skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well obviously there was the observation that children tend to operate more in a "think less" mode. They learn by trial and error: do something, evaluate consequences, do or don't do again. That's fine when you are learning things like fine control of your motor skills, or how to speak the language your parents are using. Even as adults, some things are only really learned by doing: developing skill at playing a sport or a musical instrument for example.

But I agree with you. The consequences get to be more painful and can affect a lot more than just oneself if one carries this too far.
Also, are any HNers getting hired from these threads?

I've been posting to some of these threads occasionally, nothing ever happend. While I guess some of us are getting gigs out of it, I believe the majority probably don't. On the other hand, my skillset (doing PHP apps, but not a web designer) is not in demand to be fair.
I read a helpful change of perspective for gold-plating perfectionists: instead of writing "perfect" code, seek the "perfect" compromise. :)
Took the time and refactored the perlin-noise port in the post to make it look a bit more like JavaScript.

As a small side effect I got a 3x speed increase.

JS Engines are good at optimizing, but having a senseless 256 copy loop in every call doesn't really work out that well if you can have a memcpy with Array.slice().

See: http://jsperf.com/perlin-noise
Here's my take on it, for what it's worth:

1) Getting mental health care (in the US) is difficult. There is still a social stigma, to be sure, but the bigger problem is that it's just hard to find it. I mentioned before that during a bout of depression, I called several psychiatrists' offices and left messages, and none of them even called me back to reject me, much less help me find care elsewhere. When you're already depressed, overcoming hurdles like this is the last thing you need.

2) Programming is isolating, and we many of us do it when we should be developing core social skills. I don't know about the rest of HN, but I got my first computer when I was eight years old (Commodore VIC-20). I became obsessed with computers, and spent an inordinate amount of my life with them. Sure, I had friends, but I don't think I spent as much time developing deep relationships and shared experiences as I should have. I went straight into college, with the goal of getting done as soon as possible in order to start working with computers. Around the age of 30, I realized I'd spent my career either sitting behind a computer alone, or dealing with fairly antagonistic personalities in meetings.

Personally, I'm a big fan of the gap year concept. Getting out, traveling, seeing how life happens in other parts of the world, and simply interacting with people outside of tech was a big eye-opener for me. I can't recommend strongly enough that, if you're around 20 and notice that you spend a lot of time with computers, and maybe aren't totally satisfied with your social life and set of life experiences, that you immediately consider going abroad for a year or two. Teach English. Join the Peace Corps. You will almost certainly learn valuable social skills that you don't even know you're missing.
> like copy-editing and tech review

Fair enough, and I'd go further to say: Several of us have access to higher-quality editors and (certainly) tech folks for review than most of the publishers I've dealt with.
Link to the original site: http://simpledesks.tumblr.com/

It looks like someone has taken over. I'm glad, because it's a shame to shut something down that people enjoy, but you shouldn't feel forced to work on a side project.

I wish you luck, and here's to hoping your future endeavors bring a bit more satisfaction.
Yeah I found this annoying as I've written some google scrapers, I ended up having to use a library that supports javascript to be able to click the link and then pull the url off the site directly, oh well, a lot of sites do this so its a useful thing to know how to get around.
counterbalance:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3413606

ILIE and proud of it :)
The article was written by a law professor. I remember reading this article recently which essentially says that law schools avoid people with practical experience.

--From Ny Times article--

"Another appeal of Ori Herstein’s résumé is what it’s missing: many years of toiling in a law firm. It is widely believed that after lawyers have spent more than eight or nine years practicing, their chances of getting a tenure-track job at law school start to dwindle.

“Nobody wants to become a retirement home, or a place for washed-out lawyers,” says Kevin R. Johnson, dean of the law school at the University of California, Davis, who came to the meat market with six positions to fill.

This might seem a paradox — experienced people need not apply — but the academy views seasoned pros with a certain suspicion. In fact, a number of veterans of legal practice who failed to land tenure-track jobs say that experience was a stigma they could not beat. "

--end ny times article--

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/business/after-law-school-...

If paywall blocked google "What They Don’t Teach Law Students: Lawyering nytimes"
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So have you earned only 3k$ for the whole book?
What is your effective hour rate then ? 10$ or 5$ per hour ?
I don't think that point of view even makes sense. Humans and lower mammals are all born more or less helpless. They require caring parents for nourishment and protection in order to survive. Certainly you can argue that the period of "childhood" has been greatly extended in recent centuries, but it makes no sense that the concept of a child as something other than just a physically smaller adult emerged in the 16th century.
You're over-thinking this. He's not saying that to get a supermodel girlfriend you should hang out in a cafe and do nothing but hitting on supermodels. Sure, that might improve your odds of meeting one even more, but it'll be detrimental to your life in all kinds of other ways.

