skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an excellent idea that dovetails nicely with Internet archive. I'm happy to help brainstorm a dynamic DNS if anyone wants to build this.
That is pretty darn helpful. Thanks Greg! You should write it up yourself, though: it's your knowledge, wouldn't be right having me take it.

FWIW, my posts on sponsorship:

Getting Awesome Sponsors (for college hackathons): http://alexeymk.com/hosting-hackathons/index.html

Getting Your Money's Worth as a Sponsor: http://alexeymk.com/61608156/index.html
Beyond Their 10 Blue Links, Google’s And Bing’s Search Strategies Diverge
Maybe once have I met a hospitalist whom I felt confident in and seemed to do his job competently.
I enjoyed reading this.

My takeaway from his takeaways would be:

1. Commitment matters. Stop talking, make it happen. - Ben Silberman

2. Don’t worry about competition, just improve yourself. - Hiroshi Mikitani

3. Failure to decide is what kills you. - Joel Spolsky

I've shortened the Joel's quote because your inability (unwillingness) to decide whether you'll ‘get big fast’ or have an ‘organic growth’ is not the only place where indecision shows its ugly head.
Are You Caught Up in Apple’s Reality Distortion Field?
It seems like a Wii U -like device would be a great match for Windows 8. Or just a desktop-tablet combo, working together seamlessly.
I'd prefer to just bring the machine out of rotation, redeploy, bring it back.
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Switching to ack 2.0 alpha, why and how?
On the other hand, I had a great time and learned lots by buying one of those cheap chinese "mini-mills" and slowly replacing all of the awful sand-cast pot metal parts with self-made machined steel parts.

It was kind of a rite of passage like assembling my own light sabre.
There appears to be a HTTPS version of the site, but it's not asking for it by default/redirecting from HTTP: https://put.io/register/BASIC
This is a good system at face value, but can present other problems. Any code that has a stat cache (I know PHP does, and I'd be surprised if other common languages don't) suddenly doesn't realize that your paths are going to a different place. Because /var/www as your "base" directory is symlinked to /var/www.a, www.a is cached and when you swap your symlink to www.b to deploy the next version, anything relying on that stat cache (include directives, autoloaders, etc) suddenly starts pulling in the wrong version of the file.

Solving this in a way that doesn't require restarting any services and doesn't introduce any more race conditions is nontrivial, although it tends to work pretty reliably so long as you have a front controller and it very rarely changes. Basically it comes down to a symlink change detector by hitting a special (internal) URL after your deploy script which kills the stat cache. If people are interested I can post a more concrete example.
Ok. What if no one looks at the scans?

What if I get scanned every month and no one looks at them until I start showing symptoms?

My aunt got breast cancer recently. She got mammograms every year but the doctors never saw anything. Finally there was a mass discovered, and a when they went back to look at the old images, they could see it growing.
FYI if you have python installed (and most do) you can just do

curl 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=json&rpp=5&i... | python -mjson.tool
Fix your Pebbles
Not necessarily. On a Linux-based system, you're actually going to be operating on inodes rather than path names, so once you have a handle to a file, changing the path to it isn't going to affect your ability to interact with it. Just make sure that your new directory is set up so that the same request for the same target file ends up requesting the same inode and you shouldn't notice any problems.
This is obviously Step 2 of many to wean off of Oracle's hardware, infrastructure and software which Salesforce undoubtedly has been running on since Day 1 but now can no longer afford to do so for strategic reasons.
I didn't build the app - just submitted it to HN. Feedback is valid nonetheless.
It's deprecated in the next release not this one, and it will be around for years to come. People will google and find the old way documented and have to read up on the difference, adding to the cognitivie baggage of git.

Regardless, my point is the interface is horrible and this is just adding to the patchwork. Why not add --track semantics or unify these flags?
There was a shot with a kid walking on a closed chromebook.
This shows a problem of one-size-fits-all design.

It's good to make design choices. It's bad to then prevent users from being able to re-configure those choices if they need to.

I only have 40 people in my list. 2 of those people make very frequent posts, and I don't want to see those. But I do want to see every post that every other person in my list makes. The setting for that resets pseudo-randomly, meaning I need to keep changing it. (and it has a frustrating mouseover non-selecting thing making it hard to clicky.)

Hiding people's posts, and then offering them a fee to not hide their posts, feels a bit scummy to me.

Note that I don't care about promoted posts. Even if FB is showing me all posts from everyone they can still give prominence to promoted posts, or leave them up top for longer.

And I hope that they never go back to "apps can spam the heck out of everybody's walls".
Some people make you wonder if they're not like Shakespeare is rumored to have been; so phenomenally productive that they might be a myth, an amalgamation of the work of several brilliant people, piled up behind one convenient name.

