skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The @ reply information is useful, the rest is obvious and I'm guessing that if you are a douchebag then you won't follow his advice.
I take it a step further. Do not open up a computer when you're at home, or even watch TV. I have found that starring at a screen for all hours of the day is incredibly draining.
Construction management
Wayback has a copy of MAAFIXED.PDF (I'm not sure whether it's appropriate / a good idea to include the link).
There could be a simpler explanation: the Justices are asking the side which is inherently unlikely to win more questions because they have a greater need to justify their case. If you're arguing what is likely to win by the logic of the status quo or dominant paradigm, there's almost no need to state your case - the Justices will already know the logic and arguments behind your case. If you're fighting from the opposite side, there are a lot more questions, clarifications, etc. that need to be made to understand your position. And you're still likely to lose even if you've made a good case because you have the inherently weaker case.

Basically, what I'm arguing, is that the Justices generally know the arguments for the stronger case and so there isn't a lot of questions to be asked, but want to give the weaker case an opportunity to make their case and prove that they, in fact, have a stronger case. However, it's unlikely coming from the weaker side that you'll have the stronger case in the end.
looking to get out of her current gig in journalism and into software

Is this for commercial/employment purposes? If so I'd consider looking at the job market for desirable positions and selecting a tool set from there. Even if the idea is to build products for sale/use from scratch herself it's probably worth understanding the field as it stands now before diving headlong into a programming environment that isn't going to be a good fit for the applications in question.

Python is a good starting point for intro to computer programming, but at very least (and I'm out of my league here), she should tour and understand the differences between popular FORTRAN environments, Python environments (scipy), Java environments (I don't know where to start), Mathematica, Scilab, Octave, and R.
The most interesting part of this is that there is a big OpenX ad image in the right hand column, just scroll down a bit and you'll see it.
Yet another reason to be cautious when using PayPal: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611346
I didn't know the details of the reply stuff. That's good to know. I also hope people stop the automatic DM with each follow. That really is annoying.
Photography is a good geeky job that involves a lot of outside work. Photography is actually a very technical art these days, which also is strongly related to the artistic expression of the photographer.

I have recently taken up photography as a technical but low-stress pastime. It appeals to my programmer-brain and my under-utilized artistic appeal at the same time. It is also a great excuse to go to interesting place. As a bonus, part of learning photography is learning interesting things about cognition, vision and light. All cool stuff.

Photography listens to "intent" and "execution" nearly as much as programming, which makes it very appealing to me. It's remarkable to me how two very similar pictures at identical venues can convey very different feelings, based off intent and execution.
I mostly agree, but I think you might be worrying pre-emptively. From the original poster's description, she might not have to be dealing with "everything all at once". A person with a strong math background will have a much easier time grasping many CS concepts than someone coming from the humanities.

After all, at its core CS is a specialized branch of discrete mathematics. Anybody with advanced mathematics should have encountered boolean logic somewhere along the line. That'll make picking up C a whole heck of a lot easier.
I wonder what this kind of analysis will find if applied to the high courts of other countries. Of course, we'll need to control for how the high court judges are installed in the different countries. Could make for a very interesting comparison.
Sorry Mark, this wont fly. We already have perfectly good languages to speak to computers: Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and the like. Not a hint of prime numbers.

Artificial languages for human to human communication communication have been complete failures, take Esperanto. When we start talking to computers or robots, it will be in good old English, although I will concede that it could be with a simplified syntax, maybe a creole.
Me too. Cocktail parties are hell for me. Usually if I'm talking to someone I just memorize what shirt they're wearing. I can remember someone's face once I've seen them three or four times, but before that I have a lot of trouble with certain people. I have friends on the other hand that can recognize hundreds of people just walking down the street, people they've only met once in an elevator or something like that. It drives me crazy.
If you find yourself bored with the article at least skip down to the end and read the Q&A discussion at the end. I found it pretty interesting to read his speculation about where the future of computing was heading. His description of the ideal computer is interestingly close to an iphone, although the iphone still lacks a bit.
How Perl 6 just sells itself (excerpt from IRC)
I hadn't seen this, so I was glad it was resubmitted.

I think he has a fair point. Here on HN I see a lot of armchair sociologists critique the various articles in the social sciences that get posted, but it's rather unclear to me whether these are well grounded in an actual understanding of the issues involved, or simply habitual incantations of rules of thumb such as "correlation doesn't imply causation."
This is a simple issue: awareness of opportunity cost leads to unhappiness. The expanded perception of individual potential ("you can be anything you want!"), and the Feminism movement that has given that sentiment extra appeal ("you can have everything that men have, and more!") makes the awareness even more acute.

When your appetite is grossly inflated, you will be constantly hungry and dissatisfied, almost by definition.

I vaguely remember research that finds perception of opportunity cost giving the same brain response as the loss of a physical object (70% sure; I'll be gladly corrected). If this is the case, it's even more amusing: you can nearly create limitless unhappiness, because there is an unlimited number of "phantom things" that you can tell people that they "are capable of owning" but it is mathematically impossible for them to do so.
MySpace Devjam today at SF in a few hours ....
EVENT
MySpace devJam

DESCRIPTION
Come learn about new developments to the MySpace Open Platform, hear experiences from developers porting their apps and building a business on MySpace, meet our developer team, and get your hands dirty coding.

AGENDA
10:30am - 11:00am
Guests Arrive

11:00am - 11:30am
Welcome and MySpace Open Platform State of the Union
Main Room: Hear about new updates to the platform from
Jason Oberfest, SVP of Business Development for MySpace
Gerardo Capiel, VP of Product for the MySpace Open Platform
Bjoern Heckel, Executive Director of Engineering for the MySpace Open Platform

11:30am - 12:00pm
Building a Business on MySpace
Main Room: Dan Yue, Co-Founder of Playdom

12:00pm - 12:30pm
How to Port Apps to MySpace
Main Room: Sebastien de Halleux, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Playfish

12:30pm - 1:00pm
A Case Study on Monetization: Zynga
Main Room

1:00pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH and Q&A with developer team
Main Room: Developer Team

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Messaging: How to send Notifications and App Invites to Multiple Recipients
Main Room: Chad Russell and Marco Ensing
Getting started with MySpace Applications
Conference Room:Jonathan Beri

3:00pm - 3:30pm
How to work with Activities streams and activities
Main Room: Monica Keller and Marco Ensing
OpenID and OAuth; how to work with the protocols
Conference Room: Brandon Black and Max Engel

3:30pm - 4:00pm
Migrating from OpenSocial .7 to OpenSocial .8
Main Room: Max Newbould and Chad Russell
Using the MySpaceID SDK for onsite and offsite apps
Conference Room: Kiam Choo and Chakradhar Nanga

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Platform Q&A Panel
Main Room: Misc
OSML and OpenSocial .9
Conference Room: Chris Cole, Max Newbould and Scott Seely

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Cocktail Hour
Inevitably every dev that comments for an article on how the App Store is flawed/overhyped falls into one of two categories:

1. Those that relied on merely having their app in the app store to generate purchases.
2. Those that spent far too long and far too much developing an app then fell into trap #1.
Well, from what I understand, anyone can sue anyone for any reason. It's whether or not they will win, and more importantly what they will win that people go to great lengths to protect against.
Greylock leaves Boston for Silicon Valley
Speaking of statistics, FreeBSD comes with a tool called "ministat", which accepts a bunch of input files filled with numbers and tells you how statistically significant the difference is between them. It's frequently used to demonstrate performance improvements in kernel code:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ministat&apropo...
Great Ted Talk on education & creativity: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools...
Lots of health care is pointless and has no net health benefit (i.e., benefit - side effect). But some is useful, and we don't want to cut that portion. This has been known for years by health care economists, and is ignored by everyone else.

As far as I'm aware, there is only good filter for determining which medical procedures are useful: the ones patients are willing to pay for out of pocket. This was the conclusion of the RAND experiment.

Robin Hansen wrote a great review article on this topic.

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/09/10/robin-hanson/cut-medi...
>> "Industry estimates say YouTube spends half a billion or more a year in bandwidth costs."

Not again :/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=573281
They may install it for you if you open a ticket with them, I've seen some documentation to that effect.
If you work for the cruise line, however, you get to live and eat on the boat for free.

Salaries are kind of low, but that is only because they know the perks (room/board/travel) make up for it.
It's curious that this sort of game design is exactly the sort that's getting railed against in the progressive game design community. Fellows like Jonathan Blow and Jason Rohrer argue quite convincingly that games' focusing on artificial rewards are merely masking the lack of meaning that modern games have to offer.

The face that this solution works as well as it does suggests that there's not much meaning to the email overload we see today. That means there might exist a better solution to this problem, something that encourages meaningful interaction in the place of overloading responses. But this is an interesting stopgap solution in a lot of ways.
It took me a triple-take to tell they were talking about pg. The "venture capitalist" tag obscured the name completely.
Advancements in Brain Control: Wheelchairs that Move by Thought
Tesla Model S
Scaling? People keep using that word. I don't think it means what they think it means.
I was sort of expecting there to be something in the article that wasn't in the title...
Oh, and you wonder why I say, “he”? I never have this problem with female programmers...I think women are better programmers because they have less ego and are typically more interested in the gear rather than the pissing contest.

