skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there may be some equivalent in SVN, it gives you nowhere near the flexibility. I can't for example, create an idea branch for one feature I'm working on, try another idea on another branch, delete the first branch, switch back to the second, create another branch off of that and stop midway to checkout master (trunk) to work on something urgent and the then continue development and merge back into master when I'm done.

The equivalent in svn would make me groan, for complexity and for the performance.

Also, the same rules apply when 'cave-hiding'. You should still be committing early and often, but in gitland, 'committing' really means syncing up with an authoritative repo. You can 'cave-hide' in svn by just not committing anything and keeping your changes in your local working copy.
Punks have abandoned the South Side & live in Bloomfield and Lawrenceville now. Both are older Italian neighborhoods. The South Side is full of bros at night.

You can seriously buy decent houses for well under $100k.
nl,

There are two issues here:

1. You can ask for more, but how many will they give you? and
2. The fact that you need a key, makes it virtually useless for wide use in applications or websites. With the old api which didn't require a key, you had, practically speaking no limit when calling the api client-side. With the key that option falls away.
The other 3 reasons have weak arguments.
Surprise the UK made the move before US given all the hype about #startupvisa a few months ago.
Interesting did you move there for a startup? Or just for the city?
I find the hardest problem to overcome with PHP is finding developers, as it isn't a particularly nice language to work with.

If you're not doing a computationally expensive startup, speed won't matter much. If you ever get to the size where it does (i.e. Facebook) - there are always solutions.

I've been seriously considering trying to start up an alternative language that takes the best parts out of PHP, but drops all the backwards compatible nonsense. It really has some great features but the annoyances will scare off most top developers - and you're left with a crowd of 85% script kiddies and only 15% developers that actually learnt to use the language properly... and trying to find one of those 15% isnt easy.
Yes! Glad to see I wasn't the only one who felt this way. I moved to Seattle in 2008 and only stayed for about 7 months before I had to leave. The people were friendly and polite, but it was impossible to get to know people on more than a superficial level. There were a lot of activities going on -- concerts, summer festivals -- but they weren't good for meeting new people. I didn't have any trouble meeting people in other cities, so I do think it was the Seattle Freeze in action.

Seattle was a perfect city on paper. It's beautiful in the summer and there's waterfront views in every neighborhood. There's a good arts scene for a city of its size, and the cost of living is pretty reasonable. But without any way to build a core group of friends, it was really difficult to handle living there. I had to leave before I went crazy!
I'm pretty sure that's how the OSX dock functions as well when the magnification option is toggled.
Launching a new site on the PHP/MySQL combo (with CakePHP as the framework) on monday so there better not be.

I do have to say, being a single coder/sysadmin/tech-cofounder, it has been an uphill battle and really it's a full-time job, but I make do with a couple of hours on the side as a student.
Has anyone made an effort yet to do the evident thing, and simply build a social service that lets you have separate groups of friends for all features?
Are you saying that the projections for the future should fit the past? I'm sorry.
The Present and Future of WPF
You, sir, are a troll wobbly. Good day.
I really enjoyed this presentation.

Aside from all the interesting ways of defining privacy I never thought of before, the implications of the presenter's goal (making everyone happy to use social networking for almost all of their life) struck me the hardest.

Let's say some radical changes came about so that almost any reasonable person would feel free to post all their personal data on facebook, knowing that sensitive parts would be kept to specific groups. That still wouldn't take care of what I see as the biggest lurking concern; how our data will be handled in the future.

It's certainly paranoia, but we've all seen good companies turn to shit, and people have even seen stable countries turn bad. If a database of everyone's un-self-censored private data existed, it would have untold implications. Even now, it's staggering to think about. I don't know, I guess it's getting late and I'm sleepy. But I think about FB's extremely high valuation and wonder if something like that could be a seed of instability that would allow for decision makers from unknown vectors to influence how FB uses its data and stuff like that.
Well, it actually is spatial.

For what I saw, the input screen always seems to be the same and in the same location, thus the input method is spatial. That is, you learn approxximately how far each segment is from your handgrip and you can then whirl your finger around the correct quadrants to produce letters, even without looking. Pretty much how you operate a keyboard once you correctly learn the locations of letters.

A gestural interface would allow you to do, well, gestures. A gesture is like a vector: it has no location. You might learn that 'e' comes from "starting from top, two segments to the right" but that gesture wouldn't have a meaning unless you start from the correct location in the screen space.
I would downvote you, but I want people to see this response:

http://royalsociety.org/The-Science-of-Climate-Change-report...

Yes, that's right, the Royal Society, which, for those of you who are unfamiliar with science, is the oldest scientific organisation in the world, agrees with the IPCC reports, which I would cite as the secondary scientific evidence. For the primary evidence, just read all the articles cited by the IPCC.

