skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You clearly have not been at sea, close to the water. A cylindrical object, without a sea anchor, in moderately rough seas, would naturally turn sideways to the waves and be destroyed very quickly in the breaking waves.

I don't know whether SpaceX has fitted their boosters with sea anchors yet, but I wouldn't be surprised to see this addition after the present loss. In windy conditions, a sea anchor provides some drag and keeps the boat (or booster) pointed perpendicular to the waves, thereby minimizing the force expended on the object.

> Surely sea conditions are something they'd take into account when planning and executing the mission.

Ocean experts are constantly preparing for extreme conditions, then discovering they didn't prepare for conditions that were extreme enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave
We use Desire 2 Learn's product. No experience with Blackboard, but I don't really have anything particularly negative to say as a USER of D2L. It seemed fine as a student and they even had a mobile interface up before I graduated (2012).
Oh man, the memories.

Just today I enjoyed explaining to a developer why his insert into a timestamp failed because of formatting, with a nice english error message. Thanks Postgres!

Whereas the same thing last year with Mongo just inserted the wrong date into a misspelled key and we didn't figure it out for days.
I watched a senate hearing where Elon Musk squares off with the ULA. It's awesome. One great quote is where the ULA says Space X can't handle the missions. Elon responds. If our rockets are good enough for NASA, they are good enough for the Department of Defense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_azyt1JhI0
It depends on what business you are in. Some are more tightly regulated than others. For instance: healthcare, telecom, and finance.
hmm, an armchair rocket scientist... don't think i've seen that one before.
Seems like a lot of work to just get a slow indirect addressing system which we have plenty of already...
This is one of the differences between Twitter and Facebook. Facebook secretly decides what they want you to see. Twitter's filter is very straight forward. Follow an account to get their tweets. If you follow more than one account, you'll see the @replies between the accounts you follow.
Very interesting, thanks. Follow up question: if the girlfriend had said something like "There's a camera in the closet that recorded all this, and he'll probably erase it when you leave" - do you think that would have been sufficient to make it not a fourth amendment violation? The idea being that they were told about it by the victim, rather than searching for it.
If you're on shared hosting, is it down to the hosting company to enable Forward Secrecy? Are there any shared hosts doing this yet?
Therefore, by a process of elimination, Glacier must be using optical disks. Not just any optical discs, but 3 layer Blu-ray discs.

What? You partially eliminate a few strawmen, and thus conclude that your pet theory is the only answer? The logic in this article is so weak that I presume this must be an example of 'parallel construction'. I have to guess that someone he trusts but is not allowed to quote has told him that Amazon is using BDXL disks, and he's pretending to reason himself to the same conclusion. My next best guess is that he's a few weeks late on his April Fool's post.

Assuming aggressive forward pricing by Panasonic or TDK, Amazon probably paid no more than $5/disc or 5¢/GB in 2012. Written once, placed in a cartridge, barcoded and stored on a shelf, the $50 media cost less than a hard drive – Blu-ray writers are cheap – Amazon would recoup variable costs in the first year and after that mostly profit.

OK, maybe the April Fool's explanation should come first. Because if you were trying to come up with plausible logic, surely you could do better than declaring that Amazon's private price for BDXL media is 1/5th that known to the public and that all other costs are zero. And even if one were to assume this admittedly unlikely scenario, wouldn't you need to write more than one disk for redundancy? But that's easy to solve: just wave the magic wand and halve Amazon's secret price down to a level where it make sense.

