skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telehash is radically decentralized. How do you get a firehose out of that? It would be more like a point to point garden hose wouldnt it? I would like to be proved wrong, but I think Twitter/centralized and Telehash/decentralized will end up looking and acting like two very different services.

If the Twitter as an API group had won out the two best outcomes I can think of are either a buy out from Google, or a move to a foundation like Wikipedia. Google could afford to carry it, like it does Youtube, just so they could own a huge firehose of information and use it elsewhere in search ads, without trashing the stream with ads.

Needless to say founders looking to get rich wouldn't go for the low returns of the foundation model but it would have been the best possible outcome for the well being of the future Internet having and open, censorship resistant message bus and API, assuming you could get enough donors to support it.
> Many of the distinctive things I noticed could be summed up by describing America as a young culture. Americans have the optimism and energy of youth, but they're also comparatively unsophisticated.

This article has always stuck with me and I think speaks to what you're trying to say. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon...

"There is something about the carelessness of America that gives space for greatness."

"If you do not like your life and you have drive and luck, you can change it because - being American - you believe you can change it."

"But if Sonia Sotomayor is to make it big, there must be something creating the drive, and part of that something is the poverty of the alternative, the discomfort of the ordinary lives that most Americans endure and the freedom that Americans have to go to hell if that is the decision they take. This is the atmosphere in which Nobel Prize winners are nurtured. A nation which will one day mass produce a cure for type one diabetes, could not, would not, save little Kara Neumann from the bovine idiocy of her religious parents."
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> It should also be noted that in most quality of life indexes, cities in the US rank far below many of those in Europe, Canada, and Australia...

Having personally lived in two of the most recently top-ranked cities (Vancouver and now Melbourne) I'd say the indexes are mostly bogus.

Evidently something as important to quality of life as the weather isn't much of a factor given that it rains for most of the year in Vancouver. I haven't look up where SoCal ranks, but personally I much preferred living there to Vancouver for the climate alone.

And house prices in Australia are so absurdly expensive that I can't even consider buying (although I'm quite happy renting).

It's a cliche, but if you're really ambitious the US really is the land of opportunity. E.g., Elon Musk studied in Canada after leaving South Africa, but it's in the US where he started PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX.
One thing I don't understand is why the media portrays Facebook as "botching" its IPO. If anything, didn't the company make out with a better deal than their market value? How is this bad for Facebook? It's only bad for investors, if they invested in Facebook before its market value dropped, right?

Also, I'm sure the investors and underwriters knew that there's a significant amount of uncertainty and risk when investing in new technology companies, especially with industries that have never been around before.

I feel like this is just the media circus trying to blow things out of proportion.
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Slightly off topic but can't resist this little humorous spin on the Flask README:

> Flask [...] was developed with best intentions in mind.

And any bugs I guess is "the unintended consequences of good intentions...". :)
It has been proposed and it is already being counter argued: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/06/29/is-long-... (look under A long-term sharemarket?)
i was also disappointed by how certain he seemed to be about what caused those changes to his character. All four of those points, in my mind, are characteristic of someone growing up, not living abroad. I don't think his opinions are at all unique to ex-pats.
It just seems way too subjective

Sure, it's subjective, but humans are generally a lot alike. As with anything, "better" (with the exclusion of "strictly better") is a valuation that 'the typical human will prefer option X', taking into account the trade-offs of option X vs. typical attitudes towards those trade-offs.

This is why it is so easy to exclude, as you did, countries ravaged by war et al., because the typical human does not appreciate war and famine enough that few things will make up for it.
In short, Hollywood. And that English is the lingua franca of the modern world
The NE, NW, and NorCal areas of the US are pretty secular. I've never had an issue with atheism. Like in so many things, this part of America is pretty polarized.

I suspect there is a tipping point for religion. It is easy to be culturally Christian and accept basic tenets (i.e., God exists) when there aren't significant vocal doubters. Currently, even in secular areas, it is seen as a bit rude to vocally doubt the existence of God.
You are wrong about Apple, they have one huge datacenter in the US where people suspect the Siri backend runs. They also have a smaller data center in California. We don't actually know what runs where, and we don't know what they are running in leased space in 3rd party datacenters. And, they are building other datacenters in the US.

