skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The shape of plug is nowhere near as bad as the 110-230v difference. You can always use a $2 plug adapter but step-up/down converters are big and relatively expensive.
Don't hire hacks, hire people who are talented.
No, I'd like them to be distributed.

I'm pretty sure I can do them for less than $80/part...
I'd hate to be competing with Wikipedia.

Also, is it really fitting the definition of hyperlocal if there's no dynamic content, real-time news, or social capability?
elsewhere you make money by making people want things, not trying to predict what they want. People usually don't know what they want anyway...
Indentured servitude much?
It really doesn't seem all that different from sports contracts with elite athletes.

The main difference between is the open-ended nature of this contract. 3% for the rest of your life? Honestly, I don't think "Marge" is a very good negotiator. But that's why athletes have agents.
Part of the fear stems from thimerosal, mercury, and autism.
Theres more reasons to want to get support for something then your own selfish needs. Maybe you want to start hacking on the project but don't want to step on someone else's toes?

Then join the mailing list and participate in the discussion.

Why shouldn't the process be frictionless?

There's very little software that supports both fly-by questions on the web, and proper discussion via e-mail, so we optimize for ourselves, not users.

Web forums aren't frictionless. In fact, they're totally shit for the purpose of carrying on detailed conversations over the course of days without requiring constant attention from all the participants.

There's a reason why most forums will e-mail you when your watched threads are updated. Why not just have the e-mail be the thread?

Why do you want to make it difficult for people to start using or get help using your software?

Users don't pay the bills, and questions are usually incredibly repetitive and dull, no matter how easy-to-use or well documented the project is.

I'd rather the users that are unwilling to invest in the mailing list self-segregate by posting their one-offs to sites like StackOverflow.
Being confidant in myself or my work.
Yes, three things that have been debunked.
Never underestimate the propensity of the younger generation to blithely discount the previous.
Or Apple could simply have done it wrong... .Mac wasn't a success, apple isn't infallible.
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Also, always challenge yourself.
I doubt people would pay for better list software -- especially open source projects. People might pay for a better list service (ListHub?) though.
How much spam do you have to send to be sued for $800 million??
... the fuck? sorry you guys are sometimes just ridiculous. Can't show feet cause women oppose them? Whats going on in your head?
Even if it has been debunked, the fact that thimerosal is banned in california, and being phased out just legitimizes the fear. Then California temporarily unbans it for the H1N1 vaccine. How does that make arguments towards its safety sound? It merely makes it seem as if the dangers of H1N1 for this case outweighs the suggested risk of thimerosal.
If you have no dependents then you don't necessarily have a need for life insurance.

I agree, but this statement seems unnecessarily cautious. Can somebody give me an example of someone without dependents who should pay for life insurance?

(Some companies take out big life insurance policies on their employees. This is a tax loophole, and I believe it doesn't apply to you or me.)

(And, no, "I plan to fake my own death and collect insurance money under an assumed name" does not count as a good reason. ;)

As with all forms of insurance, life insurance is only worthwhile if the consequences of a loss are so big that you can't afford to self-insure. Generally, the estate of a single person with no dependents has little need for an immediate source of cash after their death. If you want to leave money to someone it's better to simply invest the cash, then write a will to bequeath your investments to the people of your choice, rather than blow the money on a life insurance premium which -- by deliberate design, to keep the insurance company in business -- is statistically likely to be an additional cost rather than a benefit.
so your average file size is 4.5MB. that's a pretty good fit.

> I don't know of any other products apart from S3 that could have made our file hosting as stress free as it is.

I think you're right about that part. Better solutions don't come off the shelf. Yet. :)

> What kind of scaling problems have you had?

the system I wrote at Mozy needed to scale to PBs of space and billions of files, so it was obvious that the mysql part would be a problem.

more generally I think mogile is in a pretty narrow niche: typically either you really need a lot of space and files, like flickr or facebook or ..., in which case mogilefs doesn't cut it, or you have a smaller data set but you want random access to your files in which case mogilefs also doesn't cut it.
Are you playing underwater hockey at MIT or is it a much more widespread sport than I ever realized before?

(I have a friend who's a big fan of the game. I've held out so far, but one of these days...)
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KISSUnit: Really simple Javascript tests
Apple isn't turning the AppleTV into a Tivo killer because they don't want to kill Tivo by supplanting it. They want to kill Tivo by suffocating it - destroying the market that Tivo competes in by supplanting the products that Tivo complements. Apple wants cable TV to die, and be replaced by on-demand video over the Internet (obviously, there preference of provider is iTunes). To some extent, this is inevitable: coax bandwidth is more valuable to cable providers when it is used for high-speed internet than for channels that are seldom watched. Given sufficient competitive pressures, cable providers will allocate less and less bandwidth to QAM and more to DOCSIS. Most likely, they will end up with relatively few channels provided over QAM, and all optional and premium content provided on-demand over IP. At this point, if Net Neutrality is in effect, Apple will be able to easily compete against and dominate the market for premium channels, because no cable company is going to come up with a solution that sucks less than whatever Apple has at the time. The complete death of traditional cable TV could follow if basic cable content can be made available over the internet without too much trouble for Apple or consumers.

