skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But do you think the "vast majority of kids" take that as their main reason?

No, but many adults take it as their main reason, which leads to more potential "role-models" becoming police officers/fire fighters, which leads to more kids wanting to be like these particular role models. Example: kid grows up admiring his uncle the fireman, who has nice things (always employed) and makes a difference in his community. His uncle might have simply taken the job because of the benefits mentioned in the grandparent post.

Kids don't necessarily need to know the labor benefits of a job, but (I think) they know the types of people that take these jobs, and want to be like them. Of course, it doesn't mean that they'll actually become firemen, but we're talking about the "what do you want to be when you grow up" question, not necessarily what they end up doing.
Even on ubuntu, I use the github version, thus:

Checkout from github: git://github.com/joyent/node.git

Now:

git checkout v0.4.5
./configure
make
sudo make install
node -v

There are other ways, but this is pretty simple. Note that when you checkout the tag you will be in a detached HEAD state, which is fine, but when you next want to git pull, make sure you checkout master first, then checkout the next tag you require. You can see all tags with: git tag.
Ask HN: Is Node.js appropriate for timeline critical applications?
I am about to start writing a timeline critical application, whereby, a user would be able to sync music to events. I want to execute client-side JS with (mostly) perfect timing. I read that Node.js is reliable for soft realtime apps. I also enjoy the idea of writing server-side JS. I have a background in C# .Net, some RoR, CF, PHP - is this route a good choice for me?
Except science and engineering is as much about people as it is about machine. Look at the most succcessful scientists and engineers: a lot of what they accomplished they owe to the other people who collaborated and worked with them. The amount of politics and interaction that goes in the higher levels of these professions is also something that can't be ignored.
terrible message of that picture, completely wrong way of motivating yourself to accomplish something positive in life.
Can you satisfy my curiosity and tell me more about your situation?
As someone who actually does flag ads (as we all agree to do by using Craigslist), I can say that it's more than "a few." Just because they don't verify the numbers doesn't mean it's low. What purpose would that serve them?

Look at it this way: read the comments here. Which is it, Craigslist is full of spam and a terrible place to browse; or Craigslist lets ads get flagged off too easily and it's a terrible place to sell? Only one of those is possible.
I'd be interested to know what percent of those Android phones have the Android Market installed and how many have multiple or a competing application store.
Craigslist wastes millions of hours of people's time every year by being a monopoly that provides a bad product in an industry with strong network effects. When I go to a site like padmapper, I am reminded of just how horrible Craigslist is and how happy it would make me to see them go and allow room for new firms to take their place.
No need for condescension.

He's making at least one very important point: Looking at smartphone market share ignores iPod and iPad. The numbers would be different if it was Google App Store target devices (mainly handsets) versus Apple App Store target devices (significant number of iPads and especially iPod Touches in addition to iPhones).
Sony CEO Accidentally Reveals Secret Details About iPhone 5
That is a key point: if you work from home, taking a shower and getting dressed is a key part of telling yourself "I'm not in wake-up mode, I'm in getting shit done mode".
Well, i didn't realize how much i was wasting on reading online(even though i had an idea) Then came across rescuetime got it installed and looking at the amount of time spent reading forced me to change a lot...now am a lot better. but still get into binges of old habits...
I could give a crap how much market share of people who don't buy anything google captures. If you are making free ad supported apps I'm sure android will be better if you're expecting people to buy your app just avoid it all together.
I have too many friends on Facebook because it is impolite to refuse a friend request. Now I don't feel comfortable sharing things with the wide network of "friends" that I have there.
Have any good dubstep recommendations?
I always like to do something practical, not a mere exercise. So my first choice is actually building something with a full-stack framework like web2py. You can easily create a db-driven web site in 30 min - 5 hours.
This post is an example of the Silicon Valley echo chamber at its finest.

With regards to the vertical sites eating their base, I call BS. Regular users who don't live on the internet can't/don't want to remember 50 different sites. The halo effect for a marketplace site like this is very strong.

Craigslist is fighting extremely hard against spam, to the point where they're starting to make people jump through hoops by requiring phone numbers and texting confirmation codes for certain categories. They've even resorted to silent "hellban" style hiding for posts called "ghosting", which affects a lot of innocent posters in the housing categories. There's unfortunately a lot of money in scamming, so the scams keep coming despite all of this.

The dip in traffic is pretty easily explainable by the banning of adult content, and I've never known Compete/Quantcast to be even within 3x of actual numbers, so using those as proof of anything is pretty dubious. This may be different on a site as large as CL, but even on sites with millions of monthly visitors, I've seen some laughably wrong numbers.

RE: Craigslist not being "Social", what is more social than person-to-person selling? Does he just mean that they haven't put ugly buttons for x different social networks that their main constituency has never heard of?

