skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between being somewhat edgy and improper ("no bullshit") and actively working against one's aims by including copy that is confrontational and discouraging to the most insecure segment of one's audience ("you have a math problem; you need therapy"). Those whom it does not bother might appreciate this continuation of his tone, but it is horribly damaging with the audience that it claims to target.

I have some experience encouraging groups who tend to be less sure of their abilities in an academic subject to study that subject and am friends with many people who are much more involved in these efforts, and I know that being confrontational is counterproductive and that you have to be very careful about how you suggest to them that they have a "problem", even if you are telling them that they can overcome that problem. You want to stay positive and show empathy toward their struggles, emphasizing that the struggles are not any failing or inherent shortcoming on their part and are very common.
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How long have you been teaching?

Helena Curtis wrote a wonderful college level intro textbook as of 1980 when I last used it, but the publisher (Worth) let it die after she retired (which also pretty much killed them as I recall).
The king of con-men
Some of those countries in the bottom ten have quite large populations and land areas too. They are also desperately poor, with inadequate infrastructure, corrupt ineffectual governments, and lack a substantial civil society willing & able to put pressure on the government to implement the necessary developmental changes & reforms necessary for their country to develop and to bring up the necessary living standards.
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I guess I could have been more clear on that part, sorry I was trying to keep it short.

So here's what happened. Tubalr blew up on reddit, several interested investors reached out. One was really close to investing but ended up not going through with it. I never sought out investment myself and have no intentions on doing so.

Thanks!

Edit: This has been a side project for the past 2 years, the code is open sourced on GitHub(https://github.com/cjstewart88/Tubalr)
I don't know a single person with a jail broken phone. My wife, parents, and most kd my friends couldn't even articulate the concept. Then again my circle has a log fewer engineers these days than it used to.
For a nice little JIT, see also maru –

http://www.piumarta.com/software/maru/
This is my life and I get to do with it what I want. If my descendants want to have interesting lives they'll have to go and make their own, not piggy-back on mine.

And if they truly believe I've been negligent they're welcome to pass their inheritance to their siblings.
Hummingbird by any chance?
I usually listen to Bob Dylan or instrumental folk music
I feel the exact same way. I jailbreak to develop on my own device and use Cydia for things they'd never let through. I've never used Installous or anything like it.
The biggest mistake I see in the process train is not "trying to fix something" but, rather, not keeping track of "what don't we want to break". Whenever I start thinking about process, I build two lists of requirements: what do I want to fix and what do I want to not impact. Without both, it's easy for process to grow like a gray goo[1], gobbling up all the useful culture in the company and leaving a company devoid of life.

(I expand on this idea on my blog[2], if you are interested.)

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo

2. http://softwaremaven.innerbrane.com/2010/03/preventing-proce...
I'll grant you point one, but I can't agree with number two.

We used to play Starcraft as our after lunch activity in the reddit office. It was a great quick diversion.
hi tubalr guy... i know you from reddit. How are you doing?
Goldberg variations, on repeat.
I think always is overstating things a little, but you are right that you have to be very aware of perverse incentives and, the more process you bring in, the higher the likelihood that your process will interact in strange, unexpected ways to create those perverse incentives.
Sounds like a fascinating book. I'll be purchasing it as soon as the ebook is available.

Note: I didn't even know this book existed ten minutes ago, but now I'm annoyed that I have to wait until tomorrow for the ebook version. Sometimes my demand for instant gratification shocks even me.
Your blog post should probably at least mention clojure.core/for, so that new Clojurists can use that in real projects, after they are done learning.
This article is a year old now. Haven't we done the UEFI discussion to death?
Even on a boring old DB: Spin up a few read slaves, give them a few min to sync to current, turn them loose. Sure it is only read scalability, but every bit counts.
A little help from Google on your New Year’s resolutions
The xaml/designer issue is pretty much what stopped me from diving too far into wpf. Usually if I'm doing Wimdows apps these days it's some utility/internal tool for work, and it's just sooo much quicker for me to whip something up in winforms ( with a nice easy click once deploy). But for something customer facing I would definitely spend the time to learn wpf. I believe the Github GUI app is WPF and that has a pretty cool interface that would be tricky to pull off in winforms (on a side note, I felt really cheesy at first using it over the command line but now I'm hooked).
It depends on whose garden it is.
Seems like you could flip it in to a kind of feature. What if it was like season tickets and you were guaranteed a seat at one of the first n showings? Maybe I'm too far out of my 20s but its not that big a deal for me to be there at midnight to see the opening, if you could make sure my whole family got seated comfortably at 4pm on a Saturday or Sunday though, I might pay even more and just schedule that time every month as move time There are theater that do family night were people can bring infants and such, treat it like that and in the right sized community you could almost have private screenings; that is a premium service.

