skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was always a part of the (possibly true, but I'm no francophone) mythos that French just has a much better swearing vocabulary. A statement like that, I'd think at least certain parts of French culture should get behind.
Can you think of any way in which intelligent design might not be mutually exclusive with evolution?
Is Norway evil? Finland? Brazil? South Korea? Taiwan? Germany?
Because the risks are reduced far more than the rewards.
There's a great book by someone, whose name I can't remember, who talks about how technological advances are continuous, but change industries. Right now we're in the midst of the mobile/internet age. This book talks about how there were periods in the past with cars (flying cars and crazy gas mileage that never panned out), buildings (skyscraper height, after YoY growth, just went flat), planes (there used to be talk of multi-mach commuter planes).

The thing that consistently doesn't get predicted is where the next big tech spike will occur. In 1990 wired house phones were still common. The iPhone would be crazy to see.

No one can predict these things, but my guess is that the next big jump will be in medicine. People will say, "can you believe 20 years that people went to the doctor to diagnose things? This device you stand in front of (and can talk to) is about 20X more accurate than the best human doctor".
Right, but why do you even need a proxy, why isn't it enough to just have money and power? It's because other people need to know.
AFP and SMB are not encrypted AFAIK. Maybe you mean the authentication is not in clear text, but the data transfer is. (NFS doesn't really have authentication unless you use Kerberos, which doesn't pass cleartext credentials either.)
Have you actually gotten a bill from them yet?
My bill is the same $47/mo it's been for a while. I don't have a tv.
> thus you don't take risk.

And yet, "Rates of start-up creation [in Norway] are among the highest in the developed world, and Norway has more entrepreneurs per capita than the United States." Did you read the article?

> it's much more expensive to fail in Scandinavia for those who venture into actually risking.

How so?
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I was responding specifically to "I met no Stanford people". Sorry if that wasn't obvious.
I don’t see how the sexes within a race can be different. For every Male that’s interracially married that’s one female that has to be interracially married.

It could come down to parts of the population that are not married to skew it. IE in prison, if one sex marries older or same sex marriages.

But I suspect it’s actually more about perceptions.
Curious also about the hacker on top of Uluru, kick ass.
Invest 93% in another small startup.
Not being for-profit doesn't mean there's a lack of budget concerns. BBC World Service will be cutting around 650 people over the next few years. Let's hope they can still provide high quality service.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12283356

PBS stations have been having a tougher time than in the past. Costs are rising, they've lost some of their audience to the greater variety of things people view on cable and the net, and many viewers are being tighter with their money.

Even when all sources are truthful, perspectives and emphasis differ. It's good to have a variety of sources available.

A number of international news networks including Aljazeera English are carried on MHz WorldView. It's seen on some cable systems, carried by some public tv stations over the air (often as an added digital sub-channel that many not be on their cable line up) and on direct tv. They can also be seen streamed on demand to those with ROKU.

http://www.mhznetworks.org/roku/

http://proweb.myersinfosys.com/week.php?timezone=0&stati...
With the disappearance of milw0rm.com I don't know where to find exploit code anymore, and the MS security advisory is predictably lacking depth. It looks like it's a way to get an image interpreted as javascript, but it'd be nice to know how it's actually done.
Ugly Body with a Pretty Face
Why do some girls cut their pictures and leave only their faces?
And, as we did with Hackety, you can embed Logo inside of Ruby. You get the best of both! DSls are awesome.
You don't have to use the autodrive if you don't want to
I think one of the mistakes this article makes is believing that people know what they want upfront. We all know that people are very poor judges of what could and couldn't be useful to them before you actually give it to them.

OpenID should probably have seen it was overly complex, but I'm not sure how anyone could have guessed that XML was going to be shunned in favor of JSON. It does have some pretty cool advantages, such as DTDs ensuring correctness. It's just that it got a lot of typing real fast (and probably was never supposed to be written by humans anyway) and the space sizes blew up too.
> Objecting to using + or += overloading on strings in Java seems to me to be cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Nowhere did I say you shouldn't use them; I said your assertion of "should" was subjective at best and "clever" in a bad way, since you're only using it for the side effect of auto-boxing the int INTO a string; not its intended purpose of concatenating strings.

> In Python would you object to nesting "s and 's because it feels hackish? In Lisp would you avoid Macros because they are hackish? In Perl would you avoid regexs because they are hackish?

No, because none of them are.
A problem doesn't have to have a single cause; in fact, most real world problems don't. I think it's a good idea to cut spending. I also think it's a good idea to distribute wealth.

And I don't doubt that there are wealthy people who started poor, and who worked hard. But the fact is that most of them started well-off and got richer. And it's also a fact that it is easier to earn a million dollars if you already have a million dollars. So I don't have a Randian moral problem with taxing the rich at a higher rate. (Full disclosure here: I'm pretty loaded.)

