skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh. The laws of the land! Dont use phrases like that as if they are some sacred scriptures from god. They were put together by a committee. Grow up. Do what is in your best interest and the laws of the land will be forced to change to the best interests of the people.
Some java servers I have had the misfortune of diagnosing were found to be spending the majority of their CPU time (aside from garbage collection of course) formatting exception stack traces.
My Mom is an engineer working at ISRO designing satellite components and this line totally fits!

She's vacationing so I just called and gave her the good news. :-D
Why is Linux/Nginx/MySQL/PHP abbreviated LEMP?
The reason they don't fail is most likely more to do with the fact that yCombinator is already a powerhouse more than with the advice.
I also don't agree that working on a startup should mean no work-life balance. There's a limit to how productive you can be, and working 90 hours/week is not going to make you more productive than working 45 hours/week.
If you work too much, you'll do more mistakes.
Ryan Carson, founder of TeamTreeHouse, can teach us a lot about it. http://ryancarson.com/
What do you think about Chromecast instead of Roku?
this looks absolutely retarded
The E is for Nginx, which is pronounced "Engine X"
oops, mis-edit. I wanted a non-huge Android phone.
No, that is incorrect, you do not need laws to protect "freedom of speech". In fact it is very easy to go from a law that "protects" freedom of speech to one which limits it. E.g. You can say whatever you want as long as...

The net neutrality issue is largely due to government granted monopolies and subsidies during the internet revolution era of the dotcom days. Now you have to content with monoliths and a very high barrier to entry by competition.
I wish I could get a hold of Chris Hancock's Flogo and Flogo 2 languages (done at MIT with Logo creator Seymour Papert). But alas, I can just read about them in his thesis.
And yet the reality is that this worked for some. There is no meta advice, no big secret besides find out how to make it work for you.
I read the comment "what about them?" along with the poorly headlined link, as insinuating that Microsoft Research was being shut down. If someone thought that Silicon Valley was their main lab or didn't know either way, that headline would easily give the mistaken impression that Microsoft was canning the whole endeavor. My apologies to rasz_pl if I mistook his/her meaning.

For what it's worth, MSR historically hasn't been beholden to find commercial applications for their work. If anything, it's usually disappointing how much really cool stuff they come up with that isn't ever productized in an accessible way.
Accusations can last forever even if they're thoroughly debunked, and they can be dominant in large part thanks to SEO and the spread of info online rather than anything the victim can control.

This is why the EU wants the "right to be forgotten" on Google etc - to let the innocent be innocent.
JVMs can also block on class loading in the presence of a heavy writer. This can go on for minutes, or indefinitely. Where I work we deploy jars to tmpfs to avoid this irritating cause of high latency.
It is a new feature, like Apple Wave [1]. The LG G Flex [2]already proved the flexible technology. Apple is just giving consumers the option to have a curved phone </sarcasm>

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/how-not-charge-your-iphone-users-fall...)

[2] http://www.lg.com/us/mobile-phones/gflex
The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. If you target a big enough pain point, your first users will love the product even if it lacks polish. It's also important to remember that MVP != shit. It is the minimum viable product; in the context of the YC motto it's the minimum product that a small, core group of users will love.

This is all theoretical on my part, FWIW--I have not successfully built such a thing on my own yet.
Unless it somehow advances to the point of being foolproof, that seems a little worrying from a Kessler syndrome standpoint.
Terrible grammar aside, I don't get it. Perhaps due to the lack of context and purposeful obfuscation for the blog post.

If you've already evaluated both offerings and found Acme's to be significantly better independently then this sort of works as a justification for the higher price, but I don't see the part where it shows it is any better than FooCorp's thing. Yeah, sure, a bad transaction will cost you money... how do I know FooCorp's thing is more or less likely to generate a bad transaction?

Out of context it reads like "if brand X fails you'll be in deep shit, and we're not brand X, so buy our thing which costs more than brand X's thing".

