skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we are not talking about "survival". If an alien were to observe that of the 3 tribes one spent 50 hrs working, the other 30 hrs and 20 hrs respectively, he will conclude that it is the tribes working 50 hrs that have a tough time surviving. The other tribes weren't hanging on for dear life, otherwise they would have worked much harder. They have plenty to eat and hence plenty of leisure time.

Also, I dispute that buying lots of junk is unnecessary for a decent life in industrialized societies. We are socially competitive animals and if someone were to just focus on "survival", he would end up being a social outcast pretty soon and his mating prospects would have shrunk considerably. Being lazy and having low-income is a pejorative description in industrialized tribes. But Western society has such huge income gaps that no matter where you are in the income spectrum, it looks like there are thousands of people above you living the good life, right up until Bill Gates.

In contrast, in a hunter-gatherer society, the most accomplished guy might be the chief and the competitive pressure on each tribal is much lower. Hence, the possibility of a 20 hour work week.

TLDR, I dispute that technological advances will reduce work. As long as there are huge income gaps, we will have people relentlessly working long hours every day to obtain a better position in society. It is an instinct built into our genes.
and slower rates of technological change.

Slower? The typical office of 2011 might as well be an alien planet to someone looking from 1981, in comparison to 1951-1981. Computers, fax machines, the Internet, cellphones, social networks, viral marketing, hiring people you've never met in foreign countries and who directly report to you.. several areas of worklife (heck, life in general) have been totally redefined in the past 30 years at a speed never seen before.
It looks like his website is still running Trumpet Winsock...
My girlfriend came in a couple hours ago, and shook me awake as I tried to hit the snooze button again. "Hey," she said. "I think you'll want to look at the interweb tubes before work today."

"I already know about the stupid naziPad 2," I groaned. "Why would I need cameras on something I only use in the bathroom?"

"AWS Tokyo is live," she said, whereupon I pretty much vaulted over her as I leapt out of bed and turned on my phone and saw the announcement in my inbox.

This is really big news for us here. Even though the costs are indeed the highest of any AWS region, that was to be expected--physical data center costs here are the highest I have ever heard of, too. We've so far been able to play around with APAC/Singapore, and see what might one day be possible, but the latency and variabilty of the international link were too much for the 'real' stuff. Can't wait to start hooking this up today.

P.S.
I for one am very happy with the pricing. It seems to be just as good a deal, relative to running your own infrastructure, as AWS is in other regions.
Charging applicants is illegal in most developed countries. It's way too easy for companies to exploit desperate unemployed people.
Wonderful that you did this all by your self. How long did it take?
Other thing, I personally didnt like the "obligation" to tweet to see de video, one thing that would bem more interesting it is if you need to tweet to continue to watch the video. That guarantees that you are enjoying, and you want to share.
Other thing, maybe some real time tweets would be very fun, like you write something little(100 characters) and than you have an update in tweeter.
When you write notes with SimpleNote on your computer, do you use their program or can you use whatever text editor you want? SimpleNote sounds very cool, but I like writing stuff with vim when I'm on my computer, and I don't want to switch to some other application.
I guess no one really needs this bad but if someone's up to build it, why not?

If it's kept as simple as the RFC suggests, it should be stable real soon and there are definitely scenarios where I'd choose this over launching Apache or even installing it, depending on the task and environment.
Very nice idea, but you should let users tweet in the middle of the video or at the end. If you force me to tweet before I won't watch it, but in the middle I will be very likely to.
I can't ever see a use case where it is OK to force a user to syndicate your content before viewing it. It trying to force virality -- and after a while users will stop watching videos, negating the effect if not harming the content in the long run. Think "Expert's Exchange"
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It isn't too hard for someone who is already familiar Apache. On OS X, mod_php is not enabled by default, requiring new users to dig in and learn about apache config files and document roots. I'm not saying it is difficult, and it is obviously important to learn, but it would be nice to be able to have a 1 page "get started with PHP" tutorial.
To any other potential task hackers, currently there is no API, but google announced they are building one soon.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/top-tasks-for-google-t...
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Guess you could say the same about Ruby's WEBrick and it's still nice to have, even if it's just to get absolute beginners up and running in no time.
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Great resume.
I like this kind of personal site, looking just a web 1.0. I enjoy even more the www.about.me personal pages.
Pud, what do you do in blippy? Me and some friends, here in brazil, are starting a web site that goes for a similar approach. If we could change some mails, would be fine.
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Interesting idea, but I don't think it would work in practice.

