skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having grown up with parents who acted like this I can say it makes for a miserable childhood.

I wasn't allowed to even ride my bike past one neighbors house on each side when I was a kid because my parents were convinced I would be kidnapped. I couldn't go to a friends house without my parents walking me all the way up to the door and then I had to report home every hour or two or they would call the police as if I was missing. They wouldn't even let me use sharp silverware because I might have hurt myself accidentally. And don't get me started on learning to drive....

I realized only in college how sheltered my life was when I noticed how everyone else was living their lives while I was constantly afraid I was going to die any minute. It has taken years to undo the damage and I honestly despise my parents for it (among other reasons as well).
In case anyone didn't notice the implied point here: a far greater percentage of children are now the first child.
Gah! He's using horrible US street names! Mayfair et al please! Does anyone have a translation table?
Can you tell us a bit more about Sococo? And/or any other good alternative?

Would it be practical to use them?
Nice! This is excellent. We're freely hosting many OSS projects - the more FOSS/.edu/dev discounts, free tiers and benefits we can get out to the world, the better
>70s dub-reggae records and the like would undoubtably sound worse if they were recorded straight to digital and pressed to CD. Similarly, lots of 21st century music would lose its edge if it were printed to tape and pressed to vinyl.

There's nothing preventing audio engineers from introducing harmonic distortion, wow, flutter, pops and ticks, reduced channel separation or equalizing a CD master differently.

There's nothing magical about vinyls and they are inferior to CDs in all possible ways.
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I'm an Indian. I don't give a crap about photoshop. What you should really feel offended by is the actual harms being done to the monument.
Well you're not okay because you;re insensitive to these things, but there are other people who like the person above who will be offended obviously and you should cater to them.

"I'm not insensitive therefore others shouldn't too" is too lame of a reason. for example, surprisingly some people find rape okay (victim blaming etc) but doesn't mean it's okay for everyone. Just saying.
not sure this is the best idea. often people's idea of a bad area doesn't reflect the truth. what about using police data instead?
To transfer money out of India through a bank you need an invoice, proof of income and basically gov permission.
Like kordless said: Completely and totally agreed. Tutorials and best practices are critical and it is probably one of my top to-do items.
so, we can look forward to another one of these posts in ~250 days
Negotiation Points for Startups - Part I
Yes that one was great!

Robert Downey Jr actually bought the rights to this episode to make a full movie out of it, can't wait to see how it'll turn out :-)

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/feb/12/robert-downey-jr...
I think OS designers have too small a vision. The basic principle separating 'OS' from any other support is: sharing. Device, process, hardware, access, network, anything.

There are so many things to share that are usually exclusive, they should be pushed back into the 'OS'. So many lame devices surface a serial streams - the OS doesn't allow sharing those. Lots of OSs don't allow multiple clients access to a webcam, microphone or other capture devices.

Even the model of 'process, thread, priority' is inadequate today. I'd much rather schedule latency than priority. And I'd like virtual hardware to be mapped into app space to remove copy/interrupt/stack switch time from drivers (and reduce latency to zero). I'd like to schedule network traffic across purposes/apps.

I'd like the 'file system' to abandon the ceremonial file tree, and expose a persistent object store. Objects could (should) be uuid-labelled at root, have no fixed location. The local file system could be thought of as a cache of resources, with the authentic directory cloud-based. Access should be through attributes and relations.

I guess my point is, there's so much more to what an OS should be, than page table/scheduler/disk drivers.
I have paid for express postage, line-bypass at a club, 'rush' passport service, expressway tolls and many similar services, so why wouldn't I as a serious job-seeker, pay to have my application move to the top of the pile?
I think it would have pushed BYOD back a couple of years. I think that iPhone started the trend when people started migrating away from Blackberries. If there was a serious contender from Microsoft/RIM for a corporate smartphone, then that would have held it back for a year or two. At least until the iPad rolled around. I think that regardless of what a combined Microsoft/RIM had come out with, that the iPad would have still driven BYOD to the point where it is today.
You're probably a shitty Indian then. I'd love to photoshop you naked and post it perhaps all over the internet and see you say the same thing. (I'm not going to do it of course, but just saying)
Talk to some older folks.

My dad describes walking to school with other schoolchildren in Montreal in the 1950s. They'd be alone, without adults, going miles.

When playing, they were out dusk to dawn on city streets with no adult supervision.
Just like kordless said: I concur, this is not good. I'd be just as annoyed as you, so please accept my personal apology. Kord has already filed a tracker issue for this, and I am emailing this straight to the internal teams that control signup.

