skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this different from Geocities or the half-dozen other me-too free, easy website providers we had the last time around the internet bubble merry-go-round? The feature lists even look pretty similar.

Or is that too long ago for anybody to remember? I worked for a startup that was racking up millions of hits a day and chewing through tens of millions of dollars in funding in 1999. Guess what? It's really hard to make money this way.

I'm starting to suspect Prince knew a lot more than he was saying when he wrote that song.
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Personally I think removing the thumbs up and down is a huge mistake. I understand that video producers don't like them, but guess what, when I load a YouTube video the rating is the first thing I look at, and if it's under 50% I know that the video will be crap. That judgement has been right EVERY time.
I feel the title of Software Engineering is misleading because it doesn't quite relate to other fields of engineering. The way Software Engineering is used is more like Software Construction, where the concern is more about programming using building blocks and tools of the trade, along with construction methods: like code organization, deployment, source control, etc.

Computer science might best be aimed at: Big Data Analysis, Compiler Writing like HipHop (Php compiler), or Distributed/Parallel Programming, Large Scale Deployment, etc.

I agree that writing an LALR recursive descent parser might not make someone an architect, but neither will a 300 hour/8 week course, mainly because I feel experience is the deciding factor.

Employers often want to create a repeatable scaleable process -- so yes this would be attractive to an employer.

Who says a CS degree is required for admission into development? I've worked at companies where many of the developers didn't have CS degrees, but there is a noticeable difference between those with a degree and those without. Those that don't have a CS degree, but somehow still make it, are often those that could have made it through a 4 year course. Sadly, there are also those with a CS degree, or even a graduate degree, that can't hack it either.

So in the end hiring is difficult, and there doesn't seem to be many indicators that some one will be a good developer and eventually an architect. But, when hiring I personally would give preference to a someone who holds a CS AND has the right attitude.

Also it's a matter of goals. If your goal is to stand up something cookie-cutter-ish, and then just duplicate that process with varying degrees of style, then sure anyone can probably learn to do that. But, if you need to integrate systems, write parsers to put data into a high-performance data warehouse, organize structures for a custom CMS, etc, would you really go to someone fresh out of a 300hr/8week course, or someone fresh from a CS program, if those were your only 2 choices?
Right now your IP can vote once a day per video I believe. Yes it's pretty easy to game, but the rating % is amazingly accurate to tell me whether I'm gonna enjoy a video or not.
If you don't use Windows you definitely shouldn't feel dumb: if caps lock is enabled on Windows shift will cause you to type a lower case letter, thus inverting what you intended to type rather than uppercasing everything.

I was confused until I realized the caps lock case only applies to Windows users.
Ah, this explains it.

Original piece manages to be even more hilarious than the parody!
I am always surprised when reading posts like this one. Studying a subject is boring, one learns fastest through real world practice/experience.

Whenever someone asks me how to pick up programming I give them the following advice.

1. Think of something cool you want to build. Scratch your own itch. Presume everything is possible.

2. Find out what reading material is required by your local universities for an introductory software engineering class. Find one that has a 200-300 page reader, written by the professor that teaches the course. Go to the university, buy reader. It's cheap, max 20$, and extremely dense. Do all exercises.

3. Find a cool web framework. Program.

Before you realize it, you'll have developed something pretty cool.
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I would guess it would be more affected since most long cables today are optical, while the storm would create noise for all wireless communications.
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It all depends on what kind of scenario you consider. We are talking of a worse case scenario.

Something like a really big solar flare. Anything less than that isn't even worth the discussion, because that is not harmful, anyway.
C# created because Sun didn't like Microsoft. Not at all surprising if Google drops Java.
That's sending user details to the governments.

Which we all know, are always the good guys and they want to help you with your life knowing what you search for and which websites you visit.
> I love technology and I think it's the answer to most of our problems

I'd be curious to know which are the problems that technology solves, because I'm actually of the opposite opinion - technology is the answer to all the wrong problems.
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That's a great, valid point... Still interesting to me that he unloaded almost all his vested shares. The media was sure to pick up on it and executives often buy back shares to signal confidence.

Maybe he was simply trying to balance his asset allocation. He's definitely not living off $40m, right? It always seems that Apple is sure to outperform, but maybe we'll look back on this as a genius move in a few years.

EDIT: Updated the title to richardburton's suggestion.
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Personally I think a better quote is, 'Money can't buy happiness, but it can help solve all your problems'
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> It's 2012, so why doesn't my OS know what I'm trying to do and solve problems for me?

I'd (half-jokingly) respond: ‘It's 2012, why are you still using a computer?’

If we're talking future, what you've described is one alternative. Another is not using computers for everything.

