skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're just informing us that our planet is scheduled for demolition and that the plans are available for review at the local office in Alpha Centauri.
It's Dell, so I'm never sure.
More Signal: Greasemonkey script to mute specific users in Boing Boing comment threads
It is most certainly not true about C++.
http://programming.reddit.com for nerd discussion

http://planet.ajaxian.com/ which is actually an agglomeration of lots of other feeds is great for keeping up with company launches and industry rumors, but a bit heavy (over 100 posts/day usually during the week)
So I Quit My Day Job - Holy Cow I Took the Plunge
I remember when the original offer from Oracle came out in october. The company I was working for then had an Oracle database and had just switched app-servers from Tomcat to Weblogic, so the idea of both coming under the same banner was not an unpleasent one.

Oracle's been doing a lot of acquisitions recently. I wonder who's next on their laundry list.
By programming do you mean related directly to programming or startup related stuff in general?
Cryptography and Chinese Lottery
Worthwhile goal indeed, but I think it's a terrible way to try to achieve it. I'd opiniate that one will make much more money from a medium-paying job he's fully passionate about than a high-paying one he doesn't like very much (in the general case).

At the very least, you'll be much more happy in the former scenario. I think a good strategy for making a lot of cash is pursuing strategies that are at least moderately sustainable, and that won't result in a total waste if you don't succeed to meet your expectations.

For example, I have a startup of my own, and I put long hours on it because I enjoy it and learn a lot! Even if I don't ultimately succeed commercially, I'll walk away from that experience with a net "profit"!

So, to answer your question, I think it's loser to pursue a career you don't really enjoy just to have a shot at winning the "lottery".
Both really, but its quite easy to find startup related stuff on the web. The hardest stuff is when its real programming related content.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ is a great blog on programming languages.
How about cheap online storage to rsync to?
Just checked their web site - you are right.
I like http://www.joelonsoftware.com, and http://www.codinghorror.com
You got it right. http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Code_Contributing_FAQ has more information.

Other companies with a split proprietary/free model require copyright assignments for contributions as well. So, too, does the FSF, although for rather different reasons.
This might be useful in the mode where you can deploy it on your own server, but I'm not touching their my.anyterm service. Why should I consider them more trustworthy than Hushmail?
Has AT&T Lost Its Mind?
Hosting service overcharges by $7.5 million
I'm not sure the MySQL figure is too high.

Compared to Oracle's market cap of $113 billion, MySQL is a relative bargain.

And while their business models are different, Sun is in a position to make a major dent in Oracle's client base.

With Sun behind them, it's easier for big enterprise customers to go along with MySQL instead of Oracle; support costs for using MySQL are also cheaper.

The net effect will be more profits for Sun overall.
I think any civilization that is a tiny bit more advanced than us (and trust me it really isn't that hard) would wipe us out of the universe, and i personaly would not blame them. you have to sit back and think who would want to share the universe with creatures who hate, envy, kill their own, lies, cheats, destroys their once perfect habitat, pollutes, steals....

anyways my message to you the aliens is "back the fk off before you contract Humanitis. your most advanced doctors would NEVER be able to cure it"
I was suspicious of this story, too, for the same reason, and that's why I added the "possible" qualifier to the title.

Still, it's fascinating to think of the possibilities if it's real.
Assuming it is feasible to accelerate a ship to relativistic speeds, they could well decide to exterminate us in self-defense. A relativistic bomb delivers enormous destructive power, and by definition, it is never where you see it when you see it, and is probably unstoppable.

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3aa.html#killingstar has a very good writeup on the subject.
I'll also chime in for Jungledisk. I use it on 2 machines at home and a few at work (Windows Vista, Server 2003). The cost and security is really nice.

Jungledisk Plus gives you the option to view files online - so it's a backup + online viewing option (since it uses Amazon S3 and is already online).
Learning #1: "learning" is not a noun. You can't have "learnings". You can have knowledge. You can learn things. Saying you have "learnings" makes you sound retarded.
Even if you aren't going to get fired, random breasts on the screen is not great for a lot of public situations.

NSFW applies to more than just the fellow with 3 levels of management (and his TPS reports) :)
Here are a few I check every so often. For python:

- comp.python.announce - http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce

- Daily Python-URL - http://www.pythonware.com/daily

For java/xml:

- Cafe au Lait: http://www.ibiblio.org/java/

- Cafe con Leche: http://www.cafeconleche.org/

Misc:

- Hack the Planet - http://wmf.editthispage.com

- Geek Press - http://www.geekpress.com
If I remember correctly from "Collapse" by Jared Diamond, a lot of human societies have been conquered and destroyed in human history. Kind of the same thing, technologically advanced people discover backwards people and finish them off.
Are you sure YC is blocking hystry?

The hystry blog makes no mention of anything like that.

