skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Earth is actually quite an inhospitable planet as well.

Perhaps in some light this may be true, but compared to Mars, Earth has a natural atmosphere that we can breathe, water we can drink, and produces plant life that we can eat. I'd call that downright hospitable.
"Earth is actually quite an inhospitable planet as well. We survive on it because of our technology - Mars may be no different."

Seriously? That's not entirely accurate. It's true the humans is able to defend against predators and poor environments with our tools, but that's not something unique to our species. Mars is not capable of sustaining life as we know it, and that's the basic problem. The amount of tools needed to convert Mars to such a place may be prohibitive.
Even if Elon Musk is totally wrong, it is the vision that is important. The vision of creating a thriving Mars colony where millions of humans can live and work will drive incredible improvements in our technology, by inspiring thousands or even millions of people all over the world to study science and engineering.

Mr. Musk, thank you for being brave enough to give the world a vision of a brighter future.
I liked the comment about literate programming. When I need to write a new set of related functions (or classes if I am using an OOL), a great way to start is by writing function stubs, and then write the internal comments. Even better to not immediately write the code. Anyway, this works better for me than TDD.
How has Windows changed more drastically than OS X since 2001? To me drastic means that something very basic has changed and/or compatibility has been lost. (Things like resizable windows, full screen apps, broken finder plugin compatibility, changes to expose, addition of mission control, etc.)

I don't assume, know or care to know anything about Windows Metro. It's not replacing the desktop system that I use.
Populating a new world needs many women, not so many men. (If you want to populate somewhere, I'm your man.) I'm not going unless there is a ratio enforced. Which would pretty much that mean very little competition in terms of seduction. That enforcement seems unlikely.
Louhong, Thanks for the feedback. For example, lets say you have a tasks on your calendar that say "meeting with customers in new york".. We identify that your hometown is San Francisco based on your profile. So what we would do is to not only remind you about that task but also offer to book a flight/hotel or maybe a web-conference for that meeting.

Another example is that let's say you have a reminder about "Wife's birthday". Again, instead of just a reminder we would make suggestions to buy gifts/flowers or book a restaurant for dinner.

Now if the user decides to do one of our recommendations then they can complete that from within our application as we are partnered with 3rd party services such as Expedia, OpenTable etc.

Hope this clarifies, please feel free if you have more questions.
The issue of counterfeit products is an interesting one, and I agree completely with them it can even come to be a safety issue with some sorts of parts like climbing gear, and airplane and car parts, all of which have counterfeiting problems which have likely resulted in deaths and accidents.

Rather than ban "rogue" overseas web sites offering such goods though, why not have a central registry where counterfeiters can be reported and consumers can check with before buying.

A lady at work was telling me she was going to buy $1000 french designer shoes for $50 from a discount web site. I pointed out to her it was obviously either counterfeit or a credit card stealing site. That stopped her, but not everyone has someone to advise them on these matters. A reputable site that validates claims, to protect the public, would be something useful the government could do, without also giving it power that can be abused to censor free speech.
You should read Elon Musk's Wikipedia article.
This is why HN has declined rapidly over the last year, and became a clone of Reddit, with the same groupthink circlejerking, etc.

It's essentially become useless for people interested in intelligent hacker/startup topics.

If you want a good community, whatever you do, don't have an open policy on membership and equal votes to everyone. That's a recipe to decline to idiocy pretty quickly.

RIP HN. Sad to see you go.
I doubt code optimizations were off, it's more likely that the offending functions were not declared inline and not visible across translation units.

I've seen this many times in games that definitely were optimized -- some trivial constructor exists out of line because it was forgotten about but then was called thousands of times per frame. Sometimes they just don't show up on the profiler.
I like the name of your app (Read), short simple names (Draft, Fluent, Commit, Brushes) are really nice.
The 250k going to pay for the special is more accurately "replenishing" his company, as Louis CK stated during his interview with Jimmy Fallon. That money will certainly be used for his next project. Plus, the remainder that he's taking for himself will allow him to devote more personal (and probably unpaid) time to whatever the next project is.

Since he's the one doing it, I'm confident his judgement as to what amounts are necessary is sound.
Just bumped the server with an update to the social connection issue - should be back online now. Thank you so much for your feedback so far it has been really useful.

Please keep it coming!
This may be useful too, BackBlaze uses mdadm RAID for its storage:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h...

and version 2

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...
My guess is they did it the same way all the interviews for Borat were set up. Send in a few legit looking people in business suits with some good marketing speak and contracts, and it should be easy to get the celebs to say a line you wrote about a website they don't know for 10k.
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One guess: If Congress thinks GoDaddy is the sort of company that will help them manage all this unruly internet stuff, then that's the sort of company Congress wants around.

