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The other day, I was speaking to a doctor friend who's in the middle of sleep-deprived training, and she defended the practice.

She said that even as a senior doctor, you are going to have to pull insanely long shifts at times. Under those conditions, you're clearly not going to be working at your best. So you're going to have to develop good instincts; more importantly, you're going to have develop trust in your own instincts, that will allow you to operate effectively despite ridiculous levels of sleep deprivation.

And the only way to do that is to go through that in a semi-controlled environment in your training.

Says my friend the doctor anyway.
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And I thought rocket science was invented by chinese (like pretty much everything else).
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1. I would love if you can add a feature to click the 'play' button on a flash video through the keyboard shortcut.
For example on your own page http://thegleebox.com/ there is a video, but to watch that I have to use the mouse.

2. Searching google and other search engines without going through yubnub command (eliminate the extra HTTP get). I know i can search google through the address bar and the search box on top right, typing 'g' is much easier than command+L and command+K.

3. ability to pin/unpin the gleebox so it does not disappear despite http refresh when I open a link in the same tab.
Do you really find only 5% of girls your age attractive ?! And you say you were being generous!

I've been to London and the girls are not that horrible there, are they? Or was it the beer goggles?

Interesting paper, though. Thanks for writing it.
I use vimperator for firefox, it uses vim-style command-line.
Works great and is extensible.
http://vimperator.org/
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Plus the title of the page/document is "Why I don’t have I girlfriend".
Upthread, it's reported the Red Cross has $3.5 billion in assets and $1.8 billion in liabilities. Managing an institution of that size, you don't want to skimp on executive talent, or you can lose a lot more than $565K in the blink of an eye. And, the current CEO probably made a lot more when she was in the private sector (at Fidelity Investments and AT&T).
Not all of them, of course. Only in special cases when it is necessary, like this one...otherwise, how can we have a discussion about it when we can't read it?
I think we still need a number of people having a go at random ideas without any clear revenue streams (e.g. Twitter). However, there are so many people who are working on niche-facebooks, socially aggregated widgets and crackpot venture-driven gimmicks who would be better off trying to build a small, profitable business that actually contributes to the economy.
You're right about that, I certainly over generalized the issue. I should have just stuck with "javascript crypto shouldn't be used in place of TLS."

The host proof hosting stuff is pretty interesting. Some people implement something similar when using dropbox, by encrypting the files before they are synced. A disadvantage of this method (other than being cumbersome), is that you lose the bandwidth savings of Dropbox's deltas.
I use 2 monitors, one at 2560 x 1600, and one at 1680 x 1050 ... made things WAAY more efficient than my previous 1680 x 1050-only setup.

I also despise laptops for development, so that wouldn't be right for me.
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You might enjoy this site then: http://foolsworkshop.com/reviews/

Also, a lot of stuff here: http://www.columbia.edu/~nvg1/Wickelgren/

But what may have influenced my life the most is this book: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Memory-How-Works-Improve/dp/15692...

I for one am convinced that the next frontier is our mind. Information is free - it's your ability to digest it that's the bottleneck. Also, we don't really know a lot about how skills such as creativity, hypothesizing patterns from specific examples, etc. can be systematically learned.
Sure, the contract says I can do that, but the social relationship is the real contract.

Completely agree. I had to serve a three months notice period when I quit my last job. Everyone outside the company that I mentioned that to was shocked and said that I should just do a month at the most and leave. But I liked my company and the people and didn't want to screw them. So I stayed to finish my projects and left on a positive note. Plus the extra savings didn't hurt.
I am stuck with the size of laptop... Can't afford multiple screen.
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More screen = better, but it can also become a distraction.

I don't want to get in to a pissing match about 'whose screen is larger' so I'm not going to spec my monitors but I've found that it works wonders if you stick two smaller screens rotated next to your main central screen.

I have things set up so the central one is for coding, the left one is browser, calculator & IM, the right one is email.

When using linux it can be quite tricky getting this to work properly, especially if one or more of your screens are driven by an accelerated card. In the end I opted to drive all screens using the same nvidia driver, I found a cheap X1 board with a DVI connector for the third screen.

If I have to work on a laptop I feel like I'm looking at my work through a keyhole, and I find it hard to believe that I once earned a living using just a 12" screen.

You can hook up a third screen to a laptop using one of those usb display adapters ;)
Not necessarily. Most of the links posted here are free. Most of the people here will expect the links to be to freely distributed content. Submitting a story here without saying "[pay to see]" or something similar at the end is akin to claiming that the content is free.

