skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems we've doubled our life expectancy in the last 50 years. Medicine isn't working you say?

Mostly gains in infant mortality, plus antibiotics. We're coasting on the mid-20C golden age of medicine. Modern medicine is great - postmodern medicine sucks.

Replace "50" with 20 or even 30 and ask the same question.
Legal aspects of Instagram deal done 'in about 54 hours'
By #3 I was referring to the parent's 3rd comment about the focus on improving the toolchain and runtime. I doubt that you're serious about the jailbreak comment.

By far ahead, I was referring to the deployment of code signing technology.

I think it's pretty clear that although Microsoft has solid code signing technology, they are much further behind in promoting effective use of it in the field.
Is there a 1% chance that the enormous rate of growth of Instagram would have continued for a few more years to produce a social network the size (and profitability) of Facebook?

If so, that's a justification for Instagram being worth roughly 1% of Facebook.
Old Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Music From His Era
That's all I said though, is that it reminded me of my Java years.

And yeah, connecting to C libs is commonplace in large PHP places. In fact, that's how PHP gets a lot of it's work done to be quick. Your ".01%" is a number you're throwing out of your ass and you know it.

I'm not surveying PHP usage, merely telling my experience. If you work on a website and need to connect to an external system that only has a C lib, guess what? You're going to connect using C libs.
OpDemand announces GA; AWS management optimized for GitHub users
as batista already pointed out, this already applies to biological humans due to cell death and regeneration, so it's a very pressing philosophical problem!

how old do i need to be before holding a funeral for my past self?

what about special ceremonies for people coming out of medical sedation or comas or just waking up in the morning? a "fractional welcome to the universe party" seems in order, as the person is not really the same one that used to exist.

if upload tech like batista describes is ever created, we will probably give the resulting person the same common sense benefit of the doubt we give to people in the above cases.
Can you find a company that is replicable anywhere in the world at the scale of Apple/Best Buy?
This is cool and something I didn't know about tmux:

"The one disadvantage of everyone at DockYard working remotely is that you can't just turn around and ask someone to come to your desk to pair up. Tmux allows multiple users to connect to a specific session. With a bit of dynamic DNS magic, port forwarding, and ssh tunneling, multiple people can connect to the same tmux session, work in the same vim window, and see the same development server."

...

"With a tmux, ssh port forwarding, and Google+ Hangout, you can create a useful pair programming environment with your remote coworkers. We find this setup very effective and use it often to work together and tackle an issue."
I don't know if you knew this, but Google, Inc. isn't Apple, Inc. Two separate companies! I know it's surprising, it took me a while to figure out myself. You may be also surprised to know that there are actually more ways to release products than how Apple does it. In fact, there many ways, each with various tradeoffs.
Youtube is a whole different kind of animal though.
>>I think people are underestimating the importance of the NYT. If the NYT suddenly disappeared tomorrow, I'd argue that, at least in the near term, it would have far-reaching implications for the US as a society, as a political body, and as a culture. I think it would impact the course of global events in very real ways. The NYT, despite its market cap, is thoroughly integrated into the fabric of the US and serves a number of very important functions.

Would you care to elaborate?
The NYT may well be worth less than its current market cap, given that it has a very high overhead in terms of its operating costs, has to manage a lot of people, and is losing money - see their own reporting at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/business/media/quarterly-p...

The NYT is shrinking, Instagram is growing - that too, matters.
'Roussel says his team completed the entire deal in about 54 hours. Why the urgency? "It's just the way Facebook does stuff," Roussel says.'
> I refused one a few years back and the customer service guy put me through a gauntlet of managers drilling me on why I needed it before they all finally fell back.

You must have really, really needed that machine. I think I would have been escorted off the premises somewhere between the introduction of Manager #1 and the attempted introduction of Manager #2.
I love these parodies. I feel like developers spend too much time "making money" and not enough time sticking it to the man.

