skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to learn programming but I have trouble finding the right starting place.

There is no right starting place. There are lots of good starting places though. What have you looked at so far? Have you tried anything yet?

What language should I pick up if I am interested in creating a dynamic website?

Expect at least one "use X" answer from fanbois of every language "X" in existence. Ultimately you can use Java, Python, Groovy, Scala, Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, Fortran, or COBOL; whatever floats your boat. But if you're looking for a recommendation for a language that's particularly good for "Getting started," I'll throw out Groovy, Python and Ruby as good choices, especially if your interest is in building web-apps. You'll also want to learn some Javascript in either case.

How can one get started learning something like Python or JQuery?

Buy a book titled something like "Learning Python" or "JQuery in Action." Google "Python tutorial" or "JQuery tutorial." Go to the python.org website and/or the jquery.org website and browse the docs... look for links like "tutorial" or "Getting started." Start writing code. Get stuck, Google for answers... get really stuck, post questions on Stackoverflow or on relevant mailing lists. Pick a project to build and start building it... iterate over those last few steps. Find a user's group for the language you pick in your area. Attend the meetings and "hack nights" (if they do something like that.) Write more code. Look for interesting videos on youtube, watch those. The Google Tech Talks series offers all sorts of stuff. Write up a blog post when you learn something cool or implement something interesting. Fork interesting projects on Github and play around with them. Make some minor improvement or add some new feature. Release an open-source project on Github.

If you get that far, you should be good to go. Never stop learning though.

Edit:

Also, read this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

You might also want to browse through some of pg's essays, if you haven't already:

http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
> are often just glorified bus drivers for their corporations.

Yes, but how far would a bus drive without a driver?
>"It’s safe to assume that he’s going to conquer this one as well."

v = (SteveJobs = immortal || TechCrunch = journalism);
print v

$> FALSE
Scilab? I passed my Numeric Analysis course (matlab) using scilab. The professor encouraged it.
Get well soon, Steve!
I got: “Ask HN: How Do You Use Twitter?”

Both. And some troll on the side.
The CEO of a publicly traded company has a legal obligation to disclose any matter that can impact the stockprice positively or negatively. This certainly falls in that category.

Also, for better or worse, part of being a public figure is living with the fact that your wellbeing impacts a lot of people, and these people have a right to know what that impact will be.

If he resigned he should have absolutely privacy, but since he hasn't the thousands of people that rely on him have a right to know where they stand.
Ask HN: What's your day-to-day life like running a startup?
Plenty of HN'ers have shared their thoughts on the "do" and "do not" when trying to get a startup off the ground (thank you for sharing!).

What happens when your startup has hit "cruising altitude"[1]? Do you enjoy the flexibility of owning your own business? Are you able to explore more hobbies and spend more time doing things you enjoy? Any regrets or surprises?

Do you ever pause and think, "Wow, writing those first lines of code for MyApp was one of the smartest decision I ever made"?

[1] - "Cruising altitude" for me would be equaling my current salary at my desk job so I could maintain my already frugal, but enjoyable, lifestyle along with the challenge of running my own business. I'm sure many of you probably have a more "grand" vision.
It is amazing how far Internet browsing has come in the last ~15 years.
I'm all for it, let's distribute the organs back to the same income bracket that generated them. I'm pretty sure there would be a substantial across the board wage increase.
Dell Social Innovation Competition
Why technical people don't like meetings
Your guess was spot on!
Web Application Development Frameworks – Part 1
While I do believe anyone can learn programing, thats not really the issue at hand. The question is how fast do most people take to it? I think programming is one of those things that only a certain type of person will take to it reasonably fast. This is important because there's a cost/benefit analysis people do when it comes to what's worth studying.

Abstract thinking, then using those abstractions to build new abstractions is a hard task. Programming at its basic level is simple. But its complexity grows exponentially to the point where managing complexity is the totality of programming. This is what people can't seem to do, even on a trivial level.

>The problem is more that the people who teach programming go at it in a very unfriendly, non-intuitive way for the majority of the population. Programmers aren't user-friendly.

They teach programming by asking you to program. Unfortunately this is impossible for some 60% of the people who take a programming course. We have yet to come up with a better way.
How so? Did Danchev win a Nobel prize for economic sciences?
A real innovation would be material that turned white/reflective in hot weather and black in cold weather.

Heat is only a concern half the year in temperate climates. The other half is severe cold. (Think 90F and 90% humidity in summer and 0F in Winter (makes you wonder why we live here, doesn't it?)).
Still getting started, something that I had always "ignored" (not necessarily scared me) was using my own day-job money to hire someone. I always figured, "make a logo? Sure, I can do that." As an aspiring hacker, I was always certain I could learn that skill enough to do something productive.

