skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could have made a similar poll in New York in 1900, only with regards to how many pounds of horseshit you created. Ok, you'd need a team of ledger operators with slide rules to work it out, but you'd get frightening figures projected forwards over 50 years. One would start to get terribly frightened about where all that horseshit would go. Politicians would come up with ridiculous schemes to put an artificial price on horseshit to reduce the production of it (which had a marketable value, but supply overwhelmed demand)

The thing is though, within 50 years you could fit all the horseshit in New York city into one dumptruck. All because of a game-changing technological introduction - the motor car.

That's the problem I have with this type of thought experiment. It assumes constant growth of everything else but technological breakthroughs.

50 years ago you couldn't easily speak to someone on the other side of the world. Sending international messages was so expensive you paid per letter. Now I can speak to multiple people in multiple countries in full video conference, and all for basically free.

I think it's either naive or arrogant to think the problems of 50-100 years time are constrained by the technologies we have today, and I think it's the wrong response to try and dial back peoples lives to achieve it.
You turn profitable and then get acquired, everyone gets rich, then you live happily ever after, till you become an investor yourself, ah the cycle of life. </LOST>
ICU64: Real-time debug/hacking tool for Commodore 64
Yes, generating a certificate request isn't hard. Maintaining a CA is annoying at best.

Do you have a link to a site that describes how to do local key generation in Firefox and IE? Maybe I was just looking in the wrong places?

The scary warnings I was talking about are not the "untrusted" site warnings, they are the warnings you get after the remote SSL server times out. I guess this can happen after a few hours, depending on the server.

Yes, it's the best solution to this problem, but it's still a major pain in the ass.
I actually wonder the same thing sometimes -- I'm 30, went to MIT from age 16-18 but dropped out due to lack of money, went to found a few startups, and am now doing defense contracting (for another few months).

When I get back, I am trying to decide what to do -- mainly a startup full time, or a startup/consulting part time plus going back to school (presumably either MIT or UW, maybe Stanford). I'd probably do aero engineering at UW, or nuke or biomed or mech eng at MIT, and then would do a startup in those fields.

The main benefits I see for a degree at 30, when one is already pretty well established in the work force, are access to grad school, and foreign visa apps. While I could certainly learn useful CS in an academic program at this point, I think I'm able to learn on my own about as efficiently by now -- however, that's less true for a new field.

From a purely financial standpoint it is probably a bad idea; 2-4 years of lost earnings, plus direct costs.

At 18, I would almost definitely do college (actually, I'd probably take 1-2 years off and THEN do school, and try to do a program which had a lot of coop/work experience).

If nothing else, avoiding going into the job market for 2010-2014 is worth it.
Collapse of the American Empire: Swift, Silent, Certain
I have a different perspective (though a few of the comments here have briefly touched on it). College is not for meeting like-minded peers, and it's not for learning about programming. Rather, it's for the opposite.

It's for meeting diverse people that will give you new and unexpected perspectives on life. It's for learning to work with humanities people, meeting international students, etc. It's for learning how you fit in to everything else.

I don't think it's too controversial anymore to say that most of the greatest innovations come from multidisciplinary pursuits. You won't get this if you sit at home and code.

IDEO, the Stanford d.school, and much of the Silicon Valley community looks for T-Shaped people. A light working (horizontal) knowledge of many subjects, and a deep knowledge of one subject.

You will inevitably get your depth of knowledge in coding whether or not you go to college. But will you really learn how everything fits together?

Oh, and college is FUN, even if UW is a Pac-10 rival :)
Disclaimer: I've never used GWT professionally before.

I think its a good idea if your web application is driven by the JS instead of just using it to add interactivity. As in, something like Gmail or wave which are basically "javascript applications" rather than "web applications", if you know what i mean.

JS can get a bit annoying when trying to impose the needed structure to write big applications. That structure is "built-in" when using something like Java.

Also, with a JS-heavy application, you'd need to take care of the different browser quirks(via library or otherwise). Apparently, GWT can take care of this for you.

Having said that, I don't typically like "generated" code. At least not code that I don't generate myself.
I have little doubt that one of the biggest advantages of going to college is that you get to do a whole number of radically different things. You can join (and administer) a half dozen clubs, take really hard and interesting classes, and meet people who you probably wouldn't otherwise meet. You can stay up all night studying and write long papers on strange things, and then step outside your door and play frisbee.

Above and beyond the particular funding, as far as I can tell, you never get those types of opportunities again either.

