skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internauts have to come to the realization that paying for content is only going to help us get the best. Nevertheless every company integrating their own micro-payment system is not going to work. There needs to be a unified platform that will allow us to pay for content on all the different websites we use from one single account.
Look up git.
I used Cyberduck for several years but some of the later versions became so buggy that I switched to Transmit. Haven't looked back since then. (Don't know if Cyberduck's stability has improved since.)
The View From Aileen Street
Could you resubmit this as an actual poll? This is going to get very messy very quickly the way you've set it up...

And - not working on a startup at the moment. Had one, it died, sold out to be a corporate whore. I like my pimp though.
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Github.com

I'd use it for a 2-person team. It's incredible.

(No. Use a repository.)
A project to research social interactions around gaming
By zope, i assume you mean Zope2.

Nobody uses zope? really? Plone, arguably the best Open Source CMS out there is built on Zope2 and continues to be used in ever increasing numbers..

Zope3 is not just a "framework". Its a mindset that allows people to think about solving problems in a robust way, which will remain useful for software's lifecycle.

Zope people realized the danger in building monolithic frameworks after the experiences of Zope2. When they started zope3, they kept the goal of reusability the number one design goal, even at the risk of appearing over-engineered at times. Today, there is no Zope3 and Zope3 is everywhere. Zope lives in Plone, Repoze, Grok and myriad of python libraries.

Lot of good ideas from zope like Zope.Interfaces and Zope component architecture are being outside the zope community.

Django is the Zope2 of 2009.

How many software stacks are still being supported and catered for after 10 years? Zope is a greybeard but saying that nobody uses it implies lack of actual knowledge of python frameworks and how they play together.
Headless git repository, hosted on a machine that you all have SSH access to?

You really want a real version control system. Trying to hack one up from backup systems is just asking for pain. VCS gives you much more than just a central off-site repository - you get commit logs, conflict resolution, diffs, rollbacks, branches, etc.

Oh, +1 for GitHub too. They're great.
Counting waking hours only, work (incl. commute) 65%, relationships (marriage and others) 35%, health 10%, personal growth 100%. Yes, that adds up to 210%. I don't see why these tasks should be mutually exclusive.

I live in the city, so I either walk or cycle to work, so my commute can double-count as health. Some of the "other" relationships involve "health" activities as well, and whatever I'm doing, I try to somehow aim for personal growth.
Python developers have tried to move away from the framework thinking for some time.

The emergence of make-your-frameworks (Pylons), lightweight(juno, web.py) frameworks, and pay-for-what-you-eat frameworks (repoze)

Choose libraries based on what serves you best, combine them together using WSGI.
No need to worry about cycles from using one output as the next input; just iterate over all possible 128-bit inputs, in any order. Unless you're trying to leverage some known deviation of MD5 from being a true random oracle, each input is just as likely as any other to be an identity input.
House HN: Looking for hacker roommate in Chicago near Loop
Interesting point at the end: the climate models in current use seem to be wrong (based on the fact that observations are contradicting their predictions). Just like the global warming deniers are claiming.

Unfortunately for the global warming deniers (and the rest of us): effects seem to be worse (i.e. faster ice melt, with higher sea levels ahead) than current models predict.
Mercurial with bitbucket is great. Bitbucket offers one private repository (I think this is a new thing, but I'm not sure) for free, so it seems fine for use with closed-source code, if you need that.

We also used mercurial for a while in conjunction with dropbox (just set up our central repository in dropbox). Mercurial is a lot less overbearing than SVN (very easy to setup repositories), so I recommend it highly for a small team. Git is also a great option, but I haven't used it myself (and it doesn't seem like github offers free repositories yet unless you are an open source project).
"Group A drank regular orange juice, group B drank orange juice infused with caffeine."

