skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'You may wonder why I didn't just talk to a professional about this. I've seen a number of doctors since I was a teenager to talk about other issues and I'm positive that another doctor would not have helped. I was never given one piece of actionable advice, ever.'

I hate that word 'actionable'. Every time I hear it used it is with the implicit assumption that the only information of value is information that is directly 'actionable', which is completely false.

There is also information that enlightens, that expands our understanding of ourselves, other people, or the world, that changes our perspective, or answers why things are the way they are, that is equally or more valuable. That kind of knowledge is not directly 'actionable', but often shows the way forward.

The psychologist Milton Erickson showed that people innately know what they need to do overcome internal problems, but sometimes need an external impetus to realize and do it. Erickson found ways of providing that impetus with mirroring, indirect logic, and reframing, among others. Too bad Bill never found someone like that.
I don't think you understood his suggestion. "Banning" a site would be local to your signed-in google account, not a global ban from results (which would indeed suffer the backfire you mentioned.)
http://www.enternships.com/
I totally agree. You should invest as much time as you can in improving the quantity and quality of your knowledge on any field and topic that you find interesting. You always see huge bookshelves with thousands of books in the home's of the rich and smart. Make sure you've got some Moby Dick and some Financial Modeling in your bookshelf, and not just X, Y, and Z programming language for dummies.

That being said, education is a continuous habit of the curious and intellectual, and not a byproduct of formal education. Four years in college teaches you very little in the grand scheme of things, and is in lots of cases not a prerequisite to keep improving your knowledge and skills.
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Yes, but, for example, I wouldn't want to be the next entrepreneur on your site at this point.

I would wait until there were more people on the site, because at this point, if I were to send you a picture of myself in a tie, but then every other picture that showed up on the site was developers making faces - "I" would look like the sore thumb.

This conversation is going to be pointless :) I have a feeling you are going to do really well.
Panic on the Mac App Store
Two examples I see in my history right now are

bsi +lnk scada
+foof things i will not

In both cases the results (on www.google.com with a browser running with LANG=de_DE) without the plus are considerably worse, and foof is definitely not edible :-).
Some text about wheat hardly proves your assertions. That doesn't address how beans, nuts, etc. supposedly drain you of vitamins.

Hundreds of millions of people are perfectly healthy eating vegetarian diets. You should turn your attention to people eating the typical American diet... surely they need it more than people who eat big handfuls of vegetables all day.
If you are hosting the actual videos and pictures, your site will crumble pretty quickly. It will probably be better to just link to them instead.
Because they need a salary or because they don't have the expertise to be the lead dev on a project ?
I would think that a 2 or 3 Ghz device with between four and eight cores would be more likely. However, everything else you suggest seems spot on - or at least I would hope it to be spot on, not being a time traveler.
You can actually thank the music industry and labels for that, they want to artificially keep music in only certain areas. There have been a lot of times that I have wanted to purchase music that is not available in the US iTunes store, and have not been able to do so.
Hmm... I'm not sure how a player would walk diagonally in RPG shown in the screenshot if they've only got one thumb for two keys.

Gimme a d-pad or go home.
This was the best sci-fi book I've read in many years. Tightly plotted and full of deep ideas and stuff to make you think. Had a blast reading it. Can't recommend it enough.
Go talk to Dropbox, and ask them if they give below market salaries, options that will likely never pay off, and an expectation that you work 80 hours a week.

But you're right that that's the danger of joining a startup coming out of college -- you have no idea which ones are great and which ones are not.

If some intermediating third party vetted the startups for the students we wouldn't have that problem.

