skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lustre runs the majority of the world's supercomputers. It seems a
> little unfair to dismiss them without at least giving a reason
> why. They have made some progress towards getting their kernel
> client upstream recently.

Lustre aims at performance and thus everything is in-kernel, which
makes operations a nightmare: basically everything you have is an
opaque filesystem structure on disk, and a bunch of logs which can be
very difficult to read. And you have to run the kernel with Lustre
patches, which only apply cleanly to RHEL and SLES; work is being done
on getting Debian in, but still no luck with Ubuntu or recent
mainstream kernels.

Also, there is no clear upgrade path between different versions: the
recommended procedure is to dump everything to another filesystem and
then reload after the upgrade. There is no replication handled at the
FS level. When running Lustre on top of ext4, you have to use the
Lustre's own versions of the ext4 utilities, which replace the ext4
utilities in the system...

In short: Lustre sacrified a lot of ops-friendliness for the sake of
high-performance. This is quite the opposite choice that GlusterFS
has made.

(Edit: formatting)
Dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks
like the simplicity.
Maybe factor in used books and kindle versions? I almost never buy new books anymore. Also, half.com often have cheaper prices than amazon.
So what exactly this means? "... This means that by using the Service and uploading Content, you grant Evernote a license to display, perform and distribute your Content..."

Source: https://evernote.com/legal/tos.php
Yes i heard the opinion on the Japanese economic situation that it's hopeless because you can't fix something that ain't broken. Japanese have a problem with demography, not economy, their labor force is shrinking and people are getting older which explains their GDP being stuck, no other problem to speak of than that.

And here China will also find itself in the similar situation soon due to their one-child policy for the last 40 years. And it will be even worse than Japan's. Fortunately U.S. demographics is healthy - it's nice to have a conservative and religious society :)
Hm, this is at best utterly misleading and at worst a scam.
Acquisition of digital evidence in android smartphones [pdf]
I believe these 3 countries had a good and free education system (in the periods mentioned) which is still a burden for the majority of Chinese nowadays.
Would be interesting to see how they compare to rock bands like Titus Andronicus, Fucked Up or Bad Religion.
At the micro level I agree with Caplan: if you do poorly in high school you probably don't enjoy the academic mode of skill acquisition and your ability to gain from more academic instruction is limited. There are other ways to learn.

On a longer term level I think he's missing the more important question. Being able to function in academic settings is a strong predictor for a variety of important outcomes: income, health, happiness, social and political power. Why do some individuals do better in academia than others?

If it's because of innate factors(genetic laziness?), then by all means, Ayn Rand and social evolutionize away.

If it's because of bad parents, bad teachers, bad state policy(and a tiny smidge of poor genetics to top it off) then we should probably focus on fixing those social problems.

I am inclined to believe the latter case. The #1 thing I find distasteful about Caplan's stance on education, as well as his co-blogger Russ Roberts' for that matter, is that I believe it punishes children for the sins of their parents.
> I don't think plain text is sufficient for taking notes, because it lacks hyperlinks.

Org mode files are plain text and they support links:

http://orgmode.org/manual/Hyperlinks.html

> Hyperlinks are incredibly important because they are associative and non-hierarchical... that is exactly what you need for note taking and brainstorming.

I organize my Org mode wiki like Wikipedia: each document/topic can be linked from multiple parent documents/topics. So documents/topics are organized using a combination of both tagging and hierarchies. I've heard this type of organization referred to as hierarchical tagging.
Had some very rough times myself, including the death of a relative, work harassment during 2 years and a very hard divorce... all at the same time. We humans are made to keep on living, your own human nature will give you strength to keep going. Compare yourself with older folks, who survived wars, famine, nazi holocaust... do you think you can do better? I'm sure you can.
Interesting that the first comments are slating this for being cloud-based; in this particular case I think that's like slating Google for being cloud based. The raw data will make sense to very few people without the very large database of "known" things to match against. And that large database will be continually updated as people try new things.

Having said that, I'm not sure who the target market really is. It's basically a Cool Science Toy. Educational use? But in that case maybe it would be nice to show the raw data just to give an impression of how it works.
My first reaction was : "That's amazing!!!". Indeed a very cool idea. A tiny spectrometer. I would be very much interesting in the details of the technology behind it and what kind of details it can find about the scanned objects.
"One big con is that it’s easy to start a company for the wrong reasons—usually so that you can say you’re starting a company—and this makes it easy to cloud your judgment."

Recently, I've randomly come across a lot of people here in Lisbon, all in their 20s, saying they're in a brand-new startup or starting one. When I ask them about it, mum is the word. They hesitate and fumble for words, say a key word or two, then speak very generally before clamming up. It's amazing how many times I've seen this exact scene play itself out in the last few months. It's a mixture of being unsure about what they're doing and not wanting someone to steal their idea. They're all either novice coders without a business-minded partner, or vice-versa. It's to the point that I often feel like I'm in a scene from the Truman Show.

