skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, pretty much.

There are boutiques that cater to the very high-end crowd, but they're few and far between.

If you want units of 100's, that just isn't going to happen. It's simple economics--if you want 100K units, you have more than enough incentive to go to China. If you want 100's of units, you're either too small and will go bankrupt or you will change over to China next round because you have the volume. So, you don't get future work, and you tie up one of my machines.

It's very hard to explain to people that the economics of automation dictate that a machine should either be operated nearly 100% or 0%. 100% is the obvious production mode. 0% is the non-obvious one. You want 0% because you need to be ready for when you get the 100% order. The opportunity cost of not getting the 100% order due to lack of capacity, machine needing maintenance, etc. far exceeds the profit you would make on that order for 100 units.
Top down development starts before you write code
I apologize, I make an honest attempt to reply to everyone who responded to the Who's Hiring post. I must have lost your email somehow.

We will be hiring again soon, please reach out to me at jack@voxel8.co
Airbnb's Verified ID has a fatal flaw
May be 'The Problem with Music Industry' is more reflective of the article.
Ignoring the Cloud … Not Anymore: Cloud Stats Rule
Dear Republican Friends,

Don't worry about Obama's community college announcement, it's a great idea.

I mean, clearly the education market is far too competitive as is. With average annual tuition rates of $2,700, who can afford to go to community college I ask you. Clearly, if we remove all competition in the market, that price can only go down, right?

And I shouldn't need to remind you that the teachers unions have clearly shown themselves amenable to keeping education affordable. Putting all power in their hands is a sure-fire play for better education.

Look at the public school teachers in my home-state of Pennsylvania! They're absolute saints, taking in a pathetic $62,000 dollars average per anum, after being short-changed with only a 23% raise in income in the last 10 years. Granted, that was with a Republican governor, so they may have gotten a fair 38% with a Democratic governor, but I think the point stands.
They never use their union clout in a way that hurts our students.

And just look at what they did with public middle and high schools! The taxpayers of Washington, DC, for example, are paying a measly $29,000 per pupil, and we all know the high quality of the DC public schools! This is clearly a place where government regulation is needed.

No, don't get upset my friends.

Obama is just looking out for the little guys on this one. This has, I assure you, nothing to do with Obama trying to claim back support from the teachers unions after they started attacking him, quite rightly I must add, for instantiating our evil (Republican) decade-long request that poor schools be given the tools to fire incompetent teachers.

Don't fret, big government loves you.
His latest speech was a couple of weeks ago in Melbourne, Australia, and follows through on what he has seen since then as the internet has changed music:
http://genius.com/Steve-albini-keynote-address-at-melbourne-...
I'll admit. It looks like it has the potential to be an addictive game. However, I'm confused: I didn't see any rabbits in that demo.
A Hackers private showing of Blackhat, the movie
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/f-c-c-commi...
How does it makes sense for administration to take their overhead and then spend it hiring unnecessary beurocrats (rather than shuffling funds to give themselves raises)?

The ever-growing regulatory burden that the private sector always cries about? This is the same thing.
Public Options: The General Case
I don't know. I mean, I know civility and all that. But those people are putting other people's lives at risk --not their own, so much. I think that kind of egregiously selfish behavior pretty much deserves harsh repudiation.
Why does being a good coder preclude code reviews? Even experts make mistakes and even when there are no mistakes an outside perspective can often be useful. People think in different ways and may have something to add even if you are all really good programmers.
yeah, just too short.
Updated the code, try again?
Boa Constrictor Swims Up San Diego Toilet
hey I know smalltalk. I'm really good at it and I like it.

Does this mean I can get a job now, despite having learned the language in 1996?
I'm all for education, but so much of what passes for it is pure nonsense (IMHOP).

And I'm not sure taxpayers ought to pay for, nor encourage, nonsense. That's what parents are for. They have an incentive to say "no" after a bit.

Maybe cleaning up the "educational" system a little might be a better first step. This program could simply be an expensive way (for taxpayers) to have a bunch of semi-bored kids half studying the sociology of Amish Lesbians while claiming they are getting a useful eduction.

(this comment is not intended to offend Lesbians, Sociologists, The Amish, nor Semi-Bored kids... it's just that there is so much nonsense in schools.....I'd be all for the program if it was free math classes only.)

This just seems like a pork barrel type thing for some groups, without achieving the stated objective of eduction.
Yup, now it does in Firefox too.

Also see http://net.ipcalf.com/ , https://hacking.ventures/local-ip-discovery-with-html5-webrt... , https://www.browserleaks.com/webrtc , https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959893 , and http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-security-arch-0...
Community College absolutely transformed me and many of my (at the time) classmate's lives.

