skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for Windows, but the setup where I work involves four drives (currently 2 TB each), with three running as a triple-mirror ZFS pool. For backup, I split a drive off the pool, pull it, slide in the previous backup, and resilver the newly-inserted drive. Each time, I use a different drive bay.

The ZFS pool itself provides backup for several other systems, and snapshots are made periodically by a cron job to provide a further line of defense.
Your way makes just as little sense.

If you have a high value space in Tokyo for example, then you want to make the best use of that space. If you have plenty of room, then you care about cost of the install more.

Secondly, this is research technology, not mass production technology. You can't look at the money component of it, because it's not for sale. Not in that manner anyway.
I don't think I'm the right person for this.

To do it right -- to propose something like that that isn't just an off the cuff manifesto -- you'd have to do a lot of research and work out all the economics and game theory everything out. You'd have to do a real scholarly treatment of it. It'd take at least someone deeply educated in economics with several years to dedicate.

Then you'd have to steel yourself against the howling, since if you actually put something like that out there you'd be a communist baby eating God hating liberal right winger Illuminati Satan worshipper who wants to poison us all with GMO from fracking wastewater and torture kittens and make us all take the mark of the beast, or something.
I can't help to think he tainted his prospects quite a bit with this debacle.

I don't see it as a major mark against him. First, it's unclear that he, himself, tried to create the lie. Second, social proof arbitrage (which we both know isn't a real "arbitrage" but the hacking of peoples' reference-counting algorithms in order to establish personal credibility) is something that everyone does, especially in Silicon Valley where it's just a necessary social skill. It's just a bit juvenile to attach it to a rather verifiable claim of having made $72 million. The best social proof arbitrage is when you dishonestly represent the opinions of influential or reputable people, rather than creating false facts (that will eventually be refuted).
Stripping naked during airport security screening – not allowed
Show HN: Weaver, a fast and scalable store for dynamically changing graphs
Building a Recommendation Engine for a Spree Store Using the Neo4J
>I.e: because the flash exploit didn't establish two-way clearnet communication with the target computer, how can they prove that the outgoing clearnet I.P. was not spoofed?

I'd assume that the flash snippet establishes a TCP connection, so it has to complete a handshake first. Those are fairly hard to spoof.
At that price point, I would question the quality of the material.
4th Generation warfare is mainly about legitimacy, particularly of non-state actors. ISIS is fighting to be seen as the legitimate representative of Iraq and a broader caliphate, and self-policing corruption furthers that goal.

I highly recommend reading Bill Lind's stuff on 4G warfare, which helps make sense of lots of things in modern warfare: why massive armies don't win wars, why the pentagon is infatuated with expensive technologies, why 4G combatants act the way they do, etc.
Lessig's contention is that you can't make significant changes to the government in it's current form. That's the whole point.
Not that this is the case here, but crisis PR firms would love the publicity from an event like this and many would be willing to take this on pro bono. If you think about it, this is a really easy case for the PR firm that brings huge amounts of publicity, so they're really getting their bang for their buck. The clients in this case are just high school "kids" whose story got taken out of context and exaggerated by the manipulative "media". Any wrong doing can really be swept under the rug with a sincere apology. Who can't relate to the follies of youth, esp when there's powerful media enterprise trying to exploit them?
I use OS X on my main computer, so I haven’t used this personally, but Bvckup 2 was mentioned on HN in the past:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027405
You don't write just one type, you write many. The problem you described is pretty straightforward. There are actually lots of examples of how to do this with existing Haskell libraries. What specifically do you want to know about?
From the original link for the BPG format http://bellard.org/bpg/:

Some of the HEVC algorithms may be protected by patents in some countries (read the FFmpeg Patent Mini-FAQ [https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html] for more information). Most devices already include or will include hardware HEVC support, so we suggest to use it if patents are an issue.