In other words, the Apple TV is stagnant because the market it is intended for isn't big enough yet. Apple is taking the time to refine it as a low-priority project so that they will be ready to make the the killer product as soon as the market is ready.
I just rolled this in the last few minutes, because YUI Test has tons of weird overhead, and JSUnit's in-browser runner drives me up the wall.

I'd love to hear it if there's an existing project or methodology in the spirit of KISSUnit! Either way, enjoy the hack, and please rip my style, etc to shreds.
In my defense, it was a pun too obvious to resist.

And honestly, I think of a hack as a quick and/or dirty technique to get the job done (even if its ugly or imperfect, or falls apart under scrutiny). A hack is a shortcut of some sort.

Hiring seems like a situation where cutting corners is a bad idea with little to no payoff.

While the article was good, I don't see how these observations are hacks. Unless taking your time and being thorough is the hack. (By my definition, it is an anti-hack.)
Whatever webmail client you're using should get support for splitting digests. IIRC, there are scripts that do this if you use console readers like mutt. You should press your webmail provider/developer to add support for this. The digests will still be smaller since they lack a lot of the email headers that mailinglist traffic 'normally' send would have.
"Only 25% of the cell phone users had noticed the clown"
Agreed, the flu vaccines every year are modified and changed, they have never been clinically trialled before they're issued to the general public. The flu changes every year. The main seasonal flu strains are H3N2 and H1N1, a 'swine flu' actually hits us every single year.

The thing that's novel about the new H1N1, I believe it's 'A/Mexico/2009', is the mixture of strains it comes from. However with a basic reproduction rate (in a non-immune population, this is the secondary infection rate for every 1 infected person) of ~1.7 it is likely that just basic hygiene countermeasures could defeat it. Even marginal immunisation of the population could do enough to bring the infection rate below 1.0 and cause the virus to die out.

For comparison the Spanish Flu had basic infection rates between 2-3. HIV/AIDS has 2-5 and measles, for example, is between 12-18. Smallpox had an infection rate of 5-7 and was wiped from the face of the earth.

Simply put immunization and hygiene programs are only intended to decrease the reproduction rate to near-1. When summer hits, the reproduction rate of influenza decreases dramatically.
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The problem for the purpose of the assignment, is you shouldn't be teaching such bad behavior. If you reward people for behaving badly, they'll do it again. A great teacher would give assignments that paralleled the real world and encouraged behavior that would be both ethical and beneficial in the real world, because to a student, it is not obvious that the rules would be different in the real world.
The problem that I have with busy lists is that if you get behind in reading them it can look like a daunting task to see 100 conversations/threads (as in gmail) waiting to be read.

Site note: Filtering email lists in Gmail is really easy. There's a 'list:' modifier. So you can do 'list:python-list' if you've signed up to the mail python mailing list. Filtering them in procmail can be a PITA if you're trying to make a generic rule to filter list traffic into aptly-named folders, especially when traffic goes to two lists (e.g. python-announce and python-list).
Last year I was in a place where I hated going out. I wanted to go out but hated the available options. This year, I found something interesting: While I go out much more than I did last year, and always find something or other to occupy my time, I didn't instantly become a partier. Today I left the social gathering I went to early, and avoided a wilder party and a late-night movie. Partly it's just that I really don't like being around people for long periods of time. I'm not comfortable with most people I meet, and while I can handle mixed company, it's always with a bit too much cynicism and negativity and I don't like being the person who's known for knocking other people down.

There's a difference between being scared/incapable of going out and choosing deliberately not to. Some people, myself included, prefer our own company to those of others.
This is cool, but I think virtually all rating systems suffer from the same basic problem: there's no way to turn it up to 11.

Take movies, for example. They are usually rated on a four-star scale. And yet, a three-star movie is a clear success. Few movies can realistically aspire to more than three stars. Even many four-star movies are really just trying desperately to avoid two-star land. Francis Ford Coppola was sure he was going to be fired any day from The Godfather. The production crew and actors on Star Wars thought it was practically a joke. Please, God, let Star Wars not be a B movie, they must have been thinking.

When you say ★★★ out of ★★★★, you make it look like it wasn't good enough: 75%. Movies really should be rated on a three-star scale: ★★★ out of ★★★; ★★★ = A = 100%. Anything else is gravy.

