skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
99.9% of requests to npm over the last 3 months have been hitting things other than couch. Binaries are being served directly from disk by nginx, and 99% of JSON GETs are served from our CDN's cache. Couch is still the source of truth, but we treat it much more like a database than an app these days, and it's been much more reliable that way. The only time you're really hitting couch directly these days is when you publish.

Almost none of our downtime since February (when we sorted out some bugs in our app that were affecting couch performance) is attributable to couch. Mostly it has been network-related problems at the caching layer, and the fixes we need to make involve making failover faster and more reliable, as failures are inevitable in any large distributed system.
Sigur ros wasn't available.
They'll get by, just like hundreds of million who don't know what a floppy disk is
I think with things like swift playground and lighttable which have been released due to a direct influence on Brett's work, maybe he's in exactly the right place? By discussion the broader concepts and getting people excited, he's probably getting more done than he could with a single company.
Crashed my Firefox. There is still much to be done in performance that these visualizations can be used properly and in larger scale. But cool map anyway!
I just went through my current Spotify playlist and everything was on there. I'll try it over the next few days. This may be it for Spotify.
Right, but generally, why not just integrate that functionality with the actual data nodes?

In the diagram they have 2, but where you have two, you can add more for more reliability, right? following that thinking down the rabbit hole, and you've got distributed transaction monitoring across the data nodes(paxos/raft)... Just wondering why that wasn't the goal
It was smart for Amazon to increase the price of Prime right before launching music streaming. :p
Google Doodle Today Honors Soccer World Cup 2014 in Brazil
> It's Jamaica, the beach's "value" is not shared with the greater Jamaican society.

Can you please expand on this? I read it to mean that Jamaican beaches are often privatised and off-limits to the public. Is that correct?
I'm now reading "The Big Fat Surprise" (http://www.thebigfatsurprise.com/ and http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Fat-Surprise-Healthy/dp/145162...). I have not read the whole book yet but if what is written in it is truth then there is no science I am expecting in lipid hypothesis and that's is very disappointing. I will double check some facts myself after reading this book but it is interesting. 1-star comments in amazon look valuable as well.

Just spent 20 minutes by following comments, blogs and found this:

http://www.foodpolitics.com/2014/03/is-saturated-fat-a-probl...

http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/07/the-china-study-fact-or-fal...
The Facebook War: Taking down the social network justifies real-world attack?
I think the icon most appropriate might be a fax machine
You just went off on a rant about something I didn't say and I didn't mean. Try again, none of this is relevant to what I said.
Just in time to go along with their phone that's coming out.
A honeypot for malware that spreads via USB storage devices
Kickstarter links with the Guardian to highlight journalism projects
Many use Wi-Sun. http://www.wi-sun.org/ There's a number of different specific implementations. (Disclaimer: I work for SSNI)

Some use cell networks, but cells are not really that well suited.
Non-technical users have always understood the concepts of: publish (or broadcast), share (or collaborate), and give (or send).

The computer world is the one that limited these concepts.

Before web: you can only copy and give.

After web: you can give, or publish.

After cloud: you can give, publish, and share.

I think these concepts should be as well differentiated in the digital world as they are in the physical.
> One crass response deserves another

No, it doesn't. Please don't do this.
China Laughed When It Saw How Cheap Solar Can Be
It is interesting to see Amazon enter the ring with Google and Apple on the phones and music market. A few years ago I don't think I would have entirely believed it. But I guess that's why I don't do any investing outside of index funds!
Most of Animal Collective's albums aren't available as well.
According to a YouTube comment made 8 months ago by Kalman Reti — the 'last Symbolics developer'— Symbolics IP is owned by John Mallery.