Want this.
Currently working on an IPhone game with the plan to start a mobile gaming startup.
Alex Payne — Reading The Web on Kindle 2
ICEpdf - Open Source Java PDF
Formal source control is always a good idea, even if you are working on a project yourself. A three person shop will have some overlapping development of resources. So being able to undo changes and resolve conflicts will be necessary. As the team grows putting in other policies on checkin comments and ensuring not to break the build will become necessary.

Lots of people are using github.com, I have been using unfuddle.com and it has worked out well.

I also make sure I install a SVN server on everyone of my development machines as soon as I get it. Takes minutes to do and will keep my projects and files save.
I don't feel SVN is a little overbearing for a 3 person team. If you just don't want the trouble of hosting the SVN server yourself, there're a few options for SVN hosting.

Unfuddle seems like a reliable and popular choice.

http://unfuddle.com/about/tour/plans
Also for grades: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071114111138.ht...
Any examples? I've never heard an intelligent pro-DRM argument and I'd be genuinely interested.
currently working on a startup http://www.watermelonexpress.com

We won a business plan competition http://live.psu.edu/story/39616
bitbucket.org allows you to host One private mercurial repository for free. You might want to go with mercurial because it's arguably as good as git while having a better tool support on windows. Of course, it works excellently on linux and mac.

If you prefer git, you can set up your own git repository with little effort by following this tutorial: http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-e...

I have used this tutorial to set up repos at work and a private repo.

AFAIK, github does not provide any private repositories for free.
iTunes has managed to sell an incredible amount of content, even though it doesn't make much sense to me or you.

It makes a lot of sense to me, actually, because you go to iTunes precisely because you want to pay, and they've built up a user base of people who are willing to pay for music. This user base is not coextensive with people interested in downloading music.

Scribd has built up an audience of users interested in reading things.

(More broadly iTunes is a footnote on the gigantic tome of marketing success that is the iPod, and their profits are rounding error next to the money made selling 4 GB hard disks to people who are probably not spending $20k to fill them, but that is neither here nor there. Even if Apple lost money on every track they'd make it up with volume through the plausible deniability gained.)
I work part time on my startup but still make sure that I work for about 40-50 hours per week.

http://www.watermelonexpress.com
Ask News.YC: Thoughts on automating deployment of web based software application?
I work in a team of 3 developing a PHP based application and I am involved with developing a procedure for deployment. We have SVN for SCM and phpUnderControl for continuous integration. Our development, staging and production systems are Linux based.

I would like to know if there is a robust methodology for deployment that we can adapt.

Specifically, here are a few questions that I would like to have answers for:
1. How do you automate deployments (scripts used/ is there an app that does this)?
2. Rollbacks (including Database Rollbacks) - How do you handle it?
3. Is there a good Database Revisioning app?
This reminds me of a sentence by Arthur Schopenhauer:
"... one's choice in this world does not go much beyond solitude on one side and vulgarity on the other".
If The Watchdogs Are Saved: Ethical Repercussions Of A Newspaper Bailout
A poll can be a much worse estimate than just guessing. There is a historical example, which is written up in any good statistics textbook.

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5168/

http://aurora.wells.edu/~srs/Math151-Fall02/Litdigest.htm

http://www.edcallahan.com/web110/lectures/litdigest.htm
Network for Good, which, I believe, uses Guidestar's data on the back-end, permits anonymous gifts.
Fascinating. Makes me wonder what evolutionary necessity drove this need to constantly have content playing?
You're right. I believe the premise of the $7 ebook is that $7 is the "breaking point" price that people can buy something they're unsure about and not be upset that they've wasted too much money.
The 10% decline was in "Engineering and architecture occupations," it would be nice if the two were separated out.

Good catch, and your comment on the housing bubble seems apropos.
For Wired, a Revival Lacks Ads
Also separate engineers. Civil and construction engineers were poleaxed since the bust.
I still think Michael Kinsley had it best, explaining email in a television interview back when only a minority of Americans had email (when I already did have email):

"Email has most of the advantages of the telephone, and most of the advantages of postal mail, and few of the disadvantages of either." Email is wonderful. Here I am on a Web-based discussion forum (HN is not email), but I still use email for a LOT of communication, and I wish I could use it for more.

