skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, I found this odd as well. Because the requests are coming from EC2(NE) to S3 I believe that the pipe is very large and 100 byte vs 10000 bytes is not a large enough difference.
Most development is still in Bangalore. There's one (hyper-productive) guy in CA, and several of us in MA, plus QE and other roles all over, but the "center of gravity" is still in India.
I've used it on production in EC2. The setup essentially replicated the underlying files to at least two nodes so if a host failed then the volume was still entirely available automatically, and when the dead host recovered it would replicate on read. It was great for mostly read workloads, but sluggish when the workload involves a lot of writes due to replication costs.
Non profit OpenStack and Ceph cluster distributed over five datacenters
I wasn't aware of this, thank you I'll check it out!
Will very much read it. Thanks for the link! (Also, that blog is kind of a big deal. Good stuff.)
You might find a few ideas in this similar thread from last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390709
The game we Chinese are playing will not lead us to anywhere, but another rise and fall of rulers. We are staggering and stuck in a modern world that we are not able to sync with. Japan is somewhat worth envying since it transformed to better keep pace with the developed world. And yes, Japan has it's own issues or in other words, bottleneck that it is stuck with. Given the geopolitical and it's surrounding conditions, no easy way out for them.
Isn't the style of the output dictated by the user with Sir Trevor? Would be difficult to come up with something like this that improves the experience over Sir Trevor's inherit MYSIWYG style.
I don't know why you want another 10-15k, or what your current situation is (though it sounds like you're a programmer making okay money), so this might not be useful advice, but you can get a surprising amount of mileage out of a good budget, with surprisingly few trade offs.

Cars are often huge money sinks. Also, people tend not to examine their housing situation for efficiencies (I have a number twenty-something friends in small towns who own houses with rental properties that cover nearly all their mortgages) - also, you can generally move closer to work and bike or take transit (assuming you're not a consultant and "work" is a fixed place); this goes back to cars being money sinks and commuting really being terrible. You can eat really well quite cheaply if you want to put in some time and make your own food (a bagged lunch over eating out at work could save you $1000 a year, and that's just one thing). Anyway, the Internet is full of useful tips to save money, but you can get a bunch done by just mapping out your monthly spending and looking for places to trim the fat. Maybe that won't cover the whole 10-15K you're looking for, but it's a good start.
can you give us some personal anecdote, I'm genuinely curious to hear your story.
Two Sentences About Getting Older and Working on the Web
can you give us some personal anecdotes, I'm genuinely curious to hear your story.
I will certainly apply your suggestions to the code. Thanks
Any chance you would release your code for this? I'd love to run an analysis on some lesser known rappers and play around with some of the filters. Awesome project btw.

EDIT: The reason I ask is that I assume you don't have the time or desire to add every rapper every person asks you for.
What are the best tools for tracking this, in general, for third party sites? I tend to use the Qualys SSL Test and EFF SSL Observatory, but there have to be other/better tools.
Menopause is not a clear counter example. For all intents and purposes it is a symptom of biological aging and thus the result of "accumulated damage" (assuming that is indeed the overarching mechanism).
Interesting benchmarks, ruined for me by a huge experimental no-no: when one of the tests (the Docker delete) didn't produce the result the author wanted, he investigated the underlying problem and fixed it. Sure enough, that became the headline 49x speed-up. Where the results fit the narrative, no optimization was done/reported.

One thing I'm very interested by is Docker's idea of single-process containers; but whether this can be done with KVM isolation instead of (weaker but cheaper) LXC isolation. One thing I was surprised by from this presentation is that the memory cost of a KVM vs LXC instance was only 185MB vs 45MB. So KVM's stronger isolation might not be as expensive after all...
More contrast might be good, but I'd not take it in expense of ugliness.
Puzzle School
Agree, but it's still a bit of useful data, even if more would have been more useful.
Oh Christ, I was just thinking today how stupid packaging winds me up. From what I recall, I don't have this experience with amazon purchases!

For example, the packaging that requires scissors and a spare pair for backup really does my head in. The backup in case I break the first pair, which has actually happened to me.

Another one is the corner tag on food packaging which either is stuck down as well as the rest of the film or it rips off the film AROUND the glue, leaving absolutely no hope of pulling it off the sane way and forcing me to use a knife, which by that point makes me look like a scary individual. By this poiny, I'm slightly more pissed off that I've got used cutlery without actually eating mr making anything.

I actually get really wound up and even consider complaining to trading standards. After all what good is a product if I can't bloody open it?

I can see why it would affect product ratings.
The only thing I still use bookmarks for are saving and ordering of web development libraries and tools. Otherwise I would be unable to find that one specific slider that would be perfect for this specific use.

