skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely understand your point. Age is not something I can manipulate with so I don't mind facing the truth.

It's okay if you're not using NameTerrific today. I'm sure you wouldn't trust your important domains with any random startups that you've never heard of before (and you shouldn't). But let me answer your questions:

- Security. I've invested a lot of time in security. Basically the whole system is running in a private network and the only public-facing node is the load balancer. The DNS servers are running in a separate network and connect with TerrificDNS controller with a secure connection. eNom API requires IP address verification. Credit cards are stored completely outside the web service. I've paid attention to common attacks (injection, CSRF, XSS and mass assignment).

- Points of failure. DNS is a difficult thing to handle because the uptime is critical. That's why TerrificDNS Anycast uses Amazon Route 53. If you're uncomfortable with NameTerrific's DNS servers, you can choose this outsourced solution. 100% SLA.

- My background: It seems true that my age is more of a perceived-technical disadvantage rather than a marketing advantage, especially when considering the seriousness of my project(s). However, I've been coding for 6 years (with 4 years web) so I think it shouldn't be a serious limiting factor.

Thank you for your compliments! I'll prove myself with time and results.
If "participates" in society is sufficient for "fully functioning member of society", then at a minimum, trained dolphins who perform in shows are fully functioning members of society. They have complex interactions with their trainers, including fairly high level communication, and they perform work in exchange for goods (fish).
What I get out of all these different posts on motivation is that the amount of motivation matters a lot, the type of motivation matters very little, and motivation and come from very different places for different people.

Some of the most successful people are highly motivated by their insecurities (eg Warren Buffett). Some have a very specific vision they want to accomplish. Some like dhh follow one goal at a time. Some simply grew up with the expectation that great things were expected of them and see their success more as a result of their habits than their goals. Some are motivated by revenge. Some are motivated by proving others wrong. Some are motivated by not wanting to be ordinary. Some are motivated by wanting to be accepted and loved. Etc.

So really, the best thing you can do is look back at your own life and figure out what drove you to action. What was the time in your life when you were most productive & effective? And what was your life like then?
I think a case could be made that the near-constant consumer demand around Apple products is contributing to the increase of consumer debt which, in turn, is one of the largest contributors to the "depression".

I'm not saying they're the only ones to blame here, all consumer electronic companies are doing the same thing, but they're certainly the largest player.

Forced obsolescence around devices that are largely unchanged from one version to the next is not new, but the pace is insane. People are bored days after purchase.

We're sitting on a mountain of tulips. Exploitive, environment damaging tulips.
When Apple's share price took a hit on the announcement of iPad Mini pricing, apparently it was because the analysts though the price was too high. Note - not because Apple's margins were going to be lower on the iPad Mini (which they are), but because they weren't cutting their margins by enough! Given the Apple will sell these things as fast as they can make them, Wall Street was effectively upset that Apple would be making too much money.

This from a company who's whole strategy is about being the upmarket, high margin option. They're so obviously leaving a price umbrella so that next year they can price-drop the current version when the next iPad Mini comes out and still make money hand over fist, while also leaving the opposition nowhere to go price wise.

They release a blockbuster refresh of their main products and gear up to make more money than ever before and their stock price dives 12%. Unbelievable.
I read it all with no problems...
So our only urban design choices are the Tower in a Park or the New Urbanist suburb?
>> As thinking, social beings, we've extended the umbrella of protecting life to members of our species that are functionally disabled, even to the point where they can't take care of themselves.

You say that as though the matter has been completely and definitively decided. In fact, humans often disregard that protection and hurt harmless people. Which is why moral debates are still being had, and why it's worth asking about the philosophical underpinnings of a moral position.

I suggested that Christianity offers such underpinnings. You may suggest alternate ones, but I think it would be naive to say that no such moral arguments are necessary because Nature Takes Care Of It.
While I agree they are still heavily supply-constrained, the CapEx figures that Apple has released indicates they are significantly ramping up manufacturing capacity. They have sold more than 15M iPads in a quarter before. I would be surprised if they didn't have the capacity to sell 20-25M this holiday quarter.
What Javascript's capable of would really only need to be a starting point.

I certainly wouldn't want to limit what's possible to what Java or Javascript are capable of. Certainly not Java. Java is (IMO) practically defined by stagnation as a result of poor management by the companies that have owned it.

And part of what I'm thinking here is getting away from the limitations imposed by Javascript. For example, Javascript lacks big integers, and is a dynamic language. My thought is that decoupling the HLL from the runtime would allow for faster evolution, because it's hypothetically easier to add new opcodes to a bytecode and VM than it is to make large shifts to a high-level language. Consider the whole dynamic thing in particular - .NET has a great VM with pretty good support for both static and dynamic languages. Java didn't, but again we aren't strictly required to repeat the mistakes of the past. And by just using "Javascript as the bytecode" we commit the reverse sin - that's a 'bytecode' with poor support for static languages.
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Apple just confirmed to the WSJ, that this number doesn't include the iPad 2 (only 4th Gen iPad and iPad mini).
A decade ago I figured we be at 10ghz by now, didn't count on more cores instead of faster.

