skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that's the full text, those reply emails aren't very long at all. Yeah, they get into details that aren't very important, but they are pretty reasonable, especially considering he's unemployed in a dry spell. Maybe everyone else just has less patience.
Ahmen, I'm currently employed in a company that is attempting a metamorphosis from failed e-retail reseller into a "social shopping" startup. The code that's been acquired is absolutely awful, however, and I'm consistently confused.
Coming is as a Graduate CS + Phil I'd had no experience in Web-dev and this was reflected in a reduced income offer, which I accepted grateful in the knowledge that it's a leg on the ladder and I'd have the chance to get involved in a web enterprise project and learn a great deal. Sadly this has not been the case.

After just over 6 months I have been passed from pillar to post and received literally NO training whatsoever. Our code implementation is a spider's web Java/Stuts2/Springs/Hibernate setup that boggles the mind of both senior developers (who's combined brain power spent 3 hours trying to figure out the specifics of checkbox implementation on our architecture.... seriously - 3 hours!)

I'm really beginning to see that my limitations as a developer are more imposed by upper-middle management and the lack of interest my fellow developers seem to have in my skill set (they actually ignore me when I ask for help most the time (and it isn't because it's a rtfm issue - it's usually because they are still trying to unravel this awful code!))... I'm looking forward to a time when I can recapture that invigorating enthusiasm for collaboration and learning that came so easily at Uni.

and in regard to "that guy" in the office (some other comment post on this thread) - my favourite excuse for not being able to help is "oh, I don't know - I'd have to look at the code"

..... even though he's sat next to me! but still we're on an svn!!!.... how is that an excuse for not helping a fellow dev!? would you be able to help /without/ looking at the code!?

bah
Gents if were going to edit the article can we PLEASE attempt to stick to content guidelines.

Words like "strive" are weasely and should be avoided (this is an encyclopedia). Report on what was said (and if PG said "I strive" then say something like "Graham has said he strives to").

And umm... some of those references make very little sense

This link for example: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/10/apple-...

It is interesting information but ONLY relevant if there was any particular effect from the HN crowd (aka meaning it deserved mentioning in the article - which it doesnt as far as I can tell). Indeed the best place for that to be mentioned is Woz's article.

Im editing and removing some stuff now - dont kill me :)
the line of code is always there in version control. i wouldn't want to clutter up a file with unnecessary comments, so maybe those """ Don't remove (donated) """ lines could be placed in separate files.
Path to enlightenment
If someone was interested in learning about hacking, what would be the ideal path? Courses than hands-on? Learn from an expert from the start? Read about protocols and OSes before trying anything or just be a script kiddy and try to understand later?

Everyone had a different learning path, but what is THE best one? To start the discussion, I propose:

1) Go to school in computer science to learn the basic

2) Work as a server administrator or a network specialist

3) Read or take courses on network protocols

4) Start hacking your own personal network

5) Learn how to prevent the attacks you have made on step 4

6) Interact with other hackers (now that you know something...)

7) Practice in the open world!

8) If you want to work on computer security, go get a certification or something that will help you get a job

So, what would you change in this list?
It's not a 'great funding model' - frankly, few nonprofits spring to mind that have found one; my main criticism of this lies in long term interest - the success of this is buzz-based, and like million dollar homepage, that's going to pass, maybe sooner than they expect; but it is a nice implementation of an innovative way to get donations and build attachment to something so obscure and (to the end user) abstract as the code running software. Miro will garner a lot of goodwill with this offbeat stunt, that's bound to be a good thing.

now, who's going to start selling 'adoption' of modules/objects/libs that get incorporated into lots of other projects? "Hi Daddy, here's where I've made myself useful this month (links to projects where the snippet is found on google code/sourceforge/github/etc). By the way, my biological father/mother has another kid up for adoption!"
i'd rather see people adopting very small modules. possibly people could bid on them based on the module elegance and usefulness and extensibility, etc. lines of code can get removed, whereas concepts tend to stick around, plus motivating well designed modules is better than motivating greater number of loc.

every month that goes by without a bug, the module slightly increases in value, or the donator gets paid a dividend.
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I've used Google's Keyword Tool (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal) to estimate the number of people searching for keywords that might indicate they'd be a customer; however, you should be careful about any conclusions you draw unless you're keywords are very specific.
Indeed. I know very few people trying to bootstrap that think anything but "payroll" matters for costs. The best cases are single people accustomed to living cheaply from grad school & undergrad. Even in those cases, just making ends meet will cost at least an order of magnitude more than any reasonable hosting configuration.

