skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
exactly.

you don't have to be on the computer when you're not working. you don't even have to be on the computer for work -- you can find another job outside the industry if you really want to. you don't have to take your cell phone with you everywhere.

its obviously not always quite as simple as that, but often times, it is. if you're tired of something and don't want to do it anymore, find a way to stop doing it.
proflower does a lot of "follow up" in the name of repeat business. I get emails daily like "Please accept your savings" and "please fill out our survey" and my favorite "Your $15 shipping rebate" - all scams and wasting my time.

I will never use proflowers again; They don't respect my time. So far I think Amazon does it best.
Open source hardware can't become mainstream like OSS. The hardware isn't (remotely) competitive with proprietary hardware and it's too hard to scratch your own itch.
I've just heard whispers of data loss bugs more than a few times. I recommend some searching.

I think the dual NAS idea is a good one; I'm considering it.

I do crave a higher bandwidth connection to disk.

I wish OS X would ship with ZFS. A mac mini + zfs + JBOD seems fascinating.
It might have been coincidence, but somehow all the Java projects that involved Maven were even less fun than the other ones. To the point that I decided to reject further projects that involve Maven, except that is all Java projects now...
> 500 years: The outer shell of cellphones made of plastic still look like they were made a couple years ago.

Then why does the one I bought four years ago look like crap? Damnit!
Near Lake Tahoe or Big Bear most of the time. Usually mountains though. I just drive around until I find a place that seems remote. I leave the car parked near the road (hidden if possible) and hike out until I find a place I like to setup the tent.
My suggestion to take HN offline for a month should be taken the same way as when one says to his group of friends "hey, let's see what would happen if we went a week without pants."
What other species stores information?
Harvard prof tells judge that P2P filesharing is "fair use"
Yeah, my bad. Still, I think it's quite expensive. If all they are offering is some simple runtime stats, then a 15% surcharge on the cost of a small instance is pretty expensive. If you have 50 instances, you're paying $540/month just for monitoring.

That is close to what it costs to run a single instance to collect all your statistics

Assuming you need a completely separate instance which couldn't do anything else but monitoring, which is unlikely to be the case.
I'm understand, but I still don't understand.

If you need to communicate a small amount of data in a fairly urgent manner, then texting makes perfect sense.

But I just don't understand the constant texting and vibrating. How is it socially acceptable to prefer the company of those not there over those who are? If you'd rather be with someone else, go be with them. Otherwise, enjoy the company of those you're with. You'll see the others soon enough.
6 days in, everything's fine thank you.
Steve is saying that miraculous things can happen even without a god or gods around to make them happen. All that is needed is a sufficiently-sophisticated (insert ironic reference to compiler optimization here) understanding of physics. Refer to Arthur C. Clarke's quote:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Lessons learned from a friend (Startup experience)
do you not have a checkbox on your sign up form that asks if your customers would like to receive updates? something like that would have skirted this argument altogether. this is an example of why marketing needs to be implemented into the development phase.
This analysis seems way too simplistic. These prisoners were given a gift of a shorter sentence. People don't like losing something they've been given and so work hard to avoid losing it. I don't think you'd see this effect if you just changed the laws and made prison sentences longer for everyone.

Only these people had the potential for a longer sentence, and compared to society at large, they knew they would be treated more severely. Thus the relative size of their potential punishment is larger then the rest of the people walking around outside. Nobody likes being treated harsher than the person next to them. That has got to have an effect on a person.
Thank you Michael!

How you and capable people manage to keep an eye on so many fields is a mystery for me.
No, he said the money changes hands fewer times - this (all else being equal, which it's not) does make things more efficient.
Just think how people like me feel when visiting America and seeing "no vegetables" as an selling point for double or even triple stack whoppers.

