skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife's grandpa had West Nile in the summer of '09. He lost about a week's worth of memory while he was sick with the worst of it. He's just not the same person as we was before. He can't remember things very well. He'll do something and then do it again an hour later. You can hardly talk to him anymore because he just gives you this blank stare most of the time.

He's in his 80's so I don't think he's going to recover much from this. You're probably recovering better because of your age.
It's more a courtesy call so they don't look quite like saying "Good riddance!"
It's pretty sad that Hotmail is trying to reach out to the tech community, and their comments and getting so far down voted on Reddit (-500 for one comment at time of writing this)
You know, at one point I thought that as well. I felt, that as someone who programs almost solely in 1) C# 2) Erlang -- "thanks I've got a stdlib for that".

And then I actually thought about what it takes to reverse a linked list for a second.

And immediately realized I will never, ever hire someone who can't regurgitate or reason how to reverse a linked list "from scratch" within a few minutes.
"It's like maintaining a skyscraper built out of Tinker Toys."

Actually, it's like maintaining a skyscraper built from steel, concrete and glass integrated with complex HVAC, plumbing, electrical and elevator systems.
I believe interleukin is also made as a byproduct of the baking process in bread...where the crust has 8x higher concentration of interleukin than the other part of the bread. It is thought that bread crust can be a buffer in helping to reduce the chances of colon cancer.

I don't know though if interleukin-22 is the same as the interleukin made in the baking process.
"if they ever release it" is a perfectly valid reason to move away from Screen.

I disagree, since we're talking about open source, here. More to the point, this is a marketing reason[1], not a technical one.

screen actually requires suid for multiuser support, which is atrocious, while tmux simply communicates over a socket, and whoever has the permissions for the socket can join the session.

This is an important distinction, though, to me, it doesn't make one better or worse than the other, in general, just for specific circumstances. This kind of detail is why I crave objective comparisons, like the OC, though perhaps from different motivation.

[1] Which I, personally, don't consider valid, though I wouldn't suggest it isn't to you.
Thats a great script you guys wrote! Any chance it's going to be open sourced? Would be really fun to play around with github projects!
I am most curious to know if Google is continuing to ship them regularly rather than in batches every few weeks.
Germany is also a one citizenship state, which provides a disinsentive to immigration.
It seems like a size/weight limit on luggage would be the right answer there; the specific items being brought are none of anyone's business assuming they aren't illegal.
Great advice, all. The HTTP protocol skill is something I didn't even consider.
That page has top/topmind/tablizer written all over it.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TopMind

http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/
if i recall this involved some Erlang source.
Different example: Xinjiang, the largest administrative region in China (17% of the land area) was disconnected from all internet and phone from early July 2009 until May 2010 (because China wanted to be the sole purveyor of information regarding ethnic unrest in the region). There may not be many people using hotmail in that region, but anyone who could not afford to travel 1000 kilometers to a different region for email would not have logged in during that period.
Old is Gold But in Blogging New is Diamond
Have you heard of the quote – “Old is Gold“. It is, but in blogging – “New is diamond“.
thanks for sharing.. its pretty awesome how you automated the test..

i would love to hear more from bitly folks or hipmunk folks about their experience on the performance.

I am big fan of tornado, ben and it's simplicity. I guess i will continue to use my old branch for now.
Gorilla Glass, the Smartphone's Unsung Hero
Gears is supported for Chrome and also OS X Snow Leopard, but not for Chrome on Snow Leopard. I'm guessing this is for sensible reasons but it looks kind of stupid.
In my case (already logged in) it just tells me I "do not have permission to access this spreadsheet".
But upon studying CSS, HTML and Javascript over the last month, I can honestly say I’m humbled.

About half the time, I feel humbled whenever I encounter some new technology.

The other half, I wonder why anyone bothered.

The trick is knowing which half is which.
Join a start-up and share in the founder's passion, you will have the good parts of the experience without the money stress.
I find it hilarious that this is blocked by my school's filter. How dare they denounce script kiddies and support intellectual freedom.
I think it's a very positive sign that they're interested enough in you to make a custom package, and try to make things work.

Get the options thing in writing, but otherwise, if you like the job, take it. Heck, it may even get you closer to some of the other VC firm members, which is never a bad thing.
whoa. Weirdness.

The clickable link above has three slashes after http instead of two. Somehow this results in a link to http:/www.coderun.com (one slash) which results in broken images in my safari: http://grab.by/7PQT
Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users
I recently launched a unique new dating website that matches people based on their tastes in music.
Great! Now quit your job and take some time to just explore. I'm not talking about places; I mean thoughts, ideas, and projects.

Sure, sounds great, but is quitting really necessary for that? I did say that I do have spare time now, and although I'm not addicted to a paycheck, I don't think I can just leap into the abyss either.