So, rate tea on a three-star scale. Three stars means "excellent tea, no clear way to make it better". ★★★½ means "Whoa, there is something better than ★★★!" ★★★★ means "This is The Godfather of tea! This tea makes me an offer I can't refuse."
Internationalizing the domains names is utterly pointless. Most keyboards in the world are in latin, which means that people who use a different alphabet have to switch keyboard mode. It's just not convenient. Imagine this:

> goole.com
> Alt-Shift-Win (to switch)
> говедо.ком
> Alt-Shift-Win (switch back)

Bah ... bulshit.
Sauron's...err Steve Jobs' eye has not gazed upon it for long enough I'd guess. Probably doesn't think it's time for it. He's probably right. I'm probably guessing.
The problem is... How? Other than providing some sort of web front-end onto email (which is already done... Gmail.. Yahoo Mail.. etc), what can you do? You can try and use some sort of fancy email processing algorithms to do fancy things with email, but how does one make a business of that? Charge people to pass email through your system that sanitizes it and spits it out with better/cleaner headers for email clients to use?
Perhaps I can explain the disturbtion?

My taxes to the government are more of an exchange of services. My government gives me roads to drive on, schools to send my kids to, police, fire department, parks, regulation of various industries, labor laws, military protection from hostile governments (among other things including the potential betterment and presumed increased safety of society).

To wit, my taxes are my end of a tacit social contract that I have made with my government. Because it is a social contract, the purpose of it is not profit, but instead the betterment of mankind in general.

When you compare the benefit received by paying taxes to the benefit of a lump sum payment (which could be had just as easily in the form of a loan), you realize how little you are getting from this investment plan.

But I think that my specific revulsion comes from having read plenty of literature (Shakespearian and pre) and knowing that usury is a sin.
I once heard one of the participants from the first season of the Apprentice speak. One of the assignments her team was given was to take a business taxiing people about via bicycle and make it as profitable as possible.

Most the teams decided to jump on the idea of selling advertising. Her team had the insight to realize they weren't just selling advertising on a taxi-bike but they were selling advertising on a national television show. Needless to say they won that round. This is what the third team sounds like to me. Legitimate.
This works and it doesn't. Some lists have disabled this, IIRC or enabled moderation (someone has to 'ok' the mail before it's allowed on the list) to stop spammers from trying to get their advertising onto mailing lists (presumably to reach the list audience as well as to get into search results through the list archives).

But yes, you can just send your email to (for example) python-list@python.org and then when people do a reply-to-all it will reply to you and the list... But what about a list-reply? (Gmail automatically replies to the list, not the sender) Does the mailing list software also forward mail from your thread to you, even if you're not subscribed?
that's hardly an obscure reference.*

*or is it
I made up the usage of τ myself, partially because of its typographic similarity to π, partially because it leads naturally to the usage "τ = turn". It's too bad that π has two legs while τ has only one; it would be poetic if π were 2τ, but it wasn't to be.

N.B. I have a secret master plan to spread the use of τ, but this comment is too small to contain it. ;-)
"The two African-American business leaders estimate their holdings -- from hotels to TV stations -- are worth $1 billion. One St. Louis hotel they own once barred black people."
Hey that's me! (The goober with the hat at the beginning.)

Glad to see the video turned out so well, despite us nobodies being unused to talking to a camera. ;)
Why do you think that Google woudn't register something like гугл.рф? I think it's for folks from the pure rural areas who don't know the latin alphabet at all. They have a right to use computers and the internet too.
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Inertia is also what is keeping parts of the email system from being improved too -- though this could be a good thing if the improvements are 'improvements.'
"Turn a recycling bottle bank into an arcade game and guess what happens...."
Yahoo! Groups was a mailinglist site that was swallowed by Yahoo! much in the same way that Google Groups was created by swallowing Usenet.
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It may just be me, but it seems like you're contradicting yourself with:

There's very little software that supports both fly-by questions on the web, and proper discussion via e-mail, so we optimize for ourselves, not users.

and

Users don't pay the bills, and questions are usually incredibly repetitive and dull, no matter how easy-to-use or well documented the project is.

While there's absolutely nothing wrong with coding for yourself, it doesn't usually pay the bills either. And (sadly), its rarer then it should be for someone to be able to print money for themselves by making things for themselves.

I reiterate: If different users are asking the same question repeatedly, perhaps its an indicator that there's something wrong with your software, not your users?

Oh, and, incase you don't know, not all software needs to expand until they can read mail. Multitasking has (sans the iPhone, if you want), been around for decades. People are more than capable of having one program open at a time. There's nothing wrong with this.

