skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, as no one had yet posted a comment, I tried to sum up the gist of the article in one short sentence, thinking it might provoke actual discussion. I think we're probably both pretty skeptical about the latest orthodoxy-challenging discovery.

Nonetheless, the mechanics of brain atrophy (not that I understand them, but I understand how muscles atrophy a bit from wearing a cast on my arm) do seem genuinely helpful in explaining what it feels like to be depressed. It really does feel like something is happening to your brain. And these people seem to think so. No idea if its true or not, but its helpful to have that idea out there.
Oh no question, I know java very well, C well and C++ not at all, so maybe I am basing what I think of C++ as C, but I haven't really been able to do much interesting in C without extensive use of pointers (with the exception of my thesis project, although in that case it was interspersed with chunks of #asm - so it wasn't a good candidate either ;).

Wouldn't it look rather like java though?
Well, they'd probably make a comparison to weight gain. Once you get off the diet, unless you're living the right kind of lifestyle, you're going to gain the weight back.

Unless you're exercising, having regular social interactions, keeping busy with work that you find meaningful in some way, you're probably going to get depressed once you get off the meds. That's my guess.
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That infinite things can be stored in finite space isn't weird at all. Programmers do it all the time (e.g. circular lists). The trick is that you cannot store all infinite things in finite space (circular lists can only store repeating sequences). There are only a finite number of infinite things you can think of.

For example, the number 0.33333 is infinite if you write it this way. If you use another representation (1/3) then it isn't. Similarly, you can use a computer program that generates the digits of pi as a representation of pi.
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I have some issues with the term Functional Programming, the term is supposed to mean a set of programming languages features and how to program with them.

The set of features (first order functions, automatic memory managment, elaborate data types) have been as the article suggest available in many programming languages that are not advertised as functional programming languages, such as Perl, Javascript and Groovy

The how-to part is well, to me, a lot less obvious, the most common thing you hear, is you create code or functions with no side effect, why is this good, is not always explained, again the obvious benefit will be is you get a clearer API, but still this is highly subjective and debate-able.

In conclusion, I think the term functional programming is not representative of a clear set of benefits, and that moving the discussion to more concrete terms such as closures, first class functions, object primitives is better
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They have many advantages, but afaik nobody's come out with an OLED screen that doesn't burn in after 10 min of the same color.
An insight in to Japanese consumer electronics market
Asia Pacific being a world leader in consumer electronics, the credit goes to Japanese electronics industry. Japanese companies are known for their innovations and quality.
Yes great cities have always attracted people. May be people find the life more convenient compared to under developed and developing cities.
How to Build a DIY Hovercraft
How to build your own homemade hovercraft!
That's a useful article. Thank you for submitting
100 Best Places to Work in IT 2008
I think before launching any software may it be automation or any other many companies compromise on testing part.
Google has no doubt been ruling the search engine world. But monopoly is never beneficial for the customers. There should be atleast one strong competitor for google.
I reckon you should call it "steelicon valley". Pretty catchy, huh?
I use Amazon.com's book reviews to avoid reading a lot of books and instead absorb the summaries and key points of the reviewers. Would you call that augmenting the intellect?
That's a good article for IT'ians
I don't see how linking hacking and thinking brings any new insight. It's pretty obvious the two are connected. Hacking and painting is a more interesting cross-pollination.

The title "Hackers and Painters", in my opinion, doesn't overstate anything - it's an appropriate title, out of many, for the essay.
Can We Trust Web Completely? 
Everyone is aware of Amazon being down for several hours over two business days, and by some estimates losing more than a million dollars an hour in sales.
Exactly. And not only does map() imply that you can extract as much parallelism as possible, it also means you can access the memory in the most efficient way possible rather than implicitly sorting into the order of the loop counter.
Japanese have really changed the world by their innovations
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Get a Grip -- Phillips Screws Up the Toolbox
Turns out the most successful of all the examples they gave in the article DID quit his day job (actually got fired from it)
Virtualization comes to mobiles
Most of the mobiles generally used are not compatible for more than one or two multimedia or web applications.
I said "Hackers and Thinkers" just to illustrate the point that we tend to overemphasize our own particular areas of interest. Hacking and thinking don't have to go together - as an example, PG is a thinker who writes essays, but there exist many great hackers who don't spend much time thinking about general stuff. They tend to be fairly narrowly focused.
Hackers crack cash machine PIN codes to steal millions
Good Article
'I heard a story last week, but got no details and don't know how true it is.'

That seems to make the whole article rather pointless, but...

'...there are a lot more customer hostile web sites... than most of us like to think about.'