Of course you cannot compare 1ghz in 2003 to 1ghz in 2013, way more efficient per clock cycle with the right code.
Right, nice work!
You TDD your goals. Square could certainly have started with modest goals, like we did with Basecamp, such as "get to $4K/month in revenues". That probably wouldn't have floated for them, given all the VC they took. But there are many grays between that and "unseat every POS ever".
Probably better for you skill set, and you CV, to work on a bad idea until a good one shows up.
That's a great perspective and why I'm head over heels for WordPress as a platform for publishers of all shapes and sizes (and have built a company around it)

Then again, this versatility has its drawbacks. We're constantly challenged by the complexity of building a mobile viewport onto WordPress and present it in a way that makes reading, discussing and sharing this kind of content. The options for publishers are limitless and translating that to mobile in a way that makes sense is really non-trivial.
Interestingly there is something like syntax highlighting in natural language too. One example is that all nouns in German are capitalised which helps a lot in the context of ambiguity. To give you an idea of a case in which it actually might help:

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.

vs.

The Complex houses married and single Soldiers and their Families.

Other languages use different markers to indicate different parts of speech.

A point that could be made is that (written) language evolved for a long time and the concept of "syntax highlighting" is embedded in at least some of them. Probably because it has proven useful.
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Which admittedly does not necessarily suggest any form of mutual recognition. Instances of cultural exchange I think are more suggestive.

Perhaps the better question is, if Neanderthals were to somehow come back and enter the modern world, would we accept extending some sort of ethical consideration to them? I think we undoubtedly would.

The current deficient of other species that we all accept as special in some way in no way suggests that inter-species relationships of that sort are impossible.
>>Flying through a galaxy at 0.999c is identical to "sitting still" while a galaxy flies by at 0.999c.spaceship.

You're right if you were sitting in a train and watched the station go by, but not at .999c. You're ignoring relativistic mass.

Unlike General Relativity where we were able to measure the effects of sun's gravity against the position of emitted light from the stars, The truth is we have no empirical evidence of the effects on solid objects (not single accelerated particles) approaching C.
What's interesting is where it appears to go beyond what natural selection would favour - caring for individuals who won't be able to hunt and provide food again.

Of course, nothing in biology is that simple. The individuals could have some other use, such as navigational memory. The carers could be gaining reputation, i.e. they'll get more benefits from other members of the group. Or it could be an evolutionary 'accident': the injured or weak individual triggers a response that evolved to restore a productive member of the group, even if it won't work in that case.

You can make similar arguments about human altruism. But in some cases, the most simple explanation is a personal relationship between individuals and a sense of compassion.

I don't have strong feelings either way about the initiative in the linked article. But I'm fascinated by the questions of consciousness and how we assess it.
FileDiffs - Shows comparison between files or clipboard (uses Git internally)

Djaneiro - Django template filters and tags

Markdown Preview - Previews markdown posts (allows user keybinding)

Sublemacspro - Emacs keybinding in Sublime Text

Word count - Shows word count (useful with Markdown preview)

Theme Soda - I like this theme with Monaco font

Terminal - Opens terminal in the project location

SublimeLinter - Inline lint highligting
I love that you made a contemporary art reference (my field) even if Goldsworthy isn't such a good artist.

It is worth cooking a meal if you want to. It's worth making a line of rocks. It's worth programming a cute tumblr theme. Just don't pretend like you are doing those things because they are inherently better things to do than watching TV or lying in bed. These activities are all animated by your feelings about them, which your brain can't turn off regardless of how steeped in death you are.

You think Goldsworthy's work is beautiful. I don't. And that's fine. Not everyone has the same feelings and preferences. I'm not saying no one should "fight," just that they can't really argue on the basis of death that other people should.
Show HN: hackathon for introverts
> First hardcore developers where shifting from IDE's to vi and emacs. Now hardcore developers are turning off syntax coloring? What' next?

Now they're shifting to proofreading prior to clicking ``reply''.
> The current animal protection/endangered species protection rules are sufficient.

The recently and soon to be extinct species would disagree with you.

Also, if homo sapiens had the same levels of "protection" I'd be able to cull yuppies when too many of them moved into my neighborhood.
Yes, programmatic creation of subdomains is one. Another potential use case is domain-based apps. NameTerrific will roll out OAuth support in the coming weeks so developers can control their users' domains through NameTerrific. So you can help a blogger point their domain to a blogging platform programmatically, for example.

