skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my sixteen-year-old self: You're not a jock even though you've got a letter jacket. Be who you are rather than who you look like.

To my eighteen-year-old self: That girl that sits on your lap sometimes before class? She probably likes you. That one that always finds a way to stand next to you? She probably likes you, too. Maybe think about asking one of them out.

To my twenty-two-year-old self: Experience matters. Pay attention to what the successful forty-year-olds in the office do rather than spending all your time with the other recent grads. Watch how the partners handle clients.
You can't just look trought the MAN-page for cURL and just LEARN stuff? I have lost my hope for humanity.
I'm not sure it's really turning into something terrible, we've just got some trolls running around this week. See tysonjennings remarkably racist, entirely undefended (and indefensible) post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4262432

Or his post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182402) where he rails against someone's anti-Google stance, while later taking on a similar (and perhaps more harsh) anti-Apple stance.

The ease of seeing a users comment history makes finding trolls so much faster. Now I just need a killfile...
Earth-based telescopes can't be used to find an Apollo lander on the moon. It's just too damn far. A crater on Mars is a notch up from that.
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Perhaps http://www.cippic.ca/
Obligatory reply about The Wire being much better...

I'm the only person I know that really dislikes Breaking Bad. I watched the first season in a single marathon session and loved it, but somehow everything fell apart in the second season. I've tried to get through the second season several times, but the plots keep getting dumber and dumber, in my opinion.

Is it worth powering through season two, or are season two style of plots consistent with the rest of the series?

Edit:

A minimal spoiler example of the type of writing that really got on my nerves: Walt sneaking out of a hospital and breaking into his own house in 2.3.
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Everything on HN is just "hey, learn to use this complicated complex thing - in just 30 minutes! You'll be so productive with all your creative startups!"

"Learn VIM essentials in this blog post!"
"Never bother reading 'man curl'!" "Learn the basics of C in three easy steps!"

Sometimes HN feels like a lifestyle magazine for people who dream of being PG.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I too dream of having the same succes as PG. Why else would I be writing here?
I've used the dropbox API before to automatically upload photos in a dropbox folder to Flickr. It occurs on an interval (cron job every 2 mins). I'm sure you could do the same thing using FTP or a custom API that exists on your destination server.
If you don't particular care about the privacy of those messages - and let's face it, it's non-encrypted email - there's plenty of cheap email-to-sms gateways out there. You just need to register for one and then set up a filter to forward the messages (keeping a copy on Gmail).
All SMS. To the user there is no meaningful distinction between SMS and iMessage, except for the extra features. My mother, as an example, just thought that some contacts were green and some were blue as a nice way to make things interesting.
I wonder if he has any children, or close relatives.
On the other hand I guess you could probably write a nice library that uses curl under the hood, here it's just a case of ugly design.
Oh the horror, reckless cyclists riding unprotected! Would be funny to see your reaction when you find out that people in Denmark often smoke on a bike.
I'd say yes it is. I had some annoyance with the characters around season 2, but you do come to see this is intentional and not, what I first feared, was lazy writing. It gets better, and quite good.

EDIT: I agree, The Wire is better.
That's what I was thinking of :). Thanks!

Maybe that's as far as we can get by now with it. Luckily tmux is heavily developed so there's hope for that workflow being easily usable in the future.
I use LinuxMint 13 on Ideapad Y470. It has 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD, slot for mSATA SSD and NVidia 550M GPU.

I run Bumblebee + BBSwitch for NVidia Optimus and it is blazing fast. Sleep works fine and I feel the battery life is much better than running Win7.
Do you plan to overnite / express mail the ingredients ? Because the recipe can contain produce / meat (perishables), you have to make sure the ingredients reach the customer within 1-2 days, else the perishables might go bad. Besides, you need to consider what impact the weather might have when shipping perishables (given the 100+ temps recently in east coast), even a few hours longer and they might spoil. If you do plan to overnite / express mail the ingredients (which can get expensive fast), will the cost be borne by you or passed on to the customer ?
"Switzerland finally allowed women to vote in... drum roll... 1971." the last canton to allow women to vote was forced to do it as late as 1990 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appenzell_Innerrhoden
Not sure how to measure "better" in this case. Better for RHEL clones usually means "less changes" than other clones and close to upstream. I guess "better" is support and speed of updates. So in case of a software project you can usually just look at the features and say "oh, look, can see how they added a,b,c and now it is exactly what I want" This is a cloning project, so the best feature is how closely it tracks upstream. But one can't know that unless one switches to it first, and I am guessing, there is enough antagonism in the community that many will not make that first step.
I was just pointing out a possible double standard in some peoples thinking... eg racism/sexism is fine, but only if it's in a certain direction.
In the 11th episode of season 2, Walt meets Gustavo Fring. And then the show really takes off.
You're basically describing https://www.filepicker.io, the company that wrote this blog post.
Boss Tweed and James G. Blaine like this.
Ask HN: How to become a renaissance man?
I'm 21 years old, about to finish college. And I've decided to spend my 20s becoming a renaissance man. What does that mean? I'd like to spend the bulk of my time becoming a well-rounded person - learning (foreign) languages, drawing, painting, musical instruments, mathematics, physical fitness and so on. Specialization is for insects, etc.

