skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hype on this movie is unbelievable. If it was a true science fiction movie, perhaps suspending belief would be possible. Instead it's about current technology, and basic orbital mechanics and simple physics. The number of errors this movie had are horrific. The storyline is dull, the characters are flat, the science (for all the claims that experts and astronauts were employed) is atrocious. I wish I would have suspended by cash and not wasted my money. Yeah for impressive CGI, now can I have my $9 bucks back?

My tinfoil hat guess - NASA's funding is so far in the dumps that anyone and everyone associated with real space science is hyping this dish rag in an effort to woo over the general public who are clueless about simple math and physics in an effort to pump up NASA's visibility for better funding. Hope it's worth selling out science to do so.
Hi, thank you for your insightful comment. Can you provide a source for the sentence "The Federal government does (more than 90%, in point of fact), through the FHA."? I am unable to find any similar statistics. Thanks.
Additional data points:

Jeff Bezos over 30 when he started Amazon

Marc Benioff 34 when he started Salesforce.com

Peter Thiel was 32 when he took over Paypal (his first startup)

Adobe founders were over 40

Cisco founder was over 30

Intel founders were close to 40 when they started the company

All are huge companies worth tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars.

Even Apple first iteration was 90 days from bankruptcy when Steve Jobs (aged 42) took over. At this point, his startup NEXT was not very successful.

You seem to think $1B is some gigantic amount in the grand scheme of things. If you step beside tech, there are hundreds of examples. Take the example of Chobani yogurt. Started by a 33-year-old Turkish immigrant in 2005, the founder is a billionaire today. Companies started by founders older than 30 is the norm and will become so in tech too. Only in tech this foolish idea keeps persisting that only people under 30 do big things.
I'm not sure if you are intentionally lying, or just didn't bother, again, to do any research.

Reid Hoffman started his first company at 30. Mark Pincus at 29 (just one year shy!). Excluding Huffington simply because it didn't meet your arbitrarily set profitability threshold is unfair.

Hell, even Google had Eric Schmidt help run the company at the start. Eric was 46 at the time, though surely you claim "but he's not a founder!"

Data is somewhat hard to collect for this topic, but see:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/28/peak-age-entrepreneurship/

> The research shows that an older age is actually a better predictor of entrepreneurial success, and that three other traits also correlate strongly to success: strong fluid intelligence, high openness, and moderate agreeableness.
It's especially asinine because it implies that third-worlders don't care about family photos. What, you think that just because their standard of living is lower, they don't feel the attraction of visual media of their loved ones?

I get the impression that a lot of people who comment on this site don't comprehend how anyone who isn't a relatively wealthy programmer actually lives. Anyone who doesn't make at least $60,000/year is engaged in a daily struggle to survive and can't possibly have time to care about things like photos of their mother, apparently.
Ask HN: Is there a correlation between Freelance rates and Full time salaries?
Currently I am working freelance for clients at $90/hr, what could that mean as to what I should ask for a full time salary?

E.x. full time salary in generally is 75% of the hourly rate.
Some people are just trolls, better known as haters. Don't let em get you down :)
Just discounted. I liked a previous edition.
I saw this Friday night. It is only the 2nd movie after Avatar to do 3D right. While it does not have the most complex plot, it's supremely solid and doesn't deviate. The acting is superb and the score is well done too.

Overall, the visuals in Gravity are stunning. Do see it in 3D if you can.

Moreover, the movie has gotten positive nods from astronauts that worked on Hubble in regards to getting the details right.
You might have a point about naming, I don't know. In my defense a bunch of reddit tools do the same thing: metareddit.com, uneddit.com, redditenhancementsuite.com

But I'm really curious about what you said regarding sidestepping delete functionality. How do you view search engines indexing and caching of reddit and other sites? Does the Barbara Streisand effect apply? I think that the issue is way more nuanced than no "sidesteppping" allowed.

One of my main motivations for creating unedditreddit was noticing that there was a lot of baloney moderation going on. Cabals of power users can censor quite a bit and it is completely opaque as to who deleted something and for what. I think it could damage the community in the same way digg vote rings used to.
Seattle area, ditto. We also have real weather here, which I found that I missed terribly after 20 years in the Bay Area.
This might be a really good compliment to my project, Huginn. https://github.com/cantino/huginn

Huginn excels at getting data out of various Internet sources and reacting to it. Your project looks like it's great at presenting it.

Send me a note and we can chat about it!
Arq http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/
3-5 years ago what I saw was some CVS, some subversion. Nowadays it's some subversion, some git, maybe a bit of CVS hanging around. I had literally never heard of any sysadmins (or in fact anyone except one aging college professor) still using rcs prior to this thread.
For the moment, the only tracker is the web navigation tracker and it lives as a chrome extension, using the API and jsonp, it sends events to reportr.io or your own instance.

