skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using unison for exactly this for ages. I was wondering whether this will add automatic uploading on file change, but alas, all it suggest is using cron for it.
£3.33 is not less than $5
Mistakes are how we learn! :)

Below is a good write up by Timothy Fiz [1]. It's old, but it's still a good summary. He references GitHub, which is worth noting. GitHub allows developers to set webhooks for automated tasks that are triggered by repo events. It's a great reference implementation with good documentation [2].

1 - http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/what-webhooks-ar...

2 - http://help.github.com/post-receive-hooks/
There are a bunch of tools that can kind of sort of get you there, but there's way too much variance in getting 'what you want' to get everything going.

If you were using Python, you could probably use Silver Lining[1] for this, which lets you set up an Ubuntu server and install packages as needed and deploy your application to it. I'm speaking anecdotally, as I've never personally used it, but it's supposed to have the capability to even manage scaling by spinning up new instances as needed, and configuring them to spec if necessary.

I don't know if a similar such tool exists for Ruby, or how well Silver Lining works in practice.

[1] - http://cloudsilverlining.org/
I'm not sure about how much more expensive it is, but if I lived in a hurricane-prone area I would probably investigate it and consider it a cost of living there. Otherwise, if I can just get bailed out by the federal gov't when disaster strikes, those who choose to live in the safer areas of the country are essentially subsidizing the risks I assume by living there. Think of it as a negative externality (stretching my ECON101 limits a little here perhaps? :).

I think the conclusion I'd rather draw is "the free market doesn't owe you anything."
Thanks for the downvotes, but what's wrong about what I said? He's openly anti-abortion, and promoted anti-abortion legislation at Federal level (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul... ).

Presumably, he would do the same once elected.
he wants to limit the govt to do nothing but what is legally provisioned in the constitution

That's essentially correct, but a bit of an oversimplification. A more accurate representation would be "he wants to limit the federal govt to do nothing but what is legally provisioned in the constitution". There are a number of things that he'd like to see the government do, but at a state or local level.

For example, he's strongly opposed to abortion, but he's also opposed to any federal legislation addressing the issue one way or the other (note that there's no federal law against murder, for example; this is dealt with by the states).

So your concerns about the agility of the organization are better handled through Paul's approach. The way the system works today, politicians make a choice, and then stick to it no matter the evidence (see the War on Drugs, NCLB, etc.). No matter what happens, they can't back down on their position because it weakens them politically. Given Paul's approach, the states can serve as mini laboratories, each trying out different approaches to solve problems, with the rest of the country able to watch what happens, and then pick the best results from the other states.

I'm very concerned with your statement:

the constitution was written over three hundred years ago, although I think it's paramount to protect the rights as allotted in the Bill of Rights I don't necessarily think that the constitution insomuch as it exists as a legally-binding document, needs to be adhered to without the consideration that iteration may need to be made on the intent of the original authors with respect to the ever-changing world.

The problem with this is in the interpretation of the "intent of the original authors". This is essentially what's happening today, and it means that whoever is in power gets to do whatever the hell they want, as long as they can come up with some plausible rationalization. When the document can be plastic in this way, it serves as only a very weak protection against runaway government.
It has a pretty good track record of picking the eventual Democratic nominee, but Iowa is not special for the Republican party. It has a poor record of voting for the eventual Republican party nominee in races where there is not an incumbent - 2/5 races since 1972. In fact, it has a better track record of picking the GOP outlier.
* No, that's not entirely true. I don't have to use a service like thepiratebay.org to send one of these files. And further, I could just as easily use _any_ or _many_ trackers inside my torrent. *

Altered to convey another point. Naturally, it would be quite difficult to "embed" a feature length movie into a single url, but if one was to split the file into chunks like torrent transferring does, or simply a multi-part rar like newsgroups still do, it enables each chunk to be more manageable.

I do agree with you though, but I think the reason that a service like this if changed in such a way to be user-friendly for file sharing, not just document sharing, would be able to get around a lot of the pitfalls a torrent tracker (for example) would have if it's DNS lookup was blocked (which aren't many) is due to the simple fact that SOPA is written in a way that assumes all IP addresses and DNS names are statically tied together and slow to alter, not that I can have a new domain name in a matter of minutes that resolves to my existing server. Even more so if the final URL hash was nothing more than a common and known algorithm, like base64, that one could easily plug into a basic desktop app and get the same result.
what HTML5 does promise – offline storage, universal media embeds, proper SVG support and so on, is fantastic.

SVG includes animation support...
Yeah but we are talking here about massive multi-platform games and Infinity Blade was specially tailored for IOS.

In practice, to use Unreal in a game that would run on consoles and mobile devices, you have to fork your code and made a lot of adjustments.
The mass-media is powerful and is known to have overthrown governments.