Who says brand X fails more often than brand Y? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, but the logic train bumped off the rails a bit in the middle for me.
The model is working for them, so why would they change?...
Retention is not a goal. For example, if you are just trying to make money, then you don't really care if all your content is consumed as long as people still pay their subscriptions or whatever.

Of course, the reason completion rates are so bad with MOOCs is free access. If you force people to filter themselves out unless they are willing to pay a lot, you will see more normal "completion rates" expressed as a percentage of those who paid a lot.

It would be perverse to argue, however, that MOOCs should be pay-only for this reason. It's a confusion about the meaning of completion rate as a performance metric for MOOCs.
WALL-O-TRON, the interactive rock climbing wall
Don't Let It Fappen to You: Rate Limiting for Your Web Apps
Can't nest comments any further, but one of my previous companies got rejected at YC before becoming the most recent example of how not to apply to YC, and having a successful exit. I recognize the lines from the application, we're literally the example of what not to do according to YC, had a decent outcome and I'm still convinced this lecture had lots of great advice and if I were to start myself I'd follow more of it. Take what you will from that.
A fee based on viewership counts is how the anime service Crunchyroll works. A portion (the other part is Crunchyroll's) of the ad revenue and subscription fees are split based on what you watch. So, if you only watched a single show for the month, the portion that goes to the license holders would go to that single company.

It seems to be working well on the whole as more companies are licensing their content to Crunchyroll (at least the ones who don't give an exclusive license to another company). Each season I see more shows on there.
>Gee, that sounds a lot like somebody else's problem.

I don't know. Maybe I'm missing something, but that sounds an awful lot like some sort of weird consumer entitlement (that is shared by many). I mean, how is it not the consumer's problem?

I am far from a big industry apologist, but why do many consumers of digital content believe that the content should be delivered on their own terms at a price they set, else stealing it is justifiable?

I mean it's not like air or water where you have to consume it or else die. If the industry produces a product that is woefully expensive and delivered extraordinarily inefficiently for most consumers, then isn't the correct consumer response to do without? I am trying to see the difference between this and believing that it's OK to steal a car because the manufacturer hasn't made it "affordable enough" for you.

What am I missing?
I probably read "an otherwise uniform cluster" too literally.

20% utilization on a resource that can only do 100 random operations per second is a major problem, and way different from 5%.

A piece of hardware that operates at 100 Hz, with 20% utilization, will block for about 135ms+ for the 95th percentile request. With 5% utilization, it will block for about 10ms for the 95% percentile request.

My quick calculations are somewhat below the 200ms discrepancy you show in the chart, but not far off.

Of course, turning off fsync is a perfectly good solution. Longer term, I would move to SSDs and just make this entire class of problem go away. I don't even have any spinning platters to test your strace on.
Yes. This works for some. If I ask you to choose between winning a bet where you roll 1,2,3,4,5 on a d6 or winning a bet where you roll 6, I think the fact that sometimes you win with 6 is true but almost useless.
one can always dream.... but seriously, you're totally right.
Thanks! Have you recovered from the weekend yet? It was intense. What'd you built?
subtitles please!!
> Immediately re-image system

Yeah, no thanks. This is a mostly detectable payload and you can figure out if you are infected or not (using their own links).

Without any evidence this is a case of fear mongering.
Innovation – the Apple way
Yup! Credit card integration is in the works, but until then ACH linking is totally free (& faster than most, as we don't use the 3-day delay "challenge amounts" system most competitors use except as a fallback)
Luckily enough, I just installed Debian with Xfce on my laptop next night... I suppose you might call this a close call. However, their Xfce support is, good, but lacking polish. The panel tools are comprehensive but the selector is hard to use; you just wish the automatic setup made sense. The default programs include such gems as quodlibet and xterm. Apparently Xfce isn't portable enough for Debian? Nonetheless, it's fast, tearing is minimal, wallpaper changing mostly just works (IceWeasel can't xdg-wallpaper or whatever), and it's nice to have a working Firefo-err, IceWeasel. The blue-grey default theme is still one of the most depressing default desktop looks I've ever seen and it hasn't changed in five years. So, like, 7/10.
My problem with all the save Africa hardware/software projects, is they seem to be made by people who don't live in Africa. I'm not confident they even have a grip on what the customers actually want or need.
I do this all the time, and it always works. Just today someone asked for a discount, and I wrote a similar email to this one, explaining why we don't give discounts, our products are great value, etc. I did offer them an extra 1 month trial for free, as they were just starting a new business, and they were very happy with that and will probably become a long-term customer.

