skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a tendency to dwell on a negative situation, which I've learned, quite painfully, is possibly the worst thing to do. So whenever something comes along that wipes me off my feet, I decide to pickup a new skill/hobby and focus on that as much as possible. I find it gives me something else to talk about when I'm with friends, instead of rehashing the "woe is me, life sucks" tale of the times. Because the experience is new, there are always things to look forward to. When my first serious relationship ended, I decided to become a racing fan and memorized all there was to know about various racing series. I've also become a gym nut, learned how to shave with a straight razor (and maintain them), become an expert at various video games, etc.

Unfortunately this past week I got into a stupid fight with a girl I'm in an "it's complicated" sort of relationship with. Or actually, she's angry at me and I don't think she should be. I've been using HN as a form of "diversionary therapy" the past several days :)
Seriously dude, all your fame and wealth will mean nothing as you take your last breath. Neither will your friends and family, but there is a better chance they will be around to comfort you as you transition into the void (or where ever you believe are going).

I derive a tremendous amount of courage and strength from my wife, I wouldn't have been able to achieve what I have with out her.
I think that most of the people who truly want fame achieve it. Most people don't. They value other things over just being well-known. Being famous is not particularly difficult to achieve if you crave it.

Then again, many people who don't want fame become famous anyway. Fame is hard to avoid.
Digg’s Kevin Rose Not Pleased With DiggBar Change
Take both paths! You can have a great relationship AND build your dreams at once! Did Bill Gates divorced with his wife? No. Did it prevent him from pursuing his dreams wth microsoft and his foundation to help poverty?
Disturbingly Real Replicants from Hanson Robotics
rsync.net has been fantastic over the years, I use them and several of my clients do as well. No first level support, straight to an engineer. Plus discounts for open source projects, students, etc.

In addition to their own backup agent; they support rsync, scp, sftp, ftp, rdiff-backup, Unison, duplicity, svn+ssh, WebDAV and any other combination or concoction you can come up with.

Plus, they have a ToS agreement that can't be beat: http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/tos.html
Your argument is a good example of survival bias. How many people pursue their passion and let everything else in life behind, just to find themselves alone and unsuccessful at the end of their lives. Enjoy the opportunity, see where it goes, and stop looking for excuses to avoid intimacy with other people.
The arguments in the article against use of c# are perfectly reasonable. Its the open source community that has to keep its vigil, and protect their hard work.
A couple heroes do help a lot with those.
To be specific, Rails has better support for providing XML and JSON APIs. One place where it has better support is serialization. In rails, there is an :include parameter to control whether to include objects from associations (e. g. comments in a post), that is available both on to_xml or to_json. I don't see an option for Django that does the same thing.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Serializatio...
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/serialization/
Detexify explained (LaTeX symbols searcher)
Using Rack applications inside GWT Hosted mode
Numismatics' Blurty
US Coins For Sale
The first settlers that arrived in the land of America did not have any type of currency to trade with. They mainly used the Barter system as a means of trading. The first American coin mint to be established was the one that was set up in 1792 at Philadelphia, the nation’s capitol at the time
I don't see why it'd be so hard to land on Mars. We've done it there with automated probes and we re-enter and land in atmosphere all the time right here on Earth already.
Plus, chicks dig dudes who have things going on in their lives.
It's pretty hard to quantify things like inspiration - and I personally think that's a huge argument in favor of going to Mars. There's also the insane technological advancement factor to consider. Apollo led to hundreds (if not thousands) of advances in all kinds of fields of technology. It's hard to put a price tag on that, too.
Ask HN: What newsletter software do you use?
I looked into Campaign monitor and Newsberry, but both seem a bit steep. $10 per campaign is not cheap.

What services could you recommend?
I think it's faster for flow control and packet filtering, not just faster in general.

The illustration states that P2P traffic is problem to be solved by this router. Article also states:
"How Flow Routing Works

Flow managers keep track of streams of packets and can protect voice and video transmissions while reducing peer-to-peer traffic."

