skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are on a Mac (like the OP), you might consider using FileVault. Then, use a very secure master password, write it down and keep it somewhere very, very, very safe.

In the event you ever forget your password, you can unlock the encrypted volume with the master password.

I don't know if Truecrypt has a system like this now; they didn't when I last used them (about...what...5 years ago? O.o ).
I don't think it matters, really. As the article notes, it leads to cynicism about title changes and promotions, but job title prestige isn't (and probably have never been) a good way to evaluate employee and/or role value.

It used to be that it wasn't the company's president you wanted to satisfy, but his secretary--yet which held more prestige?
Site seems to be down. Here are the googlecache links. Looks like half ass implementation without signing cookies.

http://bit.ly/aT8R3D - Demo of ASP.NET Padding Oracle Attack

http://bit.ly/b3FdoI - 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack Affects Millions of ASP.NET Apps - text version
I think there's a business opportunity here folks. An App that reviews apps, BETTER than the App Store. Obviously its needed, since consumers want to know how an app works and if it has bugs BEFORE they buy it, and business want constructive criticism AND to know that morons won't be allowed to contaminate the system with reviews that don't make sense/are stupid, etc.
Just framing it out in my head, you would need a way for developers or users to add their app to the system (saving you work).
You would probably have a vote system (aka Facebook's like button) to catch the people who are too lazy to write (users could even do it from inside the app they're using if the developer puts in the code. This would also catch more users who like the app as opposed to being negative).
You would have a bug system so complaints about bugs don't clog up the reviews, and can be deleted once the bug is fixed instead of staying around forever.
You could have an Amazon-like review system, where users vote up the useful reviews, and vote down the useless garbage.
Lastly, you could make money via ads, sponsored search results (just like Download.com), or with developers paying to interact with the system (ie. get alerts when a negative review comes out, when their rating drops, when it rises to the top, etc).

There, there's a winter project for someone.
I'm usually making my own commands. I'm often making extra search commands. I use some of the clever integrations with maps and mail as-is.

For me it's the right interface for all kinds of pages that I would have to surf to, find the box, then enter some input. Instead, I just highlight text, ctrl space, type a word, and hit enter.
Getting out of the building is important. At the same time it should be a thought out process. There are a couple of things that one needs to keep in mind:

1. Have multiple pitches ready for your idea/product. Using one pitch for everyone you meet will end up in getting mixed feedback and a lot of conflicting advice. If you are building something for entrepreneurs but talking to individuals at a large Fortune 500 company chances are you are going to get conflicting advice.

2. Have your elevator pitch, hook and other supporting material ready when you talk to someone. When you pitch someone an idea you have to keep in mind that what seems clearly obvious to you is not so for others. Ease people into what you are wanting to do and you will get better feedback.

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What are some of the things you do before you get out of the building?
No. How to make a highly scaleable search engine. Examples of this sort of thing are not out there, other then nutch and that hasnt been proven as scaling out to the size of cuil.

Cuil's problem was with their ranking, which may be related to what they were indexing, but not to their ability to scale out.
You should certainly eat whatever feels best for you, as I said earlier.

Now maybe the conventional wisdom is messed up, but Mr Wolf doesn't have a single published article to his credit. I have read Taube's book and find it interesting; I suggested a nursing textbook not because of any included diet suggestions, but as a readable introduction to the fundamentals of the digestive system.

I used to have some Atkin's roommates who were constantly telling me how humans don't need carbs. Sure, they enjoyed chocolate and french fries a few times a week, but that's strictly a matter of taste. Apparently ketosis is fine once you get over it.
I didn't know that Michael had failed start-ups before TC. What were they?
Unless you can hit the Balmer Peak

http://xkcd.com/323/
bradfitz's brackup supports securely backing up data to S3 (and elsewhere), including incremental backups.

http://code.google.com/p/brackup/

I don't actually use this, I just followed its development. For my backups, I have a script that spins up an Amazon EC2 instance, mounts an EBS disk and does an old-fashioned rsync of my entire machine.

This does mean I pay for the entire disk all the time every month, plus the EC2 time, and it's probably slower and more expensive than an equivalent brackup, but I also didn't have to think about it.

Right now, the EBS disk isn't bootable, but I could make it so and in theory just boot up an EC2 instance and immediately have my entire machine at the state it was last backed-up as.
I too see their is opportunity in replacing resumes, and placing more prominance on past work experience from friends and previous employers.
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One could argue that it is inaccurate, but how is it dangerous?
Who goes to Toastmasters to become better at pitching?
Talking and pitching to strangers is not my natural strength, and I usually put a lot of effort into pitches and presentations to figure out almost exactly what I am going to say.

