skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, there's some good technical knowledge here, and also some FUD.

I dug into the subject of polyphasic sleep and read a couple very personal accounts of people who made it work for them for extended periods (several months or more). I never tried it myself, but I don't believe they were any less "creative" or functional during this time, or that they were doing long-term damage. So until better evidence comes along, I believe that maintaining schedules like Uberman is possible for the right person in the right place and time, and not trivially a bad idea. For all I know there are good reasons for most people not to bother with it -- like some gene you need to have to succeed -- but we don't know yet.

As drx points out, the author strays into arguments like "abnormal means unhealthy". Another bizarre argument is "it's not optimal because you're less creative etc". Putting aside my own anecdotal evidence that sleep dep makes you more "creative", look -- if Uberman is actually sustainable and gives you X more waking hours per day, I'll decide for myself if that's outweighed by hypothetical cognitive deficits! Arguments like "lots of people have tried and failed" are also sloppy.
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I think Windows Server has a large market share in medium size businesses. Note: they didn't specify "web" server. They didn't specify much. Who knows, maybe they count google as one server?
Also, I sometimes think the experiences of us here may be out of touch with what most ordinary businesses do.

EDIT funfacts: Here's their source for "linux servers, 21.2%" http://blogs.computerworld.com/15675/idc_windows_dominates_l...
which quotes: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/behind-the-idc-data-wind... which in turn quotes: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/server-sales-show-signs-of-lif... which quotes this IDC press release: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?sessionId=&containerId=prU...
and here's IDC's description of their information product: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=IDC_P348

I couldn't see linux units mentioned there, nor their methodology, or definition of "server".

EDIT2 The bottom of the press release: includes quarterly shipments (both ISS and upgrades) and revenues (both customer and factory), segmented by vendor, family, model, region, operating system, price band, CPU type, and architecture. Doesn't really help, but there's also a phone number and email address.
I think we should be careful not to get too defensive over this issue. I don't think most women are bullied out of their role, but neither do I think there are gender differences that account for the full disparity between women and men in IT. If there is a way we can make the IT field more inclusive, that is a good thing.
That Fail Whale Ain’t Cute Anymore
I'll also go with parts of Colorado and northern New Mexico, as far as being rural and beautiful, but not conservative. Boulder has the advantage of being close to Denver.
Well your combined 49 servers must be a solid representation of the entire market.

Also, "server" can mean a lot of things, more than just "box that serves up websites". Fortune 500s often have a giant slew of them just serving email to employees.
There is now no point whatsoever buying music. These people should not be supported.

I propose a reverse boycott: pirate the hell out of the artists you like, and donate directly to them what you think they deserve. Directly, as in skipping all the middlemen eager to take a cut of their pay and your freedom.
Yeah, I have been around enough to realize that smarts and virtue aren't in any way linked.

Also the correlation between smarts and being a developer isn't as strong as I would hope.
When used in an expression, I read p as "what's pointed by p". In a declaration, this applies as well:

int *i;

means "what's pointed by i is an int".
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Yes, clearly the female kindergarten teachers are discriminating against them!

Thanks for bringing this up. I've seen so many articles and discussions complaining about the lack/decrease/discrimination of females in stereotypically male fields/roles. And yet when the shoe is on the other foot, it's never treated like it's some conspiracy or sexism. It's treated like, "Oh, well that's just an obvious gender difference thing. Duh!"
Sure the whole world can be a net saver. In fact it is, which is one of the reasons the whole world is getting wealthier.

The counterpart of debt is credit, not savings. Having savings is necessary to be a creditor, but it doesn't imply being a creditor.
If anybody has tried the 1-888-FACETIME line to test out facetime, it seems that the apple reps are using a webcam instead ... they talk as per the script about switching to the iphone etc. but for some reason, it seemed like they were not using iPhones (image quality, orientation, etc.) ... Apple probably coded some internal tool to mimic facetime .. i tried this call twice and i got the same impression both times
It is amazing to me the number of people who would take the time to make ASCII graphics in their replies.