We don't think about them because we don't use them more than once, and keep going back to sites which are more pleasant to use.

'This broker is side-stepping business hassles at a cost to his customers, to the detriment of most of the carriers whose products he nominally sells, and to the benefit of the one company that maintains a human interface to his business.'

Sounds like the broker is doing his customers a big favour by only working with the supplier who can deliver. As for the others, have they really not noticed that they aren't getting this broker's business?
IDC: Instant messaging to overtake email in business
Jobsite hack used to market identity harvesting services
This is really old news. It first broke end of March with this post: http://socialalerter.com/news/digg-got-it-166-wrong

What's interesting is what happened after Digg's algo change in January. That algo change was supposed to increase diversity of users making the front page. It had the exact opposite effect.
Mozilla has no block for this?
Ok I found something:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_and_larger_cit...
1.if you got it i think i was clear enough.
2.of course because it's the oddity that is spotted.
3.now you are beeing rude.
A Chinese YouTube Disappears, Along With Millions Of Western Dollars. Next?
Wow! Thats a great resource for me. I was just wondering how to do it in php this afternoon and I get a library here. :)

I was just trying to create a jabber-compatible messenger that can run within the browser. A holiday project :)
How can it be "old news" when the Recommendation Engine only recently got released?
Because the data has been available for ages. The Recommendation Engine has little to do with going popular - yet.

In the future when we have thousands of new stories published after the Recommendation Engine being available for everyone, the same analysis would be very interesting to do again then.

It boils down to whether you have enough data or not.
Let's assume you are a male.
To be popular you have to be attractive to females.
To be attractive to females you have to be (strong or rich or ruthless) and (not stupid)=A and B.
Definition of nerd:"Person that unconciously is labelled as stupid by the average person even though they conciously realize that he is the opposite".
Since the judgment(by the females) mentioned above is unconciously made it follows that nerds are unpopular.
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Most of the descriptions of those companies seem to focus on what various financial benefits they provide. I don't see a big pension contribution as a particularly good reason to work for an IT firm. Seems to me like this list was not compiled by an IT guy, or at least not by someone who understands the motivations of IT guys (even the corporate kind).
Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but count() and count(1) mean basically the same thing and are equivalent.

There is a nice optimisation in MYISAM table that makes count() from table <with no where clause> almost instant as its stored as meta-data on the table - in InnoDB, Oracle or Postgres this optimisation doesn't exist ...
Facebook Continues War On App Developers. This Week: Super Wall
You definatly don't want to be slide tackling on an astroturf pitch :)

I found a domain in the end www.whos-playing.com (DNS changes trickling through now)

It's the name I wanted all along, but without the hyphen, I got so fed up of looking, I decided to take whatever hit the search engines dish out for using them (if any).
Resource List for Finding Domain Names
A few days ago I posted a question about finding decent, and available domain names, following on from that here is a list of the resources I was offered, from HN & other friends:

* http://www.makewords.com/
* http://dictionary-thesaurus.com/Wordlists.html
* http://www.synonym.com
* http://www.bustaname.com
* http://www.lightsphere.com/dev/web20.html
* http://www.dotomator.com/

Some were more succesfull than others, I've listed them in order of usefulness to me, ymmv.
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"Not so long ago an Internet venturelet like Otrib might have seen a swarm of venture capital firms, or at least some commercial banks offering high-priced loans. Nowadays such financiers want to see businesses with revenue, customers and a logo solidly in place before they commit capital."

Revenue, customers, and.. a logo?
Maybe I'm way off here, but it seems like responsible people are passing the buck when it comes to "spammy content" because of all the applications I originally used, none of them made me invite tons of users to do anything, I only invited people if it was something I knew they'd like.

When it came to invitations and notifications, it's when people using these apps continually send you the same invite even though you've already ignored it.

Passing the buck I say.
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ISPs prepare for video revolution
Video may have killed the radio star, but it doesn't have to kill the Internet.
its not working on my sys.
WARNING: Reconnecting...
INFO : Connecting to tcp://talk.google.com:5222
INFO : Starting TLS encryption

Warning: stream_socket_enable_crypto(): this stream does not support SSL/crypto

how to fix it ?
I agree. As with "OOP," the term "functional programming" is too broad to be the subject of a meaningful discussion about language design. It's better to break the term down into its sub-concepts, which are often independent of each other.

I question whether the notion of "programming paradigms" should exist. The more powerful a language is, the less I seem to notice paradigms in my code. I can't point to a piece of Lisp code and say, "this code is functional," or "this code is imperative," or whatever. I just use the tools that are most appropriate for what I'm trying to do.

Paradigms are like design patterns in this respect; they only seem to arise in languages whose weaknesses force you to write code a certain way. I think "multi-paradigm" languages like Lisp and OCaml would be better described as "no paradigm," and this is how languages ought to be.
Multi-generational African American "Nerd" here.
I'd like to point out that you are conflating "African American" and "poor/ghetto".
To the OP, I'd say that your opinions are based on your experiences, and everyone's are different. As mentioned further along in this thread, you are equating "Nerd" w/ intelligent.
I do PHP development for my day job. Having a jabber interface definitely opens up the possibility for some cool applications.
I've also seen jabber libraries for JavaScript but they're usually limited by the browser's same origin policy.
The Problem With Code Folding
As I Get Older, Some Online "Friending" Gets Creepier
Now I like regions.

They force programmers (by that I mean other people of course - my code is perfect ;) to at least apply some order to the code. If I want to review (say) the update method for a form I do not want to have to search through a mishmash of private declarations, methods servicing form control events, locally declared classes etc. etc.

OK - Mr Atwood might have a point for really simple classes but when the code runs to a screen or two a little order helps a lot.
"Are any of you actually Black American? By which I mean a son or daughter of American Slavery"

No, My great-grandfather emigrated to Canada from Barbados and my great-grandmother was from Jamaica. This means I am probably a great- great- great- grandson of British Slavery.
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I have closely monitored the Chinese Cyber laws from past couple of years.I agree with you.They want every thing go as per their benefit and as per their wish.
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YouTube shocker: Amateur musician paid for her work in hit video
"... I've always felt the painters connection was too tightly focused, though I think this essay (which is ancient, and would either be more true of pg's work today or less depending on how much you agree with it) goes overboard and manages to miss the point ..."

I don't think the hacker/painter correlation is far off the mark. We might not know of many painters who can hack but I think the idea might better be illustrated by someone who could be best described as a "Hacker" in his day.

Leonardo.

Leonardo had lots of attributes you could ascribe to modern day Hackers:

- inately curious (how else would you work out how the human heart valves worked or the observation that the hardening and constriction of the minute capillaries in old people (compared to young babies) has something to do with
death. Something that modern science had to re-discover.

- wrote excessively in notebook diaries on ideas and creations he was working on. (I've seen a sample of these diaries as part of the Royal Library collection. Images of cross sections from human skulls to yet to be born in-eutero.)

- sketched out his ideas as a combination of pictures and words (using silverpoint on vellum: a prepared animal hide covered with ground up animal bones and glue. then built upon these prior ideas as finished works)

- emperical in outlook and willing to try new ideas: that is he observed what worked and not just theorised or accepted common wisdom. A good example of this can be found in the paint composition of "The Last Supper". Leonardo decided "fresco" didn't allow him to express his painterly style, shunned the conventional and tried "fresco" over "gesso" (gypsum). In this case it failed miserably. But this ability to experiment also allowed Leonardo to
master oils. The results of this stable medium you can see today in "La Gioconda" in the Louvre in Paris.

- exhibited unnatural powers of concentration (shunning food, rest and drink for instance during the painting of "The Last Supper".)

- mastery of numerous different technologies

The key bit that most people might not realise is that for Leonardo, painting was his technological multiplier. Leonardo expressed his sketches as drawings and words and presented finished ideas in paint. It is through the act of painting that we
recognise the most famous painting of the Renaissance. I think the key to understanding the relationship between hackers and painters is that the expression of the intangible thought through art is what matters. Painting and drawing of ideas is to Leonardo as Macs are to modern day hackers. The product might be different but in the end both, modern Hacker and Leonardo as painter create new,
seemingly intangible things from pure thought. I'm not surprised pg went to study in Florence. What does surprise me is why it took so long to realise that it was not
the location that elevated Leonardo but the "tech revolution" of the time, painting.
What good is collective intelligence if it doesn't make us smarter?
Umm, have you thought about the possibility of domains that have, or in the process of expiring?

There are often people that have good domain names that just dont utilise them.
What Conan O'Brien can teach us about entrepreneurship
Conan's funny speech for Harvard grads carry a special meaning for all entrepreneurs: "Because success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way...."
Actually, it's interesting that you say that, because the part I edited out clarified that issue. That is, it explained my belief that there are probably, AT LEAST, two black communities. Let's call them the black under class and the black upper class.

The kids from the underclass don't worry about being a 'nerd' or popular or whatever. As I said, I think they have far more pressing concerns. They worry about not setting off some gang banger by stepping on his shoe. Or having said gang banger mistake them for cross town rivals. Or having a police officer mistake their wallets for guns. You get the idea.