I hope this gets built into something tangible.
Like all celebrities, Facebook is a bit insecure and likely overly paranoid about losing its choke hold on social/sharing.

Obviously this was only a factor, but probably is the factor that pushed Instagram's value over the top.
Retail computers are a tough business because of the need to stock rapidly depreciating inventory. There was a big market for doing it better and cheaper (chiefly through having less retail inventory, forgoing some of the instant gratification); see Dell and Gateway and the web. There is a market for doing it better and more expensive; see Apple. There is a market for overpaying for instant gratification and somebody to provide you marginal advice; see Best Buy.

If your fundamental disagreement is against the concept of overpaying for instant gratification and a bit of hand holding, there are many better targets that meet your complaint. I'd probably start with restaurants, for you can cook at home for a lot less in 20 minutes and it's a relatively simple thing that restaurants charge so much for. Yet people seem pretty ok with the opportunity to sometimes trade their hard earned cash for somebody else to do it for them.
That isn't a problem at all for me. In fact I prefer to be left alone by sales people. I always know more about what I'm getting than they do, and like to take time weighing the options.

My problem with them is that they have phased out a lot of non-store brand hardware (Dynex and Rocketfish are their store-brands) and put ridiculous markup on everything. Then they essentially scam you with marked up store brand crap or Monster Cable/Monster Power, then push silly Service Plans on you, and in some cases try and charge you for "calibration" or "optimization".
I assume the built in web server is not meant for production use, right?
Because it's bad for the industry as a whole. Clueless managers are looking exclusively for PHP developers because all they know is that there are a ton of them around. Meanwhile, people who've mastered more powerful tools and can produce more work of higher quality are being excluded from contracts for trivial reasons.
He should buy the New York Times too, and make their articles free to logged in Facebook users. That would bring me back to Facebook more than instagram will (nothing against instagram - it's a great app).
Instagram for Android hits 5 million downloads in 6 days
Well, I'm European and completely up for critiques of American imperialism. I've never felt any of the criticisms of Apple / Foxconn were specifically aimed at Americans though. I mean they might talk about dollars and relate things to American incomes etc, but I've never felt they gave me license to buy a guilt-free iPhone.
Payments Companies Making Mobile Wallets a Reality
Looking at all the amazing work done regarding the DCPU and the article yesterday on Instagram's technology stack made me realize just how far we've advanced. With the tools that we have available now, it is possible to do things in a few days that it took people years if not decades to achieve.
I just feel like turning when I die into a luxury option somehow trivializes my entire existence. I know this is just a personal hangup of mine, but I feel like I am nothing but a summation of activities if I know it's time to die when I get bored with this now-plentiful lifetime. It's like, if you could just keep disney world open as long as you wanted, you could get to ride everything until you were sick of it, and then you'd finally be happy and ready to go home. shrug Maybe I am just uncomfortable that that level of control. It's definitely pressing a lobe in my brain I don't have a name for. I'm sorry I can't be more articulate than that but I know it's based in some rat-brain non-rational fear. It's interesting.
My comment from the blog post:

tmux and screen both have upsides and downsides for pair programming. Ones that I know of:

1. screen requires itself to be setuid root for session sharing. This is security issue to say the least. The frustrating part of this is that screen explicitly checks that that uid == 0. This means that, even if you can iron out all of the permissions issues between you and your partner without needing root access, screen will only accept suid root as the solution.

2. When you are screen sharing in tmux, the configuration used is the configuration of the person hosting the session. This can suck if you have a lot of non-standard bindings, because it forces the person you're pairing with to know them too. screen allows you to both use your own configurations while being connected to the same session.
As someone who works for the Times, it's nice to see the general sentiment of value from folks in this thread.