The Internet companies hold even much more power then traditional mass media. They just don't realize it.

most American voters will have forgotten
about it by then

Not if the mass media reminds them about it.
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It appears to me that this is a made-up argument about terminology and semantics that in no way advances the human race forward; all it's good for is starting angry and meaningless debates about nothing.
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I still don't get it. Passing data as pieces of URLs is what normal parameters are for and data URLs are for generating a "virtual file", id est a link that contains all the information of the file linked.

With those 2 things, everything should be covered.
Right. It appears to me that he would almost want to make states completely autonomous entities in which case why have a federal government at all?

Ironically it would seem if he was elected as president he would basically work to put himself out of a job.
I think this says more about branding and sociology than actual value proposition.
Ron Paul has claimed he didn't write those comments (taken from newsletters a few decades ago) and has renounced them, at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul#Inter-congressional_y...
Ask HN: I just got my first team lead. What should I do?
Dear Community,

Lucky me (29, Software Engineer from Berlin, Germany) recently got a new job as a Lead Architect for a startup.

Now I'd say I'm not a bad engineer, but I've never been much of a "people person" or a natural leader. Although my colleagues treat me with a lot of respect, I still feel a little awkward. I'm a total newcomer to the "business" of managing, regularly keeping up with people and doing hiring/firing decisions, but I think I'm worst at delegating. Since the company is still pretty small, there's no choice for me than to get my hands dirty on coding and sysadmin stuff as well. Unfortunately, I'd rather do it all myself than entrusting and encouraging others with it, so I'm kind of playing my old role. Also, I'm having a hard time being a good listener, since I'm always coming up with my own ideas and notice that I'm mostly talking about myself which doesn't exactly make me more likeable, but it's hard to stop.

Reading "How to win friends and influence people" already helped me a lot with my people's skills, but I'm still struggling to get it all into practice.

Have you ever been in a similar situation? Do you know of any great resources, tips, tricks, hacks, communities or seminars short of doing an MBA (which I definitely wouldn't do due to time constraints and the bullshit factor)?

I'd really appreciate your help, especially from the engineer-turned-manager folks!

Best,

Dom
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I agree and sorry for not being more clear. This article along with a lot of the current startup philosophies help with finding the initial market and traction. My challenge has always been what to do next. Focusing on the pain is part of the equation. The other critical factor, once a company moves out of the zone of early adopters, is the buying process of the main stream shifts dramatically. It's a sales and marketing scale issue vs. product and tech issue. (Although, as I write this, I'm realizing this may only be true for b2b products vs. b2c)
HTML5 is a convenient label for discussing and comparing other alternatives which also tend to have labels, such as Flash applications, desktop applications or native iOS applications. People will know what you mean in the broad sense, without specifying the exact CSS and JavaScript revisions and other extensions being used.
Downvoted for being a whiny douche, not for referring to previous discussion.
The free market doesn't owe you anything indeed, but society, which the government represents, is a very different thing.

Sorry, I'm European and hardcore US "free-marketism" is so incredibly alien from here... I mean, the free market wouldn't ever give me 24 days of paid vacation every year, so why should I want more of it?
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Most worrisome is that while these issues have come to light, in my /very/ limited experience, attempting to broach the issue with Paul supporters has been met with at best dismal and at worst outright irrational anger. In fact I've now been told a number of times that such quotations are falsified, that they've been planted by Paul's detractors. The implication seems to be they're suggesting this is the manifestation of some kind of conspiracy against him. I'm quite honestly baffled that supporters of a purist would allow exceptions... Alternatively, twice I've been told by Paul supporters that they are in fact are not supporters, but rather anarchists (this only comes up in the context of such content as the newsletter debacle).
What about Lipsync? [1]
I believe it was mentioned here on HN when the project first appeared.

1. https://github.com/philcryer/lipsync
Ron Paul has some great ideas, he was against iraq war, iran invasion and more. But he hates gay rights and is very strong on Religion. He want laws against burning the flag, against abortion, and more.

He has extreme views, that you either hate or love.
Why can't I use Record.all.destroy in Rails?
There are some excellent screencasts for pharo here:

http://www.pharocasts.com

Smalltalk is a small language (think C), so you can learn the whole language set in a few days.

The live objects concept might warp your brain a little bit. I've heard lisp does the same, so if you're from a lisp background, you might not find it shocking.

The Pharo environment (IDE) can make all the modern IDEs (Eclipse, Visual Studio) look like babies in diapers.

There is built in versionsing, DVCS, refactoring tool, unit testing framework, The most powerful debugger etc....

You will not regret trying out Smalltalk (maybe you will when you have to go back to C++) :).
Right, perhaps the federal gov't is too bloated (I wouldn't really know , I'm british).
My question more would be does he have a fundamentally different view on what the federal government is for?
In which case I would expect him to say "we will do less of all of this stuff, but I think instead we should do more of this".