"The problem is that the Symbolics IP is now owned by John Mallery; he has stated he has plans for making it available but so far (several years) has not yet done so. Until he does so, only two groups (that I am aware of) have access through prior contracts with the previous owner of the IP, namely MIT (and anyone officially associated with it) and customers of the Symbolics maintenance business (and independent company) run by David K. Schmidt."

http://www.youtube.com/comment?lc=iMqNHkTp2Oy525xIKnQM_vOmFV...
If this can match spotify's catalog any time soon, AND be available as an app or (usable) mobile site, ad free: RIP music services. This is an enticing offer for those on the fence about prime, given that spotify premium is $120 a year. For the same price, you get prime, spotify, a bit of netflix/hulu (hopefully more to come on the video end).

Pretty brilliant move.
This is seriously a usability disaster. I have to go through the normal Amazon store to add music to my prime library? I have to leave the player to find music to listen to? No thank you.
Haha, the first message says to use it in Chrome.
Your comparison with smoking is completely unfair. The problem is that we have scientific proof that smoking tobacco causes lung cancer (the emphasis is on "causes"). The problem with nutritional science is that we only have correlation data (or at least it looks like so).
1. Given my listening habits, the library feels limited. Tried searches for the three albums I listened to the most this month (http://www.last.fm/user/labibrahman/charts):

Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
Chet Faker - Built on Glass
Tycho - Awake

None are available for streaming. For a standalone service, this would be damning. As one of the perks offered with Prime this has the potential to become a compelling part of the package.

2. Amazon's store interface is not well suited for consuming media. I tried watching a few episodes of Friday Night Lights on the service instead of Netflix. Spoilers in episode descriptions meant that I had to very specifically control where I let my eyes over the UI. Next episodes don't auto play. Perhaps most annoyingly, there isn't a standalone URL I could go to for my streaming needs. To watch an episode I had to carry out the following steps:

Navigate to amazon.com
Search for Friday Night Lights
Skim the results to click on the TV show
Remember what season I was on
Skim the episode descriptions while avoiding spoilers
Click to stream, and make sure I don't accidentally click
on the 1-click buy button which is annoyingly right next
to the stream button.

My flow on Netflix:

Navigate to netflix.com
Click on the continue watching pane on top left corner of my screen.

I want Amazon to be a legitimate competitor in the space, but running everything through the store interface is killing any chance of me using Prime as a media consumption service.

3. I suspect that this works many orders of magnitude better on the Kindle Fire line of devices and that's great for people who already own Kindle Fires. If I don't already own one though, the Prime ecosystem should be driving to make that purchase and right now it is failing at that task.
> ... had to capture electricity consumption at a higher resolution ...

Interesting to note that at a high enough resolution, one can start extracting crypto keys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_analysis
Learning how to deal with two dimensions, where visualization a are useful, is the first step to learning how to deal with 100 dimensions. Crutches are useful in getting started.
Audio Hijack Pro v2.10.11 MacOS X
That's a fair point, but I'm still willing to bet you could at the very least drastically reduce the amount of time you spend on the net if you wanted to.
The UX for this is very awkward (unless I'm missing something) - the "store" and the "player" are completely disjoint experiences with only a few marketing links between them. You can't actually add new (free) "Prime Music" to your collection from the player - you have to jump to the "store" to discover the music you want and add it to your cloud library. Nor can you play full songs from the "store", even if you have Prime and they are free - you are limited to 30 second samples.

The amazing thing about Rdio and Spotify, and what makes streaming services different than their MP3 purchasing predecessors, is that you can think "I want to listen to Kanye", type "Kanye" in to the search bar, press enter and listen. Amazon is making this whole process very awkward by adding a "buy" step (even if no money is changing hands).

The reason that Spotify is disruptive isn't that the music is paid for via subscription pricing - it's that it eliminates the distinction between "music I own" and "all of the music ever recorded".
if they are doing the same thing as yahoo, then bitstamp
In addition to the music that's available via Prime, they have an "auto-rip" feature that automatically adds to your music library any tracks from physical CDs that you've purchased from Amazon in the past. Very nice.
I don't know, I'm losing it.

A guy on another thread stated that he is happy because the NSA is not making people disappear in the USA like the KGB did in cold-war communist Russia.

