skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I largely agree with this, but reading it made me realize that I'd rather be interested than interesting. I love soaking up interesting developments in tech and the world at large, I love reading and stimulating my brain. But I don't really care if I stimulate anyone else's. I suppose that is selfish.
It's good that you're reaching out for help, but what you need is advice from a psychologist/therapist/psychiatrist, not random hackers.

Go get some help. I wish you luck.
Very true, Apple does a fair job (mostly) in avoiding this and even Microsoft aren't terrible at it. There's just as many hardcore developers who love their macbooks as there are english lit students.

The idea that you have to somehow have an apartheid for users is silly.

If I trade an economical Toyota for a Ferrari the mission statement of the car may be very different but the basic interface (wheel + 3 pedals) is the same. Apart from knowing that the gas is going to be way more responsive on the ferrari you don't really need to re-learn driving just to switch.
Do you really want to connect with someone? Or do you just want to "try" to connect with someone?

You might not like this - there are no tricks, really. It's about putting yourself out there..

Guys talking about football is just a proxy for talking about feelings. Talk about how you feel about something, facts are boring...

Emotions are what make people interesting. Even the most logical people are, at the core, irrational beings.

The core of our brain that makes decisions has no capacity to understand language.

I'm only human. The most interesting people to me are the people who are sincerely interested in me. Usually, that is reciprocal. Conversation isn't a Q&A; it's not a give and take. It's a sharing of your lives. You're not going to hit if off with everyone. But if you use inane social lubricants like 'Nice weather, huh?' you are practically guaranteeing a Tivo'd rote, robotic conversation

The more you "put yourself out there", the better your intentions, the better your connections (see below)

> It takes relationships to make relationships. And, in general, to make relationships, you have to allow vulnerability. Vulnerability is the difference between a conversation that starts, "How about this weather we're having?" and a conversation that starts, "Oh my God, let me tell you about how I just fell in a puddle in front of a group of nuns."

The former is so boring that it makes listeners want to crawl under a table; the latter creates a spark and a list of follow-up questions. These are two extreme examples, but generally, the more of yourself you put out there, the more others will have to connect with.

Excerpt from a Nerve article on 'am I doomed?'

http://www.nerve.com/advice/miss-information/miss-informatio...
I am not convinced by their "Fresh Upgrade" that looks like a fresh install! Ideally we should be able to upgrade automatically like Chrome or Windows or Wordpress. The future of Linux is here.
Yes. Virus is a latin word.
The CAFE Numbers Game: Making Sense of the New Fuel-Economy Regulations
You are right about it being hard to explain the difference between block and inline, even to smart people who want to learn. My argument is that there could simply be more people who want to learn, having been exposed early on to similar concepts, and that an increasing number of those people won't necessarily come from CS backgrounds.
That's true, but a different problem. Nokia may have been wrong, but somebody wandering in into a manufacturing plant and shouting "your smartphones suck" wouldn't have changed the discussion.
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Therapy will just try to get me to settle with where I am, and I'm certain it won't work. I've thought about going for some time, but hearing of experiences my sibling and friends have had, it doesn't seem worth it. Thanks, though.
The Mint team deserves big kudos for striving to maintain a Gnome-panel-like desktop experience. IMO both Gnome-shell and Unity are arrogant usability nightmares; thankfully the Mint team is still keeping traditional usability alive in the Gnome environment.
I wish they'd let us unlock the GSM capabilities that are apparently in the Razr- its the one thing holding me back.
Warum muss da der Steuerzahler her halten,ist doch privat oder nicht?
> There is, though. The fitness of a virus is reflected in its ability to reproduce and spread.

Yes, in naturally occurring viii who's development is controlled by natural selection.

However there is no absolute genetic impediment to having a virus that is both easily spread (contagious with a medium length incubation time), and deadly (kills host immediately after incubation). Human beings could engineer that virus in the same way we engineered mice that glow in the dark.
installed Mint 12(lisa) on a virtual machine but some things are missing. I've been thinking of abandoning Ubuntu for Mint. Will wait for some more time.
> BTW, is that the Peter Norvig from AI-Stanford!!

Yes.
Previous submission (no comments):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3270431
Rare Public CIA Request to Honor Fallen Agent
This may be the first time I'd want to try a non-KDE desktop. Excellent job Mint team!
UPDATE: MSL is in good health and en route to Mars. Landing anticipated: 5 August 2012
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-361
> In reality though humans are actively manipulating this virus in a laboratory environment and are able to select strains that are deadly enough, but not too deadly, also transmittable enough.