It's overwhelming, sickening and yet fascinating all at the same time.
First of all there a billion 2.0 apps on the planet that have no biz model and they get plenty of funding. Sure its sad, but don't be mad! Second Stocktwits is built on twitter, and thats good and bad, good that its harvesting real time stock chatter that is wickedly addictive if your trading and you wanna know why a stock is blowin up or tanking. Get a few good ones to follow and you'll be on the cusp of a trend like the pros. The bad is mostly for stocktwits not so much you, they are built on twitter so they are at the mercy of it- meaning someone could hijack content pretty easily. BUT thats why they are going after bigger stuff which is to get behind a few champion traders and go subscription service for extended goodness. Ask anyone who pays for a stock info service, tips, super screeners or whatever, they pay thru the nose in general, and some swear by it. Once you get to know a few of the better traders on Stocktwits you'd pay as well. In all its not a bad product and someone in Wallstreet will gladly acquire it once it gets a bit more refined.
I lived on a $300/month salary (eastern europe) and it didn't feel like getting 20x less of what I'm getting now in US for $6k/month. I simply didn't have to pay $80 for a pack of 6 pills of fairly generic antibiotic which I had to pay another $70 for a 15-minute visit to a doctor just to get the prescription for. That's what... about $25 per pill?

There, I simply walked into a pharmacy and paid about $2 for a jar that felt like a lifetime supply of exactly the same pills.

Food was also dirt cheap at local farmers markets, and I also didn't have to pay $60/hour to car mechanic and the same big mac at local McDonalds was only about $0.5

So... no, "a lot less with a lot less" isn't even close to an accurate description. Moreover, middlemen do introduce inefficiency, especially in tightly regulated "markets" like the healthcare: I know a fair bit of how the medical equipment market in US works, and I can tell you that you'll get exactly the same pacemaker installed for about 60% less in Germany as compared to US: that's because your friendly regional salesman of Boston Scientific really likes to fly his own plane, and the doctor who put it in you really enjoys legalized kickbacks for "research purposes".

The same applies to law and finance: bribing police or settling disputes by negotiating was a lot cheaper than going to court in US armed with a $400/hour lawyer, and without 30 year mortgages real estate market actually represented real market prices as opposed to being just a trading commodity [overpriced many times over] with a side effect of providing actual housing.

Instead of paying $200K for a summer house, me and my dad built our own, small but cute 800s.f. cabin. Took us about one summer of weekends and less than $2K in raw materials.

I'm not saying that life was fun in a 3rd world country, but measuring the cost of living is a very, very nontrivial matter, that's all.
I put animals that mark their territory in this category. Bears scratch the bark off trees. Dogs pee on fire hydrants. These animals are storing ownership information in the form of scents they leave behind.
The rest of us saw that post too.
Transmit is every bit as fast as Yummy downloading and uploading a 10Mb file (S3 and SFTP), so I'm not sure what your impression is based on.

The last release was 11/24/08. It's always updated to take advantage of/fix bugs introduced by new OSes. There hasn't been a release in a whopping 5 months (?) because Leopard's been out for a while and there aren't any outstanding bugs.
wow this is a superb post. I wonder why anyone would really want to take the trouble to move to ruby 1.9 anymore...

I'd be curious to see the rest of the benchmarks.
now why they bought chart.ly other than the fact its short url domain sqwuating action.. who knows, they could of done better than that, but maybe it was a cheap short cut, but odds are the url was more than the actual service...
What the hell font is that? Is it available on UNIX?

"The Science of Entrepreneurship" text on the site.
I personally can't fathom giving up all the technological advances that we as a race are using to better ourselves and our lives. Isolating yourself can only help so much, but permanently shifting your lifestyle so that it's more comfortable will work better in the long run.
It must be one hell of a luxury to be able to make a decision like this one.
I would disconnect the laptop and Internet and keep a dumb phone.

In my mind social is the opposite of computers and isolation, so trying to remove both is going to push in the wrong direction.
Well, the last time stevey got excited about a programming language, it was Javascript. Dig through his blog for the stuff about "NBL" (Next Big Language).
That's a pretty common misconception that older folk have. And you're simplifying the social connection framework to something it's not. It's not that cut and dry. I don't rank my friends on a gradient based on company preference. Every relationship is unique. And beyond that, we grew up with cellphones as the mobile information carriers in our pockets. To us, cellphones are a constant in all social situations, so we're accustomed to it.
Valleywag kills people? Surely a libertarian like Thiel should navigate the difference between a bad newspaper and violence with a bit more subtlety.
That just isn't true.