I still need to open source that collection, because it's huge and has been super useful for me. I'm just not entirely sure what the best way would be.
Hmm, maybe it's high time I gave an honest re-read of http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/ - last time I glanced at it, it gave many sparks and inspiration to delve deeper into things. And lots of good pointers. So I guess I can recommend doing the same thing. :)
If you have any feedback on this post I'd really appreciate it.
If you don't mind me asking, what did you do after undergrad?
Users come up with feature requests all the time. Featuritis is exactly what the users ask for.
It's depressing that we have to talk to our children about mass surveillance at all.
You make it unclear what your skills are. Being a bootcamp, I assume you've got RoR or Node.js as your stack?

You also don't specify where you are applying. Startups or corporates?

I've also never heard of any major tech companies in OR, so perhaps you may need to consider relocating.

If I was in your position, I would go for some company like Oracle/RackSpace/RedHat. Do the ugly grunt work for a year or so and gain a shit load of experience. Don't be afraid to do as many certifications as the company can afford as well.

You can then leave after that year or so. Go do some startup stuff, see if you like it. If you don't, you can always go back to the $90k job with your certs.

PS. Here are some keywords for a startup job (polite humour): "I know web-scale" ; "node.js and async rule the world" ; "non-relational DBs shard efficiently and beat relational DB asses" ; "rapid prototyper" ; "Rails gems" ; "convention over configuration" .

Good luck!
He would spend hours studying the dictionary.
Now it is a computation because you are the computing entity that encoded a problem into the system and later decoded the answer. They paper essentially establishes the distinction of a system just evolving under the laws of physics and using this evolution to compute something by assigning an interpretation to the state of the system. I could use the same stone to compute something different, for example the boring trajectory of a stone placed on a surface in a gravitational field, but without specifying what you are computing the stone is not computing anything.
Really great post full of insights you tend to get when you mature a little. The great change for me in overcoming shyness and connecting was someone told me shyness is a form of cowardliness. Without becoming an annoying asshole overcome your inner coward and dare to express yourself in the world, many benefits will follow.
I don't know the details of their methodology either. The delta is certainly high, maybe suspiciously so. Most likely it's a combination of multiple factors:

1. Actual increased Linux usage

2. Reduction in Windows usage (replaced by mobiles / tablets)

3. Systematic measurement errors, for example a change in which websites use their ad network.

For a different data set, here's a plot of a few years of StatCounter global desktop usage data (just Linux and ChromeOS), http://jsnell.iki.fi/tmp/statcounter.png . There are definitely 5 month periods there that could be used to show similar absurd growth ratios, but the overall growth is a lot slower that that (even if clearly trending upwards). Even so, on the whole the numbers look pretty consistent with my first link.
Book Depository used to have, for some books, much better deals than Amazon. Then it got bought by Amazon, and prices are pretty much equivalent now.
That sounds way professional!

ZX81 game programmer here. A game shop said they'd stock it, but I was too exhausted from finishing the game to deal with the "business side" of arranging duplicating tapes, professional labels etc. (I didn't realize you could just do them one-by-one, by hand. Start small.) But it did get me a programming job at a games company (the interviewer later told me he didn't think a game that good was even possible on a ZX81).

Business side is important. Good to learn at 15.
I noticed the =,is not working, just get '-' one. went to Notepad and my =, is working can someone please verify this.
This is nice. Some years ago, I used a site called "bestbookdeal" that did pretty much the same thing.

One improvement that I would very much like to see is the ability to search for a set of books at once.
The eloquent brush-off?
Thanks, you make some interesting points, particularly about being a first-mover. When talking about "startups we've heard of" you may well be right, I could certainly see how that could work. But in general, the companies we've heard of are the ones who survived long enough to become well known, and in that case, I suspect that their code is very maintainable, which implies many aspects of "good" code. I'd especially expect the companies known for their software to have good code, unlike companies that do other things, but happen to have developers to support their business.
Thousands of reports mandated by Congress will only gather dust.
I use https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ to get my SSL in shape.

I couldn't believe how much my setup failed the first time I ran it.
Symfony on HHVM 3 and Nginx 1.4 vs PHP 5.5 and Apache 2.4
It's not my Facebook page. It's Zuckerbergs.

Which is kind of the point. Unless people know which URL to type (Disney, New York Times) in other words unless you have an offline brand, you don't have an online brand - you have a relationship with a supplier of customers.
There is no need for a zombie China. Japan became a zombie due to terrible monetary policy. Ben Bernanke wrote a big paper about it: Japanese Monetary Policy: A case of self Induced Paralysis?

So even if China found itself in the exact same situation as Japan was that day, we'd only see the equivalent of a lost decade if the Chinese monetary policy was as backwards as that of the Japanese back then, and after that, and the latest world financial crisis, I'd be shocked if China repeated the behavior of yesteryear. This is especially true due to China's love of playing with the country's exchange rate. The Chinese central bank would not bat an eye if it had to devaluate the Renminbi forty percent.

