skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equivocation fallacy. By that logic every other available currency in the world is saving us from the corrupted governments. Hell, the "virtue" of cowry shells can save me from hyperinflation and help protect my free speech!

Except people stopped using cowry shells as a currency, just as people stopped using Bitcoins as a currency. Now people hoard/trade them like digital beanie babies. If liquidity and insurance problems ever get solved, then we might see mass adoption.
Absolutely amazing, congratulations India!
Twitter handle of ISRO's Mars Orbiter: https://twitter.com/MarsOrbiter

First tweet:
"What is red, is a planet and is the focus of my orbit?"
Browserify and Gulp Workflow for React
Spying on you by default... A lot of people don't understand how much self-incriminating information there is in all that physical activity data. Imagine you're accused of committing a violent murder. And you own an iPhone. And you claim you were sleeping at that time. But your physical acitvity data shows otherwise.
Does anyone know of a simple script to get the signal strength of the bluetooth connection on OS X? I've been putting together pieces of this app functionality, but I'm stuck at a scriptable / command line bluetooth program.

Right now I'm using a bunch of launch daemons to disable the requirement for a password when I'm on a particular wifi network, but bluetooth would be handy.
MOM spacecraft was launched last year (5th Nov 2013) and today it entered into Martian orbit. Here's the twitter handle of spacecraft: https://twitter.com/MarsOrbiter

Mars Orbit Insertion was covered live on ISRO webcast (http://webcast.isro.gov.in/), Doordarshan National TV and other channels. Here's the complete coverage of MOI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZL_Vwy0JqI

MOI sequence of events: http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mom/status.html

MOM carries five scientific payloads: http://www.isro.org/mars/payload.aspx

Expecting first set of colour pictures from MOM by today evening (IST) :)
The odds were against them, and yet they managed to pull this off on the first try. Congratulations ISRO!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29307123
Great compared to what? I think in the past few months the stock market was a much better use of our time.
While I presume your quote is correct, I don't think you are applying it correctly. That is one exception, but there are others. Although I don't think there is clear case law, ripping audio CD's for archival backup is almost universally presumed (even by the MPAA and RIAA) to be legal in the US: https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/united-state...

And it's frequently presumed that creating backups of legally owned video DVD's would constitute fair use under US copyright, but is instead illegal because it requires breaking DRM to do so, and the DMCA offers no such exception: http://lifehacker.com/5978326/is-it-legal-to-rip-a-dvd-that-...

But if you happen to come across an unprotected commercial DVD that you legally own (I have only ever come across one, "Cane Toads: An unnatural history") I think you probably would prevail in asserting that it is fair use to create a personal backup copy for use in case the original is destroyed.
I'll be making one. Will post a link in the YouTube video and here as well.
That would've been a bit hard to do seeing as how the endurance test has been running for over a year. Even with SSDs, 1.5 petabytes of reads/writes takes a while to write.
Agreed completely, it definitely felt rushed and not particularly well prepared - thus reading off of the paper.

That said, the content is strong and for the desired audience it is all probably novel, besides the fact that this was day 1 of a new course.

When I thought about it more though, it seems like the idea of the class is more of a lecture series style than traditional instruction anyway.
I also needed a transcript (doubles as notes). Will post my own transcript here for you guys.
Well, yeah, I noticed you guys' response to one of the comments on the blog post indicated that the problem machine had a different workload (additional tasks or something). That caused the additional writes, which then caused the latency for the main app on the box.

I think your point still stands about logging, being cautious about blocking I/O calls, etc. But, it seems the bigger point is one of how your overall system is architected, which proccesses run where, dedicating like nodes to their tasks vs. potential quality/consistency issues arising from having some pull double-duty, etc.

Those seemed to be the source of the real issue here.
Its a proud moment!
Similar.

I'm always frustrated that the BBC seem to think that shows disappear the minute that the iPlayer "watch again" period ends, so much so that sometimes there is no reference (that search returns) for shows - nothing to tell you when it was on, or when it will be on again. Meanwhile they do adverts on-screen that don't tell you when the featured shows are actually to be on.

Anyway, not to go too far OT: I searched "fawlty towers", no hits. Hmm, what data are they opening up? Then I tried the "politics" link to see what wealth of info there was, then "welsh politics". That last link just gives a terse definition with a source of dbpedia. Okay? Perhaps that's an anomaly. Tried "politics" again and the top subordinate link "politics", similar terse page with 2 source links wikipedia and dbpedia. So far no sign of any BBC data ...?

