skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telefon Telaviv is probably some of the best working music I have ever had. Also Sigür Ros is creating beautiful unobtrusive soundscapes.
If it's using HTTP and XML but uses query strings and GETs for DELETE, then it ain't ReST and few people would describe it as doing do.
Massive Attack
Portishead
Essentials of Game Theory (Kevin Leyton-Brown, Yoav Shoham) is a good introduction to the mathematics -- enough to scare me away from going any deeper and made me appreciate why people get Nobel prizes in this field.
The two projects I checked had "Copyright AppsAmuck.com 2008. All rights reserved." in every file ...
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"... So how do you define success? Is Arc successful if you open a web page and then 30 minutes later try to submit a form and get "unknown link" or something to that effect. ..."

I observed this in 2007FEB22 , you can see it here ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/398269769/ and the classic response ... "... wouldn't have been a timeout; we probably restarted the server ..."

Though I wouldn't call a broken piece of a webapp (hackernews) a failure of Arc.
Seems like it'd be easier to just drive a 600 terahertz motor, if such a motor can be made, and use that to drive a good old fashioned 60hz generator.

The silicon would be a much nicer solution though. Thank you for the details on the diodes, I forgot about that part. You're probably right on the diodes being the hold-up.
They just take messages and pass the details to me by email, SMS or in emergencies they call me.

They have a great system. My calls (around 5 a day) are usually answered by the same lady. She answers calls for around 30-40 other companies so she cant remember individual callers. She uses caller ID and software on her PC prompt her. So for regular callers she can say "hi Pete, how are you? How are the kids? Did you like your holiday? The reception is much better tis time....let me try to put you through to the support department....".

Fantastic!
>> "If you're putting your evented application on an 8-core box, you most certainly want to leverage a good number of those cores."

Unless you're CPU bound, there is absolutely no point.
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"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

- Orson Welles in The Third Man
MRI is very useful to look inside things you _can't_ cut open, like, say, the head of a living human being. If you think this is spectacular, you should try spending more time in the kitchen. You'll see color too!
many of the reserved words in js are taken from java.

abstract goto debugger enum native implements protected synchronized throws transient volatile

^^ All 'reserved' for future use.

const is used in the js 2.0 spec though.
It depends on my mood at the time, but i will always listen to
Beck, Tool, Color haze & Red hot chili peppers
Massive Attack discography is my current working music.
I listen to various stuff, but at least once a month I listen to Tubular Bells from Mike Oldfield...a pure classic!
Mistakes are essential for learning, growth, and becoming great.

Corollary: While great people don't make the easy mistakes any longer, they'll focus on making great mistakes because that's where they're learning at.
That's a humoristic but completely wrong view of Switzerland and the Swiss.
I just don't understand the gall of people who want to take what isn't theirs to take. There's plenty of copyright-free work/art they could make do with, but for some reason they're not content with that.
I use Digitally Imported:
http://di.fm/

I hop around different radios, but probably too much EuroDance for most people's tastes, but it gets me into the zone
Some time ago I got out of the habit of collecting music. These days I listen to one of three or four internet radio stations, depending on mood. (I have a shellscript `listen` which is basically mplayer and a case statement.)

My current favorites: loads of ETN.fm and evolved.fm, a good deal of bassdrive.com, with a bit of UnitedBreaks.fm for variety.
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Great stuff.

I would make the headlines stronger than the rest.

Also I would play around with sizes. You might be able to squeeze it down a little and get more headlines at any given time.
Wow that's exactly what I listen to. It's a good combination isn't it, electronica and classical?
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It's freaking me out, but my tastes have totally changed over the years. It used to be The Dead Kennedy's and 70's punk, but lately it's minimalist modern classical, like Robert Rich or David Darling...
With cherry-picking, you can prove anything.

Norway is the world's fifth largest oil exporter and third largest natural gas exporter, but has a population of 4.8 million. With petrochemical exports accounting for 20% of GDP on top of a western model economy, of course per-capita GDP is going to be high.

A more interesting comparison would be with the other leading first world countries that don't have gigantic petrochemical industries to skew the figures and don't share the same governmental system. UK would be one option (constitutional monarchy); France would be another (republic, but not based on the US model).

