skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post is highly reminiscent of a previous post... http://42floors.com/blog/posts/be-yourself-abnormal-people-c...

The recurring theme is..."Don't be a faker. Don't be a poser."

My two cents is that most of us feel like we got to where we are by "Paying Our Dues" and resent others who seem to jump to the top without making the sacrifices we made.

The real truth is...we all have stories playing in our heads of who we are, and what we accomplished. It is very easy to look across the street and wonder why you had to work so hard, and other seem to just have life handed to them on a silver platter.

The reality is though, we have no idea what challenges they faced and overcame, and more importantly they have no control of how we perceive them.

Seeing a programmer in a suit, upsets you cuz its fake, but it really upsets you because you know it took a heck of a lot more than a suit to get funding. Boy would it suck if he got funding just for wearing a suit.

Seeing a non-coder claim to be a technical founder must suck because you are a real founder, who knows what it really takes, and you feel you have no right to claim you are a technical founder.

The truth is, we can write whatever story we want about ourselves, and you can choose to believe whatever stories you want to about others. None of it really matters...

At the end of the game, "The Pawn and the King both go back in the same box."

I can really relate to how the author feels within other context, but I know that the day I let go of those perspectives, was the day I grew my wings and learn to fly. The day I realized I could be whoever i wanted to be. THe day I realized that no one needs to die to make me king....

MOST IMPORTANTLY... to all you young ones starting out. The folks insisting you need to pay your dues for years and years and one day you will reach the top... Remember, those old folks are your competition, it is in their best interest to keep you down. Sure, their experience and sacrifice counts for something... but if you want to be a technical co-founder, by all means... It's Your Life. Be Whoever You Want to Be.
> a major sign that they're no longer doing what's best for users.

How exactly improving the relevance of the returned results is not the best for their users?

> makes it slower

257 ms here. Not that much compared to the 2 seconds the actual server took to start returning the data.

> hides the true links

The proper URL is the green line under the title. Here it says "www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/Site/pubs-pdf/BC03.pdf".
I do agree that we cannot always challenge the validity of all information we are exposed to. However, in this article I think it is clear the author didn't really do anything to validate his assumptions either, sadly.
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How well does Twitter scale?
I bet that is noisy as fuck. Long traces and no shielding - utter turd. Form should never compromise function.
I think these examples show us how much have internet technologies changed and improved.
For those of you who don't know, weavejester is the creator and maintainer of a few of the more prominent (and, in my opinion, production ready) clojure libraries (thanks!), mostly centered around web serving. His code is concise and chunked into many small functions, abstracting out as much functionality as is possible -- this is the lisp way.

If you've written much clojure (or any other lisp, really) you likely realize that writing massive functions is not a part of the lisp paradigm, and for good reason -- not only are large functions tough to read, but the notion of everything being a function makes it natural to build what are essentially nested function calls into more abstract functional representations.

I understand why Chris has mentioned support for other languages (raising money + support), but anyone who approaches this project should really keep in mind the fact that it is being built with Clojure in mind. I'm sure that, should it be funded and seen to completion, Light Table will provide a rich experience for other languages, but what is most exciting about this project is its potential to truly cater to the needs of a functional programmer. As he correctly states in his introduction, functions are the most often used "block" in functional programming, and editors/IDE's should reflect that and I am hoping Light Table manages to do this.

Regarding the criticism of live code evaluation, I see it as a bit absurd. It should be obvious that the main goal of such an interaction with one's code is not to test functions on live inputs. I see this being most useful in scenarios where the programmer wishes to, say, process strings read in through a socket. Live code evaluation could be immensely useful in a situation in which someone writes their parsing functions and then calls the higher level function on that test input and sees the string progress through their parsing functions, making it much easier to debug. This is just one example.

This response is a bit scattered, as I wrote it piece-wise while cleaning up. Sold as-is.
Are people happy when they fail?
Just look into Stack Overflow.

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/clipper/topusers

It's not as popular as VB6 ;-)

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/vb6/topusers
What kind of data would you need to validate/invalidate your idea?
Damn, unlucky man. What do you think about Crunchyroll? I heard Shinji made a few million dollars last year.
I'm really impressed with LightTable, and I was hoping for a more insightful critique of the project.

The integrated prototyping playground within the app is an excellent idea. Yes, LightTable is borrowing many ideas from WorryDream.com and that is one of the reasons it is so promising.

