skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the crux of the problem.

We are getting better at archiving files. And thanks to a combination of people dedicated to emulation and the rise of virtual machines, there are few popular pieces of hardware we can't emulate in excruciating detail.

But many of the services I used a decade ago are already gone. And pretty much all the services I used two decades ago have completely disappeared, with some very few notable examples. And with them, vast amounts of data.

Some of it the Internet Archive have at least captured static snapshots of (and they really should have magnitudes more funding), but ten times that - or more - was data in walled gardens, behind logins or otherwise restricted in ways that means it is lost forever unless we're lucky and it turns out some admin held onto backup tapes they weren't really meant to keep.

And the problem with there is not to create a snapshot of a single server, but as you say that distributed systems are far harder. Even recent. Twice I've been contracted to help companies take over infrastructure that involved systems I'd worked on, and try to "package it up", and it was incredibly hard, because no matter how much you try to tear down and bring up individual servers or groups of servers and automate deployment, very few places running complex services ever try - or could afford to try - to tear down and bring up a full copy of their entire infrastructure.

Suddenly all kinds of nasty interdependencies and bootstrap problems nobody had needed to think about shows up.
I don't expect there will ever be such protocol though, there is too much competition already and everyone wants to be the "platform", because no-one actually has any idea of what gadgets would be useful. Even if we just look at the low level, there already is a war between grid powered vs battery powered, which then influences the war between BTLE, WIFI and ZigBee. There are inherently very different architectures, I don't see a change for convergence. But then probably when everything has been already done Apple will invent THE Apple Home which will be (as always) the first of it's kind :)
Useful links:

http://mashable.com/2015/02/12/drone-racing/

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/32546/20150212/first-perso...
Except memes travel more or less instantaneously now, whereas back then, the only way culture and civilization elements traveled was along with people.
They changed it: http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/910453/diff/2/3
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It's worth mentioning the history of 'coordination' or 'bringing into line' between the public sector and the private sector here, especially gleischaltung[0].

I'm not trying to make a direct comparison, but the executive branch's "calls for them to hand over more data" are fundamentally about totalitarian surveillance and control. That may not be the goal, stated or otherwise, but make no mistake: the effect is the same.

It's worth considering how we might feel if Russia or China were calling for something like this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
As someone who was on the fence for a while, I ended up getting a CMStorm TriggerZ in Cherry MX Brown (SGK-6010-GKCM1). My thoughts:

Drop the extra cash and order a key sampler set
e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Max-Keyboard-Keycap-Cherry-Sampler/dp/...

Assemble and set the sampler next to your current keyboard. Play around with it for a while. It makes a great stress-ball-like "thinking" activity! Swap the keys around, so you get a semi-blind test.

Research the switch activation points and feel them when you use that switch type. F.ex. Browns activate halfway down, but you won't know that using unconnected keys.

Figure out which switch feels the best to you. Research keyboards that provide that switch type as an option.

Purchase, making sure to get the correct SKU. Websites and resellers can be terrible about listing an SKU for one color of switch, then using the flavor text that specifies another color.

The only bad thing about having a mechanical keyboard for me is being on the road and not having it with me. ;)
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After watching "Page One" where you learn about his past, I noticed he seems to have a very "I don't give a crap what people think" attitude, which is a great quality for a journalist.
That's not a problem with game theory. That's a problem with using overly simplistic games. You can easily model all of those punishments with different payouts in a game. In fact, when I studied it in school most of the games we worked through included punishment mechanisms.
Technical/science museums in general often seem to be closer to this ideal than other museums, because while some of the artefacts may be valuable, more often they are trying to showcase how things worked rather than specific objects.
As a graduate from RIT, colleges definitely provide ASL interpreters in class for Deaf students.
It has the same problem on Windows 7 + Chrome.
I mean, who doesn't? Sometimes if I accidentally hit a media key, it opens iTunes, which is slow as hell and I usually force-quit before it can fully load because it takes so long. When I do have to deal with iTunes, it's always this lumbering beast that I want to exit as soon as possible.
> The US President has no authority to order firms to share data with the government.

Only the FISA court can do that. Otherwise the NSA has to steal the data fair and square under EO 12333.
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They didn't make any publicly documented steps. Saying that they're still doing something because they did it almost a century ago isn't really honest.
I'm one of the authors. If you're concerned that what we built is a mere natural language parsing engine, have a look here:

https://www.availlang.org/about-avail/documentation/faq.html...
We observed this problem first hand when the inventor of Powerpoint emailed us to ask for help in opening old presentations which he could no longer view !

