skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nor is the "The Board", if they have to include books that obviously none of them have read. Has anyone read Principia Mathematica in the last 70 years? Should anyone have?
I can't help but wonder what you would have said if the study had reported something else - if it would have appeared equally obvious in hindsight.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/hindsight-deval.html
Because enterprise programming languages suck.
TechCrunch is awful, but there's no excuse for the spit in the face incident. I don't give a damn what lousy, fabricated article TechCrunch might have published to precipitate that. It's disgusting and totally uncalled for.
A lot of EA apps suck, and a lot of them don't.

Conversely, a lot of open source apps suck too. A lot of them also don't.

Why are we stereotyping again?
I can't see why you got down voted. That was my first thought when I read it. I reread it 5 or 6 times until I decided that I must be missing something.

TechCrunch = a corporation
A corporation = a legal person
Singular, not plural!
And just like that, there's a whole new audience for TechCrunch that never existed.

"Thanks Last.fm for all the free PR"
Sincerely,
M.A.
OOP is an excellent tool when it is used to support separation of concerns. I'm actually working on a system where they lumped all the functions together, didn't try to separate them by obvious domain entities. This is inconvenient, but it is not nearly as bad as a poorly designed OOP framework. The problem that I see with the frameworks is not enough people ask the question "what does it really buy me ?". For instance relational databases give a huge benefit in ACID transactions, a query language that gives correct results, you can dynamically update tables without breaking things, dynamically join tables to give new kinds of results, etc.. So paying the price to use SQL to acess your data is not bad, because you get so much back. But what exaclty are you getting back from using a framework like Hibernate in between you and the database ? And where is the proof that ORM is even a good idea ? There seems to be an idea - if it is OO it is good, and if a lot of people are using it it must be good. I think these two assumptions are the real problem.
Python course in Bioinformatics
Who Are Macro Experts?
Was in Boston a few weekends ago, and our (decent Garmin) GPS system would lose it's signal with about 200 feet to go in each tunnel, and then would take 1-2 minutes to reconfigure itself which was typically too late to help us make the right exit. It was frustrating to say the least to have to memorize the route 4-5 steps ahead each and every time we entered a tunnel just in case it got confused (which is did early and often)

Why can't the unit 'remember' the route in case signal is lost or have some sort of 'tunnel' recognition mode to account for this? It's not like the 'Big Dig' is an obscure set of tunnels (or Boston an uncommon city) that just 'popped up' without warning.

/rant
As a percentage, it's probably smaller than the percentage of gifted programmers using lisp/haskell/erlang.

However, it's a small percentage of a huge number. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there are more talented C/C++ hackers than FP hackers.
I can't see why you got down voted.

Probably because his comment isn't interesting, isn't relevant, and doesn't contribute to discussion. There are all kinds of true but uninteresting comments one can make, but making them shouldn't be encouraged.

Edit: I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but actively discouraging uninteresting comments is what keeps the signal:noise ratio high here.
What about not working for companies who want me to deal with that kind of cruft in the first place, because life is to short?
I concur. I've been keenly searching for sites in HN's vein, but centered around philosophy and the arts. 'HN's vein' is vague, I'll elaborate:

1. Keen eyed moderators, stamping down on vandalism; including, bad grammar, and bad spelling.

2. A intelligent community of readers dedicated to adding comments of value: carefully constructed, sourced, input.

3. Clean, content-oriented design.

(I might have to put my dailymis.com domain to use)
Yeah, and no "Snowcrash" either. I call shenanigans on this so called "board"! ;-)
And the article considers them to be a bunch...
The author is British: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_di...
I am way out of date on this, but vertical specific magazines are hungry for stories. If it is reasonably well written and topical, you are pretty much guaranteed to be published. The only downside is that you should wait until it's published before putting it online. If you have a friend in PR, check to see if this is still true or give one of the mags a call and pitch your idea.
Red Dog: Can you teach old Windows hounds new tricks?
That's because most teenagers are playing WOW or some other similar game."

Are they? I don't mean to nitpick but do any MMORG's have high percentages of teenagers? I would suspect they mostly skew older, whereas platforms like the 360 might skew younger.
My issue with your comment is that you jumped on a /bug/ in Facebook to push your cause.

Analogy: Let's say I had a car company that competed with a fictitious competitor, Toyonda. There was a news story on HackerNews about a software bug that caused all Toyonda Freerunners to crash whenever somebody pushed the gas too long. I then posted a comment that my car, the Legendary Esquilax, doesn't have that bug. It's self-serving and adds nothing to the conversation.