Such an idea has worked in all kinds of problem domains, but in startups founded by college grads YC is the standard. Having the PG stamp of approval is so valuable.
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Wes Beary is rocking in 2011 with a bang by pushing a big “minor” release of fog. Fog is a provider agnostic cloud services library for Ruby. If you are a Rubyist using (or considering using) cloud services, look no further, we have you covered with one API for any cloud.
I wonder if the rise of gmail's (and other) spam filtering has made the practice of email spamming less lucrative and thus less popular among the spamming folks.
History with iOS suggests a level playing field will be very short-lived. Once a couple of indie developers hit it big with MacFart desktop apps (don't hate - a friend who bought an iPad for Christmas is proudest of a fart app), the big developers will rush in, crowd the store with marginally higher quality apps compared to the indie developers with fewer features than before, and dominate.
The OP should have titled it "The end of the Wintel era". The original article specifically mentions that they're not talking about form factor.

FWIW, going along with the misunderstanding in this thread, I agree with you. I have a hard time seeing any creative work done in a non-desktop environment (maybe work that involves drawing/writing can be done on a tablet/drawing surface, but that's about it).
Mixergy is probably your closest major competitor in my opinion. They seem to have a lot of solo-entrepreneurs on the site.

What keeps "me" coming back for more are real numbers. If developers will share their real numbers like profits, downloads, active users, stats, etc, that's what gets me back.
I'll bet you $1000 that most people will still regularly use keyboards in 2031. Isn't there a website somewhere where we can do this?
The title bar is swan-kick-worthy, but the price thing is pretty easy to read on my system.
Love it! And will definitely use it. I was looking at using Haml to build my sites alongside Django but I'll give this a try!
BBN is the most well known. Additionally a lot of the early gear was produced by DEC and IBM.

ARPANET didn't resemble anything close to the internet in it's current incarnation. Thank the government that you have a macbook to use, because they built ENIAC!
If the Stock goes down after an IPO, GS will wash their hands and blame FB management.

If the stock goes up after the IPO, GS will take credit for "providing liquidity that was instrumental to FBs success"
The DRM/territorial restrictions on music in iTunes were a sop to the record companies that Apple tried and eventually succeeding in ridding themselves of. I don't think they have any interest in adding it to the App Store.
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Most gamers I know game in a dark bedroom and not in brightly lit coffee shops as the press photos suggest; The big, easily read illuminated keys are sort of a big deal.
Very interesting prediction. That's the first serious alternative to traditional desktops that I've ever considered. Essentially you're using your phone/mobile-computer as a desktop when you need it... so you're not really moving away from Desktop computing. But I could see this taking hold.
Microsoft demos future Windows version running on Intel and ARM chips (video)
Que the $80 Razer mouse.
Another change: the red X control quits, not just closes window.

iTunes did the horizontal window controls first. If you don't like these, wait till you try Tweetie 2 aka Twitter for Mac. It makes them smaller and black.

There's more than enough blank area to drag, enough there could have been a bit more space between the window controls and the nav back/fwd buttons. However, it feels like this is a move towards more standard window shapes and icon locations between the desktop and the iDevices. Everything's right where you'd expect it to be on an iPad.
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I agree completely that building software is nothing like building a house. I blogged about this a few months ago: http://webbindustries.com/archives/2010/10/index.html#e2010-...
If your goal is to iterate quickly to an MVP, T&M is a far more accurate and honest way to to scope a project budget.

Keep in mind that there's nothing stopping you from giving them an estimate! But you need to make it clear that most project scope changes come from client requests.

My co-founder spoke about this extensively at a conference several years back. It might be the best 15 minutes of your week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIQIZ0NIkxk&hd=1

I am glad that fixed-price works for some, but I have a pretty hard line view on this: I think you're crazy. With a fixed price, either the client is paying too much or the developer isn't paid enough (and the work suffers due to decreased morale).

Every developer has a sad story about a client from hell and a fixed price engagement that crawled out of Scope Creep Alley. Yet, I'll bet that you've never heard anyone complaining about how they have to keep charging hourly to make pedantic changes.