The other logical thing, let subscribers vote on up coming movies to bring, if you pick the movie maybe you could get tickets to see it sooner.
Awesome to hear, I love the Beethoven lessons. Some classical stuff sounds really cool on a guitar (esp Beethoven on an electric).

Both good suggestions. We haven't found out a great way to handle scrolling with long notes yet. Also, agreed that it would be cool to show 1/4, 1/8 notes etc. Would love to find a subtle way to do it within tab, rather than with a tab/staff notes blend.
Mobile/Digital Health in 2013: Going from the Treadmill to the Doctors Chair
I think what you're doing is pretty good.

If you don't remember where you came from you will lose perspective very quickly and you might start to think that you have some kind of innate right to being rich.

The rich people that I've known that were easy to get along with and genuinely nice all made a conscious effort to remind themselves they weren't always rich and went out of their way to help others to help themselves.

I think your whole incubator trip is something along those lines. Sure it makes you money. But it also enables tons of others and that is far more powerful than the side effects for you.

Happy 2013 Paul!
I'm the programmer/computer expert in the family so I often get the "you're so smart" line from family and friends. Most people here can relate.

It's much the same with me for intelligence. I do a similar thing on Facebook where I'm much more likely to post about a stupid moment than a smart one. I can see how it might look like a humblebrag, but to me it's more a way of asserting normalcy to my friends, my family, most of all to myself.
I'm sorry, could you be more specific?
Google Showcases New Year's Resolutions From Around the World
The Zeusmos site is "currently undergoing some maintenance".

Looks like someone is getting shut down.
If you'll excuse the analogy, the mental picture that came to mind was someone pining over their ex and taking longer to get over breaking up with them because they keep pictures of them around.
They were mostly bullied with federal funding, as they always are. It is why federal dependence and welfare is so dangerous, not because of flawed ideologies of who "earned" what, but because they can easily use their services as carrots on a stick to drive people the way they want them the same way a gang might extract loyalty through "protection". It already happens all the time with the elderly in the US and social security / medicare.
It's just so weird, because monads are obviously useful :)
It should really be merged into the "Jobs" section. That makes the most sense to me.
Math;DR
Do you know of any proof for that? My math intuition is telling me that randomly picking a real number is guarenteed to be irrational, based on the fact that there is an uncountable infinity real numbers, but only a countable infinity of rational numbers. But, without assuming a probability of 0 means impossible, I do not know how to go about proving/disproving this.
Based on the comments I've read and reading a bit of the preview - I am curious as to how polished this version is. I'm hesitant in buying the paperback copy especially, if there are errors.

Otherwise, this looks incredible. Exactly what I've wanted when wanting to learn math!
I can't imagine that SSDs would make any difference for web app servers. I am not familiar with app servers workload that uses a material amount of disk I/O.

That being said, if I built custom app servers, I'd use SSDs because the cost is small for a system that doesn't need much storage.
Demands of an effective frontend dev
> to an elector tree like the old US Senate rather than direct voting for too many positions

I mentioned this. The senators are still one of the largest divergent points from public interests that are direct elected. I'm all for abolishing the 17th amendment amongst other things (I disagree with the policy of 2 senators per state in principle anyway).

> No state senator would pass such mandates laws and vote to limit their state governments if the senators had to answer to and were elected by the state legislatures. Each state can elect their senators as they see fit.

I wish we could have unified state congresses that directly elected all federal representatives from within their own ranks. The citizenry shouldn't even be involved in the fed, which shouldn't be nearly as large as it is. They should be involved locally, and their local choices should influence larger groups through representation. The way republics are supposed to work.
I recently scored a nice internship from last month's, so that is a positive. I also look forward to them because they often showcase companies I may not have heard of so they have the bonus of providing exposure to products and services as well.

