skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you file a support ticket for this? It sounds like an unrelated problem. We can investigate if you let us know what repo is causing the problem. Visit http://support.github.com or email support@github.com.
Mark Zuckerberg on SNL w/ Jesse Eisenberg (video)
I think that truly making data anonymous is really hard. See AOL, Netflix, or almost every other company that has tried to release an anonymous dataset. By "black boxing" the data, the company in question will still be able to keep control of it.
It should be pointed out that the health insurance market varies by state. I know a woman who never had any problem buying health insurance in her 20s and 30s, but that was in Washington and Nevada, not Illinois.
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Is this a genuine request for advice, or a passive-aggressive communication with your alleged scammer?
"Hey YC, I'm interested in coming back this summer. I had a successful exit last time. We cool?"

"We dig. You're in."
It's amazing to me that you feel more confident in your own abilities to keep a server running than GitHub... you must be a really great sysadmin! The GitHub folks are pretty hardcore!

I, for one, am a positively mediocre sysadmin. And the amount of time I have to spend waiting for GitHub to fix bugs is almost certainly far, far, FAR less than the amount of time I'd spend scrambling (but not waiting!) to fix my own.

This is also how I feel about Heroku.

For whatever reason, I prefer the helplessness I feel while waiting for them to fix stuff to the helplessness I feel when I'm in "OH SHIT MY SERVER IS DOWN AND I DIDN'T EVEN DO ANYTHING AND WHY IS THE DATABASE NOT RESPONDING IT RESPONDS WHEN I QUERY IT MANUALLY AAAUUGGHHH!!!" mode.

Although I do try to keep myself sharp by doing things by hand in other areas of my engineering activities.
I posted the name of the repo to the thread, and someone else on the thread is confirming the same problem.
There is not a single renewable energy source that is a net negative over its lifetime. We have gotten very efficient over the past 40 years since that factoid may have once been true.

That is not to say that this study did not engage in a lot of hand-waving assumptions (the claim that a small fraction of total power that was hydro could cover solar/wind fluctuations for base load is delusional to be point of being outright deceptive) and is light on a practical path from here to there, but if you were to add a nuclear component that was 30-40% of the total I would not find the paper's claims to be completely unreasonable.
Chalk it up to experience and move on.
Am I right in thinking that the page of topcolors is a list of the topcolors that some account is currently using?

(I just set my topcolor to b000b5 because I am incredibly easily amused.)
Two questions: 1) did you file a support ticket? that seems like the sort of thing they'd be serious about fixing, and 2) do you have a paid account? In some sense, it doesn't matter, OSS developers are important to their mission too, but... well, I'm curious because I have a paid account and if you do too then that makes me more afraid for myself.
Sure this has been posted here to death, but its apropos none the less: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoTmNU_5A0
Most renewable power equipment comes with stats about how long it takes to recover energy used to create it, or recoup cost.

Usual solar panels say 1-5 years to generate the energy used to create them and last 20.

The consensus among scientists is that global warming is manmade, if you haven't seen it presented that's a separate issue. Of course making predictions on such large complex systems as our climate is unprecedented, so who knows. There is a variety of models/simulations, some more optimistic than others, then real world data is used to pick the most accurate one. So far the most optimistic models aren't winning.
7+ minutes is a long interview. That would be interesting to see, what is the average time guest are given in interviews on different news channel. It that piece it seemed as if Crowley had a message tailored for under 2-3 minutes but as it went longer it became way repetitive.
only if you're in the uk :(

get yourself a UK hosted vps an set up a tunnel.
I suppose I didn't consider why I wrote this post; but just knew I wanted to. Realizing 6 months of my life were based on a lie made me instinctively ask HN for help. As I think about it now, it probably was first and foremost what you described. But thinking about it now, I also respect the HN community and think they will be able to point me in the right direction.
$150k is approaching being ramen-wealthy, if you invest it and have cheap rent (not Silicon Valley).
This is an example of the gap between what people think should make them happy and what actually will.

Once upon a time, I thought I could be happy if did the things that seemed to make others happy. When I realized I couldn't find happiness that way, I grew depressed because I had run out of excuses.

I'm lucky in that I eventually discovered a path to true happiness but I can appreciate the terror of reaching a dead end and losing all hope.

Moral of the story, do what makes you happy, not what you think should make you happy.
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Thanks for this. I'm young and was fortunate to make some money while young and foolish.
This will be a good lesson.
It's not that hard to install a source control server, whether it's git, svn or mercurial.
Forget that. I just think its amazing that we can now study the future.
Forget that. I just think its amazing that we can now study the future. :-)
Yeah satellite (Bell) has it available. I was going to change my channels soon, I might see if it's worth it. I'd also like BBC in HD.
can't wait for this app =)
There's nothing saying that both approaches shouldn't be pursued simultaneously.
The default binding is 'f', iirc.
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Yeah, but on the other hand you don't have to mine or discover sunlight or wind. You don't have to transport it from the place you discovered it to where it will be generated. You don't have to refine it. You don't have to have pollution filtering mechanisms.

