skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I recall from reading "How To Sleep Less And Have More Energy" that humans are designed to take a nap in the middle of the day.

My parents from India say the same thing, they will typically nap in the middle of the afternoon for a couple hours (it's too hot to do work outside anyways), then wakeup again in the late afternoon to do things.
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Has anyone tried running code with this yet? This results in errors:

<?php
require_once('Lisphp.php');
$env = Lisphp_Environment::full();
$program = new Lisphp_Program("(echo 1)");
$program->execute($env);
?>
I happily accept the mad flourishes of Robert Martin. They fortify his arguments and help engage the audience. Good education has an element of entertainment and emotion. It's a part of how we learn, or at least, how we learn best.
This single biggest issue I've found when working with PHP for larger projects is that even if you are a disciplined programmer you get to the point where the includes will eat up your performance and your memory requirements will become larger. See drupal as an example of this.

You can get around some of that by using a php accelerator but it would seem to me that something like that ought to be part of the basic distribution.
24min Wikileaks Documentation
Right. And that after calling 'decimal time' a limit case of absurdity by decimalist agitators ? (iirc it was just a marketing stunt by swatch).

You need to read more closely. The article claimed that decimal time was an excess of the French Revolution. The French revolution was over 200 years ago, which predates anything in your memory by quite a bit. And indeed, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time verifies that during the French Revolution, when the metric system was invented, the French also tried to introduce decimal time.

This was the same time period that they tried to decimalize the quarter circle, resulting in a measurement system with 400 gradians in the circle.

And yes, it is accurate to call this a limit case of absurdity.

As for the article itself, it is impossible to say how serious it is. It is true that everyone accepts that it would be a lot of work to switch to a dozenal system. However it is absolutely true that a dozenal system would be much more convenient.
Using reliablehostingservices.net - a small operation out of Virgnia. What's somewhat funny to me is that they've got an SSL cert that's out of date (but I still use them). No complaints so far (6 months). I was with theplanet.com for many years before that, but getting a server with more RAM was/is just too expensive at many places.

I found RHS via webhostingtalk forums - there's loads of great offers from smaller shops there.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=36&sort...

Just off the main page I found wooservers in Scranton offering some decent deals: http://wooservers.com/special-deals/

There's lots of places to look for better price/performance than the big players. I've no doubt that rackspace and others provide more handholdingand 'support' but I've found there's generally very little support I've used from data centers over the past 11 years of doing dedicated server management.
When I want to hear your opinion, I'll tell you what it is :) Holy crap, I'm reading your "Beginning Ruby" book right now. How random is that?
15 Awesome Baby Gadgets That Make Parenting Easy.
Diggy: open source JavaScript game engine (with example game)
Bill Gates dad is the co-founder of one of the largest law firms in Seattle, and his mom knew IBM's CEO. Being well connected is not a skill*. If somebody with fewer connections tried to pull off what he did it'd probably bite'm in the ass.

Edit: Skill you can learn, my bad.
I'd never heard Martin talk.

Honestly, I found him to be an amazing speaker.

I did not find any "fluff", just a wide viewpoint.
One thing that stands out to me about these sorts of tell-all threads is that they're often made by guys for whom Google is their first job out of school. They tend to hyperventilate.

Google sounds like a nice place to work, but maybe not significantly better than other good tech companies. In particular, the claims of "OMG everyone is brilliant and insanely happy" ring a little hollow, when so many of the original people have left the company for better opportunities.
Wow! What a crazy neat tool. Thanks!
A bullet list of reactions/avenues-for-consideration is often Cowen's style. I appreciate the conciseness.

Grove has given this subject more words, not more analysis and thought. And Grove's words are the same as from economic debates of decades ago. That's the real reason that Cowen is parsimonious with his response. Cowen concludes with:

Grove is writing from a time warp in which these debates never happened or never were settled or never something -- I don't know what.
The fact that there are extensions to those languages to add static typing still doesn't establish much of a correlation between "knows this language" and "groks static typing." There are lots of very proficient Schemers who have never used Typed Racket.
"Our idea can be stolen / integrated easily with the current big business networking web sites."

If that's really true, you probably don't have an idea at the first place.
I have a tiny bit of domain knowledge that I'd like to impart:

1) To be fair, real scores are hard to find. Most of the published stuff is simplified, has parts removed, or is otherwise substantively altered from what is actually performed by professionals (code for this: "Vocal selections from..." "Adapted from..." etc.) I can't speak to this particularly to JRB, who may very well publish real scores, but there is a perception in the industry that in general the good stuff is unavailable.

2) There is no iTunes for sheet music. If you click through his links, get ready to install ActiveX DRMey plugins to preview the music. On mac? Too bad. So there's no way to confirm, i.e., that this is the "real stuff" as opposed to simplified sheet music.