I second pknerd's suggestion to make them fortnightly.
Here is what is currently known about Glass:

- Transparent microdisplay, front-facing camera, touch-sensitive controls, audio I/O, internals "equivalent to a Galaxy Nexus", IMU, WiFi
Even if piracy isn't easier, there is the perception that it is, and that's all you need to keep people off the platform.
edw519 has not listed problems to be solved but dilemmas/trade-offs to be managed.
I played with some of these, is scroll deck supposed to work in the iPad? I couldn't get it to do anything. I don't have a desktop to try for comparison. Amazing work with all this
You have to Google the link to read the full article.

It seems cable companies are starting to get worried about Google Fiber, but also about other smaller companies who plan to offer gigabit fiber. I think their reports that "there's no demand for fiber right now" are misleading, either because they don't want others to think there is high demand before they do something about it themselves, or whenever they ask this question to a company or user, the offer probably comes attached with a high price tag (- "Would you like 1 Gbit fiber for $1,000 a month?" - "Umm..no"). They should ask people if they want gigabit speeds without paying anything extra, and I'm sure the response would be quite different!
New Year, New Tech, Same Old Problems
Spot instances come from both leftover on-demand instances as well as unused reserved instances. So it's quite possible to run out of on-demand and still have a low spot price.
> For now they really only saved $300k/yr, which is less than the cost of two engineers.

It took them 2 weeks to implement. That means it's saved a lot more than it took to implement (2 weeks times a couple of engineers) already.

To use your metric, if they saved close to $300K/year, that means they could afford to add 2 engineers to their staff, which is very significant.
As long as they don't listen to talking snakes, I agree.
Well, that post is an eye-opener. Very timely.

You're spot on with your comment highlighting that "we forget" to give ourselves the space to live outside of our work. It's something that anyone with true ambition is met with but something that we must learn to accept and overcome.

I feel the idea of having success in life and work is most certainly achievable, we just need to push ourselves to be aware of those around us (not just our friends on the internet). I feel we need to make a conscious effort to maintain and sustain positive relationships (partners, kids, parents, friends, etc) while still maintaining healthy work habits. Work hard, play harder.
Resolutions and Search Trends [d3.js]
- PairMixer - http://pairmixer.com - Find someone to Pair with (got sued for this one had to take it down)

- Sink or Ship - http://sinkorship.com - Ship Your Project In Time, Or Else...
It's not just naive, it's incredibly arrogant. As much as I'd like to think otherwise, doctors contribute a lot more to society than programmers do.
2013: Talk Gets Cheaper, TV Gets Smarter
It's very realistic. You may have to be realistic about what you launch and ensuring maybe that you have a business model in hand on the first one.

Chances you are a little old fashioned and like businesses, that actually, like, make money.

If so, there's lots of communities geared for you already. Micropreneur.com, and 30x500 are two that come to mind.

Ideally, work on finding and building an idea that there is already measurable demand for (but little or no competition).

This way -- the idea may not be sexy, but the business model is very sexy. Use the first product to "get off the grid" of working to chase things with longer runway if you like -- or not.

At risk of offending some (none intended), you should maybe spec out the HN demographic to realize many of us are unmarried, others are likely in their 20's without many responsibilities or interests beyond spending their time how they like.
HN gives my browser indigestion, so my first attempt to reply is now lost in cyberspace. The short version: Some of the quotes remind me of the Joe Walsh song "Life's been good" http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Lifes-Been-Good-lyric...

So maybe wealthy/famous/successful people are still, first and foremost, people.
Same. The only person listed that I follow is Ken Jennings and I don't think he's ever posted something that isn't a straight up joke. So as I was reading I got the feeling the author was just missing the context of the rest of the twitter feeds, or missing that the entire reason to follow some celebrity on twitter might be to hear about the unusual things that go on in their lives.

But then he got to the part about his friend telling what sounds like an amusing story having to pay for an award. And maybe now I'm the one missing all the context, but I don't get it: can't our friends tell us about their success without it being interpreted as an assertion of superiority?
Thanks for that explanation. I keep showdead set to on and have been puzzled by SparrowOS's comments, until now. Glad to learn about the SparrowOS project, and best wishes to its creator.
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Jazz, especially hard bop, makes for great coding music. When played well, it fades into the background and become a soundtrack of sorts yet it is still technically interesting enough that when I need to take a break from coding, I can focus on the jazz and it'll still keep my brain going.

Chillwave is also amazing. I've been doing a lot of coding to this lately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa3qqfgp1Ns The hypnotic style of it helps me focus and get into the 'zone' more often than not.

