skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that bad. Really.

Australia has had data caps since broadband first came out; for the vast majority of of users a basic plan provides all the data they need, techy users with heavy usage patterns get higher plans, and people with the compulsion to torrent every TV in existence get plans with unmetered periods (a few ISPs don't meter traffic during the quiet periods at night)

The usual behavior once you're over your data cap is to drop the internet speed down to ~64kbs for the rest of the month so even if you kill your data cap you can still access email and other low bandwidth services, you're not off completely.
Yet the rates of startups are higher in Norway.

And "it is more expensive o fail"? With no risk of medical bankrupcy, guaranteed health care, free university for the kids, a generous safety net, pensions etc...how can it possibly be more disastrous?
I've had very good results working with the owner of Set For Marriage, despite him living in Houston and me always either in San Diego or Olympia.

I think the reason is because we talk on the phone or over Skype throughout the day and coordinate things over Basecamp. I'm not sure if it helps that I'm the only developer on the project right now and mostly have creative control (he's down with anything as long as it sounds good), but we're hoping to get another developer on board soon so I'm curious to see how it works out.

It has been difficult working with some remote clients in the past where there wasn't that level of communication, and I've found that daily phone calls work much better than even chatting over instant messenger. I'd like to see how Campfire would work out, but it's difficult to get people to stay on Campfire all day unless they're completely sold on the idea.
Thank you for this-- just the reply I was looking for. Out of curiosity, which man pages need the most work right now?
XML is a failure compared to the totally unjustified hype about how it would replace all other data formats and lead us into a new computing nirvana. Compared to the goals of its creators, XML is quite successful.
It's worse in this case since the author didn't include the double quotes around her query string. Doing so, I get 8680 results.
In Canada, at least, the quality of education is monitored closely by the accreditation board. A degree from one university, for all intents and purposes, is equal to another.

I go to a fairly good school for Software Engineering with a good reputation, but definitely not the best (by some standards). A lot of people consider Waterloo to be the "best" CS/Software Eng. school in Canada, but I end up getting the exact same degree. I've done the same courses, with some brilliant minds behind the podium.

Mind you, my choice was also on the environment surrounding the program. The impression I had when I visited Waterloo was fairly bad. The campus is a huge sprawl, and not too many people on campus looked like they were having a good time. My tour guide, a software engineer, told us that Waterloo was the only place to go if I wanted to get a good job when I graduated. As well, beyond residences on campus, there wasn't a whole lot of housing surrounding the campus. Students are sprawled out around, leading to (in my opinion) not the true university experience.

I'm currently a tour guide for my program, and I usually get the question: "Why would I go here when I can go to Waterloo?". First of all, I know this guy/girl is probably being forced to look at other schools as a backup plan, and I also know that I have about 60 seconds to state my case before he/she loses interest.

My university was one of the first in Canada to have a Software Eng. program, and had several interesting "sub"-degrees with Software Eng & Game Design and Software Eng & Embedded Systems. The campus is beautiful and fairly compact--you can get from the furthest point in the campus to the other side in less than 10 minutes. People are socializing outside. In the spring, the field in the middle of campus is full of people having picnics and playing pick-up soccer, football, and cricket.

I tell the student that it's not so much about where you'll be in 4-5 years, but how you get there that's important. University was my first taste of the world, and I'd much rather have a good experience transitioning to the working world than asking myself about what I actually did in the past few years.
Who exactly gets to define that only authoritarian regimes with freedom restrictions practice anything that can be properly described as socialism?
Guns, Government & the Fallacy of Cyber-Utopianism
Why does the title contain "Complete Hacker Tutorial"? Wouldn't "How I got Time Machine over NFS to Work" be a less linkbait-ish title?
Your angel investor presumably has relevant experience - have you asked their advice?
I guess reality is the best counter argument to your claims. RDF does not exist outside of academic toys and FOAF is so statistically irrelevant that it can easily be said that it never really existed in the first place. As the original article points out, XML may have a place in certain forms of document exchange, but as far as the web is concerned it is mostly just one failure after another.
Corvettes seem to be a popular investment vehicle for some startups
The OP could lose some of the sarcasm, but I do believe that "hacker" has become the new "ninja" or maybe even the new "rock star".
XHTML hasn't revolutionised web page markup (it brought with it draconian changes {read: made web page markup more XML-like} and is now being replaced by HTML5, which makes some {all?} of its changes irrelevant).

RDF isn't as widespread as it could be (it could be used in Facebook and Wikipedia but isn't, for example).

(And I haven't even heard of FOAF.)

I wouldn't call these huge successes.
Clojure Conj Talk: "Finger Trees: Custom Persistent Collections"
Yup. I'm really happy with the university decision I made when I was 17, because I now realize I didn't know shit and it was mostly through luck that I ended up making a decent one.
Isn't the relative simplicity of JSON the bigger factor? It is for me.
> does it deal with times where the file share isn't connected?

