NYTimes should be thinking about their price strategy in a more complex way than cost plus. And I'm sure they are.
My problem with Lenovo is that something like your one-paragraph summary is not on their website. I occasionally window shop for laptops, but I find it very confusing. If I drill down into one of the laptop series, what am I missing from the others? What's the price/feature difference between a top-of-the-line L series and the bottom-of-the-line T series?

(After a quick look, I see the (base price) cheapest T is more expensive than all the L, but the L allow up to 16GB RAM, while the T's cap at 8GB. ...and I've spent too much time window shopping yet again.)
What you say is certainly true in general, but it doesn't take into account the threat model of a supposed malicious extension. The threat model here is that someone decides to significantly alter the behavior of an extension after it gains traction and a certain level of trust. For this to work would require the extension to include an interpreter or some other mechanism from the start. They would essentially have to think "if this gains traction I may want to start silently injecting ads/stealing information, so why don't I include this interpreter in it now just in case". While possible, it isn't very likely.

The other problem with the security model is that all extensions are seemingly created equal. I would think that a large majority of extensions do not require access to any external resources besides the ones downloaded from the webpage itself. Think of a youtube downloader, flashblock, etc. These types of extensions should have a different security model that is constrained to restrict any web request calls besides to the domain of the page and perhaps any domains that page calls (to take into account cdns). These types of extensions shouldn't need any consideration of security implications to install. There's no reason why a youtube downloader should have the potential to steal my passwords down the line. More involved extensions that would require generic http requests could have the warning about data access.

I see in your profile that you know a thing or two about chrome extensions, so I will defer to your expertise on whats possible. It just seems like with the proper constraints for different levels of access one can have much greater security than we have now just treating all extensions the same.
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iPad 1-5 isn't meaningless. For the "average" person 5 is supposed to be "better than" 4, 3 better than 2 etc. If Apple's goal is to only sell the newest, than iPad Air or iPad GodModel is fitting however it isn't (to capture a bigger part of the market a big part of their business is now selling older models in specific markets). My argument was that Apple is no better or worse than any other tech hardware maker in this regard.

What's crazy is not Apple's naming scheme, or the industry standard naming schemes but rather the because Apple did it, it must be genius opinion many of these blog posts take. In this blind Apple-adulation world we live in, authors will twist facts to prove their point that Apple is genius, despite overwhelming contrary evidence. It's crazy.

Now, I appreciate evil-genius in their naming schemes because it confuses customers. Let's not all write articles however claiming that the inverse is true. Name each generation the same thing and people will have hard time comparing and buying older models is business...genius. However it's not simple or empowering to consumers in any way.
Massive compared to the 10MB drive in the IBM PC/XT....
Hopefully in a few more years the prices will be reasonable for a TB of NAND flash.
> I don't understand this. Someone is taking the risk right now.

Correct.

> Currently it's the exchanges and merchants directly, because they rely on the exchanges.

Incorrect. There is the solution: https://bitpay.com/ , which automatically does conversion for a small fee. Buyers pay in bitcoin, but sellers receives fiat money(e.g. USD). The risk is taken by bitpay, sellers always receive fixed amount in fiat money, and buyers have the window of 15 minutes to make BTC payment.
Thanks for the feedback! We don't currently support shorthands for city names - only states. But this is definitely something that's on the todo list now.

Our address parser will try to pick up the address even if isn't formatted correctly with commas, but it obviously won't work in all cases. Address parsing is indeed a very complex problem.
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I'll have to take a look at that as well.
I don't think the math works. I posted this above:

I think the calculation is replacing one drive takes about 15 minutes of work. If we have 30,000 drives and 2 percent fail, it takes 150 hours to replace those. In other words, one employee for one month of 8 hour days. Getting the failure rate down to 1 percent means you save 2 weeks of employee salary - maybe $5,000 total? The 30,000 drives costs you $4 million, so who cares about $5k here or there?

The $5k/$4million means the Hitachis are worth 1/10th of 1 percent higher cost to us. ACTUALLY we pay even more than that for them, but not more than a few dollars per drive (maybe 2 or 3 percent more).