He's saying you take your normal work (and spare time) and carry it out in a place where you're more likely to meet the super models than where you'd otherwise spend your time.

In other words: Identify "low cost" changes that create more opportunities to meet the type of people you want to meet by making sure you are in the right place. Even if you otherwise spend your time doing the same things as before.

Changing your working location so that you're surrounded by the type of people you want to meet is a low cost proposition. Changing where you hang out when you go out is another one. Choosing the parties you go to or conferences you go to with care is another one. Making the choice to go out instead of staying in and watching TV is yet another.
clickable demo: http://jsbin.com/edobev
I think age is definitely a factor, between the ages of 19 to 24 most people have a technical brilliance but don't have the mental experience to deal with emotional stress that comes with failure and increased demands.
London is big. You have to be in specific places. The "New Media" part of London is East End - a lot of it centered around Shoreditch, though you'll find pockets elsewhere.

But you'll find people working in cafees etc. all over. Check out the Starbucks opposite Centre Point next time you're in London - it has (or had, at least, last time I was there) office desks..
Facts + time = changed mind.

Various primitive gods/spirits probably fitted the available facts pretty well at some point.

The educated middle class is perhaps outnumbered, but holds much power (ha like iOS vs Android) in that most teachers are educated middle class. And at least in the UK, teachers seem to be mostly areligious.
Any more hiring in Seattle?
This issue can even be translated into the Government sector, as more and more IT dollars are unappropriated in an effort to leverage newer, cheaper, and more flexible technologies, without the burden of the hugely outdated government acquisitions system. Especially in the GIS, R&D, and security realms.
How proprietary is this technology and is there an input on the controller for headphone jacks?
I disagree. The physiological differences between children and adults is large, particularly in the brain.

However, I think that adults who make the effort to continue to work on neuroplasticity into their adult years will likely be more intelligent, probably be more successful, and maybe be happier. I also think if all humans did that, we would all be smarter, more successful, and happier.
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No, seriously... I enjoyed looking at those photos once, it was just like an architecture magazine. No big deal to shut it off, just don't consider it your life's work.
don't mean to be that guy but when you think of how Android has USB host and is compatible with various console controllers, gotta give props to Google for being forward looking.
me thinks this is very important topic to consider...cause this is happening at an intensifying pace all over the globe
Heh, probably wouldn't buy into it but ESTP
Hey Arnold,

Tried replying to you through email, but the email bounced back. Used the email on your Hacker News profile.

Cheers,
Pat
I think the real solution would be to avoid cutting off from society.Most experienced and stable techies have wives and some kids, this helps them keep their sanity.Having to go home to a loving wife and some children really refreshes a man and brings calmness to his mind.In my experience, techies with a family tend to be mentally balanced.
Wow. Nothing says "scary new order" more than a company paying its workers in ways specifically designed so that corporations can track what they're doing with the money ..
Getting certification for the dock is both onerous and expensive since it requires Apple approval and a license fee for every device. The audio jack is open so anyone can build on top of it.
Regarding question 1: DAC on the controller, ADC on the iPad

Regarding question 2: I'm unsure, but I couldn't imagine this being an issue. Very clever, pretty cool!

Thanks for sharing this ricardobeat
"This American Life" had a segment some months (a few years?) back that covered this from the perspective of a cop who documented it and was ultimately, incorrectly committed to a mental hospital by his superiors in a horrible attempt at intimidation and control.

Absolutely disgusting. But also part of a number of things / instances of reporting that have made clear to me that such things are not unusual.
i believe that the general point of class action suits is to punish the company rather than to benefit the individual consumers.
I'm optimistic enough to believe that as technology increasingly eliminates most kinds of material scarcity, and human network effects & education continue to eliminate violence, then the question would be, well, really, why wouldn't you want to be in public service?
Excellent landing page. Epitomizes "show, don't tell"
The other question to ask is whether permanence is a value worth holding for all things. Is it really worth holding onto all of that email? (This is a personal question, for everyone to answer, not for one person to dictate over others.)

