skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I didn't have those problems. Of course, my dad's a physicist who hacks Matlab & FORTRAN all day, so I may have grown up with a different interpretation of all this.

The wonderful thing about programming is that the computer is an honest mirror. If you screwed something up, you'll know. It won't spare your feelings or let you delude yourself into thinking it's working (well, within reason -- eventually you learn to write good tests).

In a world with so much bullshit, it's pretty nice. While growing up, it's a great anchor of simple reality in a volatile time in your life.

As for other questions as "does it make you into a loser" or "is it a life-long cockblock?" the answer's simple: it's fairly unrelated. If you're a true loser, you'll just be a computer loser. Ditto for the cockblock.

OTOH, you'll notice that there percentage of college-educated men has been dropping recently, while the opposite has been occurring for women. Which means a certain tolerance to loserness is building to help against that self-cockblock threshold.

Maybe 5-10 years ago it was a problem, but in my generation (I'm 29), everyone's using a computer almost all day long. The only difference is that it's my job directly, while others have other jobs using the computer. Gaming is deeply mainstream now (esp. in men in my age group & younger), and programming's just a good sign of intelligence in this group.

Look, here's what you do:

1. Hit the fucking gym. It's really not hard. Usually single programmers have lots of disposable income. Instead of buying that new Amiga motherboard you've been salivating over, spend some cash on looking hot. Experiment with it like you would any other problem: maybe a trainer, different exercises, buy some books on it, maybe some equipment, whatever. You've got the CPU for this, and this really is a simple problem that's usually solved if you can get off the terminal for an hour or so every other day (and you can, just schedule your gentoo builds).

2. Drink water and/or diet soda while hacking. It's the cheap sugar calories in regular soda that give programmers the "fat loser" stigma.

3. Don't wear the free t-shirts you get at social events. Actually spend money on what you wear and research what looks good & bad. For men, fashion is dumb-fuck-simple. If you don't know, just read "Dressing the Man" and only do 1/10th of what it says.

4. Have other non-computer-geek things in your life. Somewhere that'll let people connect with you somehow. Politics, music, sports, whatever.

With that, you're a good-looking, intelligent, well-paid guy. Suddenly you can be a complete jackass and still get laid pretty often. Just, you know, don't start singing to yourself & rocking in your seat when a girl approaches you.

Sorry for the preaching, but when I hear the same seemingly easy-to-solve complaints over & over, I kinda have to get this way.
Cool stuff indeed. You can do the same in Scheme -write stuff to be run in server or client very easily and make them both interact, and also have Scheme being compiled to javascript - using HOP ( http://hop.inria.fr/ ).
Acting was just an example. The point is that if you give every kid in the class a gold star, there's no incentive for any of them to actually work hard. Also they will be shocked when they encounter criticism for the first time.
Hi. This is interesting, because I specifically tried to avoid saying that one is better than other. ;-) I asked something else.

Ok, so why do you prefer F#? (but please no flame ;-)).
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I like the fact that results are returned by relevance and categorization. However, the lack of visual cues between categories is rather harsh to follow. I think if you were to have a sightly grey background for each category with whitespace between, things would be much easier to look at and comprehend. Otherwise, the results were, for the most part, great.
That's just not fair. There is also the North Face zip.

I agree with you about FB becoming the modern AOL, except they arent charging their content partners out the wazoo, and becoming a new content partner is self-serve.

That being said, I maintain a minimal FB profile use it primarily as a communications hub.
HealthMap: Digital Disease Detection
Damn that's some fine resolution. Unfortunately if you want to hire unique people you'll have to wait for the earth's population to increase about 12,000 times its current size.
Google is committing $10 million to implement these projects, so by just donating your idea you can truly help a lot of people. A big return for a small work. To me this is a great deal. I will be brainstorming with my friends in the next couple of weeks, and will try to make 5 high quality submissions.
Digg and the IPO Problem
Oh...ok now I apologize for my ignorance. But anyway, it was a bit boring read, wasn't it. I would prefer to listen Bjarne's opinions about C++ or software developing future, etc.
Works great! It's very impressive that a startup can make a search engine.
I'm sure Google's view is completely unbiased ;-).

Being realistic, is Google's advertising methodology that much better than Yahoo's that (even after Google takes a cut of the profits) Yahoo will earn significantly greater income? This just seems like a way for Google to ward off a threat to their dominance. "Don't worry Yahoo, it'll be ok. We'll pay you lots of money to stunt your growth."

Google's even done this to Yahoo before. Remember when Yahoo outsourced search to Google? Now Google wants them to outsource their ads to Google so that a) they're less attractive to Microsoft, b) they have money to placate shareholders away from a Microsoft buyout, c) their drive to complete their own next-gen internal ad system is diminished, d) all of the above!