Again: I'm sorry
Was his name Mr. Miyagi?
The modern phenomenon of nonsense jobs
I love this. This is the type of idea/site I aspire to create. Simple, easy, useful.
I got the same sound clip twice in 3 rounds. It was much easier the second time :)
Will I be able to sign up for developer discount next year?
Doxing that apparently got everything wrong according to the updates. I rarely wish for HN to be more like reddit, but their clear ban on doxing is useful, and in this case I don't see any reason this post belongs on the front page of HN.
Obviously not you... I don't think that having multiple 10GigE cards is quite the norm though, at least for the market Apple is targeting. (Unless you are doing this on a Mac Pro, in which case, I don't know what I'm talking about).
I am a fan of Krebs and his works but I feel a little uncomfortable reading this kind of "profiling" articles pointing out names and personal informations without strong supporting evidence, like this time.

I wonder what would happen if something like this happened to an US citizen. I bet there would be enough room for a legal action.
> You are ignoring the decade+ behind WindowsCE and Windows Mobile. Microsoft has always been a player in this market.

It was a very different market that Windows Mobile competed in. A market that emphasized physical keyboards, rather than touchscreens. A market with $200 device subsidies, rather than $400 smartphone subsidies. That market disappeared, and so did Windows Mobile's chances. In fact, every major product from that market is either dead or on life-support. Palm, Blackberry, Symbian.

Today, Windows Phone 8 shares very little code with Windows Mobile 6.5. Maybe some drivers, that's about it. It uses a different kernel, a different UI toolkit, a different API.

Microsoft failed horribly in the PC spreadsheet market, too. But they threw away their original product (Multiplan) and ported Excel to the PC. Laughing at Multiplan's failure would've been irrelevant when discussing the prospects for Excel. The introduction of the GUI disrupted the existing market for DOS spreadsheets.

Similarly, the failure of Windows Mobile 6.5 is irrelevant for the purposes of discussing Windows Phone's prospects. The problem with Windows Phone is that not that Windows Mobile failed -- but that Windows Phone has a low market share.
Sept 10 Apple's Event Confirmed. Invites sent to press
Private funding. It's well known the ira raised funds from easy coast cities.
I agree; in a perfect world (and the one I'd like to see) we would be able to apply this to existing accounts. Given internal limitations though, it's not as simple as it should be. Let me talk to customer service and see if we can do this if a user contacts us.
Still no working scrollback buffer. That's the big stickler for me. They said it would be fixed in v1.3 but that was a while back.
Any reason you didn't go with the Surface Pro? It's basically the same size as an RT but it comes with a full operating system and hypervisor...

I love my 128GB model and I'll probably get the second version when they come out with it.

Also, here are instructions to change the Word auto-save frequency - http://en.kioskea.net/faq/8283-word-change-auto-save-frequen...
In the interview, he said he had 150 contractors working for him now. No matter how part-time those contractors are, that's clearly not a 1 man shop. When I was a teenager, most of my friends could barely remember to keep their shoelaces tied, let alone manage a business with 150 staff. Good for him!
Streaming MapReduce with Summingbird
We do not have an end date for this discount right now. Hopefully we can just continually improve it.
I bought a Nexus 10 with the hope of using it for dev. At first, I tried just using terminal emulators. This was quickly ruled out after finding most of them had screwy key bindings when used with a keyboard.

Then I thought I would try using splashtop to remote into my home desktop. I thought this was perfect; I could use the power of my home machine and the portability of the Nexus. Worked great on my home network. After going to a conference, I found that it just could not hold the connection. I'm only using vim on a terminal. It just would not work.

Now here I am eyeing an 11 Macbook Air. Great portability and battery life, but the price is just hard to swallow.
Sikhs in India consider the Taj Mahal a symbol of national oppression not pride.
I would wait till version two comes out before writing anything off. Surface 2 will undoubtedly address many of the flaws that you (and me) found. Since Microsoft will be iterating on Nokia's Lumia's, I wouldn't write that off either.
The Surface sums up for me why Microsoft is a disappointment (to me at least), it's an area of boundless potential that's besmirched by poorly thought out execution. Microsoft has the potential to really nail these things, but instead they deliver a product that works and you get no joy out of it at best, and actively dislike it at worst. It's 2013, don't expect a user to remember to click save, and especially don't on a tablet as they've already become accustomed to data persistence, don't force updates every 2 weeks unless it's something critical (zero day critical), really nail transitions and animations and encourage developers to build applications that take advantage of the form factor.

But they didn't, and here we are. It's like having a set of drawers where the third one down needs to have the second draw pulled open half way and the bottom all the way in to work properly. It's totally liveable, but you'll always resent it.
Put an Otterbox on an iPhone and it will probably outlast a Nokia brickphone.
Apple iPhone event on September 10th is official
This is exactly the kind of acquisition that can help drive even more adoption of a service since it's obvious to users how the two companies complement each other.

This is also one of the very few acquisitions where I've read "[acquirer's] vision sits well with ours..." and not had to scratch my head and figure out why.