If you think that humans are the only organism capable of influencing the behavior and functioning of other organisms, I would recommend you read up on Toxoplasma gondii. This is exactly the sort of "hubris" I was referring to.

Allow me to rephrase your original statement, as you might have worded it in a reply to Newton:

In reality though humans are actively manipulating this ball in throwing it and are able to impart a directionally focused momentum so that the ball flys far, but in a specific direction. Surely you can't expect this ball to obey the same laws as the apple that fell from your tree.

See how ridiculous that sounds? I think because evolution is so closely linked with our identity as free-thinking, free-acting individuals, it is tempting to believe that evolution follows no laws but is rather a reactive system. In reality, you can no more violate the laws of evolution than you can violate the laws of motion. The only difference is that we have a much better understanding of the laws of motion...
Does anyone know the reason for Android not following the LSB standard? Is this out of necessity or just to be different?
They did (sort of) reach a mass audience through Dell's Ubuntu laptop program in 2007. It didn't quite work out then because Ubuntu wasn't ready (I owned one, it was not ready for prime time). It still isn't, but it's closer. If it was ready, then avoiding the Windows tax would be a good enough reason for retailers to push Ubuntu.
Which may be these 'some things'?
They made DuckDuckGo a partner. I think that means they will have at least little bit of money.

I also think this could be a pretty big blow to Google because I just tried DuckDuckGo and it is working really well. I think I am going to try to switch over. Giant companies like Google make me uncomfortable.
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> Now, I'd like to build a web-app with some storage backend
>(mixed of RDBMS and NoSQL). Can do REST API. Requires
> web-service integration. Will perform nightly batch
> computation using Hadoop. Would like to have automation
> test and continuous integration.

Quick research:
http://racket-lang.org/
http://planet.racket-lang.org/ (the "CPAN" of Racket)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB
http://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/index.html (web apps)
https://github.com/dmacdougall/spin (RESTful web apps)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog

The shell commands of Racket could be used for (native compiled) batch files.

Some real world applicatons:
http://www.mail-archive.com/users@racket-lang.org/msg07436.h...

The only thing I miss is a sophisticated GUI editor like in Delphi Pascal. MrEd is similar but only supports the basic GUI components (labels, buttons, ...). I hope composed components (tables ...) will come in future.
Because you want the product but don't want to support evil corporations?
Your comments are officially useless.
Definitely... And never reveal other information that isnot their concern.
It's interesting that you apparently actually checked a validator to get the error count, and yet the two things you cite as errors are not errors, have never been errors, and are not listed in the errors returned by the validator. Both opening and closing tags for the html, body, and head elements are optional, in all versions of HTML that I am aware of (outside of XHTML, which has never been seriously used on the open web as it isn't supported by IE pre-9). There is a tag reported unclosed by the validator, but that's the center tag.

Anyhow, one downside to having syntax errors might be that parsers which aren't as clever as those in web browsers, and which haven't caught up with the HTML5 parser standard, might choke on your page. This means that crawlers and other software that might try to extract semantic information (like microformat/microdata parsers) might not be able to parse your page. Google probably doesn't need to worry about this too much; there's no real benefit they get from having anyone crawl or extract information from their home page, and there is significant benefit from reducing the number of bytes as much as possible while still remaining compatible with all common web browsers.

I really wish that HTML5 would stop calling many of these problems "errors." They are really more like warnings in any other compiler. There is well-defined, sensible behavior for them specified in the standard. There is no real guesswork being made on the part of the parser, in which the user's intentions are unclear and the parser just needs to make an arbitrary choice and keep going (except for the unclosed center tag, because unclosed tags for anything but the few valid ones can indicate that someone made a mistake in authoring). Many of the "errors" are stylistic warnings, saying that you should use CSS instead of the older presentational attributes, but all of the presentational attributes are still defined and still will be indefinitely, as no one can remove support for them without breaking the web.
Be careful with letting others control what you do on the Web.

Our goal is to give users a good search experience while funding ourselves by receiving a share of this income. Search engines who do not share the income generated by our users, are removed from Linux Mint and might get their ads blocked.

...

It won’t only be down to donations and sponsorships anymore, your activity on the web, every search query you make and product you buy will help fund our project.

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851
Believing that laboratory-made organisms somehow obey different laws than nature-made organisms is exactly the sort of hubris I was alluding to. There absolutely is a genetic impediment to a virus that is both easily spread and deadly. Biological organisms are highly complex, non-linear, stochastic systems. You can resist malaria, but you'll get sickle cell disease. You might suffer from high prevalence of Cystic Fibrosis, but your population can better resist cholera. Biological variables are, essentially, never independent. This is why systems biology is such a difficult area to study.