I remember doing a straw poll of coworkers and how they were hired. The vast majority either never applied (they were recruited or referred by friends) or they applied on a lark, without seriously intending to work for Google, and found that over the course of the interview process, they liked it. You don't apply on a lark when it costs $100.
Taking money from individuals and using it for politically popular "investments" usually winds up destroying the capital. Politicians don't usually care if its paid back, as long they can claim credit for giving it away.

Private investors are much more likely to earn a return on an investment. Which means they can keep re-investing it.

Yes, you get all the "stimulating" effect without destroying wealth. Of course, its been that way wherever societies become wealthy.

And government handles all of the "investments" wherever societies become poor.
I think this is a bit useless when we see the facebook Api, and you can find yourself in the searches.
Well, you could always use Mint Debian and get the best and worst of both worlds.
You're either lying, or very lucky :)

Beautiful, intelligent, driven people of either sex are uncommon to say the least, and even if you find one, that doesn't mean you will be compatible; i.e. your goals may not align. For example, one of you may be driven to climb the corporate ladder, whilst the other may be driven to establish their own successful corporation in lieu of obtaining a regular job. If you're not successful quickly, you might be seen as lazy/unrealistic/non-contributing.

So, what are the odds of meeting someone who is beautiful, intelligent, driven, low-maintenance, and understanding of the implications of founding a startup?

Surely, you make it sound easier than it is.

P.S. if that sounds snippy at all, I don't intend it to be, I just meant that while you have found a treasure of a wife, everyone here is not going to be able to run right out and acquire one with ease.
It's an interesting idea, and nice to see, but honestly I'm not sure if the convenience of it all working 'out of the box' justifies the cost. My company, for example, set up almost all the functionality they offer in about an hour of Python scripting (using Tropo.)

Eventually, we spent about an extra hour creating an actual support rotator that allows you to toggle your number on/off when you don't want to deal with answering phone calls.

It was entirely free to set up and develop. There's no pressure to transition to a paying account, either. When you do decide to transition, it's much cheaper than any of the TellFi plans, any way you look at it.

Additionally, Tropo has great support - I've wandered into their IRC at 4:00 AM and gotten nearly instant feedback, every time.

So, basically, if you're decently technically proficient, I don't see the value add of TellFi.
It's extremely refreshing to read something regarding one of Apple's unpopular moves that isn't laced with fanboyism of one stripe or another.
.info was a lot cheaper to register at that time. Now I have registered ycpages.com and point to ycpages.info. Thanks for the reminder.
Having webrick out of the box was awesome when I first started using Rails. The big difference, however, is that Rails includes a web server because Rails is a framework for developing web applications, while this proposal seems to want a web server included as part of the PHP distributable. PHP isn't exclusively used for web applications, so I don't think it makes too much sense IMO.
Very slick, complete, confident site for such a young and small team. Respect.
That's called good marketing and customer satisfaction.
Haven't worked with the PHP namespaces a lot myself yet but there seem to be more convenient ways:
http://www.rooftopsolutions.nl/blog/taking-advantage-of-php-...

And a good read on PHP namespaces in general:
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/archives/254-Why-PHP-Namesp...
Ask HN: Who's looking for a job? (March 2011 Edition)
I was a beta user of an analytics site (Reinvigorate.net) during development and testing stages. When the product was released for public consumption, I was given double the features of the Pro account for 1/2 the price of the basic account.

The developer still gets paid, and they made me a huge fan.
I don't think you're really disagreeing with the author--I think his point is that there are fewer original ideas with the potential to redefine genres, push boundaries, etc.:

"I don't mean that there are fewer really good movies than ever before (last year had its share, and so will 2011) but that it has never been harder for an intelligent, moderately budgeted, original movie aimed at adults to get onto movie screens nationwide."

To stretch an analogy, the Googles and Facebooks are still creating great new features, but the startups are in trouble, and even though Google and Facebook are dynamic in a lot of ways, it's just not quite the same.
I suppose I can accept the capitalist argument that Apple is the big player with control of the game, so short of monopoly abuse they get to set the rules.

However, they do seem to adopt rather hostile policies toward the people who put the real value into their ecosystems, mainly the app store developers and content publishers. The good will of these communities has a lot of value, which a brand like Apple relies on. I won't have much sympathy if either or both communities abandon Apple platforms on a large scale if the alternatives evolve a similar level of functionality and more provider-friendly pricing and support policies.

