skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if OS installation fails, you can do a server reinstall and it will preserve your data. Alternatively, you can take out the disk and plug it into another PC and there will be a hidden folder to access the files called \Data.

in terms of drive failure, in my experience it's less about the drive and more about the data you have. so, for instance, if you value your Photos directory like I do, you can select that to be duplicated across multiple drives. This will make sure there are multiple copies of that folder in case of any single drive failure.

I've also got an external RAID that I've connected to my WHS. WHS sees this as one drive, while in reality it's two drives in RAID config.

I've trusted my WHS build with 10TB of very valuable data. So far so good.
Good thing I didn't toss my 1st gen dock out when I upgraded to a 3GS, because it works perfectly with iPhone 4.
explain your idea more? ie- create web blog from an email.
Java also has Comparer and Comparator in both generic and non-generic flavors. Java lacks Equatable, which is a problem. Haskell, for example, has both Eq and Ord. It is frequently possible and convenient to be able to implement Eq in terms of Ord and part of Ord in terms of Eq, but these are orthogonal concepts.

As someone who has done A LOT of professional C# development: I've found that with only a few exceptions, the .NET base class libraries are very well designed with entirely reasonable defaults. I use Python primarily now and, in general, the core .NET libraries seem to be better designed than most of the older Python libraries (many of which are getting properly cleaned up in Python 3).

Every environment has its cruft.
At publicly-funded universities in the US, tuition dollars are supplemented by tax dollars (plus endowments, grants, etc) to pay the total cost of education. This includes professor salaries. This is, of course in addition to Federal Student Aid (and loans) which are also backed by taxes.
Steam doesn't even feel like DRM. The hallmark of DRM is always that there's some thing you run into that you want to do but can't: you can't play your music on THAT device, you can't convert your video to THAT format.

But the only thing I want to do with PC games is play them, and on any PC that I want to play them on. Steam lets me do that. It's copy protection, no doubt, but it's a bargain where I actually win in the exchange.
I used to work at Pivotal and I really enjoyed it. I learned more in a month there than in a year at my previous job. If you're into the idea of TDD and Pair Programming it's incredible. I got to spend time at a bunch of different companies (Mavenlink, Twitter and Get Satisfaction to name a few), and really get a sense for what works in a startup. They have most of the smartest, most pragmatic and nicest programmers I've ever met. I'd highly recommend the place.

If you have any other questions I'd be happy to answer them.
I saw this here originally:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1489199

Thought it was worth its own post - I actually gained a little more respect for deconstruction after reading the article. Before I thought it was entirely nonsense, now I see that it might have some validity if used in an intelligent and honest way. Credit to dmlorenzetti for commenting with the link, very insightful.
Since the population of Earth is rapidly increasing, this poor guy is unlikely to ever live through all possible lives and level up.
I think Charles Stross' "Lobsters," the first part of Accelerando, was one of a couple of stories I stumbled on in quick succession that used the term "pronoiac," & I liked the idea.

Edit: If anyone else's wondering, a pronoiac's the opposite of a paranoiac - someone who thinks people are working behind his back to help him. It's a mindset I try to cultivate.
I wondered the same thing awhile back, although the word 'evil' isn't something I would attribute to a game like Farmville.

See my blog post on the issue, "Are Social Obligation Game Psychological Malware?"

http://www.thepensiveprogrammer.com/2010/05/are-social-oblig...
Didn't Bezos start with a team? I think we need to distinguish between "one-founder" and "one-man" startups.

Speaking as a one-man startup, I think the problem is worse than skills-sets, and worse than the costs of switching between tasks; it's also values - not in terms of ethics, but in terms of where your attention goes. eg. attention to detail vs. big picture; the product vs. the market; the solution vs. the problem. One person definitely can do it all (and it's getting easier) but it's more than twice as hard as having two people.

However, whether it's easier or harder for two people is less important than whether it is easy enough for one particular person to do it.
Excellent thread. I was very close to buying a Drobo several days ago, but chose not to. There are many excellent advantages to it. But two main reasons pushed me away:

1) Encrypted logs. I think it is crucial to have readable log files to be able to understand what is happening with the drive array. If there is proprietary information that the company wishes to be protect, I welcome them to do so. There should be two files: one which is plaintext with the major status and event messages, and one which is encrypted with their proprietary information. Rolling the plaintext log into the encrypted log seems like a user-hostile posture.

2) Maintenance costs. If the log files are encrypted, then when the array fails (not "if", "when") then I will need to buy drobocare ($129) to get them to read the logfile to tell me what happened. I expect to keep this array running for the next 4-6 years, and I am not willing to buy ongoing yearly maintenance ($250/three years) just find out how the array is doing.