"Worse, peer-to-peer (P2P) services, used to download movies and other large files, are eating more and more bandwidth. P2P participants may constitute only 5 percent of the users in some networks, while consuming 75 percent of the bandwidth."

Also seems like this would make tiered internet easier in general. Doesn't this router have big implications on the Net Neutrality debate?
They wouldn't just burn the money as rocket fuel - that money would be used to create jobs and buy materials. From Wikipedia: "At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities." That's some serious movement of money there.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713694
Our company has a CSC: Chief Sanity Checker

Sometimes in a startup, people can get crazy. I love having a level head on the team. I mean, it takes passion and exhuberance and a little bit of crazy to make it all work, but you don't want to go over the edge.

It's all kind of coming into a fever pitch. It seems like the internet is losing the people who understand what makes sense. I think it's gotten to the point that the ad based models and the social networking and the big investments with no revenue are going to start scrambling to stay alive and we are going to see a lot more decisions that, from the outside, seem ridiculous.

From the inside though, there are few options and these companies are going to have to go with something.

The eternal september is a constant search for a new january.
I wish someone would tell the movie and publishing industries.
But that's about using the same TCP connection to make multiple HTTP requests, whereas the proposal is to use one TCP connection and one HTTP request, e.g.

COMPOUND-GET /index.html

and the server sends a .gz of all required files / data to render index.html. (Not sure that would work so well with very dynamic, crosslinked and javascript heavy sites, but text and images might be possible).
I toyed with this idea back when i first started the site, http://ajax.parish.ath.cx/ads/ then again more recently with a travel abroad program, I got 0 conversions after two months so i pulled the ads.
The other story is still on the front page, larger discussion there: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713589
Yep, that's right. The network is the bottleneck.
Are there any F# related patents? Does the promise extend to it as well?
I loathe the "stimulus", but if our taxes are to be spent in such sums anyway, I think that the result should make a difference.

Replace all high emissions cars with electrics or hybrids.

Pay off all mortgages in the country, while passing an amendment that forbids the Feds from ever doing it again (otherwise, the possibility that they'll do it again will distort the market even more than it would anyway).

Set up prizes for all kinds of space or research goals, like landing on the moon, landing on Mars, first private individual on the moon, first full GWhr beamed from a solar power satellite, first tonne of machinable superconducter at room temperature, first, tenth, and thousandth tonne returned to earth from an asteroid, etc. This has the added bonus that tax money is only spent if someone makes it.

Or something else. But something that matters, rather than just paying people to do a little more of what they're already doing, here or there, where they went to school with the program administrators or whatever.
Its not easy to utilise the full 500 GFlops, and this is for single FP precision, double FP precision only exists on the newer 200 series and throughput is much lower.

But certainly CUDA is very exciting :)
I hate to say it but all this means is that DRM now registers as a bad thing to the general public. So they're cutting ties.

But if the music industry feels they need to bring DRM back they'll surely do it. They'll just bring it back dubbed with a new, media friendly name.
Depending on the severity of what you're dealing with, work can be a refuge from life problems.
It sure was for me when I was going through hell a couple of years ago. After I'd have a guts full of sitting around hospital waiting rooms feeling emo for a month, i just got to the point where i had to work. I sent an email to my colleagues saying "I'm coming to work tomorrow, don't talk to me about my stuff - i just need to work".
And working was the only respite I could find.
Month to date:

MSIE: 4,140,805 69.22%
Firefox: 1,182,624 19.77%
Safari: 437,645 7.32%
Chrome: 153,782 2.57%
Opera: 29,303 0.49%

MSIE Breakdown:

7.0 2,865,786 69.21%
6.0 893,234 21.57%
8.0 379,935 9.18%

FF Breakdown:

3.0.11 934,749 79.04%
3.5 61,143 5.17%
3.0.10 41,954 3.55%
2.0.0.20 34,118 2.88%

Not a tech site ;)
Ok, I wasn't going to comment on the first story because I've been accused of being persistently negative about digg. But this is just dumb.