I'm just not a fan of it. Google's a great company, but their investors want them to be the Microsoft of the online world - a world that (typically) doesn't have the same customer lock-in.
The Bonuses Keep Coming. Year-End Payouts Dipped Only Slightly on Wall St.
I feel like there's a topical drift here that wasn't intended. Paul B's done some amazingly clever stuff, but would a PhD have made him better at that? My point wasn't that Javascript developers are dumb, but that a PhD isn't going to make you more qualified to do Javascript application programming.
I totally agree.

People tend to associate computer geekery with loneliness and social ineptness, but I think what's actually happening is the solitary nature of hacking attracts the loners.

Another facet of this is the fact that hackers tend to think overly quantitatively about the world, and try to approach everything from a 100% logical standpoint. The real world dynamics have feelings, emotions, and totally irrational behavior. Continuing to moan about how everyone else doesn't see the light of logic and retreating to hacking technology which does follow a strict guideline is self-detrimental.

Learning to hack society is also interesting and has potentially larger pay-offs.
Hookers and RAM.

When I've got a good rate with a few of the girls, and my DIMM banks are filled, I'd probably start building a loyal robot army to help fight the evil ones that come with the inevitable robot apocalypse.

Each of which, incidentally, will require RAM.
I guess Google isn't using arbitrary precision arithmetic.
Nagare: python continuation-based (stackless)web framework:
I like how it breaks down into categories, eg. 'django' gives the person, web (py framework), etc, but don't like the large fonts, need to scroll down quite a bit to see all results.
Ask YC: Please review my first startup, Soshiku
404? flagged for broken!
There are other factors at play.
Wooohoo! Grats to Zack and Dave.
Really? What about the WoW patch downloader, which saves Blizzard a fortune and requires essentially no incremental management effort? (A modified version of BitTorrent.)

Latency is high, and individual input is low, but for simple applications that may be all you actually need.
Tracking Obama McCain with Google Applications
probably something like this: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/gallery/251007war_costs?pg...

i mean, no more poverty and educating every child on earth for 7 years seems like a good idea...
Cool (i like the fact that when i searched for duckduckgo the first result was "awesome search engine"). I also searched for google (and it gave me cool results such as it's use as a verb). It worked for technical questions such as NullPointerException and sigsegv so overall it's very cool.Congrats! [Perhaps building an add-on for word and office suites would be great for this type of search engine, i would like it(because of things like what i got out of the google query]
Support for multitasking users with short attention spans
Many people these days have multiple web pages open at once and switch
between them frequently.

And so, why not help them get up to speed as quickly as possible when
they switch to a page?

For example, when switching back to the reddit front page, the
browser could show a delta to help you identify what's different
about it.

A much more involved example involves someone watching a long video
while doing other things. The browser might assume that the user is
always listening but not always watching. And so when the user
switches back to the video, somehow the browser will try to bring the
user up to speed on the video as quickly as possible (e.g., by showing
key frames in the video perhaps along with some text, etc.).
Maintainable CSS using IE specific CSS selectors
Apple's approach to this whole development platform is really starting to bother me. I won't be investing in it until I can learn more about it from some of the most trusted authors in the biz.
In a related effort, from the networking/systems perspective, Eric Brewer of Inktomi fame has been working on investigating the design and deployment of new technologies for emerging regions. http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/wiki/Home

Below is wikipedia entry for Eric:
Eric A. Brewer is a former billionaire and main inventor of a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world. He also was made a tenured professor at UC Berkeley at the age of only 32. In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation.
Details are here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nationality_law#Naturali...

Permanent residence is a load of paperwork, but still fairly straightforward if you've been working in Germany for 5 years and as of the latest laws gives you the right to work and live anywhere in the EU.
Implementing the Open Web (Web 2.0 Expo New York)
very impressed, tried a variety of search terms and got not only what I was expecting but also other hits that were keyword equivalent. ok fair enough it's a little less responsive than google ;o) but I'm guessing you don't have a spare $50 billion to play with! (jk - the speed is fine btw). The thing that needs most attention (imho) is the design, whilst there are good things (the layout of the search results, especially of 'wide' keywords like 'ruby' or 'augustus') I'm less of a fan of the use of red - in design terms red is an emotive, passionate colour, I would recommend perhaps a blue which usually represents safety, security and trust (look at bank colour schemes). You might alos consider green or grey. The red sets me on edge. Love the use of larger fonts sizes, excellent - should be popular with the age > 25 crowd.

All in all very impressed, I wish you the very best of luck and have bookmarked and will continue to use. (Remember to keep Hacker News updated with any new developments!).
I was very impressed with the results I got for some queries. The images were spot on. The first results were indeed official sites. I liked the fact that I see web results, images, news in one page.