Powered down hard drives seem like a much simpler explanation. The robotics don't seem that difficult if instead of bringing the disk to the backplane you keep the disk fixed in place and just attach the cable. Presumably you could design your own sturdier and easier to align connector, and leave the adapter in place. Or maybe there is some way to do it with a mechanical switch? Or do you even need a robot? If you built a jig so you could plug in a whole drawer of drives at once, maybe you could just hire someone to do it.
FTC sides with Tesla, says it should be allowed to sell directly to consumers
Not really. Which may explain why (according to one report) the Coast Guard refused to go out after the booster.
Preach it, Terry.
Beg HN: 6 days left to help get OS X support in htop 1.x
> Nokia was crushing rivals everywhere.

that's just not true,especially in Europe.Mobile is driven by apps and advertisment. And who publish mosts apps and is willing to pay for ads? western countries.I doesnt matter for my business if WP is number one in Brazil(Nothing against Brazil,love it,and i have brazilian origins myself) if it has only 4% shares in the market I want to target ... Doesnt even matter for Microsoft,except for PR reaons. WP is a failure as today,Microsoft knows it.

Would they have done better with Android,hard to say,I think they would.Nokia is a famous ,in Europe for instance, Nokia means robust and quality phones.But we'll never know.
1. Just click "Run Trace" to verify the automation works.

2. Yes, from Dashboard it's currently FF&Chrome only, but via API you can include IEs. I can help you to get started (mailto arto@usetrace.com)

3. If a Trace can be walked through it passes. A Trace includes steps like clicks on buttons and checks (explicit things that must be visible on the page, e.g. text or other elements).
Bringing up a MySQL Galera cluster with Puppet
You don't have to be a foodie to like the taste of food.
Hmm, perhaps I'm atypical. I generally don't leave my email open and respond in real time. I tend to do it in batches, so I reopen gmail multiple times a day.
The strongback does a lot more than legs ever would: resistance to winds when awaiting the launch window, fueling, data connections, etc. Not to mention you need some sort of tower to lift the rocket upright after payload integration and servicing -- unless you do vertical integration, which they will need to do to win USAF contracts. But then you need a crane, anyway.
This is tangential to the topic, but many banks do not care how secure Mint.com might be, and simply by using them (e.g. providing your password to a 3rd party service), you violate the bank's TOS [0]. This is the main reason why I will not use a service like Mint.com. If my bank account is compromised, for any reason (perhaps completely unrelated to Mint), I don't want the bank absolve itself of liability because I violated the TOS.

[0] http://www.moneysense.ca/spend/the-banks-take-a-bite-out-of-...
Are games not a subset of video games?

edited: the word "video" next to the first games
Author mentions having vim display greek letters and math symbols to replace the TeX input: other plugins supply the highlighting commands to do this as well, but I prefer setting LaTeX up to deal with Unicode symbols directly. I just like having actual integral signs, etc. in my source. Mainly because it freaks people out when you send them the source to your paper.
Musk estimates that Air Force "mission assurance" requirements would cost $30 million, hence a $90 million ("under $100 million") price-tag.
Flat Files And Server Denials: Covering Elections At Three News Orgs
The Untold Story of Larry Page’s Incredible Comeback
I have to admit, when NetFlix got into the business of making content I was highly skeptical, with series like House Of Cards I'm sold. Now if only I could watch NetFlix in Chrome on Ubuntu Linux.
For the same reasons, I've been investigating M-Disc. Requires special writer (but sub-$100), but can be read by any DVD reader.

Etches instead of dye, result is claimed 1000 year lifetime. DOD has evidently certified.

http://www.mdisc.com/what-is-mdisc/

However, I worry about even finding optical readers in 10 years time.
I mean, it's not like Amazon suffers from opaque pricing. The offer with Glacier is exactly what they said it would be, and the trade off for lower per-gig costs is the toll on retrieving the data. That's still perfectly reasonable IMO; I have a couple of terabytes backed up, and worst-case if I actually need to hit glacier, it'll cost me a few hundred dollars.
What is your source on that? According to a page on the NASA site from Oct 13. The Station is expected be operational through at least 2028.
HN's deduplication is fragile and doesn't work for submissions more than a couple weeks old.
how do you input those symbols efficiently? (without using a character map)
> ... but we usually use that term refering to a translation into a lower level language and not another language at the same level.

Rust is not lower-level than C++ and neither is Go lower-level than C.
It is interesting to note that while S3 prices have more than halved, Glacier prices have remained the same during that period. Does this mean that extremely low margins is at play here?

