skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No spot on the app for yc.news usernames? You know - in case you think our comments here might be proof enough of technical ability and worthiness :)
It was funny. I'm pretty sure it was meant to be a joke and not a comprehensive rebuttal.
How about this:
http://metaatem.net/highlite/?text=Make+something+people+wan...
?
It is funny that this is in Yahoo News :-)

I wonder how MSFT, YHOO split five years from now would be.
Here is the original paper [PDF]:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/MES/pdf/JRP2003.pdf

A very important article for any aspiring young man.
Also, a Steve Yegge "takedown", I think. Or maybe I missed the funny of the first section, there.
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Only for non-hackers: How do you benefit from Hacker News?
I have been using Hacker news since its launch. although i am not a coder i can say that i benefit from it tremendously. i get to stay up to date and i try to apply some of the lessons i have learned here to my email startup. the best lessons i have learned come from startups which launched here and asked for feedback. how are you (hackers not allowed) benefiting from HN? you can give one example if you like.
...during the olympics.
Thanks a lot for the citation tracking. From the passages you quote, maybe he does deny progress in some sense, so you were right... Still, his position seems at least defensible, and anyway, that topic wasn't central to the theme of the book.

I thought that the book was very interesting for the perspective it cast on discoveries in the physical sciences. The description of the state of confusion preceding paradigms, the establishment of paradigm, and so forth, that was a nice way of looking at it.
Is this desirable? Maybe it helps you give more attention to your family.
Alright, that was pretty slick.
I use DejaVu Sans Mono, which is more or less the same as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
I've always been the type that in order for me to learn something, I adopt a pet project. It brings context to the concepts.

I can remember staying the night at my girlfriend's apartment (she's now my wife). We enjoyed each others company. But when she would fall asleep, I would hop on to her computer and begin working on my own projects.

And she use to complain, in fact, get extremely angry that I was up "typing away" and that I needed to come to bed. My contention is that she's asleep so why should she care? I finally said, "Get over yourself. I have enjoyed working on late projects before I met you and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. Programming is my life. Deal with it."

And after a few fights and with me not backing down, it was no longer an issue.

The point of the story; if something is important to you, grow some balls and stand up for it.

To make a broad generalization, women have a tendency to put the relationship before anything else. But if in your world coding is just as important as cuddling, speak up and stand your ground.

Relationships and intellectual development do not have to be mutually exclusive.
I've started using Inconsolata, which is both free and pretty nice. (It has particularly nice parentheses, which I appreciate as a Lisp programmer.)
Wow... that was awesome!
Interesting. I suppose NetMeeting would work for a Windows environment. Not as easy to step in and take over the "keyboard" with that setup though.
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Bezos + Andreessen FTW
This is a really great suggestion. I think I ended up eating a bag of pretzels and a diet coke for lunch that day.
Will divorce restore the genius, or is it irreversible?
Everything I need to build Web 2.0 interfaces Apple knew in '92
I'm building a new GUI for my project, after realizing my old one confuses everyone. I read about the theory of building good GUIs for a few hours, but the resource I keep coming back to is Apple's Macintosh human interface guidelines from '92. Now, I have little nostalgia for System 7, it mainly brings back memories of gym class, RPGs, and complicated spitwad launchers. Still, the philosophy that underlaid System 7 seems to lend itself to the simplicity that makes a good Ajax GUI.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.573097

Give just the first chapter, Human interface principles, a read. It makes some excellent points.

Apple's current Human Interface Guidelines are here, but I keep going back to the '92 edition.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/chapter_1_section_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000894-TP6

Any other recommended resources?
Legal advice on the internet...

morons.
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According to the findings in the paper: Yes, it will to at least some degree. Testosterone increases after a divorce and therefore so does competitive effort and overall productivity (Genius + Effort = Productivity)
seconded.
You need ten years to know how to program, yeah. But once you've done that, you can probably get solid in Java/Ruby/Blub++ in six months.
Not necessarily better. I was just being silly, really; haven't used XEmacs myself for years.

XEmacs was a fork off of GNU Emacs. They did some good things with the software, but they were loose in their legal matters, and accordingly the FSF never accepted XEmacs code back into the GNU Emacs mainline.
i know something else it turns off: freedom
Anyone want to webcast this? I'm near Denver, and it's quite a commute.
I do this all the time, either with screen or vnc. Even if you're not a believer in pair programming, it's a great option for debugging, code reviews, and training new people.
1) Einstein ended up getting divorced over his work. Is it worth it?

