skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's classic fear of the unknown and of the novel and unusual.

For example, people love to talk about the horrors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as though somehow that 0.3% or so of the deaths that occurred in WWII were especially worse than all the others. As though being spitted on a bayonet, blasted into pieces, shot with bullets, starved to death, or burned alive were such loftier ways to die. The difference is that a nuclear detonation is even now an unfamiliar thing, so we imbue it with an exceptionality it does not deserve. However, none of the other tens of millions of military and civilian persons who lost their lives in that war are any better off for the mundanity of the circumstances of their death. Indeed, many millions of those deaths were far more horrific and far more tragic than the casualties of nuclear warfare.

I suppose this sort of thing can be chalked up to a peculiarity of how the human mind works. A relevant example would be the widespread fear of credit card theft in the early days of e-commerce, despite the fact that most people were comfortable giving their cards to low-wage restaurant staff, store clerks, and mail-order companies. This is why you need to be very careful when evaluating risk, because our instincts have not yet evolved much beyond what they were at the start of the Holocene epoch 12k years ago, and the instinctual fear responses we still have are often no longer applicable in the modern era.
This seems like one of those articles where they compare System A with all its real-world flaws, to System B in some idealised form, and conclude the latter is better.
Yes, PUTs and DELETEs are nice but they are also sometimes blocked by proxies, on the assumption that browser don't do that, so they can't be needed.
Re: procrastination/akrasia: I've never been fond of the idea that "different things work for different people". As a predictive hypothesis, after all, this is only slightly more useful than saying "a wizard did it". It says nothing about how (or why) different things work, and therefore gives you no basis to select which different things might work for which different people.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1tu/improving_the_akrasia_hypothesis...
http://www.codebasehq.com/features/tickets-milestones

Codebase has a nice feature - you can modify tickets from your commit messages.
One reason: JSON is more terse which reduces payload size.
MIT is purportedly releasing their admissions decisions on 3/14 1:59.
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The acceleration curve on macs is horribly horribly broken. There's a bunch of utilities to fix it or turn it off because strangely you can't do it yourself.
what is this? i dont even
I can kill myself with C++.. I don't want it.
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Why those nm numbers? Hmmm... surface density (nm squared) roughly doubles every two years. Slower than Moore's Law (double every 18 months).
somehow i won't click a link that has some api key and req permission stuff in it.
So, what is it about?
Very interesting. Clearly, it takes them more time to do a tick than a tock, and that makes sense, the big unknown unknowns are in moving to a new process. E.g. look at the reported fun with TMSC's 40nm process (iffy vias and excessive variation in transistor construction), with ATI negotiating the mess in two steps and nVidia failing to.

Once you've done the tick, a new microarchitecture should be relatively easy, especially since you can simulate it ahead of time and towards the end do that in the light of what you've learn about the new process.
Given the number of people Intel employs, my guess is that Intel looks far enough ahead and teams have 2 year external deadlines. They've just staggered those deadlines so the public sees either a 'tick' or a 'tock' in a year.
"Probably any company today that has at least 500 factories has similar (modern) hierarchical system of control in place."

Yeah, it's called Walmart.
Invalid API key specified
The application you are trying to access does not exist or has been disabled.
Trying to do what I really like, sleeping more, exercise. Procrastination is often a symptom not a disease: you are doing something you don't care enough, you are tired, or don't exercise enough. Also a fix can be stay away a few days form the PC having fun with friends or girlfriend and so forth.

Also remember, to be productive 8x5 in our industry is a myth: not possible at all. If you are able to code even 30% of the time in a focused way it's already great.
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I think it could be a great product too.

Anyone working on it and want help?

Anyone want to work on it with me?
+1 for redmine

We (~7 people) migrated away from trac and use redmine for several projects with subversion and now git. Working very well since 3 years.

A friend of mine uses indefero and was happy with it. Link: http://www.indefero.net/open-source/
Things like this are actually a reasonably common happening. New user, stupid link, no value.

Flag it and move on ...
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I clicked the link in a VM, got this:

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Invalid API key specified

The application you are trying to access does not exist or has been disabled.

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Submitted by a new user, my guess is that they are trying to spam google for "facebook login" or something. It takes you to the real FB login, but the URL also seems to have an after-login redirect in it.
Big response payload. Annoying to parse -- slow, or requires fiddly libraries with lots of features you aren't gonna use anyway, or both. Difficult to read. Also: Overkill.

