skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I hadn't heard of M-Disc. Thanks for the link!

The worry of not being able to find a device to read/play back your media is a common one for all storage types, analog and digital. For example, we have hundreds of reels of quarter inch tape from the fifties and sixties down in our library. The tapes themselves are safe (some may need a day in an easy-bake oven), but otherwise they still sound great. We recently had our Studer A-820 refurbished and it's probably in better than new condition, but I worry there won't be any people to do the service, or parts to do the service with if it needs attention in ten years.

The more obscure, the medium, the trickier it gets. We have a bunch of early digital recordings stored on Betamax tapes, that need both a working Betamax deck and a PCM encoder-decoder box in order to be read. Fortunately, those have all been transferred now.

This is why I'm a believer in thinking of maintaining an archive as being an active rather than static process. It's important to be periodically re-evaluating your digital assets to make sure they can be losslessly transferred to current file formats and modern storage media. It was probably never a good idea to simply "put it on a shelf and forget about it", but thankfully with digital assets, these migrations can be lossless, automated, and tested.
The problem is that BDXL is just no proven for any long term storage. It's got a very bad track record when it comes to delamination, oxygen and sunlight.

TApe is awesome, cheap and proven. It fits the MO of glacier. This is not to say that its not BDXL, but I'd be very suprised if amazon bet the entire house on something so untested.
Calling for NASA to stop working with Roscosmos and the ISS over Putin is nuts. Space research and exploration is more than petty flag waving.
Relevant: https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
If something remarkable happened to you, wouldn't you write a book about it? Do you have any reason in particular to doubt his honesty?
Didn't they switch to Mercurial?

https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
Not a bad point, but if the OP had grown up in a country that used metric he'd have a similar mental model of the amounts. I picture pints, quarts & gallons in terms of their rough metric equivalents.
But on many orders of magnitude larger than 100 people.
> I wonder if there are other cuisines (perhaps yet to be invented) which would work the same way

going to a regular bar / gastropub works exactly the same way.

* it's a bar

* you can be there alone or with people

* you interact with the bartender

* he makes food and drink for you (or bar staff does)

* he drinks with you and bullshits with you

* he can discount your food and you tip him

* you develop a relationship if you go there often

you are assigning undue uniqueness to the sushi bar experience because it's not western cuisine. the actual interaction is not unique. there's also plenty of other cuisines in asia (outside of japan) that work the same way, i.e. street food, noodle bars, etc.
I'm no longer at PP so I can't speak for them (also didn't work on the aforementioned lobbyist story, but I admired the clever use of known data)...but I think invariably, every investigative story starts from traditional ways: a tip from a source on your beat or just plain research and knowledge of the domain. These newer techniques are just more domain-knowledge...lobbyist registration and activities can be found, in part, at House.gov. From that data, and records of Congressional travel, and patience to comb through PDFs, you can get more leads. If you mean engineering methods, such as machine-learning...I think the use of that is limited...not that people haven't tried (both in academia and in the news business) but because the datasets aren't organized or large enough to justify it.
I thought I had read an article about facebook switching to perforce due to their really large git repo. Were they at least thinking about it?

A quick google comes up with nothing but I could have SWORN I read that.
Early Roman Calendar
It's annoying that it's near Brownsville, but at least that puts it within easy reach of the heavy industry down along the coast--I'd bet the O&G engineers against aerospace any day of the week, and we've got both here.

God bless Texas!
I don't know what to say. I am using gvim and my .XCompose settings seem to be fine. And I don't remember me having any troubles with that so I would have to fix something ever…
I bet most of that size is made up from the various dependencies Facebook probably has, though I'm still surprised it's that large. I expected the background worker things, like the facial recognition system for tagging people, and the video re-encoding libs, to be housed on separate repositories.

I also wonder if that size includes a snapshot of a subset of Facebook's Graph, so that each developer has a "mini-facebook" to work on that's large enough to be representative of the actual site (so that feed generation and other functionalities take somewhat the same time to execute.)
I don't know about the need for a "tower", but the Falcon 9 launch sequence includes firing up all the engines and making sure they're running fine. Same too for the SSMEs as I recall. That's one of the great advantages of liquid fuel rockets, you can turn them off. Ditto the mighty Saturn V, they started "8.9 seconds" before launch, 300 milliseconds apart.

