skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@fnid ... anyone who's been to burning man more than a few times knows this idea of isolation and 'noone watching' are an illusion, and gave them up a long time ago. The appeal of burning man is Radical Self Expression, for some that's tech driven for others its not, chose your own way.
Why do you presume I care about your feelings? Quite frankly, the worldview you espouse deserves to be edited out.

This looks serviceable:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/scz/bik/1329392859.html
Where do you live? It seems bold to declare it arbitrarily "low" without including location. If you lived in a small town, or Bangalore...
What's the point if you can't downvote crap? Out of 30 articles 2 were good enough to upvote, about a dozen needed downvotes the rest were meh.

Comments should be up only, articles should be up/down.
New Research Examines How Career Dreams Die
Looks like they fixed it. Anybody got a mirror?
Buying apples for 1/10 the price isn't the part of the cycle that is most concerning. Nor is the part about firing 9/10 of the workforce -- although that assumes the company is operating at near 0% margins, and that the employment needs of the company scale linearly with total sales in dollars. Neither of these two are that common.

The thing that concerns me most is the lack of new jobs that absorb the redundant workforce. However, my concerns are probably somewhat unorthodox in that I think this represents a number of ideological problems rooted in both the employees and the employers.

The best way to encompass all of these is by the following truism: you are only capable of one specialization, give or take, in a given lifetime. And what we've been defining as specialization has been narrowing as rapidly as specializations have been getting deeper and more involved.

To play off of the analogy above, our society would look at these people, assert that it has no further need for "apple preparation specialists," and discard this class of people into the bin of history. At best, they go through retraining in some new specialization, but that takes a long time, and they are considered entry-level in their new specialization at the end.

It is this mentality where you get the laundry-list of "key proficiencies." The unwritten assumption is that all jobs are still a matter of rote memorization and repeated execution of steps, and as the years of experience with a particular technology accrue, the unconscious memorization of these steps improves.

The problem with this approach is that it is completely wrong. We do not account for people's ability to deductively reason, and we therefore do not account for the parts of the new skillset they'll know without being told by someone. The tragedy is that people believe they can't: employers, recruiters, and even the employees. This last part is the most tragic. The rank-and-file employees who believe this philosophy are so common that I become animatedly excited when I meet one who doesn't.

So, yeah. I think it goes deeper than just saying there aren't any jobs; we should really be deeply analyzing what assumptions about the nature of skill and work ethic we've been falsely believing all this time. So far, most of the analysis I've seen has just been repetition of these assumptions, with calls that we psuh forward initatives that work around them.
Mozy

Sad but true story: I worked for a company that backed up email by printing them. They finally upgraded after a year of pleading...to a hard drive in a safe-deposit box at a bank down the street. And this was 2008!
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check out http://www.upworld.com

i think they have a similar function as your site.
The electric companies have long offered rebates for buying Energy Star appliances. It would be nice to see a cash for incandescent light bulbs program catch on nationwide, though.
I think it probably doesn't make sense to go to an art festival with 50k people that is covered by most major news outlets if you're looking for isolation, but I do understand your viewpoint. There is something special about being immersed with the community and artwork, but in my opinion, earth.burningman.com makes that better, not worse.

The BM-API is designed to add to the art, not take away from it. It's all about remixing and reusing to create something new and unique. How about that for radical self expression?
They should copy Picasa's photo display/navigation UI. ie. I should be able to go to the next pic with my arrow key.
This was a useful comment as Microsoft obviously changed the site picture already...
You also happen to be an miracle worker without parallel :)
Old American Dams Quietly Become a Multibillion-Dollar Threat
I would imagine Twitter scares Google. For the first time ever, there are questions for which Google isn't the best place to type out your query.

"What do people think of X?"
"What's happening in _country_"
etc.

Google determines quality based on variables which take time to shake out, in part because that's harder to fake.

Twitter can be gamed, but on the whole it seems to give a decent picture, perhaps because in effect you see many results on the page in front of you, rather than links to the results.
Tighter Security Urged for Businesses Banking Online
so you are saying $500/hour is industry average? Hackeronymous mentioned that he charged $100k for a 1000 hour work which he could have done in almost 1/6th time if he was experienced. I am not sure about the industry average, but I work through guru/elance/odesk and average seems to be $50-$150 for an experienced developer.
I don't see anyone commenting on the amount of bandwidth this will free up though.

Instead of someone's RSS Client polling 30 websites every 15 minutes, you have a single 'hub' that gets pushed data once (the hub doesn't even have to poll). This is not to mention all of those blog sidebar feeds that display things like flickr/delicious/twitter/etc.

On the other hand, this might screw up 'reader statistics' depending on how it's implemented.
I had a play with the google survey (a nice viral touch of having a "Create your own form" link - simple and unobtrusive, but notable because there's so little other text).