I think people are just programmed to ask for discounts. However unless there is another product which gives them all the features they want for a lower price, they will almost certainly buy your product even if you don't give them a discount (as long as you're nice about it). The only time I would give a discount is if the person genuinely can't afford it, but that very rarely happens (as my prices are pretty reasonable).
A Mindset for Creative Collaboration
Yes, and the whole world thanks us for Nickelback and Justin Bieber.
NOVA is a personal climbing wall that redefines training at home
> We've specifically implemented an Ebola prevention section, as Seed 1.0 will be deployed in Africa.

Stop using Africa for your advancement. You obviously live in a bubble.
Wouldn't it be standard policy to, say, use Google's reverse image search to see who owns the image? I just did and it's pretty damn clearly his. Not bothering to check a two-second site with 99% results sounds pretty willful to me.
The main issue I have with this form of testing is that it's basically measuring the ultimate endurance characteristics of the flash - running program/erase cycles until some piece of the flash becomes completely unusable. The majority of the time the first failure will occur in a user data block, but there's a nonzero chance that it's in a block mapping table or the firmware itself, and that will definitely cause catastrophic failure. The article seems to be implying that it's OK to write more data than the manufacturer specifies, but this is not something anyone should ever be doing in a real-world scenario, because retention is inversely proportional to endurance and also (exponentially!) to temperature. A drive that retains data for a week at 20C may not be able to at 30C or even 25C.

The 840 Pro's reallocated sector count appears to have started rising at 600TB, which is roughly 2400 P/E cycles, on average, of the whole flash - this is not surprising and agrees with the typical endurance figure of 2K-3K for 2x nm MLC.

I've never agreed fully with the reasoning behind MLC - yes, it's technically twice the capacity for the same die area/price as SLC (or alternatively, half the area/price for the same capacity), but it's also nearly two orders of magnitude less endurance/retention and requires far more controller complexity for error correction and bad-block management. In a storage device, I think reliability is more important than capacity - even with backups, no one wants to lose any data. The tradeoff doesn't make so much sense to me - theoretically, you could buy an MLC SSD that wears out after a few years (thus needing replace it and copy the existing data over to the new one, along with all the risks that causes, etc.), or for only twice as much, an SLC one that probably won't ever need replacing.

A 256GB SLC SSD with 100K P/E cycle flash is conceivably good for 25PB and 5-10 years, or <1PB and over a century... i.e. you could probably use one for archival if stored in a good environment. Part of me thinks the manufacturers just don't want to make such long-lasting products, hence the strong association of SLC to "enterprise" products. (And the much higher pricing of SLC SSDs, more than the raw price of NAND would suggest.)
The other point to note here is that there is not a way to tell what is the next facebook/dropbox either. So the amount of risk or the time that one might take to figure whether they are going to make a huge sum in options is pretty much the same. By the time the market guesses the big company, my guess is they are already on high valuation with highly diluted equity.
Everybody in Africa has portable devices, they are just missing this useless $10 hotspot gimmick with pre-loaded Wikipedia to get their information on Ebola.
"It’s unclear at this point whether this amounts to a significant problem..."

So you'd prefer that the phone shatter and render itself unusable like it did before?
The default GNOME 3 that comes with Fedora 20. My needs from a DE is minimal. I spend 90% of my time alt-tabbing between my browser and editor with my terminal a F12 away (Guake is awesome).

