skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an individuals it's overkill buy at work we use something like this :

* We use Google/Gmail only for mail hosting, not for calender or cloud storage.

* Google apps with our domain.

* We have also an account at Yandex.

* DNS service from DynDNS, MX ttls set to 3600 seconds (1 hour, it could be less)

* For virtualization, we have a i7 machine with 2x1 TB disks (Raid-1).

* For webmail, calender, sharing etc we use Zimbra ( open source version ).

* Everyone has an internal email ( x@office.domain.com ) and external gmail account. Zimbra syncs itself with gmail.

* When somebody sends email , depending user, zimbra send it using gmail or relay.

* At 3 a.m. system automatically shut down Zimbra , takes backup on usb 3 hdd (~100Gb, arround 40 mins) and brings up it again( I know, there is a room for improvement, like rsyncing /opt/zimbra directory ). We change usb disks everyday or two and store other disk at somewhere outside the office.

So,

- If Gmail "dumps" us, we can change our MX to Yandex, stuggle couple hours and then continue to work.

- If local server burns, users can continue to work using Gmail while we build & install new one.

We tried rackspace email hosting but it had problems ( some mails doesn't delivered, some incoming mails lost etc ). Fastmail was/is expensive comparing current infrastructure and it could be viable if we have more than 30 persons.

P.S. : I'm not saying this solution is perfect or it's the only way to do, i'm just sharing.
https://www.backupify.com/products/personal-apps-backup
Clicking through to your actual project (residen.se) I noticed "solid communication chanel" I am pretty sure you meant to say "channel"?

Great idea though, we are currently renting and it would be great to have something like this to communicate with our landlord with v.s. txt messages.
OS X and Safari. I have the same problem. Annoying.
I find "BROWSER_TWO_FINGER_ZOOM" the most interesting - was just thinking the other day of what a Google Glass + Leap Motion mashup would look like.
Exactly. And when the numbers do make sense, HBO will be there and likely be there faster than anyone else in the space. Why? Because they know how to continue to feed a business model that works for them (and is much more profitable than Netflix I might add), while also keeping an eye on the future.
Our Morals And Ethics Are Changing (For The Worse) In The Social Age
Because I believe P(service available to me | I'm paying for it) is higher than P(service available to me | I'm not paying for it) for most services where both are an option. I'm not going to go into all the reasons for that belief. I'm sure you're a creative person and can guess some of them. Suffice it to say that I think there is some reason to believe it. If you don't, by all means run your important business processes off of charity-ware.
I just bought a Netflix plan and am using it in France (through a plugin). I don't know if it's illegal but it is really really good. I actually really hope this is going to keep working and that Netflix is not going to fix this.

If I had the people and the skill I would try to launch such a startup in France. I have no idea why there is no equivalent, it's a promised success.
I look at this from the other angle. I don't think we're getting much better. I think we rarely reduce the amount of bad code we write without outside critique. New code looks like better code because it is more similar to your current style and preferences, and nearer to you in memory than that old code was.

To really analyze whether your code is good or not you must do what you did with that self-identified bad code: step away for months, forget everything about it, and re-visit it to modify it in some way. Or get someone else to do it for you now and tell you why it sucks.

Code written "in the zone" is more likely to be bad, because when you're "in the zone" even bad code makes sense to you.
Google Search History and Accidental Class Warfare
One major thing missing here: we like to be spontaneous and unpredictable. That means that a car can often be a ball and chain.

Want to go get a drink with friends in the park and who knows where you'll end up? Have fun getting back to your car tomorrow morning.
Before there was TED, there were the Feynman Lectures on Physics
> Great, as if people walking around talking to "no one" wasn't bad enough, now people will be randomly grabbing at air and twitching their eyes. How are we supposed to separate the crazy people from the sane?!

Nothing really new, people giving the appearance of talking to themselves happen all the time because of cell phones and Bluetooth headsets, and as for winking or gesturing, it's been happening to the human race ever since we were able to walk on two legs.

I still remember when walking in the streets with a walkman on your ears made you look crazy.
My hack to host a site for free for 2 years :)
>They should be going the other direction

Why? If the people want a language changed, most abuse the current prototype system to be more classic class like (including top notch programmers), and there is a demand for it, why not add a proper class syntax, even as a sugar for the common workaround?

It's like saying people must adapt to the idiomatic ways of a language without offering any proof that those are better (and no, random qualities like "more flexible" is not necessarily better in actual use).