Congrats on a great pairing and sorry that we're losing Simon and Nat to the US.
rsync.net is fantastic, I use them for their HK datacenter which allows excellent speed to AU.

Their email about git-annex users not submitting a single ticket was funny as well. :-)
Interesting niche for the CI SaaS field as most try and completely replace existing infrastructure.
I'm going to apologize - but I can not comment future-looking/roadmap items like this. I can say I would like it - but beyond that not much else.
> A year later, your old boss calls you up and offers you your old job back. Awesome! Only now the salary is $6K, not $23K--the market wage now that everyone gets $20K.

This requires the rather counter-intuitive assumption that providing an additional source of income decreases the market clearing cost of a unit of labor. The basic rules of supply and demand indicate that it would increase the market clearing cost of labor.

> Work 40 hours a week for an extra $6K? No thanks--you're doing okay with your basic living wage and zero effort. Plus, Rob is getting the band back together!

Work other than traditional wage labor ("getting the band back together) isn't zero effort. Its perhaps very-high-risk, but a major focus of BI is to reduce the incentive to engage in low-risk drudgery over higher-risk activities that might have greater personal attraction but less certainty of financial payoff, including artisitic and entrepreneurial activities.

> And so you remain an unemployed entry level employee until you die.

No, if you choose pursuits other than wage labor -- like independent artistry or entrepreneurship -- you aren't any kind of employee. You seem to be stuck in the mode that everyone must be a drone, and is defined by what kind of drone they are, even going so far as to engage in contradictions that are obvious on their face to further that model (the whole "unemployed employee").
I have an Ace too (180 mb internal memory), and it's an extremely annoying problem.

Only a very few low end phones made that braindead decision - my girlfriend has a cheaper Mini 2 and it has 1 GB of memory for apps.

You can install apps on the SD, but they still take a little of those valuable megabytes. The only apps I have on the internal memory are Gmail, Maps, Facebook and Youtube (plus Play Services). Several apps can be moved to the SD (Opera Mobile, most games, MX media player, Adobe Reader, so I manage.
Any chance that you're going to improve the instance startup time soon? It's really bad now - even compared to a naïve setup of devstack on small spinning medium. I'm sure that lots of your customers use the latest release of ubuntu as a base image so I'd expect it is cached locally on most hosts... I don't get why it would take minutes to spawn a new instance in that case :( (Openstack dev's perspective)
It was a lot easier to tolerate risk when people had a common Big Picture. This could be provided by religion, ideology etc. Such attitudes still hold in some places, e.g. Amish communities seem more resilient after school shootings [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_school_shooting#Amish_com...
What an original and insightful comment. Thanks for sharing.
Any thoughts on how this compares to CircleCI (https://circleci.com - I'm a founder btw)?
Microsoft and Nokia
I bookmarked your original ipad/linode article for later reading since I hadn't seen them.

That notion of singular applications that you yourself control comes up a lot on HN, and it does seem like a great future. A whole ecosystem of supporting services (and maybe standards) would probably need to emerge were this to be the norm for how people compute, but it seems like it could be for the best, pushing the cloud all the way down to the user.
That's not complaining about the relational model at all, he's complaining about implementation details of common RDBMSes being obsolete, as they're based on row-oriented storage, slow disks, small memory, and limited concurrency.

Things like Amazon Redshift are still relational but make radically different decisions on most of those points.

Edit: that talk is well worth reading, btw. I wonder why he completely ignores flash though?
We do not have a plan to terminate this discount that anyone has told me. In fact I would like to keep it for the foreseeable future.
It's going to stick around for a while, and definitely longer than a month! :)
In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times
It's a very important topic, but I have to admit the sequencing threw me for a loop. If every tech documentation that I read started with, "Before you read this post there are two other things I think you should read first" I think I'd never have the patience for an answer.

Better to start with, "Here's what is important to know, if you want to understand more context, read X and Y"
What Might 'Obamacare' and the Healthcare Industry Look Like in 2038?
On Windows 8 (not sure about RT) you can indeed turn off automatic restarts, as described in the first answer here : http://superuser.com/questions/490993/is-there-anyway-to-sto...

Though it's a shame this option is absolutely non user-friendly in my opinion.
IDE's tend to be language specific while emacs tries to be agnostic. There are certainly options that could make your emacs a language specific IDE, for instance, look at emacs-live if you are doing clojure development.
I can only recognize a couple of popular languages. I doubt my result will get any better in the future and i think that is a good thing.
How about letting people add some more information besides 'skill'. I.e., what sort of project they need help with or what is the scope of the help needed?
This is definitely cool.
"your application will move to the top of the pile...regardless of your qualifications."