It's a very nice little app, you can view the responses right from the creation page (either with cute little pie-charts, or as a spreadsheet).

But I agree there's a shameful bug in it for styling: when I click "Theme: Plain", I get a "Not Found Error 404"

EDIT Here's google's help on it, but as I said, it's not working for me (though clearly it worked for the submitter's survey): http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=145737&#...
The Definitive Guide to Backing Up and Ditching Your Discs
Maybe the solution is for IKEA China to become a cafeteria company. IKEA has to spend the R&D for developing furniture for their other markets anyway. So just ship the most radical and funky looking stuff to China (which would be mostly pointless to copy anyway) and set up a different lunch bar every 20m or so.

They could offer all the cuisines of northern Europe, seeing that the average Chinese person doesn't ever gets to travel and would've never gotten to taste any of it. As a kid I loved the swedish meatballs and german sausages the other kids brought at show and tell. My Asian parents just couldn't cook that stuff.
Except that using validation at all in this case is a mistake, especially writing it yourself for a narrow case, much less using regexes to do it.

Escaping, damnit.
i'm a little late to this discussion but i think it's an interesting topic worthy of chiming in.

this laundry list of tasks gives a good overview of all the things that _could_ be done.

another way to think about it is to ask, what are the most important things i need to do right now to move the business forward?

new business propositions are all based on a set of assumptions that each need to be verified in order for the venture to succeed.
as the business guy on the team, my tasks at a given point in time are a function of what the team is doing currently to validate a particular assumption or hypothesis.

for example, in order for us to move forward, we need to validate whether users will buy into our value proposition.
we've already done a fair amount of ethnographic studies, user interviews, and paper prototyping to inform product decisions pre-development.
the only way to validate our hypothesis now is to actually develop and release our product to a small set of users.

my tasks, then, are to tackle all problems in the path of achieving the goal of developing and releasing our product to a small set of users.

so, my personal laundry list (in order of priority & 'bang for buck') is:

1) research XYZ APIs and terms of service
//our product users a bunch of different APIs so i need to make sure what we're doing is legal and technically feasible before i incorporate it into the spec—otherwise, my team is going to have to waste time figuring it out themselves

2) complete functional spec and designs of features ABC
//i try to remove as much ambiguity from the spec as possible so my team doesn't spend time disambiguating feature requests

3) get an office space
//although we've been working remotely, we all agree we'd be much more productive if we had a shared work space we can commit to day in and day out. we estimated that we'd get an extra hour of productivity per day by working together, which justifies putting this high on the priority list

i hope that helps.
Request: make the summary viewable now

More Actions > Edit Confirmation > Let everyone see response summary

Google's summary looks like this: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewanalytics?formkey=dDBXako....

The form for that sample is here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDBXako0djZq...)

And here's the response page: http://spreadsheets.google.com/formResponse?formkey=dDBXako0....
Would you then agree that alcohol (which destroys many families - way more than meth) should be illegal too?
dotmac backup daily. (easy access)
rsync to a remote system daily. (long term archival)
An incremental DVD once a week, with monthly home folder backup. Copies stay here at my home and at an offsite.

Only the physical backups actually take any effort from me.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30070402
I was expecting something useful - like legal documents, lots of howtos. For example: basic Linux networking including setting up services, basic security; legal documents, basic negotiating, basic people networking, PR strategies, etc...

This is just a bunch of advice - not really that useful.
How to use Subversion more effectively with proper Repository Structure
Ah, I see the disconnect I made- I started talking about the 'doing fine' comment on the yearly salary, rather than the initial topic of pricing.
I should have indicated what I was responding to:

> Huh? There is no feature in OS X that makes it any harder to write self-replicating code ("worms"). Code running in almost any OS X process has full access to all the xnu system calls, and (invariably) to at least one user's home directory and Library/ folder.

That's not what a worm is, and you keep mixing up terms in this thread.

* Malware is code that does bad things to your computer.

* A virus is self-replicating code that probably does bad things (harmless, proof-of-concept code is sometimes let loose). A virus is a kind of malware.

* It's a worm when it's delivered and spreads over the network by a remote exploit.

* It's a trojan when it's delivered by tricking the user into installing it.

The difference between malware and a virus, okay that's fairly minor, but a virus vs a worm vs a trojan is significant. This isn't some lingo the kids use on IRC either, these are all terms you can find int he OED (at least the one that comes with OSX).
Try it and report back to us.
Sadder but true story: I worked for a company that backed up mission critical data to tape and stored the tape in the computer room! The building burnt down. No more system. No more business. And this was 2009!
To be honest, the headline of this article itself struck me as amateur. That said, Karp flips between handling it well and not handling it well in the comments. Jaime Wilkinson of Know Your Meme seems to do the best job of clearing things up in the comments...
The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?
cough Microsoft cough
I worked for a company that backed up mission critical data to tape and stored the tape in the computer room! The building burnt down.

