skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Mac, when that happens I usually press Command+L to focus the address bar then Command+T to make a new tab.

edit: Ctrl+L, Ctrl+T work on PC/*nix too iirc.
Not to mention the rating for HN:

0 (No way to get on the jobs page!)
Actually I liked #3 quiet a bit.

"Start a blog that contains at least 50% professional material"

I think atleast in a technical field that really shows what you are passionate about.
Well, with chemical dependencies it's a bit different, but this guy's advice isn't for people hooked on snorting credit cards, it's for everyone. Preaching to kids that they should never drink though is a waste. Teaching them to make sure they aren't driving afterward and don't find themselves doing it too often or too heavily is much more effective.
About 3 years ago I was developing a Swing app for a customer that involved some pretty advanced (for me) features. Specifically the ability to "draw" shapes and move them around on a pallet. I was in over my head. Then I found:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/

Which I just learned today is now being maintained here:

http://www.piccolo2d.org/

This project made me rethink GUI development. The naming of the classes in accordance to their responsibility made me realize I was over-thinking my own work and needed to use real life models (e.g. Camera, Layer). I used this library and was pleased and amazed at the work.
They are cute but they aren't solving the problem and helping the user recover.

A better example is Motley Fool. It has a cute little haiku which defuses the situation but then they give a lot of recovery advice.

http://www.fool.com/foobarbazqux
Seems to me the simplest solution at the local level with an over subscribed pipe is a round Robbin transmission per IP address. If A wants to send 1000 packets, B wants 100, and C wants 10, A get's 10 while B get's 10 while C get's 10, then A get's 100 while B get's 100, then A get's 890. This ignores how the users a A are using the network and still gives low latency bandwidth for those applications that need it.

PS: I don't think this is how cable companies handle there local loop.
Well, the Touch is the one area where I feel they still have some replacement cycles left based on storage capacity. It's also their newest product line. The Classic and Nano are pretty near stalled.
Ok, I figured that would probably be the best fix for now. Thanks
Ambition has too low dimensionality to describe the differences between farm founders moving west and the leaders of the industrial revolution. I agree with your essay though.
Agree, same as the word 'startup' used to refer to any website or webapp.
My wife is an artist so tech talk is banned, at least it is if she doesn't have someone to gossip with.

We live in San Francisco and tend to go see friends for dinner or drink, or meet them out some where. Sometimes we go to tech-event after-parties. I know and work with a bunch of guys who bring their wives/gfs who talk to each other while we talk shop.
What this does not address is that the richer countries have a lot more leverage than the poorer nations (duh). As a result, even though in theory it may present a lot more opportunities for the poorer nations to trade resources for help, the lack of leverage may mean a more tending towards slavery (except with "formalised" agreements). One way around this would be if the poorer nations united to increase their collective bargaining power. But isnt the lack of unity one of the causes of poverty (from wars and ethnic conflicts)?
Click to focus is not (historically, at least) the only focus model nor necessarily even the best. It used to be the case that most environment used focus follows mouse. My personal preference for focus scheme is focus follows mouse, click to raise since raising the window under the mouse can get irritating.

If you use various linux window managers you get to customise your focus model.
On a good Friday night, I go to the local comic shop and play a collectible card game. (One that's sort of like Magic: the Gathering, but different.)

I know, I know. Wild times, right? I enjoy it a lot, though. You get to use your brain, it's very competitive, and the social interaction is great.
People are not using it all the time and starting the electric motor to move the revolving door uses more power than it takes to move the door.

Edit: They could have their units mixed up or just measuring the peak output which is not the same as average output.

. Each time you pass through the door you generate enough power to make a cup of coffee.

Ben said on December 4th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

I call bullshit on this - there is no way one person generates the energy to heat a cup of coffee.

Energy needed = mass * temp raise * specific heat capacity = ~0.25kg * ~70C * 4.187 kJ/kgK = ~73kj

If it takes you a generous 10s to walk though the door you would need to be producing 73kj/10secs = 7.3kWatts!!!

According to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10090637
the maximum a normal person can produce is ~500W so they are way off.
No more or less liberally used by hackers than the rest of the population uses "hacker" liberally to mean someone who does anything technology related that they don't understand.
Can you say what the general problem domain is? Doesn't seem to be on your blog?
oops, you're right. how could I have possibly mixed those two up?
Frozen veg: (1) are flash-frozen instead of slowly frozen in your freezer, (2) are only available for some vegetables (garlic? leeks? green onions?), (3) taste significantly worse than fresh (except for peas).
well you are right.. but wear-and-tear is there whether you are harnessing the power or not. it is a sunk cost... it is essentially a matter trapping a bit of that energy...

ok wear-and-tear of the motor is a different issue - perhaps an opportunity for innovation to increase efficiency and decrease W and T?
Though I've never read a white paper, the general principle is sound. Give your product 0 barriers to entry, then ask for people to register, rather than asking upfront.
Reading HN is the cornerstone of any fun Friday night
The following keep me sane after the normal insane workweeks: Swing dancing on Friday night, and hanging out with my girlfriend on Saturday night.
It's definitely useful. Calls to action work wonders at the end of engaging content. You're essentially giving engaged readers a clear sign of what's next.