Imagine that a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, an efficient and relatively compact electric motor was invented. A revolutionary achievement for those who were aware. Soon engineers professionally working with electric motors appeared. But it was difficult for a regular person to operate one, and—let's be honest—regular people didn't really care about electric motors. However, people cared about other things: when someone combined an electric motor and a coffee grinder, it was a hit. Many a successful product making use of an electric motor was subsequently brought to the market. </narrative>

We put computers in things for a long time already. Is there a reason at all for ‘real’ computers (with OS, window managers, and all this stuff) to exist, except maybe for scientific tasks and programming?

Yes, today ‘real’ computers are already used by many. Mainly for communication, as well as for specific tasks like text editing, photo editing, video production, DTP. However, it's usually not very efficient. A person needs to deal with a complex generic system, which is intended for thousands of use cases—and as a result not really suited for a single one. It's understandable that most people don't particularly like using a computer, seeing it like a necessary inconvenience.

Perhaps we can figure a way to turn a computer into that magic multi-purpose thing you've described, that can ‘read’ our minds and do everything equally good. It would be fantastic. However, I think it's probably more likely to share electric motor's fate.
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True. Straightforward application of the Knapsack problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem
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Well said, there is enough FUD around how to translate programming into engineering that adding some unknowable mystique to it will not help.
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I'd also like to know more, I have just been rolling my own stuff so far and have been surprised by how well the canvas is handling everything I throw at it.

Tablets / Phones is a little different, but the desktop much faster than I expected.
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I don't think the question was looking for a precise answer, but rather an approximate one. As he said, most programmers don't even get in the ballpark, and you'll note his question didn't mention cache or cache size. In fact, the way the question is phrased, you could answer for a system that had no cache whatsoever if you wanted to, though I'd go with some common cache architecture.
This is the nearest thing that I've come across in python: http://sandbox.pocoo.org/clevercss/

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I think the link might be "wrong"?

http://yeleman.com/django-pragmatic-api-reference/

That seems to work better/different.
I was put off by this as well, but there is a setting to stop it posting the updates to your timeline within the app.
It is only on the desktop version.
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listen, if you want to get rid of DRM legally and as soon as possible, the only reasonable way is not to crack, but to boycott DRM laden ebooks, plain and simple. That's what I do. It's annoying but it's the price to pay if you want things to be what's right and not what egoistically please you more.
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I use a Thinkpad. Not only are they some of the best laptops around, they also have great compatibility for Linux and are well regarded by Linux-users - so support for new Thinkpad hardware is regularly added. Still, you'd be advised to search around first just to be sure they're compatible. I'm using one of their cheapest machines, a Thinkpad Edge E520. It's a great machine with full compatibility with Linux (running Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3). The build quality is the best I've ever had and the battery life is 15+ hours (of fairly heavy use, not just when idle). It only cost me £340 (including a battery upgrade) :-)
If the result of this script is forbidden to be distributed, this could be a rationale for forbidding the distribution of the script itself.

If I write a script that generates the Matrix movies from the binary file of, say, Elephant's Dream, I won't be allowed to distribute that.
Similarly, there's the lineage of:

1. Microsoft Passport

2. .NET Passport

3. Microsoft Passport Network

4. Windows Live Passport

5. Microsoft Account

It seems that whenever Microsoft releases a new strategy white paper, the Passport brand changes.
No that's a simplistic approach. Both matter, for example one volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica is a very small portion of the overall work, but it cannot be freely copied. Likewise if you write a book a million pages long, copying entire chapters does not suddenly become ok.
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Everyone uses the old, already spam-ridden hotmail account for that.
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Ask HN: Is +1 considered some form of Google intellectual property?
If a blog-type web app wants to keep track of views and likes, and if the most logical way, given the UI, to raise the like count is for the user to click on a link/button/icon of "+1", would there be a legal issue?

I don't think up arrows or thumbs up icons or gray triangles or the word "like" can be legally protected, but something in me tells me that if Amazon could patent 1-click in the United States, Google could find a way to win the argument that half of the characters in "+1" invoke the image of Google+ in consumers' minds and that "+1" should be trademarkable or something.

Anyone know if it is?
My process is a little simpler: Never float anything without specifying a width, and just avoid margins altogether.
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How do you find Concrete5? I discovered it relatively recently and I've been investigating it in comparison to WordPress, which is starting to feel more than a little bloated. (A WordPress installation with a bunch of plugins installed starts feeling like a Windows installation with a bunch of crap set to start automatically, with everything putting its little infobox, ads, and all manner of dross all over the place. I was turned off it totally the other day when a plugin update filled my entire screen with an ad.)

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> I don't use foursquare or twitter even though my generation tends to, because I feel as though they're not necessary.

> often it feels like each website is just another toy. I see no reason to commit to them.

In between these two sentences you highlight something important. At a certain point, it stops mattering what exists. All that matters is what you need.