At this point Kevin has little, if any, influence over the features implemented at digg, and if Michael Arrington doesn't know that, then he's a moron. In fact I think he's just playing up the controversy to gain some traffic himself.

"otherwise he wouldn’t disagree with a new policy publicly" is just laughable, because Kevin doesn't actually say that he disagrees with the policy.

The whole thing about "making publishers unhappy" is just a giant wankfest among the bloggers who've replaced the actual press in Norcal. It's just one bullshit site screwing over a bunch of other bullshit sites. Don't read digg, techcrunch, mashable, etc, etc. and you'll more informed and a better person.
I would just like to point out this is what NASA estimates it needs for doing the job. I find that number quite implausible.

NASA should focus on developing one thing and only one thing: easy access to space. Call it Ares, Shuttle-C or Big Dumb Booster. NASA should also be given enough money to develop more than one family: the shuttle-C like thing that was shown a couple days ago seems quite wasteful compared do Ares I when all you want to do is to ferry 6 guys to LEO and doesn't lift as much cargo as Ares V, and could use some added power from the 5 segment SRBs that are part of Ares V, but can be operational much sooner than either Ares. Versatility and commonality are key here - you have to be able to assemble the best vehicle for your mission with common building blocks.

It seems to me that NASA is also committed to do things the best way imaginable when good enough should suffice. Maybe half a trillion dollars is what you need to fly a perfect, optimal, elegant spaceship made from all the most exotic lightest materials they can imagine, developed with all the latest technologies and a couple brand new ones thrown in. I can bet you can do a lot with much less money if you are willing to go with "good enough to go to Mars and back".
1) Those probes don't come back. I assume we'd have to try to get the human back to earth. That requires sending enough fuel with the ship for two launches, unless they can process fuel on Mars.

2) Manned space missions require a safety factor of 2, where unmanned missions have lower restrictions. So it might technically be more difficult to accomplish the same thing just with a human.
Gmail accounts use to expire after a year of inactivity, but now will never expire on their own.

I'm pretty sure they have never recycled old addresses automatically.
http://dustincurtis.com/

113,242 visits (past 2 days)

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Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site
This is just an idea I'm going to throw out there. It seems a bit odd to suggest it because any link is a good link, right? Maybe not.

Anyway, something like this in a bit of javascript would prevent people from linking to your site using a url shortener:

<script>
if (document.referrer.indexOf('bit.ly') > 0
|| document.referrer.indexOf('someothershortener')>0)
document.location.href='http://yoursite.com/noshortener.html';
</script>

Put in that noshortener.html some content that will tell people why you don't allow shorteners to your content, here are some suggestions:

1) You want to know where your visitors are coming
from and shorteners steal the real referrer.
2) Shorteners are a layer of indirection that could
be modified beyond the user of the shortener's
discretion to do something like digg is doing now
3) If the shortener goes away, the link to the
content is no longer valid
4) It slows down the web due to one more DNS lookup,
one more server redirect, etc...

Most users of shorteners, when they use one to link to a site are going to click the link just to make sure it works. When they do, they'll see your banned url shorteners page and it will help all of us "experts" in the web who understand why url shorteners are bad educate the lay users of the web as to why those url shorteners are bad.

Yes, we take a hit, but we are sacrificing a little traffic for a better web experience in the future.
I think his post is a perfect example, actually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Can you name a dozen of those hundreds (if not thousands) of advances? If you can, try to identify those which wouldn't have happened without Apollo. The harsh truth is there aren't any.

We've tried the 'get something great as a result of spin-offs' route before. It disappoints every time. Why are people advocating it again with a human 'flags and footprints' Mars mission? Why don't we instead direct resources towards an inspiring goal which delivers something concrete?