Like I said, I was hours away from ordering a drive, I really like the simplicity of the design, but thanks to some of the comments on this thread I suddenly realized that I would signing up for years of maintenance fees.
That's not what I wanted.
Pick another name.
and all iPhone models, even though they use the same plug, are incompatible with each other’s docks because of artificial incompatibilities created by a series of resistor codes hidden inside the cable or device.

Good story but not actually true. (does it matter on the Internet anymore?) The iPhone 4 works in the iPhone 2G dock. The iPhone 3G works in the iPad dock (by the looks of it the iPhone 4 will also) Audio out is a different issue since Apple has changed the way the dock connector outputs audio on the iPhone for integration with car audio systems to reduce GSM interference. That being said I don't know of any other SmartPhone that comes with a dock these days so it's a bit of a moot point anyway. If you want a dock Apple will sell you one.
Google is of a size that requires distributed teams. It's hard to hire that many top engineers in one place, particularly given their laser focus on the top of the talent distribution. They pay a performance tax for having to distribute, but they get to marshall engineering resources most firms only dream of. And their culture is very consistent.
"conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person."

You've got to be kidding me. "Conventional wisdom" says that you need to co-locate everybody from the CEO to the mailroom staff in a big cube farm.

One thing I'll concede -- distributed teams need to work a hell of a lot harder at communication than co-located teams. You have to explicitly make a point of saying a lot of the things that practically get conveyed "for free" when you're in the same physical space.

I completely agree that companies -- teams -- need a shared culture and sense of purpose to gel. If you're undergoing the startup experience and communicating with others like they're humans (which you need to do to make telecommuting work) you'll quickly find you have close friends instead of coworkers, regardless of the distance between you.
i owned counter-strike: source for windows. i was AMAZED that i didn't have to purchase it for mac.

this particular kool aid is delicious.
Regardless of the return on the investment in Post-Modernist Humanities Professors, I still object to the fact that my tax dollars are funding them. I mean, if I can invest in good humanities profs that have roughly the same ROI, at least my tax dollars are going to educate someone rather than fill heads with unintelligible fluff.
Funny Google Map joke....
I searched XIAMEN china to vancouver bc on Google Maps, I was just looking for the distance between the two places.

The two most notable humorous steps:

(This is to Hawaii)
1225.	Kayak across the Pacific Ocean
6,243 km

(This is from Hawaii to Vancouver Island)
1248. Kayak across the Pacific Ocean
4,436 km

Anyway I thought that was pretty funny. There is a guy who is pedaling across the Pacific. Check it here: http://www.pedaltheocean.com/
People buy cases for all sorts of non-Apple phones. They buy accessories like the car dock for the Motorola Droid for example which is incompatible with other devices. They are basically luxury items and people pay accordingly. Their only purpose is to enhance your enjoyment of using the device. My guess is the more enjoyable a device is to use is directly related to the amount of money people are willing to spend on accessories for it.
My advice would be to contact the owner of the .com before you launch. Once you have launched, the .com will have a higher perceived value and will give the owner more leverage to bargain a higher price.

Failing getting the .com at the right price, I would recommend going with the .net. Domain hacks are often regarded as harder to remember (is it projectna.me? projectn.ame? etc.) and it is much easier to switch from a .net to a .com than from a domain hack if you do get the .com later.
The main price is waiting for steam to login and initialize before you can start loading the game.
As a developer with design sense who is now both designing and writing iPhone apps, I'm having a hard time finding what to read beyond these kinds of articles. There are lots of Photoshop tutorials out there, but I need some why with my how. Any suggestions?
That would be about as useful as a comprehensive blog post outlining the bullet points of how to play the piano. Game design is a skill that requires practice to master; a course like this is a good way to provide directed practice and social pressure to put in the effort required to get better.
A starship is a relativistic projectile that bothers to slow down. If you're going to smash a planet that acts up, you might as well just cut to the chase. All even-remotely-physically-plausible forms of interstellar travel are also intrinsically planet-busters, including the various exotic FTL drives that hover on the edge of plausibility.

Sure, but they might not be complete dicks. They might not want to kill us unless we're a threat to them.

The more I think of it the more unlikely the kill-everyone-immediately strategy seems. Suppose you're Robinson Crusoe. You've been all alone on an island for five years. One day you're out hunting and you see another human. Do you pull out your gun and shoot him in the head before he can do the same to you? Or do you take the calculated risk that he isn't a homicidal quick-draw champion?
"we're no longer a place where the world's STEM students come to study and live"

That's the quote from your original comment -- the one to which I was replying. So, while you may have meant to say something else, I don't see that in the text. If anything, now you seem to be contradicting your earlier remark.

