skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the time I sped up the main business app of a large company by 85% by removing "debug" logging. 2tb/hr of "made it here" isn't really useful at the end of the day.

Not the first time I've seen that by a long shot.

//shakes zimmerframe, shuffles off
Shameless tangentially-related-software plug: I've been working on Carlisle[0] for a while and I use it day-to-to day. I wrote it because I don't personally like using tiling WMs (and I'm quite happy with Xfce) but I wanted a highly configurable way to quickly move/arrange/resize windows.

If you've used Slate[1], it's like a (much simpler) version of that, for Linux (well, EWMH-compliant X window managers, specifically).

(Carlisle is a fairly simple wrapper on top of Andrew Gallant's amazing xgbutil libraries[2] for Go.)

[0] https://github.com/cespare/carlisle

[1] https://github.com/jigish/slate

[2] http://godoc.org/github.com/BurntSushi/xgbutil
netflix has clearly said they are not an archival service / library (in so many words) that they are a 'whats popular now'.

This is the real opportunity for a disrupt-er. sure its hard / expensive to get the content, but that's also opportunity, and clearly netflix is out of touch with what their customers actually want from their press releases.

And even though they say they buy only the content 'people want to see currently', it seems like they do a poor job. netflix defenders will spout 'if you cant find something to watch on netflix well ...' thats completely misguided, you shouldnt have to search netflix for something to watch, you should find what you are looking for.

as the running joke goes, people spend more time searching netflix for something to watch than actually watching
You also have to factor in the pods/disks failing at N$/month and making sure the data is backed up in a redundant manner (more than 200 pods?). And skilled helper monkeys to swap bad disks. And electricity.

You also probably want something that reads really, really fast, and is durable. And you don't care about writes. I'm not sure, but 45 drives on a bus sounds congested. Maybe some sort of fancy super optical situation. DVDs fit the bill but I don't know about seek time on them. (?). Anyway, the answer is laserdisc, the answer is always laserdisc.
> A fringe here and a fringe there and pretty soon you have a whole robe.

I love you
What is your definition of "rapid decline" ? 1% a year? More?

Europe could trivially make up any population decline by changing immigration policies. Right now, thousands of people are drowning every year trying to cross the Mediterranean. Most laments about European population decline seem to really be concerned about a decline in white Europeans when you get down to it.
Not really. Treason requires we be at war, but the 'war on terror' never really ends.
I don't think that "cinephile" strongly implies anything about the technical reproduction quality of the media. To me, it connotes someone who is very passionate about the history of film, niche genres of film, and/or film criticism or theory.
No, NYC. But good point.
Maybe it is a 'deformation professionelle' but I feel like it is common.

I have been interviewing in adtech, financial tech, educational tech and ecommerce companies, not ones named after SA rivers (Rio Plata, Orinoco, Putumayo?).

Some applications have boxes for github, linkedin accounts. Also I have been asked for it in interviews. In 2 cases I have seen programming tests where step one was 'clone this repo...' (one a fintech the other a big data audience tracking company).
Tricky CSS Quiz
Political influence arising from an active group of Jewish-Americans lobbying their own government not "ownership". If you're against it, you too are free to get involved, form a special interest group, and lobby our government in the other direction.
> as long as all representations made to customers about the service are met

Exactly this. The thing that some people seem to be missing is that there is a (very) good chance nothing is banned. It's just that you have to actually ask the customer. And IRB could waive a lot of the usual requirements (that are primarily intended for experiments with a LOT more risk).

The Common Rule, in these cases, is primarily about enforcing that stuff like a boilerplate EULA does not count as properly informing the customer and getting their approval. When humans are involved you have to get explicit approval each time as a precaution, which isn't actually that hard.
> what isn't positive about spawning babies?

Overpopulation.
Have seen quite a few Sandisk SSDs die over the past 3-4 years. Ditto, OCZ.

