skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife passed away unexpectedly at the age of 34 two years ago. The last line of Derek's post made me lose it, sitting here in my office at work.
[Show HN] GroovyDream.com - an online 'Before I die...' wall
To be fair though, on a regular broadband connection that takes around 20 minutes, if you have the top end, its more like 12.

Despite that, I do agree, seems an incredibly wasteful thing to do.
Apple obviously had a heads up on this - since they announced the switch to intel not long ago. Which means they had insider information. I wonder if anyone made billions off it.
Thank you for writing this. It pretty much nails it. I need to print this and tape it to the wall next to my desk.
1. startups are not risky. there's plenty more

2. it's a lot harder to negotiate terms with an experience entrepreneur.

3. over 30s can hire under 30s.

4. is it techcrunch or techtroll?
As of now, you have not appeared to live up to your promise. I don't see anything here, in the first few pages of new submissions, or on the forums first page.

You do not make a compelling case for continuing with you through the transition.
Auto-antonyms! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
I'm pretty sure they're calling the git command line tool. As far as I can remember, I've had to tell all of the ones I've tried where to find the git command.
I never said removing something from your diet is equivalent to adding something else. Nor did I propose "if a little is good, a lot is better".

I did say this: If the consumption of a particular food can be shown to have a net positive impact on one's health and longevity, and the properties that generate that positive impact can be distilled and consumed, it behooves us to do so.
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A couple of notes:
Article is from Decmember 2010, Git Tower is now longer in beta.
Also Xcode 4 is out with built-in Git support. Not sure if it counts in this context, but worth mentioning anyway.
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Does this work with Chrome?
I believe Chrome does it's own dns resolution and skips the host file. (I defiantly know it won't resolve localhost if you're offline)
In that case, you could always just log in to your "friend's" computer on the App Store, and there you go. I don't think they verify the downloads afterward.
Here's a video explaining the new transistor design:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkMaQJSyP8&feature=playe...

Pretty cool stuff.
Thanks for the quick response. That makes sense.

Anyways I did not mean to hijack your thread :). We should talk about how cool Justin TV is.

I really like what you guys are doing with live esports. I am hooked on a couple of the starcraft streams. I wish you were around 10 years ago, I might have realized my dream of being a professional SC player.
Note that git is designed for people to build things on top of it, including GUIs, by using the command line tools. The git commands generally come in two flavors, called plumbing commands and porcelain commands. The later are what users of git are meant to see. Their interfaces are not necessarily stable. The later are kept stable and often have input and output designed to be machine friendly.

There are plumbing commands to do very low level repository manipulation, perfect for GUIs to use.
My guess is if they do this, expect to see it relatively cheap. It wouldn't surprise me to see it at $29 like Snow Leopard, though I expect it around $49.
Cost is often a perception thing. For example, I work in a mostly outsourced IT shop - the only thing in-house is our custom coding. With a $100 million annual budget, the difference between free version control or $200 for FogsBugz licenses for our 8 devs is negligible.

Around here, until you hit the 5-10K mark, it is as good as free. (Not that I condone such wanton spending.)
Ask HN: PHP or RoR?
I'm a brand new web programmer trying to create my own social networking site and I've been learning PHP and the Drupal CMS these past few days to build my website.

I ran into a developer the other day and he suggested I work with RoR instead.

As I have minimal starting experience with C++, the OOP side of PHP is what drew me (and the fact Facebook also uses it) in the first place.

Now I understand different project needs translates to different languages, but I was just curious what the HN community thinks about the two?
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/01/us-broadband-sti...

The article is a year old, but 3.9mbps makes for a bit longer than 20 minutes. Downloading something near 4.5GB again and again would be OK if there weren't alternatives, but I feel like they could do much better.
This is one place where I think Apple's App Store is lacking: releasing incrementals.

On a baseline MB Air (64GB), 4.5GB is not cheap.
On most broadband connections, 4.5GB is a non-trivial % of your broadband cap.

At least for Apple's apps there should be a way to download incrementals (with a choice to DL the whole thing if something broke).
I would love to see him do Khan Programming Screencasts. Seriously, the world needs more of this.
man, suddenly i feel old with 28...where has my live gone ? ;)
There actually is a multicast standard on the internet. It uses UDP. Basically, instead of sending out multiple streams of packets for each viewer you send only one stream and the routers copy the packets into new streams as needed along the way.