To further extend the analogy, it would be like announcing the donut shop in a forum where people are talking about free food. Then being baffled when people took that to mean tha the donuts would be free.
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Why is this being downvoted? It's an interesting parallel.
Agreed, often it's the pet projects that provide a playground for ideas that may help the main job/project/goal/company but they are also valuable for clearing the mind and helping you have fun and relax.
When this guy goes out at night, he meets a perfectly random sample of people from London, totally uncorrelated to any of his variables? Where is this stochastic heaven? The statisticians want to know!

(Put another way, maybe he should frequent more singles bars in educated neighborhoods, where the clientele is of about his age and attractive to him.)
To be honest, the only time I've seen glob() used was with an outsourced code bomb that was written to delete all the code if a get variable (think it was delete_everything) was passed, presumably in case we didn't pay up.

We paid, and surprisingly didn't choose to ask for any more work from that particular coder ;)

I like the example of sys_getloadavg(), but am unsure if I'd ever use it...
It is so sad that Startups category is getting less and less prominence over time.

Is HN becoming reddit? Considering the quality of articles, I would not say so. The high quality of discussions may have stayed the same too. At the same time, the graphs suggest that the topics discussed here seem to have changed a bit.
As the offspring of one of those low-income families I reject your argument. Low-income families are incredibly resourceful. I also went to schools where the majority of students were low-income and the schoolboard still managed to install and network computers. Some students used them, most did not.

Just saying there should be more access to computers is pretty useless because with no desire to use one it's just an expensive paperweight (facebook terminal). Trust me, if those low-income students wanted a computer they could get one. We have 20 years of computer spare computer parts. There are enough computers produced to give to every person on the planet.

The bigger problem was how to use them. This was one of the goals of the OLPC program before it got caught in a proxy war with netbooks.
Yep. Thankfully, unlike the search for sentient life, there are ways we can significantly increase nearly all of his probabilities with just a little bit of thought.
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I would recommend direly against using the gettext extension and _() because these imply setlocale and setlocale, when called from a PHP script has some side effects: For one, it changes the locale per process. Now I know that PHP isn't totally thread save (actually it is - the extensions - like gettext grin are the problem), but imagine apache in a threaded MPM and setlocale being called from different scripts.

Then, setlocale() alters how certain library functions work. *printf() for example uses the number formatting settings of the current locale. If the libraries you are using are not aware of locale settings, they might fail in interesting ways once you set the locale to something that uses, say, a comma as the decimal separator.

And last but not least, if you change your language file, you will have to restart the web server which generally isn't needed with PHP otherwise.

Wordpress has actually reimplemented portions of gettext so it works with the .mo files, but it doesn't alter the locale of the web server process.

And for regional formatting of numbers and dates, we got the intl extension with 5.3 which does just that, also not interfering with the web server process, other libraries and PHP itself.
While this is a serious problem the article is indistinguishable from an Onion article!

What a shame and I think it shows how poor our Spam Filters are. Seeing the word beaver and assuming a sexual connotation seems like a very weak filter to me.

I wonder if taxidermists ever receive emails about stuffing beavers?
I'd go as far to say most girls around my age are attractive in some way or another, so 5% seems exceptionally fussy!
Unlike donuts, information wants to be free. I'm not saying that trying to be funny. It is in the nature of information to be free. One can try to shackle information, but one will have problems doing so, this is to be expected.

When explaining one's rationale for locking down information, people often use metaphors of physical objects. This is doomed to fail. Try to use non-physical objects that are similar in nature to information as metaphors instead. The problem with that is of course that it is also impossible, as the very nature information shares with intangible goods is that they also want to be free.
This is pretty cool. Facebook uses a similar technique, using a cross-domain communication channel, which is also a bit of a hack:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Cross_Domain_C...
Can they prove P = NP or P != NP? Some things just aren't solvable.
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Cheers for "stochastic heaven".

Most profound concept for others to grok.
Absolutely. As far as the bottom line and job security are concerned, Larry and Sergey are immortal, while Schmidt is playing for performance.
Whoever wants to do/acomplish something finds a way. Whoever doesn't finds a reason.

You have your reasons(based on faulty assumptions) so I would conclude that you simply don't want a girlfriend.
Schmidt has his career on the line; tasked with growing the fastest growing company in history, the man has bigger problems than you and I can conceive.
Ultimately these things happen because somebody decides to do them. Major hats off to anyone who just acts in such a situation.
See, I've been thinking that money is fundamentally broken. We don't need a better bank; we need to abolish banks. (If they do serve some purpose, then they can remain as a service for the wealthy.)