In the present case, hasn't this in fact been dictated?
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I agree that he has something of a jump on the "think less"...
This reply got me thinking: does the nearly-zero incremental cost of a bit cause people to be more likely to turn into virtual hoarders? Anybody who didn't through physical mail away ever would be looked at funny, but I rarely delete an email, either.

Is there a psychological cost associated with virtual hoarding like there is with physical? Or is it truly not hoarding?
So in an age where C-level executives have to be paid some higher amount in order to attract "the best talent", BO and Color and their $150MM wasted dollars would seem to provide an object lesson to the contrary.
Awesome plugin and landing page. Minor nitpicking: the "scrolldeck" link is broken.
Not really an alternative till it supports clients for all sorts of platforms and mobile devices IMHO
The Android Market application on the phone uses an API to talk to the Android Market backend. You can call a tool that uses that API a scraper if you want, but "scraper" brings up the mental image of accessing a website, which this isn't.

Note: I am the developer who built Cyrket, which I believe was the first website to do exactly what AppGravity does. I no longer operate or keep Cyrket up to date, as honestly it was really painful to get the kind of accurate data I felt was required (I considered "missing one app" a serious serious bug).

This was especially true as Google kept tightening the screws on their rate limits, some incidents of which involved me getting a PM from someone on the Market team informing me that whatever new thing I was doing they had decided to fix. ;P

The best story of which, being the time I managed to figure out that their API had a requests/time limit, but not a queries/request limit: I managed to put together multi-megabyte large requests to their backends that scraped down tens of thousands of comments at once... it was epic.

I had been up for over a day straight working on that part of Cyrket; I deployed it, and immediately went to bed. An hour later the Market team tells me they got tons of red lights and error bells, and tracked it back to me. They put in a temporary hack, and then added a query/request limit. ;P

That temporary hack, near as I can tell, is a hardcoded "if user == Cyrket: return None". It is still there. If I log in as Cyrket to the Android Market on my phone I seriously am living in a world where no one comments on anything at all. ;P
wayback machine has some samples from 2010. As swah says a bit like Blueprint magazine circa 1985. I liked the older desks that had some marks on them, had been worked on. Does anyone not use a Mac?
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Beginner Learning Python: 2.7 or 3?
I have taken the dive to learn Python (currently only experience I have is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery) and I'm using Learn Python The Hard Way.

However, this has me using Python 2.7 and I know that this is the last of Python 2.x and Python is what I might need to know going forward.

Should I look somewhere else to learn (I've gotten just about halfway through LPTHW) or stick through this? I guess it depends how different they are and if it's worth learning Python 2.7 if I'll just be unlearning and relearning certain aspects.

What should I do?
If you post here, you are already half way through, because it means you know where you are and that you want to go somewhere else. For the the somewhere else, I would say, take a look around you. ASP is not necessarily bad, many systems are still running on top of ASP and a good knowledge of it can help you land deals where people need this kind of knowledge.

So, look for new things (pay particular attention not to fall into fade) but do not consider your ASP knowledge as just to be thrown away. I am sure you can make a living out of it — I make a living working with old school Fortran 77 code...
Actually, I did get hired thanks to the Nov 2011 HN thread - one post in particular caught my eye and while I initially just asked for more details, I ended up starting my new position there in December.

Obligatory segue: incidentally, OkCupid Labs (San Francisco, CA) is still growing and looking to hire in a few areas, including design (visual, UX, and/or UI welcome), front-end dev, and senior software engineering. I don't know much about the last one, but for more info on the first two, you can ping me via chang at okcupidlabs. Or the jobs page works too: http://jobs.okcupidlabs.com/.
Scaling mesh is a very hard problem, though, it's hardly just a matter of plugging in more devices. Networks over the existing Internet - like Freenet or Tor - are much more viable, in my opinion.
The best way would be to make desktop software that did the required tasks without exposing third parties to the data at all.
I've had a problem on my system (Firefox 4.0-9.1, Windows 7), where upon clicking a result link, the search results page refreshes. Nothing else happens. I can't get to individual results without middle clicking to open them in a new tab. This has been happening since Google Instant came out. Does anyone know what could be going on?
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So much to say here. I think this is an important issue. Being kid-like is central to being creative. But at the same time, being adult-like is central to being productive. The key isn't to become a creative kid who does nothing productive any more than it is to become an adult who does a lot but accomplishes nothing[1].

A few other thoughts on this subject:

I don't think that being child-like necessarily means one should think less. You just have to think differently. We adults have lots of experience that makes us think a certain way. Part of going back to being a kid is in learning to think in ways that bypasses that experience. For example, experience has taught me that Java is the best language to use for a team of 100 programmers. But I'm going to use Python for reasons x, y, and z.

