skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medicine is not what I'd call a "quant" field, and I bet lit Ph.D.'s have precisely the skills necessary - focus, attention to detail, ability to memorize large amounts of knowledge, and good reasoning. So women who get lit PhD's probably could go to med school.

I think Greenspun is off the mark on his reasons why people choose science, literature, or any relatively low-paying field. They get compensation in other ways, like being able to use their mind in creative ways. I consciously choose not to continue in Medicine because it's boring to me compared to building things. I've traded money and stability for more chaos and the ability to work more on my terms. If you talk to docs, you'll get another set of complaints -- malpractice insurance, hours (for some), paperwork.
Happy Halloween from the Zombies!
I feel dirty using anti-aliased monospaced fonts in shells and text editors.

Apparently there's no good way to turn off anti-aliasing in Eclipse on OS X, which drove me absolutely nuts, but this guy came up with a genius (but ugly) hack to fake it:

http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/aliased-text-mac-eclip...
yup... $240M is nothing to MS... they'd probably pay that much just to -

keep google out

make the Live search the only integrated search engine of FB

make Office Live the official "share your doc/work with your friend/co-worker" app on FB... (think of how much marketing $ they'd save)

That 1.6% is probably just something they throw in to make the deal sound more reasonable... instead of just calling it kickbacks..
http://aycu09.webshots.com/image/32248/2004585555465429860_r...

Software: Ubuntu 7.10, Netbeans, Opera.
Hardware: 2 x 1280x1024 monitors.

Edit: Whoa, apparently webshots doesn't like PNGs. Try this link instead.

http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotzh0.png
You use variable width fonts for programming?!

I just hope I never have work on the same code with you.

There's just so many cases where having monospaced font is useful and easier to read when dealing with code.
I would, but I'm 1200 miles away.
For Consolas without Visual Studio 2005 check:

http://geekfriendly.org/crap/Consolas/Microsoft/
How does this guy have time to run a startup and write a novella for his blog every few days?
Nice. http://inglua.com/blog/images/c64.png

Lack of syntax highlighting is very easy on the eyes.
I hate widescreen, I'd use portrait mode if my monitor could pivot.
If you're drunk enough, that's walking distance.
My university (USC) set up a system like this after the Virginia Tech tragedy. It includes email, cell phone / voicemail, SMS, and pagers.
I upvoted the parent just because of your comment.
Keyboarding vs Mousing: what's better, what's faster? Apple's Bruce Tognazzini weighs in on the $50 million dollar question.
Cool, thanks for the update.
I don't think 10 desktops is enough... best to double it. =)
I really like DejaVu Sans Mono. I've found it's most readable for me on an AntiqueWhite background (sort of off-white). From my .Xdefaults:

Emacs.font: DejaVu Sans Mono-12
Emacs.background: AntiqueWhite

You'll need emacs from CVS, but it is a huge improvement over previous versions if only for the better font support.
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~apox/images/screenshots/20071031.png

My four desktops merged into one image. I'm using FreeBSD+ion.
Programmers And Prostitutes
Feedback on the usability of our NLI?
Hello I would ask that anyone interested in natural language interfaces take a look at our live demo. It is still rough around the edges, but we figure it's about time to show something that people can pound on.

Any feedback (even of the harsh kind) is welcome.

Regards...
Good to hear.

another note , in your about us you say
"We're currently the only site offering live drafts all day every day throughout each sport's season. We offer short term, hands off leagues, so you won't be penalized if you can't login five times a day to manage teams. And we offer guaranteed cash prizes with a simple, easy to understand structure"

A quick google search showed https://www.fantasysportslive.com

Im sure there are other sites. I think your game lobby is better than yours. I look forward to trying it when other players are on and its real $.
cheers.
You are a Pro... ;)
You mean 1997 ;).
I'll definitely work on explaining it to people better.

One of my cofounders is absolutely crushing at fantasy football and rarely ever watches a game. It's more than anything looking at statistics and learning how they apply.
He's Super Marc!

