skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then it's your fault. Who's responsibility is it to put you in the situation where you are happy?

People stuck in a job they don't like because it pays enough to support there family have a reason to complain. You have no obligations but to yourself. If you think that you have obligations and try to use that as an excuse for why you are unhappy you are fooling yourself.

Find a different program, find a new hobby, meet a girl, start a company.

Being gloomy and getting angry that others are happy won't make you happy.
Maybe they were expressing an extra preference for CMU's Entertainment Technology Center grads:

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/
I'll try it (for the first time) when its released on *nix.
I've seen the observation that antidepressant usage is now so common in the professional classes that it has probably affected important organizational decisions. In a meeting of management level types as many as a fifth of them are likely to be on drugs!
For many cheerleaders high school is the high point in their lives. Popularity, likeminded people everywhere and absolutely zero responsibilities.

So unless you're very similar to the person who tells you that grad school was the best part of his life, take it with a grain of salt. Maybe you like being responsible, maybe you like to work.

The thing is, many people give up on their dreams just after grad school. Compromise suddenly trumps all.

(And maybe you're just chronically unhappy person. Unhappy no matter what happens. Unhappy for no describable reason. Food for thought, huh?)
Interesting niche. I think it would work really well in the college market. A lot of student groups make and give out hoodies to people. If there was a service where they could design their hoodie and get it from you guys, that would be attractive to them.
Gene Therapy Restores Sight
I'm a longtime PHP developer who has been flirting with server-side JavaScript frameworks recently, including building a couple production apps in Helma.

For my current RAD project, the client has their own IT staff who don't want to support another environment, so it was back to PHP. On Rasmus' good words, I tried using the CodeIgniter framework (never used a pre-existing PHP framework before) but ran into pain with its many kludges to support PHP 4. Then found Kohana, which is CodeIgniter rebuilt for PHP 5 only. I'm lovin' it.

I was all gung-ho for server-side JS, but Kohana combined with my own ORM is going very nicely. (I don't know about Kohana's ORM--I started working on mine before I had decided to use any framework.) The biggest benefits, of course, are that it runs most everywhere and my long experience with PHP prevents the odd surprises I was always running into with the JS frameworks.

And, hey, first class functions and closure are coming in PHP 5.3!

So the grass isn't always greener--it seems what I was missing was a better way of organizing my code as much as straight language power. So try a good PHP framework--I recommend Kohana. And even though python and js are more powerful languages, having a whole bunch of stuff already built for you and ready to run anywhere beats power and a clean room most of the time.
It makes me regret when I recall how much of my life I've lost to programming.

I spend most of my mid-teens (15,16,17) writing pointless C programs (interpreters, compilers, etc. for pathetic new languages that probably no one except me will use).

While my classmates from high school went out dating girls, watching new movies, etc.; I would be sitting in front of my computer palms on forehead fixing hard to find C pointer bugs.

The only person I could have a decent conversation with was my CS teacher. In the end it was only after coming to college I realized how much I had lost.

I barely had any communication skills, absolutely zero sexual experience (haven't even walked holding hands with a female - even today) and the reputation of being a geek. And you know what? I realized I wasn't a happy person anymore.

I think this kind of a life is seriously screwed. Very soon (been trying) I'm gonna totally quit "being geek" (programming for a hobby, etc.) and try to be normal like everyone else.
I think it is great and I can't complain because it is free, but I will...

It's really hard to get candidates in Florida!
Google training censorship police in India
Try to pick up some sports. Its generally a good way to meet people in a casual way. You get in shape as a plus.
I don't get how this helps Apple. They don't want Android copying their API or something? Guess it doesn't matter as long as the iPhone remains super popular.