Seeing this happen, and while being in the midst of starting my own thing, I'm hesitant to say I'm doing a startup. I find myself preferring to say 'I'm starting a business online'.
You are mistaken. Nets does not operate out of Singapore.[0] That is a different Nets.[1] They are unrelated.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nets_Group
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_for_Electronic_Transfer...
CoreOS follow-up: log aggregation with Logstash, Elasticsearch
Only if the language has ONLY iterators that are of the [closed, open) kind of interval. If you have, e.g., Smalltalk/Scala-like to:/to iterators (even if you have also iterators that exclude the upper end), you get the same problem in conjunction with unsigned integers (except that these languages use signed integers, so the problem doesn't show up).
As last time, I'm available here for questions/comments about the article :-)
It's very likely that the Bluetooth protocol will be reverse engineered very shortly after launch anyway.
I'm not using the deriving ought from is logical fallacy. I'm simply pointing out the facts, and the logical conclusions from that. But if you want to be all formal with your argumentation, here it is for you in all its simplistic and formal glory:

P1. Taxes are based on percentage of earnings.

P2. More work implies higher pay

P3. You work more

Conclusion1: Your pay is higher

Conclusion2: You will pay higher taxes.
I already have one of these (though the specs call it a glossy monitor)
The problem is not with being based on external database - the problem is with that database being privately owned by startup, which is almost certain to disappear within a year or three, at which point the device you bought will be useless.

I'd personally be fine with cloud-based recognition if the database was open, free to copy and host locally.

That, and also not giving access to raw data pretty much kills 90% of possible uses for the devices, turning a cool piece of tech into another pretty much worthless gizmo.
TL;DR In the broader economy: "Almost every asset is overvalued,"

For those of you that followed the hashtag #2014GC last week you saw this:

"The quantitative easing and the excess money and the low interest rates have driven pricing up of almost all financial assets to beyond what their intrinsic value might be," Joshua Harris, co-founder and chief investment officer of $161 billion private equity firm Apollo Global Management, said Monday at the Milken Institute's Global Conference in Los Angeles.

"So even though we can all chat about the benevolent growth environment that exists in the U.S. and to a lesser extent globally, the ability to make money and invest wisely on that is very, very challenging right now because you're starting at a point in the valuation cycle that is very, very aggressive."
Harris added that it's a "time to be cautious" and that Apollo is still looking for investments in sectors that are still relatively depressed. "Almost every asset is overvalued," he said.

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101620735

Tweet: https://twitter.com/ldelevingne/statuses/460800459972681728
I've been using Zoho for my custom domain e-mail, and it's worked very well for me so far (almost a year).

I hope they don't drop their free e-mail service, but if both Google and Outlook have stopped, they might consider it :( .
Dropbox + plain text (markdown) in ~/Dropbox/Notes, where every file starts with some simple categorisation ("personal-", "snippet-", etc..). I keep everything in there, from personal thoughts to terminal commands I use very rarely (and don't want to add to aliases), code snippets for simple things, meeting notes, etc. I have one important file called "drafts", that's always opened in vim/notational velocity, and to which I can append from drafts app on iPhone. It acts as scratchpad, and almost everything nowadays starts in this file.

I can edit notes in terminal (vim), gui (notational velocity), ios (I use byword, but there are multiple dropbox-syncing text editors). I have command in vim called :Notes, that displays Unite window with my notes, so I can access them quickly when I need to, and I have zsh alias "ns" (note search), that displays notes which match my search ("ns mongo" displays snippets-mongodb.txt).

I store links in pinboard, articles to read in pocket, and inspiration images/videos on pinterest.

For tasks I have very similar system around taskpaper file format and listacular on iOS, with :Tasks command in vim. All project related notes go into taskpaper file, and if project is finished, and there are some notes I'd like to keep for future reference (but not in my notes folder), I typically store it in project root as notes.md, this might be setup instructions, notes on bugs, etc.
ISS Live Stram
The land value of Beijing is now 60% of US GDP, the same ratio Tokyo was at at its peak (its a somewhat odd measure, but hey).
Of course plans change can change.

That said, we all know "that guy". You know, the slick "idea guy" marketer who always has grand plans but never follows through? Who jumps on any hot PR topic that gets him publicity? After a while, you sort of tune him out, because you know his plans never amount to anything.

I have no idea whether cloudflares efforts fall into this pattern. But I know enough companies that behave this way that I think I can safely say that not all corporate "plans" are announced with the intentions of actually following through on them.
I don't like C for loops, either, but this can happen with other types of for loops, either. E.g. in Pascal:

for i := 0 to len-1 do begin ... end

This is counting up, not counting down, and len-1 is still going to be either 2^k-1 or result in an error when you're using unsigned integers.

