skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw a few commercials for the site on tv this week but didn't check it out. After a few searches I'm underwhelmed. I searched for things I know fairly well and found their ordering to be surprising as some sites for small outlets ranked higher than bigger, more established sites.

I like the name, and am eager for Google to find real search competition again, but their design is also very awkward. Every link looks like a Google ad to me, the styling and small size of results.

Perhaps they'll pick up speed and take off but I won't be using them anytime soon.
The Nobel Prize and after
mainstream. Where you based?
I don't think it was harsh, I think it's a good point. Like you said, you have to balance the convenience vs. the risk.
> Curse you, high-school students living near MIT!

That's right, the class is a Saturday class offered to high-schoolers. MIT rocks!
Joel should have constituted "Noah Prize" and distributed 10,000/N shares among his N employees.
Truly an awesome article, submitted it to Autoblog as well. I'll be on the lookout for the kink.
palish has a point to the extent that lsof is so infrequently used that it would do no harm to give it a more descriptive name.

Nonetheless, I entirely agree with you about ls, and about sticking to the conventions that have developed around unix.
Pales in comparison to the history and market effect of 'the kink'.
I use XVidCap, edited with KDENlive, then uploaded to youtube and embedded that. All free (using ubuntu)
Companies might follow potential customers or opinion formers for a fee, but how many do they need? 1,000? That's £1,000 - not exactly big money.

Getting individuals to hand over a buck for 'good' followings ruins the whole point of twitter and I can't see people doing it.

Bring back display advertising.
Yeah, that was exactly the one that stood out for me! I've wanted this several times recently, at work and at play.
Have you tried Facebook?
How Mature is Computer Science?
Nicely done! Long Live the NYTimes!
I really don't give a shit about alienation. I try to talk about anything and analyze the person I talk to using philosophical techniques. (philosophy is good for good conversation).
Last-Modified: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 21:15:34 GMT
Twitter is People?

So is soylent green and the Internet.
How the West was hung....
I'm seriously beginning to question the moral integrity of the western world.... two main points:

the Orwellian ignorance of the word "Plutocracy" - a system of government were the axis of power is in the hands of those with wealth

and the cutting of the UK Parliamentary debate during the Heathrow row .... just seemed a bit odd to do that in my opinion.

some worthwhile links to cluster:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7828401.stm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5375668.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece

anyone got any optimism left?

peace (if only)
Hm, who thought that test cases being database bound in the first place was a good idea?
Haven't they read Feathers on this topic: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=126923

They should consider a Fake database for the tests that happen to use a database rather than testing the database. Hopefully that's a majority of them.
If that really bothers you, just alias those commands.

alias listopenfiles=ls

alias netfind=ngrep

...and so forth. I've done that to add the DOS "cls" command to clear my terminal screen. Also, I'm a Cisco admin, so I have aliased "en" to "su", and the reverse on Cisco switches and routers. Yes, Cisco also has the alias command in IOS.
I'm a senior in high school, experienced similar feelings a couple of years ago. SwellJoe says "you seem to expect your friends to be a perfect clone of you", which, at least, is what I felt.

Even though you might not find people with the exact same interests as you, if you look hard you will find that interesting people have similar qualities, regardless of their specific interests. Seek out people who are good at what they do, and avoid people who aren't. Academics are a good start—befriend your local valedictorian. Find people in any activity—math, science, music, newspaper—and if they're winning any competitions,

As for over-analyzing relationships goes, that shouldn't really be a problem so long as it doesn't stop you from actually executing them. The key to a friendship is to be useful to the other person. Always pay more attention to them than you do to yourself. Figure out things they like/need but don't have, and buy gifts for them.

Keep in mind that the social landscape can change drastically in a very short time. Don't assume that a year from now nothing will have changed. It's your job to make sure the change comes out in your favor.
It doesn't matter what your plan to monetize is if you don't have the users/traffic.

