skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you are right.

On the other hand, it could be that we have developed advanced, user-friendly, self-maintaining robotics/AI to 'take care of us' by then. The added advantage of human intelligence might be very low in that case and the trend can continue indefinitely.
Ah yes - I forgot to mention. To add insult to injury, there's no CD - a proper copy or "recovery" disc. Pretty common in the UK these days, certainly for budget systems.
I haven't heard it used this this type of situation before, but I believe the Mark of the Beast is commonly referenced as an "evil number", so I suppose it works in this instance.

What it actually means:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast
(Shameless plug time: I work at Acquia, surrounded by the developers of Drupal Gardens.)

If you want a Drupal 7 site with working image uploads (and galleries) out of the box, Drupal Gardens can probably help you:

Go to drupalgardens.com and sign up.

Create a site and make sure you have "image galleries" checked on the template page.

And now you have a Drupal 7 site with image uploads working. Here, I took a few minutes and built you an example:

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Now for the kicker: If at any point you don't want to keep your site running on drupalgardens.com -- perhaps because you feel the need to hack directly on the code, or because you really, truly need one of the 6,794 other Drupal modules that aren't yet supported on Gardens -- there is an "Export" option on the "My sites" page which you can use at any time to download the code, files, and database in a big tarball. Then you can install it on your local LAMP stack or upload it somewhere else.
> 5,328$/year in parking fees (really?)

Apparently you haven't lived in a city where parking is a premium, and often a second deed with a house or condo. In Boston, separate parking spots last year went for $94,420 on average, with a $67,000 median price. Granted, it's not a necessity, but neither are many other things on their hypothetical budget.

Rates for commuters are also very high. I don't work downtown, where the prices are really insane, and a single spot at work still costs me almost $1200 a year.
> apt-remove'ing resulted in the setup asking for the (non-existent) db password, then refusing to continue when I didn't supply it.

That sounds like a bug in bugzilla uninstaller not in apt-get...
I like this job postings, although I don't need a job at the moment. They are always a good source of what skills are currently needed and where you have to improve yourself in order to stay "in the game", especially if its a job for a big company.
"it" refers to an hypothetical scenario.

The lack of clarity about this issue is clear by the context of the post.
Stories like this are disingenuous at best. Yet, they do show just how out of touch most upper-class people are with normal people. I know quite a few households who earn more than $250k and I see the same attitude expressed in the article. That is, they truly believe they are "middle class". If pressed, they may say "upper middle class".

The thing is, within their peer group, paying for a nanny, spending thousands for day camps for the kids, buying multiple $50k+ cars, etc is normal. When I occasionally ask them how people raise families on less than $100k, they are truly mystified. They really cannot understand how people do it.

I find it interesting how the rich (and if you're in the top few %, you're "rich" in my book) do not self-perceive themselves as "rich".
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Please don't submit spam to HN.
agreed, however it is certainly a part of using an ubuntu system. The point isn't so much the specific problem, but rather that such things are quite common in linux (though far less so now than in the past).
Not quite as nice as the incredible mrjob, but it's a good start in a great language.
Regarding OS X, I like it but too many under the hood things are different (maybe it's just because I'm not used to bsd). The bigger problem is that their package management sucks compared to apt-get.
Between Thought and Expression Lies A Lifetime
believe it or not, many dating sites start off exactly this way. So first of all, this guy was no more cruel than the creators of the dating site. It won't render dating sites useless, only FREE dating sites. And yes many of them are already littered with fake bots.

Secondly, I didn't say it wasn't cruel at all. I was saying that this guy lied to OTHER GUYS, and not to the object of his affection. It's like walking into a bar, showing up all the other guys, and getting the girl. Many of them, if given the chance, would have done the same to him.

And finally ... sometimes even "lying" to the girl (or rather playing / flirting with her) can be charming. See Hitch the movie as he gets the girl in one of the early bar scenes, when she is surrounded by guys, by getting her all emotionally riled up and chasing him ... right out of the group of guys. She appreciated his efforts.
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Poor rich people are poor....after saving/investing more money than the majority of the people in the world make in multiple years.
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That's it? That sucks.

I don't have to change the token. I just have to change the data given by facebook (including the uid) before the website's dumb javascript uses it in a post back to the server. Since it's not signed by Facebook, how can the website's server trust the uid? Never trust your user input.
No. Kinect is Microsoft's :Cue:Cat.