3) If you study the industry in any detail, you'll discover that it's set up like a "Good ol' Boys" system. You can't get a part until you join the union, but you can't join the union until you get a part. New actors are placed on secret lists that are passed around to other directors either to promote or defame them. This may be totally valid and even necessary for Broadway to function--but it does breed resentment among those trying to "break in" to the system.

These three factors spell the perfect storm for piracy. There are multiple roadblocks to acquiring the music legally, and there's a huge resentment factor on the part of the consumers.
> the creator of CP/M refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement

IIRC, it was not what actually happened. It was Kildall's wife - the then attorney for DR - that only initially refused to sign the NDA. The deal fell through because DR refused the IBM proposed terms (a fixed sum for rights to bundle CP/M-86 with every PC sold) and insisted on a royalty-based deal.
Precisely, there has been a habit amongst commentators during period's of recession to trot out the need for protectionism. During the 1980s Japan was the biggest threat, leading to all sorts of political pronouncements and movements, and now it's China.
How do I get the code?

All I was able to find on that site was a place to sign up.

No git repo? No tarball?
The code is available here:

http://github.com/rhomobile/rhodes
I've been using Prgmr's $36 package for quite a while now and it's worked out great. It's half the price of Linode, but you have to know what you're doing.

http://prgmr.com/xen/
Based on our current understanding of physics, latency would make two-way communication impractical. Even if you were willing to wait around a few thousand generations for the metaphorical ACK, you're not likely still interested in the response to your request. As far as I can tell, the only form of communication that would be relevant would be one-way broadcasts. Because of this, I would envision some kind of intergalactic CDN, continually updating caches in distant galaxies with the historical events of their senders. This information could then be queried by hosts within the neighborhood of these caches.

That said, I wouldn't want to be the one to aim that link... or stand anywhere near a transmitter powerful enough to be detected at intergalactic ranges. You'd probably need some kind of system that obscured the light of a very bright star in order for that to work.
I think Vernor Vinge tried to imagine something like that in, uh, A Fire Upon the Deep, if I am not mistaken. It was a side theme, I do not think he developed it much.
The movement delay seems significant. Arching your hand like that with no support of the mouse to rest on seems wrong too. I just don't know what the advantage having mouse like movement without a mouse gives.
If your reading material Lisp doesn't have some form of defstruct then it certainly is dated, or they are avoiding it on purpose. Every non-toy Lisp has it.
Change directions,you need momentum, and you have skills, just rebrand yourself, salvage what you can of your software & business. Make a new base product with what you currently have as 'features', and do a better job marketing from the start this time. Don't give up!
I can learn more about a person by the top 10 blogs he reads
If you want to know who a person really is like don't look to his resume or personal references which can and often are larded with flattery and puffery, but ask him what are the top 10 blogs he follows. Of course, you probably need to ask him extemporaneously so he doesn't revise his list to conform with your expectations of him.
Something isn't "just as good" if it can run down a full battery in one hour simply by using a built-in feature, aka, WiFi sharing.
jacquesm,

I'm actually really curious about your life experiences. I remember arguing with you last time similar to this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1373349).

You seem to be always against advising people to make bold choices to pursue their dreams.

I grew up in a poor family in the Philippines. I have lived with the poor and I have seen many people rose from poverty because they chose to. My mom who never finished grade school is the best example for that. I have also seen so many people who just never made an effort to rise out of poverty.

I just can't imagine a world full of people with the same views as yours. People who keep telling others that they don't have a choice - "be content to where you are now because that's as far as you can get" or "it may have worked for others but it doesn't mean it's going to work for you".
Thomas Jefferson originally called American citizens 'subjects'
So `ubuntish`
I am mainly interested in providers with EU presence because of the latency which is a reason I've never tried prgmr.com. Are you able to install Slackware there?

Would be nice to have a directory of Slackware friendly providers...
Mine was about 28 hours. It was great fun, I made lots of progress with lucid dreaming when I was giving my body whatever sleep schedule it dictated, and I got to know all the great all night diners. But setting appointments was troublesome; involving projections of when the precession would next overlapping a waking period with normal business hours.
`brew install sl` if you want it on OS X.
How I got 1 Million pageviews in 7 months
Being well connected is most definitely a skill. It helps when you can bootstrap your connection circle from your parents, of course, but that does not mean he could not have created a network on his own that he could then use to create Microsoft. Plenty of people are not born well connected, and yet become incredibly well connected (Dale Carnegie and Keith Ferrazzi, have books you should check out)

edit: Not to mention that you completely missed the fact that connections alone won't do anything for you. You must see the opportunity that those connections present. I'm sure many people knew the CEO of IBM at the time, but how many of them tried to build an OS for him?
I think you are a bit overexcited about this topic and not thinking things through very clearly. Maybe the discussion can better be continued some other time, with less emotions.
I've been trying to crack #1 for several years now. I agree with you 100%--my primary domain is software development, and it's sort of overpopulated in terms of developers solving those problems.