Also, re-reading the original comment, I get the impression that you're arguing that we're falling behind in science and tech because of a cultural failure -- a lack of societal focus on science and technology. I don't think that's true for a variety of reasons, but the big one is the same argument raised by the article: we've out-sourced generations of technical expertise. There's little incentive for the foreign grad student to stay here, when the jobs are over there. The jobs are there because we sent them there, not because we've stopped educating American students.
I'm not sure your points are valid.

The iPhone is not priced three times more than equivalent phones. Outright prices are not available in the US, but in England an iPhone 4 starts at £499 and a HTC Desire is £449.

Software updates for the iPhone have always been free from Apple (iPod Touch was different).

Finally, with regard to accessories, I don't think that's a fair comment either. If I purchased a HTC phone 12 months ago and then replaced it with a Desire/Hero etc, then there is every chance the accessories would be different.

I wish Apple would keep the dock the same over all iPhones, but I understand why they change it too. They have universal docks available and offer the slip in connectors allowing you to use the dock for multiple devices. This is more than I can say of most companies.
Futurama already did a show where aliens invade because they want to find out what happens an a show that's a lot like Ally McBeal.
Perhaps number of speakers? Icelandic only has 320,000 speakers. I suspect it would be easier to control the direction of a language with that many speakers compared to French's 200,000,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language
If you do get a new Motorola Droid you will have to buy a new desk dock and a new car dock. Neither of the original Motorola Droid docks are compatible with the Droid X or Droid 2.
Just because something is turing complete doesn't mean it is also effective at managing complexity to whatever degree. Any computation that can be expressed in Python can be equivalently expressed in Brainfuck, but one will be much shorter and easier to understand.

Instead, he seems to be asking for a revolutionary solution to the concurrency problem (mixing synchronous and asynchronous execution). That's all well and good, but he'll have to find the back of the line :)
So... you're not a fan of statistics?
i'll make it easy for you.

mobile website = no money in this
Water? Water is one of the most common non-hydrogen, non-helium substances in the universe. There's several Earth masses' worth of water in the Oort cloud alone, and don't get me started on the interiors of Uranus and Neptune. The piddly amount of water in Earth's oceans is worth nothing.
Not all hash functions are cryptographic hash functions.
This seems like a good option too, but if you've found a name you really want then why not send an email and find out if you can get the .com first? You have little to lose.
As far as I know, after the backlash following the announcement of the planned discontinuation of multiple queues, they backed out and left them in place.

At least, my wife and I still have our separate queues.
Do your own search and register direct with the offices yourself? Probably only doable for a textual mark.
Contact the owner, but don't seem too interested. Maybe go as far as mentioning that it's for a "personal project" rather than a business you're about to launch.
At the present rate of ecological calamity, I'd be more worried that aliens won't find us.
Ask HN: What to do for logos?
I have a project that I'm launching in the next few weeks, but it is still logoless. Should I leave it logoless for a while (while bootstrapping), or suck it up and drop a $300 on a 99designs custom design or something? Is there a cheaper alternative?
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Whoever is out there, watching us war and burn and die and doing nothing, is not being an upstanding moral citizen.)

Really? Do you go out of your way to stop fish and insects from killing each other?

edit: I admit this was a badly phrased example. Fish and insects rarely kill each other.
Here are some articles / links that might help:

http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1351460

Here's some things you shouldn't do:

http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/trainwreck-blogger-jv-pit...
http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/pr-social-media-gone-bad/

Hope it helps!
Domain hacks are often regarded as harder to remember (is it projectna.me? projectn.ame? etc.)

I agree...it's risky to go with the domain hack without the .com. If people can't remember the hacked name, they will probably go with .com before trying .net (think script.aculo.us and del.icio.us). On the other hand, if most people get to your site through search results and links, you might not have to worry about typos.
Headline may be meaningless out of context, but when t+1 = 2.5 million users, it's a pretty valid figure I think!

I am SUPER impressed with what Posterous has done recently and eagerly look forward to their innovations! I went to reactivate my old, dormant Tumblr a month ago and, in the process, thought to switch to Posterous because it fulfilled my desires better; I was really impressed with how it has changed since I last looked into it.
The post takes for granted a huge piece of good design philosophy in eating your own dog food. Obviously it's a good sign that the author felt the need to point out that the programmer is (almost) never the typical user, but first being a user of your own product is the critical step that precedes this.
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actually a big opportunity is to be able to take newsletter archives and turn them into blog posts. It's actually a big problem in the email world.

