skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author points to my article: http://railsapps.github.com/installing-rails.html

I titled my article "Read This Before Installing Rails" because Rails is not just a Ruby gem, it is a complex and rapidly evolving ecosystem. Sure, if you want to see Rails running on your Mac you can use the installed system Ruby 1.8.7 and "gem install rails". But if you want to do development, you'll need to update (and keep updated) all the related gems and packages that are an essential part of the Rails habitat. Judging from the comments and help requests I see, that's not easy.

Packages such as RailsInstaller, Cinderella or the BitNami RubyStack are great but they inevitably slip further and further behind the evolving state of the Rails ecosystem. I'm hoping the design of Yehuda Katz's Tokaido will avoid this issue. In the meantime, yes, it's difficult to install (and keep current) a useful and fully functioning Rails development environment on a Mac (or any other machine!). I say that from the experience of attempting to keep my "Installing Rails" article current.

For example, would you like to develop using Ruby 1.9.3 (the current recommended version) and deploy to Heroku (which now supports Ruby 1.9.3)? You'll need to update to the unreleased 1.2.0.pre.1 bundler (which requires a "gem uninstall" not a "gem update"). That's true today. Maybe it'll change tomorrow.

A rapidly evolving ecosystem is not a bad thing. Rails is a powerful, widely used, and well-supported development platform. The constant changes bring increased utility. If you can keep up and find the right advice. The author's article is sound and offers some of that good advice.
Great point, I agree that the provenance of an article is useful for telling us whether we should consider reading it. Is it upvoted on HN? Was it written by some bozo named raganwald or by someone who has actually accomplished something significant? Did a trusted buddy tweet it?

All I’m saying is that once I decide to read it, I try to let go of that and take the article on its own merits. It could be that an idiot has written something interesting. Or the reverse, a well-repsected person is just plain wrong today.

(And in reality, I’m just as prone as the next guy to think about the author. This business of being detached and zen-like is me aspiring to read essays at a high level on the hierarchy!)
It's not just composites either. One interesting innovation about lower weight comes from the way the wings are designed. Someone on Reddit explained: But the 787 wings are less stiff, proportionately to their size, than those of most other airliners. This is because there's a system that, during heavy loads, puts most of the load on the area of the wing that is closer to the fuselage, so the wing bending moment is alleviated, i.e. the wingtip never experiences loads as high as on other airplanes. So you can get away with less wing structure. http://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/wb764/these_compos...
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You aren't really paying to remove the ads.

There's a couple of comics I'd like to see on Kickstarter this way, because I wouldn't mind tossing them some bucks, but all they have are merchandise (which I've already bought) and PayPal links. Sorry, no, no PayPal. I wouldn't really care about the rewards, I've already received them.
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I live in NYC too, and what you just said doesn't really relate to what I'm saying. A livery cab is luxurious when compared to a yellow cab, and commands a price accordingly.
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I don't know. $10 a month really doesn't seem like a lot of money to me. Especially considering the cost of, say, the computers you're running it on.
It wasn't a login, you had to have at least one file on your skydrive before the recent merge to keep the 25GB.
Effectively you now can get e.g. 45GB for 10$ a year. Dropbox' old 50GB for 10$ a month plan was a joke in comparison.
Sure, in a perfect world when you have no other pressing issues to attend to. If you do, making @2x versions of every image on your site is going to slide down the scale of necessity.
If you were to choose one, which would it be? I'm with CrashPlan now, but their upload speed is so impossibly slow that I'll never upload all my data. Uploading only 250GB has taken me 4 months. And the software is not so great.

I wouldn't mind paying a little bit more if those problems were fixed.
You are factually incorrect, and you are a big part of the problem here.

If you are a signer, you can go online now to signnow.com, sitting at Paul Graham's desk IN CALIFORNIA and legally notarize your document. It will be legally notarized by a Virginia Notary, and your notarization is 100% legal everywhere in the US.

"The service is not legal in any state except Virginia" just means the NOTARIES must be sitting in Virginia, again, the clients can be anywhere. Interstate commerce, and the National Association of Secretaries of State have proven support for accepting other state's notarizations.

Regarding identification, you should read the law, and try signnow's service since it does NOT rely on holding up an ID card for identity. The law requires, and signnow uses, out of wallet verification questions from a third party provider to verify identity. Anything else done is above and beyond the law, and is FAR ABOVE what currently occurs with the inconsistency of pen and paper notarizations.
It was very promising at first. A simple no-nonsense IMAP client. But the buggyness is what killed it for me.
Surprising that more people aren't coming from the Eastbay
They have over a dozen employees, do the math it doesn't work out to a killing for them to have this kickstarter succeed at 250k a year. They could survive without any ad revenue at all just on their other sources of revenue alone, but that's a hard sell when they have so many visitors and doing so might limit what they could do. Make no mistake, almost certainly they are potentially leaving a lot of money on the table by doing this campaign.

