skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monitor 1: Browser
Monitor 2: vim, terminals

What I need is actually a Monitor 3 for reference..
I think this guy just got on something.
He's doing just right, and for a guy who had no clue of programming 12 months ago, it is quite impressing.

The fact we are talking about it in here (and perhaps in other places as well), means, the marketing strategy just worked.

See the comments I quote from his blog

__Shripriya__
Saw this post on HN. I went to your homepage. I have no clue what the
service is, why would I sign up?

Making the user give up information and do work before showing them
value almost never works. At least for me...

__Emile Petrone__
Thank Shripriya for the comment! Fair enough. I'll know I've done my
job right when you sign up :)

__danoprey__
I've heard it's the "AirBNB" for food, but otherwise I'd have no idea
either. I agree, I come across lots of landing pages, some sell me, some
don't. Unless a friend recommended this to me, I wouldn't sign up. Word
of mouth is great, but this seems to exclude other methods for the sake
of it.
To be honest, it can be tricky. I had a tough time with two monitors, initially. I would always put my irc client and instant messenger clients on the second monitor, along with whatever documentations, editors, etc that i needed. I would distract myself by always glancing over at irc. What I ended up doing to solve this was rotating my "main" monitor vertically, and use it exclusively for my main code editing window. I'd reserve the second window for documentation. I have to maximize both windows otherwise ill just get distracted by the other monitor, again.

It takes some getting used to, but I definitely get use out of the second one. Although, I'd be fine with one still. I'm a furious alt-tabber either way. ;)
http://www.google.com and https://www.google.com have two entirely different meanings when you get right down to it.

Plus `//` is already used as a protocol agnostic way of accessing resources in HTML.
anything@[firstname][lastname].com

literally anything
Or just make a way to retrieve the points from hnsearch.com since they have access to them anyways...

Also, searchyc.com is now back up, but I'm not sure whether it has points access yet (it didn't before it went down during the initial points removal).

Seems like this is tackling the issue in the wrong way. Points won't be near accurate even, since most people won't have this installed. something something over engineering something something occam's razor.
I don't know about other fields, but math has made amazing progress. In my undergraduate studies I couldn't really tell because aside from some cute but not overly impressive graph theory I didn't learn anything more recent than the 1930s (some basic algebraic topology, a little functional analysis, some ergodic theory, some differential topology, ...). Most of the stuff I learned was, of course, much older. But know that I know some of what mathematicians have been up to since then I am constantly amazed.
Oh, neat. I didn't realise the issue had been resolved. Thanks.
That is indeed a problem I run into quite a bit. I develop on my 15.4" laptop with a max resolution of 1366x768.
I use hello@fnamelname.com
I assume that the author intends // to replace http://, and that all other protocols such as ftp, https, etc. would still be written?

If that's the case, why bother with the // at all? Why not just assume, as most browsers already do, that there's an inferred http:// at the beginning of whatever the user types in the address bar?

(EDIT - I see that he's talking about how we would refer to URLs in things like print advertisements. Cute idea, but given the ubiquity of web addresses in mass media, and the time it takes for the public to learn anything new, it still sounds like a solution in search of a problem. The average American is still not sure how Twitter works, or what it means when they see a @name or a #tag.)
Hypocrisy is the norm with much of what passes through here.

At least GS employees don't have any pretensions to holiness.

I'd much rather work with people who are honest with themselves about their motivations than who try to push the suffering under the surface with bullshit rationalizations like that in the post.
Google voice. It was a little "Inception"-like to set up but has worked flawlessly for me. As long as you take a mobile device with you that is authenticated and you have wifi access you're golden.
Yes. Isn't that curious, to say the least? First he complains about becoming a serf at GS - where I am assuming no one hides the fact that everyone is indeed a serf, and the pretense that it is not all about money, is kept at a minimum, if any at all.

If GS was the frying pan, then, in my view, he jumped into the fire at Facebook where he is now working for an adolescent-minded, untransformed individual, who traded his personal integrity for the fruits of lust - "success, sex, money, fame" - under the guise of "helping connect people"...