Another thing to remember, which several companies learned in 2001: "The other twin tower" doesn't qualify as an off-site backup.
All press is good press?

I do wonder why TechCrunch's startup reviews are almost always glowing. What kind of pressure is there on these media outlets to write positive articles? Is there any incentive to not rip into companies like BusinessInsider did here?
Actually I'm pretty sure that I AwesomeBar'd aaronsw and copy and pasted the first thing that came up without looking at what the URL actually was. The right URL was second under my AwesomeBar for aaronsw.
> Wait, it's called the Arctic Sea, penguins it's definitely penguins, emperor penguins!

You forgot the 'intellectual' part. Penguins are in the Southern Hemisphere, unless you count zoos.
I don't know if they allow that, but I was thinking of getting one of the advertised-as-unlimited-storage dreamhost account and using rsync to do my backups. Anyone using this already?
7 Habits For A Longer Life
As with wikipedia, google can just index twitter. If twitter becomes a true threat(which I personally doubt) google can always tweak PageRank to work with fast evolving twitter news. Instead of searching twitter many people will still search google and click on twitter results if they happen to be relevant.
I don't know if dreamhost has done this recently, but I've heard many stories of people having their accounts closed due to "using storage for a purpose other than web hosting".
50M visitors and 800K posts per day are massive numbers. If those numbers are true, this post is way, way off base.
In case anyone is confused, this is what it looked like a few hours ago:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/18264/mspoland.jpg
No, in the example on this thread Laurent, a Belgian programmer, charged $ 500 USD for the whole solution, the whole shebang. (He could have just given it away for free, since the main point was to establish a reference)

Although, I admit... this example is really just a CRUD app, with no advanced server back end.
Reminds me of the people in India who pay $4 to sit in an airplane that goes nowhere just for the experience.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1675373,00....
I agree, but that doesn't really refute the possible gloom-and-doom scenarios proffered by the Peak Oil crowd. Whether or not we slowly wean off oil or experience a chaotic shift depends on the particulars of just how expensive it becomes to extract more oil over time, and how much global demand rises. I believe in the power of the market as much as anyone, but it's not a given that the market will find a cheap, easy alternative to fossil fuels within the timeframe that we may need them.
I would steer clear of the domain registration option myself. Many people here have strongly negative impressions of GoDaddy because GoDaddy bombards them with upsells when you try to check out. There is a reason for this: the core business of registering domains names generates mouse droppings for profits on a single domain.

If you want to be a GoDaddy partner taking a fraction of those mouse droppings from people who are going to be buying a single vanity domain, then you are spending an awful lot of engineering time building a system which will probably never scale to profitability.

Sidenote: The GoDaddy business model is split into two parts. For serious buyers of domain names, they make their money on volume and renewals (and private registration -- a ludicrously valuable revenue stream since it is high value to the customer and 98%+ profit to GoDaddy).

For end-users of domain names, they make their money on the high-margin services (hosting, email, SSLs, their worthless SEO products, etc) they can bundle with the sale.

That's just my analysis, incidentally -- I love them to pieces (they're cheap and they give you exactly what it says on the tin) and have spent literally thousands over the years.
> foretelling a day when a perfect search engine would comprehend all of the world’s information and the meaning behind every user query

There.

That line.

That's why Google will eventually be dethroned.

Google sees the world through the lens of search -- through the lens of querying. With a little adjusting you could massage the above into Microsoft's strategy in a different era.

It's not entirely clear what it will be, but someday we're not going to access all of the world's information starting with short query strings that we type into a search bar. When that happens, Google's worldview won't be able to make the jump, just like Microsoft and IBM did not in the past. They're a search company.
Just FYI, there's a "reply" link below each comment to avoid this @-symbol pseudo-threading.
and he probably wasted the rest... :)
Apple's Animal Farm
Imagine the web as a giant chatroom where servers talk to servers and clients to clients.

You will get instantly updated only things that are worth being updated instantly.

The real-time web is here.
an interesting, possibly more efficient, and absolutely healthier way to travel for cheaply is to travel via bicycle. research 'bicycle touring' and you could be in for an adventure where you have the means to get yourself many miles your own physical power, without relying on hitching rides.
Thanks for the suggestion.