Now, if you said something like, "Our Esquilax line of cars uses an O(1) lookup on the rotor hashtable to avoid a backup of 'gas' events which caused the bottleneck bug at the root of the Toyonda issue." That would be interesting, provide useful news about competing products, and potentially spark a discussion about the "right" gas pedal algorithms.

About your comment on lecturing: I signed up with Hacker News to post a comment. Every person needs an impetus to join a community, and your comment provided that for me.
Some of the back story behind Windows Azure. I find these sort of articles fascinating, not sure if many other people on here do. Should I submit these less technical types of stories? A previous one I submitted ( http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3469 ) didn't appear to resonate, so I was curious whether people enjoyed reading this one too.
None!

There is no single entity which could collapse and end web 2.0. Any entity collapsing would herald more opportunities for other start-ups. The lack of money for the large would bring in more small players exploiting the missed possibilities. Web 2.0 is about unlimited flexibility and that will survive any collapse of the "real economy".
Can't we program some sort of software to write articles like these? Insert say 3 names of people who are now working 7 days of week, 1 quote from each, pull some generic stat about average number of work hours per week and Bob's your uncle.
Ask HN: Should I go back to university?
Abstract:
recently laid off in a city with a huge wave of highly qualified people looking. Losing self confidence. Thinking about going back to school. Spouse still in university, but spouse's parents pay for tuitions. No debts whatsoever, no cars, only expense is rent and food. We will be 25 this year.

Education: software development certification from technical school. GPA 80%. It was a really intensive program, doing 78 credits in 8 months, class from 9-5 M-F, with 1 month practicum at the end.

Work Exp: total 3.5 years

(0) month-long contract project at a really big Business Intelligence project. They liked the project.

(1) 2 years at a small company about 50 employees, small IT dept of 4, did everything from ASP.NET web apps to VB.NET/VB6 backend apps to SQL db admin to site cross browser compatibility stuff. Left after months of ridiculous unpaid overtime. Gave them 2 months notice to find, and train the guy.

(2) 1.5 years at a smaller company, about 30, as the sole programmer, writing C# in-house use apps and stuff to go with our SQL database (that I installed and configured). Developed business ideas for them, made custom software to those goals. Laid off along with 7 other people based on seniority. Nothing shameful there.

Obvious weakness: my technical school taught us how to work, how to think like a programmer and how to debug problems. But it's still technical school. I will not be able to answer technical questions if I have not used that particular bit of knowledge before. I know nothing about lower level architectural stuff.

Redeeming Qualities: I work hard. I can look up stuff I don't know how to do quickly. I come up with good business ideas, I can think from my manager's POV and our clients' to reach a fair comprimise. End users really like me because I not only fix problems they find, I will actively find out what I can do for them. I'm fiercely loyal to whatever company I work for, even when they're cheap and abusive.

Bottom line: I know I can be really good at my job once I'm on the job. I just think my lack of proper education and low level knowledge about computer science will prevent me from being seen as such at interviews or resume screening. Going back to school can fix that.

However: my spouse is still in school. I went to university straight out of high school with 87% GPA, but dropped out after the first year because of academic immaturity (ie: I thought university was a load of crap--no one gives a shit about you and you're just a chequeing account number. The textbooks are meant for the profs to profit rather than for you to learn, and the profs clearly have other things to do way more important than teaching you. I was going to all the classes but never handed in any assignments. Teenage angst. I was taking arts and foreign languages. This was before I even touched any programming.). I don't know if I have the discipline to do it still. I may go back to get all angry about the bullshit institution again and shut down again like I did. But I managed to get through the technical school well, because I love programming, I love it to death.

....advice?
Exploring Twitter Ties - Digits
If you know of any half-way decent sites, pass them on, email if you prefer. My SO is an artist and would like a good forum.
what does women working have anything to do with the discussion?
I apologize for being unclear and imprecise. Evidence is not the word I should have used. I'm just talking about perspective. What the OP stated was not evidence, and neither did I have that confused. Those were judgments based on Bayesian reasoning. They are efficient and correct, by probability, in his life. I defended him because in asking "how dare you," you seem to think his opinions violate a basic right of dignity (or something?), when I maintain that it is perfectly reasonable and understandable to have those opinions.

Rather than "evidence" I should have said something like, please provide us with priors that may reinforce the opposite belief. That isn't to say that you didn't already provide some, but it was also obvious that you took this personally, which detracts from what we are looking for (balanced priors).

Also, from a purely pedantic point of view (which I often take for its own sake, nor am I really partial to a particular viewpoint), I don't think any of those census numbers debunk anything, if we're talking about how a marriage may be a bad decision.