What weighty scientific evidence points against global warming? Or is "real science" being suppressed?
Yes.
We say Yes PHP
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I run some PHP/MySQL web apps on EC2. There are a few high-CPU medium instances running the web servers behind a simple load balancer, and a large instances running databases. I don't use any extra tools for deployment, just checkout/update from the subversion repo. Some rules in httpd.conf block web access to the .svn folders.
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I live in Bangalore and I've never been able to find a decent meal less than Rs.50 here. Even in my hometown (a relatively small town) a meal at a restaurant is Rs.30.
If you don't mind, where do you live in India?

Edit: To clarify, I'm not doubting your statement, especially since I've been hearing it frequently these days. I'm genuinely curious.
not sure why you're being downvoted as that seems like a valid assumption (that some people might be angry because they see this as somebody bribing young kids to make what [the angry people think] might be the biggest mistake in [the kids] lives)
I'll throw in my $.02 about San Diego. I've lived here for about 6 years.

I'll try by topic since most of these can be good or bad depending on your point of view.

Tech Community: I think the tech community here has potential and could become more significant in the future. There is a regular Hacker News meetup, Function Programming meetup, and SHDH. I'll let other speak about the startup scene...

Universities: SDSU and UCSD are the two major Universities down here for tech. UCSD has a lot of good programs in many engineering disciplines and produces a lot of talent. SDSU also has a respectable program in CS.

Weather: There is a single season here and it is summer. Though it comes in different shades, it is always summer to some degree. The nicest time of year is typically Fall and Winter. Summer is cool with an onshore breeze but the city is busy with tourists.

Jobs: There are a lot of jobs here in government, education, biotech, and telecom. Goverment jobs can be either as a government employee or contractor. Mostly DoD related. e.g. Navy, Army, Homeland Security, Coast Guard, etc. I see so much bad software in DoD that it seems ripe for disruption. A talented startup that has the right connections and can leverage lean technologies could put some large high dollar organizations to shame I think. Problem is all the bureaucracy it takes to develop software for the DoD.

Food and Beverage Scene: The food scene here is good I'd say. It's not SF good, but there are lot of options at a reasonable price. Beer scene here is also good. We have a lot of local breweries that have a presence at any respectable bar or restaurant down here.

Activities: SD is one of the most active cities I have seen. With the nice weather all the time there is no shortage of things to do outside. Just pick your poison here. Bike, golf, motocross, run, skateparks, stick and ball sports, surf, swim, etc.

Cost of Living: Cost of living here is relatively high. It's cheaper than SF and NY though but probably more expensive than other places mentioned. There is a good variety of housing in different neighborhoods at various price points though.

Military town: There is a notable military presence here. Between the Navy at Coronado and the Marines at Camp Pendleton your gonna cross path with marines and sailors regularly.
What is this lack of troposheric warming of which you speak?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_temperature_measureme...

http://www.earthsystemtrends.org/2009/03/lower-tropospheric-...

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/index.php?report=global&ye...
Cool. I like you're thinking on this.
Did I ever once say that I supported the chatbot? No.

However, I did refer to AGW followers as denialists. Not because I follow the "Global Warming Faith" [1], but because AGW followers' tactics of argumentation (or lack thereof) typically follow the Denialist Deck of Cards: http://www.denialism.com/Deckofcards/deck.html

The vast majority of arguments I've heard from AGW proponents can be categorized into one of the following:
* No Problem
* No Harm
* Wait and See (we don't have enough proof, so let's wait and see if something changes - this argument is made quite often by AGW proponents, and is even referenced in the deck of cards)
* Stifles Innovation (pushing money into clean energy stifles non-clean energy innovation - this claim was made with regards to California Proposition 23)
* Already Highly Regulated (made by auto companies and oil companies)
* Jobs (hello prop 23 proponents again)
* Red Herring (claims of Neptune's warming is a red herring)
* Federal Issue (AGW-funding companies claim that California's tougher emission standards are illegal)
* Duh! (AGW proponents saying that they understand the science better than the scientists who are writing the papers, even claiming that the few papers that they have read make them better experts than people who have been studying the issues for decades)
* Nit Pick (this is what you are doing, right now)
* Muddy the Waters (and again with prop 23)
* Poison the Well (this is also what you are doing, right now)
* Exploit Others' Ignorance (hello prop 23 again)
* Temper Tantrum (this is what targets of the bot do when chatted into a corner)
* You're a Ninny (you are doing this)
* Big Government (any regulation is big government)
* We'll Lose Money (hey, back to prop 23 again)

[1] Actually having examined the evidence at Nasa, from climate scientists, etc., to the best of my ability (I'm not a climate scientist, I am a applied theoretical computer scientist with experience in distributed systems, search, and simulation), the evidence supporting global warming is orders of magnitude more compelling to me than the lack of evidence offered by AGW proponents. Others with differing experience and expertise are welcome to disagree with my judgement of who to believe, as you have. And a healthy dose of skepticism is great for science. But the behavior of AGW proponents is not skepticism, it's denialism.