So, is this just a framework at present without being linked to the data? For example http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/1610c842-3ba4-4923-96b2-2c282b9c... "men's parasport 100m" will that eventually link to info like http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/2014/results/s... or am I barking up the wrong tree.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/c7079009-0991-49bb-86d9-1800dc46... is just weird - "X is a news story" but no link to the story or details beyond the title. What's the use case that finds utility in that page?

"Beta", so this is consider to be fully working and ready to be used except for potential bugs? Seems more Alpha or POC to me based on the data completeness given the lede "a single reference for all of the things that matter to the BBC and our audiences".

Final note - the most prominent thing on the OP landing page is a kids program advert.
Congratulations! You guys must be extra happy.
I just wish someone could tell me one I could buy that would last longer than 1.5 years in my laptop. I'm on #3 now :(
I agree.

Just ask yourself if National Geographic would let you dictate terms of a settlement because you claimed "someone sold [me] a license for art"?

If National Geographic doesn't like copyright law, they should come out publicly against it, not threaten a drawn-out lawsuit against the artist. On the other hand, now that they're obviously caught violating it, it's time to pay up.

Anything else is neither fair nor reasonable. Trying to get back to the simple licensing the artist offers _law-abiding_ licensees is not fair or reasonable.

National Geographic is welcome to go and pursue damages against their "someone" who sold it to them.
There's obviously a market. By not making it available, they are throwing away whatever revenue, however small, they could have gained, and others are capturing this revenue (if not the free hoster, the advertising firms or carriers along the way in some manner do).

That the rights holders have not collectively figured this out yet is no longer the consumer's problem (for a large percentage of consumers) because consumers have just decided that they are willing to pay the small cost or illegally obtaining (that is, small when averaged across occurances based on consequences) versus figuring out if it's even possible to get a legal copy of the movie for them.

In other words, consumers will get the movie either way, that the rights-holders are not getting money for it is someone else's problem (at least, that's how I interpreted the original post).
It's pretty common around here, actually.

"If you aren't paying for the product, you _are_ the product."
And it's already getting friendly with the Curiosity Rover. ;-)

https://twitter.com/MarsOrbiter/status/514618412417302528
Probabalistic advice is different from deterministic advice in that there are exceptions to the rules. Assuming you are the exception as an excuse to avoid the rules generally results in worse performance rather than better. Avoiding the advice entirely without even trying to comprehend why you are the exception seems to border on certifiable to me.
Some good information here -

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-youngwor...

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/journey-to-the-red-...
ISRO is awesome. :D
In my case, I have the bottom Netflix DVD option (up to 2 discs per month--1 at a time) plus I buy the occasional movie. And the occasional RedBox although that usually involves an extra trip to the store.

Generally speaking, I don't pay a la carte for streaming outside of my Netflix and Amazon Prime subscriptions. I could probably rent movies streaming instead of getting DVDs in a lot of cases but sometimes I like the extras and I have more flexibility not to finish immediately.
I'm 100% in agreement with you here. Gnome 3 was/is, to me, the only desktop I can stand to use anymore. I will agree with OP's complaint about alt-tab though... I had to install [Coverflow Alt-Tab|https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/97/coverflow-alt-tab/].
Tracking Down Who Runs “http://www.emmayouarenext.com/”
>Today, the number one threat to our freedom comes from the prospect of terrorist attacks on US soil.

This is only because of the actions the US government would certainly take in response, i.e. eliminate various freedoms that still remain.

(I wonder if it's appropriate to speak of 'freedom' anymore? Most of the stuff in the Bill of Rights seems more like revokable privileges at this point.)
Lessons in Moving House
Dying from the Outside In: Men and Eating Disorders
iOS8 vs. Android L: Google Comes Out on Top for Battery Saving, Speed
That I will definitely miss if I moved away. Maybe it's just my years with XMonad but I don't use it that often, I mostly only want to move one window around, rarely groups.

The only time I move entire groups is to push it to the other monitor which is the one thing it can't do.
absolutely, works well in the browser, HTML5 not flash, and they have Roku and Chromecast integration and mobile apps as well.
House of Cards is what got me (reluctantly) to eventually re-up for streaming after Netflix carved it off. But like way too many monthly payments of mine, it's something I marginally get my money's worth from given that I am an avid Amazon Prime customer in any case and there's a lot of overlap.
You can make things look pretty decent by running some kind of a settings daemon so that apps that follow xsettings Do The Right Thing. Either run one from one of the DEs, or find a thing called xsettingsd that's more standalone but a bit more painful to use. But I actually like it better since it puts the settings in a text file, and it doesn't also hijack shortcuts and the like (like gnome-settings-manager does).
Also, you can (once again) use the keyboard for almost everything. Want to open an app? Press super and start typing it's name!
Evolution: A Complexity View
What? Old folks love socialism, they just hate the name. Are you familiar with Social Security and Medicare?
So, someone steals the front page artwork for your site, doesn't give you the proper credit and then offers you a mere pittance of what they'll make in sales and you're OK with that?

