skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have some interesting points. But just because something runs on bare metal doesn't make it an OS (many Amiga video games tossed the OS for example). An OS running in s/w emulation is still an OS. It manages resources for the apps, it doesn't matter what lies beneath - same goes for virtualization.
People have always valued their kids, but what the author argues is new is that parents now derive their social status primarily from how much money they spend on their children.
Is it really "on news.yc" as much as Buddha's (or whomever) teachings is "on news.yc"? I believe that's swombat's argument.
I don't think there's a causal link there. I've interviewed quite a few game development graduates for programming jobs, and they weren't any better or worse than CS graduates. Plenty of riff-raff like from any other subject of course, but enough decent people that they're clearly not useless degrees either. I do wonder if you're limiting your chances with such a specific degree though. No idea how easy it is to get a non-game job with one of those.

I suspect the effects they're seeing are caused by:

- dramatic increase in cost of living in the UK (low salaries really burn)

- UK university degrees becoming easier. (you won't believe what passes for a 2.2 these days)

- The game industry isn't quite as cool as it once was. Chances are you'll work on a crappy game that sells badly, or if it actually sells well you won't see any of the profits. Teams are so big that when friends ask you what bits you made you sound pathetic.
I think his thought process relates to the same people who think you should know everything.... I will never know exactly how a microprocessor works - but that doesn't impede my programming skills, I might not know electricity works (down to the electron) but I still use it everyday.

If you spent all your time trying to know everything about anything - you will know a little about a lot, instead I think I would rather be a specialist.
It think it's a bit the other way around. Now that the career of "game developer" has established itself as its own niche the Universities are catering to that segment by creating new programs. Of course, any degree from a reputable school will include general studies and a well-rounded education.

Now if the game companies truly want to get developers with the high skills and advanced education needed to work on cutting edge games, they need to pony up the money. The field is notorious for insane schedules, low pay, crappy benefits, and poor management. Get your own house in order before pointing blame at others.
I think it's face to face. And if I could see you right now
I would tell that to you.
can we ban stories like this? they make my worktime web surfing less enjoyable and hurt my self-actualization
How complex should your marketing plan be?
For future reference, instead of arguing with me, just have your angel put this into her GPS:

Latitude: 40.441333

Longitude: -79.769018

I'll have beer for you and nectar for her.
Clever use of rice to drive the point home.
That's 19108 to you, mister!
I can be quite rude face-to-face. So long as a magic fairy is protecting me, why not?
Bro. Seriously. You keep spamming your website everywhere on the web and it's really irritating. What's going on? Let's talk, what's your email?
Gas Prices Fall for Second Consecutive Day
Silicon Valley Engineer Testifies on Need to Retain Talented High-Tech Students and Professionals
What the Gay Brain Looks Like
Here's a little quiz:

If all Gen Yers say, "Not Hacker News."

and some Gen Xers say, "Please don't vote this up."

while most Boomers say, "Same old story, different link."

and I say all three, then how old am I?
Medical Exams of 11 Former Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib Detainees Show Torture, Human Rights Group Says
Right. Unfortunately the title evokes "Great Job Redditors! We Got ___ To Do ___!"
China and Japan strike gas deal
Heh, everything can be solved over beer.
You missed my point completely. YES. With the right mindset, there is pleasure in exercise and learning, you realize that gorging yourself will make you feel like crap later, and with only a day left, I would hardly want to waste it out of my mind on drugs.
Part one is a bit short. I'm looking forward to part two.
Good stuff!!
No, "Non-scribd link: http://*.pdf" is the HN equivalent of "First".
Then you misunderstand the logic.

Begin fat does not motivate one eat fast-food.

Being poor does motivate someone to buy a lottery ticket.

"There'll always be gamblers. Maybe this way some good comes
out of it."

"There'll always be suicidal people. Maybe if give them organ donor cards some good comes out of it."

