skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a college student and currently supporting my mother and I, I often feel what the author calls FOMO, or "fear of missing out." Every time I go on Facebook or Twitter, I see my friends having a great time doing fun, entertaining activities with their group of friends. Even though occasionally I'm invited to their excursions, I have to politely decline since I'm usually working on the weekends, and inaddition, I simply do not have the capital to go out anyway. I've gradually gotten over it though once I came to realization they, my college friends, are simply spending their parents hard earned money on essentially nonsense.
Wow. That is powerful. That's when you know a product really hit the spot.

"I have thought of buying an Iphone just so I can have Instagram."
I wanna know what is the one thing it is aiming for? simplicity? speed (ala Yii PHP framework)? or modularity? Its not clear on any of the page...
This may be the study

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC292021/pdf/jcinv...

"Experimental Obesity in Man: Cellular Character of the Adipose Tissue"

In this case, it is not as exciting as I expected it to be.

"Prolonged high caloric intake resulted in a mean weight gain of 16.2 kg in the group, with an individual range of from 9 to 19 kg. This represents a 20.9% increase in body weight for the group as a whole with individual gains ranging from 14.8 to 25.3%. Caloric restriction restored body weight to normal."

Personally, I wouldn't call it "barely gaining weight".
on the latter example: you could also just compile that hugely useful c library as a nodejs plugin directly.
> things like having to look in the dictionary to learn about things and words

Do you think that using a print dictionary builds character better than using Onelook.com?

19,089,129 words in 1062 dictionaries indexed: http://www.onelook.com/?d=all_gen
Excellent design!

Seems perfect for this site: http://getitmade.com/
How many of those can you find as X-to-USB adapters or USB peripherals? Probably all of them, which would mean any laptop will do, you'll just have a bag of addons to keep with it.
I agree. As soon as I can afford to, I am doing the same. This is definitely a service, that I don't necessarily use a lot now, but if they went away I think the industry would suffer for it.

Everything they do inspires me to continue pressing on.
They can be watched here:
http://www.startrek.com/videos/star-trek-the-animated-series...
It just takes time. 10K hours or whatnot. I've been writing C++ almost every day for the last 10 years, and I'm still learning.

My best advice would be to just do it. Don't focus on memorizing the syntax of pointer-to-member functions or the stupidly complicated overload rules. C++ is powerful but a lot of it is quite useless in practice.

Instead, you should be writing DNS servers, hiding text as bit patterns in JPEGs, or whatever other thing you find intellectually interesting. Sprinkle in some Google and bake for a few years.

I'm sorry to say that like with most things in life, there aren't any shortcuts here.
just curious.
An incubator in my city has a program to send local startups to Plug & Play for a few months.
I considered it the only good thing they did, what's wrong with it?
This seems to crop up on HN every 6 months or so.
I said in plain English that 80% Indians are willing to migrate to USA or Western Nations at $200/month salary due to lack of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility in India.

I think you need to understand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility != http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
Emacs (not for pay). Hey, you asked.
Deservedly.
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Nothing new here. Move along.
Earlier Discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385932

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1898783
Quote Brendan Eich (if I'm not mistaken): “JavaScript is x86 for the web”
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China is prospering without India's dummy democracy.
Indians are brainwashed to believe that (voting in elections == democracy) and a solution to all problems.
I don't think many people actually dislike the .Net family but it's more the parent company of .Net that causes a lot of dislike to filter down onto ASP.Net and C#.

I have this weird twisted hatred with Microsoft. I think .Net is great but as an iOS dev working inside a Microsoft based team I've founded solutions such as TFS to be just terrible lock ins.

I'd probably love Microsoft more if just this once they would of assessed the current source control versions, chosen a popular standard (Git) and then deeply integrated it into VS. What they instead did was give you TFS with a lack of client end Rest API documentation and wrote a terrible cross platform command line tool. You didn't see Apple creating XSourceControl.
I'm a massive fan of Steve Blank and I like this video, but I think it's incomplete - the artist skillset is incredibly valuable, but it's not the only way to get there from here. And people without the artist makeup ought not be discouraged from jumping into the fray to build and create.

Take John Rockefeller. I was just reading a wonderful short summary about his life, and the author mentioned that Rockefeller had two unique skillsets that are extremely rare to find in one person - the selling/enterprising/visionary skillset, as well as the manager/kaizen/numbers skillset.

He was enterprising - he took on lots of speculative engineering and chemistry projects, bid speculatively on things and started projects betting they'd invent technology necessary to realize gains later - even though the technology didn't exist when they started the project, and might not when they needed it.

This is the "artist" skillset - there's some intuition, some vision as Steve Blank calls it... it's subjective, there's a lot of feel and the most rigorous analysts have still never been able to codify it. Just when people are starting to get a handle on what works, the economy has transformed and new industries are on the rise with slightly different patterns of business in them.

