skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly IMO the biggest problem with reddit's subreddit UX is that you can't choose the ratio of which subreddits are most important to you. Unfortunately you're not really fixing that... I think that would be more powerful than showing groups of subreddits.

In other words, I should be able to say "I want 30% of my links to come from r/worldnews, 10% from r/science, 5% each from r/biology, r/programming, r/chemistry, r/physics, r/neuro, 20% from r/foodforthought, and 20% from r/truereddit.

Even a simple UI dragger that would let me boost the prominence of certain subreddits in my feed would be great.. Otherwise, small but awesome subreddits have a tough time getting seen anywhere near the top of my feed.
Allow me to tell you how wrong you are.

My roomate is 6'4, broad shoulders, athletic, good looking by any standard, and he is hella funny. People thought for the longest he had plenty girls, but believe me when I say he had his fair share of trouble.

Now, this will sound like a lie, but I have no way to prove this to you unless you decide to make a trip to the city of Atlanta at which point I will introduce you to my other friend. This guy is 5'5 (at the most), skinny, and by no means will you call him handsome. However from my 12 years in America, I have never met anyone who gets hotter girls, or more girls. I always ask him, and I mean always, "What do you do, really?" From my observation and what he tells me here is what works for him,1) talk to as many beautiful girls as you can (interestingly enough, you have more chance with beautiful women, I have no idea why), 2) don't be nice, 3) smell very very good (One Million or Chanel5 or Chrome Azzaro,...), 4) always dress one step above, always (my friend always looks preppy), 5) never depreciate yourself, never, ever, even as a joke, never.
This is a very eloquent post about what it is to be a scientist.
i have a friend who was laid off, but then a year later they hired him back as a contractor at a much higher rate.
Please don't buy into the evolutionary psychology BS. Human relationships are mostly defined by cultural norms, not genetics, or else short people would have been selected out millions of years ago. Women incorporate the same things that all of us do, our culture: imaginary (and largely delusional) hollywood fantasies about ideal romances. The truth is both men and women are equally lost in the dating game when individualistic happiness is held to be the highest ideal.
Counterexample: my girlfriend and I have been together for about two years, love each other deeply, and are strongly committed to one another. And still, for us, marriage is basically a political and financial decision.

So if she can get a free ride at some school where I can get a professorship, or if one of our jobs transfers us overseas, or if we can get a significant break on our taxes by filing jointly, then we’ll do it. Gaming the system is awesome. Otherwise, marriage just doesn’t mean anything to us.
The energy curve sounds like a parabola (f(x)=x^2) curve of "energy", where nothing can actually sit at 0,0 or go through it.

The energy translation used to flip a slight positive temp to a negative temp sounds like a reflection to the negative side of the curve.
New Year's rant: dumb and dumber —Dennis Howlett
> You're living in a bubble working at the NYSE; few employers have needs that are time-sensitive enough to be measured in microseconds, nor do most employers have billions of dollars being exchanged every second.

Not true, I can think of several areas where latency and performance matter:

1) Graphics firmware
2) Audio/Video Real-Time transcoding, transformation etc.
3) Mobile
4) Wireless/Networking Gear etc.

I've personally written systems that have to respond in 10ms to 3.5 Billion queries with 45k qps spikes.. They're are lots of places performance matters.
Maybe your site could use cloudflare to not go down when it makes front page of HN... o_0
By "casually nude" I mean a person walking to the shower, getting dressed, changing, walking around in their underwear for some random reason etc.

The fact the device goes straight to their servers means those pictures are out of my strict control (I don't even take pictures of those things and keep pictures IN my control). So while it's not the same as publishing to facebook, if they are ever hacked, we'll, that's a total loss of control of a serious aspect of my families financial life.

Morality clauses in company rulebooks alone can make nude pictures = fired. Even if they didn't they could be humiliating to have co workers/ex associates pass them around, or new employers finding them before a job search occurs.
I had a very similar attitude to yours about 6 years ago. I sympathize with your frustration. Although I am not denying that it may be harder for you to find someone, I think your current attitude/self-perspective is not helpful to you.

I highly recommend this book, in absolute seriousness:

<http://www.amazon.com/Self-Esteem-Cognitive-Techniques-Asses...;

It was a real revelation to me. Don't dismiss it as psychobabble-nonsense just yet, buy it for a friday night when you are dateless, then honestly consider what it has to say. If nothing else, it will make you happier while you continue to have limited success dating. Also, when you find a woman who will look past the height thing, you want to be in a healthy place to actually make the relationship work from there.