Yet to see an Intel or Samsung bite the dust. I'm sure it's only a matter of time, but I won't buy any other brands.
The GNOME 3 stack does better than Windows at scaling UI elements based on text size; I'm successfully using a 1.4 or 1.5x scale on a 2560x1440 14" screen, and none of the UI elements look too small to me. Off the top of my head, I think the main elements that DPI-based font-size scaling doesn't scale are raster images (for which HiDPI allows supplying alternate high-res images similar to CSS) and cairo-based drawing elements (see cairo's "device-scale" support).
This is pretty cool. I might actually get back into it for fun sometime.

Logo is one of the main reasons I found an interest in programming as a kid. Probably wouldn't be on the same path if I hadn't worked with it ~9 years ago.
Wow - I had completely forgotten about Logo. I just now realize that Logo was the first programming language I was ever exposed to, back in elementary (primary) school. If I remember right, we were using an Apple IIGS. Good times!
So I was reading about clinkle last night and I was thinking "What a joke!", but as they now have a product I decided to try and check it out.

Obviously, I'm curious of what I have to pay. Encouragingly, there's text that says:

> Clinkle has no minimums, no monthly fees, and no fee to get your card. There’s no fee to load funds from your bank account, and no fee to use Treats. That’s the way we like it.

But then, in smaller letters with font color that almost matches the background, it says:

> Read more about the few fees we do charge in our Cardholder Agreement.

Does this seem disingenuous to anyone other than me? The first impression is no fees, and then I realize that I know nothing about what fees they'll charge. No thanks.
Oracle’s Big Challenge Is More Culture Than Technology, CIOs Say
What makes your drives so good?
You can get that much space with referrals. I maxed my referrals out with a $40 Adwords campaign a few years ago and it's been a good investment.
I was not aware it would take that long to pull data out of Glacier.

You learn new things every day :)
Jill of the Jungle had some truly weird stuff in it. Or at least, the way I remember it. Such as this one level which had some sort of frog-enemies, that produced certain sounds as they moved back and forth and bumped into things. It wasn't part of the game mechanics of the level, but the the way they were placed produced this otherworldly mesmerizing rhythmical tune. Might have been my very first encounter with experimental techno music. Somewhat reminiscent of Autechre's track Gnit.

(I think this was the PC speaker sounds btw, on a proper soundcard it might not have sounded nearly as mysterious and weird)
Once the major mining pools receive the transaction, it's very unlikely to be double-spent. If you try to purchase something online from a merchant accepting Bitcoin via Coinbase or Bitpay, you'll notice the transaction completes almost instantaneously.
Show HN: Simple Invoice App from TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
Right, just look at August! Although I wish there were numbers on that graph. Was there a conference talk? Glad to know there'll be lots of fellow devs using it anyway.
Facebook Lays Out Its Roadmap for Creating Internet-Connected Drones
The article isn't saying marijuana should be in schools, or that we shouldn't keep it out of schools. It's saying that there is clearly not a correlation or causation between marijuana usage and graduation rates. If someone is going to try to keep it illegal, they need to be using legitimate arguments, not bad statistics.
I think the problem with most peer reviews in practice is that they typically are not actionable or even concrete. I used to have monthly 1:1's where I got feedback that wasn't "keep it up" less than 10% of the time. Not a negative experience, very positive actually, but a huge waste of time that seemed to exist just so the person I reported to could see he was in-charge.
The terrorism that Israel deals with predates significant US involvement in the Middle East. Bedouin attackers, not to mention marauding arabs from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt have been attacking Jews since before the 1920's.

You can blame what you want on western influence, but the truth is - and you'll know this if you've lived with Arabs - that they don't subscribe to western ideals of pacifism and anti-violence. It's not what they believe in.

For example, I witnessed an honor killing in 2002. It was done in the middle of the village with all the inhabitants cheering. Not sure you'd get the same reaction if you did that in Times Square.