Given the choice, I would much rather today have a permanent LEO infrastructure of a dozen privately funded Skylabs (from those same tried-and-true Saturn V rocket parts) and cis-lunar tugs rather than the 'spin off' soon-to-be-retired Goldberg contraption of Shuttle.
Beer Pong Startup for Sale: PongUniversity.com Grosses $110k
Did you create a profile to turf the turfing of the turfing, Mr.Bokchoi?
Long story: I started really small. I paid around $20/month for a shared hosting when the site is really small (separate app server and db server) and not a lot of contents. my amazon S3 bill is even smaller. Later on when the site outgrows the shared hosting, I used EC2 to get two small isntances (for both app and DB server). Bottom line is the $$ i get from banner is able to pay for the bandwith and hosting. The only extra I pay for is $150 a month for google adwords to drive traffic ($5 a day budget).

Short version: Adwords for $150 a month (I've been paying for this for a year)
That is pretty fast.. My C implementation for the contest will run through just about 1 million hashes per second on a Pentium M 2.0 ghz laptop.
http://limitemagazine.com

1. Firefox 49.65%

2. Internet Explorer 26.99%

3. Safari	16.47%

4. Chrome	4.08%

5. Opera	1.44%

6. Mozilla	0.42%

7. Playstation 3	0.19%

8. Opera Mini	0.16%

9. Mozilla Compatible Agent	0.14%

10. Camino	0.09%
please please don't bring headline tags to hacker news. I hate seeing "confirmed:", "breaking:" and all that crap.
You think I'd like anyone I care about to be psychologically damaged just for the sake of some damned theory you think I'm invested in? What kind of an asshole do you think I am?

I'm not going to get into personal business in public, especially not under my real name. Suffice it to say that I've known someone very closely who probably could have dealt with his feelings better than repressing them.

Of course, denial is a form of repression, so he'd probably agree with you that he wasn't that badly affected. And some people aren't badly affected by things (though personally, I've found that personal trauma in my life does tend to upset my emotional balance in unpredictable ways).
haha! w00t hit me up: darkxanthos at gmail dot com

My life would be improved ten fold by knowing a woman with interests like yours even if just as friends.

EDIT: Also it's email how badly could I possibly stalk you?
I'm surprised having the hardcoded paths didn't bite you - of course, how frequently are you moving the interpreter, or installing multiple versions of the interpreter (with the same dependencies) with a shared bin dir?
Huge Computer Hardware Poster
I use Common Lisp, which is the code generation tool to end all code generation tools. I used to use the kind of thing you mention, but now it all looks like unpleasant workarounds for the lack of an extensible language and compiler. I realize you may not be on that path, but seriously, since you're interested in these questions, learn it someday. If your experience is like mine, how you think of programming will get much clearer and simpler.
Beavis is right.
Dude, that's a lot of visits for 2 days!

For comparison: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/kanyewest.com+dustincurtis....
8ix Zenith CE: An Arch-Linux based Asterisk VoIP PBX
I use Mailchimp and I like it a lot. It has a lot of features and different price plans. See if it might work for you.
Usually, they go with whatever resources are available to the OS they're using. C64 demosceners statically link; Windows demosceners dynamically link, because they can.
Characteristics of Great Software Design
i just saw this comment from gary vaynerchuk on my facebook feed:

"Come on People - the modern internet that we all know is 15 yrs old, it hasn't had sex yet! Can we stop the debate - It will WIN! All this talk about if it is still a good place to invest money or if you can still build big businesses is INSANE..the answer is YES! Sorry TV and Newspapers and magazines you are in TROUBLE!"
Don't hate the player vato! Also a friendly tip for you: If you do find yourself leading in with a reference to a left or right nut do NOT call it your left or right testicle.

WAY too detailed a picture.
You know, I understand your situation. I was in startup mode and a girl came along and I told her straight up, "My startup is more important to me than a girl. I don't want a girlfriend, I want a startup and I want a business and my #1 priority is making my business work. You are my mistress."