Now I'm reading that a 15 million personal bank account (where you are practically a millionaire) doesn't make you rich. It's just okay. I guess, if you are not richer than Elon Musk then you're not considered rich.
For the price, this is a really good deal. However, some people (like me) have over 200+ spotify playlists with over 100 songs, and 20+ ones that I actively use.

If they want to capture spotify's market share, just having a large enough catalog wouldn't cut it. They need a easy way to convert the spotify library into their apps.
The research paper referenced above indicates a 0.5/sec sampling rate. Would a battery-backed inverter be able to sufficiently attenuate the power signature on this time-scale?
Storing Large Lists in MongoDB
Professor F(r)ink??
What, do they finally have a real Android app?
What’s the issue with Piracy in Australia?
Perhaps well said, but presented without evidence or even any attempt at a persuasive argument.

It's not at all clear to me that one should buy a house in SF at this point in time regardless of one's expectations for staying.

It's a crazy market. Do you want to go all-in on up to 500% of your net worth given the market is quite obviously not in equilibrium? The odds are against you getting some great deal here, and there's a very good chance you'll lose several (5-10?) years of accumulated earnings. Leverage goes both ways </rant>
you'd still need a chunk of change for the downpayment though.
Seems like the library is a little limited. As of tonight (2014-06-11 23:19 PST), two of the top songs on Rdio and Spotify are "Problem' by Ariana Grande and "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea. Neither are available on Prime Music, only for purchase on the normal MP3 Store. I suppose the advantage is a lot of people already have Prime, but I don't see any reason to jump ship from either Rdio or Spotify for this.
It's a shame you would compare a Developed country, supposedly one of the best, with one that's knows to be not so good.

It's like comparing your sports team to one that consistently finishes low on the ladder - your team will always look good, even when they are far from the top.

If you want a comparison that will lead to improvement, compare your country to those known to have excellent human rights and freedom of information track records.
I hear what you're saying but layer7 DDOS attacks are a mouth breather variety. Need to burn them with fire, network level. Because it's not just HTTP it's the whole network stack you'll be chasing around with wacky-wavy hands (just incase).
For those wanting to compare this to Spotify, Amazon Prime Music has about 5% of the number of songs that Spotify does (1 million vs 20 million). Most notably, it's missing the entire Universal Music Group catalog as well as most new releases. At 20 dollars less per year than Spotify, while also offering Prime shipping and Prime movies, I can't imagine Amazon will be able to reach any sort of licensing arrangement where they have anywhere near the library Spotify has.
The processor instruction set was implemented in Microcode. It was optimized to run compiled Lisp code. There was also a Lisp to Microcode compiler, though I haven't used it.
Well this product is dead on arrival

http://i.imgur.com/hBVq7pp.png
At first I thought it is free music without ads: "Unlimited, ad-free streaming. Free with Amazon Prime." I noticed "Listen free for 30 days", so there is some kind of trick here.

I logged into the system and on the next screen they were asking for my credit card information which is needed to start a 30 day free trial on Amazon Prime (after it is $100/year). Prime is some kind of premium service for Amazon services.

So, Amazon Prime Music is FREE if you BUY Amazon Prime. In my opinion that is not anyway free, well okay it is for 30 days after that you will get automaticly charged.
>I have to leave the player to find music to listen to?

You don't. cloudplayer.amazon.com -> type in search -> look at right-hand side.
The bottom 95% of lab work is pretty intellectually comparable to driving, navigating and possibly talking at the same time.
I just discovered that as well. And it just so happens that 3 of the songs by the artist I wanted were all non-prime. Very lame.
this will have a high impact on the complete dev process ( at least in the beginning ).

I cannot really offer exact things you can use , but I can share some insights , as we are also in a similar situation.

As you have mentioned that its Angular.js project , I am assuming you will have an internal API , make sure there is a clear API Doc .

For inspiration :

https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-spec

http://developer.wordnik.com/docs.html#!/

You really cannot expect a backend developer to learn Angular.js just like that.