That being said, I have to disagree with the removal of the email boundary. Requiring a small bit of personal information will often lower conversion rates early on, but can often boost conversion rates later on in you sales funnel. It also gives you a great follow-thru communication channel.
Fast Company: The Perils and Promise of the Reputation Economy
so technically it is neither a firefox nor a greasemonkey bug ...
You think so? I feel like most non-techie people use hacker to mean someone who breaks into your computer and puts viruses on it...
I... I work.

Being a student (hs) means weekends are prime time for working.
Layoffs are almost never personal, esp. not in large companies. The decision to lay people off and how many is made at a level well above caring about the performance of any individual. The HR department decides who gets the chop, and they don't care about your performance either; they care about the company not getting sued, basically their only objective is that when the dust settles the company has a plausible gender/race/whatever balance and no-one's claiming unfair dismissal.

If a company starts laying off then you want to get out of there while there's still the cash to pay a decent severance package, because the writing's on the wall.
If you didn't call that what the heck was a follow up? An email?
The more I read these "get real or die" folks the more I realize they need a few more years in the barrel before they're ready to go.
Seems like a follow up to the RWW post that the days of anonymous posters are numbered.
True. But the pill and other forms of protection have largely disconnected sex and procreation (or at least have made the connection optional). Also modern medicine has greatly reduced female deaths during pregnancy and child birth from something like a combined 1/3 to 5/1000. So the two major reasons why women are genetically predisposed to be more careful about hookups are largely (though not totally) eradicated.
MysteryShopLink.com pays FTC to settle deceptive advertising and contempt charges
i always keep my laptop plugged in when home and in use - otherwise it just sits on the table not plugged in and not on
One of my Rails projects runs only on aptitude-provided gems and it has been a breeze. Yes, I don't get the latest and "hottest" versions of popular gems, but everything works and very reliable.

With other project I installed gems and Ruby from the source and have been handling dependencies with RubyGems. Not nearly as smooth: maintaining this mess without google would have been close to impossible. Internet is full of blog posts and article about "installing X on Leopard or upgrading Y on Ubuntu without apt-get". And guess what: those posts make absolutely no sense in an aptitude-controlled environment, where everything just works: the entire system can be re-created with a single apt-get command and a copy of your /etc files.

And the author's position of fuck you all, or as he puts it: "I'm all about application, systems management is not my job" is precisely why Windows is such a piece of shit: system management is nobody's job there, everyone is all about "application". This is why after you install a few creations of these "application guys" the whole thing becomes an unusable mess and you start paying attention to "I'm a Mac" commercials.
Kaizen for Developers: Visualizing key quality metrics
Workplace Personality Types - PDF of T-Mobile's Workplace Motivation Report
He doesn't address this point at all, calling security concerns 'FUD':

With apt-get, you have one thing to keep up to date in order to keep your system secure. It's so easy that you can automate it if needs be. It's also easy to keep track of security updates. With 'gem', now you have two things to keep track of.

I currently use apt-get along side the gem stuff to maintain my servers, but it's something I do worry about. I have no hesitation about trusting my servers to Debian or Ubuntu, but gem isn't quite so much a known quantity, and furthermore, I'm not sure the update system distinguishes between security updates and "hey, there's a new version of Rails (or whatever) that might break a bunch of stuff".

It's not an easy problem, that goes without saying, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss either side.
I don't understand why the government can't mint more coins and exchange them with the banks for notes.
Maybe if they stop cursing and start recursing. Sorry for the worst and most annoying joke ever.
Analyst: Apple snags 30% of U.S. smartphone market
This makes no sense to me. Why would people value a coin above face value, no matter how few there are? Isn't there significant arbitrage opportunity there then?
Sorry, the topic interests me; not trying to be a contrarian message board nerd.
If that sounds like a call to alcoholism to someone, then I submit they don't understand alcoholism.
It was the specific calls-to-action that grabbed me; "circulate this to your peers" --- I've written probably close to 100 white papers now for various companies, and never thought to include that!
I usually reserve conferences for weekday evenings if at all possible; it makes me feel less guilty if I end up drinking during the week at a conference than at a party or a bar.

Friday nights, we usually have band practice or a show somewhere, followed by drinking and hanging out with fans and friends. Saturday nights are usually filled with more partying or taking my girlfriend on a date.

