skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, the sale price for DailyCandy is an eye-opener (125 million)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DailyCandy

Edit: already stated in Jason's original post:

http://jasonlbaptiste.com/commentary/email-newsletters-busin...
The only question mark is in the title...

Apply anyway. Most companies will take years of experience over a degree (or at least some schooling).
What if he just uses aggregators and doesn't really follow individual blogs? That's what I've drifted towards recently... I couldn't name 1 blog I follow specifically, much less 10. But if you wanted to know the top 10 aggregator sites, it'd be something like:

1. http://news.ycombinator.com

2. http://programming.reddit.com

3. http://machinelearning.reddit.com

4. http://artificial.reddit.com

5. http://www.slashdot.org

6. http://planet.trilug.org

7. http://datasets.reddit.com

8. http://compsci.reddit.com

9. http://sysor.reddit.com

10. http://economics.reddit.com

What would one deduce from that?
Cool, I would like to try it out!

I wonder if they released the code and a simple how-to if people would pick this up and run with it?

Here is the mit site:
http://fluid.media.mit.edu/people/pranav/current/mouseless.h...

Here is the mouseless website:
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/mouseless/
This group is JUST starting right now. We're on week one:

http://universityofreddit.com/v2/class.php?id=57
> Morning people also anticipate problems and try to minimize them. They're proactive.

Looks like the author never had to plan the next day, knowing he'll be "low-brained" during morning hours.
This requires forward planning.

Try to wake up in the middle of the night and resume work without context, we'll see how it goes!

I personally maintain a detailed TODO list, as well as a log book. So I know were to start from, what's pending, and what I did.
Bonus is that it also help you answer "What the hell did you do last month?" questions from clueless managers.

+1 for the mid-day nap. I find it to be a great refresher, when not too much in sleep debt, of course.
Venture Pimp: Mixest is like Pandora but without all that thinking attached
Throw in systematic deregulation of all financial safeguards, massive speculation leading to a debt bubble, and then it's obviously a problem.
Odd that it came from Debian, yet it seems to have found it's home with ubuntu
The auto-playing music is the JavaScript game itself, embedded in an iframe, sorry :(

Quote resolved, server back up!
Nice! I always wondered what Squared might be good for pragmatically. I've played around with it a bit since yesterday and the parsing is pretty raw, esp for spec sheets from the Dell site (which surprised me). But you can save it to Google Spreadsheets and go from there, so it looks like a nice way to get started. Thanks!
However it is absolutely true that a dozenal system would be much more convenient.

How is that, exactly? Even once we've solved the problem of convincing everybody on Earth that it's a good idea, and the other problem of going back and burning and reprinting every existing book, newspaper, film and inscription so that nobody need ever face the confusion of having to translate back and forth between old decimal and new dozenal numbers, what's the big upside again? That we no longer have to say "a third of a kilogram" and can just say "400 grams"?
I mean, is there any way to get that efficiency from PHP data structures? I guess you could implement a linked list data structure from scratch, but that would likely limit inter-operability with the rest of PHP.
Defationary collapse of a massive debt bubble != down-swing of the business cycle.

Also, a quick look at just about every economic empire in history shows their decline was always associated with a massive negative trade balance. The theorists seem to ignore this though. If it's not codified in a dazzling formula, it's irrelevant.

Not that I'm for protectionism or anti-globalization, but it's certainly not beyond questioning, reconsidering, and/or re-engineering.
As an angel you are invited to many events where you can connect with other angels and networks.

Even better it's not a future network that will grow over the time as previous students get at better places and positions, it's an already active network of more senior people and you'll meet them as homologue not in a student/professor relationship.

You can probably get a better network by loosing 120k. May be you could choose the right categories of startups to meet the category of people you are the most eager to meet ?
My bad, I missed that, I remembered the 'beat' system (and swatch is Swiss anyway).

As for the rest, I don't know. Decimal time may have had its advantages, but once a system is sufficiently entrenched swapping it out for a better one gets costly, and if the costs outweigh the benefits then it won't get done.

For a nice example try explaining the benefits of metric to an American or Canadian contractor, and for the Canadian one that's in a country where everything else is metric.

It sure sucks to be a canadian mechanic, you never know whether that bolt staring at you has a 3/8" head or a 10mm one, the difference (less than half a mm) is hard to eyeball.

The French tried to standardize on something when standards were still fluid enough that it might have worked. If they had not done that the SI system as we know it today would not have existed and I think that science owes a lot of its progress to standardization.
One of the purposes for detonating the H-bomb was to determine the effect of the explosion on the Van Allen Belts.

