skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a whiner. My girlfriend is a musician, and a very driven and inspired woman. I don't think she will ever describe herself so publicly as ${MALE_ADJECTIVE}'s wife.

Stop deriving your identity and self-worth from your partner; writing is not the sort of thing that one has to put on hold because one's partner is busy making business .. quite the contrary, the fucker is busy at home and away, crack those fingers and get cracking!
I agree. This is standard human behavior with regards to new technology. In fact we may have inherited it from the primate line. The resistant attitude among the older population to new technologies is documented in particular.

The narrative today is that technology is "taking over". But that's always been true. It's more accurate to say we're move dependent on it now than ever. And that's because we've simply built the new inventions off the old ones.

And luddite-chic attitudes, especially among artsy types, will remain. Not that that's a bad thing but it's typical. Artist love to explore old mediums. That's basically their job.

I predict we'll continue to see these attitudes and articles covering them. And it'll probably grow unfortunately. But this becomes dangerous if it turns people into real Luddite. Technology is the big man on campus, and to get a name for yourself the easy thing to do is to knock him down.
I've worked in CodeIgniter, but these days I find myself using the Zend Framework (http://framework.zend.com/). They're actively developing it, and it has so much built-in functionality that I've been able to get stuff done much faster than before.
Summary: Pay for those who haven't been fired roughly in line with trends of last 5-10 years. However many have been fired, ~3/4 at Citigroup for example. Some investors say that given the losses they have taken the banks should pay less than the historical norm of ~50% of profits. The executives say if they don't like it they can sell the stock.
Because the USA has the appropiate level of paranoia.
First of all, you can lose local history in Hg too, by running 'hg rollback' and I _believe_ you can also do it with the 'rebase' extension (which was implemented because developers find that functionality in Git so useful). However, these are the exact same ways you can rewrite history in Git.

Second, the 'receive' setting is not for normal users - it is not run client side. It is an option for the people running the Git server and is not normally needed. If you trust your fellow developers enough not to commit something idiotic, then you can trust them to manage the head references properly. However, if your company has some super paranoid and poorly considered policy, then it is an option.

We do not enforce this at GitHub and not only has it never been a problem, but it has helped us help people solve issues that they do have - accidentally committing files you really don't want in there, or code with a license you actually cannot use or something. With Git it's relatively easy to fix the repository and force push the update and let your collaborators know this needs to be done. With Mercurial... I honestly don't know how you can deal with that.

Furthermore, it doesn't actually lose the changes, it just removes the pointer to them, you can push the old pointer back very easily. So, if you think this is an entirely 'bad thing', then I feel you misunderstand what it really means.
Seattle, home of Amazon, is not a low-sales-tax haven; its sales-tax rate of 9.5% is the same as San Francisco.

So this is not a matter of low-tax-jurisdictions winning over high-tax jurisdictions; it's a loophole that exempts a certain kind of transaction, no matter the direction.

Do we prefer people buy from distant merchants, so much that we want to punish local sales? Is there a case to be made that this approach optimizes welfare for people, or causes the most economic growth?

That case hasn't been made. This is a glitch in the law from when cross-border retail was too small to worry about. But since people have become wealthy from this glitch, it now has a constituency that makes change hard. That sort of entrenched-interest paralysis is not something to celebrate.

It's also not a California-specific issue. Even Texas finds Amazon's legal machinations to get out of sales tax fishy:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9942692-7.html

And even Texas requires residents to pay 'use tax' on out-of-state purchases:

http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/sales/faq_use.html#use...

Companies should compete on the merits of their offerings; jurisdictions should compete on what sort of pro-business environment they offer fairly to all businesses, not just loophole-favored segments (like cross-border shippers). Otherwise productive effort is wasted in gaming legislatureslaws/borders rather than innovating and serving customers.
I can totally relate. I remember back in 94-96, when I ditched all my computer stuff and went back to a typewriter (while at my part-time job I was selling computers).
I think the power benefits of ARM, and the resultant loss of Windows compatibility, will the nudge to allow netbook makers to rethink what they're trying to achieve.

It's clear now that the iPhone isn't a phone, it's a tiny, handheld, portable computer. A computer for which both Windows and Office are meaningless, it's all about the browser. Netbooks could be something similar, just a bit larger, but not while they're tied to the boat anchor of being hardware compatible with XP even when you're running Ubuntu or Android on it.
Bully? Intimidator?

Great. Sarah Lacy's heir apparent for nonsensical exaggeration is here.
That happened quite a bit during the Cold War: many discoveries were simultaneously made in the U.S. and in the U.S.S.R., but they ended up being named after the American scientist (mostly). Fortunately, in some cases, discoveries share the names of the Western and the Soviet scientists who made them.
Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated
The tools.

