jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You should! I've been an on/off Vim user for years, but only recently have finally decided to do all my editing in Vim and I can say that (after the typical initial re-learning curve) I'm more than happy.

This article in particular made me want to go back and try again, with a better Vim configuration file: http://nvie.com/posts/how-i-boosted-my-vim/

Now I've gotten so used to Vim, I keep closing tabs and chat windows when trying to delete a word I just typed (Ctrl+W on Vi). Awkward :)

EDIT: I linked the wrong article. Fixed now.
Thanks, Jeff. Could you also please lecture us on properly backing up a site?
He's still calling it an "Internet driver's license"?

Gretchen: That is so fetch!

Regina: Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!
This is useful and interesting in its own right, but for context you might want to look at these articles/submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003332

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003637

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003930

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004407
Simply using licensing fees to shift revenue is a simple trick but countries can legislate against it if they want. Example:

https://www.kwm.com/en/au/knowledge/insights/australian-soft...

In that example they found that the 'licensing fee' was a royalty meaning there is a 30% withholding depending on double tax treaties and rates between the two locations. Which for a zero tax foreign licensor would mean a 30% local tax on however much you send overseas.
The top nav bar gets duplicated vertically many times for me. Seems to only happen when Dark Reader is enabled. Weird. I might be wrong, didn't examine what's happening.
Write the spec.

Write the tests.

Write the code.

I'm taking about API and system level tests. Unit tests vary in scope between 'test a function' and 'test a unit interface'. Former should be done by the dev during development. Latter should be done by someone else. It's a grey area between those extremes.

I'm coming from a systems programming and embedded background so I have no idea if a web dev or someone else should follow my advice, but I suspect so.
I was a youtube/google play music subscriber for years who recently switched to spotify and I think the same about the opposite! When I moved to spotify I thought the recommendations were better. Now reading your experience I think that maybe they aren't better, just different.

Youtube music is really a shame. It was a big step back from google play music. Sorting liked albums & songs is difficult. If you like a video on youtube that happens to be music, it will always show up in your liked songs in youtube music. Having such crappy streaming options just makes me want to go back to pirating.
Yes, but... why?

If you accuse my wife of stomping a puppy to death I would say “she didn’t do that” or “that is a baseless accusation without a shred of evidence, and would be deeply out of character for her.” I wouldn’t say “let’s assume that was true. The puppy must have been biting her.”
An inhouse DBA (preferably something like SQL Server as it's quite straightforward). Get it set up/automated (back-ups etc) then the a good indicator that you are doing well is if you've nothing much to do.
A friend of mine, working for an ISP mapping the regions where there is still only dial-up access, is referring to these people jokingly now as "the lucky ones with intact brains".
Even the domain is worth more than that.
Now that I am remembering better, I actually hit the front page of Reddit and del.icio.us at the same time. Those both drive a surprising amount of traffic. (The article was "Git merging by example", now archived here: http://blog.jrock.us/posts/Git%20merging%20by%20example.pod)

I did not use varnish at the time, but I basically kept up with the load. My pages were cached with an in-memory cache in the app layer, which worked well enough, I guess. As blog.jrock.us mentions, I was unhappy with the design of my software, so I took it down. Two years later, I almost know what a good design is, and so I should have a blog again soon. But I digress :)
To be fair, they never released a CDMA Nexus. I could've personally moved half a dozen if they had. Instead, Motorola sold 3 Droid 1s and 3 locked-BL Droids.
Battery power is also a factor that comes into play here. These devices are "always on" for days at a time. Powering down isn't really the issue so much as leaving your perception. You can forget about them ("turn them off") and when you start using them a day or two later they come on in an instant.

When it comes to a laptop you can't necessarily leave it and come back, you have to be cognizant of how long it's been standing by or hibernating or whatnot.
The irony being that Dell laptops made even this year won't accept clean Windows 7 (well, it will, but the Display won't work correctly and the Wifi didn't work until I went and downloaded them from Dell which was a challenge considering I didn't have ethernet. Luckily, my Droid 1 can tether, thanks to a custom rom. What a coincidence.

Of course the Ubuntu live disc worked fine and offered to install a better display and wifi driver for me automatically when I had wifi or an internet connection next.
Trouble? I know that Wordpress.com and google make it extremely easy for a non-technical person to get going with a domain name.
I once had a similar problem. I just sent a stern email to the domain provider, who sorted it out for me. Legal action is probably too much of a time and money sink for such trivial annoyances. But just threatening with legal action works.
Thanks for the contrarian view. For me personally, the feedback I have gotten from reading people's YC rejection posts has been useful in that it has helped put the process into perspective. Judging by the upvotes on these kinds of posts, it seems like other people find them interesting as well.

