skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Strongly.

Following your dreams, not working too much, spending time with family and friends, saying what you think, and being happy, might belong at the top of Paul Graham's todo list. He's already succeeded at what most people struggle at: making a living. He may have forgotten that getting by is hard.

What's so wrong about being a "cog in a machine"? Large organizations exist partly because scale and specialization are useful. People aren't "cogs" out of perversity, but practicality. Sometimes your comparative advantage is in being a good cog. And sometimes being a good cog is admirable. Example: surgeons who specialize in one and only one procedure, doing it exactly the same way every time, have a low failure rate. They save more lives that way. Are they creative? Nope. They follow somebody else's rules. They make themselves as mechanical, as repetitive, as possible. And the guy on the operating table lives.

Paul Graham is in a very unusual profession, where risk-taking is much more of an ideal than it is anywhere else. Also notice that he makes money off of telling other people to take risks. The more people decide to be entrepreneurs, the wider a pool he has to draw from. "Follow your dreams" is a useful meme for people like that; if a hundred people follow their dreams and fail and ruin their lives, PG never hears about it, but if one person follows his dreams and becomes a billionaire, PG might get a share. This isn't meant to vilify the guy; there's nothing wrong with making a living by inspiring people. And I'm sure he would say that he's fighting dangerous opposing memes against ever taking risks. I just think you can't take posts like this at face value.
websites are an experience good. build some sliver of your vision to test the water. eventually youre gong to have to build your product, so any time spent doing something other than that is waste.

just do it. youll be happy you did
I created an account just for this: I dated Clara's sister for 7 years, and I still run into her brother occasionally, from the other side of the country.

Pointless post is pointless.
CSS property background-size (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/background-size) has contain and cover properties, which will scale the image to fit its container.
API design requires much skill and foresight. As you said:

Designing a good API is one of the most difficult skills to acquire in all of software development.

However, the yardstick for copyrightability remains creativity (among other things). Some tangible work that was formed by the "sweat of one's brow" is not necessarily copyrightable, unless it was done creatively by the sweat of one's brow. Feist v. Rural [1] is the common case to cite here, where it was decided that telephone books were not creative, and thus not copyrightable, despite the effort that went into creating them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
The first generation of Java programmers were C++ refugees from the 90s. While C++ has advanced a little since then, it really hasn't changed that much.

You should have a look at C++11 if you haven't already.
boxun's manager claims that the attack was ordered by China's security service.
name.com is a US company and boxun.com is also a US website.

Why is the US government not doing anything to stop the attackers ?
Is it undocumented that the MBPs can handle up to 16GB of RAM? According to apple, they all can only go up to 8GB (or 4 for older models).

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1270?viewlocale=en_US
So are technologists and computer scientists not intellectuals these days?
I quite like the new design, and I've been using it since it was in "beta" a couple of months ago.

It certainly provided a couple of frustrating days before I got used to it, but I find it much more soft on the eyes - to me the old layout now looks pretty harsh; giving the impression of being just "functional".

A lot of non-technical folks I work (and live!) with find the new design much, much more pleasing. Bear in mind these are the folks that use hotmail, yahoo etc - so they really are after the "eye candy" more than the functionality; and with google's new social push I can assume this is now the target audience.

My only complaint would be about the icons; regardless of wether you've used Gmail before - you will get caught out; a few days ago it took me a good few minutes before I could find out how to get to my contacts.
Here are some relevant papers from Henry Baker on garbage collection:

Lively Linear Lisp -- 'Look Ma, No Garbage!
http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LinearLisp.html

NREVERSAL of Fortune[1] -- The Thermodynamics of Garbage Collection
http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ReverseGC.html
Thanks for the tip. I'll look them up next time I'm in NYC.
Agreed, here's more evidence of the cost differences: http://blog.shopforcloud.com/2012/02/holy-cow-rackspace-uk-c...

You can use http://www.ShopForCloud.com to do other similar comparisons.
Well, I can imagine there's a lot of web designers who would love to take a shot at working on the physics engine for the next Portal game. Or play testers that would rather be actually doing development on the games. It would be interesting to see how people are cajoled into doing "lesser" jobs.
I'm oddly attracted to the existing design of Hacker News. It suits the community and purpose of the site well. It's aesthetically spartan, yet functional.

SIMPLE COLOR SCHEME: it's very simple with just one prominent color and the rest black, white, and shades of gray (I count the cream background in this).

INTUITIVE: The front page is a list of links sorted by some measurement of popularity or quality. While you may not notice this upon first glance, it's something you appreciate, and you at least take away "better stuff gets pushed up".

EFFICIENT: You can immediately see the number of comments a story has before you click through. I tend to migrate more towards stories with lively discussion, rather than the highest stories in the sort.