Sanctioning self destructive behavior for the sake of gain is tantamount to performing the act itself.
this isn't paranoia, it's a discussion of bad design
FireFox 3 The Next Day | Tech Jaws
Money in your savings is guaranteed by the federal government (up to 100k I think).

If the fed goes down, it doesn't matter where your money is.

If you're talking about investments, that's easy. Go long energy and short everything else.
I think so, even if the DSL upload is slower, we would not have the bottle neck in the central servers.
> those skill sets lend themselves too many opportunities

If you're in the UK and you've got fair qualifications in maths, computing and physics then your choices are as follows:

- Finance - 60,000 pounds per year. Insane hours. Very little job satisfaction.

- Consulting - 50,000 pounds per year. Long hours. Moderate job satisfication.

- Film post processing - 40,000 pounds per year. Long hours. See your own work at the cinema.

- Application programmer - 30,000 pounds per year.

- Teacher - One year training course, possibility of 40,000 pounds in five years if you can handle unruly kids. (Many don't make it.)

- Games programmer - Insane hours. Project may require porting code or using a legacy engine. Awful third party libraries licensed to shorten development cycle. Pay depends on previous success. May require beginning as a game tester at minimum wage.

- Startup Programmer - Theorectical average salary of 100,000 pounds per year. Large control of project specification. Good chance of recognition and job satisfaction.

> game development now lends to larger teams, less individualism...

In the summer of 1996, I got some work experience testing a game at Bullfrog. In 1996, Bullfrog games were taking between 20-22 man years to develop. As a lead programmer, the latter phase of the project would consist of 12-15 hour days of bug fixes and build failures. In the subsequent 12 years, I haven't had the inclination to apply for a job in the games industry.
Quotes like these from "analysts" come out about 3 times a day. Generally it's just noise and nothing to trade on. It does create transaction fees for the brokers, though.

Evidence: go find quotes from Abby Cohen (permabull) and Meredith Whitney (permabear) for the past 3 weeks. They go talk smack on CNBC/bloomberg every so often and it makes headlines.
Ah, thanks I will look into it
Info Overload: What Can We Do?
This post is a duplicate. see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=220873
Ordinarily I dismiss these sorts of claims immediately... But the Royal Bank of Scotland seems to be a fairly reputable source to me.
Yahoo Mail fucking sucks
Um, we pay for a small business Yahoo email account. In other words we are dependent on Yahoo email for running our business. This is not my decision at all.

And it has been fucking down all morning. Why isn't Mike Arrington or whoever on this the way he usually is? Is web mail not interesting?
Take that Larry Summers - Nerd Girls
Funny note on how some girls over at Tufts are getting back at Larry Summers. Serves him right...
Plaxo release email addresses
I still remember how cool I thought it was back in the day when I discovered my neighbors had a hot tub this way.
It's the kind of ageist thinking presented in this article that makes us Gen Y-ers (I'm 20) hate the older generations.

The only things that matter are talent and skills.
Bad guys really do get the most girls
The Babes of Euro 2008
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its probably not news because its known to be a sub-par product, with sub-par customer service.

newsflash: dog bites man, sky is blue, yahoo mail is crappy. news at 10 for full stories.

i suggest using this downtime as a foil to convince someone to bite the bullet and switch to gmail or something else.
Will twitter follow suit?
Ask YC: Stopping bots at proxy server level
I'm trying to block bad bots/spider on my app server. I'm using nginx as a reverse proxy though and so the IP that appears to my app server is always the proxy.

How can I either capture the actual browser's IP on the app server -or- start stopping bad bots/spiders (not Google or adsense's bot) at the reverse proxy level?
Reality check: Intel's $50-$100 WiMAX bundle
From the comments:

"email | gen-y tries to minimise email to a void information overload as discussed in previous paragraph. the use of messenger and texting is to lower the characters allowed in a message and get across the point quicker with more clarity."

