skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The professions" is a meaningless distinction these days. Investment bankers call themselves "young professionals", even though banking is NOT a profession in the historical sense.

Life in most corporations, professional or otherwise, seems to be pretty soul-sucking. Orwell described the "beetle-like" type of person, in 1984, who would, with "swift scuttling movements", tend to "flourish best under the dominion of the Party". Indeed such a type of person is most likely to succeed in large private-sector hierarchies, and the corporate grind involves submitting one's future to the whims of beetle-like masters.
I hope you don't work for NASA :)
Well, I can't provide any info for your area, but there is:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.09/es_dumpster.html

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_diving

Wish I could go, yet where I live (third world country) there's just no way.

Luck,

MR
Why not just buy a damn coffee pot and stay at home, providing you have enough space for an office. You can play whatever music you want, without ear-damaging headphones, and you don't have an endless stream of distractions, providing you don't have children.

When I'm coding on my laptop I'm probably at 50% efficiency compared to my desktop. I've got a giant Kinesis keyboard (great tool, but expensive), a big mouse pad, a 24" monitor, a subwoofer, a second pc, a stack of books, etc. One cannot replicate such an environment in a coffe shop.

A coffee shop is probably great for relaxing, brainstorming, having an occasional change of scenery, and writing children's novels, but I can't imagine it's an efficient way to produce complex software. Most importantly, I would never be able to concentrate, feeling like I am imposing by sitting in the shop for hours. Obviously, others enjoy sitting in coffee shops, but how many of you are doing complex work while there? Or do you save the light work for coffee shop visits?
SmartNow CEO on Joanie Greggains KGO Show
You have to hear Julie Wainwright, SmartNow.com CEO, talk about her life experiences and fabulous new website for women over 35 on Joanie Greggains KGO show today (Sat am). You can find the radio show online for the next seven days at (www.kgoradio.com), then to the Audio Archives, and then to Saturday, August 2nd, 9 AM hour.

Julie talks about the quality of expert info on the site, the community starting to grow, cool sections like diet buddies where dieters are matched up and work with a coach. My favorite part was when she talked about the promotion "Back to You" where a lucky woman will get a full makeover in NYC by a group of experts...you only have til August 15th to sign up. Experts will pick the top 10 entires and and then we get to vote. American Idol comes to SmartNow.com! Calling all women over 35!
And didn't finish, perhaps?

To the ambitious student, I offer five practical aids to concentration

There were only four...
#Falcon 1 Launch Webcast
Erlang book part 1:
www.erlang.org/download/erlang-book-part1.pdf
Buy:
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang/programming-erlang

http://www.erlang.org/doc.html

Write a spamfilter.

Write a chatclient.

Write a webserver.
Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it
Ramaze + Sequel + JRuby
Struts 2: Kickass framework that gets out of your way with almost no XML. This is more WebWork than Struts 1.
http://struts.apache.org/2.x/

Guice: Dependency injection goodness. http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/

Google Collections Library: Makes java.util less painful and awkward to use.
http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/

And don't forget to use IntelliJ IDEA. Bitchin IDE.
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

and YourKit for profiling: http://www.yourkit.com/

Using the above will make you a happy camper. Good luck!
I find myself wondering how well Joss Whedon and Co. are doing on Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog, which is attempting a patronage model and episodic releases for a musical comedy about super heroes and villains.

I can't help but think a new model is developing, and it will probably work for music, as well as movies and television shows. But, I'm not sure it's going to look exactly like the patronage model described...but probably close enough, if you squint.
The ACLU'S weird about that sort of stuff, inasmuch as they seem to mostly object to indiscriminate surveillance. I work for a company that does "smart" surveillance, which allows for both improved cross-referencing of footage and a finer grained control over who can see what. Depending which side of the coin is being discussed, they'll either demonize or canonize us, without ever acknowledging that they've had different stances in the past.

