skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this the last time I had a full time job. 3-4 hours at night before work, 3-5 hours when I got home from work. It worked just fine except about once every week or two I would take my post work lap and accidentally sleep for 12 hours through the night.
An interesting question might be: I decide I want to be an expert racing driver and I know in order to achieve that I need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. So I look at the controls and I see that I have a clutch, an accelerator, a brake pedal and a steering wheel - I decide to spend 2500 hours of deliberate practice on each. After 10,000 hours I am an expert in accelerating as hard as possible without spinning the wheels (accelerator), heel and toe gear changes (clutch), braking as hard as possible without locking the wheels (brake) and following the optimum racing line (steering). The next day they introduce semi-automatic gearboxes, anti-lock brakes and traction control. Some of my 10,000 hours were spent on obsolete skills. Am I still an expert?
Do the hardest thing on your TODO list first thing in the morning. Later in the day you might not have enough energy to take it on.
I do it the old-fashioned way - With a big old pile of paper notebooks:

http://i.imgur.com/l7J0e.jpg
Anyone any idea how these energy measurements were made?
I hope so, but I realized I chose django because it comes with batteries included.

If you're after Jinja2, wouldn't you find it more interesting to work with a minimalistic stack like Werkzeug, SqlAlchemy, couchdbkit... ?
Anyone I've seen advertise themselves as an expert in something (as opposed to being named or termed an expert by someone who's hired them to work/speak etc) seems to be a generalist with ego or confidence issues.

Developing expert-level skills in an area requires focus, talent, and time. These three variables are all present but vary in concentration in 'expert' folks I've met operating within various disciplines and niche sectors. Some are initially more talented, so their 'expertise' development takes less time. Some have less native talent so spend more time developing skills.

Unless you're a prodigy, the development of expert level skills requires persistence most of all, but persistence is not necessarily equivalent to time spent practicing.

To barnaby's point, everyone I consider an 'expert' doesn't feel like they're done learning - they remain voracious.
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That's a great mod of the current layout! I would definitely recommend following this lead for a redesign, it will really help illuminate what the site's about.

In other news, after 2 hours of sleep, I spent about 30 seconds trying to click the back button in the screenshot and wondering if my computer froze. Thank you for that.
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Just because you got ill, used homeopathy and then got better, does not mean that homeopathy does work. Not even if the same happened to your uncle and your brother in law.

Science is currently the best way we have to look at the world from a not that subjective perspective. Homeopathy does no better than the placebo effect. If something claims to 'work'.. then I expect it to 'work' better than a placebo. Homeopathy is not better. Not a bit.

Believe me, I would be very happy if some of the pseudo science stuff would work. Live would be great!

edit: fixed typo
I distinctly remember claims that for modern monitors the color does not change energy use.
The plural of radius is radii, so I'd assume Prii? (Pronounced Pree-eye)

edit: Because someone doesn't think Radii is the plural of Radius :/

From maths.org, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/entry.html?action=entryByCon...

From the BBC,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/tutors/lessonplans/spelling/...

From the Oxford dictionary,

http://www.askoxford.com:80/concise_oed/radii?view=uk

From the Chambers dictionary,

http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chre...
Ditto, the area our first house was located in generated about 40% of its tax revenue from Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart began talk of relocating to a neighboring city's tax district right around the time of the election. The incumbent mayor actually backed an idea to help Wal-Mart bulldoze 40-50 homes that were essentially the main downtown area to keep them around. He didn't even think for a second about the impact it would have on the community. Needless to say he didn't win the election.
As a long-time Kohana user and developer I think KO3's development model is flawed. Sure, there is a benefit to HMVC - but KO3's implementation of it and homogenization of classes is allowing for too much complexification rather than maintaining a simple and lucid structure.

Sam's diagrams are slightly mis-leading, in KO3 there is only a conceptual delimitation between models, libraries, helpers, and controllers - they are all grouped under "classes" sharing the same namespace which is a gross way of "allowing for scalability".

If anything I could agree with the homogenization of helpers and libraries - but not controllers and models!
That is very true, but just another in a long line of the NHS and it's wasted money.
What's going on on the SEO side of things? You need to get your meta info cleaned up, running a site:bookhu.com shows that you aren't even including your meta descriptions, and you have a bunch of duplicate titles.

Additionally, why are only 46 pages indexed? Are there more indexed and I'm just not seeing them?

You stand to get a lot of really good long tail traffic because of the nature of your content, but if Google can't see it, no one else will. Get all that stuff cleaned up and that way you won't have to spend as much on PPC.