If you are working on a side project with a legit job, than the cost of the effort is in the noise for sure.
A great impartial commentary on this entire situation.
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"As discussed in the comments, Nielsen is only able to measure return visits to Twitter.com: how many people set up a desktop application like TweetDeck (TweetDeck reviews) and continue to Tweet, but never return to Twitter.com? "

on the other hand, having to set up additional software just to make one's twitter stream sensical, is a large barrier to entry. i bet more people get turned away than take the next step.
why do you think this? how many people do you know who did this (hooked on second or greater try) versus never got hooked?
It is not obvious to me that Jane Employee's right to not work next to a ribald alcoholic is automatically trumped by John Applicant's right to not have his Facebook held against him. Or that this state of affairs is respectful to Jane. In fact, it would seem to me that one's proximate duty is to Jane.

Substitute customers or shareholders for Jane if desired, as all of them are owed higher duties by the company than any particular applicant is.
> They DELETED the article for the Snoopy Calendar!

I always wondered if that was a widely circulated bit of ephemera or not... My first exposure to a computer was in Kindergarten during a field trip to a military base. The sysops kindly printed off a late 70's sheet for each student. I never saw or heard of the program that made this until late college and only in asides. (And Google doesn't seem to have much info, besides the infamous "nerd purity test" question.)
To be fair to Ramit, he is a pretty well received author of a book that's relevant to his blogging field:

http://www.amazon.com/Will-Teach-You-Be-Rich/dp/0761147489

(As a disclaimer, I own a copy of said book, and I think it's good.)
This subject is featured in a Seinfeld episode: "These PRETZELS are making me thirsty!" "These pretzels are making ME thirsty!"
I suspect most approaches (barring methods so time consuming your spending will be out of control before you even start) aren't going to give you something something remotely accurate (or useful for your question). Having said that, there might be unexpected side-benefits to research though, like finding out exactly which features people are key to people downloading some competitor programs and neglecting others.

It sounds as though you want to estimate how much un-addressed market potential there is (otherwise you would be taking the alternative approach of estimating the resources needed so you make a product that's flat out better or better value for money than your rivals, thus competing for market share in a tapped-out market).

But don't count on it or waste too much time - why not figure out what maximum resources you would put into this based on a tiny chance of success, release that first attempt, and improve on it as an when either it starts gaining traction (suggesting real demand and possible success in future if you go through with this) or when new resources open up to you that you don't mind risking on this to take it a little further?
The title specifically said technology ;P
I have found few things more pleasurable than learning only for my personal enlightenment
I can prove who I am and have acres of relevant links and sources to the bits of software I have written and the sites I maintain.

Do I deserver a spot there? I doubt it.....

Notability guidelines were always important in my WP time. I would say 90% of the articles I cam across doing clean up tasks were just grime that cluttered the place up. There is no point having useless stuff there - it reduces what relevant stuff you can find!
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I think this article misses the point of Startup Weekend. I attended the one in Columbus and the main goal was to have some fun, meet new people, and build something cool (which was only briefly mentioned in the post). Frankly, I'm surprised and impressed that ANY of the websites from Startup Weekend are still operating. We should be congratulating those teams among the 10%.
Well put. At the same time, for those of us who thrive on Chaos (I do), it's important to realise that just because you're damn good at managing chaotic situations with no information and enormous pressures, doesn't mean that you should seek them out. It might be more fun to fight fires, and it's crucially important to be able to fight them effectively, but for your company's sake it's best to avoid the fires altogether.
Do you really DROP or TRUNCATE the table, or do you DELETE all rows? Doing the latter could be the problem as far as I know. You may also want to search for 'purge process' somewhere in mysql/innodb docs.
I know about half a dozen people who have done that. Some of them seemed like hopeless cases, but they still turned it around.
Adding to the anecdote: This is how I became a Twitter user.

It's probably testable -- in fact, it sounds like an opportunity to pick up the Twitter API, which I've been meaning to do for some time now.
No it's not. My 13-yo son uses a Linux-based phone, my wife uses a Mac and my mother uses Ubuntu. It's fair to say neither of them uses the terminal for anything (wife did sudo shutdown her Macbook when it refused to do it from the Apple menu), but Unix is not about terminals - it's an operating system ideal.
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My education was at home, and once I hit high-school age it was primarily self-directed. I feel that this worked very well for me and my particular learning style.
Right. How hard is it to offer Open ID and your own simple authentication?
When will there be a Windows version? :(
Transparency means nothing without justice
Do you really foresee them running out of lines? "Adopting out"?
I've used Surreal CMS for sites that don't really need a DB as well, it works well, and the service I got when I had a issue was very good.

http://surrealcms.com/
Hello. I was recently in something resembling your position, and I decided to homeschool from grade 10 onwards. In my case I took graduate courses in math at a local (top 20) university for free -- the professors allowed me to sit-in on the lectures and do the homework so long as I showed them I was prepared. I am in grade 11 now and have been studying Khovanov homology, geodesic dynamics, and compact Riemann surfaces in the past few months.

