skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're being unfair. You act as though they aren't implementing any standards instead of just the ones that make a difference. At the end of the day, websockets is a mess and shouldn't (and isn't) be enabled in any web browser yet. But a whole bunch of other things are. Check the compatibility list: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/ff468705.aspx. They actually have pretty solid support for most of the upcoming standards and are playing a significant role in the W3C process itself.
You should ask for auth for photos right on connect, avoiding the image upload step. Just use their current profile photo and make it easy to change.
You're groaning in the wrong headspace I would say.

You're looking at your life and groaning about the lack of passion and interest in the things around you.

Everything you find is 'good enough'. Damnit man! Get dissatisfied!

You've got a healthy dose of skepticism, which is highly underrated, now you need to develop your ability to find issues, flaws and opportunities in what is around you. Products, services, the way things are done. They may be done better than you could do them yourself, but are they done the best they ever will be? How would you improve them, then learn how to build it yourself and that makes a better product.

One of the interesting things I've found about passion is that in some ways, it can often be found lurking within you and just needs to be discovered and awakened.

I think one thing shared by all passionate people is that they rarely seem passionate about something that involves only them. It is in the service of others that most people find their passion. As an example, look at the Charlie Rose interview with Andrew Mason of Groupon http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/10/groupon-masin-charlie-rose/
Mason talks about what Groupon does for businesses, what it does for people. It isn't about what it does for him. FourSquare is somewhat useless, but Crowley talks about how people are going to the gym more often and getting healthier because they use it. It is often these purposes which lurk beneath the surface where the passion can come from.
5 Facebook Games That Will Keep You Hooked
While trying to weasel info about the Google offer:

CHARLIE ROSE: So therefore, why did you choose to eliminate a Google-like proposition and incline yourself toward other propositions?

ANDREW MASON: It has to do with whether or not I would beat my wife.
It's probably worth plugging http://prgmr.com/xen/, run by fellow HN member lsc. If you prepay for the year, a 256MB VPS is only $6.40/mo. I've had good luck with it so far; it's a perfect always-on dev environment.

(I'm just a customer, no affiliation)

Edit: looks like they're not accepting new customers right now. sorry.
I remember days I would print my source so I could write code in school, long before every child had access to a computer and long before laptops were anything anyone besides CEOs and very important traveling businessmen owned. Revision control consisted of printing to carbon-copy paper.

I still have a few reams code printed on Dot Matrix-perforated paper in my basement.
I don't know what to say guys. I'm not incompetent but if you want to assume that I am, then I cannot stop you from drawing those conclusions. Let me say this : it's not a matter of comprehension. It's a matter of performing flawlessly under pressure at the whiteboard.
From the article:

> most people I know including myself couldn’t live without Chromium/V8 anymore.

Is this a common sentiment ?
Article is from December 2008, FWIW.
Actually, I think a lot of people take a moderate view on things because they recognise that the world is rarely black or white, but rather a full spectrum of shades of grey.

Of course, in saying this, I have to acknowledge that some people hold moderate views out of laziness (it's not black and white). Of course, there is probably an equal proportion of lazy extremists.
Great example of implementation of OAuth with OpenID and FB
Chrome OS Doesn't Trust Apps Or Users
There is no need for (implementation) inheritance just to use dynamic dispatch. Many languages provide mechanisms for dynamic dispatch without needing to use inheritance.

Also, you can certainly have encapsulation even in pure C with proper use of header files and use of typedefs, though C in no way requires you to encapsulate anything. Ever wondered what is the FILE in FILE* that many C/Posix functions use? I certainly have. But it's not necessary to expose it to callers of functions that use it. So much for encapsulation and inheritance going hand in hand.
The equation - http://img545.imageshack.us/i/chromeequation.jpg/
Being a web-programmer - those C and GUI stuff looks hard to me. The grass looks greener on the other side, the tech looks harder on the other side. I am humbled too.reply
It's the early days of the Internet. We've invented sail and gunpowder, and we're just coming to the New World. If you're on Hacker News, you're a navigator - a captain - a fierce programmer. Marketers and social networks, data gatherers and marketers - your foes are numerous and powerful. Take your desire to do something wonderful, find a crew you want to sail with, and get started.