You would think that through consulting and contracting, I would meet some people and get some additional domain insight. But most of my clients don't really know any more than I do about their target market (and they don't do very well... but at least I get paid).

I do have one or two real problems in the general domain of "computing professionals" that need solving. But the barrier is higher than just a software developer in a garage (or else someone would have already done it). Ideally I need a hardware hacker on the team. And, let's face it, that's pretty hard, and hardware costs $$. So I'm still looking for some non-computing domain that I could solve without custom hardware.
Good for him. If you get a chance thank him for his service for me.
New Web Design/Development Community Forrst Blows up Across the Web
Yes. I think there is also a confusion about what is an ethnic group (breed versus culture).
What if he's too busy actually doing stuff to follow ten blogs?
Agreed, that was something I'd expect to see from a Glen Beck-ish type pundit.

Another problem is that the econ profession is too informed by and reliant on theory. We know from past history that Grove's prescription (everything but the tarriffs part at least) works.

The jury is still out on the economic theories that have guided the nation's industrial policy for the past ~20 years.

They may have given us lots of cheap stuff faster than we would otherwise have gotten to these price points, but at the cost of a hollowed manufacturing sector and a massive cash outflow.

It is far from clear yet whether those tradeoffs were worth it, yet the Econ profession acts as if the question is settled. It isn't.
A long hike might work. But whatever he does, he needs to pick something that is achievable, and that he'll finish. I worry that traveling might not provide the structure he may need.
Regardless of the intent, it opens the door for abuse. It's like leaving a loaded gun in your baby's crib. Regardless of your good intentions, the potential for something to go bad is too great for it to be worthwhile.
The link has auto-playing music. I kid you not.

... and the app just exceeded its quota.
The article is confusing because it starts off talking about USB security issues, which are irrelevant.

The main advantage of not having a mouse is that you wouldn't have to have a mouse. One less thing to carry around with your laptop, one less thing to take up space on your desk.

That is, of course, assuming this could be made to work just as well as a mouse, which I doubt. Few things are as momentarily frustrating as a mouse that doesn't register your movements properly, which is why trackball mice sucked so much.
I find that getting up in the morning is useful for several reasons.

I get up with an alarm clock; therefore, my day begins with a sense of purpose. As a result of waking up so early, my first action is often to go exercise or drill basketball dribbling or whatever. Or it may be to read a book. Also, by getting up early, at the end of the day, I am exhausted, and fall asleep immediately. Unfortunately, I miss out on the social benefits of waking up late. I have yet to formulate an excellent resolution.
I was interested to see a link in the comments to ALCOR's costs:
http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/CostOfCryonicsTables.txt

The costs of long term storage don't seem unreasonable to me.
I'm glad to have chosen them as my cryonics provider.
I guess the question will remain meaningless until such evidence is uncovered

I doubt people who think the question is meaningless will be looking for answers. This is one reason such "evidence" may never be available.

Another reason (a stronger one, in my opinion) is that this question is purely a matter of belief and therefore outside of the realm of science. Which may be another explanation why some people refuse to consider the question.
That's what reserve prices are for. To claim that there's no reserve price and then place shill bids to reach a certain minimum is deceptive.
The OP specifically mentioned that he was looking at suicide sites. Joining the military is by no means a tactic for suicide, but his problem is that he's afraid of living and of making the wrong choices, not that he's afraid of dying. The military isn't for everyone, but can be a rewarding career for many more people than think it can.
I am not saying he has to frequent the blogs daily, but just to name the blogs he follows most actively.
In fact, when IBM agreed to sell CP/M-86 alongside PC-DOS with every PC, Digital Research was surprised to learn IBM fixed CP/M's price at six times PC-DOS's US$40 pricetag.

It's mentioned here:

http://www.archive.org/details/GaryKild
CouchDB has full ACID on a single document, so you can avoid these scenarios by writing everything that needs to happen in a transaction into a single document. Modeling your data like this means you are also more robust against partial replications (when using offline mode).

It is possible to do banking this way (CouchDB is probably better for banking than relational systems). Here's an example:

http://books.couchdb.org/relax/reference/recipes
Patents are largely useless if you're small. They're very expensive to get, and once you have them even more expensive to defend. Moreover, a defensible patent is so narrow in scope that it provides very little protection by itself. Someone makes a small change to your idea and bypasses the patent entirely.

If your idea is good and you execute well, you have little to fear from large competitors. The larger the company, the harder it is for them to innovate. They're protecting their revenue streams and have less appetite for risk.

