skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any drug can cause problems, and you should always inform yourself before you take them. The niaspan information is here: http://www.rxabbott.com/pdf/niaspan.pdf

From what I've read, it's tough to overdose on niacin, especially the sustained-release forms. There are also apparently no deaths or long-term harmful results from overdoses either. However, they warn against using niaspan if you've already got liver or kidney problems or if you're taking statins too. I also read a warning that ER doctors can misinterpret the symptoms of a niacin overdose as an allergic reaction and give a treatment which does a lot more harm than the niacin would on its own.

I don't have any handy references about statins, but I've read that the side-effects are both more common and more dangerous; so much so that it's questionable whether or not they should be allowed on the market at all. They're also less effective than niaspan, I believe. The anecdotal evidence I have is that my mom was taking a statin for a while. It improved her cholesterol, but she also developed the bad heel pains that supposedly indicate a dangerous side-effect from the statin is occuring. When she stopped the statin, her heel pain went away. Since then her cholesterol hasn't been bad (though it did get somewhat worse after stopping the statin) but if it gets bad again I'm going to insist she try the niaspan instead.

For what it's worth, I don't work for the company that makes Niaspan. I'm just a very satisfied customer.
The reaction thus far to the President's comments seem to prove his point. Instead of focusing on any of the more challenging assertions many people latch onto the one easily consumable statement about iPads and Xboxs and ignore the bigger points. Imagine if people devoted the mental resources they use on debating minor details of technology, sports, entertainment, etc to real world issues? Imagine if they ran for office? It would change the world.
No it sounds like this guy said to himself exactly "What the fuck am i doing here writing jingles ?"

From the AMA : "Now I've moved into to the lumbering industry and this has to be the best choice I've ever made. I kind of think of my job as a paid workout and I get to hack on OSS in my free time; After all I do have a passion for software development and I'm deeply involved in various OSS communities."
I thought the question was about alternatives to facebook. Using Tornado you can write one. That's all.
Hah! Uh ... I'm not at all qualified to ever give out advice to anyone else, especially someone I'm not very familiar with. So I have none!

Part of the misfortune with making money early on is that I never learned how to manage it, or save it, so I had no savings within a few months of leaving Florida. Having savings would have made a lot of the struggle much easier, but I don't think I would have learned as much, either.

I honestly would not say I have "immense talent"; that makes me kinda uncomfortable, actually. I'd say I have average talent, and immense determination, if anything.
every time I walk by it I imagine fallout-esq nightmares
Apple should make MobileMe free
I don't know if it would be necessary for anyone else.

It was necessary for me, though.
I often think that the urge to group the world in binary choices are a result of a mind overwhelmed by complexity. There are too many choices, too many things to understand well to see the grey scales. The ability to abstract the complexity into simple choices is a matter of survival.

It is often said that a great commander in a war makes the right choices quickly, but to survive it is often enough to keep making choices. Attack or retreat? Standing still means the enemy has the initiative and this will kill you.

Maybe the ability to abstract complex dilemmas down to Coke/Pepsi choices is a survival tactic which worked well. :)
Talk to people.

Don't ask them what they want you to build--they probably don't really know. Ask them about the problems they're having, and work with them to solve one.

If you've done a good job of that you'll have at least one happy user, and they probably know others with the same or similar problems.
From what I've heard the future lies with Squirrel, unless Moose manages to pull a rabbit out of its hat.
> USB was meant to be universal.

As was PL/I, to use a software example.

Seriously though, USB just doesn't have the right features for certain applications. Not enough bandwidth for good graphics, for one.

Finally, there's the issue of size. Yes, you could have a board with a bunch of USB ports and Ethernet adapters, etc. hanging off that. But you get a smaller device if you integrate your peripherals. On this board the video controller is in the OMAP chip, along with an Ethernet MAC. The board itself is just bringing these out to a physical interface.

We are at a point where throwing more transistors onto a chip and making a built-in Ethernet module is much, much cheaper than manufacturing an extra board and putting it together.
I have no idea who he is, and a quick Googling didn't help much.
Great, but perhaps would have been better to simply link to the SO thread. Loved "hot potato/hot potatoes" for http/https.
Indeed there are many potential reasons why productivity may not have declined in direct proportion to hours work. Less tiredness, more content workers, elimination of wasteful activities, firing the least productive people, even the good old Hawthorne effect. The article jumps straight in and goes for fear though, without anything to really back that up. It may be true, but it's a rather bold assertion to stand alone.

I'd like to see it taken a step further though - hours shouldn't be the measure of worth, sure - that they are is mainly because they're easier to measure than most other things. Value is good, but I'd like to see things be even more holistic. Happiness is almost impossible to measure, but worth a go. I'd love to see a company come out and say "This quarter we produced just as much as last quarter, but by working 5 hours less a week! Now our staff go home an hour earlier and spend time with their kids/pets/wii, and we can still afford to pay them well and make enough to re-invest in the company - happiness is up!"
Fossilized hack-arounds
Twitter Facts & Figures
This is sort of orthogonal to the complaint. Why have partial lambda support at all?