I'm pretty sure that an effective entrepreneur needs to have the skill and confidence to talk about a wide range of topics in front of all kinds of audiences without too much preparation.

Does anyone on HN attend something like Toastmasters to improve their speaking, ad lib speaking and presentation skills?
I think you misinterpreted my comment. It was intended to be pithy, not snarky. So your parents think that their current tax rate is too low, so I named a higher rate. Why is 80% outlandish?

My point was simply that it's a bit silly to bemoan the low rate of taxes today unless you name a rate that you think is reasonable. Clearly you think 80% is unreasonable. If one only thinks a 1-2% increase is reasonable, then stipulate that, rather than making the grandiose claim that taxes should raised considerably. Isn't an 80% rate a considerable increase?

The fact is, most people think that 80% is grossly unreasonable. Why? At least there should be a principled argument, not just a rich person bragging (via a complaint) that he/she could afford higher taxes.
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Quite - I'm guessing the laptop thief won't be so thorough, though. Anyone that security-minded would hardly compromise themselves so blatantly as to email their victim.
Is Flash on mobile devices hw accelerated or sw rendered?
Maybe you already know this and are making a joke, but cperciva is the creator of tarsnap.
In sucrose, glucose and fructose are chemically bonded (a disaccharide). In high fructose corn syrup, converted 90% fructose corn syrup is blended with 100% glucose syrup.

Because the digestive system doesn't need to break the disaccharide bond in HFCS, the body can metabolize it more quickly, possibly leading to more dramatic blood sugar spikes and other nutritional weirdness.
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Good points. It does make me wonder, though, what would happen if everyone simply began refusing to do meaningless work. Would the world grind to a halt? I doubt it. I bet we'd eventually figure out how to reorganize things.
Well, I'd argue that the financier is an employee of people who are voluntarily risking their capital. Similarly, a startup CEO is the employee of people who are voluntarily risking their capital.
The EU west region is just as cheap as the US standard, so if you want to backup off continent and not pay more you can. As far as the unlimited backup plans go, how does their durability compare to S3 or SpiderOak? It seems like if they're so much cheaper they can't have as much redundancy.
FYI, the domain is temporary, need a site name for it still. Some features of the site include creating folders ( and password protected folders ), uploading images via URL or from your computer, tagging images, searching images, exporting images as zip, etc.
I'm kind of a fan of using something like this ( http://lethain.com/entry/2010/sep/05/python-datastructures-b... ) and rolling your own.
The same was true in the Netherlands, the party of Geert Wilders (with an unrealistic, but popular, national/socialist program, with elements from both far-right and far-left) received the most votes in places with the most homogeneous population, where there are almost no immigrants. In places with the most immigrants the socialists and progressives won. Interesting fact: The day after the elections Wilders dropped most of the left side of his election program.

This makes me wonder if "voting" is actually any good, is it really "democratic"? Maybe if a vote was actually an informed choice, but most people just go with whomever is the most popular or promises them the moon on a stick. Realism, reason, legality, etc does not matter. Perhaps "voting" is not democratic at all if the people are basically ignorant, shortsighted, easily swayed by (the illusion of) popularity, fearful, during times of uncertainty and with many doubts about the future; We already see a kind of political aristocracy in most western democracies, the sons of presidents becoming presidents. Maybe that a demarchy would have been a better idea?

[demarchy]: Democracy without voting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarchy
Another "cost" of living in the Valley, of which I am curious, is the fact that you're in an echo chamber. There are things which would only work in the Bay Area (just as there are things that only work in NYC or LA), which can't scale down to the mass consumer market (if that's your interest).

I am currently very actively wondering if the access to all those smart people is worth risking the potential loss of perspective. (I wouldn't have to try and build a design community out there, I could just work and network.)
"This summer, since I’d just moved, I did a lot of household things—like unpacking or buying a shower rod. Depending on my plans, I may go out to dinner with my friends or my parents. Or I’ll eat alone and then go back to work."

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Same here. Hence, I read the 'printer friendly' piece instead: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101001/the-way-i-work-michael-...
Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like each Job Server is a separate queue? Not sure what happens if one of the job servers dies then.

It does handle load balancing in a nice way.
I don't disagree in principle, but I think there is far more value provided by state and local governments than by the Federal government. Roads, hospitals, schools, etc. are all local and state funded.

The Federal budget is mostly military spending (the US has no significant military adversaries) and Medicare spending (physicians, pharma and other "caregivers" prey on the elderly and have managed to channel this spending into profits... see Bush's prescription drug benefit/handout to those firms).

