skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely see the value in what you're saying, particularly for exploratory searches, although it doesn't fit my original use case (Dark Side + Wizard of Oz).

Maybe two modes would be useful?

Feel free to fork: https://github.com/bretwalker/twitterplayback
> Am I missing something here?

You are missing a lot of things.

1. Linode et al buy top-end hardware. It is, generally, going to be more reliable.

2. Linode et al have redundancy in multiple parts of their system. Redundant power, redundant networking, redundant disks, redundancy all over the damn place. A server sitting in a hallway closet does not have these advantages.

3. Finally, you assume that your time is worthless; as in having a $0/hr value.

I charge a lot more than $0/hr for my time. If, in actual fact, I could successfully farm out my little Wordpress blog network to a reliable host who charged a lot more than Linode, I would do so in a heartbeat because it makes financial and hair-pulling sense.

I farm out the management of physical servers to Linode for the same reason. I am nearly 32, my time is expensive, my patience is short and my interest in hardware has long since abated because I have other shit to do. Linode is a bargain from my POV.
Yes. Your home internet connection is not nearly as reliable as a datacenter's. (Also, you have guests over and the 5 year old unplugs the machine. Your home catches on fire or, worse, you decide to move to another city.)
Any suggestions on how I can get a list of distinct email addresses from which I have received emails ? Kinda like a select distinct on db table ?
California Finds Economic Gloom Starting to Lift
I don't think they are both right.

It is very easy to find a situation where they are wrong that most HN readers can understand: CPUs.

The cheapest and most expensive CPUs are usually the worst in terms of Performance/Price.

This pricing scheme affects many items in life.
"it is where the people are"

I agree. Sorry to sound "negative" - it's probably because I'm one of the people that "don't get" twitter/facebook in the first place.

*Update:
I was looking at submissions about Certician, your tool for monitoring your SSL certificates. As comparison, I find that so much more useful, even if the website it's no longer live.
Look at it another way: what's the utility of not seeing the stories change in real time? What added benefit does pressing the refresh button give you?

If you're worried stories would change too fast, that's something that can be tweaked through the algorithm or the UI. In fact I spent a lot of time making sure the UI for new comments didn't disrupt the flow of the page.

Basically, what I'm saying is don't dismiss Telescope just because it doesn't work like what you're used to, and please keep an open mind :)
But Eclipse does stupid stuff like disabling Ctrl-Ffull text search when viewing a .class file, even though text method names are plainly visible.
Hard to know since this is Heroku… But the Meteor guys are on it, they take performance issues seriously.
9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down
The discovery of this fact was actually the reason I finally took a long hard look at Monotouch. It's a great validation for the Mono team.

I'm still sitting it out but if WP starts getting any traction then that will probably be the last push I need to really dig in. There isn't a day that goes by when I'm coding in Obj-C or Java and don't wish for some C# feature.
The 27 year old developers probably only thought they were grizzled veterans.
Price is orthogonal to best/worst.
British IT contractor tells of 946 days as Iraqi hostage
Never select text on readonly documents (like reading emails) for purposes other than copying/pasting.
There's quite a bit that you're missing.

Let's start with point #1. You're paying $1000 upfront. With a VPS, you can pay a few bucks per month to get very decent performance (assuming you go with a LEB instead of a overpriced Linode). You assume that you could use your home internet, but the reality of that is that almost every consumer ISP on the face of the earth won't allow customers to run servers. Can you get away with it? Usually, yes. Is it a good idea? Not at all.

Why spend the equivalent of $50/mo? You can get budget dedicated servers for that price range, with a heck of a lot better network resources, and no need to maintain your own hardware.

Really, there's a ridiculously long list of reasons that running any public-facing server from your home is a horrible idea. Take the game server I used to run as an example — I'd be completely and utterly screwed if my home connection was getting 4Gbps DDoS attacks, yet with it being on a remote server, I have options to mitigate it or even ignore it (nullroute, yay).

