skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks a lot. Yes, I use Google DNS. I will be sure to try this out.
The term "The man" may be glib in many cases, but if we understand that "the man is us" then we reach some place more fundamental.

Heidegger has a fascinating analysis of this phenomena, which he calls "Das Man" or "The They". Most of the time, all of us are "the they" instead of being authentically ourselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heideggerian_terminology#.27The...

Note: if you decide to read Heidegger, it may take as much time as a television habit.
The 2nd point is why I really want to start learning one of the two. I just can't figure out which one I want. I figure that vim is available on more machines than emacs is, but with emacs I get the bonus of learning a dialect of LISP, too - at least, if I want to customize anything - instead of some arbitrary vim scripting language.
Teksavvy won't be able to offer 200GB for $29 anymore now that UBB is a reality (at least for their DSL offering, not sure about their cable offering).
Fair enough. I could have included some of that in my description.

Right now things are pretty simple: Create a location (either by searching name/address/type, or tapping/holding on the map), add tasks to that location. When you are nearby, the app will remind you to complete those tasks.

The features are (intentionally) basic: change radius around locations for alerts, turn alerts on/off.

We are adding time/date features, along with importing addresses/to-dos soon. But we really want to explore as many avenues for feedback as we can.

People seem to really love the app once they try it, so we're walking the fine line of wanting to give them the tools they need without making the app clunky and hard to use.
A graph of throughput vs bandwidth usage limit per ISP, pretty please?
Netflix: Apple TV users are surpassing iPad users
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I do my 2-5 days a week (depending on if I go to the real office) at about 50% coffee shop, then lunch and home. I try to average a coffee or refill per hour there so that I'm not pissing the owners off, but if I'm there really early, I might cut that back. When the traffic starts filling up the shop, though, I make sure I'm a paying customer.
I think people are really waiting to see what Larry Page will have to say in his capacity as CEO. Maybe that will really set the record straight, Schmidt has a habit of saying lots of words without moving the needle.

That's actually a good trait in a publicly traded company, the few times that he said stuff that bit it didn't do google much good.

Facebook, Apple, Google, Yahoo, AOL and every other media or media related company are all in competition with each other to some extent. The arena of choice for now is 'mobile' and whoever hits the ball out of the park will be around for a long long time. For now it looks as though Apple has the lead, Google is playing catch-up, Facebook is still a wannabe but very well positioned, Yahoo and AOL have dropped the ball. Microsoft is - interestingly enough given their history - in the position of a very distant underdog but I wouldn't count them out.

Time will tell.
"We received 148 responses before we closed the poll." This doesn't seem like a good sample size.
"First, start with hundreds of trillions of dollars..."
Is there anyone out there that has given eclipse/intellij idea a fair chance and decided Vim was better for coding java? It's difficult for me to imagine coding without the built in refactorings it provides and shortcuts like ctrl+n and ctrl+alt+h.
What would you ask the creator of Brain? http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002087.html
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I've heard from lots of vim people that do actually use Eclipse to make up for Java's inadequacies, yes.
Wow, this is great news for my weekend startup, Booklends. I think that the 'try before you buy' model will work great for eBooks. So I'm creating a website http://www.booklends.com to let Kindle users borrow and lend books with other users.

Certain books (depending on if the publisher allows it) can be loaned from one user to another for up to 14 days. Booklends will let you keep track of all your books and let you make wishlists of books that you want to borrow from other people.

My site is coming together quickly, now I just have to get it finished and launched! :)
I don't understand why this move should piss off anybody in the OSS community. Oracle is a private company and as such has only obligations to its shareholders. They may or may not support and/or promote OSS projects as they see fit, same as every one of us. It's their free choice.
Looks like you triggered an HTML bug in Arc/HN. The reply link is italicized (along with your entire post).
i knew about it, but every single issue i've ever had to call for has needed to be resolved by a service order. its never something technical.

i've had my cable mistakenly disconnected a few times, or a line cut from utility work.

i'd also note the irony of having online support for internet connectivity issues.
That is exactly my motivation for going to the coffee shop. I find I can focus on just getting there first thing and the rest of the day goes a lot smoother. If I sit at home, I make breakfast, then eat it slowly, then surf HN, then it's 10:30am and I haven't done anything.
I also think there are too many cases where people just drop everything and go with an idea that is doomed to fail. It seems like there is competing advice between "do your homework" posts and "go for it!" posts.
OpenID doesn't replace user accounts. It replaces account passwords. A site, instead of verifying a user's password, contacts the user's OpenID provider asking them to verify the user's identity.

