skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotcha - yur right.
EDIT: wish this had syntax formatting. Anything for that supported?
<i>However, there are people way more talented than me, doing much more important-seeming (that is to say, things that are getting more attention) things, and in general just being more successful than I. </i>

Yes, Pinky, and there always will be. There's always a faster gunfighter.
> Twitter's main innovation was discarding symmetry?

This is a common statement that benefits from explicit context: Twitter's innovation specifically was importing the "asymmetric follow" into a social network, a graph in which nodes represent individual people and in which relations are generally public.
Each of the ~800 sitemap-???.txt files contain ~ 20k profile entries.
You should take a look at http://www.wuala.com
Tarballs - Why?
Anytime an article hits Hacker News such as this; that is, with explicit references to class and socioeconomic status, I cringe as I read the comments. The comments are both predictable, and utterly devastating.

Psychology is largely at play here, since both the Fundamental attribution error (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error) and cognitive dissonance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance) have extremely strong effects. For the most part, the readership here often seems to be completely unaware of the daily realities of a very real underclass in western societies. Environment has a profound effect on our individual development.

I've lived a privileged life. I have many close friends who were not so fortunate. I could not possibly imagine my life circumstances today if I had to face what some of my friends did.
Perhaps you'd like a static type system?
If you really want to obsess about this stuff, this is a good forum: http://geekhack.org/
That's not a problem, since almost all sites say that mere usage of the site implies agreement with the TOS. I suppose this is akin to a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" sign; it doesn't matter whether you have read or agreed it — the sign is posted.
1) we ICE/STUN as well as relay for firewall penetration. 2) we use a modified version of version vectors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_vector) and accompanying algorithms to detect and resolve conflicts. In a decentralized system, conflict management boils down to managing causal relationship between distributed updates, and version vector was invented just for that :)
As others have commented in the thread, the Singaporean government is rent-seeking to a much greater extent than most of the rest of the world (they have direct stakes in many of its most productive enterprises). They're just extremely effective at managing to maximise yields.

It is much easier to run things when re-election isn't a worry and you can export your unemployed.
This is pretty neat. I turned off auto_display_list and arg_spec (the autocomplete features). I'm not sure if it will replace my normal usage of IDLE, but I definitely dig the syntax highlighting and session history.
Books:
Crush It
Founders At Work
Sway
Fascinate
Everything here: http://steveblank.com/books-for-startups/

Podcasts:
Mixergy
This Week in Startups
Startups for the rest of us
When I was a kid, I would try to watch television and my dad - who is great, but he can be a passive aggressive prick when he wants to be — would say something like "go ahead and watch the 'boob tube' but just remember that those people have already made their millions."

I would sigh and go back to the 486-33 and keep hacking away at whatever I was building in Visual Basic. I resented it at the time, but I bought my first drums with money I made coding when I was 11 and I was making good money as a freelancer by 16.

My advice to you, should you choose to listen to me, is that you can read Hacker News all you want, but just remember that we've already made our millions.
Shouldn't we focus on getting rid of malaria rather than getting rid of mosquitoes? Their bites are not particularly worse than many other creatures, it's just the malaria that's the problem.

I'm not sure what the best way to do it without wiping out mosquitoes is, but there has to be a way.
Baidu may press claims over hackers
The real problem isn't address exhaustion, it's managing the migration from IPv4 to IPv6 and running mixed networks in the interim. I deal with 3 ISPs on a regular basis. Of which only 1 (Comcast, surprisingly enough) has their act together and can provide you with IPv6 connectivity. Meanwhile out of 5 datacenters I regularly deal with there is not a single one that can provide a direct IPv6 routing to the rack. So for the moment, at least for the networks I deal with it's IPv4 and tunneled IPv6 and given the nature of the business, IPv6 is really not on my priority list, and won't be until it actually saves people enough money to cover the switching costs.
Refactoring isn't a functionality change--functionality should stay exactly the same during refactoring; that's why unit testing makes refactoring easier.

Functionality changes require expressiveness, something Java lacks, due to its superfluous ceremony. Functionality changes require an ability to clearly see where and how things are done, and this is obscured by the extra noise of Java.

Java 5/6 went a fair ways to mitigating this... somewhat. And IDEs can help reduce extraneous noise (like IntelliJ's <~> for generics). But it's not eliminated, and it's not enough.

Java still has an impoverished model of abstraction and OO, it forces me to repeat myself continually (and having an IDE do the grunt work of repetition doesn't help--nothing should have to do it), and that both slows me down, and obfuscates meaning.

The tooling is the only thing that makes Java even remotely palatable.
Can you give an example of a company that has done this? I'm not sure i"m understanding what sort of business has bought software to be used by their customers.