I like the idea of making things more than just acquiring knowledge. There's just too much information out there for any one person to know; but, I do think it's possible to be good at creating various things.

--------

So, my questions for you are:

- What subjects would you try to learn?

- How would you go about learning these various subjects?
I meant that outside of the cultural context we live in right now - 2012 + Europe/North America - the situation is different.
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Here's hoping our server is in a good mood :)
An online comment section got out of control?

Color me surprised.

Next from the latimes: Youtube comments surprisingly raunchy, posters forced to turn off feedback as a result
> Apple has never produced a new product category. They take the innovations that came before and throw money and Steve Jobs/Jonny Ives taste at it.

Right -- or like we always say here on HN, it's not ideas that count, it's execution.
"do not come in here thinking you can fool people into believing that Apple just innovated the modern smartphone out of thin air."

No one has said anything like this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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Think about this for a second. If you wear a tracksuit made of this you'll be able to jump higher than when you're naked.
You know, I was about to defend myself, but you may be right. My tone of outrage at the slurgfest being wrong was itself rather wrong. If he didn't see the long term incremental improvements this tool offers, that's nothing to be outraged over. People make mistakes.

That said, I think it's a stretch to call this mistake of mine an ad hominem attack. It doesn't fit my normal understanding of such an attack - there was no name calling, etc. And certainly I didn't accuse him of an ad hominem.
Guess what?

I found this helpful and I'm glad it was posted regardless of whether people think it's FUD or not. And I'm going to consider running the script and switching.

Because of this statement:

"Contrast that with the CentOS/RHEL story. If you find yourself needing to buy support, have fun reinstalling your system with RHEL before anyone will talk to you."

Thoughts anyone?

I'm seeing the support cost for a single machine is $499 for a year.

http://www.oracle.com/us/media/calculator/linuxtco/index.htm...

(Surprising there is no link on the spiel to support..)
Are you claiming that I've gleaned no insight at all as to why Fourier transforms are used in number theory? Or are you claiming that I just didn't acquire this insight from the visualization?

If you claim the latter, then just where did I get it from?
Right now, we're only going to be shipping to SF and I'll be doing the deliveries for now. We have considered the weather and perishables and shipping that can get expensive especially including the insulation and ice pack for each box.
There's a bit of a lull after the end of season one, and towards the end of season 2. However, it really starts to pick up after that, and season 4 is something special.

It feels that they really nailed it at that point. The tension, sound, cinematography, etc.
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If you read up on the history of the era and combine that with a study of the real effects of nuclear bombs, it becomes evident that there was an uncoordinated, but nevertheless systematic, effort to grossly overstate the dangers of nuclear war. A game of "Telephone" [1] was played, where at each step the nukes got more dangerous. If nukes were as dangerous to the world as popular culture today imagines, there would be no popular culture; most people grossly underestimate the number of test explosions that were set off at various times. Once again, Wikipedia to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests :

"The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests (by official count) between 1945 and 1992.... The Soviet Union conducted 715 nuclear tests (by official count)[3] between 1949 and 1990... France conducted 210 nuclear tests between February 13, 1960 and January 27, 1996..."

Fallout isn't as dangerous as it is commonly portrayed, the bomb's effects are often overstated on every dimension, etc.

But of course, who really wants to go out of their way to correct the record? A number of people reading this will find a strong emotional inclination to leap to the conclusion that this post is pro-nuclear-war advocacy or something. But the truth is that while nukes can't destroy the world or destroy the entire ecosystem (even "nuclear winter" is highly questionable, especially in light of subsequent experiences with high-atmosphere particles, such as in the Kuwait oil fires), they still can kill millions directly and effectively destroy civilization as we know it by wiping out potentially every major city in the world (and get a good bit of damage on the medium-sized ones, too), killing billions more. Perhaps it isn't so bad that the dangers are played up a bit. The real dangers they pose are much harder to understand than the Hollywood B-grade movie version in popular culture, but still quite bad.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers
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Yeah, the first one's always free...
Bubs, there are plenty of people that got rich sitting on their asses. But other then that, I completely agree with everything you said.
On a related note, codepen.io looks sweet. jsfiddle replacement?
Dieet en gezonde darmflora voorkomen schimmelinfecties als candida
Some great info about just why this is so impossible: http://calgary.rasc.ca/moonscope.htm
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That does help, thanks for the info!
Insanely simple Cloud-based replacement for statsd + graphite
If Apple ruled the ad world
> You used the phrase wrong. He corrected you.