I think it's pretty obvious and probably also empirically provable that email can be considered relatively primitive compared to newer forms of communication.

Please show your work and give the empirical proof. I'd be glad to learn something from you.
Search Engine Spiders Presentation
I like using darcs with the each person having a local repo and a shared one using dropbox
House HN: Looking for Hacker Roomies In SF
Hey folks, I am moving up to the city in mid June from Mountain View, and rather than getting a room with regular working folks, thought I would try my luck to see if any crazy hacker types wanna share an studio or something together in SOMA. My startup is here: discover.io (cheers!)
... for free.
Get Ready For Real Time Digg, Whatever That Means
+1 to github.

Yes you can use git for free if you know how to set it up, but for $12/month in your case ($7 in mine), I just like the convenience of having someone else continually worry and work on all that stuff.

It's also important to think like an entrepreneur. Focus on what you are good at, delegate everything else to people good at those things.

Git specifically:

I knew absolutely nothing about version control when I started looking into it. (about a month ago). My project will soon be open source so i know I needed to start thinking in terms of version control. I picked git over svn very simply because git was made by Linus. Git seems (to me) to have a better quality following as of now. I like being in the best company (it's bound to rub off).

This tutorial was/is very helpful to me:
http://hoth.entp.com/output/git_for_designers.html

I am still a huge beginner when it comes to git, but I find the core commands mentioned in the tutorial to be simple and very effective.

Best of luck.
Ok fair enough. I didn't mean to put words in your mouth :)

I consider the music, movie and now literature based problem to be basically the same issue regarding digital distribution. Any problem that was present with music will be a problem with the others. I wouldn't be surprised to see iTunes selling books in the future.

If Scribd can provide some pressure to make content less expensive or give people more options, I think that's as good as Amazon's mp3 store was towards making iTunes DRM free.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=614281

Thanks.
Amusing. Guess its how 'being socially engaged' has evolved.

It wouldn't surprise me if many of us develop similar traits of isolation even when cut off from internet too not just physical interaction.
It could just be Friday. I guess that's atypical.
'Youth Magnet' Cities Hit Midlife Crisis
Okay, let me clue you in.

The reason they separate blacks in this manner is to continue the long ritual of portraying them as victims. Okay? There's no conflict--It's consistent with their religious war against "racism". Believe me, any statistics that show blacks in a genuinely negative light (for instance, murder rates, burglary rates, rape rates, etc.) are rarely mentioned. When they are mentioned, they usually finesse it so it looks like whitey drove them to it.

For years, rags like the NYT bitched and moaned about banks not giving credit to minorities. So, the government forces banks to do just that. When the inevitable occurs, the same rags bitch and moan about an excess of foreclosures for the protected groups. Racism if you do, racism if you don't.
Poll: How many HN readers are working on a Startup?
How many HN readers are working on a Startup?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=614281
10 more: http://mashable.com/2009/05/17/better-wolfram-easter-eggs/

"Are you self-aware?" is a pretty good one.
Currently looking for a partner to develop iPhone games.

Here you can take a look at the games I've been working on:

http://www.igummies.com

If you are interested in a joint venture let me know.
same here.

How is it working for you? Mine it is my own startup. My cofounder still has his day job. Our progress is way too slow. I'm considering to save as much money and go full time soon.
I (Mohit Soni) and my 2 friends (Shashank Shekhar and Kalyan Chakravarthy) are working on Flare (A True WebOS). We were finalists in Google Product Prodigy 2009. Very soon we'll be launching Flare as a service.
Maybe its more conditioned than an evolutionary thing? We've all been barraged with media and social interaction 16 hours a day for most of our lives and most of us never stop thinking all day, and even dream much of the night.
business-speak:

It's much harder to be innovative.