Yeah, it just delays and retries occasionally until it's able to mount it.

I personally find it is fine to backup my macbook pro (1TB drive) over wifi to my Debian server. The first backup takes multiple days though. After that (when it works[1]) the backups take about 5 to 15 minutes depending on how much changed.

[1] I've been having tons of trouble with it the last few months where it takes forever and constantly gets errors while backing up random files. When tries again it gets further and further until it eventually finishes. But instead of getting backups every hour I get a backup finishing once a week or so. I switched from netatalk to samba on the server but I still get the same errors (so I don't think it's a transport layer issue). I know plenty of other people who back up just fine and I believe my issue isn't widespread.
There really is a difference between being critical and critical thinking

This is essentially the point I'm making.

You crafted a rhetorical statement where no one can disagree with you without being a "faker"

Uh, no. Where am I saying "everyone" or "all"? I'm saying that certain admirable people do X and other not-so admirable people do Y. Nowhere do I say that everyone falls into one camp or another. Points deducted for trying to put words into my mouth!

Additionally, stcredzero do you think I'm a "faker" for iterating your idea with a minor addition to address a small oversight? --Or was iterating actually what you were talking about when you said "interpreting" and running with it?

EDIT: And no, I won't be offended by your opinion. I actually just like to know.

I'm talking about an honest iteration. But since you just blatantly tried to put a false dichotomy into my mouth, either you just tried a slimy rhetorical trick yourself or your thinking/writing was a bit confused, or there's another explanation I missed. In the first instance, it looks a lot like "faking."
Oh, funny. I thought the flaw would have been that they're running Windows.

flamesuit on, ready for downvotes
Ha, the first one is cute. It's stolen almost directly from some CS competition training problems I did back in high school.

I saw it and _knew_ I'd seen it before. ;)

(edited to remove the name of the competition, since it turns out some answers are Googleable :-\)
I think the best is following the HTC route: Going for both.
But with Nokia behind the decision, who knows?
3 FTEs and a contractor feels like a crapton to this longtime bootstrapper!
>Thats why they carry guns. They are even afraid of each other.

They should be afraid, they've all got guns.
From personal experience I think the reason JSON won over XML is simply because it maps to OOP/dictionaries much better.

In most scripting languages reading JSON looks like this: x = json.parse(string) and saving it looks like this string = json.dump(x) ... The rest of the app looks the same as if JSON was never in the picture at all.

Now with XML, hah, in most scripting languages you have to instantiate a parser, then use strange xpath traversal methods that are different depending on which parser you use and os on. And don't even get me started on generating xml programmatically ...

Sure, I understand why handling XML has to be so much more complex, it's got attributes and a few other nifty things I will never have a use for.

JSON vs XML --> simplicity always wins over more features.
I really hope its Android and not Microsoft. WP7 seems more like a side or backward step compared to Symbian. Taking advantage of all the good things about Android would seem a smart move to get Nokia back in the game. Look how far Apple has come by building OSX on top of Unix/BSD...
I'm surprised as to how many regular people I've talked to who don't torrent and who have gone over bandwidth (with Bell). The caps are super low, even for regular users and not just the techies.
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In theory, the code that your phone is outputting could be cancelled, so even if you tap your phone against a terminal, it gets rejected, just like credit cards today. Plus, the phone would have to be on to use it, so as soon as it gets signal, it would get wiped before it could be used. (Though that brings up a new concern of what you do in normal use if you have no signal.)

Good point on combining what you have with what you know. I did not think of that. But wouldn't the PIN on your phone be as effective as your credit card PIN?
I thought that cyber-utopianism died in the 1990s. If any utopians still remain then the Egyptian shutdown should be a massive wakeup call, demonstrating that the internet is far less resilient than many had been led to believe. In the Egyptian case there was no possibility to "route around censorship" if access is denied at the most fundamental level.

China, using a variety of tactics, has been quite successful at stifling the sort of radical democratisation which the cyber-utopians of yore believed in.
Understood. However reading this just made it click for me that PGs essays and talks about the future of angel investing have a stealth result of signalling to VCs how they should approach and deal with YC companies. Seems obvious in retrospect. It could certainly be unintended, but if I was a VC reading PGs thoughts on where the angel ecosystem is going, I'd take it as a definite signal to meet him on the hill he claims to be walking toward.
FOAF is irrelevant in many respects, I'll give you that; but, RDF certainly does exist outside of academic toys.

Big names that I know of that use/publish RDF:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/07/the_world_cup...

http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/RDF

http://richard.cyganiak.de/blog/2009/10/linked-data-at-the-n...