Also, you can create a health check program that automatically drops unresponsive nodes from a round-robin DNS-based load balancing record set.

To address your concern: eNom handles all registrations currently. If NameTerrific doesn't respond you someday (I'll make sure it doesn't happen), you can claim back your domain at eNom and then you can transfer to anywhere else. The domains are yours and never ours.

Regarding the age: I recognize that being a problem now. But there's no regret. I've done what I need to and I'll prove myself with time and results.
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For that matter, you could make a strong case for dogs as well. How many thousands work for us?
Brilliant article. Loved the bits about 'trends' and 'experts', that's exactly how I feel about placing emphasis on certain people and concepts on the web. It's a slippery slope when everyone follows the same path.
Kudos for being open and honest about this sort of thing. Publicly acknowledging difficult issues makes me support a company even more.
what's the responsibility of Balanced in this regard, isn't it on them to ensure the validity of credit card numbers?
Jan Gehl is no Oscar Niemeyer.

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

The Netherlands has twenty times the density and four times the per capita income. Brazil is vast. It is nearly as far from Brasilia to Natal as from Amsterdam to Moscow.

Rational urbanism isn't one size fits all.
I think this goes to show that the tablet market that Apple is playing is both different and not as price sensitive as the one Google, Amazon, etc are playing in.

After January 1st, there will (probably) be sub-$300 "good as new" iPad minis available as refurbished devices in the Apple Store too...
Question for photomatt if you're still reading this comment thread, and since it might be my only chance to get dialog with you.

Are you considering any changes regards the stack, since many installations can have a issues with speed now (not intended as a criticism). So eg something like Postgres, or MongoDB even for the DB Backend?
Welcome to every tech product. I used to read the PC Magazine type publications in the late 1990s. Maximum PC and the like. They'd hype up each new graphics card and CPU so much. I remember feeling bad that I had just bought the 300 MHz PII when the 333 MHz came out.

IMHO, Apple's situation is much better than the CPU/GPU upgrade cycle. They release like once every 1.5 years in each product category instead of like every 3-6 months. And they hype up each release much less than AnandTech/Toms/etc hype up the latest NVIDIA/ATI cards.
A lot of these complaints come from the perspective of a power linux user. 'General' is the wrong word to use.
DNSimple is really great. I like how they handle the web services. NameTerrific has taken a more flexible approach - we allow customers to create their own Snippets and get TSI (pretty much like AMI). So if you have a Tumblr-like platform, it will make sense to give your customers a TSI to subscribe to (and when you change your IP addresses, all of their records get updated).

Also, NameTerrific offers Anycast DNS, which is important to many users. The Unicast DNS is based on PowerDNS, the same as DNSimple, but the backend is Redis instead of MySQL - way faster.
The NYT's Visual Election Outcome Explorer - How we made the D3 decision tree
This is tenure. Most universities have it - and very few have onerous requirements.(#) Getting it is hard (MIT famously has <50% rate - that is after working outrageously hard till your 30's to become world class professor material, you still get 50/50 chance of packing your desk up - eat that "up or out" Management consultancies.

That being said I suspect the tenure rate elsewhere of faile MIT tenures is pretty good.

(#) Newton famously had to teach three classes, they were so impenetrable no-one attended the third. Literally the best minds of the universities could not understand what the hell the best mind was saying. He did not have to teach any more classes.
The Human Use of Human Beings
>So why not take 340 days at 1g?

Sure! My reasoning was why add 2 years just to accelerate and decelerate. And as I said, "once we are advanced enough to figure out how to propel anything that fast or able to pack the needed energy" there were other challenges to overcome.
If you wanna play these little bullshit hiring games, you better put more money on the table.
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We need a metric by which to make these decisions, and intelligence is a good start. But note the logic only works in one direction: if you're intelligent enough, you get these ethical considerations, but if you're not intelligent enough that doesn't mean you don't get these considerations. The Down's Syndrome comment is not relevant to the discussion.
Our commitment to backwards compatibility simply forces us to make smarter, more deliberate decisions.

Because we talk so much about our back compat efforts, it is certainly understandable that people might think that is where almost all of our development effort goes. But that isn't actually the case.

We heavily emphasize our philosophies because it makes adopting and updating WordPress easier, and we want users to know that. But in practice, the way we build software doesn't hamstring us. We've introduced new features and rewritten entire APIs without needlessly breaking plugins or sites. And we do sometimes drop stuff -- we are just careful about it. We do whatever is necessary to make WordPress evolve. In the end, we've simply become really good at following through.
Well, it's intended to work with followers/ids and other calls. Twitter might go against you, but that would be disregarding your calls… If they pull the plug it will be because of features, not because of how you use the API :(
EINTR and What It Is Good For
And, if I recall correctly, Mozilla had a hard time keeping it at the same level of WebKit/Chrome, partly because the code was too old and needed a lot of changes.
A decade ago I figured we be at 100 cores by now, didn't count on using quantum computing instead of adding more cores.
Of course you cannot compare 10 cores in 2013 to 10 cores in 2023, way more efficient per core with the right code.
Except this design does not exist everywhere ...

