skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, as an American transplanted in Vienna, I am very much not surprised to see that Austria leads the list with per-capita hackerspace density.

One of the interesting elements (that I suspect nobody here on Hacker News will mention) is government support.

As somebody else said, coworking kinda follows the gym membership model and hackerspaces are by nature more transitory, ephemeral, and more likely to "just go away" if people "wander off."

Austria, and the city of Vienna specifically, set aside a fairly significant budget for supporting local cultural projects and ones that advance Austria/Vienna in socio/economic/cultural ways.

Thus, for example, metalab has a primo location right by the Rathaus (city hall) that they could never afford if the city didn't support them. And Net Culture Lab is in the MuseumsQuartier, the very apex of hip govt-funded culture.
Not to mention that most of those Type A busybees' startups will fail. All the hours in the world can't erase the fact that even good startups often tank, and most startups are founded on pretty cockamamie ideas anyway.

Equating hours-per-week with value is naive at best.
As cgrenade already mentioned, most Linux users use something either based on Debian (which includes Ubuntu) or Fedora (including RHEL).

Also, consider that the major Linux ditros have far more users than the different BSDs or Solaris do (OK, there's a lot of old projects running Solaris, but it's very rare to pick for new projects, so I doubt this would be a big source of customers for new software).
At least one other:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/inside/authors/matt_mcalister/in...

(although theirs seems to have no published APIs or documentation that I can find, yet)
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It's really a lot more complicated than that on the packager's side. What you're seeing is likely the result of the person building the binaries already linking everything statically that's possible, using older compatibility versions of the shared libraries, and hoping for the best on the rest, being certain not to make use of recent or volatile features.
Does rss count as an api?
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Sadly, you have not read enough before making your conclusions. Webby shines with blogs, check http://www.locomotivation.com to see an example.

You can create a blog with two commands in webby:

$ webby-gen blog "My Blog"
...
$ webby blog:post "Nice weather today"
[13:27:47] INFO: creating content/blog/2008/index.txt
[13:27:47] INFO: creating content/blog/2008/12/index.txt
[13:27:47] INFO: creating content/blog/2008/12/28/nice-weather-today.txt

And it obviously does support categories/tags/article statuses etc. since you can give any property to your page.
True, but depending on what you eat, it's quite possible to already get most of the salt you need. (Though, he did say he'll be going to the gym every day, so his salt needs might be higher.)
Exactly right. As I said at the beginning of my post, the "new boxes" method is only used for major platform upgrades, of a magnitude that would happen once a year or less for most properties.

For the really huge properties, the cross-colo upgrade pattern you (sh1mmer) describe is the way to go.
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Mint looks cool but I don't get how they have so many users. I think you'd need to be batshit insane to put a large collection of your financial details into an online third party service.
Who is to say the change would have been for the better? Korea switched systems, since then, there was no major advantage of Korea over China. And the 2nd largest economy in the world - Japan - still uses such a system.

I don't think that writing with an alphabet vs writing with characters makes that big a difference. Characters are relatively easy to learn for a child.

(I assume here that with sound-indicating principle, you mean a western like system)
Title doesn't match the content.
Good luck! I was in your position a couple of years ago. It eventually wore me down a bit being a lone shark, but there is definitely a high period :)

BTW, bandwidth shouldn't be expensive ($100 a terabyte is reasonable in the continental US) - it should be your time that's the biggest draw.
Some people want to start businesses because they are poor right now, and don't want to be poor. Such people will make money but they will never become rich, because all they really want is to have some toys. Once they have maybe $20.000 a month, they can get all the toys they want, all the girls they want, and their journey is done. These are people who want to "make it" and retire to an island they bought. Unfortunately, they will never be able to buy the island, but they will be able to rent a cottage there for a few weeks each year, and that will be enough for them.

Some other people just want to win. Money is the path they have chosen, and they will continue to try to win, time after time. They are playing a game, and they want to be first. These are the people that look for new opportunities, keep trying them, expanding and so on. They will be able to afford the island at some point, but they will never want to go retire there, because the game by which they define themselves does not exist there.

Another group of people care about their ideas. They have an idea, they nurture it and build it out and they want people to use it and admire it. When people buy it or use it, or ooh and ahh at some way he expanded it, that is when they feel the sense of accomplishment. The money is not that important, but if the idea is a good one that people want, it will make money. When his idea gets bought out, he will find a new idea and work again to make it appreciated.

In the end, all groups just want to get some positive feedback for something they did. They want to push a button and get a dopamine rush to the head. They just choose different ways to do it.
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Well if that's the case and if properties are available on a site-wide basis like Jekyll's topics and categories are, then yes - it certainly seems very capable and something I would like to have a crack at using.
It has its own crawler, it only uses Yahoo when it can give you good results.
In many cases it's relative value that's more important. Take housing, if you make twice the average person in your area housing is not a problem if you make 1/2 it's a major issue.