Nor do I think it's a compliment to be called overly kid-like. Bear something else in mind: kids are fairly self-centered. They're at the stage in life where everything is about them. Everybody drops what they're doing to take care of them. Narcissists are people who are essentially frozen at this stage in time. This is why some people have noticed that there's a correlation between narcissism and creativity[2].

All the above noted, I do think that we as adults need to remind ourselves that we can't be adults all the time. It's just a question of when the time is appropriate, which can be very difficult to determine.

Did you know that we invented children? Children don’t exist.

I realize the irony in my thinking to refute a statement that's intended to point out why you shouldn't think. But this is a non-sequitur. We invented laptops, and there's a laptop right in front of me to prove that it exists. Race and gender are invented concepts as well, and they have a very real impact on our day-to-day lives.

[1] Shameless plug, I've already written on this subject: http://jasonmbaker.com/how-to-be-creative

[2] http://www.fastcompany.com/1701676/narcissism-and-creativity...
Two Portland startups in slots #1 and #3, AppFog and Cloudability. Go Portland!
This has to be tempered, though, with some consideration of how likely it is that the requirements will change. Of course we might say "requirements always change" but there are definitely situations where to know with a high degree of certainty that you are writing something that will be used once or a few times and never again, or something small enough and well defined enough that the requirements can't change much. If you worry too much about maintainability on code that will never be maintained, you're wasting time.
Performance. Efficiency. I used to do it on my blog for these reasons, because the page contained the first paragraph of each article. Now I only list my blog post titles without the paragraph so I removed pagination. The page is getting quite large though at 84 posts - https://grepular.com/blog/
My experience with nolock is that you may get inconsistent rows with some fields before and some after update. Or even seeing duplicated rows when b-tree is rebalanced. But I never seen single fields being partially updated. Per Microsoft, page latch protects atomicity of a single field update. This is why nolock was extremely useful for insert-only tables and in our database design we had many of them.
You can still see all the work via google images: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=simpl...
It's neat because it can be used on top of git without any additional effort but it'd be more interesting to see something that leverages git's server-side post-push hook to notify the other clients about changes. gitdocs, depending on the polling interval, either has an increased probability of causing merge conflicts or does a crazy amount of git pulls.
Anything based on the AVR USB series can be configured to auto-detect as a keyboard/joystick/misc (see http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php), so that would simplify your comm layer. However, I'm not aware of a good off-the-shelf board that wouldn't require some microcontroller development.

I am actually working on a simplified AVR USB board for just this purpose, I'll post it to HN when I'm done.
and it will suck.

The idea of forcing change to revive something dead sucks, organic change (or evolution as one might call) it is great but taking a tried and tested idea that had popularity and changing it forcefully never works.

Why don't they stick with what it was? :|
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Completely agree, I can get simple ones like bar graphs to work, but the maps always bow up on me. I'll definitely be going through your code and trying to figure out how it's done properly!
I belong to a Facebook group for mountain biking in Ontario. People will propose rides on there, and of course the other folks who want to join in will use the comments to indicate that they’re coming, discuss the timing, carpool, and so on.

And then there are always a few folks who chime in with “Sorry, can’t make it” and “Sorry, not interested.”

What we’ve discovered is that such messages do absolutely nothing to help the group with anything. Unless someone has already said they are interested, we discourage saying you’re not interested. It simply adds noise to an otherwise productive discussion.

That’s my anecdote in response to what appears to be a declaration that you are not interested in this post.
Very cool. Nitpick: would be nice if it smoothly animated when using the scrollwheel - it's pretty jumpy using the wheel, but awesomely smooth with the scrollbar.
Very cool, but I'd hesitate to use it on a production site - it's really jerky if the scroll isn't fluid, like on most PC's.
Actually, it uses file system events so the pushes occur instantly. However, the pulls are done with polling.
odd. might have hit up against a spam filter. I added an alternate email to my profile if you want to try again.
Have you taken a look at the Ngaro VM over at http://retroforth.org/docs/html/Implementations.html ?

Beautiful abstractions in Mako btw. I like it. Did you see the recent discussion on the VM used in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_(video_game)

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/no0dy/another_w...

From what I can tell IBNIZ is meant as an ultra minimal target for demos. Not necessarily end user games. I think it is probably overly constrained. Much like a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogram