skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading. Cooking. Wine. Travel. Gardening. TV. Sailing. Guitar. Cats.

I didn't do much of this when I was in my 20's, was all about work. My 30's seemed to be about spending time with myself, less with other people. Now I'm over that phase (and nearly the age bracket), I'm looking for more social things to do in the out doors (other than bbq and beer). Rafting, live music, fishing and hunting are things I'm trying to do more of.

Pretty much anything that involves one or two of my friends. I'm obsessive about reading, actual print books and tend to consume them bibliographically. Just finished a run on our first founding fathers. Last year was history of sail, wars and politics. Pretty boring to talk about with non-interested parties, fascinating to read, but isolating.
Hmm, yes, but at least it's not the $150 the other registrar I saw had. Plus, .is is a good extension.
And part of the problem is that some people are "squatting" solely because others are truly squatting. Defensive domain squatting, you might call it.

I'm all for abolishing the TLD suffixes totally since (a) they're not used consistently anymore anyway, and (b) it reduces confusion between cases like foo.com and foo.org and foo.net, etc -- unsophisticated users (who are the majority) may assume some or all are the same service or purpose, but they are not. Yes, in a way, in acts to increase demand for a single namespace, but on the other hand, the same sorts of workarounds and naming hacks are still available (add extra words, suffixes, dashes, etc.).

I personally now like fun/weird non-sensical non-specific "made up" names because (a) they're more likely to not already be taken, and (b) they could be used for an almost infinite variety of purposes justifiably. For example: www.spooflurk.com could be for shoes, sex, politics, a CV, a company, a game, a band, whatever, whereas www.shoe-sales.com is rightly expected to be pretty much about selling shoes. Yes you'll get less "organic" traffic (and less accidental traffic, which may sometimes be the same thing) on the other hand I'm a firm believer that the most important thing is to provide something people want, and eventually the right number and mix of people will find out about it anyway, regardless of the name. The noise to signal ratio in the world is pretty bad so quality stands out and people talk.
The technology to deliver that video well isn't do-able in a week. Socialcam will probably benefit from the years of experience the Justin.tv team has dealing with problems related to efficient storage and delivery of video content.
No, it does not. But in today's world of layered environments (virtualenv, rvm) your bashrc may very well be sourced in places that you didn't anticipate. On top of that each linux distribution has its own way of screwing with the environment files in creative ways, as anyone can attest who has had to make a cronjob work across platforms...

However, your question suggests that you're probably one of the chosen few who could actually use this feature safely. My general advice against it was aimed at the 99% other people who think "Oh convenient!" without being fully aware of the implications.
I think it varies drastically by subfield. I'm a physicist, and while there are some subcommunties that are cutthroat, there are many that are small and where people are pretty helpful to each other. I think a lot of it may also depend on the size of the community and the amount of money involved. The stories my ex-girlfriend told me about pharma research sounded pretty horrible...
Emphasize effort doesn't mean emphasize effort that lead to bad results. That is, it's not "as long as you put in effort" (which is the approach you're talking about), it's that when there is success the thing that should be praised is the effort to reach that success.
peinlich is more suitable but alas it's taken by a squatter who wants $50k for it ;)
It's hard to believe that companies that share photos from phones that do video haven't been working furiously on supporting video. Now they'll just intensify their effort.
The link I posted to suggests exporting CDPATH. I've always copied that, without really thinking about the effect on scripts. If you set (but don't export) CDPATH, it does not get passed along to scripts, as far as I can tell here.

So, no, Bash doesn't implicitly export the variable. (Thanks to everyone for helping me improve my dotfiles a little bit.)
Street Art version of Google Art Project
Nice.

Brilliant way to use Facebook to filter off people you don't want to work for. If they don't have a Facebook account, you probably wouldn't be happy working for them
Hmm, that one I could see more, but unless my schooling was very atypical, it often wasn't the case in K-12 that good results actually were evidence of effort. Would kids believe it if you told them?

If I remember, say, algebra class, the kids who did best were mostly kids who found algebra easy. Somehow it just made sense to them, and the concepts clicked with them as soon as they were introduced. If you praised them for putting in effort, would that be believable? Maybe it's different in classes which are heavy on memorization, but that was my experience in concept-heavy classes; the best students just got stuff instantly, and subjectively felt it to be nearly effortless.

Certainly in my own strengths/weaknesses, I felt that I put in the least effort in the classes I did best in. Where I put in more effort was stuff I wasn't as good at. Praising me for that might've been believable, but if someone praised me for putting in effort in the stuff I was really good at, my reaction would've been sort of incredulous, since I hadn't done so. Not consciously as "effort", anyway; though it's plausible there are things I did in my spare time as "fun" that shaped what I was good at (like puttering around with computers, and reading a lot of books).
Is USB autorun not enabled by default in XP? I tried getting some stuff to autorun from a thumbdrive and I never did get it working.
Its a nice to have on a device, but a 90 degree rotate for the icon wont make me go "ooooh, that was the home button, not the back button". I think I could understand that the button on the left will always be home, even when I flip my phone to landscape mode.