I've not used the LinkedIn job boards, but the rest of the article implies that the rest of the list is sorted with the "most qualified" at the top. If the second part of the above quote is true, I'd be skipping straight past the "featured applicants" to the ones who are there because they have the best qualifications.
Apple Issues Invitations for September 10, 2013 Event
This is quite neat. Btw, this breaks with the Https everywhere extension.
>There's nothing preventing audio engineers from introducing harmonic distortion...

Yes but if you want it to sound like vinyl you have to press it to vinyl. Introducing all those things in software will generally sound kinda crappy and it's fiddly. You can do it in hardware, but that's likely more effort than just sending it off to get an acetate pressed or something. I'm not campaigning for it, just trying to make the point that there are no rights and wrongs in a creative process.

And there is something magical about vinyl: the 1:1 correspondence between the physical medium and the stored sound means that DJing vinyl will always be a more satisfying experience for the DJ than any other playback technology. A turntable has almost no state to worry about: once can operate a pair of decks and a mixer blindfolded, by touch alone. The same is not (generally) true of traktor or CDJs. This promotes the "flow" state of mind, and therefore higher quality DJing.

This is the primary reason why vinyl still exists in 2013, and it's the only reason why countless twentysomethings like me have thousands of records stacked up in their bedrooms.
You cannot eat exposure
I use Caps-lock as control and Command as meta. Has worked great for me.
DigitalOcean doesn't have all the features of rackspace

Looks like no Windows, so no go for me.
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The phrase is a Russian saying popularized by Reagan for diplomatic purposes. He wasn't talking about cryptography.
An old friend wrote a book on Cisco technology. He said it was a great experience, and helped his non-writing career along, but unlike a startup you shouldn't plan on a financial return on the investment.
wonkblog covered this recently: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/27/r...
Thanks for raising the issue. Will follow it on GitHub as well.

Also, thank you for understanding and accommodating my outburst, as well as acting on it speedily. I sincerely hope (and would like to believe) that this was a one-off phenomenon and the resulting mess was completely accidental and unintended.

I would also like to request you to not judge me if I reserve my opinions until I am assured otherwise. I assure you I am not holding a grudge; I am just being cautious, that's all.
Because you want it to sound louder than the previous record when it's played on the radio, or in the past, the jukebox.

Yeah, I know.
Funny, my name is Viktor and I actually used to work in marketing in my junior years. And I find programming much more interesting, frankly speaking even incomparable.
The demonstration is tomorrow from 17:00 at Medborgarplatsen.

https://www.facebook.com/events/144871222386531/
Yes, I tried the cocoa version and that's what I'm referring to. I recall having real issues in particular with ansi-term not having the environment correctly set + simply not being able to resolve that.

I'm pretty sure I had other issues too, but I can't remember them.

To be fair, I've not tried the cocoa version or any other for some time, so things may have changed.

However, I still think OP's point was unfair on aquamacs - other than some (annoying!) quirks regarding autofonts and tabs (I instantly turn those off), it's no different than emacs anywhere else, in my experience.
Emacs makes Windows more bearable - thats why I'm thinking of returning.
you could just add some simple loading animation gif, to make it clear that buttons are working...
> Maybe we should be finding a way to make no one personally responsible for failures. But this sounds counter-intuitive, as personal responsibility is acknowledged as an effective mechanism to make people do their work right.

I think that a good middle-ground is what happens with judges in most of EU. In most systems you cannot directly sue a single judge for some misconduct that happened during a process. What you have to do is to sue "the state". Another judge will then judge the matter but then it is you vs the state, not against a single person; it is the state that takes care of all the legal things and legal costs. This gives the judges the freedom they need to be severe but just. Without this protection they will always be afraid of being sued by the losing party, especially when the losing party is a big, rich corporation.

Obviously, to counterbalance this exceptionally high degree of defence enjoyed by the judges, the state usually punish the judge with a fine or a suspension. But the intermediation of the state is able to rebalance the risks: if you do something wrong you risk a big fine, but you will not be dragged personally in a 10-year process that will destroy your career and your finances.
>It's frightening. Like, for instance, Mint can get to all your bank info with just username/password.

Well, they also use your security questions. How is that frightening? It's not any different than logging into your bank account normally except that a website does it for you.
Are haters gonna hate?
EC2 is way cheaper

medium utilized reserved "m1.large" instance, which has 7.5Gb of RAM + 2*420Gb of local storage costs $1272 a year max (less if you don't use it all the time). If you go with heavy-utilization instance it's even cheaper. see https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#tabm1

Rackspace's 8GB/320GB instance costs $4200 a year.

That's quite a difference
That proves nothing other than your dad grew up in a particular way.

The question the post you were replying to posed was: is this actually a new phenomenon? Or is it simply good ole day syndrome?

I suspect it's more the latter.
Guesses and Hype Give Way to Data in Study of Education
But it is arguable if Apple would have done that if Google would not have been their competitor. Before Android they had a nice partnership (with Google CEO Schmidt on Apples board).
Meanwhile in America...