skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you insist on making this personal? I discounted an article, not a person.

By bringing the person into this, you turn it into an irrational, emotional thing, where facts don't matter. That's not where you want to be.

And at the risk of extending this thing far beyond its worthy lifetime, that comment you link to proves very little. As I already said:

> Committed Bytes would be a measure of potential maximum physical memory usage if every process were touching every page that it had available to it. Yes, no process ever does that, but statistically there will be an average fraction of that memory which is touched, so it can be interpreted as a proxy for physical memory pressure. A poor one though, as different processes have different patterns.

Allocating a huge bunch of memory and not touching it is one statistical pattern, but it's not particularly common, which is key. It's an outlier, so it isn't strong evidence. On average, committed bytes can be interpreted as a proxy for memory pressure, but like I said, there's likely to be a fair amount of variance there, so it's a poor proxy. There certainly wouldn't be a 1:1 relationship between committed memory and physical memory pressure; if I had to guess, I would guess somewhere like 60% of committed memory should ideally be in physical ram.

For example, my machine has 12GB of RAM, 3.5GB committed bytes total and 2.5GB working set total. But that working set includes both private and shared working set pages - calculating the active working set properly would require dividing shared page sizes by the number of copies in different processes.

But just for fun, I plotted the log of working set values in MB along the X axis, and the log of private bytes in MB along the Y axis, for each process, and this is what I got:

http://imgurl.filetac.com/img/68343980.png

Looks like a pretty close correlation to me - yes, there are some spikes in private bytes, but on average, private bytes is a proxy for committed bytes (I excluded shared pages for confounding reasons, as they are usually things like EXEs and DLLs - not counted against commit charge), committed bytes is a proxy for physical memory usage, which in turn is a proxy for physical memory pressure.
how similar were the last twenty years to the twenty years previous to that

Kinda not. Computers, IT, internet and mobile phones were just starting to change the way that everyday people did things in the 1980s. They really got going in the 1990s. The cold war and the USSR ended about then. The thing is, change is coming faster now than it did in 1990. And it's not slowing down.
Sgt Pepper would be "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back" by Public Enemy, and Dark Side of The Moon would either be "Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" by the Wu-Tang Clan or "Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde" by Pharcyde.
>human visual response is non-linear

Human visual response to color is also nonlocal, which has an array of interesting effects.
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Does anybody care about Wordpress, though?

Yes. This is a well-established fact.

If his beliefs are correct

If his beliefs were correct, nobody would touch anything GPL'ed with somebody else's penis. His beliefs are either posturing or a sincere misunderstanding of copyright.
Try getting a toddler in the house. There will be no more sleepins after that.

Seriously, the most important thing in this done is getting to bed on time, and having a routine in the morning. That, and don't berate yourself for a sleepin, just make an extra effort to get up on time the next day.

I honestly think that getting out of bed early and getting on with your day accounts for a large variance in personal productivity.
I think that it all depends on the PM. If your PM understands that it is OK to do nothing sometimes, it is completely different story than PM who expects some work every day.

It nails down my problem with most of the methodologies: they all do depend on people involved, yet there is very little talk about the right attitudes.

(FYI, according to Harvard Business Review and similar publications, the direct management is one of the main reasons why people decide to leave)

(BTW, why you downvoted him?)
Massive Volume + Quick Turnaround: funding black swans
Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels
I think it was Digg that failed at removing the keys. I remember Kevin giving a speech about failing to listen to his users.
The another problem with the hour is that -- I don't know how about other people -- but I'm the most productive in the early morning, or very late night. My mind is completely focused on work then.

If there's a meeting, or whatever, it means that my output will be seriously hurt. That's another problem with such methodologies' descriptions: it is very tempting to response me that I don't fit to the team or I should try to change my habits, even if, in the right environment, I'm always the most productive team member.
But, if you use iPhone, it's easy for type "séó.com".
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Whenever I see an article title that indicates a list of X things that might interest me, I always find myself wanting just the bullet point list without the surrounding content (at least until I decide whether or not the bullet point list merits reading the rest of the article). So:

1. Exercise During the Day

2. Stop Work in the Middle of a Task

3. Avoid Caffeine in the Evening

4. Set Out Your Clothes the Night Before

5. Don’t Eat a Heavy Dinner

6. Journal or Read Before Bed

7. Know What You’re Doing First Thing

8. Get to Bed On Time

9. Visualize Sleeping Well
This feels a little too gold-buggish for me in parts. Fiat money and fractional-reserve banking are quite separate things: fractional-reserve banking was common even with gold currency. Unless an intrusive government regulation outlaws people from accepting deposits and lending them back out, and even further, from issuing promissory notes, it will continue to happen even in a gold-standard economy, because full-reserve banks are less attractive, both to owners and depositors, except in crises, of which our memories are short.