So while the article describes the current situation very well, the predictions aren't really necessary given the premises.
Hiding the URL is a natural step on the way to total TV-fication of the web.

People search for "facebook" on Google in order to log on to Facebook because it works, and they are not interested in learning a more efficient way, because they are not interested in learning anything, they want to go to Facebook.

URLs look like math formulas, and who cares about that except some geeks? Math is hard, let's go shopping.
> Definitely comes out in their music...

That's right, Too $hort's music is laser-focused!
To fully understand rap, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme, and figures of speech. Then ask two questions: One, how artfully has the objective of the song been rendered, and two, how important is that objective. Question one rates the song's perfection, question two rates its importance. And once these questions have been answered, determining a song's greatest becomes a relatively simple matter.

If the song's score for perfection is plotted along the horizontal of a graph, and its importance is plotted on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the song yields the measure of its greatness.
I am unable to recreate this problem.

My Firefox sends the following Accept-Language: "en-us,en;q=0.8,sv-se;q=0.5,sv;q=0.3".

When I go to Google.com in a new private browsing context, I am redirected to Google.se with English language. When I go straight to Google.se in a new private browsing context, the page is in English.
#5 Since when dating somebody saves you money...?
Isn't menopoause caused by running out of eggs? Actually this is the same mechanism as reported in this story - a lack of stem cells. The interesting thing about this is the stem cells can be reactivated.
So...DNS was a waste of time - we could have stuck with just typing in the dotted quads :-)
Do you have any links for this effect?
You only really need one crab to produce consciousness...
Privilege Separated Key Handling added to OpenBSD daemons
If you do benchmarks you should also keep in mind that EC2 micro instances are terrible because they have highly variable CPU speeds which will be greatly reduced if the CPU load is high for a short time.
1000 users upload a 1MB picture /s, how many machines to handle the load?
I started using velcro-fastening shoes when I had a mild stroke that prevented me from tying laces. Now, I continue to use them because (1) they are very convenient and easy to adjust, and (2) I go dancing a lot and find them easier to switch to my dancing shoes.

Considering how often I have to retie the laces while dancing, I would definitely consider getting dancing shoes with velcro.
Another option to 3d printing (I wonder how well this works for gears on consumer-level printers?), is to print out the gear pattern on label paper, and stick that onto a piece of plexi glass. Then cut out the circular shape, and finally use a triangle file (along with a vice) to cut the gear notches, using the printed label as a guide. I did this once for a gear for an older Okidata dot-matrix printer used for multi-part forms.
Educating an adult is anything but easy. It's a long term investment.
Japan is actually the second biggest foreign holder of US debt. As of February 2014, Japan held 1.210 trillion of US debt while China held 1.272 trillion.

http://www.treasury.gov/ticdata/Publish/mfh.txt

I am having trouble finding historical data, but what I can find from the 90s indicates that Japan alternated for the top foreign US debt holder with the UK. I am not really sure what data to look for general Japanese foreign investment.
Finally I feel like I understand Java.

Was that too snarky?
The Great Unwatched
The reason I used Sweden as an example is that many Americans think commerce in Sweden must be hobbled by taxes and regulation. It must surprise some people that Sweden's GDP per capita has grown the most among Western industrial nations, and much more than the US.

I'm not claiming the wealth gap in Sweden is healthy on an absolute scale, but relative to the US it's about half. Every economy has challenges, but the historical results I posted show that US chest-thumping is exceptionally silly.
He also said we should be afraid of intelligent aliens because they will want to steal the earth's resources, like in the movies.

There's no reason to believe that aliens would most likely be malevolent. That's Hollywood logic.
Events Across 100 Years That Completely Changed The World
As foreshadowed by Heinlein in Methuselah's Children...in 1958

"Yes, yes," agreed Hardy. "Naturally---but what is the basic process?"
"It consists largely in replacing the entire blood tissue in an old person with new, young blood..."﻿
I am one of this kind like you. :) I do not get tablets as well, but I own one (Nexus 7 2013).

To me, tablet is like a bigger screen version of a phone, it performs exactly like a phone (without telephony).

I own an iPhone 5 and I prefer iOS vs Android, but I opted to get Nexus 7 (and not iPad Mini) because

1. price of N7 is so cheap (bought one at mid $100s for 32 GB). Android tablet is much cheaper, you can literally buy 2 refurb N7 for the price of 1 refurb iPad Mini with Retina.

2. to read books and magazines (it is not convenient to read books/magazine using laptop and to read on an iPhone, it's too small). Kindle or any other e books can be read with an app that exists on both iOS and Android.
The Internet is the web, and the web is Google. That's how it is for the vast majority of nontechnical users. It's a sad state of affairs.
Furthermore, is time quantized?
If it's not quantized, are universal changes atomic? Or do they dopple? (At the speed of light?) This would mean that a clock cycle of universal change takes (length of universe) / (speed of light)

I think that time being quantized, would beg the question, are universal changes atomic locally, or globally?

