skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It almost sounds like you have two very black and white social circles

Actually, I have one social circle. Maintaining two (there were 3, in fact) was too much of a strain on my personal life. I have no doubt that if I had chosen another group, I would have had similar problems adjusting my lifestyle (I've been through this before, so I know).

It seems obvious to say "you should find smart AND fun people", but the big question is "how?". In my experience it takes a while to realize that someone meets the criteria. After all, it's not usually one thing that attracts you to/repels you from people over time - it's patterns of behaviour, or emergent behaviour from certain characteristics. And by the time you've recognized these things about them (and the negatives outweigh the positives), you're probably already friends and then you have to work on distancing yourself depending on their their social proximity. This gets complex the feelings aren't mutual (eg. they consider you a closer friend than you do them, or vice versa). I know it sounds complex, but this is based on my own experiences. I'm sure many people out there have had to deal with distancing themselves from people.
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But then how would we know what's a URL and what's not? And how will I distinguish outside sites from local machines and stuff I set in my hosts file?
> I don't think you should communicate these issues to other people. Which group wouldn't be offended? It certainly won't help anything.

To an extent I can agree, but I think the internet is great for discussions like these. I'm not particularly afraid of offending strangers, especially if I've put in a lot of effort to avoid it, but the feedback is great in helping me understand how people might react in the real world.
I was about to suggest that as well. It is tied to a very cool app called AppFresh. Recommended.
The problem is you need to find even smarter people than the smart ones you mentioned, ideally geniuses who only hope they can meet smart and socially able people like yourself. In the end everyone has different levels of intelligence in different areas.

As for the engineering dance, I don't do it. If someone's got issues with their intelligence, it's their problem, not mine.
Can we bury this?
nerd alert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_(computing) comes to mind :)
That thing read like Ender's Game Peter/Valentine playing politics as Lock/Demosthenes, except South Koreanified and economic.
So MS explains this in a simplistic and patronizing manner to their general customers without going into all the technical details...details that 95% of them probably don't want to know.

Meantime, the price of 64-bit Windows is the same as 32-bit windows, and last I looked MS would swap your Vista DVD for free on request if you realized you should have bought 64-bit. So why do I care?
I'm not really a Python guy (I love my Ruby/Rails...) but I've heard good things about Pylons. http://pylonshq.com/
Agreed, it took me years of being a jerk to women plus the good fortune of an ex turning into a friend and smacking me with the truth.

I think most men go through the thesis-antithesis-synthesis triad with women.

Thesis: "All you have to do is be a nice guy." "Be yourself." "The way to get a girlfriend is to be friends with girls." (All those things mothers tell 10-year-old boys.)

Once a man realizes that these sorts of guys are a fistful of fail when it comes to women, there's a swing over to...

Antithesis: "Women like assholes." "Ignore and mistreat her so she'll be more attracted to you."

This is a great way to scoop quantity but not quality, so any decent guy realizes that this is a shitty way to live as well, leading to:

Synthesis: Treat women well, but don't be a doormat, and quickly dump the ones who play games or are attracted to asshole behaviors.

Another piece of advice -- all you nerdy guys out there who check off all the races except "African American" on dating site preferences --

I thought that was douchebags, not nerds. Generally, nerds are a non-racist crowd.

In any case, I think having those sorts of criteria is incredibly self-defeating, for two reasons. The first is that a lot of people on dating sites turn down anyone with racial criteria at all (I'm white, and I stop reading if I see anything other than "Any"). The second is that great matches with top-quality people are pretty rare and rejecting one on something as trivial skin color borders on self-destruction.

There's lots of really cute nerdy gals out there who just happen to have a bit more melanin.

FTW.
Humans are driven to endlessly acquire.
>> be mindful of how you address them.

Yep, that's what I was getting at. I have a pet interest in "what makes a good presentation" and made an observation that good presentation is the one that makes audience feel good about themsleves. This especially jumps at me when watching TED videos. Funny how that works.