Seems to me he's suggesting that the federal government do essentially nothing, except perhaps maintain enough of a military to defend the USA if directly attacked.

Perhaps I misunderstand his position?
I don't know how credible this is but it leaves me doubtful.

Without checking out each quote, I believe the answer is that it's generally accurate, but you need to understand what these represent.

First, there's the normal crap about taking things out of context...

But more specifically, these are decidedly not things that Paul ever said or wrote. These are things that somebody else wrote in a newsletter that was using Paul's name. That doesn't mean that you should let Paul off the hook. It means that what you should be concerned about is not that he's a racist ass, but that he may have a lapses in judgment, as here where he allowed someone else to use his name without monitoring closely how they used it.

It's worth noting, though, that there are some very strong parallels here between Paul's misstep and President Obama. Consider Obama's association with the explicitly anti-American, anti-Semite minister Jeremiah Wright, and with the communist and terrorist Bill Ayers. Indeed, in my opinion, Obama comes out much dirtier in this comparison, because he refused to disavow those other people, and particularly Wright, who is acknowledged to have served (still?) as a mentor to Obama, shaping his thinking. In contrast, Paul condemns those statements, and there's no reason to believe that he ever took their writers' ideas as guidance.

More discussion of this here: http://volokh.com/2011/12/22/libertarians-and-ron-pauls-raci...
Ask HN: How many logic gates would it take to implement a small Lisp language?
This question was posted to r/lisp and went unanswered. I am hoping someone from HN might be more knowledgable.
Been using stripe.
Full paper "Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass" by Niklaus Wirth [PDF]: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_ori...
Frankly, anyone who has paid attention to what Paul has actually said or done in the last 20 years knows this in no way represents his views. In fact, quite the opposite, Paul is by far the most open and tolerant in the GOP field. The fact that some people are willing to focus on these says more about them than about Paul.
Sure, javascript, CSS and SVG have existed for a long time, but canvas, webgl, native video, CSS 3, new javascript apis and other things that bind all these together have only started trickling in. Some of them may still need improving, like audio, but that is changing over time. It is only now that you can contemplate building something complete with only the tools the stock browser provides.
This dumb year: The 52 lamest moments in tech 2011.
The other side of that conversation can also be a rubber duck ;)

http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/cantlug-0211/msg00174....
https://pay.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/83i5n/the_rubb...
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking
http://www.braintreepayments.com/services/pci-compliance

Basically, PCI is huge pain to do correctly (multiple snort boxen, logging, change control audit environment, etc.). This is why using a payment gateway to store all customer payment data makes sense. They are responsible for taking on the enormous security burden and doing it well.

PCI compliance or not, security is the ol' cat and mouse gambit. This is however NO excuse for not ensuring customer data is protected by every clever means possible.
it's bs.

he had a 30 year career in politics, if he was really a racist, there'd be some video proof to support it of him actually saying this...or hell anything else to support that...but there isn't

+ then there is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8...

the bottom line, is that if the worst thing that they'd been able to dig up about him, are some comments from ~20 years ago that weren't even written by him...then he is one of the cleanest politicians in generations.
I got an alert saying "Could not initialize WebGL". Alerts are annoying.
A consideration often overlooked in these 'pay money lest ye be the product' quips is that quite often, a company might be pretty hard-pushed to make their business model work that way.

If you're offering a free service to (many) users, and getting money from (relatively fewer) advertising agents/networks, you have two things going for you:

1) the people actually giving you money are professionals, who will probably pay, and more importantly, will probably pay quite a lot over a single deal/contract.

2) not having to scale your customer support to (tens of) millions of users saves you a hell of a lot of money, especially if the people doing the paying aren't the unwashed public who in general need their hands held to find caps-lock.

If you switch from 1000s of customers each paying you $millions, to 10s of millions of customers paying you $10, your support costs go through the roof: you've got to deal with customer support/retention on a much larger scale, your billing system needs to be up to the task, payment fraud will skyrocket, etc.

I'm not sure how even someone like Facebook could weather the transition from advertiser-pays to user-pays without a lot of pain and stock value implosion.
Reading only the title I would answer: "Of course not", but there are more questions to this.

Why the original owner allowed company to use his own account? By the fact that he handed down password and permissions to the company to operate this account, one could argue that this is not his own account anymore.