When I was hanging out in Homer Alaska, squatting in the tent city on the beach, I heard that on the halibut fishing tours, the women would catch more and bigger fish. (And halibut are big fish. A 25 pound halibut is puny. You can catch 300 pound halibut, and it's not a super-rare event.) This is because the husbands would bring their fishing egos with them from the lower 48 states and not listen to the deckhands. But the wives, with no preconceived ideas, would listen carefully and do things the right way to catch halibut. (As opposed to trout.)
Facebook accepts $200 million investment from Russia's Digital Sky Technologies
The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
Closest I found to what you describe (slow morning; needed some sort of challenge) is:

http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/

mentioned here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=533330

Doesn't quite fit your description, but maybe or maybe of interest (the article or the HN thread)?
It's funny. As a Rubyist, I still recommend Python for getting started in programming.

The docs are better, the code is probably easier to read for someone new to programming (there isn't a requirement to understand OOP to be productive), the community isn't alarmingly dysfunctional, and the conventions are more traditional. You can port a lot of Python concepts over to other languages easier than you could Ruby, I would think.

Python is classical music. Ruby is jazz. Choose the least subjective/nuanced approach first and build from there. But that's just me.
They've been trying to make fusion sexy for 50 years. In my opinion (as an average physicist), it's got about 50 more years before it becomes practical. Maybe.
Facebook Takes $200 Million Investment At $10 Billion Valuation
Dig The New Breed (CPAN Testers redesign)
Thanks for the article. Do you have any insight on the best way to protect yourself from what seem like mostly frivolous suits that can come out of no where. For a contrived example say Valleywag which is banned from HN decided to sue PG for defamation or something similar and won a large verdict. Whats the best insurance to hold against HN/PG going bankrupt?
It’s official: Facebook raises $200M from Russian investor
Max Levchin in Cringely's interview series said calmly that they burned through $100 million TO (not incidental) solve the problem. Anyone who wants the same level of fraud protection is looking at a cost of $100 million. However, I think the credit card companies have shrunk down that barrier to entry by making their own anti-fraud systems.
There's a big percentage of programmers who don't understand O(n^2). On multiple occasions, I've seemed as a guru because of this one little tidbit.

What if the medical profession has as much egregious and widespread ignorance of the basics as programming? Would you be in favor of certification?
SSD Prices - New JMicron Flash Controller, 32nm NAND Flash
I worked with a guy in Ibiza many years ago that had this ability. He was the manager of a popular bar where the guests were tourists that would stay in Ibiza for one or two weeks, and maybe come into the bar four or five times during that time. Over a year he must have seen thosands and thousands of faces, and talked to almost as many people.

It never ceased to amaze me when he would spot someone coming into the bar, walked over to them and start talking about last time they were there five or ten years ago. Not only did he remember it, he also knew who they had been with the last time they were there, their names, the girls they had hit on etc. etc. He did this several times every night.

Truly amazing
Apparently if enough people repeat the same lie enough times it becomes a well-known fact ;-)
Facebook Takes $200 Million From Russian Investors At $10 Billion Valuation
"A pain in the neck"

You've got to be kidding.

1. Trivial law work is required.
2. Annual total business license fees range from ($20-$1,000) depending on location
3. Trivial bank account setup

All of this can be accomplished literally in the span of a few hours. I would argue the biggest maintenance costs are related to tax filings and accounting, but they're more than offset by all the available expense write-offs.

It's really a no-brainer decision with today's streamlined systems and litigious society. Additionally, having an LLC operating agreement (even a generic one) in place, usually makes converting to a C-corp (to be available for VC financing) much easier.
I have the same issue. Perhaps there's a market for "seeing-eye friends" who can subtly tell people about social cues, recognizable faces, etc.
Avoid using metaprogramming (seriously)
Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search -- When It's Branded With A Google Logo
Absolutely true. I hit that point earlier this year.

For a while, I was filling every waking moment with something "productive". Going to class during the day, working on the startup at night, listening to economics and political podcasts during my commute, and filling any spare minutes with writing or learning the guitar.

After a while, I just couldn't get anything done. My language learning slowed to a crawl, my coding output dropped, and I developed a wicked case of writer's block. My brain just... stopped. Thank God my wife's a patient woman, because I understand I became rather difficult to live with. The painful part was that I didn't feel "burned out". I loved everything I was doing, but I became frustrated because I just couldn't get things accomplished.

Sanity was regained only after I cut back. I canceled almost all my podcast subscriptions, reduced my startup work, and actively took some time off. "Noprocrast" helped too. :) After a while, productivity eventually came back.