As an obvious counter example, asymmetric encryption (gpg,et. al) is very slow. Which means that if I need to encrypt a lot of data at rest it sometimes makes sense to use a symmetric cipher.

Security (even just the subdomain of encryption) isn't that easy - there is no one-size-fits all solution.
Things' lack of reliable, convenient syncing killed it for me. OmniFocus, while not as sexy and certainly more complicated than Things, has rock solid syncing to your iPhone or Mac via MobileMe or any other webdav server you choose. And its robust configurability means you can set up a very Things-like workflow if that's your bag. And the iPhone version is sweet!

If you want to have todos available in more than one place, Things will bring you nothing but tears.
Not all young people are okay with it. "Texting at the dinner table" still requires a degree of social tact.
upvoted because profont is simply lovely, but i can't get it to work reasonably on the mac.

switched first to inconsolata, but i like consolas a little bit better.
if you like inconsolata on the mac, try consolas which is very similar but in my opinion just a little bit more aesthetically pleasing.
When I was traveling in Krakow, Poland, I was living on 10USD a day, including lodging, food (really awesome food), transportation and entertainment. I still don't understand how a train ride away the same lifestyle would cost 50USD a day. Why?

Because Dollars are in demand and Zlotys aren't. Look, money isn't "special". It's just a token of exchange. Supply and demand apply to it as to any other commodity. Dollars are valuable because you can trade them anywhere. The discrepancy is purely a premium for liquidity.
I wonder what they did that makes it suddenly require 10.5. That's a deal-breaker, at least for me.
He was talking about their general tactic (using fear as leverage). The analogy doesn't seem to go any further than that.
Follow-up; the latest version of Max (5) is a lot more usable. I was thinking of v4 when I wrote the above.
what every language you can be most productive in to get it done. If it time frame doesn't matter, any language that interests you.
I grew up with it too, but I'm not rude enough to talk on the cellphone or text or otherwise ignore the people I'm physically with.
Google CEO Tells Carnegie Mellon's Class of 2009 What They Can't Do
The Debian PGP Disaster That Almost Was
Ask HN: Must-attend events for a tech startup?
Tech conferences and events are expensive, time-consuming and more often than not a waste of resources if you're a startup without infinite time and money.

However, some of them turn out to be worth one's while. I'm just interested in which.

To get the ball rolling, I attended Web 2.0 Expo Europe and LeWeb last year (fortunately not paying).

Expo was good for the tech side of things and to get a feel for general opinions about e.g. advertising revenue models.

LeWeb was mostly a waste of time but for a couple of interesting talks (which were streamed) and people (whom I may well have met elsewhere).
I guess I have to plead guilty to being an "older folk" then. I feel it is rude of me to constantly ignore the person/people I am with.

Please note that I said Constantly. A quick look at the clock, or, as the case may be for me, the caller id of the incoming call, is a little rude, but most people will overlook it. They do not miss the event, however.

The best conversations, or even time spent, with anyone always have my full attention. To me, it's like the movie theater. I go there to suspend belief. If someone wants to talk the whole time, they are in the wrong place.

It can probably be linked back to Dale Carnegie's book. :)
Why I Let My Students Use Facebook During Class
Does anyone know what Ruby 1.9 does for creating threads? Does it do something similar to what the author does, or something else entirely?
That's a good-looking font, but I personally need a big visual distinction, like a slash or a dot, between O's and 0's. (I do like the distinction between l's and 1's, though - lots of fonts screw that up.)
How To Draw Attention To Your Executive Summary
Hi. Author here.

Ruby 1.9 uses libpthread which creates stacks for its threads in a similar way (mmap and a guard page).
How many 5yr. olds do you know that book flights online?
gpg can do symmetric encryption:

http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Operational...