Or is it that Amazon has no competitor here yet, good enough to push it to lower the prices?
Encoding state implicitly in control flow tends to give you nicer and more natural code. A big state machine implemented with gotos can be tough to read if it's also a parser (which may need to build a tree, recurse, etc.). A small hand-rolled lexer might be reasonable to implement with goto. Although I would prefer to enumerate the states and use a switch.

If you're writing a recursive descent parser for C while keeping minimal lookahead, I can think of a place or two where goto might really help. One is to deal with casts, compound literals and subexpressions. They all begin with a left-parenthesis, so you can't tell what you're dealing with until a bit further. Since these all appear in the parsing of simple expressions (identifiers, constants, unary operators), the code can go in one function and you can jump to the right place with goto as soon as you know what you are dealing with.

I did not look in the Go code but C programmers mostly use goto for error paths.
Throughout the article, the founders mention "making room" or hoping to "have room" for some investor. I mean, wouldn't you have infinite room for investors? What's limiting how much they can take? As it's obvious, I've never done at fund raising, so can someone explain (or point to a reference) what's the deal?
ToffeeScript
During the California gold rush, the hardware sellers made tons of money, but during the Dawson gold rush, everybody knew the guy selling pickaxes made money. What happened was everybody tried to sell pickaxes, and the people selling luxuries, like eggs and fancy dresses made the money[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Gold_Rush#Logistics
Does being greedy help?
Well, Not really. I am not talking in moral terms, rather strategic. I figured everyone is greedy, either he is an employee or an employer, or your customer. So when you stop being one, It changes everything. You instantly stand out, and you can win peoples heart in no time. Which in the long run, helps you make much more money, than if you were being greedy. You perhaps will make little to no money, at first. But in the long run it’s all jackpot.

How did I learn this tactic?

First of all it’s no brainer, but we just do not pay attention to it. Instead our entire focus is on the bottom-line. In early teens, I used to frequently visit my car stereo dealer, I would buy anything for my car stereo, that money could. So one day, I visited him again and asked him to replace my car speakers, with the new ones. I told him, I guess they have worn out. He said, no worries and unpacked a brand new pair in front me. But He asked, since you listen music in higher volume, it’s likely your hearing is little distorted, which is very much likely for guys like me, than the speakers has worn out. He said, I can easily sell you new ones and make my profit too, But I won’t just recommend. Even after 15 years I am still one of his loyalist customers. He won over me for the rest of my life.
This might become a nice benchmark for the Go language; the same code base implemented in C and Go! It may not be fine-tuned for optimisation, neither in C nor in Go, but may still give a good ball-park estimate.
I definitely believe that the only reason why Soylent is being successful is because of hype. How does the product they are visioning differ from the food replacement given through a feeding tube? Working in a hospital, I have personally witnessed people with swallowing disabilities living on this stuff for more than a decade!
The launch window was being dictated by factors other than the landing weather and storms in the Atlantic are a justifiable reason for losing pretty much anything you care to put in them.
No Shenmue? What a shame

Here a Postmortem on Shenmue I & II and some brief explanation of the generation of the Kowloon scenario.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4J...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenmue_II
Code Babes – We're hot, but learning to code is even hotter
Vermeer’s Secret Tool
I think you can help yourself a ton by using compression softwares for images, and especially videos. The cameras nowadays are of very very high resolution -- I am pretty sure that even if the image/size is quartered by a good compression method, your eyes won't notice a thing, be it on screen, or in print.
Author here! It was quite a surprise to see one of my old posts on HackerNews.

For those interested in what happened next: I managed to build and run sqlite, rsync, and dropbear SSH on the SD card using buildroot: http://buildroot.uclibc.org/

I quickly moved onto other interests as I couldn't work out any practical applications at the time.