I'm blessed that even munging 15+ Linux c/c++ libraries lately I haven't run into anything requiring this - though my Intro to C class, at Merit College twenty five years ago did teach to this rule.

Hats off to you anyway...
MSFT never gets enough credit for what they've done with the Xbox. They've got the #1 machine (by games sold, the metric that counts) in their second at-bat in an industry that has historically dashed consumer electronics companies to bits. They somehow charge 23 million users for the same thing Nintendo and Sony give away for free. They've been at the forefront as far as connectivity and media consumption since the original Xbox. Despite the fact that everyone I know is already on their third or fourth unit due to Red Rings of Death, they all love it.
The second approach, that's what I like...
The author wrote two other articles about what debaters should know about respectively Law and Economics, which will provide you some basic models to help you in your argumentation and your critical thinking about these subjects as a layman. They are on linked on his homepage http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/dgwdebate.html

Could somebody suggest similar articles about other topics? For example statistics.
The problem with Techcrunch's implicit interpretation of the Microsoft stats is that they mostly are trailing indicators of a business model. Let's take Office as an example. Does anyone seriously think that it will still enjoy network effects five years from now? It was an exciting (at least financially) business model 15 years ago when Microsoft could basically tax the electronic exchange of business information. Now, Office documents can be at least read, if not written, without paying the tax. Word is hurt by the cultural shift away from using it as a means of generating pretty pieces of paper. Better collaboration tools are slowly eroding the Excel as database-synchronized-by-email model that dominates its use (as a percentage of documents). A large user base is nice, but it doesn't justify a high P/E ratio unless it can be leveraged in the future.

Look at the "smartphone" numbers. The implicit message was that Apple doesn't really have all that much marketshare. Whatever. But, what's Microsoft have? Close to nothing, and there's little evidence that it's going to catch up. No one in his right mind can claim that the "phone" won't replace many (more) current desktop/laptop use cases in the coming years. What slice of that goes to Microsoft?

I don't know much about the CRM space, so I can't comment on the Salesforce.com vs. MSFT thing. But, what's notable is that Microsoft doesn't really enjoy network effects in that space. It must compete like other enterprise software companies -- again, not a model to justify a high P/E. The netbook numbers can be counted as a "save" against consumer-facing Linux distros, but I understand Microsoft to be practically giving away Windows 7 "starter" edition to keep share. Hardly a great model. Furthermore, the OS is little more than a platform for a web browser. Microsoft is doing all the dirty work and making little in return.

What if IBM blogged about its huge mainframe market share in the Fortune 500? Should we be excited about the future prospects of z/OS? How many mainframe customers would gladly get rid of their mainframes if switching costs were lower? 80+%? Look at the number of skilled COBOL programmers out there. Surely such a large development community will continue to propel the platform forward?

What's causing Microsoft's stock to stagnate is that the company has failed to maintain the network effects that fueled its growth and pricing power. They're becoming yet another company competing for consumer nickels and corporate dollars. While that's well and good, it's not the stuff of hocky stick growth curves.

And, Bing? I started using it because of 15% Bing Cash Back deals. Forget doing an actual search or clicking an ad.
Then the tldr is right. Not sure why the down votes though.
I honestly didn't think anyone used FBChat. You are literally the first person I've ever seen anywhere mention using it. Windows Live Messenger has a pretty good stranglehold in the business world, which is a pretty large segment of IM usage.
http://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users@sqlite.org/msg52153...

This is a beta feature. It sounds great though! :)
Ask HN: Anybody having/had trouble using facetime?
I had some issues with FaceTime when I first tried using it. I kept getting the "Connecting" message upon accepting a call. It seems that some routers might be blocking certain ports used by FaceTime by default ...

If you are having issues with FaceTime, open these ports on your router:

TCP:
5380
443
4080
5223

UDP:
16393 - 16472

Another solution (slightly risky) is assigning a static IP address to your iPhone 4 and adding it to the DMZ ..