Now one thing that would have been cooler would be to allow users to remap the keys. So many android phones are fragmented in their button placement. On my Droid X I know the menu button is on the far left. I dont even look, I know its there so I click without looking. If I owned this phone I can see myself accidentally always going to home if I thought I was hitting the menu button within an app.
Good lord that quote resonated with me when I first read it! (and, it seems, with young men everywhere)

Ironically, I think I'd already come to the realisation that I couldn't (which is where that quote is heading in the book) much earlier than 25 as a result of martial arts training!
You just repeated what I said, yes there are edge cases that are broken, no they are not entirely broken.

> If we all have to implement fallbacks anyway, why bother supporting any modern browser features at all?

because graceful degredation is how the web works, if we enforced every browser implemented every single thing exactly the same way then nothing would ever happen.

since firefox will never have implemented h264, chrome removing it is a step towards a consistent platform, not away from it.

Considering the repeatedly defensive position about ie and bringing up fairly minor points to criticize chrome, plus the fact you replied to this hours after it went of the first few pages, are you really not Elepsis and a microsoft employee?
>I want an "open" CLI-command that downloads the target-file from the remote server and displays it locally without me having to futz with scp. I want to drag & drop files onto the server that I'm currently ssh'd into.

You can get this by editing files over sshfs.

In general though, I find that sort of persistence to be somewhat unstable. I'd rather know that everything I have done is documented and backed up than just sitting in some sort of dump of memory.
We (Braintree) don't require fax usage. It's an option but not a requirement.
Poll: How do you feel about the privacy of your email address?
In regards to your email address, do you mind if it's visible to everyone on the internet?
I am willing to make my personal email address visible to anyone who finds it.
I only give out my email address to people that I want to have it.
I don't mind taking emails from people I do not know, but do not want them to have my actual email address.
- Short over long. Consider removing useless words from the url like http://www.example.com/tips-for-designing-good-urls

- Concise To the point, describe the page content from the url

- Use lowercase. Generally the best idea, for sharing links and technical issues (Apache is case-sensitive sometimes)

- Consistenty. Stay consistent, make a style guide for URL's if necessary

- Trailing slashes. Stick with trailing slashes or no trailing slashes

- Be logical. Follow a logical structure, that follows the structure of the site. A good URL might read like a breadcrumb: site.com/category/product-name, this works for silo'ing your content. Other sites (such as news sites or without a category) might benefit more from the shortest url possible.

- Dashes for spaces. No underscores or %20 spaces.

- No special chars. Consider replacing é with e and removing any non-alphabet non-number character like: ' " (

- Canonical. There should be only 1 URL in Google's index with a page content. Use canonical or 301's or smart use of URL's to make sure this is the case.

- Degradable. What happens if a user visits site.com/category/product-name/ and then removes the /product-name/ part? The URL-structure should allow for this and site.com/category/ should return content (preferably the category description)

- Timeless. If you have an event and you set the date inside the URL, then after this date has passed, this URL gets less valuable. Either 301 these aged URL's to the current event URL, or make it so your URL's can be "re-used" for future events.

- Optimized. for search Use a keyword tool, to find out what users might be searching for and use the relevant keywords inside your URL. Keyword in URL is a ranking factor.

- No excessive use of dynamic variables. These will confuse your users and search engines.
Ask HN: Quarter-life crisis
I'm 25 years old and have a master's degree in political science. During my first year of grad school, I was introduced to R, Python, and C, and began to learn programming. Since completing grad school, I've started a small business which provides data analysis and visualization consulting services to small businesses and political campaigns.I continue to program with R and Python, and hope to expand my knowledge to other languages in the near future. Ultimately, I use programming as a tool to examine large data sets. My goal is to be a data scientist, data engineer, or computational scientist. I'm just not happy with the skill set that I currently have and can't imagine teaching myself the knowledge that I need. Thus, I'm sort of having a quarter life crisis in the sense that I'm really not sure what I'm doing with my life, and don't know how to proceed.

Given my background, I'm wonder whether it would be beneficial to return to university for a second bachelors degree. That second degree would likely be computer engineering. Oviously, I'd love not to be a non-trad student or have loads of debt, but I don't really seem to have any other options at the moment.

Has anyone had a similar experiance? What would you reccoment?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Is Google A/B testing with Gmail ads?
Obama routinely heads out for burgers at a local burger joint called Five Guys.
Also don't forget to turn on the "lynx like navigation" option. This lets you navigate all the way through arrow keys (no need to use Enter).
The odd thing is I haven't seen this "irritating pink ad" in any of my colleague/friends Gmail's inbox. Wonder what may be the reason ?
Anonymous has chosen a new target
It's ironic you'd say that, because the opposite is true about me and the TSA threads; I'm the first to admit, I too took the opportunity to bay at the moon about the TSA on HN. I wish someone had called me out for doing so then.