Shoot me an email if you want to discuss some of these SEO things, I can probably help you out: darrindemchuk AT gmail DOT com
While that's true, it might be interesting to see if they end up making any changes to thier Xserve product line based things they learn while using them in a massive data center.
As a side note, it's quite interesting how the first 5 browsers tag themselves-each tag line really reflects the market strategy of the respective organization:

IE: Internet Explorer is the world’s most widely used browser, designed by Microsoft with you in mind.

You're familiar with us-you see us all over the place. You know Microsoft. You've been using us for a while-why change?

Safari: Safari for Windows from Apple, the world’s most innovative browser.

We're Apple. We make shiny, cool stuff. Safari's also shiny and cool.

Chrome: Google Chrome. A fast new browser. Made for everyone.

Simple message just like our home page and everything else we do. It's fast just like our home page. Made for everyone = easy to use (just like our home page)

FF: Your online security is Firefox's top priority. Firefox is free, and made to help you get the most out of the web.

IE has problems (security holes/spyware/viruses/identity theft-all the things everyone tells you to be scared of). Download us instead and have less problems.

Opera: The powerful and easy-to-use Web browser. Try the only browser with Opera Turbo technology, and speed up your Internet connection.

We have feature x. Feature x is cool! Come try feature x!
The big next steps would have been: groups, comments, notes, more sophisticated organization, more sophisticated bookmarks.

Comments would have been good too. Friendfeed, when it first launched, was not far from what I wanted on the comments threads.
Of course it helps poor people. I'd argue that Wal-Mart is probably the single greatest force for helping the poor in the world. It provides them with the goods they need at prices that are lower than they could get anywhere else. If you go into the lower income areas of Boston where I live you see a sharp decline in quality grocery stores. Wal-Mart would be a real blessing to those people.

I don't know how to even find a Wal-Mart where I live. I've never seen one in the state. Not sure that this helps anyone but unions.
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They aren't two separate showers - I'm in the shower for a period of 20/25 minutes but I turn the water to really hot then really cold twice. I expressed that poorly :)
I've been thinking along the lines of the thoughts he presents at the end of the presentation. Once data collection becomes easy, more people will live a reflective life and make better choices. We will also see less hypocrisy as the illusion of their perceived self, how they see themselves, is contrasted by their real behavior. A trivial example would be, X is my favorite food and Y is my favorite band. Well according to this data you eat Z instead of X, and you listen to B at a much greater frequency than you do Y.
The chemical reaction heats up the box. However, large amounts of insulation is needed to retain the heat.
How many cities were actually planned? Most just grew out of the times they were built.
Wish I could find the source, but the math is simple. If you're great (at programming and marketing yourself), you pick where you want to work and apply once (or more likely, are convinced to leave one good job for another). If you're good, you pick a few places and apply a handful of times. If you're bad, you end up applying constantly. The average unscreened resume is the average person in the job pool, who is well below the average programmer.
Solid argument. I'm convinced.
I didn't think that the article was saying that software engineering is more difficult for Toyota than it is for other care makers, but rather that software engineering doesn't bring with it the 60 years of QA knowledge and process that mechanical engineering has in the Japanese auto industry, and that the lessons of those 50 years that make mechanical engineering so well refined are not readily transferred over to software engineering.

Having said that, I didn't think that Toyota's problems were strictly software related.
Interesting article about social networking and military thought. A long path, it seems, from a country who fought with a somewhat ragtag band against soldiers who marched in a straight red line and wore red in the forests.
heh spell check didn't underline so it got me. Oops
Are dolphins as smart as people? And if so, shouldn't we be treating them a bit better than we do now?

Who decided the prerequisite for whether or not a species should treated well depends on how close it comes to matching human intelligence? Sorry all the rest of you creatures, come back in million years when your brains have evolved a little further and we'll talk, until then you can stay in that cage.
is that the whole article? it reads like an introduction - where's the main body that explains why software is the problem?
Yup. Missed the point. Entrepreneur ship ends up being a very subjective experience, where the measure of success doesn't always end in profit.

The 10k hour rule tends to apply to subjective accomplishments with little variable reward. The reward for practice is very linear (depending on the person), you usually get better and improve the more time spent. Someone could spend 10k hours being an entrepreneur and fail depending on the context.
But the actual task and skills haven't changed, just the elite performance level.
I'm not trying to argue that energy/oil isn't important for growth. I think its that I see the argument so often that growth is the same as consumption, when it's not - it's the creation of value, not objects.
Why the industrial revolution is not relevant to today's economy
In the debate about technology and unemployment, people often use examples from the past and say "new types of jobs will be created".

But the problem is not of jobs, but of basic skills. Every job is built upon basic skills(intelligence , physical power, vision , dexterity ,human skills, etc...). In the past, technology reduced the need of certain skills , but increased the need of other skills. So new jobs had been created , and all was well.

