skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Conclusion: What DNS is not is a mapping service or a mechanism for delivering policy-based information. [...]

I hope noone shows him how ENUM works. Learning about a dns service that returns a regex (NAPTR, mapping & policy-based) so that you can rewrite your uri and query again (SRV), so that you can query again (A) could give him a heart attack - both because it's what DNS is not (apparently) and because it can be broken in 3 different ways by wildcards. In internal networks they're used quite often with a very low TTL for quick routing updates.
I agree with that sentiment, but beware of directly comparing age. Blogging will likely rise and fall faster than newspapers.
Glad I was able to provide a good starting point. :)
It's fun technology to play with, and TweetStream makes the actual filtering amazingly easy. Good luck with your project!
I only half agree. What we think of as blogging will fall faster, but the idea of independent electronic publication will stick around longer than newspapers did. Flexibility trumps everything.
I'd second the Python recommendation. Switching from custom PHP to Python (specifically Django) saved me a ton of development headaches.
The mainstream media is certainly not dying; the newspapers, and the television, however are.

People forget that a newspaper, or a magazine, or a television station aren't news sources; they're distribution systems.

Every day, I wake up and read things from: The Times Online, New Scientist, Scientific American, Wired, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The Financial Times, and probably more.

The paradigm might be changing shape, but it isn't going to be that different. Websites like this one become new-stands, and the distribution changes (from papers and trucks to packets and routers), but that is about it.
Yeah, I used Django a few times before. It's very nice.

Though, Django is pretty slower than any PHP framework(from the frameworks I've worked with)
The flaw here is that TLS tunnels multiple sessions inside a single connection, and, particularly with HTTPS, the first one of those sessions is both client-anonymous and (the bug) "live" --- in that any commands received in that session will be processed as long as a subsequent session is client-authenticated. That's the "authentication gap" being talked about in the reports.

What's also true is that there are lots of protocols, many of them very obscure, that either rely on client auth, or that may themselves have an app-layer notion of multiple sessions which will conflict with TLS's session renegotiation.

I'm not going to eat my hat or anything if this happens, but I'd bet againt someone finding a plausible MITM attack that beats server certificates using this attack. I think it's reasonably safe shorthand right now to say this attack largely applies to apps that use SSL outside of its common case.
Any other reddit expatriates here?
The signal-to-noise ratio on reddit just crossed my tolerance threshold. HN is now my first stop.
It is not so over the top it is playful it is just an purposefully eye grabbing title/intro paragraph to get attention
No, but Heroku is pretty well known as a Ruby on Rails hosting service. Its had several articles available here on HN and has quite a bit of hype. Just saying, you are probably not an idiot. :)
That's likely a false impression, and has to do with things like number of database calls, design, and other non-language-defining features. Don't let perceived speed be the deciding factor in your language choice: If speed was that important, you'd be writing in C.
I read this twice and I still don't think you answered my question.

They would have to do something. Either you don't know what or can't explain it in a way that I got it. At one point they have grants. At another it's all just the same as now. Nothing to see here, please move along.

If you get a better answer I'd like to hear it. Because I'm thinking that insurance requirements for sole-dual founders will occur before expenses, especially due to their independent nature. You give me 50K and I'm broke, guess what? I'm not broke any more. Suddenly I can afford health insurance and don't need special help. That's all fine and dandy, but it means initial funding will need to be a little higher, that's all.
I guess I kind of did because there's a lot of hyped titles, so I tend to filter them out.

But you're right, we can take ourselves a bit seriously on HN.
I honestly never truly understood the value of services like engineyard and heroku (more accurately i guess i think i understand the value but am surprised by why so many would need it). It is quite a price premium you pay to save yourself from doing something that is pretty simple -- deploying rails, at the cost of losing full control. When I had to use engineyard for a client, I was really shocked by the prices and while they were really fast on support I just found it tedious to have to get someone else to try something that doesn't fit entirely into their 'optimized' stack of things.
You can certainly run Sinatra on Heroku, not just rails.