FAST: The whole front page is 29 KB, and I can do an uncached load in 1 second. There are only 3 images which collectively amount to less than half a KB.
My biggest new-Gmail-design pet-peeve is that the Display Density setting is only respected if your browser window is wide enough.

I prefer the "Comfortable" setting. I have a 22" monitor at 1680x1050, but I don't have my browser window maximized (it only takes up 65-75% of the screen width).

So, GMail has helpfully reduced my display density to "Cozy", ignoring my setting.

As far as I know, there's no way to "fix" this; it's a known issue but there's no workaround other than making my browser window wider.
People that make projects using pip need to explain how to install pip. It doesn't come with Mac or Ubuntu by default. I know what the package is for Ubuntu but Mac, I have no idea.

EDIT: after 5 minutes of Googling since "PIP" is a common acronym that stands for a bunch of things, you can install it on Mac via `easy_install` which comes on it by default.

`sudo easy_install pip`
> actually watched traffic leaving their AS for such attacks (they're relatively easy to identify)

Are they? Are you talking about a trivial "let's use the whole bandwidth everywhere" attack, or a more sophisticated "find a bug in website X and make every visitor do one request to DDOS target" class? While any brute-force attack is easy to spot, how do you propose dealing with well organised attack relying on involving random unsuspecting users? (suppose you don't have the Referer header like in the website attack scenario)

Of course this depends on the destination. If you want to DDOS the network, you need lots of traffic and a small, well organised attack may not be possible. But if you want to kill someone running a couple of servers on a 100mb connection, that's trivial.
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Mondo rad!
"How about electrons?"

(Just wait. It'll happen.)
One insurmountable problem I see with advancing mass transport is that people simply aren't willing to spend as much on public transport than they are cars because they believe they have an equity investment in the car. Most people I know get upset spending any more $75-100/mo on a monthly transit pass, but are willing to pay $400/mo on car expenses since they "own" the car. As a result, I don't think really good systems will ever emerge except for where there is massive subsidization, and even those cases suck. For instance a few years ago when I looked San Francisco MTA had a budget of $750MM but only sold $110MM in tickets. The only bright spot I see are company run shuttles.

The other problem I see is that most people appear to be irrationally scared of cycling in cities/urban areas, even though most city cycling occurs at really slow speeds. I have been a cyclist in San Francisco for five years with only a few minor incidents. Whenever I talk to people who aren't cyclists about commuting in the city, they often respond as if I have an impending death clock over my head.

For people who think cycling is a major health boon: it really isn't unless you're commuting >5mi/each way or doing a lot of climbs. It's not that hard most of the time. I get way more out of a 30-40minute/run or squats in the gym.
I stopped using it and moved to Mail.app. I cannot stand in-page scrolling.
There's also an app that's a proper port (though not very full-featured).
http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/23/vim-for-ipad-iphone/

But there's a big problem, even if you have a physical keyboard: No escape key. Oh well, I live in hope.
"Sorry, but we can't stomach the risk of being seen as forcing you to divulge information that was acquired under an NDA. It just isn't worthwhile for us to risk the lawsuits."
Seems reasonable to me. Your algorithm generated too much garbage, so you made a version that generates less. I might take issue with the implementation depending in how you went about it, but it's conceptually a sound technique.
A Solution for “The Parent Problem”
To those interested in how it works, I followed a few links, and found their instructions for their kit: http://www.instructables.com/id/USB-Typewriter/?ALLSTEPS
You should actually read the details page before criticizing the project. It does none of the things you say. In fact the technique is very similar to the one detailed in the ALA article.
I can agree with parts of it, but I still think Google should pay Oracle for licensing Java. They copied the entire API so they could leverage the entire Java ecosystem, I think that's quite unfair to Oracle. Oracle is not suing microsoft for implementing their own .NET VM.
You appear to be using the word "regressive" to indicate both tax regimes where the poor pay more, proportionally, than the rich (which is what the word means in this context) and tax regimes where the poor pay less than the rich (which is called progressive). This is making it extremely difficult to understand what you're trying to say.

Why doesn't looking at tax / wages make sense in this system? The correct metric used to evaluate the fairness of a system doesn't depend on the system. It makes little sense to me that I would get net money from the government if I made $10 million in a year but managed to only spend $2,000 of it on taxable items (perhaps while spending the rest on non-taxed items like used houses and such).
What are the advantages of this over other frameworks?
The lights in the windows are custom fabbed PCBs, completely independent of the building lights.
> Correlation between "being good at math" and being a successful developer - basically zero.

