skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really important observation. Glad you deflated the sensational headline.

Debt is a big deal. But we're all carrying around big deals, one way or another. The important part is being open and honest with yourself, so you can be open with the person you want to share your life with. Eastman was avoiding the truth of her situation, which screwed both herself and her fiance.

You could just as easily say "How having prior children can ruin budding relationships." And sure, they can discourage them. But a relationship where the kid situation is known up front is very different from a relationship where the kid is disclosed a few weeks before the wedding.
It was an earned compliment, given in reluctance.
She's in San Francisco. If she can get regular work at weddings she'll be able to pull down $2000-3000 per gig, and probably more over time. I talked to people who wanted $5-6k -- when I stopped laughing they told me that there are people who will pay it. Weddings are an absurd profit machine.
> C/C++/Java/PHP/Python/Ruby? Really? I was expecting HNers to be a little more innovative

Care to explain?
After recently working with Microsoft on a project for 8 months all I can say is the way their product team offices are set up is quite bad. The user experience designers and visual designers are sitting hallways down from the developers and program managers. This is not how it should be. All stakeholders in the application design process should be near each other. Open work spaces do wonders for communication and collaboration, which in turn affects product design.
"In The Skeptical Environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg challenges widely held beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse."

Yes, but that refers to deforestation, pollution and loss of biodiversity, not global warming. I haven't read the book myself (much less beaten anyone over the head with it), but I trust Wikipedia when it says that "Lomborg 'accepts the reality of man-made global warming' though he refers to a number of uncertainties in the computer simulations of global warming and some aspects of data collection".
I wonder what it would take to fake the User Agent such that it can be loaded in Chrome or Safari? Wish I had time to tinker with it. :)
This is true. But it is also true that the wedding photography business is under severe pricing pressure right now, so I would not count on those prices being sustainable for a lot of photographers.
Well yes. Microsoft is often said to have problems with teams competing internally (pointlessly), or just not working together. However, that's a management choice that can come from the top. If there's one thing a "Chief Software Architect" should do, it's make sure all software teams are in the habit of communicating and collaborating whenever possible. It doesn't seam like that happened here.
> it looks a lot like my pre-code scribbles

Absolutely, and I mostly write ruby. I actually love that about python. But it feels optimized for writing code with a pen, not with a keyboard. Come to think of it, I don't prefer either for the reading of other's code. But ruby and perl seem to flow from my keys much more naturally than python.

Maybe if I switch from vi to emacs I'll change my tune? ;)
I did say it was for noobs.

Main useful bits:

* cheap host, $10/month, root access so no configuration headaches. My search didn't turn up many of those, and the node hosting wiki page is non-obvious: http://github.com/ry/node/wiki/Hosting/_edit (and only just added webbynode to the list)

* how to set up that machine in particular

* points to other helpful resources once node is installed
I'm well aware of that. I'm just saying that most of us hard core folks did not, which is why we complain more about Windows.
Decent, though I'm personally not a fan of the faux coloring or the frequent tilting that seems to be the trend lately. But, she's in the Bay area. That's one of the most saturated markets in the US, and some of the best photographers I know are there. The competition would be very, very tough.
when I say that something is unknown I am making a statement about my own ignorance, not a statement about the physical world.
Is there a button you can click in Starcraft II that will upgrade your sense of humor?
Just fyi, I checked your link and while there are 22 positions there are no openings in Seattle.
There was an article about this in sfgate two weeks ago.

It's pretty much a fantasy, madeup statistic.

http://www.sfgate.com/columns/yourwholepet/
DAMNIT. Apparently I just HAD to move out of SF before this happened. The poor location, cost of living, and everything else don't matter when Starcraft 2 is on the line.
Any other solo founders interested in this? I am diamond 2v2.
Java - Engineer, Luxembourg, Europe.

We are searching at least 3 more developers in the fields of search & automatic content/site extraction, crawling, duplicate content, news/spam detection.

We do content fetching and aggregation (news,message boards, blogs, ...) for market research institutes, media analytics companies, etc...

We are still relative small (mostly Harvard, ETH Zurich, and TU Munich graduates), so you are still able to actively shape our company.

If you are from abroad, and want to experience a different culture for a few months/years (some even stayed here their entire life ;)) in a small french/german/english speaking country, why not join?

We can also offer internships for a few months (probably 6).

http://blog.trendiction.com/tag/jobs

Just drop me (thibaut) a mail (or call) if you are interested or need more information!
OTOH, I have lived for more than 6 years in Japan, which also have a culture of having things which look complex, and I think the OP is closer to what I have seen than Zed Shaw on that particular aspect.

I still don't understand why, but Japanese in general love that everything is written on magazines and advertisements, that UI are mind-blowing complex. In general, slides with as much stuff crammed into it are well regarded as well - academic conferences in Japan were scary in that aspect, compared to more internal ones. That's where Zed has a point I think, that is it is not that the culture value complexity as much as valuing a lot of data and information.

If you want to get scared, look into the big EC shops in Japan (e.g. rakuten: http://www.rakuten.co.jp/). I find it almost offensive. The main page also gives a good feeling of what it is like to be inside the subway in a big Japanese city during rush hours - you have advertisements in every location which is not occupied by human flesh.

On a side note, while the snarky comment of Zed Shaw is well, snarky, I would note than Don Norman used to teach 2 months/year in Korea, so he most likely did more than buy a SUV from there.
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"Which is, I think, rather sleazy."

Why, exactly?
We have the same VME crate running the telescope drive motors that was put in when the place was built in the early 80s.

There are a lot of 1960s minicomputers running factories and power stations out there. Do you want to close down a major power plant to install a PC based replacement and hope that it works first time?
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Startup life is a roller coaster for the ego
You can always come back to play!
What if you find yourself essentially wedding your way into a mountain of debt? By legally binding yourself to that person, don't you become jointly responsible (and culpable) for their finances, including past debts?
Well iCCup bills itself as a gosu server, so it's understandable. D on iCCup must be about the top 4% of the SC population or something. C would be 1%.
parts of my desktop are around 6 or 7 years old, but I gave it a refurbish about 4 years back

not currently using for production because after staying up all night updating and deleting old backups, I forgot to bring it where I was going :(
And won so far, but it's still on appeal.
In the UK, it's already the 4th; intereactive Buckyball celebrates discovery
Yes, if this is successful we will do it again!
When I heard that public voting was a 50% component of every category, I wasn't too happy.

There's a huge number of problems with that. Obviously, people can try to get all their friends to give them 5 stars across the board.

Also, I'd guess that the first couple votes have a huge impact on the rest of the votes because the voting page had the previous votes right below it. I'd guess that people are unlikely to stray too far from the other votes they see due to subconscious groupthink. I'm not sure if the judges also saw the votes on their voting page, but if so, that might have seriously impacted the outcome.

I would have preferred to see one popularity category decided by public voting, with the rest solely decided by judges.

But I'm not that mad. I wasn't really expecting to win a category, and most of the value came from learning node and being forced to get a whole lot done in 48 hours. And the winners seemed reasonable.
This makes me quite annoyed as well. Whenever I've asked Twitter about it, they simply say "The applications still use an OAuth access token to access the API, so it's still a secure authentication option." That's not the problem. The application may have to use the access token to use the API, but there's absolutely nothing stopping them from storing the password in their databases behind the scenes.
That makes sense. I got married a few years ago and was shocked at what some of vendors were asking for. With a rough economy I can see weddings being an area that gets scaled back for a lot of people.
Well, I don't recall saying that, but i did tell "First Blood" that "I'm not in here with you, you are in here with me".

But seriously, check us out. Do you enjoy drilling down to find out how things really work? Are you a puzzle kind of person? Do you think you can crack the pale apple? Perhaps you would like to work with "Cupcake", "One Ping Only", or maybe "Quiet, Redhead, Deadly". Tell Tom I told you to give him a call.

Another perk is you get a laptop loaded with stuff that would be illegal in some european countries. (Lots of it is open source, so relax).

And yes, First Blood totally got me with the swimming pool on the twelfth floor.
It's still not "extortion," in that USCG can claim to
have a legitimate legal basis for the demands, but it
certainly comes damn close in practice.

No, it's extortion. The process for determining who might have used BitTorrent here is seriously flawed, and the flaws are known, but the attitude from the accusing side is "So what?"
What I would guess is that with Apple making deals with the major labels and positioning itself as the outlet for the consumption of mainstream music, it needs avoid anything that implies an "edge", which seems to be just about everything in the end; The music someone plays can just easily become a controversial statement as the text they post, maybe more easily.
Regardless of how good her portfolio is, I think the point he was trying to make is that you don't need a degree in photography to be a good photographer. My brother-in-law does some of the best corporate photography I've seen, well respected in his field, and he got an unrelated degree.

I think his point about business knowledge is a good one. If you want to be a successful photographer, you're probably better off getting a degree in marketing, communications, or business management, and minor in photography.
Funny you should mention that, because the new developer of DNF is Gearbox software, who previously released the game "Borderlands" which was a very stylised, comic book-style game.

Even more interesting is that they first developed Borderlands as hyper-realistic, Crysis-like game and then moved to the new art direction during development.
The new AppleTV might turn into an iPad accessory
There are some big and new projects in Perl out there (BBC iPlayer for one – which is an enormously high-traffic site).

The real issue is that a language dies when new people stop learning it. Python's the language-du-jour of programming education (and has a strong position in science as a Matlab replacement, thanks to Numpy), Ruby's got Rails to give it momentum, PHP has Wordpress and Drupal as gateway drugs, Clojure and Scala are the JVM's great hopes, F# is the CLR's, and C#, Java and C++ will give you access to a lot of jobs.

Where are the new Perl programmers – in bulk – going to come from?
I think if you're Apple, you probably could create a blank page with a Buy button to increase revenue.
Not hardware, but a mid 40s lady I help with PC things happily uses some 20+ year old DOS software for managing her small business. She even programmed some custom templates and reports. She struggles with the concept of windows and does not like using the mouse.
Google is hiring software engineers in engineering offices around the world: Mountain View, Seattle, New York City, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, Waterloo, Zurich...

See: http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/swe/index.html
The pricing for a weddings-only photographer is largely based on the number of bookings they will do in a year and their demand. All else being equal, the $6k one is likely in more demand than the $3k one. That demand is almost entirely based on word-of-mouth referrals, which take time to build, so it ends up like any brand -- it's worth more when more known.

The deliverables are drastically different between different photographers as well. The wholesale cost difference between our upper-end album and the lower-end one is about 600%.

I don't remember the article to reference it here, but the current cost of weddings was started largely by the introduction of gift registries. It snowballed from there.
Because iTunes is a bloated moneymaking machine that has had very little thought put into UX since the store took off?
Even easier, malicious apps can simply use another client app's key. OAuth wasn't really designed for desktop client authentication. The revocation you propose is predicated on the app key being a secret, but desktop clients can't keep secrets.

See the section in the relevant RFC:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5849#section-4.6
Syncing. Checkbox marks items you want to sync.
Sorry. I should have deleted Python, Ruby - and maybe PHP for close to the metal web programming - after having copied the line. Regarding C/C++/Java, I was expecting HNers to prefer more agile languages and/or exploiting some other language's features to gain a competitive advantage.
Thank for the feedback. That is exactly the void we are trying to fill! Git is awesome, but the functionality can be overwhelming for people at times.

As for the scripting, are you talking about integrating with git hooks, or just plain scripts? I would love to hear more about your idea, email me at theSpiralLab@gmail.com
I noticed this post from Biz (his first since July 7th) and compared it with this analysis of a post from Ev: http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/09/03/twitter-ecosystem-a...

It seems to me that a couple of people are trying to show how much value there is in Twitter, like a orphaned puppy looking extra adorable for possible new owners. Just saying.
> You can't press play again, it's just faded out.

Right, because there's nothing to play. If you preview a song in the store then the Play button becomes active.

The point is that the Play button does only control one thing: the playlist or screen that you are currently viewing.

It works the same whether you're switching between two playlists, or between a playlist and the store. How else would you have it work?
Software Engineer - SF

Scribd is hiring for a few different positions.

We work in ruby, but there is plenty of java, python, and other variety mixed in when it makes sense.

The engineering team is comprised of many of HN readers who genuinely enjoy what they do and are driven to solve challenging problems. If you are interested, you can check out our jobs page or email me directly with any questions.

http://www.scribd.com/jobs
Hmm... don't tempt me, haha! I think my girlfriend would kill me.
Uh, this is the norm for many settings in OS X.
Language is a tool. Certainly, some people will create literature and others are merely hacks. Some languages will be conceptually cleaner, some more pure, and some an amalgam of expressions "borrowed" from other languages.

No, Virginia, Perl is not dead. Not as long as there is more than one way to do it, or a hacker trying to finish something that was due yesterday.

Perl, as we know it, might pass from this earth. But the spirit it embodied, that first we should use duct tape to build on the work of others then write glue to make it stick, that getting-things-done was the primary goal --- this is too close to the core of our restless selves. A thousand years from now, there will be some startup somewhere with an urgent need and a hacker that strokes his chin and says, "I think I could write that in Perl[1]..."

[1] replace "perl" with your favorite language. Pick the right tool for the job. Sometimes means "the tool you are most familiar with", but that says more about you than about the language.
Anyone hiring in Brazil?
your name is ALMOST zerg... I have a feeling you're a Starcraft Shark.
Great, except I'm not really a fan of the (slow) on hover animation, nor of the indentation of the currently selected element.
Sure: http://www.b-labs.com/cdocs/b_labs_job_position.txt

This was for the experienced post, but for a hard working enthusiastic individual we can consider lesser experience. Also here's the project site: http://www.l4dev.org/
I'm sure everyone has a point where they say 'enough!'. And besides that, there is a point where you have to say, "I love you and I want to say that doesn't matter, but it does, even though I don't feel like it does". Occasionally, you have to protect yourself from yourself.

It also might wind up providing new insight on their character.
Can gaming make a better world?
Then again, no amount of communication is going to completely negate the blow of someone with $200k or more debt who does not plan to earn enough to pay it off. There's a lesson in that . . . something like, "Don't buy expensive things unless you're sure you want them and can pay for them."
Yes! I'm in the gold, but will keep practicing. Email me, Taylor at printfriendly.com
> Right, because there's nothing to play.

There's nothing there to play because "pause" irrationally became "stop" for no apparent reason (remember there's no playlist in sight), and the user accidentally pressed it. There's no reason for it to be this way.

Why shouldn't the play button apply to songs, especially when it was played individually and not as a playlist? Seems like the type of thing a music player should do.
You should come in full SCV costume.
I dunno. I wouldn't fund any startup that can't pull off a good zergling rush.
I have made exactly the same thing! But now I guess I'll either read their documentation or use one of the scripts/libs listed above.
Heh, I don't know a better word for it. That's how people who are enthusiastic about IDEs tend to talk. I would hesitate to call it "awesome" or anything like that, but among IDEs, it's well thought-of.
This is on the front page... guess I will be seeing a few of you guys @ Blizzcon this year.
In regards to the close/min/max buttons... No, 'abomination' is not too strong a word.
If the entire cat population after five years originated from one female I think the total would be somewhat less than that estimated due to negative genetic effects - mainly inbreeding depression: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding_depression.
Let me guess... it's now going to be a skateboarding game with a turtle as the main character. ;-)
YouTube never charged a subscription to see copyrighghted material and held back 'royalties' the owner never agreed to. I'll be surprised if grooveshark is still around in 1 year. Look at playlist.com, imeem, etc.
Just for fun, I thought I'd round it out by implementing the last two steps of OAuth (sending the user to Twitter and exchanging a PIN for an access token) since somebody else already did all the hard work :D

https://gist.github.com/564687/
Blizzard did try to make everyone feel good about their ranking. However, the flaw in your argument is that hardly anyone ranked D- in ICCup was actually a novice at Broodwar.
I think the logic is simple: Both workers and employers underestimate the impact that not taking a vacation has on productivity. Forcing them to gain the productivity gains that come through the vacation raises the overall efficiency.

(On the other hand, if people get more vacation and spend half of their day playing Solitaire, that's not a winning proposition.)
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In 2008? I can think of other explanations for a drop in hiring around then.
> Where are the new Perl programmers – in bulk – going to come from?

The world of non-programmers, same as always.
> I don't feel like FPS have evolved at all since that time.

Halo later brought in regenerating health, but yeah, that's all I can think of.
My parents started a PC software ISV in the early 80s, and they bought one of the first thousand Compaq Portables in 1983 (the very first PC clones!), that they would take with them to trade shows. The keyboard flipped up to form a lid that covered the screen and floppy drives, but it had a design flaw in that it was more of a boot than a lid — the screen was on the bottom, and eventually the CRT was broken by a Airport porter. The next portable my dad bought was the first Thinkpad with a color screen. It had a PS/2 architecture and he ran OS/2 on it much of the time.

Both computers were solid as hell.

He definitely had a habit of buying insanely expensive computers and then using them forever. He had an old Dell 386 that eventually got a huge SCSI enclosure that he used as his primary machine for close to ten years (my mom had a matching one that lasted even longer). When he got a 1-meter tall dual Pentium Pro tower from Micron, he just set it up at the the other end of his 12ft desk and kept using both. He kept using that thing for another 5 years until he got a dual P4 Xeon with Rambus memory, which then lasted another 8 years (he only replaced it last year!).
Provided it's actually true that vacations improve productivity, that's fine. Of course, that is the question . . .
Thanks for pointing this out! I went to Iowa State, and if you got a degree in Math, or Physics, or, gasp, CS, the degree came from the same "college" as would a degree in English, or Anthropology. And, if you took enough "geeky" courses, you could easily get a BS (instead of a BA) in English or Anthropology. At ISU, a math degree was very seriously a "liberal arts" degree. And yet, on a regular basis, engineering students would say that all colleges at ISU, except for the College of Engineering, should be abolished. It shows you how stupid they were (maybe still are..), considering one of the colleges they wanted to get rid of was Ag, and ISU is a Land Grant University! So sad.
I'm investigating how I can get a probe costume.
The Previous, Play, and Next buttons apply to the screen you are currently viewing. They work just the same in the store as they do on any other iTunes screen.
There is a lot of technical detail about the engine from it's creator here: http://www.advsys.net/ken/default.htm

I have to note that Ken's story is one of the things got me into programming as a kid, back when DN3D was still fresh.
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Golden. As is this line

They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).

It's funny how far we've come, with today's out of the box search tools this wouldnt be a problem
> I can't agree with that FPSes haven't changed since then

Yeah, I found Portal by Valve Software a couple of years ago the same groundbreaking experience in terms of gameplay that I felt with those first 3D games. Some of my friends said the same about HalfLife before it.
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