wow, really? that phrase is used all the time in a lax, colloquial manner, he didn't 'use it wrong' at all.

why is everyone jumping to wikipedia over this? nothing better to do today?
Your future self asked me to tell you to spend less time reading HN and start building more stuff.

And also, finish your projects and focus!
They released a delta API recently. It's a bit of a pain to perform this task as you can't differentiate between a new file and a renamed file or a file that's been moved from one location to another.

In all cases you get a delete (if the file isn't new) and then a new file event.

I implemented it, and it kinda sucks for this sort of thing. The purpose seems to maintain local state to mirror the state on Dropbox. Not terribly interested in that...I just want to subscribe to specific events (webhooks, anyone?).

This was their solution to the frequently requested webhooks. It falls short. Way short.
An article that has nothing to do with technology, programming, computers, computer science, and barely anything to do with business. Actually sounds like it falls into the off-topic category:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

It is an interesting article and I love Miles Davis but it doesn't belong on HN. Stop trying to fool yourself. Almost anything could be considered to satisfy one's intellectual curiosity. That is a silly cop-out.
It looks great, very well thought out. I want this.
UK judge forces Apple to state on its site that Samsung didn't copy the iPad
Those lucky bastards.
Some people do tell these things to their kids. Really.
This video is so Dr. Strangelove
I've experienced this issue before when establishing a publisher backend for a D2D pc game business. It seems to be basically impossible without a Java applet of some kind, and even then it's wonky at best and just 'fails' at worst. The real fix for the issue seemed to be simply providing an FTP connection and letting people connect through the native client of their choosing.

That really seems to be the key for this problem, develop a simple native app capable of FTP uploads, that make it easy for users to deliver files to your app within the context of their use. Most browsers are capable of opening native applications via unique protocol, you could easily enrich the process by having the native app be a part of(or try to blend seamlessly with) major browsers.
As a former nuclear submarine officer, and current complete pacifist, I completely agree that the threat of nukes is WAY overblown. For example, much bigger threats to the modern world exist in the forms of uncontrolled small arms trading.
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If you change "If Apple could not prove that Samsung copied them" to "If Samsung could prove that they did not copy Apple," all is right again (in terms of logic, anyway).
Why did you even comment?
"Of course, you could just flame him as others are doing. Might be better to just downvote and ignore (as many are as well)."

Yep, in the absence of actual argument just marginalize. I'm sure you feel much better now.
I've been dealing with browser-based large file uploads, which means dealing with lots of browser-specific issues.

Fortunately, things are getting better, especially for the webkit-based browsers. Firefox still has some issues, and I check https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678648 pretty regularly. Just today this bug, which was filed in 2003, changed from Status = NEW to Status = ASSIGNED.

Today is a good day.
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For a laser intensity greater than some critical value, pair production is generated via a 'break-up' of the vacuum polarization. While the electric field strength necessary to accomplish this is immense, to say the least, recent experimental advances have raised hope that lasers may soon achieve field intensities on the order of this very critical field intensity.

As a layman this seems to me to be the crux of the matter. First, there's the the energy costs required to generate a laser that will in turn generate anti-matter from the "void". Will the energy released by the anti-matter fuel cover the costs of generating the laser?

If so, this technique would also provide a way to generate a perpetual source of energy. The laser costs X energy but produces an explosion of >X energy. Who says this energy can only be used for propulsion? You could feed some of this energy back into the laser, covering the continuous operating cost of the laser, then dissipate or distribute the remaining energies.

Of course, I'm just a layman, so I might be completely off base on proposing this perpetual motion machine :)

There's also the problem of sequestration and storage. How do you keep the proton-antiproton pairs from immediately colliding with each other? Isn't this the basis of the fuel? Colliding matter/anti-matter pairs? For long-term storage how do you keep the anti-matter suspension intact until you're ready to ignite it?
That seems to say exactly what I'm saying, please clarify:

"... other than Windows," i.e. Windows 8 itself "theoretically" wants Secure Boot turned on.