There are a few algorithms to choose from.
No - the application/javascript-socks scripts are putting Ruby-style code blocks in places JavaScript doesn't generally allow them. Presumably that's the reason for the alternate MIME type on the script.
My Brazilian ex's relatives own a plantation that grows sustainable mixed exotic hardwoods used for flooring and construction. This isnt the same as undisturbed rain forest, but it sure beats the practice of destroying everything to get a few valuable trees. It also uses much less acreage, because only the valuable trees are grown. In contrast, current practice turns the destroyed forest to cattle grazing
The Beginning of the End of Business As We Know It
Wow, a MARQUEE tag! Stay classy, NIC ;)
Online life after death
And yes, your answer is the best so far, I found even tunisian mates who didn't and have now an International CC, better they can send adn receive money with Paypal through their CC.

It's the perfect Solution, I'm applying, thanks :D
They will be selling user behaviour analytics, this is a gold mine for hedge funds. My startup would be first in line for that data too.
Colsolas was the best thing to come out of Vista. In fact, it's the only thing I kept when I switched back to XP, and later, to OS X.
Preparing For A First Meeting With Me
You mean it calls pthread_create for every Ruby thread? That would mean threads are no longer green threads, since both of the widely used Pthread libraries on Linux (Linuxthreads on 2.4 versions of the kernel, and NTPL on 2.6) have a 1-to-1 mapping of POSIX threads to kernel threads.
Interesting idea but most of us have jobs which require us to be on a computer and taking a month off isn't practical. Moderation maybe?
Definitely. At first I made the mistake thinking that tabs were there to help me manage my buffers (and used them for this purpose, remapping :e to :tabe), but it turns out that instead they're just workspaces, which isn't what I actually want most of the time. I use buftabs (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1664) to display the list of open buffers in the status line, and map the right and left arrows to :bnext and :bprev.
Why Good Products Matter
If you want a really simply text-mode editor, just use nano/pico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(text_editor)

You may also like Cream (an easy to use configuration of vim - perhaps gvim only?)

http://cream.sourceforge.net/
> That's a contradiction, humans are social animal and the rise of telecommunications and the internet is just the current technological advancement in that direction.

The whole notion of humans being "social animals" is a recent invention. (Even the notion of humans being just "animals" is about as young.) For most of human history, there has been an underlying impulse for humans to distance themselves from each other for periods of time. (Monasticism, colonization, and rural farming were the majority lifestyles until recently.) The only reason the contemplative lifestyle is being looked down upon nowadays is that we've simply run out of enough land to give everyone enough room to be so at the same time. Until we develop some means of overcoming the space distance barrier, we're stuck with each other.
That font makes me cringe. It reminds me of when the screen resolution is too narrow, widening all text.
BitTorrent: Getting started and FAQ
Teaching people more than a few commands would be made a lot easier if there was a proper GUI for git. I find the current GUI to be severely lacking.
Andale Mono not only works great at small sizes, but also at bigger ones (14 & up) which ProFont does not (I have ProFontWindows which looks deformed at size 10, and annoyingly appears bolded at any bigger size than that).
Parts of that are <canvas/> I believe.
Your Old Phone Could Change the World
Gnip Adds Facebook Data To Its API Mashup
Summer Work for a College Student Hacker
Many college students, myself included, are now out on summer break, and are looking for summer work. While I could go to the local grocery store and work there, I think it would better to hack my summer away. Where should I look for summer work?