This is an experiment. Ultimately the money changes hands the same way regardless, this is just a test to see if it's possible to do it without all the indirection and middle men. Also, for PA this is a fairly low risk activity, but if they prove the model works it could open things up for a lot of smaller web comics and art sites.
1) Not everyone has their account at max
2) They get bulk discounts from Amazon that take the price down quite a bit
3) They only store one copy of a file across their user base, so even though they bill you for 100GB and you have it completely full, it's possible they are only storing a small fraction of that. A folder of music for example is likely to not actually take up any space at all, but they get to bill you for every bit.
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I am aware as they say. I used to play a game with my kids (invented by a friend of mine) where we replaced the phrase 'The Government' with 'my neighbor', and 'our Government' with 'We'. We used to joke you get out of your government what you put in.

So if your local government is corrupt and dysfunctional, then you don't have the best folks in place so you need to replace them. And replacing them requires that the community to engage. Its actually easier at the local level than the national level, and the national level draws from the local level.

What most people don't understand is that you can often volunteer at your local government. You can be on commissions or focus groups or elsewhere. If you have the time it can be worthwhile, and with the right attitude, enjoyable. Don't try to fix everything at once, but just start making things better. The change can be remarkable, one person doing a standup job for 'free' can be a powerful motivation for a lot of people around them.
chat·ter (chtr)
v. chat·tered, chat·ter·ing, chat·ters
v.intr.
1. To talk rapidly, incessantly, and on trivial subjects; jabber.
2. To utter a rapid series of short, inarticulate, speechlike sounds: birds chattering in the trees.

v.tr.
To utter in a rapid, usually thoughtless way: chattered a long reply.
n.
1. Idle, trivial talk.
2. Communication, such as e-mail and cell phone calls, between people who are involved in terrorism or espionage, as monitored by a government agency.

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Odd that they would raise only $20m just a year after raising the same amount.
> two annual shows, the scholarships, Child's Play

The shows make money, otherwise they wouldn't do them. By most accounts they make a lot of money. PAX Prime 2011 had 70k attendees (according to Wikipedia) and at $65 a pop that's a hefty (~$4.5 million) in revenue not to mention what exhibitors pay (which can't be cheap for the target audience). They make more than enough money off of this to go ad free.

The scholarships are their problem, the comic reader gets nothing out of those except warm fuzzies.

Child's Play should be able to maintain itself on low overhead and a non-profit status. It should cost them a minimal amount of money and any it does the company can directly write off.
The exact legal details of is so/is not is hardly to be decided on Hacker News. I am disturbed that one side gets its opinion heard and -- poof! -- down the memory hole that topic goes. It's really just a small version of SOPA in our community. PayPal, when it launched, was illegal in all fifty states. Would Hacker News have suppressed discussions of PayPal's business model?
> PLAY CALVINBALL

Segmentation fault (core dumped)
yes. I want less than 50. Not more. I'd like to be able to purchase with a one-time fee some GBs. (10 for example)
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I wanted to create a spotify playlist for each category, but i couldn't find the songs in the source or json... I did found a way to cheat.
They are claiming the drives have a MTBF of 110 years as opposed to 75 years for the greens. I think we can assume th rest is fiction too.

(I'm seeing a <5 year MTBF on greens.)
Ask HN: How to you prefer to log in to websites?
For a web based hobby project I want to allow users to log in and save data in their own accounts. I want to make this as simple as possible (both in terms of development and user experience) but I don't want to force users to use (for example) Facebook connect.

Here are a few pros and cons I've considered:

* Email+password. Pro: does not require users to have an account elsewhere. Cons: requires users to create yet another account; also requires me to write a lot of boilerplate code ('confirm password' functionality, 'forgot my password', etc.).

* Login with Facebook/Twitter. Con: forces visitors to have one of those accounts. Pros: most people have one of those; it allows login/signup with just a few clicks.

* OpenID. Pro: most people have this. Con: I'm not sure if the average internet user knows what it is (i.e. requires explaining that a Gmail-address is also an OpenID).

* Mozilla's BrowserID. Pro: seems easy to implement and easy to use. Con: I doubt that this is widely known and used.