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/SciVerse-Hub-Appl...

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

[EDIT] Don't forget DBpedia and FreeBase (which uses RDF heavily) is used heavily by PowerSet which subsequently was bought by Microsoft which now (as far as I know) is used heavily for Bing.
Do you believe there are or will be good reasons to choose Pharen over Scheme, Common Lisp or Clojure in a situation where one isn't forced in to using a PHP backend? With Clojure, for example, I consider the baked-in concurrency models and data structures very valuable, but haven't had much cause to care that it runs on the JVM.
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So ... is that stupid for certain values of smart? Or is it smart for certain values of stupid?

I agree with the basic premise: Think outside the box. Don't get stuck in a mental rut. And most importantly, don't let others with no vision bring you down. But I think the validity of your message was undermined by how you said it.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet: Make sure whatever you deposit it into doesn't have a lockup provision. The last thing you would want is to need the cash only to have the bank tell you that you will pay a penalty for accessing it early.
Two things leap out at me:

1. The OP's study and the MS study were studying people in different fields.

2. The OP's study and the MS study are studying two different things. The OP's study measured how many citations published papers got, while the MS study measured a lack of bugs. So you might be able to say that collocated workers produce better quality work but don't make significantly more mistakes.
I'm in Tallahassee, and meeting some local hackers would be really nice.
The page here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/

shows you how to check if you're vulnerable. I couldn't persuade Chrome to navigate to an mhtml protocol page from the address bar, so embedded a link in a web page to the sample file they gave. Chrome downloads the .mht, clicking opens in IE, which pops up a message box unless you've run the Fix It.
What would stop them from supporting android apps within meego? There's rumors that the RIM playbook is going this route.
XHTML has revolutionized page markup. Not because everyone is using it but because it blazed the path for better standards that the other document types follow. Also, many of the changes in XHTML were brought over to HTML5 - which does have an XML definition.
Who is calling this the Twitter revolution, besides people like Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington? The tech bloggers of the world might be adept enough at covering the constant soap opera of startup culture (and the relatively very rare technological advances that it sometimes produces), but I think when one of the most important countries in one of the most important regions in the world is on the cusp of a total revolution, we their readers would do well to, well, completely ignore anything they have to say about events of global political importance. When the Howard Zinns of the world start describing the nature of social technology in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, I'll listen. But one shouldn't imagine that somebody on BoingBoing—or even a deeply entertaining futurist like Clay Shirky—is going to be a voice of any substance in analyzing the events of the last couple weeks.
After going through CodeIgniter, Zend Framework and CakePHP, I'm pretty much exclusively using Yii for my own projects these days.

The way Components and Behaviours are used throughout the system makes it very easy to combine and plug in disparate modules of code, and it's the most Rails-y framework I've found so far (barring CakePHP which appears to have come leaps and bounds in the last couple of years since I used it last).

(In summary, it matches how I want to work. :) Keep looking until you find something that does the same for you.)
Relationship of Health and Entrepreneurs
It's not a bubble - it's the consequences of the dramatically lowered cost required to start a technology business. Money is just not worth as much to an entrepreneur as it used to be, so the valuations are higher.

Not only do entrepreneurs not value cash as much, but the capital required to open up shop as a "VC" has come down as well. The result? Lots of money chasing entrepreneurs who are basically indifferent to investment dollars (at least when compared to past times).

A bubble implies a greater fool - I think what we're seeing is a fundamental shift in the economics of high tech startup finance.

Not that the above line of reasoning would make me comfortable in the shoes a VC, but they're at least making a rational bet that the model will shake itself out and leave realistic profit for everyone. It's not a pump-and-dump scheme like it was in the late 90's.
First look: Honeycomb APIs power tablet-friendly Android apps
More time than I can count at my last startup, our personal relationship with an actual live human at the bank saved our bacon when stupid bank bullshit strikes (i.e. big check from client comes but the bank automatically freezes the money for some interminable time period, etc.) I highly recommend business banking with people who know you. You can do specialty stuff with specialty bank later, when it's warranted. Right now you just need a business checking account. (And it sounds like you could use payroll, too.)
True, we definitely didn't think through this. We'll change that.
Twitter previously used some stock bird art, but the logo was just the bubble letters. Now they have an original bird logo. But 3rd party Twitter stuff can use arbitrary bird art, or maybe the old stock one since it's unclear who owns it.