Goes to show you that the old Buckaroo Banzai saying holds true for Antonio as well... Whereever you go, Antonio, there you are. Still a wannabe human being... with much growing left over to do.
They recovered a working compiler, and the darn thing was recovered from a printout- it's not that long. Portable, perhaps?
Graphite's whisper engine is very much like RRD. OpenTSDB on the other hand is not trivial to set up or manage. It all depends on your requirements and resources.
I'm actually looking to do remote .NET work, and have almost 4 years of experience. Can you shoot me an email and I can send you my resume? My email is my HN username @ gmail.com
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It may be because you appear to be targeting a smaller niche than just "doing serious stuff remotely"...

Finding someone with extensive .NET experience, both web and desktop development history and a deep understanding of web security is enough of a challenge in itself. When you add in the GMT+0 work requirement your working pool of remote workers is even smaller still.

Regardless I imagine that for any work with a distributed team the problem of finding highly specialized talent with the willingness to work remote is universal.
Conversely, the protocol bit is relevant whenever your link is not domain- or protocol-relative, or when you can't be sure.

And you can't be sure. Here's why: if someone saves your page on their hard drive and you're using protocol-relative URLs, the implied "http" just became "file". (Which in fact may be a nice excuse for some clever hacks.)

Test it yourself! Save the following snippet to your computer and see how your browser resolves the URL:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>Testing 1 2 3</title>
<p><a href="//google.com/">Linky</a></p>
I'm new to coding as well, but so far what I've gathered is that WHAT language you learn is less important than actually sitting down and getting dirty with code.

When I was trying to decide what to learn I narrowed the search down by just heading to the book store and flipping through some books on various languages. Ultimately, I ended up with a choice between Ruby and Python. I couldn't tell what the major differences were, so I just decided to pick Ruby. I figured that there was no real way of recognizing the nuances of ANY language until I actually had one under my belt and could better understand what makes each one tick.

I'm fully aware that this was a somewhat cavalier method of choosing the pal I'd be spending the majority of my waking hours with, but I think that starting anywhere is better than stalling because you can't decide.

So far I'm satisfied with my choice. I think I would have been satisfied with Python too.
Once this becomes a principle of residential planning, communities become far more liveable.

It was reasonable for Le Corbusier to claim so in 1920. To believe it in 2011, one has to ignore the result of a century of doing it: the suburbs.
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We here you and the new framework from Slate.com, Geek.com,etc. is going to be ported to WP. The biggest problem is the junk intertial scrolling we had to go with. That's gone. Check out the new framework and my guess is that you'll be very very pleasantly surprised.
Body fat an diabetes type two are just correlated. Type 2 is caused by stressing how your body deals with massive sugar. Now, the life style that enables you to stress your insulin production will make you fat.
In the US and Canada at least, a popular coffee company named Starbucks sells canned coffee-based beverages (although not in their own shops, I think).
Yes, we do know generally when the traffic will peak and can plan for it.
The benefits from fasting and/or eliminating sugar and starches from your diet comports with Robert Lustig's research on sugar toxicity (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2472019).
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I meant "long pre-standard" as in it pre-dates the C standard by a long time.
I haven't yet hit OnSwipe on the iPad, but I experience similar frustration with WordPress's mobile theme on the iPhone. The text is harder to read than the 'normal' web site, and the text isn't zoomable, so there's no way to fix other than find the 'switch to normal version' button at the very bottom... every time.

When making a mobile version of content: first, do no harm!
It's true. Downtown Seattle and its attached "chic" neighborhood Belltown are both IMHO wastelands - and not at all the urban paradise they are advertised to be. Homeless folk, crackheads, petty criminals of all varieties, and a complete lack of pedestrian traffic pretty much defines downtown.

Queen Anne, Fremont, Capitol Hill, and Ballard are much closer to the new urbanist ideal than anything else available in the area.
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What evan_ said: you're using the phone as a pocket computer, not as a phone. You don't need phone service at all--the authentication program will run on your phone even if you don't have service or you're in a foreign country.

Enough people have asked these (very reasonable) questions that maybe I should do a video about two-factor authentication.
Hustler Seeks Hacker for Startup
About Me:

-Biz Monkey (sales, marketing, biz dev)
-Able to sell things and make money
-Not an MBA
-Located in Palo Alto
-Able to handle the pitching and fundraising
-Networker
-Irrepressible tenacity
-Able to handle any other tedious, small little tasks that take the coding team away from coding, like those listed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779448

What I'm looking for:

-Hackerpreneur (not a code monkey)
-Interested in building a great company
-Good front end and back end abilities
-Willing to work for sweat equity
-Also in Silicon Valley

Idea: Yup, I've got one... it involves real time feeds and recommendation engines and such. I'm sure it will evolve often. Making sure we're a good team is far more important.