Gold supply also has over the past 100 years or so inflated at a low exponential curve that looks much like a compounding curve, because the annual production has been increasing roughly in line with the total amount in existence (from 400 tons/yr in 1900 to 2500 tons/yr today). It's compounding with a low rate, around 1%-2% over most of that period, but nonethless the money supply inflates, and continues to inflate faster in absolute terms year to year (with some dips now and then).
Those who prefer console for getting things done can try out tig - a text-mode interface for git.

http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/
I'm sitting in our 10.000 lines (don't ask) stylesheet as we speak and the only thing keeping my sane is indenting and grouping (which the indenting gives your for free) of related styles.
Clout just handles the parsing of a string like "/books/:isbn" into a structure that can be matched against a URI (internally represented as a regex and a vector of keywords).
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> Not quite true. Slashdot is from about '96

I think you’re misreading. The author was saying that Joel’s posts would have been just as relevant before slashdot as they are today, not that the posts actually predate slashdot.
Single biggest thing: no Cold War.

Go watch Threads:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/

and if you aren't old enough, consider that people lived with this kind of threat for decades.
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Magento is a most powerful open source ecommerce platform which can be customized as per your requirements. Magento is very easy and ready to use modular architecture provides unique flexibleness.
The video on inflation covers how war has significant inflationary effects, but obviously focuses on the economics and not the morality of it.
I bet that pg hopes that he will apply to ycombinator.
I'm really excited about this. But it won't be actually 'revealed' until Wednesday.
Home Business Tip: How to Create More Business During Slow Times  at
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1 and 2 Timothy Bible Study
The article can indeed be digested into this bullet points. But number 2 requires some more explanation as it can't stand on its own like that.
Maybe "At the end of the day, stop working in the middle of a task, to make it easy to start again the next day". But this is rather too long for a bullet point.
The world, for the next twenty years, is going to be dominated by black swans, and a whole lot of them.

Hopefully it's mostly good black swans, not bad one.
Do all who believe in the idea of the Singularity think it will be a utopia? I thought most just think it will happen.
Nice advices. I can agree with nr. 1, but I have to admit that I break nr. 2 quite a lot of times. There's nothing like a coding session til the early morning hours! For me it's really difficult to stop in the midst of an unfinished coding task. :)

I have another advice, although it has indirectly something to do with the wake up process: Assumed you can make it to the shower, try to take a James Bond Shower (http://artofmanliness.com/2010/01/18/the-james-bond-shower-a...). I do this every morning, and it really helps :)
Seth Godin on saving pennies or saving dollars
Does this mean Sanjeev Singh is Charlie Munger?
s/trade publications/all news media/g

They're just stenographers for PR flacks, from the groveling interns to Woodward & Bernstein (they were taking dictation from the acting head of the FBI!).
The leader of a company absolutely should repeat what his company's PR statement/blog/whatever said, not contradict it. The fault is that it's the opposite of his company's official statement.
I'm very interested in this, but I need to be able to write down equations.

Is there any good note-taking software where I can write equations, either as latex or something similar?

Thanks =)
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IPv6: Why should all VoIP people care about it?
The Open Source society
The Non-Programming Programmer
Neat, but I wonder how the battery would fare under a full fledged ubuntu install.
Artisan System Becomes Jolt
The box also produces carbon dioxide as a byproduct--a potential downside depending on how much it generates.

The amount it generates is of little concern - what matters is where the methane (or other fuel) comes from. If the methane is produced from fresh biomass then the box is carbon neutral. But if the fuel comes from oil then it won't be carbon neutral.
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I don't want to enrage you or continue this discussion. We have just different tastes. I'm writing this because you phrased your suggestion in a way that you seem to be expecting an answer.

The song you suggested is a nice song. In a summer radio kind of way. Like an average pop song. Reminds me of "Save Tonight" (which btw I consider much more awesome). Lyrics are good especially if you are slightly detached from real world an in "sad reflection on life of some people you've never met" mode at the moment of listening.