Typical of Robert Krulwich, and NPR in general, is to find some arcane piece of interesting news, ask some insightful questions, then only use and report on the facts that ultimately align with their opinion.

We never do find out if it was harmful to the belts, the atmosphere, or anything else. How many tests were performed by both sides, or what the effect of a missile malfunction might have been. No matter, he proffered his opinion. And that's what really counts.
Helps if I type the fscking domain correctly! duh.
It's more the fact that it wasn't disclosed - in case people are sitting with headphones turned up. :)

Dammit, and now the wait for Puzzle Quest 2 will be even more unbearable.
Sure. It's funny. I almost ended up doing something in this space (mix of content and monetization). If it weren't for Andres pushing me + attending startupweekend, i'd be doing something here instead of Cloudomatic. Some verticals I identified:

- Casual geeks. People who want to know what we know, but just don't have the time + know geeky tricks.

- Urban demographic. It's valuable and something overlooked in the tech space. Why do you think all of those things trend on twitter with weird hashtags? It's because of the urban demographic.

- Family living. People want tips for better family living. It's also a valuable demographic.

- College focused. Do .edu email addresses only and segment by city. This is how facebook got started and college humor spread. It's highly viral and highly valuable. Think financial companies paying for a dedicated email to 100k college kids with good editorial content.

- Male fitness. Sort of mens health meets GQ. Fashion, sex, fitness,money,etc. Women often get all the love here when it comes to content online, but this is a gaping hole. If you've ever picked up a fitness magazine, you would know advertisers spend a ton here.

I think there's more. I'd start with either the first one or last one. If you end up doing one of those, I'd love to help in some way possible.
Debt is a useful tool if you use it to buy something with a positive net present value. Revolving debt is so very rarely used for that though.

I can't count the number of smart, successful people I've personally seen hit a minor bump in the road and then get behind on their revolving debt. Just a few months of penalties and interest quickly eclipses anything you'll gain through incentives, and makes it progressively harder to get back to even.

A checking account autopay would only have added an NSF fee to their problems!

For me, it isn't worth the gamble. You have to take enough risks to get ahead in life as it is. Why reduce your odds with unnecessary risks of convenience?
I tend to avoid arguments that can't possibly convince my opponent, though if the objective is to convince a neutral third party I guess that might be a promising argument.

The other side of that sword is that the personal religious experience argument isn't especially convincing to others, either.
It's the flight of the evening people... away from the morning people. Now they have a choice, so they choose to come in later and work as late as possible thus minimizing the time they have to share with the energetic, cheerful, hyper, morning folks.
That's exactly what Outlook does.
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If you stay up late enough you can get the best of both worlds. My ideal schedule would be something like this:

5PM to 1AM: Personal time (pretty choice hours, lines up with other people's personal time)

1AM to 9AM: Distraction free work time overnight and enough time in the morning to send out some e-mails at the start of the business day. (you can cheat and que the messages up and send them all at 9am)

10AM to 4PM: Sleep (7 hours, not bad)

4PM to 5PM: Answer your e-mail that has accumulated through the day before the 9-5-ers pack it up. People won't be expecting instant responses so you can avoid a lot of the back & forth of inefficient e-mail communication.
"Note: I am abandoning Diggy because it turns out I'd rather be making games using canvas. Go figure."

Github source: http://github.com/lostdecade/diggy
The Internet as a force for social good? Is this in doubt?
C# Language Specification 4.0
Bad stack traces is certainly one of the major complaints against Clojure.
> He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

A key insight in ethics is that truly ethical decisions almost always go against the person making the decision.

A situation such as a concentration camp brings out the worst in some and the best in others in very stark contrast because of the environment, not because of the people in it. In less polarizing circumstances those on opposite ends of the spectrum might very well get along just fine.

A couple of movies and books bring that out really well, 'Der Faelscher' for instance, and the diary portion of the Odessa file as well as plenty of first hand accounts, such as the one you reference but also many others. The scary thing is that such an environment will also bring out the worst in otherwise decent people, and that our society in some ways does the same thing to its inhabitants, even if not on such a drastic scale.
I get the joke but am not sure that it was originally a debian thing. I have seen it in BSD and here are also rpms for this.

A good debian/ ubuntu ascii art joke is the "apt-get moo"

sl is a lot of fun when you first stumble across it...
Yes, my comment wasn't meant to be totally serious. If static typing extensions were really used by everyone using Racket and/or Erlang, I wouldn't even have had to link to the extensions to begin with :)
Bobby Fischer's body exhumed over paternity row
Huh interesting.
Yeah that's the primary reason I open sourced it, so that if others find it useful they can fork and go nuts.
I hope that it actually performs an ls at a 1/10 probability -- just enough so that people will see it once in a while, but not enough to be relied on.
My bad, I probably won't have audio at all (initially) next time, but I'll definitely mention it either way. Thanks for the tip!