There are a bunch of folks saying that comparing acquisition price to market cap is apples vs. oranges, which may be true ... but how about market cap to market cap? By that yardstick, Yelp.com is worth 1.5 times The New York Times.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:YELP
There is safety in numbers: how to build fail-safe clusters
This has been shown to be true for sports teams. People buy them for more money than the underlying business is worth because they want to be the next Mark Cuban, George Steinbrenner, etc.
If the carriers offered an Apple Care level of support/insurance for it. Yes.
One way we are going to get around this is that we plan to have a golden .tmux.conf that we will all use at DockYard, so that any non-standard bindings will be standard to us
You're welcome. Perhaps something light. Hacker News is very legible and down-to-business because of its light colors. I'd avoid #FFFFFF white as a background because it does look very HTML-101'ish, but a muted gray, perhaps just a tinge green, seems to work very well on HN.
Hmm, I'm not even sure that the "lost in the desert" part is inappropriate as the metaphor. What was it that I read about an AirBnB for dogs the other day?
The same could be said about buying books and renting videos, but Borders and Blockbusters are both on their way out.

Until someone figures out a way to stream me a SATA cable that I'm missing for a new computer build I'm putting together on a Saturday, I think that Best Buy will be able to hang on for quite a while.
Indeed. I find it interesting that the (first) space race was very much rooted in the Cold War and as such a race between ideologies; Capitalism vs Communism. Yet, both sides used similar structures, i.e. state driven bureaucracies to get to space. Which seems - from an ideological standpoint - to fit much better with Communism. In a way, having companies compete to get into space is way overdue. Exciting times!
Should be: the future value of Instagram is greater than future value of nyt.
Agile Value Dark Horse: What’s Your Backlog Pattern?
Ha, that was my thought experiment, too. Doesn't seem to be a fit with the current demographic of Facebook, but Facebook is trending towards a "social media conglomerate" to the point where it would almost make sense. Interesting play. (Though back to the point at hand, I doubt you could buy the NYT for $1B, value or not.)
How long do I have to be on HN to get a downvote button? This isn't about Django vs. Rails or any other framework, it's about the stack that Instagram is built on, nothing more. There are no comparative metrics.
Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right
nice, how much time did you spend on this site on a weekly basis?
Oh yes...got that. I was just curious what that led to using at instagram. Anyone know what they use?
You may not be trying to make a point about bubbles, but I think many of us will come to the same conclusion.

Come to think of it, didn't the last bubble start very similarly too?

One over-inflated stock begat another and another..
I think that it is easy to confuse worth in terms of cultural value, historical value, and monetary value. Is Instagram worth more monetarily? Yes, in the realm of advertising, Instagrams user base is right smack in the center of the target demographic sought by many advertisers; the 12-30 crowds.

Historically and culturally speaking, I believe that the NYT offers far greater value. But, who wants to spend $1B on historical value?
Show HN: CabGrab - your local Taxi, everywhere.
I was fed up of going to new places and not knowing local taxi numbers and having those awkward conversations trying to negotiate a taxi on a bad line.
You're right, as a more knowledgeable person, we always can do it better with less money.

But let me play the Devil's Advocate:

1) Customers are always looking for better and cheaper, always.

2) Race to the bottom happens if #1 won

Eventually the service becomes commodity and businesses don't scale and not making enough money/razor thin margin.
I hate people who put down people. They're assholes and stupid.

Just kidding dude. I was just joking when I said that. I love coding. I'd fuck a node.js program and even let XML lick my balls at the same time.
What exactly is wrong with giving people ample information to base their decisions on?

