skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the argument is less about "don't do the (relatively) minor uncomfortable things", and more about aligning yourself so that the major part of your work is something you love. Love writing, not being an author. Love running a business, not the title of CEO. And if you don't love either of those, find what you love, and put yourself in a situation where that is what you do.
The image in this post was stolen from "Rejected" - a short animated film by Don Hertzfeldt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI#t=4m45s
All good questions! A base ring is 4 nodes (one in each us-east zone), and you can choose m1.small, m1.large, and m1.xlarge instances. This allows you to create keyspaces with RF 3 safely. I don't have prices on-hand, but I believe the m1.large base-ring is somewhere around 1K a month (snapshot backups/rollbacks included, etc). We're looking for beta testers for the Enterprise version, so deals might be able to be made if you contact the Zendesk e-mail (support@2lemetry.zendesk.com)! Regarding transfer of data and cost, we can add your AWS accounts/AWS security groups to the ring's ACL so you'd be able to use AWS private IP addresses for free data transfer within Amazon regions. Let me know if you have any more questions.
You could start playing games online. I like to play Carcassonne on Brettspielwelt, but presumably chess or Go would work, too. Give you a 30 minute break.
Groupon Acquires NYC-Based Startup Hyperpublic
Yeah, that's the point. Democracy sucks. But what's the alternative?
Why Twitter Bootstrap is bad for the internet
> I want to hear their side of this.

Scroll up a bit and check arice's post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605343
You explicitly are talking about historical issues which are mostly resolved. When you deploy an application that uses Direct X you target exactly one version, and you will never be using a different version of it unless you as the developer choose for it to happen.

OS shipping updates causing games to break is a pretty rare thing, several orders of magnitude less likely to occur than a browser shipping with a change in behavior of an HTML5 feature.

The risk clearly does exist everywhere, but its mostly a solved problem on Windows, and it's certainly a solved problem on Xbox. It's a monthly issue in browsers.
First of all Chomsky is still alive, and secondly, I'm almost certain that he won't be remembered for his poltical writings, but for his scientific contributions.

People don't even read his very early political works much anymore. His new material is what gets most consumed and keeps his name in people's minds.
This is very true. If starting a company is something you've always wanted to do (like me) then when you do it you'll find so much crap that you dislike or even hate but still have to do.

Some examples:
1. reading through all your contracts, legalese, terms of service and everything else you need a lawyer for. Mind numbingly boring but also real important.

2. writing copy for your site.

3. pitching your company in a bar at the end of a 80 hour week where you just want a drink in peace.

4. dealing with psycho customers who troll you for no good reason on forums where your promoting your company

5. Accounting.

Starting a company is probably the most extreme example though. Most profressions are just that - ie made up of 1 profession.

Starting a company is a multi-profession profession. Most of which you'd have never done before.
Introducing BusinessUSA
Your sticking to the narrative and not what actually happens in a practical sense.

You dont get to be CEO till your company has happy customers paying you moeny and your making a tidy profit. Till then you'll do anything and evertyhign thats necessary - most of it is unpleasent. 10% is fun.
MPAA Announces Four New Hires
رحلة مدرسة الطيرة المهنية - المفتان الى جبل الشيخ - الطيرة
Building Self-Control, the American Way
I'm currently building a social media news aggregation site, and was considering the merits of using a Facebook/Twitter only login/comment services. Do you believe most potential users would be opposed to this? If using these services we would be very clear about privacy issues and options,giving our users the option of restricting their activities to our network, and not sharing the information with facebook/twitter if the user would choose not to. Also in our service agreement and in practice we would restrict our use of our users information to strictly what they share with us, not datamining them, which in my opinion violates peoples privacy. There is a lot of upside in my opinion with using the Facebook/twitter login. They are the 2 dominant social media platforms, in which our potential users are bound to have their strongest ties. If they choose to share their activities on our site with their social media network of choice, it would be their way of advertising a service they are using (and presumably enjoying if they are participating on the site), which would help our service attract users. Would appreciate any feedback and advice, especially pointing out where im wrong :)
Why the lights on the ceiling?
Industry tries counterfeit risk analysis tool to weed out dangerous fakes
One thing I've noticed is that Google likes to use RC4_128 as their encryption method for SSL. Most people just pick AES_256_CBC like 37s has. RC4_128 is so much faster in tests we've run. Of course, there's a possible security trade off, sort of. RC4, I believe from reading, is still plenty strong when it's properly implemented.
Foxconn Auditor Finds ‘Tons of Issues’
Fluid Simulation with Turing Patterns (Chrome Experiment)
Given that the first developer preview came out yesterday, and the final isn't due until summer, isn't "didn't include" (past tense) just a wee bit premature?
Who's forgotten about it?