You'll be happier for having done it.
Good idea. We used to automatically use the last.fm image (if they registered that way) but found most of them weren't really photos of the users themselves. We're looking at more of a complete post-sign-up wizard now where we could give the option of using your facebook profile photo straight away.
It looks like some software projects are getting kickstarter.com funding. Interesting idea.
Thanks. I just finished the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius not too long ago, and it was sobering but refreshing.
Chrome can't scroll up today
I am not a stupid copy/paste programmer who doesn't know what the fuck she's doing. Trust me on that. As my blogpost said, I thoroughly understand the concepts. But if you read my blogpost comments, you'll notice that many people sympathize -- and I doubt that these people are incompetent. Some people will impress at whiteboard coding, others will not. That's it.
First Impressions:

The name is really really good.

The design is top-notch, one of the best looking sites, let alone startups I've seen in a while. One thing, to me the male/female symbols were not intuitive. I see that they're labeled and they do look cool but I feel they take a way from an almost perfect interface.

Unfortunately once I fill out the basic info I'm having trouble getting it to load. The page comes up but then immediately goes blank. Chrome in Windows XP...

I'll keep checking it, you made it on to my favorites list.
There is a very restricted terminal, basically allowing SSH and a couple of other things. If you flip the developer mode switch, you get full VT and shell access: http://www.chromium.org/poking-around-your-chrome-os-device
Thanks! I saw that a long time ago but definitely appreciated seeing it again. It was certainly helpful.
I don't think the article would consider any of the people you listed polymaths. One of the article's criterion for being a polymath is that you have interests in diverse fields. A musician who can play several different instruments isn't showing much in the way of diversity. Neither is James Cameron, nor Louis CK, because the examples you cited all are tied together very naturally, and I would argue that being a great director probably means you _have_ to be a good set/costume designer too. And you can't just be really good to be considered a polymath--you have to be an expert. Thomas Young, from the article, showed that light was a wave in addition to a particle, _and_ contributed immensely to linguistics through helping to crack the Rosetta Stone. Making significant contributions or developments like Young's these days isn't possible. With the article's stringent criteria, I'd agree--what polymaths we have today aren't great compares to the ones we used to have, and they're just going to keep getting worse because it's hard to be an expert in anything intellectual nowadays, and it'll only get worse.
The answers you seek lie not within your browser...

The best way to see what makes a difference in the lives of people is to get out and meet them.

A good start would be just gaining some independence for yourself. The world suddenly looks very different when you remove most of the safety nets and have to sink or swim wholly of your own resources.

I personally don't think you should be considering world-changing events right now. You should be looking towards simple things and expanding your own horizons. You can split the difference by volunteering at some local organizations and maybe joining some groups/clubs that seem at least mildly intriguing.

BTW, in my prior post I didn't mean to imply that I thought you were bragging.
Don't miss the graph/chart (in the 'Tornado Performance Trend' Google doc). Yet another Tornado (and node.js and Deft) benchmark available on http://www.deftserver.org
It takes about 2 minutes worth of queries to discover there are no girls on this site.

There are 3 girls there who match ["Rammstein", "Johnny Cash", "Radiohead"] as well as ["Lady Gaga", "Britney Spears", "Justin Bieber"]. If I type in my zip code, all 9 girls are identical.

Nice concept, however.
Extensibility of the type without breaking existing code. When you add or remove a case from an algebraic data type, you pretty much need to modify all functions that operate on it since they contain patterns that mention the data-constructors that you either removed, or they don't cover all the cases anymore.

