skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The dumpdata management command now accepts individual model names as arguments, allowing you to export the data just from particular models."

That'll be nice for testing.
From the bottom of the page:

The Coding and Cryptography Computer Cluster is a a ten-node cluster of conventional desktop PCs. Each node has an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU with a clock rate of 2.40GHz and direct fully cached access to 8GB of RAM. Each computer has a 750GB Western Digital SATA hard disk. The nodes are connected via switched Gigabit Ethernet using Marvell PCI-E adapter cards.
I hear people saying oh great that will replace eMail.. don't think so. M$ and others tried that and failed, why should it be different now? Google will try to keep a crucial piece of the pie like M$ does with the .NET platform.
Another example that with this government (and most) it's their way or the highway. I'm with you -- there's nothing ideal about it. But it's certainly noble.
I recently upgraded to 1.1 because we needed the new aggregation/annotation features. For instance, this is a query we were doing before:

articles = Article.objects.filter(share__sharedOn__range=date_range).distinct()
articles = sorted(articles,key=lambda k: k.TotalRecipients(date_range),reverse=True)

which was achingly slow because it involved making a couple thousand SQL queries during the sorting phase. With annotation we can just do:

articles = Article.objects.filter(share__sharedOn__range=date_range)\
.annotate(total_recipients=Count('shares__recipients')).order_by('total_recipients')

which is much much faster and more efficient. Without annotation, we would have had to manually write the SQL or denormalize a bunch of ManyToMany fields, neither of which I was too excited about.
It also mentions that he had help from 2 folks who contributed GPU time. I can't imagine that fairly small cluster would come close without luck.
> A white tail deer can give you 100 lbs of meat.

Man, that brings back memories...I felt like Bubba back when I was in second grade...venison burgers, venison chile, venison steaks, venison soup, venison tips, etc etc
To his credit, though, unlike many other Web celebs Winer at least has some code to back his ego. Twitter has ways to before its impact is comparable to RSS.
I too did not like Flickr/Picasa/Facebook so I built my own (vivapixel.com) with simplicity as my main focus.
Albums can be shared allowing everyone I know to upload with a simple password (no registration hassles) or they can also email their photos with a special email address.
So if I go to a get-together with friends and family I'll create an album on my iPhone and give everyone a simple email address to remember and photos flow in over time.

So 1 album will have ALL the photos from that day/event in 1 place...

PS: The email to album is "mom approved" btw, since almost everyone knows how to email photos.
You forgot about the firearm aspect of survivalism.
I'm rather amazed that this is available in Firefox and Safari today.
Pretty good documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh4s78Db5OQ
On the other hand, I found On the Far Side of the Mountain to be depressing.
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Great. I have been thinking of sms backup for years. the problem is how to make money from the services. I am glad you made it. Is it public now?
My 7 month old certainly seems to understand dog language. I have two dogs and if they get to playing too rough, he gets concerned. Once when they decided to both pounce on the cat angrily, he even started crying - which stopped the dogs! If they're playing gently with each other, he'll start giggling and want to play too. It's uber cute, really... :)
I can only second that, also since JS is runnable Serverside you can do alot of funny things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript
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Indeed, the reason for the exact relation sigma (1/4^n) == 1/3 becomes more obvious. Split an area into fourths, use up one fourth, and another fourth of that fourth, and the whole set becomes an infinite series of triples, with the middle (shaded) one filled in.
I have a browser setting that forces a readable font size for all webpages, so I'm not sure what the original size was. What I don't notice on the submitted webpage, but do notice on many others, are Javascript-based navigation devices that don't work (because of overlapping hover targets) if the page is resized. That's about as stupid as PowerPoint.
Running the demo caused my Safari to crash
"It smelled foul."

Nice.
Anybody else in Sydney? I am a new addition to the Aussie scene, been here a little over a month. Let's meet :-)
Look like it is finished today, or at least finished on the 24th.
I use Emacs and Make as my IDE (yes, it does call xcode to do the actual compile). There is at least one Ruby and one Javascript compiler you can use.
its a lot of fun - but yes, very exhausting. Also check out http://openondemand.com for what we've built
Many excellent speaker videos from the camp are here: http://www.bootupcamp.com/page/Video.aspx

Every entrepreneur should watch Mick's talk on Focus!
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Hey, i'm alex, one of the cofounders of openondemand.com,
I'd just like to say that we'd all like to hear any suggestions/improvements you guys might have :)
Look for mobile mondays, a monthly meetup for people interested in mobile development and technology.

Also, there is a similar program to this called MEGA, which works a lot more with industry.
Oh if I could upvote this comment more times I would.

The example code here made me immediately think of the lines of code that caused the Debian SSL catastrophe.
Been an amazing event ... Go to www.glutenzero.com.au to see what we've accomplished :)
hey, i'm alex i'm also in sydney, if you'd like to talk, see some cool startupy things around sydney, etc. Just send me an email at alex@openondemand.com (goes to anybody else here as well)
We are launching at 7pm today, but we keep going until friday.
Hi, I am really interested in this camp. I think a lot of young entrepreneurs will benefit from this thing.
I should have entered the contest, considering I have access to a 512 node hadoop cluster. Kicking myself for not entering now...
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Check out the new companies at:
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[note, I realise I'll probably get downvoted for this, but here goes anyway]

http://www.bootupcamp.com/page/Schedule.aspx

This seems like entirely the wrong way to build a "business". More like how to build a hobby project.

Haven't they read four steps to epiphany - the first stage isn't about building a tool and writing a business plan, it's about talking to your market and validating your idea, customer development in Steve's terms.

And you don't get there using anything remotely like that schedule.

Day 1 - meet participants, brainstorm ideas, form into teams
Day 2 - build your business plan and plan development of the product

Come on!
"Despite lacking one hemisphere, the girl has normal psychological function and is perfectly capable of living a normal and fulfilling life. She is witty, charming and intelligent."

I'm always impressed at how the brain can put so much function in such a small space on such low power. But it's this like this that really impress me: imagine a computer not only as powerful and efficient as the brain, but also which is so adaptive that you could remove half of it during production and it would still, when finished being produced, be capable of most of its normal function.
I didn't scrutinize the sha-1 algorithm, but is it possible to optimize its computation (e.g., precompute intermediates) when using a small number of repeated words as input? This might explain why a group of people all arrived at similar solutions, since it only matters how quickly you can guess if all guesses are pretty much equal.

I lucked out and got a solution at 35. Coded something up in python and only got about 85k hashes/sec on one core. The CUDA program, though, was about 100x faster on my low-end Nvidia 8400 GS.
Oath!

You the man Alex, let's meet up this weekend :-) I am in the western suburbs.
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To be a little picky, China is not a dictatorship. Rather, it is a one-party state, complete with internal dissent and power struggles. Chinese leadership experiences more turnover than, say, North Korea.

Edit: What, you don't believe me? Try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_People%27s_Repu...

Hu Jintao has been President since 2004, succeeding Jiang Zemin who became President in 1993. Some dictatorship.

Not everything non-western is equivalent. That's just sloppy thinking.
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"NB: you live in a fucking cave. Forgive me if this doesn't sound like the future of mankind"

Forgive me if I say this sounds like a Reddit comment :) Why so negative? He doesn't harm or tries to convert. There is a difference between him and most homeless in that he actually chose this lifestyle, is able to quit it if he wants, and seems to be generally pretty happy with it.
Then start writing/blogging anything that interests you. Over time, you'll get the groove on and start forming topics that may pull in readers.
Very funny :)

However, could he still do it if he had kids? The article seems to suggest this is a good way to live, but if you can't live this way, and have kids too, then meh.

He's not just an ordinary homeless guy - he wants a life without property (not money, any property), i.e. he's homeless guy with a principle.

So I evaluate the principle: is it a good one? So far, it seems no, it's not.

If he could have kids, then, interesting, maybe it's not for me, or for more people, but at least it's interesting. But if you can't live that way, and have kids too, then it's forgettable.

PS. I did not say if he could/couldn't. My initial post was actually a question, worded a little short asking if it was possible. Especially in light of the ending of the article, where it talks about natural selection. If you are really committed to this, then have kids too.
Perhaps you can give away fiber optic cable with your name printed on it.
Steve, you might want to describe your site a little more for us and explain what it is you are hoping to do with thelifethings, what you want visitors to experience, what problem you're trying to solve etc. At this point the site looks kind of rough and so I'm not sure if what you were hoping to unveil is what we're actually seeing. In fact it looks very much like a standard template. Good luck.
You'd be surprised. My dad grew up in the Great Depression and during the war, though he implied that this kind of thing was the way of life before that in small towns: even if people had jobs, they still made their own clothing, had gardens, and hunted. People were remarkably self-sufficient. They had cars (one of the few manufactured goods they bought) but they maintained the cars themselves as well as their equipment. They even owned a little livestock.

So yeah, a lot of people are going to be lost if we ever get into an economic state where consumer culture breaks down.
It did occur to me as I typed it that it would get downmodded for the belligerent phrasing, but I was post-gym and blood sugar was low, which makes me grumpy.

I think the reason it irritates me is, as others have mentioned, that he doesn't really live without money. He just lives without his own money, and relies on the kindness of strangers to provide him with things he needs. He's not self-sufficient and he's not bartering for everything he needs. He's just an eloquent beggar.
Sure, but the emergent effects of money on society--especially with computerized banking--are quite a bit more significant than the fundamental innovation. Computers are merely for shuffling 1s and 0s around.
It sort of does - if the money came from existing investors in a follow-on round. If they're just trying to keep it from being a down round for appearances sake - as in Ning would run out of money otherwise - they might be contributing in amounts equal to the existing cap table, so whatever the valuation they're only cramming themselves down, and it doesn't matter how much.

I don't know what happened, but this makes sense. Most every investor is shoveling money into their existing deals right now to keep them afloat. I could issue a million shares, then sell you one for $750, and wallah, I'm valued at $750m. Neat trick eh?

Someone slap me if my stock math is broken.
Depends what your particular survival skills are, how fast society collapses, and where you are when it happens.
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It's worth noting that the TechCrunch article goes so far as to call out RSS (again), as seen through the eyes of Twitter.

"Don't just connect RSS feed," the notes read. "What if all feeds went through twitter: would be expensive."

But Winer's also probably alluding to the "we're creating a new Internet" vibe that's so palpable in Twitter's notes.

The Twitter meeting notes: http://cache0.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tw-s...
Hunting and fishing can also, sometimes, give you better quality of food than you could otherwise afford. I always grew up with smoked salmon on the cheap because we caught it ourselves and own a smoker. Fishing isn't a cheap hobby but it sure gets you a lot of fish out of the deal--often more than we could eat ourselves. And the fish are a lot fresher than anything you could buy.
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If everyone in the world was an investment banker, no one would have anything to eat. Ditto hackers, unless they were hackers with an eye towards agriculture.
Me! Keen as anything to meet up. woodsier @ gmail
I would not object to hog-tying and gagging small children...
You getting much press for this? Just interested, this is the first I've heard of it!
Coincidentally I'm flying in for the weekend, could you shoot me an email at michael@rocksolidgames.com if you set something up?
...is not a cloud-based solution. It's a homemade cluster.
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Another good venue is the Silicon Beach drinks - every Friday at 5pm at Bar 77 in the Grace Hotel on York St. 2-for-1 drinks , and you usually get a good cross-section of the Sydney start-up "scene" there.

(I hesitate to call it a start-up "scene" - after all, if it's a "scene", shouldn't it be glamorous? :-)
Too bad, that doesn't change the makeup of the average person's mind.
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"I asked my grandmother what her thoughts about the current financial situation, remember, she survived the great depression and she said, "I haven't seen anything like this.""

I'm curious what, exactly your grandmother is seeing now that is worse than the great depression?

Or quite possibly it's not worse than you think at all. I don't think you can speak for all with your notions of faith and belief. Economics doesn't need you to believe in it or have any faith in it. Its grounded in real and concrete math. Just because greed and poor practitioners of the science caused some instability in the system doesn't mean we need to resort to such outdated notions as faith.

"it was cheap because it was rotten." - that doesn't make sense. I presume when the woman at the check out told them to find another bag it was the same price. Selling rotten food for a discount price will get Wal-mart into court.

Enough of this survivalist sensationalism please.
I'm very serious about this. I want my final day to go out with a bang. I'm really hoping for some good suggestions.
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It's worse than we realize. Our faith in the system has collapsed.