I adblock at the request level everything from the facebook or fbcdn domains in my primary browser. I don't let FB get anything from my normal browsing.
Chomsky's writings are still standard reading for people in various activist communities. He will most likely be remembered for both, and for the fact that he contributed both.
Probably depends on your user base. The general public see Facebook Connect & similar services as a way to avoid needing to remember passwords.

I hate it though. It appears other, more technically inclined, folk do too.
IP Address Mask for SMF 2.x
IP Address Mask for SMF it's an semi-automatic patching tool for Simple Machine Forum which masks all real IPs of users that are belonging to some groups from a SMF drived-by website. You can include or exclude an unlimited number of groups for being protected by IPAM 4 SMF. Even more, you can choose even the mask (it could be a dynamic set) that will patch users IPs. IPAM 4 SMF have options like installation guider, automatic backup for modified files, patch remover.
Part of me hopes Windows will rediscover tiling, considering their new-found love for tiles.

In the unlikely event they execute on that I might actually be tempted to try windows again - for the first time in 10 years.
That's the part that's usually quoted. You'll have to be more specific by what you mean by "He doesn't support behavior which relies on privacy", because that sounds more like a cartoon villain.

The full quote is

Q: People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they be?

A: I think judgement matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines including Google do retain this information for some time, and it’s important, for example that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.
I would not pay that to get rid of ads. However, ads don't bother me. The "social placement" advertising that (ab)uses my friend's content to turn them into shills is what I find a significant turnoff, combined with the other invasive and slimy methods of data collection mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

I don't care if Facebook does advertising. However, the slimy methods used burn any trust I have in them, and as a result, I'm not going to hand them any extra data if I can avoid it.
I think Siri is important in a variety of ways, but voice driven apps in the traditional model (a la Siri) aren't how I perceive the future of interfaces to be.

You wouldn't use Siri on a date, or in public would you? There are just some important issues that are raised by Siri that a lot of people sort of neglect. I don't think voice apps will be successful in a broad, paradigm shifting way. But, they will have their niche and there will be some fundamental princples that are learned.
True but one unmentioned problem: how to find the thing you love?

What ideas do you find yourself thinking about when you catch your focus drifting off onto something else?

Is it another project? Something specific? Or maybe a more abstract concept -- something that's been ruminating in the back of your mind for several years?

Whatever it is, explore it more deeply. This may guide you to your true passion. Your true potential. If you're not passionate about something, it will never consume you so it won't resonate in your mind long enough to find true genius within it.
Gem to make Hipchat display Capybara images of failed tests (or any other file)
I am curious why this is not a more popular option across the board. Free with AD's or pay for no ads and no tracking. I would gladly pay for some of the free services if I could get these options and wont even use them for free while the tracking is in place.
Holy smokes what a terrible analogy. Most of the cost for the Mars rovers was getting them to Mars. They would have been a whole lot cheaper if 1) We could have delivered them by container ship and 2) We could have had some guy on mars plug them in so we didn't need cells or batteries and 3) that same guy could service them when they break down.

#3 is a big deal. Planetary probes are way, way, way overdesigned compared to what you need on the earth, and all those "ways" cost exponential amounts of money. It probably wouldn't make sense to try to do everything on the job site remotely, but there's really no reason a teleoperated tractor has to cost substantially more than one with a guy in it.
I noticed that a few people see little value in this. Some people feel that the time spent would have been just as good watching TV. However, beyond the simple inspiration, consider that even small endeavours are useful because they provide a "set of shoulders" on which the next person can stand.
This is a wonderful idea that I've had before, but never got around to trying. I think I'll start now! If only it wasn't such a pain on the iPad -- or maybe that's an advantage.
Facebook's Responsible Disclosure Policy applies to all Facebook properties. The exceptions you outlined specifically apply to our bounty program. Basically, we may not pay a cash reward for a security issue reported in Mailman (an open source tool), but we still appreciate the responsible disclosure and you absolutely shouldn't be worried about a lawsuit.
I wouldn't run a serious web business in the US. The liabilities are just too high.
I find this blog post ridiculous, considering HipChat includes emoticons ripped straight from iChat. Pot meet Kettle. Surprised nobody's noticed or mentioned this yet.
I should think of "them" and what they want to hear?

The country thing... not funny.