Every anti-advertising blog post and article skirts around this inconvenient truth.
Why not ask 'em? Say something along the lines of "You're really helping the company with your work. We really like it. Is there anything we can do for you?"

source: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/28/1929229
Upcoming Australian Android phone delayed indefinitely over screen resolution
Twitter: should be about money, not people.
Yeah, working in close physical proximity to quality people is hard to beat, but you can learn a lot even working remotely on a pre-existing project. So go scratch an open source itch.

Also there ain't no such thing as a free lunch^Wprogrammer.
A spoonful of medicine to help overcome self-doubt here => http://ub0.cc/0l/12 and here => http://ub0.cc/4J/1j
This phenomenon is depressingly typical. Some of the cable channels I watch have a late night ad for virus blocking software. Despite the screenshots and fine print mentioning that the product is PC only, the majority of the computers shown in the ad are MacBooks and iMacs. (This ad is old enough that the machines shown weren't necessarily running Intel chips.)
I can't listen to that track at work, but is it a kind of rebuttal/parody similar to this?

http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=129
There's this push/pull kind of relationship in all sorts of areas. I interned as an Intel performance engineer working with Microsoft products and it seemed to be the case where you'd try really hard to get Intel products into the relevant Microsoft labs so they'd tune against your hardware vs. another vendors.

It gets even more complicated when factoring OEMs in as the Intel/AMD Microsoft/Linux causes all sorts of arenas where you're cooperating in some areas, competing in others and trying to make sure you've got enough leverage to not be beholden to anyone by playing both sides against each other.

It tends to end up being good for the consumer even if it is a bit convoluted at times.
EHLiYET SINAV SONUÇLARI SONUCU SORULARI
If you want user friendly, use the GUI. The commands are meant to be quick to write for frequent users, especially in the days when shells didn't do command completion.
"Smart" isn't something you are, it is what you do. People who accomplish amazing things do so almost completely because of passion, hard work, time management, good taste, determination, working on the right problems, etc. In CS grad school, I have seen many absolutely brilliant people who accomplish nothing. In school, they were used to being able to get every math question right, while doing it in their heads. However, when working on real problems in the real world, this sort of raw brainpower (as measured by an IQ test or SAT or whatever) has amazingly little benefit. There is some small threshold, and on the whole it is helpful, but it doesn't mean much. You can do the math on the number of people walking the earth currently with IQ scores higher than Einstein.

If you want to do great things, here is how: Keep learning new subjects, keep finding new problems, talk to other talented minute, work hard, and enjoy yourself. Worrying about being "smart" is a lame excuse. The "smartest" man in the world is this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Michael_Langan
It doesn't take 30 seconds to notice that nobody else is using "txt speech". The grammar Nazi in me had to do it.
TweetDeck Secures Angel Funding
pgrep, pkill, rename
seems like an odd candidate for funding .. congrats either way though, what do I know :)
If unix were being designed from the ground up, today, user friendly commands, with aliases to power user abbreviations might make sense. It was, however, created some 30+ years ago.
Do you think that people browsing Dell site are going to type in the ubuntu url? They may never heard of it.

On the other hand, Dell is capable to upsell vista with xp. Why are they not capable to offer ubuntu using the same mechanism?
Angel funding is often very different than VC funding.

Considering that tweetdeck appears to have been the work of a single person so far, angel funding could make a lot of sense. $500,000 should carry them a long way without all the "overhead" that typically comes with VC funding.
I've seen Microsoft representatives speaking at conferences running Vista under bootcamp on a macbook pro, so it's no big deal.

As for the advert, it's been a great viral hit, likely intentionally bad. The software is pretty awesome.

Check out the range of "Classic songs by Songsmith" videos appearing on youtube too http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ypycpKQxXR0
There's a tribal aspect, too; not to mention jargon as a barrier to entry. And what professional wants to forgo hard-won knowledge?