Instead of using the same username + password combination for all the sites on the Internet (and suffering from Gawker-like incidents), or writing down a bazillion passwords in my keyring, I use my OpenID when I want to comment on random people's blogs or sites like StackOverflow.
Note that "libertarianism" here refers to an argument about free will, not political libertarianism.
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Next year?
GroupSpaces wasn't funded by Seedcamp, are you thinking about another company ?
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To virtually everybody that pays attention to software security, "bug" and "vulnerability" are synonyms. To everybody that knows how computers work, "bug" is "admission of some degree of fault". This discussion tries to make a mountain out of a molehill.
One major area Google competes with Facebook is for talent.
Go utah!

I just moved back to Utah from SF. Thinking about a HN meetup.

http://utahack.com

Anyone interested? Hit up the site and fill out the form.

Also would love to hear of any if you know of any.
Not much of a surprise there. If you ship all your manufacturing to an area and then proceed to get yourself hip-deep in debt to buy the stuff they make then the balance will shift rapidly.

Asia always had the long view, it's the West that is on a three monthly myopic 'quarterly earnings reports' schedule that makes it look as though we're making the right decisions but actually we're setting ourselves up for a bit fall. The cycle repeats.
I use vim project. I load all my files in the side pane, and I search with / the file I want to open.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=69
why is admitting to a bug in software embarrassing? suggesting software is bug-free is practically oxymoronic.
You mean the pilots could jettison themselves into space, and the thing would auto-land? Or that they didn't need any support ground-side to set it down?
Agreed, my thinking was mostly about existing customer base and exposure, not the technical side of things.
Let's take that as true, how many entrepreneurs are there versus the total population?
I'd say basic coding should be taught in the typical "typing and MS Office" classes, if possible. I don't mean higher level concepts, but a simple footing in it can help a lot.
Netflix over Comcast is also great out here in Western Mass - but it's probably because we are the only people streaming on our segment.
Ask HN: Request for help (designer co-founder needed)
Hello,

We need help. Linked-In has a gap in how it handles recommendations. Sites like http://onething.com, http://talentag.com and http://endor.se have picked up on this and have already launched. We have been working on our own version of this here and there for a few months, but we need help. We are both developers, and for this to really work the interface has to be right.

If you’re a designer with some spare time and want to work on a startup (you can work from anywhere, part time is fine, as we both have a full time job), shoot me an email at maxdemarzi AT gmail DOT com and we can go from there.

Our not yet finished prototype is at http://dev.getvouched.com . It’s not much, but we’re just making the point that we’re not an “idea guys” looking to get someone else to do all the work.

If you don’t like the idea of working on something someone else has already done… remember it’s not about the idea, it’s about the execution. The sites above are making what we believe are mistakes in their approach to this problem that we have figured out.

Thanks,
Max and Alex
My ISP (cox) is near the top, and dealing with their customer service has been a breath of fresh air compared with any other ISP I've dealt with.

On an absolute scale, it's so-so customer service, but on a relative scale it's amaizing how many things they don't do wrong compared to other ISPs I've worked with (Comcast in particular)
Why though? This has nothing to do with Harry Potter. (Also I don't think copyright would be appropriate here, maybe trade marks? She doesn't have one.)
looks great. The jet was a really nice touch. Had to <ctrl-f> to find the city I was looking for, consider alphabetizing? You did? Oh and you thought it would better to group them by region? I can see how that would make exploring the time zones more interesting, but I was looking for a city when I landed at your site :) sortby(region|name). What's that? You think that would clutter the interface; I suppose you're right, it is pretty slick the way it is.
you can copy and paste from the system clipboard as the + register - use "+y to yank to the system clipboard and "+p to paste from it (depending on OS, you may need to use * instead of +). This allows cutting and pasting between vim and other applications (including other instances of vim).

For editing multiple docs with vim, I find it's easier to use multiple buffers in the same window. Use :b <start of file name> to jump back and forth.
absolutely brilliant piece. and i agree with his perspective. i've thought almost exactly the same thing for over 2 decades now. it is extremely rare to see someone say it, and say it so well.
I didn't say it had NO economic utility. I said it had very little. And it doesn't. Not compared to what it would if I'd actually be spending it.
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> time/date features

This, definitely. I put my tasks in iCal right now and sync to my iPhone for alerts. It's a bit clunkier than I'd like.