It might be that Kartik just stopped running it, for whatever reason.

Note that the last blog entry was back in November, so maybe he's just moved on to something else, e.g.
On a tangential note, where does one go to find topless babes interested in linux?

The last time I saw topless women on the beach, they were reading "People" magazine if they were reading anything at all.
Viktor's Amazing 4-bit Processor
I found this out by emailing him yesterday. I thought it would be better if I made the case for reinstating it by telling pg the value it creates for me while using his site. Kartik had nothing to do with this public request.
It was really pounding the server. Crawling for a search index is ok, but retrieving pages to dynamically update stuff generates a lot of requests.

If you can tell me what you think is missing from News, I can try to add it.
Has anyone got a link to more solid information about this? How clear is it that this is a signal?
New programming blog from Mike Vanier (of LFM/LFSP fame)
An Unlikely Macworld Winner: Boston Startup Skyhook Wireless
Maybe someone else should chime in about this being NSFW. I don't think the point was made.
For the most part, one doesn't.
I have a Lisp success story. I wrote a decompiler in C++, building cruft on top of cruft, until it became too unwieldy (c.70,000 lines), so I rewrote it from the ground up in Lisp. Now it's 20,000 lines, far more elegant, and works a heck of a lot better.

However, I did experience a certain amount of burnout on this - I haven't written anything nearly as extensive since (eg, no more than 1000 lines of Lisp).
DO COME FROM (20)
USE Intercal
PLEASE GIVE UP

P.S. Could somebody write a real piece of Intercal-code for language selection?
chime
Workers in a machine-gun factory do not usually use machine guns.
Lame downmods. It's just a joke.
> f the people who designed Haskell had actually been working on, say, XML and XSLT, XML and XSLT

You might want to check out SXML / SXPATH/ SXSLT.
These definitely don't suck, in fact I'd consider them nothing less than "XML processing done right". They are created by a well known type-system wizard (Oleg) with a fondness for Haskell.
http://planet.lisp.org/
Back in the day this picture was on reddit. Someone said the picture was taken in Greece.
MySpace still slapping Facebook around
I don't know. You can't say that "They would not become advanced" just because they had a religious or superstitious outlook. What is to prevent an alien race that attributes their existence to a higher power from achieving technological progress? Would you also say then that our scientists of today who are advancing our level of technology are by definition irreligious?

Likewise, a warlike race of aliens is not hard to imagine. Wars are "expensive" in that they cost lots of money, but when america wages war the money that is spent in such great amounts is spent on American troops and government contractors, who in turn take the money they earned and spend it on other goods, so it does not "destroy" the money. In fact, war is generally an economy booster. As far as the destruction of resources, assume this hypothetical alien race is warlike toward OTHER species, not internally. The things they are destroying, then, are not on their homeworld, but on the worlds of those they conquer, and every world they conquer is another batch of resources for them to sap before moving on.

I just think you can't really predict the way another race would develop based on a random sample of 1 (humans).
Luckily for him, not all guys in finance are such uber-hackers.
Futzing as the Future of Work: How news.yc and RSS can help rather than distract
Sure. But you can never know before which way the prices go.
Video of the MacBook Air
I use Mozy for off-site backup and the free SyncBack to sync to an extenral USB harddrive.
why not just link this to it?
What's wrong with CS research
How do you figure? $3/user/year doesn't knock my socks off.
Wars are very expensive and destructive. It's hard to become advanced when you keep destroying wealth.

You have it backwards. Wars create wealth. That is, in part, why we keep having them.
I agree with the point you are proving. But I do not think your argument valid - for you could just use your technique to prove the opposite: People who _sold_ after his trade were worse off.

I think we need a more complex line of reasoning to justify him being the good guy.
I'm a fan of http://www.codinghorror.com and http://www.thedailywtf.com

I've never found a need to be updated daily on any one language, so I read more of the meta-discussion of being a programmer rather than about languages themselves. When I want to figure out a language issue, I just google for it.
Both of the above comments refer to cliches that have been repeated so often that it's tempting to believe them.

We read all the time about number 1 or number 2, but companies survive or die based on profitability and fiscal responsibility, not market position.

Also, revenue model != revenue or, more importantly, earnings. And whether a company has a good revenue model is at best peripherally related to how accurately it's valued.
Thanks for sharing that insight.
dropbox (http://getdropbox.com , our yc startup) -- keeps a folder synced across pcs and to the web (with continuous syncing, an rsync-like protocol and versioning) for windows/os x. basically we had the same problem and tried the same rsync+cron hacks and wanted to solve the problem right.

we'll be kicking out news.yc beta invites soon :)
Did hystry get permission from PG to crawl the server? Did they agree upon a certain rate at which hystry would access hacker news?
Until ojbyrne mentioned it, I had never really looked at the comments page. It's almost right, but it would be much easier to follow the conversation if each comment was tagged with the story it refers to. Right now the comment threads are disjointed from each other (that's the price of a chronological list) but they're also disjointed from their source article.

