skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm developing my first mobile / web app. I wanted it to have a Canadian theme. My wife suggested "Gander", as in Newfoundland. Close to where the transatlantic cable comes out of the sea and close to where Amelia Earhart stopped for fuel.
I wanted "Maple" and after vacillating between it and a few others I decided it was as good a name as any for an app - and I could make a distinctive icon for the store.
Also, I really like acronyms, but it was only after a few weeks that I realized just how perfect a name it was, because what I'm working on is Mobile Access [to] People Living Everywhere.
$5/mo seems crazy high for this.
Unfortunately, using 75% of the rated capacity may not be enough to handle the inrush. The article discusses this point, "...if you power up both PSUs at the same time, it can draw a large (14 amp) spike of 120V power from the socket." That would mean one pod per 20A circuit. Ugh. In normal operating conditions, a 5.6A max load would allow three pods per circuit.

Addressing this would require a little bit of design, but the problem is relatively simple. If they wanted to get fancy, they could add a chaining feature--pods on the same circuit would be connected together so that they'd power on serially. This would get away from their goal of using off-the-shelf parts. It is, as with many things, an engineering trade-off.
It was developed by @mitsuhiko and it has taken some work (you can check out the source code on http://bitbucket.org/plurk/solace/src/tip/solace/ - it's not a simple project). That said, it has not taken a lot of time, because mitsuhiko is a ninja ;)
Seagate took about 4 months to fully resolve the issue (their first fix had a bug!) I had a drive that bricked when applying the fix several months after the initial firmware updates. Apparently a buffer overflow in the error log that locked the drive on reboot.

Seems dangerous to source all your hardware from one vendor over a small timeframe. Would be nice to have some redundancy over manufacturers too.
Let's be fair here. These are chat bubbles. They're not buttons or text boxes. There's no inconsistency in behavior between different versions in different UIs. They're just a pretty way of displaying a chat conversation. It's generally pretty easy to recognize when you're in a chat, and bubble shapes are distinctive. You could even use the tried-and-true text chat approach. This is reasonable as a way to avoid phishing-type scams where you fake IM or SMS to steal information.
I think if you're writing C code, you're either writing systems code yourself, or you're writing application code for a particular operating system, or you're writing something that's explicitly cross-platform by design (like a programming language runtime). I think anyone facing these three situations would be able to judge whether or not to use Apple-C closures.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. It's a lofty wish, but I'd prefer that drive manufacturers switch to base 2. Since it's the basis of digital logic and all.
Researcher cracks Mac in 10 seconds at PWN2OWN, wins $5k
I don't spend most of my time on the computer computing, though I'm sure there are people who do. They're not called e-mailers or Webbers either. There's nothing wrong with tweaking your environment to provide a more comfortable experience. It's the same principle behind having a comfortably furnished house or apartment.
You could also send some emails out to the makers of some anti-virus and malware software (McAfee, Kapersky, LavaSoft, etc.); I'm sure they have plenty of samples they could offer you.

Also, check out this list of big computer worms on Wikipedia, perhaps you could search around and find copies of them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_notable_computer_vi...
On the other hand, this news probably brings them a nice spike in visitors, which could even lead to sales.
Try this www.dotomator.com ...
I'd say they do directly compete for some significant segment of the market -- anecdotally, I regularly compare services (or 'solutions') against installable products when researching the available options.
I LOVE Bill Hicks, but I'm flagging this because it is absolutely not HN.
I suppose you have a hard wooden bench for a seat in your car also...
Do you also think a 2.5 GHz CPU should run at 2.5 * 2^30 clock cycles per second? How about making redefining Gbps ethernet to run at 2^30 bits per second instead of 10^9 bits per second?

There is some justification for measuring RAM in GiB rather than GB: The design of RAM chips makes this far more convenient. But there's no reason for anything else to be measured in "binary" capacities.
I did some searching and came across a section on malwarebytes.org:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23225

Sorry, I couldn't be much help. Good Luck.
The PDUs that support 'staggered power-on' are 'off the shelf' - if that is not an option (really, we're talking maybe $500 for each 20a circuit, retail) the next thing I'd do is set 'power on after power fail' to off, then have some remotely accessible way to trip the power button. (I'm working on a solution to that particular problem, but that's not 'off the shelf' - yeah, everything is on PDUs I can trip remotely, but there are reasons why it is much better to ungracefully reboot with the 'reset' jumper than to ungracefully reboot via cutting off the power.)

from there it would be easy enough to have an automated process turn on servers one at a time.
> Second I don't look for { or ( but for the block indentation, so a { on a single line does not give me enough visual clues.

We could argue for days about these sort of issues, and there are passionate ideas on either side of the fence.

function
{
code;
code;
}

In that form, you have the beginning { and ending } for explicitly define the beginning and ending of the code block, and all of the code inside is also indented for good measure. Maybe it's redundant, but I don't see how it's wildly different from:

function
code;
code;

> Why is there }; and } ?