Spend a week writing C# in Visual Studio.NET with ReSharper installed, then try to go back to your old language and IDE. You'll understand.
Making 'Super Nario Bros.' in Haskell
Why would anyone want to search .tel only?

Why isn't it telsaurus.tel?
6 Super Backup Applications For Windows and Mac
I hope not. Tabs is a feature that I use a lot. Tree tabs seems to take a lot of screen space and I have little to spare on my laptop. MS has conditioned me to become very irritated when my personal feature set is improved or deep sized. The first thing I do when I get a new machine is spend a few hours getting the classic mode to work. I hope FF isnt going going down the same road.

OTOH the Ubiquity bar looks to be useful.
wow I'm curious why this was modded down... does anyone have an argument for why an extreme, apocalyptic message is necessary or helpful? (other than "well it worked for Christianity!")
Promotional Appointment card holders 
Recently one friend gave me promotional appointment card holder of his company, it's so cool.
I'm getting more liberal as I get older. It's good to know that I will also be getting smarter.
Hmm. I'll have to think about that. There's a lot I really wouldn't release, but I'll see what I can do. Too busy just now, but I'll put it on my list.

Thanks for the interest. It never really occured to me that someone would be interested.
"Even Google fails this - their pathological cuteness and lame humor comes off as contrived. It's not funny. It's irritating."

Really? That's odd because I quite enjoy it.

I don't know the people who run the blog or how they select posts for it, but I'd imagine it is pretty informal. Surely there is a tough quality gate right right before pressing "post", but other than that, the posts seem quite genuine. The personality is very much inline with my brief experiences working for Google.
What is a business plan?
Oh, come on...a long, well-written essay, and the best you can do is a one-line swipe at the author? At least explain why you think she lacks introspection!

The comment voting here is getting to be really bad.
Why do people write viruses?
Five Key Steps to Succesfully Niche Marketing On The Internet
A used MacBook is all you need to do iPhone dev and is much cheaper than a few grand.

Nonetheless, I am also not a fan of Apple's control freakishness. I am not willing to invest in development of a product that Apple can disallow at a whim. Nor am I fond of Apple's willingness to use software patents to discourage competition. So Android it is.

iUI/Phonegap are great for cross-platform development and I believe Google's long-term vision to be much more ambitious and interesting than Apple's.
I like your site. Perhaps we can both incorporate some ides together and come up with a master plan. Our site is www.AddAnything.com and we are doing lots of marketing to get it to a satisfiable level of success. Let me know your thoughts. thanks Mike
Wikipedia: The 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak
As for music, the couple listens to record albums - remember those? - on a turntable or on one of the old jukeboxes Alan has restored.

It's one thing to have a disdain for new technology, but you're clearly going out of your way to make a point when you spurn CDs for vinyl nowadays. And if you orient your own technologocal consumption by some peculiar hi-tech "other," then you're just as stupid as everyone else.

The objective should be quality, not nostalgia. I use CDs instead of an iPod (most of the time) because they sound better. I don't use Facebook because it's a waste of my time.

As an aside, this site (Hacker News) is getting slow as all hell. Please, either get the site to run quickly on Arc or use something else. I can write a PHP clone in a few hours that will perform better, won't be run from RAM, and won't require twice-daily restarts.
In the State of Mexico (metro area of Mexico City) there has been 3 deaths out of 44 cases of Influenza (not all confirmed to be H1N1) which is 6.8% lethality

Update: On San Luis Potosi (some 400Km north Mexico City, second biggest outbreak) has been reported 62 cases and 5 deaths, 8% http://bit.ly/15VOOt
Its just one of those things where you don't really try to threaten CL, you just do what you can to have fun with your online classifieds and hope for success. Our site. http://.www.AddAnything.com is a perfect example of keeping things simple. If it happens, it happens, if not, just sit back and enjoy the ride :)
I don't own a TV and after a month with an iPhone, I passed it off to a co-worker and bought a $15 phone off Craiglist.

When I'm not on the computer I want to be fully enjoying the people I'm with, the mountain I'm hiking or the book I'm absorbed in -- not fighting distraction from a computer in my pocket or a TV playing in the background. My passion for technology wouldn't be worth much if it didn't benefit from the inspiration and energy I get from the rest of life.

But, each to his own. I don't judge people just because their tastes are different, or because they have more willpower than I (and can thus keep all the latest gadgets around without getting distracted).
Ask HN: What is the best EC2 database solution?
If you are hosting with EC2 what do you use for your database? What happens when your primary dies? What do you do when the largest EC2 instance isn't big enough for your primary?
So the reality is climate change is coming whether we cause it or not.

And it might come quite suddenly whether we cause it or not. And it might do the opposite of what we expect.

Looking back through the geologic record, the climate has done all sorts of interesting things -- all without our help.