Will happily read the wikipedia article.
“SSL Added and Removed Here :)” T-shirt
I've had discs arrive broken before. I imagine if that happens often enough, a title would become effectively unavailable - Netflix has no more copies, the publisher isn't willing to press more, and the prices in the aftermarket are too high.
Your Dropbox is limited to the free space on your computer with the least amount of storage. I have a Super Mega Death Rig with multi-TB of storage too... I also use an old Toughbook with a few GB of space free when I travel to the third world.
The situation might be more complicated. If I was a rights holder for movies that Netflix wanted to stream (and sufficiently Machiavellian), I might negotiate reduced availability of DVDs of my movies to start transitioning everything to a streaming model.

To be clear, Netflix may have the DVDs but they may be bound by a contract clause (that they agreed to) restricting them from offering the DVDs for rent.

That said, maybe it's just Netflix reducing costs by dropping obscure inventory. I don't know what the relative costs and profit are of the streaming vs. DVD businesses that they have, but the costs of that physical inventory are not negligible.

Back in the day when Best Buy opened a new store they stocked the CD and DVD sections with incredible amounts of diverse inventory and then let it sell off - restocking only the mainstream stuff. I assume the goal was to get customers with a front-end flourish. That's probably what Netflix did.
I'm not convinced that trans-national babies are an unmitigated good. Anecdotal evidence among my friends and acquaintances suggests to me that the more cultural differences there are between the parents, the more friction they can potentially generate down the road in a long term relationship.
We launched today at http://www.iodine.com

The team is monitoring this thread. Happy to answer questions!
I tried the Shrimp Scampi kit and it was incredibly easy to cook something that was tasty and interesting at home.

The best part was that the shrimp was pre-cooked so I could get it all the way there in just a few minutes. The fact that I control the butter/oil/salt is a big plus over takeout.
Wait a minute. What are those "obvious reasons" you speak of?
I think Robert Heinlein used that term in one of his stories. (Another character applied it to Lazarus Long.)
Does anyone know if there's a utility that monitors SSD health? I've a 512GB SSD, which I'll probably keep for a while, but I don't like being in the dark about how far along its lifetime I am
Wow...this post made me think I shouldn't even attempt to run my own server infrastructure for my startup. This kind of analysis is way deeper than I'm currently capable of.
Ask HN: EU startup threatened by US troll. Worst-case scenario?
We recently got contacted by a US-based patent troll who owns a very broad software patent, which would be probably invalid under Alice Corp v. CLS Bank. What's the worst-case scenario if we refuse to settle and get sued? On top of having to avoid operating in the US, which is not of critical importance for us, would we be facing other consequences?
B-But why does errbody hate Israel???

This. this is why. Amongst other things.
While the conclusion is true and has been for some time, the supporting data is insufficient.

For example, the author doesn't even bother to gloss over key reliability parameters such as data retention, which is primarily impacted by cycling.

(By data retention, I mean the ability of drive to retain written data over a period of time, such as 6 months, since written. This is usually accelerated in testing by a bake cycle.)

That said, it's a fun read and I'm glad there's more exposure on this topic.
Ask HN: Feedback on new saas site with sms scheduling reminders
I was wondering if I could get some feedback on a new saas site I launched

https://www.scheduleio.com/

It basically is a service where if you input your church's schedule, it automatically sends sms reminders.

Now I'm wondering if this might be applicable to things outside of churches so any feedback would be appreciated!

As for the tech stack:

+ rails 4

+ braintree

+ aws/t2.micro

+ twilio
It's a debit card with rewards program.
I've never heard of them, and don't understand how two posts got on to the front page within minutes about Clinkle. Voting ring perhaps?
Smart idea. I like the idea of cooking "in theory" but dislike the shopping and prep. This seems like the right balance to me.
Hey! Engineering manager here. We have to date never charged someone a fee, and in most app usage you most certainly will not encounter them.