For trackers for Facebook (twitter, github ...), I planned to add a system of addons to add in one click a tracker for the service (which use the Facebook API), but I'm not sure yet what is the best implementation for this.
For the moment, you can use the API (or a library : python or javascript) to track events with scripts.

No manual entry yet, but it'll be added soon. But you can write a python script (10 lines of code) to do it for you : https://gist.github.com/SamyPesse/6859673

(Sorry for my english, I'm french).
Having an extra drive offsite is a great idea. The terms of service for Everpix are shady..

"By displaying or posting any Content on or through the Everpix Services, you hereby grant to 33cube a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and translate such Content in or through the Everpix Services to you and to those other users with whom you choose to share such Content."
People have been making short-term rentals on CraigsList for over a decade, yet nobody expects them to collect hotel taxes.

To expect Airbnb research hotel laws and taxes in every country they operate in seems like an undue burden.

In fact, it's such a burden, that I'm sure Airbnb will support it in a few years time as a way to raise the barriers to entry on their industry.
I have been running uWSGI for many years, I only recently made the switch to Gunicorn for the async gevent/websockets support.

(The last time I looked, which was a few months ago anyway, uWSGI support for gevent/websockets wasn't very robust.)
I use two exact equal external USB HDs to backup all my photos (twice) since the 2.0 megapixel era. The main issue now is how to organize photos from multiple devices I do it semimanually.
Something I thought about the other day after seeing it on a GitHub project (can't remember the link, sadly) was to put your avatar/picture in the README. Most projects have an author or contact section, but my thought was that putting your picture there helps to remind people that you are a real person. Before you file a "this project sucks" bug or make a negative comment on twitter, hopefully you will remember that human element and skip the toxic behavior.
Maybe my brain is wired differently, but having to tell a new hire "Oh yeah sometimes the build randomly fails and we just press retry until it works" would just feel kinda embarrasing to me.
have you thought about using a simple web server and making a basic web interface? might be a bit nerdy but would be a fun weekend project :-)
If interested in this and in the San Francisco East Bay, there's an ongoing workshop for this:

http://www.chabotspace.org/telescope-makers-workshop.htm

(I'm interested but haven't done it yet...)
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Why? Is it any different than Amazon having to research sales tax laws in every municipality it operates in?
I just contact you using your website form.
There are valid treatment programs for hoarding, none of which involve complicated computer backup rituals, so the discussion began off the rails before comments started derailing.

Toward those with a problem, it is possible to feel some empathy as their illness negatively impacts their lives while still recognizing the illness as an objective fact. Your analysis that those not showing some minimal level of empathy are mean spirited and stupid sounds more or less correct to me although its a matter of degree which makes it messily analog and complicated.

As for commentary about lost memories and such, in the long run we're all lost. Live your life to live, not to be documented and preserved. You're a person not a wikipedia article. I don't think you'd like most eastern philosophical outlooks on life; but we don't have to all agree with each other, merely be civil enough in our near direct opposition. Historically humans have done worse.

I would disagree with the ignorant, useless commentary in that most people know (of) someone with a hoarding problem and here on HN we know all about complicated technical rituals. As for the useless thats hard to parse, there seems little point in referencing a hoarding support URL in a locale where we all pretty much know how to google. And people who are sick usually already know so mentioning it isn't helping, as you correctly mention.

Overall a mixed bag, 7.0/10.0 as a comment about half the wide ranging comments were good and/or half good, some not so good. Well written from a literary standpoint although some logical argument issues behind the first glance.

On a broader scale I think its interesting to consider hoarding in the digital age; not seen much on that. Most of the diagnostic criteria from meatspace should transition pretty smoothly into tech; is the behavior negatively impacting the victim, and so on.

I don't think the cure for digital hoarding will be bigger storage or more outlandish technical schemes; I suspect a lot of people agree with me; this is probably the root of the "backlash" rather than some inherent hatred of victims. The dude in the article is doing the exact wrong thing to fix his fundamental problem with outlook on life, therefore intense backlash. I wish him well, even if I think he's going in the exact wrong direction to actually fix the problem.
No worries, I'm Slovenian :)

Cool, I'll definitely keep an eye on this project!
I don't think that is shady. Just means they don't have to pay him to show him (or his friends) the pictures on the service.
Not necessarily; you might have chosen a Roth for individual retirement savings. The contribution limit on that type of account is effectively higher than a traditional IRA, since it's expressed in post-tax dollars - very useful for someone trying to stash away as much as possible. Once the money is in the account, it grows tax-free.