Then again, in the mobile space, the "competition" appears to be organisations like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and RIM, all of which have serious problems of their own. Until at least one of them gets their act together, or something remarkable happens built on some disruptive new platform, I doubt the Apple execs are going to be losing much sleep. I expect they can get away with the cash grab for long enough to be worthwhile, even if it does cause them a PR headache with developers that requires some pain to fix if and when there is more effective competition.
Base64 isn't exactly efficient. (Though it might be more efficient than an additional HTTP request. But if so, why aren't they using it for the homepage logo, say?) I wonder if they're using it as non-useless padding for stopping the IE-overrides-too-short-404s behavior.
I have a probably dumb question about search privacy, but what are the chances of Google actually screwing up/getting hacked, and spilling our search histories into the public (like AOL from a few years ago)?

DDG's search results are fine, but I like Google just a little bit more. Assuming I don't care about the government or Google's advertising algorithms, and I just don't want my private thoughts/questions spilling out into the public, does the risk make it worth using DDG?
Right - because the ones that dind't - see previous comment :)
Those original iPods were amazingly well made. Lots of them are still going strong, modulo a replaced switch, headphone jack, or battery.
NodePHP anyone? heh, afraid that would be a little more then just a SAPI implementation though, we'd have to throw out a good chunk of the standard library and very few if any extensions were coded for asynchronous execution.

An interesting thought though.
Not a huge update, but it's much cleaner looking than current profiles.
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This is a fail. If the video is on youtube, I can bypass the tweeting.
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He was not 'failing to read everything'.

He was either 'failing to read anything', or, more likely, reading a fair bit and intentionally stripping all reference to this existing knowledge out of his column for whatever reason. The result was unsurprisingly sophomoric, which I suppose is why it has 150 points on HN.
Hi guys, thanks for the response and feedback so far.

A couple things:

* This puts the M in MVP. By rolling it live, I hope to prove (or disprove) the general concept.

* As I mentioned earlier, the next iteration will include an option for the video creator to add a 'dismiss' button to allow the viewer to bypass the tweet requirement and just play the video.

* The next thing I want to test is an 'in-stream' tweet requirement. Perhaps it shows 30-90 seconds of a video and then it prompts for a tweet.

* I'm working on other, less obtrusive social actions: FB like, follow, etc.

Thanks again for the feedback. Keep 'em coming. :)
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I can understand some of the criticisms in this thread (and from a user experience point of view they're pretty valid), but I think using TweetPerView on your videos is more like saying "this video isn't free, but instead of paying money to watch it, you're paying a tweet's worth of social capital to watch it".

I mean, ignoring the fact that the video is on YouTube and all.
I'm glad you learned PHP, but frankly I don't see how this site actually adds value.

If someone likes your video, a simple call-to-action (preroll?) or a page element loading with a tweet box seems like it'd be more effective than an ultimatum.

Good design though, seems like you're on the right track for creating products. Good luck!
Most complaints are not opposed to content farms as such in search results. My understanding of the issue is that it comes about when Google (and others) return the same data from multiple content farms (i.e., first result: farm 1 scrape of stackoverflow, second result: farm 2 scrape of stackoverflow, third result: farm 3 scrape of stackoverflow, fourth result: the original stackoverflow q &a). Prior to Google's recent algorithm changes, the first four or five results often had the exact same content, just being served from different domains with different framing content.

Again, the issue is not that content farms are incapable of answering your question. A major usability issue results when the first result happens to miss the target of your inquiry. Then selecting the next four duplicate results, also yields certain failure.

I often encountered the issue with very targeted technical searches, where a particular error message is key, and it seems that four or five sites have information that may be helpful. Good content farms manage to manipulate data in ways such that the resulting Google description is altered enough to appear distinct. Hence, I would look through three or four Google results, only getting more displeased by the repetition of unsatisfactory content.

Granted, if you don't encounter duplication, or if all of the content farms have the answer to your question, then there is no usability issue. I definitely encountered results that were not satisfactory, although I will also admit that the algorithm improvements have caused positive changes.

There was also the moral/ethical issue that rises when you see content farms displaying higher in the results than the original data provider (from which they scraped data). This doesn't effect the quality of the result, but it seems inappropriate to credit someone so prominently for automated cutting and pasting.

Privacy, as GW details, is predominantly a matter of personal opinion. If it is important to you, so be it; if not, that's fine too.
I believe that with anything the extent that Facebook can do for good equals the extent that it can do for bad. So yes, they have a lot of information that could be used for good, bad, or (more likely) some of both. I certainly don't recall anyone FORCING anyone to click a "like" button nor have a Facebook account. If you are worried about this sort of thing then don't do it. I don't understand why there are so many people attempting to create a rebellion against a service that no one forced them to be a part of.