When the guy who wrote the software which produced the file can't view it 20 years later you know you've got a problem.

You can read more about that here:

http://blog.zamzar.com/2012/04/17/open-old-powerpoint-presen...
Yeah, especially with computer games. Whatever old game is having DRM trouble, you can usually find a crack for it on Rapidshare.
Well, looks like joining this chat room is gonna be a really good experience. Can't wait to exchange all tips and advices with you guys!
Hmm, that's a very interesting way to look at it. So you would say you've grown to enjoy the cold? I can definitely relate in that I used to hate bitter beers and spicy foods, but now I've conditioned myself to love them by forcing myself to eat them over the years. Eventually, hate turned to tolerance turned to love. But there, I could see the benefit: both opened up an entirely new world of food for me. What does the cold get you, aside from a lower heating bill?
The kernel has been around for a few decades while semver has been around for what, 3 years now?

That's irrelevant.

I doubt it because the API is way too complex and broad to be covered in simple x.x.x notation

They don't use that notation now?
Ridiculous, maybe, but it shows he knows exactly what he is doing, and it should be totally expected. Peter Thiel talked about this in Sam's startup class:

"...anyone who has a monopoly will pretend that they are in incredible competition ... The basic lie you tell as a monopoly is the market you’re in is much bigger than it looks."

- Lecture 5: Competition is For Losers
http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec05/
If anyone has information on how to help with or reach out to this or similar programs, please post what you've got!

[Edit] Here's an article with more comprehensive information, including the program's origins and the organizations behind it: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/how-18-inmates-at...
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The problem is, that they want sell you something that you have to pay again and again -> vendor lock, you must use their tools / services / clouds / whatever.

Things that just work for 10 or more years, omg! ;)

But you are absolutely right!. I did not automate anything at home with separate hard/software, because currently it solves no problem for me.

We need not a smart home, we need an intelligent home without controlling or programming everything.

A house/appartment has to recognize if nobody is at home and turn off the light or heating. I dont wanna do that with my smartphone and i dont want controll everything.
If the government wants access to all our private information, and it would seem this is now becoming an inevitable outcome, perhaps the government should be required to make all the records they view public with references to the officials accessing them. After all, our government is "We The People", and to ensure it remains so, we the people need some safe guards against abuse of this power. If the government has to weigh the public availability of records and who's using them against the utility of records for security purposes, maybe that would be just enough to keep things on the up and up.
"A company would have to provide the service, and I suggested to Mr Cerf that few companies have lasted for hundreds of years. So how could we guarantee that both our personal memories and all human history would be safeguarded in the long run?"

This puts another perspective on the story about Japan's oldest companies, does it not? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9041040)
You have a million or so replies saying yes. I'll say no, not necessarily.

I have grievous RSI issues. They mostly evaporated by going to chicklet boards. Your fingers go through a very minor range of motion with them. Notice how some of the replies caution you to not press the keys the whole way? Same thing.

Now any kind of full key keyboard feels sludgey and requiring of an inordinate amount of work.

I am less accurate (and thus less fast) on a chicklet board because of the reduced tactile feedback of where I am on the keys, but it is so worth it to be able to type all day and not be crippled at the end of it. I'm a very good touch typist and don't 'enjoy' the chicklet experience, but it really makes a huge difference in the ergonomics. YMMV.
I wrote 14.62 hours worth of C89 yesterday, and 2.33 hours so far today. For PyParallel. (https://bitbucket.org/tpn/pyparallel)
Same. I learned from library books w/o Internet.
I'd love to read a blog post about this.

Some dream features I'd like personally in a smart home:

* TV-aware lights - lights dim/turn off according to a preset pattern when the tv comes on

* Voice control - saying "Bed time" would turn off all lights & heating, other commands off the top of my head- "I'm home" (turn on hall lights & heating if its below a certain temperature) or "leaving home"- turn off everything

* Low power screen in the hall, like e-ink, where I can have an electronic To Do list easily available, or warnings to bring an umbrella/coat today, or reminders for today from my smartphone calendar

Something like this Raspberry pi project looks promising for voice: https://jasperproject.github.io/

For me, having to whip out a phone to do stuff like turn off lights is pointless. A smart home should be context-aware, e.g. home temperature, time of day, doing an activity like TV, or needing cold bedroom for sleep (open window, turn off heating).