I appreciate what your advice and welcome it. You are right, I am excited by the prospect of starting something myself and caught up in the energy of it all, but I am also well aware that this is my first time and I'm going to mess up a lot of things. That's part of the reason for starting the blog and reaching out to the HN community. To learn from those who have already done this, so that one day I can give back as well.
I do a bit of both. I make the quotes, I make the comparisons and analogies that everyone else of my opinion does. I also talk about specific policy issues - reform/removal of the well-abused PATRIOT Act; civil asset forfeiture; independent investigations for police violence, and so on.

I bring up issues of privacy on topics many think I would unabashedly support, such as police cameras. Who gets to see that footage, under what circumstances? How long should tapes be retained, if they aren't needed for an investigation?

I suppose I agree with your point, and decided to respond with how I take that approach.
But… can it shrug? ;)
Dennis sounds like good guy. If I didn't quit buzzing my head, I'd be interested in going to him.

But to a greater point: entrepreneurship isn't just about the millions or billions we more often hear in the news. Instead, it's also about the small biz owners like Dennis who aspire for great things for their communities, their family and friends, and yes, themselves.

We should shoot for the stars, but not get disappointed because we only reached the moon. Or heck, if we were able to "fly" at all... that's awesome.

Great write-up! Now, can Dennis also have an app? I'd like to help with that.
Having looked for a few minutes, it really reminds me of the routing protocols used for distributing routes in networks. (Also Layer 2 stuff IIRC). There you also find heartbeats, elections, etc.

Is there a connection?

Also, does it have anything to do with the Byzantine Generals Problem?
As someone with a spouse who has taught for over 10 years in an impoverished, inner-city school, and who has won a very impressive array of grants, awards, certifications and national-level recognition, I could not agree more strongly with this editorial.

Americans are under the misapprehension that all of their school woes stem from poor teachers. But even in poor districts like the one my spouse teaches in, which have accumulated a whole layer of apathetic teachers, the impact of both poor and excellent teachers is way overestimated, and the impact of poor and excellent administrations (both the school principal and the district leadership) is tremendously underestimated. A good principal, particularly one with strong school board backing, can almost single-handedly turn an entire school around (I've seen this happen twice now). An excellent teacher with a poor principal and negligent school board can do very little other than provide a strong role model for the most promising students, and (with great effort) pull a handful more of failing students up to the barely passing level than their less talented peers.

Primarily, good principals act just like good engineer managers in corporations. Just as good managers keep engineers isolated from the bullshit of upper management and adjacent managers, and give good engineers space to do their jobs, so do good principals let their good teachers do their job, and intervene when poor teachers fail to meet expectations.

Regarding the other factors mentioned, I do think poverty is a major hurdle, and the author of this piece rightly underlines its importance in poor school performance, but poverty is primarily an issue in that high-levels of poverty correlate strongly with lack of parental support and engagement (and not always due to a lack of care; often it's because these are single-parent households where that one parent is working all the time). But here an excellent principal can also make a major impact by rallying formerly disengaged parents around their kids and their kids' teachers, and supporting single-parent households where the parent is working multiple jobs.

It makes me sad to see all this rhetoric around teachers in the U.S., not only because it's depressing for my spouse to be so unappreciated by people outside the teaching profession, but also because I know it will do little to fix the main problem: school poor administrations. Nor will it address any of the other major contributing factors, like poverty and the lack of respect in high school academic excellent so prevalent in our culture, rich and poor alike.
Distracted by management? They don't sound passionate or effective to me. Do you think that there's no red tape in Scandinavia and their teachers ste better for administrative reasons??
Sorry, I must be dumb.

Why exactly does the US want to cut the deficit when the unemployment rate is 9%, inflation is 1% and the federal interest rate is 0.25%?

(I do understand the problem that the cost of future health care may cause, but it seems to me that problem is structural rather than just financial, and it seems odd to try and tackle that problem when the economy is doing so badly)
Second time I've heard of this happening fairly recently. Another incident, same cause. http://www.bigdoor.com/blog/bigdoor-api-service-has-been-res...
Most religions exist to spread the goodwill of their respective deity or deities. Often times they spread their goodwill through charitable means.
Zinio seems the odd-man-out in that trio. Unless they've made major changes recently, it's PDF for magazines, at least from the end-user perspective. Nothing so personalized about that.
The price to pay for having an awesome, stable, but specialised distro.
It is indeed significantly harder to add new software to an OpenElec installation ...
I wonder if they are building Spartan atop .NET or as native. Given that they are in the process of open sourcing the whole .NET shebang, it would be an interesting indication of the internal value being placed on .NET going forward.
Hunter,
Thank you for a most thoughtful reply. We are actually current Heroku customers, and my issue (a simple one to solve) is that our new app has the same name as our old app (which is running on Heroku now), so i wanted a different hoster - not only just to try other providers, but also to make management at our end a bit easier. As i say, an easy problem to fix. I am tempted to return to Heroku because integrating with MongoLab was just so easy and painless, and your deployment steps are so clear and easy.
What you say is true, but it should be noted that what we call particles aren't really particles either, and they also don't exist by themselves in free space. A single electron (for example) by itself in free space behaves like a wave, not a particle. What we call particles only behave like particles when they interact with a large system of other "particles" and decohere.
I just picked up a cert from GoDaddy a couple weeks ago. I don't have any issues with FireFox, Chrome, Safari on OSX, and no problems with IE8 on XP.

