skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why fret about the wire protocol? ZeroMQ will send messages plenty fast enough, and it's really very simple to use; just a few lines of code.

Damn you, now you've got me doing it. Nerd sniper. ;-)
Just wanted to chime in...other people have said it already, but I'll say it too: there is absolutely nothing wrong with you - your feelings are very normal.

I got out of school a few years ago, and I'll tell you that my sophomore year was hellish, too. Nothing seemed to make sense and I felt very distraught.

It's good that you're exercising, keep it up. That will help you from sinking in too deep.

It does sound like you're at a real crossroads. You're seeing the limitations of what your parents handed down to you, but it's hard to know what to do instead.

I'm not Indian, but I know how you feel about family pressure...it's one of the most miserable things to be going through. I won't say "tell your family to get lost", because that's pretty hard for most of us to do. But, I can tell you from my own experience that it IS possible to love your family very much without living up to all their expectations. At times, it may look and feel like you're breaking hearts - and you may be - but it's well worth it in the end. That's been my experience.

It's easy for me to wax poetic about things you may not read, so feel free to drop me a line if you want to chat. It's this username at a well-known mail service provided by Google. :)

Be optimistic - always be positive! If you feel that good things are about to happen to you, they will.
Asus 1001P has served me well, wireless drivers are finicky with linux, it has the best size to usefulness of keyboard ratio I have yet to encounter. Cost me about 400$
I thought he was going to make fun of people who dressed in steampunk fashion and their non-functional items before I click on and read the article.

For me, I like steampunk gadgets that actually work, with gears, steams, and all.

As for everything else, I'll stick to my idea of a self-replicating lego logistic network, complete with a train network and a thing-o-matic made out of lego.
A lot of people on HN do know something about it, both as techies and as residents of the area. Listening to their opinions or not is your prerogative, but if you live in California I wonder what criteria you feel she should be evaluated on besides her history running a tech giant.
On reocities.com you can request to have information removed.

If you want sites removed from this torrent... better ask now, before the torrent's up.
Whatever you think of Gruber, his "anthropomorphized" articles are good for a laugh.

The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme: http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/anthropomorphized

iLife ’06 From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface: http://daringfireball.net/2006/01/brushed_metal

An Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface Theme Shows Up for the WWDC Preview Build of Mac OS X Leopard: http://daringfireball.net/2007/06/brushed_metal_leopard
nitpick: the 15" MBP also has a 1680x1050 option, with a dpi of 129
The Writer's Guild offers a script registration service to help with proving authorship of scripts, and there are for-profit services too: www.protectrite.com and www.nrs-online.com (there are probably others, but I am involved with NRS so I know that one, and ProtectRite has been around probably the longest).
The truth is, I want them to succeed. They may not defeat FB, but perhaps they'll give us a legit alternative.

And yes, I understand that it was a developer release, pre-alpha, or whatever you want to call it, but a release is a release and it people will form opinions of the software because of it. Remember KDE 4.0? It was unusable but it was released, and a lot of controversy and annoyance came out of it. Remember Netscape's brilliant idea of letting real users be its "beta testers"? That was a bad idea.

It doesn't matter what you tag a release as; a buggy release is a buggy release.

I will look at the next stable release with an open mind, but there is no reason for me to blindly discard their past.
Ning cut 40% of it's staff in April. Why are they hiring new outside developers?
I don't really agree with the article as well.

But it romanticizes it in so much as it celebrates elements from a (relatively) totalitarian era. It's pretty hard to argue that enormous parts of the Steampunk aesthetic and appeal comes from at least some level the fondness of the era of the industrial revolution, an era that in real history relied on non-trivial degrees of human suffering.

Of course, the author is really trying to make a much stronger connection. That Steampunk (and many future Sci Fi) fans and authors are on some level supporting a degree of totalitarianism by enjoying/writing works where totalitarianism "works".

While I can see the connection, I really don't think it's something you can legitimately hold against Steampunk or any genre the realities of their historical basis. While the 19th century certainly sucked for a lot of people, the preceding 40 odd centuries also sucked a lot.
That page is by a young 'hacker' named Simon Liu.

I wonder if it is this Simon Liu:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MITP.200...

"Surviving Distributed Denial of Service Attacks"

See? This is why reocities is awesome. The Simon Lius of the world should have access to their old Descent scores.
> I interned for a big company last summer, and utterly hated the experience, so much that I quit 5 weeks into the 10 week program.

I'm curious why this was so.

Sometimes I try something and hate it because of the social experience that accompanied it. Like if you go to a big company, and nobody reaches out to you, and you spend the time alone, it can form a very strong mental association: big company = loneliness. But maybe it's just that company. Maybe you'll later try working at a new company, and make a couple of great friends, and decide that mechanical engineering is your life calling and this new company is the home/family you were born to have.

