skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's so great about being progressive? Aren't progressives the people who want to re-distribute other people's money? And what on earth is so dreadful about the gilded age? The greatest increase in the standards of living in the history of the US happened in the gilded age. By this idiot newyorker writer's logic, we are supposed to dread and avoid the entrepreneurs that dropped the prices of kerosene, steel and other commodities, facilitated rapid industrialization and improved the living standards of everyone. Why are the billionaires of today (sergei, larry, Zuck etc) any different in nature than the billionaires of those times? Except for the crony capitalists that got in bed with the government, what is wrong with great success and wealth?
I must say, the best thing to happen to memcached since memcached has been (in my experience) twemproxy[1].

We ($dayjob) have been using it in production and it has been _solid_. twemproxy is quality engineering.

[1]: https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy
I'm really excited about the idea of building a generic DiY PaaS out of docker (for container management), mesos/chronos (for scheduling and allocation), and cloudformation (for auto-scaling and bootstrapping the cluster). I don't really want to do this as a business, but I think it could exist and be really nice.

Some install notes for mesos, chronos, docker on EC2: https://gist.github.com/fizx/b50319b6576773a0841a. If anyone wants to hack around with me on this, my email's in my profile.
Anyone using hosted.im?

I'm planning to switch to that one too. Moved away from mail / calendars etc a while ago. Talk has been keeping me attached. If I switch my domain to another XMPP provider using the same email address as in my google apps account, will the migration be seamless for my contacts (who are still using Google talk)?
I had been thinking of that, though Twilio's pricing would probably be prohibitive. They actually charge more than my cell provider for minutes. But everything you'd need is right in the API.
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I tried to re-frame it as eating arthropods instead of eating insects. We already eat crabs and lobsters, which are just very large wet bugs.
Meet Xbox One
How well would all of these tie in with android or some other mobile OS?
The answer is definitely "no" if they are embarking on a somewhat exclusive partnership with EA. Because EA has FIFA. And FIFA has sold 14.5 million copies mostly outside the US.
What's wrong with Mochizuki's 'proof' of the ABC conjecture?
But the OP isn't complaining about the market. He's complaining about the Xbox One not being a gaming-focused device. And that's not fair if the entire market is moving away from gaming-only devices.
In your boundless zeal for "innovation," you have completely failed to comprehend what I was saying. Putting someone in the hospital is no laughing matter. You can't just "iterate" and "learn from your mistakes" in biotech. We're talking about life and death here, not some filtered hipster cat photos.
Chattanooga has a Trader Joe's, the true metric of civilization.

Ha! I work from home, and every time I look for a new city to move to, I visit http://www.traderjoes.com/stores/.
There's a fair amount of electronic bullying even here on HN, often shrouded in politically correct techie language.

Tearing down is always easier than building up and, as others have pointed out, as a community gets larger, the negativity tends to rise as well. It takes a lot of emotional energy to deal with a sea of people you respect who always have a significant portion ready to jump down your throat. This is one problem I have with social applications that grow sufficiently: There's always a mob somewhere large enough to lynch you. Sometimes that emotional energy might be better spent dealing with your in-laws or a few tough but valuable customers.
see my reply to the sister of your comment
Given that it's in a regex source file, and the variable is named c, they're probably character codes for Unicode ranges.
The post was a couple of stories, combined to make a point. Nothing more than that. If you're hearing a tone, it's your head. If you were being truthful, you'd say "When I think of Dave Winer, this is how I feel..." Because that's all that's actually happening.
as someone who has been in your situation, ramen is actually really expensive, both in terms of $/cooked oz and $/nutrition.

I highly recommend you switch to brown rice, wheat pasta, beans, produce, and cheap cuts of meat. Add in a slow cooker if you don't have much time.

Oh, and as for this soylent product, I would run screaming away. I only read his recipe up to the carbs section, and the fact that he thinks all carbs are the same because they end up as ATP is mind-boggling. It's as if he isn't aware of the huge problem with HFCS. Any biochem undergrad can tell you about the incredible complexity of the feedback and regulatory mechanisms of the body; to focus only on the end product of a mechanism is ignorant at best.
While dozens of sanctimonious posts fall flat, yours calls me out for banality, which is an infinitely stronger argument. Well said.
You just enumerated a significant portion of the de facto Republican agenda. Also, as 2004 demonstrated, voters normally vote for what they like instead of against what they dislike.
Also see: fraternity hazing, boot camp, making the newest person at work your bitch and having him/her get the coffee and shine your shoes.
Very good point, pg. But compared to software startups, hardware is really a field that requires much more inputs than just a concept/idea to initiate in terms of time, money and man power, especially semiconductor chips. I think that's why there has been no such investment in YC for such a short term of 3 months. Am I right?
But the argument Airbnb makes is not in favor allowing building landlords to evict tenants and run illegal hotels, nor is it mine. The law should be changed to cover only that case. Not be broadly extended to cover the 87% who rent out their own home[1], to make extra personal money on the side.

