skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hernmannj314, this comment could be read as encouraging the ("helpful") deaths of a variety of civic officials. Even if there were an appropriate forum for such loathsome sentiments, hn is certainly not it.
If I were you I wouldn't spend all that money on a shiny new laptop. And unlike others are suggesting, I would definitely not spend even more on a shiny new Macbook, because it's not a one-time cost. You will pay more in repairs later on.

Especially since you're interested in Linux, I'd go to ebay and buy an old Thinkpad. You can get some good cheap ones.

If you do want a Macbook, you can also get some cheap ones on ebay. I'm typing this on a 2008 Macbook that I bought last year for $500. It's serving me perfectly well as a web developer. I have also done some iOS development on it.

Before you settle on a Linux distro, try a few in VMs and see which one you like best. Then you can install that to the hard disk.

One thing to make sure is you don't buy a computer with a low max RAM. Even if it's a relatively old model, as long as you can have 4-6GB RAM, it'll work great.

If you make more money freelancing, you can sell the old computer and buy a better one. It will also teach you something about buying and selling computers, if you're interested in that kind of thing.
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I was expecting a blog post about how it's bad to build a startup from a weekend project. :P
Sorry for the misleading title. By serverless I meant direct browser to browser file transfer with no server in between. Files are transferred directly. We need the HTTP Server to host the static webpage which facilitates the bridge. After all, its a browser based solution you need a page to visit. :). Services file dropbox can be used to host the static files and everyone can setup their own file transfer service. With services like WebDHT coming up each of these shares can communicate.

Just read about Tribler, it sounds really interesting. All the best with it.

This, Tribler and countless other solutions will make the internet what it was meant to be, a decentralized, fault-tolorent network for information exchange. Thanks!
I have to disagree a bit with the idea that no-one thought social networking was going to be big. Were you not around for Friendster? Amongst my college friends it was huge. The problem was that it didn't scale. I logged on frequently until logging-on became too painful. It was the first site I used to reconnect with lost friends, and that was valuable to me.

Apparently Google also saw the value in Friendster, as they offered $30 million for the company, which Friendster turned down.

I'm not sure that being late to the game is as bad as many people would like to believe either. Implementation is king. I yahooed before I ever googled, had many email accounts before gmail, talked on my computer before skype, and on and on.

I agree with you though about Twitter. Total surprise.
Refreshing should make it work. There is a lot of JavaScript which takes time to load up.
China government did Man-In-The-Middle attack against Github
How is talking with other people "nothing social"? Did you mean "nothing public to the World"?
What I wouldn't give to see Aaron posting here instead of you.
you don't have to sign in with your App Store account into iCloud. You can use different accounts to sign into each apple service which needs one on the same device ( or computer) I.e for App Store , iCloud , FaceTime , messages.

But your parent comment is an active user of g+ by using hangouts - it is one of its main features. And he definitely should be counted as one.
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Ask: small weekend projects for Ruby-beginner?
Hey guys,
wondering if there are any sites or maybe freelance boards with some beginner/intermediate level Ruby assignments?

I've followed quite some tutorials till now, though don't have any projects to work on. I've already looked around town, but there isn't any programming club or something around for me to join.
Stumbleupon but for knowledge — this could actually work. You stumble knowledge of particular subjects instead of blog posts and comics. Very interesting. Cool idea, lots of fun I've been generating ideas for 20 minutes now.
Yep, for me it implies that a company has a sweet spot about the value of its employees. If it's too high they leave, if it's too low they are useless.
> Early 30's and experience debilitating regret on a daily basis

Eventually you'll realize that regret takes time, and that that time could be better spent doing the things you wish you already had.

Think it hurts that you didn't do anything as a child? Wait'll you realize that as a young adult you just stared at the wall thinking about your childhood.

There's nothing you can do about the past. There is something you can do about the present.

Crack open the compiler and make today the day things changed. That way, five years from now, when you're looking back, there'll be that line where it turns into pride.
How I made $2,000 in 7 days launching my ebook
You can't charge what the water 'cost', it was thousands of years of filtering into the underground aquifers. And it is too late, the water has been used. Same problem with any non- or slow replenishing natural resource that we've been boosting off of at accelerated rates. When they run out dependent systems have the potential for rapid failure, much more rapid than we are likely to come up with solutions for, and people will die. Supply and demand work, but people will die in the process.
Would you find normal to be counted as an active user of Microsoft's social network just for using Skype (supposing you could use the same account)?
I don't think that's accurate. The contents of the drive and what he intended to do with them could have easily led to stiffer penalties.

Imagine it was a $100 hard drive with a few dozen copies of newly released films. Or medical records from a hospital. Or credit card numbers.

