skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these people baffle me.

if you do what you love, you will be better at it, and you will work harder at it.

this guy does not want to work because he wants to hang out with his friends, when in reality if he had different people to entertain himself with, he might actually get paid for it.

but like many people, he has written the rules in such a way that he will fail.
I agree, but that hasn't stopped Facebook or Iphone developers.

With around 250 million people using Yahoo Mail, this could be extremely interesting. (source for that number: http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statist...)
right, but the postmaster, supervisory process manages the common work area such that each process is acting as a thread, it just predates threads in its architecture. The rocess per-user model is much like Apache 1.x, which has its drawbacks, but does work well and has for years.
Honestly, cheat sheets and the like have never been that useful for me. The only thing that seems to work is to figure out a project and dive in.
Rumormonger: The craziest Yahoo layoff stories
If it's your zoo, you can eat there.
It wouldn't be a picnic for vi users either: lots of commands start with a colon character, control character, or <escape> to change modes.
Does anyone have a colorscheme that only highlights comments?
I also tried Poderosa. I used it for some time, but decided that I didn't need the multi-window feature as badly, so went back to putty.
It's ESR's "Threads: Threat or Menace" as a powerpoint...

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch07s03.html

The conclusion is still accurate enough though, IMHO.
$400 would be a better price point to really get their sales going.
one thing that all colorschemes have in common: they don't highlight {[(,. etc. I like those highlighted. Is it possible in vim? I have authored a colorscheme but it was so basic that I cannot claim to know whether there's something in the way vim does highlighting that prevents coloring those characters. I would say nothing, but who knowns...
Agreed. I did big launches in the pre-internet days, when the sage marketing advice was that you only had one chance to make a debut. No one was going to write about a 6 month old product. It was hugely expensive and the risk of failure or being ignore was high. Today it's way different. Put your site out there quietly. Find out the problems and strengths. Polish it. There is lots of good advice, here and elsewhere, about how to publicize your site.
I have been using the technique for a couple of months now. I love it and I would say that for me, it works for both kinds of work. I know it sounds silly, but it has come to a point where the ticking sound is my work-mode reminder which helps me stay focused. Also, I have started competing with myself to see how many pomodoros a day I can do.
I second that! I use mine all the time
Tiddly Backpack - Store, reference and organize your notes
I require more data!

So San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland and Seattle/Tacoma is on the at risk list because:
"relatively high numbers of residents who watch analog over-the-air television broadcasts and relatively low participation in the NTIA's TV Converter Box Coupon Program."

but how many of them don't need the converter box coupon? The Bay Area is home to Silicon Valley, would it be safe to say that a large number of them have purchased HDTVs and don't require a converter box?
Ask HN: To-do list that lets you put a lot of detail in each task
I know that these days there are more to-do lists than Chinese people. I was looking for one that will satisfy my needs, and after about a dozen that didn't I decided to ask here.

I'm looking for a to-do list that lets you put a lot of detail in each task. Most to-do lists only let you put one line in the task, while I want to write pages of text about each task. I want to keep track of my progress in each task. It's more for mini-projects than for tasks. I will have a lot to write about each project. I'm not even sure if what I'm looking for will be called a to-do list or something else.

Does anyone have a recommendation?
I'm kinda doing the same thing but from Python. I really liked Java Precisely http://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/javaprecisely/

It doesn't try to teach you programming, it just cuts to this "this is what this is in Java" ... high signal/noise.
You, Too, Can Be a Hyper-Miler: Improve fuel economy by 20 to 40 percent
Try searching any question like this with "X for Y programmers". Example:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22java+for+php%22+programmer...

These results aren't as good as some, such as "Java for Lisp programmers". It's a useful heuristic, anyway.
Legislation that forbids two consenting adults from engaging in mutually beneficial interactions is always bad.