The mini-FAQ contains some relevant information.
Racket, Dropbox and .zo files
I don't think anyone struggles to imagine how a better system would work. The issue is that the current Supreme Court has set strict limits on the legal regulation of campaign finance, so there are few straightforward paths to reform.
Verne – An experiment in social computing
Taiga.io – Named in Opensource.com 2014 Top 10 Open Source Projects
Docker, OpenStack, Apache Hadoop amongst others named. http://opensource.com/business/14/12/top-10-open-source-projects-2014
PARC and SBAC are indeed tests intended to measure students against the Common Core State Standards. They are not from, or a part of, the CCSSI. People definitely do want to misuse these tests to punish schools and teachers, but none of this invalidates the Common Core. And while people will teach to the sample tests, that's on people who want to use these to destroy schools, not on the Common Core itself.
All I'm seeing from the comparison is that your circles are a bit smaller than the original.
That we can manually hack around this with busywork and tiptoe around the issue with various hacks doesn't mean it's not a flaw in the language.

It's 2014. Generics are a settled deal in programming languages. It's not some syntactic sugar or something the value of which is stull undecided and its advocates might "lack an imagination".

>Use lang2 if you love it so much. Seriously.

Well, some do. That doesn't mean they don't get to complain about something they perceive broken in Go that could be better. Especially if they could use Go (to take advantage of other benefits it might have) if it weren't for those shortcomings.

In general, the statement is analogous to "if you have a problem with X in america, why don't you immigrate", which is silly. If you have a problem, you criticize, and you try to change that. You don't just dismiss everything that's also not problematic.
Any site I try to navigate to throws the error that the site isn't trusted (gmail.com ???). I click the "Add Exception", and then nothing happens. I'm not able to open ANY website.

Love the concept, hopefully you can get this bug worked out. It's probably because of my companies EXTREMELY strict firewall and proxy...
A dynamic, interactive pricing grid from Joyent
If a human was watching the house in person, would a search warrant have needed to be obtained? Not trying to incite anything here--I realize there are differences--but I was curious about the legal implications of video vs. in-person surveillance of a property's exterior.
The Russians are utilizing it alright. However glancing at todays headlines eg. "Russian rouble in free-fall despite shock 17% rate rise" I'm not sure how well that's working out for them.
Has there been any announcement about the Google Earth Windows client being deprecated? I think it's been over a year since there were any updates.

I'm guessing Google is putting all of their efforts into Maps, but it's a shame because I really like the Windows client version. I have spent hours just roaming around the planet using it.
The difference is that the tower was built and it exists and can be used for another project if not for the original one.

If you ignore corruption for a second (not that you should), the problem remaining is the original project died without a replacement in the near term. This looks surprisingly like a waste of money, since the tower has no immediate utility. However, it has long term value and that is important.

Doing busywork would have amounted to building the tower and destroying it to recoup the land value.

If corruption was involved, it should be investigated separately. But the tower should not have been scrapped for this reason alone.
A redesign of the Django websites
Is Microsoft's open-source 'embrace' a cynical ploy?
The 20% Who Spread Most Disease
>I shall notify the scientific journals of this conclusion forthwith.

No, you should just re-read the part that says:

>Welcome to real life, where you have to make up your mind with what you have available. People have to learn to use and correlate the information they have, historical information, precedent etc, and make up a model for what's going on, instead of demanding some sanctious data to be passed upon them, like a Holy Book.

And then you must have to learn to consider the context when replying -- which was not scientific research.

If you expect peer reviewed hard data handed down from the likes of the FBI before you make up your mind, you're obviously not paying attention.
To be fair, your two examples fill very different roles (daily news versus long-form nonfiction). Serial strikes me as closer to fiction or memoir than daily news.
internet porn was centralized enough in 1996 to be only year that it made top 20??
Perhaps if this coincides with the rise of the machine replacing cheap labor, this might actually be a good thing, but something like a BIG would be needed to supply the non-working with income.
But yeah, store the private key, but make it encrypted by a secure password only decrypted locally, and update documentation to make this clear.