This is a red herring.
Stross on: an anthropic stupidity hypothesis
While there are clearly bad ideas, Facebook for robots is probably one, there are lots and lots of great ideas. I always tell people my 'real' startup idea is time travel, but I'm still working on the implementation.

Often these great ideas are hard. PG has an essay on this (http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html). Better search is a clear example. Google is amazing, but it isn't perfect. Yet being better than google is really, really hard.

I think one of the tricks of being a founder is to pick the greatest idea that you are capable of implementing, with the caveat being that picking something that you are capable of implementing right now is probably too conservative.
Who hates capitalism?

India does not hate it, they've embraced it. Of course, not everywhere. Why? because the situation is not the same. Having > 500 million people subsisting on agriculture is not the same. Different situations warrant different solutions.

Charge for water you say? Who will collect the charges? A bureaucrat. If the price is too steep, perhaps the farmers will bribe him. If it isn't, he'll probably keep x% of the collections anyway.

The infrastructure to distribute all the food that will soon rot in warehouses....is present, or can be easily acquired. The corruption, inefficiency and laziness... not much can be done about that
You are trying to support your point by arguing against a tautology. This doesn't make any sense.
Click the Details link next to the Last account activity line at the bottom of any Gmail page.

That will give you a list of IPs signing into your account.

I get a lot of those failed delivery messages though because I have my own domain via google apps. Someone scrapped my mail domain and fakes it in the headers, but I get the actual replies because I have it set so all addresses on the domain go to me.
Indeed interesting demo of browser-to-browser downloading, very light. Anybody can start a Napster-style service: it only needs a webserver+JavaScript (or trust a tamper-free copy). WebDHT is fascinating, is it leeching of a KAD overlay or can they also fully serve all incoming requests? (due to listen socket limit)

WebRTC defines a FTP-like 1-to-1 transfer. Would Bittorrent-like swarming be possible in WebP2P?
Experience has shown that many users just grant such access when prompted, without thinking about it.

Prompts like that also do absolutely nothing to stop malicious use, hidden under a facade of legitimacy. For example, somebody could put together a demo purportedly showing "serverless pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser" solely to trick people into using something harmful. (I'm not saying that's necessarily going on here, of course.)
Strictly speaking, PPSP is a swarm transport protocol ("give me that data over IP, UDP or what have you, use any source available"). I mean, "sharing" is a concept unrelated to the TCP/IP stack thus PPSP is not a sharing standard.

For example, it is easy to imagine HTTP over PPSP (instead of TCP) -- which is essentially a serverless Web.
How Google's Jeff Dean became the Chuck Norris of the Internet
Much Hadoop About Nothing
Have you considered ycombinator.org? Call it a program-related investment and mirror the .com?
There's the Freenet Messaging System: http://blog.locut.us/2008/05/11/fms-spam-proof-anonymous-mes...
Some forever projects probably fall in the "brain crack" category with a bit of "i could be famous if I wanted to" thrown in. Beware.

(brain crack is a term I think was coined by ze frank - at least that is where I saw it first)
I had the pleasure of meeting the father son team that started OXO a few years back. Their story is very interesting, they started out redesigning the carrot peeler, and look where they are today.

Side note: I ordered a bunch of stuff from quirky the first time I saw the site and almost all the the stuff I got is really complete crap.
Path us now open for 4k streaming! Well, that and we need affordable 4k displays.
Hddvd and bluray use vc1
Which of well known startups are using Microsoft Azure?
Interestingly enough we still prefer to use a Twitter client instead of twitter.com, in fact those clients are what made Twitter big or at least so a lot of people claim.

Why would that be any different for other things? Why should that change in the foreseeable future?
Auto expanding for ', [, { (, " is great, but this should be configurable on a language basis. In other languages it's not uncommon to have things like `http://uri.com` or |Special syntax|
Thats something clients will have to implement. Thats is, the JavaScript needs to split files into chunks and download from peers.
That which was old, is new again. I find the cyclic nature to be interesting, and possibly a response to the increasing nature of computer power.

Originally, the mainframe was where the power was. Then the PC was enough to do a lot of the work the mainframe was doing. Then the nature of delivering experiences to those around the world necessitated a shift back to the server for a lot of tasks (try running Google or Facebook locally), with a shift to making the Gui thin... Performance in the browser was woeful.

Now, the performance of the browser across our increasing amount of disparate devices is nearly adequate enough for thick guis once more, with the bonus of it working across a multitude of OSes (Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Chrome OS, etc.)

It truly is interesting to watch and play in :)
Wow - those are great.
Similar things happened with Pokemon dolls in the '90s, but I think it's a bit more "intense" this time because the buyer demographic includes a lot more teens and 20-somethings with actual disposable income.