Maybe they are hand-waving a bit, and perhaps the costs are higher than what they are claiming. However, I could see the long-term costs being nowhere near as high as you might imagine. I mean, it's not so much the throwing out of the infrastructure that's expensive. It's replacing it that's really costly.
I'm certainly not doubting that not having a website at all would be a loss. It just fascinates me how much of a gain it is for some services to have a great local client.
as I understand it, jtv has a more active and dedicated community and more user generated content than the other sites. ustream and livestream seem to have more corporate partnerships, more big events streamed live, but jtv has a more loyal fanbase and following of users.
Are you not carrying those books because you deem them inappropriate or because you simply don't have space for them all?
Wow, that guy is painfully awkward....I got uncomfortable just watching it.
I'm also a DFW resident and doing the same with my wife as a co-founder as well. We should start a club or something ;)
Probably many nuances to this question, but there is some literature out there indicating increased income is associated with increased suicide risk.

One case control series reported in BMJ in a relatively large sample (~1500) found that "people with a history of mental illness and a high income are at greater risk of committing suicide than their lower income counterparts. This may be because richer people with a mental disorder feel more shameful, vulnerable, and stigmatised."

http://www.bmj.com/content/322/7282/0.7.full

From the paper:

"In contrast to findings in the general population, the suicide risk for patients admitted to hospital with a mental illness fell significantly with decreasing income (P=0.0001)...In the adjusted analyses, a similar but less pronounced pattern was found in people who had never been admitted to hospital with a psychiatric disorder."

http://www.bmj.com/content/322/7282/334.1.full
Presuming your question wasn't rhetorical:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay%27s_Rebellion#Consequences
@22-26 yrs of age

150K spread over a team of 3 is like fuck you money. They'll likely buy costlier supplies, capital goods, and indulge.

wouldn't you?
It was standard for EEs at my university, too. I remember that we learned the basics of binary (the logic gates, truth tables, Karnaugh maps), then built 1-bit adders, 8-bit adders, an ALU (with only addition and subtraction), a memory cell and a few other things until we had a basic workable CPU.
Not a born actor, to say the least.
What if I'm not carrying them because I don't think they're good?
I disagree. Its more of a ferarri w/ manual transmition vs toyota prius. While you can do some good shit to break that ferarri, the prius can break, but its simple, just drive, just gas and break, no third pedal no thinking, simple small quiet. Oh you can't race it but thats ok you drive the speed limit anyways, gives you a nice rear-view camera so parking is a breeze, low gas usage, YAY! For the price of an ipad I can buy a windows box with specs an ipad can only dream of. For the price of an imac I can buy a machine with enough power to let it degrade in performance for 5 years and still not approach the imac's performance.

I think its not a shuttle vs car analogy. More of a GM vs
Tesla analogy. GM is dying because they stick to the old "what works", "were too big to fail" approach, while tesla is sticking to "were more expensive, but we make a damn superior product"
That's a lot of 'bergs.
So what happened to Zuckerberg receiving a bunch of PR lessons and not being so awkward? I get that this isn't his thing, but... ow.

I actually think Zuck should just hire Eisenberg to be him anytime he has to appear in public. And get Sorkin to write his speeches. He'd be far more entertaining that way, and he would get to stay at Facebook doing what he does best.
accounts are free, so it's not much of a deterrent.
you got lucky to still be able to get it via ticket master.

Here in l.a., few weeks before the show you can only buy via third parties sites that charge way more for the "convenience"
The important question is this: Which kinds of changes are hard, which are easy? The status quo is a powerful and crushing force, fighting it is hard.

My suspicion is that tweaks on efficiency won’t cut it. They are important, no doubt, but to get anywhere with tweaks on efficiency many changes in many different areas are necessary, there is no centralized solution of getting every American a passive house.

The big flaw of climate change is that it creates no incentives for individuals and businesses to change their behavior. Climate change is a nice example for the tragedy of the commons. My suspicion that tweaks which require many changes in many different areas won’t cut it is somewhat founded on that.

Incentives work wonders if you want all people to do something differently, like renovating their house to add better insulation. Governments could try to create incentives but have generally been unwilling to. It’s also very hard to get incentives right and it is very hard to get them implemented without being overrun by lobbyists. I don’t know why but I somehow arrived at the conclusion that a big infrastructure push by governments with a rather singular focus would have a bigger chance at success.
> first thing should definitely be hiring a lawyer, though

I guess this depends on how much money you lost, if you are willing to throw good money after bad, if you had any sort of agreement that you can show your lawyer and if this bloke has any assets.