Also: Puzzle Quest 2 is out now! I've been playing it on DS :)
I guess my other problem with neopaganism is the same problem I have with all new religious movements. Any religion is irrational, but older religions at least have the excuse that you were likely born and raised in them, and the wider society may in fact pressure you into taking them seriously. If you're nonconformist enough to reject traditional religion, being taken in by nontraditional religion makes you more of a mark than the typical Christian.
Let us make the (imho unjustified) assumptions that (a) folks in the future will have the technology to unfreeze and revive cryogenically frozen bodies and that (b) present-day cryogenically frozen bodies will last that long without getting unfrozen due to... whatever. Oh, and (c) that a revived cryogenically frozen person is actually the "same person" that went into the deep freeze, ie that it will be "me" conscious in the future rather than a disconnected consciousness who shares my memories.

Anyway, isn't it likely that the larger the cryogenic facilities the less likely they are to unfreeze you? If we had the opportunity to bring back a dozen neanderthals we probably would, because that would be fascinating.

But if we had the opportunity to bring back a hundred million neanderthals, and then had to figure out what to do with them (I'm thinking a series of District 9 style shantytowns would probably be the most likely scenario) we'd probably think it was kinder to leave them dead.

So if I were planning to freeze myself I'd be trying to discourage too many other folks from doing so. On the other hand, I'd also want to have a steady stream of a small number of people doing it well into the future, to keep the cryogenics companies active and solvent.
Grove knows how to build a near-monopoly in a single capital-intensive industry with giant returns to scale (and occasional government favors). I wouldn't necessarily trust him with tax policy, trade policy, international relations, or anything related to small or service businesses. I would not want any more of the economy dominated by Intel-like enterprises (funded by investments from his giant government-run 'scaling fund').

And, if you really want jobs in a particular favored strategic industry, shouldn't you penalize scale -- force multiple redundant companies to operate below optimal scale?

Sure, you're penalizing the rest of the economy, burning more resources than necessary for a given level of production, but you do get more people employed in your chosen industry. Just like Grove wants to penalize Asia and world living standards, to reserve for domestic manufacturers a protected market. No, thanks.
Bill Gates was well-connected from the birth. You can't learn to have a rich lawyer as a father.

Microsoft didn't build an OS for IBM. The group that actually built the OS probably turned down IBM's offer because they couldn't get away with what Microsoft did.

There's very little admirable about what Bill Gates did to get where he is, and unless you have connections like him you probably shouldn't try to succeed doing similar things.

And yes, I know "How to Win Friends and Influence People", etc. etc. There are plenty of people who are much, much smarter than Bill Gates who tried to do similar things and failed, or weren't nearly as successful because they weren't born into it.
Are Social Games like Farmville, Mafia Wars evil ?
> You seem to be always against advising people to make bold choices to pursue their dreams.

On the contrary, but there is a right time for everything.

Pretending that a class of graduates has something to learn from a guy that basically is standing before them not because of how ethically he lived his life and how happy he is but because he simply is rich (and therefore successful by our most common yardstick, wealth) is dishonest.

If you'd go out and find someone that has actually managed to achieve such a state of mind from hardship (say Nelson Mandela) then I'd be all for it.

My life experiences are one long series of bold moves, and I wouldn't have it any other way but I'm very careful to tell other people to 'do as I do', everything has its price and you have to make people aware of the price before you tell them to purchase the wares.

I think you are completely misreading me in what I wrote back then, I made it pretty clear in this sentence:

"Yes, so it worked for you. Great. It worked for me too, 23 years ago, one idle day in July. But that does not mean it will work for everyone."

To put out the advice to quit to someone without further knowledge of their situation is short-sighted, at a minimum you should spend a good bit of time to ascertain that that really is what's best for them, off the cuff advice like that can be very harmful.

