skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not for you. This is for a business that would rather flip for the $10-$30 per drive. There are A LOT of businesses that would rather just pay someone to handle this.
How does that square with the observation that venture capital returns aren't actually that good?

http://pando.com/2013/07/30/ouch-ten-year-venture-returns-st...
http://avc.com/2013/02/venture-capital-returns/

What percentage of certified investors actually do invest in startups, instead of just index funds or fancy managed funds that invest in established companies?
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Sadly this extends past psychology to other scientific disciplines. There are many foods for example that have been shown to both dramatically increase and decrease you risk of cancer in well respected scientific journals. There is a strong incentive to find extreme results and too few peers actually reproduce results.
He seems to have left Microsoft in 1995, so no, not really.
It's called "altruism," per the usual definition.

Nope. It's called "naiveté" at the very least.

Whose life did he improve by doing this? Was anybody's impression of North Korea changed to the point where it will affect international relations?

Nope. He entered the DPRK as a tourist, was kept on the short tourist leash by his minders, and recorded little more than North Korean government-mandated social media. By doing so, he merely confirmed the reports others have already provided.

"Altruism" would be capturing images and stories from prison camps, off-leash and with a clear humanitarian mission.

This guy was just a fool.
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This. There's a reason Toady won't open source Dwarf Fortress, and I think it is mainly because he is embarrassed. Toady has a masters in math, not CS.
Please consider reading my response again, as I think you're misunderstood several of statements at a grammatical level.

My purpose was to highlight that nowhere in this thing that you call "due process" is a judge or the target kept in the loop. Just the existence of a "process" does not mean that it is due process

But 'due process' does not just mean 'judicial process'. It includes administrative process, which is what the executive branch does. Indeed, it's not uncommon for courts to dismiss suits on the basis that a plaintiff has failed to exhaust his or her administrative remedies, ie has not run into a brick wall in dealing with the bureaucracy, resulting in a legal controversy.

Regarding the warrant vs. trial - reasonable enough, but the fact remains that warrants are only issued subject to probable cause,and probable cause can only be established by investigation. It seems to me that you're demanding that government agencies get a warrant in order to open an investigation at all.
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“The big experiments have been funded for decades, so there's little chance they won't meet their milestones,” says John Slough, a plasma physicist at the University of Washington. “If they start funding these alternatives, all the uncertainties come back.”

When I read that line it made me wonder what solar/wind energy scientists think about funding any fusion research.
I'm not sure how profitable they are, but puppetlabs is a very fast growing company that offers an open source product. The 'pay for support' model works well with certain open source products.
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Either I'm interpreting this too simplistically or they're doing a great deal better than I expected.
Really like it, love the vision simulation too.

One small suggestion to improve: having an option to see all of the vision simulations at once would be incredibly useful.
Mobile MAUs were 1.01 billion as of March 31, 2014,
an increase of 34% year-over-year.

That's crazy. 1/7th of the world's population logs in to Facebook from a mobile device at least once a month.

(edit: as it turns out, these numbers are from the 1st quarter. Q2's show 1.07 billion mobile MAU: http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=861599)
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That's because HN lives in an echo chamber of FB hate while 90%(close to a billion people) of FB users actually find it as an indispensably useful tool.
Drag the torrent you want to add onto the client.
Sh#t sorry. What iOS version and device are you using? Couldn't pinpoint this yet :(
How is the tech scene in South America chudi?
Oh man i really wanted a basis to replace my boddy bugg, it seemed like it had everything to do well in that space.
We tried this and failed. None of the big guys want to share any data with you. They want to build their own reputation system.
Qt and not QT.

Digia still does dual licensing of Qt and doing OK.
Could everything you believe in be made up? And can you take back control?
Upgrade to windows xp. problem solved.
Put this up on Kickstarter! :)
Warning: this is a huge topic. For further reading:

Venkatesh Rao's series on the Gervais Principle: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

My series on the same issue (organizational inefficiency): http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/gervais-princ...

In a picture: http://gapingvoid.com/2004/06/27/company-hierarchy/

Short version: firms are inefficient because organizations are innately prone to a predictable degeneracy of the group into three sets of people, none of which is capable of meeting an organizations trifecta of demands: subordination, dedication, and strategy (working on the right things). A person who is strategic in his personal life is going to either optimize for least-work/most-comfort (Macleod "Loser" strategy) or most-yield/least-subordination (Macleod "Sociopath"). By definition, those who are subordinate and dedicated are not strategic in their work lives, and probably not equipped to run a company for that reason.