I've spent many many weekends over the past few years working straight through on my startup, but since we've started to turn the corner of profitability, I've stopped doing that.
If you are interested in having a date on Friday or Saturday nights, check out http://flowmingle.com

During the week we guide you through an introduction process with a group of around 20 other local people. The introduction process ends on Friday. When you find someone you are interested in we help you set up a meeting.
bestofyoutube.com
Forget Rock Stars, Gurus, Ninjas and Zen Masters
Paging Researchers, Analysts, and Developers
If there was a buyer who was willing to keep this company alive, I believe Pownse would have sold to them.
I watch Kung Fu Panda with my kids.
Modern game programmers still only need to split the AI over 8 or so cores to take advantage of "Multi processor" systems. Unless you are running the AI off the GPU. Getting that to work well can be as simple as separating a complex evaluation of each node across a different CPU. It's not going to be 4x as fast on 4 CPU's but there would still be a significant boost. Or with multiple AI's just give each of them a core and move on.

Now if your talking about 10,000 node clusters it becomes a much harder problem but efficiently doing most things on a huge cluster is hard.
IMHO every entrepreneur who takes a shot should be praised.
State of the Browser Betas: A Cheat Sheet
Which one? Is it The Spoils? Cause I've been thinking of trying that one out.
Google Friend Connect - now available for everyone
Hmm, I don't remember writing "fuck you all" in my post. I'm just talking about there being different domains in play here. Different domains have different needs.

System management thanks in many ways to the great work of Debian but also virtualization has become a commodity more or less. Over the last 30+ years the best tools for the job have become more or less standardized. Which is great.

The application development space is a lot more dynamic though. You can not expect all unix sysadmins to know all about all the different programming languages packages. There is just too much for there to be a single gate keeper now.

The world is changing and for the better. Deal with it.
Because you need to take a bus to go to work. Buses have machines that only accept coins. If you don't have coins, you can't go to work. This is mostly an issue with one-peso coins, as the bus costs 90c.

It's extremely stupid, and also self-fulfilling. Small businesses are afraid of running out of coins so they hoard them. It's really not that big of a deal if you don't take the bus (I either walk or drive depending on the distance). A couple of times in the past year I did have to stand in line at the bank to get change for laundry.
This is from Phillip Greenspun's blog, so it has more credibility than if it would be just some random blogger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Greenspun
I'm currently using gems because I haven't gotten to the level of complexity where it's made any difference. Also, I tend to operate on Windows and Linux interchangeably and using the same approach in each platform is easy. I suppose I might feel differently if I were not doing personal projects and in single user mode.

This article did bring up a question I had with Firefox on apt-based systems. Why would I install a Firefox plugin through apt rather than just through Firefox plugins? Is the argument basically the same--that there are fewer/older plugins in apt but they have been proven stable by someone you can decide to trust so you get to choose what you care about most?
If you're in Chicago, tomorrow night we're hosting a meetup on the north side for local writers, photographers, "twitter people" and anyone else who likes beer. http://www.mypunchbowl.com/parties/407573-windy-citizen-dece...
The age of mass intelligence?
Headline title is totally misleading.
Having taught a couple beginners, I can tell you that what you see when you print a variable is very important. So, I guess it depends how these objects convert to strs, but I was assuming it would show a zip or map object rather than the result.
I have to disagree with the suggestion to NOT ask for registration> I think that you'll get much more response if you feature a white paper that people want to read so badly that they'll register up front. Then anything that they do with the call-to-action at the end (which you should be all means include) is gravy.
With 850K Users In 2 Months, Circle Of Moms Comes Out Of Nowhere
Facebook Connect Now Generally Available, Too
How to use Google suggest as a research tool
Sorry, I assumed that that was where you were coming from.

Economies of scale usually refers to how the cost of producing a unit decreases as you are producing more units at a time.

Taleb calls an endeavor scalable if your reward can increase practically unboundedly with little no extra effort. Examples include pop stars and websites.
Clive Thompson on How T-Shirts Keep Online Content Free
I'd take a gamble and say that the name of the unversity is much more likely to effect your offer than grades. And even then, it probably doesn't scale down. As a hiring manager, you either went to a school I recognize or you didn't.
#3. I don't "really" have one. But one can feel free to check my HN profile and you'll know what interests me (submissions), what I think of most issues (comments) and also how I react to criticism or when someone offends me (troll). All in there buddy.
No, it's not about Linux sysadmins but rather about writing a robust software. Aptitude is an application, just like your Rails app, written by very very smart programmers. And those developers are moving at exactly same "tremendous speed" as you are, and their "core DNA" is not a bit slower than yours, and results of their work is as much of a "commodity" as yours.

I suggest you re-read articles you linked in your post, because they explain why RubyGems has issues and needs fixing, something you haven't even addressed.