I don't think we should worship "idiomatic" ways of each language. For example, tons of Beans, XML, and boilerplate was the idiomatic Java way, but then projects came along and showed it could be done better (e.g Play). Using every feature under the sun and abusing templates is kind of an idiomatic C++ way, but people are arguing successfully for merely using C++ only as a C with classes and some minimal features.
I used to store my data on an external hard drive, which I don't control in more than one location.
Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript
What if your apartment get robbed? This is the main reason I bought a Dropbox account.
Sounds like a really wild accusation to me. Is their anything to back this up besides their speculation?
<rant>

Netflix really needs to implement an offline mode for its mobile apps.

The vast majority of the times I'm watching something on my phone, I don't have a WiFi connection or the connection is too slow to stream an HD video (like on a plane, at the gym, in a car, etc.)

I'd love to be able to download something at my home and watch it in offline mode later. Both Rdio and Spotify do this for music. Why doesn't any video services do it? Are you listening Netflix?

</rant>
> I always thought that the roads would be much safer if our legal drinking age and legal driving ages were switched, so that we'd have years of experience dealing with the effects of alcohol before we hit the roads, which would hopefully decrease incidents of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Not to mention it's easier to illegally gain access to alcohol than it is to illegally get access to a car, so the probability that the higher driving age law would be flouted would be lower than the rate at which the drinking age law is flouted right now.
Netflix to Charge $12 for 4 Simultaneous Streams
Thin clients, a.k.a. "dumb terminals" with a prettier UI. (not more functional, quick or useful, but awesomely prettier)

From a software standpoint, there are now 2 categories:

1) Software as a service
2) Software as an end product

"1)" is more honest, because your customers only care about the service and you have nothing to gain by churning and regurgitating new-old-new-again ideas every 10 years in order to keep scoring new license deals.

"2)", well, I said it already: As a software vendor, you have no financial interest in selling anything that won't need to be replaced at least once a year. Hence, the constant renaming of recurring concepts over and over and over...in order to keep license revenues coming in.
Kind of like the OP that suggests the same of driving.
OK, then -- What might one learn by tracking something as squishy and undefined as happiness? I find it ridiculous that anyone would attempt to reduce happiness to a single numeric range.

- I don't need to track my happiness to know if I'm happy.
- I don't need to track my sleeping patterns to learn how to sleep better.
- I don't need to track every calorie to know if I'm eating well.
- I don't need a computer to tell me if I'm healthy.

It seems to me that QS is just a new fad that will make a certain personality type feel like they have control over their lives.

"Quantified Self -- Using numbers, technology, and science to divine common sense!"
I'm really cheering for Netflix. Outside of the US (I'm in the UK) people have complained about a lack of content but I'll pretty much give all my money to the people who bring back Arrested Development.
> Why doesn't any video services do it?

Licensing issues.
SpaceX Grasshopper Test #3 (250m)
Fair enough.

I have a question thought -- not to you, in general.

If their kids are "the best that happened to them" (as most say), why do we have so many cases of neglected or abused children, tons of estranged parents and children ("haven't spoke to my folks for years"), crazy fights, depression, etc. I guess it's human nature, but also it seems like "the best thing that happened to me" is mainly about the kid being a baby and such (the novelty factor?), and not so much afterwards.
Anthony, the site displays fine in Firefox (v 20.0, OSX 10.8.3).
Fastmail, for years, never an issue- always good things to say about them.
Sounds like you need the expandable brand of Polycom designed for consistent audio quality in large rooms: http://www.officemax.com/technology/phones-headsets/conferen...
I think it would be really hard to start something like Netflix as a startup in Europe. The content licensing structure is quite a mess (which is probably one of the reasons why Netflix isn't available yet (with some exceptions in Scandinavia)).
I don't know your field, but the claim that there's no acceptable outlet for negative results isn't always true. There are usually outlets for interesting results, it's just that negative results tend to be less interesting than positive ones. Negative results that blow up accepted wisdom, though...

An example from economics: Meese and Rogoff [1] has (by google scholar) about 3000 citations, which is massive for econ and is one of the key references in Intl Macro. They showed that all of the models in use at the time of publication sucked.