For what its worth, I married to a truly wonderful, brilliant and amazing woman a few years ago. The person I was before reading that book would not have gotten past the first date with her, and certainly wouldn't have been a good partner in a relationship.
Rolling circles and balls
What's wrong with having a girlfriend for five years and not marrying her? It might be unusual, but it's not wrong. Some people aren't into marriage. Some people like to wait - my brother was in a relationship over 10 years before he proposed (and is now happily married). Don't judge everyone by your own ideas.
Sunmeet Kaur,the winner of Rs.5 crore on TV game show
Thanks for the corrections. I have changed the post to reflect the Hadoop/Hive/MapReduce mistake. I am still new at this tech thing and obviously don't know all the terminology yet.
> If microsoft had not shipped a couple of hundred million graphics terminals the web would have never taken off.

I don’t even...
I love the analogies! "What happens when a negative temperature object meets a positive temperature object? To find out, imagine that the Dalai Lama meets Warren Buffett."
Very interesting.
So, I'd pay a private company to arbitrage between me and the company which caused my lead poisoning?

And what happens when the private company doesn't agree with the arbitrage result?
This article starts out rather poorly.

"Other research has shown that even those who should be especially clear-sighted about numbers—scientific researchers ... are often uncomfortable with, and credulous about, mathematical material."

Followed less than a paragraph later by discussing the results of adding a spurious mathematical model to an abstract:

"Those with degrees in math, science or technology rated the abstract with the tacked-on [math] as slightly lower-quality than the other."

I worry that this is just another example of science being poorly interpreted by media outlets. More importantly I'm not clear why I should be surprised that busy professors who don't have a close relationship with mathematics should be expected to evaluate an abstract (NOT a whole paper) less favorably because it includes a model.

We live in a world where the scientific method is more frequently under assault from parties who's interest lie in viewing it as mere opinion. This doesn't help.
>That's not a legitimate way of thinking about the problem, though. Some of the communities in question are very large and powerful places; making a popular comment there can have a large impact on a huge number of people's lives.

Perspective, please. I believe you seriously overstate the impact of having a popular post on an internet discussion board.

In any case, that doesn't really change my point.

>And many of the subreddits are run by totalitarian dictators, so you end up with large and powerful subreddits that are curated by crazy moderators.

Step 1 to enjoying Reddit is to unsubscribe every single one of the default subs. They all have this problem (the reasons which and how seriously are up for debate, but that's another discussion.. for now, let's take it as given).

Step 2 is to find a smaller sub for your interests. The readership of this site would probably enjoy r/sysadmin, netsec, programming, definitely more. It is a different kind of community, granted, but it's not near as negative or not "legitimate" as you claim.
I wish more people hiring had your attitude. I found that wasn't the case during my interview process.
Cat already out of the bag for those countries.

Arms race: legal vs technology - technology wins every time.

So, the question becomes to whom is your legal system ultimately beholden.
If you want a funded startup, you could start here:

http://www.kpcb.com/careers

If you want a big company, Google and Yahoo use a lot of C++ and Java.

My last two groups at Yahoo, before leaving for a startup, were C++ and Java.

Good luck in your quest!
His assumption is that the only greatness worth achieving is in the video game world, the kind where some hero goes off to save the world.

My assertion is that the best kind of greatness is the one where a man sacrifices in some way for another, leading to the other's betterment/rescue/etc.

So, in this sense, one could save the world very selfishly and that would be a diminished greatness compared to a son who takes a leave of absence from work to care for his dying father.
Fortunately, most of them do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile etc. If you want to text somebody else, you'll have to figure out their carrier first though. :(

Is their a way determine their carrier without asking?
"you need a brain that has jumped the hurdle of learning"
Thanks but no thanks.
I just don't feel that 16 years of doing useless things are a good investment.

You can learn to do something useful and still develop your precious brain. Learn to play an instrument! Write some code! Build something with your hands! Learn to write.

Because guess what, around us there are a lot of people who can't write. Even on hacker news people use "its" and "it's" interchangeably these days. If we'll descend to the regular facebook users - they can't write, they can't speak. They did however end their school with some grades, so they pretend to having learned quadratic equations. And your "education" pretends they did.

Why is that? Did quadratic education help them? Did it? If so, why they can't write and can't reason? Did it?

This is bullshit. You are here selling us a product that does not work. Moreover, I guess you built some of your self-esteem on it working. Too bad.
>You should really try a pay site, OKC in my experience has just been for hookups.

I guess it would be that way if you just looked at people's profile pics and didn't bother with answering match questions, comparing scores, and reading profiles (which is how a frightening number of people seem to use it). If you actually use the tools it provides, you may find you have better luck.

That said, I guess I don't have much of sample size to work with since I've only dated one person I met on OKC. Still, that's because we're getting married, so take that for what it's worth.
I can't comment for the US as I'm based in the UK but I have been thinking about this problem from a recruitment point of view as I muse on long term directions for the company I work for.

I work developing applications in the engineering and CAD/CAM space for which we need engineers who understand vector maths and 3D geometry, memory/processing tradeoffs, multi-threading, C++ (for low-level and cross-platform components) and most importantly the ability to think in terms of systems and complex interactions between sub-systems.