What's Your proudest US National park? I vote Yellowstone. It has bears, God.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\WALDEN.TXT

ugh the aisles of
the wood, with occasional vistas through which you see the water.
My Muse may be excused if she is silent henceforth. How can you
expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?
Now the trunks of trees on the bottom, and the old log canoe,
and the dark surrounding woods, are gone, and the villagers, who
scarcely know where it lies, instead of going to the pond to bathe
or drink, are thinking to bring its water, which should be as sacred
as the Ganges at least, to the

----

My expert interpretation... we don't want Ganges pilgrims.

The Grand Canyon is cool. I saw Arch park. Would You bless someone who brought parks to people. I guess TV is good enough. Umm... it's on the Internet, huh! I like Angel Falls in Venezuala.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\DARWIN.TXT

s attached to other objects, either directly or
by means of a stalk, and their bodies are enclosed by a calcareous shell
composed of several pieces, two of which can open to give issue to a bunch
of curled, jointed tentacles, which represent the limbs.

COCCUS.--The genus of Insects including the Cochineal. In these the male
is a minute, winged fly, and the female generally a motionless, berry-like
mass.

COCOON.--A case usually of silky material, in which insects are frequently
enveloped during

Ohhh!! I thought about asking about healing. Movie cacoon. No not really. I think it's preposterous. Bears eat berries. implants for deaf people? Artificial limbs.

Sometimes, I think I should have sought a higher purpose for my professional life. It doesn't bug me much, but I am amazed when I stop to think I never considered doing good as a reason.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT

fat thy bones: and thou shalt be
like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail
not.

58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places:
thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou
shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to
dwell in.

58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy
pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of
the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour
Review of libuv, an interesting library which powers node.js and other projects.
To me the CLI is about fine. It's just the submodules that are poorly executed and break all sorts of expectations.

The mini-primer on submodule-WTFs: "must be executed in root-directory", no auto-clone/update of submodules, incomplete info about submodules in status-commands, manual maintenance of .gitmodules, a wide range of irritating/misleading failure modes and error messages...

It's really no surprise you hardly ever see a submodule on e.g. github, even on projects where it would make sense. The maintenance headache usually dwarves all potential benefits.
I personally play a few rounds of web boggle (http://www.wordsplay.net/). (not affiliated)
Maybe being the CEO isn't the point.
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Interesting. Perhaps I've got a little too much bias from just seeing Finance over there surviving better than Finance over here.
I was just thinking the same thing - but Noam Chomsky writes, and talks, and lectures, and by that, he creates, just as we do when we write software.
Mobile: 25 years of learning from the PC
God, the usual "do only what you love" nonsense.

Newsflash: There's nothing you will love all the time. Everything has some tedium. Suck it up, and get it done. Call it "self improvement" if you must. But really, it's about having some willpower to get through the things you must to achieve the things you want.
Here's a proposal: use your email address. Period. No password. Take your average bulletin board--you're probably not going to use your email address as your nym anyway. Even if you do, what do you lose if someone impersonates you?
Show HN: looseSearch.py
I've been a partner in our agency for 12 years now. It's been a hell of a lot of work. Additionally, the fun and interesting parts have always outweighed the bad.

Again, my point isn't to avoid anything uncomfortable. It's to do it for the right reasons, and to ensure that you aren't procrastinating at something you dislike, when you could be getting ahead at what you do like.
To announce that there are uncleared visitors in the room, so don't discuss anything confidential.
Internet driving cognitive inequality
What about swapping "a" and "e"? The current "a" symbol somewhat resembles "E", and more English words start with "a" than "e", so the full line might be more useful as a hard break at the start of words than in the middle of them. (Sources: A http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=letter+a, E http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=letter+e)
But that's not what the quote implies at all, at least taken in the context of the article. Instead, it implies that the only reason he is being punished is, not because of the hack, but because he hacked facebook. It implies that, had he done the same on some "tiny business of no great importance" it wouldn't have been such a big deal.
Management Wisdom of Battlestar Galactica
That's argument from ignorance. Just because we doesn't know a better solution doesn't mean there aren't any. Hackers build solutions. And as the above poster said, the first step to start building better practical solutions is to acknowledge the limitations of the resources and tools at our disposal.
Perhaps it's the "usual," but most of us still haven't learned it.