If you want to make money, pick a product/service that already exists because:

1. It's been tested and hopefully proven.

2. Market is stable/mature (the pioneers have shelled out all the bringing-to-market-funds)

3. Low barrier to entry (prototypes already exist)

Now all your company has to do is either out-market, or out-serve your competition.

It's a big world; simple right! ;)
Mercurial+BitBucket and Git+Github are almost interchangeable. If a team member is on Windows, go with Mercurial+BitBucket, as it has much better cross-platform support. Otherwise, use Git+Github because it has a great community, good documentation (both have this), and many pretty charts to look at.
Looks awesome — I'd be dropping you an email, but, well... got any spare rooms in NYC :) ?
Additionally, you can log in with labs @dragoninteractive .com and password demo
No. Not kidding. It upped pawpawmail's google rank on the topic. Hacker news, blog and twitter coverage can matter.
Finding What People Want: Experiences with the WebCrawler
"No points of failure mean no barriers to entry"

Take my blog -> book -> consulting example. Right now if you have 25k blog followers and you are willing to spend 50k out of pocket it's pretty easy to game the system to become an NYT bestseller for one week. If everyone did it then the the numbers needed would be higher, but right now the number of people willing to do the two prerequisite steps is low enough that this is about right. There is no point of failure; if your tribe isn't growing fast enough you can try a different blogging strategy, and even if your book doesn't make the bestseller list it still grows your tribe and makes it easier for your second book to become a bestseller. But the barrier to entry is still quite large because building a following sufficiently big is more work than most people are willing to do. Ramit Sethi did exactly this a couple months ago, and IIRC it took him ~18 months and thousands of hours. Huge corporations are never going to pay Ramit millions of dollars to teach them about personal finance, but it's easy to see how he could be making tons of money if he'd instead built an asset designed for that.

You have a good point that there are some advantages to Loopt's strategy. But even still, if you have the choice of starting any business in the world, why start one where you have to put up with that? Is the benefit of a higher barrier to entry really worth the risk it will fail entirely? Sure they have massive upside, but there are lots of other business with massive upside where you don't have to hope for a miracle.
A Web That Speaks Your Language
This is awesome. The webstart demo downloaded in entirety and started up in the same time as acrobat takes to startup itself on some systems I have used :-)

But this is seriously nice because it has a commercial friendly license (MPL) and (at least on the surface) looks like it gives everyone an option other than insisting users have a native PDF viewer installed - for users who don't you can either render it on the server and serve up images, or you can launch it in an applet.
Argh. Encouraging people to use Stuffit is nearly criminal. Bloated, packed with adware, greedy with filetypes - it's a menace. If you're unfortunate enough to be given a .sitx file you may be forced to use their fairly awful free Expander, but paying for the full version would surely be grounds for a psychological review. If you really need to compress things that tiny bit more than normal .zip, there's always 7zip.
In a follow-on post, I plan to say more about the method of study that I’ve found effective. I got rolling with the new journal sections of the MIT libraries, but today, the internet should serve even better.

That may turn out to be the more valuable post -- I hope to see it on the front page here whenever it's ready.
This article leaves out all the people out there that simply use meetings as an excuse for social lives, the chance to be heard, or as a way out of actually working hard.
Find people worth being friends with and not those unsatisfying "disposable" friends who annoy you so much. I would say the same about finding a girlfriend, but maybe your fuck buddies don't annoy you as much.
Thank you for checking. I wonder if there's any more general solution to the problem of "I don't know whether this is evil code". Checksumming all storage seems a good one. If only it were possible to inspect all system calls and make sure none made permanent changes. I wonder what the state of research is on statically proving assembly code to be non-self-modifying. If so, maybe it'd be possible to prove that certain classes of actions aren't taken (i.e. writing to video BIOS, etc.)
It would be interesting to try to map the group properties of MD5-space. Every 128-bit number would either be in a slide to a cycle or in a cycle (a fixed point is a cycle of size 1).