In any case, wherever Siri runs, I don't think that Internet latency comes close to explaining the latency, and, I think, Siri can actually hide a lot of latency.
Ask HN: What caused the problems with the leap second?
On my desktop (Ubuntu 10.04), Chrome, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. were all running full steam this morning; the load was pegged at 20. Just setting the date to itself solved the problem.

But what caused these processes to get into a spin loop? What caused these high loads? Any insights would be appreciated.
They do this already, minus the analysis. I think the problem is this just isn't that big of a business.
This post provided some background:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182642
I agree.

Especially because 60%+ of the implementation work is making it look good with the website -- which is something you don't get for free with this service.
I had to uninstall Flutter because it opened on install and I couldn't find a way to delete it.

I don't have a problem with pausing Spotify because I have play, pause and skip keys on my Mac and I just hate having my webcam on, I know it's not recording or going to the cloud but on the few occasions I tried to put my hand up to pause and play it wasn't fast enough to fit into my workflow.

I see where this can be useful in the entreprise and other areas and as the technology develops it will be important though.
I think a lot of Europeans, muslims and Chinese would disagree with you. But thank you for proving my point.
I imagine both these teams were well aware that using a dictionary word like that for a product name would inevitably lead to name conflicts.
When I sometimes have to work in Windows (which really makes no sense at those companies since the products I build 99% of the time run on Linux); Cygwin makes Windows usable.
Just wrapping up a several weeks trip to Europe (London, Cologne, Edinburgh) as we speak. I think I'm having the opposite observation. Western cultures have so much in common it has actually been surprising to me. I always expected to be amazed by the differences, but if you throw out all of the superficial stuff the set of appreciable differences is rather smaller.

As for his specific points

1. I have no idea how somebody with half a brain and access to the internet can have this notion. Maybe I am the exception to the rule, but I never fancied my Country to be any more 'important' than any other nation. In fact, the opposite was often considered given that modern civilisation has few roots in the Americas.

2. Never believed in religion in the first place

3. Every country has their fair share of embarrassing points, and of course their fair share of unfortunate embarrassing people. I have rather enjoyed seeing that the human condition is more or less the same the world over. I also feel occasionally embarrassed by my fellow countrymen, but I figure the best way to counteract that is to represent myself, and by association my country, the best I can.

4. As for that, we will see. I've not seen anything that screams out to me "This economy is vastly more productive than the US" in the areas that I have visited. Perhaps public transport and some infrastuctural aspects lend themselves to a more efficient country, and the US should certainly take a look at those things.

Oh well, I'm glad to have had the experience of travelling throughout Europe, but I would expect some deeper takeaways from somebody that literally spent years immersed in a foreign culture.
(disclaimer: i'm not the op)
India, South Korea, Japan and so on.
All have astronomical savings rate. All that money is locked up in the banks and not flowing to the people who need it the most (need==to make/market their innovation/products), because the delivery system is so broken and there is so little trust
Why not just walk around with a silly face all the time, and maybe a mustache?
oh of course and I do not use r/atheism regularly, I find the entire place really disappointing because it's not about atheism, it's about how much religious people are morons (which I disagree with). My curiosity was because there are thousands of redditors that believe they're persecuted for their Atheism and I've never once seen someone from England claim that, it's only ever Americans, which leads me to believe there may be some base to the claim (if what Ryan said in the blog post is accurate).
The US is coasting, and I believe it will implode financially within our lifetimes.

Given the European financial crisis, this seems misplaced. Not to say that there will not be a financial collapse, but only if there is one it will be world-wide and the US will not be the worst off of the Western nations.
Everyone is blaming NASDAQ for issues that are not inherently NASDAQ's fault. The IPO "flopped" not because of the exchange but because demand wasn't there. Switching to NYSE won't magically change the price (and I'm pretty sure the price would have fell on the opening day if they listed on NYSE).
I'd say that the chances of us ever coming into contact with intelligent life are worryingly low until well (as in, billions of years) into the future. If we say that "ultimate maturity" of a civilization is to have a technological singularity of some sort, resources wouldn't really be an issue. SETI hasn't picked up anything. Assuming that the universe is infinite in extent, as it currently is hypothesized to be, the only real solution is that life is so spread out as to be almost irrelevantly far away.
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I wonder if more Americans would travel through Europe if they knew how easy it is. EVERYBODY speaks English. And yet, you still get to experience the cultures and augment your worldview a bit.
create a honeypot ID and use that as a disposable cost of anonymity. i'm assuming that a suitably motivated person can find a passport and then create a persona around that. then you can use all the 'normal' channels but there is a name to go with them, a credit card, an email etc. the fact that it's not you is the whole point. i think it's shneir that said it's not identity that's important, it's intent...
I wrote this post to share some of the mistakes I and some of my friends have made in 15 years of startups. Would love to see if I have missed some common other offers some of you have settled for only to regret later.
Thanks for the kind feedback. We have changed it so that on Mac it launch on start is optional. You can also turn it off from top menu bar icon if you have older version. If you have really old version, then download the latest as it is much improved in terms of false positives!