Regards.
I have found weight lifting to be the best kind of exercising for me. When I was at studying and working part-time I found that if I went jogging I'd still continue thinking about work and school stuff. When I'm lifting, thats the only thing I'm concerned about. When you have squatted down with heavy weight on your back, you don't stress about anything else than getting back up. Strength training can also help prevent typical physical problems hackers face, such as neck and back pains.
Case in point, Philip M. Parker: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/media/14link.html

If only person wanted that data ( visualized in a book i.e. http://www.amazon.com/2007-2012-Outlook-Lemon-Flavored-Bottl... ) then he makes 495 USD :)
It was quite a long time ago that I did my A-levels but I remember that when revising for the final exams, papers from 10 years earlier kicked our asses. Even papers from the old O-levels were tough after studying for A-levels for 2 years - GCSEs are a joke.

The education system, in any country, seems to be particularly vulnerable to capture by bonkers ideologists who prize "equality" and "inclusiveness" above all else, which means dumbing down to the lowest common denominator so everyone can win a prize at the end. It why, no matter what the governments try to do, private education is thriving.
Doubtless they're just one of the oldest parts of the one world government conspiracy...
Great place to live; horrible place to start a tech company.

No-one here as any idea what you're talking about if you start talking consumer web startups. That includes the VCs/angels in the city. Forget about finding employees with relevant experience.

There are positively scads of game studios here, though. One of the best places in north america for that. Also: enterprise software.

It is very bike friendly except for the downtown peninsula (which isn't a big negative, actually: most of the action in Vancouver is not downtown). It has the best japanese and indian food in north america (both high- and low-end), and possibly chinese as well (I wouldn't know as I'm not a fan). Foodies praise Vancouver for its snobby restaurants being not quite as good as nyc et al. but significantly cheaper.
This list was very startup-bro oriented, as are most lists like this. Startups, Computer Science departments, hiking, beer are the axes of importance. What's interesting is what's left out: can I meet good friends? get laid? find a wife? etc.
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I think your product relies on mass adoption. Rather then trying the shotgun approach (try to sign up millions of people so you have enough people to 'hang with'" a facebook app where a person can schedule a number of events they are going to that others can join in on then tie that data back to your main site.
The less bright should not be there in the first place.

University isn't supposed to be merely a continuation of secondary education.
There's been a visa like this for some years already in the UK. I guess he is just changing it, and taking credit.

Basically if you have a whole bunch of money available you can set up a business in the uk. You must hire a certain amount of people over a certain amount of years.
Technically most fractals occur without a computer.
I imagine that effect will be lessened, because people already have the option of buying/downloading apps for free on their computer. Sure, companies will hire contractors to pump out some crap, but I don't think people will feel as compelled to buy it.
I've also heard complaints from Google and ex-Google people that wouldn't come up at Apple. Examples:
- Launching a hard-to-understand product and providing it with scant marketing support, so it promptly goes nowhere (when Apple launches a product we are committed to making it a success).
- Central hiring leads to o way of knowing what kind of project you will end up working on, and high risk that it will be infrastructure grunt work which is not respected by the culture.

Does internal secrecy suck more or less than those kinds of things? I dunno. I would not be so bold as to make a claim either way without firsthand experience of both environments.
Galileo was convicted of heresy, placed under house arrest for 9 years (until his death), and his books were banned. He could easily have been placed in prison rather than house arrest, at the whim of the Inquisition, the same Inquisition that executed Bruno 30 years prior and tortured and then imprisoned Campanella for 27 years. The idea that Galileo was never in any danger (assuming that one can write off house arrest as non-dangerous) is patently ridiculous.
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I've heard comments from people who were at Microsoft for a long time. I don't know the specific timelines of the people involved, and so can't tell you what time period their comments specifically referred to.
I disagree on both your pizza choices, but I may just be a pizza snob ;)

Sweetwater is actually my favorite restaurant in the area. Everything there is awesome, and it's priced very reasonably.

There's good eating in Northern Virginia, it's just very spread out. Ironically, I had much better experiences with restaurants when I lived in Northern Virginia than when I moved to DC (I just had to drive more).
Something that hits you as you get older is "how about having kids and a family?", which he doesn't consider at all. Fair enough, but sooner or later it does become important for many people.

I've only lived in SF and Portland, not Seattle or Boulder. I think it'd be fine to have a family in Portland - like he said, the prices aren't so high, and it's got some nice neighborhoods where kids would be ok. My guess is that Boulder is small enough that that holds true as well. SF on the other hand requires some serious cash if you want to have a larger home, and I'm a bit less sure about schools there.