Craigslist is all about being useful and accessible, fad of the week be damned. Their design decisions have made it harder to do quality control, but it has made it accessible to people to whom posting on many of the sites you take for granted would be confusing. It's a tradeoff, and it has worked out wonderfully for them on the whole.
I'm worse, I come here dozens of times a day, seeking new stuff done by folks smarter than myself, and later blame myself about the time I spent online, and how much more I would have won if I had instead read a book on programming languages for the last few hours.
Very, very true. A friend of mine is considering the military, largely so he gets more experience and a better shot at a firefighting job.
And how would a fresh grad know anything about what organisations are like? He's spent his entire life to date in the artificial environment of school...
The fact that an apartment or for sale posting gets flagged then immediately nobody else can see it has been used to effectively block competition in the buyers market

You misunderstand the flagging mechanism, and it's never "the competition." The competition isn't united against you and there aren't enough of them anyway. You probably just used a hit counter or external images or some other commonly-abused or community-hated posting trope.
I think it's simply that Apple/iOS users spend more money. IOS is the more mainstream platform and you have general/non-tech users on the platform buying relatively cheap apps, at least by their previous standards (they'd gotten use to 59.95 for a game software for example). In general I think iOS users just spend more money as a whole.

Android seems to be favored by users that prefer free software and simply spend less as a group.
Good examples. I was the junior at my company championing a new VCS for the entire company (5 years ago), and more recently even NoSQL (2 years ago) for almost everything.

Fortunately, people change.

I don't know about others, but it took me the better part of 8 years of post-school professional experience to finally realize my immaturity and arrogance.
This is a crucial point. "More is better" is a naive notion, but it's easier to promote than "quantity over quality."

When mathematicians get jobs in Wall Street by the thousands, there are either too many mathematicians churned out by the education system, too few problems or both. They're not getting those jobs to work on theories about complex systems like a few physicists did in the 1980's. The new generation is there to get respectable wages.

The ending is gold:

"claims of shortage are "often issued by parties of interest" such as employer associations. In the past, some U.S. businesses have been accused of using the shortage argument to justify outsourcing and hiring of foreign workers.

Susan Traiman of the Business Roundtable criticizes the new study, saying that it gives an illusion of a robust supply because it bundles all STEM fields together. There may be an oversupply in the life sciences and social sciences, she argues, but there is no question that there are shortages in engineering and the physical sciences. The findings "are not going to make us go back and re-examine everything we've been been calling for," she says."
Remembering LineDrive: forgotten, beautiful driving directions
Blogging platform already solves this by selling custom, good looking templates.

If Facebook starts doing this, they will be swimming in even more money.
Game-Development-Tool: Sprite-Sheet-Generator (inkl. full java source)
Try PadMapper. That kind of interface probably wouldn't work very well at Craigslist's scale, though, with their headcount.
One of my favorite books when I was a kid was a book called the World of Tomorrow which was quite a visual spectacle illustrating how technological developments would change our world. It would be good to get a hold of it and see how much of it played out, how much is outdated and how much could still happen.
CSS Pivot - From idea to 20k hits in 7 days
The Webkit implementation uses 2 layers of: looped keyframes, color transitions, multi-colorstop gradient backgrounds (which are then animated via background-position animation). And all that sits under two larger inset rgba box-shadows. [+ the gradients and shadows on the inner form itself]

That said, I've actually been pretty pleased performance-wise, I expected worse.
Hmm, I am not an expert on dubstep, I just have a mix that a friend sent me that is mostly Dieselboy. It might be considered drum n' bass, not dubstep, but that's just what I call it because it's got that wahwahwah sound and I have no idea.

Edit: Oh yeah, I can give a shoutout to Aaron Static though, I met him through EVE Online and he comes out with great new "Power Hour" mixes every month: http://aaronstatic.com/
Early birds can get Kinspir today, 3 years of R&D and finally launching
I tried the craigslist/odesk/etc. route with pretty mixed results.

About a year ago I found a new strategy: I find sites that I like and email the owner to ask who designed it. Half the time it's someone in house but the rest of the time they're usually happy to pass along the designer's contact info.

It's more time consuming this way because you have to do the outreach yourself, but the quality I've gotten has been spectacular.
Tips for encomer.com
any tips for us? encomer is a product and company review site/service
I also recommend using a program like Self Control[1] to blacklist distracting websites for really bad cases where you're not consciously opening a distracting website because it has become muscle memory.

In addition to using Self Control, I also like to run a small local web server to display a page like http://phylab.mtu.edu/~nckelley/Focus/ whenever I try to visit a distracting website.

I plan on experimenting with some negative reinforcement by building an Arduino device that shocks me whenever I visit a distracting website when I should be working :D.