Guess I'll have to check the other combinations later.

I would double check the configuration. Maybe something is up with the intermediate certificate?
I wonder if it is too much for Amazon to take on though. The OP mentioned buying a drill with Amazon Prime which is almost on demand use of the tool.

What if Amazon had a "Rent for 4 hours for $5" option on their site (right below the buy button).
The other thing to consider is that simply not getting natural gas at all is also a terrible idea.

A lot of the power infrastructure that handles peaks in demand (and averts rolling blackouts) uses natural gas. The question we need to be asking ourselves is which is the least bad alternative, because they're all bad.
I've been studying sailboats and living aboard them for the last year. You would be amazed on what tech is out there to be virtually self sufficient for energy, water and heating/cooling. A lot of this can transfer to a live aboard bus.
* Wind-electric generators
* Led
* Solar Panels
* Low voltage heaters..etc

Many of the comments here about cooking fuels being heavier than air are correct about the danger- nothing that proper ducting and a bilge pump could not handle. In order to live like this you must adopt a camping lifestyle. Everyday life activities, such as cooking and bathing, become more like camping and require more preparation.

edit-poor formatting, sorry. I meant the asterisks to be bullet points.
Talent acquisitions seem to be big business this last year.

Is this a recent thing buying 'teams' and shutting down the stupid startup thingy they were working on for the last year?

Is conventional hiring talent really that broken?
Engage the folks there in person - look them in the eye (as many different people as you can).

Try to generate some interaction - ask questions, preferably ones that can be answered with a show of hands.

Breathe.

Know your material, but don't try to memorize it. Work it like a TV sports anchor - know what's going on and the details and ad-lib the specifics.

Smile and seem/be genuinely happy to be sharing this information with your audience. Wanting to be there is obvious, and so is not wanting to be there.
SourceForge is to github

what myspace is to facebook

what gm is to tesla

and what slashdot is to digg, now to reddit

and so on
it quite does. if the apple kool-aid everyone here drink was true, his reply would be "let's do better devices at more competitive pricing and nobody would have a reason to change"

but no, they still make a laptop that you can't close the lid while downloading a large file... and try to lock you in with lock-in tactics on the media YOU BUY.

See how well that worked for sony betamax/lasedisc/minidics... blueray... oh, wait.
Actually, you're wrong, sometimes the iOS apps have features that Android doesn't have yet, for example, iOS Maps actually had the new Maps interface before Android. Also, Google has Google Takeout, which lets you leave Google and take everything with you.

Android is not vendor lock in, because Google isn't the vendor in this scenario, Samsung, Amazon, Sony, etc are. For example, Amazon doesn't include Google's services, and Samsung is clearly moving in the direction of pushing their own stuff in front of Google's.
>> "I wonder what GoPro's end game is here."

Marketing. GoPro is at the point now where people use the word to refer to a certain type/style of video. This will help push it further in that direction making GoPro synonymous with point of view/onboard camera. Think of the recent NFL issue with commentators referring to MS Surface as 'an iPad like device'. Or the classic example of tissues being referred to as Kleenex. This will push GoPro further in that direction. There are also probably a lot of hockey playing kids who will want one of the cameras so it could also boost sales more directly.
Attempting to adhere to two conflicting laws results in undefined behavior. And as we all know, undefined behavior can mean anything, including exterminating all humans.
I'm not sure, but I don't think GoPros have streaming functionality, so maybe showing off the technology (and advertising it)?
ITT: everything that is wrong with the world
Please don't. If I follow one of those groups it's because I have an interest in that particular movie/film/book/sport/whatever. If your posts are no longer relevant I will unfollow you.
The west has pursued an industrialisation path that allows for the privatisation of wealth from the commons, along with the criminalisation of commons rights of the public, as well as the externalisation of all true costs. [...] Our entire commercial, diplomatic, and informational systems are now cancerous. - Robert David Steele, The Guardian, 2014-06-19
Yeah it's not perfect.
Actually all four of the ghosts have different chase algorithms: Blinky aggressively chases you, Pinky and Inky try to get in front of you (setting you up for a pincer attack with Blinky), and Clyde chases you until he gets within a certain distance, then makes a break for the lower left. (Hence why he's considered the stupid one.)
According to your comments though, you'd have been just as well served with a regular VPS at a regular VPS host - you wouldn't have wasted time to found out RDS is slow, and you wouldn't have issues with slower than usual disk IO on EBS.

My point about physical was just another common optimisation for performance critical DB servers, you could probably get close to bare metal speed with the flexibility of virtualised by using a "single VM on hardware" model that some providers offer now.
Since it's already in the wild, better to let people know so they can use the workaround.
They are not comparable.

Yes they are in this context. Climate change is highly unlikely to directly affect you or me. On a general scale (i.e. how many people it could affect at some point, yes, the potential problem is much larger)

If, as I believe, it is a catastrophe that isn't being given enough credit, then labelling it a catastrophe will help.

Not in the slightest, and it hasn't. This is a basic misunderstanding of social psychology (or, actually, a careful manipulation of it, depending on your point of view, to score political points). You will get people involved and "on the issue". But they will be scared, under-informed and simply polarize for or against. Which has lead to the current inaction posturing and political point winning.

This sort of language has been used for years now; how has it helped?

Answer: It hasn't.

I don't believe people have any impact whatsoever

Of course we can make a difference. Even if we can't that is no excuse to avoid doing these things ;)

But the point is inaction makes any view pretty pointless - there is no legitimate way someone can pressure the govt. over climate change and not make serious, simple personal changes (not sacrifices!) to lower their own impact.

The only option open to us is spreading awareness,

On this I agree. However I cannot abide the approach you support of fostering fear and confusion in the mass populace. Mostly because it has exactly the opposite affect the the stated aims - you are on the bandwagon of politics for whom this could rumble on nicely for the next thirty years, useful for all manner of things.

The correct way to do this is by educating people, by starting businesses to encourage local consumption (veg box services, for example), showing them how to save money and energy (there is a scheme here to have free solar panels, but no one ever new about it), how to pressure local govt. for change (recently we got through some leading local legislation to lay the ground work to encourage all new builds to have solar heating).

We are making these things happen - it won't take that many more to reach critical mass as a full on social movement.

So, hence, rubbish blogs like this are in it for politics and scaremongering and are damaging.
The artist Tricky also had allergies that triggered depressions. And only learned of this relation after a long time.
I love lua (almost as much as I enjoy python and erlang), but how do you cope with the lack of libraries? Since last year I've been trying to use lua on personal projects, but I find the generally poor documentation and lack of libraries very annnoying (and unproductive).
Its obvious that this particular guy is retarded. No problem. In any case I wonder what they would say about the Ukraine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lesser_Coat_of_Arms_of_Ukr...
This is a fair question, and I have two answers.

1. Even if we were just using ffmpeg + simple scripts, we think there is value to using a service instead of our customers running video encoding on their own. We offer easy integration, automatic scalability, a well-designed API, and customer support. So theoretically Amazon S3 is just a file server, but it's still worth using S3. In other words, even simple technology has some benefits when packaged as a service as opposed to managing the technology yourself.

2. Beyond that, we're much more than just ffmpeg. ffmpeg is awesome, and we use ffmpeg as maybe 25%-30% of the work in our encoding chain. But video technology is really messy. There are hundreds of edge cases and non-standard files/formats/settings. The best tools take you 95% of the way there, but the remaining 5% is exceptionally painful, and a few tools plus (simple) scripts don't get you to 99%, let alone 100%. That takes thousands of hours of work, and it really makes sense to let a service handle that, instead of thousands of companies doing that work themselves.

Does that make sense?
At a hospital that my dad programs for, the radiologists were using medical transcription software to translate "normal foot, normal shoulder" into doctor-speak, and the pre-canned phrases were too repetitive to be pleasant, so they ended up with 50 ways of expanding "normal", and that was acceptable.

This looks like a pretty cool way to interpret stats; I wonder if they could automate Tufte-quality graphics of how the team performed, annotating graphs with news excerpts.
Adware becomes malware when it resists removal.
With Haswell it should become easier to find a suitable laptop for Ubuntu. I ended up getting a nice enough, and inexpensive Sony VIAO because it has only Intel HD graphics. Now that Intel's GPU has much higher performance, that configuration should become more common with high-end CPUs, and the new Intel GPUs will drive 4k monitors.

Your wifi card won't be a problem. It hasn't been for years now.
Your 9 yo installed fake antivirus + search engine hijacker. First of all, what the hell are you doing letting a 9 yo browse on a machine with root privileges? Secondly, that has nothing to do with this story. As the article is wrongly accuses DevShare of being drive-by and malware. It is neither.

An article written by someone with more than 2 brain cells can be found here:
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/564250/0a106d6379c0d741/