And man, it sucks to spend all that time writing a book, find a happy publisher, and then not be able to release it cause of this.
Web Meets World
interesting. in essence what we have here is a variation on the photon drive where instead of being bounced off an open reflector to generate momentum you have a closed cone. at first glance this would seem absurd since the forces acting on the two ends of the cone should cancel each other out. where it gets interesting is that this guy claims that the math shows that the photons are operating in a special frame of reference: essentially even though the photons are enclosed they behave as if they were not. thus momentum is imparted in one direction and all you have to do is keep pumping microwaves into the cone. being able to use electricity instead of some sort of stored propellant would be a huge step towards sustainable space flight. here's hoping it works.

and even if it doesn't, science needs weirdos who are willing to work on edge cases. tesla's professor told him that the AC motor was a perpetual motion device and thus impossible.
Neverland: the illusion of unlimited hosting
Tipjoy.com: Announcing Series A financing lead by Betaworks
Tipjoy Raises $1 Million For Its Simple Micropayment Platform
Is it just me, or is it sounding like Apple is coming out with their own line of iPhone manuals or something...?
Survey: Most Workplace Internet Use Remains Rudimentary
Where you go to grad school (or undergrad) has a LOT to do with it. And some luck as well - Your dept might not have anybody you want to be friends with. But two years down the road might change everything.

That said, for me, I've met the most people at school mostly because I find myself surrounded by people who I can identify with. Its easy to make friends in a group of people who are like you, but if you don't feel like you fit in a group of grad students, its hard to make friends...
This is essentially a great follow up to the RRW article. Tim O'Reilly says it right
Yes, perhaps it is a bug in Safari.
Thanks for the report.

Edit - It might be the way Safari handles onload - https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13241
This is outrageous.

That's it, I am going to refrain from purchasing any and all Apple products from here on, am going to encourage others to do the same, and will also refrain from recommending their products to anyone.
I'm surprised nobody recommended CodeIgniter to this guy. Which is by far IMHO one of the better PHP frameworks out there. Also do try Kohana as well! as I heard it's a more powerful version of CI.

Thankfully my day job consists of me hacking in CI (which is a Godsend) but my current passion lies in HaXe. So if anything try out other languages to expand your mind. But if you don't have the time and luxury and you want to get that killer app up and running. You might as well stick to your main competency and slug it out in PHP.
I have had an idea like this for a long time now. The fuel savings from rarely having to stop would be enormous.
He ignores the forces on the sides of the tapered wave-guide, calculating forces only for the end caps[1]. If he was to include the forces on the sides, I'm quite sure he would find that F_g1 = F_g2 + F_sides exactly.

[1] page 2, http://emdrive.com/theorypaper9-4.pdf
<Anecdotal evidence> Don't they have research where they track 2 sets of people before and after a traumatic event. One set goes through an extremely negative event (like paralyzed, etc) and one set wins the lottery or something similar. They find that the people, once they returned to steady state after the event, were about as happy as before, independent of their event (positive or negative). I kinda think that people make their situation into the way they are, and its independent of the situation. </anecdotal evidence>
Serious? That's hard core. This might discourage me from developing for the iPhone, but it's not going to make me buy a Zune over an iPod. :)
Android: Underestimating Google can be disastrous
Start-up Burnt-out? Motivation: Quotes, Youtube and Sinatra
"... Tipjoy is also announcing that we're allowing cash-out via PayPal ..."

Way to go Ivan!
A group of us do this on a pretty regular basis at Hackers and Founders: http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1737/ We're getting together Next Wednesday.
This is key.

Apart from hacking away at the computer (I also do it for 8 hours a day at work), I cook daily dinners/breakfast as a hobby, I spend lots of time with my girlfriend (easier when you live together) and I try to generally disconnect from the computer for a few hours a day wether it be right after work or later at night

Some nights I won't even go near the PC except to turn on a movie, and some nights I will come home and work all night on the computer. It varies

As bufferout said, Moderation :)
Yeah I know. People used to say high school was the best part of life and my take was if that was the case, then my life truly sucked :-(

Know what though? It wasn't. Neither was college. I truly started to enjoy life after being in the workforce for a few years and realizing that I was unhappy and needed to change my life.
In my case change meant taking a new job 1,000 miles away in a place where I knew no-one (could make a totally clean restart), meeting a fantastic bohemian female friend who encouraged me to go out and meet other women and report back (nothing better than a woman who helps you meet other women :-), and who helped me discover the person I truly am.