This is so much bullshit. Texting and messaging are habits, not virtues. Speaking as an entitled whiner, the things I do are not reasoned responses to perceived inefficiencies in the workplace, they're just what I'm used to.
Are you a Macho Man or Gay?
I disagree. While you certainly don't need to know everything (for example, a programmer doesn't need to understand how electrons flow across the junction of a transistor), not understanding how the CPU works does impede a programmer's abilities. For example, how would you write performance critical code without this knowledge? Sometimes, just choosing the best algorithm isn't enough.
I have a gut feeling that they are right on this one.
The Viral Expansion Loop
Wrong choice of words; I don’t think you must use such language to express your frustration.

I agree with you Yahoo mail service is bad I switched service a while ago and will stay far from it as long as possible.
Really curious what the algorithm looks like that moves stories up-and-down the page.

Anyone taken the time to unravel the great mystery behind it?
Blahdy blah blah blahdy blah blah blah lower my labor costs please kthxbye.
This article is way out of HN area of discussion, what do one thinks when making this post here?
I think it's adorable how the karma points went up and down in this thread. Who are you people upvoting and downvoting, because I would really really like to meet you folks face to face.
Ask HN: Are you attending Velocity?
Anyone going to San Francisco next week?

http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2008/public/content/home ?
In my experience, most people ages 18 to 25 are entitled whiners. (I know I sure was.)

It's ok, you grow out of it.
Making airport design more efficient
And you wonder why Yahoo is falling to pieces. Just one of many aspects that is causing its downfall.
"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it."
Did you just make that up? We give data away all the time.
Agreed with other comment. I used to work with credit card network. Chargebacks are a penalty for merchants, not consumers. In the case of a disputed charge, the worst that happens to the consumer is they do not get their money back. The merchant has to pay a fee no matter the outcome. It's used to force merchants to be as clear in their accounting practices as possible.
Yahoo mail hasn't been down once for me today. I think the "outage" isn't as wide spread as you think. Have you checked your firewall?
The management/production side is a huge reason programmers don't want to go into games anymore.

But the bring problem with universities is that they stopped teaching C/C++ a while ago.
If you've never read the book "Code", do yourself a huge favor and go out and grab it tonight. It is in my top 10 computer books of all time.

I've never seen a guide so eloquently walk a person from a basic understanding of how you turn on-and-off light switches to how assembly language works.

Regardless, it would prove to be very helpful if you don't understand the basics of the hardware you are running on.
I used to be a lead programmer in the UK games industry and interviewed many many graduates from Games courses. I didn't find a single programming candidate that understood basic alrorithms, memory usage, embedded programming or compilers. The courses are simply not up to scratch.

That being said, the UK games industry is always moaning but it does little or nothing to help. Ask academics and they will tell you: that the industry doesn't help shape the courses at all, it's impossible to place students for work experience and many graduates who do find work leave the industry after their first game as it quite frankly sucks.
someone would rather die ;)
Though Yahoo mail looks like a web app, it is a dinosaur that is genetically very far removed from modern web apps. It's the coelocanth of web 2.0, and therefore does not fall under techcrunch's radar.
No, Cuban is arguing that Hulu is somehow "beating" Youtube. Even if it is more profitable, it's more profitable in the same way that Apple is more profitable than Adobe.
I’m a bit of a pack rat… I have a hard time getting rid of anything I think I might possibly need in the future, and that’s especially true of computer books and magazines. Once upon a time, there was no internet… a sad fact that makes me feel older than my parents who can remember a time without TV. There was no Googling MSDN, no easy access to message boards, no coding sample web sites. Back then all you had was paper and ink, and you learned what you needed to learn by going to the bookstore and picking up the latest programming book on that subject. And we liked it!
Actually, ultra high-end cars are apprenticing assets unlike any Volkswagen.
Yahoo Mail is based on Oddpost, which is the granddaddy of sweet AJAX web 2.0 apps. Not only is Oddpost not far removed from today's web apps, it's generally a key source of inspiration for many of the AJAX techniques used today.
Sorry, but welcome to technology. Gmail has been sporadic for me. Firefox crashes periodically on this machine, but not my box at home. I've bought games that I can NEVER get to work on any computer. When I plug in my iPhone via USB, Photoshop opens. Back when I actually worked at a big company, the Exchange server acted up from time to time. Google Analytics just admitted to losing some data, but they think they can recover it. Amazon was down for a big swath of time recently.