(Hint: both the UK and France beat the US into a cocked hat on healthcare; the UK is significantly ahead on unemployment, and France is way ahead on GINI.)
update: Now it works (4 hours later...)
Hello and thanks for your feedback. Let me reply:

1) Yes, the indexer has been lagging a bit behing :/ The search engine is just so slow, we'll replace it right away.

2) I guess a simple link wouldn't hurt, we'll look into placing it on the page.

3) That is true, we can have the extension automatically add historious as a search provider when you install it, which would solve both problems.

Thanks again!
You'd be surprised at what sort of crap they put in things idiots order on the internet.
Hello,
we're sorry about that issue; we're working to fix it ASAP. For more details, please see this blog post:

http://blog.historio.us/performance-problems-and-lessons-in-...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716219
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=167076
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769769
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668138
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209378
Thanks for your feedback!

The Chrome extension has some problems, sadly, but we can't reproduce the issue and they are not consistent at all (e.g. some users found that reinstalling the extension makes them go away). We have no idea why it's behaving that way, sadly :(

Email confirmation not really that necessary, and I agree that it's an unnecessary burden. We will look into removing the email verification (but an account is necessary as you need to be assigned an API key)...

We're adding historious as a search provider in the extension now!

We believe that we should make a fun product first and monetize it later (it's the wrong way around, I know, but we like it)!
Proggitquiz
It remembers me of another article, about producers and consumers: "The Single Most Important Career Question You Can Ask Yourself" http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/05/18/the-single-most-impo...

If you’ve been reading startup blogs for years and never started anything, it’s time to accept that your tendency is to be a consumer. It’s not to say you can’t break out of that classification by starting something, but if you haven’t done it thus far you’re not likely to do it soon without some external motivation (maybe this post?).

If you have 50 software product ideas and your hard drive is littered with folders containing 30 lines of code from each, you tend towards being a consumer (or at least a producer who has trouble finishing things).

And if you figure out that you are a producer, stop daydreaming about the day you’ll make things happen. Start making it happen in the next 30 days, or forever hold your peace.

Once again, is the ability to ship something the major distinction.
I prefer silence when my environment is not distracting but in a busy office AC/DC our similar music through headphone helps to concentrate.
FG dj radios - 4 radios. great house / deep house at any hour.
Thanks for the suggestions!

1) That is planned and will be added soon, it is a very good idea.

2) I have no idea why we don't do this already, we'll add it straight away!

3) We will, but right now we will be changing backends, so we will document the new one (probably Sphinx with EXTENDED2).

We don't reindex documents, as they are cached and never change (when you bookmark something, the bookmarklet sends the source to the server, which is how we can bypass registrations and paywalls). Plus, you need the document to be as you remember it.

We currently use Whoosh with Python, but it turns out to be excruciatingly slow. We will change to either Sphinx or Solr.

We don't know why the extension does that :( We can't reproduce it on any of our computers, but many users seem to have the problem :/
I'm often preferring silence these days, but when I do feel like tunes, I like stuff that's doesn't tear my attention away from what I'm doing.

The Aphex Twin:

Analogue Bubble Bath
Analogue Bubble Bath 2
Analogue Bubble Bath 3
Analogue Bubble Bath 3.1
Analogue Bubble Bath 4
Analogue Bubble Bath 5
Selected Ambient Works

Also, Trace Nico and Speedy J.
That's the most anti-social nonsense I've read for a long time.
Indeed. Can you list yours that I haven't listed already? One can never have enough.

Edit: also, yeah. I thought my combo was pretty rare.
Does anybody know whre to get Provigil (or modafinil, for that matter) anywhere online that ships to Europe?
Do you know Board Room Dancing?
Be careful with the last one. Overly formalized language is probably a lot worse than underly formalized language.
pretty much everything, hiphop, drum'n'bass, breakz, pop, rock... In the office i'm always listening to music while coding, makes it easier to filter out background noise.
Ask HN: I am trying to understand Holographic universe, can anyone help? 
I have read Wikipedia/blog, watched lecture video explaining what Holographic principle is and every time I think I have an idea what they are talking about; only to find out that I have absolutely no idea what the hell they are talking about.