In that regard, yes, many entrepreneurs are artists. And any newly-founded company will likely need an enterprising/artist/visionary type if they intend to grow quite large.

But the second skillset - numbers/manager/kaizen - more "scientist" than artist - is also incredibly valuable and makes a great entrepreneur. The person that can make the nuts and bolts work, that can save a penny here and there by using 39 drops of steel to seal a barrel instead of 40... that's also good and crucial. Someone with an amazing grasp of numbers, finance, accounting, statistics, probability, expenses, lifetime value of a customer, cashflows... someone that lives and loves numbers... that person can be a major, major asset to a growing business.

It's extraordinarily rare to find both in one person. If you don't want to develop the visionary/enterprising/artist skillset and want to build something world-changing, you'd do well to search and try to connect with people with that skillset.

But that doesn't mean that you must be of that skillset to succeed as an entrepreneur. Scientist/numbers/precision/kaizen entrepreneurs also build massive amounts of wealth, though you hear about them less often because it's naturally less flashy.
PHP might not be the language of choice if you start hacking a project for yourself. And sure, it has tons of problems and weaknesses but you can't deny one thing: you can very easily get very cheap dev-power when you use PHP.

Sure, those people would also be able to learn Python, Ruby, or whatever the flavor of the month is. But it would take you significantly longer to train them to work on your project. And they might want more money if they realize they now have a more valuable skill ;).

I believe this is why Facebook still uses PHP.

In that light: a new PHP framework that makes things even easier is a good thing.
While I really, really like the new Issues 2.0, I think the biggest news I got out of the article is pointers to PJAX. I may be behind the curve but I've never heard of it and its so cool I think I'll use it in my next project. :)
I have to imagine in this day and age they did it 5000 times because they didn't know how to use flow-modeling software?
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Nothing but praise for my Dyson. It's a brilliant machine. The negative comments here just don't chime with my experience. How about a comment from the competition?

Hoover's Vice President for Europe, Mike Rutter, said on UK national TV: "I do regret that Hoover as a company did not take the product technology off Dyson; it would have lain on the shelf and not been used".
As for how to submit .pbxproj files, either send me a message on github containing the .pbxproj contents, link to a gist with the contents, or post a link I can download it from in the comments here.

Thanks.
I just started learning RoR yesterday. Here is what I've done and what I'm planning to do. It would be great to get some validation.

My background: I took intro to C++ in high school six years ago. I wish there was more to say here...

Anyhow, here's what I've done:
-TryRuby.org (This is suppose to be a 15-minute quick run to try Ruby in my browser. It took me a bit longer.)

Here's what I'm doing:
-Railsforzombies.org (A longer in-browser interactive tutorial, also free)

Here's what I'm planning to do, in no particular order:
-Mess around and try to build my rejected YCSummer2011 idea.
-http://www.codeschool.com/courses/rails-best-practices (done by same people at RailforZombies, costs $45)

This is my first post to Hacker News. Howdy from Texas.
An almost ruleless stock exchange is launching next week denominated only in Bitcoin...

Very interesting, I'd love to see more details - any public links we can see?
Assuming that I have mastered it, it happened from learning and using Haskell, watching people post and smart people answer in some C++ megathread, and getting a job where the product is written in C++. And also some early experience using it in a CS II class that used Koenig & Moo.
I think this is a pretty good point to bring up the comparison. I can definitely see github ousting many software dev tracking tools in the years to come. Very interesting...
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Yikes! I was so not expecting this. Your site isn't that bad, but every time I log on I find it to be a little lacking in polish.

I guess I'll share my experience with your service so as to not leave a wrong impression.

A few months back my uncle came over from another state. While he was here, I wrote a chat bot that could have games loaded into it. When I finished coding up the bot I began making game files for it. The games are basically lists of questions and answers that the bot uses to generate Q&A games. When my uncle told me that people actually liked the games I decided I would start selling them.

Selling bots or files for bots might sound a little silly to a tech audience, but it isn't. The chat platform on which the bot ran was fairly niche. It isn't like IRC where thousands of open source projects make proprietary bots a little ridiculous. That said, I wasn't expecting to make much money so file selling services which charged a monthly-fee were non-starters.

So I started searching for a site that offered the sort of service I was looking for. At first I didn't find anything that met my need. However, most of the sites I did find had gorgeous designs. I realize this is a bit unfair, but those sites shaped my idea of what a quality file-selling service looked like. When I finally found your site I was taken aback by its design (though this seems to be improving). I think I also fell into a reverse halo effect in which I assumed other bad traits because the site didn't meet my visual expectations.
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Modern design. The 0.90 seconds guide:

Do not use light colors on white background.