Edit: There's a ridiculously long list of reasons why home-hosting is bad.
How is this new thing different from precompiled headers, which Apple has had for 10 years?
From HTTP to HTTPS with free certificates
> it had been calling itself a 'database' product while specifically defaulting to doing the least possible to make sure your data actually hits the disk

Being a database doesn't mean you have to persist on disk. There is nothing wrong with in-memory databases. If you thought they were giving you persistence guarantees, then yeah, you would have a gripe.
> If you are using PHP also bare in mind that a common default is for all sessions to be written to /tmp which is world read and writeable. So if others have access to your server they can steal or destroy sessions easily.

I'm slightly confused by this, within the context of this article. Yes, /tmp is readable and writable by all, but that doesn't mean that everything in it is readable or writable to other people. The sessions that PHP creates will be owned by the webserver user (nobody/www-data/something else), and shouldn't be readable or writable by other users.

This is still a problem with shared hosting, where you might have multiple websites running on the same server. One shared host would be able to read another's sessions, because they are all running under the webserver's user. This[1] suggests overriding the session_set_save_handler and writing to a resource that only you control, such as your DB.

[1] http://phpsec.org/projects/guide/5.html
I actually want to apologize. I misread your comment as contradicting the article: Saying basically that there is no gender disparity, or if there is it's women's intrinsic shortcomings, so I apologize about that.

I still think it sort of reads that way but it's obviously not what you meant and I clearly see now how you meant it to be read.
Yeah, I saw an interview with the founder on a recent episode of On The Verge, where he talked about that. I guess the whole gamification aspect of the service turned me off.
I found two, DataDog and Loggly. Anyone have any experience with them?
This habit is an example of what Chris Noessel calls "One Free Interaction"[1]. Another prominent example is the bounce on iOS scroll views. There seems to be something about being able to fidget with a UI that makes it more comfortable to use.

[1] http://www.cooper.com/journal/2009/01/one_free_interaction.h...
I find it curious that (after 242) there are no comments here ranting about ir/responsible disclosure. Is this simply indicative of the readership's unanimous hatred of all things DRM - or is there perhaps a threshold of ineptitude beyond which we feel ethically free to fully disclose vulnerabilities?
And why would they get a Linode when they can get a VPS from another provider for much, much cheaper? They don't bring much to the table for the price that a cheaper provider can't offer.
Watch as the Democrats (now dominating the State Legislature) take all the credit for this.
Photographer Has His Canon 5D Mark II Kidnapped.. by a Lion
He left, he wasn't booted.
Warning Graphic Photos - Retro Crime News: OJ Simpson Murder - Revisited
Actually, I think, we take it as if it's the gravity we know at work. We deduce the distribution of dark matter using the premise that dark matter is governed by the same gravity law.

If the distribution is actually different or if there's something entirely different, but with the same observable effect, then...
Can someone with developer access say how good the maps are? I don't see any way to use the maps without an invitation.
I rent a dedicated server from OVH in their Canada data center. For $79/month I get the following:

1) 100mbit connection
2) Core i3-2130 w/16 GB ram
3) 2x1TB sata configured as software raid-1

To be blunt, $79 is an absurdly cheap price for that kind of hardware and connectivity. I'm more than willing to put up with an occasional network problem (hurricane Sandy disrupted some of their peering) and a management portal that is not quite as featureful as I'd like.
no,

but i'm surprised nobody brought this up yet:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/reasy/