Anyway... read his post on procrastination... he offers some excellent advice.
Flex is pretty awesome. We use it for the draft and lobby. The lobby we probably could get away with AJAX for in the future, but I'd dread using that for the draft.
Eclipse, vim and Opera. I like my syntax highlighting scheme, but not many people like colors as much as I do.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/59/workspace.PNG
FSL doesn't do live drafts. They do some goofy version of salary cap pick'ems.
I'm not sure about you, but my eyes noticeably tire more quickly when reading small fonts versus larger fonts for prolonged periods of time.
I've been using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 14pt for about a month now and like it quite a bit.

http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/v...
Unfortunately, I'd be plenty sober and lost by the time I hit the Mason-Dixon line... four days later.
"Seriously"? It says "joke" at the top of the page.
http://billmill.org/static/images/desktop.png
I have no clue how so many of you are only working on one monitor. Maybe you've never tried using two, but there's absolutely no way I could ever code again on just one.

The difference is night and day.
Starting a High Tech Business: Get a Clubhouse
Another trend: as start-ups veterans become more common, they will form a group of people who are not reliant on organizations for their livelihood. Like Jefferson's agrarian ideal of individual farmers living off the land, those citizens who control their own destiny through technology will be enjoy the greatest liberty.
I think its time to make a new texteditor / micro-ide
No way! Javascript is the language of the future! Steve Yegge said so!

On a more serious note, take a look at version 4. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72899.
I've tried working on multiple monitors, several times. It doesn't work for me.
+1 for ion! brilliant window manager. I don't know how I could be as productive without it.
This may seem like an obvious point, but have you tried Linux (or another Free OS) with a tiling window manager? OS X does give you a nice prepackaged experienced, but if you love to tinker and have complete control to customize anything, Linux is ideal. And you can always dual boot, if you just want to try it out part time. =)
I just remap/unmap the ion shortcuts to get out of the way of emacs. I have a friend who swears by setting ion's Mod1 to capslock, but my pinky just can't handle that.
Aaron Swartz writing a novel about "...startups, the power they presume to have over the world..."
And today is Halloween, not April Fool's. Gotta wait for the right moment with these things.
A little nitpick: strictly speaking, the second system effect only applies to what can be considered a second iteration of the first system (either or literally or by virtue of similarity).
Could you elaborate on what it was in coRank that you didn't like? I'm building a competing service and would be interested to know what features users need.
Whatever happened to LoudCloud?
i have 6 spaces open on my macbook pro. i run firefox, safari and mozilla. use adium, transmit, photoshop, terminal, and ituens on a daily basis.
I can't be on this one, but I can on Dec. 1st.
So you believe that the only right way to have people earn citizenship is by forcing them to stay with the same employer for 3-6 years without a real promotion? Surely there are better alternatives.
Calculate the CO2 emissions of your site
Anyone have any advice on how we could promote our new widget further?
Standard Emacs/terminal/Firefox on my laptop:

http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopak6.png

When I'm docked at work, I usually have Emacs on the monitor and terminal on my laptop screen.
Yes, it's called "Solution Explorer" because when you use Team Foundation Server you open up solutions. So "Solution Explorer" is very appropriate.
Bad Vista.
Here's mine. Also Visual Studio.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1810430961&size=...
Doing what Detroit says is impossible
Is U.S. stuck in Internet's slow lane?
Science jobs are often the most free.
Just curious, but what doesn't work for you about
multiple monitors?
Are we taking bets on whether or not he finishes it?
I concur. I can't believe how many single monitor
setups there are.

I am also surprised that more people don't use split
screen setups where they can view multiple pages of
code within the same window (ala emacs,gvim, Visual Studio). I prefer to have around four but atleast two
views of code open at once.
> Python, like Ruby, Perl, and other relatively high level languages, has supports a dictionary (or hashtable if you prefer) data type at the syntax level.

