skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why NFS gets such a bad rap. On a low-latency network, properly tuned NFS has very few, if any performance issues.

I've personally seen read/write rates exceeding 800MByte/sec on more or less white-box hardware, at which point it was limited by the underlying storage infrastructure (8Gbit fiber), not the NFS protocols.

Dell has a 2013 white paper (I'm not affiliated with them, fwiw) about their fairly white box setup that achieved > 100,000 iops, 2.5GBbyte/s sequential write, and 3.5GBbyte/s sequential read:
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/high-performance-com...
Sell in May, and go away?
Apparently you can study 13 people and get it blogged about on the ny times. Talk about ridiculous sample size, 13 person studies can say just about anything if the researcher gets lucky because variance is the biggest factor. Interesting random thought -> the number of PhD's who become professors in some fields is well below the margin of error on a study, it would be interesting to see how many people are getting Professorships from having interesting results that eventually fail to replicate. If this number is overwhelming it could be the PhD system in those fields is almost a lottery where having variance trump data is the most likely way to get a professorship.
This Custom Apple II Watch Is My New Favorite Thing
Today Is Officially ‘Riot Grrrl Day’ in Boston
Just finished reading Tribal Leadership. Opened my eyes to things I had not realized before about life in general and working with teams. I would highly recommend it if you have not read it yet.

Next up, The Lean Startup.
Many people still think that "Macs don't get viruses". Having that faith shattered can drive more than one away from the product.
Somthing like bitcoin is definitely necessary but with its flaws Bitcoin will either get replaced by something better or it will stay in its niche.
I have 3 macs. One of them is an older iMac. I can't put enough RAM in it to run Mavericks (which is a memory hog). It is a perfectly good computer, there is no reason to upgrade from Lion.

The next one is a 3 year old Mac Mini. I upgraded to Yosemite and it performs TERRIBLY. It has 16G of RAM. I've tried everything. Yosemite just sucks. The machine is now much slower than the 6 or 7 year old iMac with only 4G or RAM. If it was practical to back out to Mavericks I would.

The last one is a 2 year old Macbook. I rely on it for my job. There is no way I'm going to risk the crappy Yosemite performance to upgrade. I'll live with the security flaw.

Here is what I now know about Apple: They will not support you for the lifetime of the product. They consistently release buggy code these days. Unless you are willing to shell out more money for new hardware every time they come out with something new, you will be stuck "as-is (with bugs)" until you get rid of it.

No more Apple anything for me. I'm thinking I'll switch the Mac Mini to Ubuntu if I can get it to work there. I'll use the iMac until it doesn't work any more, and when my Macbook is ready for an upgrade (in another year or two), I'll be trading in that still-Mavericks based system for a Linux laptop or maybe I'll go back to Windows.
Your goal was completely different.

They like living in Spain / wherever else they live. They also like travelling to other countries. They're taking a vacation and working from a new place, for a short time. They don't want to live there.
Sometimes it's not so simple. I recall Google issuing bonds because it was cheaper than repatriating non-US revenue from abroad to fund US investments (it would have been taxed twice, albeit at an extremely low rate on it's non-US revenue).
> Disperses the herds thereby extending their range,

Thus the vegetation can cope with loses as ever did and not just dies.

> causes some serious (unmanageable) peaks and valleys in populations of prey

Peaks and valleys are caused by diseases and famines, wolves are the worst enemy for livestock and wild deer diseases, so the final result is deer populations more stable and health in fact.

People, specially children, would be also much more safe with wolves than without them, because... first of all, less car accidents with deer, second: less americans killed or having pain by Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Tularemia, Ehrlichiosis, Relapsing fever, Colorado tick fever or Babesiosis. All tickborne diseases, spread by deer or small carnivores, that are a much bigger threat for children playing outdoors because ticks are everywhere in deerland.