(if you meant pattern matching as in text/regular expressions, disregard what I just wrote)
Sure; but there are a ton of places they can get a job as a "programmer" having only interviewed with a non-technical manager. These people become experts at this type of interview and are able to do what I call, "dazzling with bullshit" quite effectively.
I dont get that : "we realized “900.91″ did actually reference the goo.gl url shortener"

I do not see how he did that?
The statement is definitely a bit sensationalist. That said, yes. Even non-techy people I've seen checking out chrome comment on the speed and how much they like the UI.
Can WikiLeaks be duplicated?
That's why I said give it time :-)

Collapsing is a natural reaction to the removal of pressure. You have spent a long time trying to do work that you didn't want to do. The corporate experience trains you to believe that you are naturally lazy, because you spend all day in agonized revulsion against the productive, useful work you are asked to do. The secret is that just because you do not want to do certain work for certain people does not mean you are lazy.

Other people have been in control of your productivity for a long time, and your only freedom was to resist, shut down, and be lazy. You need to indulge that until you feel completely reassured that you are free and in control of your own life. Then your own tendencies will come out, and I guarantee you that what little I know about you from your question (specifically, that you have skills that took a lot of time and unwitting dedication to develop, and that you worry about what you might or might not accomplish) is enough to know that you will be happiest doing productive work.
24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations
Self-selecting. People on the Chrome OS forums are more likely to have applied for the pilot program.
glad to see Ben Darnell is on top of it:

http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado/msg/681856dbb4...
I Hate Gay
Can you explain where exactly it's going blank? Is it after you update your profile or on the search page?

I agree we could perhaps improve on those gender icons.
PrimeSense releases open source drivers, middleware for Kinect
You don't see any similarities between "900.91" and "goo.gl" ?
Since this morning, I've been unable to scroll upwards in a Chrome browser window. Down, fine; up, no way. Strange. So, I went off to the Googles for a solution, and found the ticket for the problem.

Amusingly, it looks like ~200 duplicates have been filed of this ticket, no doubt by annoyed users like me.

Seems like an upstream problem from Webkit2, and it's been fixed in the next build, so tomorrow we all should be able to scroll both ways again.

Funny how such a small thing can be so annoying though -- what did we do back when we didn't have wheels on mice?
> we selected Java SE & EE as primary pillars for our application development (as many others in the industry do)

Sadly, this is exactly Oracle's motivation.
I'd say "demands" more than "assumes."

The "somewhere" is, of course, in one of the previous steps. I agree with him that there are vanishingly few legitimate[1] use cases where a queueing system is the right solution.

More, but only ever so slightly, more frequently, a spool is called for, and that can be loosely simulated by a queue.

[1] This excludes situations of ones own making, such as designing a system that requires asynchronous but ordered execution in the first place.
It's hard to plan for a problem you've never had before. Most people expect it's just going to work.
To play the devil's advocate, and I am speaking specifically within the context of web development, what is a practical example of a linked list?
That's really not a reason to use one over the other, only a reason to contribute to one over the other, and tbh, can be a benefit in either direction depending on who you are.
There are some pretty (free) good tools out there to test against most injections methods. I'm not saying having a conceptual grasp of security hurts ;)
All in all, you can't know all methods - and the tools won't probably know much less.
I see 61 pages of results * 9 results per page with my last.fm profile.
This is incredible. I put my username in and was immediately prompted with nearly 10 females from around.

I may be getting ahead of myself here, but if I marry one of these girls, I shall invite you to our wedding which will have both our last.fm personal radio stations as music.
Just tilt your head a bit :)

9 -> g
0 -> o
1 -> l
I'm a fan of irssi myself, I've found that the defaults are pretty sane and the few things I've wanted to customize could be.
I disagree. I can see them freezing the account - i.e. rejecting further mail to it. But if I come back after a year, I fully expect to be able to say "hey guys, I'm back, can I have my emails now?" and get at it.