A nifty-looking gadget that's perfectly useless in its manufacturer's intended use, but gained new life once the hackers tore it apart and started doing stuff with it.
I wish you could also add some evidence which made you think that __HN__ is worried.
I'm no security expert, but what comes to mind is a malicious application, rather than a malicious user.
Sure, saving file as UTF8 before specifying encoding as UTF8 is mission impossible.
The Marginalia Manifesto
You're right -- I'm not in the US and I don't have a mortgage, so I guessed the rates wrong.
Further, at the rate they are paying/saving for their and their children's education, they don't need to do that very long before they no longer need to make the payments.

To present it as steady state is misleading.

EDIT : as other people are pointing out, there seems to be lots of double counting (high insurance premium + full contribution to HSA) and assumptions about steady state costs (cars,clothing) that are either misleading or a lifestyle choice that the family is making.
The "killer feature" that Emacs brings is automatic indentation. Parenthesis matching is important, but an easy feature for non-progammable editors to support. Knowing how much whitespace belongs at the beginning of each line is harder, and pretty much requires programmability in the editor. Once you have had it, you will miss it when it is taken away. Manual indentation breaks your "flow" while composing code. This is true in C-like languages, but it is much more critical in Lisp, where there are fewer punctuation cues.
Thank you, your position seems very reasonable.
It's worse on the iPhone! It's hard to tell if a number is a genuine hyperlink or something the iPhone has recognised as a phone number.
If the 'high status' jobs require a 'high status' car, let the employer pay for it.

Much as I'd like to agree with you here, this just isn't correct. In many high paying jobs you do need to engage in some status seeking. Women with bad hair (read: $150 hair cut/assorted chemicals every 2 months) and men with cheap shoes (read: $100) are simply less likely to be promoted.

It's not an official policy and your employer won't pay for it. It's just what happens.

(Incidentally, I'm not talking about media or fashion.)

[edit: I have no idea how much the necessary status seeking actually costs, and I'm not claiming this article focuses only on that. I'm just pointing out that it exists and is probably bigger than you think.]
> Now, LISP does have the advantage of being easy to reason about (since the program is also data)

Is this true? Could you (or someone else) elaborate? I would assume that an editor trying to reason about Ruby or Python code would parse the source code into an abstract syntax tree, and that would be just as easy (or hard) to reason about as Lisp, since those languages are all dynamically typed.

However, I'm pretty ignorant of how tools like Eclipse reason about Java code, so this is all just guessing.
I don't see a single comment here on HN resembling religious debate. I see a lot of people wanting to help, but unable to unless you're specific about your problems with emacs. Emacs is the dominant IDE. All the alternatives have weaknesses. Which weaknesses are showstoppers for you, and which aren't?
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When HN is no longer mostly serious business it will lose all its value. There's a reason why we don't go to Reddit and there's a reason why Redditors are coming here. We need a place that isn't all "intertubes" and "tl;dr". He wasn't being pompous, that's how most of us feel here.
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Just tap and hold, you'll see which in about a second.
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On top of that they are spending $430 a week on food and $161 a week on gasoline.
Unfortunately even if you install cygwin, you're still limited in what you can do - cygwin doesn't handle dynamic compilation very well (like using 'pip'), among other things. Lack of a usable command line is what pushed me to switching to Ubuntu for my primary OS.
All the fuss over OMG HIGHER TAXES for people making over $250K/year neglects one important detail: these tax brackets are marginal tax rates, not absolute ones. Even if the rates for people making $250K and up had reverted to Clinton-era levels, someone making $251K of taxable income would be charged almost exactly the same absolute tax rate, all other factors being equal, as someone making $249K.

(ETA: If you look at the table, the hypothetical family’s combined Federal income, AMT, state income, and property taxes range from 18 to 23 percent of their income, depending on where they live.)
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And don't forget that the $10k car can be sold for $4-5k in three years so your net outlay would be closer to $150/mo.

Also, it is quite possible that the 600/mo is a three year lease on a new Mercedes/BMW so at the end of the term you don't even own the car.
The Personal Side of a Bootstrapped Startup
"JavaScript skills, especially Sproutcore"

It's nice to see that Apple's not abandoning SproutCore even with Charles Jolley's departure from Apple.
My method is to follow the developer on twitter / tumblr / whatever if I'm really excited, or simply wait for the various indie gaming blogs to pick up the news upon release (which they will).
> just personal considerations,

You can bookmark this comment and see, in one or two years, if I was right.
To look at it another way, this family is SAVING as much money - after all taxes, after all expenses - each year as the gross income of the median family in the United States.

The linked article is a troll.
I'm near the low end of login frequency, probably, but it's usually the go-to place to organize parties and share photos. People also seem to like its messaging quite a bit.