All in all, I think they don't have a clearly defined stance on any of this. A lot of camera installations in cities are surprisingly ineffective (too many feeds to monitor in real time, usually at absurdly low frame rates because there's not enough disk space to hold onto high quality video), and I think this makes them low priority targets as far as the ACLU is concerned. It will be interesting to see what they do once the technology really comes of age and a few operators can actually correlate footage from a city-wide installation.
And 81.76% of statistics are made on the spot?
wow, i think this is the first time i've seen actual forum-like spam on hn
"Calvin and Prrometheus" doesn't ring, but you might pass as an extra in Asterix and Obelix. The sky is falling on our heads!
Don't stop keep going!
What if Apple stopped issuing DRM keys?
There are a LOTS of reviews in iPhone app store that boil down to "I didn't try it, but it's not free so it's crap. Here one star for you, greedy bastard". We'll see how it plays out in the end.
First Privately Developed Liquid Fuel Rocket to Launch Today
Web cast here http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php
I'm assuming it wasn't even classic Jingle Bells. How long did you listen to Jingle Bell Rock before you threw your Coffee at the barista and jumped out the window?
Develop multi-touch application on standard desktop Mac, using iPhone as input device
Related post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=265196
Prestel, the Computer Misuse Act, and Prince Philip
ok also true. I guess ideally people would find a good use for it (in the past the money could have been put to good use on infrastructure etc, but now OSS hosting environments are almost entirely free - as in free beer free).
How do you suggest browsers should handle php, asp, aspx, ace, pl and py files then? How would the browser know if the server-generated content is a RSS feed, a image or a HTML page?

Are you seriously suggesting it's the browser which should support whatever scripting backend which is used on the server?

Mime-types is there for a reason.
In a underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses
Nah, it just wasn't funny.
I am not a professional web designer, but I have made a couple of webpages (15+) and never found myself in the need for a "CSS framework".

Please forgive my maybe silly question, but is it worth learning Framework x,y,z in order to get the job done considering the extra effort?

At what point does a Framework make sense compared to the "build everything yourself" strategy?

How do these Frameworks behaive over time regarding Browser updates?

Thanks for any hints and pointers.
Guice isn't a web app framework at all...
Daring Fireball: iPhone Calendar Syncing
Are Hackers Getting Fatter?
Another Personalized News Site Bites The Dust
About the Cruft
Lol, that brings to mind a bunch of little goombas marching around Mars.

I was thinking more along the lines of a basis for creating a sustainable food source. There's lots of radiation up there...
That chart says nothing about sample size between the two events.
I can verify that less than 1 percent of people even click through to the "purchase" page.

ADDENDUM: It's worth considering that that same percentage (less than one) also reflects the number of people who leave Starbucks (or whatever) without buying something. Whether web sites can be made more "store like" is perhaps a great task...
The launch is currently scheduled for 20:00 PDT.
That has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with the review mechanism in the iPhone app store.
The real question is - what the hell was so special about France - that made their version of what were called "videotext services" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
catch on where all the others failed?
funny that I found this by slacking off and reading hackernews
I'm not trying to be a downer or anything, but what the FCC did might have been a lot more narrow than what everyone in our community is advertising.

The vote didn't say that companies can't throttle traffic. It was against Comcast's truly evil reset packets - basically, against Comcast's forged traffic. It is a very good thing that the FCC has taken a stand against ISPs forging traffic to disrupt people's internet connection. However, I would caution against statements like the NYTimes article has saying that the FCC has come out against "equipment that slowed - but did not completely block - file transfers using BitTorrent". This wasn't mere traffic shaping or throttling in the Comcast case.
Put this on instead: http://www.brentlewis.com/cd9.htm .
I agree: don't make the concept/idea patentable, only the specific implementation. The specific light bulb; the specific telegraphy system.

OTOH, I kinda like the idea of Segway owning the concept - it was a cool idea, and a lot of work to pull it off. But I don't like the world that owning concepts so generally would create. I think it's good to encourage many people to search for ways to do it, and they get to own what they find. If someone finds the best way, they win big. I think that's great.

I find it interesting that Morse's original patent seemed pretty much along the lines you say - but then, several years later, he tried to amend it to cover any way of accomplishing telegraphy. The courts upheld the original, but not the amendment (if memory serves). The amendment seems to be the style of patenting software today.

I see no reason, in principle, why patent law can not operate in the same way in the software world as it does for mechanical systems - despite software being more abstract.
Well, according to the wikipedia article you cite, they gave away millions of minitel terminals.
I've seen a marketing report from Marketing Sherpa that showed the stats in the same range of 1-3%. And this was for the sites that were focused on a particular product and the traffic was very targeted as well (most coming from AdWords etc).

