skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said people shouldn't build their skillset. Of course we should broaden our skillset. What I said was it's one of those incredibly obvious truisms that we're taught from the age of 4. So merely stating it doesn't help 'Ryan' in any way whatsoever, since Ryan already knows it.

Instead, I would have preferred to see Ramit look over Ryan's resume, whip out his rolodex and see if he can hook him up somehow, given that Ramit is in the tech field. And if he can't, direct him towards someone who can. Basically, give him some actual help.
Compared to Twitter, the quality of my Facebook feed is absolutely horrendous. I don't really want updates from all my Facebook contacts, and removing people from my feed is just not cutting it. I can be much more selective about my interests with my Twitter feed, so I actually enjoy most content I receive from it.

Admittedly, this is more about micro-blogging rather than keeping up with friends. Twitter can serve both purposes.
i will like to how u find her ever since u got to know her and how is she responding to Ur needs and so on. in fact i want to let u know that it's quite interesting to have a Nigerian woman by Ur by side b/c she know what it takes to run a home.
Hey Ramit,

I didn't mean to offend you. My apologies if you were. It was the smug attitude that really got me to comment.

Still, I stand by my point - there are so many ways for people to offer concrete help for people in need and all I'm seeing is one-liner advices being bandied about. Especially considering the fact that Ryan seems to be a reader of your blog and already knows your advice regarding 'being rich'. He was obviously looking for more.
This is good advice for everyone shooting video at conferences. DrupalCon, I'm looking at you.
They add a special message below the fold for people in Europe:

"Hello there! It looks like you are visiting from Europe.

Did you know that there are more Miro users in Europe than in the United States, but more than 99% of our financial support comes from American donations and philanthropies?
Europe loves open-source, right? Help us make something great!"
The "startup weekends" have always seemed like a good way to waste a weekend to me. Not to mention that it's the all too familiar dilution of the word "startup" where "website" would be more apt.

At least if they were just called websites it wouldn't have the false air of them somehow being companies afterwards and it'd be easier for me to not be cynical of the time people spend on them.
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Wouldn't Hemingway be a better choice?
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I'll grant you that current (and most proposed capability based) security systems are too complex for the user to manage.

However the question on the table is research. We should be researching security models that don't rely on the user to manage the complexity.
Sorry, I meant solar power.
The dickensurl site itself becomes ...

http://dickensurl.com/25/I_am_the_only_child_of_parents_who_....

That seems to defy the point in url shorterning?
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silly question: if this is successful, won't it lead to an incentive for the developers to add unnecessary extra lines of code, sort of an anti-refactoring - "how can I express this in more lines..." - in order to increase the number of adoptable lines?
I thought you can get a nice 2br/3br apartment just for a person him/herself for 1000-1700 per month?
More interesting: The article uses "hacker" in the proper sense.
Thanks for the feedback. The performance of the popups is several times better now.

Clicking the word clouds might highlight all its occurrences on the page, I think this helps understanding. Maybe we'll implement it in this way.
I'm getting into minimalist trolling now, so:

Emacs.
It's all about network effects. I think the hype is bad for Twitter, it makes people aware of the service before any of their friends are on there, so they try it, subscribe to Stephen Fry and Jeff Atwood and then give up.

Me and a few of my friends in the UK .net development world are on there but we go days between tweets because that's what everyone else is doing. There's no conversation for me at the moment. At this point I'm just sitting on my user account and waiting for the network to become worth being a part of.
I'm pretty sure by far the biggest win in energy savings can be made in smarter spatial planning.

A good city plan keeps the vehicle roads long, bicycle lanes short, has facilities close to housing (shops, schools..)

Or specific for bicycles: here is an interesting document about (re)designing cities for cycling.

http://www.fietsberaad.nl/library/repository/bestanden/Cycli...
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One of the most important differences between rich people and non-rich people: Rich people plan for things before they need them, while others are caught treading water when something bad happens. Think about how to apply this to your life.

If I'm being really optimistic, I can take this to mean, rich people become rich because they plan ahead and non-rich people stay non-rich because they don't. I have to be really optimistic to read it that way and it's dubious advice anyhow.