But you can't create newer skills , By definition.

If you take a broad survey of technology (and include outsourcing in the mix) , it seems that in the near future there's only a minority of skills that can't be affected in a big way by technology or outsourcing.

So this makes the case that the current technological revolution would be totally different than the industrial revolution.
You're right, I've pushed a fix :) Thanks
less accounting is great and I've met one of the cofounders who is a stand up guy. problem is, it still operates within the confines of accounting software. Within those confines it's certainly simple. someone just needs to rethink the entire notion of it. I don't need accounting software.
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Doesn't add value to my life. Can't really think who this'd be for.

Or is this just a tech demo?
It's not just playing 10000 hours of golf, it's actively and effectively practicing golf for 10000 hours. There is huge difference between the two. Sure innate talent and physical attributes make a difference, but exactly how you spend your 10000 hours probably makes a much bigger difference.
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I've loved this idea - and always wanted to push it a bit further. Here's my idea for a high-tech bed.

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/TechBed#1170289786
Do you want to be in the software business?
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They remain voracious - and will probably never consider themselves experts - because they are passionate about what they are doing. They are passionate enough to not just 'practice' but to also know who the experts in their field are, know what those experts accomplished, and know what they themselves don't know. This 10,000 hours thing is an effect of expertise, not a cause.

Focused passion * (time+talent) = expertise
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It's not news that money spent on homeopathy is wasted (saving for placebo effects, etc). It's news because the Select Committee has said so, and the quotes are needed to attribute the claim to a third party.
In the same vein as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, look up "Imposter Syndrome."
The reflexive anti-commercialism one sees in this community really surprises me sometimes. Startups are nothing if not commercial enterprises!

Do you really think HN would vote up a viagra spam blog?
Are you planning on releasing a physical copy?
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That is true. The UK's highly skilled VISA system is much better - if you have a certain education + X years experience you get a visa and you can work and change jobs. With the US system, you can't even change jobs (if you quit, you have to find a new job in a short time, otherwise you get kicked out).
Well, you should prefer acupuncture. It's a much more effective placebo.
Reminds me vaguely of Mitch Hedberg. Anyone else get that?
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I use a spreadsheet to do my record-keeping. I have multiple sheets that do: cash flow, the balance sheet, income and expenditure (double entry), and profit & loss. Everything's linked together nicely: e.g., if you make a new transaction in the income sheet, it will be reflected everywhere else. Insanely simple. No need to use MYOB etc. Can copy the data out and paste into Matlab, Mathematica etc.

Message me if you want a copy of the template.
I wouldn't really call it "vertically integrated". HTC made it. Sure google told them what to make, and I guess you could say apple tells foxconn what to make, but I feel like google just said, "Make us a sweet, thin, keyboardless, phone, with these properties."
I'll probably dig into it a little more later, but initially, on one of the book's detail pages, the text (and everything else) is pushed all the way to the sides of the browser window (in Chrome on OS X), so your "Feedback" side button obscures the content. See this screencap: http://i46.tinypic.com/oixe77.jpg
"That's good for separating the mediocre from the morons."

That's a lot, if you ask me - the morons usually make up the vast majority of candidates, so by filtering them out effortlessly at an early stage, you get to spend your time more effectively - identifying the great ones among those who at least hold a promise.
Or maybe - Simple, but complicated to do.

Someone could ask me "How do I make the perfect search engine?"

and I might reply "For any user and query make it return the most relevant results."

That is a simple instruction but actually complicated to do.
Yes! This is a huge, huge problem. I just installed Quickbooks 2009 -- 2010 is fraught with problems (see amazon reviews) so my accountant recommended 09. 2009 REQUIRES me to pick up my phone to register the software -- I dialed, was on hold, and then hung up. It also couldn't open an existing quickbooks 2009 file because it needed to download a 300MB maintenance release... Quickbooks 2009 is like Microsoft Streets 98. Someone needs to make it completely obsolete by writing Google Maps.
I've been saying this for a while about Wal-Mart (that it's great for allowing low-incomers to eat and live at higher standards for very cheap), but I frequently get 'scolded' by friends who are very anti Wal-Mart. I'm glad I can reference this article now.

As someone living on a start-up budget, I absolutely love Wal-Mart. The one in Oakland doesn't have produce (though my neighborhood is not lacking in cheap produce), but I get all my dry goods and toiletries there for about half the price they are at Safeway. It's pretty amazing.
great way to screw over the small patent holders. A big corporation can afford to pay 100,000 to keep a patent, a small time inventor would go broke by year 3
Except that even headline actors do audition - if the role is good, there will be competition.
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I read the article at your link and I thought it was quite complimentary to Mr. Randi. Furthermore, the description of the test in that article didn't leave much room for bias to have an effect.
This is a lot more clear than the current version.