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

I am not sure how often it is used and whether the newer routers still support it even.
I have never raised VC money for anything. However, I think this list contains a lot of good advice for any time you are requesting bids for some service or product. I am on the board of a large cooperative housing organization and we have multi-thousand dollar bids all the time for various repair and maintenance tasks we need completed (and which are outside the scope of what the members can do). Keep your cards close to your chest, don't spread who is bidding what, and most importantly shop around for multiple bidders.
Err, except when the server throttles the download to 60-100 k/s. Took me 18 damn hours, not to mention that it failed several times before I could get it all. It's ridiculous.

N.B. - for those having problems, I used this[1] script to download via wget, then after having downloaded everything minus 100megs before the dl failed, I was able to hand the script the -c flag for wget and continue. Lifesaver.

N.B. II - this script isn't written by me, but rather the awesome 'derencius'. All credit to him :)

[1]:https://gist.github.com/863511
Well, you said, "Do you believe in eschewing certain foods...because of their health benefits?" Then went on to state how it wasn't a huge leap to go from that to health benefits. I was just pointing out the logical inconsistency (irrespective of the CAM/supplement issue).

The evidence I have seen overwhelmingly states that taking supplements has little to no measurable effect in people with a sufficient diet. The reason that I wouldn't add it to my diet is the same reason that I don't take oxygen supplements -- as long as you generally have enough oxygen, there's just not a whole lot of evidence that you need MORE.

So, youre right -- chances are that there's not reason to NOT take them. But there's not really a reason to take supplements, unless you've identified yourself in an at-risk population. But those groups are few and far between compared to the number of people who take nutritional supplements.

Then again, I'd rather save my money than buy the modern equivalent of snake oil tonics.
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.ac is the country code for Ascension Island and domains on that TLD are required to be academic in the same way that Colombia's .co domains are required to be companies (in other words, there is no requirement). There's a page on how to advertise on the site and a merchandise page as well. Sorry, but I'm still not seeing how this wasn't built as primarily a revenue generator.
Two advantages that older entrepreneurs have is domain expertise and industry connections. For example, I know some people who started companies that contract out to the US government and make a killing doing it. I don't think an under-25 entrepreneur would be too successful doing that unless they're well connected (involves writing proposals, which most 20-somethings aren't going to be good at) .

My observation is that most young entrepreneurs stick to building consumer internet products that don't require a lot of domain expertise.
I was thinking the exact opposite. Many organizations (especially the govt) rely on SSL proxies like BlueCoat that effectively hijack SSL traffic with on the fly generated SSL certs from a trusted organizational CA, in order to inspect/filter outbound data. 'Pinning' would totally destroy this capability if organizational CA's couldn't override it.
"My favorite sub-reddits are fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu and starcraft. I read every f7u12 comic every day and I watch more casted Starcraft games than any other form of media (movies and TV included)."

Phew. And there I was thinking I was rotting my brain with such things. :)

Edit: Yes, HackerNews^H^H^Hitpick, undoubtedly I was truly thinking that because something applies to a renowned and skilled programmer, it also applies to me.
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There it goes the rest of my week :-(
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Scapegoat. Sony is trying to dodge responsibility.

Also I can see this being used as pretext for more legal controls over the Internet.
What's the connection between a denial of service attack and intrusion? The only connection I see is a DoS could make detecting intrusion more difficult. I don't see how it would make actually getting in any easier.
One thing is sure, if Lion is an "App", then by the capability for App sharing, OSX will probably have a conversion rate of 80+% within 3 months.
Ask HN: How long does it take for the "More" link to return "expired link"?
At the bottom of HN pages is a "More" link to go to the next page of links. Often times this return "link expired" or something of the sorts. How long does it take for you to be sitting on a page before this kicks in?
Try both out and see what you think. Some big sites use PHP like Facebook and Flickr. Here are some sites that use Ruby on Rails: http://rubyonrails.org/applications. That list lists Twitter but I thought they changed so I am not sure how up to date it is.

I personally like Ruby and I like Rails. To me Ruby looks cleaner than PHP and as a result, it gets less messy with lots of code.

Rails is the framework. I love the MVC concept even just for separating my files logically.
I'm afraid I don't understand this. SCTP is a transaction-level protocol, whilst SPDY works at the application layer, does it not? These choices are orthogonal, not mutually-exclusive, as near as I can tell.
Also not considering the 30 somethings (such as myself) who spent a few years working for companies in order to save up and get some experience BEFORE taking the "plunge". Now I have a great portfolio, some cash and some experience that can all help me work towards this kind of goal. Doesn't necessarily put me a head of a new grad but surely doesn't put me behind either!
The point I am trying to make is that this fundamental feature of message queues (limit their length to prevent the memory exploding) should be provided by Erlang and not reimplemented over and over again by developers.This is really a basic feature in any message queue
I felt like you until my daughter was born. She was unplanned but it was the best thing to ever happen to me. Yes, you do become a more complete person and your perspective changes; simple as that. I don't know if that's just nature rewiring to think like that, to be a different person, losing the old one on the way. Maybe that's an impossible question to answer since either perspective is inherently biased. But I am a better person for it. I have grown in a way that would never happen if I remained childless, and I am a happier person for it.
Principle repayment is optional (when taking a loan). It only makes a small difference to interest rate [1]. So for the purposes of discussing cost minimization, it is legitimate to exclude it.