Data storage is ludicrously cheap that I don't understand why there's a need at all.
I recommend you read "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" by J. L. Borges. I think it describes the motivation for this perfectly.
Web Programming is nigh impossible for 1 person any more.

To build a legit website:

1. Mockup a pretty design in photoshop. Use color theory, design principles, UX theory, typography skills, etc.
2. Convert the design into HTML/CSS. Make it degrade gracefully, it should be cross-browser compatible, validate, be lightweight, meet accessibility standards.
3. Add unobstrusive javascript if you want, site should work without it.
4. Run YSlow, convert all images into sprites where possible, condense/minify your JS/CSS.
5. Do SEO tweaks and best practices.
6. Oh wait, does the site display well on iPads? build a mobile version and a tablet version.

...

We haven't even gotten past the front end. Learn good db design, code your middle tier. Choose or roll your own framework. TONS of work.

Once it works, go back and secure everything for the OWASP10 and other potential holes. Also make sure it will scale gracefully.

Maybe you should optimize your cacheing scheme? Maybe tweak your php config so it runs faster.

AGhghghsdhdshf%@!$^#$ it never ends!
How Simple Conversation with Customers Will Increases Sales 30%
Now that's some very useful hack! Thanks!
Wow. I've often heard people complain about using "they" as a non-gendered singular pronoun because it was inaccurate, but I've never before had someone argue against it because it was _too_ accurate. I guess what I'm saying is that the stylistic choice you say you made (to use a singular pronoun when referring to two people, one of whom was male), totally confused me.

I note that nothing in this piece discusses Shteyngart leaving college (where the college link was how I resolved the pronoun in your first paragraph), and that surely Shteyngart will not write a follow-up to "this piece", (which is how I resolved the pronoun reference in your last paragraph). I guess I just don't understand how the male pronouns in your comment refer to Shteyngart.
Mr. Aleynikov wanted to be able to work from New Jersey, where he lived, and eventually agreed to work out of New York City if Teza paid an additional $200 a month for his parking, Mr. Malyshev said.

Pretty ridiculous arguing over a 0.2% salary increase.
Business Plans should now be called 'working notes'
To be fair this makes sense in context...sort of. He is dodging an answer and he does so more articulately a few moments later.

Also - reading through the transcript this is possibly the most serious he's ever been in an interview. He actually talked about facts, answered questions, etc. instead of running on about how he likes to build doll houses.
It appears that they are full or not accepting new customers at the moment because I cannot find a "Buy" button.
Well, now please make Jamendo a joy to use...
Spring and hibernate: Lazy loading collections in desktop (swing) applications
Poking around your Chrome OS notebook
Some more thoughts... Travelling:
Go somewhere you don't speak the language, and where they won't be good at English. Don't do the tourist locations. Find out how other people live their daily lives and reflect upon it.

Perhaps you will want to help people less fortunate than yourself. Perhaps you'll want to help people like yourself because you discover that you are actually less fortunate in some other sense.

At the very worse, don't waste your life on video games and internet, unless you're going to create a video game that might need to be online.

I had an even longer-winded reply, but it basically boils down to the 2 steps from edw519.
NY Metro CTO would be nice - been there, got funded, done that :) - check my profile.
I believe any great inventor/innovator must be and so I've aspired do be the same with high levels of knowledge in: engineering, biotechnology, chemistry, computer science, human behavior, economics, business, mathematics, and design/art.

Most of history's great inventions weren't 'new' but a combination of technologies from varying fields that were combined in a unique way. People must have a vast knowledge base to be able to create truly unique products. I've combined artificially intelligent systems with kids toys, machine vision with apparel, computer science with gene therapy, the craziest had to be when I took apparel manufacturing techniques and an AI and applied them to food processing. Every solution came at the problem in a unique way, solving problems others thought impossible.

Sadly most people/start-ups look for the narrow skill set not the highly analytical individual that can solve any problem. This has driven away those that would have otherwise become polymaths. With the huge amount of knowledge available, a polymath today is someone who knows enough about every field so that when posed with a problem, they know where to go to create an answer.