We are, however, often charged heavy fees by the ATM and Credit Card companies (for unloading your money at an ATM, or loading your prepaid card with a credit card, specifically), and we went with the prepaid card market norms here around which of those we don't cover on your behalf. Legally, because we do reserve the right to not cover these fees, we have to have the footer text there on the site.

As we ramp up our revenue, we hope to begin covering more and more of these fees for our users.
It was demonstrated on TV with rocks about a cubic foot in size. Many Inca walls are built with stones that size. The technique is adaptable to larger stones, but of course they'll take longer.

As for ancient alien explanations, see:

http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2009/07/stone-masonry-...
Yeah, this could be it. It could also be that Netflix simply isn't trying to replace titles because of reduced demand for the DVD service. Either way, too bad.
What a disappointing product after such hype. Seems like a desperation pivot. I'd guess that the business partnerships didn't pan out and Apple supplants their proprietary technology with Apple's ecosystem. Given how crowded the rewards marketplace is, this seems like they're just throwing good money after bad.
Stanford Lectures on Government Surveillance
1. I cook because I and my family need to eat. As for why I cook as opposed to buying premade food: it's cheaper, and I have control over ingredients, amounts, and seasoning.

Personally, I do cook for fun. I live as part of a family of four. We share the cooking; most the cooking is not done by me (I usually cook the evening meal once a week).

2. We plan meals weekly.

3. I personally get into Cantonese-style stir-fries, Indian curries, Thai curries, and whatever else suits my fancy.

4. We do not follow any "name" diet. But we have significant food-intolerance issues in my family, so we do have to work to "weave the minefield".

5. Plan meals ahead of time. Make extra and use for left-overs/lunches.

That said, I find your question strange. Huge numbers of people, all over the world, regularly eat food cooked by themselves or someone they live with. It isn't the slightest bit unusual. It might be better to ask: Hackers who don't cook, why don't you cook?
I can't even describe how much I wish `stringsAsFactors=F` was the default.
The press went ape-shit about our funding round announcement a year ago. The site's actually been live for a week now, but we didn't want any attention on it until we were further along in our roll-out :(
Has this ever been tested around digital goods? As long as you had some mechanism to ensure that it is only streamed by one person at a time per license purchased.
Sadly, I've seen all of these points happen. Even 26 and 28.
> KDE doesn't do a ton of stuff that many (most?) people care about like handle add/removing displays frequently.

KDE actually has very good display hotplugging/hotremove support. What problems are you having?
> If any thread runs in an infinite loop that doesn't call built in functions, the entire runtime will freeze.

That's not entirely true. Go 1.3 introduced pre-emptive scheduling, so now only the most trivial (useless) of infinite loops will hog the scheduler. But if you're doing real CPU-bound work you won't block other goroutines from executing.
Have you been able to reach out to anyone at Seagate in their drive FA group to see if they'd be interested in you sending back samples of the failed drives?
Dumpster-divers and Freegans sort of do it.
The best cinephile setup I've found is Roku + Plex + torrents. Just make sure to have a wired connection to your Plex server and to set up the Plex app on your Roku to 'Direct Stream' the video (so there's no reencoding).
for example, no matter how fast the cuts come, you always know exactly where you are

This is a massive problem, both with less experienced directors and even some famous ones. It's important to establish the geography of a scene because if you don't the audience will be constantly distracted during action sequences - Michael Bay's Transformers films are particularly egregious offenders in this regard, despite having massive budgets an thus access to the best skills that money can buy. In the 3 I've seen so far, I end up getting completely lost during the obligatory climactic battle between the good and bad robots after about 3-4 minutesand the only way to get through it is to sit back in numb passivity (which I suspect may be intentional givent he semi-propagandistic nature of these films, but that's another story).