I'm sorry I accused you of being a moral absolutist and opposing all income taxes. But you did say

What you are really doing is taking this money away by force...

So you don't mind if they take 35% by force, but 39% is looting?

As for your anecdotal long lines in Canada, I'm guessing that option would look pretty good from your cardboard box, dying slowly of liver failure.

But you've indicated you're immune to bad luck, that you could always find a place willing to hire a good developer even in the middle of major layoffs and even if you need to take time off every day for chemo. Good for you. But what do we do with all the people who don't have your skills, training or work ethic? What do we do with the losers? Let them die in the streets?

What do we do with them?
"No, everybody is not "in it for the money". You said it yourself, actually: most people are in it for the things that money allows them to do. That is a very important difference, and it's one that a lot of people forget about."

You need money though. So directly or indirectly, money is always a factor.

"since you can have the freedom from healthcare-related financial catastrophe, a decent vacation policy, educational benefits, etc. all without having tons of money."

Well, you had that money, it just went to the government instead of your pocket. The choices you could have made with that money are now gone. Once you are an established company in the US, you could afford those benefits yourself (which is more efficient because rather than paying for all healthcare, you can figure out what will work for your company).

For many non-web related business, it will make it that much more difficult. If you need to spend money on physical goods and your profit margin is razor thin, huge taxes aren't going to make it easier. If you have a business that doesn't scale well with one person (IE: a tech business where you need to hire more employees quickly), the increased employee taxes and requirements might make it an impossibility to continue (if you have no funding).

So, it might help with web businesses that can scale well with one employee or ones that are funded by VC. I wonder how many people are actually bootstrapping a company there.

"Since there are different "givens", it's not surprising that Norwegians have arrived at different conclusions and attitudes towards money. QED?"

Norwegians now have a sense of entitlement. It all depends on what you want. If you want an easier start, but have your overall potential income limited, start a company in Norway. If you want a riskier start, with less limits in the long-run, start your company in the US.

I still have to wonder. If this was such a great system, why aren't more people starting companies? There is no risk, right? Why isn't Norway the center for startups?
There have been congressional hearings regarding Ticketmaster's monopoly. Not sure why nothing came out of them.
It’s not really practical for me and I don’t know how it could be practical over wireless LAN but I think it is the perfect backup solution for my parents. I bought a 1TB external drive for them and plugged it into their iMac [0]. It’s just sitting there all the time and they don’t have to worry about it.

All their documents are also in their Dropbox folder, but they have too many photos to make that practical for all their data.

All of this works without them ever having to do anything, they don’t even have to understand what’s happening. It’s perfect.

[0] I actually gifted them my old 250GB external HDD a year ago but it broke a few months ago, so I bought them a new 1TB HDD. The new 1TB drive actually also houses my offsite backup. It’s very infrequently updated (and I don’t use Time Machine, I drag over files I think are important) but better than nothing.
Thanks! This is a really great list
I have a prediction: 20 years from now we'll look back at articles like these and think "wow those were stupid predictions," in the same way that we look back at those Popular Mechanics articles from decades past that foresaw pill food and robot maids.
Working at a Canadian university I hear my boss say that bandwidth doubles every year for the same price. But Bell has been selling the same service (DSL) for less and less bandwidth... for a higher price every year.
It's funny how people from remote areas will be able to identify 'their' dot.

Yeah, I was amused to be able to point out "my" dot, though it would have been a lot easier with state borders (or even just the Great Lakes) drawn in.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Bell hasn't upgraded its service, just the price. It's been pretending it's the users fault that things are slow but it keeps putting more users on the same network. They have no incentive to improve service, especially if the government agrees they can charge whatever they want.
For AFP on anything but OS X, netatalk was missing a flush-to-disk command and failed the last time I surveyed.

Various samba versions have been implicated in backups that are corrupt when when you go to read them. There are enough people successfully using samba now for time capsule that I suspect that issue is a thing of the past or restricted to certain NAS devices.

Time Machine is a big enough bandwidth user that I presume we are talking LAN, and for many people their LAN is secure enough.
Bandwidth is sold in bulk, pennies by the gigabyte. Not dollars. It's not just covering their costs, it's obscene.
This seems a little too black and white. I think you need to consider that some things work best when provided by the government, some things work best provided by third parties but heavily regulated, and some things need a completely open arena for competition. Not only that, but that this will change over time as services become more or less crucial to the community. And all this will change with the size of the community the particular service is for.

Your arguments aren't really historically valid (look up the history of private fire departments in large cities), nor are they factually based (look up the actual cost of public first class mail and the guarantees it gives you).

