skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i purchased a copy of it, and it is similar in quality to nodetuts. and i already got a updated version as well as a .mobi copy by email.
imho its great work and worth every cent
Apparently you missed the direct download movement a couple years back. BT is history for the leading edge consumer pirates, DD sites are the next wave and are not long for this world given how popular they have become.
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The issue is when your parents and peers judge you based on your math and earning/technical abilities not because they actually enjoy intrinsically math or coding - but for what they stand for symbolically in the Asian American community, tokens you collect so you could get into MIT or get a six-figure job in Corporate America.

Late-night hacking marathons is very different from cramming SAT test exams because of the external pressure imposed by your parents to get their approval. Hacking up a machine learning project is very different from slaving away at your cubicle coding up an accounting module because you need to meet a benchmark to make a certain amount of money to be deemed "normal."
These challenges are interesting. The space for collaboration between journalism and tech seems to be really hot right now.

I can't help but think that with all the stuff that's been thought of and implemented in commenting systems like slashdot and reddit and hacker news, that we've plateaued out, and it's time to think of systems that don't involve direct mass communication between participants.

Hacker News works alright, but if you look at Slashdot there's just so much content for so little value.
Very few people are going to go through the hassle of installing a new client just to make a phone call if a good solution, which both parties have, already exists.
* Time Machine
* Carbon Copy Cloner (Weekly)
* Dropbox
* MobileMe to keep configs, settings, address book, et al. in sync.
How come this is a closed group?
Ugh. Math is a collection of concrete symbols for simplifying different problems. It's evolved over thousands of years to help us understand difficult things. We don't make it that way just to piss people off.
I think the more you add context and statistics, the more you find a variety of methods and outcomes, which is why you get the equal and opposite bits of advice; no one thing works in all cases.
Time Machine and DropBox for personal stuff. Servers, remote hard drives, and DropBox for business stuff.
same thing that happens when an exploit is found for a browser that doesn't automatically update
Programming isn't really a stressful activity. However, bad management can make anything stressful.
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I have an old DDS3 tape drive and I use AMANDA (http://amanda.org) to back up some important stuff (databases, home dirs, config files). Since it's old technology, I've never had a problem finding a replacement tape drive or new tapes.

I also mirror a few of the most important things such as photos and git repos between different computers, just so I have stuff taken care of in case of flood/fire/tape failure.
I'm not sure if he meant this but Microsoft is investor in Facebook so apparently Facebook getting access to the Skype technology.
deja-dup.
I feel the same way. I've already looked for an alternative Voip solution and found Nimbuzz to be a good candidate. I'm probably not going to buy any new Skype credit.
I am 30, and still fairly confused about what I want out of life. This advice is not prescriptive about what kind of growth you need. The point is, if you're not growing in some way, you're less likely to be successful. It's easy to fall into the fallacy of thinking that you can put your personal growth on hold to meet objective X, but objective X always takes 3x longer than you think, and if you put your life on hold for it, you probably won't meet objective X anyway.

A saying comes to mind:

Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were going to live forever.
Locally I backup everything (Macs and PCs) to a 4-drive Windows Home Server which keeps data duplicated in case of a single drive failure. This also gives me the ability to stream media content to a variety of devices like my XBOX.

For off-site backups, I use the CrashPlan family plan on each of my machines.

This combination gives me the confidence that I'm covered in case of local machine failure, local drive failure and total loss of the local equipment.
It's one of the reasons why it is popular: because it just works for ordinary users, without the need to do something about network configuration.
People with children use it. A lot.
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1.6% of Facebook is owned by Microsoft.
We've had a lot of people wanting to pitch services (accounting/marketing/social media advice) to us at other events, essentially fishing for work we want to try and filter that out. We feel that an open group of people working on startups is far more valuable than another networking group with people pitching for business.
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Can't speak for work for confidentiality reasons.

Personal:
I use macs - so I have time machine running to a Time Capsule all the time.
On top of htat, my photos, documents, and music folders are rsync'd from my main machine through manual scripts to a modest homebuilt fileserver on a fairly regular basis - usually whenever I dump a bunch of new photos in (because in the end, the photos are the really valuable part, and the rest just goes along conveniently)
On top of that, about once a month I plug in an external drive and the same scripts back up the same stuff to a single drive, and keep it elsewhere.

THe laptop, which I use more often, but try not to keep critical data on for any longer than I have to:
- Photos get moved to the main photo library on the main mac desktop (where normal backup takes over)
- A bootable clone of the laptop using SuperDuper to a pocket drive. Usually ever few weekends, at least once a month - also triggerred if I dump some new valuable data on to the machine and/or am planning to put the machine at higher risk (eg: travel). Pocket drive goes offsite.
- Also, with about the same frequency, a second superduper clone to a container file on a storage drive at home.