It doesn't help that the geography of many scenes is wholly imaginary, as many scenes are not shot in a contiguous physical location but may involve trick positioning within the same location, two wholly different locations, or apparently contiguous events that are shot at completely different times. Furthermore, there's a rule of thumb called 'the 180 rule' which holds that there's an imaginary line of interest between the primary character in a scene and the object of his/her scrutiny, and that editing continuity demands you pick one side of that line and keep the cameras within that 180-degree side of an imaginary circle - otherwise the audience (and indeed the editors) get confused about who is looking at what and which way they are positioning themselves within the scene. One can break this rule like any other but it needs to be done deliberately and in a way that signals a shift of focus to the audience.

Keeping track of all this during the often-chaotic environment of production is a lot harder than you might imagine. Almost all films, even vary large-budget ones, have at least one shot where the image has to be flipped from left to right to correct a camera positioning error - it's better that Brad Pitt's wristwatch seem to momentarily be on the wrong arm than that the positional grammar be broken by a poorly-chosen angle.
running a defragment operation on a few of these makes them emit some electronic noise if you listen closely. :D
Wanting to watch one particular film doesn't define or capture cinephiles. The title is an exaggeration to say the least, especially if the movie isn't even available for rent at the many paid movie streaming service options available.

That being said, someone should make an aggregate search engine of legally available content through Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Go, Showtime Anytime, Max Go, etc. Although I'm not sure the interface exists for all of them.
I find the systemd debate vaguely interesting but not especially relevant to me, however I must applaud the effort of these guys. They were dissatisfied with ongoing trends and decided to work on an alternative. Kudos, good sirs, kudos.
Ruby off Rails – Some other uses for Ruby
Where do you see iOS 8 compatibility? It's not mentioned on the features page.
I'm looking at the home page but I have no idea what this is. Is this a payment thing? I see a credit card under "Upgrade your card". No sure what that means though, upgrading my card. Then some more stuff that looks like I can pay with this. Then it talks about "treats" and treating friends. So, is this a payment thing were I collect "rewards" by paying for stuff and instead of rewarding myself I have to reward my friends?

From just the home page, I find this very confusing.
I had a similar problem with java -- except that the entire application would freeze for double digit seconds. Another application would sometimes write a huge amount of data out very quickly to the fs cache. 30 seconds later (or w/e the expiration is), all those dirty bytes would get sync'd to disk more or less at once.

Turns out it was the JVM provided GC logging hanging on flush (not even fsync) calls. The flush call was during GC, and while the GC implementation held a stop the world lock. Digging through JVM source code is 'fun'.
As 21echoes (sp?) points out, it has a lot to do with their funding. They apparently set a record for some stage of funding (seed?) for startups. I read about them yesterday because someone here on HN mentioned them along the same vein
I double-checked the material, and you are right. The text and images in http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/09/what-if-serious-scie... are different than at https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ , so not covered by the xkcd.com license.

More specifically, the original has text like "Each collision releases a burst of gamma rays and scattered particles." while the quoted text on that site uses the conditional mood "Each collision would release a burst of gamma rays and scattered particles."

Also, the end in the original is "A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests ..." while the blog uses "Major League Baseball Rule 6.08( b) suggests ..."; and the order of the baseball fusion zone images have been swapped.

Thus, this extensive quote did not come from xkcd.com and is not covered under the automatic license grant for non-profit use. I agree that it is copyright infringement and not covered under fair use - for what little that's worth. :)

(However, had the material on that blog been identical to xkcd.com then I believe there would not be an infringement.)

Could you check to see if that matches the book? There's a small chance that the blog cited something else; eg an older copy of the online page.
Like Aereo, Zediva was shut down and was even playing an actual DVD.

http://techland.time.com/2011/08/03/judge-rules-against-remo...
> I recall having to run gnome-settings-daemon even if I wasnt running the rest of gnome to fix some absurd issue or other.

Sure, that is the typical cost of using a patched up desktop environment instead of a full DE. A wm is just a wm.
Read Assange's writing on how leaks and the threat of leaks destroy the efficiency of the state security apparatus.

The game is much longer that a couple of individual leakers.