skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, if you guys had made an english version, it would be a household name by now.

downvote.
As an alternative I have never seen Powerfolder (http://www.powerfolder.com) mentioned here, and that's a pity. Powerfolder surely is not a nice and shiny start up (German private company, since 2003), but it has worked for us for over 3 or 4 years now. As I understand Powerfolder originally was a client to just sync files and folders across computers but they added "cloud storage" a few years ago, so your devices need not be connected at the same time. The Java client works an Windows, Mac and Linux, it's "functionally" designed, to say it politely (no shiny icons) You can sync backup or share any file or folder on your computer. I've tested nearly all sync and backup services but none of them made me switch, Powerfolder's sync speed and reliability is just superior (they can LAN sync too). And heck if you don't trust "the cloud" you can just buy their server software and set it up on your own hardware.

I still use Dropbox for easy private file sharing, just not professionally.

[Edit: ,just NOT professionally]
So, if you read an article saying "Hire an SEO consultant today to improve your site visibility x100" and the author happens to be an SEO consultant, it would be an ad hominem to point this fact out ?
Google's search results are extremely... crap. There I said it.

It used to be that I could search for something, say this:

word1 word2

and Google would give me the results for pages which contain both those words.

Then Google decided I didn't mean what I searched for, so I had to prefix my searches with plus signs, like this:

+word1 +word2

And now this week I find out that even that doesn't work any more.

It's crap. Maybe duckduckgo does it right. I'll give it a go.
The release of this is probably related to the leak [1]. My guess is that they intended to save this for iOS5, but had to release it now due to the beta leak.

[1] http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2011/07/02/jailbreakme-ipa...
Ask HN: Great books for starting a website with no tech skills?
Apologizes for long title. I'm an EE and my programming experience doesn't extend far beyond C++ intro courses. I'd really like to get involved in more web based activities but my technical skills are limited.<p>I'm looking for a great book to lead me down the road to starting a functional website or web-business, and any other suggestions you might have.<p>Books are ideal recommendations, but ultimately anything that flies out of the communities noggins I hold with the upmost respect.<p>Thank you in advance.
Another question when a company signs a patent royalty agreement is there any contractual language that limits what they can say about the agreement in terms of terms of motivations? Yes, I know they have limits on whether they can mention the patent or patent specifics, etc..I am just wondering if Samsung cannot than make a PR campaign maligning MS for their patent trolling..
One thing that irks me is Google News. It's hard to get your site listed on Google News but when you see some of the sites that are listed, you have to wonder why Google makes it so difficult. Some search terms bring up "news sites" that are essentially devoted to spamming health remedies and playing them off as though they were real news articles.
Of course it's valid to consider the source, but you need to back it up, show that it's influencing his opinion unfairly. You may be right, maybe he is just favouring MS products, but then show why his comparison is wrong, or why he is ignoring better alternatives, something at least.
I decoded base64 & got this:
https://gist.github.com/1067129

bunch of random gibberish?
In the example you yourself gave of 'I think therefore I am', the claim following 'therefore' is a conclusion, not a premise. So no, Descartes didn't start with the premise that he existed.
More discussion on http://inperc.com/blog2/2011/07/05/pagerank-is-bad-math-disc...
Yes, they do. There are several billing schemes. Usually a connexion fee plus a per minute billing.

The fun part being that there was e-mail and www services accessible from the Minitel.

France Telecom internet provider, Wanadoo (now Orange) used to provide an ActiveX application to access the Minitel over IP; with the per minute usage being billed on the Internet account owner tab.
Database Indexing Techniques
Indexes are database objects associated with database tables and created to speed up access to data within the tables. Indexes are part of constraint mechanism. When we insert data in table and if a column has primary key constraint, then database checks if row with the same primary key value exists. If it doesn’t then the full table is scanned, An index gives immediate access to key values , so that check for existence can be made virtually instantaneously.

A unique constraint also requires an index. Column of the unique constraint can be left Null unlike primary key constraint. In database schema tables have parent child relationship, with primary key on parent table and foreign key on child table. If indexes are applied on foreign key then retrieval of data becomes faster, deletion of data also speeds up.
Nitpick: I'd be even more impressed if they ran their campaign through a spell checker.
What about "negative perks"? The kind of "I need an ID card and a PIN to pee", "I need to fill a form daily with hourly detail of what I'm doing", etc.