So you need some serious hardware to hold it down till release, and to deal with all that exhaust.
LG opening up WebOS, Smart TV winning raves
Its not bad, is really nice, but Git has one problem, when you codebase is big, the process takes a long time, imagine git scanning those 8GB every time you do a commit, that is why Facebook was looking to port all their code to another VCS
Exactly, there's no way they wrote 8GB of code.
I could not agree more. I am eating a late lunch alone at my favorite sushi bar as we speak! ... well type anyway.
You know what would be awesome some sort of anti-bullying squad -- that dishes out some of their own medicine. -- Have maybe 10-15 people situated along the pathway of a bully's walk home, and cameramen to ask him questions... like Did you know most bully's bully because they hate themselves, what do you hate most about yourself, what makes you a bully? ... etc... -- get it all on tape, if they run--get their cowardice on tape.. youtube it for the whole world to see, enough instances of this happen, and it'll cut back on bully's I'd hope-- I wonder if To Catch a Predator had any statistics on if the program curtailed any predatoring...
I do algorithmic trading, and write the underlying systems and algos, for a living, not high frequency, though I did once get to 200 messages a second:)

The stress is always there, though you become desensitized to it after a while, or you just quit in a stress induced rage:(

I'm Canadian so my knowledge is skewed to the Canadian markets.

My email is in my profile if you'd like to chat.
Simple has allowed this since its inception. Nice to see other banks following.
Well, whether repeating the practice will result in increased damages remains to be seen. I, for one, shall not hold my breath.

But future increased damages does nothing for victims in the present.
Parallel Monte Carlo using Scala
Colt's 1920s strategy for selling pistols: Exploit anxiety about highway robbery
Tape is dismissed far to easily, tape is around $25-40 a tape, which $15 a TB.
This isn't true. See the ingredients in your cheap beer. You will see: "Non malted cereals", that is, rice and transgenic corn. More a lot of conservants.
Code babes (an alternative way to learn to code)
I wonder what their branching strategy is like and how merges are gated with a single codebase of that size?
> "He said his transformation also brought a second ability: he can now draw the complex triangle-based geometric designs called fractals. That lets him translate high-level mathematical concepts like Pi and the theory of relativity into easy-to-understand illustrative drawings."

What?
Is there a reason you chose not to specify what the game is on the page?

It took me awhile to figure out that it was a Rock Paper Scissors game. Only after did I realize that was what RPS stood for. Then looked at GitHub where the real description was.
> HDDs are not designed for long term archive. They simply fail hard when being moved or switched off for a long time.

A single disk certainly is bad for long term archive. But when you have thousands of disks and use multiple copies for all data with some fancy error correction you can still get extremely high reliability, you just need to calculate in the expected failure rate.
ANTI-AGING VITAMINS: THE SECRET TO HEALTHY LIVING AND ETERNAL YOUTH
I'm imagining something like http://www.reddit.com/r/mathgifs but obviously not animated.
Funny you should mention Facebook maybe having performance problems with Git: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Git-performance-results-on-a... (2012)
Not like they dont have the money for it, but that would be a very expensive for them and sort of anti-Open Source, no?
I rarely go to bars with food (or at least, don't order food), and at a lot of bars, the point seems to be to interact with other patrons, which is different from a sushi bar (where that ~never happens).
Netflix, Chrome, and Ubuntu? If you're gonna be that proprietary you might as well be on Windows or OSX in the first place.

"Man I really like these tungsten circular saw blades! If only I could use them with my hammer."
I have met one woman like this and had the opportunity to work closely with another. In both of their cases they were in car accidents. I didn't know either of them before their accidents, but I have multiple friends that had known each of them for years or decades prior. In both cases they were described as pretty average before their accidents. Since their accidents they have both become extremely prolific readers [1] , with drastically better memory and cognition [2], and can't sleep more than 4 hours a night if they try.

[1] In the case of my colleague, she read everything she wanted, at which point she read the first Dewey decimal cataloged book in the local library and then started to read each subsequent book in progression. Less than three years after her accident she had almost finished every book in the local library and was already making plans to get a membership at the state's largest library.

[2] Neither have photographic memory, but it is something eerily close; and they make cognitive leaps that never cease to amaze me.
Who'd have guessed that retrophrenology actually works.
Do a Google image search of his name and you'll see some of his drawings. In the video he talks about learning the mathematical equations for the drawings, after the fact.
There's gotta be a ton of binaries in there
They'll still need to verify all systems and components before a second launch

That. You need to re-qualify the engine after each launch. The cost of labour far exceeds the cost of materials, you need to strip and re-build the thing, and you ask yourself just how much money you can save through re-using the first stage. I don't think it's much.
This is when a centralized VCS with checkin-checkout concepts really shines. The client only has to check the checked-out files on commit.
As an alternative you could combine Soylent with intermittent fasting to get keto benefits.
One chart shows why the PS4 is killing the Xbox One
The server and network to host those disks ends up costing much more than the disks, so even MAID built from free disks isn't that cheap.
They aim for a completely linear history. They may even have a policy of not allowing merge commits. It is described in various places on the internet. I like https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabflavor/article/recom... because it and its sister articles on code review and revision control are terrific reads.
NASA isn't stupid, they know that if SpaceX manages to get rocket reusability they'll save a lot of money which would otherwise be spent on rocket launches.
Soylent is certainly different from McDonalds and the rest of the modern profit-driven food industry, but your first sentence is an insufferable straw man:

> Better stop eating then, since any plants or animals you might ingest have been bred by humans over thousands of years. Knowledge of our nutritional needs--this knowledge that we allegedly "don't have"--has completely transformed them.