I don't know what "veto power" you think I have here, but if you click around the site, you'll find a document that pretty well spells out what is and isn't on-topic for the site. The person who really does have "veto power" here is Paul Graham, and he's been having to use it lately; he buried Egypt, and he buried the TSA.
Two wrongs don't make a right.

Besides, Amazon actually provided a ton of value specifically for book authors, already being the biggest marketplace for books.

Apple's actions are more like ISP who thinks that just because bits have to flow to the user through their pipe and decides to charge everyone who sells some of those bits, even though I've already paid ISP for delivering those bits to me.

Similarly, as an owner of Apple I've already paid them top dollar for the device and I don't appreciate Apple treating me as infinite stream of money that they squeeze out of me through forced markup on everyone else's services.

People mostly look at this from the perspective of companies hit with that 30% markup but the ultimate looser is me, the guy who gave Apple $1800 for 2 iPhones and an iPad because going forward I'll either loose access to services that can't afford that 30% markup or that 30% will trickle down to me.

Apple's greed will ultimately be satisfied from my pocket, their (former) best customer.
I have bound 'pushd -1' to PgUp.

function directory_up {
pushd -1
zle reset-prompt
}
zle -N directory-up directory_up
bindkey "\e[5~" directory-up

Ditto for "pushd +0" and PgDn.
Someone recently did the math on the "economics" of The Huffington Post (a recent AOL acquisition): http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/the-econ...

An average of $13 of revenue per post doesn't exactly fill one with optimism. If they were paying the going rate for writers, they'd be making a loss..
Desk Jockey: What Sitting All Day is Doing to Your Body
Why not just:

echo "export nm=`pwd`/blog"' >> ~/.profile
. ~/.profile
cd $nm

There's no need for magic when you know how to shell.
I was also curious about how they handle SVG. I was hoping I'd be able to edit it as a vector drawing. Nope. It gets rendered to a bitmap, by all upload methods I tried.
While I"m not a fan of their data collection, I have to admire zynga. They've managed to build and execute a solid recipe for games. (Notice they haven't experimented with new core game concepts). This is an excellent strategy, there's a HUGE backlog of game ideas from the 90's to steal from without taking real innovation risk. As a business, I love it. As an artist, It's derivative and boring.

Which is the problem with EA also. They found a recipe that works (create sports game x, create x+1, x+2, create franchise movie game and have gotten so entrenched in it and the surrounding market chain that they can't change. This is a risk for zynga in a few years time. But in the meantime they should milk it for all it's worth.

Personally though, I'll be playing sim city rather than cityville,
Huge swaths of D.C. were shut down and reflagged for President Hu a few weeks agov (red flags and gold stars everywhere!). So yeah, when a big-wig comes into town we notice. The President of Finland? Might make an few lines buried in the local news section....so...it depends.
Autojump is my vote as well
"Good for potential acquisitions though!"

Only if they get paid in cash...
Why not just use symlinks for your bookmarks?
pushd and popd are also useful.
I'm having a hard time thinking of classes where memorization dominated "being good at." Even history, if it was taught as a bunch of meaningless dates, treaties and battle names, was still amenable to learning through outside reading, because if you found the right books, they'd make those dull meaningless facts memorable.
Ugh. This looks painful http://www.businessinsider.com/the-aol-way#-16

No wonder he quit. Any self-respecting writer wouldn't want to stay on.
3rd Bridge Helix
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"Apple less than 50k"

But the company that builds Apple's stuff employs 1 million people...in China.
motley.crue.fan@gmail.com

fogbeam@gmail.com

prhodes@fogbeam.com

Have at it...
Tony Hsieh: When Giving Speeches, Just Wing It
I love that you are social & democratic.

What does this mean?
"type annotations enforced by static analysis"

Isn't that the definition of static typing?
ditto for about.com
"... My goal is to be a data scientist, data engineer, or computational scientist. I'm just not happy with the skill set that I currently have and can't imagine teaching myself the knowledge that I need. ..."

complete MIT OpenCourse, "6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", come back and tell us how you went ~ http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
You can get this by editing files over sshfs.

Been there, it's a kludge and tends to not cope well with network disconnects. Also when sshfs flakes out then it has a habit of leaving you with 0-byte files.

Also note this doesn't fully address the problem.
I literally want to drag/drop into the current directory of whatever server I'm ssh'd into (possibly with multiple ssh-hops in between).

This has been possible in the 80's, it's called ZModem.
The server-side part is still in your favorite linux distribution (lrzsz). Sadly the client-side support has disappeared from almost all terminal emulators (Afaik only Zoc still supports it).