Willpower is useful, but not always the right thing. Many of those with willpower stick with something long past it making sense to do so.
In secure facilities (particularly defense related) where secret information or networks are in use, visitors must be accompanied by an escort and announced before entering. Everyone has to stop any actual sensitive work, shut off their monitors to sensitive systems, and cover up sensitive documents on your desk. Then as long as the visitor is in a certain area of the building, red flashing lights (no siren/noise) must stay on to alert everyone else that an un-cleared visitor is currently in the area. This is why most "actual work" gets done in basements and extra-secure rooms where visitors rarely ever see, because the constant interruptions are devastating.
MassTransit: lean service bus for .NET
How your cat is making you crazy
Chomsky is well-read because he wants to say insightful things. No one is remembered for being well read Chomsky is well-know because of his contributions to human knowledge - being well-read is a step towards building interesting things.
It wasn't a stunt. It was a reaction. We're bombarded by means for becoming "better" people. Perhaps it's time to instead ask, "why?"
I'm an active angel investor and a lot of my incoming leads are from founders, I guess I bring value, but I never really thought about how to explain how I'm different (if at all) from anybody else.

I'm terrified of doing this.
There are lots of magic in C and C++ that most people are unaware of or told never to do. But, that magic is used often by older programmers. For example, this is perfectly valid C++ (no compiler warnings or errors even with -Wall and -Wextra) it's roots are in C:

#include <iostream>
#include <boost/integer.hpp>

int main()
{
// Notice these signed types are going into unsigned types!

boost::uint64_t i = -9151314442815602945;
std::cout << i << std::endl;

unsigned int j = -327681234;
std::cout << j << std::endl;

return 0;
}
Pentagram New Work: Microsoft Windows 8
What a pity this didn't get more upvotes, if it is what it says it is and the speeds are as high as they are even the error rate is not a problem (just do triple reads).

Absolutely amazing, thank you for posting this.
These are interesting times we are living in.
In specific instances the fact that China kills people where the US does little to the individuals involved feels good. However, the US approach of mostly free press coupled with regular and independent policing of government contracts, coupled with class action lawsuits changes the landscape significantly. In the end you might argue that corruption is endemic of both systems, yet that's the case for any large scale government thought out history.

What the US does well is simply keep things public enough that everyone tries to at-least appear to follow the rules. And if you ever tried to do significant business in China as apposed to a Chinese company you will quickly understand that that in and of it's self is huge.
Assuming I was headed to or from work with something of a schedule to keep to, I wouldn't stop. I have nothing against classical music or virtuoso violinists, but I'm just not actively into it. If there was someone handing out free tickets to see a famous violin virtuoso (but with the caveat that it was starting immediately and I had to head to the concert hall immediately), I also wouldn't go. This doesn't really say anything about people not liking or appreciating classical music, or even people's ability to recognize a skillful musician.
Just a helpful reality check (since it's easy to lose perspective when you're outraged): Every site that uses JSONP is deliberately exploiting a loophole to circumvent privacy controls.
Going above and beyond… (Apple Retail Story)
10kbp reads would also be very useful for de novo assembly of larger genomes, particularly in repetitive regions. One company (PacBio) currently claims reads this long, but the error rate is around 15%.
Been in contact with politicians in the Swedish Parliament trying to alert them to this, but they don't really seem to care, I even got "Well, I like driving" as a response from one politician. It's sad, given that Sweden is a country where a lot of cars get tested that we're not seizing the opportunity to allow for innovation to happen in the car industry.
Yes. I am 16. I stay home from school because learning civics and history and math and science are super boring, so in between sessions of wallhacking on legacy counter-strike servers I refresh a startup tech news site looking for intellectually stimulating articles.

You're right. I do know everything. Everything except how best to use my time when I occasionally want to waste it broadening my horizon with unusual and interesting information. I typically walk around the house in underroos bragging about how bored I am. Then I zone out to American Idol.

I'm not sure what kind of parallel universe I'd have to exist in where writing about things I don't know anything about is possible, but once I find that reality, by golly I'll take your suggestion to heart.

Hackers really are the Thomas Edisons of our time. Extremely productive in everything they do and never piddling away on something just out of intellectual curiosity. Hackers only seem to create practical solutions to the big problems facing the world today. I'm so glad every college graduate who's just landed his first job writing JavaScript for a start-up can refer to themselves with such a prestigious title. And with so much credibility!

What I don't understand about your comment is that you seem to believe that nobody ever gets bored at work or needs a break from a grind of meetings, coding, red tape, conference calls, etc. I envy your steadfast dedication. I, however, do actually need a break once in a while and enjoy reading about things that are interesting and new to me, or just enlightening in some fashion. Forgive me for crying about it into a thread about distraction.
Google's Dart lands in Chromium tech preview
Nice presentation. Requires webkit though.
Heroku Dyno on Steroids
Full disclosure: jrockway is a Google employee.