You may spend a lot more time and money than you lost pursuing this...
Coding is hard enough. The last projects required design from scratch, so I did it (and people even kind of liked it, "clean and functional" ;) - but it's not my first love. So I'm a semi-hybrid.

On the other hand, I used to have a hard time finding graphic designers, who can think about usability and elegance and can actually implement the thing in a great and maintainable way. Would welcome these hybrids, really.

(And a last bit: One of the nicer designs I dealt with directly was imagined and implemented by a perl hacker, hehe.)
I actually find Zuckerberg about as "awkward" as Bill Gates. I think people understand that, well, Mark is a nerd, and his nerdiness isn't going anywhere.

So if he just stays nice, and do charitable things, people will eventually like him. It has already started, The Social Network has been huge boost for that.
I don't want to get into the habit of linking to my own comments, but I posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2082515 in the Bill Zeller suicide discussion and think it's related.

TL;DR: happiness is in your head. If you have money and still aren't happy, the next step is not "kill yourself" it is examine your head to work out how to be happy. If you dedicated years of your life to making money in order to be happy then it was misdirected effort, you should have spent the effort directly on happy. Working out how you can be happy and changing yourself so you can be, and are.

Biochemical/neural/medical disorders aside, that is.
I’m not defending the position that the rich are whiners who need appeasement, never have.
Out of curiosity what is your startup? If you don't want to post publicly can you edit your profile to include contact information?
He's definitely come a long way, though. I remember watching him on stage at F8 and being uncomfortable with how terrible of a speaker he was.

Fast forward, and he's definitely learned at least the rudiments of being the center of attention and speaking without sounding like he has zero social skills.
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At this point in my life I would really hate to come into a large sum of money all at once, like from an inheritance or lottery. Not that I don't care about money, because I do- But for me most of the pleasure is in working towards goals, watching numbers in accounts grow new digits, gradually being able to afford more and better things.

I enjoy money the most in terms of 'keeping score' of your professional life, to suddenly be a multimillionaire would be like skipping past the whole game straight to polishing the trophy.
I think the awkwardness might have been part of the joke.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site:nytimes.com+The+Hacker+Ethic

Seems lmgtfy can do more than be a mere novelty..
3. Also, very lately there's been a marked increase in the class warfare/social justice/inequality vibe filtering in.

Which, if you ask me, is a subclass of a larger problem: people with agendas. The bonnet-dwelling bee is, as always, the most destructive parasite of all.

In the good ol' days, discussions about politics were strictly banned, and this ban was pretty heavily enforced. Comments of the form "!HN" would be modded up. But then folks got bored with the meta-discussion about whether or not a given story was HN-worthy, so pg added a line to the guidelines:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

which seems to have killed off the meta-discussion but also resulted in a bunch of rather political stories and discussions showing up.
Here's a good video on the topic: "Warren Buffett's Tax Rate is Lower than His Secretary's" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu5B-2LoC4s
So aside from execution, what's the difference between the portrayal of Zuck in TSN and that of Gates in Pirates of Silicon Valley? Both characters come off as more interesting and in a weird way, likeable than their real-world counterparts. Even Jobs is far more charismatic in PoSV than in real life. PoSV came out when Microsoft was in its prime and its portrayal of Gates was in many ways similar to that of Zuck in TSN, but it didn't seem to hurt him any.
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Well luckily you have the entire repository where ever it exists on your dev machines. So I don't expect there would be any data loss. In addition all the commits, tags, trees and files are hashed. The content is hashed, if there is a problem you'd know about it.
congrats! here's a list of articles i've curated since august that may be of use to you in these early stages:

http://www.delicious.com/acconrad/startup
I really don't know where you get the idea that 75k is some sort of big compensation... earning 75k puts lots of limits on what one can do, hobbies/businesses one can start, and how secure one is in the future.

Status - is derived from what one can get with money. For instance, being able to fly anywhere in the world and stay at an amazing hotel and eat great food, etc at the drop of a hat.
The beauty os a dvcs is that I have a full copy on my machine as well.

But seriously, if you use git over ssh there is no sys admin work other than running apt-get upgrade
Direct link: http://videos.mediaite.com/embed/player/container/1666/1232/...