GNOME 3 simply gets out of my way and lets me focus on what is important.
Pat Robertson Condemns Google
Maybe, maybe Craigslist.

There are a few brick and mortar used DVD stores. Not many.
Title should be "India's mars orbiter ..... "
The definition of wear out is more than just the SSD declaring the cell bad, or the SSD failing suddenly. A cell is technically declared worn out when the chance that the cell suffer charge leakage after N months at temperature T exceeds probability P. (Where exactly what these parameters are are a secret that the SSD vendors don't disclose. There are some standards, but the SSD vendors don't necessarily use those standards when the make promises about their product's wear endurance.

So even though an SSD might last for 1.5 PB's worth of writes, there is no guarantee that if you were to then put the SSD on a shelf and wait nine months, that they data will still be good. This is probably one some vendors will declare themselves to be dead after so many gigabytes worth of writes, even if the flash cells haven't "failed" yet. Otherwise users might depend on the SSD's contents being retained, when in fact they might suffer data loss.

But of course, this doesn't really matter much, because you treat all data stored on SSD's as a cache, and do regular backups, RIGHT? :-)
To be honest, we don't. We really do want to work with the people who do know though. Obviously some of the stuff we included for v1 doesn't make sense for certain regions, and we want to address this before any major deployment.
Logging to files creates a lot of headache. I would say the tail plugin for Fluentd (the open source log collector that I am a maintainer of: www.fluentd.org), I would say 1/3 to 1/2 of the questions are related to tailing log files.

I think, fundamentally, files are the wrong abstraction for log data (as pointed out by Adam Wiggins of Heroku fame: http://12factor.net/logs), but it is something that we are stuck with.
Synology DiskStation Manager 5.1 Beta
1. When i'm cooking, I imagine. Potato turns into evil enemy of meat. Onion becomes a fearsome hero. And I - this is the collapse of the universe, when everything comes to an end. I'm a hacker.

2. I know one thing - if you gonna work hard - you have to not eat at all. Only coffe or a bit fastfood.

3. East Asian cuisine. I'm russian. I must.

4. Meat diet is my best. Meat at breakfast, meat at dinner and supper. My vegans friends go to fuck himself.

5. Only life hacks: baking powder - decrease time of cooking twice (meet, vegetables any organic food), MSG - taste of any food become more amplitude. And, of course, sprig of greenery - and your dish look like from restaurant.
To be clear, my ding is not just against libertarianism, but against ideologies that set up shop on the endpoints of the axis that goes from "individualism" to "collectivism".

Libertarianism, while not out on the cliff edge of individualism, at least has reserved seats for a great view of it. (I'm being very careful here not to call libertarianism an "extreme" ideology, because I don't think that's a fair assessment).

There are highly collectivist ideologies way out on the other end of the axis that have entirely different, but equal structural issues (and before you say "communism" that's not necessarily what I'm thinking of).

In either case, highly individualistic or highly collectivistic ideologies almost never survive sustained contact with more moderate, pragmatic outside groups.

Survival of groups of like-minded end-point ideologists almost always require isolation-like implementation approaches because of this simple issue.

Does libertarianism "work"? Hell if I know. I think most evidence points to it not working well over sustained periods. Most "pure" ideologies don't, and the more "pure" the ideology, the less likely it is to be able to sustain itself, even superficially, on the tenants of its core concepts for long. The world is just too messy and libertarianism is just not road tested enough to have figured out what really doesn't work and adjust.

A fully implemented, fully sustaining, libertarian paradise would likely not be much like present day libertarian ideological tenants, but something more moderate in approach, and it might not even be superficially much different than regimes it would be replacing...the differences would be more in small details and guiding philosophy than in more noticeable things.
I'm not sure what Canadian content rules the CRTC is trying to enforce, but if it's anything like 5% of content shown must be Canadian I'm not sure how they can enforce that as a content provider where the consumer picks what they want to watch.