Although I'm not sure if I would use this site, this version only takes 3 seconds for me to understand what it does.
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> I wish more people would do that. There aren't enough of us.

Ehh... I'm pretty glad we're in short supply. Makes it very easy to just walk into (or out of) a job even in a poor economy and raises my wages to levels I feel guilty for charging :-|
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At the moment the data comes from amazon but I'm just about to add a module that takes review data from goodreads.

To answer your 2nd and 3rd questions; it came out of a requirement I had to be able to quickly segment/categorise books I might want for myself but I think other people also use it for gift inspiration.

I found gender was a reasonably neat line for me to be able to segment. I've also found it a little more-ish to check up on books I've read in the past and see where it lie on the spectrum.

This is not supposed to be a one size fits all in book categorisation and segmentation - it's just another tool. Some people seem to have fun doing it and find it useful - some are even clicking through to amazon to purchase.
the op points out one end of the spectrum. i'm far more concerned with the other end, where people think that writing a program, or worse, achieving some general credential, makes them an expert. it's refreshing to interact with folks who see themselves and others making continuous progress towards mastery. such folks tend to have a stable foundation of confidence and a more open attitude when speaking with others. the thought that some people are magically and suddenly experts is damaging to collaboration and progress.
One thing the patent system wishes to hold up as a possibility that it allows is that of the lone inventor who solve the world's problems with a single patent. The patent that leads them to 'the good life'. (Never mind that it rarely happens.) This escalating patent fee proposal eliminates this mythical lone inventor.

A different angle that I've wondered about is of compulsory licensing. In copyrights and songwriting, there is a trio of copyright judges that determine the going rate for music in $/minute, and anyone can then reproduce music by paying that price without any negotiation. Of course, better deals can be worked out between parties, but that option is always there. Would it be possible to apply the same sort of thing to patents, to effect a positive change where one is desperately needed?
That was my exact thought. I doubt his numbers are even close to accurate as Flash doesn't stress windows machines like it does linux and osx. And given that most NYT users are probably windows users, I'd bet the real statistic would be way lower.
If a patient requests homeopathy, the ethical thing for a GP to do is discourage them from using it.
Thanks for the hint. I classified that part of the title as punchline and omitted it, since a) I didn't know how HN would react if I would've added it and b) I didn't want to give too much away in the submission title :)
Ah, I should have realized. PG is da man.
Looks like a neat concept, but everything appears to be dummy data, so it's kind of hard to properly evaluate.
Are you married to the "bookhu" domain name? I think you might have troubles with the phonetic aspect of it. How does someone pronounce that? book-hoo? boo-koo?

If you're totally set on that one, you might want to grab any phonetically similar ones like bookwho, bookhoo, etc.

I'm not sure how important the phonetic aspect is, but if it's too difficult to guess the domain from the sound of the name, you'll lose any possible traffic from "Hey, you should check out bookhu, I think you'd like it..."
Indeed, and this is part of the reason why I haven't moved to the US, even though I have a H-1B visa.
Stumbled on the author of Millionaire Next Door's website a while ago, proclaims himself an expert. I'm sure he is, but saying that rubbed me the wrong way. http://www.thomasjstanley.com
One of the largest hurdles I see for this technology is raising enough investment capital to build a new fab, or recondition an old fab, for this custom integration of silicon and plastic. Currently Solar cell companies are able to leverage old processor fabs, but new technology such as this would need an entire new facility built, potentially at high initial investment and risk.
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In your example they give credit through the article. Bad example?

Sure you can call them scare quotes but these quotes can be used for various reasons, I'm pretty sure as a news organisation the BBC intended use–mention distinction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction

They occasionally be used for other reasons like jargon.
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For years we've been hearing about new, super-cheap and efficient solar cells, but if I want to put anything on my roof it's still going to cost me 30 grand and be made of silicon. I'm just waiting for this article: "Home Depot selling [insert cool tech here]"
Nice technique. Another idea might be to select some standard text (eg: some news article) that you predetermine, and run it through several online translators, and compare what you get back from the humans to those. You might also include a 'turing test' sentence in there like: "obama talked to the bushes about their time in office".
Actually, in 2009 they didn't run out of quota for a long time. (Too bad I was only interested around April 10, 2008! By the time 2009 came around, it was a bit harder to find a job...)
Come on.

The NHS is one of the best things the UK has. We pay far less for our healthcare than the US, and enjoy longer life.

It's not all bad. Any large system has wastage, it's just a part of being big.