In my case I grew up poor, without much opportunity, and the (again, at the time) dirt cheap rates, open admission and guaranteed transfer to a local 4-year gave me opportunity I absolutely didn't have in the few years before I got sick and tired of the dead-end shitty hourly part-time jobs I could get.

Many of my classmates were immigrants and refugees, there to learn English, or get started in their new lives. Now, many years later, they're happy productive citizens, married, with families, working six figure jobs...easily paying off each year what they're entire community college education cost any sort of taxpayer subsidies. Most of them have gone on to get M.S. and even a couple of PhDs.

The doors to get into higher education don't admit everybody equally, but sometimes you can get into other doors if you're willing to go in the side entrance. On the other side, I've worked pretty consistently with people who went to much more highly ranked schools than I did, or came from better pedigrees, and we've all ended up in the same place.

Bonus: my entire college education, from Freshman through my M.S. cost about what a reasonable family sedan cost, and raised my marketability so much that I paid it all off by the time I finished school. I hear of peers, decades later, still paying hundreds of dollars a month on insane student loans, and I feel really lucky to have stumbled into the path I ended up on...despite a little pride swallowing.
I'd like to offer an alternative perspective. The author was both willing to hire people with no experience, and provided free training to candidates. I realize that APL isn't a skill in incredibly high demand, but I think the author may have helped these candidates out in the long term. The ones with the most aptitude for programming were able to discover that aptitude (and "a number" of them were hired because of their investment), and the less apt candidates got a little bit of training and possibly an indication that if they are interested in programming they would have to accept putting in a bit more effort than the more apt candidates.
From what I remember of the talk he was saying that when musicians had royalties at least there was some kind of income in the backdrop so musicians didn't have to literally 'sing for every supper'. He then paralleled that with other digital goods, to contrast to where current trends are taking us. All this was mentioned coupled with his view that having a real middle class en mass means having a strong formal economy yet much of the informal economy is how many musicians ( and other creatives ) make their money. He topped it off with saying that the informal economy is what the "third world" is trying to get away from and basically that if we don't come up with a better structure we are headed in the wrong direction. So it isn't about just making money. It's about having structure to maintain social order.

Basically the context of the talk was much broader and unless you see it for yourself my interpretation will not do it justice.
Yes, I plan to run experiments with different numbers of threads/files and many other factors. Right know I only have access to a cluster of 7 old machines. That's the best I can do and for the hadoop case I used all of the machines.
Sure thing I will provide all of the commands that I used. I just made this project public to get this type of comments. I have not written or explained anything yet. So there are A LOT to explain like the questions you raised. I will try to answer them here as well:
Here is a big sketch of the system: Nodes use fuse to provide a traditional file system view to applications. Zookeeper is used for consensus and it keeps track of what file (name) each node is holding. Swift (or any other persistent storage) is used as the backend. Nodes communicate through TCP or Zero_networking to each other for remote IO operations.
* When a file is flushed my consistency/durability guarantees are whatever the backend storage is. If swift, then it's swift's consistency/durability guarantees. While in memory (not flushed or closed) it's consistent because there is only one copy of file at the host node but not durable because if that node dies it's gone.
if a node fails there is a master (elected with zookeeper) which will assign the files that node was holding to other nodes (assuming that nodes has flushed it's files to the backend). Failure in zookeeper and swift are out of my project scope.
As soon as the system starts, it goes through a zookeeper master election and then master distributes files in the backends to the live nodes.
* right now it's just a silly algorithm (the most free node) however, it can/should be changed to a more advanced mechanism which probably considers load and many other factors as well.

I am very happy to answer your questions and I really enjoyed answering them. I am sure this is the type of question I will get in my defence session as well. And that's why I post this in the news. :)

Awesome, it will be great if other people can contribute in my project. There are many things left to do and a tons of space for improvement. Maybe we can discuss more through email.
Mailburn-The New Dimensions of E-mail
You're right in that the oppression is not as systematic. I made the comparison to something universally recognised, but it was exaggerated.

I am not arguing against freedom of speech, but I am arguing for not buying magazines that promote such damaging stereotypes (just like I recognise that far-right parties can exist , but will never donate a cent to them).

The issue for me, is that as a society we trumpet freedom of religion, but to me it seems like this is only accepted so long as your skin is white to go along with it. The attacks on islam do translate to attacks on people from the Middle East.

Most people assume that if you're from Turkey you're probably muslim (even if in name only). The firebombed kebab shop the day after that attack: nobody knows whether the guy was actually muslim, but it doesn't matter to the attackers because this is really a race problem, and not a religion problem.
> people feel like they need to take on this debt to spend 4 years learning (and forgetting) material that they will never use, for degrees that probably won't be relevant to their career. Just to get a slip of paper that says "bachelor's degree". It is trapping people.

My wife and I have this argument frequently and I usually take your position. She likes to point out that college graduates are not just earning more than their less-educated peers, but the income gap has never been wider between young college graduates and those who only finished high school: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/11/the-rising-cost-of...