One of my favorite lines was uttered by Philip Greenspun in 2000, back when XML was such a mindless fad that some companies were actually marketing themselves as "XML companies": "how come nobody ever talks about being a comma-separated-values company?" It was a good question then, and now that JSON and YAML are widely known and supported it is an even better question.
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I believe it's feature size:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photolithography
Who would say..
So I thought, but according to Wikipedia Moore wasn't that precise in his prediction. Initially in 1965 every year and later every two years. Without a citation they say he insists he never said 18 months.

Also it's a bit more complicated that just a doubling; again from Wikipedia, the original formulation was "about the density of transistors at which the cost per transistor is the lowest." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#Other_formulation...)

Intel is of course not quite playing that game, with speed and power being somewhat more important than cost.
Articles talks about "planned economy". It should even precise "planned central economy". The deep flaw in it is generally that citizens are not included in the loop of doing the plan !

Disclaimer: capitalism is also a planned economy (no there's no army of monkey deciding what to do), and at the top level (US government/financial circles/big companies/media networks) it is even mostly centrally planned... So: same problem...
That sounds like the very definition of gaining experience to me. :)

I'm sure there are exceptions, but on aggregate I'd be shocked if you can find Americans to build something for you as, say, equivalently skilled Romanians. There are millions of reasons you'd elect to pay more for the Americans, but the localized standards of living at a given rate are going to keep Romanians cheaper at the equivalent skill levels.

That said, it sounds like you have more experience with this than I do, so this may be that one time in 2010 I'm simply wrong. ;)
SelfControl for Mac. It puts up a temporary firewall, so I can't read the news for a few hours.

Other techniques - tell somebody else what you are doing. Tell them when you expect to get it done. Bragging is easy to do at the time, and puts pressure on you to get it done. Procrastination is all about future commitments vs present behavior. It's easy to make a commitment to yourself, but easy to break it. Make commitments that you can't break as easily. But make sure that they are "doable".
I really, really like that photograph of the "control room." It's like a beautiful fusion of every fab 1960s sci-fi set I've ever seen.
In my experience, simple technical solutions (like hosts file site blocking) force changes in behavior which end up strengthening your mental resolve - you'll create a habit which you'll then stick to, even with a clear hosts file.

You are what you do, not what you think.
Our three man team recently took advantage of the FogBugz YC offer and gave it a try. There were some things we liked about it, but in the end it felt too heavy for us. It was more of a support ticketing system than an easy way for a small team to track their bugs (although it would probably be good if you had a lot of external users reporting bugs).

The other problem was that even a lot of custom tweaking, we never quite got the email subsystem working the way we wanted. We finally started using a plugin to make sure we all got emailed on every change, but then we got swamped because we couldn't figure out how to make it send only one email if you changed multiple fields on a ticket. It always wanted to send one for each piece of data that changed.

Before that, we'd been using a Google Docs spreadsheet, doing pseudo-joel-spreadsheet for project tracking and keeping a simple list of bugs.

Now we're using Wave and treating it as a digital whiteboard. It's got its share of bugs still, but I've been really happy.

We've got one wave where we do project tracking (including moving little name markers around, so we can all see real time what everyone is working on. And we've got another wave for bugs with same rules.

We don't put nearly as much info in our wave as we used to put in the spreadsheet (we did a lot of effort estimation and completion time tracking), but the simplicity may actually be helping us keep on top of it better.

And it's awesome to collaboratively rework our goals for each release and at any time we can just scroll through our bug list.
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The government should decide the future of the Internet
* You can in fact build relationships with outsourcers via rent-a-coder (MTurk, 99Designs, etc), and you should - this will lead to much better long-term work. A good way to get this started is an unexpected bonus.*

We found a good developer on RaC, and now they do part-time dev work for us and we haven't gone through/used RaC with them for at least a year.
C++ is the language du jour again!
There's a difference between "Hey Kurt! Nice to see you!" and "We offer some excellent options, Kurt, for things we hope you'll spend money on".

As an example, every time I walk into the Y a guy named John says "Hi Kurt". He did this for roughly two weeks before I even knew his name. While I understand that he won't be calling me on my birthday, the fact that he even knows my name makes me feel more welcome there. It's the exact opposite of the comma-Kurt-comma treatment.

People are exceptionally good at "sensing" dishonesty. I think less is more when it comes to using names, but less is also better than none. Maybe just avoid using someone's name after a comma. :)
I like the concept.

You should categorize because someone people wouldn't care about certain issues but will fight tooth and nail for others.

Like us being entrepreneurs, we would have an opinion on "fast fail", so we would want to get to these topics more quicker than something related to politics or sport.

Categorising allows you to focus resources on which categories drive the most traffic to the site.