It has allowed an extraordinary degree of freedom. I have been able to check out large masses of (mainly) science fiction and history books, with indefinite renewals -- and have been able to find the time to read one or two books a day, even with my other commitments.

It may be possible to do so in public schools. In my case, self-studying was always an integral part of my education as there were no adults in my immediate environment who could really teach me additionally; I did not receive the attention from teachers for that (though my work was consistently exemplary), and I was disallowed from entering elementary school early. You may be similar.

My main tools have been a laptop, paper, a "Pentel Graphgear 1000 PG1013-E" (a prized possession), and two library cards.
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Again _why blows the discussion out of the water, sets it down and makes everyone in the room feel like a child for his foresight and wisdom.

Thanks _why.
"Titillation is certainly good marketing, but frankly, if you can’t find a way to make your presentation interesting that doesn’t include thonged asses, your presentation isn’t interesting."

I found this the best summary.
MLB also has the ability to put people and money into the project, and apparently used their resources wisely. They may have had a decent budget on the project with the hope of just breaking even. After all, a million is a drop in the bucket for MLB. The brand awareness the app raises will fuel ticket and merchandise sales and keep ratings up on broadcasts.
"Networking", as generally understood, involves going around and schmoozing lots of people, collecting their business cards, etc. If you're an introvert, like most geeks, this is torture. Instead of building shallow relationships with lots of people, I recommend building deep relationships with a few. Find a small group working on some activity you're interested in, one where you'll have to take on some role other than "alpha geek"--maybe writing for the school paper or acting in a play, or something like that. The small group makes it more tolerable to an introvert and the shared activity means you're not just socializing for the sake of socializing.
If we're going to feel sorry for someone, let's feel sorry for the K, J, and APL people.
That's not what I read. The guy kept trying, despite the rejection of his first book. "My first effort was apprentice grade; I can do better."

That's a good attitude to have.
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How about a thought from an actual man? Me.

I've flipped through the slides and if I'd been in that presentation I would have had a very low opinion of the speaker. Not because I've got a problem with pornography, but because his presentation shows a complete lack of judgment.

If you are making a public presentation you need to realize that your standards are not shared by everyone in the audience so you need to tailor your presentation to them. There were probably plenty of people happy to see softcore pornography that day, some people who wished it had been hardcore, and others who felt uncomfortable. There's not an obvious male/female mapping to those categories.

Suppose it hadn't been pornography, but had been slides making fun of Christianity, or slides showing graphic depictions of surgery, or jokes aimed at a minority based on skin color. You can imagine the audience splitting into groups that were happy with that, unhappy and indifferent.

But why split your audience? They were there to hear about CouchDB, not to understand the speaker's personal beliefs or preferences.

In addition to having a low opinion of the speaker, I would have been uncomfortable with the images knowing that others in the audience were likely offended and didn't say anything.

And lastly, his metaphor is broken. So CouchDB performs like a porn star? Good to know. To me performing like a porn star means pretending to do something and not doing the real thing. I guess CouchDB is some sort of phony database that looks good at first glance but is just faking it.
Five reasons why this developer won't switch to Mac
Just checked and haven't touched them since January 2008, thanks.

On a more serious note: This is HN, not your local fratboy forum. Please adjust your tone accordingly.
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Imposing a proprietary Operating System to the students
Recently my girlfriend was accepted in one of the universities with economical profile from Montreal (HEC Montreal). Everyting seems perfect until she was obliged to buy a laptop (you must have a laptop at all courses) selled by the university.

If you want to use your own laptop you must respect certains standars:

http://web.hec.ca/virtuose/index.cfm?page=374

1.Minimum Windows Xp Professional (the university recommands Vista !!! ). This is an interesting choice give the fact that the norm for a laptop selled two years ago was Windows Xp Media Center edition.
2.Office 2007.
3.An antivirus.

In order to be able to use your own computer you have to give your machine to the university for tests, the software will be checked if it has a legal and regiestered copy of the above three items.

If you want to use a Mac the university simply saids it won't work. No word about Linux.