It works the same way for education and other services. The only advantage to an increased economy when you fall behind is hard goods which are not that important. I don't care if I can buy a 70" TV if I can't pay for housing. etc.
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For those who couldn't see the page:

The most interesting feature of this language is that all functions commute over lists. For example:

[2,3,5,7,9,11].at(3)

returns 7, but if you pass a list to 'at' instead:

[2,3,5,7,9,11].at([1,3,4])

you get [3,7,9]. This means you don't need functions like 'map' to apply a function to a list. You just call the function on the list and it automatically commutes. It works for trees too:

[2,3,5,7,9,11].at([1,[2,3],4])

returns [3,[5,7],9].
Freedom is exactly right, but it seems to me that resource constraints can curtail freedom sufficiently to cause aggression.

I think George Orwell said something along the lines that blocking access to resources is also an act of aggression.

As long as we rely on highly centralized resources, such as oil, it's hard to see how the world can indefinitely avoid politics that will anger those who rely on the resources.

Perhaps I am a bit naive, but I think that fairly equal increases in energy can do a lot to reduce the causes of such aggression. Cheap energy makes it easy to start a business and cheap to produce food. Economic prosperity is a good antidote to belligerence and a strong economic class is a good counter-balance to the political establishment of a country.

If you will permit me more naive idealism, this is one of the reasons why I have such high hopes for nuclear fusion.
This is a fake recession, an induced depression that won't last a year.

Wake me up when there isn't any bread in the bakery.
Even better - pirated copies should automatically call his pay-per-call 800 number.
Quality of time is the key.
I wake up early (around 5h30 am) because it's the best time to get things done. My mind is clear and it goes fast.

I never work during sundays. That's my only limit.
That's not a good argument for the gold standard, but it is a good argument for studying it as a serious monetary policy.
I seriously doubt her $800,000 is going to large scale industrial power projects, though you are right that they are the only economical green projects.
Some people like winning. For some pursuits, money is an indicator of points.
A few days later, police admitted that Casey's chemistry lab wasn't a meth lab - but they kept him in jail, claiming that he had some of the materials necessary to produce explosives.

Its really troubling that "innocent until proven guilty" is evolving into "if you possess the means to commit a crime, this implies guilt".

You have everything it takes to make an IED in your kitchen. So does everyone else. It seems like they are beginning to use this to justify holding people at any time. Make a mistake? Arrest the wrong guy? Well, he did have all of the ingredients for making explosives in his house... (and he weighed less than a duck!)
I comment this way only when I'm coding a library or some sort that I'll be using in more than one application... Those are then the comments of my public api
Watch your hubris and bigotry.

Windows is a far larger market, so early adopters and trend setters aren't as loud as they might be in an empty room, but that doesn't mean there are less of them. Instead, they tend to be visible only in niches of the PC market, rather than simply the Mac niche or FOSS niche.

Also, I recommend that you moderate your intake of propaganda re Windows security too. Windows is the big target, and has by far the largest number of suckers (i.e. unsophisticated users). That doesn't make it inherently insecure, or savvy users of it incompetent.
Are you a citizen? If so, was it straightforward?
An orbit is not a sphere. To get the result for a sphere we need AC in some form.

The result for the sphere are easily generalized on a ball (first without a center, then with the center).
Not really. The last nail in the coffin of serious research on the gold standard was "Golden Fetters" by Eichengreen. It has a phenomenal and indisputable country-by-country timeline showing the cycle of deflationary behavior stopping during the Great Depression in country after country shortly following (4-6 months) the effective abandonment of the gold standard. One can argue that N=20 is not significant research, but there is a reason no-one will take you seriously if you do.

I personally haven't met anyone who has argued for the gold standard and has read it although that may be a comment more on the academic backgrounds of the people who used to write pro-gold stuff and stuff it into my inbox back in college than the theoretical basis of the argument. So while gold may have a place as an investment (especially as a hedge against inflation) in large part people who spend considerable breath on extolling its virtues using words like "intrinsic value" and "stability" and "natural" are kooks. Their choice of the word "natural" is also odd since gold coinage is hardly more natural than paper and in fact is less easy to control the asset base.

When economists talk about not repeating the mistakes of the 1930s, they are by and large talking about the importance of maintaining liquidity in the system to prevent deflationary spirals, and avoiding liquidity traps. They are also cognizant of Keynes' proof that Say's Law does not work once people want to start doing things like holding liquid assets, and the dismal performance of things like the zero-inflation policy in Canada and other countries through the 1990s.