I mean, perks have an economic value, but a good environment is often a place where some random asshole can't torture you. The perks could be a sign of a company that doesn't do that kind of thing.
That is a common misconception.
In reality, there are other interhemispheric connections.
It would be ad hominem if you called it a shit or untrue article just because you dislike SEO consultants. It may be a shit or untrue article, but then say why.
It's interesting that my "emotional" reaction is to favor Dropbox to Windows... I like the brand, the entrepreneur in me is naturally inclined to cheer for the startup versus the corporate giant and I've been telling people about Dropbox making me somewhat more vested in it. That said, security issues _are_ affecting your image Dropbox. Please fix these and I'll keep loving you and have no reason to switch.
http://pastebin.com/YuPrMhiE

It doesn't make that much more sense to me, but atleast you can see some commands.
Glad you mentioned it, I was beginning to think it was just me.
hm, I already have the gnome toolbar with xmonad. Mouse moving and resizing also works, for overlapping windows just float them.
Since when did we stop asking startups about their business models?
I don't understand how you can consider yourself as having 1000 paid customers if you haven't yet discussed price.
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Could a homeowner with a six-figure 401k still qualify as poor? I'm trying to understand where the poor would get their savings and borrowing power.
Simply put, I am not aware of any heavily publicised security breaches with Live Mesh like there have been Dropbox.

The impression I've had in recent times (something presumably shared by the article's author) is that security is something that Microsoft takes very seriously these days. That has happened out of necessity, originally precipitated by security flaws in the Windows line of OS. But at least they've already learnt that security is a serious issue and tightened things up - something dropbox (and other players from recent hacking scandals) are only just learning.
I installed SpiderOak on my Mac when the Dropbox security failures came to light a couple weeks ago. SpiderOak is just plain confusing and hard to use. I think I setup a folder to sync but with all of the options and "features" it has, I really don't know what is being synced or not. I'm a software developer by trade, and if I find it this confusing, I would definitely not recommend it to regular people. I'm going to give Live Mesh a shot and see how it works.
When decoding to ASCII instead of UTF-8 (like you've done) I got this. It makes a little bit more sense at least, but not much.

http://pastebin.com/YuPrMhiE
All just because of twitter :-(

Warning: file_get_contents(http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_n...) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/content/w/i/l/willieohwillie/html/twitter/twitter-cacher.php on line 86

Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/content/w/i/l/willieohwillie/html/header.php on line 319
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I live in Manchester, UK.

I don't know how easy it is for you to get into the city centre on weeknights, but Manchester has plenty of user groups nowadays - some of which are rather well established.

I'd recommend you start with something like the tech-generic Geekup http://geekup.org/events/ which tends to get a wide variety of geeks, and then from there you may also want to get involved with the more specific user-groups. You should also join the mailing list and introduce yourself - do this today!

Admittedly I've not been to a Geekup yet myself, but I know plenty of people who go through some of the other groups I attend and they're all very friendly.

You didn't mention your age. Being under 18 may influence which groups you can attend (a fair few are held in pubs/bars) but a fair few groups regularly meet at MadLab which I don't think has age restrictions.

I can understand your trepidation (been there, still experiencing that!) but you won't regret attending any event. Good luck.
That's not true. He mentioned that for sensitive documents you can use Windows Live Mesh without Skydrive and have the equivalent of Dropbox's LAN sync without having your sensitive documents in the cloud.

Is it just me, or is this a killer feature? I had no idea this was baked into Live Mesh. I use rsync for this today but I am definitely going to check out Live Mesh.
It looks like indeed the public sources aren't cutting it anymore. Maybe there is a niche to be filled: I mean something that would use recommendations (maybe not limited to explicit ones) from one's actual friends to get valuable info on products and services.

After all that's what most people successfully used and there might be some potential in using the internet to boost this process. I'm not saying which Google product fits here, because HNers already grumble about it getting too much coverage :)
One could argue that if he'd spent all his life picking up 100 dollar bills, he wouldn't /have/ any other cash-generating assets.

Anyway, it was just an analogy: my point was that applying yourself to your normal day-to-day activities on the job is probably more productive than spending an hour a month scraping together pennies here and there. Even if we aren't all Bill Gateses.
I use Google apps for both (1) and (2) above (although I'm not confused when mydomain.com doesn't work like my GMail account).

In the case of (1) the biggest issue I see is when people from an organization leave. It'll be interesting to see how Google handles that in Google+ for Apps users.

As an example, right now, when deleting a Google Apps account all of the user's shared docs, calendars, emails, etc. are deleted. I'm not sure if there's a way to preserve information or transition ownership easily.

