skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I hate inconveniences of travelling and after I have travelled I quickly forget almost all of the things I've seen or experienced. Nearly same amount of memories remain in my head regardless of whether I've been into 3 or 30 places."

Not me. Are you traveling to the same areas? I can certainly say traveling through China gave me many new and interesting memories.

"You don't buy kids. Kids happen. If I had kids then probably I'd need more money than I do now, but kids didn't happen to me yet."

yeah, well, that's not a good way to think. The people that I know that just let kids 'happen' now have very little options because they have an extra mouth to feed without thinking about the extra income that this requires. It's also not a good thing to bring a kid into the world only to live at or below the poverty line. Another consequence of letting kids "happen".

"Every hobby also requires time. And time is neatly eaten up by all my hobbies that don't require money and by some work I do."

So you your work is your hobby. This is fine. But it's not the case for a lot of other people. Work has also been my hobby for 15 years, but there are so many other things that I've found in the last couple of years that require money.

Aside from programming and exercising, most hobbies require money.

"Especially because to fund the new hobby I'd have to increase time devoted to work and reduce time devoted to current hobbies further."

This is why I only get into businesses where my time is not directly proportional to the money I make. It's a losing battle.

"My freedom does not require a lot of money. I'm 33 and I never had a boss."

It's because you're living like a 21 year-old. It's fun, but loses it's appeal after awhile.

"I could travel much more than I like. I could get a house. I could replace my hobbies with new paid ones. I could have kids. But isn't this a bit much to just get "money hunger"? I want to increase my motivation but not at the cost of doing things that would tire me to tears."

I feel like this is like trying to describe an emotion to someone that has never felt one.

In addition to the freedom that money provides, I also want to help out people in my family that are less fortunate/don't have as many opportunities.
Some choices certainly make more sense for web hosters than run-of-the-mill Python dev shops.
Total control is an optical illusion. Even with books you'll have printing defects, bad lighting in readers room, coffee cup rounds, and so on. A solid design is the one that can survive in worst environment. It do not have to be pretty, pretty is optional and often not really desirable (Mona Lisa is not pretty is she?)
It's very interesting to read your second paragraph and then follow it up by reading about Hungry Academy: http://hungryacademy.com/

Essentially, Living Social has done just this. They decided that the talent pool was thin, and the usual means of finding new hires weren't cutting it, so they mixed a bit of unconventional hiring with a dash of unconventional education and came up with the Hungry Academy. It will be interesting to see if this is a continuing trend, though I can't say I exactly relish the idea of corporate sponsored higher education as the new norm.
Nicely done and inspirational. Thanks for the post on your blog and for putting it here so I would find it.
>An infection implies invasion

A willful infection is still an infection. Whereby an invsasion is always unwanted. You can't willfully invade your own code, but you can willfully infect it - whether that be with other code, or licenses.

But now we're getting into semantics..
I've been using Parse for a month or so and I've been really impressed by how powerful the platform is, and the rate at which they are adding features and libraries. I also have to say they have some great customer service and take bug reports and feature requests seriously and professionally. I have yet to deploy with them, so I can't speak about performance or scalability, but if anyone is interested I could document my journey. Kudos to the Parse team!
It works in Ruby because it works in Perl. :)

A little known fact is that it works in C++ STL too as long as the objects in your containers have default constructors that make sense. So a map<int, map<int, value_type> > does what you expect when you try: my_map[12][3] = some_value;
Google is realizing what so many other companies have discovered -- when you grow large enough to get on the government radar, the government can have huge effects on a business.

Consider this -- what will affect Google's bottom line more tweaking their ad algorithms to slightly increase efficiency or legislation outlawing targeting ads based on specific user behavior?

How about slightly better search results or anti-trust action because of their search "monopoly"?

A slightly better Android OS or patent lawsuits that cause royalties be paid on every single phone sold?