One does not have to be in favor of non-competes to dislike legislators removing or curtailing a civil right like the freedom of contract.
There are a lot of insightful comments in this thread, but I think this one sums up best (and most succinctly) how I feel.
Summary:

"I have never written more than 10 lines of code in any language."
Check this one out:
http://www.abstractspoon.com/tdl_resources.html
I felt the same way. After using it for a few days, I just gave up. I am not sure what additional advantage it gives over either a link sharing site like HN or my bookmarking site like Delicious
You can hack a gun pretty easily. You point it at someone and pull the trigger.

There is nothing different really. They will be weapons, just like today's weapons.

There are certainly security issues. That isn't unique to robots though. The "robots will kill you" mindset really isn't useful.
<i>Twine's ability to auto-discover relevant content tags for you when you submit links</i>

Does delicious not do that as well? It also suggests relevant tags which I might not have thought of. Many of these tags are learnt from other users who have added the same link
Omniture brings real time analytics to iphone apps
The source of the information -- the press release mentioned in the story -- did not address this question. I called them back to ask for specifics on the seven markets, but haven't received a reply. I'll update the story if and when more data is provided.
Commandment 8 reminds me of the Brace Wars in C and the Indent 4 vs Indent 8 camps. Those who dislike Python's significant white space haven't seen real bloodshed.
Without revealing anything I shouldn't, our company has also "taken a hit" on merit increases. As a data point, we have much fewer employees than those polled in the WSJ article.
Apache 2.x can be configured to use the prefork MPM which behaves in a similar fashion to 1.x. There are even advantages to this method.

Postfix is another great example of a high quality piece of software that is not threaded. There are many other examples.

It is entirely possible to write complex systems that perform well without threads.
One of the things I've wanted from github was a code review interface. With this and commit comments, it's pretty close.
Firing a gun from the other side of the world is not so easy. Or firing the gun when it's in the hand of another.
RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California
I agree -- a 20X jump in traffic or data is almost a different country. If you have someone on the team who's been to that country before, everything goes much more smoothly. Mostly because they can give you earlier warning, suggest solutions that have worked, what not to say in front of the locals, etc.

If anyone has questions about architecture or scaling I have built some pretty large (>500 million queries/month) sites and I like helping out. You can find my email in my profile.
Just because it has not worked until now, does not mean we stop trying. Unless there is proof of impossibility, we should try new attacks. In fact, languages have been getting more and more high level, so we are getting there, albeit slowly. If 4GLs, Case and MDA jumped the gun, that is another story entirely.
Noncompetes aren't slavery. You hurt an argument that could be made effectively by using hyperbole.
I assumed the units to be in seconds, but after looking closer, I can't find a good definition of the units used here. It's the mean of a series of ratios, but the base unit is not on this page. A combination of the lower totals and the fact that one machine was running Gentoo led me to believe that this machine was the faster of the two. (End backtrace of my thoughts)
To be clear, I'm anti-noncompete.

However, I'd ask you to consider that in Graham's world, this distinction between "employees" to "owners" gets fuzzy; you're supposed to be the owner, not an "employee". You can't do everything yourself. You might want to hire someone to help QA your application. You might not want that person to take their test plan, bug list, and design documents to your next nearest competitor, or to use your internal wiki as a blueprint to start their own competing company.
Speedcuber Algorithms (Rubik's Cube)
PuTTY Connection Manager - http://puttycm.free.fr/
Ironically, Tcl actually does threads in a fairly nice way:

Each thread gets its own Tcl interpreter, and you pass messages back and forth between them. It's a much better approach than the "one big lock". I believe Perl takes a similar approach to Tcl.
Aquamacs on OSX for Ruby on Rails Development? Yep, we’re going Emacs status.
> CS degree

Dr. Ousterhout has one of those:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout

Actually it says he was a professor at UC Berkeley, where he wrote Tcl, Tk, and an OS, amongst other things.