Congressmen live and die by response to constituent concerns. If the folks get worked up about cyber-bullying or unsafe skateboard videos or kitten porn or whatever depredations those Internet freaks invent next, Congressmen want some avenue to Do Something. GoDaddy may get little from SOPA, but they could get a lot offering to help manage all of this . . .
It's Fabulous Infographic Friday Again, eh
No one said it would be easy. The question is, is it worth doing anyway? Personally, I say, ad astra per aspera.
Whenever I come across stories like this, I wonder if I'm doing startups wrong. The blogosphere is full of stories about being transparent, raising money from well-known angels and VC etc. but I wonder if there are 10 secretive companies making tens of millions for every one that makes it on TechCrunch.
Thanks mrsebastian for posting this and everyone else for the feedback.

I created this project several months ago as way to dive in and learn node.js. I found it useful and enjoyable to use for myself and decided to throw it on the web. For anyone interested, the code is available at https://github.com/jhuckabee/hn_reader. Pull requests welcome.

Unfortunately a lot of sites don't like to be framed which makes the interface annoying to use at times. Also, don't try to open it on a mobile device. It flat out doesn't work. I hope to fix that in a future version. Despite these annoyances, I still use it as my primary means of reading HN.
Not everyone who thinks they're bad at something is wrong.
This is getting ridiculous. What next? List of users of companies that use GoDaddy? Shall we hassle those people as well?

If only people put a little more thought into their internet mob protests.
50 million visits would make up 4 percent of the Net? That seems high.
She also wrote a novel called "The Bug", which is about a team of software developers trying to track down an elusive bug which likes to manifest itself during demos to VCs. It's a bit dated since it takes place in the mid-1980s, but those of us who have lived through that technology might find it interesting. (Apparently, there's still some interest in this book, since I see that a paperback edition is going to be released at the end of February.)
Honestly, I agree. Most business views labor as a commodity and they intentionally divorce the human element away to make sure that they can make 'smart' decisions.

If you want to keep developers who are on top of their game or who are aggressively improving themselves, than you have to aggressively match them.

If you want to hire someone and train them and ensure a ROI, make them sign a contract to stay for a certain amount of time. (Or implement any other myriad of incentives to keep people to stay. Why is an employees responsibility to stay, but not an employers responsibility to incentivize them? "Working for us" is not incentive to work for you!!)

But if you're not willing to compete for labor as a commodity, than you're wanting a cake and to eat it as well.

Take your pick. Labor is a humanless commodity and we will all continue to make decisions as if it is, or it isn't and your developers deserve to reap the fruits of their labor.
what they are paying for is the portion of users who wouldn't use Google search if it wasn't the default.

So more like 30-40% of the 25% Firefox market share.

Still very worthwhile for Google, and explains why Firefox held out for more.
My Epic upgrade path has hit the wall, and I've had it less than a year? It's hard to see why I'd ever buy another smartphone.
Surely silvestrov miswrote and meant "converse", not "inverse".

And it's because the classic statement of the Dunning-Kruger effect is that the unskilled have an unrealistically high estimation of their own abilities. It doesn't talk about what the skilled think.
"Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"It is the time I have wasted for my rose--" said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose . . ."
Technically I should answer "no" on the poll, because I did not transfer my domains from GoDaddy today. I never had them registered at GoDaddy. Perhaps a typical HN reader is not as pedantic, but I expect some are, so surely having the "never used godaddy" option would have made the results more accurate.
doing it this weekend
systemd didn't replace upstart in Fedora as soon as he wanted, so the fact that he's a Red Hat employee doesn't give him total control.
There are many. Chances are you're focusing on startup ideas that appeal to "modern hipster".

Usually, white, middle-class, male, nerdy, tech savvy, 20-35, easily whipped into a frenzy.

The founders of these startups, being of the same demographic, have a high visual appeal to their prospective customer base. They're photogenic and in some ways, aspirational. Hence, they make popular blog posts possible. Giving them high marketability and value to online news organisations (your main source of news) who are also targeting this demographic.

For example, notice on kickstarter, who gets the most funding?

On the other hand, other profitable startup ideas that do not appeal to the demographic of the blogs and websites you visit are missed. When's the last time you visited a traditional forum? or any site other than your top 10 bookmarks and a bunch of links you got from them?
Must be disappointing for people who bought them. Especially since this one is supposed to finally be The Good Version of Android, apparently.
Thing is, these companies quietly watched by the sidelines during the other GoDaddy debacles of the past few years. What makes you all think they won't do the same this time too?