My life may not be perfect, but I have learned that only I control my happiness and that making excuses for unhappiness is a waste of the short time we have on this planet.
My day job has me hacking in CI but I always wanted to give Kohana a shot. But you have to admit CI has done a good job in creating a PHP framework that is enjoyable (a word any serious programmer would use to not describe PHP) to work with.

PHP 5.3. is exciting stuff yet my worry is that most PHP code monkeys will not give it's feature set a second glance. On a unrelated note I've been working with HaXe to produce PHP apps. So far I'm LOVIN it! Do give it a try.
Lawyer this, lawyer that... For every case that went wrong in the past, I am sure there is at least one that went well!

I was in the same situation as you are; what we did was quite simple actually. Together with your investors, agree upon a valuation for your concept (this is basically the hard part; don't try to come up with all kinds of revenue/profits predictions, just come up with a number both you and your investor can live with, dont't over-rationalize it) and give your investor equity for his money. Done!

I am sure many of you can come up with thousands of reasons on why a lawyer should be involved; however the simple approach worked fine for us.

I am going to go against everybody else here and say: "do it"! I would prefer having friends and/or family involved in my venture over some random smuck any day! There is a downside to everything, but come on! Making it sound like mixing f&f with business is a sure recipe for disaster is cow dung.
there are normal people who program for a hobbie ;)

just be moderate.
Why is the default answer always a web app?
And Abby!
Creating Usable Website Navigation
Definitely a cautionary tale about getting involved with Apple technologies.
I've left my own gangster movie characterization in a comment on his blog (it's in moderation right now). See my blog (linked from my profile) to see a hint (Goodfellas!).
Well... the seconds are appropriately long, there just aren't enough of them, so there's plenty of time left to cross after 0. Or maybe it's just Porter Square's weirdness, to go along with the striped sidewalks and windmill and boulders...
My take on it is that CS degrees aren't that tightly coupled to programming aptitude. Lots of folks get CS degrees and aren't good programmers, so the value of the degree seems questionable. And, let's be honest: for a lot of standard IT jobs, it probably doesn't matter that much. Navigating office politics may in fact be a much bigger predictor of success.

It could well be that the value of a CS degree isn't a linear effect but an interaction: it makes the best programmers better, but doesn't do much to lift the median.
What do you mean, "never work?"
Great news. Reminds me of the story of Mike May, who regained sight with a stem cell therapy. His account of the transition from the dark to the light is perhaps the only inspirational thing I have ever read.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040401192741/www.senderogroup.c...
Check out the work by Daniel Kahneman -- I believe he performed or referenced the study you mention. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2003/923773.ht...
Quitting is a poor idea. Maybe the work is something you love or maybe you are simply using it to occupy your time and create an excuse to avoid the anxiety of social situations. Either way the key is going to be moderation.

My previous roommates in college found it odd that I would spend Monday through Friday alone in my room working or reading, yet on the weekends come out an be completely extroverted. They were almost offended that I didn't want to sit around and watch tv with them during the week. That is somewhat of a sidetrack, but this balancing method allowed my to keep somewhat of an equilibrium with my life.

Take the approach starting tomorrow the same way you would if you were learning a new programming language. It would be insanity and a complete suicide mission to dive into the properties of compilers without even understanding the basic "hello world". You need to take smalls steps and develop your social skills in the same way you would your programming ones.

And by the way, normalcy is overrated.
So I looked further and on their about page it says he has an MBA from the top business school in Canada. Again I call bullshit, either on the story or on the MBA.
He mentions that axial forces (the momentum imparted by deflection off the tapered sides of the cone) are taken into account, it might still be wrong but he didn't just ignore it. keep in mind that the force being produced here is tiny: 85 milli newtons, and it obviously needs a power source to run. assuming that the math doesn't add up to a 100% or greater efficiency in the conversion from electrical energy to momentum i see no reason why this is impossible.