Quality of life has very little to do with the exact type of work you do. On the other hand, it can have a lot to do with the lifestyle constraints entailed by that type of work, like the amount of travel or face-to-face interaction involved.

The point is, look at factors surrounding the work the you love or hate. If you have a particularly good day, look back at what happened that day. Did you have a big stretch of quiet time? Did you get to be around certain people you like? What did you eat? Did you get recognition for something you did? These perhaps seemingly-irrelevant details have a lot more to do with your motivation and job satisfaction than your job title or salary.
I'd like to see a list of OS X apps using Java. Some may be using Java apps without knowing it. Some P2P apps come to mind.
Foursquare Facing FTC Hurdle on ‘Kickbacks’ Idea
On second reading, I don't actually see a torrent. Did I miss something?
Would be great if you could review http://grexit.com and let us know your opinions on it. We're based in Delhi.
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"In other words you have written your own framework that suits you well. I would guess the only thing that stops this from being a general purpose framework is documentation and marketing."

In a way, yes. It's a boiler plate of classes that I use for most projects (db, sessions, and some other helpful funcs that I built).

If I could take out all of the crap that I don't need that is usually in most frameworks, I might consider using one.
It seems kind of hand-wavy in parts. Looking at the Seed-to-Seed communications this part doesn't seem too well thought through: Note - Audience authentication may be required to reduce the load of serving requests from non Audience Seeds.

What does the audience authenticate to? The origin or the serving seed?

How is revocation handled?

When person A comments on person B's item, who gets to decide who sees that comment?
Looking forward to the Mac App Store
I have an Android and I'd buy this app after making sure it works as demoed. I love the sliding email & messages on the front page. A very nice change from having to navigate to an emails-only or SMS-only page. I also like the integrated time/place/person detection for adding events to calendars. Of course, the email they showed was too obvious, it remains to be shown how well the app can recognize back-and-forth emails about timing and location. I liked the easy switching between searching for some name on the web, in mentioned emails, and as senders; that will be very useful for me. Also, the fireworks-like expansion of nodes is very intuitive.
I have used a netbook for development. It is not very fun. The main problem is the screen resolution - 1024x600. This ensures that a modern IDE will not fit on the screen without hiding the most useful parts. For example, when you compile code, you will not have enough room on the screen to view your errors and code simultaneously. (Or rather, you can, but it is frustratingly very cramped).

So, I use Notepad++, auto-hide the Windows taskbar, hide all of the toolbars, and reduce the font size. Now it is usable ... oh wait, no it isn't ... the screen resolution is still a big problem. What about when I want to ... view a help file? Compile/run my code in another window? View a website? First, there is almost no room on the screen to put two windows side-by-side. (It can be done, but they have frustratingly small widths.) So, you have to manually switch between applications all the time. And you soon find that it gets old fast, especially since the taskbar is necessarily auto-hidden.

Another item (at least from my 1-yr old netbook): Netbooks are staggeringly slow at playing web video - high-res video on youtube is not watchable.

So, I do not recommend a netbook for development. For basic web browsing, a netbook is awesome. But not for development.

EDIT: These are based on my experiences with a 1024x600, no HD-enhanced netbook. There are new models out now :)
Are you sure you want to "own" the box? I had nothing but trouble trying to maintain a little gaggle of self made boxen at various data centers.

I ended up changing almost all of them to these little $39/month dedicated marvels at interserver. They mess with the hardware, I get the goodness.

http://www.interserver.net/custom-managed-dedicated-servers....
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As far as I can tell, the industrial revolution was a time of economic and social progress.

If I remember correctly, child labors wasn't outlawed until the great depression in the states. It was mainly about keeping out the competition than helping children.

What people read in their history textbook are brief and history is not what they're really are. Is there really the evil of a libertarian miniarchist state? I supposed the textbook that I am taught in school seem that way.

However, I learned that Standard Oil gave up trying to control the market, but it was sued anyway. Years later, I heard that antitrust laws were used to bully small corporations, not actually break up big corporate enterprise. Big corporations have better lawyers and better resources to defend themselves so they were left alone.

American writers once used natural laws and natural laws to keep out British competition in the 19th century, when they advocated copyright supposedly for the benefit of British writers.

If there's anything I learned, history is often sanitized by the winners. So it is better to read lot of history and learn for yourself the sinister activities of groups, no matter if they're corporations, states, and individuals.

Even so, I am confused by today Americans' love of democracy and why the French celebrate the French Revolution? Collective madness is pretty evil yet everybody ignored that.
Can we be prosecuting them now please?
It's called a denial of the actual claim (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840270) instead of the one he tried to turn it into when called on it.