For organizations like schools I could easily envision someone wanting to take their Google+ content with them once they graduate. For companies there's usually a mix of content that should be removed and preserved that's specific to that organization.

For my personal domain I do want Google Apps features to have parity with GMail. It's not that I don't understand the difference. It's that I don't want to split my information between multiple online identities.
Ahem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica
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What? Just because a lot of the stuff started off as government research projects doesn't mean they centrally planned the migration from what it was to what it is now.
Hey ;-)

How can we contact you - can you put an email address or equiv in your contact

I work for a start-up based in the center of Manchester and always looking for interesting people to hang out with (or to employ ;-)

Alternatively there are several grass roots (hackspace type groups in Manchester) [PHP-North West, GeekUp, Manchester Digitals that are all very welcoming]

Feel free to from me a line (tim@canddi.com or @TimLangley) and maybe we can catch up for a beer / coffee after work one evening

T
My two biggest complaints about Wuala is that its client is written Java and occasionally eats up all my memory (even with -Xmx256m, though I believe this is Java's fault rather than Wuala), the interface is a bit hard to understand and there's no background mode like how Dropbox stays on menu bar in OSX. Apart from these two complaint, I'm pretty happy with the service enough to delete my (paid) Dropbox account for equivalent package on Wuala.
You are totally missing the point, bro.

The question really is: how much data corruption is occurring that _does not_ cause world ending segfaults? THAT is what you need to worry about. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
This is a really good thing, even though the people using these domains will likely just move to another free provider; we've seen large chunks of spam on WordPress.com from these domains more than once (linkfarming).

Kudos to Google.
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I may add that that after all, all the money granted for the Minitel program by the gouvernement has been recovered with taxes on Minitel minutes.

I would consider the Minitel as a success of central planning. 20 years of e-economy and quite a lot of money moving from French citizen to French corporations or smaller businesses.
ad hominem: his argument is invalid because he is a SEO consultant.

not ad hominem: his argument is invalid because [reason]. he ignores [reason] because he is a SEO consultant.
Shame Windows Live Mesh doesn't work on Lion. I would have liked to try it.
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Feel free to ask it here.
I agree, I actually meant "central planning" as in "your behavior is centrally planned by your brain". "Consciousness" was a pretty awkwardly chosen word, obviously.
I guess the actual shell code starts from line 40 ">>stream..."

It must be using some other encoding, only if we knew which!
Because they aren't trying to sell a product. This is an announcement directed towards developers and coders using node who wish to contribute by trying out new features. Calling it 'unstable' makes it clear what it is and what it isn't.
I completely agree with your Marxy leanings about asking people to work 80+ hours at below market salaries in exchange for promises of Sugar Candy Mountain.

But, here's what I tell myself to rationalize those leanings away:

The wild card that Marx didn't account for was that employees in startups generally own a small piece of the company that they work for. That's the reason that employees in startups are willing to work 80+ hours a week.

Generally, those employees would be much better off financially working at a Java shop that paid more. But, startup employees tend to spin off and start their own startups. Having a front row seat in a startup, and learning from the founder's fails and wins is also worth something. Also chances are, you're probably not going to get to built stuff in Node, Haskell, Erlang, Python, etc... at BigCo. That's probably also worth a price differential to account for the risk involved in choosing "unproven" technologies.

Finally, there is a substantial risk that the startup you're working for is going to go belly up. And, the founders of the startup are generally making less per hour than you are. And, despite rumors to the contrary, the average startup in Silicon Valley works really, really hard to get funded. Many, many great companies are under capitalized right now. Everybody from the founders to the employees are working below market salaries with the hopes that some day the exit will pay off.
Twitter uses javascript to check bad user passwords - how stupid
As an investor, employee perks are fine; trading $x in salary for a convenience that --when bought on scale or bulk-- might even save the company money. Employee happiness has tangible value.

On the other hand, as an investor I think I'd see decorating the executive offices with airplanes and tree houses as excessive and wasteful.
It really kind of blows my mind that anyone is willing to use these kinds of cloud-storage tools without their own personal layer of encryption in-between. I've used Dropbox with encfs in the past, and didn't bat an eye when their usage terms changed, because although they were storing my data, they do not have my data. Without something like encfs, you're just literally giving other people your personal files--I don't understand that on any level.
Hey James,
Your question encouraged me to look into this myself as I'm working in Manchester a lot at the moment.