I hear this a lot, "I have completed the back end work and waiting for the front end guys to do it" .( can be the other way also , but they can always use mocks ). This is where proper planning has to be done.

it will be good to have a generalist who can contribute to both the front end and back end.

will try to add more info after a while .
I had thought about it, trust me (in very much the way you're describing, funnily enough) :) But ultimately, it's their conference, and they do have the right and the responsibility to schedule the sessions they feel will be most valuable.

Not to mention that if I pulled that stunt off, I probably wouldn't be invited to speak at many conferences anymore, because organizers aren't fans of loose cannons. But really, I didn't feel the need to be a dick about it. Their loss. I give a pretty good presentation. shrug
Wow. This is outstanding. Amazon is solidly developing a one-stop centralized base of entertainment. Even more enticing is that it's free with prime, and even if you don't have prime, it's worth getting prime for: a small fee for a year's access to most music/films you could want. And then you have prime, which makes it much more enticing to buy products on Amazon (due to cheaper, faster delivery). Smart.

(I am aware that Amazon's music library is currently not as large as that of its competitors. I think it is reasonable to assume that this will change in the near future.)

The more significant thing to note here is that the general trend in online businesses (obvious examples will include Google, Apple, and Facebook) is that every business is trying to create its own walled garden --- they try to provide all the services that any user could need, such that the user would not do business with any competitors, and so the user would interface with the business as much as possible. Apple did a remarkably good job at this with iTunes back in the day --- they were the first to provide access to a massive online store of entertainment and to integrate it very heavily with their products.

Amazon, however, is taking the cake in this respect. Their products are extremely well-integrated: www.amazon.com is gradually becoming a one-stop-destination for most media and for general shopping. Perhaps this is due to Amazon's perseverance: I've never seen Amazon weaken its hold on a particular share of any market.
Show HN: World Cup Predictor 2014
Hey everyone! The biggest tournament of the world is here and this is what I have been working on these couple of days. Please have a look, even if you are not a football fanatic. I would love to hear some feedback on the site in general.

http://world-cup-predictor.com/
Is it possible to point to a folder containing the packages instead?

I noticed every package installed is cached locally and since I'm usually reinstalling the same packages it would be great if I could point to a folder and let npm install packages and their dependencies from there. Extra points if it could fallback to the official registry if it fails to find a package in the local folder.
Most of what I listen to on Spotify is not available. It is not that obscure.

Mike Pinto, Greensky Bluegrass, The Devil Makes Three, JJ Grey & Mofro, Jack Johnson, Dirty Heads... list goes on.
Aren't most creators of popular languages outliers? As you've guessed I'm not very familiar with the day-to-day of programming in Japan -- but my impression was that in the average day-to-day of enterprise programming, the whole world tends to be "behind"?

I must admit, off the top of my head the projects that come to mind when thinking about Japan and programming are Ruby, Nilfs2, TOMOYO MACs for Linux and game/system development (Sony PS3/Nintendo etc) -- and more recently Shougo's[1] vim plugins.

I have a "host-family" cousin that was studying at a vocational college in the late 90s, learning game development, and I recall he complained that learning c++ (as a first language) was hard. But that seemed kind of standard for game dev anywhere at the time.

I admit, I have a knee-jerk negative reaction when someone generalizes across an entire nation without much explanation.

[1] https://github.com/Shougo
Amazing that the scammer is even able to have the fraudulent replacement item sent to a different address than where the order was originally sent not once, but twice and an address not associated with the account nor confirmed/verified and could possibly be linked to multiple accounts.

Seems like a blatant oversight in loss prevention and fraudulent data sifting. Not only does it admit that an account has been compromised in some shape (socially most likely), but it disappointingly shows incompetence in Amazon CSRs.
The H.264 demo runs at 60+ FPS on the main thread on Chrome 37 (dev) on Windows for me. Very impressive.
The catalog isn't there yet. I'm getting about a 50% hit rate on assorted genres from a variety of artists that I don't feel are particularly obscure, stuff that Pandora plays for me and Spotifiy has in their catalog.