Unfortunately, right now my "ground state" (as so eloquently described here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1536432) seems to be mindless worrying, and I think quitting my job will simply enable me to do that full-time.

By the way, have you already put in your 10 years of coding on projects that push at and stretch your programming ability? If not, you really have no justification in saying you're not capable of being a good programmer. http://norvig.com/21-days.html

I don't doubt that I'm capable, I just don't think I'm there yet. I've been programming for more than 10 years, but not all of it counts as deliberate practice.
MoPub helps Gaia GPS optimize mobile ads
I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
I did this once in assembly and ended up with a ton of desserts. (push pops)
Maybe I read too much Hacker News, but frankly I find a lot of startups uninspiring. Social this, web-based that, yadda yadda.

Again, I might just need an attitude change, or I'm wearing the wrong glasses.
Two different development processes, two different outcomes. And unlike other 'construction'-type businesses, in software we have many different development processes.
I appreciate the author for recognizing web development. I often stumble upon my 'programming' friends who think web development and especially front-end is boring and trivial. I have hard time explaining how important and how complex things can get.

It's something my fellow hard-core programmer friends will never understand. I love my job and what I do.

Web Development rules!
Sorry. I make money selling it, and don't want to give it away.

Many of the libraries involved are available from http://xach.com/lisp/ and https://github.com/xach/ though.
Why don't you split the difference? I'm working on a new startup and it's got all the excitement of a software startup, but it's in a niche market that's very ripe and grateful, and there's the opportunity to travel to interesting places to meet with customers (I'm going to Singapore next month), but we're headquartered in Park City, UT, and the quality of life is very high here, assuming you like skiing and mountain biking and outdoorsy stuff.

Maybe I could be working on a startup that's more high profile and more likely to make me famous on HN and Techcrunch, but I prefer the more relaxed lifestyle.

You don't have to make the choice between living for your work or just being a mindless corporate drone. Work on something exciting and dynamic, and also have a life. It's possible.

Why don't you come work here? We need engineers.
This is an anonymous article on Quora -- if I could provide more attribution, I would. In fact, I have now added a ton more attribution and links back to the main quora page. I love Quora.

That blog is just my interesting snippets blog. It just so happened that this snippet was so interesting that the entirety made sense. I usually try to break it down into the smallest most interesting bit.

Imagine my surprise as to the reaction to this article. The blog is mainly for myself and my friends / twitter followers. There was no malice here, and I've altered the post to more prominently link to the source content.

The nature of the Internet is such: My blog drives some amount of attention. I don't monetize it and have no intention to. If Quora can make more money by the traffic I direct to it, all the better.

I did not post this to Hacker News. I had no intention of it receiving the attention that it did. All in all, I'm happy that some people got value out of the story. Whoever linked to my post should have linked to the original quora post. That's that.
Wow, what an opportunity. The world is yours - may I recommend that you travel? Travel cheap, see the world. Find your passion. Don't worry about what you are going to do in the future, you have so much time to build a life/lives.

Concrete examples?
Volunteer, either near home or internationally (though don't get stuck in a 'paid' volunteer system, just pay for your own travel but don't get charged to work anywhere as a volunteer)

Working Holiday visa
You can live and travel for a year of more, no visa worries. For example, go to Australia, hang out and get some exercise, go surfing, pick apples, then go see Indonesia, Thailand, Laos.. then when you get back to the States you'll be even more unbelievably spoiled, but you'll have an idea of what you want to do with your opportunity.

I'm sure others here could give more examples. When I was 24 I had already packed up and was just traveling, freelancing digitally as I needed, until something came along that was interesting enough to stay put for.
Go to http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ pick a record to go for. rinse and repeat. It'll be good for a laugh, some needed space from corporate America and we can get to follow you along.
Ask HN: Good Rich Text Editor for Web
I'm going to be building out a backend for a publication website soon and I wanted to get some input on a nice lightweight Rich Text Editor for the web. I've used FCKEditor before but it seemed really heavy weight. They mostly need to be able to do bold, italics, underline, and maybe change some colors. I was going to roll my own, but the project schedule just got a lot more aggressive and finding a good third party tool would speed things up. Thanks.
I'm not a fan/user of Hotmail but what I don't understand is why people compare it to Gmail, or why people compare one service to another? If there are limitations and issues, than discuss on its own merits.
Sorry about that, it appears like the document is getting hammered and is throwing some users to a login page or to a simplified spreadsheet view.
Be honest with your cofounder about how you feel.
Robots.

(Seriously, that productivity multiplier is not more than a decade away. Humanoid and mostly remotely controlled. Americans will put these to a far greater effect than Indians or Chinese.)
It's all good! Enjoy the cash; you have earned it!

Thanks for the references.
Xmpp allows you to be a bit more secure and fine tune the usage. If your client or library doesn't actually make this simpler, something has failed.
Couldn't you learn this concept, grow as a programmer, and become more hirable in the process?

It seems like you've decided you're not capable of teaching yourself through it.
Perl is dead. You can't write the newest best alternative to Google in a dead language. Someone needs to tell them immediately. They must be unaware.

Kidding of course. Now where's their contributions to CPAN? http://search.cpan.org/search?query=blekko&mode=all

I want some of that code!
Man, I really shouldn't be getting paid for this. Any idiot could [do X].

I think this is true in many fields.

It's usually a case of 'knowing where to tap'.. once you have that knowledge, the process of building stuff isn't always so difficult.
Just wanted to quickly clarify that I was not responsible for the test, all credit goes to Jacob on the tornado google group (http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado/browse_thread/...). Sorry for the misunderstanding.
For a person with only rudimentary knowledge of cryptography, why do they want a faster algorithm? I was under the impression that slower -> better. Is it simply that an algorithm that takes 10ms is slow enough to deter brute forcing, while one that takes 1 second starts to affect the user and possibly the host?
Really? I thought that one was the most human of their responses because it is so obviously tongue-in-cheek.
Wikileaks Anonymous defenders not hacking creditcards
It's worth having a VPS around as your dev environment. The laptop you're carrying around is extremely likely to get lost, stolen, dropped, or otherwise damaged. A VPS isn't a backup solution, but it's not at constant risk of physical harm.

Work in a screen session and you'll be able to pick up where you last left off --from any machine. Not to mention your VPS is almost certainly faster than your laptop and connected to a bigger pipe than whatever wifi you're borrowing, so downloading a .tar.gz or a git clone will be fast, and compiling won't eat up your battery life.
Classic quarter-life crisis. It will pass.

However; you're 24 and you've never had a girlfriend? And you feel like there's something missing in your life? I don't think joining a startup or learning ten new programming languages is the solution to your problems...
The New Art of Launching with Tony Conrad of About.me [video]
> And, forgive me, but how are their responses bad?

Great question!

At reddit, we are committed to quality comment criticism. Before the release of this criticism we leveraged Rich Internet Applications to survey our users' core requirements in order to provide the best comment reading experience for our users. I'm pleased to announce that our latest criticism will have full support for immersive webrage typing and HW accelerated upvote/downvote technology.

-Lars

(Seriously, check out this summary of their fabulously well constructed non-answers and evasive bullshit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dkk3l/iama_we_are_memb... )
Hey Garry. Definitely I would agree that you didn’t do anything inherently wrong here, given the Quora ToS; mostly I am arguing reposting entire articles/items to be a bad idea because it would encourage your users to do so when it’s not legal. I hope my comment doesn’t feel like an attack and want to thank you for finding & sharing this interesting anecdote.

I am basing my criticism of “Posterous culture” solely on your post and the one I mentioned that copied my entire blog post. Do you think I’m on to something, or do you think Posterous users probably infringe just as much as users of any other blog service?
You're right about the curl wrapper. It's actually got it's own repository https://github.com/jmathai/php-multi-curl so I should remove it from here (it's an artifact really).

1) I'm not sure exactly what you mean. I handle most of the code duplication in libraries so my static controller methods are usually really small (<15 lines). Let me know if I misunderstood your point.

2) You're right about the layout wrapper being a bit "heavy" for this framework. You can nest layouts to your heart's desire but the views are 100% decoupled from the actions. You can, in fact, use the the template module without using the route module. Not that you'd want to :).
I've found after learning C I have a much better appreciation for writing resource conscious programs on a computer than I did before when I was first introduced to Java.

It has certainly helped me learn Objective C and C++ a lot quicker.

I'd even go as far as to say for new people to programming and put off by C, Objective C could be a good stepping stone for them.
Please. I know I have a fair share of problems, but you seem awfully quick to pass judgment as to this being one of them. Care to elaborate?

EDIT: Let me just say that I'm in no shape to get into a relationship. I will just be dumping my problems on her and making her miserable instead.
Just go into the Extensions window and then Vimium preferences; you can add this vi page to the list of "excluded URLS".
Spend time helping others for a while.

This is actually a very selfish thing to do, no matter how counter-intuitive that sounds.

Studies on human happiness have shown repeatedly that we are actually made happier by giving to others than by receiving things.

It doesn't really matter what you choose.
Build houses with Habitat for Humanity,
Try Volunteers for Peace and dig wells and build homes in the third world. http://www.vfp.org/
Try volunteering to help children with Unicef.

You'll find that physical work without the burden of worrying about things like "what's it all about" or "what's my passion" will make you happier, give you great experiences and memories, and introduce you to things about the world that could positively affect you for the rest of your life.