After that, he went on to work at Sun, and then founded his own successful company.
"Lisp would be Zen Buddhism" & "Python would be Humanism"

I feel strangely peaceful.
Especially if you can use them to create a friendly AI singularity.
In general, people with HDTVs also have cable or satellite and people with rabbit ears have old tube TVs.
I'd love to have a few more fingers, not less. Think of how much faster we'd type.
I've seen filler ads from Ad Council on Hulu for months. There's no way that they've been sold out.
That was how I originally learned Java in undergrad. I think that its a pretty good book. I think that its a great introduction to the basics. A good follow up book is Effective Java by Joshua Bloch.
I think the different is that in Tcl there is a defined Core team (http://tcl.tk/community/coreteam/) who mantain the code while Guido delegates in others.
I don't know which is better although in the last years the core team have done a great job with tcl/tk.
WSJ followup: baseless, unsupported, and wrong. (Lessig Blog)
Seconded. I've found the Collections section to be most helpful.

Also, if you want functional programming in your collections, check out Apache's commons collections:

http://commons.apache.org/collections/
At the office we have some new MBPs and old ADC Cinema Displays, so you need a $30 DisplayPort to DVI cable and a $100 DVI to ADC converter. What a pain.
Writing on paper is like solving long division on paper--good to know, but not very useful in day to day life. I have no plans to preserve my handwriting.
check out http://www.givewell.net and you can see which charitable causes actually have GOOD OUTCOMES
Also, I appreciate the gesture, but I hate getting paper mail. I check my mail every few months. When friends send me holiday cards, I often don't notice them till the holidays are over.
After Credentials
I've had the timer randomly quit on me if I switched off the phone, which made me lose confidence in it.

Whatever the bug was may have been fixed, but that doubt stops me from using it exclusively.
I know you're joking, but I've heard that two 24" monitors rotated is a pretty nice setup. Any monitor with a VESA mount (ahem Apple) can be pretty easily rotated. A 1920-pixel-tall screen gives you room for huge editor windows.
I don't know why we still don't have interfaces where you can always access a precise, clear, context-sensitive explanation for why a control is grayed out and when it's enabled. The benefits to usability would be huge!
Those poor people are "at risk" of escaping the mass mind control that our overlords expect to maintain.
Why does it work best for small tasks?

Well, in my case, when I'm doing a long task that I enjoy I tend to enter an obsessive mode that's far more productive if uninterrupted.
He left out assembly languages which are really unrelated tribal religions characterized by primitive belief systems and rites of passage such as killing a lion, hanging by your thumbs, full body tattoos, or living alone in a cave for a month. I know. I passed my trial. I am a real man.
You can buy VESA mounts from Apple for the pre-LED Cinema Displays. Don't know about the LED-based 24" display, but I'd imagine so.
Apple will release netbooks next month. If "will" means "might conceivably."
The Promise of Digital Doubles (The Emily Project)
For those who care, there is a whole branch of labor economics surrounding this topic:

http://is.gd/c0a2

(The wikipedia link had a set of paren that killed the URL)
If that was going to happen, why hasn't it happened already? We've had mostly unregulated consumer ISPs for about 15 years and they've mostly been neutral.
Rogue killer robots are then equivalent to other asymmetric battles. They are a lot like suicide bombers. Except they have giant robot lasers and are easy to spot, unlike a cell that looks like everyone else.

Either way, my point is that the ethics are not at all ambiguous. You put security measures in all your weapons, and you shouldn't think of robots as any different. That is my point.
The Splinternet (Doc Searls)
I've been using this trick when dealing with boring tasks, to prevent my mind from wandering. If you are on a Mac, this widget can crack the whip on you by chiming at regular intervals: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/prodme.html

Of course, the preferable solution is to find a job where your tasks aren't boring.
Hrm, interesting, but I write Ruby on emacs all the time. Except mine doesn't need a long post, just:

Open Terminal, type "emacs -nw".
Ask HN : Blogger, wordpress? Which one is good for programmers?
I wanted to start a programming related blog where I will be occasionally be posting code snippets. Primarily C and Python but also some Scala. I was looking for a blogging system that will help me do some code highlighting and indenting. Which service will you recommend? Or should I host my own and if so using which my software?
www.netlog.com/fashiionstylezZ_
How about this: http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/

It works with WordPress, MoveableType, etc.
netlog
I fear you underestimate the number of people who dislike Perl.
I think ASM would be Atheism
netlog.com
NETLOG
True, but the individual conflicts that were part of it lasted a long time.
Facebook profile used to serve legal docs in Australian case
> You can't see what you don't save.

