skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that trust and consensus are not scientific concepts (well, except maybe in psychology or sociology, but that's not relevant here). But they are things it's reasonable for those of us who aren't expert theoretical physicists to take into account, when Some Guy On The Internet says all the professional physicists are wrong and he's found an internal inconsistency in general relativity.

The "larger region" you need to look at to determine whether K applies is not small enough for the defining characteristic of the small region -- i.e., that spacetime curvature is negligible there -- to hold. The equivalence principle stops applying once you start considering regions large enough for spacetime curvature to be non-negligible within them.
Well, if we start getting pedantic :-) smaller blocks also mean more block headers, which also hampers performance.

On the flip side, I don't think mined blocks typically take more than five seconds, due to the efficiency of the highly-branching network (though I haven't looked at the numbers to confirm this...) But I admit I hadn't thought about that extra detail, thank for pointing it out.
>"Backblaze claims that drive temperature doesn't affect drive life. That is counter to the observations of many others, including drive manufacturers."

Google has a whitepaper[0] on a large deployed sample size of drives which disagree with the author's claims here. I agree that more data from backblaze would be nice, but their claims do seem to have more plausibility than the author suggests. (If he has methodology issues with the Google paper, that would be more interesting)

[0]- http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... (pdf warning)
...on might even say it's more dogey.
The Haskell database-mapping library [1] "persistent" does auto-migrations as well. You declare your data types in a DSL reminiscent of SQL CREATE TABLE statements. If you add a new data type, it creates the table; if you add a field, it adds the column; if you make a field optional, it changes the column to allow nulls.

It will only do that for non-destructive changes, so if you remove a column (which would lose data), or make an optional field non-optional (which is ill-defined if you had NULLs), it bails out with a message suggesting the SQL you should run to migrate manually.

[1] I can't really call it an ORM, since it maps to Haskell record types rather than _O_bjects, and it works with NoSQL databases as well as _R_elational databases.
There's a bing app?

(sorry, had to do it)
Thank you for making it clear why this practice is bad corporate practice for those who are not as moral in their perspective. Uber seems hell bent on becoming the only game in town and then raping their customers during peak periods.
This is awesome! Great example app for the Zinc API.

Now you just need to integrate with those smart fridges so an order with Amazon Fresh is automatically placed when I run low on something.
Spigot - Simple JS RSS Reader
Eating two pieces of toast for breakfast is no way to live. Eating them while driving and you've given up.
IBM Happy to Be Rid of Low-End Server Business
Surveillance protest on 02/11 now has 3,000 sites signed up to take part
Dear Uber,

I guess I shouldn't have expected much from a company that was founded on the principle of giving their customers the experience of being a baller.

I only wanted a consistent and yes boring, non-baller experience.

I'll be looking to find a boring company that just shows up, doesn't try and and cheat me during peak period and has respect for other organizations.

I once loved you, but now I'm leaving you.

Sincerely,
Brian McDonough
Not to mention that all that data will come in handy for recreating a virtual copy[1]...

On a more serious note, I also think chat logs and email are important, but I can't understand why people trust all that stuff to a third party? (I do understand why people give up any idea of privacy by giving a third party access to it, I just don't understand why the let that party have what amounts to all the copies and/or use as system that while it can be backed up, can't be replicated (If you copy your gmail via imap, you still loose something wrt. organization -- you won't be (easily) able to resume your workflow without gmail -- in contrast if you use free software you will at least have the option of hosting everything yourself in an equivalent manner).

[1] http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Resurrection_program
What? This is horrible advice - exactly the opposite of what we should be encouraging. This is like saying women shouldn't resist if their boss sexually harasses them, because it might damage their careers.

I seriously hope nobody here will sacrifice their own basic rights because they are afraid of what others might think if they defend themselves.

If she is being harassed - this needs to stop right there. What other people might think is irrelevant. Those idiots at those meetups need to be aware of how disgusting their behavior is. You do this by telling it to them, directly. Not by bringing hordes of women that are somehow expected to suffer through the same crap until it magically gets better 5 years from now.

This guy will continue groping women at the next meetup as well, I'm sure of it. He will continue doing it until it is made clear to him that he is a creep.

Telling a stranger not to grope you is what expected of you, and not being afraid to do so is what we should be encouraging. It certainly has nothing to do with not being able to talk about bitcoins.
I'm about to tar up their folder on Dropbox, so you might want to avoid that for a bit as well. :-)
Thank you for the feedback. I was concerned about there not being enough explanation on that as well. I will take time over the weekend to shift this around a bit. I appreciate you taking a look at the application.
"Warning: infected app! download and install our app to protect yourself!"

thank god there is an app to protect... wait a minute... where have I seen these tactics used before...
What vision? The idea to make technology easy to use? What a mind blowing idea. I'm sure nobody thought of that before, in 10,000 years of human history. But you know, Jobs actually DID IT, he had the balls to hire a bunch of engineers to make his personal phone easier to use, and stiff them over and over systematically, like any business would.. Wait, what exactly did Jobs do? He had a lot of money.
Just wanted to give a quick reply – I purchased your app when it first came out and I love it to death.