We hope you give us a try after we add few more gestures!
Social mobility is actually very low in the US in comparison with other developed countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#Country_compari...
Yes, based on BMI. I know BMI isn't always accurate for each individual, but I'm assuming that it's more or less evens out on the population level.
Full disclosure: I did some work on Thrift in 2007-2008.

I read the blog post you linked and I don't see any real evidence that their choice of Thrift was "grudging". They did say that there are differing requirements that might lead to others to make a different choice -- but AFAICT there is no indication in the article that they regret their choice.

WRT IDLs: YMMV of course, but the post you linked provides the following reasons why an IDL might be a good idea: "A more formal IDL and native code generation may help provide better long-term client stability, so the initial Thrift overhead for developers might be justified for some services that are concerned about client stability and longevity."
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I played with Rails a long time ago and decided to try Django when it hit the 1.0.

You have one really good argument for going with Django: your friends use it. You can ask them tips, talk about it, and they certainly help you in the right direction.

Aside from that, I recommend you to try the Django tutorial, shouldn't take you more than a couple of hours https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/

Also, the small webserver bundled with Django will restart automatically whenever you change a file.
Kincast is in Sproutbox http://sproutbox.com/ right now. The experience has been great. You instantly get a great UX person, designer, and a few developers without having to recruit and hire people. You don't get lots of cash, but the instant access to more engineering resources is very nice.
I'm of the school that one of the worst things Twitter could do is add support for data/attachments, long messages or message bloat in general. The essence of Twitter and its beauty is the messages are short, low overhead and you can skim them very quickly. It compels people to be brief and to not ramble and that is its value and its a good fit for capacity limited mobile. Animated GIF's in Google+ are mostly just annoying.

If you need heavy data then you put a link in the mesage and once people establish they are interested in the subject, then they can go to some server to get the heavy content and all the heavy content isn't centralized at the message service provider.

Also storing and transmitting pictures, video and audio on the message bus dramatically increases overhead, cost and risks of running the service. The second you support it you will have people using it to violate copyrights and laws, you land in a quagmire of shifting standard on what is indecent or illegal in every country in the world. You end up needing a big staff just to deal with take down requests, subpoena requests and to sift though your fire hose to try to eliminate stuff that is going to offend people.

The beauty of short messages is they have very limited capacity to violate laws and copyrights and the message service provider shouldn't be responsile for what is on the web sites the messages link to.

Having integrated image, audio and video support is nice but its actually better if its hosted away from the message bus and decentralized like Twitpic was.
Please use the original title, unless it is misleading.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, its not. From history, to language, to culture, one would claim Europe the center.

But if you look at population, production volume, China would look like the center, with the rest of the world as fringe exotic life on its borders.
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i second the quit for a month plan
Very true. Hollywood is overwhelmingly dominant in movies in the English speaking world. Walking into a theatre here in Melbourne and it's like I'm back in the US.

(Although I will say that Red Dog was a nicely done and uniquely Australian movie.)
The competition is too good in this case. RunKeeper actually tracks my runs, GymPact pays me, Fitbit uses Hardware and Fitocracy is highly incentivised by social.

Not sure where this fits in.
That's an interesting point, but I guess that this is mostly due to the immigration friendly policies the US has. IIRC, I read somewhere in the Economist that the US is actually the only OECD country that is not going to suffer from a demographic shift. But if those policies would change, or research universities need to cut down their expenses due to budget problems, I'm not sure how long this would last. (IIRC, when Ireland's economy came to a halt, almost all foreign blue collar workers went back to their home countries in no time.)
Pretty embarrassing post. Homecoming eagle scout Christ worshipper realizes there's different beliefs on the planet. Shock!
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"The essence of Twitter and its beauty is the messages are short, low overhead and you can skim them very quickly."