Additionally if noone is watching the Canadian shows how does the CRTC determine what % content they require netflix to provide.
A Decoy Computer Was Set Up Online. See Which Countries Attacked It the Most
The concept looks interesting, it would probably be positive wall only but it would be awesome anyway.

Buy I can't see how they are going to make the white chalk marks on this look sexy.
Not trying to "use" Africa. Just trying to make something that could help people. The description is a little rough but I truly believe that once we start talking with the groups that have specific requirements for each region, these devices could do some good.
Backups only do so much? Could you elaborate on what your backups don't do?

My backups allow me to recover from theft, hardware failure, accidental deletion, and more. If my computer were to burst into flames right now, I would only lose 30 minutes of work.

Even if SSDs reliably went read-only at the end of their service life, I would still keep my existing backup strategy. There are so many ways to lose data without disk failure.
I'd consider myself a serious developer and I love GNOME 3.

> Focused and unfocused windows look almost identical

I have never had a problem distinguishing.

> Expected features like tray icons, virtual desktops, alt+drag to move/resize windows, even alt+tab don't work out-of-the-box

All of the above work perfectly fine. I genuinely have no idea what you are talking about.

> Window focus seems completely broken

You'll have to be more specific here; works fine for me.

> IntelliJ's menus don't track the moue properly - again, probably a Java issue, but still works great under KDE

I had issues with IntelliJ until I switched from OpenJDK to the Oracle JDK. Now it works fine (though a bit ugly).

> Having to "drag" the screensaver thing away is annoying

You're doing it wrong. Just start typing your password and it goes away.

Some of the developers definitely do have a bad attitude, but many are actually quite awesome. Besides, more often than not, their way has turned out pretty good.
But there are many other companies not doing what YC recommends who do just fine and that is the point. Advice is great but be careful what you think it teaches you.
Firstly, I disagree with the confidence with which you declare all of these usages to be fringe.

Secondly, even if they are fringe, that's not a reason against using or being excited about Bitcoin.
I've had for a year a Galaxy S4 which is as big as a iPhone 6, and usually have it in my front pocket, and it doesn't wrap: I just remove it from the pocket when I must sit with a pocket too small in a cramped space.

Are iPhone users just dumb?
I plan to buy an iPhone 6 plus. Will I become as dumb?
God bless you -- you are doing the Cloud's work.
Why the obsession with "the average person"? Remember, that average changes over time. The automobile didn't improve the situation for the average person within the first decade of its invention.
What's even more fascinating is that ISRO survived at all, through the cold war. The fact that India has a fledgling space program, despite its problems, strikes me as rather inspiring.

The fact that it was done cheaply stems partly from the fact that there is a factor of ~5-10 between the purchasing-power and corresponding USD value (which is why engineers in India seem to be paid lower in dollar terms).
You know, dealing with people like they're out of a Leon Uris novel is a great way to make sure the status quo never changes.
We (OpenDNS) saw traffic to those domains spike during that time. We're investigating.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tfqpau25ugixiy6/Investigate_2014-0...
Is the reception on Friday invite-only? I got accepted, but didn't read about it anywhere.
To be perfectly honest, the Jews bought much of the land fair and square from large holdings of absentee Arab landlords based in Beirut.
Totally agree. The content is great, but the delivery is uncomfortable (both speakers). I stopped watching and just listened. Ultimately, the content is the most important thing and I appreciate the opportunity to access awesome content. If anything, I think the first lecture helped humanize the whole "start-up scene". From the outside, it seems like everyone has figured it all out, but clearly we all have areas to improve.

Lastly, given that this will be so broadly distributed, I totally get the need to be on message so it may make sense to read in this scenario.
more on this is here:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-creates-histo...
Shen – A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp [video]
> Its free if you have bitcoin and your friend wants bitcoin.

Yes, that goes without saying. It's also true of paying friends with USD cash.
Aero's setup isn't a legal fiction, it's the exact opposite - they really do rent out a different individual antenna to each user.

A legal fiction is a legal story that doesn't actually match the literal facts.