Our perceptions are clearly operating on universal change, so our sense of time is as well. These are quite deep questions.
Tutor programming and math
While he'd been working with and thinking about the problem for a long time the speed at which Linus produced Git always amazes me: "development of Git began on 3 April 2005...On 16 June, the kernel 2.6.12 release was managed by Git...Torvalds turned over maintenance on 26 July 2005".[1] Perhaps he should have some more breaks for side projects.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
I had to search on hn.aloglia because this ridiculously bad science got rightfully killed.

Did the OP even test with ruby/python/wget/curl ? Could be a DNS issue and nothing to do with libcurl.

Why spend all that time and not run `gprof` ?!
Facebook's rule changes and profit chasing undermine its users
Because it's a legal requirement to fly in a lot of airspace, to ensure that you show up on radar, and it's far easier to install one than to wrangle an exception. Of course it can be turned off, just like any other piece of equipment.
> Utility is worthless without getting you something, which is pleasure.

"Utility" is generally defined to mean getting what one desires. It's not abstract. "Pleasure" could be defined in the same way, and if you're defining it to be synonymous with "utility" then that's your choice, but it usually carries the connotation of immediate sensory euphoria whereas "utility" does not. But I don't understand your criticism of the word "utility."
This was the first film that was able to convey a non trivial mathematical point to me simply by having viewed it.

The idea of assigning ELO ratings to girls' attractiveness based on a set of 1 to 1 comparisons, rather than taking an average of multiple 1 to 10 ratings gives a much better sense of their relative attractiveness.
Sometimes a really clever one-can contain an amazing amount of information (laconic humour is a good example of this[0]). The signal-to-noise ratio can be very high here.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase
If we are really only interested in the number of unique words in the first 35,000 lyrics each of these artists have produced and not in what they say about the artists themselves or how the number generalizes to the rest of their body of work, then yes, the analysis is exact and perfect. I don't think that's really the goal, though. We are interested in drawing inferences about the artists and their work. As I say above, the rankings are correct modulo noise (there is noise, unless we wouldn't find it meaningful that these numbers could be different for different 35,000 word samples for the same artist and it is impossible that they could be different for the first 35,000 words due to causes unrelated to those that we are trying to measure), but the magnitudes of the differences could be pretty far off.
But in general, the companies we've heard of are the ones who survived long enough to become well known

True!

and in that case, I suspect that their code is very maintainable

Unfortunately, there's no relation between a code's maintainability and its business viability. For example, if that were true, then there would be a correlation between beautiful codebases and codebases which make money. In my experience there is no such correlation.

Businesses generally maintain their codebases by hiring people to work on it rather than adopting good practices from the start (so that they don't have to hire more people to work on it). That's why startups have another advantage: they can work much faster than big companies, because big companies generally have to deal with ten metaphorical tons of code bloat, which slows them down almost as much as their bureaucratic nature.
Who can change titles? Should note it's from 2010 since so much has changed since then.
It is not a microcontroller, it is a mechanical switch to the engine power. My "fix" was to mechanically force the switch to a reset position, and the issue is that frequently the switch get stuck in place.
You've been 'fuchsiarolled'. That really does hurt.
Reproducibility Project: Psychology
Does anyone have any good ways to inform teenagers about the perils of mass surveillance? Practically none of my peers care about it.
Thought this was going to be about postinstall scripts in debs.
MTTR?
Hah, cool. Is 'dtor' still with the team? If so please say hi to him.
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If you have experience in Sencha (or are able to recreate the app natively for Android and iOS at a reasonable rate) email me at ob.ahmed[at]gmail[dot]com

Please provide an example app that you have worked on and your hourly rate.
Theoretically yes,.but in Brazil.this never work. For example the Toyota Corolla accelerating by itself happened a lot in Brazil too, yet here Toyota fixed no car and didn't paid anyone.
Hah! "Edwaed Burns"
What's best for society, or what's "moral," is a different matter. It's still by definition impossible to make a choice that is not one's preferred choice, so it's silly to recommend someone to do so. I realize that this is a bit too semantic for everyday usage (thus you could reasonable tell someone "don't murder someone even if you want to"), but I think it's an important distinction to make if we're waxing philosophical.
Looks like you're confusing things. While the article wasn't well done testing with your suggestions adds nothing more than unrelated , in the case of wget especially, background noise.
This is really great and I appreciate you making this. Thanks for sharing it!
A Desert Spider with Astonishing Moves
It doesn't matter, they are still rappers and I bet they'd be one of the top