Anyway, seeing so many people missing the point of this project finally pushed me into sponsoring it on KickStarter.
I can't agree with you there. Outside of Bangkok I don't think you could live exceedingly well for any amount. I know people who have built homes in Chiang Mai that are impressive, but they're still living in Chiang Mai. There's just not a lot going on up there. Maybe if you had something nice on the water in Phuket you could have a good life. But that's not something most non-wealthy or non-retired people will be looking at.

I like living here because although my condo costs a significant percentage of what I paid in SF, it's also 3x bigger. Cars are a lot more expensive but they also hold their resale value much better than in the US. I also never have to cook a meal, wash my car or clean my place. That means I can spend 100% of my time working if I choose to. The value of that can't be stressed enough if you're an obsessive workaholic (like I would imagine a lot of people here are).

Compared to the US, having access to good, low cost health and dental is also great. My wife needed major surgery a while ago and even with her generic coverage-as-a-perk corporate health plan I think we paid 500$ out of pocket for the procedure. This was for a minimally invasive procedure at a private hospital. I can't imagine what it would have cost in the US without additional coverage.
If pricing seems to be a question, just put the project up on the most accurate consumer-pricing a/b simulator of all time[1].

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com
I read that as "the employer pays you 2K or 3K RMB less than what it otherwise would" , not "the employer pays only 2K or 3K RMB per month."
"improve user interface experience (for example, by stopping video playback or slideshow when user switches to another browser tab)."

In general, please don't do that. I might want to listen to the video or check and save a reference from the video in an another browser window. I think there are many uses cases where this kind of automation, especially without ability to disable it, actually hinders usability.
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Sweden has a large scale model of this with a 65cm Earth and a 110m sun, with a total length of over 500 miles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System
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Awesome. Very good idea!
Take all the activities required to build some kind of software. Let's just say, a little website. And let's say you need marketing, sales, design, product management, and coding.

Now, start removing everything and see if you can still build something. Remove marketing? Yep, I can still build it. Sales? Yep. Design? Yep. Product Management? Yep.

Coding? Nope. Can't even build it if you don't have that. The other stuff is definitely important, and it definitely makes or breaks successful businesses, but none of it is essential. Coding is a hard requirement when you want to make software, and if you don't have it, or understand it, then all the other stuff is kind of pointless.

The stupid thing is it's not that hard to learn the basics. It just seems "idea guys" want to be lazy and not learn the essential element of the business they want to enter.
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> a. the student had a legitimate complaint

So what? Why didn't he walk down to the LCSR and ask politely instead of sending a poorly-written nasty e-mail?

> b. the recipient should have just done it instead of wasting time writing that nonsensical response(seriously, it's not even funny)

I would've loved receiving this reply if I were ``USER NAME''. You don't enjoy absurd humor much, do you?

> c. the university seems to find the incompetence of their employees amusing, even 13 years later

One webpage doesn't speak for a university of >30,000.
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I think this makes it simplistic- as an entrepreneur running a growing startup I HATED my failures. I previously ran a startup that didn't make it and I was miserable for a long time...it's hard to accept defeat.

In the digital ecosystem we celebrate failure because if you've never failed, you've never tried. You have to be willing to take the risk and put yourself out there.

The best entrepreneurs I know have also failed- it is very, very rare to hit a homerun the first time out. The article says maybe we should celebrate completing something but a failure is that- a failure to complete the plans for the startup. You didn't complete it, you failed.

And once you fail you can either give up and go back to corporate America with its fake veil of security or you can brush yourself off and start over
From what you wrote I'm getting some feeling that you worry a quite bit about many things. I used to do that too. I was always afraid, what would other people think of me, if I said this or did that.
But a while ago, while trying to find a way to become less shy, I ran into blog of person who works as charisma coach [1]. And when he was talking about starting conversations with people you don't know on the street, he said quite interesting thing about messing up: Either you will have a nice chat or you will have funny story. So in both cases it will go great.
And while I still don't have courage to talk to people on street, I started applying this in the rest of my life. And my life started getting much better, since I stopped to worry so much. I made new friends and got closer with the ones I had and I became happier too.
So, try to enjoy life more and worry less. (:

[1] http://www.yourcharismacoach.com/
A compelling product will make a mediocre name memorable, but not vice versa.

My go to example for this is Google, the largest site in the world. It's a) a joke name b) that almost no-one knows c) and if you know it, it's misspelled! But because it's was head and shoulders above its competitors that garbage name is now part of the vernacular ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/google ).

Other pretty bad names (that we all accept as "good" now): Wikipedia (the hell's a wiki in 2001?), Twitter (what part of that conveys online SMS, or micro-blogging?), Flickr (no e, at least it's not .ly).

I think it's worth looking around for good names, but it's cut-throat out there in .com land, and if you're ever spending more time thinking up names than improving your product you're doing it wrong.