Capitalism shouldn't suck only for the little guys.
Sooo when Mt. Gox became insolvent the bitcoin holders there didn't need insurance?
There's a book contract here somewhere.
"The Pocket Jump is the first system that combines the advanced technology to charge smartphones, tablets, gaming devices, and more with the power to jump-start your car, all while never leaving the safety and security of the driver’s seat. ... Pocket Jump includes: ... Cigarette Lighter Socket/Power Port Plug for transferring power from the Pocket Jump to your car battery using the internal wiring of the vehicle."

This is ridiculous. To jump-start a car, you need to be able to power the starter motor to turn over the engine. A starter motor draws around 100 amps of current in round numbers. More if the engine is cold (which is likely if the battery is dead). There's no way that a device that fits in your pocket can store enough energy to start your car. And even if it could, there's no way you can pull that much current through the cigarette lighter plug inside your car, since that circuit is protected with a fuse that's rated at somewhere around 10-20 amps.
The recommended reading from the final slide:

- The Hard Thing About Hard Things

- Zero to One (CS 138A)

- The Facebook Effect

- The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

- The Tao of Leadership

- Nonviolent Communication
Brian from Backblaze here. Let's call that "DOA Failure rate", where the drive is either dead on arrival, or does not survive the 2 day initial burn in test. I'll ask the boots on the ground for more data, but my impression is the 2 day burn in doesn't catch many drive failures, let's say less than 1/2 of 1 percent. We have even proposed skipping it, but we gain confidence the REST of the system is wired up correctly and other components like power supplies also have infant mortality.
World’s cheapest Mars Mission: How Mangalyaan stacks up against others
Denying the existence of provable facts? I have a hard time imagining how that could be effective without a PR team and a compelling narrative to be spun.
Jeff Bezos slashes retirement benefits for Washington Post employees
It downloads a .exe apparently so no.
First attempt, small budget but successful. Its ISRO
>In other words, consumers will get the movie either way, that the rights-holders are not getting money for it is someone else's problem (at least, that's how I interpreted the original post).

Well, your overall comment is just a statement of what's happening. We all know there's a market, demand, etc. And, your interpretation of the original post is pretty much how I interpreted it as well.

But, it still begs my original question: why is it OK for "consumers to get the movie either way?" Why is it someone else's problem?

That someone else actually owns the movie. Where else do we actually believe it's OK to take something that belongs to someone else simply because we don't like their terms? Then, we turn around and blame them for our stealing it because they should have offered better terms?

It's just weird. I mean, if people want to steal something, then just steal it and be ready to pay the consequences as with anything else. But, all of this rationalization that they somehow deserve to own it because they were inconvenienced by the rightful owner is what I don't understand.
"They", who, jquery.com?
Physicists have quantum teleported a particle of light across 25 kilometres
Wow, it really is sad when you think of it that way.

I don't torrent stuff, but this kind of sentiment makes me wish I did ...
Over 10 years ago I had a friend who confided that he left his unit, Israels unit 8200, that he had wanted for years to get in because he was disturbed by the type of intelligence they gathered. He explained they would go into the west bank in the middle of the night and monitor valleys waiting in hopes that a Palestinian would masturbate or better take part in some bestiality that they could photograph to use as blackmail. He clarified that these were not targets in some terrorist organization, remotely connected to one. They were just random people. He spent almost a year in intense training learning how to be a covert scout and a sniper. I remember he was beaming for that period of time. But no more than a month after training ended he quit the unit (started his exit from it at least) and told me what was happening.
Campfire stories may have sparked early societal learning
Well, you're not missing anything. These arguments fall apart the moment 'stealing it' becomes part of the discussion.

The correct way to protest a content offering in our society is to not consume it. That's actually true of any consumer product. If you just steal it instead, you're signaling the producer that you do want their product; you'd like to think that the proper response would be to make a product that entices you to buy instead of steal, but unless almost everyone is stealing, it's probably cheaper to lobby for the DMCA. Which is what happened.

As far as the frictional costs, etc. alluded to earlier, I actually have no idea what that means. I think it may mean there is a lot of hand-waving built-in to what media costs, making it very difficult for me as a consumer to know what I'm actually paying for and, if I'm value conscious, to determine whether it's worth the price.
Ask HN: Any suggestions for hotels/airbnb in Cupertino, CA?
I hope it is ok to share that I am going to Startup School in Oct. It is in Cupertino and I am pretty much an East Coast person. I have been to LA and Arizona once but thats about it. So any suggestions for hotels in Cupertino or I might just look into airbnb.
I'm surprised it wasn't done in Node.JS and a "NoSQL" DB.
I noticed that Ubuntu only gave the patch for this vulnerability a "low" priority[1]. Furthermore, they state that "The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service". Can someone enlighten me
1) What was the compiler flags used to harden this flaw?
2) Was the same compiler flags used to compile Debian packages?