> Apex predator birth rate is low and it would take years to have a noticeable effect

Not necessarily, because the "ecology of fear" change the behaviour of preys. You don't need to wipe out all deer at all. In Yellowstone wolves changed all for better in just five or six years if I'm not wrong.
That doesn't work very well. Consider what happens if two different clones of a repo update the metadata last-known url at the same time with different urls. Merge conflicts.

This is why git-annex uses a separate branch for location tracking information, which it can merge in a conflict-free manner.
When it came out for OS X, I thought it would be terribly useful on Linux as well and wouldn't be all that difficult to port.

However, I lacked the time to do it and I don't use Linux as my primary OS.
I'd definitely be interested in reading this. Do you have a mailing list or anything so I can find out when it's available?
I found that the higher doses lead to me falling asleep fine but I tend to wake up in the middle of the night. I assumed the pill was getting my melatonin to high and when it went back to natural levels it triggered my waking up.

I've been using 1mg lately (the lowest I can find) and they work much better. Still help make me drowsy, but without waking up in the middle of the night.
Mac app for Facebook messenger
OTOH, why do you perceive this as something not to be forgotten?

For me, this simply shows a specific kind of dependency and hierarchy that I don't want to identify with. In my opinion, IT (especially) is a topic where knowledge (how to do X) matters less and less, because said knowledge is accessible for free anyway. All that matters is how quickly and well you can execute and whom you know. (Not that I really like the last part, but I guess that that's human)
Really happy to see big exits in the Edtech space. Hope this brings more entrepreneurs to the industry!
I don't know about sleep, but I used to love my orange-ish Oakleys for bike riding in spring/winter/fall in Oregon when the sky is often overcast and dreary. They make things look a bit brighter and cheerier.
what about tcpkill (8) ?
Does the sample project have comprehensive test coverage already? My Rails foo is...well it's not foo...but I don't see much in the way of unit or integration tests.

If I am correct, there are two problems. One is that the problem is more time consuming than it should be. The second is that skipping tests for a Rails project is contrary to convention. That probably looks like a red flag to some of the class of people you hope to attract.
Don't hate the player, hate the game. Not everyone likes to live risk free.
Oh I think it was great until the classes got added. Can't he just pass the bsd parameter in the ip variable. No state and immutable.
How teaching online could be your profitable side business
Currently reading "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich".

Would appreciate more suggestions for World War 1, World War 2 histories, especially Russian History books.

Already on my reading list (a few related to the above):

- Gulag

- Guns of August

- Churchill
It is confusing two separate ideas. One is that it is ok to work while on a tourist visa, the other is that doing multiple visa runs (regardless of whether you work) is not ok. The out-in problem is true of many countries and has nothing to do with working.
Mention Me - London, UK - Full Time - http://mention-me.com - £40-50k (or more, for the right person), plus options

At Mention Me we help online businesses build sophisticated and successful refer-a-friend programs. We use our technology and an A/B testing platform to help them motivate their existing customers to provide a source of new customers - referring friends, family and colleagues to products they like. We then reward both parties for a successful referral.

Business is taking off, and we're looking for a software engineer to join our team (as well as other non-technical roles too! Account management and sales are key). We're currently PHP (Symfony 2) based using ElasticSearch, AWS and MySQL, but as we collect more information, add more clients and build new features we'll certainly be changing parts of that. We've got ideas and a vision for the future but haven't got the people to make it happen. We're looking for someone who can join us to define it, build it and make it a reality.

In a nutshell, we're looking for someone smart, technical, and a get-things-done style. Chat to us if you'd like to know more.

Our email address is in our headers @ mention-me.com or in my profile and I'll gladly answer any questions.
Mike Tyson's Undisputed Truth.
The Martian... Just wow! I got totally hooked!