I'm more interested in what you've created than where you went to school.

Email me with what you've done: HustlerSeeksHacker(@)gmail(dot)com I will have other hackers evaluate your work.

Thanks!
I am moving into San Francisco from Europe, and exactly in this situation of city versus further out.

By Americans SF is probably considered a car-free, and public transportation friendly city, but as an European I am shocked to see that almost every street more resembles a free-way than a living-space, and not just in SOMA. China-town so far is the only bit that reminds me of an European city in terms of it's street-life.

And I went looking for apartments/rooms to the north of Market street today, and was shocked to see that what could have been an exciting urban neighbourhood (and the only one built to human dimensions, within walking distance from the financial district), is a shady place, the Tenderloin.

It seems a critical mass issue as well, to some extent. In Europe the exciting young people live in the center, in human-sized communities, while in the US even for Europeans that want to be in the city, the city is made unattractive by crime, drugs, and trash in the street.

I guess I will be settling for something a bit further out, the Haight neighbourhood, or something north of Chinatown (people there don't seem to put their rentals/rooms on Craigslist), and a daily commute on the bus. Still pretty central probably on US-terms, but almost a flight to the suburbs in European terms...

(am still looking, if anyone has anything, mail at wybowiersma dot net)
I'm actually 2 months into learning to program Javascript for the Unity3D engine. I've learned a lot in 8 weeks, and I'm happy I took the time to commit to it. I could actually start prototyping my own basic mobile games with Unity, something I never thought I'd be able to do.

So I guess from my experience:
- Find a single good source or book for tutorials and learning. Its best for the coding style and teaching style to be consistent. I used a fantastic series of free video tutorials produced by the Walker Brothers, which included 3 entry exams, and a series of lab assignments after each tutorial set. I had to submit the work in order to get access to the next set.

- Find a good Q&A source like Stackoverflow, forums, or a site more specific to what you're coding in. When you get stuck or don't understand something, go and ask (search first). +1 if you have programming friends to ask too.

- Keep a journal (really!) on Google docs. At the end of the night, you can quickly re-hash what you learned (cs concepts, or cool functions you learned), or often write out the things you don't understand. That way, when you start up again, you can do a quick review on where you left off and get back to figuring out things you previously were stuck on.

- Try not to skip past things you don't understand. If you don't understand them, take the time to practice out the code, or look up documentation. A big key point: its always worth it to invest the time to figure little problems out. I once spent 3 hours trying to get some timer controllers working just perfectly the way I wanted. They were actually OKAY to begin with and I was considering skipping past it for the sake of productivity, but in hammering out the problem, I gained confidence and had the satisfaction of solving a problem.

- Get your things WORKING! As beginner programmers, our first concern is making what we want happen. Not pretty code, not computer science theory. Just results. Getting results fast gives you the confidence to try harder things, which will naturally take you into the world of organized code and computer science.

Good luck!
Cheap way to expand screen real estate.

I find myself diffing 3 files a lot. And these files are 80 characters fixed-width. So to have the three window diff in vim means I would need at least 3 * 80 + 2 = 242 character width, and that doesn't fit on most monitors.

(Nowadays I use a 27" iMac, which runs 2560x1440 natively, so I really dont need [or use] a second monitor, but the argument still applies)
> Or choose: Chrome | Firefox | Opera | Greasemonkey | Bookmarklet

Someone went to a lot of effort over this.
IMHO, his view of the quant life was distorted by being on the 'sell-side', where the trader and salespeople reign supreme. On the buy-side, quants are much more of the revenue generators.

That'll become increasingly obvious now that (soon) banks won't be allowed to prop-trade : there'll be a migration of a lot of the 'value add' to the buy-side (true hedge funds, mainly).
hnsearch gets points after a few days
Or it can be quite simple. Note that we are talking about overflow: text that given the CSS on the page would become invisible. This knowledge is already present in the rendering subsystem because it has to decide what gets displayed.

The only trick is to open up enough space at the end of the line to render the ellipsis. It's not rocket science to do it well enough.
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Grab yourself a copy of Racket (http://racket-lang.org) [also, the quickstart guide at http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html might be useful], the How to Design Programs textbook (http://htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/), and most importantly, set aside some solid blocks of time to dive in. You will learn most by doing, and through doing you will gain understanding.
Rails for Zombies, of course!