Thanks,

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/apt/1.0.1ubuntu2...
[2] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2353-1/
[3] http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-20...
You're right that taking the time to proofread and grammar/spell check is good, but in this particular case the performance is that of your company. Thus, "company's" is correct. :-)

The other is probably a typo, which might lend authenticity to it having been actually typed out by the CEO, rather than pasted from an archive.
Qtile is great. I've been using it for years, after xmonad and awesome previously.
> it seemed like a great idea with no downside

Netflix has one huge downside - proliferation of DRM.
> What am I missing?

The fact that under a first-sale model, there are business models that are able to handle selling this kind of long-tail content perfectly well, despite the higher up-front costs for printing up a batch of disks. But since streaming allows them to sell exclusively, which allows them to strike nice deals that look good up front but then wind up squeezing everyone in the industry and being crap for consumers, they wonder why revenues are declining and they can't sell anything, but never actually have the guts to go back to a model that worked but gives them less negotiation leverage with their vendors.

> 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.

Really? A car has fixed, very high costs per item. Downloading from a streaming site has zero costs for the studio. Yes, the content originally cost money to produce, but it makes absolutely no difference to them whether I watch it on a streaming site or spend the night at the local pub instead.

What they're doing is more akin to someone having an open air concert that costs $50 bucks to get in and you have to go through a metal detector and pat down to ensure you don't bring in any recording devices, and then trying to complain that some people just listen to the concert from outside the fence.
Thanks for mentioning MailDiary!
Mars Missions: Successes and Failures – Yahoo News
I think if they produced evidence that some other person had purported to sell them the art the guy would be much less warranted, but they haven't so it's likely that didn't happen.
> Maybe I'm missing something, but that sounds an awful lot like some sort of weird consumer entitlement

It doesn't matter what you want to depict it as. You can browbeat people all you want, shake your head at humanity, none of it matters. You're not going to browbeat people into not watching a movie they want to see when all it takes is just a few clicks. These companies spend tens of millions of dollars marketing a product to create demand and then are unable to satisfy the demand. I don't have any kind of physical player anymore. Nothing in my house plays DVDs, BlueRays, VHS, nothing. If I want to see a movie I check on Netflix, I check on Amazon Video, and then if I still don't see it I check out. I don't pirate, but it is frustrating even for me. I can't watch any of the Star Wars films. Sure I guess there are some kind of weird deals that prevent these companies from making these changes, but all that means to me is that I can't watch those movies any more, and for others it means they'll just pirate it, with no fucks given about what you might think about that.
India Mars mission enters orbit – Yahoo News
You mentioned that she is incredibly brilliant and extremely passionate, but if she is also awesome and amazing (ideally amazingly awesome or awesomely amazing) then you will have a stronger case.
Agreed that both presentation styles work. That said, regardless of the "strategy", the delivery needs to be clean to be seen as authoritative (unless a tremendous amount of respect as been pre-built). Imagine your CEO delivering an all-hands with 47 ums and reading from a script -- how much confidence would that instill?
The relevant constraint isn't mass, but volume. Essentially you're limited you to a cube 12 cm on a side (plus 1 cm³ for every 19.25 g of payload mass).
http://www.overclock.net/t/1507897/samsung-840-evo-read-spee...

Incorrect. It has become apparent that the Samsung 840 EVO (Triple-level Cells... 3-bits per cell) have a "powered on" issue.

There seems to be significant slowdown when reading data that hasn't been touched for months on those drives.
Is that actually their plan? I haven't found anything about balancing mass on their site.
I love it, pure business speak ans number from the hat, zero technical details. Use it when the buyer is boss of the buyer.

When the user pays, send screen caps and detailed explanations.
For High School Football Coaches and Fans, a New Digital Blitz
What are you basing that claim on? The quotes elsewhere in this thread seem to contradict what you're saying.
This is also the consumer drive instead of the enterprise drive.
Show HN: rmarkdown, awesome editor for awesome markdown
can you be more specific? the xkeyscore100 rule set leak seems to indicate hadoop map reduce use which to me indicates a vanilla build out of the NSAs own. so what could you use to show more clear involvement from Palantir
which is why slf4j has format strings
If your database has specialised compression, or keeps most data in main memory compressed (I can think of at least one that does), then this approach won't work.

For almost everything else though, putting compression in the filesystem layer is better.