Also, when I was in SF, it seemed very much a place for 20-somethings. "Normal people" who don't pull in major cash tend to drift elsewhere if they want to be able to afford a more or less normal house, which skews the demographics further. In the end, I didn't like that very much... here in Padova, one rubs shoulders with both wealthy, middle class and the less well off, young and old, which feels about right to me. Same in Portland, depending on where you go. SF was very much a bubble in many ways.
It's probably not wise to completely trust a single person's impressions of an entire city, but this really reinvigorated my desire to get out of the rural Midwest and get a job somewhere where things are happening. Also, this article opened my eyes to Portland and Boulder, which the author made sound extremely appealing to me.

Lastly and incidentally, that's my favorite kind of masturbation.
I've built a large application in CakePHP (and had plenty of PHP experience before that). For most things, it worked well. Last week, I started doing RoR again (after a couple of years), and it beats the hell out of any other ecosystem for webdevelopment. Ruby is (for me) a much better language than PHP. I've done a lot of Haskell, too, and Haskell is even a better language than Ruby, but doesn't have the same amount of web developers.

What's nice about Ruby is that there is a huge ecosystem. Ruby on Rails is already very complete (especially compared to PHP). There are a lot of plugins for Rails that add the functionality you want. For example: adding image uploads (including thumbnail generation) was about 15 minutes of work, adding comments to my models too, and voting on models/comments was also done by installing a plugin. In PHP, there's a lot of code available, but most of it doesn't integrate automatically with other code.

I think that the amount of smart people that are working on a language/framework is very important. In Haskell, for example, there are not too many people working on web frameworks, and there's still a lot missing or broken. In PHP, there are a lot of people working on the language/frameworks, but a lot of the smart developers have moved to other tools, such as Rails/Django/etc. Therefore, I would just follow them and use a framework like Rails.

(A slight warning: this is all very subjective, this post is not based on any objective facts)
PHP is totally fine. The question is more: Do you like, do you want to work with PHP, or do you want to work with Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, Lisp, etc.
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More detail on this over at TechCrunch Europe:
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/uk-government-plans-east...

Thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1867017
I think people are aware of this but many (e.g. my mom) like to watch all transactions and are wary of swiping anything before they're sure the amount is correct. They assume that swiping is a commitment to pay.
Google Ad Manager -really- does not like you doing anything asynchronously, unfortunately.
I'm a competent ruby dev, my two main customers are on svn.

That's really ok with me (although I also use git).
This is the main user-visible feature of Diaspora.
If delaying college for a few years is the biggest mistake you make in your life, you have been far too cautious.

This position is discussed and Thiel addresses why it is not a reasonable position in the article. If you want to advance this position again, protocol says you need to provide a new argument or new evidence that was not considered in the previous round.

Didn't down vote you, but think I understand why someone might have.
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I'm all for automatic updates, but all things considered I should be able to downgrade. Right now I simply don't update my phone for a period of time to make sure it doesn't introduce bugs or kill apps I use.

i.e. Pandora worked fantastic on my iPod touch until I updated to ios4 which caused pandora to crash about every ten minutes. Last time I checked the issues is still unresolved, but better.
I've found that paying attention to the type people in the line matters as much as the number of items and the payment type.

It sounds silly but I learned this from Apu on the Simpsons:

“Season 5: “Homer and Apu”
Original airdate in N.A.: 10-Feb-94

Apu and Marge wait at the back of the long line in the express lane.

Apu: Mrs. Simpson, the express line is the fastest line not always.

That old man up front, he is starved for attention. He will talk the cashier’s head off.

Abe: {Ah, there’s an interesting story behind this nickel. In 1957, I remember it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to three—medium brown.}—Then he tied an onion to his belt

Apu: Let’s go to…that line.

Marge: But that’s the longest.

Apu: Yes, but look: all pathetic single men. Only cash, no chitchat.

Marge smiles approvingly as the line moves much faster.”
Web browsers could handle postscript in 1992, they should be able to handle tex now.
http://browser.is/?p=23
Disclaimer: The author of MidasWWW is my boss :)
Research show "people with higher IQ's are more apt to be nocturnal night-owls"
The transitions aren't smooth. I don't know if CSS3 can do that. JS certainly can when you sprinkle some jQuery love on it.
slightly offtopic: What did you use voting/commenting ? When I last looked none of the plugins in that area were maintained
That seems an awfully passive and uninspiring attitude, but I can understand not aiming for the top. It's hard to get there, I get it.

I'm curious, however, if you're not going for being the Google/Bing/etc. killer, where do you aim? Being acquired by Google, perhaps?
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