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When does a thinner iPad matter?

When holding an iPad up as a book a lighter iPad matters, and it is 15% lighter.

When you pack it away the iPad gets thicker anyway because you stick a case around it.
Supposedly, the early US settlers (or maybe it was the conquering US army) utilized native American couriers that could run 30 miles a day like it was nothing. I've seen stats as high as 240 miles in 3 days!

I wish I had a link to the source (I'll dig it up when I have more time). I discovered this while researching "fox walking", the toe-first method of human locomotion that some believe is the natural means of human motion, before the advent of stiff-soled shoes. This skill appeared to become mostly lost in the indigenous populations after the Spanish introduced horses to the Americas.

A search on "native american" and "ultrarunning" should render some good links for those who are curious.

As an aside, as anyone who's ever read Stephen King's "The Long Walk" can attest, sustaining a 4mph walk is quite tough. I mean, who hasn't read that story and tried keeping that pace with GPS in hand?
Go to Blippy and click "contact" in the footer. We'll get it.
>Am I the only one that fails to see a problem with Google search?

I agree with you about google's spell check, relevance, and speed.

DDG's !bang search is a killer feature for me, though. I can type "!wikipedia topic" in the omnibar and it gets me to the exact page I'm looking for, without stopping at a middleman. The same feature makes google maps, images, videos, and youtube easier to use to with ddg as my default search than with google as my default search. I have been surprised by the amount of search traffic that I redirect to something other than a general web search now that it is convenient for me to do so.
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> I thought crates were actually on their way out a few years back.

Ironically I think crates went out faster IRL than in game. I haven't seen crates in forever, barrels yes but not a true crate. Most things now are placed on a pallet and shrink wrapped like crazy. They'll stack a couple of these on top of each other and they remain intact.

The strange thing in games is that crates manage to get themselves into places where it just doesn't make sense. Like in Kingpin, they managed to get down an alley way with a small area for the buildings back doors. It was like some hobo was wheeling crates around the city with a dolly cart.
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Seems like this would be useful for development. It'd be great to be able to print to the console for debugging purposes etc. while working on something.
Feel free to downvote but that is an annoying site.
Number of companies in YC W11 batch is 12 now. I will add them as soon as I get the details.
People should just read more. Everything is in Facebook's terms and privacy policy, isn't it? If you can't agree with the terms of service, then you shouldn't use the service IMO.
Motorola handles the card setup the same way (it's behind the battery).

I'm confident that Apple could figure out how to do this right. You're not?
Exactly, perhaps I need to work on getting that point across. Think of it as an alternative to micropayments.
They said they could and would do it, just as Apple and Microsoft have said they could do it.
Also, the idea is that if the video creator wants to make it exclusively available as a TweetPerView, they should mark the video as 'private' so it won't show on YouTube.com and make it available to be embedded.
This mentality should also extend to any sites using the "Like" button...they should all be mentioning that they (and their affiliates) place cookies on your system.

Right from Time's privacy policy:

We use cookies to understand Internet usage and to improve our content, offerings and advertisements. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas and enable you to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs or services. Similarly, as part of an arrangement with our business partners (including, those who present or serve the advertisements that you see on our web pages) we may also access cookies placed by others and allow others to access certain cookies placed by us.

We may also use small pieces of code such as "web beacons" or "clear gifs" to collect anonymous and aggregate advertising metrics, such as counting page views, promotion views or advertising responses. These "web beacons" may be used to deliver cookies that conform to our cookie policy. For more information regarding cookies, please click here.

If you're not cool with that, stop visiting the site or disable your cookies. ;)
There even exists a port of UML for Windows: http://umlwin32.sourceforge.net/

And that project (indirectly) led to coLinux (http://www.colinux.org/), which runs on Windows at the kernel level. Linus himself called coLinux a dirty hack!
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I've used this pattern with F# and Mailboxes, works great. Never knew it was called a Tuple Space.
I'm trying to help a friend get started with PHP and she is thoroughly confused by XAMPP for some reason (I wish she was using Linux or a Mac!). A server like this will be useful for beginners who have a lot to think about before HTTP or database servers.
You're not taking into account things like carrying a pack and equipment, and difficult varying terrain. I would assume that these would lower the optimal speed.
I wish I'd read this post earlier. I not only watched it but sent it to friends, never thinking that this actually might not be enjoyable to everyone.

Isn't there a conference somewhere that specializes in boring topics?
Why?

The only difference I see is that friends are no longer displayed, instead it just lets me select gender and status of friends to watch.