skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politics are politics. Any time more than 10 people form an organization, there are odd political heuristics used by the establishment that can be gamed.
Generally, not to the person you're giving them to. However, they are pretty effective advertising for things like coffee cups, laptop bags -- items that are likely to be used on a daily or semi-daily basis, and that are large enough for people to see and wonder "Okay, just who exactly IS <your_company_name>?!?"

The big catch with that of course is that most people already have a coffee mug or laptop bag, and aren't likely to switch to yours, so, while they'll gladly take them from you at your booth, they'll probably end up in a closet.
Google Sawzall now open source
The books I'm in the middle of reading to one extent or another, that I can think of right this moment:

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Swarm Intelligence - James Kennedy & Russel C. Eberhart

How The Mind Works - Steven Pinker

A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Ask a lawyer (if you haven't). Perhaps these restrictions aren't actually binding/enforceable. Definitely worth double checking.
Now: "Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years" by Diarmaid MacCulloch. A comprehensive history of Christianity, going back to its origins in Judaism and Greek philosophy.

A few days ago: "Iron Sunrise" by Charles Stross. Solid space opera, buy not my favorite Stross.
Discworld! I just finished the second one, The Light Fantastic, and loved it. Terry Pratchett is a brilliant and very funny author.

I find after long days of technical thinking I really enjoy a lighthearted funny piece of fiction to help me unwind and get to sleep. At this point I don't think I could handle much more math or computer science and stay sane.
Might be obvious, but this is why you should use some asynchronous code to load your ads.
The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur by Mike Michalowicz. Only about a third of the way in, but it's awesome so far.
Upvoting this idea. I've spent quite a few weeks up in cabins producing code that I had a hard time concentrating on elsewhere. Easy access to lots of people with interesting stories (who are generally willing to listen to what you have to say) and opportunities to clear your mind with some intense exercise makes ski resorts a clear winner in my book.

Now that I think about it, quite a few of the good developers and engineers I know are either ski bums, or worked in a ski resort when they got out of secondary school / university.
All those references to school lunch?
Reading right now:

Charlie Stross, Halting State.

Jacques Barzun, An Essay On French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry.

Recently finished:

James Shapiro, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (nonfiction, highly recommended; more about the history of the Shakespeare authorship controversy than a salvo in it)

Ian Banks, Consider Phlebas (first book in the Culture series, well-written but way way longer than it should be, which is annoying)

John le Carre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (re-read this spy classic, for Le Carre's style)

Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao (peppered with nerdy references from the 80ies and 90ies, the style is annoying at first, but grows on you, and the novel only gets better. A great novel)

I was where you are a few years ago: realized that I thought of myself as still reading, but in reality I was reading very little. Then I decided to adopt a very simple system: I try to read about 40 pages every day. If I read more, great. If I read less, I don't punish myself or carry debt (this is crucial), I just try to make 40 pages next day. The point here is simply to have reading on my mind as a desirable activity. I found that if I don't consciously remember that I want to read, it's very easy to spend all free time in other activities (browsing the web, reading long HN/reddit threads, etc.), which I don't actually prefer to reading; they're just there in the foreground, in my browser. Just remembering the I want to read ~40 pages per day makes reading occupy part of my conscious foreground, and helps me read more without other important stuff really suffering.
Lincoln At War - History of Lincoln's presidency from the perspective of Lincoln as a general.
Brainf*cking Band Interview
What you said pretty accurately described my high school experience. I'm 28 now. After HS I bummed around 2 different colleges over 6 semesters and 4 different majors. I never liked what I was learning very much so eventually I just left because I had a full-time job as a sysadmin that had been doing while attending school.

Since then I've been doing web development at a couple different smaller agencies. Usually either the job is great and the pay sucks or vice versa. That's my experience at least. It sounds pretty ungrateful now that I'm saying it.