If you are interested in this space email me chris at thestartupdigest.com
C'mon.. don't you know about 2012? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/
twitter bought its logo for hella cheap, but go find an online graphical design community. Most of them are looking for any type of work to add to their portfolio and most will do it for free or on the cheap.
The cheapest option would be to make something up yourself.

Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) is a decent open source vector graphics editor that you should be able to use to whip up something halfway decent.

The issue you can have if you go with a really cheap logo is that it may be just a rip off of some other logo, and you may run into trademark issues.
Hacking the dock to fit the iPhone4 doesn’t work, because Apple’s modified the dock to only recognize the 3GS.

That's interesting.. I imported a US iPad to the UK when they came out but then bought an iPad dock in the UK later on. The iPad will charge but not sync on the dock, but is fine with a direct connection. That seems a very fine level to discriminate on.
I made the mailing list (Google Groups) which is the place for discussion about Lisphp:

lisphp@googlegroups.com

http://groups.google.com/group/lisphp

Join us if you are interested in this project!
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I would like to know this too.
The same goes for a bunch of things on my list, eg. sorting, compression, and SVMs. I don't think I've ever had to implement a sort algorithm outside of coursework or an interview context.

I included them because understanding how they work can still be pretty critical to using them effectively. I'll never have to implement a sorting algorithm. I do, however, have to understand that a best-case comparison sort is O(log N), and that if I just want to scan out the top-10 items in a long list, I'm better off with a linear scan (O(N)). I need to know that keeping data in sorted order will let me binary-search on it, for O(log N) access, and that cache & memory hierarchy effects often mean that this is faster than the O(k) access I might get with a prefix trie. I need to know that passing nearly-sorted data to QuickSort, in the absence of something like median-of-3 partitioning, can result in pretty pathological runtimes. I need to know that QuickSort can be done in-place, but MergeSort requires O(N) additional space. OTOH, MergeSort can be done efficiently in situations where mutation and random access are not allowed (eg. tape drives, functional languages), which other sorts don't do so well. I need to know what a stable sort is (very important for UI programmers!) and which algorithms have that property. I need to know that passing the first 80% of sorted input to a statistical or machine-learning algorithm and then saving the last 20% for your test set will give you pretty odd results. :-)

Hashing is similar: you don't want to implement it yourself. You do want to understand the various approaches and their limitations.
The 3G dock might be different than the 2G dock. I've seen several confirmations that it works in the 2G dock but none for the 3G dock.

That said, this article seems to have more completely false bits than correct information, so I wouldn't trust a word of it.
FWIW, I was using http://jottit.com/ for this previously. I had similar requirements to you, though I do have a blog. Jottit is good but a little heavier than your app, so I'll probably use your app for the smaller, cleaner things where I don't need a subdomain or whatever.
I'm not sure anyone would disagree.
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I'm guessing that YC's existence as a seed fund has a lot to do with it. How do you sell a company that is essentially a one-man shop? If I were buying a company, I'd want to see that it's leader(s) are team players.
I believe my course used Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, but at the intro level, basically anything should do.

I wasn't even really thinking about the integration with programming - the parts I've used have mostly been just knowing what the basic equations were, along with representations like vectors and such. If you have a function of t, then all you need to do to simulate it is advance t by some infinitesimal amount (based on the frame rate, usually) and then compute your new positions. I guess that when you get to more complex simulations, then things like fast matrix multiplication and symbolic differentiation may be useful, but I've never actually used them in my own programming.
Do you have a concept in mind or are you looking for the concept generation + design rendering?

Ping me, email in my profile.
Clearly the only correct answer is to camp your starting location, occasionally peeking around an obstacle to see if anyone's out there, and turtling like there's no tomorrow.

It's worked so far. No possibly-homicidal-quick-draw-champion aliens encountered today! Good job, Team!
That shouldn't be overlooked. A species that is social enough to cooperate and build a civilization, and curious enough to develop science, might stay their hand out of loneliness or curiosity.

OR

Or perhaps this is a grim answer to Fermi's Paradox: the galaxy is quiet because someone preemptively wiped out the competition a long time ago.
How could perspective even begin to change whether or not counting sheep works?

I have no trouble imagining universes in which, for various reasons, counting sheep doesn’t work. But that’s not what you seem to allude to. In my imagined universes counting sheep wouldn’t work because of properties of those universes (different arithmetic, different physics, different results of natural selection).

Postmodernism seems to suggest that a mere change in brain state (i.e. change in perspective) can have an impact as to whether counting sheep works or not. That seems … unlikely to me.