I'll bet many of these companies will sit back, do nothing, and wait for the storm to pass.
Another good tool (especially if you're a Vim fan) is ViEmu: http://www.viemu.com/ . I remember using it a few years ago and it brought over a lot of the functionality that vim users have grown to appreciate. I had a really good experience with the developer as well; he cares and has created a very good addon that I don't think I could live without if I was forced to use Visual Studio.

EDIT: So the story, just in case anyone is interested, is this. I was doing an internship at a small healthcare company in the IT department and was writing a web app in asp.net mvc. I downloaded the ViEmu trial and had been running it for about a month and was loving it. But then my trial was about to expire and I only had like 3 weeks left at the company. I made a random one-off comment about how I wished I had just an extra week or two on my trial as this was pretty much the only time I would be using VS. The developer emailed me with an extended trial key and was extremely helpful throughout the entire process.
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Yep, sorry for the downtime, we only have a single server at the moment, so no redundancy for doing updates, and it seems a few people were having the social connection issue, so it needed an emergency patch...

Everything should be all good now :-D
In that same vain, I would love an emacs in a browser based on the Javascript language. So, a base API to create new buffers/windows. Ideally a theme manager and a plugin/extension system.

The goal would be to have this app open 24h/24 on a server and be able to totally use it from the browser and customize it with Javascript.

I would also be able to have a irc client (Think erc) directly in this 'editor' coded entirely in Javascript using this API. Basically, anything you could do with emacs would be possible, but directly from the browser hosted somewhere and running 24h/24.
This isn't about boot time, that is just a nice side effect for desktop users.

This is about servers, and better ways to manage the services on them. A service shouldn't need to daemonize itself, and monitor it's own process via shell scripts and PID files. Having infrastructure to run services (as apposed to just starting them), monitor them, and resolve dependencies between them is a huge step forward.

(I also don't agree with the handling of socket-based service in systemd, but it's an experiment, and maybe I'm wrong, so its worth a try).
News Corp/WSJ supports SOPA, too
It is pretty nice, but I'm starting to think that it does more harm than good.
The trouble is the commonality of the name. It's also really hard keep track on the web, i.e. if someone blogs about it, etc.
I think they are afraid of Youtube, and they are even afraid of becoming obsolete. I think this is the real reason for SOPA.

What happened through the Opensource movement is beginning to repeat in the movie industry. Twenty years ago Big Blue, Cray et.al. laughed at Linux and GNU. Now Linux has gained world domination in the mobile market (Android), and now Linux is leading the TOP 500 supercomputer list.

http://www.top500.org/list/2011/11/100

I think the same phenomeon is starting right now in the movie industry. Private people produce massive amounts of short movies with low quality. But in the long run I believe they will produce high quality movies which will eventually compete with Hollywood standards.

With suitable software and upcoming PCs with multicore processors and possibly TB of RAM it is not an illusion that even a single person could produce movies which match Hollywood standard.

Look at StarWars Revelations. This video was produced in 2005:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Revelations
> getting there is the easy part.

And it will not be easy. The big challenge seems to be shielding the astronauts from space radiation.
> Do you find that younger IT professionals suffer from the not-invented-here syndrome?

> They don't want to deal with something that's existing. Our systems are...not off-the-shelf; everything is custom. Younger workers get frustrated by these applications. They don't understand why the program does this. They want to just write something fresh. But when we've invested in a system as large as this, we're not just going to scrap it. The crux of the problem is that they want to create and own their own application. They don't want to inherit and have to be responsible for somebody else's work.

Could it be NIH that influenced the creation of system in the first place? In my experience, managers request custom in-house applications to be created for all of their custom "needs" all the time. It's a disease that young and old are susceptible to.
Tiltnyc: a dry run in december
You're welcome. I'm glad I helped! I wish you the best of luck and hope you can find peace with whatever the outcome turns out to be.
How the Voice of Tech Leaked His Own Sex Chat
Let me save you a lot of money and time; I call this The 20-something techie's lament: CIOs that don't understand why I'm leaving. (Note: this is largely a work of fiction based on my own experiences and desires, as well as the experiences of others.)

I work on your legacy applications, but you pay me new development wages, generally below what I can get elsewhere. You don't challenge me enough, so I end up watching cat videos to spend time between bursts of getting things done, because there's just not enough actual work to be done. When I come to you with problems, you talk about how you'll get some people together to look into it; I've never heard back.