That said, I kind of like the weird names, esp grep. (Wasn't that in Stranger in a Strange Land or something?)

But I do object to inconsistent options. One example is: mkdir -p a/b/c This will make all three nested directories, if needed; but there is no equivalent: mv -p x a/b/c/y There also isn't: cp -p a/b/c [1]. You have to create the nested destination directories (a/b/c) first.

[1] cp has a -p option, but with a different meaning...

BTW: It would be nice if HackerNews had the `` markdown of Reddit for inline code. There's been a bit of code sharing recently, and I like that in a "hacker" site.
We use Screenflow. Mac-only, but quite awesome: http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm

Has a/b editing, records lots of things as separate tracks and has a special-purpose video editing interface just for screencasts.

Editing interface is a little quirky to get used to but the results are great.
Don't be afraid to ask for money. Money often means respect and with respect comes self-confidence. If you are free, it means that you consider yourself so bad at programming that people will not even consider you. You'll learn nothing. You'll always be the "free guys" that everyone will laugh at. The one that gets to debug stupid things or have to work on impossible projects. If you don't need that money, give it to a charity but please, ask for money.
TweetDeck Raises an Angel Round. Next Up: A Business Plan
You know, if this article was trying to say they had found a possible way to verify Ads/Cft correspondence, really, all it had to do was say so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldacena_duality
Zimbabwe unveils 100 trillion dollar banknote
Dell offers a Mini 9 with XP for $349, with Ubuntu for $359, how that can be?

Answer: M$ strongarming Dell
I have no social group of my own and go back and forth between their friend circles.

That's a sign that you're an interesting person. It's painful, though.

I feel like when I talk to my "friends", I either have to talk all about computers, or all about music, or whatever that they're interested in, but never a mixture of everything.

You need to swallow your pride and learn how to make small talk. It's frustrating for intense people like us, not because we're too smart or to good for small talk, but because we frankly don't care about things like sports teams or the weather (or if we do, we care too much and can recite sports/weather statistics and bore people to death). However, it's a skill you'll need to learn, and you might as well do it now.

Everyone has told me to wait until college, and then I will find new people, but everyone I know in college generally sticks with the same friend group that they had in high school (hence why I would know), so I don't have much hope in that.

College is less cliqueish than high school, but still much more cliqueish than the real world.

Most people have "cliques" (which usually emerge from what floors people are on in freshman year) because they are insecure and need a set of people whom, even if they are not close to any of them individually, they recognize as "friends". They rely on their base social group (most of whom are not very close friends) more than on individual friends, and meet dates and new people through this group.

The high school cliques break up a bit in college, unless a large number of students from your high school go to the same school.

Where are the truly interesting people in life?

All over the place, literally and figuratively. Quality people are both rare and common; there are few of them, but they can be found everywhere. Most of my friends in college were international students, but I've met interesting and smart people literally everywhere, of all nationalities, races, and social classes.
I would agree that certifications are not really important. Develop a solid portfolio of projects, show that users benefited, and then walk your employer through the lessons you learned.
if twitter is an new protocol, the portals to that protocol are valuable. I have 10 columns open in TweetDeck to monitor things I care about on twitter. There will most certainly be opportunity for premium services, and other creative ways of making money.
As a member of the general public, I do find it hard to believe this sort of thing isn't done already.

As a victim of a minor surgical mishap myself (general anaesthesia applied when it shouldn't have been), I can definitely believe "incidents" happen all the time.
Entrepreneur Country - a Manifesto
Average salary for a Software Program Manager
1. what is the current average salary for a software program manager?

2. I have around 8 yrs of exp as a Sr. Dev and now want to move to Program Management. For such cases, any idea of what the avg. salary can be?
Dont blame this on yourself, it has nothing to do with being narrow. There's something broken about the whole of society. One american in four has no one to really talk to.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06...

