skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but if you're still performing top-notch research, your future publications at Stanford will show that. The goal is to rank schools based on which ones are the best research universities. The pressure to perform future research is lower for schools that can buy citations in this system.
Wow, that was pretty hardcore. Have they stopped the buy out option in Turkey to limit your military service a few months?
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Perfection is the enemy of good. Good is the enemy of at all. (I attribute the last bit to Paul Buchheit)
I tried to contact these people about a year ago, but never received a response. Couldn't find any evidence that they've ever imported a fox for anyone else, either. They may not be a going concern.
I think it will for the exact same reason. It is about the journey not the destination, but even if the journey is shit you have learned and grown which I believe are positive outcomes.
Really? What a mishmash of meaningless platitudes. There's regularly more insightful stuff on the Dr. Phil show.

This insistence on bald self-determination will fail utterly for all but the loneliest, most isolated instances of Nietzschean uebermenschen. The reality is that mankind is a social creature, that we draw on the meaning provided by others, that we look to the molds of others for inspiration, that our definitions of ourselves vary significantly from culture to culture and society or society. But wherever and whoever you are, you won't find the secret to eudaimonia in a philosophical ramble that reads like it was written by the memetic Courage Wolf.

I know many who have tried to "make themselves" and failed. It seems to be a common thing for kids in their early 20s, fresh out of college, to try to do. Many with depression will not be able to summon the will to "imbue" their own meaning. For many, the assertion that the "universe looks on with indifference" is strictly worse than irrelevant. And so on.

And even if you have some unusual strength of willpower such that you can take the OP's advice to heart, trying to re-make yourself all at once, with no idea how to go about it, will be about as productive as banging your head against a wall, and the end result will be nothing but a terrible headache and severe ego depletion.

Indeed, I once tried the Courage Wolf approach to happiness that is advocated above. I found much better results once I decided that I don't know what I want, but by pursuing those things that seem to fulfill me, I can head down the positive path one step at a time.

Many, particularly Greeks such as Aristotle, pondered what makes one happy, free, and virtuous, with much more insight than the OP. But you don't have to read Aristotle. Just use some common sense.
I assume this was a throw-away account for a reason. Do you have experience in this situation? Can you share more about how that played out?

Regardless, I think this is a worthwhile strategy.
Most definitely, but you'll never get a Rudy Giuliani figure elected as mayor of San Francisco, at least not in the foreseeable future.

My prediction: sometime in the next 30 years the tech industry will have drifted elsewhere, and San Franscisco will be the new Detroit. Right now it's a mixture of the sublime and the awful, but the sublime can always pack up and move to Portland/Austin/Seattle.
If it's a software problem a fork and a patch can fix it. That's kind of the point.

Having the ability and technical resources necessary to generate said patch, however, is a different problem.
Last month I quit my banking job of 5 years to focus full-time on learning computer science. I went from skilled professional to absolute beginner. Way out of my element, but I am growing and building and having a ton of fun.
Tarn Adams, creator of dwarf fortress, answers questions from reddit
Like him, I read outside, in the sun when possible. Thus, any LCD screen is a nonstarter.
Announcing Jetpack SDK 0.6
Observation: There is exactly 1 woman on that entire list. #52.
It just blows my mind that there exist people who would discourage the use of the word 'niggle' because of the fact that it is etymologically related to a word that sounds a bit like a derogatory term.
Said brother should be careful. The problem with pet wolves and wolf hybrids is that they are happy to view you as pack, but are still wired to try to take over the pack when they grow up and get the opportunity.

This can lead to the situation where the pet is just fine until the owner gets injured. Then the "pet" seizes the opportunity to take leadership and breeding rights. As you can imagine, this is rather distressing for the humans involved.
Yes, you can interface with C/C++. http://www.swig.org/

Not only that, you can also extend Python with C/C++ - http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/ext/intro.html
I think the biggest motivator to learn Vim is to watch people who know how to use it. It's a painful editor to learn, and coming up with the right approach to learn it is not the same for everyone. I equate it to the pain I felt switching from Qwerty to Dvorak, which took me well over a year before I was back up to 50-60 WPM. Now that I'm here, it was worth the switch, but I sympathize with others trying to make the jump. I see the same sort of pain learning Vim.

One thing is for certain: Vim will never die. It's over 35 years old now, almost as old a Unix and C.
Does rooting the phone get rid of it, or does the problem lie on the network / back end?
oh God that looks absolutely delicious.
They don't say that you should do less marketing. They think that it's better to market through teaching than traditional channels: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/451-whats-your-cookbook

This idea is something that Jason and DHH have covered in a lot of their interviews. My impression is that it is in Rework as well. (Haven't read it yet.)
Or by existentialist philosophy in general.
If it was sure to result in a positive outcome, then there's no reason it would be outside of your comfort zone, right? Sort of by definition, things are outside your comfort zone because they're risky in one way or another.
Tell HN: css is the devil's work
single startup founder. I can't afford a designer so I'm doing my own design work and what an experience it's been - eye opening and watering in equal measure.

sass and compass bring a little programming familiarity but the overall experience is on a par with getting a root canal (without the reassurance from a man in a white coat). I haven't even got to cross-browser issues yet.

Hats off to all you nuts and bolts web designers. The unsung heroes of the software industry.
The ruby based project would most likely be Rhomobile Rhodes.
Here're the current options:

No Bachelor's Degree: 15 months of service as private

Bachelor's Degree: 12 Months of service as squad leader or 6 months of service as private

Bachelor's Degree + Has been working abroad for 3 years: €10,000 + 1 months of service as private.
Of course, It all started with some emotional depression. I stopped eating. It was for a month or two. Once I was out of it I realized my stomach was smaller. I did not lose any recognizable weight in this period. After this period I could go into my old eating habit and enlarge my stomach in no time. Or I could go out of my comfort zone and go on eating less. I chose the latter one. But It was not enough. I started to exercise daily. My exercising routine started small. I added more exercises when I felt it was not enough. I always targeted small changes. "Hey Let's see if I can go under 110" or "Oh I'm under 110 lets target 100!" or "Hey two digits! why not 80 now?". I went from 115kg@2009/11 to 70kg@2010/07. Now I'm trying to stabilize at this weight.
Wasn't Android developed by another company that was then later acquired by Google?

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc200...

At the time, most mobile phone dev was done in Java (and probably still is today). It seems natural to want to leverage those developers for the new OS rather than have them learn a whole new skillset.
It's been shown that the most effective teaching method is to treat teachers as cogs and provide them with scripts for teaching their classes.

http://www.jefflindsay.com/EducData.shtml

The unions oppose it in spite of the proven educational benefits. They don't seem to have an objection to "whole language", though.
Redhat is a much larger company with much larger resources. The contributions they are able to make is thus much
larger. I don't see how this should be taken as a surprised.
Their contribution to the desktop are nothing compared to their server side work.

Most of what Ubuntu/Canonical contributes is integration work which is specific to their distro in nature. That's already a lot of work for the size of their company. If Redhat wanted to they could promote Fedora as a desktop system. I know many organization that use it but for the man in the street (MITS) Ubuntu is just more visible. Red Hat could put some PR money on Fedora.

I see also a lot of work being put by Canonical in just replicating work that took Red Hat years to make. Building their enterprise infrastructure is sapping a lot of work. Landscape,Launchpad,Ubuntu One... (Launchpad could be dropped considering the other services popping up that are much better.) are expensive projects to make and aren't of much use to the FOSS community at large.
Programmers are attracted to software industry jobs because they are seeking self-actualization, they desire to make a difference and/or create agreat piece of software as that is their core competency. They also enjoy making a product that their peers (fellow software engineers) can use and build upon. Making lots of money is a lesser concern to most developers. To attract the best prorammers, ensure that they will be building a product which CAN find use in wider circles (outside of your industry), or be easily changed to allow reuse. Let them play with tools and languages that they enjoy, give them private offices (if you can), or allow them to pair-program for a portion of the project. Don't expect them to stay with you forever.
I take it you don't favor giving no-bid military contracts to politically favored service providers at above-market rates? In that case, why do you favor doing so in education?
I had some investments in the company for a while. It seems to be very well managed. There revenues have had a decent growth over the years I've followed it.
Well, I'm not worried about Microsoft lock-in because I am consciously choosing to get locked in to the MS stack. I want to develop with MS tools on MS systems.

With an MSDN subscription (which is free for me for 3 years through BizSpark) you can download virtually any MS software ever released. I'd be really surprised if they didn't have what you need.

I'd be more worried about a company like Oracle buying out a product like Java and screwing it up. At least you know where Microsoft stands.
IBM Acquires Storwize (Innovative Real-time Compression)
YMMV:

I was up to a pack a day when I quit. I begun by realizing my habits. About once an hour I'd get up and go outside for a smoke.

When I decided to quit (the first time) all I did was delay to my next "appointment". In other words - get to work at 7am, 8am comes around and you want to go smoke. At this point I would squirm, fidget and think about the smoke, but not actually do it until 9am. Continue this process through out the day. I also kept my associative smokes (getting in the car, finishing a beer, having a coffee etc) in tact at this point. These served as a familiar refuge from the shock I was going through during the day.

I did this for a week or two (until it became easy), then applied the same process (recursion!) to my current habits.

Somewhere along the line, when I felt comfortable I took out some of the associatives (only have a smoke when I drive to work, not coming home).

I kept repeating this until I was down to 2 - 3 a day, then one day (without prior planing) said I was going to make it the whole day. I don't think it worked, but I kept trying every once in a while.

The first time I used this process I quit for a few months. The second (and current time) has been about 8. I still want to smoke from time to time.

Once again - YMMV but I didn't really WANT to quit. I liked smoking, but my unparalleled stubbornness helped me get through.
No need to choose. Create a symbolic link.

You can create these via drag and drop in Linux (ctrl+shift in Gnome) and OSX (command+option), and via some other trickery in Windows.

http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/SyncOtherFolders
Money ~= autonomy in the rest of your life.
Sorry but I should say this in Turkish; Geçmiş olsun! Well I'm in a bad situation now. I've been postponing military duty because of obesity for the last 3 years. In 2 years time I could be out of service. But I've lost over 40 Kgs. In this September I may be called for duty :(
>Further, I have a backlog of unread books I bought on Amazon, and I don't see why I should replace them (or if I can) using Apple's store.

To clear that piece of FUD - there's a Kindle app in the Apple app store which lets you read all your Kindle books on your iPad.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kindle/id302584613?mt=8
And always, always, always! test commands (or queries, for that matter) before executing them. For instance, my example would run 'sed' multiple times on files containing multiple matches of the string grep searches for. And it should have been cut -d':' -f1. Running it without the 'sed' command would have made both those things clear immediately. If you think you know for sure it does what you intend it to do, but you didn't test it, then it doesn't do what you think it does.
The Kindle is best at reading straight-forward linear text with minimal formatting, like novels. You can't go wrong with a Kindle if you read plenty of novels, especially if you read outside.

OTOH, the iPad is far superior for heavily formatted text and graphical content. Even the Kindle DX has terrible support for PDFs and the eInk screen is inherently bad for graphics, so for the person who wants to carry textbooks, technical papers, other structured PDFs, or comic books, the iPad is the only viable option.
The wedding industry is ripe for disruption...

My thoughts were more on the registry side of things - a $12 Billion industry => http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1541767
Yes, works as expected.
Ternary op, with statement, new string formatting/templeting. A few of the standard libs are crap and should not have been added.

Not against new stuff ('with' is proly worth it) But the pace of change is too much and accelerating (or was until moritorium). Instead of taking away more than one way to do things such as [] as synonym for list(), more than one way to do things are being added.

3.0 is move in right direction, unfortunately it's a move I have to wait for major communities(Django) to make before I can.
Not to discourage you, but have a look at this comment from mahmud

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=538241

Infact, that whole thread is awesome.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky
My Army service was voluntary, and somewhat less traumatic, but it similarly expanded my horizons and gave me a very different perspective on things. I consider it one of the better things I have done in my life both in terms of personal development and in terms of contributing.

I served as an officer in both Iraq and Afghanistan and while I have been to England before, seeing those places gave me a very different perspective on the world. Similarly, being in charge of men in combat zones is very different than managing a technical group.
Yes, that's absolutely true, and they've had a 'battle for dominance' already, he came out of it with nothing more than a bunch of scratches though (fortunately).

The guy is very well aware of what he's doing and is not taking any chances.

He lives in Northern Ontario, just North of Sault ste. Marie, in the bush, on his own, no other family members nearby, and he knows the risks involved.
"And pirating PC games is wrong because, were it not for that minority of worthy souls who actually chip in, the industry that makes the games we love would descend into a shadow realm of tiny ad-supported Flash games and Farmville."

How does he deny the entire community of free A quality games? Dwarf Fortress, Cave Story, N, Crawl...? I've got your flash game and your Farmville here, but I know it's not what he was thinking.

There are plenty of other games in quite a few categories that are and always have been free. There are worlds of innovation in every Ludum Dare, and for more particular gamers, there are several amazing games coming out every year from the different shmup and roguelike competitions. VVVVVV notwithstanding, the masocore genre has been almost completely contained in the domain of free indie games.

Note, also, the development of piracy resistant game platforms: League of Legends, for example, provides their Dota-like and dedicated servers free of charge, and get money from users from a store that sells cosmetic skins for in-game characters. There are ways to extract value from players who don't pay, won't pay, and are going to play. Most pirate copies of games give incentives to recommend all your friends pirate, not buy, the game.

Do you think anyone who was making games for love and not money would release Big Rig Racing?
I'm 28 now. It's really good to be in shape. I'm afraid of going the other path now. Congratulations to you too.
Nice work. Looks a little too much like StackOverflow, but I understand the thinking behind it.
It's not great ideas you should be after, it's great problems. If someone has a great idea for a website, I might use it. If you can solve a problem I've got, I'll pay you.

Here are 4 problems I've got that I'd happily pay money to have solved for me.

1. I can't find good podcasts about the things I'm interested in. I should be able to say "give me any podcast about 'yiddish'" and a neat server would collate them all.

2. I want something between a university course and Ruby learning, without having to be 'present' or leaving my job, but with small, bite-sized chunks of learning. Amy Hoy/Thomas Fuchs and Michael Hartl are kind of their with their smaller groups/sessions. I'd like sessions on Apache, jQuery, Ruby, testing, CS fundamentals, etc. This could be something as simple as facilitated self-study.

3. A Twitter iPad app for note-taking and live-blogging at conferences. It should focus on note-taking and allow you to send out tweets of particular parts and easily follow hash tags.

4. A web interface that brings together all the different recommended writing rules (like this: http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voi... and this: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/07/janet-fit...) and some readability scores, etc. Paid users could set a consistent rules/styles/brand voice and possibly integrate with Google Docs or something similar.
Anybots QB telepresence robot: nag employees remotely for $15,000
If you're a Vim user on a Mac, check out ViKing http://vikingapp.com
forcing them to have written tests beforehand would probably have avoided many of them in the first place I bet.

What you describe could be dealt with by having a team lead review things and assign some of the bugs back to the original developers. Done right, this can indeed increase some quality issues over the long haul.

The problem with this can often be the bugs are there not because they're lazy but because they really don't know a good way to solve the issue, and may not even have recognized the bug potential at the start. The 'fresh pair of eyes' argument has a lot of merit, but it tends to result in other people cleaning up for the original devs, which you're trying to avoid (I don't blame you).

Talk with the team lead(s) and see if they can divvy up some bugs back to the original devs, then track if those same mistakes get made by the same people or not.
This reminded me of the post from Ben Casnocha on living out the "do one thing that scares you" advice:

http://ben.casnocha.com/2010/07/living-out-the-do-one-thing-...
I certainly have problems myself. pg clearly does too. I get the feeling it's widespread beyond that.
Even if the journey is shit, the painful details tend to melt away as time passes, leaving only "yeah, that taught me a lot" in forefront. That's just how the brain works, how we naturally preserve our sanity/positive outlook. After long enough time, the only regrets about uncomfortable situations tend to be about not taking the plunge.
It wouldn't need it, but it could be used to find wallpapers relevant to your location (photos).
If you read the comments Dave is busy shouting at people who make that point. Apparently there's some sort of additional reason why the Kindle hardware is staying around.
I use that software every day. Want to get in touch with me? (Email in my HN profile.)
It sure doesn't help the learning curve though, as you basically can't talk about which keys to use with most (qwerty) users.
Hecl runs ok on Android, although he talks about Python and Ruby, so that excludes us. Oh well...
A good trick for that is to type in the whole command with 'echo' as the final one in the place of the command that actually makes changes. Then you replace the echo with the 'real' thing on the next run if the results where what you expected them to be. In the case of 'rm -rf $1. *' that would save you a lot of hunting around for backups ;)
But I said that I have no problem with rudeness and snobbiness, and I was being more than half serious.
"Kiss her, you idiot... "

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372723
Amazon kindle 'most highlighted books of all time' list,
There are other things in live besides yourself and the empty universe, you know. In particular, other people are something external to the self that typically supply a lot of meaning for many.
What Is Apple Secretly Downloading From Your iPhone at Night?
Sad to say that vi/vim has not been installed on every *nix box I have used. Its not installed on freenas by default, which I have running on a box. My mind was blown when I realized it didn't have at least vi.
I felt similarly but I realized that in my case it was because I didn't properly understand selectors.
Fwiw, I found this site particularly helpful: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/
I push myself through my comfort zone about one to two times a year. I travel by plane.
It is one of the most horrifying things I can imagine and I still do it, the outcome is not really positive but I get to challenge a fear, understand how I cope with it and think about how to deal with extreme situations.
When did you stop beating your wife?

If you'd like to rephrase your question, I'll respond.

EDIT: Ok, I'll respond. For both you and me, a position as a math teacher would involve taking less money, working harder, and contributing more to society than we do now. I don't feel the need to kick public servants in the teeth that you apparently do. If you're outraged by government spending, go after the big dollars that don't accomplish anything first. Then you can worry about small dollars for people who do accomplish things.