Feel free to reach out to <me AT fernjager DOT net> if you have any ideas, or want to pick my brain on this project.
My jaw dropped reading that the rocket could be re-used the next day. That seems like an enormous leap forward for space flight.
*After nearly a year of delay, Soylent finally ships
Want to Be A Better Marketer? Act Like Paul Graham
Would you have a 4th database of your own site's usernames and scrypt(local password) used for logging in?
Ask HN: government vs private
Would you rather work for the government(State or federal) or private company? and why?

Thank you
The UX of Inches
Well, F* nationalists. Earth is too important to be left to the whims of crazies like you.
Netflix releases statement regarding paying Comcast an ISP toll
The US Are As Competitive As China
I am glad I read this article because it alerted me to the existence of NASA's robot astronaut named Robonaut [0].

[0] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/robonaut.html
I just went to the drawer to check - It appears as though most of the earliest CD-R discs were HHB gold archival discs. Some of them came from external mastering facilities, so would be on something else. Around 2002, they standardized on Mitsui MAM-A for the archival copies. Interesting enough, those discs have had very few issues.

It appears as though the early DVD-R discs were Mitsui MAM-A, with us switching over to Taiyo Yuden in early 2007. Since we have all that stuff on network storage, I haven't gone back to check how the Taiyo Yuden discs have fared over time.
The conventional wisdom is that you need a degree to be professionally successful. Corporate America still trains managers to screen out capable individuals for pedigree and credentials. But the Market truly only cares if you can execute and provide value. An area to explore-- when you daydream, where do you see yourself in 3,5,10 years? As an experiment-- try working in the business part-time while you go to school for a semester, then reevaluate.
> with these people, that's what worked

And this is a very important point - there isn't a magical cure-all solution to these things. You have to consider what approach works not only for you, but also what works on the people you need to reach. People really are diverse enough that the approach you took, while one that some could consider ill-advised, was the actual right way to communicate with the other party in your situation.
Amazon's data transfer pricing is awful. I have no idea how Droplr and Cloudapp make money serving files directly from S3.
Feedback and contribution wanted !
Yes but I figured that went without saying.
Pitcairn Island needs new settlers. Who will come?
Wow, he really knows how to push the right buttons... I suppose it helps to have a company you built with almost unfair price/technical advantages behind you.
Private. I want to be a producer, not a parasite.
Also Villa 31. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_31

Villa is the equivalent of Favela. The villa 31 is the most prominent example in Argentina.
Reflecting on $1 Trillion in Student Debt, and Why We're Headed for $2 Trillion
I use :Ex(plore)
It's not great but it gets the job done.
Sportscale – 3D enviroment models from Drone images
>but the cost increases non-linearly<

Do you think the source code for those optimized for the last bit of performance programs tells us something about that?

>Of course one could, but what would that accomplish?<

Could one? Perhaps there'd be complaints that your "idiomatic programs" were just naïve.

A passive website like the benchmarks game can never be enough, by itself, to educate and inform all (or even most) readers -- reading selectively is far too commonplace and errare humanum est.

The benchmarks game is a resource. There are enough examples that when someone draws a misinformed conclusion, we can usually show them a counter-example and ask them to think.

But only if someone contributes those (whatever they consider idiomatic to be) idiomatic programs as counter-examples.
I wouldn't be so hasty. By the time NASA has its own launch capability to the ISS again, Putin may have retired.
LyX 2.1.0 released
According to something of an expert in the field (she holds a fist full of patents, several of which are used in every hard drive you own), DVD-R's pushed CD-R technology too far. Even using Misui/MAM-A Gold media is no great guarantee.