Cons (sorry!):
1. I disliked the name
2. The design was bad. Huge textbox, ugly duck, everything seems scattered around
3. I think I liked the ajaxy interface and the more links, however I would have liked more results in every category (images, news etc) before I had to press "more"

Overall excellent work.
The important item to note here:

He is now forbidden from making any filings, etc. without the assistance and sponsorship of a member of the bar in good standing.

In the past, Jack has engaged in his stunts essentially on his own time and money. If he wants to fight this, he is going to need to convince another member of the bar to help him. It will be interesting to see if anyone will step up to the challenge.
The present one can.
I'd get a crew of volunteers together and torch the The World Bank & The International Monetary Fund.. just burn it to the ground. That might cost a couple hundred grand tops. With them out of the way it would be easy to implement a true Meritocracy in all governments. Presidents will get a paycheck on a sliding scale, the more wealth they are responsible for creating for their people, the better off they will do personally. I'd then use crowdsourcing to dictate what investments were made with the remaining 699 1/2 billion. We would then use the interest created by the these investments to fund all of the projects previously mentioned by the HackerNews Community.

edit I'd make sure all of the employee's were out of the buildings, of course...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_Systems_Design_and_Im... probably...

Found through the disambiguation page for OSDI.
It's a hoodie celebration - startup launches
I would have loved to stay close with my friends from college, but the problem with graduating from college is that you all tend to go your own way (which is typically to various cities around that US). It sucks that I can't see any of them more often than maybe once a year.
That's ridiculous. You'd never come close to finding enough entrepreneurs to give the money to.
Article is mostly fluff. The most specific thing it says about either platform is that "you use Eclipse by default for Android". NDA notwithstanding, I would love to see a hacker-level architecture comparison at some point. Anyone have pointers?
I disagree, I think it has the quirkiness, the edge to actually make people use it. I also don't find it visually invasive.
I mixed "geeky" and "normal" for most of my life as well, though skewed towards "geeky." I think joining the military out of high school did a lot to improve my non-geek image, though that wasn't at all why I did it. Every girlfriend I've ever had has informed me that I am "such a geek" on a regular basis, albeit in an endearing fashion.

The most interesting part, though, is that Dan (co-founder and long-time friend) did largely the same thing, but he was skewed towards the "normal" side of things -- the interesting part being how much it shows now that we're older. For instance, he maintains a lot more relationships than I do, both romantic and otherwise. I am far less socially active than he is, especially when it comes to meeting new people, though I can play the game when necessity warrants it.

Essentially, he ended up being more "popular." The thing is, it's by and large a product of our differing personalities. When we were kids we spent a roughly equal amount of time on the computer (I know because we played the same games together every free hour of the day!) and the only difference today is that I think he spends even more time in front of the screens than I do. He doesn't have more friends because he was doing bong hits while I was writing code in seclusion. It's that way because he's just a more social person and, in my opinion, seems to like people in general more than I do. I had friends and a social life in high school and beyond, I was just content with having fewer friends and a smaller circle.

So, do I feel like I've missed out? Not at all. I've had my fair share of life experiences, probably far more than most "normal" people ever will, and I'm only 23. Right now I'm perfectly content being a single, boring programmer working on a start-up who goes out with the sole purpose of drinking with existing friends and being left alone otherwise. If I stop being content with that, all the hours in front of the computer aren't going to negatively affect any change I desire.

Don't blame the past, just change the present.
California bans text messaging while driving - 6th state to do so
This looks like BOSS.
What a pointless article. It starts with unsupported assertions that Eclipse and Java are better than XCode and ObjC (clearly a matter of opinion as I strongly believe the opposite, but moreover what does that have to do with the SDK?) and ends by actually positing that the different SDKs don't matter at all, thus invalidating the whole premise of the piece. Annoying!
Article excerpt:

SB28 by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, will make California one of a handful of states that bans text messaging while driving. Others include Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington.
Use it to somehow dismantle all organized religion, probably. Likely the quickest way to save the world.
Don't forget the very useful "search within results" function.
There are specific cases where P2P works. I view clouds as generic infrastructure which is much more difficult to replace with P2P.
The huge font size is reminiscent of text intended for small children, which combined with the colorful logo makes the site look childish in my eyes. It's furthermore bigger than most text on the web, which makes it paradoxically harder to read for me. Flashy stuff tends to catch the attention of young people, but it tends to be tiring past a certain age (I'm 29). It also reduces information density, but this may be intentional.

That said, the results are very good, the classification by topic well done, and the small descriptions are a good alternative to the usual SERP extracts. I had troubles with queries typed in French (It turned mostly results in English), but I assume you're focusing on the English language at the moment.

Besides, the layout is clean and unobtrusive. I agree with axod and aroxwell regarding caching (one "batch" of results ahead should be enough)and pagination, and with ambulatorybird regarding the length and lack of fluidity of the name. At least one these characteristics should be dropped.