The argument is: keeping out real lambdas makes Python easier (both in terms of implementation and learning). But increasingly it seems like this decision has not really helped either of these goals.

So yeah, different language is different. That doesn't excuse the absurdity of the justification. If python had real lambdas, it'd still have a lot of unique syntax and libraries that would keep it distinct and relevant.
Interesting to be able to directly contrast the comments of a Reddit-story with the comments on the same story at HN.
Ouch, I feel for Australians. Even the best numbers there are pretty low, and the lowest ones (Telstra's, it seems) are atrocious.

For comparison, here's mine: http://ss.corecursion.com/myspeed-20100509-142516.png
Sure. Although I've given serious consideration to getting a bed that collapses away and only uncollapsing it when I'm expecting somebody other than me to be sleeping in it as well.

My current compromise is to arrange my bedroom so that there's room to sleep on the floor when I feel like it but to leave the bed set up constantly - since I have a study for my desk and computer, I don't really need the space for anything else anyway.
The metal ones are certainly ProMetal, but the SLS prints are generic enough I couldn't tell you which one they were printed on specifically.
Well, but that's per capita. That doesn't say anything about the average hours per worker, because we don't know (or at least I don't know) the relative figures for actual employment.
Bedbugs in the Duvet: An infestation on the Upper East Side
TEXT: President Obama speech to Hampton University
Previously submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1063287
here's my hunch on this:

making mobileme free would increase the usage exponentially. I don't even know how big it would be, but it would be big. if you go back two years you will remember that apple had a huge problem with mobileme at first. it's just not their core competency and something they want to deal with. when they are ready, they will make it free and do a damn good job of it.

they may also make this free to completely and utterly fuck with google apps (consumer side).

the cash doesnt matter. the revenues from mobileme are minuscule.
What's the distinction between productive work and play? between a toy and a tool? Even if you think the distinction isn't purely subjective, you have to consider that every tool starts out as a toy, that a lot of tools are way more fun to play with than (what gets marketed as) toys, that playing can be extremely productive and that being productive can be really entertaining.
John Perkins: America's Secret Empire
Give up smoking. Really.
Involve your users [software design]
There has been talk of lowering the voting age to 16, but not as low as 14. Years ago I would have been against the idea of younger voters, but now I think it's not such a bad idea. Lowering the voting age to 16 might encourage politicians to address the kinds of education and employment issues which young people face.
Oh yes it is. I had ankle and knee pain running more than 40 km a week, too. I'm simply getting too old for more than 2 hours of intense sport a day, I had to get back to 60 to 90 minutes.
This is just a five minute excerpt of his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. A must read for every American IMO.
The ease of learning argument can be simply countered by not teaching lambdas in the first place.

For many use cases, a named function works well.
I'm going out on a limb here and saying this poster doesn't have children. Because we don't collect much stuff, and we don't have a mortgage, but we do have children, and expenses like health care and college planning don't just go away because you wish you had more flexibility to do what you love.

I'll be a lot more flexible in about ten or eleven more years. That's when the younger of the two can be expected to be done with undergraduate studies. They're on their own for graduate work, at least until I get the chance to finish mine.
Perhaps, but I oppose using worst-case scenarios to argue against a technology (it's somewhat akin to saying that all nuclear power is bad because Chernobyl was bad). Instead, I prefer to focus on how bad the average-case scenario is: respiratory problems, smog, potential for devastating climate change, etc.
Different business models for making money on Android
If you're advocating things like TDD or fixed daily meetings, you should perhaps avoid using words like "statistics". They most certainly are not on your side; indeed, there is very little evidence that these trendy Agile-based processes provide any benefit whatsoever.
I'm actually guilty of using Yoda conditions in anything but Lisp. It is now hardwired in my brain since I learned it early. I'm using it for the same reason as all other Yoda conditioners are, -Wall wasn't really an option then since the source code normally spouted 50+ warning lines due to some included header file.
But it has pictures! Funny pictures!