I hate to paint a bleak picture(1), but afterwards you may end up working 8 hours every day, doing approximately the same thing every day, with people who are 'colleagues' or 'work friends' (who don't want to get outside and play some frisbee), where there is little sense of community, interaction, challenge, or variety.
(The majority of people do Blub all day, and not just programmers)

You'll be forced to submit to bizarre and draconian management practices where it is tacitly assumed that you are not an adult, and can not be trusted to act like one. You will have less autonomy than you ever did in college.

So yes, god yes, go to college. Don't put yourself in too much debt, but certainly go. But please, don't go to college because it is the right path. Go because it is an interesting path. If there is another more interesting path, take it.

1.) a lie, desolation is my middle name
Nonsense. It is very much about relationships. Read the title. Now, you can argue that it's metaphorically about or related to other things but the problem with that kind of mush-headed reasoning is then everything is about everything and everything is appropriate for any forum. It's the sort of dilution and loss of focus that that makes forums grow useless. When you fired up your browser and brought up HN today, were you really looking forward to reading one woman's soulsearching article about finding a mate? And some then some dude's bizarre rationalizations (see top comment on thread) why he won't date women older than 26 (28 if they're Asian!). This is plainly not 'Hacker News' unless you define 'Hacker News' so broadly that it includes what I had for lunch today.
The bottle next is not the core infrastructure, but the last mile.
The bottleneck is not the core infrastructure, but the last mile.
I would say that Metalab should have used a bit more tact. Even in Metalab's response they sounds like Mozilla committed a crime. I give kudos to Mozilla for fixing the issue so quickly, the gave it the right amount of attention and moved on.
The announcement from the band's website:

http://www.okgo.net/2010/03/10/onwards-and-upwards/
Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP users
Ask HN: Biohacker News?
I know there was a post about a biology HN a little while back, but nothing seems to have come of it. What I specifically want is an HN for synthetic biology and biohacking -- is anyone else interested?
Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23, 2010 in SF)
Not humor, just pure delight and relief.
Weird. I get no such error in Opera on Linux. What browser/OS are you using?
Hotel Elegance website - Belgrade
I'm toying with designing a hosted dashboard (aka Radiator) system - with standard plugins for pluggin in your GitHub, Piv Tracker, status etc.

The idea is that you could pick modules you want, choose a theme/apply your own CSS and away you go.

Probably as an open-source/hosted model. If anyone is interested in working on this as a side project with me let me know!
Arg, if anyone deserves to be homeless its the IT guy running the ocregister's mobile site.

Accessing this link from an Android it redirects to a broken gateway page, which in turn links to tbeir mobile front page, completely losing the original link.

Still boggles my mind that a site can be so fucked up. Ironic thing is if they just left it alone and didn't try to be all fancy with the user agent parsing, things would have been fine.
I'm interested in hacking, startups, and also the OP article. Why do you claim I don't exist?
von Neumann on game theory. QED. (the other QED).
It sounds like the reason is that the label was getting between the band and their fans.

There's probably a financial component too, but that's not being emphasized. OK Go seems to think that the most critical thing for their continued survival is the tight relationship between them and their fanbase. Anything that jeopardizes that needs to go away. There's some good lessons there for us web startups.

Good luck to them. Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead seem to be doing quite well on their own, and hopefully a smaller player like OK Go can make it work as well.
Education: Making education cheaper and more effective to more people than ever.

Health: Tools, apps, and services that make providing healthcare cheaper and effective throughout the world.

Energy and Environment: Tech, tools, apps, services that help increase access to reliable electricity and/or help save the planet

Food: Take your pick from growing, distributing, health, or environmental impact. Scalable solutions that provide healthy food, at low cost, to everyone, while reducing the food industries environmental impact are desperately needed.

And more...

The problems are complicated and global, and they require creative and elegant solutions that scale. Help solve these problems and you can help make the world a better place and get rich in the process.
I don't see "go to definition" or "find all references."

SLIME has this in Emacs for Common Lisp and perhaps other languages that work with SLIME.

I'm on a non-multitasking phone now so you'll have to do the googling yourself.
Don't do a startup with other founders either then. Not all compromises mean that you lose something; often it is the only way to win. Insisting on independence can become rigidity. If you aren't ready to compromise, experience with other founders will simply be bitter and acrimonious.

I have done four startups now, and have been fortunate enough to have become independent (that was the goal, not to become rich). Each startup has been made immeasurably easier because I have a wife that has helped me, and she too has had to undoubtedly compromise. I have seen what my single co-founders or near founders have experience, and no way would I have gone through my experiences with as much fun as I have had without my wife's support. She has her own indie business now--and nicely profitable it is too--and I take some measure of pride in having helped her with it every day. Helping her has meant putting off or not doing something that I wanted to do.