Michal Zalewski is that kind of guy.
Unless you have really specific usage patterns this is not a good idea compared to something like HireFireApp that will tweak your resources based on what you actually need.
Looks like the whole site is down. Here's a text only copy from my RSS reader's cache: http://pastebin.com/MRNg2GPu
Yeah, mv is atomic but I believe that a crash can still leave your data inconsistent due to write reordering, see:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.zfs/2...

I would do a fsync() before switching the symlink to the new dir.
Rat race (like capitalism) has an image problem
I was trying to figure out what was bugging me about the line I quoted of yours and figured it out - you call a healthcare visit a 'claim' rather than a 'visit' or 'consult' or whatever. I worked in a hospital for four years and never heard of any malingerer referred to as an 'overclaimer'.
This search renders good pointers
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I think you should differentiate between getting rid of TV and getting rid of cable. Personally I've never paid extra for channels, but have also never seriously considered getting rid of my TV. It's a handy device for playing games and watching DVDs, stuff I've downloaded, and streaming content.
Yes, there are cases like this. But consider: what are the odds of misdiagnosis? Is that higher or lower than spontaneous remission? Is that higher or lower than a response to chemotherapy?

I have a sneaking suspicion that the "miracle" recoveries from cancer are simply misdiagnoses. Cancer is often a diagnosis of elimination. This is very easy to get wrong. Lesions are the tell-tale, but it is only inference that links them together. Millions of people have benign lesions that have naught to do with cancer.

And these stories are dangerous to the vast majority of (accurately diagnosed) cancer patients who have metastasized and are looking for miracles. This "slim ray of hope" takes away from them whatever slim shred of hope they had to make peace with death. And making peace with death is a huge quality of life issue for both the patient and their family, an issue which has been almost entirely ignored.
I love Put.IO, and so I made a cool iOS app for it: http://awesomeputioapp.com
Why am I not surprised it's an "anti-virus"

AV software == snake oil

If your system 'needs' an Anti-virus change the way you use it or change it.
As an aside, it doesn't cost more to call a cell phone for any reason other than "Because people will pay more".

If anything, mobile networks are less troublesome to maintain than fixed line networks, the equipment needs a lot less human interaction, and generally cost much less to run.

If you were building a voice only telephone network today, it would not involve wires into people's houses.
How did Perl gain a reputation for being a write-only language?
>But math is so much more than arithmetic.

Math is much more than arithmetic as it is taught. Understanding arithmetic through the lens of relationships (as you stated) is no different than algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, differential equations...

Indeed, it forms the backbone of them all.
It can be distributed to 10 students which would make it 4.2 hours per person. That's more than doable.
My current software minimalism project: Stay with Ubuntu LTS. Do not upgrade every half year.

Upgrading Ubuntu usually means a few nice features, some things break, some new workarounds. For someone who is not using Unity there is probably no new feature in 12.10 anyways. While 12.04 has its quirks and bugs, at least my workarounds need no change for two years.
For email the definition is nice and easy - unsolicited bulk email is spam.

But there are different expectations for social media, where you expect a bunch of fluff. The whole point is that you've signed up for unsolicited bulk nonsense. I'm not sure what the difference is between someone who just posts a bunch of "come see my band" posts, and someone who pays to promote a bunch of "come see my band" posts.
yes. that's a good idea if you care about it. the good part about this solution is that even if the newly deployed file tree becomes corrupted, you can simply point the symlink to the old (certainly not corrupt) tree. that is easy and fast error recovery. an fsync in between makes the window very small, so that only the symlink might get broken.
I work for a pretty big PHP shop. Our opcode cache has some issues with this, but our stat-cache is ok. Inside the code we unpack the symlink, so internally we are pointing to files like ~/releases/<id>/codebase/HTML/index.php instead of ~/codebase/HTML/index.php

Because of the opcode issues we still do a rolling restart of the apaches but we don't see them a lot.

We use `rename` instead of `mv`. Don't know why :)

edit: this also handles the problem of suddenly referencing different files mid-request. Because you don't
Ok, one problem solved. Now what's left is - schema change, making sure ongoing process flows can automatically migrate from the previous version to the new one, resources referenced from the previous version are still valid, nothing tries to read files with the code via the link (it can change mid-request).

I got the strange feeling from that article as if changing the code files was the hardest thing about yes upgrade.
Beside the fact that OP “just moved to a new apartment in Tel Aviv”, could you name any way in which nomadic lifestyle would be un-“Zen”? Do you mean it's morally questionable?

I'd argue with that, as hosts probably offer their place after weighing cost/benefit ratio (e.g., inconvenience and risk vs. acquiring new connections), but I'd like to know an alternative opinion.
The worst example of that phenomenon is Singleton, which everyone believes is about a static factory method that returns the instance. In fact, that was only an EXAMPLE given in the GoF book for a mechanism to get the singleton instance...
Babbage builders turn down Kickstarter
I should have explained more of why I wanted to downsize during that time.