Ok, more that we took that out of the way lets read tyre fine article
It's rejects all the way down.
The answer is the same as it is for any programming language: write something big.

You can read as much as you want but it will never make you an expert. To fully understand a language you have to live in it for a while.
Well, once the thing was built you'd expect that particular task to be quite easy. An airtight tunnel surrounded by kilometres of rock - not much air down there in the first place, and you'd just need some effective airlocks on the ends.

Not to downplay the size of the task, of course; it would be an astonishing feat of engineering and probably quite out of our reach for the foreseeable future, at any kind of reasonable cost anyway. The tectonic boundaries, as you say, would present a particularly challenging aspect of the project. However, theoretically it's probably the most efficient way from A to B on our little blue marble and so no doubt it'll be done eventually.
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Indeed Pivotal Tracker and Github Issues focuses on two different things - Pivotal is about planning, Github Issues is more like a registry. They may actually complement each other although I haven't checked if Pivotal provides integration with Github Issues already (it certainly does with Jira and Lighthouse).
It's indeed too bad. I'm from Europe and I don't think such a service will be available here in the forseeable future.

Due to sticky politics it's impossible to have a proper global video streaming service. Sad, really.
Nice idea! Here's something similar we tried in Brighton, UK in 2009: http://bootcycle.com

I think being in the bay area and basing out of somewhere like Hacker DoJo would have made a huge difference.
maybe browsers should have a system for explicitly caching-by-hash across domains.
> There is less air friction if your tunnel is maintained at vacuum.

Indeed there is zero! Realistically speaking of course, a hard vacuum will be difficult. Even a 0.10 atmosphere would be a huge improvement. Or the intriguing possibility of pressurising but with a less dense gas. Helium, for example is about 1/10th the usual mix of gasses on earth. You could put a plastic sleeve over the shinkansen routes, fill it with helium, and see air resistance drop 90%. We might not actually have enough helium for that, though.

I'm just trying to say, there are options, if we truly care about speeding up point to point travel in-atmosphere.
this is neat, can we get a tech overview of what's going on behind the scenes?
Good luck with your life out of the swamp. Looks like you are going to need it.
Some new chapters have come out since the last time this hit the front page. So it could be argued that this is new content.
Thanks for reporting the mistake... In a troll-style, but still helpful. Thanks!
Opening the valve: Why SEC rule changes would lead to a new bubble
I abuse GitHub by using private repository just for my TODO list management.
I've had a lot of the problems of the sort that you describe (particularly with ASP.Net MVC), and I've found that while there are always solutions, the solutions are often very difficult to find. And even harder to find (at least for my company) are people who have the experience to already know what those solutions are.
Nik, if the solution is to open a company in another country, I'd rather do it in the UK, which is even more sophisticated than the ones you mention, and is only a couple hours' flight away. Actually, I did it already. ;)
When Netflix first came out, I used the 3-at-time plan to watch every single episode of Star Trek available on DVD. I think I watched 4 a day for a very long time. Nice to see I can repeat the process now without even having to go to the mailbox =)
Maybe. I recently gave my 2007 MBP a new life by putting a Corsair SSD in it. This thing is as fast as a new MBP! I saved heaps of money and it rocks. Although, the battery lasts 12 mins from full charge. :)

I'd love if macs were not so designed to 'throw away and buy new'. That's just the steve way though.
This fits in somewhat with the earlier discussion about Scott Adams on How to get real education (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2426459).

Instead of learning students "to remember what art looked like just in case anyone asked", they should learn skills that requires them to acquire knowledge.

Sure a lot of education 'fakes' this by focusing on projects, but what useful skills can you honestly acquire in 10 weeks when your attention has to be divided over just as many courses?
http://const.it/online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870484...
For users of IE7 and below visiting the site will take you to
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.a...

That's the worse degrading browser support I've seen :)
yeah that would be useful. Caching by digital signature would be useful too.
I didn't make note of it on Twitter for the general public -- I just informed a TechRights skeptic (@verofakto) of it.

Concerning the article you linked to, here's an additional link:
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/04/id-rather-discuss-pa...
Uh, I'd hate that. RSS is a public protocol; Twitter is a private company. Huge difference...
I think YC by design cannot be the best thing in some ways for all startups: it converges you towards asking for more money rather than making money (it doesn't stop you from making money but the idea of the demo day is to present to VCs), secondly it is biased in the favor of an acquisition type of an exit strategy rather than a long term slow but steady growth company for the most part, and finally going through them vs doing it yourself is like going to a private university versus being self taught.

