skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The _kids_ need sleep as well. One thing we realized was that the constant waking up was not just difficult for us but seemed to put strain on the baby as well. After a usually very short adjustment (3 days or so) our babies would sleep through the night, and so would we, and the babies seemed so much happier and more rested during the day. So anyway I totally agree.

On another point, I would point out that in general adults are very, very attuned to having emotional responses to crying children (the younger the more powerful the response), whether we have our own children or not. That's why a baby crying on a red-eye flight can have such emotional reactions from total strangers (often negative, unfortunately). It's a wonderful human instinct that I think serves us very well in general. But those who aren't experience parents need to remember the following (_please_):

* Every baby has a different temperament and personality.

* Babies sometimes cry to get attention and not because they are actually in any way uncomfortable or scared. The different sounds are easy for the baby's parents to hear and difficult for other people to distinguish. (as mentioned, newborn infants are easier in that they always have a reason when they cry).

* They sometimes cry for a while and there's nothing you can do. Seems to always happen in public. Leg aches, colic, gas, etc.
You mock them, but I for one would be glad if a new version of IE supported rounded corners, RGBA colours and SVG. These are useful things where IE lagging behind has caused headaches for web developers for several years now, as we couldn't take advantage of the much easier ways of doing things in most browsers without having to write it all twice for IE anyway.

IME, the current trend is that there are still quite a few people using IE6 (the hold-out corporations) but they are dying out. However, a lot of other IE users, perhaps even most of them, do upgrade reasonably quickly now, because there isn't the same incentive to stick with something like IE7. Since users of other browsers also tend to upgrade fairly quickly because everyone has auto-updates these days, I am optimistic that even relatively simple steps like including some CSS3 and SVG in IE9 will make a big and fairly rapid difference in practice to what a web designer can use in production sites.
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Ok, I'm going to order this book just for the ad. I hope this doesn't make me a political ad sheep. The sheer genius of the ad makes me think that the book might have something good in it for me.
It's its own format (engraving + metadata + midi). It actually uses optimized PNGs, but the iPad version uses PDF.

I'm going to do a detailed technical overview on dangrover.com when I get a chance
Not rocket science, but good to hear repeated often all the same.

For ideas see the shed load (67 just now) over at:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWbi...
Good point. And that was the only point in the page which stood out to me as interesting. Oh, well.
I weep for the broad swath of the American public who would view it and take it at face value.
Seriously?! We share a birthday then (shifted by about 35 years though). Happy birthday, birthday buddy.
I made a loosely related poll a while ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749617
I think most of us can agree that we don't need no stinkin' badges
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Cool, I look forward to it.

I suppose one obvious next question is: did you do the engraving yourself? What tools did you use? And: when can I purchase Rachmaninoff's Etudes? :-)
the difference between a 'vps' and 'the cloud' is little more than an API layer. Many people seem to think there is much upside in the cloud.

(that said, I'm not saying you are wrong; owning infrastructure and renting it out usually has a reasonable and predictable (and not huge) upside.)
I backup code to flash once a day in case of hardware failure. Once a week I swap flash drives into a safety deposit box. I also backup any local databases to flash once a day. Use a scheduled task and a .cmd for that, which automatically stops SQL Server, 7z compresses and encrypts the database files and source code repository, then move them to a usb flash drive, then restarts SQL Server.

I never upload code to the internet, but I have copies of the repository in multiple locations separated by at least 3000 miles.

Nightly I backup internet databases to a cloud storage provider. Nondatabase files are stored simultaneously on local storage and cloud storage. The local storage is mirrored to local snapshots hourly and nightly in case a roll back is needed.
Perhaps we have different definitions of warning shots. I was going for the, "Hey guys look at what we can do" variety while you're going for more of a, "We just took all your customers, back off" version. I think Google is fine not making handsets, they just want someone to make a best of breed handset and that hadn't happened before the N1.

I think the N1 has at minimum spooked Apple severely, which is probably exactly what Google was aiming for.
Ask HN: How to Deal with Startup Stress?
For most of my life, I've felt largely impervious to stress. I've always been abnormally low-key.

But I'm now leading a startup (venture backed, with a dozen or so employees) and I feel constantly stressed out. Not sure what to do about this. It isn't about one thing in particular; it's more of a constant sense of tension. I love most things about startups, but this particular aspect is something I'm growing to hate.

I'd love to hear how other members of the HN community deal with the tremendous stress that is associated with running a startup.
I'm going to try this out tonight. Already bought a copy via a macheist email I received.
If you like the PLT list, I've been a huge fan of the clojure google group. Little to no spam gets through thanks to moderation, and the people are friendly and helpful while talking about all the different topics related to clojure and using it on interesting problems.
Here's the developer guide: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/ff468705.aspx
would mint.com fit?
Why not a chance to use Tarsnap? just curious...
what do you need investment for? Are you doing manufacturing and not just retail?
I lose: The string 19880316 occurs at position 59,056,088
"Microsoft's business strategy involves differentiating IE in basics like rendering and performance so that you have to buy Windows, test your websites in IE"

So. Microsoft is losing lots of browser marketshare every year to keep selling Windows copies to web developers that represent, say, 0.05% of all users?

