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Re:My 90's TV on Thursday October 01, 2015 @12:36AM (#10309255)
It's not public yet, but yes: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4546
Re:Internetarchive.bak on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @04:55PM (#9735244)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9147719

and (more recently) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602868

Re:The Backing Up of the Internet Archive Continues on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @05:11AM (#9603631)
About 21-22 petabytes: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK
Re:How we're using git-annex to make a backup of the Internet Archive on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @07:12PM (#9462439)
See also: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4609
Re:3,000 floppy disk archive (1982–1994) on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:28AM (#9418787)
Oh, and if you want to try out some of the DOS programs in your browser, there's this collection: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_frostbyte
Re:3,000 floppy disk archive (1982–1994) on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @07:39PM (#9417911)
https://archive.org/details/frostbyte_1980s_DOS_collection
Re:Internetarchive.bak on Thursday March 05, 2015 @05:53PM (#9154458)
> Offhand I don't know if Wikipedia has a policy on references to Internet Archive / wayback-machine links to things

They do have a policy.[1] Additionally, IA has been specifically crawling links on Wikipedia to preserve the citations.[2][3]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_the_Wayback_Machine

2: https://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/

3: https://archive.org/details/NO404-WKP/v2

Re:Internetarchive.bak on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @06:57PM (#9148316)
BT Sync was considered for a related Archive Team project [1], but was ruled out as it is (currently) proprietary.

1: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Valhalla#Non-opti...

Re:MIT indefinitely removes online physics lectures and courses by Wal... on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @12:00AM (#8721124)
MIT uploaded 8.01, 8.02, and 8.03 (as well as other courses) to the Internet Archive awhile ago.

8.01: https://archive.org/details/MIT8.01F99

8.02: https://archive.org/details/MIT8.02S02

8.03: https://archive.org/details/MIT8.03F04

Edit: I don't know if all the problem sets are up there.

Re:What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @06:06PM (#8598881)
Here's the letter: http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/11/16/magazine/16Lede2/m...
Re:A programming language in 450 lines of JavaScript on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @12:43AM (#8555290)
Sure, O(2^n) is an upper bound here. O(phi^n) is a tighter bound.
Re:A programming language in 450 lines of JavaScript on Monday November 03, 2014 @10:40PM (#8555049)
You're both correct: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4623058/ofib-n-complexity...

EDIT: Tied with JadeNB (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8555051).

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