Rationale: backups are good. The most important thing I have are my photos - they are priceless and irreplaceable. Everything else I could live with out.

- While I keep multiple copies, I need to work out some kind of better offsite solution as well.
Ever been in a long distance relationship, missing your kids when you're away from home, or just want to see someone's face? Video chat isn't as convenient as voice chat, but when you want to take some time out to really talk to someone, it's the closest thing to face to face.

Also, I think video chat works better and will pretty much always work better on computer than on smartphones. There's a much better screen, you don't have to hold it just right, and it's easier to sit down and make time for a video chat on a computer. If you're looking at the numerous failed attempts at video chat on phones, I can see how you'd see it as useless, but Skype is different.
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I believe the underlying tech, Global Index, is patented and valuable. Global Index is the p2p matchmaking software that runs under Skype (and Kazaa back in the day), which means Skype doesn't have to run centralized servers to route call data. Its also what lets them punch holes in firewalls.

My understanding is that their competitors don't (can't?) do this. For example, SIP runs through a central server (e.g., Google's). This allows Skype to run their service more cheaply, and its cheaper to provide service for each marginal user. Its a pretty strong network effect.

So, in addition to their brand and userbase, they do have some tech MS might want and can't get elsewhere.
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I am really in love with the sentiment/insight here- that the reason people are turned off by math (even just numerals) is because it's a complex mess of symbols that they maybe don't understand.

I am all for finding a way to explain quantitative concepts in a new way. However, it will be extremely difficult to avoid falling into the trap of "reinventing the wheel" if all we're talking about is coming up with a new set of symbols.

A certain recipe serves 3, but the cook is only cooking for 2, so she needs to 2/3 all of the ingredients. The recipe calls for 3/4 cup of flour. The cook measures out 3/4 cup of flour, spreads it into a circle on the counter, takes a 1/3 piece out of the circle and puts it back into the bag. That's 2/3 of 3/4.

Much easier to eyeball 1/3 when it's laid out in a rectangle as opposed to a circle. Author credibility -1

mindless tradition

Did you just call the set of symbols evolved by mathematicians for thousands of years mindless? Credibility -2

Finally the two animated examples given are clever but not groundbreakingly clear. -3

It's a neat project but maybe you could think a little harder about defining your problem.
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Truphone?
Software Engineering for an advertising agency gets pretty stressful. It pays well and it's fun usually but crazy demands from clients that account and project managers don't push back on, constantly getting the creative for sites late and not being able to push back the development schedule, etc. I would describe my job as frantic.
I have BackupPC running on Linux on a headless PC in my laundry room. It does daily incremental backups (file-level dedup) of itself and my laptop over ssh. The important part, as with most systems, is that after the setup process it works with no intervention on my part.
This post reminds me the visual explanation of pythagoras' theorem :
http://www.mathsisfun.com/pythagoras.html
Also, the math language symbols are great for communicating easily and efficiently among us, but it's not the best materials for learning. Distinguish learning (with visual) and communicating (with language symbols) activity in math should help...
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Assuming this is actually also good for the FB/Skype relationships given MSFT's strong relationship with Facebook (as well as the strong Andreesen/Horowitz FB relationship as well.

Probably the only group this is really bad for is Google.
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This should put some pressure on Google to allow international customers into Google Voice. They have an opportunity now to take on all customers this deal might alienate, but since I don't live in the US I can't use Google Voice.
Problems with Flash you say? I'm shocked I tell you, shocked...
- Email, contacts, calendar, etc. live in Google apps.

- Photos (raw files), Music, old docs live on my Mac Mini "server" on an external drive, and get backed up via Time Machine to a 2nd external drive (to guard against single drive failure). I also use Backblaze as an off-site backup on my laptop + mini.

I was using Mozy as offsite backup, but since they recently changed their pricing, the cost went from $50/year to about $800/year so I switched to backblaze. We'll see how long they last at their lower prices...
Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion. Why, Exactly?
No one is asking for his name, or the details, or anything that can be traced back to him (or you). Just the general charge.
I've used an offset mortgage to keep a large cash reserve, but to pay off real estate if I'm not using it.

That's for personal stuff, not sure if there are corporate options.
I used to use carbonite (http://carbonite.com) but that does not back up external drives. I've since switched to Humyo (http://humyo.com)of external storage I need backed up to the cloud. A nice feature of using cloud storage is I can access all of my data anywhere I have an internet connection.
But math is more than that.