When Google contacts me, they treat me like a human that wants to grow, learn, and expand beyond the walls of the company, not just inside it. I don't want to play politics. I want to build cool stuff, make money, and learn something new every day. You don't give me that, so I'm leaving.
I moved 10 domains over which are not connected to email, to confirm the process. Planning on moving the rest over soon.
Indonesian tsunami girl 'reunited with family' ~ Daily World News
Google must be very, very careful about throwing its weight around. They want to avoid drawing attention to their importance, or suggesting that they'd use it to impose their opinions.
Windows 8 will feature picture passwords
I think there is a different angle to look at this whole "99% vs 1%" thing. One must be careful not to take the 1%v99% too literally. I think much of the Occupy anger is (or at least should be) directed towards people who have used questionable methods to obtain and maintain their wealth (more on that in a minute.) The disparity isn't against the creators, individuals like Louis C.K. who have produced something of value and has earned profit because many others have been willing to trade money for the entertainment he provides. That's pure capitalism, exactly how it should work, and he shouldn't be excessively taxed. Also one must keep in mind that income tax (which is how Louis will be taxed) and capital gains tax are two very different beasts.

Now on to the "1%" Occupy is mad about. Now the problem we have here with some of the larger corporations and individuals, is that they are in a position to better be able to "game" the system. Using the "double Irish"and the "Dutch sandwich" to bring the corporate tax rate to effectively 0%. Bankers making, well, bank. I recommend reading this rather enlightening article about Goldman: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...

We as people on both sides of the 99% vs. the 1% debate, must develop an understanding of Capitalism vs. Corporatism, as I believe there are many many people with an over simplified view of capitalism, who are duped into supporting whole heatedly "corporatism", under that guise that what you are supporting is, in fact, capitalism. Capitalism=good, corporatism=bad, but don't let somebody sell you corporatism under the guise of sweet sweet capitalism. Capitalism is what Louis C.K. does. Corporatism is what Goldman Sachs does.

About the wall street traders. They say the service the provide to society is making the markets more liquid. To a degree they are right, but if taken too far, it can spiral out of hand, and lead to a tragedy of the commons if no-one keeps them in check. allow me to explain. Many day traders don't make money by "investing" as you or I would in our 401k or what have you. We like to pick companies, hope they grow long term, and make some profit for us. If you're a sell side day trader, you make money on trades, not investments. Your profit is in the margins, the fractions of pennies of made by the banks when trades take place. This means you profit the most when lots of trades happen. When do lots of trades happen? When the market goes up real fast, and down real fast. I think traders have systematically (if unconsciously) learned this, and make money by skimming pennies off our investments. This should allowable (to a degree) as it goes back to the providing liquidity to the markets thing. But it can often go too far. Now, are they providing something of value, or just taking our value, and should they be taxed accordingly? Not to mention the seemingly revolving door between wall street and it's govt regulators. There is clearly something afoot, and we the people are left in the dark.
Given th current state of the Space program and the outlook for the next 30 years or so....

It pains me to say that Elon Musk will not be able to put Millions of people on Mars in his lifetime.

Barring some game changing discovery, Millions o human beings (unmodifed Genetically identical to humans in 2011) will not get "put" on Mars by the millions in the next 30-40 years.
Apple Had More Web Traffic Than Wal-Mart in November
Copyright troll Righthaven in its death throes, domain going up for auction
Poor pay was my first thought too. Glassdoor doesn't have much info on this particular company, but there are complaints about pay, and no raise in 5 years: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Harry-Fox-Agency-Reviews-E2...
My managers have generally been worth their pay. Of course, I'm not working at a dysfunctional company trying to cheat me out of what I'm worth. :)
i prefer tardos/kleinberg{http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Jon-Kleinberg/dp/0321...} for algorithms, at least for self study. The book has solutions, doesnt leave any proofs incomplete and has a little bit more focus on real world examples. its also half as long, but still covers 3/4 of the material.
My own reason is that I hate internet-protests like this. Someone on Reddit gets some half facts, mixes in with some misquotations, then tries to whip together the internet mob to do their business.

A few geeks moving a few domains away from godaddy will have absolutely no impact on anything, and all it will do is waste the geeks own time.
About Procrastination
Maybe they're just waiting for the CyanogenMod port of ICS? :)
throw new BathwaterException(new Baby()) ?
They could be talking as a percentage of accessible data? Although, that seems like a difficult thing to calculate.

EDIT: Seems like a few people have tried, so they could just take those numbers. For example:

"5 billion gigabytes" - WiseGeek 2011 - http://www.wisegeek.com/how-big-is-the-internet.htm

According to Megaupload, they store over 100 petabytes of data. Which equals 102m GB - http://megaupload.com/?c=faq

That would put them at roughly 2%.

EDIT 2: Alternatively, google has them at about 1.8% reach -
https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile#siteD...
Reading well written code is an excellent way to do so. The source code for Tornado is also quite clear https://github.com/facebook/tornado

Look into args and *kwargs and first class functions in python.
RMS is also batshit crazy.
Gandi.net (French registrar) releases statement on SOPA
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