Sorry if you took my comment as offensive, that's my last one.
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before -- that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

Buckminster Fuller
What's wrong with

http://guides.rails.info/3_0_release_notes.html
If we don't get the good ones, we'll get the bad ones.
It frustrates me when energy consumption is used as a proxy for growth. That was probably true during industrial periods when manufacturing was the key economic producer, but isn't education and time more important now? Of course energy is still important to that, but to take a simple example - I can build a web store much more quickly now than I could 15 years ago thanks to the advent of frameworks, and indeed I don't need to build one myself as I can use an already developed one. My time can now be spent developing novel things.
Is that more effective than burning natural gas in turbine?

EDIT:

In the movie there is a statement that it is twice as effective.

Another question:
How much a natural gas turbine of the same output costs?
We need less of these "how to be great in the morning" posts and more "how do you get through 8 hours of a mind-numbing day job and then kick-start your brain at 8pm when you can work on something interesting" posts.
The epic shittiness of Acrobat Reader 7 is just how scribd got traction -- they don't really give a shit about PDF viewers -- their raison d'têre is to be the Youtube of documents.

Their Flash viewer is terrible (doesn't work at all on Linux) and their site is largely hostile to the idea of you actually reading the content. I had an involved email conversation with one of the founders after slamming their iPaper flash viewer here before, but nothing ultimately came of it.

Choose life. Choose Google's pure-JS document viewer: http://docs.google.com/viewer
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Anyone know of a build for Ubuntu 9.10?
I think that it is worse that most people who turn up for a Developer job are just programmers, have no design skills at all.
Is this what the up arrow is for? I'd rather, insightful, funny, factual. Posting for consensus is pretty pointless in my opinion. Not that it's particularly obvious what that arrow is for in the first place.
The post mentions a tool for live coding over the web (http://i.seemikecode.com) that looks simple but good. Etherpad (http://www.etherpad.com) is also real good for those and has some other features like line numbers.
Whew, I don't really know. If you visit the Peak Oil website and get beat over the head with the list of things that are made from or depend on oil, like paint and plastics, most transportation, even feeding the world depends heavily on natural gas fertilizers, not to mention diesel in the tractors, you'll see that are so many things we consider necessities which can't be replaced by photons racing down a fiber-optic cable.
I always find it insulting when someone assumes that developers are motivated only by technical challenges, and if there's no carrot and stick, they tend to focus on the most hardcore, yet unimportant, stuff.

Developers are not stupid. On the contrary, they are extremely smart and if they act stupid, usually it means that the management is poor. We don't live in 70s anymore. A developer does not imply unshaved MIT hacker.

My bet is that the source of this assumption is lack of business objectives' sharing. The engineering department is separated from clients and hardly anyone, except the project managers, know what are the client's problems, or goals of the project.
A cross platform mobile App Store via MoSync?
anyone who is serious about being an innovator MUST keep a log. innovation occurs from the connection of ideas and you don't want to limit yourself merely connections between ideas that just happen to occupy your head at any given time. jotting down ideas (your own, and your reactions to other people's) allows you an easy way to play with connections.
3 collumns, source ordered CSS layout with clean html
Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games
Take a 25 minute nap. Seriously, try it.
> PS and PDF are also the standard output of LaTeX.

Erm, I thought that DVI was the default output medium.
This is why I think that Codility (covered on HN earlier here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1039140 ) is such an amazing idea. You can administer a web-based company-appropriate FizzBuzz for rounding error next to the cost of doing an interview or (worse) hiring someone who can't do FizzBuzz.

Incidentally, if you think Java programmers who can't figure out how to count the number of occurrences of the letter "a" in the string "Java java java" are bad, you should see how many interpretations of "advanced oral and written Japanese proficiency" we've had. Oh boy. Let's hypothetically say you're a recruiting company and you get a candidate as far as our door without disclosing that their exposure to Japanese is, I kid you not, "I loved watching Kenshin in high school" -- we will not be doing business with you again. Hopefully ever.
I've heard secondhand of this being used as an interview question.
I'm rather fond of Charlie Stross's account of a singularity in his book "Accelerando":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_%28novel%29

From this I believe that we can predict that a singularity may not be a utopia or a dystopia but it will almost certainly be mind warpingly weird.
Also, how much CO2 it generates depends only on the amount and type of fuel it consumes[1] - e.g. 1 CO2 molecule emitted per CH4 molecule consumed - so that statement is nonsensical to begin with.

[1] unless it also produces carbon monoxide, which is unlikely considering the efficiency claims. Other than H2O, I'm not aware of any other possible byproducts of methane oxidisation.
Can Alex bring Linux to the masses?
If a wordpress theme is all your own work, then no-one else has any business telling you under what terms you distribute it.

