skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learn to cope faster. You can't change the past, so there is no reason to dwell on coulda/shoulda. Cut your losses, learn from the experience and move on with your life.
Both feel about the same.
That's why you play around with new technologies in your free time. Then, when it's time to build your next big project, it's not "I have three years experience with X and none with Y; which should I use?" but rather "I have three years experience with X, but I've been playing with Y for the past year and I think it's a better fit."
"Wow, that's quite a lot of one-liner rebuttals ya got there. I'm not sure what to do with such, ummm, condensed wisdom..."

Mobile phones work miracles on conciseness.

"I better not use all of it, as I need some of it to trade with you."

This is not what I meant. If you base your economy on producing more than you consume, you end up risking having nobody to buy your goods because everybody got somewhat self-sufficient or got their supplies someplace else. It's nothing but smart to be as self-sufficient as possible.

The strategic dilemma between being a doer and an investor is that, despite the illusion it's the other way around, the investor is actually serving the doer. You see - your kitchen is valuable as long as you have people wanting to cook, but absolutely useless if you have people who want to fix cars. Investment capital is a very useful tool, but it's only part of the machinery - it only smooths out some fluctuations that allow some companies to get started. Converting your whole economy from 100% doers into 100% investors is suicidal.
What's with the personal attack? When did I illogically and fanboyishly endorse Barack Obama's plan? I'm telling you my interpretation of this article. I even went as far as to call it interesting. I think that even if it's logical, I doubt the american people will get behind it.

Furthermore, I wouldn't call one comment on a posting about healthcare enough to make it "my issue".

I think you have me mistaken for your stereotyped enemies. Grow up Tom.
Ask HN: What service do you use for personal file backup?
My Mozy subscription is about to end. I thought the overall service was good, but sometimes unreliable or slow. I'm trying to decide if I should renew or go elsewhere. What other backup services do you recommend?
Sounds damn close to undecidable.
About 1.5 years of my life without a job(I make a few hundred here and there each month with affiliate $$$/stock trading) On top of that, used up about ~$15K or so from my savings

Would have been a lot more, if I hadn't moved back with parents to cut down on expenses.
"It fights against progress to keep its anachronistic business model relevant."

I'd like to comment on that. I live in a city in which AT&T started a test of bandwidth caps. Depending on your connection type, you can download anywhere from 5 gigs to 60 gigs, and it's $1 per gig after your limit.

I watch HD video, stream music, download games from steam and software from the apt repositories, etc etc, and I've used 50 gigs this month.

Sadly, the only other ISP in town is Charter, and they have notoriously bad service in my area.
I agree 100%. Ubuntu has a program built into gnome that forces you to take breaks.

Go to Keyboard preferences > Typing Break. I set it to 10 minutes of work / 5 minute break. I can focus more, take short breaks to get things done (eat, brush my teeth, clean), and get more done than I do if I just stare at a screen for an hour straight.
The passage of time could be compared relative to your current lifespan, as you said. I don't see how the theory of relativity applies here.

Also, if tasks take longer to accomplish wouldn't time appear to pass faster, not slower?
Working hard helps, but if your job is anything like mine (grad student) inevitably work can be quite an emotional/mental challenge in and of itself which may or may not help.
So i tend to turn to exercise, running hard with music is akin to meditation for me, the physical pain forces everything else out of my head. At the end of a good workout i'm buzzed from the endorphins and often i find that i've unconsciously/subconsciously come to some useful realisation.
Personally at least i think my unconscious (if that's a thing) deals with problems far more effectively than my voluntary thought processes. it just needs some peace to get on with it
A few individual examples aside I can see why this would be accurate.

Twitter is a broadcast medium. Part of what's implied in a personal broadcase medium is the idea that the people using it don't have time to speak to each individual on their list. So as a compromise they broadcast their interests in a public way. That way they can still communicate with friends, relatives, et al.