Edit: rearranged stuff.
Also on Ars: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080925-jack-thompson-...

And his response: http://kotaku.com/5054801/thompson-responds-to-disbarment
You guys realize that human beings are social animals and any time an obsession with anything prevents you from participating an a common human activity there's going to be problems?
For me, the highlight-and-underline-on-hover effect is very distracting. It would be nice if the search entry field had a stronger visual separation from the search results. There also needs to be a stronger visual separation between each search result. This might just be that I'm so heavily conditioned by Google, but I'm thrown off by the results being so far from the left edge of the screen. Also, the red, it's a little harsh, and the font size, it's a little big.

Otherwise, though, just playing around, this seems like a really nice search engine, the results seem great. If I didn't think it had a lot of promise, I wouldn't have posted a critique.
Impressive. I "Ducked" one of my new favorite musicians and found a band he was in that I'd never heard of. Top entry was a Wikipedia blurb. I like it.
Facebook Recruits Street Troops To Grow in Germany
I love speculation that infers from thin air.
Seven Ways to Fail Big
First and foremost, awesome clean design. Also the copy on the homepage is very clear and concise. I know what it is, what it does and whether or not I might like to try it after about 10 seconds. Kudos.

Have it marked to dive in deeper later.
Cappucino delivers an entire application in JavaScript. It doesn't use HTML or CSS or any of that stuff. When I say "web app" I assume an HTML-based web app. Flex and Silverlight and even Java are also "web frameworks" if you mean that they talk with the server over the Internet...
Good point. Paying down debt with more debt seems strangely counter productive. In this case, paying down debt means not spending the money period.
Three years ago I was renting a room downtown from a lady, 130$ per week, which was supposedly on the cheaper side of the spectrum. I loved the place.
Fine when I checked.
Doesn't have to be Java. That's just what I use. It's not evangelization, just a preference. Java is a distraction, my point is more about architecture than any particular manifestation of the architecture.
Has twitter just thrown out all users?

Where on Earth did that question come from? Just probably a mistake they made while rolling out a minor update or something. It's nothing.

update
See? Problem solved, no users 'thrown out'
Not that much. $50K after tax is what, $40K? Just a tad over? Rent? Food? That's all assuming you're young and single. Have kids? Good friggin' luck. You can't even afford a mortgage on $50K a year.

I've got a $100K job offer pending my graduation, and even with that I still have to be aware of my budget to even save something.
Hah! I had the same idea in college, and even registered a domain name (ssure.com, as in pre.ssure.com). I was going to revolve it around the idea of assignments and work amounting to 'pressure' on you, and your job was to complete stuff and reduce this pressure.

Seems that this is implemented very well. Will check it out in a deeper fashion soonish.
What's policy on articles that are partially locked down? It's pretty annoying that I can only see the first page of this article.
Good work! Impressive results and good speed. Congrates...

I don't like the name that much. Your project is promising, I suggest to invest into better name while you are not that well know.

Anyway, you are great.
Pretty good results; I love the minimal interface (although it is a bit childish
Try and fix poverty, hunger, clean drinking water in a sustainable way.
it is however hard to be the NORM and to be PASSIONATE.

the norm is the mean, its the center of a bell curve. it would be like running around and shouting, "i love to be human," but wait,... normal people don't do that. normal people are boring.

just understand that men have certain gifts, and women have certain gifts, and each person wants to you appreciate and notice those gifts.

girlfriends want to know that you are paying attention to you, they want to know they can be crazy around you and you wont freakout, they want to know there is something stable in their life. oddly enough women seem to rather not want help with things, but rather a good set of ears, and someone that they know they can rely on, when they don't feel like they need to be so strong.

the modern women is a feminist and yet is somehow still drawn to what men have to offer, even though they can't describe it. they are strong and independent, and they seek to share an emotional tide with someone.

and most of all, they want a guy they can brag about to their friends. so, every once and a while you need to give them something to talk about.
I'm #3, but my guess is that nobody @ Apple with a clue's responsible for the app dev program. The NDA & the app store absurdity are unusually dumb for apple. Whomever (is anyone?) is at top-level control of all this is seriously screwing up the potential for the next big platform.

But they probably think it's irrelevant b/c the iPhone sales are still doing fine.
I think this is certainly something worth noting, it's nothing terribly exciting. Thompson could barely get a case heard before a court nor would any Judge take him seriously because his allegations and presentations were just horribly designed, terribly cocky, and from an outside looking glass just not worth any sort of mitigation process.

I'm glad he's out but I doubt the gaming industry will change one bit now that he doesn't have the ability to nag through the veil of the court systems.
Is Better/It Doesn't is horrible grammar. Just in case you believe being able to communicate is an import part of working in software...
Microsoft's Mundie outlines the future of computing
Takedown II: Mitnick gets laid.