My main reason for wanting to downsize was because I didn't want to bring a bunch of clutter and stuff into my new home and life because I was starting a new life in a way. There was something appealing about having a fresh start. I still have this where when we have moved homes, I get very interested in downsizing again. It's the lure of the fresh start and getting rid of the clutter.

Another reason was because I wanted clear up some personal mental and emotional energy. I think in a way I was tired of how attached I was to some of my stuff because I recognized that I was still getting my identity from what I used to do. When the reality was, those things were not a part of my life anymore. For example, one of my first jobs was as an editor for a very small publication. I held onto every single magazine I was a part of. I think I was sick of holding on to my past and I wanted to move on. It isn't that I wanted to forget my past experiences, I just didn't want to find my identity in it anymore. Getting rid of the stuff helped me tremendously with that.
Like they tell here http://www.quora.com/Startup-School/Where-can-I-find-videos-...
It will be in about a few days.

In the meanwhile, here a recap: http://nowaternomoon.com/post/34062996874/my-key-takeaways-f...
Right there with ya... I'm new as well & wish to learn much more!
Good photos - did you take them?
In defense of Apple Maps
WinRT isn't just a new library, though it is that in part. More so, it's a whole new infrastructure for building and assembling Windows programs. If Windows 8 is successful—and more specifically, if Metro apps flourish—WinRT will be the foundation on which Windows apps are built for decades to come.

This reads like .NET marketing from years ago.
You are aware that "natural cures" is the reason Steve Jobs died. While your fish oil might help, it is not a solution to be taken seriously on the scope of adhd as severe as his. Just like natural herbs wasnt the solution to treating a disease as severe as Steve Job's pancreatic cancer.
It's a pity that the BBC focused on that aspect because that wasn't the main point of briefing them (and only came up because they asked): the main point was that the project is actually happening and we need about £250,000 to do the first part.

The first part being... study all the documentation Babbage left behind and build a 3D working simulation of the Analytical Engine. When done that'll be the first time anyone has seen the AE in action, albeit a computer, physical simulation.

And the Kickstarter situation is more complex than just 'costs too much': http://blog.jgc.org/2012/10/why-plan-28-decided-not-to-use.h... And, as I told the BBC, we have discussed using Kickstarter once we come to build the engine itself when it would be more appropriate.
In fact, Xunlei, the download software that has most users in the world, does a much better job for a much lower price (10GB for 15 USD per year). But you have to be able to read Chinese...http://vip.xunlei.com/freedom/lixian.html
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As a contractor most of the projects I work on are web based ones.

Every time I manage to land a native application contract I am thrilled to get away from such headaches.

Specially the ones discussing pixel level behavior with the customer or trying to making him/her understand why certain desktop like features are not possible at all in a browser world.
Local state is poison
I was there. And I can say that this would not be my summary of Startup School. This summary makes me question every other summary of events on HN. Not to say that the author didnt provide a good summary for himself, but instead I now realize how radically differently two people can perceive the same event, based on their experience.
Isn't this guy reinventing a simplified wheel? We already have tools like Capistrano and Fabric or Rex (which does quite a bit more than just application deployments).
I dont know if I ever felt "broken", but rather different. As in an outcast. I always embraced that kind of thing and was always secure about my identity.

But dont get me wrong, I suffered from depression as well. The trick to beat depression is to push yourself past the depressive thoughts by counter arguing with them. "You cant do that", so keep trying it until you do. "You arent attractive", fuck that who cares. Im me. "There were so many people who did this better", well fuck them too, Ill keep doing it until im better.

Of course this is after you get started on a treatment. Depression is too hard to motivate yourself to argue back without some sort of help. :P
Honestly, I think your username is more recognizable than your name. I "know" who jedberg is but until I saw this post I didn't know your name was Jeremy.
I've been using this pattern for almost 2 years, and indeed it presented a problem at first with bytecode cache. We've added a simple post deploy script that flushes APC and it fixed this.
Nice concept and the home page looks nice
The torrents I add aren't being downloaded; they've been stuck at 0% for around 20 minutes now. Is it just under heavier-than-usual load?

Edit: never mind, working as expected now.
I lost my HS yearbooks before I could digitize them. Its freaking impossible to find another of those things.

A fujitsu sheet feeding scanner has been the single most liberating device I've ever owned.

When you cut apart something like a yearbook to scan it, its almost a religious experience. In faith, you sacrifice the book's corporeal form so that its essence can ascend into the cloud and live forever.
I always loved when Jamie on Mythbusters pulls out some stuff from his workshop. I have TONS of "junk" and it makes huge difference in my life. Otherwise I would spend 50% of my time searching for stuff I already had, but throw away a few months ago.