More direct link (for Chrome users, for which their player seems broken): http://videos.cache.magnify.net/XHGXHV243M6QF0PD-mark_483_33...
This has happened for a long time for other strings. If you begin typing "why are musl" "limey" or "nigg" then google will stop autocompleting. Interestingly, if you begin typing "why are chris" "why are jew" or "wop" then it will continue autocompleting.
There is the Github API, so you could backup the non-repository data as well by writing a couple of scripts, if you were so inclined.
Shades of Friendster/Fakester? Nobody expects the Quora inquisition... Why invest your time in Quora when they do things like this?
I don't think I've ever heard the Kiko backstory (before justin.tv), and I hope you guys tell it sometime.
Do you happen to be a Horned Frog?
Being funny on command is tricky, even when you have done it professionally for a while. I lived public speaking like some students live football, and I can barely keep on a game face for a few hundred people in a conference: TV is totally another ballgame (and can be perceived entirely differently inside and outside the studio).
No, though say you have three nested namespaces for your utility class, and many other classes in those namespaces at varying levels and another version by the same name exists in global scope. There's even another version of the same class that's deprecated, but used in one or two places, and sites mid-way through the namespacing. And ASP is so #^@%in brilliant, everything resides in a single app_code folder and non-namespaced classes cannot be not-imported (as far as I've been able to tell).

You can name.space.the.object, absolutely. Though it's closer to TheMasterNameSpace.Utilities.DatabaseConnectivity.TheClassNameThatIsUnnecessarilyLong, and that would have to be typed every time you wish it to be used. That amounts to literally hundreds of times that must be typed in some of the larger chunks of code, and tens of thousands if not significantly more over the course of a decent sized project. Changing this to "using TC = ..." makes it immensely less of a PITA, and changing it to use a different version (with the same API) requires changing a single location.

And I am fully, painfully, daily aware of how bad this architecture is, there's no need to point this out. I'm part of the process of correcting this injustice.
gotta love is PR team ...at least he is a better public speaker ...
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I like one-file less-than-100-LOC type libs.
That's fine. To me, only the widespread and self-promoted idea that your bookstore is a channel for absolutely any public discourse (in the form of books for sale) would make your decision not to carry a book an act of censorship. This is why it is censorship when Amazon does not carry The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure, but not when Borders does not carry it.
I'm not sure.
PoSV is more a movie about Steve Jobs than anything else. TSN and PoSV both show to the public that "he (Bill & Mark) is not an evil blood/money-thirsty being, he had some opportunities and took them".

If PoSV was made about Bill, it would have been even more similar to TSN.
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That is so frustrating. So many links in that article. All to Fast Company and not anything actually useful like a source.

Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, the two authors, have been publishing about this topic for more than two years.

Here is the pop science writeup in Scientific American from 2009 (PDF): http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/sad11...

The considerably wonkier paper, published in Energy Policy this year (two parts, PDFs): http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/JDEnP...; http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/DJEnP...

Here is a page collecting everything Mark Z. Anderson published or said about the topic: http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/susen...

That should hopefully reduce the amount handwaving involved.
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It's not really meant for general purpose. Just for projects where you want raw javascript performance and need a little help for traversing and manipulation of DOM elements as arrays. Like my Chrome extension: Sight: https://github.com/tsenart/sight.
youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKuaO6P8ZAg
Not unless you're willing to put up (say) your house against it. If I were a bank I wouldn't be willing to take the risk that your business will go under before it ever pays back the $300K.

Basically you need a small-scale VC or large-scale angel investment... or else to continue to bootstrap.
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If they don't give a damn, why were they fighting to keep it on their infrastructure?

If they had succeeded what would they have gained?

If they hadn't given a damn then they would have let Hudson choose where to host their software and mailing lists and all that fun jazz.

If it was intentional they could have foregone getting a trademark on the name Hudson, and they could have just asked the Hudson development team to move off their infrastructure.

Oracle's actions in this case seem to be completely random. It is almost as if there was no direction or thought behind what they did.

There seems to be no pattern or reasoning about what Oracle is thinking or attempting to do...
USAF and small weapons / ammo manufactures. You're right - military nomenclature (US) uses very precise (and verbose) terminology: "magazine" is always used strictly. Though the words "gun" and "rifle" are dropped in favor of "weapon" in some cases. What I find is that the longer you're out, the more the language becomes civilian - unless you're a hardcore / die-hard kind of person.
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What about rich heiresses with everything in the world available to buy, who still feel unhappy? Perhaps they can't get themselves into satisfying romantic relationships. One way or another, they don't know how to use their money to create happiness - they lack the expertise in hedonic psychology and/or self-awareness and/or simple competence.

So they're constantly unhappy - and they blame it on existential angst, because they've already solved the only problem they know how to solve. They already have enough money and they've already bought all the toys. Clearly, if there's still a problem, it's because life is meaningless. [..] But, mostly, I suspect that when people complain about the empty meaningless void, it is because they have at least one problem that they aren't thinking about solving - perhaps because they never identified it.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/sc/existential_angst_factory/