By and large companies invest in actions that most affect the bottom line. A dollar spent on lobbying is a dollar not spent on R&D, operations, support, HR, etc. When you see any company doing a lot of lobbying instead of developing better products and services, there is a reason.
Flickr releases new uploader with drag and drop
Nailed it. The current one looks nicer, but the redesign works better.
Infosys Being Investigated by U.S. Homeland Security Dept.
I was really excited about this until I realized you're linking straight to your kickstarter page. You lost me.
I don't see anything wrong with it. Get rid of the copy, replace the images, put it on ThemeForest. What's the difference? He has all the rights to the new designs.
These days I do not code a website to begin with. I create web services(REST/JSON) first and then code a native app to access it if my use case fits mobile better. If I need a website, then I implement it by calling the same web services. I believe the web as we know (of front end data handling) will surely die. It will be replaced by headless (UI less) services web. As users migrate to mobile/tablet devices, and new mobile capabilities (touch, location, context etc.) are accessible, many traditional web use cases need to be redefined to optimize for new form factor and to exploit the new capabilities. This will make many new start ups follow a mobile first approach (a la instagram). Web sites will be required for few use cases that requires heavy data entry and extremely complex UIs. And probably the 80:20 rule will apply. Websites has been built on duct tape technologies for long, and today's mobile development platforms are way too sophisticated and easy to design, code and debug. Yes you don't get the cross platform compatibility - but is it really that important as it is made out to be?

If I am a start up, I will try to iterate on a single platform ( a la instagram) and get my product right. Then I can move to new platforms - It takes more effort to get the product right than implementing it on several platforms. If my product is successful, supporting that on a new platform will take 1% of the money I could raise and effort. Who cares a hoot if you have a half baked product released at once on 100 platforms?
Build something. You are not too old. Ignore your own negativity.

I'm not writing this not as someone who's "made it", but as someone who will.
You misunderstand. This was how modern web applications are written. I know very few people who write modern web apps but do not use Chrome for it. The reason is that Webkit has the best tools. Cross-browser independence isn't the point, since when I'm developing I'm using only one set of tools.
You didn't watch the video did you? They have the API that allows you to easily create REAL NATIVE TOOLBARS...
I've got a preprocessor (ruby) in my zsh dotfiles:

https://github.com/halostatue/dotfiles

I've been slowly moving toward a 'detect-and-configure' plug-in system that I'm quite happy with.
Hangul is an astonishingly good alphabet. If it has a problem it's that it's too tightly coupled to its host language.

as codyrobbins already alluded to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3881388

it expresses the particulars of Korean extremely well, while only so-so mapping to the particulars of other languages. English, as a common example, is a mess in Hangul. It's readable, sometimes with a bit of effort, but completely obliterates certain sounds that have important meanings, or is forced to add other sounds where there simply is none in English (consonant consonant groupings in English end up rendered as consonant vowel consonant in many cases, usually with the all purpose ㅡ (eu) vowel).

I've also long wondered how much of the verbal features of modern Korean is merely a reflection of written Hangul. Much like how English speakers will overemphasize the 't' in 'water' when the spoken form is really a soft 'd'. The hard coupling of spoken Korean to Hangul may help overemphasize certain language features that may not have existed in earlier forms.

Despite all this there's an effort to try and adapt Hangul to languages with similar vowel consonant features. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cia-Cia_language

If you think that's strange, regard Latin, Greek, Arabic and Chinese w/r to Western Europe, Eastern Europe & Russia, the Middle East and Central Asia and East Asia respectively.

Some other interesting notes, modern Hangul is a little simpler than the original form. There's quite a few consonants that have been dropped, and various consonant clusters (many of which make more sense when transliterating foreign languages into Korean as noted above, so it's sad they're gone). However, this makes learning it far easier.

It's alleged that King Sejong created and funded what we'd know today as a linguistic R&D program as a way of improving literacy and education in the country after a plague killed a great number of his subjects. The connection? A treatment for the plague was printed and disseminated throughout the country but the low literacy rate (you had to know how to read and speak Chinese to understand the information) resulted in low adoption of the treatment.

However, for quite some time (a few hundred years) it was overcome by politics and never adopted as the official written form of the language, not really being standardized or formalized to fit the modern dialect until the early 20th century!

It's really worthwhile to learn it if you travel to Korea, or even live in an area with a large Korean population. Why? Once you learn the names of a few foods, it's much easier to read them in Hangul and learning new words (and how to pronounce them) is much easier than learning them via transliteration.
What's up with all the Coding Horror posts on HN lately? Has the userbase of the site really slid to that point? I'd even prefer Daring Fireball to this...
The source of the ZDNet article is a bit less sensational sounding:

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/221977-g...

>"They've been helpful and supportive of trying to find the right language in the bill," Rogers said, adding that Google wants to protect consumers' privacy and prevent regulation of the Internet.

