skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fragsworth. We will implement other logins soon. This was just an MVP and we wanted to have something "in the real world" to avoid people posting racist items.
The comment says "Russian" because they really test the month name in Russian: "23 май 2011".

-rwxrwxr-x 1 ftp ftp 123 23 \xd0\xbc\xd0\xb0\xd0\xb9 2011 test

The note about day, month order is useful because all other tests have "%b %e" format and rows are full of other numbers:

drwxr-xr-x1732 266 111 90112 Jun 21 2001 .rda_2

http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium.git;a=blob;f=net/...
100% agree. I have noticed that too. The lower you go on the stack the more stable things seem to be.

Writing javascript at the client browser level is just insane - it feels like a new must-know framework comes out every month!
Agreed, the almost non sequitur mention of VR feels like a straw man. The authors seem to sort of dismiss VR as a fad that disappeared with the headsets and Powergloves. Meanwhile, every year, we're seeing a steady march upwards in GPU power, mass-market uptake of 3D immersive gaming, and devices like the Wii or Kinect selling like crazy in numbers that would have been unthinkable in Jaron Lanier's heyday. VR, or aspects of its original "dream", are steadily making inroads into daily life.

If anything, 3D printing will be exactly like VR in the sense that it will have an initial burst of excitement in the mass media, followed by a long steady march toward ubiquitous, banal, take-for-grantedness.
I had some poor experiences with dedicated servers at well known providers. Essentially if the hardware fails, they'd rather fix it than get you into something new so you can be back up and running. My site ended up offline for several hours, several times, so that some tech could run hardware diagnostics, etc.

EC2 may be expensive, but if anything goes wrong, I can boot another instance in seconds and abandon the old one. They fix it on their own time.

Sure, I could buy more servers so that one down one doesn't affect me, but that's twice as expensive. On EC2 I don't have any penalty for abandoning an instance for any reason. I've actually moved data centers in EC2 when the performance profiles were better on the other side for the same size instances. It was a temporary difference, but migration was pretty much painless.

You're voxel suggestion may have a 2 hour SLA for replacing parts, but what happens when they don't know what is wrong?

That said, I agree that a person should try for the PaaS and evaluate all the options fairly. I tried Linode, several dedicated hosts, and then finally moved to EC2 on a previous project.
You have to crush some grapes to make some wine?

Mr Otis regrets that his company
profits from using sweatshops
But to trade with these small countries
youve got to afford the pay offs
Its not HIM exploiting them, its their own governments,
running their countries on bribes.
And besides, he pays £10 a month to charity
and that will apparently save 5 lives.

http://www.myspace.com/scroobiuspip/blog/161467332

Heard here @15:15:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01b8zvx/Poetry_Please_...
I disagree. They are the best product, without a big price premium.

We have a strong preference for Verizon at my place, due to the geography of our operating area vs. coverage. We have about 5,000 devices, and we started introducing Android to replace Blackberries. It didn't go well -- more support calls, a pain to manage, and very inconsistent. If we issued users a phone that the vendor decided to not support, users were not happy.

The iPhones just work. Users love them. Our guys have minimal support load, etc. The biggest problem is that people keep trying to do new things, so there's some chaos with apps, etc.
Central banks are printing money to a degree never seen in human history
LayerVault comes to mind. Depends on your definition of success, but last I heard they're doing well.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2941589
How do you fit 6 characters in 32 bits?
What encoding / context?
BTW, there was a Great Memory Shortage.
I think it's more that it's the people who are on the fence about doing a startup that are likely to be on a startup-focused forum talking about it. The ones who know it's a good idea are out there founding companies. And the ones who know it's a bad idea are at their 9-5 jobs and don't pay any attention to the startup scene.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by math.

(Edit: BTW, Drew & Aston used to be regular posters on Hacker News, as did drusenko of Weebly, coffeemug of RethinkDB, lacker of Parse, danielha of Disqus, aaroniba of Etherpad, and a bunch of other YC founders I've forgotten. When they realized it was a good idea to start a company, they quit posting, got into YC, and started building their companies.)
At least you can have fun with the images ;-)
This is an absolutely bizarre claim in light of the fact that the tech industry is the only one in a hiring frenzy through an economy so weak that historians may well end up calling it the second Great Depression, and that programmers are just about the only people left who have a plausible explanation for how robots won't simply take their jobs in 30 years. (Or perhaps rather, the potent combo of robots and their programmers.)

I'm in this industry and staying because I'm willing to bet with my feet that you're not just wrong, you're dead wrong. To my mind, the question is what the non-tech jobs will be in 20 years.