Another problem in today's economy is that a polymath jumps between fields so they lack the 'years' of experience in any one field. This does lead to quite a few difficulties as people automatically leap to the 'jack-of-all-trades, master of none'. Most fail to realize that the difference between designing a kids toy or mobile app are small. They utilize the same skills and knowledge, just varying in the implementation due to different targeted demographics and sales channels.
I dislike the downvoting too, but there's a reason for it. People are raising valid critiques about Hotmail (that the Hotmail team specifically asked for!) and their only response was "well, why would anyone want all of that anyways?"

They're clueless, that's why they're getting downvoted. Re: their complete and utter cluelessness when it comes to IMAP support, someone basically summarized up the reasoning in a single sentence, that the Hotmail team hasn't realized in years of managing this product:

"ActiveSync? srsly? Does it work with my Android phone? With an iPhone? With anything else than Windows?"
Interesting to compare product searches to actual sales data (we've been looking at this with a client: http://blog.reevoo.com/2010/12/datamining-santas-grotto-pred...).

[Starts digging around in Excel...].
... i don't understand why people downvote sometimes. weird.

let's play a game. why would anyone downvote the parent comment?
I went through a period like this, and it was awful. Diabetes isn't a particularly rare illness, but I am the only one I know who has it, and I had no idea what symptoms to look for. Since it took a while for me to develop the good sense to check into an emergency room, I spent six months essentially insulin free, shedding muscle mass, water weight, gasping for breath, and exerting every ounce of energy I had to climb flights of stairs.

I was basically incapable of complex reasoning because I couldn't expend the required mental energy. I did not become laid back or socially competent; instead, I was irritable and frustrated at my shortcomings. People could take advantage of me more easily. I generally stopped being interested in esoteric things of any sort. I don't think I derived anything of value from the loss of my mental acuity.

One tangential benefit I did receive, however, from having DKA, was an increase in motivation and willpower. I had taken my health and cleverness for granted, and now it was slipping away, and I didn't know why. All I knew was that I wanted it back. I forced myself to slog through, to finish the CRM I was working on, and I started working out more. It didn't help me health-wise at the time, but now that my condition is being managed, I find I am much more aggressive and resourceful in the way I conduct my life.
If an expert is 90% of the time doing something boring, maybe he/she should be hiring somebody else to handle it, don't you think?

Taking the idea to software, maybe it wouldn't hurt to hire cheap programmers as long as they're following the directions of an expert.
I did get a Master's. I don't think I did it properly though, since I went there because it felt like the right thing to do, not because I had some great interest to explore there.
There isn't one standard way to convert a latitude / longitude coordinate into a x/y coordinate for a map. Google Maps was the first to use the Spherical Mercator projection. The EPSG (?) number used to reference the Spherical Mercator was originally 900913. EPSG:3785 now refers to the Spherical Mercator too.

http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html
It's not dead, it's sleeping.
oh thank you! haven't realise that!
Your service is awesome, but competition combined with limited availability is going to be a tough climb.

Do you have any revenue plans? I assume you're using TextMark, correct? How many users are you currently paying for (if you dont mind, or which price tier)?
Name one. I'm willing to bet you've got your head in the sand. I work in the embedded industry. A significant minority of these devices are shipping with web servers on board for command & control. The price difference between an 8 and 32 bit micro is dropping quickly.

So you might be able to get away without knowing Javascript, but you'll need somebody in your company who does, so my original comment stands.
For the less technical it sometimes helps to qualify what something is even if it is embedded in the abbreviation. But considering the audience here, you're right. I will remove the offending word.
I'm just surprised that a search engine I've never heard of has 800 servers, each with 64GB of RAM and 8TB across 8 disk.

(OK, I've heard of them, but now I'm interested enough to take a serious look!)
Or that their host can handle the stress.