Teenagers, despite what some of them believe, have tons of time on their hands. Accordingly studies have shown most teens use one-to-one mediums like the phone or texting. They have no need for the compromise of Twitter. Facebook appeals to them because that allows them to broadcast items they couldn't otherwise share one-to-one like photos, quizzes, etc...
none really,

I just backup on DVDs every 3-4 months, the folders that change over that period.
As far as I know there's no reason not to buy traffic to a content destination. It's not commonly done, but then it's not common to get $26 ecpms.
Since when are the Guardian's story pages so cluttered that we need to link to the print version of their articles? It's about the best designed newspaper site on the web. Is pagination really so awful?
I think it has a lot of unfulfilled promise. I've used it, but mainly as a curiosity. It does tell you roughly how much carbon you produce which is somewhat interesting.
I think the term 'design' can be misleading as it has a few connotations.
If you think craigslist or drudge report, you can say design doesn't matter because, they are ugly sites.
But there are lots of sights that have nice colors and images but aren't usable.

I couldn't find a link to your site, so I can't figure out where you fit in.

For design, go usable first, then dress it up. like building a house, foundation, make sure the door is in the right place, you've got a nice driveway, etc. Get a site people can look at. Then add the layers of 'design'.

Take a look at apple.com (the mac page is probably better than the home page for a comparison http://apple.com/mac). As usual via their minimalism, there is a ton of design, but you almost want to click on stuff. Compare it to linux.com, less enticing, then try microsoft.com.

I personally fall victim to overloading people with content, and not giving enough direction. Less is often more.
I do that as well. But there's always that small chance or fire or theft. I also like having incremental backups that are taken every night. Just in case a file gets accidentally modified/deleted or corrupted. Better safe then sorry, and for $50ish bucks a year it easily justified.
I use dropbox for everything. I can't imagine a better solution.
It really depends on your problem and the situation your in. Sometimes you cant, there are some nagging problems that can not be left and should not be ignored. I guess these things are more along the side of family and health (for me anyway).

You shouldnt start a startup if you have to address family or serious health problems with you or anyone close because they need your full attention.

However for any other problem, girlfriend issues, money problems, loss of friends, yes they are hard but can be overcome with strong will. It depends on your priority, i value family and health over anything else so i can choose to ignore the others if i need to focus.

Im really close to finishing my startup now after about a solid 1 year of un relenting work, curve balls and problems, with day job, with startup and other things personal. During the last year i could probably say that i faced 3 problems that were quite difficult to ignore however they did not directly concern my health and not directly my family (god bless) so i keep going.

There are 24 hours in the day and you just need to tell yourself that after 3 hours of getting angry or wollowing or whatever you do, it gets you no where, but 3 hours of work gets you a step closer to how you see yourself in the future which can also be something you value.

You can even trick yourself into thinking that where you see yourself in the future is a future you without some of the problems you may be having now. The approach i guess is to take a completly robotic and logical approach and kind of dehumanize some aspects that arent that important cause if you let everything get to you then you wont get anything done, not even the basic day to day things.

The side effect of this is if you dont make it (even though you poured everything in) you need to be ready so you get into a state of depression.

Its all about iron will , specially when life throws you curve balls. Good thing is, if you get through it, you will become a much stronger person.

Having said that, take time off once in a while cause even though i take a robotic approach (as sometimes its the only way) im not a robot :)
Jungledisk! It allows you to store all yor data on your s3 account
I don't have much experience with advertisements, but maybe you could try changing the ad based on what they're translating to.

For example, if a user chooses to translation from Spanish to English, you could display an English ad about learning Spanish, or a Spanish ad about learning English.
most importantly, put time aside to spend dealing with the emotions that come up. don't bottle them up. they will be expressed in destructive ways when you least expect it.