You might also want to add tags (i.e. home/work/fitness) in addition to locations. I work from home and typically have all of my todos within a 5 mile radius so the location angle isn't very useful to me.
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Hopefully the older publishers will change the way that they deal with digital books now that the medium is becoming (has become?) mainstream. I know many publishers will offer lump sums to authors to publish digitally, but wont give any royalties (despite the often equivalent pricing).
reminds me of a Carl Sagan monologue from Cosmos:

"Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours and every one of them is a succession of incidents, events, occurrences which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time. And our small planet at this moment, here we face a critical branch point in history, what we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants, it is well within our power to destroy our civilization and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition or greed or stupidity we could plunge our world into a time of darkness deeper than the time between the collapse of classical civilisation and the Italian Renaissance. But we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet."

so intelligent, inspirational and full of hope, but listening to it 30 years later I can't help feeling bummed out, as it seems as though our civilization has chosen its path.

also, Idiocracy.
What percentage of entrepreneurs are happy?
New York's quest to become 'the digital city'
Very good article. Nice to see you taking the risk of self-employment in hopes of a better lifestyle and personal betterment. Seems like a lot of people enrolled in university will become "furniture" as they conform.
I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio

Not to be overly pedantic, but your favorite IDE is Visual Studio, and you just happen to use whatever crappy editor component comes bundled with it.

If we could have full-blown Vim embedded inside IDEs instead of good-but-incomplete plugins which merely give you some of the key mappings, I'd be elated and couldn't see why anyone would stick with the Notepad-style editor which is the default.
Its almost eerie (in a positive way) that I see this post right when I was thinking about something along the lines of how an effective engineering course should be structured. Only recently I developed an interest in the classics (greek and roman) and also started reading Milton's "Paradise lost", and Seneca's "On the shortness of life". Two things stood out in a lot of these works - 1) the richness of content - meaning how inevitably it makes you think hard while reading, and 2) the usage of language in a way that makes you see the language in a whole new light (especially in Milton's classic - English never looked so beautiful!!). During the process of reading these classics, I was convinced that a 3-4 year study of an engineering (or science) discipline would only be vastly improved if the subject matter had its share of philosophy and literature (call it "lit-phil"). I would go so far as to say that it should be a 50-50 split. There There will always be a debate as to what works should be included, but the amount of quality work is so vast that being selective would not matter. We can argue that to incorporate this into the same 3-4 years of study, we could eliminate some of the engineering course material to make way. Do we really need all those engineering subjects in that much detail?

So then should be an arts degree at all? I would say yes, and thats only for people who just feel overwhelmed by science or engineering (who I come across aplenty) and prefer to study only the arts. If there should be an arts-only degree, why would I propose that engineering be always accompanied by study of lit-phil? Simply because I believe that a mind that needs to grasp engineering has to be somewhat prepared by philosophy and literature and whetted constantly by it during the study.

Now, the only kicker is that at the age of doing a bachelors (which is between 17-19 and 21-23 for the majority), the average engineering bachelor student would not be mature enough to appreciate a healthy dosage of lit-phil. They would inevitably ask why they are being subjected to something totally unrelated - whereas they do not understand that the subject matter is slowly working on their brain in the background (if they care to put an effort into it).

Hope this does not come across as a rant against engineering. I studied electrical engineering and have utmost regard for the field (much more so than "software engineering" - and I am not talking about computer science and engineering here). But I believe its crucial to pay attention to how we inculcate that engineering knowledge into minds in general. And develop engineers that are not afraid to think and contemplate.
You might want to look into rsync as a replacement for scp.

Version 2 is built in, but if you follow the directions at:

http://www.bombich.com/rsync.html

you can build a newer rsync that syncs all metadata.
Perhaps you are thinking of a "Relational Database"?
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One of the features that really got me into Vim was the macros feature. I actually ran into in accidentally several times when I was first learning the basics (and couldn't get out of recording mode). But macros, and especially the temporary nature of macros, have saved me (collectively) many hours:

q <macrokey> <do some stuff>; then q to stop recording. Then @<macrokey> to kick off the macro. Splendid.
This is great. I'd also love to see some sort of "ISP score" based on how "net-neutral" each one is.
I am not an arbiter of what philosophy is, but it is not bad science. There is no empirical step in philosophy at all. Science requires an empirical step.

You have to take science to date into account. If you do not, you will be proven wrong immediately. You will say 'I think the universe is composed entirely of jelly beans', and I will say 'y experiment disproves that'. If there is an empirical way to answer a question, you should use it. Empiricism works well because it is very convincing.