Another option to consider when encountering a fatal error is to save the process image to disk. In Lisp, you can fork, start Swank, and save-lisp-and-die; in other languages, you can fork and cryopid yourself. Then, you can start your program up in the exact state that caused the error, and then gather the information you need to fix the problem.

I have not had the occasion to try this yet, but I know other people have found this approach to be useful. Fatal errors shouldn't be all that common, and this will give you the information you need to really fix the problem.
Corporate Venturing: How Entrepreneurs Can Get Love Without A Bear Hug
After rate cuts: The Fed's new ball game
Analyst: Apple to release 'closed' Netbook with iPhone-esque App Store
"In our country, college entrance exams determine 70 to 80 percent of a person's future."

I'm sure that I can speak for many of us here when I say, thank God that's not the case here anymore.
Also does this make the jvm and or parrot like one of those weird new-age "all paths lead to the sun" sort of religions where "anything goes"/syntax so long as it involves some rough idea of a god/bytecode?
I think Paul is treading ideas with some interesting implications for him, personally. He is the head of an organization that funds companies on the basis of a written & oral exam, whose principal selling point is the transmission of "credentials" upon the kids they pick. Part of it is the kids' merit, but part of it is YC's past success.

People go to YC for many of the same reasons people went to Stanford -- past seed stage, it's still largely a credentials game. So you have to ask whether the same potential for "corruption" is present. Are they failing to transmit credentials over generations because it's a revolutionary model, or because it's only been around less than one generation?

What if someone did a sweetheart deal for a YC startup as a personal favor/quid-pro-quo/etc? What does it mean when founders who got rich from a YC company start funding new YC companies because they are YC companies? Is that "corruption" in the same sense?
As an aside, ruby-mode was recently merged into the emacs core, so that should help adoption. I know I have seen a lot of complaints on #emacs about "why doesn't ruby code have syntax highlighting!?". Now it does :)

People should also try out my new eproject minor mode, which will make emacs aware of the relationships between files in the same project:

http://git.jrock.us/?p=eproject.git;a=blob_plain;f=eproject....

I think textmate has a feature like this that people like.
I can't believe he missed Whitespace (http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/).
thomasmallen > A combination of the lower totals

Don't you need to know about the numbers that make up those totals?

Like if on Pentium 4 the nbody input value is 20,000,000 but on Q6600 the nbody input value is 50,000,000 ...

thomasmallen > the fact that one machine was running Gentoo led me to believe that this machine was the faster

!
One could easily amend this to include "After Perceptions".

As a young geek, I was often passed over because I didn't look like I could do the job. It started with little league and continued on through high school and into the work place. I even quit one of my better jobs because a slicker looking but far less talented peer was promoted into what should have been my job.

No more. As a mild mannered adult geek, I still get the same pseudo-negative first impression reaction until I open my mouth and show them how much they'd benefit from me and technology.

The Performance Economy was a long time coming (and probably taken for granted by anyone under 25), but now that we're there, there's no going back.
What emacs extensions do other people use for Rails?

I use two-mode-mode to swap between HTML (psgml) mode and Ruby mode for the templates, as well as rhtml-minor-mode, which is mainly aimed at helping psgml-mode find the parent layout. rhtml-minor-mode could use some hacking - I wrote it in a hurry.
No real reason except that it works the way it does. It would take time to change it, and there is more pressing work to be done. That, and I don't work for the company that had/has this problem anymore.
Buxfer is a startup I am surprised has not been acquired yet. I am sure the founders have turned down a few offers.
FontShop launches FontShuffle App - Compose and Compare Fonts in the iPhone
I think he implied that Cohen's Asperger Syndrome allowed him to be manipulated into this position instead of simply being bought off. I think that if Cohen is high functioning enough to write a successful p2p standard and start his own company, he can understand what is going on in the board room. Either way something fishy is going on.
Fed Cuts Key Interest Rate To Between Zero and 0.25%
lol at least you can do that one for free...