But for those people, taxes are immediate rather than deferred.
I can't help you with Flickr, but the tools the author mentions in the article (Dropbox for backup file storage and Everpix for auto-organization/exploration/mobile access/selective sharing) can handle 100,000 photos, no problem. Personal bias: I pay for Dropbox and work at Everpix.
"two weeks ago i couldn't spell open source, now i am one!" (kidding)

but seriously, open source certainly helped make me the person i am, as well. by working on open source projects, i got my first gig (in a field i'm not professionally trained in, either), and i have been fortunate to have been surrounded by generous, bright people who i have always tried to learn from.

my own story is why i recommend to people to get involved in open source projects in their learning.
Craigslist does not collect payment to facilitate the stay.

They do not offer insurance and serve as mediator during disputes.

They do not operate concierge services.

They operate significantly less like a hotel than airbnb.
These sorts of modifications are done client-side for a reason. If I want the page to look different, I'd make it look different. Doing it server-side opens up a whole ton of security concerns... Not to mention copyright issues, etc.
By that logic there should be no property taxes and eminent domain should too be tossed out the window.

While taxes suck, property should not be exempt from it otherwise we'll have much further unfair taxation system.
Here's a list from Lenovo:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR...

Has a bunch of their current and past systems, with which distributions it has been certified on.
What about librsync (as mentioned in the comments here)?
Working hard for the sake of working hard is laziness
Because he's still offended by the massive downvotes on his illogical comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6485956
Even assuming that man-made global warming is true and that high concentrations of CO2 is a bad thing, what does science tell me that's really actionable? Coordination is impossible in prisoner's dilemma type games. No solution, no problem. The only way to "solve" the "problem" is with world-wide totalitarian measures which would produce untold misery as a side effect. I 'd much rather have the sea level go up 2 meters. The crying meteorologist is to me on a par with the British young woman who had an abortion "for the environment". To recap: powerful interests, alarming indications of intellectual fraud (e.g. accusations of data massaging, gradually speaking more of "climate change" than "global warming"), nothing to do that's compatible with me pursuing my interest, yes selfish interest - is there another kind? -, in a market economy. Case closed for me.
> It's not true in any way.

Care to elaborate? This is pretty fundamental to almost every single business I have ever heard of...
Local archives are great, but they help only you.

Please consider having your archiving scripts/services store their content in WARC format so you can submit bundles to the Internet Archive for integration into the Wayback Machine.

That's how Archive Team's downloads are able to be integrated. The latest versions of wget support storing their downloads in this fashion.

You could even regularly spider your own site and package it up into a WARC for submission.
Wrong. Obviously you have never traveled. People in third-world countries that are lucky to have a few photos will keep them as their most prized possessions.

When you do ever travel and take photos, make sure to share the photos with the people you photographed. Have extra prints make and mail them when you return from your trip.
My archive of photos has always been files in directories. Nothing "mysterious" can go wrong with those... Copy as many times as you like to whatever medium you like, and not dependent on any particular software.
I'm currently (both as in "these days" and "right now") trying to add file-level encryption to rdiff-backup. Hopefully, this will make backups as easy as rdiff-backup already is, while still providing strong security, and the advantage over duplicity is that you don't need to create full backups of your set from time to time (encryption is file-level so it should only upload the changed files).
chuck, don't know whether you'll read this but in the light of subsequent tor nsa stories your comments were scarily prescient. congrats.
> Forgo legal experts and feel free to infringe upon other company’s copyrights. Dare them to come after a low-flying start-up!

That strategy actually worked out pretty well for YouTube...
Wish grandparent had not deleted his reply; makes it look like I'm the one suggesting turning off ssl. :-(
That's correct. It's legalese for an almost tautological statement: "we are allowed to do what you tell us to do with your photos." We take privacy seriously.
This is really compelling. I feel like, after watching it for a few minutes, I have a much more intuitive sense of population growth / change. Well done!
> The market value of the mortgage is whatever it would actually sell for on the open market.

Yes. But as a practical matter, the market value of an underwater but performing loan is going to be significantly higher than the underlying asset, and most of the loans in the pool Richmond is looking at are performing.

A defaulted loan might be worth nothing more than the underlying asset less foreclosure costs (which can, as you note, be high); in some cases that might work out to be around 80% of the house value (which is what Richmond plans to offer), so in a small minority of cases Richmond's plan may pass constitutional muster. Unfortunately, their plan then relies on turning around and having the same home buyer get a new mortgage. I'll give you three guesses as to how easily a guy who just defaulted on his last mortgage will get a new one on the same house...

In short, yes, valuing mortgages is complicated. But they are liquid, traded investments, and the market price is simply higher than Richmond is offering on average. And the minority where it isn't won't work on its own.
It effectively gives them the right to use your photos however they please.
Plausible Deniability Service
A service which deletes any data stored with it within a configurable time period unless you check in. (optionally it could do the opposite and email it out)

Does it already exist? Any takers? It's like the only application that doesn't have to be used to be of use.
Which is more "hotely" to you:

1) A place where you pay someone to stay overnight.