Actually, yeah, it would have been better.
Squirrel is actually deprecated in favor of Any::Moose. They basically do the same thing except Any::Moose decides to use Mouse or Moose once, where as Squirrel will attempt to do it every time it's imported.
yardselr is attempting to be this
If you interpret "like this" to mean on the same order of magnitude, then yes, they are rare. 50000 barrels of oil total over 14 years is the standard. This is 5000 to 50000 barrels per day. I'm not saying that it's okay to spill any amount of oil, but the present spill should be viewed in its proper perspective as an uncommon event.
To be fair, however, many things sound like "good ideas" until you try and implement them... It's difficult for people to consider all the long-term implications of such a change in health system, and dangerously easy to gloss over what may seem like small minutiae, but ends up meaning the difference between life and death for people. In the end, "public option" is just a set of words that could be used to describe any number of systems ranging from ideal to unbearable, and so it is not of any positive or negative value in itself. The devil is in the details.
In that case, let me suggest as an alternative that a common problem with these posts is that they only consider characteristics of programmers. The difference between being a mere programmer and a software engineer (at the risk of offending real engineers who earned that title) is the way the engineer runs his or her project, from capturing and interpreting the customer/client's actual requirements at the start, through to QA, deployment and beyond. Writing a program is hard, but writing the right program and being sure that it actually works is even harder, and herein lies the difference IMHO. That all said, this particular article doesn't fall into that trap, so I'll leave it there.
the specifics of your chronology really matter to me. i read this with a lot of personal interest, and i want an as clear as possible picture of what is possible.

17: data processing department; 19: florida; 20: quit; 22: returned to computers ?

what phase of the industry did all of this happen in? it seems like you've managed without a college degree?
You can use an aggregator and still be able to name a dozen blogs you regularly read. Not even to mention books that have influenced you.

There's one other clear indicator: Are you active in a user group or are you a contributor to an open source project?
Aesthetics is a silly metric. We evolved color combination reactions to find food, like fruits in a forest, or to find healthy mates.

Every situation is different. A color palette like on kuler or colorlovers doesn't represent the real environment those colors will be found in. It doesn't include amounts, gradations and lighting, all things our brains evolved to process. For example we need to compensate for changes in lighting on a forest with fruits, because we'll be there at different times of day.

You could develop an objective aesthetic rating for a domain like picking fruits, based on what time of day should you pick a fruit to get the best taste, nutritional content.

Giving arbitrary ratings to color palettes has already been done on kuler and by color theorists, but when the reasons behind the ratings are not understood, you might as well use a neural net to replicate those ratings, using the palettes and ratings as training data. Black box either way.
Woops, that reminds me, I need to cancel my MobileMe free trial before it charges me. Definitely not worth $100.
Here's a question for people who are working at a standing-level desk - how long can you actually type while standing? Do your knees and feet get tired? I'm intrigued, but... I have to type a lot if I want to get paid.

Perhaps a desk that can change height?
Dude, sarcasm. Read it again with the word I given a lot of sarcastic emphasis.
Agreed. Other than the iTunes store(s), Apple doesn't have a very good reputation with rolling out network services. Especially free-to-use ones like the notification api.
How fast can you create a bunch-o-divs?
Mostly just in-jokes, but I loved "yoda conditions" and "stringly-typed". Those deserve wider usage.
What's the deal with these weird comments on my blog?
I would like to be shown I am wrong because it seems like an oversight but the answer to his main question is "the bond market" right?
What kind of content restrictions does Apple have for media? The rules must be less onerous than the restrictions for apps. Social norms allow for a lot of sex in music, movies, and books. If Apple were to enforce app content standards for media, then hoards of famous works would be excluded, including most of rock n' roll.
I haven't had good success making epubs from PDFs (especially technical books w/ lots of diagrams, pictures, etc.) using Calibre. I like Papers, which does a pretty good job organizing, syncing, and displaying PDFs on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

http://mekentosj.com/papers/iphone/
I use several aggregators and read a lot of tech stuff, yet I can't name a single blog I read regularly, since I don't. I've yet to find a blog which posts consistently good stuff which isn't covered by the aggregators I hit. Why should I keep track of blogs when other people will do it for me.
Cassandra (which they moved to in the end) is also an excellent all-in-one solution. It even supports Hadoop since 0.6.
On the plus side, it'd be like a regular heart exam. If you can't access your account, you might have a bigger problem.
There's some very useful tips here, thanks for the link !
That's the long-term goal, but to make that happen is pretty hard.

One possibility is implementing some sort of XS for all Moose core features, and using XS to implement Moose-based classes (Mouse already does this).

Another project which has been worked on, but has somewhat stalled, is a Moose "compiler" which would generate .pmc files for your classes. Unless you used the meta-model at runtime (most code doesn't), you'd never even need to load Moose.

Patches welcome, of course. If anyone's interested in these projects, join us at irc://irc.perl.org/#moose to discuss then.
Tony Schwartz turned around my attitude towards productivity around in an instant some 2 years or so ago, when i saw him as a guest speaker at Eben Pagan's 2007 "Get Altitude" event. It was an awe inspiring speech, and really, truly resonated with me.

Unfortunately, i'd be violating copyright if i uploaded it, but if anyone can get hold of it legitimately, i highly recommend it. Its the best 1hr you're ever going to see on managing your energy and productivity.