I think you did a good job describing what you do not want. The next step for you is to put at least as much effort into writing down what is it that you DO want. Start with a taxonomy of your interests and see if you can find patterns and groups within. For example here's my list: 1) macro economics & history 1a) corporate governance 2) relational and near-relational databases 3) ultra scale-out systems 3a) synchronization problems 4) mobile devices 5) maps and navigation 6) fine dining 7) psychology of irrational behavior 8) computer hardware 9) style (clothing, interior, articulation) 10) study of sleep 11) study of excersize 12) science of making a good presentation 13) demogrpahics & behavior of groups 14) runnign my own business 15) web technologies (webkit, jscript etc) 16) functional languages 17) epistemology

With interests like these there is no way I will find anyone who is into the same stuff as me. But grouping things together I can address some of my interests at my day job (MS SQL Server), some at my startup project and some at various online communities. There are some topics where I am all by myself. It gets really tough at the overlap areas, e.g. I am deeply convinced that source control problem, sync problem, database problems and ultra scale-out systems are of the same field and need to be studied in concert but I have a hard time getting heard with it. So does it work for me overall? Mostly. The people I hang out with are sharing at least some of my interests so it's never as bad for me as it is for you. However few times a year I have some outlnadish idea, interpretation or a vision that I have no one to discuss with. Generally people shrug it off or get a friendly laugh at my expense. :-) It does feel kinda lonely when that happens. I don't have an answer here, either.
This is even more of an issue in conversation. Although the http can be omitted, the .com is often the only clue that the speaker is referring to a web address.
How would your browser distinguish between, say, www.net and www.net.com? How about a hypothetical www.net.com.com?
It's like the "www." discussion. URLs exist for a reason someone vocal may or may not understand. He only uses http URLs and .com domains, but I regularly use git://, svn:// and even faked a couple URL styles for my own use that I felt I could easily parse.
> The funny thing is, I blame RSS.

Yeah, I can relate. I've always wondered if I would still have this problem if my thirst for knowledge wasn't so big. I've tried introducing some of my friends to things like StumbleUpon and reddit etc (they are somewhat intimidated when confronted with IT terms like RSS though). Only one of them has taken an interest, and he loves it and regularly crawls the web to learn more about the world. Strangely enough, it is when I did this that the problem in my original post started growing. I think my frustrations were being suppressed subconsciously and when I realized this shared some of my interests, it dawned on me how I missed real-world intellectual stimulation. Like an ex crack-addict who just took another hit after years of being clean.

I am of course a realist. I don't expect to "convert" all my friends, so in the meantime I'll just try to find ways in which to cope.
http://webpy.org/

import web

urls = (
'/(.*)', 'hello'
)
app = web.application(urls, globals())

class hello:
def GET(self, name):
if not name:
name = 'world'
return 'Hello, ' + name + '!'

if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run()
It took me years and the experience of a bad marriage to become acceptable to a good woman.

I don't think it takes monumental effort to "become acceptable to a good woman."

It takes a lot of luck to find one, especially in the US.

I had a really good relationship with a great person for 2 years. I don't know how I did it.
I remember a psychology study that showed people recognize www.yahoo.com as a url more quickly than yahoo.com -- with the latter, you don't see the ".com" until you get to the end of the phrase, and that's when you realize it's a url. I can only imagine that getting rid of the .com would make things even worse.
That's the double edge that comes from any ease of access. Mibbit makes IRC very simple and very easy, and so more people use it, and with people come trolls.

That said, if you're looking to access IRC easily, that's the way to go.
Maybe we all need captions?

[Closed Captioned for the Socially Impaired.]

