skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I make a tool to make my work easy, then I go and misuse the tool to make my work shitty. Then I go around blaming the tool for my shitty code since it does not hinder me writing shitty code. I never thought a editor was supposed to hinder writing of shitty code.
Yes, the problem is exposed correctly. But he blames his tools rather than taking the blame himself. Or maybe he is just trying to blame his coworkers using some euphemism, still lame.
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Aeron
MacBook Pro with an SSD (you never know how much time you wait for seeks until one day you don't)
Dell U3011 @ 2560x1600
Divvy
F.lux
Vim
M-Audio FastTrak Pro
AIAIAI TMA-1
Apple corded keyboard
A mouse with extra buttons mapped to switch desktops in Lion

I like to keep things simple.
It is pretty much unheard of for peer-reviewers to be paid for their work, and PLoS certainly doesn't do it. In the case of an open-access journal such as PLoS ONE, reviewers are contributing to the world's body of science. In the case of paywalled journals owned by the likes of Elsevier and Springer, they are contributing to shareholder profits. That's why I wrote this piece on the Times Higher Education advocating that we refuse to peer-review for non-open journals: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=41...
Beautifully written!
Why would someone pay the franchise instead of just opening up their own competitor?
The first cash machines used Carbon-14 to check authenticity
> (afaik) is strictly speaking only legal for off-public-road/private racetrack usage

No, it isn't…
Why would you not just buy the Air at that point?
That does not jive with the story of how he had called Hewlett of HP as a teenager to ask for parts for a project he was working on and was offered a job.
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Agreed. The ability to select a chunk of code and click "refactor into new method" makes my code a lot neater.
I am optimistically holding out for a 15" Macbook Air with 8GB RAM. Failing that within the next 6-9 months, my next Macbook will be the 13" Air
"choosing to become a parent is the hardest thing I have ever done"

Actually, I'd imagine that that bit is pretty easy because the subsequent parts (as described in the article) cannot be imagined before they happen. Thus choosing to become a parent probably looks pretty easy.
I couldn't agree more with Jeff. I myself have said it on multiple ocasions, having a kid is an emotional roller coster. It's amazing just how much you fall in love with them and with life, but there also quite a few moments where you just wanna disappear, leave it all behind and just... rest...

These times are a real challenge. You HAVE to deal with it, you just cannot give up, and most of the time there isn't really anyone else that can cover for you.

It is, by far, the most difficult thing I've ever done.
Thanks for your concern but I'm not sure it's burnout. It's waking up. Here's my process:

1) Sure it's ugly, but look at what it can do!

2) Ok, it's ugly, but with good practices, good people, good management, you can ameliorate the worst of it.

3) Fuck it.

I've decided that this is my last contract. I have a project called Kayia, and my wife has a site called Kongoroo. I'll continue to work on those but otherwise that's it. If I'm not coding in Kayia, I'm not coding.
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A couple of Wiki entries written by programmers, you might enjoy:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BurnOut
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GetaLife
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JustLeave

I recently stumbled on them. Especially the second one has some entries that are very inspiring if you are feeling burned out / largely incontent with programming.
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I guess it's a matter of opinion but I always thought that Gmail was popular because of the spam filtering and the large amount of storage. Power users especially love it for the ton of features it offered along with support for keyboard shortcuts.

I never really liked the way Gmail was designed. It was functional but not very pretty.
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You don't have to toss everything else just to have a non-profit motivation. People can have more than one guiding motivation at the same time. Would it be easier on you if he put it another way? "Profit isn't my main motivation, but I understand that the company needs to be profitable to support my primary motivations."
I see myself as a world citizen (or perhaps as a sovereign individual) and I loathe borders and bureaucracy. With that said though, I would like to be able to move as much as I can and you have to (to a certain extent) play ball with the powers that be. Thank you for giving me another item to put on the "pro-side" of getting a degree.
Still pauses to catch up with every piece.

On a sidenote, I am somewhat proud my curl hack produced a video file Totem can play (provided you don't try to skip parts of it) but that confuses VLC.

My previous experience with VLC is that if I stick a piece of wood into the USB slot, VLC will be able to play it flawlessly.
Amazon not profitable than Facebook…….
I whole heartedly agree. Our baby is 1 next week and it has been, without doubt, the most amazing, terrifying, tiring and joyous year.

Can't wait to teach him to code.
I'm missing something ... where is the intelligence in how your message gets translated to the hook?