Does anyone on HN need help with a Rails-based startup?
What Happened To TechCrunch's Sequoia China Bribery Allegation?
wait till you see some of their datacenters ;-)
Oh sure, it can get rude. There is a limit. I was speaking more to the occasional text reply. I do agree with you that conversations in front of others is quite rude.
NIC had budgeted for 80.64 billion hits in eight hours on the basis of 2,800 hits per second

That tells you the story...sigh!
Pragmata is absolutely wonderful on OS X IMHO (http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm)

It's kinda pricey, but so beautiful when sized and anti-aliased right.
Why UFC Undisputed is poised to be the next Madden Franchise
(Erik Benson) Buster McLeod leaving the Robot Co-op, starting Enjoymentland
so now I can produce the same quality UI's I did in VS and Dreamweaver?
Go to file, mouse over the twitter account and "update tweets" It should open a group chat called Timeline.
Hardly. There's already a perfect parallel--celeb gossip sites like TMZ. Except they are way more hardcore, you don't see Peter Thiel getting paparazzi attention 24/7.
Ask HN: Review our startup - www.webnotes.net
After a year of work, WebNotes just launched its freemium product at www.webnotes.net. Would you guys mind reviewing our startup? Several significant changes have been made since our private beta launch six months ago:

* We are no longer in private beta mode. Anyone can sign up.

* We added WebNotes Pro which allows you to upload and annotate PDFs.

* We added WebNotes Group Solutions with allows schools and business to mass register for WebNotes

* We unveiled partnerships with several existing organizations. Our case studies are located here:
http://www.webnotes.net/Press/CaseStudies.aspx

I would love to hear feedback.

P.S: We are based in Cambridge, MA. (Shout out to my Cambridge peers.)
Back in my day it was rude to even have your phone out at dinner. One would switch it off.

I still wouldn't get my phone out in 'polite' company, but am happily Tweeting/emailing/browsing when out with friends, largely because most of them do the same!
You didn't have books?
yes. a lot of airline and travel websites have awful, inexcusable user interfaces, and they could use a good kick in the pants. similar frustrations inspired us to build tripeedo.com, a better user experience for travel search.
It is the Christ story darkly recast as a parable of mankind's urge towards hierarchy and domination, realized through the fetishes of capitalism, religion, and technocracy.

The poor and dispossessed brothers represent mankind's thirst for freedom, for opposition and resistance. They symbolically kill Darwin, the story's central power figure and the main avatar of the hegemonic singularity. Yet they do so in an attempt to erase the boundaries between themselves and that oppressive structure. Darwin, whose domination of humanity has rendered him godlike, grants them their wish and transforms them into the insipid tourist children they wish to become. In the end, their struggle for justice and self-determination has come to nothing, and they go, indistinguishable from the other siblings, for ice cream.

You should also consider its similarity to the 1975 short story 'Let's go to Golgotha'
Think of it as a bailout for the third-party cloud monitoring startups; at least they have a chance to be cheaper than Amazon.
I would call that a characteristic of the press in general. And politicians. And marketers. It's a horrible analogy.
This sounds like the "put it all on black 23" defense. The unlikely win will change the world. The almost certain loss will likely draw significantly harsher damages.

Maybe Joel Tenenbaum is in a position that harsher damages don't matter, they can only bankrupt him once.

(and, there is no black 23.)
An automated invoice is more efficient than handing over cash. Like you said, not all things are equal.
Canadian scientists create powerful new lithium battery material
This strikes me as a really weird hypothesis. The idea of some over-arching "fitness factor" existing outside of the huge variety of genetic traits that apply to aspects of physical and mental ability sounds like comic-book science.
I've flagged this article as inaccurate..

Even with the numbering scheme differences, to take your peak traffic and pretend that's what you got steadily all day long is nonsense.
heresy! All life outside of coding may be found in WoW... lol plus a few side trips up to haight... seriously though, I feel as a human I am an intellectual, emotional, physical being and it is essential to maintain development of all those aspects. Only a balanced life can lead to highly productive working hours.
The guy has an opinion. However, he indicated he expected worse from the GNU folks and was wrong about how how they'd act.
Alternative to Wolfram Alpha?
One could argue that the sort of social interactions afforded by "social" technology are not as fulfilling as other forms of social interaction.

This is intended as tangential to your argument and not a dispute of your argument about isolation.
I'm curious about what you mean by "recent". Aristotle considered man by nature a "political animal". Genesis states that "It is not good for man to be alone." To whom do you credit the idea that man is a "social animal"?