This still doesn't change the huge-normousness of the task, though.
BBEdit. But the two hit different crowds, it seems.
Out of curiosity, do either of you two know what your MBTI types are? My initial guess would be some kind of NT. Maybe ENTJ?
Ask HN: Your Hacker Workspace
Every hacker has a workspace and coding/working environment that has been personalized, optimized, improved, tweaked and hacked for countless hours and days. This is one of the, if not the most, sacred things each hacker posses.

Share it with the community so we can learn from each other while improving our own.

Share yours.
I will start.

My two primary work horses include a desktop computer and Thinkpad with Fedora core 10.

Desktop server:

- Gnome -> 8 workspaces on two monitors { Web (regular), Web (work), Emacs, Emacs, Emacs/Compile, Emacs/Debug (GDB/DDD), 4 shells, Thunderbird/IM/IRC/Music }

- Fluxbox on VNC with 4 virtual { 4 Shells, ServerStats, Void, Void }

- Screen session just in case I want to drop in

Laptop:

- Gnome -> 5 Virtual { Web, Emacs, Emacs/Compile/Debug, Void, Thunderbird/IM/Music }

Both:

- Emacs (all instances are new-frame so shared buffers, heavily use gdb-mode, and for compiling)

- Synergy desktop sharing Keyboard/Mouse with Laptop

- Zsh + scripts for common tasks (backups, syncs)

- NFS shares mounted both ways

Other

- Pencil Sketch pad (no rules) as my idea pad, doodling, I keep several of these everywhere

- Post-it's for quick notes

- Emacs/C/C++/Python cheat/reference sheets printed and posted

This is modest if not simple by hacker standards, but it makes me feel comfortable for my usual tasks and most at home
OmniGraffle Pro + Keynote is a force to be reckoned with on the presentation front.

For major presentations, I'd also recommend looking at some of the commercial themes available. E.g. keynotepro
Is that a planned breakdown of your time once you reach financial independence, or actual data from your life? If so, congrats on the independence.
Dave Ramsey plan?
Indeed. How about economic indicators? Average income? Education data?
Peoples' minds do not function like your computer. The reference you cite was part of a study that was properly sourced in the book, so yes, it is true.

If you look more broadly and read introductory psychology books, you will discover the many quirks that our (and I mean all of ours -- yours and mine included) brains have. Whether that means that all the world's population needs God's help to survive because of the way our brains function is a question that we won't be able to answer in our lifetime.
Nasubi - http://www.quirkyjapan.or.tv/nasubi.html

It's like a study of this in action - insane but you can't look away.
I have been happy using Beanstalk for SVN hosting. The free version is working out nicely for my team of three.
http://beanstalkapp.com
Let's see how long it takes Apple to open up the iTunes Store to PDF documents.
Ask HN: Best working file format for writing open source books?
A friend and I are starting to write a book, which we intend to publish and distribute ourselves under a Creative Commons license. Since we're both programmers we want to use a plain text format to work with, and maintain versions using Git. We'd like to (reasonably) easily output formats like HTML, PDF, print, eBook, etc. while also keeping the files easy to edit. What do you recommend as a working file format? I have considered Latex and HTML but wonder if there isn't something better.
I know that personal experience is anecdotal, but I have a full-time job and a wide choice of side gigs that I can pick up. I don't even say this to gloat, it just seems like the news outlets are blowing it out of proportion (as always)
All Medical Science is Wrong within a 95 % Confidence Interval
That's not rebinding. That's a keyword argument.

Now, the 'list' in the argument list is rebinding.
Heroku 0 to 60 in 15 minutes [Tutorial]
LaTeX is pretty standard for typesetting math/CS texts of any length. You can use your favorite version control system, and write a Makefile to build a PDF/PS document.

If you want to make it easily readable on a webpage (and not just a PDF download), you may want to use html.
Is it only considered a startup if you expect to make a living off of it?
Approximately the same number as when this question was recently asked: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532814
working on a startup, besides having a day job as a programmer.