There's no way to implement a Comet solution on Heroku as far as I can determine. Please tell me I'm wrong!
You can be both playful and eye-grabbing. Example: "Buy this magazine or we'll shoot this dog."
A lot of us have come from there, including PG himself. Welcome, and please read the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We try hard to keep the discourse intelligent and civil.
I personally love Django (http://www.djangoproject.com/) the python equivalent of RoR. I love the way it encourages me to architect my code well, rather than being encouraged to hack up every page (all too easy in PHP).

It was easy to set up, has great documentation and an active community, and lots of encouraging case studies.
Searching Google, I assume you're Australian? I don't know what "stage 12 exams" are.

In the US it's quite possible for a child gifted in mathematics to skip all sorts of things. My third year of college I taught 11th graders the subject I had just covered the previous quarter, Algebraic Topology, and also the theory of computation.

The 9th and 10th graders in the program were learning linear algebra and Scheme (the programming language).

It's weird to be in a room full of people who are in high school and are approximately 100x better at the subject you're studying.
Ahh the power and fun of Emacs :) Good stuff.
Side question: Is "paradox" commonly used to mean "what some people find unexpected", rather than "a logical or self- contradiction"?
Perhaps it is possible that Django's highly flexible nature is giving you enough rope to hang yourself here. Performance is not an issue for me, though (as always) I have to be careful not to do stupid things to the database.
And ironic, to boot. The author didn't start using it until shortly before he wrote the article.
So in summary, most modern browser features are "not ready" and waiting for Internet Explorer x.0 to expire. D'oh!
Myopia is one of the characteristics of bright but late-talking children that Thomas Sowell talks about In his book, "The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late" (http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Syndrome-Bright-Children-Talk...). Other characteristics include above-average math and music abilities, good memories, and strong wills.
I tried hard to answer your question directly: yes, the founders of the company would need to acquire health insurance or pay a fine. In fact, I gave that statement its own paragraph.

I don't know what the $50k you're talking about has to do with anything. As you know, people don't get $50k investments; corporations do. An ownership stake in an S-Corp that takes in $50k doesn't mean you have $50k in income, or even $25k. Talk to your accountant if you need help with the K-1 details here.

The idea that you'd have to spend that $50k on health insurance before servers is nonsensical. Companies with less than $500,000 in payroll aren't required to do anything vis a vis health insurance. The $50k is sitting in the ING account of an S-Corp. In a pre-revenue, pre-cash-flow-positive startup, it has nothing to do with your individual income until the S-Corp does a distribution.

I'm being maximally generous to your argument here, because the reality is that three ramen-eating startup founders would owe a negligible amount of fines for simply not buying insurance under this scheme.
Isolated concentration is an issue for more than just mathematicians... Everyone needs to serve their basic survival needs (food, sleep, sex) before focus on abstract subjects can take place; isolated concentration is a theme for anyone that enjoys something abstract only for the sake of itself.

This can include computer scientists, scientists, astronomers, philosophers, mathematicians, &c... The need for psychic solitude is common amongst thinkers in general and it is difficult to achieve it within the society we are in; particularly so when what you love to do is also your primary income generator. Hence why you see many table waiting programmers or chefs that love to do math at night.
Also, this post shows someone that has gotten taken by how easy deployment is on Heroku. It's good but the article mentions that the author took another look "yesterday". Still riding that high.

Please stop using emotionally charged words like "awesome" to describe something. It's pointless but then again I'm referring to an article that calls me names. Heh.
Caribou was formerly known as Manitoba, for any of you who want to look up their older stuff. Really chill music.