Strategically subordinate but not dedicated "Losers" do the bare minimum and won't push themselves beyond how far they are managed. Among the strategic and dedicated (but not subordinate) "Sociopaths" there are some good people, but plenty of narcissists and bad actors as well. Cleaning up the messes made by their Sociopath bosses and Loser underlings are the Clueless middle managers, who are subordinate and dedicated but not strategic. For various reasons, these three sets are not good at working together but usually play against each other, with one dominant archetype characterizing the organization. (In VC-funded startups, it's Clueless; at Enron, it was the bad kind of Sociopath. In most checked-out mediocre companies, it's the Loser.)

There are "good Sociopaths" out there (e.g. "sheep dogs") and I'm probably one of them, but they're often at a disadvantage against the bad ones. Often they get sick of taking on political risk (for games whose prizes cannot be enjoyed fully by the most ethical people; power of any kind is most valuable to those who will be corrupt with it) and become Losers with age. A few might be able to start their own companies, but VC won't help them because VC-funded startups are all about Cluelessness (which is why VCs have their chicken-hawk fetishism for very young, white, upper-class men).

Fixing this problem is possible, even in larger companies, but very few organizations view it as worth the cost, especially in the circa-2014 startup game where companies are built to be sold, not to last more than 5 years (in which case MacLeod-style degeneracy will just be starting to impede performance, but is unlikely to kill the thing). Why? The classical explanation (from MBAs and investors and even founders) for why they keep starting crappy companies is that they can't afford the risk of alternative organization styles (e.g. Valve's open allocation) while also innovating on product, as if there were some finite pool of risk and "all of it" had to be allocated to product innovation. I strongly disagree. I think they're full of shit and trying to justify their own mediocrity. But that's what they say.
Does Being Online Make Media Digital?
For my desktop use I just use a TP-Link router in "client mode", as far as my laptop is aware I'm on ethernet. For my laptop, I buy cheap TP Link Wireless USB's my laptop has a crappy internal wireless card regardless of OS. Sometimes buying cheap USB drives work better than "top notch" wireless cards. I would still agree, Wireless on Linux is configured terribly. Sometimes you get bugs that have fixes you have to hunt down on the internet, which you wouldn't be able to get on, if your WiFi isn't working at all. You'd think the biggest thing to get attention on a Linux OS is anything related to networking, the most crucial features of any OS these days.
Ok but how can we guess if a place is stressful? I mean, I csn only guess if I know someone working there or Glassdoor, what do you think doobiaus?
Contrary to what other commenters are saying, I've been using NetworkManager on my ArchLinux Thinkpads for years and it works great. (And I don't even have a desktop environment, I have DWM, so I am usually a "do it yourself" person.)

Whereas I could never get all the mess working to get things working well without NetworkManager.

My experience is, spend hours messing with configuration shit or just let NetworkManager do all that automatically for you, which in my case, it does well.
The last 2 water landings have been successful.
Huh. Interesting. I only ever use C-x C-c C-v, and then C-Shift-c C-shift-v in my terminal emulator so I never notice these issues.
Oh, I'm not knocking Kraft for being unaware of the problem before the blog post, I'm just hoping they'll be classy about how they handle it AFTER it has been discovered.
Looks very nice. I've been using timelyapp.com and this seems to cover my use-case similarly but free - yay!

A couple points of feedback:

- As a person who lives anywhere but the US, the date format is all wrong and will constantly be a source of annoyance. The datepicker helps, but the csv outputs dates like 07/08/14... I have no idea what date that is. How about ISO standards? 2014/07/08 is completely unambiguous to everyone.

- I often do a whole day of work. Say like 4+ hours for a single client. I write a lot of notes during that time for my own reference. So I really need to be able to: type notes while the timer is going, and also for the notes to respect my line breaks (otherwise it just comes out jibberish if I try to write bullet points/etc).

- I guess I will use the submitted->approved flow for pending->billed. Not sure if this is something you intend... I 'approve' my own hours, but I would like to be able to mark hours as having been billed so I don't accidentally do it twice :)

- The little bubble next to my entries says 'RF', I assume that's a place for an avatar. Am I blind and missing how to set one?

But yea overall it looks great!
That's nuthin: here's lisp in Fortran:

https://github.com/blakemcbride/LISPF4
The aim of universal source coding is to get the code rate as close to the source entropy as possible.

The proof that this entropy is indeed an absolute limit is statistical (this will be in any introductory text, like Cover and Thomas, that discusses entropy of a stochastic process, i.e. a stream of symbols).