Most people just browse and never reach for their pocketbook.
Falcon 1 Flight 3 webcast [live space rocket launch] [video]
Sounds fun, some cool facts here: http://www.spacex.com/falcon1.php

It makes me wonder how you deal with something like this. If something like this happened in Russia (or "somewhere"), and somehow the US didn't know about it, they would have jets up in the air and the whole country put on red alert as soon as they find out about a rocket being launched, I expect. Does SpaceX have to send letters out to the major nations of the world, or something? Or have I got all this out of movies and there's no real way to track recently launched missiles?
I really enjoyed this article. Yes it's long, but too many of the articles posted here are too short (really, too lacking in content). This isn't another flashy title with three paragraphs behind it.
I agree. The "stick" version actually makes the Segway look cool. The no-hands version moves pretty well, although it kind of looks like a ThighMaster on wheels.

C'mon Toyota! Still waiting for my hover wing like the Hobgoblin had!
The explosion is scheduled for 20:03.

Bets? Any gamblers in the house?

Edit: Ok, let's say T + 3 since they're having trouble getting it up.
Bingo! Anyone who has seen room service in action knows housekeeping spends about 80 seconds spot vacuuming each room where Roomba wanders around aimlessly for about 30 minutes.
I think by "critical thinking" he means the ability to criticize, or point out flaws in someone's work/theory. And I took a good number of classes in the humanities where this is basically what we were expected to do: "Critically analyze Spinoza's theory of X" usually meant "Discuss what you think is stupid about Spinoza's theory of X." You could do otherwise, but you weren't expected to. Apparently coming up with your own theory, and "critically analyzing" THAT, is something special reserved for a senior thesis. But while all science majors did research projects or programming projects, only the really motivated humanities students did a thesis. Many spent four years just smugly putting down the half-formed ideas of long-dead scholars, and probably poorly.
People think they want to pay, and respond that way if you ask them. But, just like polls about minority political candidates, people's words grossly misrepresent their actions.
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If by ~ you mean <, then I agree.
They aborted the launch. Apparently they are taking a cautious approach to launching rockets, which is good.
There are definitely ways to track recently launched rockets. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-Based_Infrared_System
I have to disagree about regulation. Most people have 1, maybe 2 choices of broadband providers. Where natural monopolies are involved, the free market has no chance to set things right, and government regulation is a necessity.

If we all had 3 or more cable companies to choose from, I'd agree.
Where did you see that? Source?
They have a live webcast on the front page of the SpaceX website.
Why was it killed? It definitely seems to fit the criteria of "stuff interesting to hackers". I mean, it's robots.
got it, thanks:

http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php
At the same time, even if you assume the lawyer could spend his vacuuming time working instead (not exactly a safe assumption, as I learned the hard way once) the hotel laborer easily spends more than 10x the amount of time vacuuming that the lawyer does.
"Human Powered Future"?

That's what the movie "Matrix" was all about.

Definitely don't want that.
I misread the post title and thought it was "How to Concatonate" lol.
Look back quickly, as they restarted and have 4 minutes to launch right now.
http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

Update: Rocket has launched :)

Update: Report of an anomaly on the vehicle - screen black
Thanks a ton. I wanted to confirm "then render pages based on the incoming HTTP "Host" header" part. A few questions for you,

1. So if DNS CNAME cname.theirsite.com is pointed to myserver.mysite.com, the Http requests will come to myserver.com.mysite.com, with Http['host'] as cname.theirsite.com.

2. Where can I read more about how DNS in general and CNAMES in particlular work?
Not certain but I think it's from this: http://openlibrary.org/b/OL11936541M Ignore the 2007 date, it was published in 1930 by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Damn, I was off by almost a minute.
Smalltalk 80: The Language and its Implementation
Now all I need is a proper How-To on how to recompile this on my personal dev machine.
It's hard to reply with out profanity but I just hope this gets pushed out onto dreamhost soonish.
Wow. I never even heard of Thoof
Charlie Munger's Investing Principles Checklist
Awesome. I have the original books. Get them if you can, they are absolutely worth the price if you are interested in virtual machine architecture or language design.
What a total solar eclipse looks like from a plane [video]
There is a selection bias here, but on Tipjoy, where payment is voluntary ~30% of people want to pay.

He is spot on that you need to get it really easy to make it work. That's why itunes does well despite piracy options.
No mention of Provigil or Concerta? :P
I would very much like to get my hands on a physical copy of On Lisp again, but a quick check on Amazon reveals that the market for used editions of this book start at over $200. If pg is listening, there IS a market for this book and a new printing, even if only a limited run, would be very much appreciated.
Is there anywhere to post the results from using the tool? Has anyone tried it?
McCain said in an interview that he is completely clueless about computers. He said he needed help to check his email. I wouldn't be surprised if McCain still thinks internet is a series of tubes
Not exactly the same thing. Spoofing you comp's trade name is pretty much the definition of trademark violation.