I tend to find sung lyrics distracting in music, although chants and foreign languages aren't as much of a hindrance.
You don't need a programmer to develop new surgical techniques ;)
That's very negative, despite the disclaimer. And from what I've seen of the above, people aren't writing ten crappy side projects, many of them are excellent.

Staying focused on one thing is fine too, but for many of us, we like to dabble in many things.

If Giotto is your way of learning python and building another (python) web framework then that's fine too. One difference is that many of the above side projects are new and do things that we didn't have prior to someone building them, meanwhile yet another web framework a la bottle et al is really contributing very little new.
In the US, my understanding is that consideration is necessary for contract formation, but by contrast promissory estoppel applies only when there is no consideration. A quick perusal of Wikipedia's coverage of the topic [1] makes it look like the UK's treatment is roughly similar.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel_(English_law)#Promisso...
Bitter much?

I've been fortunate to have never worked with bad programmers. Some were not super experienced but still they cared. They did their best. A bad programmer would be someone who didn't care about the next guy.

As for "A" players, they exist. They develop code that others can understand yet probably wouldn't haven't have come up with themselves.

Hard work does not make you an "A" player. Intelligent work does.
> The only supporting evidence for the “uberhacker” was a study on batch processing vs interactive programming, in 1960. On a handful of people, in a half hour session. The rest of the noise is untamed adolescent egotism.

I present exhibit A: Richard Mathew Stallman before he got RSI.[0] The stories of those early computer pioneers should make computer users everywhere take pause and seriously think about the damage they're doing to their tendons.

[0]: In fact, if you type "uberhacker" into wiki it redirects to him.
This may seem silly, but I'd love to see an extremely simple, single user, single tasked OS like CP/M, but written to exploit modern hardware.

The incredibly tall software stack we all live on makes our hardware seem much slower than it actually is, I've long wondered what we could actually get out of modern hardware if we treated it like we used to treat hardware back in the 80s and early 90s - close to the metal and highly optimized.
Hey, Thanks for the fix. We did something a little different and just moved into into the containing table. Tables for layout yuck, but this is essentially a html email posted on a website.
I don't get it?

"I thought up an app that would make it extremely easy to send many pictures to a group of friends in one go."

Isn't that email?
There's more to programming than just the web. There are embedded systems (where C is alive and kicking), telephony (where I work writing test cases for call processing for some new cell phone features---a mixture of C, C++ and Lua), scientific (C, C++, Fortran; possibly other languages I'm forgetting), big data, games (non-web based) and probably more areas I'm forgetting about.

For me, I have my day job in an area nearly unrelated to my interests. That way, I have the freedom to work on my own stuff at home (and yes, this has been cleared with work in any case), which includes fringe operating systems like Synthesis OS (http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/) and even Sparrow OS (http://www.sparrowos.com/ ---just becuase the author is schizophrenic doesn't mean his work has no merit).
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No, you need to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. You are looking for an experience developer with nothing to offer. The only people who will be interesting in helping you are developers who want to get some practice in learning iOS, which is not what you are looking for.

I have no idea what Tubalr is, but if it is a simple CRUD app, then you should be able to learn obj-c, ios SDK and get the app done in a month if you are persistant in working on it (3-4 hours a day after work, and more on the weekends).
There are degrees for all this stuff. I'm probably average or slightly better for reliability because of my health problems (because I have health issues, I don't drink or use drugs, I exercise regularly, and I rarely allow myself to get less than 7 hours of sleep). However, I wouldn't want to be in a job where I have to compete on reliability. If I'm a 9 for creativity and a 5 for reliability, then I'd rather compete based on potential excellence than on my decline curve, knowing that while I won't be the first to drop off, I have no chance of being the last one standing.

Forgive my cynicism, but I think that 99% of what determines who can acquire trust in the corporate system is a person's decline curve. That's how people are tested. The winners are the extremely reliable and the sociopaths who can hack the system. Technology is more enlightened, but still corrupted by typical white-collar culture.

The importance of reliability depends on the job. You wouldn't want an emotionally unstable person as someone's boss, for sure.
There's a big difference between "I tripped on my shoelaces today... what a klutz" and "The shoelaces on these $900 Prada shoes are so long I tripped... what a klutz".
I know for a fact they will give out separate certificates for individual subdomains; we do it regularly.