I don't see this changing, yet the number of developers on the market in these sorts of roles is decreasing (especially at entry level) and the cost of employing those remaining seems to be increasing significantly.
Hey now, they don't want infinitely long periods for intellectual property... they are for limited periods of "forever minus a day".
Is Google Like Gas or Like Steel?
Networking, storage companies is a good option and if you get into core stack, work is very challenging. You should be able to find lists like these online:
http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/startups/most-promisin...
You can also try contacting recruiters on LinkedIn to see if they are willing to sponsor visa.
I'm quitting for the complete opposite. Jumping back into the entrepreneur game will be filled with unstability, no health benefits and instead of work-life balance; a work-life blend.
Temple Run, le jeu pour vous échapper des temples incas
>It has some lightly-moderated pressure valves, but the more topical forums keep a leash on discussions without chilling the conversation.

I really hope this is a joke. The moderators at something awful hand out bans and "probations" (arbitrary length bans from posting only) like candy and take personal offense when questioned why.

Here's a fun game. Click on a random username to look at their "rap sheet" and see how many times they've been hit with various punishments. You can click on the incident to go to where and when it happened. Then try to figure out which of the site or board rules they broke to get those black marks.

The wrong opinion in the wrong place will be punished just as harshly as on some of the more echo-chamberey subreddits, except worse since you can be globally banned and be out real cash for your trouble.

All punishments apply sitewide. At least on Reddit if a moderator who feels personally insulted at your posting bans you, it's only from that sub.

Something Awful is not my favorite website.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/website-uptime-monitor/21060/

This Google doc script monitors your websites and sends an SMS to alert you when down. It uses the same "Calendar->SMS" feature.
5 Business Lessons from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air
you can get a wildcard cert for less than $90/year. I got mine for $40 with a special on namecheap.com
I use MongoDB, but decided to stick with Python for similar reasons. The callback hell is an atrocity and Clojure pretty neatly demonstrates why it's 100% unnecessary.
Awakening (during anesthesia)
The capacitive sensor for the touch screen probably also pulls in a lot of noise that could be used.
Well I think he made a bit of an exaggeration here. Up until the end of high school it's perfectly possible to get good grades in all courses.

However after high school, in the "classes préparatoires" it is perfectly normal for everyone (including the best pupils who aced their exams and all) to get extremely low grades (like 4/20) repeatedly because the notation system changes from there: instead of gaining points when giving the right answer, you lose points for every wrong one, and it's extremely easy to make 15 or 20 minor errors on a 4 hours math assignment or philosophy dissertation.

This is however, precisely done to "toughen up" students and make them master perfectly the courses in and out, and it works wonders (for those who can get through).

Unfortunately this state of mind is rapidly losing ground in France too, and people more and more consider they are some sorts of "customers" "buying" a form of "education service" from schools, and that therefore if the children doesn't fare well it's the professor's fault, or the school's, or the ministry, or everyone else's but theirs or their stupid brats'.
I assume you'd be interested in startups if you've come to hacker news, so my simple answer would be "San Francisco."

I don't know why you don't consider web development a 'programming' job. My favorite language is C and I develop in it for my own projects, but I've had just as much challenging work in designing PHP applications.

I've interviewed at several startups that had very difficult and interesting challenges -- and working in Java, Hadoop, etc. So I either don't understand what your real problem is, or you aren't looking hard enough.

Also you might consider mobile development, as Java/C++ can still be quite heavy there -- although, things seem to be moving towards multi-platform frameworks such as Adobe Air / Corona / PhoneGap etc.
A simple physics problem for your weekend
>I think we can all agree that native performs better. Nuff said.

No, not enough said. Performance isn't everything.
Interesting you say that: I was very surprised by the lack of internet usage in Australia (well, Melbourne anyway). It wasn't that the tech or connectivity wasn't there... but cafes never had wifis, and people didn't use the internet in the same as they do here. They didn't look up reviews online, for example... I worked for an italian restaurant and the phone number was wrong on the website... the boss didn't even seem to care!

It was a nice breath of fresh air: that old-fashioned "men are men" and "women are women" mentality in tech-usage form. On the other hand it's clearly coming, just a matter of time!
'Star Wars' Game to Introduce Same-Sex Romance
"I sometimes felt angry about how we were treated until one day I realized that they made a great parental sacrifice, exchanging their own popularity for our potential."

That's a pity. You should not do that. Please don't do that to your children or they will become miserable and angry too, and their children too, and so on. This is an awful way to live a life.