If a smart home system isn't more convenient than the low tech version, then there is no point.
100.01 still works expect for alphabetical sorting. The worry happens at 985 years.
Who pays the cost of storage? It's not a simple question at all, especially when you consider that most of the information being stored is only marginally useful now and the future value is a complete unknown.
Flicking a switch when I enter or leave the room sounds easier than taking out my phone and fiddling with some app. And it's way cheaper.
This is great, but there is a much greater need, simple literacy.
http://www.invisiblechildren.org/2010/11/18/75-of-inmates-ar...
I don't think any tradition is too entrenched on this particular point.
It's only better than using your macbook pro if you use emacs so you can mash control with your palm - can't do that on a macbook keyboard.
> The people it's bad for is the old-school style brokers (which are effectively gone now) and large investmant banks who have a fundamental view on the market (they need to be smarter about executing since the market is more efficient and reacts much more quickly to their buying and selling).

What about index funds rebalancing their portfolios? (Honest question)
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Yes but the dilemma is that no matter what the other person does, you are better off by defecting. You get a good outcome if you both cooperate. If he defects, you get a horrible outcome if you cooperate. If he cooperates, you get a decent outcome by cooperating, but an even better outcome by defecting.

Since both players think this way, they both defect and get a bad outcome.

Real prisoners don't always defect, but the reason is that they're not actually playing the prisoner's dilemma. The payoff matrix has been altered....eg., by severe penalties for ratting, which give the player a much worse outcome for defecting. Those penalties wouldn't be necessary if the dilemma weren't real. (Another alteration would be if the prisoners care enough about each other so each sees it as a bad outcome if the other suffers. This isn't contrary to game theory, it's just a different set of payoffs.)
Nice a topic I know a lot about on HN

Mechanical keyboards are more enjoyable to type on for one so that's something to consider on it's own. In terms of your pinky getting sore after long usage it might be less likely to occur with a mechanical keyboard because most mechanical keyboard switches don't require you to press as hard to register a keystroke compared to a non-mechanical/rubber-dome keyboard like the one you have.

Most mechanical keyboards today use Cherry MX switches, there are a variety of different Cherry MX switches to choose from. Some are louder than others and have a different tactile feedback. A good reference to get an idea of what I mean can be found at this link here: http://www.mechanicalkeyboards.com/mechanical_switches.php

It's a bit difficult to know which Cherry MX switch is right for you right away, you can narrow it down to some degree beforehand but it's difficult to have much certainty of which you'll like best until you try them. You can visit your local computer store (Frys, or if you're in Canada than Canada Computers) and try some out there. Otherwise you can order a switch tester: http://www.cmstore.eu/cm-storm/keyboards/mechanical-key-swit... and decide from there, Coolermaster will also give you a discount on your mechanical keyboard if you buy one of their mechanical keyboards from them after purchasing one.

One of the most popular, entry-level, mechanical keyboards is the Coolermaster Quick Fire Rapid and the Quick Fire XT. It's a safe purchase and good value.

There are a bunch of other factors to consider with mechanical keyboards as well than would take forever to get into here. Some of those factors would be keyboard layout, the standard layout is what you'll see on the Quick Fire Rapid/XT (i.e the backspace/shift/enter keys are the standard sizing/spacing).

Another consideration is what type of keycaps you want on your keyboard. You can buy aftermarket keycpas for premium that are usually better than the ones that come with you keyboard, and with mechanical keyboards you can easily replace your keycaps. This is where keyboard layout, as mentioned earlier, is important because if you want to replace the keycaps at some point it will be difficult to find a full set of them for a keyboard with a non-standard keyboard layout.

In terms of ergonomic mechanical keyboards some exist but they aren't that prevalent. I would recommend getting a keyboard with a standard layout and progressing from there if necessary.

If you want to learn more check out the Wiki on reddit for the mechanicalkeyboard sub: http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/index

and if you have any questions you can ask them there are well, there is a thread stickied at the top for people to ask questions.

As another user mentionned deskthority and geekhack are good resources also, although they have more of an established community and although helpful are less eager to walk newcomers through the buyer process. They would prefer to answer more specific questions with regards to mechanical keyboards, as opposed to the 'what keyboard should I buy if I should even get one in the first place' type of questions.
"I don't think it applies to videos created before the ADA was passed that are put online now."

It sure was applied to buildings that were built before the ADA was passed.

And what videos of interest would those be? Ableson and Sussman's SICP/6.001 lectures come to mind, and some Feynman lectures I assume are that old.

"Or a private conversation that was published."

Well, aren't we about to find that out in the legal arena?

You're only escape is "private", which suggests it should not be published at all. Especially in a two-party consent state like Massachusetts.
If you take a look at the front page of Product Hunt right now, you'll see a self-hosted team chat app, a collection of Bootstrap templates, an email course on sponsorships, a podcast, and a service for getting your book published.