2) A website that helps people find and pay for #1.
Whups. I misspoke; it will wreck the housing market and stop new building, but it will not drop the price of existing houses to $0. :)
On github: https://github.com/tlongren/simple-date
PHP, django, rails you really like bloated software that have conceptual flaws and constant security advisories?
http://cve.mitre.org/data/refs/refmap/source-MLIST.html

And yes I am forced to use PHP or any cited bullshitware because all these coders are intoxicating my customers with false hope, and false expectations that after close lookups (especially the Total Cost of Ownership including maintaining) systematically fail to deliver what was promised.

Would you listen to someone who says coding correctly takes time but maintaining will be easy or the enthusiasts that are saying I have a framework that "works" (but is not) and I can deliver in no time? (disregarding the actual quality of the code they are using, or the operational complexity (thus additional recurring costs), or ignoring the big O notations). Advocates of BSware don't care about the details. But the devil lies in the details.

There is no shortcut for being a decent programmer; you have to have the control over everything.

I say it loud and clear: because of their culture some language and tools turn decent smart people into incompetent frauds that contaminate the work of every developers. Incompetency is a cancer that contaminates the economy and costs an awful lots of bucks.
So far https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/MTPublic/ns/index.jsp is useful but definitely lacking specific past data as well as general information on firms
Always Be Consistent
Oh no, my precious internet points!
I'm unclear on a point: If you have a Time Machine backup, and it used to work at some point, why can't you restore that from Time Machine?

I saw you say that that database was empty, but if you just go back a few days (to a point when you know it worked), then it will work. Time Machine backs the entire drive up.
That's not what I said. The point is one might as well say it never happens for how often it happens in practise. I have only had it happen once in recent memory, and even then it was because the hosted CI we use was experiencing issues.
I have lost all my photos before. It was... initially upsetting, but oddly liberating a few weeks on. The things I care about, I still remember. The people I care about I still care about - and for the one who isn't around any more, I wish I'd spent more time talking to him and less time taking photos. I still take photos occasionally, but I've cut back a lot, and I think my life is better for it.

(And I can't afford air conditioning, thank you very much)
Which states provide data on how someone voted? Whether you voted in an election is normally provided, which provides party affiliation data for primary voters, but I'm not aware of any state that has done away with the private ballot.
How do Religions Die?
> To expect Airbnb research hotel laws and taxes in every country they operate in seems like an undue burden.

A burden? More like a flagrant abuse of the law. It's hard to believe that Airbnb didn't bother researching the law in San Francisco, the very same city the company was founded in.
I don't know why the article needed to conclude with 'The explanation is "a little geekalicious,'' he said'. The article would be much better without that one sentence.
Honest question - What simple math would you suggest someone learn before seeing this film then ?
> In fact, it's such a burden, that I'm sure Airbnb will support it in a few years time as a way to raise the barriers to entry on their industry.

A few years? This seems like confirmation that it's happening now.
Airbnb is #1. They take payment.
Another vote for Java, because when learning to build an Android app, you'll be searching for answers on stackoverflow every 15 minutes, and it's easier to use the language everyone else is using.
Typhon - Python implementation for the Rubinius VM
Parent was sarcasm, which doesn't work in text.
It's still much easier to scroll down a list of tags and find the right one by date than to look through the git log and look at both a tag name and timestamp.
so say a new shiny product (an extension) is produced by a newly founded company (smallco).

bullyco decides they don't like this and sues smallco.

what's the most the owners (shareholders) of the smallco can lose? their share capital (likely £1).
Link seems to be dead and I can't find a cache.. is this article just about 4b825...?
Mine too. I'm still unclear on how OP lost the photos in the first place.
kvm or lxc are interesting, but that seems like attacking a fly with a sledgehammer, and it's hardly cost-free in terms of monitoring, maintenance and resource economization. Why bother with virtualization when setting path-related environment variables is sufficient?
I've generally had the same experience, although that particular toolchain only solves part of the deployment problem. The other caveat is that you will eventually run into a situation where, say, pip doesn't quite make it to the finish line, and you're left wondering why. If my memory serves me, the last time this happened to me was while I tried to install a project that used ipython (=zmq+readline+pyglets+..+..+) and needed a numpy that was properly linked to the intel MKL. It failed at the 'pip level' but I didn't arrive at a solution wasn't clear until I dove much deeper (python build, MKL build, ZMQ build, setuptools interactions, autoreconf incantations, etc.) There are definitely times when it pays to understand things like the differences betweening pipping and easy_installing.

However, when dealing with projects that are closer to pure python, and/or less complicated, workon proj && pip install < requirements.txt has almost never failed me.

More and more I find myself moving to Ansible. So good.