Since then, I've been careful about tackling too much at once. I think the brain has a buffer that deals with all the stimulus that you deal with in your daily life. If you take on too much, the buffer gets full and performance drops to a crawl. Taking time to occasionally "clear the buffer" is critical to maintaining a healthy and sustainable lifestyle.
This sounds like what the French might call "bricolage."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage
Unless there is some unusual situation, check clearing doesn't take nearly that long.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/truncation/faqs...
IDN Spoofing *still* an issue + proof of concept [own post]
Twitter's Biz Stone: Thoughts On Repositioning Twitter, Search Ads,...
Both of them. They could be done in the following combination: post a small paper on your website about the flaw, with all the details - but make sure it is purely objective. Then e-mail the author, and send him the link to your article.

Provided that he's (or she) a nice guy/gal, it shouldn't be much of a problem and you might even get some public credit by his/her part.
Obama's OpenGov site now live
> I think it would be well worth it on a public policy level.

Loose ideas for counterarguments follow.

This policy is as arbitrary as the voting and drinking age. I think the age restrictions are utterly stupid (it completely ignores the huge variance of physical and mental development speed), and it is likely that the basis of this 18 stems from the same reasoning. Sure, there may be good reasons to pick 18 out of all other ages, but it is still based on scant information and remains mostly the arbitrary opinion of a few people. One who promotes Free Choice (which I suppose you are, because it is more friendly to ideas that are meant to promote social mobility) is not so likely to agree with this sort of mostly baseless policy.

Next, this system is very easily gamed. Suppose it really comes into effect. One way to go around is to start a business and transfer assets with it. Suppose you erect a barrier against that. Easy: immigrate out, immigrate back. Your society will want that immigrant money. Suppose you further erect barriers. Still easy: if the parents know that at age 18, the child will have total loss of control over the assets, all they will do is set up all the pieces before that birthday. Whatever safety net that was supposed to last 18+N years now is compressed into 18 years, with every penny spent the most expensive schools, equipment, teachers, social parties, and connection building. Other parents in the same situation would do the same, and you just constructed, in one generation, the noble class.

Third, some parents or potential parents will completely change their life strategy. For example, it becomes far less in their interest to have children to begin with.

Personally...

personally, I don't believe a fair system is possible. Blame gene recombination. You can only make it easier for the longs of one group to complement the shorts of other, hopefully balancing overall group happiness and overall group advancement.
True :) Worse than that though - it's gone up - It was "$360M for bandwidth in 2009", now it's "half a billion or more!". I guess that's inflation for you.
His languages are not expressive enough to allow the programmer to do what he wants.

His languages are Ruby and Common Lisp; dunno about ruby, but lisps allow you to have plenty of control over GC, up to and including turning it off, but usually the programmer knows better and uses something portable, like object pools, fixed containers in static memory areas, and destructive operations instead of fresh consing . The less portable options include: weak pointers, static-arrays, weak vectors, weak hashtables, finalizations, the last of which is a callback mechanism that lets you register a function to be invoked by Lisp before the object it's associated with is marked for GC.

This is the GC docs for ACL 8.1:
http://franz.com/support/documentation/8.1/doc/gc.htm

In SBCL, you can even allocate your object with C's malloc and free! That's right SB-ALIEN:MAKE-ALIEN and SB-ALIEN:FREE-ALIEN, you can also allocate objects in "foreign" space and tagged them yourself, so Lisp treats them as its own objects.
Porsche on the financial brink
The best-kept secret in programming conferences, especially in a down economy
JQuery's latest stab at competence
That's burnout? I just take that as a normal work routine - I'll work really hard on something for a week or two, then do nothing for a couple days while I recharge. I figure it's more productive than an arbitrary 5-days-on-2-days-off schedule, and it lets me make better use of the downtime, since I'm more inclined to try something completely different when I really don't feel like doing anything productive than when I'd rather be working.

My cofounder was the same way, and our downtimes never seemed to be synchronized, which was a good thing because it meant there was always someone going full steam ahead.
Facebook valued at $10bn
I thought it might be interesting to gather the links and comments here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626955

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626949

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626946

Which point to:

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090526/da-facebook-takes-2...

http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/26/facebook-raises-200m-from-...

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-takes-200-million-in...
Odd. I use Bloglines for the HN feed, and each item has three links; one with the item title, two that say "Comments", all of which go to the comments.
I personally think that personal computing, computing in general and the Internet/Web has moved us far far away from Orwell's nightmare world.

For even a tiny example, logistics software allowing transport costs to plummet and more products deliverable.

And yes, I've read 1984 and various books on Stalin and the Soviets.
I always hated stats lecture :( . But the book "Statistics for utterly confused" helped me in exams. But still I'm not in love with stats.

Would he kill me?