And finally, the LGPL was a compromise.
Aye. And while most of our profession can succeed without one, the day is coming when you'll need one just to get past HR.
Very cool. That i variable becomes how much you want outliers to matter. i could go higher than 2 and you'd really get skewed numbers.
And we'll see rise of new empire...
Which will be named - United Provinces of Canada...

To be serious, I suspect that the fall is going to be much bigger, think whole civilized world, Western and developed parts of Eastern world. The failure of civilization, so to speak...
Ad hominem isn't always a fallacy.

Indeed: it's only a fallacy if you try to use it as proof of a claim.

As a probability indicator, it's fantastically useful: if person A is right 80% of the time when they make a claim, and person B is right only 20% of the time (assuming all else is equal), then you'd be a damn fool not to incorporate that information into your estimate as to whether something is true: person A is four times as likely to be right, so in a disagreement between the two you should always side with A.

I'm getting a little tired of people shouting "ad hominem" every time the credibility of the author is challenged. The fact that someone doesn't believe in evolution absolutely should make me take their thoughts on global warming less seriously; similarly, if someone has displayed an extremely immature, counterproductive, or selfish approach to relationships, you should probably take any relationship advice they give with a serious grain of salt.
TrustCommerce (http://www.trustcommerce.com/) seem like good people. In particular, they seem very FOSS-friendly; see (http://www.trustcommerce.com/opensource.php).
now apple should sue them - they inveted it first - no doubt ;)
It's worth it to me because they present a respected and sane point of view concerning computing to the U.S. congress. CACM makes me aware of the larger context. The Safari subscription you get includes much, but not all, of O'Reilly's catalog, in addition to a lot of other titles related to computing and the business thereof.
Don't you think the lesson could be applied to startups? Do you try to work with the co-founders you have, or do you search incessantly for the perfect one (ie. Bill Gates, or Wozniak)? Do you wait for the perfect, home-run idea, or do you pick one you have and make it work?

I've heard so many people in real jobs moan about how they would do a startup if only they had the right idea. Or that they didn't think they and their potential partners could learn enough about business to make it. They're waiting for the perfect opportunity and circumstances, as if such things fall out of the sky magically, instead of being built and molded by hard work.
a fear trembling on me pushing a new button from Google, after the Buzz's privacy fiasco .
Go to the center of paris. That blob is pretty much all dicks.
I learned to program on vim originally, and I've also worked for over a year on a C team that used vim exclusively. I'd like to think that I know most of its important features, and I know what I'm giving up when I using an emulator. I've also looked into the running vim with headless Eclipse, so I know the tradeoffs there as well.

You're right that I don't know a lot about Emacs. In this thread in particular I've learned about CEDET and flymake-mode, which seem to apply to C/C++ and maybe Java and C# to some extent and add a lot of useful IDE-like features.
[Mozilla was in the wrong for including the mockup in their launch materials, and I'm certainly not saying MetaLab should open source their website's design, but...]

There should more of an open source culture among designers. It works for programmers, why not designers?

Perhaps it would lead to fewer rip offs if there was quality open source designs to build on ("source" meaning the original .psd's or equivalent). It also would help create better looking open source software and websites.

Is there anything equivalent to GitHub in the design world? (deviantART with less anime drawings, maybe)
This is huge news for New Zealand, and I hope they can push it through.

NZ really is hampered by their external infrastructure. I lived in Wellington for 2 years. Offshore speeds were horribly slow, domestic speeds better. Downloading a 1GB demo from Xbox Live Marketplace took a day on the fastest DSL connection I could get (plus burnt through a large chunk of my download cap that month). It takes me less than an hour in California.

The university was charging students per MB, which I hope is a policy that has since been rescinded.

The cruel irony is that New Zealand's brightest new economy is largely on the net; some of their programmers and designers are the best you'll find anywhere.
Weird. Is this still happening? Let us know help@posterous.com
Where you went wrong was in realizing that Emacs isn't a text-editor. Emacs is a text-based IDE.
Sex.com 'to become most expensive domain name in history'
How about this place?

http://www.palantirtech.com/government

You say you hate math, so they may not be right up your alley, but worth a shot.
One tragedy does not make another tragedy less painful or profound.

The world is full of infinite joys and sorrows, and we can only focus on one at a time. That's the blessing and curse of being human.