I'll just put my list here while I'm at it:

-anything trance, mainly Tiesto

-Caribou (Manitoba)

-Architecture in Helsinki

-Frou Frou

-The Faint

-world music - no artists in particular as I just listen to last.fm radio channels.
Proprietary Data Formats Are Evil
Yes. My tolerance is clearly not as high as yours. I made the jump several months ago. It's much nicer here. Let's hope it stays that way.
I actually just discovered this site, but I highly dislike reddit for a number of reasons that I've been meaning to enumerate on my blog. So yes, I suppose I do count. :)
According to pg, seven: (quote, atom, eq, car, cdr, cons, and cond)

Eighth paragraph: http://www.paulgraham.com/ilc03.html
Executive Director of Argos Software chats with DCtalk
Ask HN: Good tool to visualize data?
Hi all, I am in the need to visualize some time series data. The problem I am having is that I want to be able to impose restrictions in an ad-hoc way, such as delimiting time, filtering out some categories, and then get some statistics on that data, such as the mean, a histogram, or other things.

What I am doing right now is a bunch of gnuplot scripts together with python/c programs to grab the data, but this is getting tedious.

Is there any open source tool/library that does something similar?

Thanks
i e-mailed this. including it below in case anyone finds it curious.

'of course fake steve jobs is all caught up in the fact that he wrote a semi decent article for newsweek about this. but the failure at nyt is pretty epic. i remember reading their article on zynga last week and thinking -- wtf? are these guys even paying attention to anything? but investigative journalism is quite different from other types of journalism. but i will say about arrington that the two big points in his favor were (a) in his original riposte with shukla, he says in his second mic session, 'this will make good copy'. the fact that he knew that way back then is a sign that that fool has matured. he is way ahead of the game compared to any other tech journalist. (b) the video he found of pincus telling developers that he had scammed in the beginning was HUGE. forced facebook to force zynga to kill this entire lead-gen industry (or at least severely modify it). and that, truly, is the benefit of online journalism. a single journalist at a desk assigned to a single story can't find those videos. you need the power of hundreds of people reading articles and collaborating (some dude probably thought to himself -- hmm, wait a second, i remember i was at that startup talk a couple of years ago...).

on the other hand, the developers, whom fake steve jobs calls scammy or something -- i don't really think they quite realized the extent of what was going on. it doesn't shirk their responsibility to see better. but, now we know. and boy, mainstream media was completely out of the loop of this entire change in the tech industry. so let's blame them. jk, but the long-term and short-term benefits of reporting w/ and w/o serious editors is going to be a bigger and bigger issue.'
Well, lambda calculus is Turing complete, so you could just stick with a call-by-value version of that. However, you'd want to add macros if you wanted to extend the syntax of the language. Since you mentioned car and cdr in lambdas, they'd be defined like this:

NIL = (lambda (x) (lambda (y) y))

CONS = (lambda (ar) (lambda (dr) (lambda (op) (op ar dr))))

CAR = (lambda (expr) (expr (lambda (ar dr) ar)))

CDR = (lambda (expr) (expr (lambda (ar dr) dr)))
Okay. Let's review: The founders would always remain penniless no matter how much is invested because they're not the corporation. As such, they'd have to pay "negligible" fines.

So if me and 2 other guys want to drop out of the corporate world for a couple of years to give our startup a shot, be prepared to pay fines as part of the burn rate. Yet this is a benefit to us because even though it doesn't make economic sense for young people to buy health insurance, if something did go wrong we wouldn't have so much to worry about.

Got it.
Well, you can define pairs like this (as long as you've got lexical scope):

(setq cons (lambda (x xs)
(lambda (msg)
(if (eq msg 'car) x xs)))

(setq car (lambda (xs) (xs 'car)))
(setq cdr (lambda (xs) (xs 'cdr)))

That only uses 'setq, 'lambda, 'if, 'eq, and quoted symbols. That pretty much gives you the untyped lambda calculus, plus some side effects. Throw in the appropriate macros and you've got the core of Scheme and Arc, without any I/O or efficient data representations.

You can take this pretty far. Essentially, you just need 'lambda and application. You could use church numerals for numbers, monads for side effects, the y-combinator for recursion, etc.
I don't want to be a complete turd, but you haven't given any examples of such people -- or even really made an argument that whatever examples you would have given are a significant proportion. I can think of a few, and in all but one case, their "conversion" is rather suspect. Or "horrendous" means some form of not-so-violent larceny (e.g. about as far as brandishing a weapon to intimidate) -- not rape or violent assault.