[1] according to Airbnb, in the article

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E3 is in three weeks. They didn't want this event to focus on games, because then they'd have nothing to show at E3. But they still showed some games just to prove it had working hardware.
Are there any good alternatives to Google Calendar? If not, seems like there may be a gap in the market for a next generation calendar service, as the core of Google Calendar has been the same for a while, I'm sure there must be some innovation available there.
Here's The Verge's article on the redesign launch: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350208/how-sam-clay-and-n...

Little by little sure does add up. I've been working on the redesign for iOS, android, and both the web app and blurblogs (blurblog example: http://samuel.newsblur.com) for months now. But by committing every day it builds up. That's been the past four years now.

My favorite part of this whole business is the free insurance policy. If I were to get hit by a bus (or god forbid, decide to stop supporting NewsBlur), you or somebody with the necessary resources could have a copy up and running by taking advantage of NewsBlur's open-source repo: http://github.com/samuelclay
I certainly wasn't un-nice to her. Just told a story.
I recently switched from Gmail to Fastmail.fm for much the same reasons as the OP. Fastmail.fm managed to migrate 30k emails without so much as a sweat.

I still haven't worked out what I'm going to do about Google Reader :(
I'm in for $65, because I've run out of patience with everyone wisely nodding caution and not trying to solve the problem themselves. Like a lot of metabolically disadvantaged people, I feel betrayed and tossed off a cliff by a society that doesn't understand and doesn't care. You want to know how desperate we are? Read this:

http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=35...

That's the next alternative if Soylent doesn't work. Now either offer a design for a better food replacement, or shut up and get out of the way.
This seems like a great way for a recruiter to alienate someone they are hoping to recruit.

Last month a recruiter was able to get my email address me through this very mechanism. It immediately felt slimy to me and completely put me off the companies they were recruiting for.

If this becomes widespread people will start clocking their git commit email in the same way that they cloak their DNS email records.
What transgressions?

It was just a story!

You guys are amazing to me, how you can inflate something as simple as a story into this monumental thing.

I wrote the piece in 15 minutes. You're spending 48 hours debating every nuance of something that means nothing.

Totally bizarre.
I think "Los Gatos" just made for a catchy, alliterative title.
I wasn't attacking you, I was saying you were wrong -- and you were wrong.

And I actually do own two Windows Phones (one is a developer "HTC Mazaa" unit given to me by Microsoft after being one of the winners of a Windows Phone development competition, and the other is a WP8 Lumia) and I develop for Windows Phone. Has Microsoft given you a developer phone lately?

Seriously though, don't presume to know my experience level.
The ui is slick, simple, and fast. handles orientation changes well and preserves state. good job
I would think the service you move to would need your friends list in order for you to be able to communicate without re-authorizing everyone.

Since I didn't have Talk set up on my own domain, I'm SOL on that front. I just have to get everyone to re-authorize me.
I am aware of no such thing. All I know is that some random person on a random forum claims that some lawyer at Apple claims it's illegal. And even if it was 100% illegal to view in the US, that doesn't say anything about the rest of the world.
Wi-Fi connections stalling on AirPort Extreme with 7.6.3 firmware
The "financial hurt" is mitigated by the fact that they can just ban your account and your access to your terabyte of stored data and possibly other yahoo services, anytime they want.

>Any other reading of the situation is based on fantasy.

Not necessarily. It is possible that Yahoo engineers may actually be amused and supportive of the way their service was remixed.
State schools I've looked at just require minimum GED scores (I had no problem getting perfect scores on several parts) and a few years of foreign language.

> This is the type of the student universities tend to avoid.

Agreed, but retroactively fixing mistakes is impossible so I have to settle for not repeating them.

I'm taking classes full time right now, if I get into a "good school" it'll be a transfer. I'm not sure if I'll get an AA; either way I'm planning to get a computer science BS.
"vitalizes body and mind" is carefully constructed meaningless nonsense.

"For anyone that struggles with allergies, heartburn, acid reflux or digestion, has trouble controlling weight or cholesterol, or simply doesn't have the means to eat well, soylent is for you." is not carefully constructed. It has clear and specific meaning, but it is untested and not yet proved.

Have Soylent really thought about that sentence? What happens when someone with a digestive disorder eats Soylent, thinking they're getting the nutrition they need and then they get even more ill?

> Soylent is perfectly balanced and optimized for your body and lifestyle, meaning it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition.

How can they say this? They have no idea what my body and lifestyle is! I could be a 78 year old bed-ridden patient riddled with cancer or a 17 year old who goes out clubbing 5 nights a week.