2) Sex is exhausting. Having it regularly is the real issue.
Seems like a good material of the Divorce Magazine (www.divorcemag.com)... Now what the hell is that... The other I walk in the BestBuy and see this free magazine, fuckin divorce lawyers and shit...

And fuck the geniuses life! My wife born me a beautiful son, he's already 45 days, the hell with geniuses and their lives...
sweet, some Ruby programmer must have stumbled across XDebug :-)

one of the only truly beautiful things ever to come out of PHP
"The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
My startup cofounder is my wife. Things are going splendidly. Generalizations are pretty useless in making decisions for your own life.
Either way, I think my elevator pitch needs some work.

Huh? Was that it? I don't get it.
People asked the same things about Twitter.
I guess I'm not the only one's who's been drawing an analogy between these two mergers... what's the best way to bet against MS stock if this merger happens?
Well, sure, but you've got to ask yourself which is more likely: that the chef with no science education, no professional experience with motors, no understanding of thermodynamics, and so little knowledge of his field that he allows his invention to be branded as a perpetual motion machine (as if that will enhance his credibility!) has made a previously unknown breakthrough in induction motor efficiency? Or that he has merely constructed an insanely complicated-looking but otherwise uninteresting variation on previously known physics?
When I worked at Cornell, we had a habit of naming pairs or groups of machines that were related (eg. as failovers, or multimasters, or whatever) so that the grouping was obvious enough to stick. Hack/slash, itchy/scratchy, homer/bart/marge, etc. My officemate and I had Indigo2's named squish and squash, for example.

I've done the same thing ever since, and if you look at truly huge deployments, you end up developing a lexicon that exists solely to indicate where and what a machine is. eg. "what's wrong with pyj121-200? the whole rack is flapping!" "oh it looks like a bad blade in pyextbr2" "well open a ticket to swap the blade tonight then! it's hanging index transfers!" Datacenter, rack, machine. Simple.

Meanwhile, at some of the smaller deployments I've done, there are machines named after porn stars (lovelace/holmes were a couple of onsite/offsite RAID monstrosities; bildo/remsen were hot and cold firewall nodes), musicians (mingus/parker/coltrane/monk), and so on. Functional or physical relationships as indicated by lexical relationships are a relatively convenient shorthand, and if one machine turns into a farm, you have lovelace1, lovelace2, lovelace3...

Just some musings. Thank god I don't work ops anymore.
okay - okay - my application is in. was surprised not to see a spot for YC News username, guess I would be really bummed to miss this.
What about steroids and HGH?
Ask PG: How popular has Startup School become?
Based on previous years, it looks like maximum attendee capacity is set at 600 people for Kresge Auditorium. Have the number of applications been drastically increasing every year? What percentage of applications do you anticipate accepting this year?
You're probably too late to short the stock but you can buy Microsoft stock today and sell tomorrow. This will allow you to catch the dead cat bounce as the stock recovers.
I can't figure out what blog the first section is referring to. Steve Yegge? Raganwald?

You have to admit, the third section is a great parody of Joel on Software (ps. buy my stuff).
You just decimated my productivity. :p
Startup School: the traffic light party for nerds.
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Talking to Scoble at LIFT
I don't agree that it's a lack of engineering talent (relative to Google) is what's holding Yahoo back. At some point, I think the organization's size, age, and culture impede innovation.
Quite a list there.
justin.tv could have a live link for the rest of us? maybe?
I know that counterexamples will not disprove the trend, but... What about the Curies? Or Thelonious Monk. Without Nellie to make his lunch and get him dressed in the morning, he would never have achieved the things he did.
Language design: Turtles all the way down, please
Finally something I'm qualified to comment on! Like you, I'm not a coder but I read Hacker News frequently. I have started 2 web-based businesses, so I like talking to coders and finding out what they're working on. It's a great source of inspiration for the next idea.
I also have to admit that there's a part of me that wishes I would have learned to write code so that I could do more prototyping on my own. I have a lot of respect for a software programmer that designs an elegant solution to a problem that we've identified.
Usability studies don't work well for any artifacts with an inherently steep learning curve.
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Can you automatically allow YCNews users above a karma threshold? (It will help me book flight tickets in advance)
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think in all 4 cases, there is enough variability within each company that speaking about "hackers from big company $X" in general is not particularly meaningful -- that is, the mean at Google may be slightly higher, but the variance is still dominant.
I had a very similar experience. My wife hits the sack at 11-ish, and I'm up until 3 or 4 working on side projects. It has worked out very well for us.

I asked her to read "Hackers and Painters" while we were dating. She did and said that it made her understand why I am the way I am. So, if you're early in a relationship and want her/him to "get it"... I highly recommend the book.