One uncomfortable thing you have to face in life is that some people are worth significantly less than others. I'd rather save an animal at the shelter than save the examples of utter trash the article mentions. There are billions of people on the planet, you're not going to miss these bits of broken humanity (and no, I don't particularly care about their families).

Would you really trust some of these people you talk about in the abstract? It's one thing to say that you read about Joe Thug turning his life around in Salon. It's quite another to trust your life around this person.
From the second sentence of TFA: "Many people doubt it’s real, especially as the images of it are renderings"
It might just be my personal preference. Personally I hate it when somebody has a great blog design and great content but then they drop the f-bomb in there.

Nothing personal, and I do agree with the point of your article, I just don't like the profanity usage.
Lost Productivity Lament
I was just thinking that; ENUM / e164.org is the ultimate perversion. :-)
Table Migrator: solution to dealing with large table migrations in MySQL
I don't know so much that anybody should be calling themselves a reddit "expatriate". HN might service a slightly similar crowd, but reddit and hackernews are, to me, completely different types of websites.

That said, I love this website; please leave any sort of memes, pun threads, sensationalized headlines, politics, or circlejerking self threads like this one at the door.
R http://www.r-project.org/
i would consider it to have a high learning curve tho.
This doesn't do the replace inline, it just makes a link to the neosmart website which is quite slow at the moment.
I believe you can, but not sure. The key point, though, is that the plan would be yet another private insurance plan. It won't be government run.
It is used in both cases.

For example in probability the St. Petersburg paradox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
Because most new business fail, and for many of the same reasons described.
The signal-to-noise ratio on reddit just crossed my tolerance threshold. HN is now my first stop.

So you stop by and post a "noise" thread here on HN. ;) No offense but I find that slightly humorous. Oh well, we aren't obligated to upvote it.
This idea has been floated before. I think it's actually a good one, though defining "healthy" and "unhealthy" foods can be a bit nebulous.
This misses the elephant in the room: the majority of the Times article probably written by a PR firm, not by anyone employed at NYT. I've met several journalists that say it pretty bluntly - the only place to make a decent salary for a good journalist is in PR houses and think tanks.
Equally anecdotally, I've spent pretty much the entirety of my 34 year long life indoors, either staring at a book or staring at a computer screen and my eyesight is absolutely perfect.
(1) Your tax rate goes up something like 2.5% if you exceed an income threshold defined in the bill, which you could just keep yourself below if you're so concerned about your burn.

(2) If 2.5% kills your company, you're screwed anyways.

(3) But that doesn't matter, because you and your 2 other guys are screwed anyways: if you get hit by a car and wind up in an ambulance, you BK.

I don't find this a compelling, or even interesting argument. Also, it's entirely hypothetical. An entirely hypothetical argument about a 2.5% tax increase for the uninsured.

However, based on actual experience, which I gather you lack (you're part of the corporate world, right?), I can tell you that the screwed up private health insurance system definitely keeps A-player talent locked up in the corporate world.

Either way, the argument you originally tried to put forward, which is that this bill would require you to pay for insurance before business expenses, is simply wrong. I'm sorry if I'm misreading you, but you appear not to understand how corporate cash flows work.
How To Be A Better Hacker
A lot of Psybient music:

Shpongle, Bluetech, Entheogenic, Phutureprimitive

A lot of Dubstep:

XeNMaSTA, Cookie Monsta, Bassnectar, 16Bit, Logik

Ambient space music:

Steve Roach, (quite a few here, too lazy to look em up)

Classical Guitar:

Jesse Cook, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Zabuca, Linstead
You could say the same thing about health insurance. I have paid more in premiums that I have made claims for (I think), but I still find the insurance valuable. For some monthly amount that I have already budgeted, I am protected against the cost of any health-related issue. Not worrying about this is worth "throwing money away" for -- it is about balancing risk. (Things that aren't risky, like savings accounts or health insurance, aren't necessarily the best use of money. You could have made more money investing in subprime mortgages. Of course, too much risk, and you lose everything.)

