skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had much better luck since I invested in an expensive (~$200) electric shaver. I have very sensitive skin and it was the only method I found that allowed me to shave with any frequency without too many problems. I still have a tendency to shave about once a week however. At which point I'll usually have to use a trimmer first, and then the shaver.
I got a Power Macintosh 6100/60 when I turned 9 in the year 1994. I loved it and spent the next few years of my life learning to do almost anything with the computer. I didn't realize (or know) that "everything you can do with a computer" actually crossed multiple different kinds of disciplines, but I didn't care at the time. I threw myself into games, desktop publishing, image manipulation, HTML, and a host of other things to whatever extent I could get the software to play with it. (If my parents had the money or the inclination to buy me Photoshop at the time I might have ended up as a graphic designer.)

Actually programming seemed almost intimidatingly challenging to me until eighth grade, when I tried to throw myself into C. At that age, I lacked the discipline and attention to detail to keep going, and was (and remain, to a lesser degree) reluctant to ask for help from others. Eventually I went into cultivating other interests until midway through college, when I realized that aside from a continuing interest in philosophy there was nothing I actually liked enough to make a career out of except maybe technology. I was reluctant to pivot halfway through college, but after a year or two of half measures I dove into CS. And here I am--a bit of late bloomer for sure.
> Venture capitalists were smoking pot in my backyard and passing out on my couch.

This is the west coast, right? You could replace "smoking pot" with "drinking booze" and the surprise level doesn't change all that much for me.
Shaving is special product: its personal. Nicks, pulls, uneven results: you feel it intensely. Once you find something that works, there is a large resistance to change.

Flip side: once something fails, folks flee in droves. Remington(?) famous case: stopped replacing "sharpening disks" every shift to save money; lots of flawed razors shipped; sales dropped precipitously until they tracked the problem back.

I'd think these things matter lots more than the "rational customer" model of economic efficiency.
Ask HN: First in the second league or second in the first league
Inspired by the recent discussion about benefits of moving to San Francisco. Someone commented that in many places you'll be the first (e.g. most skilled) in the office but after moving to SF you might easily find yourself to be just an average programmer.

It's interesting to hear different views on being in the top of the second league or to be just an average in the first league. What is more important for you (what would you prefer). I think both have their pluses and minuses.

Please don't misunderstand. I am not referring to SF or to the rest of the world as the first or the second league here. It was just an example.
There is zero incentive to stay unemployed because you get the same money regardless of age or employment. Chances are she would have taken the same vacation, and then gotten a lower paying job sooner.

PS: It's also a smaller paycheck than SS or unemployment so it's harder to get by without a job.
Allow this application to:

* read phone state and identity

No thanks.
Did I read it wrong? Explosive growth occurred WHEN they switched to the classic model (from the patent-protected model).
Or the United States for that matter.
> And while places like Github and LinkedIn are important parts of your identity, there's nothing more important than a web site that you control. If you haven't registered your domain today, do it.

There's a huge difference between Github and LinkedIn. You can put up content in any format at <username>.github.com. You get a local backup copy of what you put on their as a side effect of using git to push it. The contents of the repo doesn't belong to Github, so you can post it up anywhere. If GitHub disappeared (they won't) or took down your account for some ridiculous reason (they won't), it wouldn't take that long for search engines to be able to find the new location.

If you can't think of an especially good domain name, I don't think picking one up today is a great idea. That said, I have firstlast.com and I recommend getting it to anyone who commonly goes by that combination and has the firstlast.com for their name unregistered.

Finally, I'm surprised how many hackers are using HN or twitter but aren't active on GitHub. GitHub is at least 10x more valuable IMO. (You have to actively use it, of course, to get the value out of it.)
> Are keyloggers and the like blown out of proportion

Keyloggers and password reuse are a real-world security issue. Two-factor authentication provides an extra level of protection against them.

> being locked out of your account/domain .... for most small players/home users?

The final step of configuring two-factor verification provides you with a list of one-time codes you can print. This provides a back-up way of having codes in case your phone is lost. You can keep these printed codes some place safe like your wallet or safety deposit box.

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=...
Leads to another discussion, should HN support openid login, via google or any other openid provider? That way I wouldn't have to remember yet another password.

If that were the case however, I have yet to see a mobile (iphone, android) app that does openid authentication nicely.

What would really be interesting is tying openid to a hardware identifier in a mobile phone...
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See "Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War" for a more complete description of his life. The article doesn't do it justice.

http://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed/dp/0316...
What I don't like about Clojure is that it leaves out some features which I love about other Lisps. See this post:

http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2010/04/dylan-and-lisp-family...
Simple, I ask for something small in return - a four-pack of beer, help with my car, dinner, or something like that. I started doing this many years ago, and it's got rid of the "Hi, I'm a fried of your brother"-type calls, whilst my friends and family have recognised that it's work for me nonetheless.

End result: everyone goes home happy :)
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I've actually made it a policy for the developers in my team to not do tech support type fixes for people anymore. I've had in the past people be helpful only to become another teams full time tech go to which is incredibly distracting.
Wow, I just left Internet Brands a month ago. I think it's a good time to sell. CarsDirect was their cash cow 3 years ago, but now it is in bad shape because of the auto industry, and the rest of their revenue is ad-driven (read: volatile). For example, a recent change in Google ad policy eliminated clickable whitespace in ads. Some publishers have seen ad revenues drop 30% as a result. And with the trend toward instant search and social media, I doubt they can keep squeezing revenue out of a portfolio of vBulletin forums with stale content.

Looks like the first cries of foul play have started:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/kendall-law-group-investiga...
Software is the highest leverage profession in the world right now. Perhaps in the early 1900's it was wildcatting for oil in Southern California. It minted billionaires like Getty, but it was tough work that required guile and cunning. Anytime there is a societal and technological dislocation, there are times of high leverage for individuals to create a lot of value.

It just so happens software creates wealth right now. I think that's a great thing.
That's true, of course, but not really relevant to this discussion. Even if your own code is crap, you're happy to work on it because it is your code. I think a large part of this, for me anyway, is that I have no one but myself to blame for the state of the code and so: 1) I have internalized all the reasons for why it looks the way it does and 2) I can't fall into the trap of blaming everything that's wrong on an external party.
And that's the point. Nobody wants to put in effort to find out that their genius idea is not.
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but HN is one fine and diversely educational distraction that is sometimes applicable to work. I can't say the same for FarmVille in 99% of the cases.
The Economist (a magazine that is very pro-business) had an interesting article recently about social psychology experiments that showed that the rich are less able to enjoy the day to day pleasures of life. And this effect also happens among people temporarily made relatively rich (say given $100) or even just shown pictures of money.

The need of our economic system to keep people consuming creates advertising indoctrination that pulls our attention away from what really satisfies: Day to day relationships with other people and the details of our life. Excess wealth is more a matter of aggressively possessing things that other people don't have than enjoying those things for themselves. It leads to an empty narcissism that leaves the rich unsatisfied and without empathy for the victims of their greed. And frustrated and angry and in search of scapegoats.
I simply tell them politely "no".
I have seen drinking lunch and pretty blatant sexual harassment in the work place. (Drunk boss chases female subordinate around the room; bosses sleep with secretaries; computer operator consumes 5 mixed drinks at a company party, then bollixes an upgrade.) So the old-timey fun as The Economist seems to define it is something I don't much miss.
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If there is any effective product marketing product, then it is none other than label print for the reason that it is made with up competitive graphic design tools and software artistically. Usually they are manufactured by means of four color scheme which is characteristically known as CMYK. Printing tags are very professional, stylish, cost effective and practical products by any means because they are adorned with effortless gloss and matte finish techniques.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a video commentaries of open source project
I'm trying to gauge if anybody would be interested in video commentaries of open source projects.
I think one of the barriers to entry to contributing to a open source project is the time it takes to understand how things are currently structured.
Also, it can be used as a training tool for neophyte to understand how to implement a particular piece of code and to show expressions of a given standard.

Also would you be willing to pay for such a service
Historically, MySQL has focused on ease of use, speed out-of-the-box, and aimed to be a lightweight, "personal" database (hence the "My"). This fast & light focus meant that certain "BigDB" features (triggers, transactions, ...) fell by the wayside.

On the other hand, PostgreSQL has historically focused on correctness and full support for advanced database features, looking to supplant Oracle and SQLServer. This meant that speed and ease of use sometimes suffered.

Today, though, both databases have mostly caught up -- MySQL has implemented most of the big ticket features that PostgreSQL had for years, and PostgreSQL (especially with the 9.0 release) has gotten far easier to use and tune, and is now as fast (or faster) than MySQL on most workloads.

The heritage still shows, at times: MySQL, even in "strict" mode, still suffers from annoying bugs and mis-interpretations of SQL features. PostgreSQL is still slow out of the box, often needing to be carefully tuned for the best performance.

Disclaimer: major PostgreSQL user and fan here. I've tried to give as objective an answer as I can.
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Toronto has a few additional forms of transport and many people do not even use the Subway on a daily basis thanks to those.

- Streetcars run all along downtown. Yup, they get stuck in traffic too but we have two streetcars running on dedicated lines now (St. Clair and Spadina), and they are pretty efficient.

- GO Trains connect the suburbs to the downtown core, and they are basically how anyone living outside of downtown Toronto get into the city if they are not using a car.

- Subways here run ever 5 minutes, unless there is a delay (Surprisingly rare), so the system is pretty efficient.

Despite all of this. I agree, the system is pretty weak, but after moving here my car's been sitting idle on my drive-way on a daily basis. I can easily get anywhere in the city, using my car only to leave the city. They are doing a lot to increase the subway line, but are also adding a lot more dedicated light rail lines.
Sugary foods cause a crash after consuming them. So yes, there is a negative fall associated with it.

The thing with calorie restriction is if you eat all good foods that make you feel good, likely your "calorie restriction" situation occurs anyways. If you have enough of the good-feeling foods to not be in a state where calorie restriction is actually happening, you begin to feel bad (full/bloated). And thus, fulfill the scenario where "feeling bad" actually is again bad for your long-term health.
Oops...I left out the final chapter:

After selling my social/search/shopping startup GoogTwitFaceGroupon, I retired at 30 as the world's first trillionaire.
I had the same reaction. It felt like a sneaky publicity for Agile. On the other hand, the writer found one hell of a nice hook to get people to read the article.
upvoted back up. Although hotornot has a negative stigma associated with it, I think you're spot on. Or how about okcupid w/video instead of the pictures? Photos and text profile only say so much about a person.
How is it then that Justin Bieber is the most popular thing on YouTube?
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That's might be a good advice for some introverts who want to stay who they are. But I think it is a bad advice.

Going always the same patch from work to home, eat always the same food all the time, creating a ritual from everything - that is a common way for an introverts an autistic people to stay away from the world, always looking to the ground.

I know, it is almost painful to do a new, different things, you need some effort, to force you to go a different way, to try a different combination, to visit a new, strange place, and especially to talk to a strange people. But after a many tries you will re-frame yourself, and there will be no more regret ever.

The DRY principle is not only for programmers. It is all about going out of a comfort zone, about developing a new habits and re-framing those which are here from a childhood.
If you're using Django, and all else being equal, I'd choose PostgreSQL. Nearly all of the core developers (myself included) use PostgreSQL, so Django tends to have better support and we tend to find (and fix) PostgreSQL-related bugs a little bit quicker.

That said, plenty Django sites use MySQL -- including some of the very biggest ones -- without issues. So you're really in good shape either way.
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Apple signs secretive multi-year technology licensing pact
At risk of tooting my own drum (did I say that right? ;-), you could always sign up at http://EveryMentor.com and try to get matched to a mentor there. I envision it as the online equivalent to a workout buddy.

There are a couple hundred "mentors" on there now at varying skill levels, with several dozen happy matches.
Hurray for the beeb, because at the time it was probably a better platform to learn on than any other machine available, but it was quite expensive.

My real start was 74 series chips though, and from there the TRS-80, which I was allowed to use at a radio shack, it was cheaper than buying logic parts.
Scott Adams seems to enjoy submitting ideas for discussion moreso than actually developing them. I'm guessing he's already rather financially stable, so it may not be worth the hassle to him to actually do it.
Definitely :) I'm one of the developers and we actually have hockey teams, couples, real estate agents, small legal teams and tour bus drivers using the app as it is.

There are also quite a few people who just track their own iPhone in case it's lost, stolen, or for curiosity about their own movements.
LISP wasn't providing closures at that point (1958), was it?

I've read that the LISP community was the only major part of the FP community that had trouble with this and that the other parts were always confused about why this caused such consternation with LISP.
I work at an SMS aggregator, and I've never heard of such a thing. SMS are pretty speedy, unless something goes wrong and they get wedged, in which case priority messages wouldn't help you anyway.
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My first computer was a Compaq Deskpro Portable:

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html

It didn't take me long to pimp it up with a custom autoexec.bat file and to start playing in BASIC.

10 PRINT "RYAN IS GREAT"
20 GOTO 10

My mom gave me a BASIC manual at some point, and I started working my way through it, learning how to change the screen to paint graphics, load and save data from data files, write subroutines (GOSUB), modularize programs into multiple files, and so on.

Soon I was making cheesy, derivative text adventures and space battle games and creating sound effects. I even wrote a rudimentary text editor for school essays, though I eventually supplanted it with the superior VolksWriter.

I mostly lost interest in computers during the 1990s, aside from playing around with Midisoft Recording Session, a Yamaha TG-100 and a Tascam 4-track. As such, I completely missed the advent of the World Wide Web.

It wasn't until 1999 that I got a laptop and an email address at work, and quickly got excited about this internet thing.

My boss asked me if I could make a website for our department and I said, "Sure!" Then I called a friend who was taking computer science at school and asked whether it was hard to make a website. It turned out not to be that hard, and so I gradually found myself turning into a web developer.

I remember my boss asking if the site could display summary reports dynamically. I sort-of knew about the existence of server-side preprocessors, so I looked into what we had our web server and discovered ASP. Imagine my surprise to look at the ASP source code and see BASIC staring back at me (albeit with a few objects bolted on).

Just recently I managed to get my old BASIC programs working again via DosBox running on Ubuntu.
Too late Adobe. Everyone hates you.
I think there's something classy and fun about sitting at your desk alone, smoking half a pack a day, and drinking vodka out of a plastic cup.
In addition to the fact that I've always liked taking calculated risks and gaining greater reward, I also like working on things nobody else has done before. I'm the kind of guy who sees something that sucks and then promptly fixes it. Then I give it to my friends or check it back in.

I also dislike working for other people, I'm starting to realize more and more. I like the fruits of my labor going directly to me, and having a real effect on whether I have food in my tummy that night. When business sucks, I work harder; I know it is _because of me_ that it is failing, and I can fix it. When business is booming, I know that it is _because of me_ that business is booming, and I can continue on making it happen. Continue on being proud of what it was that I had accomplished. That feeling just doesn't happen to me at a big firm.
This is so true. Everytime I visited outside of U.S, it reminded me of what complete different worlds many people lived outside of U.S. Different food, different languages, different people, different values, different ambition. It's an amazing feeling.
It doesn't require to read your phone state, I forgot add a minimum SDK requirement, and Android adds that automatically for some compatibility reason.
In addition to the tenuous link between the two activities, the 10 to 1 ratio is almost certainly untrue.

Details here (in the main text and in cited materials):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-86_Sabre#Korean_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG-15#Operational_history

Isolating success in dogfights to flight controls seems like a gross oversimplification. I would like to see the original source for this (attributed to Boyd in the article).
I don't think this piece is about a woman who is near penniless at the age of 57, but rather a woman and her husband who might be forced into retirement 10+ years sooner than they anticipated. I think most financially responsible families would be hard pressed to make their retirement stretch an extra 10 years.
Yes. A "disruptive skill?" How exactly is that different from "a skill that could be really useful?" Is this a skill that somehow lets you singlehandedly overturn a market, or are we just tossing around buzzwords?

Maybe we should discuss our disruptive value-adds for high-impact verticals.
People are making everything into an ad. Stop creating more junks!
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I just pushed them last week, and they're what I'd call 'entry-level-code' at best, so no. I honestly don't expect them too, but if someone were googling for 'tornado webserver administration', they might find my code, and it might be useful. Beyond that, I don't really have much greater expectation.

Edit: http://github.com/bmelton is the location of the projects. There are currently 2 up there, both in a very fledgeling state:

http://github.com/bmelton/Braveicon is a simple favicon library that will accept a URL as a parameter and find the favicon for a given url. The URL can be fully qualified ('http://news.ycombinator.com) or loose (news.ycombinator.com), and braveicon will step through all of the W3C valid means of specifying a favicon and return the URL.

http://github.com/bmelton/Twister is a server administration framework for starting / restarting tornado web server instances. Since Tornado is typically managed by your app, the app must be (very slightly) modified, but this reduces having to 'ps -ef | grep [myscriptname]' multiple times to kill your app, and gives you 'twister.py restart' instead.
Could you clarify what you mean by a video commentary? An example might be the best - video isn't needed; maybe just a blurb that goes like "An average episode would cover an open-source project from the perspective of the things a developer needs to do to get started" or "The episodes would revolve around the technical details of a project".

It could potentially be interesting, but it really depends on how it's done.
PreFox, a port of Mozilla's Fennec for Palm webOS
I don't think GP was suggesting that use of Gillette razors is atypical -- just your results.
Man, I've been several different people already. I'm not even who I was yesterday and I'm certainly nothing like who I was just five years ago. No amount of wishful thinking or regret will change any of that. I don't really mind though because I can look back at those people and learn something new. They may not have made all the best choices, but I still have a chance.