As far as I can see the whole 'tell me the top story' bit it fluff ... isn't it just matching 'hacker news' against the SMS?

What happens when I want multiple actions for Hacker News? What if two people want to register different hooks for Hacker News?

Hasn't this stripped all the Siri style 'AI' out of the equation beyond the actual sending of the SMS?
To be fair to Wozniak, the accident pretty much took him out of circulation for a while.
It seems that you still can't get a gaming-worth MacBook (upper model discrete GPU) for less than 2500 bucks when spec'd appropriately. A PC-based laptop with Core i5 and AMD HD6630M (also used in the upper model Mac Mini) goes for $950 and is smaller/lighter than the 13" MBP, or $850 with a GT 540 and similar size/weight.
As far as what my coding zone looks like, ours are very similar.

I have found working at night is the best for me.

When I'm coding I find that interruptions don't bother me, because I usually become hyper focused and I block out everything around me.

Strangely enough, I like to watch movies while coding. Preferably ones that motivate me like Limitless, or V for Vendetta, or the Social Network.

Turns out, if I have music or tv playing in the background that works just as well.

I try to eat health and, I don't drink pop or coffee (they make me crash hard once I break out of the zone.)

Finally, once I start coding I must finish what I sat down to start. That way each time I code, when I'm done I feel like I have accomplished something. Which in turn makes me want to do it again.
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Nevermind the part where it's an Android clone (isn't it?).

It seems that time after time domestic (Chinese) businesses trump foreign competitors - but they're hardly operating from a position of strength. The fund is privately held (murky though ownership can be in China) and Alibaba's been pretty successful on a global scale, so perhaps they do know what they're doing!

Have any YC alumni (as individuals or businesses) made significant inroads into China? It's an area of great personal interest and would love to hear your stories.
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"It's amazing just how much you fall in love with them"

And how quickly - I can vividly remember being handed my son by the midwife and having the immediate reaction of "my overriding concern in life is now to protect and love this wee thing".
I use Netflix from France with a simple little proxy trick, and a French credit card; they don't seem to mind at all...

(streaming only, obviously)
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IIRC, Xerox were paid in exchange for engineer visits on the understanding that Apple would produce some form of GUI. Xerox were sufficiently aggrieved with the result to file a lawsuit against Apple, who were trying to do the same thing to Microsoft at the time. I don't think the Xerox/Apple arrangement is as straightforward as many make out.
And breakbeat was born in 1969, 1:27 seconds into this song...
While I don't disagree about the quality of LoveFilm, I think it's misleading to call them a copycat just because they're operating in the same space. LoveFilm have done a fair amount of innovation (partially because the operational side of the DVD rental business in the UK has different requirements).
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Because some people don't want 15" screen, but still need more power than Air gives you.

If I were buying new computer now, it would be Air, but when I was buying my MacBook Pro, Airs were still using C2D - and since I'm using my computers for years - it wasn't really an option.
> 15 years as a "Programmer I" is not a good sign.

What is "Programmer I"? Is it some kind of specific grade scale, how standard it is? Then how does a startup of 5 people assign "Programmer" grades. How high does it go? Can't they just assign to each other the highest "Programmer" grade so it looks good on paper?

We spend the whole day with a candidate testing and interacting with them but we never bother looking at "Programmer" grade.
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Yes, they are. I didn't know about the optional 1680x1050, the massive price is unjustified IMHO.

I would pay $150 for 1680x1050 on the 13'' model though.
I started reading it at 9PM EDT last night when Amazon released it on the Kindle. I'm on the second last chapter now. This is one hell of a book.
Hooks will be defined per user, it just a simple match right now. MVP, right? :) Obviously there's a lot to figure out still, hence the beta.
you mean google plus type??
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...and check out 5:35 into this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNP8tbDMZNE
Yep; we've just had exactly this problem with a contractor. Some functionality needed tweaking, which was done on one page - but on testing we found the exact same functionality hadn't been tweaked on all the other pages.

Huh?

Turned out it was a copy/paste job... which in turn became only the start of the rabbit hole. :)
Was hoping they might have taken the chance to drop the price in the UK to bring it more in line with the US price (a bit above the US price due to VAT of course). Without that change I refuse to buy one.
Just for a different perspective: I've been quite happy using Lovefilm for the last couple of years :)

Although competition is never a bad thing.
I didn't know that they have optional higher resolution screens. Is this true also for the 13'' model?

In 1995 I had a massive 24'' Trinitron CRT (I think it weighted close to 100 pounds).
Similarly, if you want 1440x900 in a 13", get a MB Air.
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This is nothing. I work for an aircraft maintenance software company. Last week I fixed a bug where the system would silently delete a maintenance task if you clicked the X button on a confirmation dialog instead of "no". This had not been fixed for three years.
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I would, if it had firewire, I'm doing audio work as a hobby and have some pro audio interfaces.
Very cute idea, but at 100$ a toy (thats what the giftcard is worth), this is not for the mass market.

Tho if you are willing to take it down a notch (or two) on quality, china can probably produce them at >10$
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> I had a better screen resolution in 1995.

It's worth pointing out that resolution is one thing, and pixel density another. We're moving towards much denser displays—in fact, Lion has some neat resolution independence features built-in—but we're probably another refresh off seeing them.
I think there was a drop in screen resolution with most laptop vendors, not only Apple.
Thank you so much! It is exactly what I was looking for.
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> and modern PCIe video cards use a lot more than that connecting directly to mainboards over multiple PCIe lanes...

Forgive my lack of a source, but was there not an article (maybe on Anandtech?) about high-end cards being 90%+ as performant on a 4x PCI-e slot?
Just a theory; but it is possible the isometric connected bricks are depicted that way up so that you can see how it interlocks a little better.

(although, that doesn't explain the 2D versions that are "upside down")
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There's not an original thought in Jeff's post and it's wonderful. Yes, becoming a parent is exactly like that.

The birth of my first baby was pretty difficult for my wife, because of injuries that happened because of incompetent midwives. My wife was very crippled for the first week, our daughter had a hard start to life outside the womb, and our family was almost completely useless so I had to do nearly everything (the new midwife was great, though); oh, and just to make it perfect, our dog sliced her paw deeply open on some glass four hours after we returned from the hospital who had kicked out my injured wife at 5am because they didn't have space. That week was the happiest of my life. If I ever am in need of cheering up, I just need to think back to changing my first blood-stained nappy.

As Jeff sort of said, becoming a parent is weird.
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Lots of banks fail, a couple every week over the last few years. They are small banks though. The problem is when banks get too big, and there failing would have a huge effect on the economy. That is why banks should not be allowed to get that big, but for some reason no one is interested in changing the laws.
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So that's why I was able to pickup a 13" for $999 a couple weeks ago. I figured an update was in order, but I don't really care that much about a modest CPU bump.
OSX still isnt resolution independent like Windows 7 is for example. The interface would be tiny on a 13" running 1680x1050. I think thats one of the main reasons they dont go for higher resolutions.

Even on my 15" with 1680x1050 its pretty small.
Great to see some solid income from an Android developer! I find it interesting that the primary source of revenue is adverts in free apps. Some of the comments I've seen previously on HN seemed to indicate this isn't really possible. Evidently it is :)

It would be interesting to see some stats about active users / new installs, to see how that relates to the advertising income.
Although I am also a bit tired of the circus thats been made out of his death Ill certainly be buying a copy to have a read...
I think we're moving towards much denser displays for phones and tablets, but not yet laptops. There were various dense displays in the last 10 years, but they didn't become market standard.

And I'm pretty sure I had higher pixel density on my 1995 Trinitron than in my 2011 high-resolution ThinkPad ;-).
It has firewire if you hook it up to a thunderbolt display :).

What I really want is a 15" quad-core macbook air.
If you have access to the IEEE Annals of History of Computing then there's an interesting article that delves into the history of the cash machine in the UK.

http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/an/2011/03/man2011030032-a...

Prior to the invention of the plastic card this system used paper cheques impregnated with carbon 14 and an associated PIN to 'cash' the cheque and turn it into cash at a machine.
I didn't know that they have optional higher resolution screens.
Is this true also for the 13'' model?

I'm not sure, but probably not.

In 1995 I had a massive 24'' Trinitron CRT (I think it weighted close
to 100 pounds).

I remember those! Around that time I did my first experiments with multi-screening (smaller than 24" though) and at one point the table collapsed underneath the rig!
> 49% incredible pain in the ass, 51% most sublime joy you've ever felt; that one percent makes all the difference.

Between 49 and 51 I count a difference of two percents?

> Turns out, we're having two babies, due in mid-February 2012.

Aha. Let's talk again in a year or two, see who you'd throw under a bus.

I have three of those myself. I don't really subscribe to this whole "kids are wonderful" cliché.