What do you think about this ?
I don't have an iPhone and even I knew it was season based. They made a big deal about how it covered the rest of the games in the season for just $4.99 or whatever. It came out halfway through the season, so I guess that makes sense to have it discounted.

With the iPhone 3.0 SDK supporting subscriptions, it will be interesting to see what they do next year.
That is a nice, concrete example of how functional style can improve code clarity.
The problem with Tracker is that it tries to be a lot more than what it really is, a ticket tracking system. Totally screwing up the do one thing, and do it well idea.

Here's my UI issues: Dense information display, MASSIVE over-use of AJAX (you hit start on a story, it just disappears to god knows where, the UI cues just aren't there), crashes Safari like crazy (probably because of all the JS in the page), every story has a billion actions you can take with it, most of them being features you will never use when interacting with the story.

Overall, I have no idea why people have been pushing Tracker, to me it is ugly and unusable. Even Trac is better. Just having lots of AJAX and rounded corners doesn't mean you have a far superior product or UI.

The only thing that made PT usable was tpope's pickler gem, and only because it is a CLI to PT.
"... the sea squirt jettisons the brain it no longer requires... perfect metaphor for the GOP?"

No, it's a perfect metaphor for anyone who talks about politics for more than 60 consecutive seconds. We don't do that here:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not a fan of politics here, but I like seeing the graph there of associations. I'd love to see a full semantic relationship graph with fundraisers, lobbyists, etc.
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does `lisper` ~wrk for tokuDb
Nice simple visualization (in flash).

Don't you just wish you could tweak a few parameters and explore the data more? :-)
Doesn’t Graphic Design/Layout Affect Scanning Patterns?
The Snoopy Calendar http://www.users.on.net/~farnik/wikicgi/wiki.pl?SnoopyCalend...

is what Real Programmers http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html have taped to the wall . . .

Seriously, Wikipedia has become DAMAGING . . . why? because I am intimately acquainted with a certain topic (religious) and - after scouring the web for months - I finally found THE, THE definitive informational resource for said topic, in the form of a website, I proceeded to add links to the website to the existing related articles. I had never contributed, as I felt that what I had to contribute was not truly worthwhile . . . until I found that site, and realized I could contribute something of high value. What happened? The FREAKS DELETED ALL I CONTRIBUTED. Links to a site that had no ads, no commercial links, ALL FREE, all accurate, all simply priceless, as there is a serious lack of accurate info on that religion . . .

From that moment on, I wonder HOW MANY, JUST HOW MANY great sources of information I will never know existed after using Wikipedia . . . the thing is a cancer, a black hole, a false sign, an utter failure if you ask me, because (and this is the kicker) links that lead to 100% erroneous information in the articles I contributed to, those, why, THOSE didn't get deleted! Bunch of ignorant, arrogant, little thugs running that site . . . it's a travesty.
There are a lot of interesting tools that run as plug-ins within Excel. Of course, all functionality could be obtained with other tools, but that's not the point: they are not studying Windows - they study Economics and use Windows as a teaching tool. My suggestion? Get your own laptop and run Windows under a virtual machine.
The one thing I do have to say is:

> What about a presentation about writing code on deadline: “Delivering Like a Birth Mom.” Or how about graphic images of up-close breastfeeding in a talk titled “Nursing Your Projects Along.”

I don't think this would upset many male attendees, nor would it upset me. That doesn't necessarily mean that "Perform like a pornstar" was ok, but this analogy doesn't really hold. I think most guys would find the birthing/nursing metaphors funny, and I don't think you'd see any complaints afterward. Unless, of course, it was a guy who gave the talk.
This is very cool, all the more so for being a senior (in college) capstone project.
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Verizon cripples the OS on their phones so that no content can be downloaded to the phone other than what Verizon sells. In fact Verizon even locks out USB and Bluetooth file transfers from the phones I've tried. I don't see how a company with that kind of business model can be a useful host of the iPhone platform. It'll be interesting to see how they cripple it.
Or "vertical" tribes like some weird anime stuff or so. Consider, MLB is mainstream.
DELETE would take I think like a day, so I do a DROP.
same thing happened to me. imagemagick has an image viewer app that requires x11.

worse, i did indeed already have x11 installed, but imagemagick didn't like it for some reason, and failed to install. so i pulled down one of the binary distributions instead.
I'm guessing if Huffington Post covered Hacker News, it would be considered notable.

It is stupid that blogs like Techcrunch and Mashable aren't thought of as being creditable enough to get something on Wikipedia. If Wikipedia keeps up that mind frame in 2-3 years, they will stop adding articles, because there will be no more Newspapers or Magazines.
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