Whereas kids from the black upper class are a little different, and this is the part where I have to be careful. I think kids in the black upper class think that being 'cool' is being from the black under class. So they go out and do their best imitation of kids from the black underclass. Only they don't know much about the black underclass, so it comes off cartoonish. Only slightly less cartoonish than when white kids do it.

Since our 'interface' to black America is really the black upper class, we get the impression that acting cool is more important than being smart. That doesn't necessarily mean that kids in the black under class believe that. My suspicion is that we don't really know what those kids believe, and we'd be surprised to find just how pragmatic their beliefs are. I think it was Dr. Dre who said he didn't know any rappers who got rich selling music to the 'black under class'. I'm paraphrasing there, but again, you get his point.
"I've dwelled on my failures today because, as graduates of Harvard, your biggest liability is your need to succeed. Your need to always find yourself on the sweet side of the bell curve.

Because success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

I left the cocoon of Harvard, I left the cocoon of Saturday Night Live, I left the cocoon of The Simpsons. And each time it was bruising and tumultuous. And yet, every failure was freeing, and today I'm as nostalgic for the bad as I am for the good.

So, that's what I wish for all of you: the bad as well as the good. Fall down, make a mess, break something occasionally. And remember that the story is never over."
"But isn't there something a bit creepy about all this?"

No. There's something creepy about a culture which seems to believe you should only befriend people your own age, and that anything more than 15% either way makes you a pervert.

I do think, however, that you need to be careful what you say. I remember playing Half Life online about 8 years ago, and I caught myself using the same profanities I would use amongst friends at our weekly LAN party. What might be a perfectly innocent profanity to me ;) might raise a few questions if other players were particularly young, and I had no way to know, so I reigned it in a bit. Social networks could easily lead to similar misunderstandings.
An alarm clock that should never be built
Rumor has it 56 simply burned through their funding and is using the government as a nice excuse to close shop. Someone wise once said something to the effect of: Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.
In MySQL it's just "EXPLAIN <YOUR QUERY>".
What's the next big thing in Cyberspace ?
It makes me sad when I hear that people at Yahoo aren't happy. They have so many great products, many of which are market leaders, but overall it seems like every product group feels like they're losing to Google.

Imagine, for example, if you were in the fantasy sports group at Yahoo. ESPN was there first, has a natural advantage in the space, and had a decent product. Yahoo came in and blew them away. Everyone in that group should be thrilled. But I always get the sense that they're forced to feel like losers because some other group isn't number 1.
As I see it, it's the American media that has conditioned people to think that any interaction between an adult and a child not related to them is suspect.

This is terribly sad. When I was 14, I would have loved to be able to talk to a real scientist.

Is this exclusively an American problem?
City vs suburbs is a whole different story. I was talking about big metro area vs small town of 30K several hours from an airport.

I'd move back to the city in a second if I could afford it. The $/sqft is the reason we left. Kind of tough when there are 5 people living off my salary (me, wife, 2 kids, mother-in-law).
Being a geek and an Internet geek at that he should be more accepting of people no matter their age. As long as they bring /something/ to the table it makes sense for them to be in your list of "friends". Curiously, IvanB is also on my list (Twitter,Plurk,IM), he's 18, I'm 27 with two kids, no big deal ... he's a Digg/social website animal (good to know for a publisher) and I also helped him try to land a gig at Mixx.
A wishful theory on a dream job
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I drive a foreign car because I think its better engineering and more reliable.

When it comes to wine America makes some of the best wines so I would rather explore them. I guess its being patriotic but its also very good wine .

I have tried some French Bordeaux but the best of the best are out of my price range anyway.
Of note (as the author) I am accepting of it. But if you put a different perspective, what if I were viewing the 20 year old girl's blog at a public Internet terminal? Would that be more creepy? I'm not discounting the individuals. I'm thinking about a third-party's view.
I remember one day sitting around with my friend Matt when Kaku was on a television program talking about how the unifying equation would be 1-inch long. Without a moment's hesitation, Matt turned me and said, "If it's not he can just use a smaller font."
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
I really don't see the problem? She is writing in a public blog, so what she writes is meant to be read by the public.

What about books - am I not allowed to read books anymore if the characters in the book are not of the appropriate age? Or music - am I not allowed to listen to a song if the singer of the song is 10 years younger than I am? That really doesn't make any sense at all to me.
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Is the author of that "criticism" trying to parody what they see in PG's writing? It could just as easily be self-referential.
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Do the Chinese video surfers click more ads than the YouTube audience? With all the talk lately about YT having trouble making money, or rather Google having trouble making /enough/ money with YT, how is it that all these clones are getting so much VC?

Is the speculation wrong or is the market different in the far east?