And the method of analysis that shows the LZ algorithm itself approaches this limit is also statistical (http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/spring03/cps296.5/papers/ziv_...).

One of the neat things about LZ is that the algorithm itself really doesn't have a statistical flavor, it's about building dictionaries/codebooks (as you say). But the analysis that shows it actually works is all statistical, or probabilistic, depending on how you define terms.
I will double-down to claim that 15krpm SAS drives are a bad choice for any application, and they are only used as a bandaid for marginal improvements on irredeemable system designs.

To address your points individually:

1) Power hungry. When you add in conversion and distribution and cooling, every watt consumed by the computer is consumed again by the datacenter infrastructure. Power costs money.

2) Hot is just the corollary of 1). Hot is also the enemy of density, and this box is very dense.

3) Sensitive to vibration. If you aren't intimately familiar with this fact then you aren't getting the performance you paid for from your 15k disks. To achieve their spectacular claimed seek times then need very careful mechanical design of their enclosure. Much more careful than racking up one of Netflix's boxes in a rack with other random vibrators.

4) Density. To get the space Netflix is using here, you need 5x more expensive 15k disks because they top out at 600GB and the ones people actually use for these workloads have 3TB.

A smart read-ahead strategy obviates the need for shiny seek time specs. For any given stream you could read ahead by 32MB or whatever. Now you've made seek time irrelevant. Put lots of RAM in the machine and you're done at a tiny fraction of the capital and operating costs of 15k disks.
Really? I use chromium on the odd occasion and never have to wait.. nor have I ever noticed the clearing of clipboard..
> Well, they were in talks with Yahoo about being acquired.

You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet. :)
Even having cool perks such as more vacation days for example?
The chat with us thing covers my entire phone's screen, I saw pictures of hard drives before that activated.
Ok thank you. Implementing map reduce style parallzation doesn't need any language level support. I don't see how clojure is any better at this than say java ( hadoop is java after all).

I am looking for 'pure concurrency' in a app like videos games exctracting last ounce of processing power from a multicore machine. This what the original comment stated was the core competence of Clojure.
I don't know. The list seems pretty compelling. Almost every one of those items seems like it has to hurt productivity (except for the first; being "more productive in a crisis" can simply indicate non-sustainable practices, and/or a higher tolerance for risk taking that may or may not be healthy long-term).

And at least where I'm working now, most (all?) of those inefficiencies are minimized, and the stock price (and revenue, for that matter) just keeps going up.

On the other hand, the comment in the article that implies government oversight might be a good idea is laughable. I'm not an anti-government libertarian, but I can't imagine any government doing a good job of micromanaging business decision. And that includes theoretically optimal governments.
According to news reports, about 5% of names in TSDB are AMCITS or LPRs, though it appears that share may be rising relative to the overall growth of the list.
"indispensably useful tool" is way too strong. They find it a service that is hard, or at least usually undesirable, to do without.
Yeah, the default card in my X220 was a piece of crap. I got one of these for $15 and replaced it myself (took 10 minutes) and it's been muuuuch better.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Advanced-N-6205-wifi-card-Thin...

(I remember this was actually a customization option when I bought it and I stupidly didn't pick it. So you don't have to get a macbook, just read carefully when you get another thinkpad.)
That's one of the top concerns I have as well. But, as you point out, the majority of the time that's not the case. So far, we've found that the notifications provide better transparency than the more common "here's all the work I did over the last month." I recently had a case with our accountant where I received a bill 3 weeks after the work was done and I totally didn't remember it. I emailed her and then we got on the phone to talk about it. All of that is wasted time (and money).
This plugin literally made me go back to SublimeText. I used Atom for months but it was bothering me that it was slow. I saw this plugin and was super excited. This plugin absolutely rocks. However...It only further showed off how slow Atom is. Thanks to ohadron for linking the Sublime equivalent (makes me feel better about going back to Sublime).
And this is the challenge for Google. If mobile users reliably go to Facebook daily, that is where people will want to advertise to them, if they are spending all of their time on their mobile rather than their laptop or desktop, then mobile advertising will be more important than advertising in the laptop/desktop space.

Interesting times.
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Well as a Brit you should know how you make more room in the phonenumber space: awkwardly, slowly, in a series of steps, and with a huge amount of disruption. But a few years later everyone's forgotten about it.