Nevertheless, there is only one kind of spurious claim going around here: blanket statements. Whomever believes them makes a fool of themselves, but we -- at least I am -- are still interested in hearing more perspectives :)
".net magazine is supporting a campaign to rid the world of IE6... The magazine a Future publication just like TechRadar"

Cross promotion synthetic news generation at it's finest.
In isolated cases perhaps attractive men also postpone their decision, but I believe that the idealization given in the article is pretty close to reality: women decide and men settle for what they can get.

I recall reading about some research showing that overweight women actually have sex more often than their peers, which seems to support this theory. (http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2008/10/31/Overweight_women_h...)
I was surprised at how well my Garmin Nuvi has been working in the Boston tunnels actually. It also tended to recover pretty quickly.

By the way, that isn't what the article is talking about. It's quite an interesting read about how NMEA screwed up the GPS protocol.
I love the human ability to perceive objects and faces in objects.

The right side of the image looks like a giant hedgehog head or something. Immediately left of top-center is a human face, with mustache and beard. IIRC there's supposedly a dragon in this, it's like 1/4 in from the left and bottom, but I never thought it looked like a dragon. There's also lots of other cool things in there like skulls and crap, but honestly they're all so small it's really just perception, where as the face and hedgehog encompass areas as big as the local bubble.
I think a large part of git's history rewriting stems from the desire to be able to mail features around as atomic commits. You don't want to be cluttering up your patch set with spurious interim changes.
Can someone shed some extra light about the point re: reducing the number of requests to the DB for a dynamic page. When left unoptimized, Rails (and a lot of other frameworks) often result in 100 DB queries for a page.

One obvious way around this is to ensure the DB joins are done correctly. But the article mentions batching/grouping up the requests. How does that work?
Patent prosecution has its own nuances; a few differences in wording can make or break a case in litigation.

You could look at IP law firms and look through their roster of patent attorneys; alternatively, you could look for a small or solo patent attorney (e.g. google machine learning patent attorney).

If you're associated with a university, you wish to investigate working with them to acquire the patent.

Best of luck with your patent and startup!
Collapse of Techcrunch and Valleywag might end the "Web 2.0" hype era. Web 2.0 itself won't end, because it never existed - you can't really find anything "web 2.0" that isn't just evolution or wider distribution of concepts from "Web 1.0".
A Note About Sabeer Bhatia's Interview in Founders at Work
After reading your last paragraph, I'd stick with the professional world and try to craft a job you love, one where you control your own destiny.

I would bet that school will still strike you as mostly bullshit from the sounds of your past experience (tech school/self taught)
Totally off-topic gripe: "And then I encrypted it with Schneier's latest cipher" --- kill this meme. Schneier is many things, but the top cryptanalyst/cryptographer in the world he is not.
What I don't like to see on blogs, no place for comments, or registration required for comments. How dare anyone question you.
actually my parents have a great marriage, which is why I'm mainly focusing on the current generation of women
I actually think that having a single developer can be a huge advantage, since you can react so fast to what people ask for.

I added this snap-to-grid and UI mockup piece to Twiddla in a single day. I bet that Dabbleboard didn't spend much longer than that getting their chat interface up. And check out Peldi here taking feature requests from people writing comments. I wouldn't be surprised if there's not a new version up next week with those issues addressed.

That's a really cool trend in software development. There's no way that Adobe CollabroDreadnaught Enterprise or WebEx MeetingBehemoth can hang in an environment like that. I think the next few years will see a lot of big established players get nibbled away at the ankles from small shops like us.
Ask HN: Are there enough people viewing (and up-voting) newly posted articles?
Does anyone share the concern that too few people are visiting the New articles page (and up-voting articles)?
There's also no reason why the phrase "suburban-bred office cow" can't refer to a man. The word "bitch" is often used to describe an emasculated male, so this use of "cow" is not without precedent.
I think this is a classic mistake in analyzing trends. What we are going through is a typical hype curve:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_hype

First, a technology/trend gets way too much buzz and results start to disappoint so it curves down. Then, when everyone's cynical, the real value companies start to take off.

Web 2.0 has used up its currency as a buzz word. Fine. But the technology itself has been wildly successful.

I work at HubPages.Com, a Web 2.0 startup that gets revenue from online ads and we have never been doing better than right now.
Nothing evil about Enzyte that I can see. Unless they weren't sending people their weener pills or processing refunds.

The real evil is when marketing is done without our direct knowledge. Product placement, marketing to kids/toddlers, preferential media treatment, sponsored 'research' etc.
In the course of this discussion, you have indicated that the men you know married women who do nothing, contribute nothing to the marriage, and somehow expected the men to give them half of everything, despite the fact that they are bitchy, lazy, worthless cows who don't put out.
Very interesting -- this is a superb example of why ethnography is a very important complement to quantitative data.
It is difficult to see oneself repeatedly characterized as such without getting one's dander up a bit.