Anyway, a couple of moths ago the owners of my company said that they were going to move to out of state and that all (5) of us were going to work from home. At first I resisted, but then I realized that this could be an opportunity. Despite the monotony of working at home, I have been a lot more free to work on my side projects and the MVP for my startup eyeclash is launching this month. I can honestly say that I've never felt better about the work that I am doing.

So I guess my point is, don't expect the way you feel to change with the scenery. College really didn't help me much with my personal aspirations and neither did most of the jobs I've had. Working on my own stuff and collaborating with others on "side projects" (aka possible startups) is really the only thing that has been able to bring me the satisfaction that it sounds like you are looking for.
Since you have tech skills, earn some money on short-term contract and take off for 6-12mo travelling. Can get around Europe or Asia for much cheaper than you might think (biggest expense is getting there and even then you can find good deals on tickets). You'll meet a lot of people, expand your horizons, and have clear head-space to think about what excites you and how you want to live your life.
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman - a biography of mathematician Paul Erdos that also functions as an introduction to some of the more interesting puzzles of number theory.
Or the rich kids' arteries.
I've to second that, it was a bit slow at times but overall pretty decent and far better than my university class.
Is there anything similar for Analysis I and/or II?
For Microsoft to succeed, must Windows die?
@atarashi: S4 is a stream processing platform that has been developed at Yahoo!. The website and github repository are under development. Follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/s4project
It's summer all year round in South-East Asia. It takes surprisingly little money to travel around that part of the world (most of the cost is getting there). It's stunningly varied, beautiful, and full of other people your age doing exactly the same thing. You can experience high culture, close-to-nature solitude and mindless hedonism at beach parties.

You'll also get to meet people from the other side of the world living often much simpler lifestyles, some of which might seem amazing and some which seem horrendous - you'll realise both how challenging and lucrative the work you've been doing is and how little that matters.

Caveat: I also upvoted the "go get a job that sucks comment",
I get what your saying, but the Pro's are supposed to be better than the Air and Macbook in just about every feature.

The big deal change to me is the higher resolution screen, standard SSD, and giving a slight implication optical drives is no more. So, if a 13 inch Air has 1440x900 would a 13 inch Pro have more? If they remove the optical, how much more battery or less weight will it be?
Bernanke's Fed Sets Sail With $600 Billion QE2
dollar already lost 30% vs yen in 3 years, 50% vs gold in 3 years.
the only thing I wished I had known at your age is the "10 000 hours rule". It is hard to find one's calling... but sometimes the "calling" is retrospectively the place where you have put in the most hours.

Also what wccrawford describes worked for me (I just needed couple of month at a crappy job, to be so happy/thankful to go to college).
There are many, many ways to set up a stack rank system. People that I know who have worked at both Microsoft and Google far prefer Google's system. That is not to say that they find Google's system perfect. Just significantly preferable to Microsoft's version.

As a Google employee I am not at liberty to discuss what the differences are.
started last night - The complete Sherlock Holmes Vol I :)
I checked it out years ago (for some small value of "years", I guess), and again earlier this year. I think it's aged well, although Charlie himself seems to have his doubts.
I agree with #5 highly. I've found that doing charity/service work to be a great way to regain focus on who I want to be when I start slipping towards self-absorption. Genuinely helping other people out basically keeps you from becoming a douche bag.
This sounds like an interesting plan. I'm in the south east U.S, any suggestions on where to apply? What state would be the best? I've got $1k laying around, for a single dude I can make that stretch.
I'm currently reading Coders at Work by Peter Seibel and psyching myself up to start working through Concrete Mathematics - Knuth, Graham, & Patashnik
Cloud Throw Down: Part 2 Azure vs. AWS
Ok, in this edition the fight gets graphic! Let’s jump right into the bout. I’ve also been thinking about adding Rackspace or another cloud provider, so if you want me to add a comparison point, please let me know and I’ll get them added.