Your post basically says "YOUR work is commodity, YOU are moving slower than us, while MY developemnt is fast and bleeding age, YOU should get over your priorities and ME should continue as I please". You even went as far as calling someone on "spreading FUD" while in reality Gunnar is absolutely right: RubyGems is dangerous on production systems and I dare you run sudo gem update --system on a server that your paycheck depends on. While sudo aptitude safe-upgrade runs pretty much automatically on thousands of mission critical Debian-based deployments. That's not FUD, pelle, that's called high-quality engineering.
I really enjoy the local Contra Dance scene. Most populous areas (and even some rural areas) hold regular dances.

For those not familiar with Contra Dancing, it is a called set dance vaguely reminiscent of Square Dancing, but the scene is very different. A very eclectic group of people from all walks of life attend. Most everyone is friendly and it is a great way to meet people.
I got more then $2100/month doing a phone support job at a small company in a suburban area practically out of high school. Without a college degree I was able to get over $5000/month in an urban area doing web development with no prior "experence".

All four of my friends who just graduated in CS are getting g about the same (55k-65k) in various markets at big companes.
A modest proposal:

No more top 10 or 10 steps or whatever pithy articles on HN.

P.S.

I am only slightly more serious about this then eatin' babies.
They did, in record numbers. It didn't help; the coins were simply hoarded.
Python 3.0 strangles 2.x compatibility
You're wrong though. VB is used for many desktop applications, not just "excel scripts". But it seems that you don't want to change your beliefs even in the face of evidence.

Sure, it's always possible to set up the selection criteria ("only language used by companies I like") such that the answer will be what you expect - but how is that valuable?
Here in Seattle we have a group called Saturday House (http://saturdayhouse.org), its a great meeting place, for meeting smart people who are working on great projects. (The tag line is a barcamp every weekend.) Usually at the end of Saturday House a group tends to head out on the town and have dinner at various locations.

Also there is the Six Hour Startup Group that I run, http://sixhourstartup.com which hosts events on Sundays at one of the local bars.

We also have a Startup Drinks organization (Last Friday of every month, http://seattle.startupdrinks.com) and Hops and Chops www.hopsandchops.com (Every Thursday Night).
This weekend i plan to just read "python for unix and linux system administration". Anyone else read it? Is it good?
How does Debian handle CPAN? Must you rely on apt-get for your Perl modules as well?
It might be a better way of putting it, but it's not a useful question.

No language can be called "successful" if only 100 internet startups use it. Look at languages that are used in the real world, and don't artificially limit your selection process.

I might be OK with making the criteria: languages used for new programs (rather than languages in use for a useful product). I'm not sure what their criteria is though.
I'm asserting that she does something along those lines.

I'll take one example from her medical bankruptcy study. This is the study, widely described by the media as asserting that 50% of bankruptcies are caused by medical bills or serious medical problems.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DD133BF...

You need to actually read the study rather than listen to her talks to discover that "medical problems" includes "alcohol or drug addiction" and "uncontrolled gambling."

http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaf...

This is far from the only example where she plays games of this nature. Read Todd Zywicki's debunkings of her, she seems to make mistakes like this all the time.

I suspect that congress and the media, rather than the working classes, is her target.
I haven't tried Spoils. It's the World of Warcraft TCG. Very fun.

EDIT: It's been out a couple years now, and is going pretty strong. Check it out if you get a chance.
I think making forking cheap and easy is a good idea. Sure, bad forks will be made but, Git would make it easy to merge the fork's changes into a trusted stream.
It costs a lot of money to make coins. With inflation appearing to always be just around the corner, the government if afraid of investing tons of money to mint coins that could some become worth significantly less than the metal they're made of.
Yes, there is a black market for coins here in Buenos Aires. That is part of the problem.
Actually you are wrong - the horse business has everything to do with it, and not only that, did have everything to do with it (back when horses were actually #7).

If a car company thinks they are in the car business and not the transportation business they will go bankrupt as soon as new technology arrives.

Actually - that pretty much is happening right now. Car companies are selling "the experience" of driving a car, they are selling prestige, and looks. They are not selling transportation (just watch car ads).

That can work fine, and did work fine, until people don't have money for prestige and looks, and just want transportation. And then the company goes under.
I'd argue that you can learn more from internalizing success, simply because I suspect the domain of things you can do wrong when starting a company is much larger than the domain of things you can do right.

If you fail and learn not to do some of the things that led to the failure, there are likely still many more things you have yet to learn that may lead you to fail in the future (assuming you don't repeat your mistakes). On the other hand, if you succeed and learn from it, then you can apply some of the things that contributed to your success to future endeavors.

I'd argue that this may be one reason you see so many serial entrepreneurs... reflecting on what contributed most to their successes allows them to achieve similar successes over and over.

I'm not suggesting learning from your failures isn't valuable... it absolutely is. I'm simply suggesting that learning from your successes may be more valuable.