Then I hit a brickwall in my current project. I found a problem that I could not overcome with internet savvy-ness. The only solution I could come up with was to try and hire someone to do it.

Needless to say--and saving the learnings from my experience into a different post--it was a great experience, almost addictive. I just set up a contract with one of the online freelance websites, and waited for the end result to come in.
"I am in need of drastic personal changes regarding diet/exercise". This kind of thinking scares me. What's wrong with gradually moving towards a more balanced lifestyle, taking on one hurdle at a time? Whatever happened to eat well, sleep well, exercise? Why this sudden urge to 'change everything' from one day to the next? Why directly switch to vegan when 'eating less meat' would be a good start? Do you want to get healthy for real or just feel the satisfaction of "living a healthy lifestyle"? Sorry if I'm a bit harsh, but I see far too many people suddenly "switching to diet X" & destroying themselves in the process. Go easy on your body.
McCarthy and Lisp: The Influence of the Designer on the Design
Java Development in Emacs
How about replacing that image of the sign up form on your first page with... The actual sign up form? It should be simple enough and also reduce friction.
I just started working on a similar project for the exact same reasons!

I think your site looks good, but I would definitely try to make the Pocket logo stand out a bit more. Pocket is your brand, be bold with it. Second, I would replace the "Sign up now!" button with the two actual forms needed to sign up. Not having to click through could dramatically increase registrations.

I'll leave more comments once I've had time to use the application.
Chat is already built in Facebook.
I think i speak for everyone when i say:

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1610/matlabf.jpg
As a marketing heads-up, the site name, letspocket.com , may raise negative connotations. See for instance definitions 21-23 here:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pocket
I've been looking for something like this for a long while. Kind of a Evernote-Lite. The closest thing I've found before is Shifd.com. Just a simple cross platform notepad. Yours comes close and I love the hashtags. The only thing stopping me from using it heavily is no desktop application for Mac/Windows.

I use a Mac at work and Windows at home. I'd love to just have a simple notepad that can go there and receive texts. Yours is pretty close, awesome work so far.
Thing is, we already know what Apple is like without Jobs, and frankly it reverts to type very quickly.

Last time he was off on medical leave, they brought out a new Mac Pro that was massively more expensive than the model it replaced (to a Quadra level in the UK); they started going all MBA with the MBP, segmenting the MacBook with an aluminium MacBook and the polish on iPhone OS 3 took a nosedive into stripey-icon ugly land.

Weren't there also some awful app rejections in that period? Pretty sure there were, but either way, the impression Apple gave in those days might as well have been Apple 1992 all over again.
How to Save a Disgruntled Customer
Google and the Knowledge of Man
Hi Brad! I'm glad you like Sunnytrail. Your problem can be easily solved. I suppose that you are generating for each users some sort of unique ID. My advice is to use that to generate an username (if not already available) and a dummy email address. You should be able to update those later when that customer upgrades to a paid plan. TweetSaver looks great! Get back to us on email if you've got more questions.
if you want help developing the Android version, reply here and I'll get back to you. I really like the idea (free)
In most EU countries people can be placed in a psychiatric facility against their will if they are deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. Paranoid schizophrenics are probably the most well known group who are likely to end up involuntarily committed, but there are plenty of others.

Once you have been committed against your will, you have to convince either a psychiatrist or a medical tribunal that you are no longer a public health risk. You are not free to just move to another facility or country.

Not saying that's what happened in this case, but the wording of the OP title, and from reading the translated article, it seems quite possible.
You need a LOT of help understanding women!

By "help people" they do NOT mean anything like what a plumber does! What they mean is more like social work helping the needy. Why? It is important to know, and some of what I wrote provides some hints, but I'll leave the rest for you as an exercise! Actually, it's an important exercise; you need to know why they want to "help people" in the sense of social work.

Your example of your mommy is impressive, but in this discussion we are talking about only generalities, not particlar cases. In particular cases, nearly anything is possible. But the generalities remain: Men and women are different. If you want a more detailed way to say this, then pick a measure and get the distribution on this measure of men and then of women. The distributions will likely overlap so that some men are better than some women and some women are better than some men. Fine. But the big point is that the two distributions can be, commonly are, so different. The big, classic example is the SAT scores: The girls do better on Verbal, and the boys on Math. I hope you remember that in grade school the girls did MUCH better on verbal than the boys. Uh, the girls like English literature and fiction much more than the boys do; if you don't like this 'generalization', then think in terms of distributions. Amazon 'gets it' on this point and aims their Kindle reader at women who want to read fiction.