> By taking years to spoil,

They're claiming their nutrients are stable for years. I seriously doubt that.
Gmail as an RSS reader
Apple Isn’t a Financial Mastermind, They're Only Following the Law
Fastmail.fm seemed to be good till I read the fine print. For the personal account you have

100 MB email storage, 2 MB file storage

Kinda reminds me of the nineties and not in a good way :-)
"We can be humble and live a good life with the aid of the machines, or we can be arrogant and die." - Norbert Wiener
While I sympathize with the situation MailChimp is in, I am getting tired of this anti-elitist attitude of PHPers. Of course, part of the reason why I feel that way is because I think PHP actually is crappy, but putting that aside doesn't change much.

There's this notion that programming languages are all really the same, and devs are just a bunch of prima donnas chasing the newest thing. It couldn't possibly be that we have used PHP before and have good reasons for not wanting to use it anymore. No, instead we must be a bunch of groupthinking prigs, scoffing at PHP because we're afraid to let our peers see us using such a shameful thing. You can tell they think that by the title of the post.

I guess what I'm wondering is, at what point will they consider using PHP to be too costly? If:

- they already have a limited talent pool due to location and the business they're in,

- PHP only serves to reduce that pool even further,

- presumably software development is important to the future of their business,

- and they're not changing markets or locations anytime soon,

when will it get too expensive to continue using it?

What rankles is the digging in of heels, the attitude of "oh, if only devs could see how clean and great our PHP code is!" They see a tons of developers not interested in using the tool they use, and decide that all those people are simply mistaken, and just need to be convinced otherwise. The problem couldn't be on the other side of the table, no sir.
Why not just EBS at that point?
Email sent (earlier today).
Hyper-Local: Not A Behavioral Disease
I'd love to hear the true story behind why this guy has such a thing for me. As far as I know we've never met. Something is bothering him. It sure as hell isn't this blog post. Not enough there to make such a big deal about.
'bro gamer' is just a term used by some gamers to feel superior to the CoD demographic (which is everybody). It seems to me to be a kind of signaling used to mark themselves out as 'serious' gamers who think about 'serious' issues while they blow stuff up and shoot zombies.
Make people more productive - Filepicker.io (YC S12)
We’re building some of the basic building blocks to make people productive online and on their mobile devices.

Our first foothold is a reinvention of the file dialog that allows users to choose a file from a variety of cloud hard drives, like Dropbox, Facebook, Gmail etc. It's been growing consistently and customers love it.

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The Role:
A full stack engineer who is looking to take an established product to the next level. As YCombinator puts it, talking with customers and writing code.

We work primarily in Python and Javascript with tools like MongoDB and ZeroMQ.

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Things you might work on:

- Build out additional features that move the product forward. I18n, a file tracking system that helps users know where their files are, a generalized api for developers to add their own sources and custom views.

- Continue to improve the UI and design of the Filepicker dialog.

- Architect and build out the generalized connectors that allow other services to connect and communicate (think unix pipes for the internet).

- Performance engineering our servers to deal with the consistently increasing traffic.

- Support customers and work with them to integrate the Filepicker SDK. Good customer support is invaluable.

(If any are interesting or if you have other ideas as well, let's talk)

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You might be a fit if…

- You care about the direction of the web and the technology behind it.

- You have a passion for rolling your sleeves up and making things happen.

- You love a good user interface and building great product.

- You want to have ownership mentality. You'll be taking your ideas from concept to launch, making and owning the hard decisions along the way. You wouldn't have it any other way.

- You're a personality that strives to constantly improve and thrives on open and direct communication.

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The Company:

- A culture that values personal growth alongside growth of the company. You will wear many hats, work on the problems that excite you, and take on challenges you never dreamed of.

- A company that is achieving a mission, not an aquihire.

- Coworkers that care deeply about your happiness and well-being. We’re in this together.

- Whatever you need to be your most productive. Help relocating to SF, unlimited equipment budget and time off to recharge.

- Based in SOMA. 3rd and King right next to Caltrain.

- Funded.

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If you or someone you know is interested, email jobs+fullstack@filepicker.io with:

- Why you think you're a good fit

- Link to relevant profiles (github, twitter, quora, stackoverflow, HN etc)

- Something that you built that you're particularly proud of
I'd never heard of Lavabit before; it looks like they're still operational, although their website hasn't been updated much since around 2007. Looks interesting.