Hope this helps
Effective C++ for Web development
Hi, we all know there are lot of books that teach C++. However, I can say by experience that the best "c++ second book" is Effective C++. I say that because it teaches the "Why you should do this" instead of "How".

Now, I'm switching from what I'm used to (Desktop application) to Web development and I'm searching a great book that teach the "good web practice" and the "why".

For instance, I know how what ajax is, and how it works. I know html, javascript and some libraries (jquery, etc.) However, often I need to resolve a certain problem and I don't know what is the "best way" to resolve it. I feel what I'm doing in web is always hack on hack.

For example, if I send an ajax post request to get some info, I want to know if there is an error. So, my first try at this was to get a string and check if the first 3 characters were "suc" or "err". Now, I know a few better way, but it was only an example.
I am a "freelancer" with only one client and with an income that doesn't actually make me a living. I still live with my parents. It's only a month since the end of high school though.

I aspire to become an entrepreneur and an independent person and is trying to work toward that goal.

I do, however, predict an early death if I am forced to work with a rigid schedule, especially if I have to drive a car to work everyday.
I never put the asterisk next to the type, because I wanted to train myself the way the grammar actually works rather than the way almost everyone wished it worked.
I'd also like to throw in music in there. A friend of mine did some research [sorry don't remember the article link] on negotiation and music influence before the negotiation. If I remember correctly, classical music made the negotiator soft. So, next time you want to be a tough negotiator, don't listen to classical music before and give a comfy chair to your opponent at a soft musicky place :-)
The article is not referring to subconscious drives as knowledge. It refers to cultural assumptions that few people question as "unknown knowns". Many of these assumptions are the kind of things that PG refers to in "what you can't say".
I don't see how this is relevant to this crowd.

For a choice between between monogamy and polygamy to be relevant, the subject must have the capability to secure multiple partners. How many subjects reading hackernews could possibly have this ability?

edit: wow, I must have hit a nerve. This was purely tongue-in-cheek.
Monogamy is safer (on many levels) and not as complex as poly-relationships.
This is not what I was talking about. This is retrieving information on wiki, I talking about reading just for the sake of its aesthetic value
So true, MSFT actually got online gaming right for the console and Kinect seems very cool even for the basic media manipulation - beat that, Apple Tv.
You're right about question 2, my apologies. There indeed was a bug in the test data for that question (which we have fixed now). However, the rest of the questions given in the test work properly.

The reason different test takers get (somewhat) different question sets is because our algorithm alters the difficulty of the questions based on the test taker's performance. I.e. if you did the first few questions well, you'd start getting progressively tougher questions. On the other hand, if you do badly, you'll be given successively easier questions.
For another anecdote, when I did polyphasic sleep for about 2 weeks, I felt consistently at 80-90% of my creative peak. On a normal schedule, I'll vary from 40-100% throughout the day. So I don't know if I could have done my best work, but I could have done more good work.

Unfortunately kids, wife, and job didn't cooperate with staying on polyphasic sleep.
you cannot know a falsehood (you can only believe in it)

Let's just say that N philosophers have at least N+1 definitions of what "knowing" means, not all of which are consistent with your position, and leave it at that.
Nice try [to tease].
You forgot about another side of the story: you may have only one partner and still be involved into polygamous relationship (because of your partner).
I'm in a very similar situation. Moved from Silicon Valley to Beijing and haven't looked back. I can only reaffirm what olalonde says - and if you're worried about the GFW, a VPN is a simple workaround.

I'd also point out that China's not just great for techies who want to start a business. If you're interested in a non-wired business, there is a low minimum wage and lots of capital seeking investment here. Plus, earning in RMB means you'll get richer over time vis-a-vis your American counterparts simply due to the yuan's appreciation.
We have an unmodified AT&T uverse wireless router, and had no problems getting through to the FaceTime demo guys this morning.