I think a good solution would be a new open license logo, like the Minefield logo as opposed to the restricted Firefox logo.
Definitely talk to a banker. They will give you advice on how to stagger the CDs, put some in savings, and keep enough cash on hand.
And the dairy board. And the turkey board. And the beer store.
I didn't see an age or class range listed, but based on the photo/video, I'd guess middle school/junior high (12-14yrs).
3 FTE's and a contractor seem 4-500,000 to me who knows nothning and would want to run a year before going broke.

curious what others think is 150k/yr per fte (sallry, taxes, benifits, equipment, office) high or low
Picking the two extremes does not prove your point. A lot of people are pissed with ads right now. Imagine if they would have to pay for them too (even pennies).
I've stolen your 'thread of threads' name for this page and have added an entry to the HN faq under the header 'the best stuff'.

Hopefully that will get people to keep coming back here and add more to it.
I used to suffer from this. I still do, only to a lesser extent. My parents suffer from this horribly.

University taught me that, when 95% of the people you know use windows (and constantly try to get you to use windows, might I add), having this windows-hating syndrome just means you're not going to have any friends.

So, while I'm not a fan of windows, and I won't use windows, I don't make snide comments about windows being completely inferior to my choice.
Criticism of the Israeli government's policies is not antisemitic.

What? No one said that. Is this like a knee-jerk response or something? Truly shameful.
Canadian expat working in the US here. The situation in Canada continues to get worse, and was always behind even the relatively pokey US internet providers.

It isn't necessarily about the size of the pipe, but rather unnecessary restrictions that negatively impact the way people use the internet. Here I'm on Comcast and have a fairy generous cap (250GB). If people start penny-pinching what they do with their bandwidth it will be the end of web-based industries as we know it.

More accurately for Canada - it never began. Folks like myself who specialize in web-related development, either frontend or backend, basically have no future in our home countries.

I hate to be so down about my own country, but it's the damned truth, though many Canadian developers are too proud to admit it. The software industry in Canada is anemic, grossly underpaid, and that goes doubly for anything web-related.
Put it in the business banking account in plain cash.
5. Why must one opt out of the economic system?
6. Why must one stop working?
7. Why must one move away from their friends and family, to a foreign land? What if there is nowhere else with lower taxes?

I believe the the observation, about slave morality is being misunderstood.

But more importantly, the crux of my argument is this - if people are truly happy about the level of taxation, then why is it mandatory. For instance, you could have a minimal tax of 5% for core government functions and allow people to contribute any percentage they would above that to fund other various programs - you could even provide a guide. For current government functions to continue at their current level, the suggested donation for individuals at your income level is 55%.

If you don't accept that deal, then it doesn't seem that you are being honest with yourself that you have no problems with the level taxation.
I haven't heard of that one before, actually. That's interesting... and way way way more complicated than it should be to set up a better password.

Many thanks for the links, I'll certainly aim to do something like that if I ever get an iThing. Know if it encrypts the contents of your phone too, or if they do this by default? Otherwise, I'd think you could just dump the flash memory.
SQL - PIG translation
I'm very interested whether fellow HNers consider AtomPub a failure? The article points to not so great adaption, but in fact AtomPub has been embraced by some major players—i.e. Google which uses their GData for every one of their dozens APIs[1] and Microsoft which is now pushing OData to be used for .NET based services[2].

It seems AtomPub isn't that terrible idea—you get uniform envelope format, so you can use feeds to represent your data in any way you like, because each entry has its own unique id. AtomPub let you use many conventions that web developers are already familiar with—e.g. <link rel="alt"/>, various extensions like OpenSearch etc.

If you are API author would you consider using AtomPub (or GData/OData)? Do you consider it too difficult/inconvenient to implement?

If you are using any AtomPub (GData/OData) based API what are your experiences? Do you consider it too difficult/inconvenient to consume?

[1] And provides JSON support: directly by translating XML tree as JSON structure (and I was sure they had something called cJSON, but now I can't find reference anywhere so I might have been dreaming that.)

[2] I don't know .NET world that good, so anyone please correct me if I'm wrong.
> but were the U.S. Dept. of Commerce to reimburse the health care premiums of anyone starting a new business, up to 100 weeks, I believe you would see a marked increase in the creation of new businesses in this country.

You'd have to word the bill very stringently to ensure that the new businesses weren't just new parts of an existing business shuffling employees around to take advantage of all the money now sitting on the table.

For example, $BIGCO all of a sudden becomes the angel investor for a half-dozen startups full of ex-$BIGCO employees who are somehow still working on pre-existing $BIGCO products and understand that $BIGCO will ensure their paychecks as long as they do the kind of work they did while they were still at $BIGCO. The only difference is that the government is paying for the healthcare of those (ex-)$BIGCO employees, allowing the $BIGCO CEO to make 300% more this quarter.
In the United States.
Confirmed, capslock on OSX makes all letters uppercase. Shift is ignored.
I don't think it's fair to call XML a failure any more than you can call Perl a failure. XML does the job, and it's still used in a lot of places. It's just that it's being supplanted by a newer technology that is superior for the majority of use-cases.