This is all completely ignoring the "search to find" user behavior that is (by my measurements anyway) really really common, even in pretty technical audiences.
I mean, it's great to fail and learn from it, but I don't really agree with

" I think failure has began to be applauded by everyone. Entrepeneurs are starting to be happy when they fail"

Nobody is HAPPY when they fail. It's just something they have to learn from. It's something they CAN learn from, but that doesn't mean they necessarily will. Some people hit a road block and rather than overcome, they just blog about how hard it is. They don't learn, they pretend and cheat their way through. I'm not implying that submitter is doing this, though. I think the industry is learning that it's good to learn from failure, but people need to learn how to do that first.

To be perfectly honest, when I fail, or my projects have to get pushed back because I couldn't finish on time, I don't feel like I'm learning. I feel like shit and just drink. The next day, I go to work same as every day and put my all into it.

In my opinion, it's not about working hard, or necessarily finishing things, or any of that. It's about setting aside all the bullshit and excuses and doing something you decided you were going to do. That ties back to finishing things I suppose, but not in the sense that a complete project is all that matters.

Ya got me ramblin'!
Searching is the one thing I still need to figure out for mutt (I cheat now by sending a copy of everything to gmail just for search). Linkification is handled by the terminal program.
Anyone know about the thermal conductivity of the cured resin? If it's a thermal insulator I wonder if the capacitors might burn out after prolonged use because there's not enough heat dissipation.

Oh, and I want one.
There are 2 distinct threads woven through this discussion. One directly addressing Gmail's redesign which touches mainly on UX and implementation issues. The other being the more perennial debate between desktop vs. web mail clients. I wish HN allowed for comment collapsing at least which would make this and other conversations easier to follow just the threads that are of interest. (Reddit has this, not sure why HN doesn't)
I am most probably wrong, but maybe Computer Science, like Physics has gone past the fast growth phase, which is the most exciting period to work on any subject. Everyone is optimistic and excited, unexpected things happen that hold you pinned to your computer/equations/microscope.
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This is great. Peter Norvig himself answers the Udacity forum queries.
Of course. Concorde was shut down for economic reasons.

But it was also the first interaction of the concept, and built with very inefficient technology. The Space Shuttle flew for the first time 5 years after Concorde began commercial service.

How many improvements have we seen in commercial aviation technology: better engines, better aerodynamics (and CFD), lighter materials, fly-by-wire

If a new SST is ever designed it will probably sill be inefficient, but ahead of the original Concorde. You probably wouldn't need it to go Mach 2 for example, maybe Mach 1.5 saves enough time on a trip to justify it.

Not to mention the issue that Concorde had Economy class seats with First class price.
Again -- and this probably works in your argument's favor -- MS did implement a JDK under a license agreement with Sun, and then violated that agreement by corrupting the JDK specification with incomplete/missing pieces.

MS didn't start work on the .NET VM until they had to abandon their corrupted Java VM under a court order -- the whole reason C# and .NET exists in the first place instead of J++ and the MSVM.
On a side note, I wonder how long he'll remain unemployed with his resume on HN's front page? :)

Maybe this cloud has a silver lining? Pardon the cliche. ;)
The one that jumped at me is Amazon. It's the one that has changed least.
Nice story. Just to get this straight: you went down to only 1 paid day of work? Nice, how do you make things go around?
> The proper URL is the green line under the title.

If the URL is short enough that works fine, but if it's longer you can't copy the URL from there, because Google will insert an ellipsis in the middle of the long URL. For example, an article I was searching for just now shows up on the green line as ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/masters/mcl/content/.../Robinson-CL2000.pdf. Can't copy that, and can't get the original URL from the right-click either!
I have the Galaxy S 2. That is already a great device. I am looking forward to the Galaxy S 3.
That's why I use the "Google/Yandex Search link Fix" Firefox extension.
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Thanks for the feedback everyone. It was working earlier - it looks like it hit some throttling threshold on HN due to the traffic. I will have to wait until the throttling period expires and then enable caching of requests.

Thanks everyone.
This is actually a pretty simple op-amp circuit. The tricky amplifier stuff is all in the OPA2107 chip; everything else is either part of the power supply, or a straightfoward arrangement of resistors and capacitors to get the op-amp to do the right thing.

The really cool part here is the assembly. That thing is very pretty.
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Found this on Inet. Cant figure it all since its in german. But its written about islam, etc.

Connected to psycho-idiot breivik?