It makes sense that they'd try to get in during the drafting phase instead of being on the outside looking in, ala SOPA.
Does Open Source development suggest Cross Platform?
Any recommendations for someone who isn't familiar with FP at all?

Thanks!
> The logic is for things like daemons or infrequently used processes that wake up maybe once a day. They don't need to be in ram all the time needlessly. So swapping out their memory that hasn't been used for N hours isn't a bad thing.

It is, actually. I find such things unacceptable, be they on desktop or server use cases. I put as much or far more RAM in my systems than they will need, and I expect nothing to be swapped until it's actually full. Many other people do as well, which is why the Linux kernel devs finally started fixing the stupidity several years ago. Time for OS X to catch up.
> It's much more work than the 26 latin characters, but most of the font design is going to be copy/paste.

Not quite. While the minimal Hangul font design requires two sets of initial consonants, one set of vowels and two sets of final consonants (often called 2x1x2), it would be very quirky. Many bitmap fonts used the 8x4x8 design or its variant, the commercially available TrueType/OpenType fonts now have more than 30 sets of subtly differing glyphs. It is easier than drawing all 11,172+ glyphs but not much.
Plug: you can also use http://domainical.org/ to create auto-updating iCal feeds of your domain and SSL certificate expiration dates.
Awesome. The thread is more informative and entertaining than the article! This is Hacker News!
I see this attitude persistently reoccur in developers everywhere. Perhaps owing to their more academic interests, developers were punished for their perceived arrogance when younger and have now learned to adopt a mentality of weakness. As if somehow learning to code was some sort of cosmic mistake on your behalf? You're fortunate? Really? "Oh yeah, my professional success is luck, I was out drinking one night and woke up the next day writing compilers!".

No, I refuse to accept that notion. It may not be 'politically correct' to say this, but I believe you are to a very large extent responsible for your personal success and failures (At least growing up in the industrial world). The radical success of large population groups in countries with virtually no natural resources (Japan) and abject failure of countries more resource blessed than any other (Congo) is more than enough statistical evidence to support the notion that, yes, planning and hard work fixes hard luck.

But to address your Music jab, let me tell you a story.

A good friend of mine is named Max, he's only a few months older than me and it's certainly true that he is very passionate about music, he lives for it you could say. He is one of the hardest working people I know. He possesses no special skill, in fact, he just started learning to play guitar. However, he wanted to be involved very badly, so much so that he worked hard to learn to program and hustled by writing artistic music apps. That little bit of hustle and horizontal thinking got him far, really far. Now he plays with the eminent artist Bjork and regularly posts pictures of living the dream (At least of many 20 year old boys :). He was just playing on the Colbert Show on January 30th! Through hard work and intellectual pursuit, he has succeeded where so many others have failed, without connections and without privilege.

I also have two other friends, whose names you will not know and probably will never know who play many instruments quite well, both coming from decidedly upper middle class backgrounds, both of course claiming to have worked very hard, but all and all did nothing meaningful throughout my entire time knowing them. One of them is an English Major, the other a Nissan Lot Technician in Arizona.

Sure, you might be saying, "Oh, great, yet another anecdote", but I have a feeling that eventually you're going to see so many anecdotes that they stop being anecdotes.
Commandments for choosing a co-founder
Hardly.

If you've paid for CS5.5 Master Collection, your total upgrade cost is $549.

Even if you've only paid for CS2 Design Standard, the upgrade cost is $1399.

Considering a two-year subscription cycle costs $1200-$1900, it's more cost effective to upgrade.

If you're short term, subscriptions are probably ok. But if you're committed long term they're a HUGE risk.
Where I currently work (a stealth mode startup), we currently have a data aggregation engine running on between 20 and 120 instances. We take advantage of the ability to spin up instances quickly, not in response to a spike in traffic (since we don't have any yet), but in response to the size of the queue of jobs (which varies depending on what we've collected). We only need 120 running for an hour or so, then we terminate them. The cost savings we get is from not having to run 120 physical boxes all the time, and there is no downside if the queue grows a little while new instances spin up.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this mis/near-mapping of phoneme sets can easily result in fantastic corruptions of words as they migrate through various language "lenses" then when reintroduced to their origins sound nothing like the original word!

e.g. Moving through a couple cultures...
r->l->n and b->p->f or b->v->w might turn "rollerblade" into "lolaweulad"
Why We Don't Support the Kickstarter 100% Model (Yet)
The first problem will go away on Jan. 1, 2014, if healthcare reform doesn't get repealed or overturned by the Supreme Court.
"The biggest mistake of most Chinese learners is taking tones too seriously. Really, they aren't that important."