My suspicion is that his friends probably love their wives, and he's using their occasional and exaggerated venting to support his weird misogyny. That, or he knows the two unluckiest and easily fooled men in the country.
Russell,

No respectable forums to my knowledge; however, I do suggest 'Arts & Letters Daily' (http://www.aldaily.com/). I expect you frequent A&L, a bulletin of the day's most prominent cultural articles; on the off-chance there are those still unaware I do, gladly, bring it to your attention.
Has he responded to this? Are there any more errata in F@W?
the medical residency program
Web trivia test
yes they contribute nothing to the marriage, but that doesn't mean that they don't work. All of them do, except one who got laid off recently
In my experience, at any given time at least one article from

http://news.ycombinator.com/newest

is on the front page of HN. That seems like a pretty good indication that all submissions are getting adequate attention.
How does a working parent contribute nothing to a marriage?
Google...because if Google goes down the crapper, that means the crap has really hit the fan. And Google's demise will take thousands of websites with it, who rely on adwords, adsense, and getting found in Google search results.
This is a BS article in my opinion. They say 99% of internet connected desktops. They said nothing about mobile, but his entire argument is mobile. What is the percentage of ppl who use their phones for actual web surfing? Much smaller than he would like you to believe in this article.

Even in their old copy they say internet-enabled PC's. So until adobe says 99% of internet users, then their claim has validity...

More flash hate...
I'm more curious which Web 3.0 startup's success is going to end the Web 2.0 era. Unfortunately, Web 3.0 might involve semaphore and smoke signals.
I studied psychology, I guess thats why I see dianetics as a laughable farce.
By spending all the money she earns on herself.
Remind HN: Open Hacker House every Wed in San Francisco
You wouldn't work for a company that requires you to present a resume? That is basically equivalent to not working for any company at all, other than as a consultant or a founder. Making a decent resume is not difficult, and done well, it isn't "cruft".
Schneier is already known to be a cryptographer and many people know this. If you want to start a new meme with Wang Xiaoyun or someone else, go for it, but I really doubt it'll catch on.

Plus, the reason people know him is because he's a pop security author first and consciously strives to make a name for himself. Actual cryptographers are too busy working with ciphers to build a reputation.
Hmm I'd argue Digg.
This is a great post! To amplify the first point, the question I often hear is "What are the right attributes for co-founders or CEOs?" I think you will find my summary http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2009/02/ideal-credentia... helpful for picking co-founders.
Moose for Ruby Programmers (Perl MooseX::Declare)
Unit Testing Framework & GUI for Mac OS X and iPhone (GHUnit)
This isn't Reddit. If you are going to "argue Digg", you need to actually write some reasons for that.
No Solzhenitsyn either.
That you are right about both of these points is not a refutation of my point. If we can't eradicate the meme, let's go for ring vaccination.
Facebook.

When Facebook actually needs to live up to the fact that continuous VC-funding isn't a viable income stream, the bubble will burst.

You need to make money to be successful, always have and always will. Like the first time, the ones that can do that will move into the next round, the one's who can't, won't.
While we're on anecdotes, I might as well add mine: I was in an almost 4 year relationship. During the last year I thought my girlfriend fit the mold described above perfectly. She was often downright unpleasant in ways that I never was.

I don't believe that in every quarrel, both parties are to blame.

But in the months after that relationship I realized that I had at least as much of a stake in the pain as she did.

It's a mistake to think that bitchiness is the only thing that hurts deeply. Neglect and intellectual intimidation and letting my body go were my sins and having experienced the first two myself (from another relationship) convinced me that there are many ways to make someone feel worthless.

Given that we men are humans who are as prone to irrationality, is there any reason why women should think better of marriage than we do?
And you know many of these lazy women! In fact, all the American women you know are just like that! This is so far-fetched, so unlikely a scenario, that you have to see how ridiculous you're being.

Unless you have their balanced checkbook on hand to prove me wrong, I sincerely doubt any mom is spending all the money on herself. Working mothers don't have the freaking time to spend a whole paycheck on themselves, especially with their husbands hiding at the gym, leaving the bulk of the housework and childcare to her. No wonder these women don't want to sleep with your friends.
Planning a Start-Up? Help and Advice Abound
Ruby and C : Part 1
"Making" a community is not really a technological problem... There is, for example, an "architecture" reddit, but it is half dead and appears to be populated by a handful of architecture fans, rather than by actual architects.

Creating such a community would definitely be a lot of work, with a very small chance of payoff.