skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good doctors respond pretty well to your budget constraints. There's likely another option for you, you should ask. It may not be quite as effective, but I bet it's much, much cheaper.

Or, you could buy from an evil Canadian pharmacy that sources generics from some place like India. We spent two years doing that for my wife's Singulair, it saved us a fortune.
This is true in the case of backup software specifically, but it looks like lsyncd is intended more for push-type situations like moving content from a private to a public network, mirroring sites, feeding CDN's and so on. In those cases you do want the source to control the operation.
Does it stop being good advice?

Until "the powers that be" actually start listening to good advice I think a bit of repetition is ok.
Subversion clients can now write to GitHub
He's just leveraging the high profile of terror stuff to increase his own visibility.

You can pretty much predict these posts and most of their contents.
Because nobody is listening, which is very depressing.
True, but the current state of security theater involves repeating the same mistakes over and over. Perhaps through tiresome repetition some of these ideas will finally sink into the brains at DHS, police departments, etc.
I never knew any of this stuff until I looked at the Javadoc for the Java URL classes. I'm not a web developer, but web developers aren't the only developers who use URLs, of course.
I agree, though the notion of showering every day is a reasonably modern American innovation (that has, thankfully, spread further afield). As a kid in 80s Britain, my parents and I all had our baths on Sunday, and that was that. When I reached my teens, of course, I decided to become a little more regular!

All that said, people clearly have different washing demands. Manual workers, people who sweat a lot, and people, like the GP poster, who clearly smelt to third parties. There are folks, though, who can go a while between washing without becoming pongy though, in my experience.
But if you're using the linode for business, the longer you're down the more money you could be losing. If these backups mean your server can be up again faster then it's totally worth the money.

Plus you can never have enough backups.
Rate my tiny web app: my-foc.us
I wrote this for my own use, but the app is public at http://my-foc.us (see link at the bottom of this page for the code on github)
You could make that 30-40 years ago in much of the world outside of North America. My parents certainly believed that was a crazy indulgence back in the 80s. They have since tempered (though I still think twice a day is ridiculous unless you really need it after labor/exercise).
Putting in a few long days isn't what the author is talking about. It's doable to be really productive by putting in a ton of hours in a short span of time, like, for a couple of days. But try doing this for weeks or months at a time. I put up with this at my last job for a while, but my life became a total grind. I would literally wake up in the morning while my wife was sleeping, work all day, come home and my wife was already asleep for the night. Sometimes I wouldn't talk to her for days in a row. This is not sustainable, either personally or professionally, and is what the author is cautioning against.
In Firefox, I can type any of the following into the awesome bar:

"d victual" -> looks up "victual"
"j joust" -> gets "joust" in a Japanese dictionary
"wp Boron" -> displays the wikipedia page "Boron"
"hn patio11" -> displays HN comments of "patio11"

How can I do this in Chrome? Last time I checked, it wasn't possible. If it is now, then I might start using Chrome for more resource intensive flash games.
All pdf links on Hacker News automatically get the [scribd] link attached, so that's your PDF indicator.
It could be that for short bursts (which usually come immediately after user interaction), they use the full clock speed, but for long running computations, they throttle down.
Firefox has also had this feature for a while, right click > 'Add a Keyword for this Search' which is indispensable.
Document Databases are not Relational
5.3	... You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.
The "hard living" comment seems to imply drug use, a common cause of premature cardiac death. There was also mention of "coke" at the end of the OP, although it's ambiguous which unhealthy substance (the sugary one, or the deadly one?) was being described.

I'd imagine that cocaine use is relatively rare in technology, but it occurs in finance quite a bit. That's the dirty not-so-secret of the long hours in investment banking. I also think it's safe to assume that cocaine use is a lot more dangerous than long coding binges.
That's all it took for you to sacrifice your life...? Wow... Better take a good look in the mirror, a lifetime passed will be here before you know it.
I didn't see a demo, and when I went to create a login there was a large message in red that said "Sorry, new accounts are not available at this time".
17559/347 = 50 times faster.
Sounds good. I bought the domain. You made my day.
10 Emerging Technologies 2010
I'd have to say the developer tools are comparable to Firebug and won't freeze Chrome the way Firebug periodically freezes Firefox.
IPhone ad hoc distribution gets a little easier
It's not true that "most" companies do the things mentioned in the articles (firing people through a note on their desk or a fax), and in most cases that kind of thing is done by weak managers who are simply afraid of telling people bad news face to face.
While many people here may disagree with this; this is very real in the Philippines. Maybe in your country, you are compensated for your efforts. But here, when you are working you never feel you are compensated enough. Seriously, the basic salary here isn't enough to raise a family. It isn't even enough to buy yourself a decent and healthy meal daily.

That is why many programmers here, code themselves to death here. I have many friends who are very unhealthy because they have to work 2 or 3 jobs at the same time. Coffee and cigarettes seem to make them think faster (BTW, I haven't had a cigarette in over a month, so yay for me) or probably they do not have enough time for other pleasures aside from these.

I myself used to work 9.6 hours (that's with no overtime) from Mondays to Fridays. When I got home I work an extra 6 hours on the internet. On weekends, I work at least 8 hours. And I still live with my mom because I still can't afford to live alone and have an internet connection.

Working your mind off I think is as hard ass working physically. At least my brother, who is a nurse can sleep soundly at night without thinking about solving anything. He can rest his mind and his body. I on the other cannot rest my mind and therefore it is impossible for me to rest my body.

I love to code that is why I do what I do. But sometimes, posts like these come up from time to time. Also, I think this is more of a problem with the entire system here.

FYI: Nurses here are paid dirt shit. Not even above the minimum wage: about 240PHP a day and a Big Mac is about 150PHP. They are paid less than the floor cleaners in the hospital and the hospital treats them like shit. I can easily make 3 to 4 times from what he gets per month. He chose this career because there is an opportunity for him to go to another country where he gets paid what he deserves. He is really good at his job and he has a passion for it. Too bad the hospitals treat their nurses like disposable cups.
Assuming you're married, have your wife get a job at some place like Starbucks and use her group plan.

As long as you jump from group plan to group plan, the pre-existing stuff won't matter. I would never, ever go to an individual plan if I were you.

How much does it cost to treat Type 1 Diabetes anyway?
Sorry, I will fix that in about 45 seconds.
I'm not personally attacking the author, I'm attacking his writing. There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I'd argue any implied personal attacks in my comment are far milder than those in Raymond's post.
I looked into Trinet. Their cost shocked me. It wasn't something I could justify spending money on, especially since setting up health care and most other HR tasks are one time costs.
I don't think that software culture per se rewards failure, but rather that emergent behavior in large groups, particularly corporate IT groups does reward some failure.

If you, as a manager, can't point to some failure, and the resulting heroics to get the system back up, then you, the manager, can't stand up in a meeting to receive pats on the back and "atta boys".

Of course, it's a narrow window. Too many failures, and you get in trouble. Too much smooth sailing, and you have too many people, and your empire gets shrunk forcibly.
I got 12961ms on my HTC Desire (Android, 1Ghz cpu).
Wikipedia's Terms of Use basically just guide you to act in a manner compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution / Share-Alike license, as well as the earlier GFDL license. (I am not a lawyer, probably there are significant additions, that's just my take on it).

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use

Facebook could have scraped Wikipedia without asking, but as it happens, there is an agreement in place. I happen to work at the WMF, but don't ask me for more details, I'm not that privy to them.

This thread might help.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/194087
Don't be a fucking douche.
Sedentary work is bad for your health too, if taken to extremes. Lack of exercise, long hours sitting in front of your machine, stress, bad diet... that's not going to be good for your blood pressure.
Any thoughts onto providing a friction-less signup? E.g. Twitter OAuth, Facebook Connect, Clickpass? I want to post something and vote up something, but this is just yet another site on the internets that I don't know yet if I will keep coming back to (thus I don't want to sign up).

Over time if I see myself coming back to read stuff, vote stuff, submit stuff, then I'd be more willing to sign up and register; but right now it doesn't yet pass my threshold for wanting to sign up. However, if there was those one-click options, it'd be painless for me to do so and I would do it.

Which is kind of a paradox, because I can't submit or vote unless I'm already signed up. The only thing I can do without signing in is read. So I'd have to find myself constantly coming back for good stuff, and then decide that I do want to associate myself with the site, and want to get some good karma on it, to sign up and vote/submit. And right now it's to early to tell.

Keep up the good work!
I've been a programmer for 6 years, but I have also done quite a few labor intensive jobs.

For me each has it's ups and downs. If you are sitting in a chair all day you are quite likely to develop postural and muscular problems, as well as being at a higher risk of obesity and other exercise related health issues.

Working outside generally means a higher risk of (skin) cancer, but your body is doing what it evolved to do: carrying your consciousness around while you manipulate the physical world.

