skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're currently "backupping" ~300TB, and we chose delayed replication on a secondary site after evaluating several solutions.

With hashbackup (http://www.hashbackup.com/ - not related in any way, just a happy user), we can squeeze roughly one year of history using a differential daily/weekly/monthly schedule.

It's faster than tape, and much easier to manage. If you account for electricity though, it's not much cheaper. But as we scale our storage, we can scale the other site as well (replacing hdds with higher capacity), which has allowed us to move from ~100TB to the current size without any change.

That being said, if I had a high density tape (as advertised), I would definitely choose tape. I don't think I need to explain the benefits of having multiple copies.
>It was light years ahead of everyone especially Apple

replace light years to 6+ years of everyone else. Not the reason it died. It died due to Amiga getting caught up in the biggest tech industry drama story.
The outstanding arrest warrants are caught in our recruiting process, prior to a formal hire. We usually work with the candidate to try to resolve them before bringing them on board (it is possible to have an outstanding arrest warrant and not be aware of it, for old nonviolent offenses).

Domestic violence you cannot catch in a background check, unless it's progressed to felony levels obviously. Domestic violence often evolves over time. That is a very challenging situation and we wound up parting ways. Ideally we would have caught symptomatic behavior in the interview process but typically people with those problems can be very good at masking it. Our process certainly isn't perfect, but as we continually fine-tune it we have fewer and fewer of these issues.
Why you shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library
Still makes a similar OCD remark in the image halfway down the page.

Not to nitpick :P
Yup, it totally looks like underpants.
Bingo. I think the major issue is that as a self-proclaimed feminist, she seems to divide the groups purely on gender.

Instead of putting them into different categories solely based on gender perhaps she should recognize that (in a simplified view) if there is a continuum of behavior, genders tend to have bell curves around areas, but that their distributions overlap. Ie, some women really just want the unvarnished facts.

Understanding that some men also like to get "sandwiched" negatives while some women just want the facts and move one - and that varies by person, not by "gender" alone.
How does arguing over which news provider is more biased contribute anything to the argument you're responding to? All news outlets are biased. Fox is known by many people for taking it to an unrelenting extreme and it's perfectly acceptable to use them as an example of such without listing ten more networks.
There are good reasons to want America to succeed that have nothing to do with nationalism. In particular, China has a very poor record on human rights, and is the main supporter of North Korea. This doesn't make the company bad, but it's not an irrelevant fact.
https://microcorruption.com

Also: https://github.com/tqbf/speck :P
This reminds me of Perl's AUTOLOAD, only for variable binding instead of functions.
My wife was a college advisor and had students keep copies of the college handbook that was published the year a student started in a major. She would hammer home that it was their "contract" with the university and had students use it to good effect when they argued against changes to the graduation requirements mid-program.

I don't know if it would work for everyone, but it is worth a shot and can't hurt to just have that stored away when you appeal to your university.
It is something of an arms race. Bank A has an army of slaves who will work round the clock in order to impress the clients, so bank B does the same.
World cup 2014 stadiums in 3D
Vernam, Mauborgne, and Friedman: The One-Time Pad and the Index of Coincidence
Can you point me to the bicycle-pedestrians injuries and deaths per capita versus car-pedestrians injuries and deaths per capita?

Don't have those numbers on hand any more (the former figure is so low that it's almost impossible to find), but per mile traveled within a city, there is no contest that cars are the biggest threat all other things being equal.

What I do have is that 12% of pedestrian injuries are motor vehicle related (3rd leading cause of pedestrian injuries) and that bikes don't even register in the top 6. 3 out of 4 of these accidents were in urban areas. For bicyclists, motor vehicles are the number one cause at 29% of injuries.[0]

I'm pretty sure that if we we doing this the smart way, we'd start with statistics when deciding what rules to create and which ones to enforce. The goal should be minimization of injuries and deaths. Cars majorly fail in this respect.