Adding data wouldn't make the messages any longer, because they'd still be summarized in 140 characters or whatever. The difference is that the actual content would be machine searchable/usable, unlike now where you can add a link but that link is basically worthless unless you're a human.
> There are plenty of specific areas where other countries are better than the US, but no single country which is enough better on enough things to be a serious competitor.

Strongly disagree on this one here, after 4 years in Australia. Better public transport, better health care, better wages, less political bullshit, better immigration policy.
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as this turd found out: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2026267/Paul-Doug-Pe...
What kind of implications on battery life does this have? As in, constantly running the webcam.
As a dutch citizen the idea that you would rank the states above and beyond our nation is offensive and idiotic.

What on earth would make you qualify the situation like that?
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> i see America as an overreaching empire that has had it's heyday

And yet most of us are right now using computers designed in America, with an operating system written in America, posting on an American website. How is the USA not the centre of the world? From jeans to Katy Perry, from Google to McDonald's -- Americans totally dominated both the culture and the business. If I turn on the tv right now, I will have to skip through five channels before I hit a non-American production.

> the fact that many Americans are so religious is just utterly strange, and somewhat frightening

Why? Religious people commit less crime, get and stay married more, use less illegal drugs, donate and volunteer more... It would make more sense to fear people becoming less religious.

I'm sure the author didn't mean that, that his observations are an honest account of his journey but I can't help to notice that articles like this strike this weird SWPL chord "I'm from America but I'm not like the rest of those simpletons" (that's a mild version) and comments to them tend to be real oikophobia festivals.

No, I'm not an American and don't live in the States (otherwise the whole tv exercise would be pointless).
This is the Ted Rall essay he referenced at the end.

http://www.rall.com/rallblog/tag/basic-income-guarantee
I hope someone chimes up again saying how Facebook has so many smart engineers on staff. This looks like either an intelligence failure, or an ethics failure, or a little of both.
I have the version from when it was first on HN a while back. I will definitely try it out when you have more gestures :).
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Using Vim Script? That doesn't sound like fun.
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If it was just about which platforms pay out the best, there wouldn't be much software for Linux, and there wouldn't have been much for Apple during their inter-Jobs nadir.
Ask HN: How to offer training to companies?
I love teaching and want to start a software programming training company that provides training in languages such as Java, Python, Clojure, JavaScript. I've done this through training companies and gotten great reviews from students.

I'm looking for ideas on how to sell my training services to companies. Basically I am a developer and clueless about marketing, and need some help. Any ideas or suggestions would be great.

If someone here has some experience and could provide some mentoring advice that would be extremely useful. Thanks!
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Trends on Twitter just aren't important enough for everyone to constantly cite as to why Twitter sucks or why our species is doomed. Its just a source of brief entertainment to see what large numbers of people you probably don't have much in common with are obsessing over at the moment.

Effective Twitter usage is to follow large numbers of interesting people and news sources and then look at the trending topics among the people you care about, you have things in common with and whose opinions you value. Unfortunately Twitter doesn't do trends for just your stream which is one of the many reasons third party clients can rock and Twitter, the company, tends to not rock.
I moved to the UK, most people I met didn’t believe in God or Christianity. The UK is largely a non-Christian country.

10$ note - "in god we trust".
£10 note - Charles Darwin picture on it.

I guess it explains a lot.

I read a few comments about atheists being "ashamed" in states - I don't really see that happening in europe. Even in the far eastern parts of it being overly (and I probably have a bit of a different definition on this word) religious is being nowadays quite often considered weird. Especially among young people in bigger cities.
Am I crazy or just stupid? I can't find (nor did I know there existed) anything like that.

I'm usually switching between Ubuntu and Windows 7.

I think I need to dig deeper in to the chrome settings.

Edit: Never mind, looks like an OSX only feature.
How do you explain Wikipedia then?
Hard manual labor can be very refreshing and enlightening.

One of my most elightening periods ocurred when I was packing a product at a factory. If you keep your body busy with repetitive and tiring work, your mind can do wonders.

Not forever, certainly, but once you are accustomed to chair gymnastics, a day of tiring physical work after another really puts things in perspective.
This program on PBS claims manufacturing has not left the US. They claim the US is still #1 in manufacturing in the world and growing.

http://www.pbs.org/america-revealed/episode/4/
I wish Flutter would just turn music off when I walked away from the computer and on when I get back. I always forget to turn it back on when I get back, plus it would be nice to not worry about turning it off.