Thank you for that!
Go ahead and take that into account, but hinge your conclusion on whether the logic's valid, if you wish to stay fully scientific.

Frame X, in which law K is tested, is defined to be small enough that the spacetime curvature is negligible there. So it's definitely small enough. The test of law K is conducted wholly within frame X.
I doubt that. Look at all the proprietary software that's abandoned right now. Are you telling me that if all that old source code was suddenly released it'd be every bit as good as software which has been free for the same number of years? Of course not.
Seems like the offline equivalent of a misguided 'Growth Hack' gone wrong.
Assuming the respondents are uniformly randomly chosen, it takes surprisingly few people to get a pretty high confidence interval. I'm not convinced that the respondents are uniform, but I expect that there is a sufficient distribution that the results are still interesting. 3x vs. 1.5x seems like a small difference to me, but I am not an investor or user, so....
emacs + evil?

Aside from vi-emulation, I haven't seen many editors that heavily use modal editing.
Warning: Browsing this site on ios mobilesafari will randomly taskswitch into the app store app, onto the buy page for some ios game.
That's quite a security hack. The Grandmasters are being made to play each other via him - they are kind of oracles.
This is essentially the same situation I'm in. I have 3 kids(4, 7, 9). I work a full time day job and then fit in side projects wherever there is time. This is typically after the kids are in bed, if I wake up with a bout of insomnia, early weekend mornings, etc...

My biggest downfall/problem is that I want to develop my own products and make money that way (and I am big into networking and selling), but I never focus on that. I've spent the last 3 years stuck in a never ending rut of contracting work for all of my side projects. The money is good, but it leaves me unsatisfied, and now I've been doing it long enough that I'm extremely burned out.
There are no plans to auction off the old rug, but the new one has already been ordered.

The first thing that popped into my mind - $1,000 on Ebay?
Not a very avid chess player but I had a lot of fun going over your game notes. Thanks and congrats for the achievements in that game.
Well DO is advertising 1tb for $5 because they expect most people not to hit that rate or that price would quickly skyrocket. AWS is just taking the pricing scheme of pay for what you use (granted there is still a premium on every thing they charge you for)
There is a trade off between availability (spread it around) and privacy/confidentiality (the more places it is spread the more you are exposed to risks of hacking or insiders at any of the companies). There is no right answer but it depends on the person and the content.
I'm curious why the author believes that beating the ever loving crap out of drives in harsh conditions and seeing which ones come out, overall, on top creates a myth. Perhaps the Backblaze article is better headlined "which hard drives seem to hold up well under pressure." Consumer environments usually have crappy, unreliable power (power strip chained to power strip plugged into an outlet from the 1960s), random vibrations (especially with kids), and poor air flow conditions (who here has done Family IT and had to carve the dust out of the case stuck behind a non-moving fan?). The only thing a consumer environment lacks from Backblaze's comparison is 24/7 read/write operations.
"With varying numbers of drives for each model, it is possible that some bad batches may have made their way into the sample pool, thus further skewing the numbers."

So, to measure drive reliability, the author recommends that you don't count unreliable drives, since it may "skew the numbers"?
Smegger, you are hellbanned.
however, DNS also has an issue for this particular audience. A simple typo could land you on a completely different site which I think is why navigational searching is more useful for those in a rush or those that can't type. I even find my self doing this time. If I ever need to get to thesaurus.com, I usually just type t, h, e, s and then mash the letters a, u, and r a few times and then end it with an s. it isn't that it is hard to spell, but I just find it easier and Google seems to almost always get what I am trying to type so quickly that spelling it correctly wouldn't really make it much faster
Some of what you wrote is unfair to Uber.

>I only wanted a consistent and yes boring, non-baller experience.

You can use the Uber app to get cabs or lower cost UberX. UberX is actually cheaper than most cabs while providing the convenience of ordering electronically, knowing roughly how long to wait, and paying electronically (with receipts.)