you select text and it turns it into some speed reading format. tiny plugin and plain awesome
That is fantastic to hear! Let me know if you come across any gotchas or other issues.
Select text, press r, speed read on any website
Whoah, I thought I was the only one with this problem. Quora drives me insane because of this type of functionality.
Amazon has licensed Nokia map tech and data. Not that interesting unless you are desperately trying to get away from Google.
If you click on the "Try demo" button it doesn't do anything.
Eric Schmidt Talks About The Future
Ask HN: Startup failed. What do I do now?
I had an opportunity to build a modern web based behavior assessment system. It went well with the first client but, I couldn't market it to other clients. With savings in bank account dwindling, I quit on marketing the product and started working on contract gigs to keep a positive cash flow. I was not able to figure out what is wrong with the product and why prospective clients even after a trial period didn't convert to paid subscriptions. I guess the product is dead. Now, I can't seem to get another product idea going. What should I do ? Should I keep doing these contract gigs and try out new ideas, or should I find a job with Top tier companies. Btw, I am pretty good with computers and building softwares that run on them and on browsers.
I recently worked on a site run on such a server. I've set up my own servers before, and I think it can be fun, but this time it was the other guy's. I have to say it was pretty annoying because the little things that were not set up properly added up to a website that wouldn't deliver email, a shell environment with awful defaults...yuck. There was a lot of maintenance that was ignored because the guy just didn't have the time. Well, that's what commercial web hosts are for. It's amusing to think that some overburdened IT guys believe they're doing their clients a huge favor by running a vanilla web server in their network closet.
But then where is my ESC key?
Global Alliance Hack  Moderator: Anonymous Mediator: UraniumTurd
Most monitor backlights have a threshold at which they can't go any dimmer without being shut off.
I spent only $27k in two years driving from Alaska to Argentina.[1] It was an absolutely like changing experience.

For anyone interested in this kind of self directed travel Overland, checkout WikiOverland[2] for all the information you'll need

[1]http://theroadchoseme.com/the-price-of-adventure

[2]http://wikioverland.org
To mark my place when scrolling.
No, I read the whole page top-down and press the "space" key to scroll down to the next page.
The HTTP header would be disconnected from this effort, and wouldn't necessarily have to change. The UA object would be populated from what the browser knows about its own operating environment. Not looking to change the way anything works, just looking for a solution to the 100's of different UA parsers that are out there.
You sure about that?

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/02/exclusive-amazon-buys-3d-mappin...
woah, this is fascinating to me. I've never heard of someone highlighting text while reading
Yes, from the license agreement of the Amazon Maps API:

"If you use the Program Materials we make available to enable the use of mapping-related features within Your Products, including any component of our Maps API, you accept and agree to be bound by NAVTEQ North America, LLC’s (“Nokia”) Developer Software Agreement for NLP and Third Party Supplier Terms, which applies to the portions of the Maps API provided by Nokia or its affiliates."
Porkchop might be a good starting point: https://github.com/disqus/porkchop
Lloyds TSB To Send Out Cutomers’ Accounts Switching Letters
Modern browsers are tolerable with markup not being perfect.

With me, as long as it works, I don't care.
If you want some details about it: http://l8security.com/post/36715280176/uv-281284-samsung-pri...
I've been using this feature for ages, but it got much worse about six months ago when the last message in a thread became automatically "focused". Now when I scroll up in a thread and select some text, the message I'm selecting text from doesn't automatically get focus. I have to click one extra time to get focus on the message I'm selecting. Even after half a year, I still forget the extra click in about 20 emails per day, making the reply go to the last message in the thread, with the entire thing quoted. To recover, I have to discard my new message, scroll back to the thing I wanted to reply to, and repeat the process. I filed a bug report in the first week, but no response and the bug remains.
Mongo made it extremely easy for me to create local caches of JSON api data. I didn't want to go through the hassle of mapping postgres schema or dealing with it's hstore data type.

I was then able to write a quick script to copy my mongo database over to elasticsearch. It was a joy.
I recently set up HTTPS on my personal blog, and this article saved me a lot of time doing so. The free StartCom certs really work. In the end it doesn't matter so much because I switched to Jekyll, but if your blog has an admin interface where you send the password over HTTP, there's no sense not securing it.
I've been trying to "get used to" Twitter over the past year or so ever since I started working somewhere where a lot of my coworkers use Twitter a lot.