On hystry, it's 2 columns, with the left column being the title and link and the right being the comment. This makes it easier to mentally sort the comments into conversations. Like I said, most of it is already in the Comments page, which I now use instead of hystry. You might think of another way to do it that also works well.

Thanks, pg!
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I'm not saying hystry has any right, I'm just saying it was valuable to me. Like I mentioned in my other comments, the Comments page does almost everything hystry does, it's just missing a little story context.
Five secrets of self made millionares.
That's why I said "could not write it in C, short of writing a Lisp interpreter," instead of just "could not write it in C."
What would be great for kartik's app is a live "push" style feed of all the new content on hacker news (possibly including votes too). This way, the load on the site would be minimal.

This would also let a lot of other people scratch their own itch to try out outlandish new ideas. Few of us newsyc readers are even going to bother thinking up ideas for your site because we realize that there's a low chance of them being implemented. You just couldn't implement them all if you wanted to. If you provide this feed though, it would allow people to get the instant gratification of coding up their own ideas and, I think, a lot more innovation would occur.

I don't think you're trying to get rich by selling this site so there's not much to lose. Brand dilution likewise seems unlikely in this case. Any other downsides?
http://perlmonks.org/?node=Best+Nodes
tar and scp to my server. For versioning I use cp -r.

Does this make me a bad person?
You are worth your asking price times the probability of getting it. Facebook is not worth $15 bil, not now anyway.
The idea that men would prefer college educated women because they can make more money after marriage seems unlikely. Marriage creates a monopsony job market for women because of their geographic immobility, decimating their future wages regardless of how skilled or well-educated they are. Employers know that women aren't able to move to another region to find a better job since they tend to stay with their husbands, so they are able to pay them much less. Economic research comparing women in cottage industries (where they can work for any employer from home) versus women working traditional jobs backs this up. If a man really wanted a women who would be able to contribute money to the relationship, it would be far more economically rational to look for a woman who was already wealthy rather than a women who could potentially earn money due to her education.
Is this like breaking windows creates wealth, or what?

Physical goods are destroyed. Man hours are used up. How is that wealth creation?
http://anarchaia.org/

http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/ (JVM hacking, concurrency, non-blocking hashtable)

http://osteele.com/ (javascript, functional programming)

http://glinden.blogspot.com/ (personalization, collective intelligence)

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
For versions of low that still cost more than my house:)
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=44764&...

has more than you'd ever want to read about it, but I'll attempt to summarize: Inconclusive, but possibly something like a supernova or a neutron star collision, probably extragalactic, and almost certainly _not_ engineered by intelligent life.
There are laws of physics, which govern how knowledge is created, and how it is not. Superstitious methods of thinking cannot create a higly advanced civilization.

Knowledge is created by a process of replication (with errors), and selection. In human-level terms, truth seeking requires being open to new ideas, including criticism, and replacing faulty ideas. Attitudes like, "some things should remain mysteries and aren't for us to know," "I can believe whatever I want as long as it makes me happy," or whatever it is behind superstitions, prevent knowledge creation. If those attitudes are too prevalent, and applied to too many subjects, you can't develop space flight, and other advanced knowledge.
This one gets a lot of good links, so does the programming reddit. LtU is at times interesting... at times it veers way too far into the theoretical.
This was an interesting article but I am highly skeptical about that "96 percent," "over 96 percent" statistic. There are a slew of arguments about related problems that contradict many of the claims in this article.
Oracle to buy BEA, after Sun courts MySQL
http://www.aldaily.com is great for philosophy, and
Wired Mag: http://www.wired.com/wired

and a few others ...
Great idea - I actually used and participated in Hacker News a lot more since I found the hystry page.
Part of speech in English is determined by word order. If you attach "s" to "learning" it simply forces it to become a noun. It's not proper in the books, but neither was "Google" a verb 10 years ago.
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Check this out

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95764

I find it a very interesting usage, too bad he didn't tell me more about it.
I think he means that the need for technological superiority in order to win wars paves the way for future wealth creation. Just look at how many wonderful new technologies started as DARPA projects.

More controversially, war deaths reduce the supply of labor, making it more valuable for those who survive. The Black Plague had a similar effect.
Is the comments page better now?
The Fourth Dimension
But people who sold after his trades made a stupid decision -- to buy overpriced mortgages. We'll live in a better world when rational financial decisions are more rewarding, and that won't happen without making folks like Paulson pretty rich. The thing is, you could make the case that a mortgage boom that went on another year would cost the country 1% of GDP in badly-allocated capital (spent on houses nobody wanted to live in and everyone bought to flip). From that perspective, he's earning a commission of less than 1%.
You don't think Sun wants Oracle's slice of the pie and is perfectly reasonable for wanting it? They know better than anybody what that slice is worth...Sun and Oracle were the basis of most of the first Internet boom and both made out like bandits. Even if they can only make a tenth what Oracle makes, it's still worth every penny.