This is in spite of the fact that in order to get from where we were to begin with - with '01' as the area code for London, for example - to where we are today, peoples' numbers went first through the 071/081 split, then through the 'add 1' 0171/0181 era after phONE day, and then finally moved over to the 0207/0208 codes, as a foundation ultimately for London having an 020 area code.
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That 98% figure is caused primarily by users disabling the default-enabled restrictions on third-party non-Play-Store apps, and particularly in the pirated app space.

Also, s/week/weak/
The new versions are all SSD.
Yes! We have an integration with QuickBooks Online already. Xero and ZenPayroll are next on our list. Another commenter mentioned Wave, so maybe we'll get to them before long.
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Jibo raises $1M in first week of crowdfunding campaign
> it's more about improving quality and keeping costs down.

Yes. This point seems to be lost on the author of the article. Even the founders of the Open Source movement thought that.

I can't find it now, but I remember once reading an essay by Bruce Perens where he pointed out that the vast majority of software that's written lives on the cost side, not the revenue side, of a company's balance sheet, because the vast majority of software that's written is custom in-house software. If you can share those costs with others who have similar needs, everyone benefits.

As a kid who had only ever thought of software as "something you have to pay for when you want a copy for your computer", this was eye-opening for me. The idea that the software I was familiar with was the exception, rather than the rule, made it plausible that there were other ways to get high-quality software through besides paying a license fee to Microsoft. As a result, I found that idea very attractive.
MITMproxy is much more flexible--but steeper learning curve. Very command line-y versus Charlesproxy. I'd use charlesproxy for casually look at apps, and MITM if you needed more advanced stuff.
Really good breakdown.
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Performance wise it's still going to be the same company you joined. For example, Microsoft hasn't done well over the last few years, but people are mostly still going to be still impressed you worked there.
It's a shame our options have been reduced to a false dichotomy of pay-for software where you have no access to the source, and pay-nothing-for software where all you have is the source. There was supposed to be another option for pay-for software where you have access to the source and may make changes to that source to suite your needs: "free" was supposed to refer to "freedom" and not "cost." But no one seems to have gone that route. Is it just not viable?
Could they be reporting monthly active 'devices' as 'users'?

More clearly, could one user on an iPad and Android phone count as two different 'active users'?
Thanks for the direct link. It was pretty frustrating that they weren't making it easy to download.
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First of all, Facebook reported Q2 2014 results today, not first quarter. The OP is months old.

Secondly, what's with this new HN trend of people submitting quarterly financial results of publicly traded tech companies. It is usually not newsworthy outside of financial media.
Knowingly putting yourself in danger to be the first line of defense against a potentially epidemic outbreak, deserves special recognition. Everyone should know these doctors' names. We need to make international heroes of these people.
Stopped reading at "arse-sum"
In fairness Google announced the same figure for Android recently, so they're not completely losing control over mobile at the moment.
What are the differences that you see between a day/week workflow and an hourly one?
They definitely measure those numbers separately.
Here is the link to Q2: http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=861599
How do you generalize more than a billion people with "they"?

I think we're reaching the limits of the English language with that one. I'd say it's hard for an outsider to determine how the majority of a billion people view a particular product.
Many chips/hardware pieces do already have a good Linux support, and the internet is full of info what will work perfect and what may cause problems.
Don't those essentially mean the same thing?
Is there a universally agreed metric of what a mobile MAU constitutes?

Is there a generally agreed unit of time spent per instance of log in activity, to qualify as a MAU?

Or just the very act of stumbling into the FB app (somehow), through the myriad ways possible out there, still constitute a MAU?

I understand that this does not count (?) API calls (justifiably).

All these years in, I just want to assure myself that we are still not in the era of sketchy metrics and non-standard parameters. Thats all.
dang - This news is 3 months old. Today's announcement was submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8076706
Well, you could see the code for the Kalman filter embedded in the Apollo 11 code dump the other day.

"Bucy recalls that "no one was very interested in the papers originally." But then researchers at NASA latched onto the Kalman filter as a way of dealing with problems in satellite orbit determination. [...] It was used, for example, in the Ranger, Mariner, and Apollo missions of the 1960s.

"In particular, the on-board computer that guided the descent of the Apollo 11 lunar module to the moon had a Kalman filter. ..."

From http://www.cs.unc.edu/~welch/kalman/siam_cipra.html
It doesn't seem to match up well with the things that he's done so far. Both SpaceX and Tesla are pretty much doing the same old things in a new way, and are meant to be profitable early on and maintain that profitability while also pushing ahead the state of the art. Fusion seems to be a different animal in that way - a lot of money is going to have to be thrown into various seemingly bottomless pits before somebody figures out how to do it.