I got to personally thank PG for it a couple years ago... but... thanks again!
Look up 'Board of Directors' on wiki or 'Fiduciary Duty'. I don't think it makes classifications of shares moot. It still matters as to who who has the say as to what the correct strategy (to benefit all shareholders) is.
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How do you start a web based business without knowing how to code yourself? Did you take on partners who knew how to code or did you hire someone to implement your business ideas?
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The Industry Standard is back. Why?
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I work in public television and like the thoughtful articles and threads on trends in media and meta-cognition (like the "how do you learn" thread). I don't code, but have have mad respect for the hackers.
There! That's the kind of info I was after, thanks.

Interesting trend for "staggered boards" (taken from Wikipedia): The Wall Street Journal reported in January of 2007 that 2006 marked a key switch in the trend toward declassification or annual votes on all directors: more than half (55%) of the S&P 500 companies have declassified boards, compared with 47% in 2005. (Jared A. Favole, "Big Firms Increasingly Declassify Boards", The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 10, 2007.)
They did last year.
Stop relying on a server-side framework to do everything. Leverage the client!
Imagine if the decision clearly disadvantaged one class of shareholders in favour of another. For example just taking all the assets of the company and distributing them to Class B shareholders, leaving the class A shares worthless. I do believe there would be legal recourse in this type of situation.
Try not calling us coders, I don't know any programmer/developer who likes being called a coder.
Great idea. I'm sure we'll do it.
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The .Net DLR makes building a new language implementation ridiculously easy
XML isn't as bad as people make it out to be: a discussion about XML, flat files, and s-expressions
You put a lot of thought into how to "get [your] products into schools," and you thought Facebook was the right platform to work with?

If you're just using Facebook as a quick marketing plug to get folks interested in your service, that's one thing. Otherwise, you might want to talk to a lawyer and get them to explain FERPA to you, and check your business for compliance.

I work in IT at a small college, and at least as far as we've been told, no college can allow enrollment records to become visible to anyone not enrolled in or teaching a class. That means that even displaying the current course load for a student is considered a privacy breech for which the college is liable.

Of course, there's also the fact that purchasing decisions at most schools are made on 6-10 year schedules. No responsible administrator is going to gamble on putting key academic resources into a system as new and unproven as Facebook. FB (and the whole FB app ecosystem) have a long way to go to convince anyone that they're in it for the long haul.
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I get references to lots of great blog posts, online tools, and news items that allow me to stay informed about important issues in the tech and programming worlds. This has saved me countless amounts of time, since I'm able to act as if I know what I'm talking about without ever having to put in any effort/thought of my own. Thanks Hacker News! :)
The number of applicants has increased every year. It looks like there were about 1300 last year. Presumably more this year. Which means statistically the chance of being accepted would be a bit less than 50%. However, the odds would be better for anyone who's reading this, because most people reading this are probably hackers.

We hate having to turn people down. (Among other things, it's a lot of work to read all the applications.) We'd get a bigger venue if we could, but there just isn't one.
Marriage doesn't only stop scientific genius. It also stops musical genius. A good example would be The Beatles. Consider them like a start-up. They had a phenomenally productive phase but it stopped after they got married. This could be because the number of decision makers grew and the number of relationships grew even more.
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Try using SubEthaEdit to make friends with someone who has a car. :-)
Microsoft-Yahoo: of bids, poison pills, and hostility
Exact same here. Except in my case, she wins more often than not. She has her ways of making me do things....

Many nights I have stayed awake, looking wantingly at my computer across the room while I hold her, asleep in my arms.

No, and there seems to be no reasoning with her on this issue.
I feel great for coding after sex, if it's with a partner that I haven't just started with. It's like a cloud has been lifted from my mind. A world of distractions are suddenly gone.
Thanks for the fantastically rare anecdotal example.
Keeping track of progress
I've been thinking lately about working on large projects and how to keep track of where things are at. Even if you're working on a project by yourself, I find that it's hard, over time, to know the state of each file - whether you've started it, you need to add stuff, if it still needs tweaking, or if it's done.

Here's an example: I've been working a bit on a web app in my spare time. I've got some of the basic back end processing stuff done. Certain pages haven't even been implemented yet. Certain pages are pretty much done. Some need UI love.

Coming back to development after taking a bit of a break from it to pay the bills, I can't tell what's what unless I spend some time digging around in it.

I'm playing with the idea of using OS X's labels to accomplish some sort of a visual tracking of things, but it doesn't lend itself well to being able to keep notes, thoughts and to-dos about each page.