Setting your iPhone to a static ip address and putting it in the dmz is an utterly crazy suggestion. Are you asking for people to get hacked?
This is great! I like the fact that the users are not charged for ad creation and their revenue is coming out of the media buy advertisement.

But is the banner free only if the pushes through your network? What if a marketeer has a direct relationship with many ad serving tools, such as DoubleClick?

It would be nice to see the update directly in the ad as you are filling out the campaign info (header, images, etc.) instead of needing to click on the "Update" button below the ad image.

I could not figure out how to create the 728x90 banner. It would be nice to be able to create multiple ad sizes from the same campaign. Do you plan on having this feature be available soon?

Can I use the existing images in my banner?
Who said we can even secure the one? Or that we can secure the ones kinky enough to dig polyamory?

You got me though :)
There are plenty of rich people on HN. You can predict the rest of my argument.
The post wasn't about Windows servers.

Sure, maybe MS won't ever win in servers or smart phones.

Will the PC just die and give way to these?

Not likely, not while most WORK is done with client PCs. How many mid-level bureaucrats are going to be banging away on their IPADS?? five years from now? How much is the client side worth? Lots. WORK? Companies? Sure, big areas that isn't MS has opened up. But the PC is going to be an ocean for a long time and MS, if anything, is cementing it's control of that. I'm no MS booster - I'd like to see a real Linux desktop but I can see MS is better positioned on the desktop than three years ago.
Is this a dupe? I read this before, probably on HN.

Anyway, it deserves to be re-submitted in any case.
University Economics by Armen Alchian is quite a good introductory textbook to the basics of mainstream economics. It has a strong emphasis on understanding economic concepts intuitively which I like.

If you're looking for a more mathematical introduction, McAfee's open source book is a pretty good introduction to microeconomics and is available for free at http://www.introecon.com/
If you are concerned about learning about how we got into all this mess and have 10 minutes to spare - this would be a great primer http://www.crisisofcredit.com/
Why not just do it all in firebug and then copy the final result over?
Not even a .gov site for this? I mean, why should I trust this site?
"How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't" by Irwin Schiff.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8009736/Irwin-Schiff-How-an-Econom...
What is your immigration status? How difficult was the process? How long did it take?
guessed pregnancy/parenting was a possible factor too.

What I love about any statistics-based argument or complaint regarding gender differences is that they always seem to start from a mindset that there are NO differences, physically, between males and females. Then they see a difference somewhere in their statistical data set (a 17% versus a 31%, or a 57% versus an 80%) and suddenly the hunt is on to try to find some way we can blame the difference on sexism or a conspiracy of some kind. It's like, "Hello, did you get the memo? Can we say: Breasts! Babies! Different body parts in the nether regions! Brain structure differences! Skeletal! Different hormone mix! Metabolism diffs! Maturity rate diffs! Aging diffs! Hello!"
Easy one. Monogamy: the cooking and housework are taken care of! Haha.

Kidding. I'm the cooking obsessed clean freak in the relationship.
I'm not sure the word 'polyfidelity' works. Maybe it does in a dictionary sense, but as I understand it 'fidelity' or 'fealty' carries a heavy connotation of loyalty to only one individual, rather than simply loyalty.
Luckily, there's an easy solution for all these anti-iPhone articles from gizmodo:

127.0.0.1 gizmodo.com # screw you gizmodo
Of course you should keep in mind, that the objective of (most) negotiations should be to find a solution that's equitable to all parties. And the other guy should still be happy with his position after he slept a night on it.
What's your point? Did you read the article?

To refresh your memory, the article point is that MS is going to be making bank with PCs for a while. End of story (literally - used correctly for once). MS will be selling a gazillion copies of office five years from now.

IBM is still cleaning up with mainframes BTW.

As to whether you should get excited, well I'm not your emotion manager.
I don't think you can draw any significant conclusions about each country's financial conservativeness based on this data alone.

For instance, note that the BRIC's household debt is very low compared to the developed countries. It might just be the case that the real interest rates in wealthy countries are lower, so it's not necessarily a bad idea to have debt there.
Although he's probably right that Rumsfeld should've mentioned it, because there's something like unknown knowns for groups with a coordination problem (like the 17-branched US intelligence community), where some people know something but that knowledge doesn't propagate to the rest of the group.
If there is a way we can make the IT field more inclusive, that is a good thing.

I agree. I'm no fan of discrimination, because we all have characteristics that could be discriminated against by our colleagues and most of us know that being hated on sucks.

That said, I have two issues: 1) that IT is a radical edge case of men-vs-women, when, really, the majority of industries have this issue, and 2) the male armchair feminists going OTT with the dehumanizing "men must never say or do anything a woman could find vaguely uncomfortable" attitude.
I wonder how Clojure deals with ambiguities when dispatching by arbitrary predicates. Also in this case, the overhead of of generic call will grow linearly with the number of methods, right?

In Python, you could limit generic dispatch to argument type only without losing generality since you could override the `isinstance` operator. For instance, you could define a `const()` type so that `isinstance(x, const(100))` is true if and only if `x == 100`. Then your example could be written in Python as:

foo = generic()

foo.when(const(0))
def foo_0(x): print "passed in zero"
foo.when(const(100))
def foo_100(x): print "passed in 100"
foo.when(const(200))
def foo_200(x): print "passed in 200"
foo.when(int)
def foo_default(x): print "passed in", x

This is not as elegant as in a language with native support for generic functions, but it works. I wish mainstream languages started to adopt multi-methods; it's conceptually very simple and much more extension-friendly than traditional OOP. Sadly it doesn't seem to happen.
Thanks, skimmed too quickly. But after reading it, I see that all their statistics comes from another paper: "The Athena Factor: Reversing the Brain Drain in Science, Engineering, and Technology"
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, et al, which Harvard Business Review will sell you for $300:

http://app.post.hbsp.harvard.edu/athena/athena13/landingpage...

There's a summary here:

http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v9/n10/full/embor2008178...

This might be a more accurate summary: "Although SET companies are struggling with a shortfall of skilled workers and can ill afford such a brain drain, roughly 52% of women between the ages of 35 and 40 leave their jobs largely because of 'hostile work environments and extreme job pressures', according to the study." Regardless of whether they go on to another company, it's alarming that there are that many hostile work environments out there.
I'm Russian and have immigrated to Canada along with the parents 8 years ago. Woudl love to hear how viable Moscow is as far as tech entrepreneurs go.
Wealth of Nations is a great read, if only to appreciate how much of modern economics Adam Smith either foreshadowed or invented and how misrepresented his ideas typically are. There's a certain amount of slogging but it's well worth the time.
not books, but would anyone here recommend that he try the lecture videos at KhanAcademy.org? Or entries in Wikipedia?
If you are going to move somewhere cheap, while you are working on your software all by yourself, consider safe and stable countries in Latin America, like Costa Rica.
These numbers would've bothered me ten years ago, but they don't any more.

Because no matter how many units Microsoft continues to sell, they no longer set the agenda, and that's the important shift. 10 years ago, the entire industry had to dance around MS on tiptoe. That's over.

There is no longer a single app platform that one company controls that dominates the industry. Microsoft is continuing to milk their golden cow by copying all the best features from everyone else's products and using their sales muscle to push their products in large volumes, good for them.

But they no longer dictate the technical specifications and business models of the platforms I write for, and as long as that's true they can sell a billion smart phones for all I care.
I love that book.

Another good, "popular" Austrian-school book is What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray Rothbard. The Theory of Money and Credit by Mises is on same subject but it's more comprehensive, the tone is more academic and is considerably harder. Both are available online.

http://mises.org/money.asp
http://mises.org/books/Theory_Money_Credit/Contents.aspx