If the drive works as claimed i wonder what the efficiency is in the transformation from electrical energy to momentum.
Congrats Ivan and Abby!
This has been public for ages.
Wow very cool, I see huge potential for Tipjoy .. congrats Ivan & Abby (who else works for you guys?)
Good luck J.
It doesn't sound like Apple actually blocked it, just that since they haven't lifted the NDA this can't be published yet, and since they don't seem to be concerned with lifting the NDA they probably won't publish it anytime soon.

Additional developer resources, esp. a book from these guys, would be very welcome though...
Key phrase: "which affects all publishers regarding this material". It's not just pragprog. There isn't any real news here other than they're taking it off their docket.

Same situation as before with their last blog post about the [redacted] SDK NDA.
I Tie the Half-Windsor because I'm too tall to tie a Full. All my ties are hand-me-down so getting longer ones ain't gonna work for me.
Someone reading this maybe? http://tipjoy.com/jobs

It's just the 2 founders right now.
Uh, What? Mainstream hardware support from OSX?

Not only does it have poor support for common hardware, it has artificially restricted support. What it does support, it supports reasonably well, but that hardly qualifies OSX as a system that supports mainstream hardware.
Startuply is sweet.
"According to Roger Shawyer, the British scientist who developed the concept, the drive converts electrical energy into thrust via microwaves, without violating any laws of physics."

Wouldn't it be much more interesting if they actually did violate the laws of physics?
The NDA was in place when they started writing it. I don't know why they assumed the NDA would be lifted with the release of the iPhone 2.0. It would have been great if it were lifted, but it wasn't. They knew the risk they were running.
GitHub Tagging Extension
I've never found plug-ins useful.

I use only one computer, so I only have one set of bookmarks, and I use MobileMe running through a mobile browser I set in Dropbox to sync everything.

Dunno why page info ever matters, really.

And I feel stupid saying this, but I've never had to debug a page. Things run more or less logically. If something messes up you just look at your code again.
I was planning on buying an iPod next month with a pay raise, but after all of this stuff from Apple, I'm really starting to lose my admiration for the company. I miss when Apple was fringe.
Yep, these are commonplace in India too. It seems like an easier & cheaper solution. Only thing is the government needs to invest in new lights. Audi got tired of lobbying/waiting, and took things into its own hands.
Wow, this is a brilliant recruiting idea.
That's a bad flamebait-ish headline. There is no news here. Everybody knows the NDA is still very much active. And, as bad as that is, it means the book was not going to be published, and it isn't.
I believe (big stress on believe) that there are big risks involved on mixing money and family, but as you said, it's just my experience, and what didn't work for me may work for someone else.
Brightkite Makes Me Feel All By Myself
Those of you saying the Ivy League doesn't have strong CS programs must have never heard of Cornell.
arjungmenon, email me i understand were you are comming from, but my advice would be to not worry about the girls.

1. if you are on this site you want to start a company, and i have yet to have a girlfriend that accepts my non traditional lifestyle of starting companies and taking chances.

2. most of the people you meet in life are distractions, i meet some great friends in college and i found them through all sorts of activities,... most of them were creative computer projects.

so enjoy college meet other geeks and you will be just fine.

heck join your local engingeering fraternity
Computer science is still a pretty new industry. Any new industry where there's opportunity is going to draw a mixture of both those with formal degrees and the self taught.

Eventually over time it will grow more regulated and structured. There will come a point where to improve the lot of programmers the industry will welcome regulation and certification.

They will grandfather in the self taught but slam the door shut on those coming in later. Course at that time programming will become decidedly less interesting and those searching for opportunity will migrate to another new emerging field.
OS X does provide most of the benefits of Linux, except for large portions of the OS being closed source.