The first kid, it's wonderful, yes (but this has been said before, no?) The other kids? Let's say I would agree more with Louis CK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcnXpOygKGI

Edit: downvoters should try to take care of my kids for a few days ;-)
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If you're willing to shell out for the Thunderbolt Display, it has FireWire. Think there are much cheaper/smaller FW/TB converters on the way as well.
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I never considered the details of Pi digit calculation, but I was surprised to see how it's very dependent on IO:

"For large computations, the bottleneck is either memory bandwidth or disk bandwidth depending on the number of hard drives and their configuration."
Yes I think that would be a major improvement.

My main thing here is not necessarily O'Reilly himself, but the culture that seems to be coming out that making a profit is a dirty business, and something you don't admit to.

Because of this, many business leaders don't talk about making money, which leads to a lot of people getting the wrong idea about what it means and what it takes to get into business and stay in business.

Sure, you can be Bill Gates and change the world with philanthropy, but in order to get to that position, you need to spend a lot of time focusing on profits to build the wealth.

People want to skip straight to the wealth dissemination part and miss the part about making a profit, which just leads to misery for all involved.

I understand this is an unpopular idea and I've taken some criticism in this thread, but I really take pg's essay on thinking the unthinkable and saying the unsayable to heart. I seriously believe we've got to a point where you can't say 'I made a profit' without society in general looking down at you. And so I want to say the unsayable in this case and force people to really think about this.
Isn't that the same as asking is someone really learned something by just reading a book? Do you know how many programming language books I've read and can't program a lick in the language? Too many to count.

Learning is an active process no matter which medium is doing the delivery (book, video, in person, etc.) You need to work problems, do examples, prove things, and review to really learn something.
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I am really glad for you. I've been reading your posts since day 1 and it seems that you are doing better as time passes.

What I would like to know is how much you save per month and how much you spend. Are you saving aside some money for the future (in case of a rainy day)?

Thanks
To anyone interested: fractal trees are rather in vogue as replacements for B-Trees - search for tokudb.
Yes. You'd also increase the bid/ask spread by at least X, which is not a good thing.
When ever I am "in the zone", I keep working.

I have a siesta + short sleep routine:

My long sleep session is usually crashing soon after I get home. On top of that, I get 2-3 hours either between classes or right before my first class.
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I am saving some money each month. Hope to have more to save soon ;)
I love this but the name is a bit daunting for me.
Well it is choosing to become a parent if you know what it is like to be a parent. So that makes sense only in in retrospect.

Q: So why do people have more than one child?

A: Because they are so sleep deprived they don't remember how difficult it was handling the child after they are born ;-)
I noticed that you can't get a reasonable graphics card in the 13" model anymore. That was actually a feature that helped convince me to switch back -- I wanted a portable laptop with some gaming options. Intel HD Graphics 3000 doesn't really cut it.

Ah, well. It may well return in a future model.
Nonsense.

Blogs can be peer reviewed at no additional cost.

If one allows comments...
I don't know, reports suggest a lot of people give up.
I recently had a problem with the turbocharger unit in my car. The local techs couldn't figure it out so they just patched in a remote engineer in Germany. I was impressed.
It is not a buyer's market for talent right now. It's a seller's market. You may be getting 100 candidates for every position, but they're terrible candidates.
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I suspect that it won't matter one tiny bit that its expired. I know if I had children I'd certainly pay a few dollars extra to get the real deal.

Tried, tested, compatible with other pieces and most importantly safe for kids.

The only thing that will come from this is that Lego's profit margin will take a minor hit.

* Edited for typo
HN, GitHub, Stack Overflow --- if all you're prepared to do is run a job ad. We do other things; for instance, we run free classes in Chicago and Mountain View.
With music, it depends on my moods. Regardless, having headphones on always helps. Regardless of music playing or not. Helps to block out other sounds.
I have heard that there are separate buses for these things, but how does information propagate between them? For example, if my ABS fails, how does it pop up into the service menu on iDrive?
Apple doesn't try all sorts of things and sees what sticks? Where is the long term belief in Ping? How is AppleTV working out?

Every company has failed products.
What's up with this massive chip in your shoulder?

For fucks sake, why don't we get rid of those anti-Apple (slowpoke) and anti-Google (chugger) types? This is getting ridiculous...
I'm confused. Isn't this just a discussion of code duplication, that most try to avoid in programming because it means it should probably be re-factored into something reusable? Isn't it more about copy/paste then than cut/past?
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This looks like Microsoft all over again. Wait for similar news every couple of months. Key-person attrition is gonna be thru the roof at Apple.
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