It's interesting, and I've gotten into a few amusing discussions, but in the end I still "don't get" it. People talk about Twitter being this exciting place where they have all these discussions with all sorts of people, but I just don't see how.

I'm probably a lost cause for doing anything more than consuming and making the occasional quip, but I'm curious: Is there some common point that everyone hits where suddenly they're fully engaged and Twitter stops feeling disjointed? Is it just that I check Twitter like once or twice a day, and I need to try harder?
Ask HN: Link for coding at Night post from a few weeks ago
Can't seem to find that post on coding at night from a little while back. The author had written an ebook on night coding.

Thx
I believe one does whats best for them, if you want cheap stuff get them but also give the same opportunity to choose to those that want the best(finer) things in life. We all get what we want.
Economic Bricolage (Review of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's new book)
That's the English pricing. They recently updated their French page:

http://www.ovh.com/ca/fr/serveurs-dedies/

The same server is $49/month + tax now.
Why are Apple and Amazon both only allowing their maps to be usable on mobile devices?

I am sure there are people who want get away from Google/Bing but without web I can't see them bothering.
Air arrow keys are half the size of regular keys, which makes scrolling through keyboard even more painful for me. The button is like a single button, and you have to hit its top half or bottom half to scroll.

I had been using two finger scrolling since Lion. But most PC user that tries to scroll a page on my laptop, finds it very difficult.
Well, yes - they are politicians, after all.
I think the Pro is better for music production because it has optical digital audio and the Air does not.
Maybe this?

https://leanpub.com/nightowls
Not sure if you are implying that somehow they came into power just now-- Jerry Brown has been governor for almost two years now.
To me the worst set of cutlery is not from the thrift store but a set made of lead.
Space Buff: Lifting Weights In Weightlessness
PIL is the dependency that eclipses and has eclipsed Django in the trouble it causes with getting everyone to Python 3.
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We're sorry, but we couldn't find the page you requested.
You may want to go to the homepage or read our FAQs.
What if I want to highlight and quote separate paragraphs?
Note on Awareness
That rationale makes me more sad than I can express in a comment. :(
You can read the entire blog from the RSS feed. Can't say that about Google+, though.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/OfficialGmailBlog
well it's an android maps library. what's the particular interest?

https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/maps/concepts.html

demo looks like a demo. basically it's because they're not part of the android group. do they have the google maps api libraries on the device? just curious i honestly don't know. I'd imagine there are licensing issues?
Take a deep breath and step back from it for a bit. Absolutely keep doing your contract gigs - you need money right? After a while, take another look at what you have built, and see if there are parts of it that can be salvages or re-engineered to some other purpose. If not, chalk it up to learning and move on. Don't try to force ideas - they will either happen or they won't.
I always prefer text as well. I can get the information quicker and if I'm looking for a particular piece of information I don't have to scrub through a whole screencast.
I recently evaluated some cloud providers. There were differences of 10x latency for a bunch of basic (unix filesystem plus some bash script) level operations between EC2 and Rackspace. The Rackspace people failed to take complaints seriously, so we took our business elsewhere.

EC2 is good but their spin-up time is crap.

Though same-kernel is obviously a security reduction, the speed is far better: I for one can't wait to see more LXC and other lightweight virt stuff being made available with real cgroup-level guarantees.
Frankly, articles like these are a deterrent to all but the most techie of people. Why go through all this and shell $270 when you can get an Amazon EC2 instance free for a year!
Sorry, I wasn't intending to be condescending. I thought you were making a joke.
Like in the title would be ideal, I think.

Also, what you have right now is the URL but it's not linkified. You might want to do that.
I've never in my life been eating something and noticed the quality of the cutlery.

I frequently notice the disappointing cutlery in restaurants and the apartments of friends-who-don't-cook. A bendy fork or spoon with sharp edges is a genuine annoyance - definitely a first world problem, but one that's absurdly easy to solve at home by spending $20 for a set rather than $10.