I'm amazed by the number of Internet libertarians who have jumped on this bandwagon.
Same thing (nested replies) can be accomplished via a GreaseMonkey script, without giving out your credentials.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30598

I'm sure there are GreaseMonkey scripts for the other features, too...
Indeed. To most major vendors (that I deal with anyway) Linux is synonymous with RHEL 4 or 5 and that's it. Sometimes only one of those.
It's getting to the point now that you might as well distribute your app in the form of a VM image.
Computers don't matter if the kids can't read.
That is interesting because in practice it looks like China is borrowing a lot of the best ideas from the rest of the world and mixing it with its society.
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Why bother posting gigantic personal appeals on Wikipedia when they could just put a very small AdSense box to cover all costs?
"Folding" has not been counted as "losing" a hand in any poker circles I've been a member of.
I'm not going to ditch Blueprint for it - I like being able to columnize very easily, and it's not a pain to change column size/number - but Blueprint (and 960gs) could definitely take some ideas from this, like not being redundant.
It's about the ecology, stupid
When the data shows a cooling trend since 1998, while we shouldn't be complacent, we should also celebrate that what we're doing is, to the extent that we influence the environment at all, working, and resolve to keep up the good work.
It's a newspaper. Expecting any of those things is misunderstanding what they're about. Though I agree that this article was truly, magnificently, horrendously full of crap.

Unfortunately that's what sells newspapers.
Sure, companies are in business to make money. But do you truly believe that piracy has no cost? It should be an extremely simple logical exercise to prove it does: just imagine if everyone always did it in every situation.
Our application is written in Java which is a compatibility nightmare on Linux. There are half a dozen alternative Java implementations which are all slow and broken but that doesn't stop the important Linux distributions from preferring them strongly over the Sun JRE.

This forced us to bundle the Sun JRE with our application on Linux, which effectively doubled the size of it. It was worth it though because we haven't seen any Linux incompatibility issues yet.

(ps: I can test tarsnap on ArchLinux)
IMO yes if they can offer different parameters for search keywords etc. (like Twitter's search RSS/Atom feed allows search parameters)

Newspapers, have read about a few sometime ago. Associated Press offers one (feeds).

But the best choice would be to go for Daylife's API. http://developer.daylife.com

They index news sources including blogs and newspapers and other sites. You can refine the sources by the sourceIDs and hence select only newspapers for your API results.

Good luck!
I don't think it causes an increase in the price of goods, although I don't doubt that an increase in piracy leads to a decreasing number of products being developed.
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6am - 5pm : for college

5pm - 12am : trying to manage work/life balance

that 5-12 includes trying to take rest, managing college assignments if any... and basically trying to do too many things... so work/life balance hardly exists :(

If I play some backetball in the evening I haven't the energy to do much that night. the "/" in "work/life" sometimes seems to translate to "work" OR "life".. choose any :P
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the video can be seen here:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4b4GkGMiBDQ
What's the view like from there? Can you see the Nile?
You don't see how it could increase the price? Think about all the money (e.g. developer/researcher time) being spent on trying to stop piracy. These are costs that are passed directly onto the customers.
I would have to agree with this. We released the first version of our software for Linux and OS X only. It wasn't a deliberate plan to target 'trend setters', we simply didn't finish the work we need to do on Windows yet.

Since we are in a technical niche (network security) a lot of the traffic to our site is from Linux and OS X users, but 85% of it is still from Windows. It's painful to watch people arrive at our site, realize in the first 30 seconds that there is no version of our software for Windows, then disappear (probably forever).
Linux links like this have a kind of "how to wrap yellow Christmas wrapping paper on a non-corrugated cardboard box of less than 50 cubic cm between Dec 18th and 21st" character.

Why not any recent version of squid on any recent Linux to do anything squid can do?

On the offchance that I need to do exactly this, I hope I can remember that such a guide exists and which squid/Linux/goal it applies to...
I counsel hopeful skepticism. Engineers (and these guys are doing engineering, better if they realize it, worse if they don't) always underestimate the time to completion on projects which are breaking new ground. I have no real doubt that one day we will achieve controlled nuclear fusion as a power-generating mechanism. I have nothing but doubt about when it will be achieved.
If I understand the counter-argument correctly, when the data shows a day's worth of weather, it's too small to mean anything. When it shows a month's weather, it's still to small to mean anything. When it shows a year, same deal.

Now I believe the wisdom is that when the data shows a decade of weather trends, it is also too small to draw conclusions. If the article is true and most of the last decade has canceled out the small increase over the last century, then perhaps the same "wisdom" is true at the century level as well -- 100 years of data for naught. To me this seems a little strange since we only have large-scale climate readings for the last 100 years or so. Past that it's sparse readings, interpolations and projections.