What do you do? Are you getting out of the tech industry, or merely scoring cheap social posturing points with some fashionable cynicism? Are you taking your own advice, or just posting ad naseum with no actual belief behind it?
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Signal booster is widely used by people due to avoid bad signal of cell phone and reduce dropped calls, and offers high power signals to cell phone, improve quality of incoming and outgoing calls.
Statistics* show that conversions go up when users are offered a social alternative.

* I don't know where these stats are, or what the figures actually are. People just keep telling me this over and over again.
This is for-profit education, not for-profit degree milling. There's a difference between the two that universities don't like to see.
> The ones who know it's a good idea are out there founding companies.

This is really really really true.
Ask HN: How to find Remote Unix Admin jobs to develop skills
I am currently working in Marketing /Sales. I do have a bachelors in CS and how I got here is a whole different story.
However, I do feel left out of the IT race, for the lack of better words.
So to sum up I had an IT background wherein I had a month or so of UNIX admin mentoring/training. It was Solaris mostly and I loved it. But I moved on to seek a challenging opportunity.
That being said I still want to do some Unix Admin on the side. What would be a good resource or who will be willing to hire me for remote work or something of that sort ?
Please advise.
I am interested in seeing the early stage. Just look at the Dropbox post and comments, it is incredible!

I probably would have dismissed Dropbox if I had seen that, and look at them now.

I hope this becomes a big list so I can read them all.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned here is that you could become proficient with a certain platform and get your foot in the door that way. Just as an example, spend a lot of time on WordPress or Joomla or Drupal or another CMS. Write plugins, build themes, become really good with the platform. You'll pretty quickly find people using that platform for their companies who need help and you will be in a position to offer your expertise. That can be a way to get your freelance career off the ground.

Freelancing can be a great job but it takes time to build up a good client roster. The key to having a decent life while freelancing is having a client roster that needs ongoing work so you aren't constantly hustling for work.
"Tim's point is that "Google is /not/ evil."

Tim has spectacularly missed the forest for the trees. Google isn't just evil today because they updated their privacy policy. If turning a blind or half blind eye to suppliers in Asia is evil then they, like every other tech company, are evil and have been for a long time.

Where do the 700,000 Android phones that get activated every day get made? Is Google blameless because they dont make it themselves? Would Apple be blameless if they just designed the phones and contracted someone else to build it? Well they did so I guess not...

Look, it's clear that Apple, as the most visible brand, is going to get the lion's share of attention here the same way Nike was the target of sweatshop complaints in the 80's.

That said, as opposed to just shaming the Big Bad Apple, I'd really love to see a detailed comparison between the standards and practices of Apple and other first world companies contracting with suppliers in Asia (and elsewhere).
Hey Mitchie, great to see you here and thanks for the kind words. Yes, that is absolutely what I tried to put across, making yourself stronger as a person and not at all focusing on the aspect of gaining muscle or losing weight. Making it a habit can be far more powerful I believe.
In Physical Chemistry / Galvanic cells, the anode is defined to be the location where the oxidation reaction occurs, and the cathode is where the reduction reaction takes place. It has nothing to do with cations/anions since cations can be generated by both chemistries.

This was the source of much confusion in biochem (electrophoresis) for many students because negative charges migrate to the anode.
I'd like to see a Meego tablet instead! It's probably more mature too..
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My wife needs to put her interior design portfolio on the web. I could do it for her, but I'd much rather she were self-sufficient. She's not much for solving technical problems, but she's otherwise adept at using CAD, 3D Max, and the tools of her trade.

She has a lot of time on her hands, as she recently graduated, so I'd like this to be as much a learning project as a way to get her portfolio out there.
YMD is logical, because it puts the most significant number on the left.

But both DMY and HMS are consistent in another way - the information is ordered from most to least important for every day access, from left to right.

A vast majority of dates on advertising, tickets, timetables etc actually leave off the year, unless it's ambiguous. Similarly, one might say something like 'on the 4th', which implies 'the 4th of this month' (or the 4th of next month, if applicable).

This is the reverse of HMS, where the most significant number (the hour) is most important, and seconds are basically ignored day to day.

MDY, on the other hand, should be taken out the back and shot (IMO).
>I have a theory about Java. In the '90s, it was not unheard-of for programmer productivity (individually and for the group) to be measured in LoC.

Nah, even by the mid '80s KLoC was discredited as a metric for programmers.

Java had a couple of big advantages over what had come before. For one thing, it promised, and mostly delivered, a true cross-platform ecosystem. It had a GC and the VM was written with hooks for IDE-based development. And it had a standard GUI package. C++ had none of that.

Java is verbose, but it's verbose because you have to be explicit with everything, which makes the code a lot easier to follow if you didn't write it. Poorly written Java isn't that much harder to follow than well written Java. You can't say the same about C++ or Lisp. Java is a tool for an organization where half the people are below average. Unless you're working for a very small startup or a flavor-of-the-month place like Google, that's probably going to be the story where you work.