As a general observation not connected to the parent, the use of cellular automata techniques in modeling is really very much in its infancy. I'm really surprised that posters to a hacker board wouldn't already know that.
I love the design of their site - www.switchbev.com
I had some luck finding people overseas. The people I found in the US were often those who I wouldn't want working for me.
Erlang and the new databases
I can't source the exact quote (anybody?), but I remember somebody saying, "A pretty good definition of technology is whatever didn't already exist when you were a kid."

I don't really get into Twitter, but about hundred years ago, bicycles were novel technology.
People with your type of personality always amuse me because you project so much of your own lives onto other people.

I'm willing to bet you discovered breadth of experience late in life, like around age 25-30 - did it ever occur to you that it's possible someone has already spent much of their life "living it to the fullest" before they decided to be an entrepreneur? Not everyone sits around doing jack and shit during their teens and early 20's or is a shut-in for the prime years of their life before they decide to start a company.

You people are awfully narrow-minded, assuming that entrepreneurialism must come before having lived an interesting life. It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Tabs are useful but I would like to create groupable tabs. Right now I have lots of browser windows open to do this but I'd like to see something like:

topic1 --> Tab1, Tab2,

topic2 --> Tab1, Tab2,

I usually have a row of tabs on a given topic I need to find out about and sometimes I leave tabs open for weeks on end, just hibernating the computer each time. (That also gets rid of the problem to killing all those updaters and other junk processes that decide to launch at boot)

EDIT: In fact there should be tabs that organise rows of tabs!
What I don't get is why this guy (Bill, the entrepreneur) is always teetering on the brink of disaster.

It says he was the manager of an industrial laundry facility prior to being a cofounder of a soft drink startup. Those sound like wildly different roles. He could have just been totally over his head.

The first startup I worked at hired a bunch of corporate IT execs and former management consultants to be executives. Their old jobs seemed more related to their new ones than the guy in the article, yet they were still totally out of their element. They always tried to spend their way out of a hole, which always put us further in financial jeopardy. It sounds like the guy in the article tried to manage his company by doing the same sort of spending.
The general impact of their work however is a healthier commercial software industry because viruses scare away many users from pirated software.

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft appreciates their work, just as long as it doesn't get too much out of control.

BTW, I also think Microsoft appreciates a certain level of piracy as free advertisement.
The lords of the hype are back at dooming our future (80s corporate raiding, golden parachutes, dot-com crash, Enron, real estate).

Paul Krugman's article - "Making Banking Boring" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/opinion/10krugman.html?em - relates to a paper by economists Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef, “Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry, 1909-2006”), that shows a high correlation between a tightly regulated banking sector and economic progress.
Interesting, although I must say I was never worried that humans would go extinct because of global warming. Just not so keen on all the upheaval and territory fighting that might happen along the way. But I guess in that sense it kind of selfish to worry about global warming. Maybe the poor people in Greenland deserve some warmer years, and I should gladly chill for their benefit (chill because I think it would be getting colder where I live, if the gulf stream became diverted).
WTF is a "world health chief" ?
It's not a consensus, at least I don't agree with it. I think the whole thing is mostly marketing, as is evident by the TED talk where lomborg presents mostly strawman argumentation (I don't think I have heard worries about heat deaths elsewhere, yet he dwells on them, as an example).
seriously - this.

Django allows you to do far more with less code, and python is the finest language in which to code ( :) ).

I've advised loads of people to switch from php to django - and have had no complaints yet.
WTF is a "world health chief" ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_chan
To see cool stuff made with the original java version of Processing with source : http://openprocessing.org/
This website runs processing in a Java applet.
Is it price-efficiency? It comes out to $180 per year for 50GB, making it twice as expensive as dropbox, unless my math is really screwy.
Whoa, dude. Calm down.

First: in some things, it is for society to decide how you spend your resources. For instance, you can't spend them on blowing up random buildings. How is limiting your emissions qualitatively different?

Second: when the fuck did I say anything about spending $250k to pad your kids walls, or $1k to buy a fucking mural? Take your hyperbole back to reddit, please.

Third: what moralistic bullying are you talking about? When I suggested it might be a cynical response from people who benefit from the current state of things? You really don't think there are people for whom that's true? I admit I probably could have picked a better phrase than "I wonder", but seriously, your response is way out of band.
I hope that article becomes protected or semi-protected soon. Someone could create a lot of panic from that.
Because they have AntiVirus software to sell.
Is this the secret of eternal life?
To echo what some people are already saying, I think it's fine if you're not totally into gadgets or don't want to get overwhelmed with pointless, distracting communication.

Just don't be self-righteous and superior about it.