Products come in all shapes and sizes and just because you're used to building a certain type of product doesn't mean that's the only type of "real" product or side project. And if you care at all about anyone using your products, you're going to care about wording choices and UX.
Here you go :)
http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/02/no-poo.html
I was listening to Avail, the band, today. Great band.

(wonder if anyone from the HN crowd has ever heard of them).

Other than that, interesting project!
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A couple of years ago, Kodak's online photo storage service (in the UK at least) shut down. We just barely managed to get copies of the hundreds of pictures we had stored there in time.

Other recent (non-photo specific) examples of vast amount of data disappearing:

Geocities. Yes, large chunks of it was archived last minute. MegaUpload.

And we have Rapidshare on it's way to disappearing.

Cloud services can and will shut down, and it is not at all a given that we manage to preserve the data.

This creates a relentless churn where some proportion of older data disappears every day. All we really can do is to fight to keep the churn rate low enough, because we have no realistic prospect of saving everything all the time.
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Just to whet your appetite, consider this:

Method "_plus_" is
[
a : number,
b : number
|
a + b
]:number;

Print: 5 plus 6;

The entire language is built this way.
Cloud services require their own sort of maintenance though.

http://www.everpix.com and the like. Hopefully less often than hard drive failures, but more frequently than a format like JPEG becoming unreadable.

I really hope someone comes up with a good long-term data archive/retrieval system soon, but I'm not holding my breath.
I can't tell if you made that reference on purpose, or if you're unaware that Rapidshare is shutting down.
There is no benefit. HFT does not lower spreads in reality, only nominally. They put in orders but back away when a matching order comes in. The myth is that HFT improves liquidity. It may look like that. But those orders aren't real and can't be fulfilled.

This is again how scientificism goes. We think machines improve everything. "If only we trade faster, that will help the markets!" It's not hard to see this is BS.
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You can modify your update schedule to be whatever you'd like it to be.
I use a Maltron with linear cherry blacks. It was a great investment. Move away from qwerty (I use colemak) and you will be on the safe side. Never had a problem since switching.
The first time I ran into the NewSQL terminology was when I checked out CockroachDB: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

'A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore' written in Go, influenced by Google's Spanner.
Didn't know about that. Thanks for telling me.

It still sucks though.
Correct and there are games that model that behavior, for instance iterated stag hunt[1]. This shows the benefits of cooperation for pack animals much more than the classic prisoner's dilemma. Of course you could construct a more detailed game that includes factors like defense and having a single leader that would be even closer to reality. The math behind game theory is right, its a question of whether we have chosen the right game to play.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag_hunt
Seaborn is now my goto plotting library for python. It's built on Matplotlib but with default themes and colour palettes that are much better out of the box and rarely require modification.

It plays nicely with pandas dataframes and has a number of useful built-in plots.

http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/
http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/tutorial/plott...
http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/tutorial/times...
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The Chief Investment Officer at Vanguard, of VFINX fame and widely considered to be among the most trustworthy fund companies, stated that HFT had improved things for firms like theirs.
With the recent SQL-like query language, I think Cassandra comes pretty close to satisfying the requirements as well, as long as you don't require multi-key transactions.
While this is not even kernel related, I'd like it to coincide with significant adoption of Wayland. It's more of a distro-level thing, but it is a major advance in the Linux world. So hold off on 4.0 until some desktops and distros are ready for that as a default.
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Some interesting points in there, but it was tough to see them in the intense anecdote fog and non-sequitur soup.
"A company would have to provide the service, and I suggested to Mr Cerf that few companies have lasted for hundreds of years."

Maybe it's just that I'm an academic, but this sounds less like a job for a company and more like a job for a library. (Or more robustly, a job for the world's interconnected network of libraries.) The whole point that I take from this article is "we must preserve our heritage for the common good", and that sounds awfully close to a library's core mission.
MySQL Cluster.

http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/features.html
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Suggest you read this rebuttal. Lewis' book is deeply flawed. http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F...
not sure thats correct. i have a 16gb 5c, and when I bought it the guy who sold it to me said for an extra £15 you can get 16gb.
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Here is my favorite part:
When it complains about something, it also shows the configuration option to turn it off inline or globally, instead of you having to look it up on the website. One example is that it expects double quotes by default, which I personally do not prefer.

Also, there are some other more style related rules that does not exist in jshint. Like requiring `typeof variable` over `typeof(variable)`.

Lastly, their webpage does a great job in explaining each rule, why they put it in there and what you can expect if you ignore them.

Just off the top of my head, that is.