[Engineering Dance in Progress]

[Esoteric Knowledge Shown]

[Minimal Position Staked Out]

[Monologing]
Duplicate:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565661
Juno is a minimalist, Sinatra-like framework: http://wiki.github.com/breily/juno
I think this really boils down to being an expert in your chosen field. As a consultant, the people are paying you to be the expert and take care of all aspects of the project.
The only browser I use that requires http:// and .com is w3m.
the lab start-page (http://labs.dragoninteractive.com) is even more worse. it's funny to have the task-manager open and watch the CPU usage while clicking through the site. poor, poor CPU
I don't know if there are comparable Windows and Mac equivalents, but with Ubuntu I have this nice "Gnome system monitor" that shows me CPU, Memory, Network, Load Average and Disk IO usage % in real-time at all times. I can't imagine living without it.

There's no way I couldn't notice something taking 100% CPU for a long time while not writing to disk when it ought to start writing to disk immediately.

It's part of the reason I notice and hate flash stuff that takes 100% CPU for no reason at all. (but I'd notice anyway because my fan gets noisier real fast)
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Just tried it on Firefox and Chrome, they both send me to Google. (Firefox with "I'm Feeling Lucky".)
I don't use Windows, so I'm confused about what is listening on 192.x.x.x:80 and 127.0.0.1:80. If there is some kind of layer 7 reverse proxy (in IIS, apache, or some other software) listening on the public addresses, why does it matter which port, or even which localhost 127/8 address, is being listened on by the backend servers? Just have IIS listen on 8080 and apache on 8081, and then

{internet} => {ext IP 192.0.0.x = reverse proxy} =>
{127.0.0.1:8081 = apache, 127.0.0.1:8080 => iis7}

If you really want to browse those locally, from the server, using the names iis7.foo.com and apache.foo.com, then I can see using addresses in 127/8 and adding the entries to the HOSTS file, but this doesn't seem to be that valuable of a feature.
GNOME System Monitor is largely a clone of Windows Task Manager, which is accessible via the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Esc (or via the Ctrl+Alt+Del menu) on any Windows system. Mac OS X also has Activity Monitor which serves a similar purpose.
The keyword here is Freewill. I think you could isolate for months if it is your own choice. But if you are forced to be isolated for 3 hours it makes a huge difference.
This is a solved problem... We tried this with AOL keywords, and registrars hijacking DNS for search and both of those turned out to be a bad idea. Browsers these days will bring you to the .com domain by default anyway when you have a search provider selected. PS. Anyone else notice the Snake game on the site?
Explicit is better than implicit. The semantic web will require, more than ever, that we specify exactly what our data represents, rather than leaving the interpretation to humans.
Sure, because ftp://somewhere.com and http://somewhere.com are always the same website.
Although the intent was comic, the best verbalization I've ever heard (and one I now use frequently and effectiveively) is 'wuh wuh wuh something dot com'. Everyone gets it, and for people who hate writing down URLs (because it's techie and unnatural to them) it gives them a cheap laugh which puts them in a good mood.

Now that I have made you aware of this, you will be unable to get it out of your head.
> "How do I reconcile knowing spouting X and Y are egregious idiocy with socializing with people who do that?"

You're right, but after reading this to myself I realized that my problem could be more like "how do I deal with the frustrations that go along with managing relationships with people like this?"

I'm glad you posted that. Sometimes the difficulty in finding an answer stems from not fully understanding the problem one's self.
Someone who highlights words and phrases in four different colors for various kinds of emphasis is lecturing the world about unnecessary signifiers?
yeah, it's kind of scary. Fundamentalism (of any kind) and technology are a harsh mixture.
I should know better, but I'll bite as well - were those Lisp programs, by chance, written as quick prototypes without any optimizations or by people who didn't really grok Lisp? Saying that "algorithms were the same" isn't terribly informative - after all, using the worn out factorial example, both the tail-optimized and stack-using versions of it would still use the same algorithm.
When I give my email I omit the .com. But I think this works with popular hosts only, like gmail or yahoo. I say "myname at yahoo" and people know to fill the rest.

If I can keep something implicit I will.
http:// and .com are madness along the lines of _The Inmates are Running the Asylum_. If you step back for a moment, isn't it strange that abbreviations of protocols and double-slash separators are presented to the naive end-user?