"It conflicts with their proprietary Silverlight technology, so any implementation of such in IE is going to be broken and incomplete, as we've come to expect as the standard.

That make more sense. And I think you're right with that.
I find that the word "dependency" is a huge indicator that I'm going to need some kind of graph theory.
People: Learn how to market by watching these guys. This is what they do best.
EC2 AMI image -> S3 at milestones, mysql dbase backup to S3 every few minutes, all files stored directly on S3, so only cached on server.
Wow, nice work. I think $3 is way too cheap, especially compared to piano lessons. I'd easily pay $50 (I'm an Android user though).
Interested in checking out the new Web platform capabilities of Internet Explorer 9?

Honest question?

No. Not at all. All I am interested in is: Can you please ship it with chrome frame pre-installed.
It doesn't matter what Microsoft does or how "good" IE 9 will be, us web developers will still develop in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari first, then switch to IE 7,8,9,... to "see how broken it is" and fix it.

Microsoft has given us nothing at all to help earn any sort of trust back that they care about web standards. Not that it isn't possible, but I'll have to see it to believe it, and after so many years of IE6, they have a huge hill to climb.
$2.99? I really hope you raise the price. This app looks exquisite and it provides immediate value.

Well done! The iPad version could be a game changer...
an openbsd vm in a... secret location... runs rsnapshot (rsync over ssh) to all of my servers every few hours and keeps separate hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly "full" backups. they are stored on a usb hard drive encrypted with openbsd's softraid.

when the server boots up, i have to enter in the softraid passphrase, it mounts the drive, then i launch screen and start up the script that spawns the rsnapshot processes at the appropriate times. when starting it, i enter in the common ssh key passphrase (which is restricted on all the servers to only allow logging in from that network) and common mysql backup user password. these are stored in memory and then the script runs rsnapshot every few hours.

once a day, the script does a full mysql dump of all databases on all servers using a ruby script with net::ssh to tunnel mysql access over ssh. it does this to keep "proper" mysql backups in case the rsync'd binary mysql files are transferred in an odd state, and keep daily backups of everything. it also lets me quickly get at data with standard text tools instead of having to restore the raw mysql files somewhere temporarily, start up mysqld, and extract it.

so once the server is booted, it's completely automated. i've been doing backups this way for a couple years and have recovered files and databases from them a number of times. no complaints.
Love the landing page.
Maybe in an upcoming version you'll be able to buy virtual currency to make the progress bar advance faster.
Download on the appstore button doesn't work for me.
Let's hope they stay "not evil".
I didnt vote but I dont like to see downvoting go unreplied - so here goes.

> I shouldn't have to convince you to be respected.

Here, like anywhere really, respect is definitely earned. To make a broad statement like you did without supporting argument you are going to need "respect" for your experience in the field.

For example Tptacek can make pretty broad statements about cryptography/security, Patio11 about business/startup etc. etc. without much clarification because we know their expertise is supporting the statement.

Yourself we know nothing about; except you consider pornography a problem on a level with drug abuse. Which is definitely not going to put your comment on a good footing to start off with. It sounds personal - and while we can respect you feel strongly with it the way it was presented is discouraged.

> If I condemn a thing you want to think is good, you don't need to take personal offense, just politely disagree and let's all be on our ways.

There are some problems here. Firstly the main problem downvoters will have had is how sweeping your statement was with no supporting evidence. You didnt even add "In my opinion".... presenting a theory without evidence is frowned on here :)

Secondly the statement is worded in a way that suggests either your trying to cause offence or trying to brand people who might think porn is ok (probably the majority actually) as bad/imoral/wrong/ destroying their families.

I hope that helps :)
Have they announced how this is going to work with Windows Phone? Apple (and perhaps Google) seem to be driven by the needs of the phone and then the same features end up in the desktop browser as a consequence, but the last I heard Microsoft was re-writing mobile IE based on IE6, which is frankly mindboggling.

edit: Slightly better news straight from the horse's mouth:

Andy Lees: We don't support Flash. Performance on Flash is a problem. So we don't do that. We have Internet Explorer. It's halfway between IE7 and IE8 rendering engine.

Found via the Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_7_Series#Browser
Ruby might be full with all kinds of rockstar programmers (whatever that might mean) but if i have to nominate just one Python programmer with some sort of ‘rockstar award’ i would definitely nominate Chad Whitacre. Its not only the great tools he created; Testosterone, Aspen, Stephane. But mostly how he promotes them with the most awesome screencasts i have ever seen.