The next five years or so will be interesting. If it shows a continued cooling, and if global warming proponents continue to promote their case, I will be curious as to what we mean when we say "climate" -- because I must be missing something.
That it doesn't handle as awful like an pickup truck doesn't say much.

There is just no getting around mass. If the car weighs more and has the weight higher up, that is bad for handling.

A Subaru Impreza WRX STi is faster than a Porsche Cayenne GTS around the Nordschleife, even though the Cayenne has a lot more power. A Cayenne gets beaten by hatch backs, sedans and station wagons on a track. It just doesn't stand a chance with all that mass.
That's complete nonsense. A software company will always choose the price they believe will generate the most revenue.

If they are acting rationally they would choose exactly the same price regardless of whether the software cost $100 to produce or $100 million.

You are suggesting that there is some other consideration involved, which necessarily means that the company will act against their own interests and price their software irrationally.
And here I thought it'd be about news. But no, movie reviews.

Give me a news API and then we'll talk, NYTimes.
If Wikipedia denies you entry if you don't cough up some money, then it could be considered extortion.

Also, as the platitude goes, "nothing is free."

Someone has to pay all the fees. Whether it's Jimmy Wales out of his own pocket, a generous donation from a big corporation, or through the collective donations of many people - someone isn't getting it for free.

Free and not-free isn't a binary relationship; it's a sea of gray.
So it uses twitters notoriously unreliable 'reply-to' system? In which I can reply to a tweet, but if that person happens to send a second tweet whilst I am typing my reply, I end up replying to THAT one instead?

Also, haha. I am not giving out my twitter username and password to some random third-party site. No sir.
I know of one example where someone turned down extra money out of jealousy, albeit under slightly different circumstances.

A friend of mine was meeting a guy for a potential arranged marriage. She had a good job working for a large investment bank. A deal killer for the potential husband: the wife can't make more money than him. This was VERY important to him, literally the second or third question he asked her.

(Him being a jackass was a deal killer for her.)
we only have large-scale climate readings for the last 100 years or so. Past that it's sparse readings, interpolations and projections.

...And these paintings:
.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age#Depictions_of_wi...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick_Avercamp

http://images.google.com/images?q=Hendrick+Avercamp
It isn't just about how many early adopters there are -- it's that, with Linux and OS X, they make up a much larger proportion of users. There are probably a lot more savvy Windows users, but the high proportion of early adopters in Mac/Linux markets makes it easier to be recognised by those types of user if you're targeting them.
...Also a book and an April 2004 article in the Atlantic Monthly.

http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Case+Against+Perfection+M...

The Case Against Perfection What's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes , and genetic engineering by Michael J. Sandel
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Please, tell me why scrapy better than wget? I can easly call wget from my python scripts...
Tempting. I never had the drive to get into formal typography. Eyeball everything instead.
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When, after many attempts, I wrote the first SF&F story that I thought might be saleable, I decided that I wasn't going to try publishing it until I could write what I thought were good stories on a routine basis. I didn't ever want to be a one-hit wonder, even to the extent of only having one published SF&F story.
About as many as will be around in 20 years...
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Why do people register, does crippling work, does anybody really know?
Um.. what exactly have we done? Before the economy tanked the US was using more gas then ever. China hasn't slowed their opening of new coal power plants much, if any. So aside of thinking positive thoughts about climate, what exactly has changed that could have had any kind of effect?
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I didn't write this -- Colin Messitt did -- but it seems apropos even now. As far as I know this is the only "controlled" experiment in piracy.
I would have been perfectly content with "Because Microsoft is evil".
apropos: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411985
Yeah! the moment I saw the UI, this was the first thing that occurred to me. The UI looks a lot uncluttered in the beginning.

But what's still weird is this... Take a look at the pic. http://content.zdnet.com/2346-12554_22-256914-5.html The entire UI after logging in has a different title bar and windowing theme . But why does that "Install windows" thing still sport the old Win98 windowing theme - the old dark blue fade?

And the desktop after login. Looks neat and less uncluttered. Yeah borrowed from KDE it seems :)

Again http://content.zdnet.com/2347-12554_22-256914-256960.html?se... I got damn confused here. Look at the title bar and toolbars of Paint and Wordpad. They look crowded like as if they are waiting with a "Hey! click me first" sign board. The old WinXP alignment of toolbars was better. As a WinXP and Linux user, I feel the toolbars very confusing and it sounds heavy & confusing.

And top-bottom fading of the windowing theme borrowed from Mac? Coz I've seen such a design in Safari and same with Mac

But overall, the UI LOOKS NEAT with light shades.

P.S:- @henning: You can understand it like this "start -> shutdown" as in "begin to shutdown". So that isn't a big problem anyway since start is now the windows logo :)