We're rolling out a new layout for the photo page to make navigation easier. We will look into the keyboard navigation feature.
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The copyright dates are different!
I think Joshua Schachter told me something like 40% of hits on delicious return Not Modified. Because of polling.
I think it's great this idea is gaining mindshare. However it seems like most people miss the point... even after me telling them they are.
I think it's tough to say when that particular trend "peaked." Consider:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3s8sEYzHWQ or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TGQ7rGL-Q

Or even:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1MgjQOR_JA

;)
crashplan. they just revamped their pricing too to have unlimited. way nicer client/more reliable for me than carbonite or mozy. but, of course, ymmv. we use them for production servers too.
Agree. Not trying to give you guys a hard time, but Twitter has had several vulnerabilities caused by unescaped user supplied data being output without sanitization.

Obviously I'm on the outside looking in, but IIRC rendering user pages is not particularly taxing on Twitter, to the point that they aren't cached. Would adding a simple sanitization routine have significant impact?
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TC has the original images: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/25/marketing-decapitation-...
Absolutely. I've tried to impart this to others, but the inescapable response is "someone will jump into the gap." If they would just try it..

I picked it up from truckers, who uniformly take this strategy.
I think this remains to be seen. Since we don't know what the Next Big Thing will be, we can't say that Google will be unable to see it.

Right now Google is a search company. If history is any indicator, they will behave just like their predecessors and remain a search company even when the rest of the world has moved on from search.

However, there is always the chance that Google will defy the odds and transform themselves as their users transform.

As long as they keep a close eye on what people need, instead of on what their search engine needs, they still have a chance.
For anyone else fascinated by traffic patterns and driver behavior, I recommend reading Traffic: Why We Drive The Way we Do and What It Says about Us

The author goes into fascinating detail about driver psychology and discusses similar ideas like those mentioned in the essay.

Link to book: http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/03072...
Furthermore, I wonder how jobs like this effectively lower the expected cost for other business. When does the owner's brother approach me and ask why he can't have a top-notch custom webapp for $500?
Uh,

I don't know whether Google will continue to be successful or not. One good bet, though, is that people not want to get stuff using a more verbose interface. So if you can think of a way to get the information they want to people using fewer keystrokes than or less effort than they use now with a Google search, you'll have the next big thing.
This seems like it'd create a danger if you're actually adhering to your goal of maintaining the "empty space": as soon as someone pulls into that space in front of you, you no longer have an empty space, and the only way to restore it is by slowing down to allow space to open up again. Which, as repetitively and suddenly as you'd have to do it, would pose a hazard to traffic behind you.
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I'm a user of tarsnap.

I have no idea of whether it's fantastic. I can see a list of times when I've run ./tarsnap.sh, but I have no idea if it's really encrypting the backup, and I have no idea if it's making a backup in the first place. I mean, I haven't had any hard drive failures and I haven't inspected the client source code. (As far as I can tell, the product is great.)

And I can't remember where offsite I've put my keyfile, notwithstanding for the microprinted uuencoding I have stored in my ear.

> My one requirement is that I be the only one that is able to decrypt my files.

Tarsnap lets you download, inspect, and compile the source code yourself, and nothing unencrypted goes off your machine, so it's sufficient if you value paranoia. But I have not comparison-shopped.
You know... There is a limit to tailoring an advertisement towards a specific group and plain racism. Is the black guy offensive to the people involved in producing the page? Did they think he was offensive to the clients in Poland? What would we be discussing if someone photoshopped burkas on the women on the same site?

There is no way to make this look good.
I've been doing the same thing for some time now as well. As well as what you have observed I have observed that you really can actually hack the traffic to reduce congestion. I've seen a gap that I brought to a merge point allow 8-9 cars to move and several hundred meters of stationary traffic was able to pick up speed enough to merge, I could see both lanes continue to flow in my review mirror.

Instead of competing to get ahead the game has changed to strategising to keep the traffic moving. It's beautiful and fun and transforms the whole driving experience, very zen.
How can a ship disappear from radar?

I would think sinking would be the only way - unless ships transmit an explicit signal for radar to pick up.
I'm not sorry the evil empire got such a hard time, since they deserve even more.

Apple's behavior may be reprehensible and worthy of criticism, but it's not yet clearly anti-competitive, nor is it as likely to have as far-reaching a chilling effect on general computing technology.
I think I'm on the outside and ignorant of this, but I don't get it. Of course I'm very used to working with subscribing to events in javascript and this sounds similar conceptually. However, I don't grok what the advantages are between urls.
I wish I had a good solution. I try to upload all photos to a Flickr pro account but that's not a true backup.

I periodically mirror files from home to a portable drive that I take to the office and dump onto a (Truecrypt encrypted) drive on a machine at work. That's my main backup system right now.

I also use a free Dropbox account for smaller files.
Losing the keyfile is a real concern for me as well, and makes me prefer less secure options like Dropbox or Ubuntu One. What do others do about this?
Møøse!

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