As for the claim that hourly projects reward you for being a slower developer:

- there's nothing wrong with being a slow developer, assuming you're slow for good reasons like careful design and thoughtful testing

- this slur only really applies to time and materials developers that aren't busy! a good developer is likely busy, which means there's more work in the can and no reason to drag your heels in a dishonest way

Finally, the best ideas for a project come while you're working on it. How do you change course on a fixed-price budget? Are you going to stop to renegotiate a contract?

Sorry if I seem "passionate" about this. Building Unspace over the past six years into a happy place to work that only does T&M was a direct response to the ten previous years of fixed price hell. If this post saves one person from doing fixed price bids, my work here is done.
While Princeton may not quite have been sunny California, the banks of the Charles, or Manhattan's Upper West Side, at least you weren't in frozen, sunless, vitamin-D-less Ithaca, or downright dangerous New Haven. Count your blessings. :)
Who were the Windows-exclusive OEM customers? I thought all of them tried releasing Linux netbooks they just didn't sell
That is unusual. The doctor I know (she is sat on my lap :)) tells me that it was probably just a doctor mistaking the danger signs of "vaccine moaner" and trying to avoid an argument.

Which is inexcusable "bedside manner" and they should be held up for it.

But the bottom line is; yep, maybe it was caused by the MMR vaccine. Maybe not.

The real secret is that medicine, even tried and tested medicine, causes all sorts of random and unexpected results in a tiny amount of people - which is why those boxes list silly numbers of symptoms (i.e. I challenge you to find a medicine that doesn't potentially cause nausea :)). It's not so much that doctors are encouraged not to admit these side effects, it is that they know it is a product of random variance.

The actual problem is; you can't rationally explain this to people. The majority simply don't "get it" and it risks persisting fear over proven (and safe) medicines. So the question is; is it morally right or wrong to do so?

So... yeh it could have been a Vaccine. It could have been a random coincidence (that happens a LOT, particularly in young children when parents happen to be looking for a change). It could have been simply the fact someone stuck a needle in her triggering some medical phenomena (also relatively common).

The doctor should have told you all this, and they need a kicking for failing to be open with you :)

However:

My point is, examine any claims by government or big Pharm or sensational reports about autism very carefully and make up your own mind.

Is a point I wholeheartedly agree with.
World of Warcraft != Angry Birds.
I can see the value in native apps, but I fail to understand why I would want to use a powerful computer with a giant screen to run a poor imitation of a product designed for a phone.
Interesting, but I am deeply skeptical.

Have you ever heard of any significant projects executed in this manner?
right, that is what my thought was. Just linking, not hosting any real content
I just so happen to have this list.

http://haxe.org/doc

http://github.com/scriptor/pharen

http://www.mathgladiator.com/projects/kira/

http://www.scriptol.net/

http://sunra.nachtkabarett.com/

http://users.xelent.net/mlewis/tellpdf.php?seid=12457c30afd9...

http://ialexi.com/portfolio/original-works/components/quirk/

And a somewhat related list:

https://github.com/ryantenney/php7
Hacking the PHP compiler and standard libraries in the name of turning it into a not crappy language.

https://github.com/tenderlove/phuby
Phuby wraps PHP in a loving embrace. Exposes a PHP runtime in ruby

https://code.google.com/p/japha/
implementation of the Java 1.4.2 library in PHP

https://github.com/lunant/lisphp
Lisphp is a Lisp dialect written in PHP

https://code.google.com/p/php-alternative-syntax/
Scala inspired syntax for PHP

https://code.google.com/p/java-php-toolkit/
a cross language compiler than transforms java code to php code deployable on any server supporting PHP >= 5.3

https://github.com/bendemott/pyhp
Pyhp is a way to execute PHP Source Code directly within Python Scripts

https://github.com/ramen/phply
PHP parser written in Python using PLY

https://github.com/skeltoac/php_app
A PHP eval server for Erlang/OTP
Why I quit my job
Honestly I don't see what the big deal is. A silly picture or personality is not going to sway me from using an app. Being an asshole will however.
Adam D'angelo of Quora spoke to this at Startup School in October http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272178681
A off-topic question:

This guys website looks like a nacho-colored version of Daring Fireball, complete with a star in the logo and for the favicon. Is there some star motif in the Mac world I'm not aware of?
One thing's for sure...it's not going to happen anytime soon.
The icon is horrible too.
http://www.longbets.org/

Also, most people don't use keyboards now, unless you count cellphone keypads or restrict "people" to mean "people with income above $1000 per year" or something like that.
No offense, but this blog is so hideous it makes me want to kick a panda.
Really? That bad? I'm not so sure the swans deserve such treatment. While there are some questionable design decisions in the UI, I'm more concerned with the UI performance (sluggish scrolling, interactions, etc).
> I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying what you are describing is really unusual.

How do you know it's unusual if the symptoms in question haven't been studied ? If there's no study, all you have is anecdotal evidence. It could be happening all the time, perhaps to a lesser degree.

edit: dear mr. downmodder. I appreciate your response ! I understand the rationale of doctors who shrug off what their patients tell them much better now, thanks, and I now have a deeper respect for their wisdom when they tell me my symptoms are all in my head or something similar.
Intel exclusivity? What?

x86 is an architecture, like ARM, that has seen many contenders come and go over the years. Intel's dominance is because of engineering excellence, albeit coupled with some questionable business practices. Show me an ARM device that compares with a Core i7-950. Show me one that compares with one with 3 of the 4 cores turned off.

Microsoft, for that matter, has had versions of Windows for alternate platforms going back well over a decade. Those platforms got abandoned not out of some strategic affinity to x86 (much less to Intel), but simply because they didn't offer the advantage to be worth the bother: Instead they were pursued during the "the Future is RISC" era and it was preparing for the purported demise of x86.

As to manufacturers that were "Microsoft exclusive", show me even one. Such a thing hasn't existed in years.

There is nothing I have ever read on Asymco that isn't full of glossy big conclusions, yet absolutely falls apart under any scrutiny at all. It is garbage analysis.

I love the smartphone era. I love the fact that embedded chips in everything from your HVAC control to your PVR to inside televisions and cars, etc, are all massively benefiting from this explosion of reasonable performance, low power devices.

But let's get real. The only reason x86 is behind right now is because ARM had been working on low power processors for years, and the chips came up that it was the hot area. Intel isn't sitting on their hands, though, and I have no doubt they'll have some killer solutions in the very near future. People are so quick to jump to conclusions though, carried on by simplistic analysis of the sort that Asymco performs.
As soon as I heard this GS buy-in to Facebook, what came to mind?

Pump and Dump.

We can all see that Facebook's earnings don't justify a $50b valuation any time soon, so to buy in at that valuation looks like a very brave long-term investment. Yet GS have got huge publicity from the deal and, as long as they can sell a good number of their shares, they make money regardless - they win, their investors carry the can.

This whole deal is no better than the spam stock tips I used to get every morning from some unknown address.
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Corollary: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...
As programmers, our typical complaints are for sites that bog us down in common (expert's exchange, stackoverflow scrapers, etc.).

What I found interesting: I was doing a search on something I normally have no interest in (a sewing machine manual for my wife) and I was amazed by the level of spam I was encountering.

We have no idea how bad the problem is for others whose topics we do not usually see. The web is far more full of spam than we even realize.
Go talk to Dropbox...

Yeah, I agree that not all startups are this way. But the other thing is that so many of these startups are founded by college grads. Do they really know that much that our recent grad doesn't? Probably not.

I really think that some of the hiring difficulty for startups is that they're genuinely not offering that great a deal for employees.
Good point. Although, if everyone moves to the Mac App Store, I wonder if you'll ever get to see the .app extension anymore. I'm assuming apps will all be maintained in a proprietary db.
180KB? I only see jQuery (70KB uncompressed, it should be gzipped down to ~20KB) and the 2KB plugin on the demo page.