But rather than toy fads, I was more referring to how each character or doll has accessories paired to them and only them. So rather than buying 2 dolls and 5 generic dresses and swapping pieces between the dolls, they're now selling 6 dolls with 6 dresses, plus more stupid little accessories and such.

My hypothesis was that as manufacturing of consumer goods gets cheaper and processes get better, real people are going to stop consuming mass-manufactured goods entirely and start to become more like the dolls. Instead of my buying clothes at a department store (for instance), and thus wearing much the same stuff as my friends, family and coworkers, it will start to become economical for me to go to a neo-clothier and purchase items specifically measured, designed, cut, manufactured and adjusted for me. Quality and uniqueness start to become emphasized in consumer goods over mass-production quantities.

Basically, "The Diamond Age". As people say, "the future is here, it's just unevenly distributed."
Norman Borlaug is truly a forgotten hero. As a kid growing up in India, the story about the Green Revolution went somewhat like this:
"In the early 60's, India realised that we would face massive food shortages. So, a program of research was initiated and scientists came up with better quality crops. The man most responsible for this was Mr.M.S. Swaminathan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._S._Swaminathan)

Its true that Mr.Swaminathan was instrumental in leading the effort that adapted the foreign crops to Indian tastes (yes, the rice/wheat apparently tasted/looked unappealing). But the most significant breakthrough was by Mr.Borlaug, who I heard about only after reading this excellent article as an adult:
http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/09/13/norman-borlaug-th...

Without Mr.Borlaug's initiative, progress in India would not have been possible. He has my sincerest gratitude for his work.
You seem to desire a world where Square is exalted to some sort of sovereign status, answerable to no law beyond their own policies and procedures. Which is a horrifying state of affairs.

Well, we seem to have done that with sports. Or, has Lance Armstrong been indicted yet?
Actually, we might, but everyone else didn't. IIRC something like 90% of traffic on Twitter was directly on the site, not through a client.
You will never outgrow your high school self
So, the email list still owns any other marketing channel. Not a surprise. Only a reminder to set up my own for my own ebook.
I'm mostly going to use this for parsing XML into some other formats and getting it into SQLite databases I think. The reason I would like to use Drake over 'raw' Python scripts is because it supports a lot of the mundane stuff that goes around the actual processing of the data, and I want to automate the processes.

I typically deal with sub-100MB XML documents, so processing them takes very little time, but having the quick iteration of changing the format and re-outputting is a key part of the development cycle for me, and I think very useful when you are experimenting with new data and seeing how it could be used. Doing quick transforms is awesome.
CAN use VC1, its one of 3 mandatory video codecs, H264, VC1, and MPEG2, all available up to 1920x1080.

Most titles on both formats used H264, very few use VC1, even less use MPEG2.
You can poke inside it a bit though using JD-GUI:

http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui

Illegal or not? I don't really care. Reverse engineering for compatibility is legal here :)
If Skype was part of a Microsoft social network, yes. Would you say you are inactive on Facebook if you use Facebook chat with colleagues? Facebook video conferencing?
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Serverless web... "use any source available".. Wow, feel free to share the code of that with us. Would be quite powerful and draw HN interest IMHO.
I didn't realise originally that Drake integrated with HDFS. Thats a really awesome feature, and I can see why the JVM made sense in development because of existing HDFS libraries.
Reminds me of what I thought how US government should have responded to cable leaks. All they had to respond with was with: Indeed, SOME of the leaks are ours/true. End of story, no one would be sure anymore what is true, what is false.
I'm not sure where GWI gets their information, but the number 343m seems a good match to G+'s "total actives", as the last result we shared publicly was 235m but that was almost 2 months ago. The number of G+ accounts was already much bigger due to migration, but the number of "stream actives" (people who actually used plus.google.com, or the mobile clients, in the last 30 days) was lower at 135m (again, on Dec 6). Current numbers are bigger, the stream actives may or may not already be in the ballpark of GWI's claim, but AFAIK we didn't yet share new numbers after Dec 6. Rest assured though that when we officially share "stream active" numbers, it's real stuff no tricks.

GWI's comparison is difficult because not all social networks disclose the number of strictly active users -- how many people recently checked their stream/profile/whatever. Most notably, Facebook only publishes the biggest stat of total number of open accounts.
A rare positive change to a Terms of Service (GitHub)
Google+, the Future of Job Search?
The comment "It is extremely astonishing to look at the world now long gone, the world which you are used to see in black & white images and often with poor quality." is a bit off the mark. Black and white pictures, by and large, were excellent quality. eg look at Atget's pictures of Paris from the same date (although done on much older equipment) http://www.googleartproject.com/en-gb/artist/eug%C3%A8ne-atg... or https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_E...
It's mattered for professional developers. It was an issue at my last^2 company, which was not exactly large (~100 employees).
As I noted in my post, I have already looked at the login activity list, and there's nothing other than my own IPs and sessions.