Kind of a dumb point. STL has map and hash_map. Failing to use them has nothing to do with the language, just stupidity.
I haven't run the .exe, but the source code looks pretty non-jokish to me.
I love the emacs color scheme.
Former Executive Board Member of SAP promotes the electrical car with $200 mio. Venture money
He is promoting nothing really new, but this is the first time I take it seriously!
who says jokes can't be fully functional.. imo it makes them all that much better.. remember textquake? :)
Google Announces the OpenSocial API
Tag clouds look better sorted
Can Google's Preso kill PowerPoint?
Tim Bray's Wide Finder Project: Results
I completely disagree. Objective-C is an incredibly readable language precisely because it is verbose. Message parameters have labels, what a concept!
as an RIT CS grad ('03), I cackled when i saw your desktop.. very CSH :)
Java crybabies
Thank god someone somewhere finally said something about this stupid stink over Java 6 on OS X Leopard.
No offense, but how hard is it exactly to build your own social news 'platform' ?
If I were starting a social news site, I would rather use an open source package like pligg that I can modify to my hearts content than use any of these so called platforms </end rant>
WikiPedia trust coloring demo. (coloring edits based on reputation of authors)
Why Incorporate?
Facebook: Why Applications Suck
My take. Let's hear what you guys think.
She works hard for the money

so hard for it honey

she works hard for the money

so you better treat her right!

Blast it in your headphones in your cube and use your mouse as a microphone.
The problem with age is that you know enough to know that you know diddly. The young, on the other hand, are ignorant of scope of their ignorance.
Flash Player Not Just .flv Anymore: New File Extensions and MIME Types
Google OpenSocial Image Gallery
That's a beautiful color scheme. Where/how can I get it?
Has anyone printed it (I think you need Windows)? I'd love to see what it looks like.. I'm wondering what kind of a coding scheme it uses. I've seen one scheme that was created by some company few years back and you could restore it even if you teared off a corner of the page. It had enough redundancy to fix the loss of data.
OpenSocial - Can it Compete with Facebook? "...leadership can change in a matter of weeks."
which color scheme? if you mean the rainbow gradient I used to cover my private info, that's just one of the default patterns built into photoshop.

Adium is using the standard "Aqua" theme.

TextMate uses the standard "Twilight" theme.
concise != short.

You can have short code by using single-letter variable names and avoiding whitespace. It doesn't gain you anything. But concise code says exactly what it needs to say and no more, and that can be much more readable than lots of boilerplate.
I mean the one for syntax highlighting, which I suppose is TextMate (I don't use it).

Incidentally, there is a vim version here: http://niw.at/articles/2006/08/06/twilight
Page is private.
This is obviously the week of Aaron Swartz. Seems every time I look there's a new post about him. Maybe he needs to write a news.aaronsw.com.
there was some tutorial on recovering original text from gaussian blurs i saw out there, i.e. blurring isn't like a hash function. to be safe you have to totally black it out.
An open letter From Mandriva to Steve Ballmer
Some of us value the ability to hack in bed over the extra screen real estate.
The Significance Of Grey Hair (on a VC)
As of now, the technology count is:

Languages:
4 Ruby
4 Python
4 C/C++
2 Java
2 Lisp
1 HTML
1 Scheme
1 Mathematica
1 Javascript

Editors:
8 Emacs
5 Vim
1 Visual Studio
1 Eclipse
1 Netbeans

Browsers:
8 Firefox
2 Opera
1 IE

OS:
11 *nix
8 MacOS
2 Windows

Possibly modulo a couple of miscountings. If people had multiple programs open (like one person with both Firefox and IE, or my own setup with Windows + Ubuntu VM), both are counted. I omitted obvious jokes, like the Commodore 64 screenshots or Don Knuth's desktop. And it only includes editors I could identify, so whatever you Mac folks are using to edit your Ruby isn't included.
Personally I hate offices. If you are really close to your co-founders, you can rent a house together and turn it into your headquarters.
Best of Leopard Is Yet to Come: Innovative Third-Party Apps
Apple's Leopard is Cool, but Time Machine Makes it Astonishing
The article seems kind of bitter.

Obviously some people find value and fun in facebook applications plus they generate pageviews and ad dollars so everyones happy.

My main complaint is that profiles with tens of applications on them take forever to load on my connection and make certain friend's profiles unusable to me.
Up to a point, avoiding whitespace does gain you something. It means you can fit more code on the screen at one time. In languages with C-like syntax, I've taken to putting consecutive close-braces on the same line, at the indentation level matching the outermost brace. It's surprising how much it helps.
The Swartz is with him after all.
Google Is Courting Facebook Developers In More Ways Than One
Screen real estate is like a drug. Addiction creeps up on you quickly, and the more you have the more you think you need. I used to be perfectly content with one 17" monitor. Now I'm looking for a bigger desk so that I can add a fourth 22" LCD.
Nice. My desktop is a few years old, so subtract one from the C/C++ camp. I use python and ruby equally, though, so it doesn't help break that tie.
Can't the YC companies band together and negotiate better rates given that they already know each other pretty well?
from:
http://programming.reddit.com/info/5zikd/comments/

http://a1k0n.net/temp/paperback_sample.png

a more robust implementation:

http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/
Endangered Species - The Chemistry Set
Brilliant idea! well done!
No, modern science was invented by ibn al-Haytham a thousand years ago. (Spellings vary, but include "Alhazen" and "Alhacen".) He is generally credited with inventing modern optics (along with various geometric results), but the method he invented to give a firm foundation to his investigations into optics was what, today, we call science. Bacon studied him.
Have you ever been really, really puzzled by someone's stupidity? I have...

Just now.

Fact: Every command that has the potential to be used in a repetitious way MUST HAVE A SHORTCUT KEY. No exceptions.

Ctrl-W that one.
Software's Future: Melding the Web and the Desktop
People who think they can't have children or get married are cheating themselves. You don't have to make 150k per year to have more than you need.

We had our first child when I was an undergrad and my wife was working. My wife quit working and I graduated so that I could be paid to go to school rather than the other way around. We bought a cute little home on a graduate stipend and had another child. I graduated with a masters degree and worked for a year and we had another child.

I started my PhD a bit over 4 years ago and we have had two children since then, bringing the total up to 5. We have always had more than we need and our children are doing great. I'll graduate in a couple of years, perhaps after having a couple more kids and I think we'll have substantial savings. My wife has never had to work and we have never relied on the state for health care or income.

Graduate school demands some focus but it is also extremely flexible. I choose my schedule and it's been a great life.

The bottom line is that it doesn't cost that much to live comfortably and take care of children. Choose what you want to do and then find a way to do it.

It might be wise, though, to look at home prices near the schools that you apply to . . .
http://webdever.net/screen.png

I could use a bigger screen...
There may well be fewer men as a percentage of those pursuing a PhD in English Literature (or maybe not; don't know), but that's different than saying that there are fewer women pursuing PhDs in science than in English Literature.

English Literature PhD programs are usually quite a bit smaller than those in just about any scientific field, and 100% of five people is still only five people.

Put another way: the "scientific careers suck and men are irrational" argument is perfectly consistent with a universe where out of every 100 women, 80 go to professional school (business/medicine/law), 15 go into science PhD programs, and 5 go into humanities PhD programs -- even if those 5 women represent nearly all of the humanities' enrollment. It just means that the few "irrational" women are disproportionately attracted to the humanities.
It needs to be dina for me.

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/index.html
Its optional typing looks pretty ordinary. Doesn't appear to be much type inference - so its really just up to people feeling "in the mood" to do it.
What do you guys think of this idea? Does anyone want to implement it with me?
So the market for race registrations (i.e. road races, triathlons, etc.), camp registrations, and other active event registrations is dominated by Active.com. They offer a set of solutions, but from having used it...well...the bottom line is that someone could do a lot better.

They charge $3 per registration they process (so their gross margin is on the order of $1.5 - $2 per registration, which ends up being quite a lot of money when you take into account that many marathons have 10-20K runners.

I'm thinking about creating a dead-easy, on-demand registration system and pairing it with either/or a) other event management tools, b) some sort of network for racers (e.g. create groups, share photos, review products, see stats, etc.).

Revenues would come from the registrations, as well as ads in the vertical (which I'm guessing have a relatively high CPC/M because of the fact that this demographic buys gear quite often).

Thoughts on the idea? Anyone interested in building this with me?
Hey, Look Who's Now The 5th Biggest Company in the US
You bet I do!

And I have not changed anything in my code due to this, so I think you could work with me just fine. There's tabs for indentation, and there's... well, code. What else do you need?

Could you give some examples of these cases? I really haven't come up with any in the past few weeks, and the readability is so much better with variable width.
Most of these people seem to be using TextMate. Personally, I prefer SubEthaEdit.
The Law of Leaky Abstractions - Joel on Software
And with so little debt. Though, these rankings are done by market capitalization. The true, sheer size of some companies ranked much lower are actually much larger with regard to revenues and profits...they're just not trading at 55 times earnings.

But, Google's market cap is indeed 5th. That's incredible any way you slice it.
That's a good idea. Good luck.
your font makes me want to stab my eyes out... otherwise, nice. :)
They're bigger than Toyota. And that's the No 1 carmaker in the world. They're bigger than WalMart, bigger than any U.S. bank. They're valued at 13 million dollar per employee.

This can't be right, can it? There has to be more money in selling cars than in selling online text-ads, hasn't there?
News.YC Bug: IP from the submission URL is reversed.
yea, i think that's a great idea, and the majority of concepts people push around most definitely are not.
I'm sorry, but i don't see what you bring to the table. What are you doing that nobody else is or that can easy be replicated. How do you plan to get users? not putting you down, just asking.
I'm searching for the /sarcasm tag. Please tell me it's there somewhere.
My sympathies, but this letter is reminscent of (and probably as effective as) a written complaint to a lion for eating too many gazelles. Steve Ballmer's competitive advantage is not technical; it is the flipping great wodge of cash that he possesses. He wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't use it. Microsoft's leader, like a lion, is amoral: if he can get away with something that benefits him, he will do it, in fact, he must do it.
Vegas wouldn't even give you odds on him finishing it.
I will be there at the new york meet up. Even though i don't drink.
How to get started with Common Lisp on Mac OS X (sbcl, emacs22, slime, etc)
I think you've got something here. $3 per registration really does sound like an arrogant dinosaur whose day has come. Don't go overboard on the social networking bit though. Just take some off-the-shelf forum software and add the ability to have your competition history appear in your profile and to search for other users by competition.
Webkit adds declarative CSS Animation
Yes, I suppose it is a bit bitter. And certainly, some people find value and fun in applications; I only argue that those people are primarily high-schoolers. In my humble opinion, alienating the loyal and valuable users, and catering to the younger users, is just asking for disaster (and perhaps a mass-exodus in due time).
How to develop for Flash on any OS, for free
JavaScript Compatibility Study for IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari
From what you describe, it looks like there may be room for a competitor. Before putting in the time though, do some research (if you haven't already). Can it really be that profitable? What percentage of the market do you plan to capture?

I'm often wary of startups that differentiate themselves on a cost basis when the cost is minimal ($3 in this case). Even if the margins are substantial, the difference between $3 to get things done right, and any other lower price offered by a competitor, just may be an insignificant point of differentiation.
The thing is, when I'm doing anything but programming (web surfing, watching a DVD, playing music, etc.) I want the smooth, easy-to-use, pleasant-looking experience that I get on a Mac. I periodically try Unix window managers to see how they're doing, but they honestly always seem pretty clunky to me.

But let's say for a minute that I did go the Unix window manager route. What would you recommend if I wanted to have one "mode" where basically everything is stripped away (no menu bar, no windows, nothing -- just a shell), and another mode which was your standard GUI? It would have to be fast to switch between the two.
Censoring of wedding Larry Page and Lucy
You sir, have just dated yourself.
As someone who is forced to use active.com about 10x per year, I can agree with you. Someone could do better.
It could be the result of Google intervention, but it isn't necessarily censorship. CNN Money may have removed the information due to a polite request from Larry, because posting such information violated some privacy policy, or because it later found out the information was inaccurate. In order for it to be censorship, there has to be so evidence of coercion.

And since Google doesn't really have a lot of power over CNN Money, I don't really see how there would be any coercion.
Girl Talk: excellent choice of hacking music.