With Zoc you can just drop a file and it will send the ZModem init-string, which conveniently launches the 'rz' binary on the server. Likewise you can say 'sz file', Zoc will detect the init-string and open a download-dialog.

Forgotten technologies... not all of them were bad.
Quora: Why did Twitter suspend UberTwitter?
What is the timespan on the /over URI anyhow? 1 week?
Just curious, why did you do your master's in political science? Did you want to be an analyst or something and later change your mind?

Also, when you say computational scientist, do you want to go into something specific? Computational political science? Computational biology? Theoretical computer science?

Programming is usually something that bright people can pick up on their own, with the help of online tutorials and books. It seems like you've already started. If you want to go into something that requires domain-specific knowledge, you might consider doing a second master's - depending on the subject, your school may not require a specific undergraduate degree to get in, and in my experience you learn a lot more working with an advisor one on one vs. learning in large class settings. Also, two years instead of four.
Your equation is mathematically equivalent to:

results = effort x smart

The problem is optimizing this equation for smart, rather than for results.
Ask HN: HN Guide to SxSW 2011
While it is a few weeks out, I've never been to SxSW and could use a little advice. HNers got any tips on places to stay? What to do? What to bring? What to leave at home?
More so than any other subject, programming is probably the easiest to learn using the Internet. There's a wealth of knowledge out there about many different languages, including tutorials to easily explain it.

That's how I taught myself most of my programming related knowledge.

Good luck.
I would suggest adding dropbox to that list.
I hope someone implements the plugin from the tooltip: Instead of creating a full blacklist just force a 30 second delay before loading sites from a graylist. That will break the habit.
SaaS Start Up Success 200% Growth: New Relic
I hate when people write letters like this, trying to be more reader-friendly by dumbing down language with garbage like "Twitter, I’m a friend. I love you, man."

Write your views, don't pretend you're a nine year old writing to your dad.
I believe this is the quote from Twitter -
"We’ve had conversations with UberMedia, the developer of these applications, about policy violations since April 2010, when they first launched under the name TweetUp – a term commonly used by Twitter users and a trademark violation. We continue to be in contact with UberMedia and hope that they will bring the suspended applications into compliance with our policies soon."

I agree with you entirely Mark that they can handle something like this better, but I think that a company like Twitter that is still figuring out the best way to monetize has a right to enforce their trademarks to reel in other people trying to make money off of their product.

Then again, at a $4-10bn valuation, they probably can afford to not cut off things that make their users happy.
The points are solid, and early planning where possible is great. MVP often contains uncertainty, so there are a couple of methods I've used to afford flexibility in the future (although it still helps to codify this better when the flux settles)

For applications with low expected item limits within taxonomies it can help to use a numeric id, combined with an open-ended rewrite of the user-readable content.

http://www.example.org/items/12-really-awesome-thing

RewriteRule ^/items/(\d+)[a-zA-Z0-9_\ -]+$ index.code?route=items&id=$1

Although you probably index your titles anyway, simple numeric key lookup makes the DB layer happy. Combine this with rel=canonical to your preferred url, and you can be more flexible with case, specific terms etc. It has the added bonus of reducing 404s through typo'd links and such.

A couple of other anecdotal points:

* Underscore is considered a letter, not a space, for most purposes

* Pages should either have a (faux) file extension, or no trailing slash. Reserve trailing slash for directories

* Rel Canonical also allows you to carry non-critical data in query string using [QSA] in the RewriteRule, without polluting the search index with duplicate content. Consider this for, example, default view of output (CD cover vs. title list)
Oh, that's right. 'to sitename' becomes 'cd ~/Sites/ sitename' which is not what you want. My apologies.
Libyan Disconnect
Hans Rosling for Everyone
Libya protests: Death toll mounts as unrest spreads
I hope my .ly domains are going to be okay.
Independent of what? Platforms, technology, customers? Don't kid yourself, there's always somebody who's your "boss".
Ehh, I remember that site (godhatesfags.com) getting hacked on a weekly basis back in '99 - even recall someone stole ownership of the domain itself... That site deserved it every time and Westboro Baptist Church still deserve it for the despicable methods they use... believe in whatever you want, but be tactful in some way or another...
I hope my .ly domains are going to be okay.
reminds me a lot of the kinds of spellings you see in the original writings of shakespeare. I guess this was done before strict spelling in Italian had been standardized also?
Ron Paul joins the Collapse Party
1. My plan was to complete my master's in political science and then head to law school. I wasn't necessarilly interested in being a trial lawyer, but I wanted to work as a legal researcher or legal anlyst. I just lost interest as I made my way through grad school in political science.

2. I probably should not have writter 'computational scientist.' I'm basically interested in statistical computing and visualization of large data sets.