I have a similar domain via google apps setting that you have. I just don't understand how they got hold of my contacts, and don't know what I can do to prevent them from spamming my contacts again.
I love the idea and functionality, but I think the design could be clearer. I'm all for a simple, minimalistic style when it's meant to get out of the way. I find these popovers just too subtle. Jumping from one to the other, it doesn't catch my eye enough, and I have to actively search for the arrow. Maybe offer a theme that really pops, with some variation of the Yellow Fade Technique [http://37signals.com/svn/archives/000558.php]?
Agree about social networking -- it was around in early forms, soon after the web launched: PlanetAll.com (1996; acq by Amazon for $100mm in 1998) and SixDegrees.com (1997; acq for $125mm in 2000).
Yes you can, btw here is a video of it being executed just for kicks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTXWQriVgH8
I always enjoy 'wikitripping' -

* http://xkcd.com/214/

* http://xkcd.com/903/ (see tooltip) (and corresponding wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy)

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

So agree, this sounds like a fun idea!
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Before that, my friends were on LiveJournal and after Friendster was a little site called MySpace.

I've been trying to separate startups into ones you could do customer discovery for before you build the app and ones where you have to see it to get it. I think Facebook falls in the first category and Twitter falls in the second category but I'm not exactly sure why.
I dunno, with rape then ending their life, but if it was something like a mugging, I'd prefer to part with my shiny phone and get punched in the face than end another human's live. And if everyone carried guns, too many people would end up finding this out the hard way.
COO actually IS an employee. Same goes for the CEO, unless they raised $0 investment.
Dear HN: Let's stop with the eBook stuff
I respectfully suggest that information about how to make $X on your latest eBook should be on a different site. This is Hacker News. Writing and marketing eBooks are some other kind of news. Please don't take this as a judgement on whether that's a valid business or anything like that, simply that I'd prefer that spot on the top list to be about programming or something closely related.
We're a long, long, way from the theoretical limit - you can tell by comparing the size of programmatically generated videos (e.g. 3D renderings, or videogame videos) with their source material. A "perfect" video codec would mean they were the same size, but at the moment a 256kb SNES rom and a few hundred bytes of buttonpresses will generate you a video that's easily in the 10s of megabytes (granted video codecs aren't optimized with snes gameplay videos as their primary target).
If you did that it could mean you're racist, the act of donating to such a cause doesn't make the act itself bigotry though IMHO. The intent behind a charity is what would be a determining factor for me - not in the end who it ends up helping, though that likely plays a role in most people's decisions.
It worked out with the Arab Spring didn't it?

"Manning and WikiLeaks were credited as catalysts for the Arab Spring that began in December 2010, when waves of protesters rose up against rulers across the Middle East and North Africa after the leaked cables exposed government corruption" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning
Applying to Startups: Olark (YC 2009)
Well if you have a blog about performance, you'd think their site was performant.
Why would a venture capitalist invest in a non-profit? Does YC not want a return on their investment?
Although there is definitely a shift going on, I suspect it won't be half as radical as people like the author tend to evangelize. This model may be a big shift for a simple web app, but for larger applications with lots of business logic it will barely make a difference.

The "big web app full of things" will still be there, only with a few things less, and it will still be built with tons of tools, not just a micro framework.

The future of web development won't be that different. There will just be more of it, but that's pretty much what has been happening since the 90's.

There's enough exiting new stuff happening without going overboard and announcing it as a new era or a major paradigm shift. Maybe I'm getting old, but I find it tiresome.
Vine is great, and this is a really cool look into it. Mesmerizing.
Sure, but in that case, you're a consumer for the printer, and the more useful it is, the more it will cost.
I don't understand your reactions. Maybe because I am not from the US.

People say: you should NOT hire your partner.

So, you should NOT hire friends?
So, you should NOT hire people you like?
So, you should NOT hire people for who you have any opinion?
So, you should NOT have any hobbies other employees can have?

Our decisions are obviously biased by our feelings, and it's normal, we want people reliable, people we can trust! What's wrong with that?

In some cases, we want objective decisions. In these cases, you should just recognize your incapacity to be unbiased and let other people take the decision.

When I read the blog post, Keith didn't seem to have faced a such case, so non-disclosed his relationship seemed to have been the best decision to avoid to influence other people decisions.

It's common to meet the "love of our life" where we work, I don't understand why it should be forbidden to those who have a management role.
By "any source available" I meant Sec 3.10. "Peer Address Exchange".
HTTP over PPSP is a weekend project as long as we mean good old static HTML Web.
By the way, what is the current public repo for TUD PPSP?