Oh, and those mice that glow in the dark might look cool in the lab, but they'd be the first to get eaten in the wild. There's a reason mice don't naturally glow in the dark...
The author completely misses the point that programming languages are every bit as much human-to-human interaction as human-to-machine, i.e. programming languages happen to be textual representations because they are "human languages"!
I'm not so sure about "eating memory" with programs still running. I'm no OS expert but I'm pretty sure that assuming that app isn't doing anything then it's pages will be swapped out to disk (in essence , quitting the application from a memory perspective) if there are more pressing requirements for the memory.

What is the technical difference between a program that is running or not running? As far as I can tell it depends on whether it has an entry in the scheduler , performance then should only vary based on how many O(n) (or worse) routines there are in the scheduler where n is the number of processes including ones that are sleeping?

I think that measuring swap usage is a more important metric than RAM usage.
Some people pirate simply because they can. Most people will never use 75% of what Photoshop can do yet they will pirate it when Gimp could serve their needs just as well. They simply collect software because it is there.

Others, I feel, pirate from a sense of entitlement. You do not have to look very far to find people complaining about people making profits while talking on their iPhone while carrying a laptop. Where "World of Goo" is concerned some Linux users think all software should be free.

Side note: Notice how most media outlets will tell you pirated software is always full of viruses? In my experience most distributors/hacker groups take great offense to saying their releases contain viri.
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Hacker Pleads Guilty After Hacking into Marriott and Demanding a Job
From the page

> Everything is pre-installed and pre-configured.
n* d., nginx already running in front of ExpressJS (site is live when you get the initial build email), mongodb, mongoskin, couchdb, running ExpressJS app, example RailwayJS blog sample already generated, redis installed (for RailwayJS), CoffeeScript installed, VIM support for CoffeeScript installed, psmisc package installed (includes commands like 'killall'), ssh port reassigned, example CoffeeScript code to access MongoDB, example CoffeeScript ExpressJS app, the most popular/recommended NPM/JavaScript packages like Vows, Async, Socket.IO, Backbone.JS, Knockout.JS.

This sentence is difficult to parse. What is n* d? Which technologies belong to what part of your product?

I'd rather have this explained with a bullet list or better yet a nice info graphic.
How will they find out? In the long run, because we dont live in a vacuum. Ive been called by colleagues to get my opinion on someone they want to hire because they have some reason to suspect i migh have dealt with them inthe past.

Managers have connections too.
What Alt-Shift-Tab did?
Is it better than Ubuntu? Can I have a few workspaces? I think to leave Ubuntu as it became slow for me and Unity is really not cool at all. What do you think?

P.S. Can I transfer all my files from Ubuntu to Mint easily?
For the record: I don't hate Node.JS as I am using it to explore JS. I'm glad CommonJS exist to introduce common standards to JS (modularity, OS APIs, etc) so I can write JS outside browser.

I am with you that I'm tired to see people pushing NodeJS. But I suppose am even more tired to see people working on some simple web app using NodeJS and pretend that it's Gold. I prefer to see people get better in fundamental concepts as oppose to keep hack-job and move on to the next thing.

I'm tired to meet with people in my day job that keep pushing for the latest tech.

"For the next project we must use JavaScript and NodeJS" or the "I can cut most of the LoC if we were to use JS". Only to hear that "Yeah, I'm not too sure, I just have a gut feeling that we could do with less LoC" after I drilled them as to "why it'll be less LoC? How can we solve X component with JS and its current libraries? How can we test Y automatically and efficiently?"

I'm tired to interview people that put in their resume "I know NodeJS" but flunk fundamental computer science aptitude.

I'm tired to hear "you know, if we re-wrote this bits with Rails, it'll be _MUCH_ better".

For these people, their Java skill is "decent". Their Ruby skill is "decent". Their JS skill is "hey I just read JS The Good Parts and this is how Crockford sez we should write JS" yet still missing the structure, the discipline, the "write for readability not for meta-programming"

Too many Learn-Yourself-24-Hours Ruby programmers out there. Too many Learn-Yourself-24-hours-me-too JavaScript programmers out there.

Ok, enough rant for Saturday morning :) Good day everybody.
ahem HIV?!? ahem

...but yeah, you're right with one caveat: the success of a disease depends only on how far it spreads. The _most_ successful "diseases" are the multiple viruses who have completely integrated their genomes with the human genome, and so exist in > 7 billion copies on the earth.
You can split hunks until they're consecutive lines. You can't split more granularly than that with -p. You'd need to edit the patch, either directly or with git gui or similar.
nod. is N_dJS.. you're right, difficult to parse. Probably can improve that. I did put a bullet list on the features page. Graphics are a great idea thanks.
I think most of the time when people say "intuitive" they mean "discoverable". I'm not even sure "intuitive" is a property software can possess.
I agree, I don't understand the hatred for Unity. I've used Linux since Slackware 3.0 or so...