So that's about 22KB for this effect when most sites already are including jQuery anyway.

I'm actually impressed by this type of UI. Each button is equidistant from the center. This makes it a little bit easier to use for users lacking fine motor control (elderly, disabled, children).
What are your goals? Are your visitors returning? If you stopped paying for ads, how much traffic would you have? Did you intend to make money?
Thanks. You said two examples. Was this the single search [bsi +lnk scada +foof things i will not] or two different searches? Usually we write [X] or ["X Y"] to mean doing a search for X or "X Y" at Google, so adding square brackets would help me understand what the two searches were more clearly.

Or were you just frustrated that we assumed "foof" was intended to be "food" unless you added the '+' character to specify an exact match?
Skype acquires Qik, a video streaming service for $100 million
Serious, looks like the top of a hot dog.
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Macintosh programs have always been called "Applications", and "App" is a natural slang contraction of "Application". I'd say we're overthinking this, folks.
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I generally agree with your points, however, if I recall correctly, iTunes's window controls/style changed slightly before Leopard, and when Leopard was released, everything lost its white/pinstripe style and looked like iTunes. I think what we're looking at it is what every window in Lion will look like.

On the issue of dragging windows, I think that Apple is a bad boy that doesn't care about convention and wants to re-invent this. Right now, users have to know that only a specific narrow upper border is draggable. With any blank space replacing that tradition, users don't have to think about where they grab a window as long as they hit something gray that isn't a button.
Haha okay, I will probably take that bet! But we need to decide on more specific definitions, as hinted by pingswept. What defines a keyboard, and what defines "most people"?

Does "keyboard" include both physical and virtual keyboards? Most people on planet Earth, or most people in the USA? Or by income?

If we can settle these specifics, I think we should indeed register at longbets.
'Do yourself a favor and read the note all the way through. Pass it around. Remember that in general, half of the people you see every day have it shittier than you do. Try not to be a jerk.'

Reminds of an unattributed quote I heard somewhere:

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
You should visit Micropreneur Academy: http://micropreneur.com and also check out http://softwarebyrob.com and http://singlefounder.com. I belong to the MA, and it's a great resource for solo founders.
Most US public transit is abysmal, particularly if it's bus-only. Spend some time in Europe.
I read it several years ago and concur - it's well worth the read.
I didn't see haXe on the list so added it. Seems its often overlooked when people talk about languages which compile to JS.
LOL, looks like we have nominee for "Irony of the Year 2011" already
www.Students4Startups.com is taking the first step at this in Los Angeles, by vetting interns and startups and connecting each other. John Shiple is their CTO and is a great technologist.
Well, perhaps you can explain why you changed the title. What did you find unsatisfactory about it? Was it that you wanted to attract more clicks? Did you want to express a personal opinion? Did you think it did a poor job of introducing the text?
It's such a blatant copy of Ive that it makes me think they did it very purposefully just to see if people would notice.
That will not hinder its success, heh. Vanity blogpost. Look at HN, Reddit, ebay etc. to see how much design really matters. OSX is pretty but I'd argue it's not the neat icons that make it a success. Tsts.. Designers and their worldview.
Closing the last window (via the red X or otherwise) quitting the application is nothing new for first-party Apple software. See: Dictionary.app (multi-window software), System Preferences.app (primarily single window).

The pattern seems to be applications where once the window is closed there is little likelihood that the user will want to access it soon again. One-off applications get this behavior - not applications that suit extended use.
Have you read the sequel? I haven't read any reviews of it. I was wondering if it was as good as the first book.
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If you said most engineers I would agree with you. If you said most secretaries, I might still agree with you. But most people won't. (An awful lot of construction workers and truck drivers don't regularly use keyboards, even today.)

Don't confuse your workflow with the rest of the world's.