Also, try to be more specific in seed content. Having broad topics thesis doesn't make for good arguments. For instance "which team is better Lakers or Celtics", may become "which team would win 2010 champion-Lakers or Celtics". It's narrower and more focus which makes for an easier argument. Broad categories require much wider and deeper knowledge to begin to address the debate.
Oh yea have anonymous posting.

People would like to post stuff quickly without having to signup.
Eventually, they will realize that "hey I want to track what i posted", so they sign up.
If you had a house, and a mortgage, you could put money into the principal. Mine is 5.675%. What investment is going to guarantee me that return?
that's all true, but the type system in haskell is hard. it seems to me that means one of the following:

* i am old and stupid, and the next generation will find it easy (although i was about ten years younger when i first tried haskell, and it was simpler then...)

* technology will advance and better abstractions and/or interfaces will be found.

* programming really is that hard.

personally i hope for the second, suspect the first, and fear the third :o)
I wonder how open it was, and how democratically controllable it was.

I'm not surprised by such a system, I mean, every big controlling entity (Banks, Wall-Mart) has a something like this but much more modern. The difficult "political" part here, is to make such a information system democratic by opening information to citizens and putting them at the basis of decisions.

Robin Hahnel and Micheal Albert wrote things about that, an economy with decentralized decision taking-process, "Looking Forward: Participatory Economics in the Twenty First Century" is a good intro to that. They include computers to ease decision making.
mylyn makes bugzilla a lot easier to use if you use eclipse.
Good idea, I'll probably add it some time this week.
Cuban thinks the US govt needs to control the Internet more. Run for cover.
JIT inventory control + Dr. Evil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_(business)
Cuban's call for government control of bandwidth and subsequent designation of applications as "transformative" is mind-bogglingly ridiculous. It demonstrates that I guy I thought of as pretty smart doesn't really understand that what makes the internet so amazing is the end-to-end principle. Calling for the government to "set aside" bandwidth and declare winners is mind-bogglingly naive.

All that being said, please edit your title to remove your editorializing, and change it to Cuban's original "Don’t Waste the Internet on TV – Protect the Future of the Internet".
For me, the phrase "action precedes motivation" is relevant.
I use Sifter and love the way it looks and works, but the lack of any kind of API is starting to get on my nerves.
Thanks, I already have categories (called "zones" to fit the name), but do you mean add tags or something similar in addition to the broad zones?
Do you need examples? ;-P
Although this might not be applicable given the topic, someone might as well say it:

> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I’ll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. --Jamie Zawinski

As a sort of 'untold' rule of thumb, I avoid writing regex scripts like the plague and let my macros do all the globbing. Although I'm sure writing stuff in bash or C on a regular basis would trump this rule altogether, but, then again, I also avoid writing/reading anything in bash or C like the plague as well. sighs
Hmmm.. I'll see if I can answer this tomorrow :P

Heheh .. more seriously sometimes I find my tendency to procrastinate is telling me exactly what I should be putting off. So instead of going "I have this stuff to do and I don't know where to start", I generally pick the easiest and most fun of that list and do it first, even if the "top priority" has to wait. Soon enough, my energy builds up and the pile is gone in a wink.

I'm not saying I never procrastinate (that'd be a lie), but when I do, I try to pull myself into the above strategy. Usually works for me.
Yes I agree. I guess systems can be lucrative and soul killing at the same time.

It's probably not a coincidence that soul killing things are also lucrative.

I'm wondering though why there aren't more people eating at the elephant. Replacing broken systems with new, non-broken ones doesn't strike me as soul killing, and it's clearly potentially very lucrative.
... is your software written in both? Or you just figure if you can do one you can learn the other?
Nice, then make it more promient and maybe even call it categories.

People have a scanning behavior when they are looking on sites so they are looking for certain keywords and "zone" might not be apart of it
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html
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Don't convince yourself it's not possible. I've done it and it was the norm at my last startup. For me, I can't do more than 60-70 hours a week, but certainly 30% is a low level of productivity.
C99 fixes some papercuts, but C++'s syntactic sugar still makes object oriented stuff nicer, which frankly is what most people are doing anyway.
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You have to see and fully understand the consequences of your procrastination, and the benefit of doing your work, in order to fight procrastination.
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Thanks very much for the offer. I've just e-mailed you my mailing address.
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would you mind providing your contact information (didn't seem to find anything in your profile). i am in india, with approx the skill-set you are looking for, and am on the fence w.r.t the job scene (our company just got bought by a large networking company)
Thanks for that link, very interesting stuff. I increased the font size of sidebar lists, and I might change the word to categories eventually.
As a Mac user, I have Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

Firefox is too packed. But, I use Safari and that's what I'm comfortable with. Yet, to this day I can't explain why Safari...
Safari allows me to save my site, mentioned below, to PDF perfectly but also fails on your link and the opposite is true for pdfmyurl.com.