I suspect you have a very limited (that is, "it's all arithmetic") notion of what math is. You cannot develop software without some kind of mathematical thinking.
Try http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html
It sounds like in this case 'intellectuals' is another word for 'media creators who don't understand the internet'.
What a great read. Do you guys know if there are other companies that have handbooks available for the public?
Thanks, I know about the basic HTML site. It's not a worthwhile tradeoff for me, though. The basic site is literally worse than the 2003 version.
I agree. Really makes me wonder if all their themes have been made by developers (like me). 'Work of a 5 year old', exactly.
An API is not a compilation of facts, though. The specific names in an API and their relationships to each other seem like a creative work. There is no pre-existing fact that requires, for instance, that java.lang.String has several overloads of a lastIndexOf method that take the particular arguments that they do. Someone invented that.

It may be that APIs are not copyrightable subject matter, or that there is some general defense based on fair use or interoperability, but I don't think it can be argued that creating an API is not a creative act.
Make sure to check whether the perpetrator set up a forwarding address for all your e-mails as well.
A year or two ago I got tired of my email UI changing every week, so I switched to the "plain HTML" view. It's not as fast or smooth or javascript-y but I don't think it's changed a bit in years.
Can someone explain how the system communicates from a high level?
Well my team and I have been working on AppScale for the past 3-4 years to do away with the lock-in for GAE. They iterate pretty fast on their platform, so we're always playing catch up.
Eucalyptus and AWS did recently partner, so AWS has come around to supporting other implementations of their API. The EC2 API getting further reach is a good thing in my opinion for AWS even if they aren't directly making money off of it. Google has been cognizant of this from the beginning and hence why they helped fund AppScale.
Well, except that gmail.com offers much more customization than any desktop email client.
The 9/11 hack was the first test of the same lights used for Tetris.
I'm surprised none of the redesigns I've seen try to create a better mobile experience.
Well if intellectuals say something then it must be true. I don't think an intellectual has ever been wrong before and especially not en masse.

This article should be retitled: "People who think they benefit from copyright are against the party that wants to abolish it"
All those models look fantastic, don't know if I would go for something like that but still what a great project.
It is probably quite rare already, and getting more so, but if you had to work with an older content creator that felt most comfortable using their trusted mechanical typewriter, this might actually be useful.
No, not at all, not here. Well, of course some are, and maybe the german connotation is different. But an intellectual may very well be anti-technological, but a computer scientist don't have to be intellectual. For example, the cliche(!) computer scientist doesn't read the high literature or makes philosophical statements about the state of society (i know that some do, but that's not necessarily the image the majority of society has).
The easiest example of this can be seen in one of his comments upthread:

> (pg): Sort of. More like working very hard till you achieve financial independence, after which you can do whatever you want. You don't have to stop working; you just never have to work on anyone else's terms.

He states that as if anybody but an extremely lucky few can achieve "financial independence" (his words) before 60. One can say he was speaking to a particular audience, but in truth, the overwhelming majority of folks on HN aren't retiring early either.

It all comes across as wildly out of touch. If it were anyone else, I'd say the new bubble had blinded the author, but pg's been around since before the last bubble. Perhaps shepherding young people through the new bubble is a blinding force as well.
No, it was more likely in relation to 5:01. See the various articles this past week about the "501 manifesto".
I'm not sure I understand. Most desktop email clients have _very_ limited customizability.
My only advice would be: work hard, play hard. It sounds like you've got the work hard part down pat. Take at least a couple weeks off a year. 50 weeks at 12+ hours a day of work is more than 99% of people do. Spend at least 2 weeks at 0 hours a day of work unwinding with your friends on a vacation. Your work will still be there when you get back, and you'll have renewed enthusiasm for it.
Well, except for emacs/gnus :-)
Do you have a recommendation for an iPad ssh client?
Its not just GMAIL. Google analytics is painfully ugly. The first screen before showed a list of all the sites and traffic. Now it shows just the list of accounts. Its awful. There is no way anymore to use the classic design.

Also, once I am in google analytics it is just a UI mess. They cram every feature possible and make it unintelligible. They are ruining the UI for gmail,google search and google analytics.
Hunter S. Thompson is the only one who had it right.

> Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
For future readers: Mentioned diagramming programs/apps

http://www.diagram.ly (based on mxGraph, a javascript lib)

http://www.lucidchart.com/

http://www.gliffy.com/ (requires flash)

https://www.circuitlab.com/

http://www.umlet.com/ (download)

http://www.flowchart.com

http://docs.google.com (drawings not diagrams)

gojs.net (still in private alpha)

I'd add that I've tried:

http://www.lovelycharts.com

http://www.cacoo.com (flash)
This is pretty much the flavor of many unsolicited emails CS students get. Hence, Whartonite Seeks Code Monkey: http://whartoniteseekscodemonkey.tumblr.com/

However, a lot of the people I talk to are through referrals, and they tend to be significantly more qualified. I've found that the distinction usually comes down to whether the founder considers "technology" to be the industry (e.g. I want to be the million-and-first person to create a friend-finding activity-discovering advertising-supported geolocation app) or whether technology is viewed as enabling advancements in other industries (e.g. I want to build Kickstarter for student loans).
In related news:

Google-Sun court docs reveal long Java licensing dance

For more than five years, Google sought to license Java or acquire rights to the language before Sun got into the hands of Oracle or IBM.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57417898-94/google-sun-cour...
I don't like change.