In (continental) Europe, I've never seen it. And I find this type of buttons very confusing.
If you're ever in upstate NY, check out the Empire State Plaza in Albany ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Plaza ), which is a massive complex of government buildings designed with similar principles to the government core of Brasilia.

They basically gutted the core of the city and built a million square feet of office space, connected by massive underground concourses, mazes of tunnels, and an outdoor concourse that resembles a Roman forum scaled for giant robots.

I think that one of the design principles was that senior bureaucrats would never need to be exposed to outdoor air or the city they work in the middle of. Hit the garage door opener, roll into your underground parking garage, and stroll through the corridors to your office.

It's literally a fifteen minute walk to get to a coffee shop on the street outside of the complex.
I probably wasn't clear enough. I was saying the opposite, arguing that an appeal to contribute to humanity is not viable in the face of death. And further that most people who think that is what is driving them are really being driven by something else.
Angry Birds Star Wars' Only Hope? Obi-Wing Kabirdy, Of Course
Steve Jobs’ Superyacht
Nice job being proactive and catching on quickly. Have there been any chargebacks? Chargebacks are usually what alerts people to credit card fraud.
Certainly. Prior professions may help define a candidate's initial campaign platform and narrative, but they rarely explain political activity once in office. Politics is a game with very few reliable rules but where even minor actions have overwhelming consequences.

No one in their right mind plays this game.
Tempio Voltiano
This is always a concern when new value exchange services are invented.

None have been as open and ethical about this as you, though, so it's very comforting to know that gittip won't be a free-for-all bonanza for asshats.
The Fortress language (recently discontinued) really pushed the boundaries of using mathematical notation in a programming language. The "mathematical" version looked like the pseudo-code examples many CS textbooks use.

Lots of examples here

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/Teaching/CoursAnnecy/0506-Ma...
We have a custom import written for each individual network/feed, so we try to iron out any "quirks" as early as possible.

And for the matching itself, that again is custom-written. I'll be honest - I don't fully understand the maths of it myself (I leave that to the machine learning experts on the team) - but it basically extracts weighted keywords and phrases from your pages, matches them against an index of our products and then alters the weightings as performance data comes in.
Updated gh-pages branch, re-try and checkout the examples: https://github.com/PascalPrecht/jquery.neotabs.js#examples
IANAL but isn't this one of those things where you need a lawyer?
Unfortunately, eNom only offers IPv4 glue records (we call it "Registry Records"). That's why we plan to be a registrar ourselves so that we can offer the geekiest thing possible.
Postgres - and you got my money.
I don't subscribe to this. Using a transport system isn't just sitting in the first thing you see. You'll probably have to book, or know a map, decode the lingo of the network. And that's only if they provide you just what you need. If there's a problem, you'll have to rewire your plan, find new paths, their data, compare .. How many people get confused in subways on their first encounter ? just stopping using it for a few months and you'll lose habits.

Just like a computer.

And I'm absolutely not fond of how our OSes and software are designed, that's what I was suggesting by 'misdesigns'. What I reject is the neverending story of buying new shiny when old rusty could have done it but nobody told you that. People's mindset is that problems are solved by spilling money and trashing usable devices, double waste.
Do you realize the irony of telling others what to think or say?
does this serve international website owners, non-English and Ajax?
I agree with what you're saying, but no need for so much anger =). (Yes, it is BS though haha)
> We punish those who are cruel to animals, not because we attribute personhood to them, but because of the impact animal cruelty has upon persons collectively (society at large).

Are you sure this is correct? I'm fairly sure cruelty to animals is punished purely because of ethical considerations for the animal's well being.
In the original WSJ article (yc: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4741394), it's confirmed that this effect has a limited duration.

> A Google spokesman said: "We aim to get users the best
> answers as fast as possible" using techniques such as
> examining "related searches." He said the goal for the
> feature is to provide better results in a situation
> where, for instance, a person who searches for "Harry
> Potter," and then for "Amazon," actually wants "Harry
> Potter" results from Amazon.com Inc. He said that the
> technique saves Google users time and provides better
> answers, but affects only about 0.3% of the searches the
> company conducts.
Brasilia is a modernist city forged out of wilderness. It attempts to deal with the messy problems of poverty.

BTW, Seaside isn't a suburb of anything.
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Nice Site Design... But Be Sure to view-source