A man is born for happiness like a bird for flight.
Sacrificing large part of your life to misery for the questionable future success is a very bad deal. Not suggesting anyone take it.
I just turned 36 and have recently felt a similar way, though I wouldn't go as far as to call myself a loser. I distilled my understanding of that dissatisfaction down and realized that I'm always consuming nowadays (video games, reddit, HN, music, movies, food, etc.) and hardly producing anything. I think we're all defined by what we create and the best place to look when we're feeling out of sorts is in the fruits of our labor. I was always creating something when I was younger. A comic book in high school, short stories and poetry in college, and nothing significant now since about 2006 except for a huge home renovation and having two great kids. So, once I realized (within the past 4 months) that I've stopped being a creator and haven't been following my passions, I started taking steps to correct that. I just got accepted to grad school for Software Engineering, so hopefully that'll be the first step towards some significant progress, but I'm also trying to take on some personal projects. And when I say personal projects, I mean build something that YOU want to build, not something that someone else wants from you.
Pedagogy of the Depressed: my experiences as a special ed student in the 1990s
Acknowledged, however I also think that Cs inertia will keep it going for a long time. Because System X was written in C, the next iteration will be written in C, goto 10. Also, for scientists (and others, I'm sure), it is hard to convince them to learn a new language when they are comfortable with their current language and are not convinced of the benefits of switching.
It was a poorly worded joke. US, irony etc.

That book was a first step for many of the devs that build many of the technologies that support everything we do online today.
Imogen Heap's Musical Gloves
London, wow. I always pictured the UK and European females as being more cultured/advanced when it came to dealing with men than their American counterparts. Is there the same typical meathead/jock worship in high school as well over there by females?
Subtitles - create subtitles in your web browser, built with meteor
This is very much how I look at the industry, its just that everyone I seem to talk to at the minute is only interested in rails!! C coders, by the dozens? Is there any chance you can put me in contact with a few people? It would be much appreciated. If you like, I can send you my email address, and we can even talk a while so you know I am not just some kid who wants a better deal.
AngularStrap - Bootstrap directives for AngularJS
Hate to say it but this doesn't "feel" native in the same way that I know it is possible to make. Great effort though and keep optimizing to get it there. For 100% native feel check out splitsville.
There’s no money in 3D printing
You should include j/k shortcut for navigating in stories.
Show HN: HTML5 Minesweeper
does solving mathematical problems actually increase your general mental ability? Is there any research that supports this?
This is suboptimal. You ought to have some internal motivation. Someone screaming at you isn't a good way to motivate yourself. Should probably be illegal.
indeed Google+ features are great threat for Facebook
I suggest you to move to Erlang. This is the best platform to create great systems (including web, but not only) and allowing skilled professional programmers to express their full potential.
Does anyone else want to take a different tack here?

Perhaps we need to start considering if we're entering a somewhat polyamorous age. Perhaps monogamy makes less sense today. This is a dangerous subject... it certainly isn't something I can talk to my partner about openly. But that's why I bring it up: perhaps as a society we need to start admitting that we have changed our level of expectations on what is okay for activity partners and perhaps even sex partners, with members of the opposite sex.

Perhaps we can have our cake and eat it too. We should acknowledge that long-term relationships built on friendships may not always provide all the perks we expect in this internet age. Perhaps we need not lose these wonderful relationships in the wake... rather have both.

I'm not offering a clear path for how it would work or how to get there. But I'm challenging the baseline assumption here that, somehow, a more liquid market for cross-sexual meeting is a bad thing. It's the reality of today, so perhaps we need to update our lifestyles.
That's so awesome. I had an idea a few years back that I called [in my head] "RSS Radio", and today I learned it exists. You're starting off my 2013 right. :)
Music industry has to control the market or it will cripple itself tremendously due to not being able to adapt to the changing environment. It's only natural to defend your own grounds. Can't blame them, even though I strongly disagree with them.

Technology is the future. The future is now. Sharing is caring. Sharing is good.
Changed the site to http://jjbohn.info
Indian DRDO developing new Operating System saying existing OSes are insecure
Indian Defence Research Organisation is about to develop new Operating System saying that existing operating systems based on Windows or Linux will have worms or malwares. Will 150 engineers in 3 years can make a better OS?
Do you write like this in messages to women?
Clojure after the Honeymoon
And when they are not praised at all, they grow up grumpy and miserable.
off-topic: Since you obviously are interested in Unicode (you used • and even ␄), you could continue the trend by using ¹, ² and ³ instead of [1], [2] and [3]. For the corresponding explanation at the bottom, use ①, ② and ③. Also, instead of "worst case", write “worst case” (typographically correct quotation marks) and instead of ', write ’ (typographically correct apostrophe).

In case anyone wonders how to enter them efficiently, I use neo-layout.org which provides ¹ on Mod3+1, ① with Multi_key + ( + 1 + ), “ with Shift+9, ” with Shift+0 and ’ with Mod3+0.
How about Big Time Cloud Data™?
California's Greek Tragedy
Were you on the free or paid plan?