>doesn't try and and cheat me during peak period

There have been some interesting discussion about this on Travis Kalanick's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/traviskal?fref=ts, December 24, 2013) which basically say that the alternative to surge pricing would be not being able to get a ride at all. Some people on that thread suggested that the Uber client could be improved to let people get notified when the rate goes back down and other UX improvements and Travis said the team would consider those changes.
There's a typo in that link.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

I'm more inclined to believe Google's results than anybody elses, the amount of data they have is staggering and the results they got are fairly clear cut. I personally don't bother cooling spinning disks, it just seems like a complete waste of time and effort based on that paper.
Hmm.. interesting, well luckily I don't use Bing app, I don't even use Bing on a normal browser. It just sounds wierd to me for some reason .. "Ok Ima Bing that information right now!".
You can also find a DOS port online. And play it using Boxer.app boxerapp.com
With Azure you get two servers backing up each server, I think.
Perhaps unusually I find I have unlimited mental energy for things that I find interesting to do, and a limited amount for things that aren't. I remember sitting through a lecture on introverts and extroverts and the discussion was around "energy" and how extroverts were energized by interacting with more people and introverts were "drained" by lots of interactions. The inverse was true as well (introverts getting energy during their alone time, extroverts feeling drained without external contact). In that lecture it clicked for me that certain mental activities energize me, and certain ones don't. For example learning new stuff "energized, organizing and cataloging "draining",
you're surprised that Carlsen played a "fake" for fun game with 30 seconds on the clock because he could easily LOSE? And because his reputation would take a total DIVE? And also because he's not the NUMBER ONE bullet player?
The fact that it said "they ultimately paid the fees...some of which are still pending" made me feel like these weren't immediate, automatic charges.
That's a universal network attack though, how is it an exclusive vulnerability to this app?
Economics aside, and on a more personal note: it's a shame to lose Jon. He's one of the kindest, most talented founders (and friends) I've met in SF, and it's a shame he's leaving.
Pakistanis?
I would read an article about how bullet-resistant different models of car are, but I wouldn't completely change my purchasing decisions, as I avoid bullets. (Whoa, I didn't even mean to use a car analogy.)

"Consumer environments usually have crappy, unreliable power ..."

I would hope that Backblaze is on reliable, stable, data center power -- though knowing how cost-conscious they are, perhaps not -- so that's one aspect where they wouldn't be able to provide good information.
So in order to process you non-bank transactions you need to use a centralized processor that charges you a fee for transferring your money?
Classes are not primitives in either language... primitives contain a value instead of a reference. I think you mean that classes are first order, but I don't want to put words in your mouth so perhaps you can clarify what the difference you are pointing to.

I think, given that Perl is being used, the question might be, what features make javascript or Python a good reason to switch? I'd want to avoid losing features.

Perl is stable. Perl written two decades or more ago still runs fine in modern perl. That's important for data analysis, especially in the sciences.

I'll have to read up on Python ... I'd want a tie equivalent to be able to treat large files as if they were arrays/hashs (lists/dicts) without loading them into memory as such.
“We should have known something was amiss,” says Savin-Williams. “One clue was that most of the kids who first claimed to have artificial limbs...miraculously regrew arms and legs when researchers came back to interview them.”

...You can't pay for better monologue material than this.
SUCCESS.
Tangential: why does MapReduce use /dev/random as its entropy source?

"After a long and tricky debugging process, we found that a big MapReduce job was firing up every few hours and, as a part of its normal functioning, it was reading from /dev/random. When too many of the MapReduce workers landed on a machine, they were able read enough to deplete the randomness available on the entire machine. It was on these machines that our serving binaries were becoming unresponsive: they were blocking on reads of /dev/random!"

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1w1y5m/we_are_the_goog...
Apple Getting Ready to Roll Out Mobile Payments
So instead of being very expensive and slow it's just expensive and slow?
This Tweaktown article offers nothing in the way of factual evidence to discount any of the hard work Backblaze put into that blog post.

Shame on Tweaktown for poo poo'ing on Backblaze's effort.
> Has anyone tried looking to see if there is a depression in tech workers' salaries, relative to people in other fields...

You want to use other fields as a control? That makes little sense. From 2005-2009 the tech industry grew at a vastly greater rate than most other fields.
Gates is a below average player. If you're 50 years old and haven't picked up a bat since little league, you're a below average baseball player.

he's a below average chess player playing with 2 minutes on the clock. 30 seconds is comfortable for carlsen, whereas Gates probably doesn't play at 2 minutes regularly. 2 minutes is insanely small amount of time for people that don't play.
Why I went with Plivo, not Twilio
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

clang is "free software" according to his own definition. It is entirely possible for a specific free software program to be a setback to the goals of the free software movement. His position is that copyleft licenses (very often, and certainly in this specific case) advance the goal of freedom more effectively than non-copyleft licenses. The differing values in this case basically amounts to whether one considers it worth using a copyleft license to ensure that the software being used remains free, or whether one considers it a drawback that a copyleft license may prevent it being used in proprietary software.
You got it backwards. You live in Kabul, so the article on bullet resistance is completely relevant. The point is that Backblaze's deployment conditions are way more similar to a domestic user's than other enterprise deployments.
http://www.droidquest.com/
I must be weird - I fit neatly into one box and I've never left that box, and I'm a real person (honest). Pretty boring huh.
This was what struck me the most about it as well. Stuff on the screen looked typeset whereas there really wasn't a way to get that look on the PC. I wasn't then (and still am not :-) a 'typography' person, but I could see the difference. For folks where this was important, that sold them on the Mac.