I'd really like to see a high-quality secure email provider get wide adoption.
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and if it wouldn't, what would your reaction be ?
This might be a good case for unicode character literals. Code dealing with unicode can be a nightmare to work with, even if you already know what those numbers are (arguably as this bug demonstrates).
Chill out dude. I didn't say you were a bro gamer, I didn't say I agreed with the term. I tried to answer Caskain's question on "how did they alienate gamers", and yes, part of it is the sentiment of catering to bro gamers. But notice the usage of quotes. Follow your own advice.
I have an original Xbox with a bad power supply I'll sell you for $300. Meets all your specs!

"Who cares what the box looks like."
I'll just leave the Limp Bizkit stickers on it then.
I haven't seen a lot of voice to sms services, or SMS forwarding. Getting SMS-enabled voip trunks is hard, or at least was hard the last time I checked (admittedly a few years ago)
> How does being a part of the evil "one percent" make you any less qualified to have or hold a variety of political views?

I don't think this is what he's saying. It's that one percenters have an inherently greater voice on political issues (if they so choose) and that as a result, the national debate has been warped to focus on the issues and perspectives they consider important.
Rand Paul was flat out awesome.

Until Congress can stop using the tax system as a means of social engineering it will always be gamed by those who can extract the most from the rule makers.
One thing I've learned from years online when you think you're hearing a tone in someone's post, unless you want to be a fool, you should check it out with the other person because you're probably not getting it.

Writing doesn't convey tone like speech does. I might be very happy yet you hear someone that is unhappy. This is pure projection.

That is, of course, if you're interested in responding to reality, as opposed to having some other motive.
Well this an interesting discussion: is "the entire market moving away from gaming-only devices"?

Personally, I think it's a mistake to simplify the market like that.

Yes, our family uses our Xbox 360 to watch many hours of Netflix. But that's just because it happens to be plugged in to the shared TV. The Playstation or any number of other devices in our house (even weensy little tablet CPUs) can also play Netflix just fine. If we played PS3 games more, we'd go back to watching Netflix and DVDs there.

It's not because we "want our Xbox to be a more general entertainment device", it's simply a technically incidental task that's barely worth plugging in an additional device for.

Many consoles can play DVDs as well as games, but should DVD playback drive the evolution of consoles?
Just getting a working subject / from / to search would be great. That said, my primary purpose with GPG is securing the emails in transit, not on my laptop. I already use disk encryption and most of the documents I send are stored unencrypted on that disk as well. The kind of people that would break into my computer would most likely just install a keylogger to get my GPG key rather than look for plain text indexes.
Ask HN: What is the best way to stock photos
Hey guys,

I'm struggling to find a way to stock all my pictures/videos in a nice way.

I bought a dropbox account and it's pretty nice, but it's super basic. Just some folders.

I tried Everpix and I found it pretty nice except it's too buggy and doesn't really let me organize pictures the way I want to. Also I can't sync back the pictures if I lose them on my hard drive.

I've never tried Flickr or Picasa but it seems those aren't really made for what I'm looking for.

Any products you guy have heard of that take care of that?
awesome. :) Thanks for sharing!
Is there such a thing?
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It's not quite apples to apples. Bankers get paid way more (so they sell off less of their stock) and they are also often paid in RSUs or other forms of stock comp that can't be sold for several years. Tech workers are generally paid with stock that vests each year, and if they're smart they'll sell that down immediately (as they still generally have lots of future stock they're still exposed on, from a portfolio perspective.)
The $40/year account gives you 10gb of storage. It's comparable with Google Apps, and really $40/year is a totally fair price for something as important as email.
I'm really interested in learning Ruby. From what I heard its fun! What about Go?
As someone who downvoted your post yesterday, I'll chime in and say:

Attack the argument, not the person.

The post you made comes off, to me, as an attack on Dave Winer - the person - not a disagreement with a point he made in his article. There just isn't any need for personal attacks here. If you disagree with the point he was getting at, you could have said so, and made your argument for why you disagree, without attacking Dave personally.
Are most of your site’s visitors arriving with zero context of who you are and what you do? How is that even possible?

Because it was linked from HN, and the title got set to the page's title, and all I know is that there is a new version of some tool, but I don't know

1. what this tool does,

2. why I want what this tool does,

3. similar tools that are out there (if you don't know what these are, you are making me look them up), and

4. the differences you have from the things in group 3 that say this is the right tool for some particular circumstance.
First of all, Nathan Barry is an excellent guy. Many people talk, he walks the walk...

Now back to the matter:

If you follow this strategy you must understand that this is not a method for long term ebook sales.

You'll get a quick burst of cash

and not much more after

This isn't a bad thing, this is how this method works. That's why he has 3 books out in such a short period of time....

If you want long term sales, there is another more profitable way to do it (too long for me to explain here).

Also, In some comments here, some people were complaining that the price was too high for a book. But he is not selling a BOOK; he's selling a proven system for making up to $100,000 with your own books. His mistake was framing "authority" as a book in his sales letter and that's why such problems arise.