[1] http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/banking_lending/mortgage...
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I don't think Anonymous did this, but if they did, that's excellent. The attorney general's office is "taking the matter seriously", which is fine... one dude will go to jail for this. If one person is willing to "go down" and take a big corporation with them, we're going to run out of big corporations long before we run out of hackers.

(I personally wouldn't do this, but I do consider it respectable.)

You could argue that selling the credit card numbers makes it look more criminal than "for spite", but I think you have to sell the credit card numbers in order to damage Sony.
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Maybe you could try joker.com
There are a few obstacles to easily using Scala on Android. Namely, the Scala standard library is too large to be easily "dexed" by the Android toolchain. Using Proguard or a similar treeshaker removes unused classes, but it's a bit of a hassle to set up manually.

However, I've found that using the SBT Android plugin (https://github.com/jberkel/android-plugin) makes the entire process relatively painless. I recommend starting with that approach.
>That's quite a leap of faith, IMO.

From the studies I've read, I believe it's common knowledge now in Neuroscience. IANANS, though, maybe one can weigh in here...

>It might be so that clinging to old ideas is a chemical "problem", or it might be how the brain works.

Same difference, imho. The brain is a chemical machine.

>When studying other people, I come to the understanding that around 30 years of age, many people have decided on an ideology, decided which music they enjoy, what food they like, and many other interests. When presented with new information which might require change in that internal model, many people seem to ignore the new information rather than changing their model, because changing our internal model is hard, and it becomes harder the more elaborate our model of the world is. So, the older we get, the more elaborate our models, and the more reluctant to change we grow.

You just described the process I'm referring to, and there's a neurochemical explanation for it.

>I'm know people are different - I am fighting this kind of stagnation in my mind every day - but I'm not convinced that the people who are most likely to become immortal are the ones that are the least prone to stagnation. I'm afraid it's quite the opposite.

I think those most likely to 'become' immortal are whoever receives the treatment, drugs, genetic therapy, whatever form the implementation takes, regardless of how prone to stagnation or any other affliction they are.
It depends on server load, but 30 minutes will usually do it.
Glass half full: I can see it being used for more legal controls over what you can do with customer data, and how bad your security can be.
RoR is clearly a better language than php from a prgramming standpoint.
BUT
PHP is perhaps the best supported language on the web. By support I mean platform choices, documentation, discussion, number of programmers, libraries and plugins and stability.

Even though it's the ugly child, you won't go wrong with PHP. It scales, look at facebook. It's where the jobs are.

I hope one day ruby overtakes it, but until then I would vote for PHP.
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"Sony has been the victim of a very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack"

Uggh. First off, sorry Sony.. Who has been the victim?

Second, wrapping big fancy words to make this seem like some sort of magical act of God that no company could have with-standed is patently obnoxious. Is Sony not equally capable of careful planning, and stocked with highly professional and sophisticated criminal cyber defense professionals?
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What about hints to the JIT and other things you can do at that level? This is a decision being made by people having worked on PyPy for years, if there is anyone who is able to make a good decision about when to use rpython instead of python they are.
HTTP over SCTP would bring many of the same advantages as HTTP over SPDY over TCP.
Another reason I love SASS: since it compiles directly into CSS, if we all forget how to read SASS we can always just start modifying the resultant CSS instead. HAML on the other hand does not compile into ERB.
FTA:

"The attack that stole the personal data of millions of Sony customers was launched separately, while the company was distracted protecting itself against the denial-of-service campaign, Sony said."

Wow. I didn't think they could do better than "most people don't know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" but I was wrong.

Sony Command: Quick! All security personnel are immediately ordered to drop what they're doing and guard against that DOS attack!

Sony Security: But Sir, won't that leave our user data "un-guarded"

Sony Command: We don't have time for that now, Soldier, now move Move MOVE!!
The phrase "abstract the programmer from what's actually being produced and I can't help thinking that this is a bad thing" sounds weird given the fact that you're using Java, a technology that also abstracts some of the underlying capabilities of the C/ASM system you're using.