The notifications are pretty easy to ignore nowadays, but my friends don't seem to be playing Farmville/Mafia Wars as much as they used to.
I know I was taking the bus to the library when I was 8 or 9 and the train into town when I was 10, and that wasn't strange in the slightest.

Parental attitudes have changed since you were a child.
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To me, its not just about lazy registration. It's about the mindset of the user when you ask them to do something.

For example, when they have created some content and want to save it, that is the time to ask for email/password. It works better because of the implication: you are saving their work.
Ahh thanks, that was the article I was trying to find last night but didn't manage to.
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I know, but I'm lazy and I'd like to be able to know by looking at a link instead of tapping and holding each number for a few seconds (and then pressing the cancel button if it's a phone number).
Lego is already developing an MMO. http://legouniverse.com/
http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2010/10/mrjob-distributed-co...
I spent many hours of my college career in DrScheme... Racket is definitely the way to go!
The man who reinvented the keyboard -- twice
XMPP Turns 12
Why is this being downvoted? I think it's a very reasonable question. If you don't think it's reasonable, please tell me why.
The day care number is pretty spot on. I pay that for day care ($300/wk) in the metro DC area to a licensed family day care provider. Most were even higher (into the $400/wk range).
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Yeah it's too much for public school, but you could always use the extra after you graduate as a down payment on a house, money to start a company, or a future retirement fund. If the money isn't being used for anything, saving $8k a year per child is a pretty nice gift to leave college debt free.
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The whole idea is to make the people who should be keeping the documents private legally responsible, with severe consequences, for taking a specific set of precautions to keep the documents private.

I dislike reasoning by analogy, but if you must have one, it's more like a 16 year old buying beer and then giving it to a 23 year old, who consumes it or gives it to other people over 21.
Scientists find evidence for 'chronesthesia,' or mental time travel
It's a lot easier to write a functional IRC client by glancing at the RFC and banging on a piece of code until it mostly works. For example, http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-hacks/2008-Febru... was written that way. Given that the only protocol message it has special handling for is PING, though, I'm pretty sure you could have written it based solely on the RFC.

However, I think it's a big mistake to claim IRC "scales amazingly well". The biggest IRC network today has tens of thousands of users (at the moment, freenode has 64000, undernet has 58000, and EFNet is down in the 32000 range) and the IRC networks are constantly suffering from breakdowns from overcapacity. Compare this to Skype, Facebook, or Gmail, with tens of millions of concurrent users.
I don't consider HN a Q/A site first and foremost anyway; so no. I tend to see HN as a news aggregator that also happens to allow questions.

That said, for me personally, for any question that I'd be prone to post to Ask HN, I'd likely cross-post to Quora as well
Gimmick?

I think calling Wiimote/Kinect a gimmick shows lack of imagination.

Motion-based UI opens a lot of possibilities that will extend beyond gaming.
Neh, not so many people left. Plus it's been 20 years already, that's a full generation. I was 10 when it happened. Plenty of time to replace them.

It's just that protesting wouldn't do any good. Say the current government falls... what do you replace it with? We tried it. We actually had something which looked like a "turning the tide" a few years ago. We voted in a completely new regime (including a new president), much preferred by the younger people, including myself. It started great... In the first 3 weeks they lowered and standardized taxes, and put a minister of justice straight from the NGOs. Dream come true. About a year later, the opposition got together, broke off a piece from the current government, and together tried to (rather illegally ) impeach the president with no good reason.

(you think you guess the rest of the story? guess again). The president managed to force a referendum on the issue, and proved he had the overwhelming support of the population. The impeachment failed. The parliamentary majority belonged to the opposition now, but somehow the good guys managed to name their own Prime Minister, and so in effect hold most of the power.

Fast forward to present time. The NGO Justice Minister is long gone, taxes are at a record high, the president is unanimously vilified, and his party is doing the hiring in every public institution and a few private companies as well. Plus they turned out to be much more incompetent then the previous guys.

There are no heroes in politics here.
It reminds me of the Navy's sea water antenna system (http://www.public.navy.mil/spawar/Pacific/TechTransfer/Produ...).

I know nothing about this thing, but I would have thought the plasma would be on the underside of the craft, allowing any antennae on the top to communicate with a satellite that could relay everything to/from the ground station.
Instead of trying to make your metaphor sound clever first, you focused on making it help explaining the point first. You put a man on the base first.
I personally wish the FDA "Generally Regarded as Safe" list were more well-known. I think "GRAS" would make a good replacement for "natural."
Silence on the Wire
Please tell me, Am I there yet?
I launched CinEight, a movie recommendation site which helps user to manage their movies too, a couple of months ago. The response I got was not all that great. So I put it on the back-burner while I got busy with my job and other projects. Finally around mid december, I got some time to revisit the project and I decided to integrate it with facebook. I am not on facebook and have very little understanding of social networks in general.