Having said that, I saved some money and took two years off to pursue all of my life-interests (mine, in fact, are quite similar to yours) but when it came down to it, I surfed the web, played games, did a small amount of programming and just doddled around all day for the majority of my time off. Then I went back to work.

To me it comes down to one thing: purpose. If you have no specific purpose, you just get caught-up in day-to-day living. The main thing I learned in my two years off is that I can accomplish 99% of what I want to do with my life whether I have a job or not.
The power of representation: Adding powers of two
Uhh . . .
Maybe this writer is unfamiliar with how Africa works.

Rwanda last year exported 250 million USD worth of coltan. Unfamiliar with what coltan is? It's the African name for columbite-tantalite. Still not ringing a bell? Well you can extract niobium and, most importantly, tantalum from it. The same tantalum that facilitates the use of that nice shiny iPhone you probably own. Don't own an iPhone? You still use tantalum, it's in every other cell phone too! As well as your laptop, and DVD player but I digress.

I was talking about the 250 million USD worth of coltan that Rwanda sold on the global market last year. Yeah, a curious thing though, Rwanda does not have any natural deposits of coltan. The only deposits in the area are in DR Congo. Where Rwanda is supporting Tutsi militias to 'protect the people from discrimination'. Someone must have forgotten to tell the people though, because every time the Tutsi militias approach a city, the people flee in terror.

I recently spoke with a Swiss friend of mine who stayed with me for a while after returning from the Congo and before she went back to Lausanne. She works for the UN and had occasion to go meet Laurent NKunda before the rest of the world woke up to what Rwanda was up to. Laurent Nkunda is the leader of these Tutsi 'protectors'. At any rate, as she traveled up the road from the lines of the government troops to Nkunda's, she noticed something at the roadblock he had set up that told her all she needed to know about him. You see, his roadblock was composed of the bodies of his victims, topped with heads.

Now the Americans sail in, and say Rwanda and Congo should negotiate with this man. What?!?! And, if that was not bad enough, we now have people in the West saying we should allow Rwanda to continue to export coltan. Only now we'll make it legal under the guise of free-trade.

OK. Setting aside the crimes against humanity that this man has committed against literally millions of Congolese civilians. How can we reward the violation of another nation's sovereignty for the exploitation of their mineral wealth? What's to stop Nigeria from pulling the same crap in Cameroon for the oil riches? Or Angola from sweeping into Namibia for the diamonds? There are a million potential situations like this on a continent as rich in minerals as Africa. This idea would set a HORRIBLE precedent. I am shocked that the NYTimes would even entertain printing it.

I suppose I'm making too much of it though. This would never happen, the African Union would not support it for just the reasons I outlined above. Still, irks me that someone would present that as a 'solution'.
Interviewing at Facebook? Advice from Facebook’s Engineering Hiring Manager
Probably not. Do people really want to carry around something that's not pocket-sized and can't run general purpose software? Probably not. Do developers want to write an iPhone app AND an app for one of these? Probably not.

With no software, this won't work.

Besides, why pay the Apple tax when all you need is a web browser anyway?
Start with Hello World and try stuff: http://www.javacoffeebreak.com/java101/java101.html
One such ordering is as follow:

1) Head First Java (Edition that covers Java 5)
2) Core Java (optional, latest edition)
3) The Java Programming Language 4th Ed _AND_ Effective Java 2nd Ed

The last resources are somewhat related. Some of the stuffs in TJPL can make EJ clearer and vice versa.
Of course. Whenever I design anything, one of the questions I always ask myself is, "How well will each alternative scale?" And the answer often has dramatic effect on the outcome.

But I don't spend unnecessary money before I have to and if I spend more than 5 or 10 minutes thinking about scaling or optimization, I quickly snap back to reality and focus on my app.

The trick (as in most things) is knowing where to draw the line.