What do you mean "we"? I think the current housing bubble collapse may end up being something bad like Japan's Lost Decade spread all over the world, but it will be nothing like a return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle anywhere in North America.
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"He's not just an ordinary homeless guy - he wants a life without property"

Isn't that what homeless means?
The option I need isn't on there: "Not enough time in one day".
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but with money, in each instance, the recipient has to pay 1/3 or so to the government.
Come out of the woodworks the rest of you, NOW! :-P

woodsier, added you as well :-)

Will shoot everybody an email in a sec.
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The most I've been able to achieve is to get the server running with Openfire (but it would probably work with ejabberd too). I can verify that it is connected to the external components part of Openfire, so I believe the server is setup correctly. I have also been able to get the basic example client they include running, but it did take some hacking, and I have not been able to successfully connect to my server yet, much less work with waves. I don't see ANY web-gui code in any of this, so I seriously doubt it's what you're looking for. If you want to setup the reference server and play around with it, you can now do that, anything else is iffy at best.
I don't think this is valid in the context of what the parent was saying about this guy; hackers and investment bankers are specialized professions which contribute to society in their own specialized way and specialization makes life better for everyone overall by enabling civilization.

The subject of the article is hardly a specialized professional and while it's minimized to some extent, he even admits he sometimes mooches off of friends for meals and is basically a scavenger. He's contributing nothing to society and leeching off of its resources despite being able bodied and intelligent.

Some might argue that his commentary on culture is useful in an artistic sense by pointing out flaws in our society, but there are better ways to do this without being a bum living in a cave. I don't like getting worked up over things in a "Something is wrong on the internet!" sense, but articles about guys like this make me kind of angry. There's nothing noble, nothing ideal here. This guy isn't worth praising.
Well perhaps I delivered the statement poorly. My intent is not to troll, I detest Trolls.

The convention I have seen is to use the symbol of an arrow such as -> to denote the concept of approaching.

However I did state I was being pedantic.

D.
It is a completely unsupported assumption made by someone who was probably expecting the TC tables to act like standard RDBMS tables instead of looking at them as a way to structure the values in a key-value store so that you can query on components of the value in addition to the key.
Yes: very roughly, you could precompute the internal state after 'abcdefg' -- essentially checkpointing the algorithm -- and then compute SHA1('abcdefgX'), SHA1('abcdefgY'), etc. more easily than other strings. (In fact, you'd want your checkpoint aligned at some multiple -- maybe 512 bits? -- but that's the general idea.)

I figured the 'final 5 arbitrary characters' was a nod to this approach. So the best strategy I could think of -- and I didn't try coding anything up for the contest -- was to (1) guess the word dictionary; (2) precompute a whole bunch of checkpointed-except-for-last-five-characters function states; (3) at the moment the real dictionary and target was announced, try many different last-five-character extensions against any valid precomputed states.
I don't necessarily disagree with what you are saying. My day job doesn't either, which is why they do indeed develop almost everything in Java.

The thing is, for my business, Ruby (via Rails and friends) was ready for production without me having to play system architect, a role that I am manifestly unsuited for. It may not be ready for different projects but, well, I have little worry about my capability to implement projects which I do not actually have to implement.

There was no fiddly messing -- two years ago when I launched my site it was just "code code, launch", the framework has gotten better (without my intervention!) over the past two years, and when I upgraded it recently from "a mostly static site with a half-baked CMS up its sleeves" to a full-blown, users actually banging on it as we speak webapp, it required fairly little pain and delivered something which exceeded my expectations. Time spent on programming in Rails reliably delivers features my users can use.

I can write Common Lisp, in a very very theoretical sense (much like my ability to write Ruby two years ago). Its just, well, I think if I started to play "find that library" I'd discover a lot of pain points. Ruby had ActiveRecord, which is a nice safe choice for an ORM that I can rely on meeting my very modest needs going forward. Common Lisp has a wealth of choices but no clear winners, and I am disturbingly certain that if I bring that up I'll be told "Yeah, but writing your own not-quite-a-database is pretty fast".

(I mean no slight against the author of a certain site which is locally popular but since I am neither a particularly good programmer nor independently wealthy any project which includes "write your own in-memory database!" fills me with existential dread. I would rather spend my limited budget of time delivering features that users will pay for. Writing databases is worth great amounts of geek cred but merely being able to persist data does not convince my users to pay me money -- it is a prerequisite, yes, but it isn't the value add or anything close to it.)