It's true. I'm not sure if the first 30 seconds of any technical screencast can get any better than this:

http://www.zetadev.com/software/testosterone/screencast.html
Certainly looks as though Microsoft are finally willing to try to take on the competition (they are actually flaunting the progress of ACID3, and posting benchmarks).

In fact, its interesting that their new engine is so fast. Its going to get very interesting, especially since personally, I couldn't give a damn about supporting unfinalised standards the ACID3 tests (in fact, one of the ACID3 tests can't be passed 100% of the time anyway).

Speed is important, and since a lot of applications use the IE engine, maybe this will speed up some other applications as well.

Btw, I can confirm their sunspider benchmark.. Their preview does run faster than Firefox on my system (although, unsure if my addons are having an impact on that, or external causes). As its just a preview, it should only be taken with a grain of salt anyway..
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This sounds like a group of bullies in a schools playground.
This is genius. 37signals is already a strong brand, but only in a relatively narrow niche. This is an excellent way of marketing their new book to a much broader segment that doesn't necessarily know that they're behind ROR, or read their blog. There are several things worth noticing:

1) They create an "attack ad" on Karl Rove, thereby putting themselves on level with a much much bigger player and leveraging themselves onto a pedestal where they don't belong. They seem like big guys battling another big guy. They've used this tactic before comparing their product to Microsoft and Google as if they're equals.

2) They've picked one of the most unpopular people in America to attack. No-one will feel sorry for Rove, and everyone will love 37signals.

3) As stated above, they are sure to have this video passed around much larger circles than their normal reach allows them since it's funny, sarcastic and not about programming or project management. Everyone understands it.

4) It'll probably be controversial. This is a favorite tactic of 37signals, and if they're lucky they'll be on talkshows around the country getting free publicity for their book while telling the American public that Karl Rove's book is too long, written in a French font and thus isn't patriotic.

I don't care much for their products but their marketing is absolutely amazing.
We cant transfer data offsite (even encrypted) for contractual and legal reasons (or more succinctly: I'd be locked up if anyone caught us doing that :D)
Super cool. How long did it take you to develop the app?
This makes patents sound like what they are. Legalese ammunition.

Sun had a treasure trove of some of the Internet's most valuable patents - ranging from search to microelectronics - so no one in the technology industry could come after us without fearing an expensive counter assault. And there's no defence like an obvious offence

Read the original blog post posted elsewhere in these comments. The Inquirer doesn't deserve more hits for this.
It is noted that the price is introductory.
Fan-friggin'-tastic, I especially like the attention to detail. Good job! I really suggest you kick this up to 5-10$ soon enough :)

[if we can wish for ponies, I'd love for a guitar version of this too :P]
The question is: why? Even the goddamn food in my freezer is from another country, or continent.
I believe this trend started with "The Fifth Element", one of the first movies to use a lot of orange. That film was visually striking at the time, because Orange was such an eye-catching color. It was also avant-garde, because Orange was considered very tacky mid-ninties.

The Fifth Element came out several years before the millenium. If you'll recall, Orange was hailed by the fashion world as the color of the millenium.

Fifth Element was styled by Jean Paul Gaultier, who is one of the few avant-garde designers to reach the highest echelon of respect in the fashion world. It is because of his rare ability to combine costume and high fashion.

Disappointingly, the visual effect of The Fifth Element is now lost. Much of its shocking visual palette is now standard. Such is fashion.
and the expense of a top quality unit necessitates a 2 year contract

meh!?
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Good luck!

What does 'masala' mean in the context of an application?
It'll be nice to see independent verification of their SunSpider benchmarks but if they hold up that's very good news.
Exercise. I force myself to take a half-hour walk with a lot of climbing 3 days a week. It gets your mind off your problems, which is key.
Java from the late '90s still had the characteristic that most hackers I know dislike in it today; it was intentionally designed not to be as powerful as it could be. Interestingly, Python seems to be well-liked by hackers despite sharing some of that characteristic[0]. It may be that the motivation is different. In Java it seems to be "you can't be trusted with sharp tools" while in Python it's more along the lines of "code written that way isn't beautiful", but I think it's more of a fine line than people realize.

I've managed to get a bit off-topic. Maybe I should write a blog post on this instead.

[0] http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
How to change the "Carrier" text for recording a demo:

http://blog.atebits.com/2009/03/not-your-average-iphone-scre...
Well, developers write the applications that the masses use. The strategy is a relic from IE's days as the only significant force in browser marketshare. Microsoft wants you to consider that almost all of your users will be using IE. They want you to see that and then decide that IE is the only browser you can afford to support. And then everyone is stuck with Windows, and it self-perpetuates, because users need IE to go to the websites they like, and then more users are using IE/Windows. You see? That's why IE features are always "broken" and half-implemented. If HTML etc. worked as defined in IE, people could abandon IE at will.