CD-Rs ... who made the discs, and how did you store them? Or did you buy a huge batch at once? I've had great success for over a decade with Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs, over 3,000 recorded and not a single failure to read that wasn't due to a bad read drive, easily solved by using another. Although those retrieval results aren't yet statistically significant.
They had two more trips scheduled to Russia; now Ressi
decided, as he says, "I didn't like dealing with Russians,"
and told Musk he wasn't going back. Musk went anyway. On
the second trip, Musk brought his wife, Justine — "I think
that's the trip when the lead Russian designer started
spitting at us," Cantrell says — and on the third and final
trip he brought his money. He was ready to buy three Russian
ICBMs for $21 million when the Russians told him that no,
they meant $21 million for one. "They taunted him," Cantrell
says. "They said, 'Oh, little boy, you don't have the money?'
I said, 'Well, that's that.' I was sitting behind him on the
flight back to London when he looked at me over the seat and
said, 'I think we can build a rocket ourselves.'"

http://www.esquire.com/features/americans-2012/elon-musk-int...

It's a great article.
I kind of see @zenbowman's point, though I might reword some things. The biggest difficulty I have with accepting isolated mixes of nutrients and supplements is that when we consume and metabolize food, or anything, we don't do it in isolation. There are hosts of synergistic effects throughout biology that are difficult to understand and accurately replicate.

No I'm not a nutritionist or a biologist, so what I'm saying is admittedly highly qualitative. But I did work for several years on a project to curb improper disposal of pharmaceutical waste (into toilets where it gets into the water system), because I read hundreds of papers and articles about how scientists simply don't understand yet how different pharmacological compounds might mix in water and have synergistic consequences for wildlife, especially as it bioaccumulates up the food chain. (Side note, this will be hard to understand since so much of our studies are focused on isolating on variable and looking for effects ceteris paribus, but this isn't how systems work in reality.)

The difference to me when we breed food is that at least we're still consuming something in an evolutionary context, bred over several generations. Certainly it still could be bad for us, but I think that the plant/ animal itself is surviving is better evidence than just taking its component parts and ingesting them. Isn't it general best practice that the whole gestalt is greater than the sum of its parts?
Show HN: Codebabes – Learn Coding from Babes
Could you potentially still use the card in a camera, while it was running linux?
CodeBabes: The end of humanity as we know it?
So much for the gender movement in technology. What are your thoughts on this? Discuss.
Lotus Notes is the only mail client I used that's WORSE than Outlook.
The female developer allegedly harassed out of GitHub is naming names
Is that supposed to be an infinite loop?
In the broader topic of portfolio management, equal weighting will outperform cap weighting due to the small cap effect (read up on Fama-French three factor model). tldr: historically small caps outperform large caps.

In this case, the equal weighting is abstracted away by 1 layer - each ETF is already cap weighted, so you aren't getting the full effect of equal weighting. Instead, you're reallocating to the ETF that has underperformed relative to all others, so as already pointed out, you are betting on reversion rather than momentum.
I actually just got a prototype working that loads up HBase data through Phoenix into Spark for analytics.

So far the results look very promising. Across millions of rows, we're getting queries back in the orders of single seconds.

I'm also able to get millions of rows back on specific, unindexed queries (e.g. "SELECT * FROM EVENTS WHERE TYPE = 'some_type'"), and can run analytics across that data in under a minute per run.

The previous comparison to CQL for Cassandra is apt, though I've found the builtin functions and grammar to be a lot more powerful.
> They could have release an android phone, but then they just would have been fighting for a piece of the pie that Samsung, Moto, and other phone makers are eating

Nokia has never needed a software edge to crush its rivals. They just needed to keep making phones that wouldn't break if you dropped them.

When you already have a massive competitive advantage (Nokia's reputation for making reliable hardware), you don't dive into a niche.
vim has good support through digraphs, :digraphs will list them, and then to enter, either C-K <char1> <char2>, or <char1> <BS> <char2>

for example ö is
C-K o :
or
o <BS> :

see http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/digraph.html for more details
They do feel a bit more reliable than just buying your own external hard drives. Or do you have a good data recovery plan?
I'm working on a book talking about how to write effectively using Vim ("Writing With Vim"), sign up for updates at: https://leanpub.com/vim-for-writers. I need a few more weekends and it should be good to go. It's at about fifty pages right now and covers philosophy, basic customizations, things that are built into Vim as well as plugins, and will cover some publishing workflows.