What do other people do? How do you scale this to multi-user? Version control (I use SVN) is okay, but again, difficult to get a quick view of what's what (maybe I need some kind of visual version control).
I like that suggestion (assuming I'm above the threshold).
I hope you go forward with this idea, it should help out with networking.
Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Drops To $29.50 a Share
yes! finally i can upgrade to firefox 3.
Reminds me of Cryptonomicon
Rumor: Is Google About to Buy Bebo For $1 Billion To $1.5 Billion? Or Will it Be MySpace?
According to Wikipedia, John was married to Cynthia from 1962-68; then to Yoko. Ringo married in '65; George in '66.
you do know what site this is, right?
Major props, in advance, to whomever can manage a high-quality recording of the talks. The podcasts are a great service for those of us who can't make it in person!
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Yes, I prefer "code ninja".
when I see those "code ninja needed", posts, it just makes me laugh. Juvenile at best, idiotic at worse. It is hard to take those companies that do that seriously.

Tell me, what does a code ninja do? Write fast and crappy code, and disapear, so some other poor soul have to maintain it?
Crash the whole server with two lines of recurisve calls? Check-in code so stealthy that Subversion doesn't even detect it?

Ps. I noticed the "code ninja" trend, with the raise of Ruby on Rail. It is everytime I have seen, it has been a posting for either Ruby, or Php job.
it's almost impossible to predict how you'll feel about a particular feature until you've climbed the learning curve. All you have is people on one side saying, "It's worth it," and people on the other saying, "Looks stupid from here."
Interesting how Yahoo might be saved by MS shareholders.
It made me think of teen horror flicks, where someone is about to do something Really Bad ("I'll go by myself and check the attic; be right back!") and you want to yell out, "No! No! Don't do that!" because you know what's going to happen.
My point is more about the implications of such exceptions. Don't make decisions in the abstract. You aren't some random variable. You know a great deal about yourself, and conditional probabilities affect the aggregate statistics that caused your stereotypes and perceptions.
Of course, there would also be things like this:

2 = 3

Which would now pass blithely though the parser only to raise a NoMethodError at run time because numbers do not implement an update method (At least, not in Ruby. Legend has it that this was legal in early versions of FORTRAN.

I recall a friend telling me a long time ago that REXX allowed this, but he no longer remembers and I can't verify.
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Are you doing a demo of working code or are you describing unwritten code? If it is the latter then you can be expect confusion, even among techies.

You can describe your idea enthusiastically and people won't understand. You can sketch you idea on paper and people won't understand. You can make a mock screenshot and people won't understand. You can do a proof-of-concept implementation and people won't understand. So, you'll just have to code your app in full.

You're done when people only comment negatively about your graphic design. This is especially true if they've got less experience or aptitude in usability and graphic design.
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thats the kind of fairy tales that made me stop visiting techcrunch, except if I click a link here...

anyone who has stats with rumours they got wrong?
Google seems like it would wimp out of utilizing it effectively anyway. No-holds-barred myspace though, would not have the reservations that would prevent them from doing something interesting with it.
Breaking news: We don't know whether an unknown company might buy another unknown company for an unknown amount of money.
Cool. This would be a great way to hide your email from bots, yet make it easy to read for humans. Until the bots wise up, that is.
It's an attempt by companies to have their job postings stand out. Similar to looking for a "rockstar programmer".
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I think some portion of "genius" is the ability to recognize and run with ideas, some of which come from others. Geniuses not only need to actually have an idea, they need the freedom to pursue it and get recognized.

Getting settled in to a family need not diminish the capacity for ideas, but following the established social conventions of ordinary people will reduce the chances to pursue them. Settling down may also make geniuses less social and as a result they may not pick up as many new ideas from others and they will limit their chances to be recognized.
Startup School is BY FAR the best startup event to attend. The line-up is top notch year after year.
second. illinois would be quite a trek, i'd LOVE to go.

student = poor = no way can i fly and hotel stay unless its SUPER cheap.
I think if this had been written earlier (and instead of the Arc challenge for example) more folks would better understand the actual goal of Arc.
From the multiple addendums to the article, it seems that quite a few Windows users have broken their installs.

Here's a really simple rule: If you don't know what it is and you cannot be bothered to research it then don't delete it.
So you're saying that one should never heed general warnings but instead discover all potential risks through first-hand, irreversible, unprepared-for personal disaster?

The critical aspect here is that you do not entirely control the temperament of your partner. That is up to her and your luck. Best to not throw away this advice and make use of this knowledge while you can.

Of course, congratulations on your awesome luck.
Yep, that's TC.
Why keep the existing primitives? Things like car and cdr were implementation accidents.
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