It would have been smarter to buy MySQL AB earlier...but Sun only recently really got that Open Source religion, and earlier they would have been reviled for stepping in and buying up MySQL (if the MySQL guys would have even sold to a pre-OSS friendly Sun). Sun also had a bad habit of buying and killing companies, which is presumably now corrected. The OpenOffice acquisition turned out well (ignoring the Java dependency issue already mentioned), so everybody probably trusts them to do the right thing by MySQL.
Breaking windows increases the need for new windows, thus paving the wave for new window technology.

But you could have researched that anyway, without breaking the window first. When you are forced to research something b/c of a broken window, or war, you set aside what would have otherwise been a higher priority.

Being forced to do something is not a good way to discover the best priority. Free choice, while imperfect, works better.
True, it is most likely compressed, but compression does not have to be lossy. Apple tends to use H.264/MPEG-4, which is (or at least can be?) lossless. It would be silly to send uncompressed HD video to the Apple TV when lossless or nearly lossless compression could be used.

The only other thing I can say on the matter is that I was at Macworld today, and they were demoing Apple TV playing an HD movie on a giant screen (probably 50 feet across) and it looked excellent.
I wrap code that changes things within a call to atomic,
which prevents the thread from switching in the middle of it. That solves the problem of two threads trying to modify an object at the same time. I don't add any protections against e.g. the host machine's power being shut off in the middle of writing a file, though maybe MzScheme does.

The answer to your specific question, though, is that I wouldn't try. News isn't written like banking software.
Sorry, I added the page so quickly that I posted the link in the wrong spot.
My mind must just be hardwired for this, because it makes perfect sense to me. In C, everything is by-value. The end.
No Alien Signal
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"I think some people are awake but asleep at their job." - brilliant
Touche'; I should have grouped my sentences differently. C++ is not a small, easy-to-learn language.
Math books you can actually read
How would you deal with users like me who shove their mouse to one side to avoid distractions while reading?
This would also let a lot of other people scratch their own itch to try out outlandish new ideas.

There's an even better way to do that, which is to let users write little Arc programs to control the way pages are generated. That is the eventual plan.
Wow, this is awesome. I've managed to make something at least somebody wants. It's a start.

I didn't see this until now because I can't seem to go back to reading Hacker News without the ability to bounce between my interface and the original.

I'm sure hystry'll be back once PG's given us a timeout :) And it's a well-deserved timeout. My crawler process seems to have gone rogue and I wasn't keeping an eye on it. Definitely my mistake.
I haven't downmodded you (at least, not yet), but all I'm going to say is that (1) it's a lame joke and (2) there's a pattern with you and this crap.

Quoth you a couple months ago:

If there is anybody here who thinks that blacks and Jews are genetically equivilent [sic] in intelligence, raise your hands. Please, I beg you.
(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=88082)

Was today's comment so bad? Nope, just lame. Unfortunately, people make logical leaps where they shouldn't. As you said so eloquently in another thread when you asserted that blacks must obviously be stupid: at what point does the evidence become overwhelming?
It's a useful addition, but it messes up the visual flow, making it hard to quickly scan the comments page. How about putting the title at the end of the line with the rest of the metadata. E.g.

3 points by pg 8 minutes ago | link | parent | source: Reinstate hystry's Hacker News

A 'source' or 'root' link would be useful when navigating comments also, to save having to click through each parent.
http://projecteuler.net/ for building some skills and having some fun.
Great idea. I always knew my crawler was a bit of a hack and would be eventually obsoleted.

Until we get there, though, may my crawler be let back in? Like I said in email I promise to only restart it after I embed controls over how many URLs I get per hour deeply inside it, and to log my crawling activity and keep an eye on it in future.

The reason I was crawling every few minutes was to get notified of updates to conversations as they happen, before the 'herd' moves on to new feeding grounds. But I can make it crawl even hourly and it'll still allow me to stay kinda abreast of the conversation here.
wars create additional financial wealth, but they don't create material wealth. Wars are inflationary. The best definition of wealth has nothing to do with money, but instead asks what the productive potential is. Wars decrease productive potential. They may increase it for one society and decrease it for another, but the sum total is reduced. There are interesting questions here about the destruction of low productivity facilities, say a factory of weavers, versus destruction of high productivity facilities such as a factory of weaving machines.

Also, some wealth is lost in the form of bullets, bombs, and other weapons that are used in the process. It's not the total cost of the bomb, but it is the cost of the physical material that makes the bomb.