My girl friend, who is an Apple user, was pretty impressed by the user interface after I installed 11.10 on my Thinkpad.
> how can I do all of those and at the same time write in
> less code.

It's not about writing the same algorithms in less code but about the way you design them. When you write Lisp code the same way as say Java or C++ then it's likely that you won't have less code.

Lisp changed the way how I write programs. THAT makes the difference. For instance, in Java or C++ I write a loop to apply a function on a data collection. In Lisp I just use a map function for those elements. In Lisp it's very usual to use macros to shorten code. These macros have NOTHING to do with the harmful C++ macro system. They are just functions to create well structured code.

Python copied list comprehensions from Lisp. This is a good example how a Lisp fesature makes code way shorter.
I typically have Chromium, a urxvt running tmux with 5-15 "windows" (a couple of which go to remote machines), two workspaces of Emacs, and half a dozen open pdfs of journal articles that I may be looking back at. When debugging parallel jobs, I may have a few more tmux instances. I find that Xmonad offers the most efficient window management in this scenario. I currently run it with Gnome3 in legacy mode because all I want from Gnome is the toolbar and session management.
neat, although some explanation of strategy about how to deal with the blue dots would be helpful - I couldn't make it past level 5. :(
This almost seems plausible until you realize that Gnome 3 has all the polish of Unity but none of the immediately obvious bugs. If they had simply contributed to Gnome 3 instead of breaking off into their own thing, the result would be far ahead of what they have now.
IANAL, but you can use node.js as long as you make it clear you are not associated with the project and joyent holds the trademark.
Therapy isn't necessarily aimed at getting you to settle with where you are. It's aimed at making you happier, and that may very well require making changes.

If you feel like you're drifting towards suicide, therapy is really the best idea.
From TFA: "As preconditions to be creative, one should know something well while having the utmost focus on it."

You are addressing the "know something well" part. The original article addresses the "utmost focus" part. Both are necessary. Neither is sufficient.
And an English word as well. For which the plural is "viruses".
Ask HN: What is the best way to hire a freelance editor?
I am a pretty bad writer. I am working on getting better at that, but between now and then I want to hire an editor to help.
Where do we find the source code for WaveInABox?
if we define alt tab as moving forward through windows, alt-shift-tab moves backwards
Are You Changing the Menu or the Food?
The medium is the message; if I didn't deliver it in the way I did, much of the vehemence of what I said would be lost.

C'est la vie, though, I don't really mind.
I use two monitors at work, and I can't imagine using just one. The productivity boost is great.
Just purchased and look forward to listening but requiring me to only download 4 albums at a time is rather poor.

"Please only download 4 files at a time or you may be disconnected from the file servers."
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g63.html

What is the plural of virus?

Viruses. It is not viri, or (worse) virii. True, the word comes directly from Latin, but not all Latin words ending in -us have -i as their plural.

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html

The plural of virus is neither viri nor virii, nor even vira nor virora. It is quite simply viruses, irrespective of context.
I use two monitors and I solved this problem by using multiple desktops. Every desktop has one of my "tasks". When I want to see what other window is doing, I move to that given desktop. This way, each desktop has one "context" - Emacs and a development server, a browser and another window to the same development server (screen is your friend), one with various "social" things - IM, Skype, IRC, Twitter - and others with assorted activities (managing servers on Amazon, remote upgrading my mom's computer (Unity is very grandma-friendly) and so on. If I'm ever lost, Super-S brings me everything up in a simple and easy way.

My two problems with Unity: It's too easy to get to get to the launcher when I want to hit the browser's back button and all my Super-related Emacs shortcuts had to be relocated. Now I need a Hyper key.
I care about what I am using, and he cares about what he is using. We don't care what they are using. Any of your arguments as to why we should would apply equally well to cars, but you never see people have that conversation.
I kind of solved it with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3280187

In the end, it feels much more natural and "spacial" - rather than having a small desktop with things piled on it, I have a context-dependent desktop.
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focus is required for execution. inspiration is required for creativity.
You can fix this yourself.

In the lower-right corner of Google Maps there is a tiny link that says, "Edit in Google Map Maker". Click this link and you can edit Google Maps. Your edits get sent to Google and they'll approve/deny it in typically a few days.
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