Loneliness does have the effect of making it harder to connect with other people. It has this effect on everyone. It goes away when you're no longer lonely, but it makes it more difficult to get rid of the loneliness.

There is no easy solution either. The only thing you can do is try harder. Maybe you need to know people better or get used to them before it 'clicks'. If joining an organization is the only way you see to meet people regularly, join an organization.
To add to this, remember people want your services. They want to feel warm and fuzzy when they finally pay you and their product is working exactly how they imagined (or how they require). If they never pay you, they will take a long time to be satisfied.
Seems like such a no-brainer for hospitals everywhere.
Work hard and get into a good college.
Believe it or not you seem to be a social butterfly. The best "socialistas" have several friends in every field of life. This is great as it allows you to not get bored and each niche will feed you with more information. Stick to this plan. Expand it. Materialize it.
To get back a hosed screen, also try:

stty sane ^j

(That's Ctrl-j there.)

You might be flying blind, but just do it and you might get your screen back.

You probably know this, but to rescue a hosed system with Knoppix or similar live-cd:

- Boot from CD.

- Open root console.

- Mount your usual root partition: mount -t somefs /dev/hda1 /mnt/oldsys

- chroot /mnt/odlsys /bin/bash

Showed that to another admin who'd lost a production box, and his chin kind of hit the floor :) I gifted him the Knoppix disk... You can also use that to reset passwords (as per the article), by editing /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd in the /mnt/oldssys directory.
> "This is enough of suffering for me! I do NOT need a friend/girlfriend to be happy and to feel fulfilled. If I have to, I'll go by myself just fine, thank you!"

This might be realistic in the case of a girlfriend, but is hard to believe in the case of friends. You can't just decide that loneliness doesn't hurt you anymore, can you?

Or if you can, it would be very interesting to know more. There is a lot of research that points the other way.
I think the reason most languages are either SVO or SOV has more to do with memory recall time. Putting the subject at the start of the sentence maximizes the time the brain has to retrieve information about the subject, and probably then speeds parsing of the remainder of the sentence by priming information about the verb and object.
Look. Even your brain is just an organ and so it can adapt to demand—to a certain extent, however its actual limits are debatable. Right now, it is only used to do what you use it to. When you try anything more demanding, it’s almost as if you physically feel its pain of incapacity, but so much only for the first time you try.
Yes, try learning new things; as things you might not believe you could eventually master. (Pick something you would really love knowing or being able to.) Get introductory tutorials and go really slow; make sure you grasp one thing before you move to another. Repeat. Don’t let yourself be put off by initial difficulty.
If you persist, you might slowly feel a kind of “lightening up”. You might eventually surprise yourself by approaching even everyday little “problems” in new and ingenious ways, stunned by how “stupid” you must have been not seeing those solutions previously.
I use Camtasia (http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp). It costs $299. It is hands down the best. It has a technology called SmartFocus which zooms in to where the mouse cursor is. This is very useful with youtube's limited real estate. Definitely put your product demo on youtube. You get exposure from markets that you may be unaware of. You can see where I've used SmartFocus here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9qS6bAMPU
There's a great screencast about how to screencast over at peepcode.com ($9)
Email Demogirl.com. She will do the job for you (assuming she likes your application) and get you a few beta users.
No business plan? Wish him the best, but I thought those days were over.
"I do find it hard to believe this sort of thing isn't done already."

I showed a similar article to my wife (has worked in healthcare for 20+ years) and she said "Oh yes, we do that all the time. Everything has a check-list." So if it makes a difference, I guess it is either mandated for higher-level staff (surgeons and consultants who are often a law unto themselves) or rigidly enforced at all levels.

Also, the study might show bias because people will do the lists if they know it's being assessed for an experiment, but might ignore it on a day-to-day basis.
Here's the checklist: http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/tools_resources... [PDF]
Finally.