Don't be like that Stuff White People Like entry: White people like not owning TVs so they can tell people they don't own TVs.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/26/28-not-having-a-t...
Joe Marshall's take on Guido Van Rossum's post on tail recursion
The question is not whether dropbox is overcharging (I am quite happy to concede they are not) compared to some other service. The point is purely made from the user end. When I can own outright a 1TB drive for $99, what is the psychological price point for which I am willing to pay not to maintain it? Twice as much, sure. Three times, okay it hurts but maybe. Eight times? Asbolutely not.

All I am saying is adoption will rise if the price point drops. Right now it is high enough to turn off price-sensitive individuals.
A famous quote comes to mind...

http://bash.org/?4780
Amusingly:

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

"By indiscriminately committing into custody 46 defendants, [Restaino] deprived them of their liberty without due process, exhibited insensitivity, indifference and a callousness so reproachable that his continued presence on the Bench cannot be tolerated."
Or maybe because they want to encourage cutting edge biology-inspired research for anti-virus software:

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~immsec/publications/virus.pdf
Straight Debian is much like Ubuntu, but without the weight.

It's much easier to get it down to a minimal size for VM's (I know a guy who made a tiny version, with barely enough in the kernel to boot.)
Processing.js is a wonderful tool. I'm not sure exactly what it is about Processing, but I find writing rich, graphical applications a breeze using Processing, and Processing.js Just Works in all major browsers!
I want one but the price for a current T-mobile customer is just over the top.
Do these bankers create so much more value than, say, entrepreneurs, that merits paying them so much? Or is there some other reason banks need to pay such high amounts compared to other types of businesses?
Dear Fellow Rubyists
yes, but does it run linux? (tm)
FWIW, I could've afforded to keep going 2-3 times as long as I did. The limiting factor was ideas: all my ideas were lame, so I decided to work for a company that was doing not-lame things, gain some experience, build some contacts, and try again.

I don't know what you're working on or what your goals are, so I have no idea how much this applies to you. But for me, the idea of doing the same wrong thing over and over again is more futile than just giving up. So I decided to do something radically different, roll the dice in another way, and see where it takes me.
Some follow-up: 'Threat to our electric grid'.
Heroku is great (and free) for building and trying Ruby on Rails apps.
We don't have to get into a debate about PHP (I don't use it either); its virtue in this scenario is that after this guy gives up on the client, someone else can easily step in and pick up the project, because everybody knows PHP.
A meta observation from the peanut gallery:

Instead of both of you using hyperbole to make your points, how about one/both of you outline exactly under which circumstances the good of the many outweighs the good of the few, or the one? That might actually advance your discussion.
Speaking as both a provider and someone who has managed many servers for other people, I would argue that you are best off if you base your system on something that is commodity... that is, don't buy something from someone else unless you can get the same product from two vendors. Locking yourself in to one vendor is nearly always a bad idea.

That said, Personally, I would suggest you go for what you call an 'infrastructure platform' - if you are just renting [virtual] linux boxes, you can rent those from many providers. Once you start needing a larger box, buying your own hardware will save you a whole lot of money over something like ec2. (though, ec2 is pretty nice for scaling quickly)

When just starting out, well, personally I'd suggest a small VPS, though I have something of a vested interest in the matter. I've heard nothing but good things about Linode, and their prices appear reasonable. If you are willing to accept something that has a much more 'raw' interface, you can check out my offerings, see the link in my profile. My prices are

But either way... the important part is to avoid that lock-in. Companies change. Sometimes a company that was previously reliable makes some bad decisions and becomes unreliable. Other times, like in the case of EC2, some companies start with really good prices, but fail to lower them as the price of infrastructure falls.
War is a much simpler problem than global warming, yet we can't agree its validity or stop it. Given this, both war and global warming are probably inevitable until evolution produces a more rational and forward-thinking dominant species.
Mount elastic blocks to hold your db directories and take regular incremental snapshots.
I agree that this implementation of tabs is somewhat ugly, and not necessarily as functional. Tree style tabs don't have to take up as much room, however. The tabs side bar from Tree Style Tabs (an extension) can be resized. Also, trees can be set to not indent if the user chooses. It's nice, because if you need to see the titles of your tabs (I usually prefer to), you can move it over. If not, you can give yourself move space. Furthermore, tabs to the side allows nearly 50 tabs to be visible at once, rather than 20. However, I agree that this shouldn't be the default.

What would be nice is an option to group/tag tabs like bookmarks, and collapse, expand, and explore tabs that way. I know at least one cranky person will say "Well I never have more than 3 tabs open!" Well, cranky strawman, when I read my daily rss feeds, I often wind up with 50. An option (not necessarily a default) to browse tabs by category could be useful.

I agree completely on the Ubiquity bar. If this is implemented, I really think it could bring a major shift in browsers, and I hope Firefox's competitors will also implement it.
The real question is, will there be a large amount of variance among populations in different countries? You cannot necessarily extrapolate from Mexico City to other places since climate, diet, and no doubt other factors, all play a role.