IMO, they aren't philosophically valid either, but that's just my opinion and people who are more compitent may disagree. The whole consent thing seems poorly justified. There are a lot of things we don't consent to in our lives. Our gender, our race, our lineage in general, the community of humans we are born into, the larger events that impact us that we may have no control over.

Even if you buy the consent argument, the answer to your dilemma is "easy".. move out of the locality that's taxing you to one that isn't. If you have to leave the country, oh well, that's your choice whether to be involved in a particular community. But this is just as "easy" as determining that taxation is theft because you don't like it.

So, there's no moral difficulty here, just the problem that you have to do something you would not rather do. Such is life.
That's got to be the oldest comment I've upvoted on HN :)
PaaS & Scalability
Fix it for me tool is just great. Sure, a real patch would be better, but being able to quickly (and w/o lots of tinkering) be able to apply and undo workarounds is extremely nice.

It certainly makes the being the "IT guy" for a lot of family/friend machines a LOT easier.
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Fixed prices for fixed sizes of data isn't efficient, economically speaking, because marginal costs are not proportional to marginal data transit; either the price is too low to prevent congestion at peak times, or it's too high and leaves pipes underutilized at off-peak times - and the times don't lend themselves to simplistic on-off peak analysis.

What you want is spot prices dependent on congestion, but that creates a different problem, opacity in pricing, where people will be fearful to use owing to uncertainty in how much it will cost.

I think the fairest mechanism is probably some kind of QoS by inverse usage: where congestion occurs, drop packets belonging to users who transfer the most. Unfortunately, I'd expect that to be computationally infeasible, as it would require fairly complex dynamic and stateful logic in routers to process the accounting and make decisions on a packet by packed basis fast enough.
You guys should seriously think about allowing other projects to use the octocat when the projects are associated to github.

it would be a nice way of everybody having a common "icon", much like twitter has the bird.

I know people can link to github, but that's not always possible (mobile apps?) even though people use github..
Costa Rica, not as poor as Africa, gets 5$ a month for cell with infinite data.
Creating an iPhone App From Scratch (sans Xcode/IB)
YC is not built for what he is trying to do
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The other day I wanted to log in to my StackOverflow account. I was presented with this screen: http://i.imgur.com/SwuVJ.png

Shoot, did I previously log in to SO with my Google account? With my Facebook account? How can I remember? Or maybe, I created a "myOpenID" account? After trying various combinations, I became frustrated by the error "No OpenID endpoint found."

Finally, I ended up spending twenty minutes digging through my old e-mail to figure out that I did, in fact, create a dedicated OpenID account at myopenid.com.

It turned out, for some ungodly reason, that I have to enter my OpenID as "http://<my username>.myopenid.com/" -- I would not have ever guessed this.

As a developer, I can appreciate the motivation behind OpenID. But the execution is simply frustrating.
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Don't you have serverlogs/analytics for that?
It is not at all naive, it is very accurate.

After the connection hits the DSLAM it goes onto fiber, which starts at 1 Gbps capacity and goes up to either 40Gbps or 100Gbps per port. Only in the smallest markets would they use a T3/DS3 connection.

Actual bandwidth costs for 200GB (which is about 1Mbps) over the course of a month are about $1 USD in almost any major US city.

Even assuming 4x the cost for Canada's smaller market size, we are talking about a ($4 into $55 upcharge) 13 times markup once the cost of the basic connection, tech support, marketing, etc. is covered by the initial $31.95.
It depends, I've worked in industry and startups for about 15 years. Time and again I've found that people I work with from $BIG_NAME tend to not be the best performers.

Often they operate with presumption that they should be in top positions, but rarely do the kinds of crap work that would actually earn them that slot. This can cause tons of friction in a team and I've personally found it better to try and not have people from $BIG_NAME on the team if I can help it.

I've also found that they are rarely innovators or out-of-the-box thinkers. They tend to be conformists and try to execute within the given rule set to the best of their ability.

However, I think perhaps my anecdotal experience runs contrary to the fact of how many SV types come from $BIG_NAME.

Perhaps it's the circles I tend to work in, selecting less from $BIG_NAME and more from $LOCAL_STATE_SCHOOL...perhaps all the folks from $BIG_NAME are people I'm seeing who have slid quite down the ladder with respect to their peers and aren't star performers no matter what.

Back in my college days at $LOCAL_STATE_SCHOOL I did notice that there were very few SV companies recruiting there and many more of the huge defense contractor type. It was alarmingly easy to get an internship at one of those huge companies and disappear into a long, but often reasonably rewarding career in the government. Some of the problems the government works on are impressively hard (see SV darling Palantir for an example) and there's no shortage of incredible people I've met who decidedly didn't go to $BIG_NAME and do fantastic, mind-blowing stuff.