Forget startups, you're in a position to do what few people have the opportunity to do.
Emacs on a tablet PC with gestures
1. First of all, I question why you would not want to pursue some type of romantic relationship (male or female). Being truly in love is an outstanding feeling and can make even the most monotonous things wonderful (like grocery shopping).

2. If you don't want to start a company, I would suggest investing in someone you believe in and can share their passion. Perhaps you can even mentor them given whatever skills you have.

3. How is your physical health? Are you in shape? If not, find a way to focus on that now... otherwise you certainly won't win that lottery.

4. Need more? I could seriously go on forever... :)
Yes, it's hard. Unnecessarily hard, which is why I hate when I have to do it.

The complexity of web development is not intrinsic to the problem, but an extrinsic reality imposed by widely differing implementations of a number of overengineered technologies.
No, you're exactly right.
I actually attended the Dayton Hamvantion this year. They had a HAARP forum, and I think that this might be interesting for everyone to listen too: http://johnrdavisjr.com/feed/NA/HAARP.mp3

It is very interesting to note that HAARP makes the sky GLOW RED when it is turned on and it operates at a low frequency to modify the ionosphere. We discussed this and the hamvention here: http://socitpodcast.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/socit-podcast-0...
Interesting that they don't mention Google's vote "no".

The official comments of each party in the JCP on this vote are pretty interesting, even a large number of the "yes" votes clarify that they are voting only on the technical merits and they have deep concerns with the licensing.

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5111
Okay, that sounds neat. What happens if multiple people type at the same time? Can you split the frame and somehow still have multiple people typing? Why tmux instead of a more featured remote desktop? Just curious, but now that I understand your use case, I think both modes are important.
An R interface to the Google Prediction API
Personally I think the Four Loko made the pill a bit easier to swallow.

-Ray
it's understandable

No matter how awful a certain action gets by moral standards, everybody has understandable motives or urges ... rape, murder, backstabbing allies, you name it.

What isn't understandable is how companies can act hypocritical and get away with it, when your friends wouldn't.

That's a huge and hurtful double standard, especially since in the US companies have the same legal status as people, which is a huge advantage for them.

Would you trust to do business with, or be friends with, or just tolerate a person that acts like Oracle does?
What I see as a bonus here is that it offers multiple editors, that'd be useful if I wanted to use them on my phone and on a full machine too.
>Also, inheritance is not a core requirement of OOP.

The definition I learned was that, if you don't have inheritance, it's object-based. Of course, that was almost 20 years ago; usage might have shifted. I think the example I was given of an object-based language was Ada.
I really have a hard time believing that coming from a C/C++/embedded background you couldn't whip up something reasonably workable (linked list) in 15 minutes on a whiteboard. It's usually the people that have gone on to become "architecture astronauts" who can't do it, or the people who could never do it in the first place. I mean it's as much a test of passion as a test of competence. You can see that certain people are physically pained by writing code. They just don't enjoy it and want it to stop. Other people are engaged and clearly want to produce something. Even if their result isn't perfect. If they are verbalizing something relatable as they get stuck on the same stupid ha-duh mistakes you get stuck on when you do your own job day in an day out. For the people who I think are exceptional, this should be refreshing to them, almost nostalgic. No need to worry about browser compatibility of your linked list, no need to worry about its latency, its availability, making a mobile version of it, etc etc etc. It should just be "I haven't done anything this uncomplicated in a long time." Maybe you should just bust out notepad (no compiling!) and try it and time yourself. Without the pressure of someone staring you down, maybe you'll surprise yourself.
When you say you've never had a "house", does this mean you still live with your parents?

I think you mostly have existed and not actually lived. You should probably start by just gaining some independence and some outside extracurricular activities.

You should have a house/apartment, a car, a girlfriend, some hobbies. Lack of these things and the ability to live for 10 years on any amount you could have reasonably amassed as a 24 year old corporate programmer is most likely not a topic to brag on. This should be an indication that you need to expand your horizons.
ATM Machine. PIN Number. HTTP Protocol.
Interesting take.

I have volunteered before, at community events and the food bank. It felt uncomfortable because I did indeed feel selfish doing those things.

It's reassuring to know that this is completely normal.
It may not be necessary, but a competent developer should be able to do it in their sleep with one hand tied behind their back. If a candidate finds it difficult to do so, that's a really bad sign that they'll find the necessary things difficult as well.
If you have to ask, you're probably playing around with forces you shouldn't mess with.

Hack via providing goods and services that consumers or businesses will pay for. You'll actually see a return on your efforts.
Apache: ffs, if Java 7/8 has non-open licensing, we'll leave.
Oracle: ffs, you're leaving?!!

This isn't going to end well.
"speed" as in "quick on the uptake"
Today, I learned that "NOFI" means "no flame intended". That is, "I'm critiquing, but I do not intend any offense."