Maybe AOL keywords were before their time, but I don't understand why something like a Book Title can't be used for the 1st part of the URL.
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Intelligence has nothing to do with intellectual abilities.

I don't think this is quite accurate, but it's vague, and I can't really tell which one of these you are ascribing your examples to. In any case, intelligence and intellectual ability are multi-faceted. The ability to recall random facts may be a facet of intellectual ability, but it is tangential to intelligence. The ability to comprehend, and to be creative and synthesize new ideas, are both an aspect of intellectual ability and an aspect of intelligence. They do have something to do with one another, but in your defense, I don't think they are the same thing.

The really smart people are the ones that want to learn everything from everyone.

Agreed. But this hits on a conundrum I and a lot of geeky friends I have run into; this desire to learn everything from everybody can irritate people. It can lead to asking questions that probe for a deeper understanding, but instead elicit a scathing response demanding that I or whoever stop judging the person and what they believe. The usual reaction I have is confusion, and a wondering how asking questions can be turned into passing judgment. I can see how, if one is not careful, having this happen enough can breed a sort of smug prejudice that people who react this haven't thought about much of anything. It might be accurate for some, but assuming it for those that are not will force you to miss on many of life's lessons, as spkthed pointed out.
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Terminal.app + Visor is a great combination for me since I use the command line so much.
This is kind of funny coming from a global perspective. I'm a South African who has worked in Europe. In the Netherlands ALL the websites have a .nl domain. In Switzerland it's all .chf. In South Africa it's all .co.za. If someone referred to just justsomewebsite/somepage, I would be pretty confused as to which domain it belongs to, especially as I have Google Chrome installed which defaults all my pages to have a .nl domain if I don't enter it.
Wolfram Alpha Review
The newly-launched “knowledge engine” was created and developed by Wolfram Research. The service is named after Stephen Wolfram, a British physicist who played a major part in the building of the engine and in announcing it publically.

The service itself is a student’s dream. Unlike Google, which lists web pages that could provide an answer, Wolfram Alpha users insert their question, for example if a GCSE student has forgotten how to work out momentum for his Physics homework, Wolfram Alpha will give these solutions:
That kills my CPU. I'll be sticking with <canvas/>.
don't forget the grandaddy of python frameworks: http://www.zope.org/
Ok. That wasn't best attitude on my part indeed.
It also makes a tremendous difference when isolation is voluntary, versus being held prisoner in solitary confinement.
I wouldn't have been hostile if you attacked my family and loved ones. My development environment OTOH ..
Yep, it's pretty cool. But I would say it's more like a library and less like a framework.
I think the better description you're looking for is, "The conversations aren't as rigorous as I'd like."

But I'm confused. Do you really expect meaty, stimulating conversation when you go clubbing?

Also, you seem to be going out of your way to bring up the strip club. If you don't like it don't go.
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On June 1st, I'm moving my family (wife+3kids) to SV to launch a start-up. Need rental house w/ at least 4 bedrooms, nice neighborhood. Budget is $4Kish a month.

Maybe a HN reader who has already made his million's has a guest house he'd like to see a new founder occupy?! :-)
http://www.iwillnotdie.com/why-people-dont-like-smart-people...
Okay - check this room out: http://hackernews.speeqe.com/

It's for people that feel they're in the same predicament as ilitrit.

..or anyone here for that matter.
First off, 'by people who...' is me - I wrote this Lisp program. It was OCR software to turn images of text into ASCII.

I had read On Lisp and learned about macros, which I used heavily, and created a language to describe the elements of each character in macros - for instance, 'I' is typically a single vertical line.

So yes, I used some unique aspects of Lisp, and the port to C was done by basically transforming the untyped structures in the Lisp code, into C structs/datatypes. It wasn't a Greenspan law - it was just more declarations, and hand compiling I guess, which worked well in my C compiler, and better than the Lisp compilers I tried.