I think flatware is a great example of something which makes sense to economize in the middle - "the best" is silly expensive, but since you eat every day and a set lasts decades, so you might as well avoid the low end of the quality curve. $20-$30 at Target will get you heavy, stiff, polished stainless steel.

A good chef's knife, however, should be treated like a family heirloom.
Not to mention that units get merrily mixed up. Quoting one review, "For example, if you have 1 honey, that's 1.44 grams per cubic centimeter, but if you have 10 honey, that's 14.4 grams per cubic centimeter (more dense than lead)." Err, wut?

But at least I learned that there are 2000 egg yolks in 80 PSI.
Spotify's killer feature is that you don't have to exit the app and switch to a different app to play music that they don't have.
NASA: Longest space mission for U.S. astronaut set for 2015
It's probably true enough that improved private activity in the state has had little to do with any recent public policy changes -- at least, I can't think of any recent state level actions that seemed remarkably stimulative.

But insofar as there's been an attempt to wrap California's negative trajectory around the neck of the Democratic party like an albatross -- as the article says, it's been compared to Greece and all but written off as a symbol of socialist blue state excess -- it might be fair enough to let its recovery do some buoying.

And I'm not sure why they wouldn't deserve some credit for the improvement in state/public finances.
Leave it as it is, since it's also used for webservers that would also be a different problem to solve (if it needs solving at all).

The idea would be to relieve the JS community from having to continually support this meta-data retrieval.
First ZTE now this, I dont understand why hardware makers keep on adding these unsecure backdoors...
I used to do this quite often when reading on a laptop with an external mouse, as an alternative to scrolling, so I could see where I was, especially on single page/printer friendly views.

Having an iPad and doing a lot of reading on Flipboard has "untrained" me, and I don't think I do it anymore on any platform.
Some HTML/CSS design decisions leave me selecting to read, if not just copying and pasting into a text editor.
The NYT "feature" can/could be disabled at the client by blocking one of their JS files. I still have the block in my config.

P.S. I see now that barrkel has already described this and one way of accomplishing it, elsewhere in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4839170
Exporting and importing contacts as csv:
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

You could then manipulate that file to hand remove duplicates, could use A2=A1 type formula in a spreadsheet and fill down to find dupes, copy relevant column to text file and sort and uniq in *nix: http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_uniq.htm

Merging and mass merging Gmail contacts:
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

You could also use Thunderbird. A few t-bird plugins will let you do things like remove dupes and sync with Gmail.

As for cleaning your inbox though, I would see this as an opportunity to write a script in Ruby that uses IMAP to automate your scrape and purge: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/net/imap/rdoc/Ne...
Or whatever other language you'd like to use. I just like Ruby, but since it might involve a lot of text parsing, maybe Perl would be a good choice: http://search.cpan.org/~djkernen/Mail-IMAPClient/IMAPClient....

And then GPLv3 your script, put it on GitHub, use a default GitHub template to create a nice looking site for it, and post the link back to HN with the cool doc saying how to use it.
If you select an area of a message and then hit Reply only the selected text will be quoted in the response.
Good article I especially like the perspective about one months income to one years travel.

If your thinking about doing this one thing I would recommend is a much smaller backpack. With a 90L pack you are lugging it around everywhere, you will also look like a tourist everywhere you go.

See http://tynan.com/2010gear, Tim Ferris also has a post on light packing I believe. A 22l can be done (although prob not with an SLR).

An added benefit is you will not need to check luggage for flights.
Thunderbird and other email clients do the same. It's pretty handy.
A thousand times yes. Do you want to know how I pick a product? Decide the features I want, then pick something that has those features and is either from a brand I trust, or seems to be well received by those who care more about that product than I do. Sometimes this means I get the cheapest thing available, sometimes the best, and sometimes something in between. Easy, and I am satisfied almost 100% of the time without overpaying.
How many of the same records wind up at AMDOCS/Mossad?