I think even this is "too secure". I forget my 'secure passwords' regularly, and I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one. It's not a huge improvement over telling a user to print out a private key and keep it somewhere safe.

Given the likely threats to Backblaze, I'd encrypt user backup private keys with a threshold or other multi-key scheme. No individual Backblaze employee's key would be sufficient to decrypt a backup; you'd need the active participation (and private knowledge) of at least a few. That prevents individuals from snooping, and requires compromising several employees to decrypt backup data.
Taliban kills children in School
Regarding the CLR you have ahead of time compilers in the form of Mono for iOS, Windows Phone, Bartok, ngen and now .NET Native.

How the generic code generation differs from the JIT approach I don't know.
What we've learn from Ember.js after 2 months developing our new product
Ask HN: Crawler for my app. Please suggest
Hi,
I am planning to write an app what requires web pages to be crawled. Could you pls suggest one?
Thanks in advance.
Actually HELIOS One was based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Project .
Cash! Dollar bills are like anonymous physical bitcoins!
Koolaid point. Go is a much, much worse language than e.g. D, Rust, OCaml, but somehow it gets all this attention. I appreciate it's not productive, but you can see why this naturally makes people angry.
Mastering Bitcoin is another resource that explains the bitcoin protocol in detail.

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001802/index.ht...

It is available to read online for free.
Is this a new thing? I haven't seen a comprehensive list like this for bitcoin tech specs before, and I do follow bitcoin waaaaaay too much.

Seems like this will be a very useful thing with more people starting to use bitcoin!
Hi chris-at, the open source license is discussed on our website here: https://polybrowser.com/faqs/where-can-i-download-the-source...
In recent decades renewable have enjoyed much more investment than nuclear. People love renewables, so governments love renewables, so industry builds renewables.

However, they aren't going to displace coal any time soon, which is what we need to do to avoid the catastrophe we're heading for.

Transmission, storage and integration are all problems that will certainly be solved, with time and many billions spent on research and new infrastructure. Nuclear gives us drop-in zero-carbon replacements for coal plants today, without major changes to existing grids.

If we're going to avoid disaster, 0% fossil fuels must take priority over 100% renewables. I hope and pray that the green movement embraces nuclear as a brother in arms soon.
Engineer uses tape measure to beat speeding ticket
So it should be open source, right?

Wasn't able to find anything on their website.
I've just read "Trust Me, I'm Lying" by Ryan Holliday - a very similar book by the sounds of it, and also one I'd heartily recommend if you want to understand what you're seeing any time you look at Twitter, Facebook, or any mass media.
We haven't experienced that issue, even behind corporate firewalls, but will look into it. Thanks!
You could try out http://scrapy.org/.
Categories Great and Small
Surprised to see Ask still on the list. I haven't personally browsed there since maybe y2k. Not to be facetious, but I imagine a whole segment of users unaware of Google (or DDG, or another sensible modern alternative) and still relying on Ask.
-Weverything on clang is what you want
Not sure what you are asking for, a crawler, or a website to be crawled.
To take this a bit further:

Concepts like "rights" and "freedom" are easy when it is people you like doing things that you like. It is so easy, that it isn't even necessary to bother with the formalization of those concepts in these easy cases. The entire point of "rights" and "freedom" is that they must be upheld for the people you hate, doing things that you hate.

When judging the level of freedom in a society, you don't look at how the normal citizen is treated; you look instead at how the underclass, criminals, and other disliked groups. If their rights are overlooked and ignored, any claims at being a "free society" is just marketing/PR.
A stronger Bill Gates would be more resistant to disease, death, injury etc., and thus be more useful (which is what this study is saying). If he hurts his back because he wasn't trained and is thus unable to travel and work as much, or recovers from disease more slowly because he is weak then it's really not irrelevant. Bill Gates spends an hour ever morning on the treadmill. If he swapped that for strength training or even half of it for strength training it is likely he would get a significant mortality risk reduction, and thus keep his brain in a position to be more useful for longer. Mind body link, no point in choosing one side or the other. It's all one thing.
They have a Unix client— probably just not the Unix you use (OS X).
Annc: StrongLoop Arc – A Complete UI for Developing APIs Node.js
Celebrating Arthur C. Clarke’s Odyssey
Both Java and .NET also have a ahead of time compilation to native code.
"Mailing using envelopes instead of postcards"

Which is why there is a program to track the envelopes of all postal mail.
I'm simply saying that todays platforms are not cut out to support DNA computing or the simulation of it. Sorry I sound like a robot, I'm not very social.
What is the next major shift in technology?
All of us here are (or at least try to be) on the bleeding edge of technology. With that said, some of the community members here are effectively creating the future of technology that we will inhibit. Through trial and error we've all gained some insights, and I'd like to know where you believe technology is headed, and what the next major break through might be.

Let's discuss...
Looking great. Thanks for great Christmas gift :D

On the other hand, I feel like I am going to miss old design - is there archive somewhere?
I talked with him a couple days ago and while I didn't ask about France specifically, he basically said that "corruption" can take different forms overseas, depending on the system in place there are always indirect ways for money to exert influence. (and ways to fight it!)
i'm confused. what/why is gannett (in 2013)?
Interestingly, the Vorbis project only really took off after mp3 started facing licensing issues. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis

> Intensive development began following a September 1998 letter from the Fraunhofer Society announcing plans to charge licensing fees for the MP3 audio format.

Who says patents don't promote innovation? :-)

(I'm only half-joking - invention forced by working around patents has long been a post-facto justification of patents.)

Also, nit, it wasn't all done by just "1 FOSS guy". From the same wikipedia link:

> Chris Montgomery began work on the project and was assisted by a growing number of other developers.
Amazing graph shows the power of language in the Online World
It has relevance to generics. Right now the question implies Go does not have generics, which is not true at all. The question should be reworded :

Go has generic types and generic/polymorphic functions. Therefore all the focus on that such functions are not necessary/useful seems entirely beside the point, the result of misunderstanding. Can normal Go programmers please be allowed to make use of that feature ?
This is a lot more readable and approachable - nice work! Cool to see that the designers managed to stick to the green template while making it work for a bunch of different content types. Thanks for the update!
I also cut out mainstream news consumption.

For the most part, I simply haven't missed it. Events worthy of my attention (i.e. that will change my behavior) tend to bubble up through more specialized news sources (like Ars Technica or my Twitter feed) anyway.

That said, I have found NextDraft (http://nextdraft.com/) very useful.
2014: Year of the Liberal Lie
Possibly. I would guess however that it's more of a problem with how data is reported. Here's what comScore has to say about their methodology:

"This approach (comScore) combines person-level measurement from the 2 million person comScore global panel with census informed tonnage of consumption to account for 100 percent of a property's audience."

https://www.google.com/search?q=comscore+methodology
SOA Governance: A Secret Weapon for Enterprise IT Risk Management
APIs should not be copyrightable
I'm rather surprised--which is to say, calling bullshit--that no porn sites (any of the $TUBE network) shows up on this.
Gannett is a large media holding company. They own/license a number of news stations, but more importantly, own USA Today.
The old design was/is awesome, I'll miss it.

I didn't fell comfortable with the new one, looks too bright to my eyes.
Pretty sure that's hanging around for the foreseeable future. It's the browser plugin that's going away.
Too Fast, Too Furious: In search of time gained
I'm pretty sure you can build a total language and outlaw infinite loops even without dependent types. It also turns out that you can basically do whatever you want in a total language with a good runtime so long as it does coinduction well.

I just think the only real motivation people have taken up on for total languages is their proof theoretic properties which drives you quickly to dependent types.
The startup issue is much simpler.

Start-ups are started to generate value. They are ventures in a sense that you don't know exactly where they will end and if they end up nowhere there is no real problem.

However, identity function is not a venture. Investing in one makes no sense.
I had these thoughts too. They are actually very wrong, as I learned from the great Hans Rosling: http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-p...
New social site WhoQuest aims to help find the best person for the job
The "Ask" toolbar is bundled with a lot of crapware. Could explain the inflated numbers. I doubt any Ask users don't know of Google - more like they don't know how to switch, or don't need/want to.
I remember first seeing a Yahoo TV commercial. Was like, Yahoo is big enough to have a TV commercial?!!
Skype’s Real Time Translation Now Ready for Real Users
This feels slightly "Black Mirror" but, to me, it's inevitable. It's a charismatic story. It's somewhat of an advertorial, not just for a person, but for an idea: that someone at Stuyvesant (which is full of high-talent, mostly middle-class, students because the truly wealthy go to schools like Dalton that deliver Harvard if you show up for class, and Stanford as a consolation prize) can make $72 million on his wits alone. I would want to believe it, were I not knowledgeable enough on finance to smell the bullshit.

The current corporate world is built on lies, repeated often enough until they become truth (reputation, prestige, credibility). There are facts, and occasionally those hit back against an aggressive lie; but most of what drives economic life (especially at the individual level) is brand and reputation and social proof. How many corporate executives got there without lying about their CVs, polishing their career histories and accomplishments, and generally manicuring their reputations using a number of tools including deceit? Probably zero. Occasionally, some corporate executive gets caught in a lie and is scapegoated, usually because he was stupid and lied about something easily refutable like where he went to college... even though they all do it.

The sad thing here is that we're talking about a teenager who (a) stood to gain next to nothing and (b) probably didn't intend for any of this to happen at all. The disgusting thing is that, if he takes a fall for this, then he'll have fallen not because of any deception but because of social class. A middle-class kid makes the middle-class mistake of (possibly) lying about something that can be refuted, and gets burned. An upper-class kid gets a $5 million seed round on parental connections and Stanford Welfare (a more pernicious lie, because it looks like merit) and gets away with it, being allowed to play CEO for years until "adult supervision" is brought in to administer a company that he still owns.
This looks like a great example of "Be careful what you measure, because that is exactly what you will improve."
I like the new design but IMHO there was nothing wrong with the old one.

There was something very warm and reassuring about the old colors and I feel there was more information filled.
If I had to guess, because it's problematic because they wouldn't have had probable cause to determine his immigration status anyways. I.e. they can't just walk up to the guy's house and demand to see his green card just because.

And yeah, that's pretty much exactly what it is. Some group of fools think that referring to immigrants with the qualifier "illegal" is somehow a slight against the person rather than their legal status.
I remember thinking the same thing. Still impressive they're as high as they are today considering I haven't used it in years.
that is a horrible article, considering the picture they are using is ripped off of a reprap blog on smoothing abs prints using acetone vapors. http://blog.reprap.org/2013/02/vapor-treating-abs-rp-parts.h.... (I'm actually a member of Fablocker, so I'd seen those squirrels before)
How Citibank Totally Nailed Its Hackathon
Continuous Delivery for Android (part 1)
I think it has too much empty space ...
Anything logged on my end that I could send to you? (Edit: can't navigate to your Feedback/Support page either)
Use Video Interviews to Reveal Soft Skills
Pakistani Taliban Attack School Leaving 145 Dead
The fact the name of the PR firm is mentioned in the article probably means it's (at least in part) PR for the PR firm as much as anything.
Rsync. I don't think I'd recommend that on Windows though.
Depression and Entrepreneurship – With Jerry Colonna and Rand Fishkin
PolyBrowser, a new way to browse the web
Lessig's whole point is that you can't effectively advocate for it without money. That's the crux of the whole problem he highlights.
Can't wait to get home to try it on my Windows 8.1 tablet. Looks like the ideal browsing solution for touchscreens.
Is SEO Still Worth It in 2015?