This also applies to IT geeks. What would you do when your cool Macbook dies? Do your work on Iphone until the replacement arrives? I would just take replacement from drawer, restore backup and be back online in 30 minutes.
How to sell wow accounts as fast as possible?
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To say that a 'fair share' is the taxes prescribed by the current laws is ridiculously circular. Of course it's the _intention_ of laws to be fair, but no one can claim with a straight face that the current loopholes are actually fair. It's quite obviously unfair because larger companies with more money get away with paying less.

The problem with these loopholes is an international one; countries screw each other over with it, and it's difficult to pressure them into closing them.
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"a two-tiered system"

That's what the UK has - there is the NHS for everyone, free at the point of delivery, and there is a smaller private health care sector where you can get anything you can pay for.
Digitizing was probably my favorite part of this process. I actually look at my photos a lot more now than I ever did before when they were stuck in photo albums because they're in folders in my computer now. And the same goes for my old papers, cards, etc. It's not that I look at these items very often now, but I never looked at them before.
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> People who have the patience to get a degree, aren't impatient enough to invent web changing technologies like Haml and Sass.

Over-generalized, indeed: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
But what if you don't have a handle to a file? Say you have index.php, which includes stuff.php. Order of operations:

1. Server opens (old) index.php and begins executing
2. Symlink swap
3. Interpreter gets to the line that includes stuff.php, and then opens the *new* file
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Permission to launch a simple balloon with a camera. I mean it sound so simple, but then you might also be required to seek permission for filming if its done over a residential area. Add that with radio regulations if you are using any kind of receiver, and there might be 3 or more agencies one would need to get permissions for a simple launch.

The 'blanket' permission groups like UKHAS is however nice (if one live in the UK), and there is a loot to learn by the people there. That said, ignoring the regulations is sometimes a viable option.
I didn't expect the slight bump to non-white ownership of Apple products. I suspect it's related to the huge bias (2-3x) for younger people owning Apple products, and there being a much higher percentage of non-white people in 0-18 and 18-34 brackets than in 35-death.
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> A "very popular cross-platform messaging service" with an install base of 10 million to 50 million users exposed telephone numbers from the address book.

WhatsApp would that be?
Yeah, I figured the same. So it's more a cause of the age bias and less anything about the Apple brand. Might just as well not have it included in the infographic then.
It does not seem to work in IE8 (I am @work and not allowed to install other browsers). What is the goal of Numu please? :-)
What annoys me about articles like this is that people tend to get angry at the corporations.

What do you seriously expect them to do? They are entities that exist to maximize profit. The only time we should be angry at corporations is when they actually break the law.

When corporations are paying low taxes and doing so legally; it's politicians we should be angry at.
Which is good? Client side or Server side Validation?
This is silly, this makes it look like all open source or alternatives projects were made to attack Microsoft, or vice-versa. Development of new solutions/alternatives is not always against something existing. It could be to serve other purposes, other markets, other clients/users. This is not a zero-sum game.
(1) On arriving at the homepage, I had no idea what your start-up did. I had to navigate to About ("We take any web address and create an easy to share numerical code that connects to that address. We call them numurls, or numus for short.")

Please explain your product succinctly and clearly somewhere on the homepage.

(2) Your search-box will not let me input any text. Windows 7, Chrome 22.0.1.

Edit: So, I misunderstood. I thought you entered a url into homepage, with spat out some type of numerical code, you could then enter into the navigation bar. In particular, I thought you owned a numerical extension, i.e., www.something.11, which you were using to create purely numerical urls.

Actually, the process is as follows: (a) you get a code through the new.php page (linked at the bottom of the homepage), (b) you're give a code, (c) in order go to that website you have to go to your homepage and enter it.

That's ridiculous.

Why would I use that? It adds an unnecessary middle-step to navigating to a website. I'd usually give friends my url directly (which is easy to remember), or say something like "I read a good Economic article recently. Search 'New Progressivism Economist'."
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It's worth noting that equity sales taxes don't concern French companies that have the "JEI" label, i.e. young innovative companies.

There is an issue in the State's definition of "innovative", though. JEIs are companies that spend at least 15% of their resources on R&D, so we're talking about technological innovation. It seems to me that most people agree that other sorts of innovation need to be accounted — either with the same label, or a new one.
The data is from this page with a full, interactive survey: http://aytm.com/surveys/182246/stat/b108ab3c88e425b66d633ead...
i have done an internship at put.io so seeing them in frontpage of hackernews is awesome. :)
It doesn't say what it is, all I see is a large input box which doesn't accept any keyboard input (Chrome 22.0.1229.94 on OSX ML)

Edit: Ah I see, it accepts numbers only. I'm guessing when you create a 'numu' the user has to go to your website and enter the code to retrieve the web url.. I think your home page should make this more obvious.