A lot of the time, you do not have an empirical way to answer your question, because the technology doesn't exist, or the terminology for the question that you want to ask doesn't exist, or you haven't yet adequately specified what the question is.

At its best, it should be the building of a rational, informed, theory about a conceivable hypothetical situation, and rational explorations of the implications of that hypothetical.
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I had 3 paid seats (now 11) when I contacted Google support regarding a hosted Apps account. I received a response fairly quickly (within a few hours), a response and resolution within 10 minutes of replying to the initial support email follow-up, and I continued to have a discussion and further support responses from the same person over the next few days.

So I'd say absolutely that my $150 bought me a name and a face and good support.

They also have phone support, but I have not used it.
I like the analogy. I'm in graduate school, but I've recently realized that I would much rather be an entrepreneur. I think a large part of the problem is that I'm in the slog-mode of graduate school where I've stopped learning, and I can feel myself becoming staid and boring, part of the furniture. To combat this I'm trying to take as many classes outside of my discipline as possible and am thinking about trying to start my own business. When you're 3+ years into a PhD and you realize that you aren't where you want to be, it's a tricky thing to either continue unhappily or write-off those 3 years with no safety net.

I look forward to hearing more as you take the leap, and I wish you the best.
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I'll second this. When I lived in Mitchell, SD (15k people - look it up) I had 3 ISPs to choose from (in city limits). I had pretty good throughput from 2 of them - one was wireless.
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not quite 'the worst' but an interesting story no less -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage
There are Vim emulation plugins for Eclipse, if you want the best of both worlds.
This struck a chord with me. Recently (and more or less intuitively), I got rid of pretty much everything I own to charities, friends and relatives. A couple of graphics workstations, home entertainment system, mountain of business and philosophy books, clothes, TV's, etc. Everything bar a bed, clothes, writing material and some basic kitchenware.

The outcome is the anti of the "typical person" inventory on that page. I feel healthier, more motivated, my work life balance has shifted, I'm socializing more and getting involved in more community / business opportunities. The sudden understanding that I don't need technology, media or a mountain of knowledge / reference to succeed at my goals is completely liberating, and I feel much less resistant to change.

The additional time, clarity of thought and free cash is quite mind blowing, it's basically re-oriented my life completely. No magic bullet, but it feels like a step in the right direction.
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Hopefully this isn't a surprise, but there's one out there: http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/

Though I do like your name better.
I'm very sad that I dont understand how the globe is being drawn.

Teach me please
Funny to see this today, since I just had my first app accepted to the Mac App store. It's called Twitch, and it's a launcher designed for power users and keyboard junkies: http://twitchapp.com
This pie chart is illegible (four shades of gray?). A bar chart would have been much better.
That's true, I misspoke. A wide variety of commands are available through the menus, and the rest are pretty readily discoverable through the Tools | Options | Keyboard.

I'm definitely using hotkeys very heavily in Visual Studio.
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His math is not off, I get about the same using http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calcu...

When he said 5% profit he meant 5% interest.
Result depends on the figures you put in, but if you can get people to spend hundreds of dollars on your business every year of their life, you are probably in possession of a mechanism providing interest well over 12% or 15% annually. Which makes the value per customer much higher.

IKEA is one of the companies that successfully transformed the culture of one or several nations to their own benefit and routinely creates lifetime customers from infant to the grave.
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He would have had to assume a 15% rate of return in order to yield $100,000.
Fanboi king hails Apple 'love affair with open web'
Well, it's distributed until you kill all the nodes.
I don't think that's what is being proposed. Philosophy is not bad science. But you can't always know which questions to ask with science, especially in a new field.

One of the things which philosophy does (and has done) is to clarify which questions to ask, how to ask them, and so forth. Once the problem domain is clarified enough, science can step in and start being useful. Of course, there is no clear-cut border between the two (which can be seen historically in the development of physics, biology, etc.)

That's definitely not the only thing which philosophy does, but I think that's the idea being discussed here.
I too am running beta3. I am going to guess that the upgrade process is something like this:

1) Backup everything, including the DB.

2) Update the packages to the latest, including django-basic-apps.

3) Do a south migration on all the apps in your settings file to update the DB.
It was just a bad SOAP api. You can write a bad and cumbersome REST api as well if you want, and MS would certainly be capable of doing so. SOAP is not really the problem here.
It's definitely risky to do something like this. You have to be that sure and believe in yourself that you can pull it off. I am trying to do the same exact thing... move from a regular, steady job to starting my own thing. Thus far I have been working on it on the side but at some point I want to make a full switch to working on my company full time and support myself + family.