Moral of the story: design for failure and buy the cheapest components you can. :-)
It might because folks are afraid that their partners won't sell them drives. You know, if you're working directly with Hitachi or WD or Seagate and you publish stats saying they aren't great, they don't have much incentive to continue working with you, or at least not as cheerfully.

Since we buy off-the-shelf drives from distributors and online, we don't really feel the the heat that much. We'd love to work directly with the manufacturers, but the minimum orders (over 10,000 drives) are not really feasible for us.
There are a few more references to that letter, that refer to the writer as a female. See page 252+.
Yeah, it is an old project. I would have posted a long time ago if I knew HN didn't know already.

The most useful tool besides this is http://10minutemail.com/

Edit: Doing a HN search this was posted about a year ago. That is why I probably didn't post it. Should we start submitting reposts of old stuff? I probably missed "cool tools" from years ago.
How hard did the family actually try to solve this mystery though?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=OFWAIHHBTN
Isn't the Swiss Army knife pictured in the dictionary next to "dull tool?"

The cult of the Swiss Army Knife is right up there with the cult of the Leatherman and the cult of WD-40 in encouraging people to fetishize general-purpose but dull tools. The Leatherman is a bit better than the SAK, but it is nothing like a set of top quality tools, just as WD-40 is both a cleaner and lubricant which means it isn't good at either.
As a user with almost six terabytes of data, I can vouch for their service. I have never received any messages asking me to limit the amount of data I upload. I do try to compensate, for the sake of my conscience, by recommending the service to people (with much less data) who previously lacked a backup-strategy.

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Maybe you looked at Schroeder and Gibson from Fast07, which looks at MTBF calculations. They have lots more data, but none released. Hard drive failures are an easy example of the use of the concept of hazard to examine probability distribution functions. I'm not teaching this now, but I sympathize with the difficulty of finding good datasets. Who knows? If you group data by pod, or even location in datacenter, there could be something interesting in exploratory analysis.
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"Creating societies where people enjoy basic health, relative prosperity, fundamental equality, and access to contraceptives is the only way to secure a sustainable world."

I suppose I'm one of the 0% (rounded) who disagree with putting contraception in this list. When this gets thrown around, it makes me feel like an outsider in a programming community where I otherwise agree with probably everything else.
For someone who is really waiting for the 0.12.0 release, I hate that they call their blog posts "What's New in Node.js v0.12".
Snowden's motives are political, and they could also be construed as an effort to trouble and shame the people who didn't agree with his interpretations. And whether any of it is in the public interest is also debatable in some circles. Of course, I'm just playing devil's advocate.

In my view there's a pretty clear distinction between simply linking to an e-mail dump containing credit card numbers and publishing an e-mail dump containing credit card numbers.

Brown was interested in those e-mails because he actually had a journalistic endeavor in Project PM, an "actionable data set regarding the intelligence contracting industry, the PR industry's interface with totalitarian regimes, the mushrooming infosec/"cybersecurity" industry."

You can keep calling him a "crazy heroin addict" if it makes you feel better, there's bias on your part for obvious reasons, but it only makes you look silly.
Maybe she has a glandular disorder, or she's a special kind of dietitian who works mainly with sumo wrestlers, or she's 7' tall.
I never suggested that requesting legal counsel is the specific reason for routine police misconduct. I only meant that cooperating with police might be a good idea, given what police often do when faced with an uncooperative person.
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well you could do NLP on the reviews and sort it using some lexical grammar. if you're into sorting and all that.

mort importantly the ybb reviews are basically useless from a reality perspective due to the way the data is collected (gateway for letter grades) -- they never told you anything important no matter their format, and never will.

if you want to know what a professor is like you just ask around or drop in on the class during shopping period. ybb+ is not an improvement on that process.

digital equivalent of 'dropping in': coursera or open yale. digital equivalent of 'asking around' ... ? not ybb+

personally i think it would make sense to get each professor to record a video introducing themselves and the material. then skip that awkward first lecture. actual teaching video would be tops...
The size, weight, and looks of the iPad have not changed dramatically since it's introduction which leaves consumers with the "trailing numbers" and gasp technical specs to differentiate each model. And we know how well "average" users can parse and compare technical specs.