While loops also don't fix it (not to mention that they have their own problem, such as forgetting or misplacing the iteration step). The primary issue is that len-1 is underflowing. Yes, you can avoid calculating len-1, but by that token, no error is ever a problem, because they can all be avoided with enough diligence and foresight. In that universe, Heartbleed never happened and the Ariane 5 never blew up. It is, however, not the world we live in.
And yet despite the IMEI block register, phones are still stolen in large numbers.
Translation company
Do you know a translation company which can supply integrated machine translation services for software localization or are these two different technologies/ vendors?
There doesn't seem to be any mention of what exactly new technology is this. I would expect all the patents filed at this stage and this information be public - unless there is something fishy or they are going trade-secret route which would be very difficult.

They say the device can detect materials of 1% concentration. But what kind of materials? Spectroscopy is hard, precise measurements are even harder.

Also why are they running $200K campaign? It seems they already have significant staff and $200K would be peanuts as a goal.
Recipe for Titanic Pork Kakuni
"Pork Kakuni, or braised pork, is one of those Japanese dishes that are jaw-dropingly delicious, yet painfully difficult to produce because it takes so long to make. And various ingredients and water must be continuously added to get the pork to its soft, juicy state without burning it. But apparently there is a Japanese cookbook [1] specifically designed to make these types of recipes painless. Their secret ingredient? Watching movies while you cook. Here is their recipe for watching Titanic while making pork kakuni." [1] https://twitter.com/miyako1015/status/457358055852605440
You ignored the important qualifier at the end of the sentence: ...to enable Evernote to operate the Service.

And the preceding clause:
In order to enable Evernote to operate the Service, we must obtain from you certain license and other rights to the Content you submit so that our processing, maintenance, storage, technical reproduction, back-up and distribution and related handling of your Content doesn’t infringe applicable copyright and other laws.

You can't read half of a line of a TOS and assume it means something separate from the totality.
Chrome has the Web Speech API, but I am not sure about Chromium.
I remember going some of these questions over in the early 2000's. ('02, maybe.)

Around the time Linux was starting to make inroads into businesses. Usually by the backdoor - internal services needed platforms they could install without going through the usual acquisition processes. If it cost money, some beancounter was going to object. (I witnessed a couple of cases first hand.)

So the techies installed some flavour of Linux on decommissioned boxes instead and ran their systems where they could. Individually the cost savings were negligible, but when you suddenly find out that 30 or even 50 internal services are running on top of OS stack that had cost nothing, the upper echelons finally take notice. The fact that the OS could be customised and repurposed for a particular need was an amplifier, and only later became the core "feature".

I recall (with horror) the days when "tweaking the OS" meant running regedit.exe and turning a number of undocumented knobs in directions you could only guess at. Not to mention pray that the system worked on the next boot.

So Linux use began as a way to cut costs (or skip the acquisition process altogether). It ballooned because it was possible to customise and extend the system on the OS level as needed.
It really bothers me that 3DES is counted in the HIGH set in OpenSSL. The HIGH set, in my mind, should include only strong ciphers that would make sense to deploy in a new product today. Otherwise, I would love to just say to the crypto library, "give me strong ciphers only".
If you (generic you) are approaching the thought of having children with the mindset of "getting all that responsibility over with", you should perhaps consider if children is something that you want in the first place.
Most translation companies use translation memory technology only. Machine translation is a different and more specialized service - I would quote Pangeanic as one of the few translation companies which has managed to develop machine translation and combine both services.
Small Python-rq based framework for provisioning OpenVZ containers
Redis 3.0.0 beta 3 is out
I use a Zimbra based webmail account at one of my employers. I quite like it and am looking for UK hosted Zimbra or moving the personal Web server from pop3 to imap and installing the 'community' version on the shared hosting.

My current shared hosting provider gives out pop3/authenticated smtp or IMAP as part of the hosting deal but only has a basic web mail interface.
So I guess you're just gonna downvote all comments to your submission? Oh well.
Does anyone have an email address to contact them directly? I'm concerned this might be a scam and I want to ask them a few in depth questions and I'd rather not be forced to do that through kickstarter or twitter.
What's optional? You can't use ChromeOS without signing into your Google account. You can still use Chrome in incognito mode, but you can't use Google apps without signing in.

I don't have to sign in with an online account to use a word processor on Windows, Mac or Linux. And if I want to save to the cloud, there are plenty of online storage providers that give me better privacy.

In the case of Windows 8, it's easy to bypass their email sign in and avoid their online tools. The fact that Microsoft are following Google's lead is not an argument in favour of online tracking.