His argument is that analyzing a differential equation without exploring it in phase space was like analyzing a piece of sheet music without actually hearing it.

And if music education were taught in that way-- by looking at music purely as the manipulation of concrete symbols-- I imagine some of us would be writing "kill music (as it is currently taught)" blog posts as well.

EDIT: minor grammar fix
Yeah, Sococo is not a Skype replacement - its for teams, that's for sure.

But don't mistake it for another "group chat and conference call" tool. Its designed to remove the friction from those activities by making collaboration instant, always-on and visual.
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My girlfriend has been traveling abroad and we haven't used Skype once. We just used the built in capabilities of Google Talk. Its a simple plugin for the browser, doesn't sit on my machine bugging for updates and slowing down my startup time.

No dropped calls, good video quality, and simple integration.
Math is not a collection of symbols. It's language + reasoning.
Well, they did that for Skype. And if it comes with the platform, that barrier is gone.

But yes, there is market inertia and Skype has it.
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I doubt anyone here learned math (at least up through calculus) without concrete examples. They were called word problems and lab assignments.
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To be fair, the people who the media call hackers also call themselves hackers. Language is defined by how we use it, not necessarily the way the person who originally coined the terms wanted.

Also, to me, crackers are people who break copy protection and other DRM systems.
rsnapshot. It uses rsync to be fast. It creates directories with full snapshots of my backed-up files and uses hard-links to avoid duplicating files that haven't changed.
The web already uses custom, print-like layouts.

You should probably be thrilled with Adobe's spec since it moves the details of those layouts out of HTML/Javascript and into CSS. Try running the readability bookmarklet on content from http://www.nytimes.com/chrome.
They mentioned how they are going to integrate it into XBOX Live experience, and that will make it an even stronger platform. People are so fond of Apple but I marvel at the success of XBOX 360 everytime I turn it on.
Not really addressing the concerns they seem to be dealing with in the article, but "embedded comment threads" was my favourite thing about Google Wave - you could embed a thread anywhere (like, one wave for each blog post) and see/reply followups directly from your mail client (well, wave client).

That way you weren't making little "data islands" all around the internet (that you're not likely to get back to) and there was more chance that a given idea/topic would be more thoroughly discussed. In theory!
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One of the great things about math is that it lets us surpass our own intuition. The spatial intuition we evolved in the wild doesn't work well for a number of things, which is why symbols and abstraction are so useful in the first place.

We don't need mathematics to figure out how a swinging pendulum works; we can do that intuitively. (Actually, this isn't completely true, but we can at least get the general idea.) Simple problems like that are worked out in classes so that students can get used to the mathematics. In domains where our intuition fails us - e.g. quantum mechanics, high-energy physics, statistical mechanics, not to mention 11+ dimensional formulations of string theory, infinite or fractional dimensional spaces, and more esoteric theoretical mathematics and physics - we rely on mathematical symbols and abstraction to guide us, because our finely honed physical intuition is useless (and sometimes worse than useless).

I'm interested in seeing what the author does with concepts like superposition and n-dimensional spaces. Replacing them with graphs and animations is not going to cut it.
But they're not anonymous, they pay a credit card subscription. This enables prosecutions for child porn offences, even if the offence was carried out in another jurisdiction.
nice. But I fear we will still be doing float-based layouts in a long, long time.
My understanding is that their competitors don't (can't?) do this. For example, SIP runs through a central server (e.g., Google's). This allows Skype to run their service more cheaply, and its cheaper to provide service for each marginal user. Its a pretty strong network effect.

This maybe the case for those small VoIP startups, but for big Internet Co. such as Google, Microsoft and other portals who already have big datacenters, this should not be an issue.
Puff piece. Notice how it barely talks about the app? That's because it's nothing. What makes Facebook defensible is its reach. How can Path defend itself from say even lowly Instagram? By reiterating their pedigree ad nauseum?
ArchiveTeam mostly flashmob archives sites that are going to die an rm -rf / death, or atleast kill their users content.

Like Geocities, Yahoo! Video, Google Video, Friendster
Perhaps this will be a good opportunity for open-source alternatives to finally take off if Microsoft kills off the Linux/OS X/iOS/Android versions...
I use it for meetings a few times a week since I telecommute and it is way better than voice.
but how do we cross-check & cross-verify comments & opinions across various web/media/news outlets? for example if this current challenge info is posted/covered on reddit, boing boing, slashdot, hackernews etc.

it would be really beneficial if we could have a unified commenting system that can aggregate feedbacks from all publishing mediums and social-media channels. that in itself could create a single narrative & storyline for each story/news article on a global scale.
How about Middle East peace? I hope they have a bunch of guys working on that.
Not just how your employers treats you but also how much you care about your job. They can shout and scream and tell you to work weekends but if you don't care then you can, at least partially, insulate yourself from that stress.