Does this really happen? If you spend much time with military veterans, you notice that they have way more self-control than the average person, even though they've also been through more than the average person. Is this because the military attracts very emotionally controlled people, or because exercising such control strengthens it?
I guess then AOL helped me to make money too. Time Berners-Lee helped me to make money. Wife beating helped me to make money (one of my clients is a womens' aid group). Bit obtuse.
I also use dropbox. Its fantastic for sharing. But to me its not a real backup solution. Everything doesnt live in the same folders or drives, seems like a lot of work to turn dropbox into a half baked backup solution.
http://www.asap.org/

These are mostly non-technical, often physically handicapped people. This sample accounts for 19,536 visits in the past month:

Internet Explorer 14,174	72.55%
7.0 7,549	53.26%
6.0 3,445	24.31%
8.0 3,179	22.43%
Firefox 3,420	17.51%
Safari 1,412	7.23%
Chrome 331	1.69%
Opera 72	0.37%
What a coincidence—I'm going through this right now. The night my boyfriend broke up with me (two days ago) I differentiated equations until 4 a.m. Now I'm working on inductive logic and doing my best to stay off of e-mail and facebook.

I use other outlets such as reading and exercising, but I've found mathematics' abstraction to be the most helpful. Reading books brings up motifs and messages and content that calls certain memories to mind; diving into math allows transcendence.
How about contacting someone like Berlitz or other language schools. Maybe they will sponsor the site.
You make it sound like only physical items are worth investing in.

Did you invest in your education?
Ask HN: Any good SIM-only carriers or plans in US?
I would like to find service in the US, but I don't need a subsidized phone or (if possible) a contract. Does anyone know of any good options?
If design is tantamount to usability, it is the second most important aspect of your site (behind functionality, in my opinion). If design = drop shadows and rounded corners, I would put it on the bottom of my priority list.
The Case for Mars
Amazon S3.

cron job -> tar gz -> s3cmd -> s3

Their cheap, very reliable, and fast. What else can I ask for.
I use tarsnap[1] and not-so-regular backups to my home fileserver.

[1] http://tarsnap.com
A Radical New Router
Each of the things you've listed here are the sort of thing you'd expect to be negotiated away by said media companies before they agree to any licensing.
This comes out to slightly higher then my Mozy account would cost per month. Does Jungledisk do any encryption or protection for you? I know Mozy encrypts everything.
Well it just might be that time actually goes faster.

I.e. the dimension of time accellerates.
Cool!

Does Truveo have well-formatted results in XML (title-link-thumbnail-embedcode)?
I would give my left nut for a woman who understands half of what you just said. Rebound? ;)

EDIT: (BTW that's also to say some guys just don't know what they've got till they don't. You'll land on your feet, you'll see.)
Still too condemning.

The problem is the huge inferential gap between the facts on the ground, and people who don't know, don't know that they don't know, have been taught that they do know, have been taught to actively resist learning otherwise, and who are constantly reinforced by most everyone with whom they are in close personal or cultural contact.
It is much longer than an essay, but I would highly recommend Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology.

Now as inspired as the text is, it is not a light read. But not all meaningful scholarly work needs to be written like a popular science novel. (I mean, ever try reading Gödel’s famous paper?) I read Heidegger in the context of a Philosophy seminar and frankly it helps having access to secondary sources for help.

On a more positive note, Heidegger has only been called postmodernist in retrospect. At the time he was producing these essays and writings, there was no postmodernist jargon to lean on. So his writings are pleasantly free of words that only help to obscure.
Oddly this happens to me with websites like HN as well. Initially everything is new and interesting. But after a while I begin to see broader categories and new articles seem to fall into these unmemorable bins. It would be interesting if there was an aggregator that was always renewing itself.
50 Cent Wont Battle Jay-Z | Hip Hop MVP
I'm guessing it is because all email providers recyle email ids/usernames after a period of inactivity. I don't know what Hotmail does but if I remember, they have a lockdown period (which is quite long) after which the username becomes available to the general public. I'm pretty sure Yahoo and Gmail do the same thing.
Web fonts - where are we?
reminder: "hackers" and "gay people" are not disjoint sets, so mentioning a boyfriend doesn't imply femininity (not gay; recently made a public mistake of this nature).
rdiff-backup distance (via ssh)
http://greekcook.gr