Have you never programmer outside of lisp? I've never programmed in C#, but if 'arg =>' is the beginning of lambda, then it's because the definition of that line is return EXPRESSION;.

And in that case EXPRESSION = 'arg => { code }'. That's where the ';' comes from.
Twitter's own status blog was just undergoing maintenance the minute I sent out a URL to one of the post on it (a few hours ago). Forget it.
you might also want to check out coraid. it's at a similar price point. http://www.coraid.com/PRODUCTS/SR2421 - now, I've heard mixed experiences with it, and have no personal experience, but if you are talking about wiring up something yourself, it's definitely something to consider.

Personally, I'm working on a system whereby I just fill up otherwise unused slots on my chassis and use that for backup. The system isn't done yet, but I've got 6 disks out there waiting for me to figure it out.
Two SuperMicro 846E1s would be $2k for 48 drive bays, and one could easily connect 10 of them to a single $300 SAS RAID card.

I don't think a single SAS card can support more than 128 (or maybe 256 if you're lucky) disks. This doesn't affect your math much, but I wouldn't want someone to try this at home and be disappointed. If you're not willing to build a custom case and don't feel like suffering the vagaries of SATA expanders, LSI SAS cards plus Supermicro JBODs are the way to go.
This is true, but also very unfortunate, as GMail is often a poor substitute for a well-administered in-house e-mail system.
I read that book, and Paul Tough explicitly says that the HCZ school programs aren't designed based on research, and there is little evidence to suggest that their pedagogy is sound.

He does have more praise for the curriculum of Baby College, but that is completely different.
Finding Primes: A Fun Subproblem
I would listen to more podcasts if I could wake up with them(alarm clock), listen to them in my car without burning a CD or loading an USB key. I think that's the missing link.

I think people think the alternative(radio stations) suck but the convenience of only having to turn the radio wins.
Not relied too much on income from advertising?
as for the firmware 'bug' - yeah, they fixed that one, However, consumer sata disks are still not something you want in most raid systems. See, a consumer disk, when it encounters an unrecoverable error, retries over and over, hanging your raid until you fail the bad drive by hand. (tested on a 3ware hardware raid and with MD. I am given to understand that zfs handles this in a sane manner.) Western digital allows you to change the behavior, search for WDTLER, but in general.

I'm sure the backblaze folks have built something that handles that sort of thing into the system, but just saying; it's something you have to think about before you slap consumer drives into a raid that needs to keep working when one drive fails.
"If you are like most designers, you probably don’t write all your markup by hand."

...really?
Thanks, that looks another useful site.
It was, but in the discussion I linked to the famous marshmallow test, which tied a self-control test at age 4 to real world success decades later.

See http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_... for an article on this test.
Rail has lost its dominance, and has experienced a decline in profitability.
The business model Atari was using is almost exactly the same model being used today by Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft for their gaming consoles. It's been pretty successful.
Me too. I'm still getting emails to my phone.
I believe the greater push is to write Clojure in Clojure which will (hopefully) facilitate targetting other platforms.
Research runs exploit in 10 seconds by clicking url that he prepared before entering.

Pretty good work though, I'm glad he got his money+mac book, I'm sure that if you work out the time involved in preparing the attack it still well worth it.
How about http://allmydata.com/? They offer a JSON-based, restful API, an FTP interface or you can use their open source software which includes encryption.
It's not likely that people who went to Dell's web site to buy would permanently take their business elsewhere. This will have cost Dell almost nothing.
So, given a collection, how do you identify if an element is an instance of NSNull? You do what is essentially a type-check. To me, this negates the purpose of the message-eating nil. Not everywhere, as you seems to be reading, but where NSNull is used, which well, actually, can be anywhere, since we use lots of collections.
The computer is new. The eyes are old.

Please understand this...

I will use what I want, not what the poorly build site forces me to do.

There are 100 million other baby boomers who have increasing difficulty with higher resolutions. Do you want them coming to your site or not?
What the newspapers should have done is not take out so much debt. The one tiny inconvenient fact in the whole whinefest which is the newspaper industry today is that those runaway news paper costs everyone complains about are mostly due to debt service and not to "quality journalism." The debt was used to: (i) acquisitions and/or (ii) pay the owners nice dividends.

See there used to be a business model where newspapers would simply make acquisitions until there is a single paper in each city and then hike up ad prices and make a lot of money. This does not work anymore, because with the internet you can never entirely capture an advertising market. So now the papers are stuck with the enourmous debt of acquisitions and without the monopoly profits they were expecting.

Big f-ing deal. They made an incorrect business decision and now they are suffering the consequences. I don't know why I should be worried about that.