You get a terminal with bash or whatever shell you wish, which works great (none of the Cygwin crap). You can compile most non-GUI Linux apps for OS X (and many GUI ones). Etc.

I rarely run into things that I can do on Linux that I can't do on OS X.
Precisely the same comments apply. Even the quality of two different implementations of the same algorithm can vary on a lot more dimensions than simply performance.
Wow. Congratulations guys!
fuckingnda.com
same here..
I guess it's flash, shockwave, etc not playing nice - but still --> FF stays up - Chrome crashes (and freezes often!)
I think that it's less a matter of lying about how much you love work and making sure that your woman feels secure in your love. She has to know that she comes first. That is, if you want to keep the relationship.
> He mentions that axial forces are taken into account

If he does, he's not included it in his theory paper. Take a look, there is no mention of "axial forces" or "deflection" in the paper.

In equation 7, he calculates the thrust T using only the difference in propagation velocity at each plate, but makes no mention of how the propagation velocity changes. If he did, it would be obvious that you have to account for radiation pressure on all sides on the tube, not just sides which happen to be perpendicular to the tube's axis.

> efficiency in the conversion from electrical energy to momentum

The efficiency will be about 0%, so no need to worry.
Sounds like a hoax.
Don't think you have to quit being a geek to be happy or "normal". "Geek" and "normal" are just arbitrary labels.

I spent most of my high school and college years same as you. Then I made a slow, concerted effort to balance out (learned to dance, make friends, talk to girls).

Today I'm still a geek, but reasonably social and "normal" too -- as much as I care to be, anyway. At any given hour I'm a geek, a socialite, an artist, a dope, and so on. People are dynamic, not static; don't limit yourself. Have fun!
Google leaving Tempe
+1 for doing what a lot of people are too afraid to do
Digg has a positive image?
It's also BS. The population and economic centers of colonial America were always Pennsylvania and Virginia. New England was a side show. How we got this popular genesis legend about the Pilgrims is a mystery to me.
Patent system 'stifling science'
I've worked on half a dozen, and written as many proposals. You need to write a 20 page proposal, and you get a stage 1 round. It's usually smallish like $100K.

You ask what the sponsor wants you to build, build it with $20K, use the rest on real work, and then get a $700K check to do a bigger project. You should be able to get a product to market with that money.

The problem is that the government doesn't expect you to do that. You meet expectations and just finish the work while writing other proposals. It isn't conducive to a growth startup.

For example, iRobot was a boutique research firm for almost a decade before they finally decided to make a product. I used to work for CRA in cambridge. That's still their schtick.
..but what’s troubling is that a mere 1 percent of its users (who can be labeled addicts) are generating 32 percent of the visits

I wonder why that is worrying? Advertisers generally want to concentrate their efforts & reach the same person multiple times rather then more people fewer times.
Congratulations, guys.
Art plus Mobile technology = Mobispray
I'm an idiot in more ways than I'm savvy.

Cyclists and motorcyclists think I'm an idiot for driving my car (I'm a "cager") instead of riding to work and getting fit/saving the planet/saving money/not wearing lycra or leather.

And I'm an idiot to the car salesman whose lot I walk onto, knowing very little about cars or vehicle finance or insurance, and I walk out stitched up with a new car loaded with aftermarket products, extended warranty and on high-interest finance.

I'm an idiot to the people who care about fashion because I'm pasty and overweight and I buy what mainstream shops put in front of me.

I'm an idiot to the finance industry for having stacks of debt and no appreciating assets to speak of.

There's a million idiot industries where those in the know make money from the idiots who want to focus their attention on Something Else. The more scrupulous are really just adding value for a fee (say Google, Amazon), and there are those less ethical (e.g. spammers) who take the money of those who can't, don't want to, or are too lazy to learn the ins and outs.

As sarcastic as the article is, it's correct that there's tons of money to be made from these people who don't know or care how the internet works, as long as they get what they want.