EDIT: Oh, and it's been so long I forgot one of the major, major selling points. You could get free binaries. Almost everything else either cost money or had to be compiled (which was a royal pain in the ass in most cases).
It is in human nature to see things in black&white with vilifying and glorification. And we overvalue intent, when there isn't is one. For example, I don't see them trying that hard in fighting against Jailbreaking. Instead Apple dealings with it are rather practical. They never released updates specifically to stop a JB. They never used legal actions against customers and Apple even hired JB-hackers or borrowed nifty ideas from that scene (notifications, home-screen camera access). I also never did get why some (web?)people are frightened by Apps, but a browser only Chromebook is regarded as a cool thing. I see that as more limiting for the future of computing.

Speaking of Google, I do find them to be more "evil", or to use a more precise word "threatening" for the computer industry, because they are aiming for ruling the world. They want to achieve dominance. They want to diversify in different markets. This is only possible with defeating competitors. Even if they have to subsidize products heavily or bordering on unfairly leveraging their search monopoly.

Apple is harmless, because they are not aiming for a 95% market share. No, they want to make niche products in the premium segment. In 2007 they had the chance to being the new Microsoft if only they had licensed iOS. They didn't do it. Because they wanted to be like the Ford Motor Company instead of being Standard Oil. The result is a company making three desktop models, two laptop models and basically just one iPhone (in two colors). It is possible to co-exist, even thrive, for competitors when Apple is leading. And they are not really that dangerous in peripheral markets. Far from that! Compare Facebook vs G+ and Ping vs Facebook.
Quora
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197146
The first thing that anyone who doesn't know Java complains about is running a main method, which no one in the Java world does 99% of the time. This is probably the first thing you have to do in a Hello World Java tutorial, but has nothing to do with Java.

There are some poor design choices in Java like no method overriding, mix of primitives and their boxed equivalents, lack of closures, or first class functions, confusing equals semantics, generics verbosity, etc. But main method is just moot.

Also it has nothing to do with superiority of Lisp over Java. Lisp has a different philosophy it's a functional language, while languages like Java, C, Ruby, Python etc are all imperative (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming#Comparis...). I think a better article would be about the virtues of each style and when to use which.
Frankly, if there are a lot of older folks (40 is older? I am in deep, deep trouble) with lots of experience having trouble finding jobs, then this is a ripe market to recruit from.

Of course, I have a funny perspective -- I work with a guy who wrote compilers for Symbolics, and another who started programming before I was born (and I am in the supposedly-being-age-discriminated-against category). Between the two of them, and two more folks my own tender middle-age, they are the most productive, awesome folks I know and hope to keep working with for a long time to come.

Seriously, if this is reality then start recruiting "old folks" -- you now have an unfair advantage in terms of recruiting.
I actually think this solves some serious problems.

I think most non-trolls don't realize how powerful the 'dislike' button is. With a like or upvote button, you don't do anything by way of separating trolls from real content. That's what the 'no' is for, and websites shouldn't be afraid of that.

Seriously, from here on out it should rapid cross-platform expansion. I'm looking at you, Youtube.
Yes, don't get me wrong, I like the idea of blocking people and understand the stage of development. I created an account and would like to participate. My feedback is not to encourage trolling. I'd like to see a system that rewards the person with the best message/block ratio.

Good luck with the project. I look forward to seeing it grow.
"Programmers are just about the only people left who have a plausible explanation for how robots won't simply take their jobs in 30 years."

Unfortunately, they lack a similarly plausible explanation for how cheap offshore labor won't simply take their jobs in fewer than 30 years.
One of the reasons for having midterm exams followed by finals in certain institutions is to apply the spacing effect described in the article. You study for a midterm, forget some of it before your final, then reinforce it at the end of your term. I found that it worked for me when I was in college.
That's an interesting alternative; thanks for mentioning it. Yeah, I was thinking of regular jobs, not consulting, but that's definitely an option, since it lets you sidestep some of the broader generalizations about age and under/over-qualification, and home in on what you can do for a specific client in this specific moment.
And if you use Spring, then the start up time is even worse! I do wish the JVM had an option that would make it start up instantly, even if it meant that the program would run slower. I wonder if the slow startup time has to do with the JVM having to dig through .jar files to find stuff. I'm also surprised that there isn't a way to cache the machine code generated by the jit so that the machine code doesn't have to regenerated on every run. It seems very strange to me that Java was invented by a Unix company, and yet it seems rather Unix-hostile.