Yahoo being down for a single morning is not news, and should not come as a surprise- serving up email at that volume is complex. It being down frequently is another story. Is it?

I'm sure if you ever spin up a startup, your first technology catastrophe and resultant unscheduled downtime will cure you of your desire to see an angry mob when stuff like this happens.
You could say the same thing about the analysts at Goldman Sachs who say that crude oil is going to 200, all the while holding /CL contracts.

Or brokers from Lehman saying their subprime exposure is contained.

I'm not trying to knock on these guys... they have a hard job. But they are not the best place to get opinion.
Woot! found the answer on a reddit thread. Copied and pasted from a commenter:

def hot(ups, downs, date):
s = score(ups, downs)
order = log(max(abs(s), 1), 10)
sign = 1 if s > 0 else -1 if s < 0 else 0
seconds = epoch_seconds(date) - 1134028003
return round(order + sign * seconds / 45000, 7)

"score" is just (upvotes - downvotes). This is then log normalised.

"seconds" is the number of seconds that have elapsed since around 1.46am on 8th Dec 2005.

"sign" just ensures a positive value.

45000 seconds is 12.5 hours. I don't understand.... that looks like hotness increases the older the story is. I know brackets aren't needed but they help readability!"
Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo
I'm torn. We already pay for foreign citizens to get graduate degrees from US schools (via NIH, NSF, DARPA funding, etc.), so why shouldn't we encourage them to stay here after they're done?

But yeah, there need to be provisions in these laws to ensure that foreign employees are paid no less than Americans.
Good debate going on here about the ownership of online comments.
Redeye VC: Validate Your Own Damn Market (aka Entrepreneur Pickup Lines)
What about gold?
Sounds like you simply don't have enough bandwidth then. Fortunately that is an easily solvable problem in 2008 :-)
I used it for a week or two earlier this year - even when it was up it could take a couple of hours for a message to be delivered. I don't use it any more.
It is, but it might be a little misleading. The "terabyte" picture of the giant ship, for example: many new computers come with half that much space on their hard drive already.
I agree that IE is to blame for the situation, but users don't care about standards, they want stuff to work. life sucks
Are you being facetious?

I think most people agree that people who kill someone ought to get locked up, even if it isn't convenient.
Line 298 in r2/r2/config/middleware.py:

#god this shit is disorganized and confusing
The author's writing is more immature and less thoughtful than the group he criticizes. There are smart and thoughtful individuals of every age. Enough so that we don't need to submit articles of authors who write like this.
Thanks for posting this. Great stuff.
It's not remotely the same thing. Goldman Sachs and Lehman were protecting their bottom line. RBS is making this announcement as a public service - They have nothing to gain from this at all.
Virtual Leopard -> VDI -> thin clients -> fewer Macs sold.
I think it's the whiny I-know-it-all I-was-young-once attitude that annoys that age group.
Guido's calculator, like many of ours, is the interactive Python prompt. There is a good reason Python 3000 will default to infinite precision floating point calculations (or whatever they call it) ... Guido joined Google! Working at Google makes numbers completely meaningless to you. About two months in, it hits you, your brains melt out your ears, and the number of stars in the universe isn't really all that big a number anymore. Python's front man is on Google's payroll now, so Python must be able to handle the need to calculate petabytes and nanoseconds.
I'm a US-based journalist with a team of young, hungry, underemployed aggressive reporters at my disposal. Starting a new metro newspaper makes zero sense today, but launching a voting site for a city and then backing it up with a cadre of investigative reporters who would dig deeper into the stories that made the front page is something I've dreamed of getting off the ground for a while.