Paper money works in its simplicity. You always know how much you have, because you can hold it and count it. There's no way to overdraft, or have it charged without your consent. The main downside is having to be physically present to transfer it to another person. Making change is also a minor annoyance.

So, digital money should be designed to be very similar to cash. First, it should be legally within your possession at all times, even if it is just a number stored in a government database. You should never have to hand control over to a bank if you do not wish. Because losing control means they can fuck with your balance and delay transactions. Perhaps it could be thought of as micro treasury bonds (not sure). Second, there are no transaction fees. It does not make sense to hamper commerce; and any infrastructure costs for money servers and bandwidth are a complimentary service of the U.S. Mint. Third: transactions are completely controlled by the sole account owner. Nothing gets in or out without the owner's permission. There is a combined transaction history and queue, extending arbitrarily far into the past and future. You may authorize a transaction or deny one without penalty at any time. If insufficient funds are available, the transaction is either delayed or canceled. You may also authorize a recurring transaction, but these will appear in the same queue in case the need arises to cancel. The beauty of the infinite queue is there are no surprises.

Now, I'd argue that Congress or the Treasury should get cracking on this immediately, but I doubt that's going to happen. So if you start a bank, please try to hold the principles of paper money in mind. Institute firm policies of ownership and self control with zero fees. You can practice with a virtual currency (maybe for a game) and just try to get the security and interface down. Good luck!
It works. Search for "Santorum" on Bing.
As Paul Graham already explained in the first installment of this analysis the biggest part of the change is due to a repositioning of the site early on.

The more recent change can not be attributed to that though.

Another important thing to note is that since these are all relative sizes it does not say that in an absolute sense there is less startup stuff, in an absolute sense it is most likely more due to the increased posting volume.

This just documents the change of the 'mix'.
Well, my statement is based on what the actual US law is (CEO's are required by law to increase share holder value) and actual experience working at large companies. Large companies are inherently inefficient, not more efficient. There are inefficiencies everywhere and "cost cutting" measures usually don't have any useful effect.

Your theory, like communism, etc., sounds good on paper but I've never seen it work as described.
This has been posted twice in the last month.
I suppose texting doesn't really cost the carriers anything. So why shouldn't they for once just decide to give it away for a good cause?

Don't they also allow emergency calls for free? (Could be state regulation, but still).
Anyone else have a deja vu moment while reading this? The article repeats this snippet of text twice, the second time adding the word "very":

"suggest that Google, and the U.S. generally, has [very] little leverage to press China to back down on Internet censorship or other issues."
He is using the wrong equation. His problem is not to do with being in stochastic hell. It is his search strategy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
This is the third submission of this article in a few days: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1031898 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1030950

Please do a search on http://searchyc.com/ before submitting articles.
I've lived in London, and to be honest I found far less than 5% of women my age attractive.
Just a little less of mainstream would be nice! I don't mean things like what is happening with Google and China right now but in general there is too much mainstream.
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Once they are in the system, maybe they have a good time. But it seems likely to me that if the general public were to be let in, more good science could result from it - because more people would have a chance to learn and contribute.

That said, from university days I remember that the newest papers were often passed on between interested parties directly, not by publishing them.
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I'd be willing to bet that Gaikai is the unnamed startup that sponsored/requested this work. (DarkShikari already said it isn't OnLive, and those are the only two companies I know of that are preparing to launch on-demand gaming services that use streaming video).
Kilometers to miles: multiply by 2*pi, move decimal left one place. About 1% error.
Why is "blogs" a separate category? Aren't blogs about technology, startups, etc?
Actually, he did it on HN. Just reread his rap lyrics blog post.
* I think 5% chance of him finding a women attractive is too low. Physical attractiveness could be affected by him finding a girl that matches the other criteria.

* The equation doesn't take in to account the constant influx of new people in London. And who's to say she is of British nationality?

* More importantly, where does he state the chance of the 'chosen' one liking him? Further to this - and I don't want to generalise here - but in my experience, this is precisely the type of humour that women do not find funny.

Finally:
"on a  given  night [..] out in London there is [..] a 1 in 285,000  chance"

Should this be in a given instance? I live in London and probably walk past 1,000 people every day. I know that's not a meaningful interaction but, using his variables, in a given day that means there's a 1 in 285 chance I walked past 'the one'.