For the stuff that I'm working on, the 1 second startup time is no biggie though. One CLI thing I wrote, for instance, crunched on genomics data for 3 minutes before finishing. By tuning tight loops and the like, I was able to get that down to 15 seconds, but even so, the extra second there is no biggie. Except for when the user uses the "--help" option. That extra second is tedious.
For me, the most important lesson from Olympic-style weightlifting is that you can't cram for a competition. No amount of natural talent can make up for failing to invest the hours over the course of weeks, months and years.

I could go on, but I've already put my thoughts into words: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3431621

There's a proverbial bit of wisdom that has been attributed to various sources: The will to win is important. The will to prepare is essential.
Unfortunately that's how our society works; as new methods for optimization are discovered for any field, especially education due to the large amount of change required, it is adopted as the norm over time after it's verified many times over, and more as a trickle down effect.

The silver lining is that eventually it will be adopted if it works, it's just a matter of time. So possibly in two or three generations educational methods will be focused towards this type of strategy.

edit: poster above me mentions mid term / final exams, this is just an example of the beginning of changes towards methods of learning similar to that in the article.
Something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Radix-50
Great article, I have been meaning to write something similar to this myself! I became a health & fitness nut about 5 years ago, and though developing and designing is my biggest passion in life, working out and bettering myself physically is a close 2nd. Every day I work knowing that an awesome workout session is coming right after has done wonders for keeping stress levels down, helping me sleep well, and making me focus more during my workday. Having the gym after a crappy day of work DOES make the day turn around, and if you have a great day of work and a great day at the gym afterwards it makes for one HELL of a good day!
There are plenty of options. Have a look at https://www.snelserver.com/ (they just sponsored a server for a project i am affiliated with) or Hetzner - http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...
1and1 also has some nice offerings.

If you go this route you can just choose to run virtualization yourself with VMware ESXI or kvm and libvirt
"When I went off I was dead to the world for about 2 - 3 weeks.... Not drinking any soda has also helped in other ways. I no longer have a real need for sugar..."

You may be misattributing. Caffeine withdrawal is a matter of days [1]. 5 tops and I'm usually done in 2 or 3. (I've dropped cold turkey three times now, and each time I've personally experienced a marked decrease in my ability to function, but I've got various other possibly mitigating circumstances. I'm planning on trying again with my latest set of circumstances to see if it helps any as soon as my infant is no longer an infant.) Dropping that much sugar out of your diet can definitely take substantial time to acclimate to. (But it's a great thing to acclimate to.) You sound a lot more like someone who has gone through adjustment to a much lower carb lifestyle than someone who has gone off caffeine.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Tolerance_and_withdraw...
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alternative is the key word there. trollblock gives you no other option
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Sure there is; economics 101. Offshore labor won't be cheaper in 30 years.

In fact the economic advantage has already largely dissipated and it's already not cheaper, which is why you don't hear anybody talking about this anymore. The whole "we're all gonna lose our tech jobs to the cheap foreigners" scare is all very 2008; it has failed to happen, and it will continue to fail to happen because equilibrium has been reached and will not rapidly change because there's few to no new markets to suddenly emerge.

Sadly, very few people actually understand economics 101 and simply can't deal with the fact that prices react to things rather than staying static forever.

I also observe your uncareful dodge around my questions. May I simply assume the worst, then?
> the information is ordered from most to least important for every day access

I argue that MDY is ordered from most to least important for every day access. Year is easily implied so it is last so that leaves month first and then day. You'd be surprised how many Canadians, which is officially DMY, actually prefer MDY.
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Actually that situation calls for an em dash.
Webdav maybe?

Many recent OSes support it in some fashion natively, there is a cli client (cadaver), and it runs fine over ssl.

It is rather heavyweight and slow though, and doesn't offer quite the range of things as some ftp servers (ratios, etc). That is likely just due to the lack of popularity and the few options for servers.

SFTP (which you discounted) is probably a better option in many cases though.
I'm guessing you'd get to know them by their posts, and day by day eliminate the ones you don't really want to hear about... would be cool if when you dislike they just appear less often, so there is no need to block
This is the second time recently that Tim O'Reilly has publicly blasted Apple. Before this it was something about OS X.

I wonder how Tim feels about iBooks? Perhaps what's really upsetting is the thought that book publishers will become obsolete?
This is the best part of that whole link:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

A good lesson that though someone could build it, most can't and if they could they'd rather not.
guilty for some points. Glad, we moved on.
There does happen to be a "hide old posts" option, fwiw. It might have been implemented after you left.
Or maybe because Android is a security nightmare in the enterprise due to the thousands of spyware/malware/virus available specifically to Android.
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This is certainly true for the common case, but there are certain types of workloads where dedicated is the only way to go. Where I work we were doing a bunch of compute heavy work and we started out on EC2 and recently switched to dedicated hardware, which resulted in a 30-50x performance/price increase.