One of my friends, who is native Chinese insisted the tones are critical. I asked her how they understand lyrics in music since the tones get dropped in favor of the melody.

Turns out the tones aren't that critical.
I get that you want to make a joke.

I also think you need to understand it's not a joke. The fact that there exists "kick a ginger day" [0] is proof that it's not a joke. Abuse is not funny, ever.

[0] http://laist.com/2009/11/24/kick_a_ginger_day_spawned_at_lea...
Show HN: The coolest little calculator you ever did see.
A spent a few days designing and programming a calculator app that I thought would be intuitive and simple. It utilizes a single gesture control as well as shake detection. It's free for iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/numbrs/id517346105?mt=8

If you download it, let me know what you think.
You can change your profile to not launch a new login shell for each window/terminal, but that might cause other issues.
I wouldn't call it waste. I would call it overhead, which is very different than waste.
Bash-it (oh-my-zsh for bash)
It also helps with being able to read menus and direction signs and such as the transliteration into English can be spotty.
Why Megaupload's Kim Dotcom Might Walk Free
Show HN - Focus on what matters most in your life [iOS app]
"a problem in displaying orders and deals in the main stock market section."

well, i guess that's the last time we let Groupon manage the russian stock market...
Gucci cheap
Pat Helland - Idempotence Is Not a Medical Condition
He is not talking about disk cache, disk cache is accounted for separately, he's talking about actual memory being allocated by the kernel_task process. It's been obvious since Lion came out that there's a problem, and so far Apple hasn't fixed it.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2042520 1816496 226024 0 294344 486908
-/+ buffers/cache: 1035244 1007276
Swap: 4194300 8172 4186128

I don't know what you are using to view your memory usage, but any decent tool should give you at least the information that `free` does (see above).
I'm not really familiar with the subject, but, I think you're going to want to start talking with the homeopathic sites and getting links from them. Going direct to affiliate programs in addition to adsense is going to benefit you as well - connectcommerce, linkshare, cj.com, etc. It'll take time to find products that have affiliate links that you're mentioning. Make sure you read the adsense terms carefully. There are restrictions as to what you can run in conjunction.

Are there books you can refer to? bn.com and amazon.com have decent affiliate programs - amazon is a bit easier as you have a lot more than just books that you can promote. If you review books and provide recommendations from your 'library', you might be able to make that work.

However, none of these are short term fixes. And you're probably not in a position to do arbitrage. You might look at the terms that are related to CF and use those keywords to build your articles around.

I don't think you could start today and have a good chance of bringing in much more than $20-$50 in the next 30 days, but, most payouts don't occur until you reach $100, 30 days after the period, etc. which suggests 90-120 days before you would be likely to see a first check.

kickstarter, kiva, gofundme and a number of other sites might also be reasonable.

Kickstarter - perhaps ask for funding to create an alternative/homeopathic CF site. Kiva is a crowdsourced loan site, gofundme is more of a 'donate to this person in need'.

Alternatively, are there health sites that would hire you as an author, or, could you leverage one of those sites as a free contributor and push traffic back to your site?
Unfortunately that smart guy too has been pigeon holed, and it's no surprise he could sum up my post in a sentence, lol. :)
Again, I disagree. It is full of people who embrace the leading edge. Just look at the IronRuby early adopters, or the folks who embraced WCF and WPF. This seems like your perception of thingS, not reality.
Still, the MAD doctrine won't prevent this war. The damage is spread across periods too long to effectively prevent lawsuits. Or innovation. It will just raise entry barriers and prevent small players from entering the market (or impose additional costs when they become large enough).
Agile: Physical card wall is injurious to health of the project
> Ideally there is a one-to-one mapping between text and speech.

Ideally, yes, in the sense that if you were to create an artificial language, you would strive for that (at the beginning at least).

In practice, the speech->text direction isn't nearly as important as text->speech when learning a second language. If you aren't immersed in the environment of the target language, you have to rely on texts in order to acquire vocabulary. And a messy script like English makes that very hard (although not as hard as Japanese). I've been learning English for years and can pass an English proficiency test with a perfect score, but I still make basic mistakes in pronunciation.