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Nom nom nom...
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Writing a political essay needs to be handled very carefully. This is a task which requires much finesse as well as dedication to the task. Political subjects are sensitive subjects and therefore, students need to know how to write their political essays in the proper manner.
Not to draw this out further but I do think variations of these make for good interview questions for entry-level people. Here is why:

First, it is trivial to communicate the problem and any moderately competent person will find a solution within a short time frame. Second, it tests how precisely someone takes a problem definition. (In my experience, the kind of person who glances over such details will also tend to make trivial programming mistakes like off-by-ones.) Third, by varying a well-known question slightly you can easily filter out those who have simply learned the "correct" solution from the internet rather than thinking it through.
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Ideas are fun when you're not the president. Most people would be far far more conservative if they had absolute power... or would quickly become so after a failure or two.

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Both you and TFA make the assumption that college increases your skill in fields such as plumbing. Correlation (college & higher pay) =/= Causation (college => more skill => more pay), and that is why people debate the current college situation. Why is it that a future plumber needs to go to college to maximize his earnings, when it will have little to no benefit to his plumbing prowess, and would in fact hinder it due to the opportunity cost of those 4 years?

> Getting through college is essentially a filter that eliminates the folks who are not appropriately literate or capable of doing math.
What a ridiculously wasteful filter.

> Public schools utterly fail at helping students achieve this. 99% of 18 year olds should be able to interpret a train schedule or read and understand a big-city newspaper. 99% of 18 year olds should be capable of doing long division and computing percentages without tools. The reality is far less.
Are you sure about that? Long division is admittedly rapidly becoming a lost art (calculators, cell phones, anything electronic has a way to divide!) However, I'd be surprised if nearly everyone wasn't capable of the rest.
Set up a Linux computer (Ubuntu Linux is the easiest to set up), and spend the summer learning to program in Python.

Python is easy to learn (not much syntax), easy to read (explicit vs implicit), has a big ecosystem (more packages/libraries), is taught at universities so it's easy to find good programmers to help, and is used by many large websites/companies so it's a good language to know.

Here are some of the best online Python tutorials, including a link to videos and course material for MIT's introductory computer science course, which uses Python: http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-learn-to-program-in-Python/an...

Build something that you want to use so it will be meaningful to you. Do you have a blog? That's usually a good first exercise. It's easy to do using Flask -- follow the tutorial (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/).

Here are some tips to get you started:

Use Emacs as the text editor to write your code -- it usually comes pre-installed on Ubuntu, and it has a Python mode. Here are some Emacs tutorials (there are some good videos on YouTube too):

http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/manuals/usermanual/emac... http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs-tutorial... http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ http://cmgm.stanford.edu/classes/unix/emacs.html

Use PostgreSQL as your database. To install it on Ubuntu, use this command:

$ sudo apt-get install postgresql

Use SQLAlchemy (http://www.sqlalchemy.org/) to connect your Python website to PostgreSQL.

Here's a good SQL tutorial: http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/

When you build a blog, you don't have to worry about building a public authentication and comment system if you use something like Disqus (http://disqus.com/) -- you just include the Disqus JavaScript tag at the bottom of the blog's entry page.

Here are some good JavaScript tutorials: http://www.quora.com/What-are-good-books-preferably-found-on...

Use StackOverflow to ask programming questions: http://stackoverflow.com/

UPDATE: Here are links to some commonly-used scientific Python packages (http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=204).
To be clear, onset of type2 diabetes is tied in with weight and health.

My wife (who studied dietetics/food & nutrition) while at university volunteered for a pre-diabetes program whose sole purpose was to stress to people who were at high risk for developing type2 diabetes that they could stave off the effects of the disease by eating more healthily, and explaining how they could accomplish it.

The vastly important thing to stress here is that a reduction of the level of fat is the important part, not starving themselves. Presumably other forms of weight loss (as a means to better overall health) would have the same sorts of effects.

Starving one's self should not be taken as the first step that people should reach for, and even if people were to do so, they should make absolutely sure that they're still getting proper nutrition so that they are losing weight safely.

tl;dr: it's unhealthy to be morbidly obese. Your health improves if you stop being morbidly obese. That can include the effects of type 2 diabetes.
Sac is a good place to bike? Better than SC? You've got to be kidding me. Davis - now that's a great place for biking.