Breeding food over the course of many generations is completely different from inventing industrial processes that completely restructure food in a way that no organism has ever been exposed to. It gets worse when science is used to reformulate flavor profiles to make food appealing in a way that fools our bodies about its nutritional content. Pretending like the food system today is the same as early agriculture with selective breeding is intellectually dishonest.

The fact is our knowledge of how the human organism metabolizes food is still extremely rudimentary. The thing that bothers me about Soylent is the founder's utter dismissal of any complexity to the issue at all. He seems to unquestioningly believe this reductionist pseudo-scientific hand waving that a certain subset of geeks subscribes to wherein gaining weight is a simple thermodynamic equation of calories in > calories spent, and nutrition is a question of all the correct molecules passing through one's mouth.

This is an incredibly naive way of thinking, and will not allow Soylent to ever find a healthy formula. Of course, if they do start to take it seriously it will still take many decades to perfect as the necessary scientific knowledge does yet exist. A lot of people are invested in the idea of convenience foods because they make life easier, but the uncomfortable truth is that choosing any convenience food, even one with such good intentions as Soylent, is not a smart bet if you want to be as healthy as possible, and demanding scientific proof otherwise is based more on wishful thinking than solid rationality.
Is there a legitimate reason why scientific journals still produce dead-trees versions? Why not just publish PDFs? The reader can print if he really must.
Fb would be a notable exception to this theory though.
This is one of the saddest business models I've seen so far. The only thing that beats it are probably the one-person fondue sets (or BBQ sets if you're American) that you sometimes see in supermarkets...

For me, the prototypical "one-person" restaurants are Japanese noodle bars though, where most people sit at the counter and eat by themselves. In general, Japan seems to have embraced this idea of catering to a generation of singles much earlier than the rest of the world, probably due to their high number of single households and low birth rate. Considering the declining birth rates throughout the world this kind of business will become more relevant other countries, too.
Bah, my mistake.
One of the most (sadly) awe inspiring moments in my recent past was the realization that the standard remote on my Panasonic TV controlled the menus (including Netflix) on my PS3 almost perfectly.
Which development board should you pick?
In terms of engineering tradeoffs, this reminds me of a recent talk by Alan Kay where he says that to build the software of the future, you have to pay extra to get the hardware of the future today. [1] Joel Spolsky called it "throwing money at the problem" when, five years ago he got SSD's for everybody at Fog Creek just to deal with a slow build. [2]

I don't use Facebook, and I'm not suggesting that they're building the software of the future. But surely someone there is smart enough to know that, for this decision, time is on their side.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538063

[2] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/03/27.html
11. Not buying Resharper.

On a separate note I much prefer the lambda style Linq to the SQL style. I think it easier to work with, but I'm not sure why.

With regard to classes versus structs. I rarely use structs. What are the real world use cases for them over classes?
controls = natural selection, survival of the fittest

oversight, monitoring = culture, language, history

Science has the potential to speed up the process of knowledge acquisition. Our current human diet is the result of thousands of years of trial and error. A scientist attempts to follow cause and effect, minimizing confounding variables that obscure cause and effect.

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_...
This verges on a procedure I would pay to have done to me.
Came across https://www.tunnelbear.com/ the other day. They seem pretty cool.

I've used https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ while traveling abroad. It has worked quite well.
How many thousands (millions?) of people play Kerbal Space Program? Obviously that qualifies as a rocket scientist/
Sounds like something some people would sign up for. If you compared the injuries between multiple people with similar effects, I wonder if it would be possible to find a way to reproduce it?
Easily Transfer Snapshots Between Accounts
People always say that, but it's not as bad as you think. I'm on my wife's health insurance now, but I could be on my own and it wouldn't be that much off the top. Certainly not the haircut most employers are going to give you in their ludicrous "total compensation package" numbers.

I've never worked at a place that just gave me free health insurance. Early on, it wasn't a lot of money, maybe $30/mo or so, but near the end, it had gotten bad, more like $250/mo. Everyone I know with employer-provided health insurance (with the exception of my wife, who works for the government) has gotten their premiums jacked up on them. So from my perspective it's kind of a fallacy that obtaining your own health insurance as a freelancer is "more expensive" than what you receive as an employee, because what you receive as an employee just ain't that great anymore. In my wife's case, they don't charge her an arm and a leg for health insurance, but they do pay her severally under the market rate for her experience and credentials.