I think we can all be angry that most colleges don't measure or seem to care whether students are better thinkers by the time they graduate. Too many are interested in funding third-rate research by second-rate academics, too few are interested in pedagogy and making sure their faculty are good teachers. Why is the lecture still the core of university teaching when everything we're discovering about human learning says it's a terrible way to teach anyone anything?
One of China’s Propaganda Bosses Now Controls Your Web Browser
Why not apologize for something you know you are guilty of? That's the real problem, that rarely happens (especially in the case of a corporation).
Isn't this just the same as, "share with your friends to get a better place in our waiting list" that others have employed. I remember Robinhood doing this and wondered if it really moved my place or was simply a growth hack lie.
That's theoretically true but for the "good attorney" part. I wonder how many debtors in that position can afford such an attorney. For example, one proceeding that took a decade and many hours of pro bono work by a five-star bankruptcy firm:

http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/student-loan-ranger/20...

The 9th Circuit opinion made things a tiny bit better, at least for student loan debtors in the Pacific time zone (plus Hawaii and Alaska), but the standard is still exceptionally, almost punitively, high.
SequoiaDB open source now，a new document-oriented NoSQL Database
I wish if I could :) but right now in our lab I don't have access to such equipments. Honestly, that was the plan because using 10/40G networks will significantly reduce the delay in remote operations as well as increasing the throughput in remote operations.
Reminds me of this: http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/21/3032765/minecraft-emulated...
Their legal liability would then be $0. It wouldn't be worse than it is now.
(no relation to submission.)

I prefer this title (Game Theorists Crack Poker), article (sciam), and our thread here, and wouldn't have clicked the other one if I had seen it. (and didn't read it now that I did open it:). the ieee one is one block of text without subsection titles, and starts with the 'All your poker chips may soon belong to the computers' which made me want to close it.)
I concur. At least in the circle of people I spent my time with, we were there really to study and grab the opportunity CC gave us. The teachers don't make anything there, so they're also extra eager to help students who really put forth the effort.

Hands down, 9 of the 10 best teachers I had were CC profs. They were so happy to help, they'd show up on weekends and help out with study groups and review coursework again to make sure you really got the foundational stuff so you didn't get lost later.

The age range was crazy too, from sharp 14 year olds there to take Calculus, to senior citizens. always somebody interesting to run into and incredible tutoring opportunities everywhere.

CC can be an incredible resource.

Most important, they're also designed for mid-career training, so you can go and take classes in whatever they offer even if you aren't in a degree program, just because you want to. My wife and I both take classes from time-to-time in subjects we've tried to autodidact, but some cheap classroom time has ended up helping everytime. Or we'll take a class together in something like Art and turn it into a date-night....get dinner after work, take a painting class, come home with a little piece of art.
How will you prevent ownership from being diluted by intentional (or even unintentional) inflation of future bounties?
Unless your system has very buggy firmware, any PCIe lane is as good as any other, even if it's behind a switch. The real difference here that limits compatibility is that the controller uses the NVMe host controller interface and command set, instead of the AHCI standard used by SATA controllers and previous PCIe-based SSDs. Software (firmware or OS) that doesn't have a NVMe driver won't even recognize this drive as being a storage device.
Tinder in Meteor
Hey guys, This is me trying to create Tinder in Meteor.

http://ishq.mobi/

Still a work in progress but basics have been done and you can match and chat(no notifications so you have to come back to the site to see your matchs).

Allow to use your location otherwise it doesnt show how far other users are.
Correct, considering that the core courses are virtually identical across many programs, your English/History/Ethics/etc. course are much more economical to take at the local CC and transfer in.
Oculus Brings 3D Audio to Virtual Reality, and It Sounds Great
I grew up with another Olivetti model just one year older: the Praxis 48. It's now in the SF MOMA collection: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/118397

Lovely designs from that firm: http://www.storiaolivetti.it/fotogallery.asp?idPercorso=632#...

It's worth seeing in person, the photographs online don't do justice to the fine industrial design.

Oh, and before you say it's not a computer, read the page labeled 5 (actually the fourth page) of this: http://www.machinesoflovinggrace.com/manuals/OlivettiPraxis4...
Well the Melbourne part is definitely true. I was the first hire in a 100 person company that didn't know anyone else here.
>"because fundamentalisms only flourishes in an environment of ignorance and poverty."

Do you mean ignorance as in poorly-educated? Nearly all the 19 hijackers of 911 were quite well-educated. Or are you referring to ignorance rooted in a belief in myth and superstition as manifested in religion? How kindly do you think people are going to take to being told, if even implicitly - by "infidels" no less - that they're belief system has rendered them ignorant? For that matter non-muslims playing any role in the arab world is considered an abomination by fundamentalists.