So let's take the analogy a bit further. We have a person treading water. They know they need to figure something out because they can't tread water indefinitely. Then something bad happens. Crap, maybe a shark shows up or a lightning storm rolls in, whatever it is, it's not cool. Ramit Sethi leans in to give this poor person some advice. "Let me tell you something. You could be rich right now if you had just planned ahead."

Useless!
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A reminder of how brutal unemployment is at the margin. A 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate is not a huge jump statistically but when you are looking for work on the ground it is thousands more people chasing the same job as you.
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Hmm... if I had to choose a personal motto, maybe it'd be "it’s almost time to become desperate" right now. I like Ramit's style of writing.

Also thinking about "I'm not hearing you" and "big company"... :)
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There are still closing braces in Python, because there are still braces in Python. They just do not tend to have there own line.
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And that URL becomes longer still! http://dickensurl.com/399/I_revere_the_memory_of_Mr._F._as_a....

I think the joke is that Dickens is known for being extra wordy as an author, and to make a "tinyurl" service using his works would be... ludicrous. =)
You can mitigate the last by buying an old laptop.
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I'm up to a program, I didn't start it yet, but still planning.

The problem is that I can't estimate the market potentiel so that I can control my spending (spend more or less).

The product is a Windows application, I have tried "download.com" and watch how many downloads my competent are getting. My software advantage, is that customers don't find on other ones the right options they need and I'm implementing those options on my software.

But does download counters give me a real estimate of market?? How can I predict how many people needs my product?
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This reminds me of the guy at work whose proposed solution to any problem is "well, this would never have happened if we'd done X." You know the guy.

O Rly? Well okay, we'll just invent a time-machine, go back in time to when this stupid decision was made, convince those in charge not to make it, and then make some other stupid mistake.

I think it's very valuable to analyze and to learn from mistakes, but in the middle of a crisis, you need to first get out of the crisis.

The real problem is that financially speaking, most of the US is in crisis-mode all the time, without even realizing it.

Most USians won't get rich (by US standards), but many more might be able to get out of the living month-to-month quagmire.
Now combine this with upcoming hologram technology...

The future will be awesome.
I don't know why I get downvoted for that. I mean this seriously. Emacs has a tiled window manager, a buffer menu etc and that leads to the nice workflow described by the parent poster. I wanted to point out with terminal+screens you re-build the sam environment. Ok, my post lacks "brilliance", but downvoting?
Another Stevens Tech alum here too (Computer Science, '02).
Additionally, in Czech almost any permutation of words in a sentence is allowed. You can then get even more variances of meanings.
India has nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers and a space programme. It is not the poor, undeveloped country some in the West imagine it to be.
I cant imagine anyone would have thought a startup weekend project would succeed as a company. However, as the article notes, the benefits to the participants are obvious. Good connections and a little extra experience.

I think trying to build a startup in one of these time limited events really helps speed up development on your other work. I know it has for me.
Well that was useless. P.S. I wonder whether Amit asked "Ryan's" permission before posting this e-mail exchange.
Angelina Jolie is too busy adopting kids these days to hack out Gibsons.
If you had replied to Ryan with the thoughtfulness you display here, your post would have come across far better. You are giving very banal advice in a rude way to a guy who is temporarily down on his luck for very understandable reasons. Sorry but I called you a douchebag in your comments section (You can take it off)
Another vote for Silicon Snake Oil. Stoll makes the point that computers are great except for between the ages of 6 and 16, when they can't replace experiences such as actually going on a field trip.
With an indentation of 1 space only (as in the screenshot), the indentation level is not so easy to see. That's why the indentation should not be too small. Having a large indentation and functions that are not too long will make it easy to see the indentation level without any extra help. That's why the Linux coding standard, for example, requires an indentation of 1 tab = 8 spaces.
They still are...
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This app is essentially a subscription. I paid for it last season and loved it. On opening day this season I opened it up just to find that it was disabled and I had to purchase it again this year. I didn't repurchase because I felt this was falsely advertised.
Depends. If you equate horses with "real numbers all different from another", than 7 is the best I can get down to. Haven't proved optimality, yet, though.

(But obviously you'll need at least 5 races, so that every horse has been raced at least once.)
The comment I was responding to implied that the reason why Rails doesn't have a lot of women in its community is because it isn't "full of powerful ideas." That is, of course, nonsense.
"I'd love to see an open source Adobe/Flash initiative,"

You mean Gnash? http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

"Because 40% of my cpu shouldn't go to showing a 400px video"

The performance of Flash is really fascinating. I'd love to read the development history of Flash and what decisions were made that makes it the resource hog it is today.

I wonder if it's always been that way, or if it has had its bits rot along the way.
"And stop depending on recruiters."

Bravo!

I'd like to apologize in advance to the 7 respectable recruiters left in the United States before I say:

Most headhunters are slime.

They are low level bottom feeders who are rarely capable of producing value for anyone else and can only produce income for themselves by engineering a scarcity situation where none would otherwise exist. They don't give a flying fuck about you or the companies except to "not bite the hand that feeds them". Now that times are tougher, they will resort to anything to make a buck, because they think they have to. Ethics and value mean nothing to those who have no ethics and produce no value.

Just a few of the "tricks" they are pulling these days:

They will list a job on the internet that doesn't exist just to collect your resume. They will lie about it until they are caught.

They will change critical details about a job to make it difficult to identify the company so that no one "goes around them" (when they don't have an exclusive).

They will edit your resume to suit their needs, not yours.

They will use you to show an example of an overpriced person so that they can easily place someone else.

They will make up total bullshit in order to protect "their turf", hoping that you're an idiot and will buy in to it. (I recently had a headhunter tell me I MUST go through them with a vendor referral to one of their clients. Huh?)

If you're lucky enough to find a good recruiter that can actually make something happen for you, hang on to them for dear life (that is until they switch careers). Otherwise, stay clear. Don't waste your time with job board entries placed by recruiters (I know, most of them are).

You're much better off getting up off your butt and going out and meeting people on your own. Do this without restriction. You never know when the person you met at a party, breakfast, or BBQ may be the one to send you your next job or contract. YOU are always your best recruiter.
It's all supposed to be about this corrosive environment but I mostly saw a slightly neurotic artsy type who couldn't keep his shit together. It's not like somebody put a gun to his head and made him eat like a pig and drink to excess.
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"I don't agree. I've met plenty of people, especially in tech, who won't spend time broadening their horizon"

But 'learning things before you need them' is a different thing. It should be something like "always keep learning towards your goals". And that's what people do. Unfortunately different people have different goals and motivators. That's why many will stay away from books and from exciting new stuff, as long as they still get to keep their job.

Since you talked about Scala, when I worked on my last Java project for a former employer (a period that lasted like a year) the architecture and the tools (imposed to us by upper management) were so bad, that I was desperate to find new things to alleviate the pain (that's when I read Code Generation in Action). When I got into a data-mining project I read something like 4 books in the research phase.

Nobody likes learning for the purpose of learning. It's a painful process if the learned skills aren't applied (not to mention that memory tends to garbage collect useless information).
I have no clue how to resolve this argument.

Words put in the right style can have the most meaning to individuals. Ramit uses language everyone can understand.

I do infact also wonder if Ramit actually "concretely" helped this guy. But I'd rather wonder.
If you say something negative about a previous job, a previous manager, or a company, I'll assume that you may someday say something negative about me or my company.

There is a very simple way managers can stop ex-employees doing that!
The signup form could have only 2 fields, too: Username and Password. You don't need to demand an email address if your site can give some functionality that doesn't require interacting with others. You could make it so that a username is only "called out" once the email address is confirmed. So nobody can register all desirable names just to prevent others from having it (and of course have some throttling of registrations).
I am immensely skeptical of playing the estimate-size-of-market game because the addressable size of the market (i.e. how many of them you can contact) is the limiting factor for most small businesses.

Anyhow, here's how I did it for my company back in 2006. I used two methods: top down and bottom up. Both involve a whole lot of hand waving.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/06/29/guestimating-market-size...

Of the two these days I'd be much more inclined to use the bottom up approach, but either way these estimates are so laughably inaccurate I don't think they have that much utility. Example: the bottom-up approach predicted 2k searchers for my product in a month. I now personally achieve roughly that much in a day. Market size, shmarket size.

(Instead, I prefer estimation by axiom: if you can sell it to anyone, you can sell enough of it to matter, when multiplied over the entire Internet.)
TechCrunch don't know what they're talking about
The point they (we) are trying to make is that Twitter is a news feed from people you consider interesting. You don't need to know them personally, they don't need to care who you are. Some may be your friends, some may be celebrities.

Maybe all your friends on Facebook are really interesting. Most of us have some old classmate or relative who is a good person but constantly posts inane stuff to Facebook. My Facebook news feed is maybe 30% as interesting as Twitter's. I constantly unfollow boring people on Twitter and replace them by more interesting ones. You can't do that on Facebook.
I agree with you on that. However, I did think the advice about not acting like every other job candidate is particularly good and something many people fail to realize
"Really clever sites have even found a way to bypass the signup form altogether. They slowly ask for data along the visitor’s path of discovery, and pretty soon she’s a member of the site, without having to fill out a form!"

Be careful with this, it can backfire. Sometimes you come across a cool site that apparently doesn't require signup, then you spend some time creating something, and then at the last minute you get a message: "Ok, now to actually save your thing you just spent 10 minutes creating you JUST have to signup"...

It's so frustrating I usually just walk away in disgust. Don't pretend no signup is needed to use a feature if it's not true.
Well because you start to lose the signal in the noise then.

Wikipedia is an enyclopedia not a directory. Mentioning HN would be more appropriate under any Ycombinator or Paul Graham article. You'd still get it then in a search for information.

It isnt suitable for it's own article because this is mostly a new streaming site and so hasnt "achieved" anything worth talking about :)
makes business sense to them

It lets them publish a rate card which includes something to the effect of "46% of our pageviews come from US zip codes with median household incomes in excess of $80,000"
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Of course neither did getting blasted in a nuclear explosion as long as you have a fridge to hide in.
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Not only that, but I have this sneaky suspicion that even though many users drop off in the first month, many of those same users end up coming back later.

Most of the people I know who joined Twitter followed this pattern:

1) create an account, "give Twitter a try"

2) Forget about it for a couple of months

3) Get back to it under renewed pressure, start using it properly, and stay

So the 1-month retention rate may well be irrelevant. What's the 3-6 months retention rate?
If every line gets a sponsor and you still don't have enough money, will you rewrite it in Java?
Whoah there! I bike to work every day on a normal bike and love it but let's not be exclusive just because it's not something we need or want.

I want more secure bike parking, more bike lanes, more bike tracks, more workplaces with shower facilities etc. etc. I don't really mind if some of those extra bikes that will be required to push for these things have electric assist.

For me personally I'm not going to rule out using one in the future. I'm so used to biking to work that it is now a non-negotiable factor for me in my employment choices. The existence of electric assist bikes could expand the number of places I can reach with a reasonable commute. And that's not even counting getting old and feeble or having a steep gradient or undulating hills between home and work.

Options are good, and maybe I'm naive but I believe there's more chance of getting folk onto standard bikes if they can dip their toe in with electric assist models until the get confident or fit enough to commit to going without.
Just out of interest, could you point me in the direction of a guru who does think of their site as just another guru-blah-blah-blah site?
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ludicrous? I think it's amazing...because I'm STILL trying to finish A Tale of Two Cities.
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"Nobody likes learning for the purpose of learning."

I do.
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To MySQL gurus: how to get InnoDB to release space?
A few times I've let an InnoDB table grow so much that it takes all available disk space. Then in a panic I will drop the table and re-create it (the data in it is not that important). However InnoDB will not release the actual space on the disk, rather it will just mark it as available and continue to use it for future data. Fast perhaps, but not that cool when you have less than 1MB free on your disk. Any way to tell it to REALLY release free space?
My personal quickstart:

* Disable 'auto-pair characters'. Don't insert crap in my text, just don't do it. Ever.
* Disable 're-indent pasted text'. Again, stop messing with my stuff.
* Enable line numbering
* Delete all the bundles and mess, leaving syntax highlighting. Making sure auto-indent stuff is gone.
* Enable soft tabs, 4. Not perfect since arrow keys still skip over spaces randomly which is irritating. (Depends if you're on a 'tab stop').

I liked it enough to pay for it, but wish it'd just be a good text editor rather than a "My! It looks like you're writing a factory pattern. Would you like to start the factory pattern wizard?" (Hyperbole but you get what I mean).
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