What are your opinions as users? How do you prefer to log in? Any feedback is highly appreciated!
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Next year's hardware should also be 4-5x faster in GPU performance than Tegra 3

Which makes it extra-stupid for Ouya to plan to ship a Tegra 3 console in 2013.
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Discoverability is lower in a system which uses logically arranged tools, with larger buttons for more frequently used options than in a system which, perplexingly, hides everything behind nonlabeled buttons, in menus and sub-menus and ridiculous dialog boxes?

If you're trying to do anything other than the obvious stuff, then yes. I struggle to find anything in Office w/ Ribbon, whereas I could almost always find what I was looking for in a few seconds worth of menu hunting before. Personally, I find discoverability to be absolute shyte with the Ribbon interface.
Are you referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format?

I'd not heard of it before, and a quick poke at the internet doesn't really show anything beyond a move to 4k sectors (and therefore presumably less efficient storage for lots of small files).

Is there something more I should know about? (in the market for a new home storage box soonish)
I'm not sure where it was said PHP is only shared hosting. Besides, many places start on shared hosting, kind of like Heroku for rails code, no?

I'm also not sure where the idea is coming from that Rails shouldn't be accessible to developers. If you have some wider posts or links I'd love to read some more.
He's asking why they would announce it before they implement it.
For the same reason that we can predict how a large body of mass will react to a collision but can't explain how the subatomic particles will react to that same event, or the overall trend of the stock market without being able to predict the behavior of any individual stock.

Scale matters. Most climate prediction software looks at weather on a far vaster, long-term scale than hours, days, or even weeks. Variations over such short periods ultimately have little effect on long-term trends.
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with gvoice, people can leave a voicemail that gets transcripted (vaguely) and texted to me. I glance at the text and decide if I want to call them back or not.
Market forces pushed airliners in the opposite direction:

low ticket prices == cram as many cattle that be legally packed into the fuselage, close the door, and go

So all the cool features Boeing cares to demonstrate on this plane will not be ordered by any major airline aside from Emirates, all the major US carriers will be choosing the standard plastic window shade instead.
Hang on; old free:cheapest paid ratio was 1:25. New free:cheapest paid ratio is roughly 1:5. Plus 18Gb will store my teaching materials until I retire! 400Mb does me for a year or so including the scans from paper I do on my photocopier.

Jolly decent I'd say
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Doesn't this require you to launch the DB app to upload new photos? I don't think third-party apps can be automatically invoked when you take a picture.
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It's an excellent strategy and part of why XBox Live Arcade has been a success for Microsoft (all XBLA/XBLIG titles are required to have downloadable trials that 'unlock' to the full game, usually without an additional download). It makes it painless to try out games before buying them.
I often hail livery (aka radio) cars in NYC. It's technically illegal for them to pick up passengers that they weren't dispatched to pick up. I'm sure that is a law put in place to protect medallion owners.

As an aside, there are different schools of thought for how to pay radio cars since they don't have meters. A friend always waits until getting dropped off to negotiate price. He figures he holds the power at that point since he is already at his destination. I always ask how much before getting in. My girlfriend just hands them money when she gets out, whatever she thinks is fair, and has never had anyone give her a hard time.

EDIT: I should add that all three of us find the cost of the radio cars to be about the same as yellow cabs. Our different negotiating techniques don't really make a difference.
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You are not recalling correctly, never stated it was legal for notaries in all states.
I just recently bought Textual (http://www.codeux.com/textual/) and I really like it. It starts up fast, is lightweight on system resources, and looks nice (with retina support).

What are the differences between Linkinus and Textual?
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Perhaps you don't understant how bad the existing notary system is. In many states you don't need to keep even a record of the notarization (in a journal). Video evidence, multi-factor authentication, and other tools are all vastly superior.
rsync to an external drive. I use droppy for Web access and convenience only.

Suggestion: rsync a folder tree over to the dropbox directory once a session? anacron every 30 mins?
Someone once wrote, in their bestselling business book:

"Good enough is fine
A lot of people get off on solving problems with complicated solutions. Flexing your intellectual muscles can be intoxicating. Then you start looking for another big challenge that gives you that same rush, regardless of whether it's a good idea or not."

This is somewhat different than what's written in this article:

"Arguments like “but it works” or “it gets the job done” are tell-tale signs of someone happy at the lowest level of the technical hierarchy and your cue to just quietly back out of the debate."

And here's the deal: they're both right, but you need to recognize when each situation is right. The terminology for this is called "maximizers vs satisficers". I wrote something about that and programming here:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2006/02/18/maximizers-satisficers...

And the book that is widely cited is this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...