I'm hoping to read his book soon too.
His story reminds me of the Bhagavad Gita, which talks a lot about motivation.
You will probably be interested in this NYT article, "Embracing a Life of Solitude": http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/garden/15alone.html
Put another way, there is zero moral hazard attached to any trade. So why wouldn’t traders take the biggest risk possible ?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who somehow says and types the exact opposite to what I meant to say.

Mark means there is a maximum amount of moral hazard -- the brokers have completely different interests than the principals. If there were zero moral hazard, that would be a good thing.
MobileMe was free at first back when it was ".Mac". They changed it to a charging model a couple years into the service where it has remained since.
I use them too, but can't figure out if TFA is being derisive or not. I always thought Yoda conditions were good defensive programming, especially in C-type languages.
Great, now I have no excuse not to take those pictures of me and my fiancé that my mom has been asking me for...
Good article, it gels with my own experience.

People often ask me how I manage to stay vegan (especially as I travel a lot). The answer is simple I don't need will-power all day I just need it for the 30 seconds when I'm ordering a meal or shopping for food.
I currently have two apps on the iTunes App Store, Farmville Timer http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/farmville-timer/id360432188?m... and Cafe World Timer http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cafe-world-timer/id365160796?...

These are relatively simple utilities with push notifications for tracking various events in those Facebook games.

Both of them are priced at $2.99 and sell between 10 and 20 copies a day on average, netting me about $60 a day or $1800 a month. They've been on sale for two months now.

You can see my blog at http://blog.tuchee.com for greater detail about my pricing experiments and experiences in developing the apps.
Someone taught me a philosophy "Eat Well, Move Well, Think Well", which i am trying to implement in my life right now.

Eat Well - Other than the obvious, this also related to your environment, in terms of the quality of the water you drink, the detergents you use and their harmful effects etc

Move Well - Its not just about plenty of exercise, but more about the right kind of exercise. Anything that stimulates the correct response from your spine which feeds back to the brain

Think Well - Having a positive, can do attitude as well as performing visualization exercises of yourself in a healthy state, since the mind cannot differentiate between reality and imagery in the brain.
How did I know that was going to be the comeback? Of course an event of this magnitude is rare. The point is not that massive oil spills are common, but that it's pretty common for drilling to lead to spills.

The parent comment was that he'd be more in favor of drilling now that this has happened, as if it were a situation where we'd made the one big mistake, and now drilling is going to be safer. The reality is that drilling leads to a lot of damage in general, regardless of how rarely these major spills occur.
Makes me wonder why they're building a $1B datacenter...
I am amazed that HN doesn't prevent you from submitting old news. Is it not possible to check for pre-existing URL's in LISP?
I respect the idea of sleeping without bed, but just sleeping on non-designated patch of the floor sounds more trashy than zen-simple.

(Not that I haven't done that myself on occasions)
The Substance Found in Pencils will Speed Up our Computers One Thousand Fold
Many gifted children fail academically
Comment so SimonW

I have been having wrist problems for about 6 months now, i live in Worthing and would really appreciate the details on the physio you recommend in brighton

Thanks
.
I use Yoda conditions all the time. Never knew there was a name for it besides 'a good defensive programming convention to keep you from doing something stupid when programming C.'
The previously submitted URL was not canonical though, since it had a hyphen instead of an en dash.
Comment to SimonW
I have been having wrist problems for about 6 months now, i live in Worthing and would really appreciate the details on the physio you recommend in brighton

Thanks .
This has been going on for a long time. An earlier version of this phenomenon was found on Web-based discussion forums. And email spamming is often based on similar principles. (The commercial online services through which I was introduced to online communication were moderated well enough to avoid this problem. If you check the new page here on HN you can see similar attempts to test the moderation here.)
More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart
I do not know of anything that implements this. I recommend asking on the Tornado news group.
It's price comparable to Dropbox for storage, while adding features well integrated into Apple's apps and hardware.

Assuming you pretend the web hosting bandwidth, email accounts, sync services, etc., are free and the only cost is storage, it works out to about $0.30/GB stored, already not bad for a consumer service.

For me, instant and reliable multidirectional sync of any contact, calendar, and bookmarks data, across all my computers or mobile devices, is worth $8/month.
Interesting. I always select-and-copy the (canonical) URL from my browser address bar when I paste into the HN submission form. I wouldn't dream of using hand typing to copy a URL.
Haim Saban, producer, in Hollywood, Washington, Israel
I've been a subscriber for the last few years. MM is worth the price to me but mostly because I'm very lazy. I can understand why people don't want to pay for it. You can find free alternatives for almost every feature but you may end up cobbling together half a dozen or more apps/services. This requires more time and effort to setup and maintain than I'm willing to invest for something so mundane. If Apple goes free they just need to be prepared for an influx of millions of users overnight.