Edit: It appears to be the advanced option "print-media-type" that is the problem. Browsers do it by default and if you have pdfmyurl.com use it, the link you posted will look bad. I suspect that this would not be a problem if the theme did not restrict its CSS to "screen". I believe all of the CSS is dumped by the browser when printing because of this directive. The fonts are still correct so the link tags without media attributes probably have those CSS rules.
Yes, this is all true. Didn't add it because I didn't think it modified my point much.
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I think it depends on how you define productivity. I have had jobs where people (even the programmers) felt that if you weren't typing code you weren't working. In my latest job I luckily don't have managers harassing me at all and find I spend a lot of time just thinking about how the system we are building should work and not much time coding, but I push solutions out just as fast, with less fixing down the road.
Anyone see a connection with the real world Cybersyn and the fictitious Cyberdyne Systems from the Terminator movie?
Its my B'Day too! Time to have some pi.
You're not doing your body, and by extension your mind, any favors by drinking 5 cokes every day.

Here's a video titled Sugar: The Bitter Truth that explains why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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"Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen and Leiserson is your trusty friend."

I have this in my bookshelf. Every time I walk by, I can feel it gloating at me with a smug expression. The rare times I make eye-contact with it, it seems to say "Want some more? Come on back, I've got more, I'll teach you another lesson!"
Interesting. Do you have any techniques for making the consequences more vivid?
The original quote is:
“If you have a problem and you think awk(1) is the solution,
then you have two problems.”
-David Tilbrook
(http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)
Yes, but the brakestand type burnout procedure does not use full braking.

In a safe location, in a rear drive car with an automatic, try the following:

In drive, heavy brake pressure with the left foot, roll into the throttle with your right foot. Get to full throttle (over a second or two; don't take forever), and gradually release some of the brake pressure.

You'll find a sweet spot where the torque of the drivetrain is able to overcome the rear brake(s) and spin your right rear tire (or both of them if you have a tight limited slip diff). Your partial pressure on the front brakes, which are not driven, will hold the car stopped. You can further come off the brakes to let the car rollout of the burnout, or get out of the throttle and stay put.

Obviously, this is far harder on the car than driving to the corner store for some milk, but it's an effective way to clean off the tires at the dragstrip, a good way to get attention at the local teen hangout on Friday nights, and a great way to get a ticket for "ostentatious display".
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JSONP is great for browser-facing APIs, because it can be loaded from anywhere bypassing the browsers same origin policy. However, those policies are there for a reason. Only use JSONP for public data, never for any kind of secret or access-restricted data. Especially not if access is restricted bases on cookies or IP number. Session IDs that can used to access secret data are also secret.
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Are you sure that no one at Microsoft ever saw a Mac before they implemented Windows, and that there never was any discussion between Microsoft employees saying that they liked or dislike any feature of the Mac GUI?

Are you really sure :-) Your one-liner sounded like you know your facts.
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I think the key is not to go out of your way to fit a person's name into a sentence you already were planning to say, but instead do things like greeting them by name. As you point out, it's much more likel to be interpreted as being friendly rather than bei manipulative.
I first heard of this mechanic when digg launched their ill-received url shortening service. I wish all url shortening services did this.

As far as the bookmarklet goes it would be nice if you could set some of the common options, page-size, orientation, with some nice checkboxes, like Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/).
The Discovery Channel non-judgmental anthropologist version is that it allows one to express negative emotions (or joking about untrue negative emotions) about a subject without actually causing them physical harm, in a form factor which invites sharing the negative emotions socially. Since most people in fact have negative emotions about someone at some point in time, this sharing provides cathartic release, and since there is widespread feeling for this need, the meme spreads quickly.

It isn't exactly appealing to the best side of human nature, but the user psychology is interesting -- particularly the social angle.

Hatred/frustration isn't the only emotion out there, just like things that jiggle are not the only things that catch the imagination of twenty-somethings. I wonder what could happen if you replicated the fundamentally social experience with something a little more positive. Maybe e.g. something which let young ladies show their friends how awesome their friends were. Or, and this would be at the top of the Japanese charts in a minute, an application where you take a picture of a friend and it does the appropriate transformations to look like an omiai photo (traditionally prior to an arranged marriage dossiers are passed between the prospective couple, including a photo done in a particular style -- let your imagination run wild on the social possibilities for having one of these made for anyone you can point the camera at).