Anyway, the app is finally out (http://apps.facebook.com/cineight). Its just my main site shown inside facebook. I do not know if this is the right approach.

The basic idea behind the app was to help people like me, who watch a lot of movies, find a place where they can manage their movie lists and get to know about which movies they may like to watch next. So apart from following people who I think have a similar taste in movies as me, I can also keep a track of movies I have watched in various All-Time best movie lists (Palme d'Or winners, TIme ALL-TIME 100, IMDB 250 etc).

It will be great if you guys would help me in deciding what features should my app have now that its on facebook (Social features, things that users like doing on facebook etc.)

The most important question is whether I should start spreading the word around or wait and add new features and polish the app some more. Basically, In your opinion, Am I there yet? If not, what do you reckon I should do, if yes, then what do you reckon I should do?

Thanks in advance.

http://apps.facebook.com/cineight
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The Virtues of Monitoring
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Is it anything like the Sandbox theme? http://www.plaintxt.org/
Yeah, it's funny that the idea of a lifestyle business is alien to Andrew. He probably interacts with hundreds of lifestyle businesses. Nobody opens a Subway or a Radio Shack with the idea that they'll sell it for $100 billion. They just want to make enough money to live comfortably.
Clickable link: http://apps.facebook.com/cineight
http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/issues/entry
"These companies don't want to license Swype. They want to buy us." --Mike McSherry, Swype CEO

Whom I wonder?

A fraction of a penny per phone or a sellout to Google.. not hard for me to see where I'd put my money (in the bank)
This article states claims that it doesn't back up with any evidence. For example:

"The biggest reason for this consumer adoption is the robust developer adoption Android has engendered."

Really? So says an Android developer. Imagine that.

What about the fact that there are many different Android powered smartphones, available through many different carriers, available in a wide variety of hardware configurations (with/without keyboard, etc).

I don't have any proof to show that this is the driving factor behind Android's growth, but it sounds just as plausible to me. The problem comes when you state it as fact without any supporting evidence.
Is there a catalog of Web/conversion optimization patterns like this? That would be pretty interesting.
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No, the killer future that Emacs brings is Slime.
Monitoring is one of the most important thing.

Rule of thumb: Think of everything you wish you had monitored after a crisis has happened (which might be "everything").
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A company such as SafeNames is no guarantee though. They've been in trouble in Australia before for registering domain names on behalf of foreign entities that would not have been able to do so normally. In turn, any domains that weren't compliant were deleted.

http://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-06122009/
"Further, throughout this entire process, apparently I was accruing fees which were non-transparent to me until 6 months later when I received a check [I think he means bill] that was about 3 times what we had originally negotiated."

A bill from a law firm is normally more like a proposal / starting negotiation point :)
I've been working on this during the last month or so. Can we talk about it?
At the time, Berkshire was already public. Buffett maintained the high share price because he wanted his owners to be serious about owning the stock, the test of seriousness being the high cost of ownership. When investment firms threatened to remove this barrier, Buffett went ahead and preempted them.
I am embarrassed to ask, but can someone explain the word flashing test a different way? For some reason something is not clicking for me the way it is written on NPR.
It seems to me that these numbers are a bit strange--almost $9K/yr in medical/dental expenses--after insurance? Is this a reasonable expectation for a young couple (I say young because they're still paying off their student loans). Other people have already remarked on the cost of the their car payments. House cleaning? Also, they're paying $440/month on gas/electric--what are they running?

Looking at the numbers, I see people who have a rather lavish lifestyle. If that's how this fictitious couple wants to spend their money, then fine, but then they will end up in debt. Sorry, but I say that they're rich.
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I'm guessing it's not going straight down, and most of the speed is actually on the x axis. The atmosphere is how much? 50 km? While the descent path is most likely counted in thousands.
Internet Explorer falls behind Firefox in Europe
Sorry, I will not sympathize with people who, with $250,000 rolling in per year, don't know how to live within their means.
And don't forget RDF for free!

http://drupal.org/node/574624

Some background:

http://www.slideshare.net/drupalcon/the-state-of-rdf-in-drup...
You didn't try it, then?
Version control like Git or other would be best for your Rails stuff. The apps should contain your DB schema. As far as your MySQL, you should be able to configure it to dump its backups into your Dropbox if you have enough space.

When you get your imaging set up, it will let you roll back to a point in time, so the server should come back.