I hate replying so many times in a single thread, but you did ask! :-)

[Postscript] I used a good profiler which could tell me slow lines and functions. My speedups were entirely due to finding clever ways of optimising, thanks to the profiler. So that's the secret weapon...
I laugh at the engineering dance anymore and mock those who try to engage me in it. Most of them are so intensely into it they don't even recognize the 'meta' joke I'm making at their expense.

Its lots of fun in interviews. Some wannabe alpha dork trying to catch me in programming language/electronics trivia is the best. In a group interview with their peers watching them, some of them getting what game I'm playing, is incredibly entertaining. Try it if you get a chance.
Ya know what, I dunno why you guys are all philosophising about all this stuff, as opposed to just having it BUILT ALREADY. I mean really, what does it take? So you take the ATX motherboard design, and scrap it. It's crazy old anyways. And if you can grow, or create graphene in a controlled environment, WHY does the graphene have to be a "CPU only" material? Why not use it for RAM, GPUs, and Cache??? I mean really.
And this is what I want to know... WHERE is Intel in all of this. THEY are the major chip-maker of planet earth. It's not like they don't have the money to build a new architecture for graphene. It's not like they can't build a proper fabrication plant. So WHY isn't MIT working with Intel on this one...? Duh.
MySQL has a query cache which stores results of queries, though it's not very useful if you have frequent writes.

Linux and other operating systems tend to use any free memory for disk cache which will end up caching the whole database if needed.

Innodb has a key cache.

Memcached probably helpful on the database server but it's really designed to be ran somewhere else so that database server has as much memory as possible of it's own.
if you didn't notice, the authors are NOT journalists:

"Bruce W. Sanford and Bruce D. Brown are partners in the Washington office of Baker Hostetler. They specialize in media and First Amendment law."

obviously if congress were to pass these idiotic laws, this wouldn't translate to any more business for their law firm. noooooooo sir it wouldn't. they're just trying to defend journalism!
mysql has a query cache, which stores the query and results:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-cache.html
Click inside one of the inputs (login/pass) and watch the border of the form.
Been there. But I find I haven't felt that particular need for quite a while. I guess what helped is that in the last year I started to read a lot. I made a "never look at the price" policy when it comes to books, and used amazon to the max. I still have a backlog of 2-3 books, and usually one in the mail (also in a not very developed country, mail takes about a month).

I can only guess why it works, or why simply reading HN or articles isn't enough. Reading a book is usually harder, more immersive and, if the author is good, usually feels like a dialog.

What books exactly probably depends on yourself. I started with The Black Swan, by Nicholas Nassim Taleb, and it really opened my taste to good books. Richard Dawkins's older books, Marvin Minsky, Hernando de Soto, Jared Diamond, they all deserve to be read in full.

I also caught up with some professional books I somehow missed, like The Mythical Man-month or Peopleware, and I found a fascination for cognitive psychology with The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational.

Yup. Thinking back I no longer wonder why. Each book was a very long conversation with a person smarter then myself. Exactly what I needed.
That's like saying this website is one big ripoff. Mixing and matching content from other people to create something new is totally valid.
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How are you having the other system expire the cache?
The source of this slogan:

http://www.michaelpollan.com/indefense.php

Great book. Really informative read, and very convincing.
Thanks for the reference to the book (written after eating an overflowing egg-salad sandwich). I probably need to check this out.
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> But I tried to put myself in his shoes

I really appreciate the effort, but I think you've misinterpreted some key things. Much of what you said doesn't really apply to me or the problem I'm having. I don't blame you, after all you only had my input to go on. Your feedback was valuable to me in trying to improve my communication skills though.
I see. This is still anecdotal evidence, but now it's better than most, for what it's worth. While I think that a dedicated Lisp hacker could have done far better, without seeing the code in question this is all a moot point on both sides, really. Edit: Especially since it's not big news than non-optimized Lisp is slower than heavily-optimized C. ;)
I don't think it's hostile to point out that Clisp is only interpreted. It points out a flaw in your "C is faster" argument.