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104849340488933629464/posts/RRDv3S2o1Gu
This is what I always have thought to be a huge problem in RESTful API design of all major companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google etc. It is mainly pull-technology. One has to ask the Facebook-server all the time: get a list of friends, get a list of friends, get a list of friends.

I'd love to see an API model based on events and callback URL's.

pseudo, but you'll get the idea:

http://api.facebook.com/event/on-friend-connect?callback=htt...

IMHO, WebServices should communicate in an evented fashion. If I want to draw an umbrella on myserver if it is going to rain in The Netherlands, I don't want to ask the weather server every X minutes: is it going to rain? is it going to rain? is it going to rain?

No, I want:

http://api.weeronline.nl/event/on-weather-change?location=Ut...

pubhubsubbub solves this issue for RSS feeds, but pubhubsubbub is way too narrow to me. I hope evented API's will become the next big thing, enabling developers to create a whole new bunch of awesome products.
Nuclear weapon use is no longer warranted and big nation/states like the US, Russia and China will definately not be using them for any kind of attacks. This Mach-20 glider is for a more targeted attack.
A similar concept is presented in "The Gold Coast" by Robinson, where a hypersonic glider tracks and destroys target using only kinetic energy (no explosives). This also allows you to hit targets in high-density (ie. urban) environments without affecting the surrounding area.
A $15 share of a $100k company is more than 100,000 times larger than a single share of Apple, proportionally.
That quote is referring to the 21+ day holds that paypal puts many eBay sellers through. I know this very well personally having sold a number of items on eBay, where paypal randomly decides that this auction but not that auction will have its payment held for 21 days or 3-4 days after I have confirmed delivery of the item for sale. Where sometimes they don't even release enough money for you to buy shipping for the item.
And another problem is that most of them are not "accredited investors".

From: http://paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html

The SEC defines an "accredited investor" as someone
with over a million dollars in liquid assets or an
income of over $200,000 a year. The regulatory burden
is much lower if a company's shareholders are all
accredited investors. Once you take money from the
general public you're more restricted in what
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The technology for that is not new. And it is not very accurate.
I don't know how the grandparent does it, but I had a period where I only billed 1 week a month. The key was to cut expenses. Dont buy a house, move somewhere small, ditch the cell for google voice, only one car, etc.
HN is refusing the GET requests now. I think they have a daily threshold set for queries. I'm troubleshooting options for working around this now. Most likely it will involve a cron job to pull entries on a set interval and saving those entries to the database instead of retrieving the entries in real-time when users visit the site
That's not the original AltaVista page - as mentioned by the disclaimer in the screengrab, altavista.com was not related to DEC or the AltaVista search engine.

At least when it first opened, it was altavista.digital.com. And that confused people; I'd tell them to go search AltaVista for something and they'd come back confused because they wound up on some e-card site instead.

After Compaq bought DEC and retired the Digital brand, they finally took over altavista.com.
Ha. Now I understand why Facebook said "Google and Apple need to improve their browsers" a few days ago.
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Let's try an experiment. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3875706
To all the people commenting about how "this isn't a big deal" you need to keep in mind the big picture.

A future hiring manager might find this copied/stolen resume, and presume that the OP had copied the staff leasing company's "master programmer"'s resume. Instead of the other way 'round!
WebSockets realise Comet. They’re not an alternative.
If only I had a time machine and a thumb drive filled with a modern web stack. :) for some reason my memory was much more kind to these sites than the reality, except GeoCities.. I remember thinking it looked terrible "back in the day"
There's a difference between an excuse and a reason. The author does not seem to understand that.
Agreed. I plan to add comments over the next couple of days (once I get things working to the extent that HN will not block the GET requests due to traffic)
You aren't really addressing his main point about market size other than saying there are people that would pay quite a bit for this, even if they're not audiophiles. I have no idea what this does, or why I would want it, and I'm fairly confident I'm not alone there.

How many people want or even know what this thing does?

How many of those people will think this product is so much better than what they have that a clear version is worth spending $100s of dollars on?

It could be that the market is huge and I just do not understand it, but you didn't really help us understand how big it is either. To me, "a killing" seems like a stretch.
Well, there's also the possibility that they value the good or service at exactly what they paid (eg. a first-price auction), and complications from information uncertainty (eg. "Buyer's Remorse"). I'd say these are a minority of transactions, though: if everybody felt shitty every time they bought something, they wouldn't buy things for very long.
Colleges where your team has some connection are great. Especially if they aren't Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, or Harvard.
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Hm, it seems strange though that they're not keeping the old interface, which is what many people were using Gmail in the first place (even if their target group prefers the new interface.) Come to think of it, it's also kind of sad that HN users are obviously not their target group...
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