Personally I find I have to go to great lengths at the gym to make my body feel like it is getting the exercise it requires when I'm coding, whereas when I'm working in a more physical job I generally feel very physically content at the end of the day... But, as always, to each their own.
"Legal Director Cindy Cohn: "If Facebook's legal argument is upheld, it will hobble companies that enable consumer choice, as well a create a massive expansion in the scope of California criminal law.' "

Or: it will further open up a toehold for new startups to develop alternatives to Facebook - alternatives that treat their user communities better.
In many companies, your career will stagnate if you don't put in at least 50 hours per week. You might even get fired. Of course, no one will express the specific reason, but your reputation will fall and eventually you'll get hosed.

Also, most large companies are horrible about looking out for employees' advancement and education, so people who want any of that have to do it on their own time.
Fixed: that warning message just had to be removed. Creating login accounts works. If you get the source code from github, read the README for a one line change to enable email new account authentication (I disabled this so people could try it instantly, with no email handshake).
So what's a viable strategy for complaint? People are used to ignoring EULA's and TOS by now. They just want to use Facebook, comment on photos, join groups, play games and keep in touch with friends and family. They don't see this kind of thing as a violation. As long as they're accessing their information on www.facebook.com (accessed by a Google search), why would this worry Joe Average User? Some will see it as a good thing, as it would be effectively illegal for anyone to aggregate their information outside of Facebook. Most of the people I quiz about Facebook don't know who Mark Zuckerburg is, much less care what he does with their data. What worries me is that the route to the escape hatch is buried ever deeper with each reincarnation of the interface and the privacy settings are more complex and time consuming than configuring a robust PF firewall. I'm also considering switching my marital status from single to married just so that I can see ads that don't have anything to do with hook up sites. I would consider an insider protest, where I splash privacy concerns on my wall in my friend's news feed, but they all know where the hide button is. A more interesting approach would be targeting friend's data from outside the site, building a profile and using it nefariously as an object lesson. I fear though that the net result would be a response along the lines of: "This is why Facebook are making this kind of thing illegal". Ultimately, I think you're forced to vote with the delete button. 400-million people who consider E! Entertainment an educational documentary channel really don't give a hoot. Given the vast amount of government and corporate meddling that they already ignore, this is simply one more thing to add to the pile. I do care about it, I support the EFF with a monthly debit order and I talk to people about the concerns. Many just don't see Facebook's actions as an issue.
Are you sure you need a US tax ID? When I set up a bank account with Harris Bank, they sent me a US tax form and I just crossed out the relevant sections and wrote "Canadian resident", and they were satisfied with that.

Of course, many banks, like many Americans, are probably not aware that there is a world outside of the US -- but the solution there is to find a better bank. :-)
Cell phones could double as night vision devices
If I were working at Facebook this would be the time I would quit. In these times of almost endless opportunities not being able to be working socially responsible while still creating value plus being my own woman/man seems somehow anachronistic to me.
Totally different style of play. It's very similar to the difference between Halo and UT2k4. Not only do the econs function differently, I always felt that SC was more micro intensive, or at least when it actually comes to combat.

SC also used more soft counters compared to AOE with more hard counters. What I mean by that is that in AOE (from what I remember, its been years), counters are more or less put down in stone. If your mass of pikemen ran into a mass of footmen, then your pikemen would more or less get raped. Same with cavalry charging into pikemen. No amount of micro will save you. In SC, even when your army has been countered (your muta swarm runs into a huge mass of medics and marines), it's possible (very hard, but possible) to snatch away at least a partial victory with the proper application of micro.

The games also feel completely different when the three races are fundamentally different, as opposed to being more or less the same with different bonuses and special units.

Whatever I put above has been clouded by the fact that I have never seen really high level AOE play, and have spent days of my life watching high level SC.
RescueTime (YC 08) Data: Are Men more Productive than Women?
I just do a nightly rsync. It doesn't protect against a certain class of problems (like being hacked, which I'm not worried about since I'm a small fish and I actually update my systems).

And, yeah, $5 per month seems kind of steep for a linode 360. I'd probably sign up if it was $1-2.
Some day... that federated social networking channel will sprout up... and each person can host their own identity and friends and silly wall posts on the home workstation. Then we can forget about all the ad spam corporations attempting to jack our shxt.
And in fact, the fact that you can spend as much time as you like programming, without really needing a break due to any physical stresses inherent in the work, allows these people to abuse themselves both harder and longer than they could in any other field.
and thank you!
Also check out Nitrogen which is an interesting approach to the problem:

http://nitrogenproject.com/
This BTW would be the ultimate form of rebellion ...
rock paper scissors lizard spock:

http://www.diagrammr.com/edit?key=diQvJMYgw8D
Who can build the tallest tower with a marshmallow on top?
By allowing the price of water to go up, it would encourage more people from outside to fulfill the increased demand. By limiting prices, the government is not just telling sellers they can't sell a product at a higher price, they are telling people that they cannot buy something they are willing to pay for. Prices are a very efficient way to allocate scarce resources, in this case potable water.
Shame on you, Facebook.
The problem with ESR's writing is similar to the no a_hole rule for hiring. a_holes often have very valid points but the way in which they present their case leads to more drama than it's worth.

I disagree with ESRs position because the meat of what he says are ad hominem attacks repeated ad nauseam. It's a troll in essay form and should be regarded as such.

Q: Is there any way to print an asterisk? I tried double asterisk and \asterisk to no avail. It just obliqued my text
Why shopping and facebook? Both of those seem to favor women over men (in time spent, not in % who have accounts)... What about hacker news, prog.reddit, github, LtU, Lostpedia, porn, news.google.com, etc? Factor those in, and the numbers might come out quite different.

What about programming projects that I happen to be reading/forking/coding which are unrelated to work? From my anecdotal experience (mostly in software development), women focus significantly better than men on the work-related tasks.
I don't know, but the iPad has only one core with which to service both the JavaScript (and browser in general) but also other OS processes. That has to count for something.
It's definitely riskier than having a permanent policy, but when I made the decision I felt like I would give the startup thing a year then find a regular position again.
I am making a transition from being a developer to a manager these days. I consider myself a passionate developer, and hence I never thought twice about spending time beyond 9-5 and getting a job done (as it made me happy). Now that I am a manager, I am working with multiple resources, some of which like to work for work's sake, some are good resources that will only work 9-5, and some losers that won't get a good job done at all.

Could someone explain how they manage people who won't

a)estimate right when given the chance,

b) understand the criticality of the deadlines,

c) put in a fair 40 hr/week if the deadline is still a month away (i.e. start missing internal milestones from day one),

d) not escalate/be concerned unless you probe them etc?
24088 on the Palm Pre. (Dual core 500mhz)
Well, if you were in the American system and didn't have insurance, you'd have to pay for all that stuff plus everything else. So, be thankful for what you have :)
Good doctors respond pretty well to your budget constraints. There's likely another option for you, you should ask. It may not be quite as effective, but I bet it's much, much cheaper.

Tangentially related fact: in the US, doctors don't do this since it poses a significant risk of lawsuits.
Given the subject matter I'm not sure how much better than this they could make it. But I must say it looks like they're trying a bit too hard to make this "cool" at times.
You, my friend, clearly don't use Firebug that much. Until you can add new attributes to existing selectors in developer tools, it simply cannot compare
He also posted it on his own blog.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/preventing_ter...

"I know, nothing I haven't said many times before."

He knows he keeps repeating himself. And until things change, he needs to keep repeating himself.
I'm from the Philippines. I don't have a specific country for my target market. My apps are mostly productivity apps. I'll check out Handango. Thanks!
File an IRS W-9 form, you can do it over the phone by calling the 800 number. Tell them you expect to have a U.S. tax liability and that's why you need the number.
Distributed Distributed Work Meetup
EasyPeasy 1.6 released
How Does Stephen Hawking Talk?
Cloud based tool offers ‘pay as you go’ C code parallelisation
“After discussing the issues with Power.com for about a month without reaching a resolution, we filed a lawsuit to enforce our terms of service, maintain the integrity of our site and to assure our users’ privacy and security are protected,” said Barry Schnitt, a Facebook spokesman.

What ?? source http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/facebook-sues-power...
I'll check this out. Thanks!
This story is especially notable for the little tidbit about both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. I'm always impressed by their business acumen.
Wonderful! I just bought them for 50$! I only know of Gish and World of goo since I've played the demos and never got around to buy them, but now I just can't miss this incredible offer!
His articles point seems to be buried beneath the fold (the read more button): "It’s much smarter to spend our limited counterterrorism resources on measures that don’t focus on the specific. It’s more efficient to spend money on investigating and stopping terrorist attacks before they happen, and responding effectively to any that occur."
Interesting. I wonder if this clause was in the GMail ToS when FB started doing this.

The Contacts API (which FB probably uses today) has different terms, and appears to not conflict with this usage.

So we would need to piece together a timeline. Probably not worth the effort.
Do you have any evidence that airport security costs are responsible for the higher prices?
Those people are the best, I have been admiring them for a long time.

http://www.google.com/search?&q=electronic+frontier+foun...
There are masses. If everyone starts doing it, other people will jump on. Most people value their privacy, they just need a bandwagon to jump on to.