Web forums aren't frictionless. In fact, they're totally shit for the purpose of carrying on detailed conversations over the course of days without requiring constant attention from all the participants.

There's a reason why most forums will e-mail you when your watched threads are updated. Why not just have the e-mail be the thread?

Nowhere did I say that forums are better than email. They're both equally bad. My personal preference for this sort of thing is IRC. Of course, I'm biased, since one of the projects I spend the most time working on is an IRC client.

Also, forums are easier for end users to figure out then mailing lists. You could argue thats because mailing list software tends to suck, but, thats ignoring the issue.

I'd rather the users that are unwilling to invest in the mailing list self-segregate by posting their one-offs to sites like StackOverflow.

Not all open source projects are programming languages or libraries, which is SO's target area currently seems to be.
In a nutshell: The human race is prolific, therefore, the earth is a nice place to live.

This argument contradicts the conclusion of a hypotethical alien probe, which declares the planet uninhabitable due to and over abundance of water, snow, deserts and mountains. The probe in this scenario is a collection of randomly distributed naked mindless humanoids tasked with surviving for 24 hours.

snippets from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_catastrophe

The author states that our planet has been habitable for about 8% of its life and that the Sun's impending death would detract from Earth's appeal.
This video is over an hour long but its really worth listening to.
Twitter's fail whale is universally cute and disarming. If some portion of Wave's audience is skeeved out by the maintenance page with unpleasant feet, it needs fixing. (Especially for unplanned maintenance.)

I've now asked four women. They all had the same negative reaction.
Thanks for saying it the way it is. Wave is on "Preview", meaning its definitely NOT beta or even Alpha. What "preview" basically means that "we are building a system and we want live testers as we scale and add features", they are not "bug fixing", they are "implementing features" on live users.

Wave users are viewing the changes and features added live, hence "preview".
Well PG said that there are 2 types of pain. Similarly there are 2 types of uncomfortable. One needs to recognize the difference.
What tools do you use?

IBM

or

Microsoft

or

Java

Can you see the attraction to one-size-fits-all solutions as opposed to the bewildering panoply witnessed above?
I think they also got something way more valuable than money from the preorders. Now they owe a game to 6000 rabid fans. Sure, they took angel funding before, but honestly, this is a lot more personal.
before giving me 20 slides please inform me of how many people you have hired and what you think there average salary was. Perhaps some stats about how long they stayed or other figures you find important. These tips sounds bland.
These PC World articles seem completely inaccurate to me. (The other one was posted here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913169 )

First, most of the domain name has already been open to Unicode encoding via an ASCII encoded transform:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

Also, the newly approved encoding for TLDs appears to be the same technique as already used for the rest of the domain name. From the same wikipedia article:

In October 2009, ICANN approved a Fast Track[4] for the encoding of Unicode/ISO 10646 Top Level Domain names in ASCII text.[5]

These articles that talk about suddenly not being able to type URLs are absurd. The Unicode transforms have already been there, just not in the TLD. And that's not to mention the rest of the URL, and every other place we all use Unicode.
Sure, if someone was able to make all those tools as well as the start ups. Half of those things IBM or Microsoft doesn't even have a product for.
All of those (except the circle) have the 1/2 because they're integrals of something linear. While it's true that area and integral are closely related (the latter being a special case of the former), a circle is clearly not linear.
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While there's absolutely nothing wrong with coding for yourself, it doesn't usually pay the bills either. And (sadly), its rarer then it should be for someone to be able to print money for themselves by making things for themselves.

Feel free to treat "pay the bills" metaphorically. That was my intention.

I reiterate: If different users are asking the same question repeatedly, perhaps its an indicator that there's something wrong with your software, not your users?

Perhaps. But more often than not it's an inherent complexity in the problem space itself.

Oh, and, incase you don't know, not all software needs to expand until they can read mail. Multitasking has (sans the iPhone, if you want), been around for decades. People are more than capable of having one program open at a time. There's nothing wrong with this.

I don't follow your meaning ...

My personal preference for this sort of thing is IRC.

IRC is real-time and ephemeral, which makes it considerably more difficult to engage in conversations with contributors in other time zones, and refer back to design discussions that occurred 5-20 years ago.

Also, forums are easier for end users to figure out then mailing lists.

I thought we already established that project communication channels are primarily optimized for the project contributors who use them daily, not for once-off questions from end users.
It's a little creepy that women are 100% unanimous that feet are creepy. Is it just male feet? That'd be even creepier.
My theory is that poor sound fidelity makes our brains work in over-drive doing speech recognition on the cell phone. The same patter-recognition circuits are not therefore available to for other work, leaving things undetected.

In particular I find it much easier to talk over skype compared to cell phone.
'I know Ruby'

That's a good excuse.