Technophiles love trying out tools and imagining ways they can put them to use. It's fun, but it's also entirely unnecessary. (The unnecessariness is part of the fun!) If you're not a geek about this sort of thing, though, then all you need are the things which somehow extend your life in meaningful ways.

What worries me more than anything about startup culture is that by emphasizing the creation itself rather than the motive behind the creation, it often leaves people with the impression that the point of making a startup is to make a startup. And while many people do find success with that route, its opposite approach – live your life until you find something out of place, then build what you need to fix it – is much more commonplace, and often much more effective.

Mark Zuckerberg, he of Facebook fame, built a music player in high school because he wanted music recommendations. Released it for free rather than sell it to Microsoft, because it was about fixing a problem, not making money. Now read his letter to investors [http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/02/zuck-letter/]. He emphasizes again and again that Facebook was built to solve a problem: "We hope to strengthen how people relate to each other." Whether you think he's going about this the right way, it's clear that he built Facebook with this intent in mind. Its innovations have all been on this front. He didn't see MySpace and think, "how can I tweak this and steal their marketshare?", like many many other social networks did. He saw a social value in networking and sought to make a service that would fundamentally revolve around that value.

I use a number of services; my friends (mostly college-aged) and I overlap and diverge in a number of ways. What matters to us is our friendship. We use the software that'll let us interact in ways that we care about. Some of us even turn off our phones when we see each other in person. It's crazy!
This is getting awfully off-topic, but I just re-read the essay and stumbled across this: It will actually become a reasonable strategy (or a more reasonable strategy) to [suspect everything new] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet )

I didn't notice this double-meaning the first time around. As a fellow reader of the essay, do you think pg is implying that the Paleo diet is new or that it's a reaction to new food? First time reading it I assumed it was the latter, now I'm leaning to it being the former.
or from somerset-maugham's, of human bondage, we have the following:

"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."
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Care to be more specific about these tiling managers and where I can find them? I've been minimising and maximising for about 20 years and am a little sick of it.
The primary benefit is that the "NoScript crowd" includes a lot of people with disabilities who do not belong to it by choice, but because screen readers and other assistive technologies generally do not get along well with Javascript.

Mind you, I understand that making a website accessible is not a trivial task and that the expense may indeed be hard to justify for a given project; but the benefits are anything but unclear.
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A few problems Technology solves:

Starvation (better agriculture, distribution, storage)
Pathogens and illness (medicine)
Environmental hazards (heating, shelter)
Lack of human contact (transportation + communication)
Censorship (distributed networks)
Entertainment (media creation, reproduction, storage)

Now, if you define technology as 'The internet-focused startup world of social media and marketing that the buzzword "technology" often refers to', of which Instagram is the current poster-child, then you might have a point. Might. Slamming all technology because of that is to be willfully ignorant of what modern life relies on.

I'll take a world full of pop-up adds, viral marketing videos and spam email over a world in which my parents both died of Malaria in their 30's and I can barely get enough clean water to live on in my dirt-brick house.
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Refineries, maybe, but they're all equipped with on-site backups and the technology is pretty much mechanical, except for some electronic components that are non-essential.

Most of a modern refinery is controlled by PLCs and computers.
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> Open Source is not a feature

Most of time games developed with a particular engine look similar. Sharp eyed gamers notice this and other don't. But they definitely perceive the lack of freshness when they play.

Successful games producers often extend their game engines in innovative ways. Though plugins can be written to closed engines, open source engines give unlimited flexibility. In such cases, open source is certainly a feature.
My comment is not at all about which is the better archival medium. Nothing in your reply addresses my thesis that dead-tree books will cease to be produced for new content, and in fact have been already in many cases.

Dead-tree paper can only really be advantageous as you propose if you consider the cost of producing the physical artifact (printing, binding, shipping) a sunk cost. It may be a sunk cost in 1995, but my thesis is that it will not be a sunk cost in 2030. Stated alternately, it may be a better archival medium, but most books are not purchased on the basis of being reliable archives.

Although independent of the main premise, I do object to bit rot as being applicable to books. My library of ebooks spans 25GB, an amount that pales in comparison to my music collection, which normal people all have in digital format. 25GB can be backed up in minutes a year, and is far less than the effort people extend to climate-control a collection of dead trees and cart it around during moves.

Would you be open to a long bet on this topic?
Also, while caps lock + shift is still uppercased, caps lock has no effect on the non-alpha keys. Indeed on a Mac, caps-lock is not shift-lock, it's literally caps-lock: on my French layout, caps-lock'd & gives &, not 1. Since keys with diacritics and other marks like é è à ç adn ù are first-class keys on a french layout, they themselves are capitalized by caps-lock, and not giving in to the shift behavior (which would yield 2 7 0 9 and %). This allows to type É È À Ç and Ù without composition.

If you want the caps-lock-gives-numerics behavior you need to set your layout to "French — numerical" — its icon is a french flag with 123 at the bottom — instead of simply "French".