And a book I would recommend to you is Enders Game and the following ones... They are just great!
Is this paid PR? Or Samsung is really passing Apple?
This has been my experience in most industries. Once you gain traction the main players will do everything they can to stop you. Frivolous lawsuits are probably the most annoying tactic.
This is mostly useless antidotal evidence, however:

I started wearing orange tinted glasses about a week or two ago, and I have noticed that they help me feel more tired when I'm trying to fall asleep. However it could just be a placebo. The downside is that I can't do any design work while wearing them, and programming is more difficult because code coloring is really off in Sublime. If I continue to wear them, I'll probably have to change my Sublime theme to something that's easier to distinguish.
Relevant to discuss the viability of different fintech startup ideas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9321019

https://medium.com/bull-market/a-cynic-s-guide-to-fintech-3c...

I agree that there is some naivety when attacking huge institutions as mentioned in the article. Particularly when it comes to dodging regulation. Rather than putting you on top dodging regulation is probably going to put you out of business when it comes to Financial Institutions.

[P.S. will the Gods of HN please upvote my comment so I can have the slightest visibility here]
Yeah, if you need a performant file system you use an instance with a lot of local storage or you get out of EC2.
Have you ever found yourself on a bare server with default vim trying to setup it basically with line numbers, syntax highlight and so on just to edit some script or config file? Now you can do it with the only one command: source <(curl -Ls http://bit.ly/vim_min)
Barthelme is the best. My wife and I love the story Conversations with Goethe. We frequently get it off the shelf and read it to one another. "Youth," Goethe said, "is the silky apple butter on the good brown bread of possibility."
哇塞！
Is your website capturing enough mobile traffic? Find out with mobileratio.com
Fair enough, but I was mainly using it as an example of a "standard" being not-a-standard-because-too-many-different-implementations and why a monolithic entity would be less prone to this problem.
This is great.

My startup is really similar. We also value people over profits (and we're profitable!), we all work remotely, and we all meetup in random places for a few weeks so we can get a vacation plus some face-to-face working time in.

So far, it's been awesome. We've only done 1 meetup so far, at a ski chalet in the Alps, and it was great. The significant others & kids came for 1 week, and then we had 2 weeks of just the employees.

The biggest challenge is definitely the internet. When you have 6 people in a house all trying to pull/push from git, sync dropbox, do skype calls, etc; it can put quite a burden on whatever crappy DSL the vacation house has installed.

We would love to do a SE Asia work trip but so far we have ignored the region due to the internet connectivity. I'm actually really surprised that the mobile internet there was good enough for you guys to work with.

Cheers, and keep it up! It's nice to see there are more startups like this out there.
My immediate thought as well. I liked his way of getting special chars into the mix, as required in many systems, with margretthatcheris100%SEXY
Back in olden times Linux installation floppies provided the option of installing from an NFS share.
Unfortunately, many sites enforce arbitrary restrictions on admissible passwords (e.g. between 8-13 characters, at least one digit, one lower case, and one uppercase). This makes the whole proposition much harder. I wonder if there is some purpose behind this (make things a little harder for the small-timers, but open the doors for the big guys).
The man who left behind $78M to revamp a classic space shooter
If EFS offers PIOPS, couldn't you run Postgres on it, too?
On a previous workplace, we had a pretty beefy VMware set up backed by NFS. Performance was excellent, and file level access offers a lot of functionality you can't have with for example iSCSI.
So Facebook basically gave everyone a personalized website and social graph.

Twitter, everyone got their own chatroom.

Instagram, a photo-album.

Perhaps the next killer finapp is to allow everyone to become their own bank?
392 Days GitHub streak
oh no...

this is awesome.

i want one.
Nothing. HN is not a job board. Whatever you do to squelch recruiter spam on "Who's Hiring" threads is bound to have unintended consequences. Meanwhile: if the big problem is that recruiters use job posts as spam targets, everyone who posts an ad can come up with their own solution (if it's karma-locked, it can just be "mail your HN username here") and the best one will spread.
This is not about how hard it is for Thai immigration officers to prove you are working without a permit. I was just pointing out that it is illegal.
Making it hard to prove doesn't make it OK.

You really would not want to end up in a debate with Thai immigration on this topic either, no matter if they have proof or not.
> What few skills can a working programmer get from Lynda? Honestly...

The myopia some technologists display is really staggering sometimes.

I mean, it's not like people who aren't technologists would ever want to learn new skills or anything, would they? They should totally just stay at their menial, paper-shuffling desk jobs, or serve lattes to programmers, or something.
Yes exactly, and if I remember correctly (my C language memory is starting to fade these days), there is even a flag to reuse the same socket when the program open again (SO_REUSEADDR ?).
Try "the kings depart: The Tragedy of Germany - Versailles and the German Revolution" - http://www.amazon.com/The-Kings-Depart-Versailles-Revolution...

Also, if you like podcasts, try Hardcore History - http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series. There's a 5 part Series on WW1 called "Blueprint for armageddon".
You're thinking of Jeff Fernandez.
I put two tbsp of xylitol into my smoothies and I've never had a problem. It's also supposed to be good for your teeth.

I do wonder how something can be so dangerous for dogs and safe for humans. Aren't our cells almost identical?
Currently reading: The House of Life, Mario Praz; Spring and All (try to read it every spring)

Recently finished: 1089 and All That (finished today), The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Gibson's The Peripheral
At least you're honest about it. Most who feel similarly will coat it in a thin veneer of pretend equal-handedness and categorically deny any emotional investment.
Forget drugs, try acceleration
Intel's factories cost billions of dollars (actual cost is around $5 billion now, not a mere $1 billion) because they're unbelievably advanced. This isn't the housing bubble applied to factories. They're building a facility that uses the most advanced technology in the world on an industrial scale.

Their revenue is many times that, certainly, but that doesn't mean they just have billions of dollars lying about doing nothing, waiting for the company to need a factory.
Some have already taken this kinda thing a few steps further:

http://www.automaticstatistician.com/
It is impossible for something to be simultaneously a good currency, AND a good investment.

If that were true the forex market wouldn't exist.
> It's my feeling that both countries have far more pressing domestic and regional concerns than each other

However domestic concerns that are hard to solve can benefit from (made-up) external concerns. It has also been used to enforce power internally.

Other than that domestic concerns have the problem that solving them can change status quo and give the fact that such decisions of course are made by people that are currently in power it might play a role in keeping that power, also by distracting from the fact that it might not be to the benefit of the people.

That of course doesn't have to be the main case and probably isn't here, but of course that is a pattern, basically like evolution or evolving systems (not just biologically). Status quo of being alive and dominant usually means that this dominance will be used to keep it, which often results in stagnation, which may lead to the benefit becoming a handicap later - like when you are too specialized to status quo.

The US (government wise) seems to lately struggle a bit with the world being/becoming multi polar. Like not talking in a bad way, but of course one has to consider that we are basically just past a century that was basically about an unipolar world with the US as the only superpower and even if society and especially individuals change more quickly such a huge structure tends to be a bit slower, which is something we can see when we look for example at old/ancient laws, institutions, etc. that still exist.

From a startup perspective: You might consider the old economy slow, but governments and especially the structures surrounding them are even slower.

On the other hand it might also be related to something like "I am pissed at you, so you don't get it. Take that" things that sometimes happen, often causing big effects despite just being a temporal disagreement on some completely unrelated topic. After all there is just ordinary people working behind the scenes.
Banking sites seem to be notorious for this. The worst offenders will simply truncate the password, too, leaving you to believe you're using a much more secure password than you actually are.
> A state government wants to borrow $800 million in bonds for a new arena, can you GoFund that?

say you have an arena that holds 50,000 people, sell the right to name a seat for $100, and the right to choose an image to put on the seat for $1,000. That's 5,000,0000 in naming rights on the seats, and 50 million for the images on the seats.

Charge more for putting an image on contiguous seats - if you want n seats in a row, that's $1000 *n^2. They always end up selling naming rights to these things anyways, why not just have images in the seats be ads or pictures of loved ones or whatever?

Sell colored tiles in the bathrooms and even things like the color of a single screw for $10. sell the names of the concession stands and the names of urinals on the bathroom and the pictures on the bathroom stalls.

But who needs a fancy, multicolored stadium named after and showing the character, images and pictures of the people and brands from the city when you could have a big bland boxy thing named after a large company, and then 30 years of bonds to pay it off, right?
I know you can buy probiotics. Can you buy just Bacteroidetes ?
Peeling the Onion, Gunter Grass or any other books by him (My Century is an interesting read on 100 years of Germany).
>what to do next.

That's a hard question because Virtual Worlds look so exciting until the moment you stop and ask: Why should I use it? What for? In what way it's better than the solutions I already use?

I think that in case of regular consumers, it will be really difficult to find convincing answers ("I've got FB already and I don't need to move in it! I can stream the concert and don't need the crowd around me" etc.), unless you spice up your world with some game aspects. Personally I'd really dive into some kind of Ingress 2.0 which would creatively mix the real on-site presence with avatars.

You could also explore some more "serious&practial" applications of your technology:
1. Education, especially for kids
2. Planning and preparing the personnel for mass events.
3. Some kinds of behavioral therapy.
4. Immersive language training.

Just some rough ideas from top of my head. But I hope you will go for Ingress II :)
Dont they have to give back the two when they take the 20 though ?
See also the books here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9350868
A Neural Network for Factoid Question Answering Over Paragraphs
For proper backups, backup to a local external disk

Is a backup really a backup if it's onsite? You don't want a fire to take out your PC and external disk located in the same house.
I'm curious how many HN readers use make to manage their frontend builds, similar to the process described here:

http://www.sitepoint.com/using-gnu-make-front-end-developmen...
My rule of thumb is to go for 128 bits of entropy:

* If they allow all printable ASCII chars, that means
128 / lg(94) = about 20 characters
* If they only allow alphanumeric,
128 / lg(62) = about 22 characters

If the site doesn't let me use a password > 20 characters, I don't sign up.

I also use a password manager, so all my passwords are randomly generated.

My master password? 64 characters of line noise I memorized years ago. ;)

Also:

https://defuse.ca/password-policy-hall-of-shame.htm
Since it's a non-linear metabolic process, and relies on a specific level of increase over time, when it increases too fast (because you took too much), won't necessarily help you get to sleep. It will also give you a 'sleep hang over' in the morning.

You also have to take it an hour or so >before< bed.
Ask HN: What's your favorite way to kill time?
It's so hard to wait out the anxious times. I've tried sleeping, but can't sleep. I need some help.
Rumsfeld was the CEO at Searle - the makers of Aspartame... And he used his political influence to replace the FDA commissioner so Aspartame could be legalized. That's a conflict of interest.
The good thing is that eBay is flooded with cheap old Mac Pros, so parts won't be hard to come by.
Ancient Physicians Were Required to Know Medical Astrology and Numerology
Fractional reserve banking doesn't mean you lend more than you have. It merely means you keep less money on hand than the sum total of your deposits and capital. This "creates money" because the depositors still act like their deposits are 100% present, and the debtors have some of that same money to spend. Banks aren't lending more money than the deposits and capital they hold.
Don't know how many of these are at, say, Costco. Which is where many people shop.

I'm never buying a Windows laptop, so it doesn't affect me, but I'm still the resident "family IT specialist". And I know, I just know I'm going to be asked lots of questions I don't have the patience for, as these poor bastards wonder why their computers are slow, all because the shitty OEM wanted to make a few cents off pre-installed shitware.

It doesn't affect me directly, I don't touch Windows laptops unless I'm wearing gloves, but the principle of the thing pisses me off. You're being treated without respect, basically.

It's like a car manufacturer selling you a car with a "feature" that takes away 50 HP to play a jingle every time you turn on your headlights, all because the got paid $7.34 by the jingle manufacturer.
Terraform in Atlas: Collaborate and Build Infrastructure in the Cloud