For instance, what does this even mean?

"In a larger and more speculative sense, the theory suggests that the entire universe can be seen as a two-dimensional information structure "painted" on the cosmological horizon, such that the three dimensions we observe are only an effective description at macroscopic scales and at low energies."

My non-science friend told me that his understanding is that our universe is just an event horizon of a black hole. We are all just information, nothing more, nothing less.

Mind. Fucked.

Just a gentle reminder before anyone starts yapping:

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Didn't an Apple employee a while ago say the company's design process consists of making 10 prototypes while only 1 goes into production?
I like http://rainymood.com
Not music though, just the sound of rain.
All good and fine but I think, you are better off learning signals from some other resource as well. It's alright to get started but you would want to learn the modern way of doing signals with sigaction(POSIX). IIRC, even the corresponding chapter in this guide mentions this in passing.
- Underworld

- MGMT

- VAST

- Pink Floyd

- Ratatat

- Daft Punk

- Thievery Corporation

- Manu Chao

- Chopin

- Beethoven

- Mozart

just to name a few
filtermusic.net - has a radio station for every mood. I usually listen to hard rock, drum N bass and 80s music. Evenings are a good time for movie soundtracks. There's a station for that, too.
Of course, you are correct. But the problem with this article is that instead of digging into the science and actually criticizing it and finding mistakes, these people create an impression of the science being faulty by bringing up details that are not scientific.

The CRU thing is a case in point. If you look at all the fuss about the emails and look at the science, you'll find that the science doesn't appear to have changed, just the impression of the scientists.

So folk like this make a big noise about nothing of significance.
I'm not sure if those mistakes compare. When you fail at school's test it's because you didn't learn some facts or formulas, not because you took wrong steps in unpredictable markets and environments.

The companies do punish people who make the wrong decisions even though these people couldn't have known they would be wrong and just took a bold step. But in startups you also get penalized by losing your company and/or money.
I'm a big fan of Zoe Keating for coding music, and as a bonus she recently switched to bandcamp so there's quite a lot of it streaming: http://music.zoekeating.com/

Quite a lot of layers to concentrate on, but for some reason it also just works to get me in the zone.
> I think additional intelligence only makes moral dilemmas (Should I or should I not do X) harder to cope with. So the drug that makes you smarter also makes you less sure you should take it.

Er... no it doesn't? Once you get far enough to appreciate utilitarian consequentialism and the expected utility theorems a lot of things get a lot easier.
Am I the only one who doesn't like the "funny sounding" titles and subtitles in technical writing? I know it got fashionable decades ago in computer magazines but it's really annoying, at least for me, in any text that is not a really short article, since the titles in longer texts should be used for a reference and not "to make the popular article appear less boring."

How do you use fork? "Oh, just look under the title "I'm mentally prepared! Give me The Button!"" --- what the heck!?
With the internet and encryption, eventually only an all-encompassing police state will be able to prevent copying.
http://listen.grooveshark.com/
If you look at my submissions to HN you will notice that most of them are of the Ask HN type. At first I did this because I had nothing to submit. My main source of information still is HN.

I can identify with this general sentiment but I really suck at posting questions. This was true long before I found HN and will likely remain mostly true in spite of me actively working on this issue. So I think what a particular individual learns will depend in part on where they are coming from. I come from a non-coding background, I'm female and have spent lots of time in female-majority environments. For me, one of the big obvious lessons on HN is that men communicate and interact differently from women. In some ways, I find myself more comfortable with that and in other ways less comfortable.
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This sounds really cool, I have just signed up. That said, my NoScript firefox plugin gets in the way of the bookmarklet complaining about cross site scripting. I had a quick go at putting in a exception regex, but no dice. Anyway, I thought you might like to know that noscript could trip your users up.

I don't have time right to work out why it's not working, so hopefully I'll get to try out your service a bit later.