So, tonight some of us grieve for a tree. You may grieve for other things if you choose, but that doesn't diminish our loss.
I thought the obsession with the clock and nefarious ulterior dating motives didn't start until 30-something.

Now that you mention it, though, when did marriage and children become either nefarious or ulterior reasons for dating?
Garage Biology in Silicon Valley
I'm also 20, and I'm about a little over a year away from finishing my degree. If I had to do it again, I may have very well skipped school. I'm awfully burnt out on the whole thing. It seems like a series of bars I have to jump, some high, some low, in order to get a decent job. Well, I already have a decent job, and I'm turning down job offers to stay in school. If I wasn't this close to finishing, I'd definitely go the same route as you and drop out.

That being said, college can do wonders if you don't already have a social network. I already had plenty of connections in the (albeit small) technology world in my hometown, but getting close to professors has opened a few more doors. I'm definitely appreciative that I stuck around long enough to get to know a few professors and work for them. I'd imagine that's going to pay huge dividends when I do actually graduate as professors often have connections far beyond their city of residence or college.

For most people, I'd suggest going to college just as proof that you are able to finish something non-trivial. If you already have proof of that in pet projects or work experience, and you really don't feel like going, don't.

College is a lot better than high school, but there are still similarities. There are classes I have to sit through that I could easily teach myself because the professor keeps attendance. Then there are the classes that I'd go to whether or not I had to, just because the professor and the material are both interesting to me. You'll have a few classes you love and a few classes you abhor. Hopefully the ones you love outweigh the ones you don't.
BoomStartup Gives Utah Its Own Startup Incubator
Genetic Engineering: Reanimate the Dead and Bring Fantasy to Life
the mongo shell above needs some Stop Eval/Reset button as it can get into a non-responsive state after a bad parse
> db.scores.find({'sdf':)
>> })

also no copy paste in the browser version AFAICT
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thanks. what development tools do you use to develop JS applications?
>He massively increased the profile of his company and he got an apology from Mozilla.

At the cost of a lot of potential clients. A lot of companies will hesitate to deal with MetaLab in future, considering that MetaLab are not even apologetic about making this a PR issue rather than talking to Mozilla first. When a company redirects its landing page to a blog post about being ripped off, they just look like a bunch of immature kids.
I would say that college is a good time to learn how to socialize. Sure, you won't learn anything in college that you couldn't teach yourself by reading a book, but you will get four years of practice interacting with others. People go from being kids to adults while they are in college, and the social opportunities are one of the reasons why. College is an environment where it is particularly easy to meet people.

Particularly if you're the hacker news type, your social skills are probably below average for someone of your age. If you don't go to college, you will likely suffer even more.

A lot of people I know who dropped out of college or graduated early have significantly poorer social skills than those who finished school.

If you are smart enough, you may be able to compensate for the lack of social skills. However, social skills are extremely important in the working world and while starting a company.
I was watching a channel9 video where one of the devs claimed multiple-monitor support in 2010 was improved. I'm not sure how, or even what needs improving for that matter (I use VS across two monitors.)
I'm curious... do people who read right to left languages code that way as well?

} (y = x)fi
;("!dlrow olleH")nltirp.tuo.metsyS
{

How about top to bottom languages? (Not doing that one out).
This is great. Reminds me of the recent article in nature questioning whether or not scientists need a PhD:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7285/full/464007a...
MySpace turns to games to regain prominence
I highly doubt it. Chatroulette has been mentioned on all sorts of Real News sources, and it's well known (and easy to explain) that you don't personally choose what you're viewing over it. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a jury that would really agree to throw the book at you for accidentally coming across something illegal there.

Then again, I'm no lawyer, and crazier things have happened...
Pallets have been able to snap together to the side of the screen since at least CS3, though I only had issues with < CS1 just after changing main monitor resolution...
You are confusing the pragmatics of the decision to take the plunge into marriage with the underlying relationship. I'm interested in entrepreneurial risk-taking, and the kinds of considerations and miscalculations discussed in the article are entirely relevant. There's nothing metaphoric about it, though you may find some of the obscuring detail extraneous or expressed in an insufficiently detached manner.
You a big fan of aggressive IP enforcement? Like to think a well-litigated market is a healthy market? Hate those little entrepreneurial nuisances like “competition from emerging media?” http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/439759688/you-a-big-fan-of-...
One of my favorite episodes of Nova is about the scientist who picked a tree at random to cut and count rings. He was shattered when he found it was the oldest tree of them all, almost 5000 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_%28tree%29

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah