skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the chaos you are going through.

Given that you are intelligent, perhaps some mental exercises are in order. Granted your emotions are not where they "should be" but you can try to reason them out using logic and realize they can mislead you.

First is the issue of perspective. The pressure you are feeling is probably normal given the societal, familial, and personal issues you have. Realize that this pressure will lessen over time as you gain more mastery over your life; resolve now to wait out this pressure, as it will take time to resolve.

Second is the issue of control, or loss of control rather, that you are feeling. This is completely normal, but it is still unsettling. Perhaps writing down a list of things that bother you, then figuring out which issues are easiest for you to change, would be a good idea.

Third is the issue of being introverted.

You recognize that you are introverted; while I do not expect you to ever become an extroverted fighter pilot / celebrity / jock, there ARE ways to remain yourself, yet learn stratagems to better interact with people that do not involve being false.

I recommend you view starting and then making conversation as a pleasant game, the rules of which you do not yet fully know. There are many ways and methods to learn this, find one that works for you.

Consider that there may be cases where your being introverted comes off to other people as being standoffish, nerdy or difficult to talk to, or even just plain dull and boring. There is a way to be yourself that also results in people being comfortable being around you.

Lastly, I do recommend finding a counselor; but, do not go to the school ones as they are probably useless. If you can, try to find someone older who has gone through similar things as you - since you mention that your family is traditionally Indian, perhaps a local successful Indian businessman, engineer, etc. would be willing to help be your mentor. Any chance a relative or family friend who will be discreet about what you tell him, is available?

Best of luck in any case.
I'm a happy customer. Thanks though!
Yeah, that page lasted about 2.5 seconds before I Readabilitified it.
Boing Boing gets hacked (NSFW picture)
This begs the question “How we could handle the constant write load?”

Please stop doing that. http://begthequestion.info/
The newer managed code UI libraries for Windows, WPF and Silverlight are built from the ground up to support resolution independence.

Further reading,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms748373.aspx#visual...

http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2005/11/250723.html
I'm not sure what threshold of bugginess would need to be crossed before I give up this Panorama feature, but it's pretty damn high.
From the site: "Although fake smiles often look very similar to genuine smiles, they are actually slightly different, because they are brought about by different muscles, which are controlled by different parts of the brain."

I got 12 right out of 20.
Is the homepage button dead? 
does this happens to you too? or am i the only one who clicks on the homepage button just for curiosity. I never use it. I was surprised to see i had cnnmoney.com as my home page. I usually go straight to the adress bar and type gmail.com
Ask HN: How have you applied computer science IRL?
Sooo... I just got done putting away a load of laundry and realized I've applied efficiency techniques to the process. I first sorted the clothing types into buckets (piles IRL) then performed type-specific processing on each of the buckets, reducing as much as possible my disk I/O (turning around and taking a couple steps to put the clothes in the drawer/on the rack IRL).

How have you changed some process in your life based on computer science algorithms or principles?
google appengine is fun to play with.

i made my first python/appengine app over the past couple of days:

http://www.iwrotethisforyou.me/
the blog isn't mine, but see that "Random Post" button on the right? that goes to my app :D

I showed it to the author via twitter and he loved it so he linked to it.

source here: http://bitbucket.org/makeramen/irandomlywrotethisforyou

moral of the story? find random stuff to do and just dick around.
I would agree with the general direction suggested by "Excel."

For an MBA it would make sense to learn C#. That would allow them to manipulate Excel and all the rest of Office from on high...and do all sorts of other MBA type things within the Microsoft stack.

Edit: Integrates into the Web too via ASP.net.
Did you not read to the end for the Conclusion paragraph?
15/20
It's time Yahoo just gave up.
As Michael Hartl [http://railstutorial.org/book#sec:1.1.2] said, you scale a site, not a framework.

Or language for that matter.

The details on system strategy, design and architecture are far more interesting and valuable than who is running what, other than appeasing unfounded fears.
"While descriptivists and other such laissez-faire linguists are content to allow the misconception to fall into the vernacular, it cannot be denied that logic and philosophy stand to lose an important conceptual label should the meaning of BTQ become diluted to the point that we must constantly distinguish between the traditional usage and the erroneous 'modern' usage. This is why we fight."

That's much more eloquent than I'm typically capable of putting it; thanks.
Is it possible the side projects are not interesting enough? If they feel like work, rather than fun, it may be hard to keep plugging away at them after a long day of coding.
Here is how you do it:
input is the list of words, with duplicates
you need an additional list (let's call it x)
and an integer (let's call it i)
for each item in the list,
if it isn't in x, add it, increment i, and print it followed by a space
if it is in x, print a newline, and spaces equal to the number of characters in each preceding word after index i in x + 1 for each word in that range. There should be x.index(item) - i things, and this loops. Python indices, I would think, take care of the special case where you need to loop around, sans the printing of a newline, so make sure you do that after you print the spaces for the last item.

I'm sorry you seemed to have not gotten help on this. The title seemed a little silly to me.
While I applaud the author's effort to help, I can assure you that you are capable of this on your own without any tutoring. If you know how to program then skim through Dive Into Python and think up a fun little project for you to do, then finish it.

I recommend a web application project because it forces you to learn a lot of different moving parts - pick a framework and study their code. Try to build your own basic wsgi framework.

Just to show and tell so you know I'm not coming from a Mr. Superior stance: http://bitbucket.org/ixmatus/rubedo/src/tip/rubedo/

Use it if you want - it was my attempt at building a (somewhat) Py3k compatible wsgi framework. MVC with really minimal routing and super simple configs. The request class I spent a lot of time on and had been studying the WebOB sources a lot (hence the resemblance). Doing that actually made wsgi apps and the "pythonic" way of building web applications click for me (coming from a PHP background).
Also, the formatting was goofed up, sorry about that. Really isn't too bad a problem when you think about it in terms of, where do things go when you print them, and where is the cursor. That's what x and i are respectively.
I'm not sure about other markets but in Canada I've been trying to get an iphone 4 since launch. I've been put on a waiting list that they say is 6+ months long. I hope Apple responds to its existing demand before trying to introduce new variations.
I for one am looking forward to this. Yahoo Mail has been my default spam email address account for about 13 years now. I will now be able to login quicker so that I can click those email address validation links thanks to this.
I have Firefox reopen the last tabs I had open. Great feature. I don't think I can go back to having the browser open up blank or to a default homepage anymore.
The HP way is very much alive at Agilent. It's the right way to build test equipment and their stuff remains the gold standard. But it turned out that building ink jet printers was a low-margin business so that part of the company had to become a less luxurious place to work.
Thanks for all of the useful resources; is it okay if I email you with some followup questions?

On a more helpful note, has anybody had luck with http://cloudfab.com/? I signed up but never had anything printed.
In fact, Windows 7 had a whole series of commercials based around that concept: the "seven second demos" - http://barnes89.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/windows-7-seven-sec...

By all accounts, they were remarkably successful.
You know i applies your advice to a pice of marketing material I have and was really surprised at what that little change did to improve the message. That is a great suggestion, thank you.
That's crazy, it's down to two weeks in Australia.
Donate for a 1hr coffee in SV w Harj Taggar, Y Combinator
The movie claims that Zuckerberg created the primordial version of facebook after getting dumped and subsequently drunk. He stole a bunch of images and created a "hot or not" thing called FaceSmash. This supposedly set him on the path towards creating facebook.

The weakest part of the whole film was at the end when it shows Zuckerberg alone, pitiful, refreshing his facebook page hoping his long lost ex would be his "friend" on facebook. I'm one of those people who feels insulted when filmmakers pull overt, lazy stunts like that.

Sorkin hates the idea of facebook. He thinks the whole idea of a social network is a lie and he may be right. He thinks people who use facebook are wasting their time. I saw that on Colbert I think.

I applaud Sorkin's candor. Not too many people say what they think these days, but I felt like he was insulting the audience with that last scene, saying, essentially, "You people do this too, and you're pitiful." He didn't have to show us what was on Zuckerberg's screen. Most people could have guessed what he was doing without seeing the screen. Sorkin decided to show the screen so people would have no doubts about what was happening. I'm reasonably certain Zuckerberg was not actually doing that during his deposition.
I think I'm roughly on par with you. I spend 40 give or take at work and then come home and bang away on a side project. My girlfriend luckily has some crochet projects usually so all day Sunday I can work on my side project (6-8 hours) plus about 2 hours a night another 4 nights out of the week. So say maybe 15 hours a week on my side project not counting other research and such I do for it (researching hosting plans, new gems to make life easier, etc).

Given that there are only 24 hours in a day, pulling a 16 hour day frequently means you're not getting much sleep nor much of anything else ;)

Worry less about what other people can do. It's an ego-oriented goal and it can end up causing you to feel defeated as well as lose track of your real purpose. Instead focus on whether or not you feel like you could do more, and whether or not it's worth it.

You've got plenty of company no matter what you decide. :)
I have mine autohide on the left hand side. Only use the doc to show running applications, use quicksilver to launch.
McCain did not oppose torture; he opposed the uniformed military engaging in torture. He was fine with CIA officers torturing people in military facilities assisted by military officers. See http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/02/senator-mccain-is-against... for more information.
I use xmonad since a few months on my netbook and it's indeed the perfect choice for this!
Thanks, this would be great for analyzing and correcting large machine learning datasets. Little things ruining a trained model... no more!
As a fallback, you can ask me questions on aim: saysauston
Nvidia says China may have built world's fastest supercomputer
What the typical Hollywood writer doesn't understand is the computer people up north also build things for fun. They understand the idea of doing something for fun, but seem to think it only happens in the film/TV industry.
Kleiner Perkins goes big: VC firm raising more than $1 billion
Kill Georgia’s Amendment One: The Death Of The Tech Startup
Redis Cluster: a pragmatic approach to distribution
I use an older 9 inch Eee PC. For $170 off of woot, it's been real good. I actually liked it enough that I got rid of my desktop and this is my sole computer now. I do tons of development on it. I installed a lightweight Linux distro (Arch) and am running a lightweight, minimalistic DE (stumpwm). I found that the default KDE3 was too heavy, but with my customizations I have almost no lags in development (all of my development is for web apps written in Chicken Scheme). I like to work out in the sticks (in areas you can't get to by car) so this works out real good.

If you need to use development environments heavier than emacs/vim, than you may need something more powerful.
It was taken down, apparently. Nothing to see here, you should have posted a screen cap.
"Hollywood doesn't understand" means that it can't be conveyed in the Hollywood medium, not that a particular artist in Hollywood doesn't understand it.
We'll see - in another 12 months or so PyPy might be a lot faster...
What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
I'm really bummed to have missed this opportunity. Please keep me as a reference in case someone drops out or you can take another. Many thanks.
I have an X41. It's a sturdy old school Thinkpad, but it's slow, has poor battery life and the screen quality is terrible to 2010 eyes.
Work harder.

I'm in a similar situation: 8th semester 5th year Biomedical Engineering major (took a co-op that I quit), Chinese, had to tell parents I'm not trying for med school anymore, took about 3 years. I took the MCATs last year anyway and I'm still satisfying med school requirements to "keep my options open" but mostly just to satisfy my parents.

I have no idea what I'm going to do after college though, but I'm not too scared. I have a few options but it's a matter of time to see which direction things go in.

Why work harder? Because your JOB right now is to figure out what you want to do with your life, not just job, that's your LIFE right now. So go all out, try things until you fall in love (or so you fall in love?).

As for losing grip, just remember that nobody knows what they're doing, and everything will be alright in the end. Everyone's looking for happiness, but you're well enough to be on HN and you live in the US, you almost have to try to fail at life in this country.

If all else fails, try this book: http://www.pobronson.com/index_what_should_I_do_with_my_life...

It doesn't have any answers, but by listening to other people's stories, you find that it's totally okay to do random crazy things with your life, and things turn out alright more often than not.
An upvote isn't enough to express how true this comment is. If your only exposure to the market information is the mainstream offerings, you are like a sheep being led to the slaughter.

I've never gotten anything really tradeable from Mish, but if you want to know what is going on, it is a daily must read.
The plight of the eclectic geek, or, where have all the dilettantes gone?
Magazine Apps for the iPad: "Bloated and Unfriendly"
Chinese create the world's fastest supercomputer
I have an EeePC 901with 2Gb RAM and Ubuntu netbook edition installed - it works pretty well for development and web dev type stuff - I even wrote a book with it. About the only thing that I wouldn't use it for is anything requiring a large screen (eg. layout and design) or something requiring large amounts of processing power (eg. Running Eclipse or compiling lots of stuff). Other than that, it's great.
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I have fun working on it but I think having a partner would really energize me after a day's work. Unfortunately, living in Alabama makes it hard to find a partner. I've made contacts over the net but they tend to fizzle out after a couple weeks. Being solo means isolation and that definitely kills some of the fun for me.
Oracle: Google 'directly copied' our Java code
Dude, get yourself a $50/mo TPG account. Unlimited. (sometimes including landline phone!)

That was in Sydney though, last year.
I was doing terminal based development on vim over the network....the small keyboard, unusably small modifier keys, and unconventional keyboard layouts made it just plain painful.

I wasn't even compiling on device and it sucked.
I've been trying to get an answer to my Python question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1841536

Maybe you can take a look at that?
Look at it this way: 7% compounded monthly means 125% gains annually. Warren Buffett, one of the most successful long term investors of all time, only managed 18% gains annually. Some newer investors (Joel Greenblatt, Mike Burry) have averaged 30-40% annual returns but don't have the length of track record of Buffett.

No, not possible.
Plug: I'm just in the final stages of finishing an introductory Python book, Hello! Python: http://manning.com/briggs/. It's a bit different, in that I'm using real world projects (Hunt the Wumpus, Django, web scraping, writing games) to demonstrate how to program, rather than just having a laundry list of features and stepping through them one by one.

Think of it as Land of Lisp, but in Python rather than CL.
Adelaide here, too.
I think that investing in your language ability would be the wisest thing to do. All of the marketing people who I have worked with are extremely proficient in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. If you need a bar to shoot for, make 1-kyu on the JLPT (http://www.jlpt.jp/e/) a minimum. The Jetro BJT (http://www.jetro.go.jp/en/bjt/) would be a better goal since it is a bit more difficult than JLPT 1-kyu, but Jetro no longer administers the test and I have not heard how the new test is.
I have been told this advice was written prominently in "How to Win Friends and Influence People" back in 1937... and it still works wonderfully 70+ years later.
Ah, I see. A large part of pricing is actually human support, that's why it may seem expensive for larger volumes. (Per-visitor support requests is surprisingly as constant as per-visitor bandwidth needed).

Yes, VWO works with ALL mobile devices capable of executing JavaScript.
Hopefully this will cause GMail to take a look at their own performance. Loading some labels/searches takes 20+ seconds or it just times out.

I do like that they left console.log() on in production to give you a glimpse at how quickly it loads up.
* At least in the initial target community - Food Bloggers - the word Foodie does seem to be well known. Also, is it import to have the word be known? I think we can use it and even if some users don't know it, they will adopt it and come to associate it with the site. Which would be a good thing.

* Yeah, you're not the first to comment about that. I've experimented with some others, but haven't found one that I like yet. I'll keep experimenting. Any ideas in that regard would be welcome -- I'm a programmer not a graphic designer.

* Hmm... I see your point. But I picked the size very intentionally. I wanted them to be larger so I had room to include all the information I needed while still allowing users to get a good solid look at the picture. I can certainly include more per page, and I can experiment with allowing more visible on the screen. But I don't want to shrink the image size. 300px x 300px is exactly where I wanted it. Of course, I'm always open to being convinced if it's an issue for lots of people. And I'll certainly keep it in mind an experiment with it.

* Yeah, I've done lots of experimenting with colors. But so far, the white on grey (Black at .8 opacity actually) works best. I'll keep experimenting. Again, I'm a programmer, not a designer :/

* Thanks! That's actually a recent update in response to feedback, so I can't really take credit for that one. But I'll pass it on ;)

* Yeah, not sure what's up with that. Might have something to do with improper escaping somewhere. I'll go hunting for it.

* Sections have already been implemented in the add and edit form. Just haven't gotten around to editing the recipes that were added before sections were implemented to use them.

* Yeah, that's not the only one. I haven't given the admin privileges to edit user profiles yet. I need to do that so I can fix it. The escaping is an artifact of a bug that's been fixed. I'll make a note to fix that profile, thanks!

* The ones that don't use it have preparation in the "amount" column - most of them. Because the preparation column wasn't available when they were added. Again, some editing will fix that.

* Completely agree on this one. Will work on it.

* Hmm... advanced search is in the works. Will include that. But a lot of recipes are lacking prep-time, so I don't know that it will be that effective. Maybe I can make prep time wiki-editable so that if the initial poster doesn't include, future users can.

Thanks for the comments and feedback! I really appreciate it. I'll keep all of it in mind.
Tell HN: In App Feedback for IOS and Android
Our team develop apps for both iPhone OS and Android platform, currently our apps have hundreds of thousands of daily users. Since the last year we add a small web page to interaction with our users, basically it is a place user ask question and we answer it(all users could see the question and the answer, so they are very happy that we reply very fast ), almost within 1 year we gathered 100k questions and suggestions, and gained many brilliant ideas. We are also surprised that many of them write long comment(over 300 words, it's hard to type with small device). By taking users suggestion and keep updating our apps which help us to get the App Store overall #3 and category #1 position(not just one app).

It is something like In App Purchase, which you could buy stuff without leaving app, we call it In App Feedback :P

we have make it a public service now so everyone could enjoy it. The client code is open source and very easily to integrate. We have a dedicate server running the server side, and will do our best to make it stable.

It would be great if you could tell us what about this little thing and how we could improve it, Thanks!

you could check the details here:
feedback management: http://apptao.com/
client source code(with iPhone OS and Android): http://github.com/appdao/InAppFeedback
The Airlines' Squeaky Wheels Turn to Twitter
As a developer and long time Mac user, I can only ask, "How is Adwords any different on PowerPC?"

[In other words, if your niche uses some obscure jargon or acronym, don't assume most people know what it means...]
Why don't you start an online backup service (that is reasonably priced)? I've always wanted to use one, but they are so expensive, when really you should mostly just be renting hard drive space, as bandwidth usage is generally minimal (backup is done once, and then sits there forever and is never even re-downloaded 99% of the time).