I was hoping Reddit's open code would give me the vehicle, but it's now clear that's not the case unless I get a hacker on my team. Any takers?

Pligg sucks. Drupal will work but it's kind of a pain. I'd been anxiously awaiting this announcement because I hoped the Reddit code would give us something to work with.

However when I visit code.reddit.com, all I see is stuff I don't understand. I'm no hacker, but I've developed Drupal and WP sites. However I don't know the foggiest about Python, Subversion or any of the other things listed under the dependencies. This is very disappointing. How do they expect their code to be deployed when it requires a hacker to set it up?

If anyone on here is interested in getting involved in what I believe would be a groundbreaking journalism effort, shoot me an e-mail at methodista@lawnparty.net

Note: I have no funding at all. Simply a concept and the means to launch a handful of trained journalists at news stories that merit more attention and follow-up. With all the talk of "citizen journalism", surely this could be an interesting way to tackle metro news, no?
What a waste of time! I'm forced to say.
Isn't virtualization way slower, though?
Our evolutionary legacy predates agriculture and complex societies that provide affluent people with life necessities and more. For the longest time, we were all hunter-gatherers who faraged and hunted a little, then spent the rest of our time playing, singing, telling stories, wooing, and making love.

We are wired to care what others think. It tends to make us more attractive to potential mates and increase our evolutionary fitness.
Really?

"A very nasty period is soon to be upon us - be prepared," said Bob Janjuah, the bank's credit strategist.

The guy is an investment banker. He is placing directional exposure to the downside of the market. He has plenty to gain from it (as do I).

Reports by analysts are by no means a public service.

And your original question ("What should normal people do"): you can reduce your market exposure by reducing your directional bias (delta) against your market weighted (beta) portfolio. So buy puts, sell calls, sell OTM credit spreads, buy {SDS, QID, GLD, DUG, DXD} or something like that.
This is what the "rinse and hold" cycle is for!
How Cops Really Want to Police
Me neither. Come to think of it, I don't remember the last time Yahoo mail was down. Are commercial email accounts treated differently?
Not going dark (ruby metaprogramming)
I Live in Lima. It would be great to meet you, drop me a line and tell me when will you be here.

Contact in profile.
...which is sort of incredibly cool, if you take the view that diminishing energy supply means the economy will only sustain itself by focusing off expansion and onto efficiency and paradigm revolutions.
I see no reason for this. If someone from <not-USA> is interviewing for a development position, and quite simply isn't as good why not pay them less?

They may even be technically talented, but if they have a hard time communicating in the office's native language that's gonna hurt everyone's productivity and business owners should be allowed to lower compensation for that.

I understand they are willing to work more for less, but they have some significant hurtles to overcome as it is. We are a nation of immigrants based on fair competition.
I don't get a DNS error.

We can still check two of our accounts (the most important ones).

I get an HTML page with the text:

Sorry, the page you requested was not found.

Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you're having trouble locating a destination on Yahoo!, try visiting the Yahoo! home page or look through a list of Yahoo!'s online services. Also, you may find what you're looking for if you try searching below.

That doesn't seem like a firewall/networking problem on our end.
I have a 13 year old Mercedes Diesel fueled entirely on Biodiesel and a $3000 car stereo with J&L subwoofer and subwoofer amp installed.

The Biodiesel is proclaimed proudly with bumper stickers, but the car stereo is completely hidden behind the stock Mercedes grilles, and when it is parked, the faceplate is detached and the unit hidden with the circa 1990's cassette stereo faceplate.

I want my lower carbon footprint recognized, but the stereo I just want for the better sound.
There's a PGSQL "hot" function as well:
http://code.reddit.com/browser/sql/functions.sql
You had access to satellite images back in the day?
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Webmail is definitely interesting. In fact, news all over the net today are about webmail/webmail tools (Xoopit/Zenbe).

By the way, welcome to the Internet.
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