As long as PHP will have all these warts, people will condemn it, Get over that.
A little more online reputation management for better online action
That works out to about 31% of their current market cap. Wow.
"This web server is designed for developmental purposes only, and should not be used in production."

http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php
This is true, but this is also my point. Google makes so much money because theire business of search is perfectly aligned with ads (there is almost no difference between a search result and an ad-result).
Google's display ads are not as 'successful', because I'm reading a blog or doing something else than searching when I get into contact with AdSense.
There is a huge difference between my friend's status update and an ad (maybe Timeline can change this).
HA! The LANGUAGE insecure? Yet another one who blaims the tool. Good luck with your career.
I am positively stunned that I didn't get those calculations correct. My abject apologies.
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Appear as Opening Speaker at the D10 Conference
It's in my PATH. If I do that, this happens:

freebsd$ mosh-server

MOSH CONNECT 60001 cPiSdaPVTjKA/JQjy5jExg

mosh-server (mosh 1.1.3)
Copyright 2012 Keith Winstein <mosh-devel@mit.edu>
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

[mosh-server detached, pid = 2751]

Warning: termios IUTF8 flag not defined.
Character-erase of multibyte character sequence
probably does not work properly on this platform.

However back on the OS X desktop, if I do the following:

osx$ export MOSH_KEY=cPiSdaPVTjKA/JQjy5jExg

osx$ mosh-client 18.4.12.5 60001

<it now starts connecting, but server side complains "Crypto exception: Packet failed integrity check.">
Personal Hypertext Preprocessor

Nothing in the whole world is easier and faster for a 4/page Personal Hypertext Project.

Nothing.

Don't blame me, I use python and go most of the time, I just wanted to point out the answer to why people still use PHP today. It was created with that only purpose, it grew like weed out of control.

Don't you ever compare php to python, ruby, java or haskell. Don't even try to ridicule php, the only one looking bad will be you for being so ignorant to compare a rock with a hammer and wasting a whole post complaining how the rock doesn't even have a handle.
I hesitate to admit photons into the macro realm, considering they are elementary particles and essentially massless.

Given the de Broglie hypothesis, I must of course admit macroscopic objects do have wavelengths, and thus macroscopic uncertainty (your statelessness) is a nonzero vlue. For all intents and purposes though, the denominator of the equation causes the wavelength to go very close to 0, as the mass value dwarfs the Planck constant and velocity is always non-zero due to brownian motion.

Wave function collapse is interesting and I must admit when it is not induced by momentum, I don't understand it very well.
7" is a great form factor.

I have a cheap 7" Android tablet (along with a 10.1" Transformer, and iPad2, a Galaxy S, and iPhone 4 and and iPod Touch..), and I love the size.

It's slightly heavy for me to use comfortably as an ebook, though. I've tried the Samsung 7", and that thing seems fantastic - roughly as light as my ebook reader, but so thin.

Toshiba as a tablet manufacture.. meh. I'm not impressed with what I've seen so far, but I guess they might get there.

I'm not sure about 13", but I'm sure for the I'm a basketball coach with big hands and 10" is too small for me market it will be a big hit.
Don't start worrying about the "purity" and "this was never intended". You don't specify a processor instruction set in the real world without expecting people to write higher level languages for it, so why expect people to write at such a low level in a GAME of all places? I am fairly certain everything is going exactly as planned. Notch has got this.
I've found skype and copilot both to work well for this challenge. Curious of tmux will work better (iOS devs).
Richard Fisher, CEO of the Dallas Federal Reserve, pointed out the threat of Medicare to the budget in 2008. As you can imagine, it's only gotten worse since then:

"Please sit tight while I walk you through the math of Medicare. As you may know, the program comes in three parts: Medicare Part A, which covers hospital stays; Medicare B, which covers doctor visits; and Medicare D, the drug benefit that went into effect just 29 months ago. The infinite-horizon present discounted value of the unfunded liability for Medicare A is $34.4 trillion. The unfunded liability of Medicare B is an additional $34 trillion. The shortfall for Medicare D adds another $17.2 trillion. The total? If you wanted to cover the unfunded liability of all three programs today, you would be stuck with an $85.6 trillion bill. That is more than six times as large as the bill for Social Security. It is more than six times the annual output of the entire U.S. economy.