[1] Empirical exchange rate models of the seventies: do they fit out of sample? links to the paper here: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=170917352624567913...
zgrep runs grep and gzip as two separate subprocesses, so if you have multiple CPUs then the entire job can accumulate more CPU time than wallclock time (so it's just showing you that you exploited some parallelism, with grep and gzip running simultaneously for part of the time).
Well, I don't think the implication is the same. Driving is a waste of time to those who have to do it and consider it a waste of time. That's a lot of us, a lot of the time. Rarely does anyone play a video game while simultaneously thinking, "This is a waste of my time." There may be some regret over other things left undone afterward, but it's not like the commute where many participants are actively wishing, during participation, that they might not have to.
There are kernel modules here, which is what I assume they're using:

http://zfsonlinux.org

The licensing problems only apply to distributing CDDL and GPL code that have been compiled into the same binary, not running a CDDL-licensed module in a GPL kernel - I think. My experience with ZFS (which is awesome, btw) comes from FreeBSD.
House of Cards is absolutely there at the top TV shows, it was simply amazing. Hemlock Grove is… different. Sometimes it really is extremely cheesy, some of the acting and dialogue is weird. But so far it has managed to keep me watching. And it had the best transformation I've seen, movie or tv, so far.
I don't recommend hosting your own.

I briefly had OSX server running a mail server for my small team. I quickly realized how spoiled I was by Gmail. Basic mail server setup was easy enough. But, managing things like out of office auto responders, server based mail filters, password resets, etc all required my attention. IMAP doesn't handle those tasks, and I'm not aware of a way for users to do those tasks themselves.

I went back to Google for mail hosting, but will be investigating the other services below. (I'm still a free Google Apps user, so it's hard to move off of free).
I understand. I thought that too until I just got of my butt and did it.

The statement that resonated most ith me is "everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. Everyone makes sacrifices to do the things they want, even of they don't realize it."

I've got two kids so I never workout until 8 pm at night. Cardio is running to work. I work at a fund so I can't leave my desk from 9:30 through 4.
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You're welcome :)
I don't think the perceived problem actually exists.

I have never heard anybody claim coding will solve the world's problems. Nor does there seem to be a statistical change in the number of Americans entering science and engineering. The number is flat a 5% of the population.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224823/Science_and_e...

And we have too many lawyers; we don't need more. Too many law school graduates can't find jobs that pays enough to offset their tuition costs (debt, opportunity costs). That means there is too much supply.

http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/11/just-how-bad-off-are-law-sc...
Have you been following RR's op-eds, etc over the last two years? I have the impression that they've been less circumspect than you claim.
Ask HN: What are some good small cities in the US?
Anyone have any suggestions on good small cities in the US? I currently live in a medium sized city in the southeast but would love a change of venue. I'm looking for a town with low crime, progressive politics, reasonably affordable cost of living, and decent nightlife and tech scenes. Some of the places I've been considering are Madison, Boulder, etc, but I'd love to hear of some more suggestions.
Now you have 50 status emails and 100 responses to those emails (and 50 responses to those responses...) that you MUST!!1! read and digest each day.

Plus other people have already made (bad) decisions and started working on stuff that (negatively) affects you because you were busy "head-down working".

These are the problems that stand ups are supposed to help fix.
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Subscribers Help Propel Netflix Gain
I don't think so. The same issues would be there for music, but those apps all offer it.

As long as you can only watch it from within their app (so they can keep stats), it shouldn't matter whether it's online or offline.
> I've been making the Android / iOS argument for over three years

So, can you give us links to some of your predictions 3 years ago in order to assess your accuracy?
In response to dead sibling comment by parasitius:

I agree with your sentiment but not your tone. There is a lot of anti-suburban, anti-car elitism on HN that is apparently ignorant of the very real need for personal transportation for the vast majority of people, even in many major cities. I would support increased driver training requirements (especially specific training and experience with loss of control on various surfaces), but not without a way of ensuring that the transportation and employment needs of everyone, including youth, are still met.

Also, you're probably aware, but your account has been dead for a long time, apparently due to excessively harsh and/or personal negative comments.

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In response to the general subject of driving, it is my opinion that arbitrary point-to-point human mobility is an essential feature of an ideal society. The inability to move from place to place for employment, vacation, or recreation is, again in my opinion, detrimental to society's mutual respect and wellbeing, and leads to economic and cultural segregation.
Seems like a fallacy to me.

It's not as clear cut as the P vs P you make it be, anyway. In many cases you're better of with Google that with some _small_ paying service your paying $20/month to use, merely because Google has more money/people/tech to spend on making the service better, avoiding to fall under, etc.