It's a Greek site with recipes with ~100k visits (last 30 days)

Internet Explorer 61.20%
7.0 46.78%
6.0 28.36%
8.0 24.74%
Firefox 33.35%
Chrome 2.33%
Safari 1.59%
Opera 1.20%
Mozilla 0.13%
I see it like this. To start a business, whatever it is you need time, money and skill. However if you have 2 of the 3 your still capable of succeeding.

If you have money and time, you can pour in those 2 aspects to get the best managers, engineers and designers

If you have money and skill for whatever industry your in you are able to be the visionary, the lead, be in control and are able to fill in your short commings with the funds you have. If you need the best materials, resources you can get them. You dont need to think twice about making do ... (to a certain extent)

If you have skill and time then you yourself can build and design whatever it is your out to achieve, you can manage and you can empower the people you think can help you to make your business succeed even though you are not yet paying them. However you need to think more carefully, negotiate more because money is not in abundance so in a way its a good thing cause it forces you to be more resourceful.

So far we have spent, money on servers (1 year upfront), test equipment, business registration and various other paper work costs to get a business started. This has probably all totalled to about $7000, not so much i guess.

But my partner and i have negotiated a pay cutt (cause we still need our day jobs but we also need the time aspect so we dont do a full 5 day work week) with our managers so that when im at my 9-5 my partner is working on our business and when his at his 9-5 im working on our business and that we also get a day where we can catchup on the work we have done.

There is also the 3-4 hours everday after the 9 to 5 that we spend working into the night (which means we cut down on alittle bit of sleep)

There are times when we cant go out when we want to cause we are close to a milestone and its just not a good time to leave even if we want to. These are not finacial costs but arguablly some are more important. I guess we have spent alot and in terms of time its been quite abit.

But i guess thats the sacrifice of starting a business. If its not money and time, its going to be skill and money and if its not skill and money its going to be skill and time.

Its got to be one of those combinations.

I guess
Anecdotal evidence here, but while they seem self-controlled--and are very disciplined--a lot of them also have unresolved anger issues.
Touché... I'm an optimist I guess!
What's the breakdown of IE usage?
I prefer my Apple Time Capsule. Wireless backup, runs in the background whenever my MBP is up, fixed up front cost, and all my data stays on my own network.
Buzz legally changed his name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin#Biography
The emotional experiences while in the military force a different method of coping rather than just bottling everything up. It's more like the emotions are just pushed to the side and dealt with later. There's a large number of soldiers who bottle them up and snap. Most, however, end up pushing them to the side because the "now" is more important. Once the "now" is over, and others' lives aren't in your hands, you can take the time to deal with the emotions. It's been 5 years since I got out, but it's still the same. I can push them to the side, deal with the now, and deal with the emotions when it's not going to impact every day life. The longer you wait, the worse it is and longer it takes, and there's probably a point where you really will snap, but it's a decidedly longer threshold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_persistent_connection

if everything on the page is from one server, it will all go over one connection. In the case of using a http cache, all the connections are made by the cache, and one connection is made to the cache by the end-user box.
Curried Javascript Functions
This sort of conspiracy-theory bullshit is really annoying because it fails even the most basic logical analysis. If company A develops a treatment for a disease then it will be able to make more over the long-term than company B which develops a cure for a disease. But if company A develops a treatment and two years after it gets through testing company B comes up with a cure for that same disease then company A is going to lose a boatload of money. The only way this would work is if these companies were acting as a colluding cartel, and so far all evidence seems to indicate that the companies hate each other even more than we hate them.