I was totally honest with her. She knew from the beginning what I wanted and I let her decide what she wanted. She decided to stay and "tolerate" my startup mentality. I'm an entrepreneur. I have been since I was too young to work legally and I probably always will be.

She has stuck by my side for over three years now and I am going to marry her -- I hope. You can never predict the future, but through all this, I have fallen in love with her more than my startup and I want to be with her more than my startup and I will be.

I'm no expert in life, advice is all recycled life experiences and my life is different than your life. But really, think about it... a startup is just a peacock feather that will help you be happy with the woman you love and spread your genes and procreate. That's what life is about.

If you find the woman of your dreams, then a startup doesn't matter as much anymore. Your happiness is the goal. What makes you happy? Finding someone you can talk to and love and cherish and be with forever, or a startup you can flip?

Maybe it's the former, maybe it's the latter... you don't even know yet or you wouldn't be asking the question. Give it time, figure it out. Be honest with your partner. Don't expect to be steve jobs or lance armstrong... do you want testicular cancer? Probably not.

Just live life and try to be happy and treat people with respect and honesty and let them decide what they want. If she wants to be with you while you focus on entrepreneural persuits, then that is what she has decided and then she is the one you want to keep around.

If she says, "No, I want you to focus on me and not your company." Then maybe you should let her go if that's what you prefer.
Like Earth, the resources on Mars are at the bottom of a gravity well and lack the benefit of Earth's breathable atmosphere, massive infrastructure and ~7 Billion inhabitants. What, exactly, would you profit from by owning 250 miles of that? A business would do better to snag 1 mile of diamond-yielding tundra here instead.

Want something valuable? Mine an asteroid for platinum, build fuel cells out of it, and undercut the terrestrial competition while cleaning up on the profit. Right there you've identified a competitive advantage (low-cost of scarce resources) to satisfy a growing market which exists today.
Actually, I think that number may be for integer instructions, which are the fastest (then single-precision, then double-precision). Which makes it even better for this scenario, since the hashing algorithm only uses integer ops.
The problem with many relationships is that people have this idea that there should be compromise.

You mention that your potential mate is "really attractive". If that's her main asset, then you may end up with someone who expects you to compromise your own goals, etc.

It really depends on how you look at love. Some people look at it as though the most loving thing you can do is sacrifice yourself and your own dreams, while others view the highest/best thing you can do to be simply following your own dreams.

In my opinion, both people should follow their own dreams independently, and discuss them occasionally over dinner, etc.
Code Review + Google Wave = Code Wave
All the other kinds of capital-E Engineers sit around making blueprints all day. Unless your definition of "software engineering" doesn't rely on the noun "engineering", then the fact that making blueprints "never worked" means that Software Engineering is Dead.
The relative term is called tangential acceleration.
A "radical" new router? Perhaps a more apropos 80s adjective would be "tubular"?

edit: OK, HN doesn't like puns? Good to know.
But if it quacks like a duck...

They may bring it back but DRM has a fundamental HCI problem, it annoyed legitimate users, and got in the way of whatever goals they want (i.e. Hey lets take this song by toddler likes to dance to and make a music video etc.)
What will your next computer look like?
"code generation with dynamically-typed languages is dead and I'm trying to apply my statically-typed background to a dynamically-typed foreground?"

THIS

Don't ever generate boilerplate Python code (especially 'fill in the blanks' crap). You're using a language where you can put the data in an appropriate structure used by high-order code.

You don't even have to make a new data structure if the information is already present. For instance, I wrote a python library that when called as an executable, looks up 'tool verb' style commands by looking at the methods on the available classes, gets the help from __doc__, and the extra optargs from attributes on the methods (added via a decorator).
The cloud gets up close and personal
look at myspace. I mean, design matters in the sense that you need to be able to do what your users want to do, but no, rounded edges don't matter.