Do you mean something like opentable?
Yes--there's more to setting up a JEE stack then getting a JVM and a language running.
There are many corporations hording Class B blocks. Lots of them.
Time to use them or lose them.

This is also a Windows problem believe it or not.

Class E block has 268 million addresses but no existing version of Windows will see/talk to them.
Thanks for the feed back woodall. What browser are you using, and what did you do to achieve those errors. I have accessed the page, and all the tabs logged in and out in chrome, firefox and did not get those errors.
The cost of buying the things would matter less than the cost of running the things.

This looks like a 4-8 person SUV, which would be inherently more expensive to run regardless of the costs. I would imagine that the kind of vehicle most useful for an impoverished area would be a bus (as in, the kind of vehicle most third world people travel in already). Toyota and Mercedes already manufacture small, rugged buses that seem to make it to the third world market.

Further, it's hard to beat the price of a used American school bus - $2000-$5000 for a thirty-person vehicle. American school districts discard a lot of buses after a few years use due to safety regulations. Oddly enough, this vehicle class already emphasizes safety and economy. That's why you see them in Central America frequently, along with the Toyota and Mercedes mini-buses.

Also, large manufacturers already have large parts networks through-out the world. It seems unlikely a start-up could duplicate that.
If there is a shortage of viable fathers in the local community, then having a baby will frequently lead to preferential financial and housing outcomes. More benefits, and a much better chance of getting social housing.

There's very little way to get out of this cycle, besides either creating a lot of jobs, sufficient that men become useful, or simply increasing peoples' benefits such that strategies like having babies no longer get you a better outcome.
Ayn Raynd - Atlas Shrugged
Founders at Work
The Innovators Dilemma
Lucky or Smart (quick read)
Unleashing the Idea Virus
Links to the mentioned languages/projects:
Go: http://golang.org/
Ioke: http://ioke.org/
Thyrd: http://thyrd.org/
Parrot: http://www.parrot.org/
Ur: http://www.impredicative.com/ur/
Frink: http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/
Newspeak: http://newspeaklanguage.org/
F#: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/fs...
CoffeeScript: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
Mirah: http://www.mirah.org/
Io: http://www.iolanguage.com/
Interesting find, I love coffee too. I suppose someone could view this as potentially helping the environment by cutting down on a little bit of waste. Now all you need to do it turn the extra Starbucks rocket fuel into some great code.
_why's Io Has A Very Clean Mirror:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080222044550/hackety.org/2008/0...
The title to the article is a total troll. The real interesting factor is that an 'upper class' has evolved that reduces birth rates in exchange for power (education/money). The underclass has always been there. It might be interesting to compare growth rates of the two, but neither are a new thing.
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In a way, the word "journalist" is similar to "hacker" - used with pride by members of the profession, and mostly with negative connotations by outsiders.
The tutorial video was highly amusing.
The density-preserving map is somewhat hard to understand at first, and reminds me of the cover of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Check out the actual researchers' web page (at the bottom) for a conversion of the standard "darker-is-denser" map to the density-preserved map:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amislove/twittermood/
Okay, it's a jerk comment, but I do like that word, "wantreprenuerial". I knew a farmer who raised sheep and sold their wastes as fertilizer. Called himself an "entremanure"
The Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs
Is there anything comparable for Ruby? I've looked for a nicer irb in the past, but found nothing. Might be a good weekend project.
Social Graph is (or graphs in general are) the buzzword of the day, or perhaps year. It's not surprising that everything is being phrased in terms of it.
I absolutely love it, but it at least used to be very slow, even compared to other scripting languages, and didn't offer anything really compelling that I wasn't getting out of Smalltalk.
Neither are their products. :( As a woman, the ads amused me so much that I was tempted to buy one of their products, but it was the fairly masculine scents that put me off. If Old Spice ever sold unscented products (looks like they did at some point, then gave up on those..), or products with more feminine scents, I'd probably try it at least once just because of the social media success.
The theory that people respond to expected future "poverty" [1] rather than their current circumstances is certainly harder to falsify.

But I definitely dispute the assertion that people living in poor regions lack examples of people who grew out of it. It's certainly not true in the poor neighborhoods I've lived in (and currently live in). There are plenty of people who stayed in school, kept their heads down and achieved a solidly middle class lifestyle. They often remain involved with the local community, typically the church and extended family.

[1] I find it very difficult to use the term "poverty" to describe the bottom 10% of Americans, seeing as all their material needs are met and they consume more leisure than any other group.
I've definitely noticed a trend towards graph based thinking in recent computer science publications. My half baked theory on this is as follows:

Graph based thinking is a result of the rise of social networking. The term "social network" wasn't common until I was a senior in college. Back then most computer scientists thought of things in terms of matrices - rows and columns. After 2004 when facebook became the most popular software in the college universe, people became much more interested in graphs (social and otherwise). I believe this lead many young computer scientists to start thinking in terms of graphs - vertices and edges. If you read comp sci papers written by people over the age of 30, many of them still express things in terms of matrices.