I've read the link; there's no indication that the Windows 8 Logo Compliance requirements force Windows 8 to work with Secure Boot turned off. And obviously, ARM-based Windows 8 systems will require it to be turned on:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/01/microsoft-mandating-...
I found that it's much easier to pace myself on my new extremely unsporty bike (basically an Omafiets). You sit upright, and it feels more like joyride than the urban rally it was before.
Haha, that's great that you're excited. That's also a pretty good way to get our users involved with the service, good idea
Curl after all mostly replaced the earlier wget.
Chrome Web Lab - experiments from the London Science Museum
'Spend time with people who want to have the kind of life you want to have.'

This is a great motto if you actually know what you want. If not, you might choose the wrong people and end up with something that doesn't make you happy.

Also be careful that you don't cut the people out of your life who would have given you an important perspective (or would have had your back).

Being with smart people is good. Being in an echo chamber full of self-important opportunists is not.
What are you interested in? Start there and constrain yourself to a few topics. Just be sure you're doing it for the right reasons - that is, you truly love what you're studying.

But, more to answer your question: I'd choose a maximum of 3 (and even that is pushing it), then immerse yourself deeply in them. If you're wanting to make things, then practice it as much as you can, regardless of the quality. It took me many years to not feel ashamed of my guitar playing, but it has finally started to take hold.

Art demands a lot from you emotionally, but it's not any fun otherwise. :)
My previous machine was a Dell Latitude E6500, and it ran (well, still runs) Karmic like a champ. Suspend worked great there too.
While it's not possible to get the computer without the OS installed, you're allowed to decline the Windows license and get a refund from Dell. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1073

Of course, it's not as convenient as the ideal circumstance of not having Windows installed by default, but it's the next best alternative nonetheless.
"You asserted that black people are of lower intelligence than other groups"

I didn't "assert" anything. I pointed out that statistically speaking blacks are intellectually inferior. Sans statistics, yes, that would be an assertion but the statistics exist and are voluminous. Do your own research though as I'm not your professor.

"clearly are racist"

I'm not sure where you got that from. Maybe my use of the word "inferior". I'm sorry that word has a negative connotation as I meant it as prosaically as possible. Of course, when you can't argue marginalize, right?

At the risk of sounding like a hypocrite I've had more intelligent discussion with my 2 year old nephew.
Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, Microsoft Research. Is being backed by companies with strong monopolies the only way to do world class research outside of academia?

Supposing it is true that in the future, higher educations collapses to a currently unrecognizable form and large companies become untenable, what will drive innovation? Who will fund say building a quantum computer?
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Most members of congress keep their tax returns secret
Dropbox: yet another security kerfuffle?
Seamless iframes: The future, today
It's awesome to see multiple people editing multiple files at the same time. Not quite sure where this is going, but definitely somewhere new/interesting!

Also cool to try opening the same file in all three editing panes -- edit with yourself :)
If you want more details on the "Downwinders", this is a pretty good piece: http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/nuclear...

I remember seeing some statistics when I lived in St. George 15 years ago (like high school dropouts) from 18 years after the tests. There was a huge increase in dropouts (and other negative indicators) as the downwinder babies reached adulthood.
heretohelp made the point better than I did, but I explained my thoughts on that with this sentence:

I got tired of checking for a baseline of automated deployment, automated testing, version control, and individual dev systems at every single job I applied for; Ruby people don't look at you funny when you mention these things.

It's about expectations. I tried really hard to find a place that had all these in the PHP world. In the Ruby world (for example), it's a given.

(I have only ever encountered one PHP shop during my rounds interviews that did automated testing... But they used CVS for version control. The very first Ruby shop I interviewed had all of the above, and treated it like they were no big issue.)
No option to change DPI for iPad 3.
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The Wire is still down as my favorite show, but Breaking Bad is pretty close.

The great thing about Breaking Bad is it just keeps getting better and better. The plot and character development gets esp. intricate as season 3 unfolds, and is just nuts in season 4. Season 1 and 2 had quite a few incidences that I felt played more into shock value and were cartoonish... that vibe is pretty much lost where things stand now.
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My sentiments exactly and I don't plan to invest in Samsung's ecosystem either...
It also helps that the vast majority of Apple's customers aren't even aware of what the Mac Pro is if they have even heard of it before. Many Apple stores don't even have them in the drop-in area anymore. I can't count how many times people have assumed I own a MacBook Pro and just said it wrong.

If it was a higher profile machine it would have gotten a redesign by now. Hell, the only machine that spent more time in its final form factor was the Xserve, which literally can't be redesigned because there are only so many ways you can build a 1U rack mountable server.
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