[1]

Mac: http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/

Linux: http://svn.jklmnop.net/projects/SelfControl.html
The Future of Journalism - How much was the Bible?
The text on the page is actually gray (#444).
+1 on the chemistry kit. Also the Evil Genius series of books are very much about hands on science and engineering projects.
As for the post-it/to-do lists, what helps me is to develop a point system (scale of 0~5 or whatever) and assign a point next to a criterion at the end of the day, depending on how well you think the task was accomplished. It works even better if the tasks are something that's repeated weekly (e.g. organisation of your living space), as you'll end up with a collection of points.

While easy and non time-consuming, it's powerful in a way that it creates a feedback process. Of course, there's bunch of different reward systems people use besides scoring high points, like earning oneself a cigar, for example. So you can develop one that suits you for more fun.
Changing Education Paradigms: RSA Animate video
>that wahwahwah sound

That's a good way to describe it, I know exactly what you're talking about haha.
I agree on the importance of accessibility but just wanted to make a note that the only colors on that page are the glowing effect around the form.

the rest of the page actually is grey.

The entire design COULD use a little bump in contrast to aid readability though
You will enjoy this:

http://dubstepfriday.com/
Exactly, the inability to remember 50 specialized marketplaces means that CL's position is pretty much secure.
Chrome is winning (in a small way)
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Hoover was our only engineer president... and I wouldn't exactly cite him as an excellent example of presidential leadership.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is well worth considering.
Seconded big time. Really saved me. And it has enough options where I don't have to fight with it a lot.
Edit: Sorry, other people beat me to it. See other replies re:text colors.

However I agree about the contrast, I checked on my external dev monitor (vs. my super bright MBP screen) and the contrast could definitely use some work.
This is true, but the megapixel god is a false profit as well. Often the highest resolution cameras don't take the best pictures. I have printed (pictures)[http://www.nucleusdevelopment.com/media/photo/goog.jpg] taken with my iphone 3gs. I was never able to do so with my N1, or galaxy S. The quality just wasn't there even though those phones camera's where nearly double the resolution.
OK, Primeval is not great - but it is well-researched: most of the monsters in the show are not known prehistoric creatures, for example, which makes sense given the long gaps in the fossil record. And the rendering is excellent - it's just that the creatures have a limited interaction with the real environment, which I guess is down to budget.

And Primeval could never approach, say, the brain-rotting stench of The Cape. SGU's poor ratings are not a badge of honour, it is a cancelled show!

As for police shows - that's pretty much a US speciality, but the really good ones are under constant threat of cancellation.

I do concede though, while I've frequently thought of British TV lately "damn, there's a lot that's good right now!", this thought has never consciously crossed my mind while watching anything Canadian. Due South, anyone?
I recently discovered dubstep and think it's great work music as well. I would recommend checking out iTunes and Pandora to start finding artists you like, some of my favorite stations are Defiant radio on iTunes and Destroyer.net.
It's not broken, the apartment shopper is broken for not taking their own notes! Jeez, does Craigslist have to make up for everybody's personal failings?

I've heard of PLENTY of frustrated attempts to use Airbnb, enough that I would not use them without a Craigslist-level of (caveat-) emptorial vigilance. I wouldn't call your experience with them to be unbelievable, but Airbnb has not solved the Craigslist "random scammer" problem by any means.
Somewhat related, in the Io language, I was surprised to find that the expression "-23 abs" evaluates to "-23" not +23. The language desugars the expression to "0-(23 abs)". I think what threw me was the fact that Io uses a space rather than a dot for member selectors. No one would be surprised that C++ evaluates "-numObj.abs()" that way.
Get back to work!

I don't really consider myself an expert on getting things done, but I will suggest one thing. Take a day off every week. A day off the internet, a day off anything with a screen, and a day off anything which is about paid work. When you sit at your computer and think "maybe just a few more rage comics[1]" you're actually feeling a bit uninspired. sitting and staring at your computer is the worst way to achieve inspiration. instead, do the housework, bake, take up a hardware project, knit, read, do a correspondence course. anything that is unimportant to your day job, and pleasant, and nothing to do with those computerboxes.

When my day off is over I go back to my myriad projects and sit down and actually do them. It's much much much more productive than trying to work all the time. I actually suspect this is one of the major advantages of the sabbath in Abrahamic religions.

Oh, and use bookmarks. The blogosphere is much easier to forget about when you know you can find all the good stuff at a later date.

Like I say I'm no expert, but this helps me. I find that when I try to break the trend and work all week my mind quickly devolves into that of a dullard drone.

Best of luck breaking that habit!

[1] don't judge me :(
It's time to write your own blog post called "Why You Should Not Think That TechCrunch Is Not Over And Also How I Built A Successful Startup" and then submit it to hackernews under your own account. :)
I had really poor results from the CL, odesk, and various Django jobs sites. After switching to WaveMaker for our web app framework, I contacted one of the WaveMaker employees who monitored the forums and asked him who they used. He provided me with three superb recommendations.