If somebody is worried about journalism, someone should start a news website with none/little debt and they should be able to make enough money for quality journalism and a tidy profit. Advertising online is valuable and one can get good money for ads on sites people really like to read. One may argue that this is already happening today.
I guess the Squarespace blogging platform just does that automatically. Agreed it's odd.
Thesaurus, a corpus of text based on project gutenberg.

Usually I have a fair idea of the kinds of words I want around a project, the thesaurus gives one or two alternatives that I had not thought of (English 2nd language here), then I use a little program I wrote that tries to pull together two or more words based on a dictionary extracted from project gutenberg.

The resulting words are looked at one-by-one, promising ones go in to the 'register multiple' field at moniker, when I have enough I submit, check to see if any of my favorites came back as free.

It's time consuming, sometimes as much as a day for a good domain, but it almost always works.
They may not even be indulging deliberately: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3325948/The-Thames-aw...
I agree with this being too long. When I see an ad which is a comic I instinctively expect it to be cheesy which is the impression I got with this. One panel might work if it is silly enough (SMBC style) or maybe 3 panels if you think up a good pun/punchline.
I just wish the entire industry would pick one measure and stick with it.
I put an order in with Toshiba Direct for one since they had non-insane pricing.

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/adet.to?poid=450025

We'll see how long it takes to ship.
Tweets are useless shortly after they are posted. So, why bother?
That, and invented a time machine in order to go back in time and kill Craig Newmark's parents before he was conceived.
Are you suggesting that cell towers never fail?
Hey, if Dr. Tattoff can remove tattos with a laser somebody will make rewritable lasers like DVD-RW! Maybe not infinite rewrites but it's possible.

Anyone see Blade Runner? There was a chinese guy who is the eyeball making specialist.

Recently I saw a story that scientists are growing livers for transplant. I'd like an eyeball upgrade. Maybe one that doesn't fatigue as easily as my default parts.
Yeah but a free adwords model would be wickedly popular.

Maybe Google Augment or gAugment
There's still a demand for newspapers, it's just shrinking. As a country we're myopically focused on growth, but isn't there a place for businesses which are shrinking too? What's wrong with saying "the newspapers should reduce their size in an orderly way, in sync with declining demand"? Shouldn't it be possible to manage a shrinking business in such a way that it continues to generate profits until demand vanishes entirely?
On their graph it says they subtracted data center costs from the price of S3.
So it seems as though the railroad metaphor in the Economist blog was apt: once the railroads/newspapers could no longer use finance in order to establish monopolies and then extract monopoly rents from their customers, it was good old competition that did them in.

There was a good article on a New Republic blog examining how Politico has managed to grow and make a profit, even in print, while traditional newspapers have continued to wither: http://www.tnr.com/article/the-scoop-factory?id=82d8d496-d40...
This is a protocol which has quite a few rfc's associated with it (3920, 3921, 3922, 3923, 4622, 4854, 4979, 5437), as well as being proposed as an official internet protocol standard on the rfc-editor site. It isn't going away any time soon, despite your wishes otherwise.
Relatedly, Clay Shirky had an interesting article distinguishing between newspapers and journalism saying, "Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism."

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking...
What if they used AndrewFS with SSD drives for cache on front end nodes.
It shouldn't matter what resolution people are using; sites should degrade gracefully. You never know when you're going to have someone with a visual disability, or using a screen reader trying to use your site.
I've had the idea to do this type of a site for a while, but realized backtype kinda does (did, not sure after their rebrand) this already. How does friend binder differ?
"I suggest that you write your markup in XHTML 5..."

Is this really as settled as the author makes it sound? I can't see any particular advantages to living in XMLland.
Reading this article worried me... the first time I read it back in March. Old news, and this vuln has since been patched.
How Seattle Startup Raveable Is Reinventing Hotel and Travel Sites
Seems along the same lines as Capricorn Tech. http://www.capricorn-tech.com/products.php
What worries me is that contests like this encourage researchers to sit on serious vulnerabilities without reporting them, all so they can get their name in the papers.
A. Old news. We saw this story and many related ones back in March.

B. Sensationalist title. The exploit took much longer than 10 seconds to develop.

A + B = Flag.
where "ok" is having ~half your money returned after four years.
If they had a similar contest for cars, you could be sure all the Aston Martins, Corvettes and Ferraris would be the first to go as well.
You seem to have the idea that he's a blue comedian which although some of his material is, Hicks is mostly known for his political rant comedy.

I'm sympathetic to your point of view though. When I first heard some of his routine I thought "This isn't funny at all, he's just shouting about stuff he dislikes". His style does grow on you. Also it's hard to get an impression of a comedian like Hicks through youtube videos. His comedy doesn't lend itself to one-liners and the top videos tend to be lowest common denominator stuff of what one-liners he did do.
Why shouldn't they be rewarded for their hard work? A researcher doesn't have to disclose a vuln if he doesn't want to. He can sell it to the company, publish it for free, or just keep it for himself.
Con Kolivas releases BFS, alternative to mainline scheduler
UnderTV
"her: Oh, wow, I do all programming in linux"

"His eyes were all lit up. "

So that's how those who can not do FizzBuzz get programming jobs ...
Python memory usage of common types
Any study of this you could reference?
Sounds like someone needs to re-read Piaget.