Warranties are like this; some people are happy paying $50 for unlimited iPod replacements for 2 years. Personally, I look at me breaking something as an opportunity to upgrade to the latest and greatest. But some people don't want to pay $300 for that opportunity.
Arrington has experience with successful startups and securities law. Perhaps that helps him scrutinize start ups better, especially for gauging their revenue prospects and drilling down the drivers for that.

That might have gotten him curious about how Zygna really made their money and led him to look at those rebill ads.
Fair enough. I try not to overuse it—I treat it like any ordinary language—but I'm not averse to using it specifically.
UK - I was making an ironic point that the name of the tests seem to change and get more 'bureaucratic speak' every year.

Under a soviet centralised government system there was apparently more freedom to teach to the student's abilities than in the free world - where everything must match upto the central government stanardized testing quango.
The Mediterranean Diet
A crow eating a dead rat? (Zhuangzi)
I think the space lottery idea is a great way for poor people to go into space.
I drift in and out of the corporate and startup worlds, I'm not insured, and this means that my burn rate goes up and decreases my runway.

So yes, it's a big deal. I'm already screwed if I get hit by a car.

According to you, if I pull $20K out of my S-Corp for family expenses I'm paying more for health insurance I didn't want. If I leave the money in over the first of the year it's income and I'm paying more. If I form a new corp just for purposes of the startup I'm paying more.

I'm paying more. I'm not saying it's the end of the world. Obviously smarter people than me have decided that I need to pay more. So I'm paying more.
When Heroku was new I tried to move my site to it and it refused to do a migration that required a helper.

I checked carefully and it worked fine on my computer.

I wrote them about it and never got an answer.

I waited and they never fixed it so I went with a host.

Appertainly they've fixed it but I'm happy where I am.

www.jgsbws.com
"You can certainly run Sinatra on Heroku, not just rails."

More to the point, you can run any Rack-based app or app framework.
Except that it's totally infeasible to hack h264 support into Firefox -- they link directly with liboggplay instead of a more wholesome API (portable like ffmpeg's, or native like QT/DirectShow/GStreamer) precisely to keep you from doing so without a ton of pain.

They pull ideological bullshit like this all the time (not treating iso8859-1 as cp1252, refusing to do font-face for years, etc). I hope their heads fall off.
I think that everyone that cares knows the reasons to avoid reddit: The articles are dumb, the comments are dumb, and the people are dumb. Even the founders left!
You're an idiot if you're willing to pay a middle man to deploy and manage your application's software stack.
I pretty sure it's possible to find examplars in other industrialized countries with modern healthcare systems where their lifestyles are unhealthy.

I can't speak for the UK (but I believe I've seen a study that claims obesity rates in the UK are in fact higher than in the US), but Germans aren't exactly the pinnacle of healthy living, majority smoke, drink and eat outrageously bad (thought incredible delicious) food. Koreans likewise engage in lots of walking about, but the air quality in the major cities is very poor, they have remarkably sedentary lifestyles until college, and then as "salarymen", they probably compete drink for drink with the Russians and Korean food is full of high protein and high fat food sources -- ever sit down and eat 2 kg of Sam Gyeop Sal (Pork Belly) at a sitting? My friends in Japan report a similar lifestyle in Japan.

What's remarkable is that Americans, who generally like to stake claim at being the best in everything, tolerate a system that ranks them down with 2nd and 3rd world countries fighting for what, 40th place between Colombia and Brunei?
Good counter example. I'm not sure I would have ever drawn that analogy.
Lately I've been liking Analogue Bubblebath and Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Richard D. James, AKA Aphex Twin. I play the tracks softly when coding and I feel it assists my concentration.
The society Tacitus describes in the Germania in 98 is one constantly at war. See e.g. chapters 13 and 14:

http://www.unrv.com/tacitus/tacitus-germania-3.php
2,000-Year-Old Scrolls, Internet-Era Crime