If Chrome's tracking is not as much as it's hyped up to be, then why don't Google clearly and unambiguosly state what they record and track while you use their operating system and for how long they keep this data? (Their lengthy, but vaguely-worded privacy policy tells you very little.)
Bloomberg 101
Sure, I'd say people should look at this like a MVP. If there's value there I'm sure someone will find a better way to reach that English-like goal.
The technology is most likely Raman Spectroscopy.
A good idea, but I would find even more useful a program that wrapped the jar into an executable that:

- If the user has a (sufficiently new) JVM installed in their system, or if there is a JVM in the program's directory (see below), then it executes the jar with that JVM,

- Otherwise, shows a simple "OK/Cancel" dialog prompting the user to download the JVM. Downloads it (to the program's directory without install, as in packr) and runs the jar.

This would accomodate non-tech-savvy users without a JVM fine (and without making them install Java in their system), while saving space for those that already have Java.

I have been wanting this for years... I'd do it myself, if only I found the time...
> Fastmail.fm is a completely different option, I am using that as well, their biggest problems are: - lack of proper push email (on mobiles) - lack of good contact management

I'm a paying Fastmail.fm user, but I really hope they have something planned for push email, otherwise I'll be looking for another provider when my renewal is due–which is a shame, because I really like them otherwise. I understand that this is as much Apple's 'fault' as anything (for not supporting IMAP IDLE on iOS) but to me, as an end-user, it doesn't matter why it doesn't work, simply that there are other providers who have made it work regardless (e.g. Rackspace).
Emotional confession, of being an entrepreneur –  a cycle of excitement and fear
Apple's iPad business isn't collapsing, but the rest of the industry sure is
We've been using Atmail (http://atmail.com) for some time (self-hosted) for my company. Works great. They offers a hosted service too now. Nice UI/UX and offers full calendar/contacts and Push.
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This Quartz website, often linked in HN, is a usability nightmare. In my Android phone's browser, I just cannot see any text at all, apparently I see a sidebar full-screen. In my choice desktop browser (Opera 12), I do see the article but for some reason it auto-scrolls up every few seconds, so I cannot read it.

I can read it in Firefox but with noticeable UI latency when scrolling, as if my computer was 3 or 4 years older than it is.

Seriously, these guys should fix their website...
Has a youtuber peed in the woods 20 random tag questions
I simply use a dedicated Gmail box with many different folders like "events", "todo", "links" etc. where I send emails ("notes") to myself. This way I can easily access them using any platform and it doesn't require any additional software.
You should read my new article, "Is Betteridge's law true?"
I can recommend https://mykolab.com/ based on Kolab (http://kolab.org/).

They value your security and privacy highly. The data is hosted in Switzerland.

Also you can have groupware features like calendar and address book with open and standard interfaces like CalDav and CardDav.
You said it's a commercial add on product, how big is the target company? If we're talking enterprise it seems really unlikely they're going to be using software without a license regardless of ease. You most likely can't stop pirates but will they be notable?
I call it Linux too, but the distinction becomes important when talking about Android.
http://www.gandi.net/ includes a 1 GB IMAP account with every domain purchase.
"advice from mentors"

.. did you read what the guy said?
Seamless update check integration into your software
Can You Deal With That Much Frustration?
I rather not assist Google in any capacity whatsoever, sorry.
Inventing your own programming language is something I can highly recommend. If you've never done it before it will dramatically broaden your programming horizon. It's a journey.

About a year ago I decided to make a language mainly because I wanted to experiment with some programming paradigms. I had made little domain-specific "languages" many times before, but this was going to be different.

I'd suggest that you try to figure out most things on your own, however. It's way more rewarding to think about the problems you're trying to solve, go ahead and implement them. That way you're also forced to have eye-opening meta thoughts about programming in general. Only after you've gained some appreciation for the issues involved, look them up and see how other people solved them. This worked very well for me.

Lisps and Schemes are certainly easier to implement than most syntaxes, but consider doing something else so you can get a better understanding of the complexities of parsing a non-Lisp.

In my case, I did my prototype in Java, that's the lexer, parser, runtime and standard library. While I wouldn't necessarily want to do it that way again, it was a great learning experience and I was pleased with the result.

About two months ago I decided to give it another try, but this time in C, using the Lua codebase. So far this has been a very good choice for a second stab at the idea. And I was pleased that I could recognize a lot of the patterns in the Lua codebase where I had implemented equivalent parts in my earlier project. If I hadn't taken the hard route back then, I probably would have a harder time now.
> Using poor sources of entropy like /dev/urandom on Linux, or worse, gettimeofday(), and using them to generate long-lived keys.

He missed the point, people complained because he claimed urandom was a poor source of entropy. That post is about using urandom securely, and he even shows that he doesn't know the difference between random and urandom.