I think early in your career it can mean something. And except for a few holdouts that care about some largely irrelevant piece of paper you bought a decade before (see Google), most places won't care after 5 years in the field and I've found most people end up more or less even in term of pay, responsibility, position, etc. If you are starting your own company? It doesn't matter at all.
Planning on taking more? $200k seems a bit low for a crapload :)
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Interactive TV Viewing With Startup WatchParty
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I am not going to directly defend the Norwegian draft, but the Norwegian military does not send drafted soldiers who do not volunteer to fight in Afghanistan (or other foreign wars). The main reason Norway still has the draft is to have a population that can defend itself (admittedly with questionable efficiacy) in case a foreign power attacked Norway (such as what happened in World War II), not to send drafted youth involuntarily to their deaths in foreign countries.
Nokia makes a lot of phones. I think it's going to be Android, simply because of the hardware requirements imposed by WP7 would mean that Nokia's large amount of phones worldwide would all have to meet a fairly high bar, which isn't going to happen. They're going to choose Android, which is basically Symbian with buttons in saner locations. If they do some Android some Windows, they're probably doomed, because they're right back to where they started.
While this is definitely news, it's hardly a surprise.
What are you using for voice on the backend?
"A problem doesn't have to have a single cause; in fact, most real world problems don't. I think it's a good idea to cut spending. I also think it's a good idea to distribute wealth."

We are already redistributing wealth through taxes and social programs.

"But the fact is that most of them started well-off and got richer."

Citation?

"And it's also a fact that it is easier to earn a million dollars if you already have a million dollars."

It's also easier when you have the mindset of someone that is successful. Poor parents pass on poor decision making to their kids.

"So you don't mind if they take 35% by force, but 39% is looting?"

When did we ever talk about percentages? I seriously doubt that all of the social programs you are talking about would only be a matter of 3%.

"As for your anecdotal long lines in Canada, I'm guessing that option would look pretty good from your cardboard box, dying slowly of liver failure."

I guess it gives them hope. If the waiting lines are so long that you die before you get care, it doesn't really matter.

"But you've indicated you're immune to bad luck, that you could always find a place willing to hire a good developer even in the middle of major layoffs and even if you need to take time off every day for chemo. Good for you. But what do we do with all the people who don't have your skills, training or work ethic? What do we do with the losers? Let them die in the streets?
What do we do with them?"

How do we stop our hospitals from being flooded with people that don't really need care? There needs to be some system in place to force people to only go to the hospitals when they absolutely need it, or the system will eventually collapse. Nobody seems to want to think in the long-term, which is dangerous.
Back in the beginning some people did make the obvious observation that XML wasn't a good idea for data given that it was designed for documents. It's just taking a decade to roll back the excess hype.
Taxes is a form "collective consent" as long as you have the right to vote. The clean air you breath is as a result of a tax on sulphur dioxide emissions on factories.

From a policy position, I lived in both a low taxed country (Malaysia) and a high taxed country (Australia). I found Australia is well administered enough to give value for the taxes it collects, while not so in Malaysia.

I think it is hard for Americans to appreciate higher taxes because the public services are so lacking and there is so much ass hatness in government spending. For instance, the TSA is bad value for money.

On the brighter side of things, if you are paying taxes, thanks for NASA. It's awesome!
- It could only be remote wiped if it's turned on and has a signal. A credit/debit card can be disabled no matter where it is.

- Biometric scanners can be outfoxed with a piece of play-doh. And what happens when you just want to loan the thing to your SO?

Authentication is best implemented when it combines what you have (a debit card) with what you know (a pin). Putting biometrics on your phone is just stacking two things that you have (your finger and the phone) with nothing that you know. No, the password, as a concept, should stick around.
> That would not be expected by your "two Harvard professors" theory.

Maybe, maybe not; consider that the other college "intra-city" is MIT, and presumably they also included Northeastern and BU and BC on the list. Just knowing that a professor teaches at a school in the Boston metro area raises the prior of them being at a top school.
My co-founder has been out of town for about a month now and while not substantial (yet), I see my productivity sliding. I have come up with some hacks to prevent this. But there is a kind of intensity/momentum that gets generated when the two of us are in the same room. The effects of colocation are probably different on different people but in my case at least, I need to be in close proximity to my team.
I'm so glad to hear they they planned on pulling that crappy manoeuvre before Netflix. Thanks for the info
Has anyone been exposed to Wifi Direct? This is Wifi peer-to-peer sharing without access points. Access points as they function now would be perfect for connecting user handsets/devices but something like wifi-direct could be modded to run on access points and to serve as a cheap backhaul link protocol to interconnect APs.

The wifi spectrum is unlicensed, at least in this country (for now), so modding cellular handsets to "mesh" with each, assuming that someone were able to create a viable mesh protocol, would have handsets broadcasting in licensed spectrum without permission from the FCC. Probably something to avoid...