Piaget identified a number of intellectual stages that children go through at fairly predictable ages. Children transition between them during growth spurts. There is variance in when the growth spurts happen, and therefore when those mental leaps happen.

Most children transition from the "intuitive" to the "concrete operation" stages around age 7. Concrete operations include tasks like ordering objects in a logical sequence. This is EXACTLY what the "5 minute IQ test" is testing. The longer test is almost certainly testing a variety of different mental skills that are also enabled by the same transition. Hence the strong correlation.

Furthermore someone who is "gifted" at age 6 on a test like this almost certainly is gifted because he or she hit that growth spurt early. A year and a half later more kids have gone through the same transition, and having acquired those mental skills early hasn't necessarily translated into acquiring them better. That would explain why so many once-gifted kids aren't gifted 18 months later. (Of course the additional time with those skills does help, explaining the fact that many still are gifted relative to their peers.)

In short the results should be unsurprising to anyone who has studied child development.
Martin's Law.
He even mentions the biggest reason not to do so, which is that any typos in XHTML (when served as XML) will result in the yellow-and-red screen of death in Firefox.

The failure case for XML on even a single typo being the total destruction of your web app is unacceptable. This is why at Yahoo, we're pretty firm about using plain HTML, from yahoo.com on down.

Being a purist about markup is great and all, but the robustness of browsers when given accidentally broken markup is one of the great strengths of the web. Serving as XML makes your apps less stable.
Think about that for a second...fans are tattooing themselves

I did think about it. And now that the trauma is over, I'm glad that online radio people aren't forcibly tattooing their listeners.
> For instance, suppose the frontal cortex of a precious 8-year-old looks more like that of a ten-year-old.

Precocious.
> The Amiga was really ahead of its times. It came out in 1995 (just a year after the first Mac)

1985.
Understanding Dictatorships: The question of legitimacy
µTorrent iPhone App rejected (after four months wait)
I think they call that a "dealer".
Only on the web site, I suppose?
The Failure of the GPL
Will Virtualization Impact Cisco and Other Network Hardware Vendors?
Tiny Code
I was thinking about the IOPS that you can sustain with this type of device, and as mentioned here, this is intended for backup, which may or may not be very good acting as a filer.

Probably you can get some high IOPS with all these drives in parallel, but probably not as much as the other more expensive ones (EMC, Netapp).

But I have to agree this is an awesome setup optimized for a specific application. Way to go
Here's the app author blog post about this (where he also says that it took four months before the app got rejected):

http://www.cloudgoessocial.net/2009/05/19/µmonitor-rejected/
http://openphotovr.org/ is really cool, good work! I uploaded a small set, and it was very easy to make a 3d scene.

I'm sure people would be willing to pay to be able to host a viewer on their own site. For example, companies may put a 3d scene of their office on their jobs listing page. Or restaurants, museums, universities, and so forth would do well to have one on their site.
Well, I could see why they used base 10 for magnetic hard drives (since there aren't a power-of-two number of storage spaces available), but what about SSD's, which are best accounted for in base 2?

Also, the GPU and ethernet argument is off base (no pun intended); CPU speed (in Hz) is based in units of s^-1, so it wouldn't make any sense to redefine that in base 2. Ethernet speeds should probably have been measured in base 2, but the numbers are so widespread now it would be confusing to change it.
And why would be able to run it on .NET would be some reason to be grateful?
I think that it is not unusual for lease terms to be negotiated on commercial property.
A Graph That Explains Scifi TV After Star Trek
A logical justification could be found for any order. It's just arbitrary.
Years ago, I called BS on that too, but the ALA convention of "by hand" means "we're not writing flat files full of markup anymore." And we aren't. We use templates now.
Work on open source and make your dreams come true
I've taken to writing %d %b %Y when possible. It's unambiguous and provides sane ordering. And somehow I find it easier to map from %b to an ordinal than vice versa.
a single typo [is] the total destruction of your web app

Really? I mean, I know why my company's pages don't validate. I'm more than ready to execute a putsch to take care of that problem.

So why doesn't Yahoo, in its vastness of being, have the ability to clear pages through (automatable, standardized and fairly simplistic) validation? Is it a 5-bytes-on-the-wire savings problem like at Google? Or just PEBCAK as is par for the course?
Appengine down as well?
OMG! He came back!

Edit:
Explanation is due. Years ago, Con split from dev:

http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.ht...
what would happen if you format the drive into multiple partitions?