The pre-qualified approach may require more up front time, but in the long run it saves a lot of hassle.
It's not very insightful to realize that Apple has design while Google has search. This is obvious.

Design won't become ubiquitous. Where else has this happened in the world? Design is hard. Great design is incredibly difficult to achieve. What Apple's managed to do is create a great design and then make it a priority all the way through the company. They won't ship a product if the design isn't exactly what they want.

Building a search infrastructure is expensive, but relatively trivial.

I disagree completely in your assertion that design will become ubiquitous.
That comparasion came to my mind as well. One problem with the prostitution law was that prostitutes now had to go into hiding, since their customers wanted to be more discrete. This led to an advantage for those working with trafficking, their prostitutes were outside society. Althought, I don't know any numbers on how prostitution changed because of this. I can definitely see how it would from above reasoning though.

For bribes, I can not think of something similar happening. The receiver of bribes typically offer a service they can't go underground with.

I've had my own thoughts about how to deal with the prostitution issue, where the goal is to look out for the prostitutes: Make prostitution legal; but only with prostitutes that can display proof of a recent health check and meetup with some social worker. That would of course end up becoming a government prostitution-permit-in-disguise, which together with the whole "make prostitution legal", would make a pretty though pill for the political climate in Sweden.

It would however give the social agencies and the police a better overview of the "registered" prositutes and their situation, so the police can put their resources into fighting prisoned trafficking victims (which I consider to be much more urgent and important), and the social agencies can identify social problems that led the registered prostitutes into prostitution and what keeps them there.

All in all, this might be a very swedish way to think about it, turning it into a tax paid government program. I can't help it, I'm a product of that system. :)
Why:

0. Not enough knowledge and/or lying to yourself

1. Subliminally trying to flee from taks, because you know it's going to take so much time again.

2. Trying to do something which gives you short term success by posting/chatting/helping etc.

How:

0. turnoff sound and your monitor!

1. read a programming book (offline) related to your
project! yes do it some hours and have a tea/coffee

2. create a todo (offline) / (digitalize it much later)

3. Analyse your project and start coding now.

What:

0. I waste a very large amount of time for ("fun")

1. unquenchable thirst for things knowledgy

2. Not able to meet my time goals

3. Feeling lazy

Hope it helps
Read their TOU. By using Craigslist you agree to help flag bad ads.

Yet from driving an hour to see one car you arrive at the conclusion that "almost all" of the by-owner car ads in Chicago Craiglist are dealers. OK.
"Recorded music has run its course."

Am I completely dense? I utterly fail to understand the quotes on recorded music in the article. I could easily buy "the record industry has run its course," but that's a completely different idea. With the ease of having a recording studio in your home, or carrying around an affordable better-than-CD-quality recording device in your pocket, I would certainly expect recorded music to become even more common, not go the way of the dinosaurs.

Did I miss a trend where kids today only listen to live music?
My best shot is: because you cannot make cool TV shows about computer scientists

It's not that you CAN'T make shows like this, it's that producers/writers project their own stereotypes into figuring out what shows will work or not. Thus, the cycle continues. It's sad when hackers can't even imagine ways to make it look cool though..

Japanese Dramas can be cheesy by American standards but I liked this one as an example:

http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Bloody_Monday
After a biological terrorist attack kills off the population of a Russian town; Japan's Public Safety Special Third unit, code name THIRD-i, believes that the terrorist organization responsible plans to unleash the same virus known as Bloody X into Tokyo. Subsequently, THIRD-i recruits the help of genius hacker Takagi Fujimaru to find out what happened in the Russia. However, as Fujimaru becomes involved, he soon finds out that he is in over his head and that the terrorist groups influence reaches not only his school but even the police. Fujimaru must now rely on his skill as a hacker to unravel the organizations sinister plot and find out the truth behind "Bloody Monday."
Imp than whether there is a tech bubble: why we're so obsessed with one.
Try it with 256px shadows. ;)
There's probably a lagging effect in quality on Android. 8 months ago, a lot of mobile companies were spinning up. Android was a big question mark, and iOS was an obvious juggernaut.

I'm imagining that a lot of resources have been thrown at Android apps over the past few months in anticipation of continuing growth. We'll see the fruits of that in the coming months.
That looks miserable.
> Really it's like watching T.V. except it's the internet.

Except we don't work on our TVs. In fact, in web development, I do 'real work' in the same application I 'waste real time' (the browser).

Seth Godin had an interesting take on that problem...

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/are-you-maki...
If I was doing JVM based development, I'd probably be using Mirah instead of Scala & CouchDB rather than MongoDB.