I want to remind you that I am only talking about the unfunded portions of Social Security and Medicare. It is what the current payment scheme of Social Security payroll taxes, Medicare payroll taxes, membership fees for Medicare B, copays, deductibles and all other revenue currently channeled to our entitlement system will not cover under current rules. These existing revenue streams must remain in place in perpetuity to handle the “funded” entitlement liabilities. Reduce or eliminate this income and the unfunded liability grows. Increase benefits and the liability grows as well."

http://www.dallasfed.org/news/speeches/fisher/2008/fs080528....
What he did is very impressive, and I understand he was attempting to replicate what appeared in the Project Glass video, but why does all the graphical interaction have to obscure the user's vision (for Project Glass and his live demo)? The icons layout horizontally too close to the center of your view. If the whole point is to have this augmented experience, the user still needs to have a mostly unobstructed view of their surroundings. For the most part, fake video game HUDs handle this pretty well. Project Glass just has the interface getting in the way of everything. Why not just sit down somewhere and use another device at that point? You obviously won't be able to do anything else. I'm not walking down the street or through a store with a big icon in the center of my field of vision.
Third-Party JavaScript Development: Optimizing CSS Delivery
this is way better than the current site. in the sense that it actually conveys a brand - whereas the original is far more neutral

I've no idea if this was a deliberate choice in the case of the current site - but having neutral visual branding can be a very effective technique for organisations to exploit for a couple of reasons:

1) The visual brand isn't the only factor that effects conversion. When you're exploring your product/market fit it can be much more cost effective to work with a neutral visual brand and tweak your other positioning mechanisms, rather than create multiple visual brands that target different markets.

2) It's relatively easy to evolve a neutral visual brand into something more targeted. It's much harder to go the other way.

Basically - if you're going to go strong in one direction you need to be pretty sure that it's the right direction.

To pick one real world example. I did some usability testing work on a franchise of bed'n'breakfast style "holiday" hotels. We were looking at a couple of design alternatives. One of which was very plain and "vanilla". The other was considerably more "polished", included some nice professional photography, tours, etc.

The "polished" design performed _far_ worse. It put-off some of the low-end users (by looking "polished" it no longer looked "cheap") while not really increasing conversions in the high-end group. In contrast the "plain" brand worked well across everybody - by neither looking "cheap" or "expensive".

Before we did the testing many folk commented that the polished design was "nicer" and was "more designed". It wasn't. It was a different design. A neutral visual brand is still branding.
Yes, I thought about that. Maybe even something like Aardvark in big, who knows.

And if they are able to execute search as well as connecting people, they will and should become as or even more successful as Google.

But I'm hoping for more innovative business models, even though that is unlikely.
ThetaBoard is awesome, your landing page just sucks. It's a GREAT todo list. You just to change the UI a bit so it's not in the way in certain places. And then from there on start adding social features like dragging and dropping tasks (don't call them stories, that's just weird) into team mates' panels. That would be AWESOME.

I've been working on a todo list / team manager like that too Tasck.com, But thousands of dollars, 3 developers, and 4 years later my stupid fucking todo list is still incomplete. I learned a lot because I made a lot of mistakes. It was my very first web project / startup-to-be. I'm not pouring any more time and money into it until I can find a local developer within driving distance who's willing to help me out with it.

I think you could use a few of the features from my todo list. I invested so much time and money into it I don't want to just ignore it. I'd rather see it merged or tied into someone elses solution or something. I'm insanely busy this and next and next month but click on my username and send me an email.
I've been saying this for a while. I got my idea from pg, who said that Yahoo never realized that search traffic is the most valuable.

People with a problem pay for a solution. People looking for free entertainment generally don't.
Everyme Offers a Mobile-First Version of Group Social Networking
"the Excite 7.7 will start at $499.99"

Wasn't Asus going to launch a 7 inch tablet with Tegra3 for $250?

If that's the case Toshiba is borked, big time.
``Mouse free environment'' is a retarded concept.

And that book doesn't understand anything about tmux and why it came about.
How to Present like Steve Jobs