I am not saying these are good or bad things, I am just pointing them out.
The dictionary offered two things:

1) I'd find lots of other cool words as I searched for the one I wanted

2) I had to work to get the answer. Sure, it wasn't a LOT of work, but I had to invest something to get something. Searching a word online requires practically no investment.

Which is not to say I don't use online dictionaries, Wikipedia, Google "define:", etc.
Picard is both overly idealistic and pragmatic to a fault

Yeah, that was half my point. I probably phrased it poorly, but what I mean is if we accept his faults are idealism and pragmatism, we can then suggest his faults will not transfer. It's really hard to be that pragmatic IRL!
And if you don't believe there's peer pressure to use a MBP, try going to Red Rock or the Dojo with an Acer laptop. You can just feel people judging you.

Try going to something that's a bit more unixy and it's just the opposite: you can feel people judging you when you pull out your MBP. Pull out an iPad and you may be asked to leave :)
Nobody loves paying for server software.
I enjoyed that, though a bit was still over my head.

I like how a 500mhz ARM cpu is as fast as a 1.6ghz Atom

http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/braini...

http://www.osnews.com/story/22704/Intel_Atom_vs_ARM_Cortex-A...

High-end smartphones by the end of this year will be more powerful than many netbooks.
Yeah. I've always taken the same view. Dyson's are not used by comercial cleaners _anywhere_. A big brand for pro cleaners is Henry. You can buy for a £100. The suction is immense, they're super durable, you can get the head into the smallest/lowest spaces and they don't really seem to lose suction that i've noticed, even when the bag is jammed full.
I object the "VS" is the best IDE statement. For C#, maybe that is true. But I used Intellij IDEA and VS. VS still looks like glorified notepad against IDEA. I think most developers are living under their language bubble. Also, unlike ruby-python, C# and Java are IDE languages. You cannot program without one.
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it would be especially nice if it had some mechanism of alerts too...
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Wonderful, thank you for your comments. I can definitely see what you mean about the cost of your own time, and all makes more sense now if Heroku is as reliable et all as you suggest.

@jrsmith1279, Have you tried to schedule tasks directly from within your app with Rufus Scheduler, instead of Cron?
It would give C-suite tweeting a boost, for example.
Clojure mostly. Hands down my favorite language to do random hacking in.
I'm also getting less enthusiastic about new gadgets. I'm noticing that my desire for hardware updates is getting further and further apart.

That might be because I'm getting older, or because the difference from one generation to the next is less impressive than it used to be, or both...

But SSD, yes, that's one development I wouldn't want to be without. The speed up is incredible. I'm thinking of retrofitting my "ancient" laptop with one.
I like how a 500mhz ARM cpu is as fast as a 1.6ghz Atom

Those pages don't actually give any evidence of that, just marketing talk. From what I've seen, the current crop of tablet ARM CPUs (dual core, ~1GHz) gets close but doesn't beat a single-core Atom.
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i've hit the point where i'll read it when he finishes it.
Perhaps sliverstorm was talking about availability of information. Growing up in the 1970's, there was only the public library, 2 TV channels, and 2 daily newspapers. In the eighties, there was the university library, which had a lot more but the best books were always borrowed, and desk copies only. And only so many bought books were within budget.

Recently, I spent a couple months at my Mum's country house without a car or internet at home, bringing only a stack of newly bought nonfiction books with me. The only entertainment was the intro cable TV package, excluding the movies and sports. I got more out of those books than I had since before the internet and wikipedia etc became widespread. It brought back memories of earlier times, when there was LESS knowledge at my fingertips than I knew what to do with, instead of FAR MORE knowledge.
Yes, it happens. Though I'm probably not the best example- I can't say I ever really had much use for shiny.

For the longest time I had a crappy K5 based system with 64Mb of RAM running Slackware when all my friends had Pentium 2's and whatever OS ran Quake at the time.

Oh, and I used a pizza box for the "case".

Whatever works for what you're doing.

I will admit though, I lusted over an SGI O2.
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I honestly really wonder what the reaction would be here on HN if you were to change designers in the title, with developers, or coders.
For some reason those always crap out on me while OzymanDNS (the first major implementation in perl by dan kaminski) works pretty much every time, though it's quite different in operation.

To implement your own custom DNS server,
use Net::DNS::Nameserver; # (and see ozymandns for implementation example)
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There is no company I have to deal with on a regular basis that is worse than the electrical company.

Care to elaborate? Regarding electric co. service, mine has been reliable (far more than my cable internet service). Regarding customer service and price, can't really complain about these either and I've had a fair amount of experience on both a commercial and personal level.

Full Disclosure: Personally, I'm an advocate of regulations that would treat the net more like a utility. By diminishing the profit motive for maintaining the infrastructure, I believe that we can better ensure equal access and adequate service quality (e.g. South Korea: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-31/tech/broadband.south.kore...).