The idea for a checklist in clinical settings was originally conceived by Peter Pronovost at Johns Hopkins. Last year, Gawande wrote an awesome essay for the New Yorker about the ICU checklists that were attempted in the US (saving hundreds of lives) but eventually cancelled by regulatory authorities-- "If you're changing the way things are done, you need to perform controlled FDA-approved studies."

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...

Also, you should read his book Better, which is just page after page of interesting stuff; Atul Gawande is the Malcom Gladwell of medicine, but I think his stuff is far more engaging.
I agree. It's a slick, easy-to-understand analysis of the crash.

It also shows quick thinking on the part of the pilot. If they hadn't decided to ditch the plane in the river instead of continuing to the airport, it probably would have come up short and crash landed in an urban area. A lot of people owe the flight crew their lives, not just the passengers.
For code, use two spaces at the start of the line.

like this
I was wondering if Apple had written the gorgeous video overlay scripts, but it looks like they used Fancybox.
Superuseless superpowers
SnapsProX is pretty good.
The vulnerable part will be the communications. If an enemy can decipher the communication channels then they can send false instructions. Having said this how is it different to the situation today when the soldiers are for the most part human. Would it really be that hard to convince a unit to retreat or to fire artillery on their own frontline troops? As we already occasionally see 'blue-on-blue' incidents I would argue it isn't.

The danger with robots would certainly be greater but it is not a new threat.
Comer is just a straight out character. He's one of the few people who can legitimatly point at the internet and say "I made that".

Yes, he knows where to point to be pointing at the internet.

With that kind of work behind him it's hard to do anything else as important, and it's hard for anyone to criticize him.
You should look for small web development firms that might offer internships. Right now I'm doing an unpaid internship. I don't have a car and the place is 10 miles away, so everyday I take the bus for 5 miles, bike the other 5 miles, then do the same thing coming home. It's a ton of work for an unpaid job. The work is stressful. But I'm learning the best practices of coding, how to scale applications accordingly, and my work actually benefits the company. This has been such an ideal opportunity, because before coding was just a hobby and so I hadn't been challenged. But now that I've found a good community of programmers and designers, I learn new lessons everyday and build up confidence in my skills.
Title is misleading because a choice hasn't actually been made yet. But Warrior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmasree_Warrior) is really impressive as a possibility.
For only $300 U.S., I could be a quintillionaire!

Hell yes!
Data: fat; small; tall

fat: "tall is Life"
small: "tall is Death"
tall: "tall is Dungeon"

Reasoning: tall is Life, Death or Dungeon. He can't be Life, because if he was, he would have said he was. So he's Death or Dungeon.

Now, one of the other two must be Life (because tall isn't), and so one of them must be telling the truth about tall. He's called Death and Life, so he must be one of them. We know he can't be Life, so tall is definitely Death.

Whoever called him Death was telling the truth, and must be Life. Only small called him Death, so small is Life. (edit I should have said: Life must be telling the truth about him, so if only one of them does that, that one is Life).

And the remaining guy - fat - must be the remaining knight - Dungeon. Dungeon can lie or truth, so it doesn't matter what he said (in fact, he was lying: he said tall was Life, when tall was Death). It only mattered what he said so we could distinguish between him and small.

fat is Dungeon
small is Life
tall is Death

Took about a minute. I had to draw a diagram to track the details - my evolution includes pen and paper. :-P
CamStudio is an open-source capture program for Windows that records to .avi, with the option to convert to .swf. http://camstudio.org/

(See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133349)
3 Rules of Database App Aging
Aiming for a 40 hour work week
Although it might not mean much to those outside the UK, this applies to "England and Wales", not just "England".
I'm not too sure what that has to do with this site.
Grok, you're thinking of.
WOW, you are selling yourself WAY short.

You are more than qualified for an entry level developer job FOR PAY.

Its a programmers market out there, if you can communicate half decently and have a java cert from sun, you will be able to find a job no problem. Just delete that webpage and keep sending resumes out.