When a pedestrian gets killed by a cyclist it is news. We rarely even report motor vehicle pedestrian deaths unless it is notable in some way (like the Uber incident). I don't remember who said it, but the definition of news is something that happens so infrequently that it is notable enough to report on. (I think Bruce Schneier but can't find the quote right now)

[0] http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/data/factsheet_crash.cfm
Its worth noting that the way that women interact with other women is different than how they interact with men or how men interact with women. IE, Clarissa's experience as a female manager is going to be severely different than yours.
> Why not just say: Actually, I don't like those.

Because that kind of deliberate demoralisation serves no purpose and causes harm.
Review my startup: A Cold Call Manager for non-sales people
I would like your feedback on my startup Cold Call Manager: www.coldcallmanager.com

It is a simple web app to help one organize their cold calls. I worked with sales, doing cold calls, for almost 7 years. This is basically the Excel sheet I used, but prettier, easier to use and smarter.

Any feedback is welcomed, from communication to utility.
Agreed. I haven't been tuned-in long enough to know, but have any companies tried landing pages (or similar) offering an "exclusive" first look at a product via a Show HN link?

I wonder what the community response to something like that might be. I know I'd personally appreciate a company taking the time to put it together, particularly if they tout the "hacking" aspects of the product or how it came about.
The City of Ottawa blames geese for E. coli despite routinely dumping raw sewage into the Ottawa river due to linked storm and sanitary sewers. The beaches are closed after significant rain storms.
Show HN: Get anonymous feedback about yourself
Is that uncontroversially legal? Considering that IIRC publishers want libraries to buy special digital rights, I have a feeling they might make some angry noises if they heard about a scheme like this.
clickable: http://www.coldcallmanager.com
So as one of the organisers of the Hack4Good hackathons (hack4good.io) dealing with partnerships with charities & sponsors, how can I help you? :)
Many of our managers are also female. There isn't much drama between them and other female managers, or female employees. We work hard on getting the right people on board, and correcting the mistakes when we don't.
I agree with the power of Photoshop or Illustrator. But do you consider it highly well designed, solid and polished software ?

I am not a Photoshop user so my image is from hearsay, feel free to state your opinion. But what I heard was it's bloated, doesn't fully integrate/take advantage of the OS and hardware potential, crashes every once in a while and you'll have nothing to do about it.

To make a parrallel with coding tools, I feel it's on the same league as Eclipse. It's the very obvious choice for some application stacks, has tons of feature and it's plenty powerful. But I don't think most people love working with it (at least I don't), there's just no good enough alternative for the thing they want to do.
> "why not learn some social skills"

Go fuck yourself. Why not learn to be understanding of struggle?
Take Me Out to the (Beacon Enabled) Ballgame
works for geese. Will definitely work for people. Khosla may find it very useful.
Funny, I saw this myself years ago with a med school library, where the problem was more severe and with like every paper resource they had.

But it was interesting problem. Unlike normal libraries, they are so digital they run into a new problem: they have such little need for any books, they might as well throw all of them away. The medical education industry is so much more onboard with digital publishing and references because hospitals and schools pay top dollar, and often doctors will need research materials super fast when things are serious and they need to perform analysis quick. Digital publishing is not even a question of if, it is a long past when.

So long story aside, they had to be really secretive throwing away books. Someone once discovered these old, useless (no other schools want them, thus) in the garbage. Some alumni or concerned students found them, causing outrage.

Solution, this whole library spent years without an avenue for destruction of the books, because old grads and others would not tolerate the idea. How could we not need the books? Year later, dozens of racks exist with books and magazines not only never checked out, but not even touched for decades collecting significant dust.
Now that the thread has been flagged by HN's flamewar detection, I'd like to point out that three people correcting a single misspelled word is about as low as online discussion can get. HN will be better if you can get over nitpicking and try to add something to the conversation.
Why should they? It doesn't mean that they're classist, or snobbish or anything. If the "problems" affect their work life, and as a consequence the profitability of the business, then it's a purely practical decision to make.

Now, some people choose to give people more chance than they deserve because they're nice. Nothing wrong with that. But make no mistake, someone who brings their "problems" to work doesn't deserve that job because they're not willing to put in effort to separate the two. There are dozens of willing, able, and motivated candidates who will do better.
I addressed that. I do not make hiring decisions based on it because I do not believe there is a causal relationship that can (either functionally, legally or morally) be used as the basis for a hiring decision. Other factors are far more important.
ossreality: your account is hellbanned. I'm not sure how informing you of such things flies on HN anymore, but to see so much wasted time is saddening to me.
Let me get this straight...

- we are a spy agency

- we cannot spy on citizens

- we cannot spy on non-citizens

Best spy agency ever.
I've got this right at the top of my wish list. Got a list of other books I gotta finish first though, lol:

Code Complete 2, The Web Application Hacker's Handbook, Algorithms in a Nutshell, and Code.

Not to mention an Arduino book - but I'll probably get Effective Java and read it first.
The name of the game is to have an army of grunts who will produce all sorts of stuff in order to impress the clients and win their business.
That isn't as bad as the architect/structural engineer that allocated plenty of space for stacks, but somehow forgot that books have mass and require additional structural support.

Good thing that has never happened. Snopes: That Sinking Feeling.

Discounting the urban legends about library architecture, there is some merit to giving your local library some uniqueness. I have seen far too many libraries with that "concrete bunker for giants" look to them, and it doesn't make me want to go in and read the books. It probably doesn't do much to support "friends of the library" donations, either.

And in the future, the server racks will take up less space anyway, even with the cooling and the network antennas.
Meh, I knew library technologists. None of them had any marketable skills for automation. It was a med library, so they knew the intersection of library sciences and a lot about medicine, but few of them could even conceive of editing their own HTML.

I have never understood the technologist position in place. In this particular library, I could really impress them with automation ideas I had, but they just wanted cloud services to do stupid garbage for them instead of learning.

I guess they were more of power-cloudists, not technologists.
Keep in mind that the dealer was making the offer to sell, so it's like a push pull or drag sale.

So dealer makes an offer saying "We will give you $10,000 for any clunker, no quantity restrictions, if it has wheels and starts we'll give you $10,000" so Mr. Soros thinks to himself, this is a rediculous offer and starts buying everything on craigslist for less than $10,000. He rolls up with 100 lemons and the dealer buys them, then has a press conference saying he has $15 billion dollars on hand an will buy all the lemons in the world for $10,000 a piece.

So George Soros goes and finds $30 billion lemons and it turns out that the gov't couldn't (or didn't want to) come up with $15 more billion for lemons. Yes, the tax payer got fleeced, but the transactions were made in good faith by people who thought buying lemons for $10,000 was a good fucking idea, and was elected on a fucking platform of buying lemons for $10K.
The trend the author is seeing is not just on Ouya. 'Sportsfriends' on PS4 (and PC soon) has four unique games as good as any he played for local multiplayer. Towerfall is better on PS4. And many more like these the pipe! I heartily recommend Nidhogg when it comes out for PS4 later.

If you have a PS4 and more than one other local person to play with occasionally you must be Sportsfriends right away!
What makes this an objective observation about men in college, as opposed to the selection bias...

Are you assuming that he is making this observation in comparison to college women?

I think the observation has to do with who holds the preponderance of power. In the artificial age-segregated school environments we've created, young, inexperienced people dealing with the full flush of their hormones and newly matured bodies create their own "Lord of the Flies" society, largely free of the influence of older, wiser people. Natural human instincts create concentrations of power in a minority of popular individuals, and this power corrupts.

This is quite unfortunate, as young people in school are still forming their models of the world.
Grandparents are a product of their time? This is deep. I have to admit that I know people that are racist and they are not horrible or evil -- just wrong. And, some are old and some are young.
True, but moving is not easy if you're depressed and disorganised, especially if you can't scrape up the money for moving expenses (one more way in which it's expensive to be poor).
The whole of the industry suffers from this. I know they are vastly dissimilar as software doesn't have the issues that tangible real-world stuff has, but you'd never see someone proposing a bridge being built on the principals read in some book or a paper that doesn't compare any other theory. I dread the day we have rigorous IT standards as much as I can't wait for it. I've heard it is possible with Ada and lots of concern, money, and talent, but I wonder if we'll ever see that elsewhere. I guess as a whole the tools we rely upon are getting better, but I'm not convinced the methodologies haven't been just more perpetual motion machines.
And next, for our convenience, devices hovering ten feet overhead trailing - and probably also blasting - ads.
What was the old logo?
I like the idea of bringing a bit of structure to record keeping after cold calls. I'm a sales rep and I often get frustrated with all of the clicks I have to make in Salesforce.com to capture an interaction with a customer.

Does this have salesforce.com integration?
I have absolutely no idea why you're being down modded. But it sounds like you've struck an uncomfortable observation, and people don't like it.
Parents (ie. voters) see the poop, they don't see the sewage dumping.

In general, it is like people blaming cats for decimating birds population (in SF parks for example) while people happily gather wild birds' eggs (seems it is popular in Asian cuisine as i saw only Asians doing it).

Note: cats actually protect birds population from rats (who is actually able to eat eggs) and by occasionally eating an ill bird (we've been through this with wolves). Unfortunately cats can't protect birds from people.
Been reading this one on my Kindle app, but it seems very "entry level" so far. You know of any good Intermediate to Advanced JS books out there? I have Test Driven JavaScript Development by Christian Johansen that I've dug into a bit, but have yet to finish (it's got some more "advanced" stuff I guess, currying, etc).
Is this "Nazi apologia?" Seriously?

Or are people knee-jerking when they see text including "Nazi" that isn't one dimensionally negative throughout. Please point out the text that is apologizing for their behavior. I am only dispassionately discussing the details of of who they were and their social context.

It's not the comic book evil of the Nazis that is the most striking thing about that whole sad chapter of human history. It's the banality. We're much better served by thinking of them as people and seeing the details of how they got the world into horrific war than to merely caricature them. We're much better served by taking history's lessons to heart and acknowledging our own horrible potential.
Very cool.

My friends make light sculptures that look like plants (http://www.sustainablemagic.org/magic-flowers.html)

At first blush, that's what I thought your project did too. I see now that you're creating biological glowing plants.
Well, a year ago the GDK wasn't even out yet so I'm not sure I'd say that.

But since XE16 Glass has taken a step backwards both in daily usability, and from a dev perspective (no more static cards from GDK apps? Touchpad no longer scrolls ListViews? and so on...)
very cool project. Reading the website (not the post) I found myself thinking "this is a hoax" more than once :-)

Unsolicited feedback: please get rid of all the annoying overlays on the website. I counted 3, one cannot be closed (join mailing list) and another keeps opening even if I keep closing it (chat)
But what about latency ?
Most bank jobs are basically selling and banks recruit people who they think well get one with their client base.
Arguable, some think that Viking explores like Leif Erikson discovered America first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson
I don't hate, but you guys (which vested interest in Bitcoin, like, holding a couple of bitcoins waiting for them to be worth a million dollars) surely do hate people who don't resonate with you and you feel threatened by those who can get in the way of your pipe dreams.
What do you think of my Site
Correct. Show HN is for something you've made that people can play with. Landing pages, email signups, and fundraisers aren't things people can play with, so we edit "Show HN" out in such cases.

For example, instead of an email signup, Show HN is for the thing you email people about once it's ready; instead of a fundraiser, Show HN is for what you build with the funds you raise; and so on.
You don’t have to buy my loyalty …but you might have to pay a little for it.
Rust namespaces by example
From interviews by folks on Wallstreetoasis.com, this is my understanding of the hours. Some days they may have 2-4 hour breaks (gym time / internet time), then have to crunch in the evening when a client, or an internal-facing client (such as a Managing Partner) comes back.

In my short time at a small consulting firm (Management / C level), this was also the case.

Many times my long hours were due to "deliverables" (PowerPoints, documents, etc.) being in a choke point based on an Analyst, Consultant, etc.

E.g., waiting on numbers to finish a presentation.

However, much of the time, their is ALWAYS something to do, and much of it is very much face-time (butts in seats = working).
I've worked with great men and women in every field, secretaries included. But the blogger was talking about secretaries, so secretaries are obviously a pain-point for her. My point is just that you run into more sources of trouble in those jobs that have no barrier to entry - no investment needed for it.
Looks like she's got an axe to grind, and doesn't like getting side-tracked by the topic you mention. As evidenced by her rant about it, and her comment-deletions.
Thoughts on Debugging, Part 1
Or just let the consumer vote with his money. (sketch and pixelmator look like they're growing nicely) All "protection" laws will do is add compliance costs and increase the barrier to entry.
Kudu is insanely powerful. There's a browser-based console (https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Kudu-console) where you can run git operations, copy files, npm, etc. It supports deployment and web hooks. The new feature is Azure Site Extensions (https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Azure-Site-Extensio...).

Kudu is automatically set up for any Azure Web Site (https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Accessing-the-kudu-...). If your web site has URL http://mysite.azurewebsites.net/ , then the root URL of the Kudu service is https://mysite.scm.azurewebsites.net/.

Here's a 10 minute video with Scott Hanselman and David Ebbo that shows it off pretty well: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/azure-friday/exploring-the-su...
This is really great for both the Amateur Radio community (proper) as well as amateurs of radio concepts. Like a lot of things, computers are becoming more and more things in more and more places. Your grandfather's crystal set is today's DSP with an Arduino. That's just fantastic.
Earlier model Wii's also have backwards compatability with Gamecube, so all you need is the games and controllers if you already have one of those. Not sure if that's going to see many more updates.

Though not a party game as such I'd recommend buying Jungle Beat and a pair of bongo controllers if you do go down the Gamecube route.
I'm confused, apparently Kickstarter has a ban on GMO rewards, but one of the rewards for your project is glowing seeds. Is that not GMO?
Tell HN: Extract everything from a photoshop PSD file using your browser
Exactly. Clearly I don't support domestic violence, but the alternative is to have them on the street or living on government assistance. Someone's gotta hire them.
I don't completely agree with this. Many homes and probably even some business are on well water and/or septic systems. Backup electrical generators on-site are commonplace at offices. Lots of noise (but maybe less substance) is being made of bitcoin taking banking back into the individual's control.
Women she employs are entirely different then all women I ever met.

I have never seen a women cry on meeting. I never knew any women that would "stay home to “figure out what to do next”". On the other hand, I have seen men leaving jobs without having another one lined up. I'm not sure whether she sees significant difference between the two or why she would care what employee is going to do.

I find it fascinating that she hires outstanding women and somehow ends up with selection of worst possible personalities. All of them are so super sensitive, that she can not communicate with them without extensive preparation. Maybe, just maybe her criteria for "educated, intelligent and highly articulate" actually select emotional and manipulative people?

It might be just my bias, but I suspect the "highly articulate" criteria. Highly articulate is advantage in some jobs (sales), but irrelevant in jobs like receptionist. Maybe she should look for "educated, intelligent, communicates as adult and in control of emotions" instead. She will get more introverts and less drama.

I also met women managers they managed not to become therapists for underlying - not even for needy employees. So, I suspect there is something in her behavior that encourages them to come into her office again and again.
Uh, yes. :-) Edited....