And I definitely go on a lot more vacations now than I ever did before. Most of my "vacation" time before I would spend on being sick, as I never had separate sick leave. Now, because I don't have to go anywhere, if I get a cold, I just work through it.

I'll even accompany my wife on her business trips, work from her hotel room while she is working, and then we can have dinner together in whatever port city she's stuck in that night. I'll go visit my parents on occasion, or friends in other states. I just setup shop during the day in a coffee shop, library, hotel or something and then spend the evenings with them. I still visit with some of my friends about as often as when we lived in the same city together, and depending on the city, I can take the train and work while I'm riding.

Plus, I make a decent amount of interest on the money I put into savings for paying my taxes (being self-employed, I don't have tax withholding, I pay quarterly estimates instead). It's enough I can afford an accountant (well, not that the accountant is that expensive) to file my taxes at the end of the year. For me, it's a significant stress reliever.

And I eat and sleep much better when I'm home and not having to drive back and forth to offices.

In short, not only am I making more, my free cash is still more, and my quality of life is significantly better in every aspect. I don't even really have that high of a consulting rate, as I'm really bad/lazy about marketing myself.
Dear everyone: you should be using Phabricator. It is Facebook's collected wisdom about software development expressed in software. It has improved my life substantially. The code review is better than Github's, and their linear, squashed commit philosophy has worked out much better than the way I used to do things.
i would say when i'm eating alone, it's almost always at a bar of some sort.

and i interact with my neighbors at the sushi bar all the time. so does everyone i know who likes sushi. especially when i'm drunk.
You could make inquiry about lawsuits illegal. I have heard of companies that explicitly ask if you have ever sued a former employer, which crosses a line for me, because it's sometimes necessary to sue to secure your rights.

However, even without deliberately asking, a company could learn, and it's not hard to imagine why an employer would be very wary of hiring someone who has sued a former employer. Being sued is an extremely stressful thing and lots of people go to great, even possibly irrational, lengths to avoid it.

Ask how you would feel working for a company that had sued former employees.

There are no good answers.
The Man Who Lived in a Shoe [Tiny Houses]
The big .git directory is probably binary revisions? Is there any good way around that in git?
I think it's also partly because of extremely long hours and long commutes and small apartments with even smaller kitchens (Tokyo).
checkmark on top of thin square, square, dotted outline of a square?
Probably for the best as I understand enraged camels pretty much universally to be considered poor dining companions.
Interactive map on US venture investment activities by state from 2001
Yeah good point, that's probably a big factor too!
Could be either, but note that Amazon has a history of introducing new products at or below cost and then gaining a profit margin by keeping their prices fixed while their costs drop. A while back I heard that the fully loaded cost (to Amazon) of m1.small was $0.15/hour when EC2 launched, but they priced it at $0.10/hour because they knew their costs would drop and they wanted to win market share.
Life after Heartbleed: ‘The Internet will never be 100% safe’
i'm glad to see continued development on LyX - i started with TeXnicCenter, then moved to LyX, and now on TeXworks (primarily for speed), but without LyX i probably would have abandoned Latex. LyX makes a steep learning curve so much simpler - in some sense the pitfalls and lack of features makes it easier to move outside the IDE and become more comfortable with Tex in general. You copy and paste your lyx code to something like TeXworks, and edit small pieces to get the desired effect not achievable in LyX.
It did on lobste.rs (in fact its on the frontpage right now!)

Come over and join the community (invite only - but you can request one pretty easily)
Here's a slightly longer version from a couple of years ago. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/04/27/real-beautiful... They say that his brain is over-compensating for the damage in some areas, which has side-effects like being really good at drawing fractals.
The new depth option [1] on git clone as of 1.9.x should make the .git dir much more reasonable.

> --depth <depth>: Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions.

If the OS and applications that are creating and modifying files are all honest about the file dates, it should be possible to only scan dates instead of reading out every file. Or even use ionotify-like events to track what changed.

[1]: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone

EDIT: As sisk points out below --depth itself is not new, but as of 1.9 the limitations that previously came with shallow clones were lifted. Thanks sisk.
The commercial WiFi power harvester I remembered would be the perfect partner for a WiFi Spy.

Despite the announcement that "on the CES floor, they were able to charge a BlackBerry from 30% to full in about 90 minutes, using nothing but ambient WiFi signals as a power source. " [1]

The device has never been turned into a commercial product. [2]

[1] http://www.ohgizmo.com/2010/01/09/ces2010-rca-airnergy-charg...

[2] http://www.ohgizmo.com/2011/01/07/ces-2011-hey-rca-hows-that...