The GPL2 tself says... "You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works."
I remember interviewing for the first time, where I'd asked lots of questions, and then called back potential candidates for a proper coding test if they passed the talking test. I know better now, but anyway, it was scary! The amount of people who can talk about the inner workings of compilers, internet protocols etc, and then can't do the fizzbuzz test is shocking!

The next time, I started with fizzbuzz and made life a lot better ;)
I just started (today) a 30 days experiment of waking up at 5 every morning and I'm recording it on my blog. I think that going to bed early will be a key factor for this experiment, but I'm also going to try some others of those points.
I find that cycling home, then dinner when I walk through the door after having planned what I want/need to do in the afternoon mentally on the way home or during the workday helps me a lot with this.

However this is exercise, routine, early nourishment, and knowing exactly how I'm going to get stuck in -- all things the article touches on.
When I was taking physics courses, I took notes in plain text files with TeX formatted equations inline. I could write them almost as fast as the professor was writing them on the board. They were even modestly readable, so long as I took care to insert meaningful whitespace.
actually they are connected. with a gold standard banks that run FRB risk actual bank runs. with a fiat system the government (fed) can provide unlimited backing so instead of a bank run the fed would print money, causing inflation (see the Savings and Loan crisis of the 80's). your buying power decreases in exchange for socializing the risk of bank runs.

one of the reasons austrians bug me is their insistence on 100% reserve banking even though a cursory examination of history reveals that there is market demand for FRB. sure, demand would certainly be lower than it is now if there was no "lender of last resort" fed subsidizing risk, but it would still exist. most people care about 100% safe investments.

however the austrian criticism that banks who mismanage their funds should be allowed to fail is spot on.
I've learned to be careful about whom I discuss things with. If you talk to the wrong crowd, all you're going to get is unreasonable and angry people. People have to be primed and qualified before you share too much, or else they will react violently to your message.

I don't think that there's any problem with disagreement or common and civilized discussion. The problem arises when the discussion turns into a contention, and the contention gives into resentment, bitterness, name-calling, etc. Once something has devolved that far, it is generally irredeemable, so if you things heading down that path I think it's more often better to just leave it, even if the original comment is inflammatory and accusatory, because those people have already forsaken reasonability and intelligence (usually as a response to being stumped), and what's the point in discussing a thing with one like that, or one whose biases are immovable and emotional?
Most development outside web front-end work doesn't particularly require end-user UI design skills.
Solution: Host doesn't know what is behind the doors either. Contestant then has a true 1/3 chance. QED

I guess that defeats the game though.
That's one of my favorite things about rap lyrics. Lil-Wayne expressing that he's only mediocre at killing people just doesn't have the same ring to it.
If you are motivated enough and the issue of not making non-job progress nags you day in and out, you _will_ work at 8pm.

A great tip is to work on something after reaching home every single day, no matter how trivial it might be. A regular schedule essentially translates your 8pm work into a regular job - so you have to do it.
Knowing is Half the Battle
With the reunion between TiVo and DirecTV (there's a new product coming in the spring, supposedly, although I've been waiting a year), does this at least give TiVo a safe niche? Perhaps they'll be swallowed by DirecTV?
Argh... it really bugs me that the BBC have a Geek Technology reporter who has a self confessed Non-geek background, and uses his Son to help him formulate his opinions.

Talk about BBC just handing out jobs to anyone!
What helped me was waking up at the same time every day. So if I decide 7 am is the time, no matter what time I get to bed, I wake up at the same time it really helped me not feel tired (trick credit goes to my calculus teacher in high school).
This is what the original post was talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL60j3iDgLk#t=6m45s

I don't see this being addressed in any way by this post.
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By Quotepad I mean simple. Evernote is alternative to OneNote.
Bespin (http://bespin.mozilllabs.com) is even better for this. It's slightly less realtime than EtherPad, however it is made for collaborative programming. It has syntax highlighting and a bunch of other features for coding.
F-ing hate doom-ers. I have ONE word for you:

Y 2 K

Remember? The world was gonna end. Fsssssssssssssssssss...

In 2005 we were told that PeakOil was supposed to happen before 2010. Guess what?!

Global Warming! Global Warming!

Yes, the system goes through crises, but then things change, wrong get righted and life goes on. No, the world is probably not gonna end. And if does, the fact that I won't hear you whining anymore will almost make up for it.
First page displays as nearly blank (just Scribd logo), but clicking through to other (78) pages seems to work fine (Safari 4.0.4) - as does DL of pdf.
Out of curiosity, anyone want to share some of the questions they use or would use in these situations?