That said, any browser-based alternatives?
Sadly for me I dislike the High contrast theme as much as the new default one.
Bioengineers in the Netherlands are now growing meat in a laboratory
The ones that I noticed in my eval of rackspace

1) internal traffic between boxes at rackspace is on the public network unless you setup ipsec/ssl
http://serverfault.com/questions/184655/suggestions-for-vpn-...

2) Definite lack of firewalls and no deep packet inspection

3) No free micro tier for testing/dev

Others:

a) I don't like all the naming conventions of AWS - reminds me of Starbucks where a small is "tall"

b) Neither seem to offer IDS out of the box and/or outgoing firewalls although one can set-up snort/sourcefire (AWS offers this)
https://aws.amazon.com/solution-providers/isv/sourcefire

c) No two factor authentication services out of the box for application authentication(need to use yubikey/duo security)
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I take everything I read anywhere on the Internet with a grain of salt.
It took my months of using the new design before I realized this. My impression before was simply that the design was “broken” on my desktop computer until one day I resized the window and discovered this issue.
'intellectual' has the whiff of the pejorative in most places these days. And has for quite a while.
And the competition is heating up

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/openstack-vs-cloudstac...
I'd like to play this... sounds like a ton of fun.

However, not sure it qualifies as a hack. Installation of colored lights in the rooms, and linking them to a PC/microcontroller sounds more like a lot of electrician grunt work than a hack.

If they tapped into the existing electric infrastructure, on the other hand...
Didn't we go through all of this once before? Back when people were saying "This is 2002, not 1999"?

I wasn't old enough to actually experience it, but I'm sure it was actually exactly like that. Job scarcity comes in cycles, but, assuming civilization doesn't collapse, tech jobs should be pretty safe ... forever.
The original article(s) were better (and Spiegel translated them to English and put them up on its International section):

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,827877,00...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,828588,...

Also note that Spiegel isn't just a German magazine, it's probably the most influential news magazine in Germany (circulation of over a million, compared to e.g. 1.5 million for The Economist or Newsweek).
Agreed, however my wake up alarm its named "Now or Never".
Now I know why they made Half-Life the way they did. Gordon Freeman feels exactly the way you would feel when you start working at Valve.
If you read up on the it, you'll see that this creates the images on the fly and you can specify a time for it to cache them. You don't have to be constantly recreating the images.
I've seen one of the modules. There seems to be wirelessly controlled custom PCBs in each window.
I had the exact same idea and have been planning on doing this on a building in Pittsburgh. Now I feel like I would just be a copy cat if I did. :-/
The caption on the blog (unseen before you notice the ribbon, and unreadable before you select it) should be on the main page. http://i.imgur.com/KyRQD.png
Ti$a hats
On the other hand, if you don't like one you can get any other that fits your bill.
Namespaced Constants and Functions in C
Just use thunderbird if you're on a desktop or laptop (ie. not an ios or android device, although I'm sure they have equivalents).

I recommend installing muttator, the equivalent of vimperator for thunderbird. It will make the time you spend with email much more efficient.
When I read this headline, I assumed Google had redesigned it again... didn't realise people were still using the old design.

Personally, the redesign pushed me back to Thunderbird and I ended up deleting thousands of emails. It was quite liberating.
I don't buy the idea that most of the employees at valve don't want to dominate all the projects and their coworkers.

I'm pretty sure I don't want to dominate my coworkers, so I find it easy to believe there are others who don't want that either. In fact, a coworker who wanted to dominate me would be a highly unpleasant coworker.

"Co-" means "together". There are other forms of human relationship besides master/slave.
You are correct that it is cheaper and easier to just give back, but that is generally true and isn't unique to the GPL. There are a great number of companies using the BSDs as the basis for their embedded projects, and they contribute their enhancements and bug fixes precisely because it is less expensive over time to do that than to keep those changes proprietary.

The USL lawsuit is what hampered the BSDs early on, and allowed Linux to get so much traction in mindshare, not the license.
Why should you get it back? Incompetence should be punished.
I am amazed at the amount people spend no cars but again be wary of the thought that this inherent to cars.
It's about culture and keeping up with the Joneses.
My 15 year old 4 cylinder car costs not a lot to run and takes me everywhere. You can prise out of my cold dead hands :-)
There is definitely a whole lot of stupid in that DMCA takedown request.