I agree that change needs to happen but am not convinced it can come from the West. It needs to come from within Islam and the Muslim community. They need their own Reformation.
There was a delay before it served me my number, so I saw the same for a bit. I was rather confused myself.
If you flush a file it will be in the backend; Therefore, even if a node goes down, another node will be responsible for that. There will be obviously a delay for the recovery. In POSIX if your buffer is not flushed there is no guarantee that you will get the latest version neither.

Yeah, maybe I should totally get rid of that "POSIX" compatible thing. I had that in mind because I expose my fs interface through fuse library and supposedly they cover POSIX.
This is true in most states. The various CC systems in CA should transfer cleanly into the University of California system, same for SUNY, University of Virginia system and other public college systems.

The classes are absolutely equivalent to the Fresh and Sophomore classes and an A.S. degree from a CC should start you as a Junior at the big-kid school.
I forgot who made the first computer I used. It was similar to the BBC Micro (conspicuously absent from this list), but this was in the US. It hooked up to a (black and white) TV and let you program in BASIC (with no permanent storage, most of the time was indeed spent programming). We rented it from the public library--there wasn't much demand, so you could keep it at home for days.
Looking at the broad stroke (i.e., median income) can be useful, but if I were helping my child make this decision, I wouldn't focus on that. Depending on the career path, income can be highly variable. I also think that these numbers are skewed by the fact that more and more jobs are requiring degrees which didn't before.

I would also argue that degrees should not be required for many of these positions. I mean, a Bachelor's of Hospitality? Restaurant management? Come on, learn that on the job.
Bloofi: Multidimensional Bloom Filters
Billionaire Alki David is trolling CES with an insanely terrible VR helmet
This sounds gimmicky, but I fed them an e-mail address. I found the weirdo smiley face logo to be off-putting. It's jarring somehow.
Good read. I remember a few dedicated influential teachers. Unfortunately, they are but a few and surrounded in my memory by a large number that were simply going through the motions.

That was 20 years ago, and it sounds like maybe things have not improved. Quality teachers are just about one of the most important things a society can have. Not sure why we haven't institutionally figured that out.
I'm curious what browser you use. I was under the impression that most of the major browsers had disabled the ability to type javascript: URLs because of self-XSS (which is a fascinating concept on the border between computer exploit and human exploit).

On Chrome 39 on CrOS, I can't type that into the URL field, and if I copy/paste it, the "javascript:" portion of the scheme magically disappears, so hitting enter takes me to a SERP. I wonder if that's done in the hope that you Google the self-XSS that you were about to run and see someone explain what's going on.
Me too -- I've had stuff from prime not even ship for a week more than once recently. Amazon is losing their focus, edge or whatever. I don't care about prime movies, prime music, or prime anything other than prime reliable fast shipping.
How to Hire a Players – A YC Company Perspective
Hah! That big one has SIMPLE written on it, but is ten times the size of the others!

Thanks for the history bomb.
If you can teach people how to write safe C code, you should setup a site and rake it in. Meanwhile, Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, and others have tried to build safe applications and simply fail due to memory safety issues. When such high profile teams cannot deliver, then at some point you gotta say "hmm, maybe the language is at fault".

I understand you like C/C++ and want to point out that if people delivery on a superhuman effort, then we can have nice things. Meanwhile, in reality, so far, this just doesn't happen. Lemme know when we can go a year without a memory safety issue getting tons of systems owned.
Why the Trolls Will Always Win (2014)
Why Bitcoin Core 0.10's release notes say “…libsecp256k1 is better than…OpenSSL”
The Power and Philosophy of Ruby by Matz
It's really nice to see there are others from a C.C. background. For some reason I thought I was the only one (coming into this community I thought everyone went to Stanford, CMU, MIT, etc).
Wrong religion. I think you mean Jehovah's Witnesses.
Students usually transfer to a 4 year college after 2 years. That means that employers see a degree from X State University, not Y Junior College.
Need to specify the sport you're looking for, but it's a pretty mature industry at this point with people who've gotten there a lot sooner than this and ultimately, if you want to make it a business, requires a lot of legwork and frankly...to what aim?

It's not impossible, just a lot more lucrative to monetize and provide.
benchmark recently also performed a comparison of the following three NoSQL systems:

* Apache Cassandra
* MongoDB
* SequoiaDB

The test specifically focused on the in-memory performance of the three systems. The detailed result can be found in [bankmark-20141213-WP-NoSQLBenchmark]: http://www.bankmark.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bankmark-2...
I REALLY wish teaching was as prestigious as say, being a doctor, or investment banker. I read a very interesting [1] book on this and it really just opened my eyes regarding the mediocrity of teaching (not quality per say, but as a profession, which eventually leads to poor education).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Smartest-Kids-World-They-That/dp/14516...