But getting back to the discussion: there are times when you really should be looking for the best whatever it is you're looking for. But if you try and do that all the time, you'll spend all your time looking (or worse, deciding everything sucks and you can do it better yourself) and not enough time doing what it was you set out to do.

Which, in the end, simply means that you have got to do the thinking and make your own difficult decisions, rather than listen to trite advice from business books or blogs, or hacker news comments, no matter how insightful they may sound!
Compared to some forums of certain news sites, I feel like in haeven right now!
>>"Otherwise, it measures JVM startup time, and then it measures how long it takes the JIT to achieve maximum optimization."<<

Please take that Clojure mandelbrot program, make repeated timing measurements without restarting the JVM and then report how those times compare to cold start on your computer.

The mean "warmed" times for the Java mandelbrot program were actually slower than the reported cold start time for the same program.

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I'd like to see more YC companies using Pig.
Sounds good. My email is in my profile, drop me a line anytime.
Yeah, this article is distracting to me. I'm trying to get things done, but I feel guilty that I'm not "doing it right".
Libya has traditionally been known as an incredibly corrupt regime, but since Ghaddafi is gone, who knows how things are run these days. My guess is, like it was before they gave him the boot, if you slip the right guy some cash, you can change that link all you want. Might be a different guy though, probably closer to the source, and the price is likely to be a lot lower now that there are less beaks to wet.
"All I want to do is feed myself. Why on earth do I need to have so many different things to do it?"

Because good help is so hard to find.
Do we really need to rehash this tired argument over every single post that references Python 3? You can look at any other Python 3 related post in the last couple of years on HN and Reddit to find endless arguments about this topic.

How about a comment thread that actually talks about the post contents for once?
There's a JS library called OxJs[1] for binary manipulation.

[1] https://gist.github.com/674212
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To summarize all the replies to euroclydon...

Free and non-Pack-Rate paid accounts can have their files restored for up to 30 days into the past. A support ticket is required for batch restoration; otherwise you have to restore files one-by-one. (brlewis is wrong in thinking that non-Pack-Rate paid accounts have an indefinite history.)

Pack-Rat paid accounts can batch restore all files no matter how old and without a support ticket.
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The National Association of Secretaries of State disagree with you, including in the following public report "Issues and Trends in State Notary Regulation: NASS Report on State Notarization Policies and Practice" found here:
http://www.nass.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...

Key Quotes
Regarding electronic notarization:
“New state and federal laws, such as the 2000 Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN), authorize every state-commissioned notary in the nation to use electronic signatures in performing official acts.”

Regarding Out Of State Acceptance
“State laws...already recognize the validity of out-of-state notarizations, the state and federal evidence rules that recognize notarial acts as self-authenticating, and the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution.”

States would have to pass legislation against online notarization to prevent its acceptance.

Several states have put out warnings, including the state of California. This notice was published prior to the legal change and has apparently not been reviewed by state counsel. We have received clarification, consistent with all communication from other states, that they are only concerned with online notarization conducted by their notaries.
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Photos half a meg each so 2000 per gig. 100k photos might happen, I have a couple of filing cabinets full of 35mm negatives and contact sheets (ok not family snaps).

Put some music and videos in there and you are away.
Can't they just use Gmail?
Ahh Sorry didn't realize. I see the problem now.
It would not be for pre-funding. A completed game (or at least nearly finished beta) would need to be submitted through some sort of basic approval process - scan the installer for viruse, make sure it actually loads, etc.
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Good point. Virginia certainly seems to think that it is legal for notaries to notarize across state lines. Perhaps CA disagrees, but they have never really stated as such.
I just want to clarify, I'm not commenting on the specific regulations in place, just about the general neccessity of regulations in this space.

What happens in the case of an accident? Cab drivers are insured afaik, what happens to a Sidecar driver?
We used Github Enterprise at my last workplace, paying $5k/yr.

We could have easily paid $300/yr ($25/mo) instead if we just used the normal Github site and had a better experience (they were constantly shifting things around to avoid the 20 user cap), but the company IT was adamant on bringing anything in-house that could be brought in-house.

Github is great, but there are very few situations in which Github Enterprise really makes sense, IMO.
So you want a small sub-graph of Wikipedia, but you want the full revision history of each of the articles in that sub-graph? I don't think the MediaWiki API makes it possible to get the full revision history of an article as a single object, so you're probably better off operating on a dump.
Has Paypal had a recent change of management? What's with this whole trend of censoring stuff at Paypal lately? Or are they just getting a little too arrogant being the main payment processor online?
I have seen this product in operation, and I can definitively say that the way to increase your influence score is to post lolcat pictures.