For me, the worse stress is the pointless, boring nature of the job. That's a much bigger life stress than someone fretting over a Sev1 defect and telling me to work weekends
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Deja-dup too. To both Amazon s3 and to a terabyte USB HDD.

All data for a finished project goes to /dev/null and as tarball on (several) DVDs.
It seems very likely they will get their way with draconian copyright legislation in Canada in the near future.
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... and I thought it was how to paste in vim commandline after :
Also math provides us with a framework to work on things that we could not visualize or even imagine ... how about visualizing an n-dimensional riemannian manifold ?
Simulation as a practical tool in mathematics
Most of the symbols are pretty recent; if you read mathematics from even 300 years ago, there's a much bigger proportion written in prose. Along the lines of, "Consider two quantities, such that the latter is at least twice the former ...".
some hedge funds actually structure it like a game [complete with joystick!]
Note that this is Yamamoto's interpretation of what two other people said, not their explanation of what they said. I was merely offering an alternative interpretation.
I think this is an excellent example of why fiscal conservatism is a good way to conduct business.
I personally see porting something like iWork very differently than porting FaceTime. If they think porting FaceTime will help sell iOS devices, I think Apple will do it for the same reason they ported iTunes. Whereas porting iWork doesn't do anything for selling iOS devices.

That being said, this is a guess and that's why I said I would bet on it. If I knew for sure, it would be unethical to bet on the outcome!
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I've gone back to Bret's site for years since its so amazing. Imagine my thrill to see he is finally out of the shadows of Apple and is sharing his ideas with the world again. Awesome!
If Skype is "punching holes big in your network security", you’re doing it wrong.
Association by proximity? not very strong

He uses email the whole time (might as well be generic email) and then at the very end for three seconds the chrome logo pops up.

Hey my neighbor volunteers at the boys & girls club. Buy my homemade jewelry! It's awesome!
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Yeah but there are so many hurdles to that sort of structure. And really it's kind of antithetical to the nature of the web which is distributed and decentralized (well, more or less decentralized).

Things like adoption of a unified comment system is really hard to manage, although companies like Disqus are doing some interesting stuff there.
I'm just really curious to know what Brett was involved with at Apple

[Edit: wow! http://worrydream.com/cv/bret_victor_resume.pdf]
Word problems are still abstract manipulation of symbols, you just have to hunt around in the phrasing for the right operands or operations, which arguably makes it harder.
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I agree with you, not to mention the beauty of some very abstract mathematical concepts.
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Err, hello clone? Self from alternate dimension? Don't forget to tell them that it runs on top of a software RAID5 and that pooling and compression performance is so excellent that we're stuffing about 2T of data onto 750G of disk. Also that the dryer lint doesn't seem to have any kind of detrimental effect on the computers.

BTW, don't forget that the wife wants the laundry done tonight.
For work I run Windows 7, but do my work in an Ubuntu virtualbox. That file I backup locally, to a connected USB drive, and to a NAS. The OS I don't backup at all since everything I need data-wise is on a corporate server.

For my personal stuff, I have a mixture of a large media library, and my wife's business files. The entire system gets backed up nightly (via rsync) to a primary terabyte USB drive. And then I back it up again to a different secondary terabyte USB drive. The business files (her accounting data, website source code, etc.) are additionally backed up to an offsite cloud backup service.

Every year I buy a new terabyte drive and make it the new primary backup drive. The old primary backup drive becomes the new secondary backup drive. The old secondary backup drive gets DBAN'd and sold on ebay. That way my primary backup drive hardware is never more than a year old, and secondary never more than 2.

My media library backups run the risk of a local disaster; fire, etc. But I can afford to lose all that and just be sad about it, but no big financial loss. My wife's business stuff is backed up locally + offsite for obvious reasons.
Desktop OS : Windows XP. Casper to clone the C drive (OS). xxcopy to make a backup of D drive (data). svn repository on the desktop PC.

Some apps such as OneNote sync themselves between my laptop (Windows 7) and desktop PC (XP).

For others, such as Firefox Scrapbook, I run a manual rsync (on cygwin) running via an ssh tunnel. svn and remote desktop access, too, are via the ssh tunnel.

No DropBox, no Microsoft SkyDrive.