In my understanding, graphs can be faster to process and in many cases easier to traverse. But I believe that the shift in thinking has more to do with popular trends in software than it does any technical advantage of graphs over other ways of thinking.
As someone else says, you can get a Holga for $30.

Here's a link for $26:

http://www.amazon.com/Holga-Medium-Format-Fixed-Camera/dp/B0...

However, I encourage you to try the Holga or a Diana before you knock it. Try some modifications and see what comes out. I've been crazy-glueing miniature glass dollhouse props into my Holga. Except the first roll, I forgot it would be upside down so I have all these shots of people with wine bottles on the ceiling.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftist/4211183811/
Not much new here but I'm always suspicious of anything with an 'evolutionary psychology approved' sticker. I know that the basis of the theory is that most behavior is a response to maximizing gene propagation but I haven't seen the theory used to rule out any behaviors. It basically justifies whatever is the status quo with what sounds like science because the initial hypothesis sounds reasonable and scientific.
I've been happily using Sprinkle for a while now:

http://github.com/crafterm/sprinkle

Might be worth checking out if your needs aren't too complex and you want to get up and running quickly with something simple.
If indeed "personal choices" rather than "environment" are the main driving factor, are you arguing that somehow huge numbers of people who coincidentally make the same choices were born and raised in geographically similar areas? How else do you explain the fact that people who grew up West Virginia are much poorer on average than people who grew up in Connecticut? Some sort of genetic abnormality that makes CT residents make better choices than WV residents? Positing an environmental component (growing up in WV is worse than growing up in CT) seems more plausible.
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Absolutely. This project has the potential to remedy a problem that, to date, I have not been able to solve.

I have computers in multiple geographically-diverse locations and need a large amount data (terabytes) to always appear in each location. Other requirements:

1. Direct sync between my devices, with no third-party cloud involved

2. Fast local sync when two devices are on the same subnet are detected

3. Since individual files can be 20 GB in size, interrupted synchronizations should automatically resume when the connection is re-established (without having to start over from the beginning)

4. Encrypted transmission of data, but not encrypted on disk

5. When renaming or moving a file from one folder to another, the system should be smart enough to detect that there's no need to re-transmit that file (i.e., it just needs to rename it or move it to the new location on all other devices)

6. Ability to throttle upstream/downstream bandwidth on a per-device basis

Neither Dropbox nor CrashPlan -- nor any other tool -- has been able to meet all of these requirements.

In short, this is a very exciting and welcome development. I sincerely hope that this problem will soon be solved!
Huh? DPs are simply proven ways to address common problems. Would it make sense for each of us to have to solve the same problems before we can get on to the new problems? Maybe we should all have to write our own programming language before coding our next business. Why innovate when you can just use an existing programming language?

Also, it's not as easy as copying a DP. There is a level of understanding required of both the pattern and the problem at hand to even know if the pattern is appropriate. I will take a GoF solution as at least a starting point to my problem over rolling my own any day of the week.
Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcast

It is not a book but is free on iTunes. I've lost count on how many times I've recommended it. Almost every speech leaves a "fire in the belly." There were two speeches about negotiations (not the Steve Young one) that were probably the most helpful to me but they all are good. Start at the beginning and work your way up.
Well in his case it's because he's obsessed with finding the shortest possible solutions to the more difficult levels in the puzzle game Fish Fillets. He's recently rewritten the game's undo/redo system to help him in this.

Sometimes people, even smart people, are unproductive for the usual reasons -- they're lazy/unmotivated or simply just goofing off.
Be careful.

1) Do your contract. If asked then respond with that.

2) Do a good job, let your client see clearly YOUR code is superior.

3) Let your client keep their shitty coders.

By stating the above, you potentially destroy a relationship with a client. Unwarranted too.
Tools, training and support. Distributed version control is making its inroads into large IT shops. It makes sense to get out in front of that and create a product where you have the market position to allay CIO's fears of an unsupported OS product like git or mercurial. "Sure, you can pay company X to support git but go with us and Veracity - we wrote the code."
It is looking at cookies. If you already have a cookie for the site it wont work- try clearing cache.

The js is here http://ie.eracou.com/3

You need to upgrade/harden your WP install. http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs...

EDIT:

Found it embedded in your feed http://blog.dataportability.org/feed/

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I sent an email to your personal account. I would recommend puting it in your HN profile so it would be easier to contact you at a later point in time. If you would like I can scan all of your sites for more spyware/vulnerabilities. You can contact me at the address in my profile.
Do you want to take over their job?
If not, do you have a cheap, competent replacement?