Interestingly this was also a selling point of the Xerox Dandelion series machines that were running Star. And while I believe, as do others, that Steve was influenced by his tour of PARC and seeing this, unlike him I didn't recognize it for what it was.
I read the article with great anticipation, but the author fails to poke any more holes in Backblaze's test that they themselves haven't already caveated.

Backblaze already acknowledged that their usage environment doesn't reflect that of normal consumer, yet the author harps on the point.

The author tries to debunk Backblaze's claim that it found no correlation between drive temperature and failure rate. Yet he presents no evidence that Backblaze's methodolgy was wrong.

Backblaze had large enough sample to have even distribution of drives in various temperature, rack, and load environment. I doubt they put all Seagate drives in the middle shelf of Ver. 1 racks where it was the hottest, but put all Hitachi drives in the bottom of the Ver. 3 racks where it was cooler and more stable.

Unless there is another study that shows failure rate of these drives in normal consumer environment, Seagate's 3-5x failure rate should give people a pause.
That looks much better. Thanks!

Update: Changed the subtitle text and added links to the "Buy" and "Subscribe" pages.
We lose.
He was probably inspired by a sub-plot in Sydney Sheldon's "If Tomorrow Comes" (1985).
I don't think Carlsen was at all certain Gates would fall for those tricks. I just don't think Carlsen would care if he lost. People are assuming a lot of things. They're assuming that Carlsen wants to win at all costs. The same with Gates. Carlsen did what he wanted because the outcome didn't really matter to him.

Kind of like Gates beating Shaq in a basketball game and then analyzing the strategy of each player to try to understand how that happened.
Expected value of additional devs in the world if he goes to Wall St. is far below 1. There's a shortage of devs, and it's not really due to a lack of compensation.
I'm not sure that this captures the physics accurately from the perspective that you're describing here. The extreme time dilation that occurs as you approach a black hole's event horizon is really a "global" effect rather than a "local" one: it is defined by the relative difference in how time progresses close to the black hole vs. very far away. When you're falling through the horizon (particularly for a black hole so large that the tidal forces at the horizon aren't deadly), your whole body is "close", so there isn't substantial time dilation between your head and your feet.

This is a little bit weird, I know!
You're right. I wasn't hell-banned. I was straight-up banned from commenting.

So yeah.... no dead posts. Or any posts at all.

And you're correct, only one comment went down at all (only down by one) and the rest were up voted, often substantially.

It's this dynamic (lots of up votes on controversial content) that made me think it was likely human intervention.

Not that it matters. HN is an absolute cesspool when it comes to bigotry, so it's not like it really matters. The most vocal HNers think it's fine to make stupid generalizations about women and their interest, and they think it's a woman's fault if she gets groped. (or they just assume she's lying, because she's a woman).

But whatever. Thanks for your failed detective-work.
A lot of people project an image of themselves as an "Intellectual Superhero". This may make everyone feel lesser because no one actually is an intellectual superhero.
If you look at real numbers, the white population of San Francisco has been declining for at least for the last 22 years (up until 2012). It is possible that in the last 2 years it has stopped, or even grown a little but it was 41.7% in 2012, and it is likely still under 50%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Demographics

edit: just looked at the census data, and in 1960, SF was 81% white. I think that adds some context to the "white tech nerds took over the city" idea.

http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty5...
Thanks for the feedback. You are correct, the pitch is that providers can see more patients, while reducing overhead and increasing revenue. The product easily integrates with any EMR. Deeper integration is possible through our API.

http://stayinyourprime.com looks great. I will download it tonight.
Yeah, it's really a great publication. I really enjoy that they've taken an ideological stance to never take advertising so that they never have a conflict of interest, in stark contrast to almost every review site on the internet. When testing cars, they have plainclothes buyers to buy the cars, as well (partly so that they're not subject to keeping companies happy to keep the review samples flowing). They seem to also have pretty involved testing methodologies. All of this takes money, and I imagine that the rise of the internet hasn't been kind to their cashflow, so I'm happy to chip in to keep this sort of independent testing organization alive.
Of course!.. Also what pun?
Woah woah. As a St. Louisian, I'd like to point out that we have an amazing selection of craft breweries.

As for the other statements, come to a hackathon or a Startup Weekend and see how motivated we really are.