After that, the remaining 10% of the Federal budget probably makes a lot of sense. Sadly, most of what comes out of everyone's paycheck goes to fund military and medicare overspending.
HN user imdane used to. Maybe he can chime in.

Toastmasters was also the model for my design workshops, although I've never been.
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"...as easy to get to as Customer Service at Google."

I love that analogy. =)

(And I've tried to get to Google Customer Support before on a couple of occasions too.)
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Here's a good article on this:
http://jakek.posterous.com/just-do-it-move-to-silicon-valley

Besides networking, there also seems to be a ton of educationonal opportunities like seminars, meetups, and conferences of the quantity and quality that you won't find anywhere else.
if my company failed in the Valley I could probably get an equivalent executive role with a technology company

I don't live in Silicon Valley, but I would imagine that while there are lots of these more of these opportunities floating around, there is a lot of competition for them too. That said, if you want to be a movie star, go to Hollywood. If you want to be in musicals, go to New York. Country singer, Nashville. The same logic goes for startup founders and Silicon Valley. There are bound to be more resources and like-minded people there than most other places, and that's where the venture capital lives, too.
As for the effects of these differences in layouts, here's an interesting analysis of SF Bart vs. DC Metro, which finds the DC network-style system far more effective - 2.5x the ridership for the same track length (http://www.ctchouston.org/intermodality/2006/05/06/tale-of-t...)

I'm not sure what institutional reason leads Bart to continue expanding outward, rather than running new tunnels in SF proper, but it doesn't seem to be cost-effectiveness driving them to do it.

Interestingly, Seattle made a special institutional provision to ensure this doesn't occur there - they have a system of "sub-area equity", whereby the tax revenues for each of several regions must be spent within that region. So, for example, political power in the suburbs or a desire to expand the agency's tax base doesn't drive them to unfairly allocate transit where it's relatively unneeded, and they can get their second central tunnel whenever the tax revenues for the core call for it.
"the 10,000 years since the advent of agriculture is a very small evolutionary time step"

True, although those 10,000 (I've actually heard 20-40K) years are the most recent ones in our evolution and therefore have more direct bearing on our current state. In addition, humans experienced a population bottleneck around 60,000 that brought us down to 10-20K individuals. Since then, there have been repeated agricultural famines. These stresses should have favored people able to eat the grains that formed the basis of our diet.
"The interstitial pop-up"

Surely you meant the "intermittent" pop-up.
>If you use standard accounting software (like quickbooks) and just want them to deal with filing and paying the taxes, the bill will be small.

I make more use of the accountant than that.. It's almost like having an experienced business person on 'pay by the hour' basis. A typical contract accountant has worked with more businesses than your typical businessperson. I mean, the accountant is not much help on marketing, product development, etc... but as for the mechanics of running the office, payroll, insurance, keeping the government officials besides the taxman at bay, etc... an accountant can be really, really useful, especially when you just want to know "how do other businesses solve this problem?"
This article tries to say that fake-fun at offices should be banned, but what it actually says is that what modern companies do for fun isn't their idea of fun (their idea of fun seems to involve smoking and drinking and sexually harrassing co-workers).

Believe it or not, Googlers love the ball pits and the massages, and Twitter peeps are very appreciative of the HR people whose job it is to make sure everyone's happy (contrary to the E's report, it more often involves firing people who suck than handing out cold towels).
I used to use S3 to backup data on my mac mini via JungleDisk. I was paying somewhere around $10-15/mo in storage costs after the initial fee of uploading the bulk of the data. Unfortunately after a system upgrade (not sure when or what specifically), the automatic sync w/ JungleDisk just stopped working. For several months none of my data was being copied back to S3.

What I really need is simplicity that _just works_. I found that in Dropbox and haven't gone back since. I use it to back up ~100Gb of data. On my other machines I just choose not to sync the larger directories and everything works perfectly.
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That really would not work very well for building large apps, IMO.

You are hardly alone in that opinion. However you've probably never seen what happens in practice. I have. And I value that relevant experience more than your opinion.

I'm sure Windows does code reviews for checkins to all branches. That's not sufficient, unless you have an oracle that can tell you if each checkin will work just fine.

I don't know what Microsoft's code review policy is. It would surprise me if they forced code review before allowing developers to check code in. It would fit my expectations if they do code review before merging branches together. But those are educated guesses based on the industry as a whole, and could both be far off base.

That said, I agree that manual code review is not sufficient. Nor are automated unit tests. Both help and are important pieces, but you need other pieces as well to make this work.