Deploying .NET Web Application Code into AWS and Windows Azure is done in some distinctly different ways. There are two ways to look at this measurement;

One is with a configured Web Role or VM Role in Windows Azure and already configured EC2 Instance for AWS or…
A Web Role or VM Role as is and an EC2 Instance as is.
The first scenario one can deploy .NET code directly to the Web Role by simply building the code, directly from Visual Studio and just clicking on publish. For simple web applications and even some complex ones, this is all that is required to get the app into the cloud and running. This takes about 1-5 minutes depending on your build time and bandwidth. I’ll measure this first method of deployment with the web role already started, so it is only the deployment being measured. For AWS I’m making the assumption that you’ve already got an EC2 instance running with either Linux + Mono or Windows with IIS Configured and ready. I’ll call it the…
Now you can also call Obi-Wan on the hologram machine. Sort of
Apparently you don't think America is capable of doing better than this. I don't know why I bother.
Cuckoo's Egg it is the story of a man tracing a hacker.
the choice of some of these benchmarks is weird. they have a bunch of cpu-bound benchmarks. why exactly would you expect these to change as the kernel changed? (i would expect changing compiler to have a bigger influence.)

the ones that do change (and improve mostly) are ones where the kernel actually plays a role--file system, network, etc.

the iozone benchmark is a bit surprising, it shows no improvement. but they are hitting 200MB/s, so i wonder if this is simply because linux is hitting the max speed of the disk.

all in all, not very useful.
dollar already lost 30% vs yen in 3 years, 50% vs gold in 3 years.
I've been reading Godel Escher Bach too actually
How long does copyright apply on magazines ?
If the magazines are older than xx amount of years they are in the public domain, right ?
Also check out Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality too.
Hey Sharktankr - yeah I'd agree. After talking with Jason Comely (rinkjustice on HN) and understanding that he really created the game to push himself, I'd say it's better served for introverted people.

You can see it in his definition of what counts as a "rejection" - http://rejectiontherapy.com/what-counts-as-rejection/ it's supposed to be outside your comfort zone - so even smiling at a cute girl counts. Since I'm comfortable doing a lot of things, it's hard to for me to find rejections that are in this category that aren't really rude or dumb. Though sometimes I wonder if that is just an excuse I've created to not continue pushing myself. (aka I need to approach more beautiful women =D).

I do think the game can be fun for anyone and a valuable/educational experience. Where do you think you stand on the introvert/extrovert continuum?
How to Build a Data Startup
All comms are via SSL.
The application ties into a backend SSO system for authentication and authorization.
The app uses timeouts on top of the ones enforced by the iPad.
All requests run through backend data access policies via web services.
Sounds like to me you need to understand your environment and take advantage of the opportunity. If you work for a very cool web development company then learn everything you can while building your own thing on the side.
That's great news. The chapters before that were great. I'm ignorant of anything above HS math and figured I would be lost in the rest of the book if I was having trouble in the first few pages.
I'm on 1.8. It's now a Safari extension - if you're running Safari 5 you can go to the Safari menu then click Safari Extensions Gallery, it's on there. The Click2Flash project page doesn't do a good job of pointing this out!
The ToS bans robots, so they clearly wish it to be against their ToS.

I am not clear at what level it's enforceable, other than banning me, probably they would not be allowed to keep anything of value I'm waiting to claim.

It seems clear so far that I have an advantage against non-bot-using bidders; I wouldn't like that if I were the CEO of the company, or if I were a bidder dutifully clicking over and over. I am not sure if it's unfair or not, hence the Ethics question here.
You know what? It's called work because it isn't fun. Most people do a day job to pay the bills. It's part of being a grown-up and it comes with commitments and responsibilities that yeah, sort of suck a lot of the time. Even if you're lucky enough to do something you love for a living (and I am) it isn't passionate enthusiasm all of the time.

Know what? I guess, you're wrong. If you (abstract you, not the you I am replying to) are doing things that you don't like, you're pitiful, at the very least. I strongly believe that life is too short to waste it on things you aren't "genuinely enthusiastic about".

My 2c.
Politics is reality... like it or not. We don't live in an idealized world where everything is fair.

And it involved the student government.. so of COURSE it's political...
Suck it up and do something. The best things in life are neither easy, nor fun. In hindsight they will seem fun, and you will get great joy from accomplishing them. However, when you are in the shit it will not seem fun.

You think college is just doing what you want? If you can suck it up for college suck it up for a business. You're getting paid to learn. Start taking charge at work, and start it by taking on the responsibilities no one else wants.

Leverage your youth and things you've already accomplished into a compelling story. Start going to industry events and network.

Use the fact that you have a decent job already to spend less hours working and more hours networking. Find the opportunities you want and grab them by the horns.

In life you eat what you kill. Learn to enjoy the hunt.
I had the same experience, I went straight from a mediocre HS career to development, and I did reach a point where I was burnt out (partially because of a horrible gig, but we'll ignore that)

Just...do something else. More than likely, you'll come back to it later. (If you don't, that's cool too, but I honestly enjoy programming for its own sake.) The ski resort idea is solid, personally what I ended up doing was starting my own business, failing, doing contract work here and there while getting an education in comp sci and philosophy.

Going to college isn't a horrible idea if you don't know what you want to do, but I think that's something you could do after doing some working/travelling for a bit. (Caveat: I still haven't gone to formal school)
The async code makes a world of difference, it definitely improved things for me and my sites.
The world is data. This is a killer article.
This seems like 'Foursquare meets Groupon'. It will be interesting to see who gets assimilated.
I'm talking about ads, not analytics.
biggest mistake is still having a "tech ladder"

What does that mean - there there shouldn't be an engineering career track, the only promotions are into management? (To avoid conflict of team leads being evaluated as individual contributors)
Fed to Buy $600 Billion in Debt - Calls Recovery ‘Disappointingly Slow’
Getting in at the early stages is a great way to ensure you have the ability (actually, the right) to invest at later stages. You can basically chalk up any losses in the seed stage as the price you pay for better deal flow, or maybe as money spent building goodwill among entrepreneurs.
Keep your codebase's messiness at bay with a Fix-It Day
Why editorialize a submission title?
Surface Detail, by Iain M. Banks. This man can make you laugh and cry within three pages, and it's damned good Sci-Fi, to boot.
I'm your classic introvert. I'm living vicariously through you :)
This is definitely an appropriate place to post a remembrance. His legacy he leaves will only inspire others, I can only regret I didn't know about his goodwill until now.
Explore life, and find out what it is you want to do. Maybe you want to start your own company. Maybe you're ok working a nine-to-five if it's an exciting project, or if affects people, or it's a small and driven environment. Maybe what you really want to do isn't even programming, but something like writing or architecture or graphic design. Just because you're got at software, that doesn't mean it's what you want to do, and it doesn't mean that it's what it should do.

There are two good ways to do this. One is going to college full-time, and taking random-ass courses that you think might be interesting. Don't go for the degree, don't focus on CS courses only. Go for the experience, put effort into things that aren't required that you think may benefit you, and especially talk to people. The second way is to get a boring nine-to-five job that puts food on the table and gives you enough spare time to get a hobby or a side project. Then just do whatever suits your fancy, until you find something that suits your fancy and you want to be more serious about. Getting a crappier job is actually better, as it will be easier psychologically to drop it and follow your dream when you find it.

The third, less desirable, option is to be a bum. This is much like getting a crappy job and exploring on the side, except without the job, and subsequently without the food that it puts on the table. This requires either awesome friends or a savings account. Be warned, it's habit-forming. I would recommend the other 2 options because they'll teach you self-discipline, which is important.
The most practical thing I got out of this was that free jeans are coming soon:

"Gap: Giving blue jeans to the first 10,000 customers to claim their deal."
I'm also reading Gödel, Escher, Bach

The first few chapters were invaluable to me with discrete maths - it was far easier to think inside a fixed formal system when I had experienced it within the book first.