If the replacement isn't as cheap as the apparently horrendously long code, can you show noticeable differences in runtimes?
Ask HN - Recommend some current business/entrepreneur books
I'll doing a bit of traveling in central america over the next few months and i'm going to have some downtime. I like to use times like these to squeeze in a lot of reading and was looking for a few current/new books on business, marketing, etc.

I'm pretty up to speed w/ all the "classics" - art of war, tipping point, the long tail, seth godin, and a lot of the material on josh kauffman's personal mba list but i was wondering if there was anything new and noteworthy that the community would like to share.
Right now this is the bottom comment which it is recommended by others that one should read first. Bill Gates is one of the richest men and he would feel he had inferior talent reading the comments on HN. (Well, he might not feel it but it might be an objective opinion.)
has any other 3G owners notice this?
Pickup trucks, chicken buses etc don't solve the problem of safety though ... developing countries have awful road fatality rates and a death in the family / loss of vehicle just adds to the problem. Safe, modern vehicles cost so much relatively they're a similar financial commitment to a 20 year mortgage.
The best part of the FAQ was:

A tarball and a mailing list? Really? Aren’t you going to have some kind Web 2.0 "Veracity Overfow" thingie?
Veracity’s web presence will have more of the modern menities later. The Veracity server needs more testing before we set up a public instance of the repo.
You can both be right: A fast lifestyle (1) is caused by expecting poverty and (2) causes poverty; but I think that Unseelie's (and the article's) point is the more significant one. In order to fight poverty, you have to give people a reason to change their expectations, without which it would be impossible to change their behavior.
or better yet

sudo pip install bpython

should work anywhere you have pip installed and its the latest version
Alternative server security checklist: http://watsec.com/article/50
What about performance? I assume since many routers these days use asymmetric dsl, download/upload from hosts may be poor if only a few hosts are involved, and the hosts use ADSL.
The world isn't going to end when we "run out of IPv4 addresses", because it can't: a huge portion of all the world's networking software can't deal with IPv6 addresses and can't be forklifted out.

The train has already left the station on NAT; end-users (and components in the "internet of things") expect transient addresses, and large-scale apps are designed so that rendezvous points are the only things that need fixed addressing.

Meanwhile, we'll eventually hit a point of scarcity with IPv4 addresses where allocations will stop being political and become market-driven instead.

Finally, all talk about a shangri-la of direct v6 addressing ignores the fact that no matter how quickly ISPs adopt the protocols, and even after the majority of Internet software that end-users demand are ported to handle v6 addressing, BGP routing still isn't going to scale to individual direct addresses. What's the current situation on prefix filtering at the major ISPs? How easy is it to get a /24 (even) portable?
Nick Fox (Google's AdWords Product Manager) broached the topic of a keywordless ad system in late 2009, and there is word that some larger advertisers have been invited to private alphas. I think Google is acutely aware that a keyword based system is only scalable to a certain point. AdWords is already so complicated that it's really difficult for beginning and occasional users to get a lot out of it (as was the case with this author.)
That being said, AdWords is where the volume and intent is; and it will always come out ahead of contextual/demographic ads like Facebook when used properly.
I describe the concept as "designed to be hard to use" for several key reasons:

1. It's got no viewfinder unless you attach one, which means that the designer translated "you never know what you'll get!" into "point and hope for the best".

2. Taking the general aesthetic of a Holga and painting it on a rectangle accomplishes very little besides creating a camera that's awkward to hold. Holga is a versatile platform because they can build many variations into a common chassis. It's the shape it is for a reason. The D would appear to just be an ugly box for the sake of it.

3. If it's digital, there's no way it needs to be as big as a real Holga.

4. Flipping it into B+W mode = lame (to me). Same with having a power switch.

5. Putting variable exposure times on it completely throws away most of the "fun" part of shooting with a Holga. If you're going to shoot shutter priority on a digicam, why not just do so?

I accept that not all of the things that bug me will bug everyone. However, if you're willing to suspend your disbelief for a moment to trust someone who shoots 0.5-2 rolls of film every day for the fun of it... the best simile I can think of to describe why this feels wrong is that it's sort of like when a magazine site or book reader wants you to "turn pages".

In most cases, the metaphor does not translate in an effective way. The reader ends up irritated and will go back to a real book.
Would you dispute the fact that children of people who practice Judaism are likely to practice Judaism themselves? If not, why would you find it unlikely that the children of people who practice a fast lifestyle might similarly repeat their parent's behavior?

Some components of personality are genetic (and not just heritable), as has been demonstrated by many twin studies. But we hardly need to invoke genetics to explain the heritability of behavior.
Even though I was also rejected by YC without an interview - Not "ready" or "prepared", and no co-founder, were the likely reasons, I can accept being rejected.

I still believe that PG's opinion counts for a lot. I doubt many seed programs have partners that loose sleep over missed opportunities.