Life is cruel. As someone else has said, hang out in some university bars and break the random sample.

EDIT: Grammar, spacing.
Would be interesting to check this for real, but off the top of my head my estimate would be more like 1% (not for London, but in general).

Although there was this other research that showed that men (maybe also women, can't remember) are very quick to adapt their "demands" to the available offering. That is if at a party, you might settle for someone from the 10% of attractiveness at that party, even if the attractiveness compared to the whole population might be a lot less.
I suggest we just stop posting them. Give him his pay wall and allow his newspapers to slowly fade into obscurity.
Javascript and cryptography are two words that should never be used together. I can't believe people think this provides some decent form of security.
Instead of worrying about the security of some javascript crypto implementation you should be more focused on wtf kind of problem this actually solves without introducing a slew of new weaknesses. TLS/SSL provides end to end encryption and doing any random crypto in javascript doesn't provide anything on top of that. And if you aren't using TLS/SSL then the code is still coming from your server in plaintext. If it is sent in plaintext then it can be replaced by an attacker therefore requiring you to send it over https and since you are already doing that why bother with javascript crypto when you can just send the data over the secure connection you already made?
That's the catchall for blog articles that were not identified as technology, startups etc.

Probably a more in-depth analysis of the content of the pages linked to would give more insight in to that.
Amusing idea but theory that underlies calculations is full of unreal assumptions. Let's consider spherical cow in vacuum instead.
I thought microwave ovens that didn't have rotating plates tended to be of the commercial type.

And that to compensate for the lack of rotation, they used magnetic fields (presumably created by electromagnets) to shift the microwave radiation peaks around the oven itself.
Perhaps comparing the relative prevalence of words in headlines (or comments) over time would give more insight.
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This car is having brighter features of having V6 front engine with 89 mm bore and the overhead cam which is found rarely in any of the other car models.
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It's the ultimate answer to game piracy and bots.
There are two more steps in this series, the first is concentrating on the increase in volume over time, in terms of users, postings and karma inflation, the step after that is vocabulary analysis of the titles.

I'll put in a cut-off on noise words and one on obscure terms, the part in the middle should give some idea about trends.

I'm surprised how much work it is to do all this, I figured I'd just slap it together in a day or two but it has been a full week now.

So much for those 'weekend' projects...
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Where's the source? How else can one trust this?
Wish I knew about debug_print_backtrace() earlier. It could've saved me so much time debugging other peoples scripts!
Right now the original google & China posting is at 1087 points, the runner up is the posting by dfranke about hacking HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976

If anything that is a really good indication how big the karma inflation really is.

Dfranke spent a lot of time and effort to come up with a brilliant hack, used every trick in the book and was rightfully the top HN posting of all times.

A virtually unknown HN users posts a blog posting from googles official blog and aces the previous #1 (and will probably go up a lot further still).

So much for the theory that submissions get voted up to 'what they're worth'.
When I lived there I was around the average age of pornmodels and supermodels.
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SQLite itself is public domain highly-portable C, isn't it?

If I needed a pure Java implementation, I'd be tempted to instead try one of the C-to-Java cross-compilers on the official sqlite.c, working through whatever IO/memory/etc. issues come up, then adding a thin Java-like API (if even necessary beyond raw SQL).
Many microwave ovens have a mode stirrer, a free-wheeling metal fan at the exit of the waveguide. The ventilation air flow makes it spin, and the angled vanes reflect the microwaves more or less evenly throughout the oven.
Agreed on sys_getloadavg(), by the time you get to PHP much of the overhead of serving the connection has already been incurred.
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Yeah, this is a nice trick. Also, 72 is a good number because it can easily be divided by a bunch of numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9). 5 and 10 aren't hard either, and these interest rates are the ones you are most likely to see.
It used to be in China you could get to blogspot easily through proxies. If a proxy server was blocked, you could then find another unblocked one easily enough. But since the Olympics, a new method of blocking blogspot seems to be in place. Even when the proxy is available, as soon as the blogspot content starts streaming, it's cut off. The post-Olympic firewall seems to be sensitive to the content when it's blogspot blogs.
I'm curious how Page responded. Given what happened, it does seem he tilted Brin's way in the end.
If you don't change, you die. But I hear ya. It like when your favorite neighborhood or neighborhood establishment gets "discovered" and it's character changes forever. That's the nature of things, the good, bad, and ugly.
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