The remaining chapters are all fascinating as well. Only bad point is I find it very tiring to read, I can't manage more than a couple of chapters in one sitting.
I used to have your problem as well. Then I got a Kindle. Best thing I ever did for my reading addiction.
???

Could you share any sample of adsense with scripts in the header? Also, do you know any way to load dynamically the scripts?

Google seems to be full of people trying to do it to no avail.
Eh, I also had a very mediocre high-school career, and didn't go to college.

now, uh, as for burnout, at 19, it's probably social. Are you dating? do you want to be? Put some effort into that arena. Maybe cut back a little on your work effort, but my advice is to keep your job. (I mean, by all means, switch jobs within your career focus if you see an opportunity... I'm just saying, don't leave the field.)

When I was a little bit older than you I also felt burnt out. I quit, saying I wasn't going to work in IT ever again. And I then failed to get all manner of menial jobs. It was a miserable experience. I got another IT job within a month or two, but it was a significantly worse job (in terms of experience learned; it actually paid about the same... but I went from being the small fish around some really great people to being the 'big fish') that I think probably set my career back many years.

As for dating, uh, I can't give you specific advice, other than to say it's like any other problem, if you put effort into it, you will make progress.

for social stuff in general, moving to silicon valley can give you a fresh perspective. Nerds are concentrated here, and they have a higher social standing in the valley than anywhere else I've lived. This can, to a large extent, solve the problem of feeling like a supernerd that nobody likes or understands, because it's very easy here to put yourself in a group where you are the least nerdy person in the room.
Like IBM wrestling with the PC vs the mainframe, you need to find some critical way of transitioning into the new paradigm.
IMHO Microsoft's web businesses are too close to the existing cash cows and that pollutes the offering. They have two masters: the masters of the new (cloud based market) and the master of the old business.
Perversely what could have been an asset (the cashflows and distribution and brand awareness of the existing business) turns out to weaken and confuse the proposition.
Unsurprisingly (if you are an observer of this industry) being a startup focussed solely on your product confers you real advantage.
What Microsoft needs to do is put some of the $2bn a year it loses being 3rd in a range of markets (some of which only have two players) into building offerings that don't encapsulate Msft DNA but purely focus on what this new world needs.
They can then bolt on distribution via the Windows platform as icing on the cake, rather than a core part of the proposition.
Windows doesn't need to die. It needs to be ignored by Microsoft and Redmond.
Even if they change it so people can, say, lend each book once a month, how exactly would you set up this site? I don't think anyone would want to sit there typing, for example, 100-200 book titles into a site ... for what payback? To be able to borrow a book from someone else? As someone who does eBooks, I can tell you that's a non-starter for me. Plus, do you understand how many free books are available for the Kindle? And I don't mean public domain stuff, I mean just-published stuff from traditional publishers. I have over 200 of them and don't even own a Kindle yet! [typo edit]
This is an interesting demo, but it seems to focus more on "whizzy" things, instead of fixing more basic problem.

Now, in their defense, I thought the baseline alignment idea was pretty good. But if you look at their first demo of the "callout" text, you'll note that there are horrible rivers (open spaces) running through the type, making it look all clunky.

What's really needed is a straightforward wysiwig layout tool (like Quark or Illustrator, for example) that can generate clean CSS layouts.
Could you please give us some links or info on loading the ads asynchronously?

Is it compatible with Adsense policy?
Brendan Eich: Deep Dive on ES5 Modules (audio)
SkySQL customer acquisition strategy - fight Oracle
ah okay, I read it as if there were limited places and they acquired more by pressuring the people into needing them to make more, if there's no limit then awesome, I retract my distaste!
same here. went from reading 0 to reading 500 pages per month+ due to k3