Abstraction itself is not bad thing. Knowing that a lot of the technologies that we're using today will be obsolete in 10 years is not a good enough reason to stop trying new things.
I always wanted to rename the script to "/etc/init.d/procrastination" whereby the command "stop" would start the service and vice-versa.
At that point, build up.
This is exactly what someone else keeps telling me. Time for me to listen, I guess. Thanks!
100% not Borges.

The story of this particular poem is kind of weird... it basically wrote itself.

http://www.reelyredd.com/instantes-pick-more-daisies-who-wro...

The original version was a (prose) piece published in Reader's Digest in the '50s. Then people started changing it here and there, and it coalesced into the "Instantes" we all know and love/love to hate.

As opposed to "Instantes" Borges' writings are notoriously devoid of pathos. He even said he regretted writing his famous sonnet "I have committed the greatest sin/ that a man can commit. I haven't been happy" when overcome by grief over the death of his mother.
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Flamebait.

I cannot be bothered, in the 14th hour of my workday, to find the reference on the internet but the last time I heard anything the average age was thirty six.

The average VC victim is in their twenties, sure, because they have no capital.
"Futher, the Sortfolio model could expand into a variety of other verticals including photographers, wedding planning, catering, illustrators, artists, etc. I’d love to see a Sortfolio for calligraphy or hand lettering."

My thinking exactly ... In fact, I'm pretty confident I could fork SF for weddings and commercial photographers and 3x-5x the revenue within a year (I say that because it's the areas I work in and have connections in).

I also love that SF appears to have some good SEO juice. I googled a couple companies in their directory and their SF profile came up on page 1. I know SEO is a divisive topic on HN, but I think this is a benefit any serious buyer should consider.

From my POV, it comes down to a "build vs buy" question.
Proposing to you a third option: django+pinax. Pinax is a ready to use social networking application using django. Take a look: http://pinaxproject.com/.
I was wondering the same thing. At this point, the fact that they don't offer further explanation makes me think it's pretty much even money on whether something was completely embarrassingly architected, or they still have no idea how the intrusion occurred.
Fuck them. Why should I suffer because some people don't know how to use their computers?
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I want to read this book because I'm curious as to how you can stretch this topic beyond two pages. But I don't want to pay $15 for that. Any ideas?
Someone needs to explain to business people that these types of internet-based intrusions can only happen as a result of poor technical security.

Where is the incentive for real security? Businesses need to be directly responsible when these kind of break-ins happen. It can't be treated as if they had a physical break-in where we go looking for the thieves. It must be treated as a security failure and the company must take full responsibility. Of course, this doesn't happen, so Sony is free to blame "the hackers" and call it a day.

Meanwhile, everyone's data on PSN is compromised. Even if you think that perfect internet security is impossible, there is absolutely no excuse for not hashing passwords or encrypting credit card data.

The public needs to realize that break-ins to a physical location (which are always possible with enough firepower) are distinctly different from internet-based break-ins, which are almost always avoidable or can at least have their scope greatly limited.

If technical holes exist, it's inevitable that they'll be exploited. I blame Sony far more than the intruders.
Windows doesn't support SCTP. SCTP doesn't pass through any home NATs, and there's no practical way to fix that. Google wants their improvements to actually be used, and SCTP wouldn't be.

(Whatever you do, don't look at the WebSocket handshake...)
To be highly productive, I unplug the network cable.
A more sophisticated solution would be configuring privoxy to block twitter.com, mail.google.com and facebook.com.
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try:
your code
except:
handle the exception
finally:
clean up
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Hmmm... Well in that case for more evidence I am going to have to fall back on the assertion that I remember hearing a reference to it being set up in the 90s by a physics professor as a joke, in a documentary about memes on BBC Radio 4:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zlk03

Although you can't stream that programme and I appreciate that my half-recollections are hardly convincing.

What does seem likely is that the site was in fact set up in the 90s by a physics professor as a joke, and since then it has been used to make money, precisely because it was popular and unusual at the time. Maybe he sold it to someone back in the good old 90s bubble, when men were men and a domain name was a business model.

(Fun Fact: That documentary was presented by the woman who wrote the article about LSD that was on here recently.)
I resisted Haml for a long time for much the same reason. I then ended up using it for XML views (rather than builder, which is rather slow) and was rapidly hooked. I don't think I would ever go back to writing raw (X|HT)ML given the choice.
http://www.readability.com/articles/kj6dgb0f makes it pretty.
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