One big problem I see:

When you're working on a feature you don't want a thousand of checkins per day coming in. As some checkin downstream, that doesn't directly effect your feature can end up blocking you. For example, I'm working on the start menu button, but some random guy checks in some new feature that broke the ATI Radeon 9850x video card, which happens to be the video card you're using. Now I'm blocked for a day.

Why would you think that you are blocked for a day? Implicit in there is an assumption that there is a nightly build process, giving you a one day feedback loop. In that case if the nightly build is broken, you're in trouble. And with a day of check-ins, this is likely to happen a lot of days.

To that assumption I'll reply that if you wish to use an iterative development process, you need to make iterations and feedback as quick as possible. See http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html for some advice on how to do that. Also look to your build tools. For instance something like http://code.google.com/p/distcc/ can let your builds go MUCH faster, which means that the gap between "oops" and "all better" can be much shorter.

Is this all simple to set up? No. Not at all. But it is doable, and I believe it is very much worthwhile in practice.
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And we are many trying to develop these habits :)
> The apartment analogy is a very poor one for this argument

A magazine subscription is a better analogy. If you don't renew you don't get the service.
That (to me then unknown) fact that the anglo-american world counts the weeks of the year differently from Europe has once required a very expensive upgrade to one of my web-apps and a lot of very unhappy clients.

In most software the default is the anglo-american count, you need to explicitly ask for the ISO 8601 count.
Keep your contacts in Au and elsewhere. Come here. Start a company. As soon as you have to scale, hire your best buds (who are competent & responsible) in places where half of what a junior level programmer makes in the Valley is a great salary for an experienced talented programmer.
Don't trust a Houstonian to interpret SF transit!

MUNI light rail, subways, and buses handle most shorter trips within SF -- so Metrorail is more comparable to a mix of MUNI plus BART. (It's possible for visitors to the bay area, or even residents of outlying suburbs, to almost completely overlook MUNI trains. I know when I lived in Berkeley, and took BART into SF, I had no appreciation of all the places MUNI went, even though the downtown MUNI stations are stacked above the BART tubes so you see them while riding the escalator up.)

BART was always a longer-trip system, by design.
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I am currently using Resque(http://github.com/defunkt/resque) for a similar requirement. You might want to check it out.

edit: This is in Ruby though.
I don’t disagree with you; I’m just trying to explain the possible logic behind people’s discomfort.
A really brilliant, moving post. It is extremely difficult to work on something you despise. We don't get to know how many such artists had and will have to work on uninteresting stuff and work with stupid, demanding people. Having a family may increase the fear of failure and other apprehensions in people who work for their daily survival.
I have never read Hardy Boys in childhood, as I am not a native speaker of English. But, I had definitely enjoyed some juvenile books (boy-detective fiction etc.) written for kids. Talented people often fall victims to such profit seeking organizations at the expense of their art and craft. Lets wish we will not be pushed to such extreme pains.
Both. I could be wrong, but I don't think this particular demo uses Flash's hardware acceleration support. I'm not surprised that Flash's software rasterizer is faster than Apple's Canvas.
Agreed that the decision about what above-ground rail to include seems very arbitrary. The Tokyo map seems to only include the "subway" lines, for example, while the JR rail lines serve the same function + even share stations within the city limits.
> I’d love to have three monitors, but Macs support only two.

You can drive three monitors from a Mac Pro:

http://blog.acceleroto.com/2010/08/28/buying-and-setting-up-...

And here's a Macbook Pro driving 4 screens:

http://daggle.com/macbook-pro-multimonitor-4-monitors-at-onc...
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Impressive. They managed to self-Godwin in the subtitle.
sitekreator is a little bit more expensive than that (http://sitekreator.com/sitekreator/pricing.html) but it does offer a lot that most of the alternatives mentioned here do not - how about a CDN, full Google Apps integration and some of the most advanced Photo Gallery Visualizations in the industry, just to start? ;)

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i love it when a metro system goes the distance. what with bikes, buses and feet, getting around a city isn't a big deal. however, getting a 1 or 2 hr drive away from the city is a huge deal. having a cheap and convenient way to get to those beaches, state parks, non-neighboring towns, etc, is so amazingly awesome---worth it.
Alright, so if I'm evaluating the benefits of adding an additional 20 miles of track length to the system, should I added at the low-density edges or the high-density core? How would you evaluate the benefits of the two options? He's said that the core option would get several times more ridership.

And I'm sorry you bring up his city of residence. As a Texas-born New Yorker, I'm particularly sensitive to this fallacious ad hominem. Or should I discounting your arguments because you're presumably Californian and your government isn't particularly high-functioning?