I came across this which might interest you: http://madlab.org.uk/events/

I even added a calendar event to my Outlook to remind me of the Android meetup but I'm not sure if I will pluck up the courage to attend!
It could be... The NIC servers of Govt of India were hacked by Anonymous India (#OpIndia) to mark protest against the huge corruption in India

http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/06/anonymous-india-opindia...
It wouldn't be unreasonable to say that programming IS taking a trend towards mostly web development. Of course there will always be non-webdev programming, but it certainly is becoming more ubiquitous.
"Are we simply missing well defined rules for designing good REST APIs, or is this really a lost cause as JJ suggests?"

Yes, I think we're missing a clearly define spec for what REST is, and how it should work.

I recently wrote a REST service, and I did a LOT of extra research into almost every aspect of it. I say almost every, because even a couple months later, I'm still finding things I think I could have planned better, had I read the article in time. Right down to the URI scheme. (In particular, plural vs singular.)

It would have been really nice to have all that info condensed into a single best-practices document or spec.
MailChimp is the biggest company of it's kind, I doubt HN's traffic could be the reason why some of you couldn't load the site.
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Can you share on what? Even in general.
Of course, some elite will outgrow any community save for the few right, private channels in IRC (as with reading the newspaper, anyone will frown at the oft-jornalistic reporting of whatever they know too well). Conversely, some newcomers should really be lurking more, or at least asking around at StackExchange before asserting anything here.

But since the point of HN seems to be "sponge learning" at large (of course, different levels of sponge learning), I don't see any sane way of moderating what should be worthy of HN from what should be asked or posted elsewhere, so long as it has the feel and common interests of the community, and "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
I don't have the problem now, because I don't have one site presenting me with 3 choices. I can go and look at reviews and other information on a number of different sites.
It's presumably just a lump of binary ARM opcodes.
Look, you and I and just about all the readers here can figure out where to find this type of information. But for a lot of internet users - maybe most of them - the internet is viewed through the slit of Google Search, so to speak. And this used to be fine, since Google would helpfully point you on your way to where you want to go.

We used to laugh at people who came to some forum or newsgroup and asked "how much should this cost" or whatever. Can't you google that, buddy? Well, you really can't anymore.

Oh, and for the category of products at which you hinted - spam-flavored pseudo-viral marketing is even more annoying than search engine optimization. But yes, I do get the idea of going directly to trusted sources and skipping the search engine; the problem is that search engines were invented because they are so convenient, and it would be a shame to lose that.
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I believe that there was a post about this before.

IIRC, the way that HN is set up, it re-distributes the "fnid=NSgN9i46gR" parameters at the end of the string to the first/second/third/etc. pages.

Reddit (a similar example) does this, but it also does it in such a way that the parameters "?count=50&after=t3_ihoin" fit into a SQL(/alternative DB) select statement.

This would probably be a better way for HN to do it, but they probably have a reason for why it's currently done this way .
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Purely out of curiosity, why Posterous over Wordpress.com?
"A large proportion of the customers are small and medium-sized businesses"

A present-day startup would have to be insane to spend cash on installed office software, when GApps and other cloud-based offerings offer features for free that cost $$$ and take serious configuration effort to get working with MS Office, such as collaboration/sharing (Sharepoint! Ugh!)

And once a company is using a browser-based office suite, I can't see them migrating to MS Office as they grow, except for some specialised tasks, such as large-scale financial modelling in Excel.

Word is massive overkill for intra-company documents, and I honestly prefer http://prezi.com to Powerpoint for presentations (though Keynote is still top of the heap IMHO).

I'd be interested in seeing a web-based equivalent of MS Access - super easy database creation and hosting. Anyone got any links?

It all spells trouble for MS in the medium term, I would say.
Ideally, sure.

But suppose I don't know anything about SEO. How would I judge if the article is bullshit or not ?

If, however, I see "x is an SEO consultant" then I would at least suspect that the author is trying to sell me something rather than inform me.
Very interesting... but what does it mean? It it just a method of determining filetype from its histogram?
Okay, so then you can't say from some point of view that IT is a _result_ of the halting problem, right? It's only the other way around?
Basically yes, but it would still require a lot of customization to have a similar experience to that of Dropbox.
Probably he/she isn't. I personally don't upvote comments that I do not understand.
I've been reading HN for over a year even though I'm not the best developer. It simply teaches useful info about how to get things done that I would not get otherwise.

For instance, the case studies on starting a T-shirt company Snowpocalypse 2011 - bam! Knowledge of how to do that. Or the posts on business models in the music industry, links to Mixergy, et cetra, et cetra.

HN basically is extremely entertaining - and the most valuable business site I read.
Is Google+ Another Wave? Buzz?