Hopefully this changes and Amazon can add even more value to my Prime subscription.
I would think that if Amazon is failing to rectify the problem, then they at least have a very clear and obvious incentive to do so.
I looked through the source code. Not totally sure, but it appears they use the current time to dynamically load events from this API:

http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/1.json

(where "1" would be replaced with some time value)

Edit: investigating a bit more, there are 24 URLs for http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/<H>.json where <H> starts at zero. So you can see if tomorrow the files are all different. It could very well be near-time, maybe with 1 hour of lag/caching.
You can host the repo on any accessible server. Github is an option, but so it a VPS under your control and not open to the public.
Congo mines no longer in grip of warlords and militias
Nope. This is also a disaster. I typed "daft punk" into that box. Daft Punk has four full albums available for prime music. None of those albums are in the search results. Instead I get a "Daft Punk's Top So..." playlist, and "Hot, Sweaty Summ..." playlist, and "Janelle Monáe and Mo..." playlist.

I can't fault free new music, but this interface feels like it was poorly bolted on to a retail sales website, which is exactly how the web video service has always felt.

Edit: I just realized that 3 of the albums are in the search results. I turns out the right tab is scrollable, and after 15 items, it switches to showing matching albums, which includes 3 of the 4 Daft Punk albums, and also some Macklemore.
The Verge did a good story on this a while back, complete with a map and better pictures, and less about the Wilkes diary angle, which is just distracting trivia:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5280920/tunnel-vision-bob-d...

The thing I don't get about the story is what motive could NatGeo and/or the city possibly have in covering up the "magnetic anomaly"?
Do you have statistics for pork and beef. Red meat statistics is more interesting and relevant than poultry.
A big part of abstraction for me is bringing problems into something I can visualize. This reduction itself works better if I have visual intuition. I suppose linear systems are a simple case, since their functional behavior for finite dimensions can pretty much all be mapped into 3D (I guess 4D would be a little richer with double complex eigenvalue pairs, but that's just 2x 2D rotations). I don't claim to be a great problem solver, but I've gone halfway through college so far with pretty good grades without changing how much visually I think.
Seems like it only breaks on iOS 7. Works on 6 and 8.
I guess I just listen to very mainstream stuff... the only in that list I have heard of is Jack Johnson. I guess it's fortunate for me that I have pretty vanilla tastes that Amazon seems to serve up.
First it is 2 years for the exemption and CA has the same 250k/500k exemption rule as federal. Not sure where you're getting your data?
Url changed from https://github.com/dhotson/springy since the website links to the source code and is more informative (at least in the short run).
I'm perfectly ok with the Android icon, which looks different from just about everything else and is easy to remember once learned. The Apple icon looks too generic, and there are already way too many icons that look document-ish. The Windows icon looks too much like Ubuntu to me, and it additionally isn't intuitive that a circular icon means sharing. The Dropbox & Google Apps icons are great, but are also large and wouldn't necessarily be easy to distill down into a square, single color representation.

By far my biggest pet peeve re:action icons these days are the Android copy/paste icons. Here's a screenshot I found: http://i.stack.imgur.com/87bDm.png (pardon the annotations -- I found it in a Stackexchange thread).

I challenge anyone to tell me what each one does (without testing first).
The classical collection seems to be small. For example, 24098 out of 658027 (3.7%) pop albums are prime, but only 894 of 171251 (0.5%) classical albums are prime. I expected the other way (wishfully, as a fan of classical music), that older less popular music is cheaper to be made prime for Amazon. Strange.
If you happen to notice this before the item is delivered you can call UPS and have the package returned to sender.

If you really want you can have someone stake out the home and see who comes, but that's really something for Amazon + the Police to do.
It's not too bad if you're single, yes.

If you want a family, it's a different story.
Very fortunate from what i can tell. Looking at the top 100 albums in their "MP3 Downloads" section.. not a single one is available to stream via Prime
What exactly did you think "Free with Amazon Prime." meant?