What I wrote I very much wish I had read as a teenager. Elsewhere on HN I posted some solutions to some Oxford CS questions; tough to argue with those solutions. But for explaining women here, it's impossible to give solid proofs. So, it's easy to argue with what I wrote if you just wish to do so, and there can be many reasons to wish to do so. In particular, there is no way to get all solid answers to the questions of this thread using only solid science. But if we still want answers now, then we have to make do with the best we can get now. What I wrote took me decades, stacks of books, etc. to understand. Actually a lot of what I wrote is directly from the two references I gave. If you investigate, then you will find that they are both relatively good references. The costs of my efforts were high beyond belief. In the end, what I wrote is good insight into women. Without science here, in the end have to use judgment. Yours likely will not fully agree with mine. But you would be foolish just to discard what I wrote and not think about it seriously. Your mother is just one person and, thus, cannot be a counterexample; until you get past such a simple point, you have not started to think seriously here.
It seems like half the articles I read about Twitter are trying to workaround its limitations.
Nanotubes Help to Produce Electricity for Portable Electronic Devices
Drones, the soon ubiquitous eyes in the skies
>"Why is female enrollment in computer science dropping, while things like, say, organic chemistry graduate more women than men?"

Because it's not an appealing career choice, even for those with an aptitude? Why is this such a bad thing? Computer science enrollment are dropping for everyone, precisely because it's not as glamorous a career choice as it was in its hey-day. Perhaps women are more selective in their career choices? The point is, I don't think this is evidence for anything.

We need to restrain ourselves from trying to make the career more appealing specifically to one gender, to fix a gender imbalance we perceive to be a problem.
It also gives Apple PR an extra day to get their message out due to the US financial system being closed for Martin Luther King Day. With analysts and financial reporters off of work, Apple is likely to receive fewer calls for explanation.
Sweet troll, you had me for a couple of posts, your last two paragraphs gave you away in this one though. Ah where are the days when subtle trolling like this was the norm rather than the exception, when people would sneak a GNAA reference into a (usually Slashdot) discussion and didn't get spotted until hours later...
Comparing times and dates in Ruby
Safe(r) monkey patching
Maze Generation: Aldous-Broder algorithm
Well, Apple's whole walled garden approach to convenience computing (which may start to extend to their Macintosh range as well) could prove to be the only thing standing between safety/prosperity and oblivion (hacking, piracy, malware...). That could put Apple in pole position, but if things pan out differently they are free to pursue another strategy and still have a chance to grow.
Compiling to lambda-calculus: Turtles all the way down
Scott Adams: Your Digital Ghost
Why is it so hard to believe he needs help? Psychosis is not rare, and today's medicine does miracles - you can still have a perfectly normal life. The hardest part is for the patient to accept his condition.
I found myself wanting to read a lot of those articles... success!
[Video] Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in His Own Words
Well, that depends entirely on how fast you're going.
Don't forget that the majority of those things would have been setup on his watch - the Mac Pro, for example, came out only a few weeks after he left on leave. Also, I don't recall iOS 3 being particularly "ugly" - all in all, I remember it as a big step up in usability and reliability over iOS 2.

App rejections were silly pretty much right up until September of last year when they released more guidance - well over a year after he came back from medical leave.

Were he to quit tomorrow and never talk to an Apple employee again, we wouldn't see the damage done/advantage gained until at least 6 months, if not 12+. Product design and direction is set a long way before release, and though he might veto early products, I doubt anything hardware related within a 3/6 month window of release has ever been killed (nothing would have been allowed to get that far).
Not a paradox, but an optical illusion.

Really, not even that. If you look at where the grid lines intersect, you can see that though the angles of the red and yellow triangles are similar, they are not exactly the same.

In other words: the composite triangle is not really even a triangle, but a 4-sided polygon with one very obtuse angle.
4 Ways Being Productive Online Can Pull You Out of a Financial Hole
Finally! I was looking for a source of new ideas for my articles on swombat.com. Next on the list:

Your Idea Is The Last Thing You Should Be Thinking About

How to Fire a Great Bash Programmer

The Death of Twitter

Leading scientist: Edw519 Discovers Fifth State of Matter

Official: Farmville Creator Completes Grand Unification Theory

and finally:

Startups: How I Sold my Company to Google In Less than a Week Using Only Git

Hilarious.
I used Evernote on Android to take notes. In the end, I just Gmail myself. It has two advantages: 1) Sends next time I have WiFi connection. 2) The email acts as a reminder to follow up.
Hmm didn't mean to "tar you with the mediocre brush" there. I just wanted to illustrate that whatever you need to do to get a product to market is fine so long as people use and enjoy it.

I've removed the bits from the article specifically referring to "too much cpu/memory" as that's not really the original point of Alex's post anyway and I can see how that directly implicates a problem in your software which I have no evidence of.

EDIT: oops! s/have evidence/have no evidence/
What happens when your startup has hit "cruising altitude"[1]?

I'm not there yet, so my daily life is:

(M-F)

1. Wake up after getting far less sleep than I really need, because I stayed up too late hacking on my project.

2. Go to work at $DAYJOB. Spend ~8 hours there, doing mostly mind-numbingly boring work. Drink too much coffee. Go for a walk around lunch-time.

3a. Leave $DAYJOB, drive to Barnes & Noble. Drink an espresso containing drink of some sort, browse the books and magazines, maybe buy something. Sit in the cafe and hack on my project for anywhere from an hour to 4 hours.

OR

3b. Leave $DAYJOB, drive home. Put on a pot of coffee, spend rest of the evening hacking, excluding time taken to cook dinner (and possibly walk to the grocery store for provisions.)

4. Stay up too late hacking, researching, reading, and wishing there was a way to magically shrink my TODO list.

lather, rinse, repeat. Sometimes steps 3-4 may be replaced with "Leave $DAYJOB, go to a user group meeting, or meet somebody for drinks/dinner after work."

Fri-Sun:

1. Get off $DAYJOB on Friday evening. Drive home, put on coffee, sit down in the chair with the laptop, start coding. Continue until bleary eyed and verging on collapse (usually about 6-7am). Get up Sat. about 12:00-1:00, watch tv, surf the 'net for a bit, idle around the house for a while to let the brain rest. About 3:00'ish, sit down and start hacking again. Go until 8:00 or so, get up, go to Barnes & Noble, drink a latte or something, code for another hour or two. Drive back home, watch a movie or something, then stay up coding until ??? (3-4am usually). Go to sleep. Get up Sunday, write more code for a couple of hours, then do laundry, then back to coding, and misc. "stuff" (plan schedule for the coming week, update TODO list, send emails requesting meetings, blah, blah.)

There are exceptions to that basic pattern from time to time, and that's obviously leaving out a lot of details, but that's the basic pattern of my life right now; FWIW.
To be completely cross-compatible with MATLAB, Octave would need to support classes. This makes it incompatible with class-using MATLAB libraries like PRTOOLS.

Otherwise I'd just stick to scipy, there are so much more python libraries out there, plus you get to use matplotlib!
I am in a similar situation and I decided to begin with JavaScript and Python simultaneously. The resources I have found the most helpful are Zed Shaw's http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index, MIT's OpenCourseWare CompSci classes using Python, and http://eloquentjavascript.net/ by Marijn Haverbeke.
I think bio-tech is VERY fat right now. There was a 2005 study of new drugs submitted for patent - I believe it was something like: 7 out of 80 were curing new diseases or improved ways of treating current one. The others being "me-too" drugs trying to get around patents - this means that the majority of research is actually going towards getting around others' patents - what a waste of resources!

Oh yea - who made those 7 drugs? All publicly funded (NSF/NIH) through universities. So who's incentives are these patents helping?

I think we should selectively subsidize the FDA approval process so we can commercialize drugs for real diseases. I'm fine with companies submitting vanity drugs (Latisse for eyelashes or something), but they have to pay full price.
The reason I don't use IDEs is Vim. I can't stand having to use the mouse to interact with my development environment.

Editor shortcuts are good, but there also need to be shortcuts for navigating between panes, tabs, and all that.
And you can opt out of being in a phone book while continuing to use your phone.

Not to mention phone books have been sliding down a steep slope of irrelevancy for the past 10 or 15 years as cell phones increased in popularity.
sage: http://www.sagemath.org/
Just because the soviet union did something doesn't mean that's what's happening here. Look at the facts...

1. Mr. Danchev took pictures to "prove" his apartment was bugged (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/we-need-help-with-the-str...) yet the pictures prove no such thing (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106735)

Some have speculated the two cables underneath MIGHT power a bug but I consider that unlikely since it's much easier to get power from inside the wall. Regardless it's not proof of any kind.

2. Mr. Danchev hadn't really published anything damaging to the Bulgarian government (see his writings here: http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/). Why try to discredit someone who hasn't said anything to discredit yet?

3. If the Bulgarian government was trying to discredit him for some reason why wasn't his commitment more widely publicized? If you read the original post you'll see ZDNet spent months trying to find what happened to him before posting this and even now the hospital won't confirm he's there for confidentiality reasons

4. If you look at his LinkedIn profile (http://nl.linkedin.com/in/danchodanchev) you'll see he's about 26 years old. If you look into Paranoid Schizophrenia you'll see the average onset is age 15-25 (http://www.schizophrenia.com/szfacts.htm)

So lets not jump to unfounded conclusions here.
Only if Jobs recovers...

I hope he does. Like laujen pointed out, our world would be far less interesting without him.
I am reasonably confident that such an image is "cached" by being part of an HTML document that itself was cached. I mean, the URL for the thing is the content: one would seriously hope that there isn't a URL->data cache somewhere holding that image ;P.
Riding the Rails Through a TV Ad Campaign