As for paying a _large_ company to their service, well, if you're like 0.001% of the profits of the service you're paying for, you're not much of a customer with influence, no matter how much you pay. And in most pay-for services you are just that, a small decimal percentage of their business.

Now you could count on your interests aligned with the other customers (so that they could not annoy you without annoying a large percentage of their users) but there lots of cases where that's not the case.
Grasshopper rocket flies up 250m
3 Vital Questions to Ask a Video Producer First
Political constraints and welfare concerns effectively rule out "controlled experiment" at the present time.
I remember she said she was able to feel the doctors chopping up her knee but she felt no pain. Also there was a curtain so she didn't have line of sight to the operation.
More helpful would be actual suggestions on how to find a co-founder when ex-co-workers don't want to leave their safe employers, and classmates/spouses/siblings/are not an option.
There is currently a massive short squeeze occurring with Netflix stock.
Licensing for video and music is not the same.

However, it is the same in that if you're ever wondering why a music or video content app doesn't do something, the answer is always "licensing."
I know our consulting company for 2 years kept a sheet of logins as do most agencies so I find that hard to believe... However, I do recall getting my Adsense account banned for click fraud - which really sucked but it was true that I had my friends all click my ads and that my site was basically just ripping off pop culture content with naive hopes of getting rich quick - ah the 200's. so no suprise it got banned.
Kill deer, get into Walmart
iTunes movie rentals does do this.
If I had to guess...

- spending money spent on smartphones and online goods
- time spent online, playing computer or console games
- less necessity to travel to have fun
- disinterest in dealing with government/insurance regime
- more interest in recreational drugs (booze and other)
- the increasing intrusiveness, heavy fines, and penalties imposed by a police state with particular regard to vehicular travel
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Two main reasons:

1) Youth income is low given low employment and a stagnant economy which some would call a recession.

2) High gas prices means less cars and more public transit.
One take on the phenomenon: http://statesofmotion.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/wasted-youth.ht... - the author is clearly a car nut, though! Personally i suspect the car has just had its time in the limelight, as a fashionable item at the bleeding edge of culture and engineering, and is destined to turn into a commodity good, like the fridge freezer. Assuming it's not there already. Just takes a new generation for attitudes to change, as with everything...
Yeah, I don't know what the precedent is for Ruby's versions. I'm glad map, filter and reduce are also present.
I’m starting another content company, and I plan to make a fortune
It looks like it is actually working. I pulled this data from the CDC's website[1] for auto-related fatalities for Americans aged 14-19 (population is total # of teenagers):

YEAR DEATHS POPULATION

1999	5,508	24,099,614

2000	5,561	24,272,121

2001	5,513	24,515,654

2002	5,943	24,742,879

2003	5,582	25,019,050

2004	5,564	25,510,811

2005	5,234	25,839,430

2006	5,186	26,116,159

2007	4,986	26,327,320

2008	4,067	26,408,974

2009	3,514	26,378,690

2010	3,159	26,206,325

[1]http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_us.html
Yes, but obviously I'm wanting a streaming service to offer it.
i didn't even finish your post before suggesting madison in my mind. so one vote for that. just make sure to consider the winter weather though.
'Futurama' to end seven-season run on Sept. 4
It's pretty sensible advice really (don't make simplistic extrapolations from reports of probably inaccurate estimates of order changes in an incredibly complex supply chain).

Seriously, journalists and analysts have been jumping on these kind of reports for years, claiming that they prove Apple is "losing their lustre" in whatever market, and most of the time Apple have reported record profits for that quarter... Traders seem to be taken in by them hook, line and sinker but I'd take it with a grain of salt...
Quality of life correlates strongly with low rates of car driving, in my experience.
I agree with you in principle, but when I got my first car it was nothing but an explosive enabler of my spontaneity. One of my fondest college memories is suddenly deciding, at 3:00 PM on New Year's Eve, to drive 350 miles to my girlfriend's house so that we could kiss at the stroke of midnight.

Of all the things that I'd consider a ball and chain, my car is hardly among them.
Would love to see these performance metrics on a powerful system with pcie or raided SSD's. Would be interesting to find the tipping point where the extra CPU time outweighs the IO reduction. Even if the DB layer performs better total application response time could be negatively impacted for CPU intensive work loads as the compression steals cycles from the application layer.
Extremely common. Everyone on my team has a spreadsheet full of usernames, passwords and API keys for test data.