They'll wait for your idea to be proven before they consider implementing it, letting you absorb the risk. When it comes time for them to implement, you may have a large enough market share that it doesn't matter what they do. Or you may have made enough progress that it's easier for them to acquire you than it is to build it themselves.

One thing that does concern me in your description is it sounds like your idea is simply a feature, not a viable business or even a useful product. The fact that you're concerned with your idea being easily tacked onto an existing social site leads me to believe that it's really just an improvement on things that are already out there.

Features don't really stand alone by themselves. You need a compelling product and a decent revenue plan to turn it into a business.
Tennis Becomes a Numbers Game
Ok, thanks. That helps. I started 'from the ground up', I figured that the best way to study a language is by looking at the way it was in the beginning since that's the most pure form of it. If 'lists' are as great as they are said to be you'd expect that things like structs and classes are optimizations, not essentials.
Or perhaps "can it be answered in a scientific way"?
The presentation is dynamic and flamboyant, but the content is unoriginal and uninspired.

Summary: Hardware's progressed O(10^25); software, no where near as much. Software's just been sequence, selection, and iteration in various guises. Moore's law is ending; clock-speeds, slowing; multi-core, coming. Functional programming will help.

Check it out if you're interested in a fun talk about programming and history of languages. The intended audience, despite being at a Rails Conference, seemed to be programmers who've not ventured far from the popular languages of the day. Anyone else will likely be disappointed, waiting for a new message that's never delivered.
School requires you to show up 9-5 monday - friday, take initiative (homework, projects, etc), and make an effort (debatable). These skills transfer well into working for any size of company. Self-educated people are great workers, but they might tend to be lone-wolves, rockstar, or wizard programmers who work well by themselves but can't hack it in a group of (college educated) programmers. Software engineering is all about communication, there are tons of nerds, but nerds who can communicate are a valuable commodity.
It's interesting to see how many people voted for non-religious and "miscellaneous" religions (for lack of a better word).

Perhaps people who grew up in a household loosely practicing a major religion are less likely to see their religion as part of their cultural heritage and therefor more likely to leave it?
Why do they keep comparing it to nuclear energy, though? I have 2 questions. First, how would this energy be liberated, and would that be more energy than it takes to run a diamond anvil cell? Second, isn't this similar to making a gun that shoots bullets faster than ever before, and calling that "second only to light-speed?"
1. Decades is not a long enough time period to know anything in Econ with certainty.

2. Even if it were, the global economy is a highly complex system, subject to change. What was right decades ago may not be today.

3. Economics has a pretty dismal recent record. Most of the theorists coughKrugmancough completely missed the buildup to the biggest economic event in recent history, the financial crisis.

Rather it was the historians like Rogoff & Reinhardt, crisis-experts like Roubini, and shrewd business people and money managers (who make their living putting their money where there mouth is) who foresaw it. Not the theorists.

There are a host of problems with the field of economics, from physics envy to sociology of science, that critics like Taleb and Wilmott have exposing. The field's understanding and credibility is highly suspect.

Grove knows what works, and has proven that his way actually does create jobs. And his point about scale enabling additional innovation beyond the original concept is exactly right. What has Cowen done but get good grades and write about it?
Pain is nothing, compared to what it feels like to quit
BUGS
It rarely shows contents of current directory.
The problem is that dummy bids by the vendor in an attempt to artificially drive up the price are against the rules of eBay's auction model. Buyers and sellers both agree to abide by certain rules, and one of those rules is that the seller only gets to make one "bid", the reserve, which is secret until it's reached and known when it's surpassed.

Now, you could equally well have a different auction model, whereby the seller gets to make as many bids as he likes. But this model would be much less attractive to buyers, since I know even if I'm the only buyer the seller is just going to keep increasing the price until he thinks he's got to the maximum I'm possibly going to spend. So as a buyer I'm much more inclined to buy on the single-reserve system than on the multiple-seller-bid system.

Dummy bids are a problem as old as auctions themselves, but it's good to see people being prosecuted when they're caught.
Archimedes used cannons, not mirrors to burn Roman ships
Click-and-drag might be a challenge.
ugly language meets pretty language

have a few drinks

nine months later, baby arrives and uploaded to GitHub! :)
Am I the only one who is questioning the quality of the conclusions in an article whose sole factual basis is a survey of college students from a single university and a couple of anecdotes from the CEO of a vitamin water business?
Is the story with Bluetooth keyboards/mice better or worse?
How to make a million dollars, and not pay any taxes! First,...make a million dollars. Then, Don't Pay Any Taxes! - Steve Martin
$ sl
The program 'sl' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install sl

I deeply appreciate that this is the case, even though it's drastically defeating the purpose of showing something when ls is misspelled.