However, whoever wins this suit, the right thing to do for LinkedIn would be to just disable/delete the account for misuse. The fact that multiple people inside a company had been sharing the same account, changing person name, picture and position is a bit fishy, and potentially a scam against other linkedin users. I wouldn't be happy to connect to "John D" and write recommendation to him, only to find out that few weeks later this is some "Alex F" I don't know.
Sorry, that is not ironic. He is not out to get a job, he is out to do what he believes in.
Ah I missed that part. Crazy!!
How many gas stations are in the United States?
I assume that he just grepped for the md5 hash of the common passwords he tried.

e.g.,
grep `md5 -s 'password' | cut -d ' ' -f 4` password_file | wc -l
10mb binary file

US Standard
avg 112k/s took 1:31

Singapore
avg 1290K/s took 0:07

Tokyo
avg 895K/s took 0:11

Cloudfront
avg 8758k/sec took 0:01

I'm in Hong Kong on a 100mb up/down line (and I can hit 10MB/sec up and down (at the same time)). The last 3 hops to cloudfront (ctinet is my provider):

5 014136128014.ctinets.com (14.136.128.14) 4.673 ms 3.392 ms 3.210 ms
6 119.27.63.37 (119.27.63.37) 3.624 ms 4.393 ms 3.298 ms
7 server-216-137-55-171.hkg1.cloudfront.net (216.137.55.171) 3.519 ms 3.594 ms 3.340 ms

the relevant hops to singapore (it starts to get blocked at 12)

7 * ge-1-0-3-xcr1.hkg.cw.net (203.169.57.33) 7.182 ms 4.902 ms
8 xe-0-2-0-xcr1.sng.cw.net (195.2.10.30) 37.951 ms 38.858 ms *
9 p38895.sgw.equinix.com (202.79.197.87) 41.037 ms * 43.288 ms
Also this is worth reading[1]. Paul seems to be directly linked to an anti-gay rhetoric that is leading part of his campaign.

[1] http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/ron-paul-hired-ant...

Edit: I'm curious to know why anyone would downvote this? When presented with direct evidence, is it really logical to immediately push it away? Oh well...

To the commenter below, if you had read to the second paragraph of the article you would have found this:

'Paul’s Iowa chair, Drew Ivers, recently touted the endorsement of Rev. Phillip G. Kayser, a pastor at the Dominion Covenant Church in Nebraska who also draws members from Iowa, putting out a press release praising “the enlightening statements he makes on how Ron Paul’s approach to government is consistent with Christian beliefs.” But Kayser’s views on homosexuality go way beyond the bounds of typical anti-gay evangelical politics and into the violent fringe: he recently authored a paper arguing for criminalizing homosexuality and even advocated imposing the death penalty against offenders based on his reading of Biblical law.'
In your case, sure.
Lot of potential but little money.

"Italian VC investors (I mean the ones based in Italy) are, in general, famously useless at identifying high growth businesses in their own country"

Sad but true.
Exactly. You can't take on the .NET stack piecemeal. It's all or nothing and extremely difficult to color outside the lines.
Right! I'm in Tokyo, with 4 different 100Mbps or 200Mbps fiber connections (different providers, at 3 locations). In Japan, that's normal btw, and costs about $50/mo.

Vanilla S3 is so slow, it's not any faster than a bargain VPS hosted in America. CloudFront is WAY FASTER.

In Asia, or at least Japan and South Korea, the slowness is psychologically compounded by the much higher speeds people are typically used to. So things hosted on CloudFront (or really any decent CDN with a presence in Japan) feel NORMAL, while most anything served from the USA (or Europe) feels SUPER SLOW.

At home or the office, I get 10MB or 20MB per second with ping times of 8ms or so. That's from either CloudFront or AWS Tokyo region. Or downloading Apple OS updates or OpenSolaris images, basically any company down with Akamai or similar.

With vanilla US S3 storage or AWS servers in US or US shared hosting like pair.com, it's more like 400KB/sec and 200ms+ pings. Same with Heroku (although I haven't tested that since last year).

I think my experiences in this regard are typical here, for both home and most business users. If the server is hosted abroad, it is ghetto-slow unless the owner takes appropriate measures (.jp server or CDN).

Not a priority for every site, I understand, but hopefully something worth considering.
against abortion

This is false. He absolutely opposes anti-abortion (or pro- for that matter) legislation at the federal level.

He is personally opposed to abortion, and he'd like to see states forbid it. But since we're talking about him with respect to a national office, his views of what states should do shouldn't matter too much.

I think you'll find that in almost every way, he wants to get the federal government out of the way. From my perspective, that's a good thing.

CLARIFICATION for the reply. Paul's personal belief is in opposition to abortion. However, in contrast to other politicians, he doesn't believe that his personal beliefs should determine federal policy, and thus as President, his opposition to abortion would be irrelevant. That is, when wearing his president hat, he would advocate that the federal government stay out of the issue altogether. Only wearing his doctor hat does he oppose abortion.
Sometimes it's not acceptable to store data on external server without root on it.
For these kind of uses Unison (mentioned in previous comments) is decent solution, but also AeroFS (aerofs.com), which works much smoother (less collision problems).

Anyway syncing data on several devices must became standard soon.