It doesn't require a "conspiracy theory"; it's simple obvious fact: drug companies don't fund studies to develop and test drugs that won't be profitable. Tell me, why do you think they would pay hundreds of millions of dollars to develop and test a drug that won't make money? Your argument doesn't even make any sense; it requires that drug companies do something that is financially illogical.
So do lots of other people.
The age distribution is a valid question, but tangential to the subject sample size. Increasing the number of subjects to 340 still won't resolve your problems with the distribution.

The statistical validity of the brain regions differentially lighting up holds even if the networks in the brain changed drastically with age. You can definitely argue the assumptions behind the study, but the methodology is pretty standard and has better-than-average rigor.
From my social skydiving blog (http://socialskydivingwithjustin.posterous.com)

Firefox: 58.7%

Safari: 17.67%

Chrome: 8.95%

IE: 7.73%

Opera: 3.25%

Mozilla: 1.94%

Mozilla Compatible: .87%

The rest add up to less than 1%

EDIT: Thanks!
Why are such a high percentage of your users using Internet Explorer? And Playstation? What?
Do you already have a phone? Sounds like you do, just checking.

If you walk into a T-Mobile or an AT&T Wireless store with a phone in hand, the salesperson can work with you. I recently checked this out for a development (unsimlocked) G1 running a friend's custom build of Android. I wanted just data service (no voice except emergencies). Did not want a contract.

The T-mobile person was happy to help, but couldn't give me an exact price until we'd run through the system. Said would be between $30-$50 per month. The AT&T person was also happy to help, but he cautioned that AT&T doesn't support the G1 and if anything happens I would be on my own. They were asking ~$35/month IIRC. Again, this is for data only -- voice is extra.

If you just want voice and not data, you can always buy a prepaid phone, then throw away the phone and take out the SIM card. That's actually what I'm doing with the dev G1 right now while I weigh the data options. I have an AT&T GoPhone prepaid service, works fine for voice.
astrails-safe (http://blog.astrails.com/2009/4/6/simple-backups-can-be-simp...):

runs from cron, archives files and mysql databases (and more), encrypts with gpg and uploads to amazon s3
Mars is hard
My guess is that it's because Justin.TV appeals to the mainstream, unlike a lot of the technical sites that are putting their numbers up.
Oh wow - you know, each to his own, I guess. If you aren't willing to go into debt more than "you can pay off in a month" then you either need investors or you need to get used to making money off of AdSense only. For a startup person, you can likely only afford to pay off $500 in one month from profits lol.

As for, "2. Do not go it alone", I say to do what you want and do what works for you. And for, "3. Raise money before you need it", I'd amend that to say, "Be very careful about raising money. You are no longer your own boss."

Like I said - to each his own. OP, I'd just advise that you read more than one person's post before you make decisions. We're all different and each of us define success in different ways.
Amazon referrals. Build out a little more to have links to textbooks, guide books, dictionaries, etc. for the language(s) at Amazon.
but the original attack wouldn't have changed one bit with SSL. Peter Guttman wrote a great paper on how we defend where the attackers aren't attacking. SSL in this case would have been one such example. Of course, SSL has value in other cases (sniffing, ensuring you're talking to the right site, etc) but is no panacea.
Everything I care about goes in to an offsite SVN repository.
I would guess - and I'm not a psychologist - that their training has a lot to do with it. A large part of the boot camp experience is about breaking down how new recruits think, and reforming that process into one that goes well with the military mission. They're also regularly evaluated on their mental state, and a large part of the culture is about being able to bottle up most "soft" emotions. So they're very well-trained about how to bury their emotions, and how to deal with the implications of that.

Having said that, I think your comment glosses over the high rates of depression, divorce, alcoholism, and mental illness represented in the veteran community. It's all there - it's just often (especially in the last case) well-hidden, as a part of the military ethos.

Everyone deals with emotions, even (and especially) military people. They're just much better-trained than you are about how to deal with/delay dealing with it.
For just about everything non-media, I use mercurial to a colosite. Works fantastic. Big media files (movies, iTunes Library, etc.) are backed up locally to a big data server.