If you want to know more about my life experiences feel free to read: http://jacquesmattheij.com/ .
This doesn't make sense, as CPM86 was sold right alongside PC-DOS, both from IBM. The reason PC-DOS outsold CPM86 was that PC-DOS was $40 and CPM86 was nearly $300. It's as simple as that.
Update: It's Typed Racket which is available here -
http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-reference/index.html
For the record, the blast was harmful to orbiting satellites, since the belt of high-energy electrons it released fried their electronics. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime#After_effects
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The only problem is that this doesn't work if you have a job, or go to school. So that rules out just about everybody. (Well, unless you are working on a startup...)
"this practice is held in even lower esteem and even more discouraged by employers"

Individuals taking autonomous rest periods is seen as undermining authority, a tinge of jealousy there as well.
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Isn't it strange that such a wide gap exists between business people and economists? Possibly the economists get lost in theory. For a business person, the reality of China under valuing its currency is the most important fact to consider when thinking about doing business in Asia. And yet, for an economist like Cowen, its as if the issue doesn't really exist. I also find it odd that Cowen, in different posts on his blog, will sometimes claim that America has a robust economy because its economy is free-market, but then in other posts he complains about the heaviness of government intrusion into the market. This strikes me as inconsistent - either the government is heavy-handed, or the economy is free-market. If he really believes that America is both free market and yet it has an intrusive government, then it seems to me his theories need to allow for the possibility that the economy has a robustness due to some of the intrusions that the government makes. That would be the argument I would make, regarding some of the investments in R&D that the government has made over the decades - not free-market, but good for the economy.
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Actually, as endtime pointed out that would have still been wrong.
Not for asking about the definition of "is", though--just for the original offense of lying under oath about his sex life.
I talked to the Rhodes guys at Railsconf and have looked at Rhodes a little.

First of all, they told me that if you OSS your app, you get RhoSync for free, though I don't see that on their site.

I'm pretty sure that you could write a perfectly fine app without RhoSync. I think RhoSync is for making it easy to sync data between your servers and the app (and it can send a push notification to tell them they have new data), but I don't think there's any reason that you couldn't just use normal practices of querying APIs and stashing that data in the database.
I know a lot of extremely well-connected people due to a degree program I was in. I, on the other hand, am not so well-connected except to them.

I found that about 2/3 of them were connected through their parents' achievements, and 1/3 of them did it entirely on their own. They relentlessly go to parties, shamelessly buddy up to the highest-status people at the parties, learn golf and go network at the golf course, etc. etc. Some of these people come from truly humble backgrounds and blue-collar families.

There's no reason you can't do the second.
Thank you for the reply as I can think bigger now and I actually did relief a little bit.

This is not a feature. This is an idea that will be the whole product whereas it also can be integrated with a business networking platform like linkedin, xing, etc.

This is not a 2 weeks idea by the way. We have been discussing it for months and still excited about it and hardly working on making it real.
Not a fan of sunlight, I take it? I don't think I could deal with only seeing a couple of hours of sunlight per day, and besides, my body clock _wants_ to synchronise itself with the sun.

Ideally I like to get up at 6am and work from 7 'til 3. The only trouble is that it's socially difficult to leave work at 3pm since everybody thinks you're slacking (they didn't see your two hours of work before they came in).
The demo just shows "Loading audio ..." and seems to do nothing. Not sure how long I am supposed to wait. Have waited at least 10 seconds.
Nope, he's right here in my room, typing on HN :)
What's the point of sacrificing something like platform integration for car/cdr? Anyone who is going to want to use Lisphp for real work is not going to have a problem writing their code to use arrays. Anyone who thinks that car/cdr is more valuable than platform integration is not going to use Lisphp for real work. And everyone else will come by and say "Lisphp has those weird car/cdr and it can't even work with PHP libraries without glue code, Lisp is a toy."
Thank you for the courage and thoughts.
"xenon difluoride"

My rough guess is this noble gas + fluorine combination = crazy ultra-reactive material at room temperature and standard pressure.

I'd say this is not something one wants to release into the wild. There might be a clever way to contain it. But it would a bit hard to make laptop batteries of out of it.

Edit: You're right, Alfred only organized other chemical things...
There is a Walgreens about every 10,000 feet where I live. Each one of them has prepaid credit cards in the impulse buy racks[1] by the checkout. Anyone can convert their physical dollars into credit card dollars.

Would you like the remains of your shattered argument in a bag or may I dispose of them for you?[2]

[1] And pregnancy tests. Who impulse buys a pregnancy test?

[2] Ok, that was uncalled for, but its hot and I'm not feeling civil right now, and you started it with the all caps.
You cannot nest the quotes. I.e. this is invalid:

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I.e. it doesn't matter what is inside the quotes.
To get less horoscopey: Kanazawa and Perina found a correlation between "eveningness" or being a "night owl" with higher childhood IQs, in a study of about 15,000 adults. They conclude that the correlation is due to more intelligent people being more likely to espouse "evolutionarily novel values." The paper is here at LSE: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/Kanazawa/pdfs/PAID2009.pdf