Man, today is one of those days I wish I'd never even started posting comments on HN.
I love to ask something that is simple to start with, and then build on it interactively with the candidate.

One of my favorite questions is - Give me a normalized database structure that you'll implement if you were to build gmail - incorporate conversations, messages, multiple message participants and labels.

Then, depending on the candidate, I build upon the question,and go into various optimizations possible, the ways caching would be implemented, sharding/splitting/de-normalization would be done with load, etc. etc. With good candidates, its always a very interesting discussion. And even the bad ones can leave the interview thinking they know something and don't need to feel bad :)
I haven't dealt with pyAMF but I have worked with AMF serialization. Do you have any particular questions about AMF?
Wow, it's been years. These have always been, in my opinion, Gruber's greatest strength, even beyond readably plainspoken Apple analysis and a certain kindredness to Steve Jobs' perfectionist spirit. It's obvious how much he enjoys writing these; I have to wonder why he doesn't do them more often.
I'd be happy to talk more about it. dsgant at gmail
Ask HN: Have I discovered an insoluble programming problem?
I am trying to do a simple list manipulation in Python and I spent about a week learning lists and related topics and I still cannot display a columnar list. I asked the question here and stackoverflow but with no luck. I would appreciate any help. Thanks

(Links in the comment and sorry about the title!)
For the benefit of those who, like me, had trouble understanding the parent comment: by “it”, idoh means “code to add /offers to http://news.ycombinator.com/lists”.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840335

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4011728/conditional-state...
Great. Just sent you an email. Our site is at http://commerce.exorbyte.com and we need this type of help.
Turing Completeness on the iPhone (aka a thing I built)
Didn't mean to imply that it's my project (I wish); just thought others might find it useful too.

Good feedback though, hopefully the author sees this.
Hi all. I am unabashedly spamming, yes.
I recently built an app that has a turing complete CA in it, and apparently this particular turing complete CA is on the right side of apples review policy. I got a little bit worried there for a second.

This is a sequencer and synthesizer that you can trigger with wireworld, a 4 state, 2d cellular automata that is pretty easy to build logic with. Hopefully someone gets a kick out of it.
Rather than a netbook, get a 11.6inch machine like the Acer 1830T (or many others). More screen resolution, better keyboards, more CPU horsepower and only slightly more expensive (can be had starting around $375-400) and weight is still only around 1.5kg/3.3 pounds.
and it was all done in PHP.
Perhaps the interviewer wanted to see if you could think up something like http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/01/early-amazon-door-desks.... - and in the process test your willingness to be in an environment with such jury-rigged solutions.
That's definitely true, about the small intersection between {Flash fluent people} and {CS/software engineering fluent people}. My last company tried to find such people several times without success.

And indeed, that also means that many or most of the AS3/Flash resources out there are geared towards the copy-and-paste crowd.
Well, business couldn't hurt - may not be as enjoyable, but it would help you bring your ideas to market, and give you a wider range of career options.
To know about 'intrinsic' value of a consumer tool (like FB or Twitter), I usually ask people - would you pay, say $1 per month to continue using the tool, if the payment process was very easy and invisible to you.

I hear a yes from most FB and Twitter users. That I think speaks very loudly about the value of these two tools.
OK. Mike's done a great job. Everyone go get the screencasts already! Now, Mike it's time for you to give us a solid RoR ecommerce book!
"To queer the deal" is one of my favorite idioms. It's not really a verb outside of that.
You know where to find me :)

And yes, of course I'm interested. But right now no time.
I used emacs, git, and (soon-to-be)xmonad. The size is not an issue for me, but my problem was mostly with the linux distribution I used.

Eventually, I got rid of ubuntu and settle for archlinux.

I think netbook are great for web application development, especially if you used exotic tools like emacs and xmonad.

I never used an IDE, or heavy duty debugging tools(I find manual debugging to be a great and useful tool), and the rest of tools that need a pretty GUI.
Thanks for the great offer retro, I need a redesign for my site: http://www.mcsquare.me
Warrens, Plazas and the Edge of Legibility
Thank you so much! I was about to post a Request HN for this, I have a proven process with return customers and am ready to grow it. Email sent!
Email - The Knowledge Morgue
Wireless drivers and screen display are the most common problem I experienced with Asus 1001P. My major annoyance is the mousepad. It has caused me to dislocate my emacs pointer and start doing weird crap to the codebase.

I received my Asus 1001P for free.
Do you know of any ML / NLP libraries in erlang?

thx.
Holy cow, what an astonishingly biased article. It's all from the viewpoint of "Intellectual Property" maximalists, with no examination of the Hadopi law itself, or the possible consequences of the law. It doesn't even examine the "125,000" IP addresses a day claim, which seems utterly absurd to me.
Look at the username, this person is trolling.
That's just absolutely false. What makes you think that other database systems can't be made to perform these kinds of queries?
eBook: "How to write an eBook"
Keep in mind that the idea of a document that might be different every time you pull it up was still kinda new.

So maybe the "construction" part was a meme, but I think the idea that you needed to warn people that this homepage wasn't "finished" yet was universal.
You're not unique in this and basically have two choices: continue what you're doing, push through it, and see it as your adult responsibility. Ultimately many jobs are like that, you don't love them, but they bring home the pay-check. The second option would be to do a search for what you really want to do. One great book with tons of bios of people who have and turned out happier for it is: "what should I do with my life?" In the end, you'll probably settle for a combination of both. Lastly, it may be that you over-pushed yourself and burned out. That can lead to similar negative feelings about what you are doing now. It may be a good idea to approach a medical professional and discuss symptoms and solutions.
Creative uses of Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Quick comments on the home screen from an amateur who doesn’t even own a smartphone:

The people in the Friends icon are too vertically staggered. It looks like one friend is apart from the rest. Maybe show one person front and center (the user) with two people behind and on either side of that person.

It’s unclear where the boundaries of the buttons are. Add borders, or a rectangular gradient behind the button.

The colors don’t match, especially the orange people and the background. I’m not sure how to fix it, but I think you should at least darken the button label text, because black matches better than gray, and it would increase contrast against the similar-brightness background.

It’s confusing how a green check represents an app, but a green plus means add a new friend. I think an app would be better represented by a rounded-corner square, or a square with an upside-down “V” cut into it like the silhouette of an “A”.

It looks like there is too much space at the bottom. Make the buttons taller to fill the screen, or show them as 5 items in a list. Showing them as a list would also solve the problem of the excess whitespace next to Find Friends; alternatively, you could center that button, but that might draw too much attention to it.
Yeah, on iPhone the spouse just needs access to your computer. http://www.iphone-sms.com/
Well, I do suspect that your startup is the one you have linked from your profile? Well, then I first want to granulate you do a damn clever idea. (The 3d model is damn sweet information)

But I can see how it can have an impact on your retailer have a negative impact, as you are delivering information to their customers, that they probably had to make a purchase to figure out before.

With that said, I don't see a problem with you providing this information to the customers, but I think your retailer need to find new ways to interact with it's customers and encourage them to buy.

I tell you what, fire a mail to mattias at plux dot se and I will make a suggestion, for free that you can use however you want. :)
I was unsure on how to answer this question since most of my experience is in application development.

I'd like to not be embarrassed when asked this question. What advice would you give someone wanting to learn enough to answer this question?

Are there any projects, books or other resources one could undertake?
Why should getting someone's badges require any "calculation" at all?
Just something I though of that might make your frontpage more interesting - emphasize the importance of uptime and the alerts system.

I think the main feature of this is the very quick alerts system for smaller-scale websites - obviously, for large projects with dozens of users per minute, you might need faster than 5-minute refresh. But I think that emphasizing the Instant Alerts, Free is one of the more important things here.

I think for most, the uptime amount itself is going to be a secondary measure - some other analytics software also does it for free on top of the standard log/click/visitor/path/etc. tracking.

Then again, maybe I'm nuts. but that's what I got out of it : )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-life_crisis

This comes up every couple of months here on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1449823
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537461
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246200
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=680054

It gets better. Really.
SF Bay Area taps Better Place for electric taxis | Green Tech - CNET News
dasil003, I think Hacker News is a good online forum for discussing issues that are relevant to startups.
Thats great info?

I wasn't quite sure what you were asking, so I went with a generalized response. If you want more info (Xbench, etc), please ask (here, or in email if you prefer). I figured since you were asking about Xcode and the SSD, rather than the screen size specifically, I might be able to answer your questions.

BTW have you tried Windows in a VM on it?

Only briefly. I spend more time running a VM of Slackware. I don't notice any slowdown in using it and it does seem faster than before. But, I haven't done any benchmarking (since I don't have a "before" to compare it to).
Maybe then Oracle will buy Microsoft in 2020 for their legacy integration.
Well that’s certainly an eye-opening use case of that software. I understand that setting the iTunes preference “Encrypt iPhone backups” and/or not allowing your spouse to log in as you would cover stop this. And deleting SMSes before syncing would also shield them from these, I assume.
Assuming RDBMS is to be understood as ACID, this may be because of the need for more reliable hardware, and good IO hardware is comparatively expensive ?

If you use things like mongodb and co, you are giving up on single-node durability, for example, and you don't need to have as much efficient IO (e.g. reasonable fsync performances). Otherwise, I don't see why mysql would require more expensive hardware mongodb