IE is still the dominant browser on most sites, so maybe that strategy still has value. It's becoming less and less significant as OS X (which comes with Safari by default) and Firefox gain marketshare. I wonder when they'll decide they need to reconsider; IE has certainly cost them a lot so far, legally.
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clickable link http://www.meraiphone.com
Nice work zaatar and team!
That's a stupid question if it's standards compliant then web development will be browser neutral, the whole point is to not develop for a certain browser.
There's been some research into using a glove with haptic feedback to help you learn about which fingers should press which keys. (https://wiki.cc.gatech.edu/designcomp/index.php/Mobile_Music...) Would be awesome to see this used as a peripheral for Etude.
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duplicity is awesome. can backup to gmail IMAPS, $0.00 per gig for storage and $0.00 per gig for transfer in a high end GOOG datacenter. ;)
What, no support for Linux? I'm only half-joking, I really wish that I could test IE compatibility without having to find a Windows box. (This wouldn't help me test IE<9 though.)

Yes, I know about http://browsershots.org, but that doesn't help with check interactive javascript.
Depends on how much leeway you allow in encoding..
Strike one idea off my "opportunities" list. :). Well done. How long did development take?
Thank you.

I was afraid my question was going to disappear.

The Likert scale sounds like a good place to start studying.
Please be wrong. Please be wrong. Please be wrong.
Rephrase that to "pests are not as big a problem for the remaining plants" because the ones that had a problem with pests are dead!

I don't like monocultures either, but I can assure you that adding chickens directly to your garden won't help much: they'll eat your tender young plants in addition to the pests. But their manure is excellent fertilizer: my potatoes were huge last year.

However, I do take issue with the statement that "we'd have more productive land..." We wouldn't: compare "natural" farming anywhere in the world with the US approach of modern fertilizers and soil management techniques (annual tilling is frowned upon for a number of reasons) and, yes, GM plants and the yields are incomparable. There are a lot of things to be said against Monsanto, et al, but lower crop yield isn't one of them. Farmers aren't stupid: growing food is an expensive and unpredictable business and they'll take what advantages they can get.
Any feedback on this? I'd appreciate it since I'm not especially familiar with the technical ins and outs of HTML5 or web standards in general. I know there's plenty on HN who could help me here.
This could easily be re-branded as carpal tunnel wars.
Dangrover: Do you plan to make this app work on both the iPhone and the iPad (in real-iPad-mode) in the future, or will the iPad app be a separate buy down the road?
Mera = mine => "my"iphone.com

Masala = mixture of spices => cool spicy applications for the iphone?

Its not quite "spicy" but hopefully you get the picture.
>>I don't think berntb was saying the article made him feel calm

Right, I meant that weego's comment were calming, since China and the West are connected economically. If one gets big problems it will probably spread to the other.

I've just seen too many new accounts argue positions like defending China's behavior in Tibet, etc to trust unknown voices about things that can look bad for China's government.

I'll take that -4 as a notice to try to write better/clearer. :-)
This is one really good reason why google should have gone after sun. 8 billion for the patent portfolio of Sun is a bargain. It might not be IBM's patent chest but it's pretty darn big too and varied.
Why do the other guys seem to have an easier time capturing the standards process?
Just to add another opinion on this book, I found it very badly written. The points he makes are helpful, but it takes a lot of work to find them amidst all the contradictions and convoluted paragraphs.

Also, there are only a few pages on infants and sleeping, and the rest is for older children.
Corrections made - thanks.
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“I am impossibly, wonderfully alive.” And a lot more alive than he was the day before. To quote Jimmy Stewart in "The Spirit of St. Louis," "We have to know and we have to try."

What a great story and project.
I actually wasn't mocking them, and as a web developer I too am happy to hear they are at least providing minimal support for some of these common CSS3 features. I'm also thrilled that they are putting effort into HTML5.

I guess I was more looking at it from Microsoft's perspective. Are they serious about competing? If so, merely matching the features that other mainstream browsers have had for some time now isn't going to get them very far. Keep in mind that by the time IE9 is actually released, we'll probably have already seen major version releases from the other players.

To me, full CSS3 support and at least an attempt at full HTML5 would be a bold way for IE to jump back into the race as a true leader, not just an also-ran contender.
Finally, somebody implemented border-radius without throwing a prefix in front of it. I get tired of all the -moz and -wekit prefixes.
In what way is vergence different in men and women? Do you have a source? I'd love to read up on that.
Bankruptcy is a legal concept which cannot be applied to a sovereign entity. All you can really talk about is credibility to potential lenders. I would say China's credibility is pretty damn good at the moment.
Looks very pretty. Nice job. I agree with the other poster about the low price of $2.99 - that's way too low.