It (Google's policy) flops around a bit. It differs between countries and seems to get tweaked or turned over every so often.
I believe in the US bidding restrictions on trademarked terms were recently removed. But you are still restricted in using trademarked terms in ads.

Personally, I agree that restrictions (bidding on trademarked terms) should be removed. I would compare it to handing out flyers on the street outside you competitions' shop. Tasteless maybe, but shouldn't be illegal. Companies don't own the search results, trademark or not any more then they own the street.
How depressing. I wait all night (UK time till 5am), watch it climb to 50km, and it goes and blacks out!

I hope this turns out okay.
That would be centiseconds :p
This article is somewhat misleading, in that of the 15 things listed, only the bottom three are identified as unique to free software.

Indeed, some of the most disgustingly unusable stuff I have ever seen has come from companies, not only Microsoft but "enterprise" people, groups that should have a vested interest in software quality.

A problem I didn't see listed, is that the people acquiring software may not care. Many of them absolutely don't. I've been in organizations where the people in charge of getting stuff don't have a clue what "features" or misfeatures are actually impacting the usability of the people they are supposed to serve. They don't ask, they don't factor it into the buy/download decision, and no one seems to trace the resulting productivity problems back to them.
1. Yes. cname.theirsite.com resolves to myserver.com.mysite.com which in turn resolves to an IP address. Browsers will send requests to your server at that IP along with cname.theirsite.com in "Host" header.

2. I'm not totally sure. I would start with wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

Users will likely ask for help, so you'll probably want to familiarize yourself with the UIs for major DNS providers, especially GoDaddy.

Another gotcha is that CNAMEs can be a little funky for root domains. So something.com will be harder (or impossible) for people to CNAME than foo.something.com depending on their provider. I've been told that CNAMEing the root domain means that all records (like MX) get automatically aliased as well, but I haven't found that to be uniformly true. My guess is that it depends on the DNS software.
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Fix: IE7 with Sitemeter: Operation aborted
I don't think that's worrying. If Amazon or Facebook or any other site did it wouldn't even be noticed. I think that's just reaching for a way to fault Google.

BTW, an interesting application of personalisation is not so much search ads (They are already pretty much the most targeted ads because search term is enough to target ads with) but content ads (eg adsense). Currently, ads are targeted using relevance to page content/site content or demographics of the users. But search history reveals a lot about interests & could be the key to 'fixing' context advertising (from the advertisers perspective).
I guess the headline's correct. They did 'launch', it just didn't finish doing so!
I would have liked to have seen the code for the 4 languages. Maybe that's just me.
Me too.

Also I am getting tired of all these "my language can do this in 4 lines vs 5 lines in your languae so your language sucks"-posts.
Line-counting is a pretty dumb and insightless way of comparing language power and tells far from the whole story.
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Rather than creating a large reply, I'd rather put it down to what is the single biggest problem is that, in my eyes, trumps every single thing in his essay: Ugly widgets, icons, fonts and badly thought out standardised user interfaces in both the KDE and, to a lesser extent, GNOME projects.

I think it's obvious why - every application inherits from them and their bad design decisions result in most applications having the same usability problems.

NB: The author apparently thinks that making me scroll a hell of a lot is good for usability - instead I ended up turning off CSS.
There's a tiny kernel of truth to the line-counting argument - if you find yourself repeatedly typing the same patterns of code over and over again, and there's no way to refactor it so that the pattern's expressed only once, then yes, then you're probably using a language with weak abstraction capabilities.

But yeah, trying to arrange all languages along a single "axis of power" is a pretty pointless exercise...
Tag Clouds R.I.P?
Personally, I don't even remember the last time I clicked on a tag in the tag cloud. What are some of the good, interactive tag clouds?
That link (the comment this was referring to is now deleted) is to the second launch of the Falcon 1 which made it further than the launch today, which was the third launch. Today's launch only made it roughly 140 seconds (no stage separation) before the "anomaly".

Actually the anomaly was right at stage separation apparently. Video and comment by Elon Musk: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1299
That's a nice HTML version. For those who don't yet know, scans of this and several other Smalltalk books (including all the famous ones, I think?) are available at http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html .