Good luck!
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I mix heavy metal and classical. Which usually raises eyebrows.
Very few new drugs have appeared in recent times as it is.
Yes, you are the only one. Get a textbook instead.
I also rarely make phone calls. I use my phone as a clock (including alarm clock) so much more than as a phone that I sometimes have a slip of the tongue and call it "my clock". :-D

Other features I use a lot: calculator and calendar. I'm not a texter (at least not yet).
I submitted a Ringo talk to JSConf.eu 2010, haven't heard anything back from these guys so far. If that fails, I may apply for next JSConf.us. We'll get the word out there eventually :)
How much mathematics and physics do you know? If you want to understand an advanced area of theoretical physics, a few paragraphs on a discussion site isn't really going to help. You need a substantial amount of background knowledge.

If I wanted to understand this topic, I would be re-learning statistical physics, quantum mechanics and cosmology, and probably a bunch of other courses. It would probably take a good year.
"I think I might give modafinil a go just to see what happens."

Has everyone on HN gone crazy for the day or something?
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I actually did that in Mario Party. I tore a bit of my skin and it was red and raw for weeks.
For me, one of the big obvious lessons on HN is that men communicate and interact differently from women.

Can you elaborate on this? I'd love to learn what you notice from your perspective.
>folk like this make a big noise about nothing of significance.

It is not "nothing of significance" that CRU could not reproduce their own results because they destroyed their intermediate data and failed to document how they produced it. His criticism on this point is spot-on. What happened with CRU is a travesty, even though, as you say, the underlying science did not change. The people who should be the most vocal about the CRU mess are those scientists who have concluded that AGW is real. But instead, the response is, over and over, "This is no big deal. Move along." In so doing they have only increased the suspicion of the skeptics, and added fuel to the fire of the deniers.

And so what you say of "these people" actually applies to those he criticizes. Scientists do science. When they do politics and public relations instead of science, they do it badly. When critics arise, what they should do in answer the critics with science. But when they answer with dogma and PR spin, they, to use your words, "create an impression of the science being faulty by bringing up details that are not scientific."

The science isn't popular? Sorry, but that's too bad. It's not the job of scientists to popularize and defend their data and conclusions with anything but more science. Stick to the science. The truth will out.
My thoughts too: they're not showing me much I don't already know from having cut up the various fruits in question. I'd rather see stuff I can't open up easily.
I have two ASD kids and a serious medical condition. I took a lot of medication for a few years and ultimately concluded that the drug side effects were more impairing than my illness. I've worked extremely hard to get off the drugs. I resisted suggestions to put my oldest on Ritalin (by a teacher, who apparently just didn't want to deal with my highly energetic, inquisitive kid and wasn't qualified to diagnose anything).

Stuff I have seen suggests that nutritional supplements generally work better and without the drug side effects. Having gotten off of a bunch of medication, I have found that my need for nutritional supplements has gone down. It is well documented that some drugs cause deficiencies of specific nutrients. I sort of suspect that part of the way these drugs get the initial positive impact is by squeezing the body for use of these nutrients, thereby giving a short-term boost but, in the long term, using them up and resulting in worse problems. If that suspicion is at all accurate, finding the right nutritional supplements should be generally more effective -- and, in fact, for me and my sons, that has proven to be true. (Deeper still is finding the roots of such issues and addressing those, but probably not really within the scope of this discussion. :-))
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This exactly what Seymore Papert talks about in Mindstorms. he uses debugging as a method to teach children to not fear making mistakes. In fact mistakes are the norm. Written in the eighties. That's how education should be done.
Justice, Digitalism, and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble isn't strictly electronica but their music is really cool (no words too). http://vimeo.com/1418890

I have a Ratatat station and Justice station on Pandora which I've tuned individually over the past year.
I took a look at a few of the apps, and many of them contain plenty of clunky programming leading to severe performance inefficiencies (read: battery life inefficiencies) that could lead to very bad habits being picked up by a fledgling, but I still consider this resource a pretty good starting point. Don't forget to update the Base SDK setting before playing around with the projects, as the sources are a bit out-of-date and won't properly compile against newer SDKs.
> But as the US proved in world war 2, a mature and functioning republic has a much greater capacity for production because it utilizes the skills of more of it's citizens.

I think in modern times -- say after 1850 or so -- there's a strong element of truth in this and the republican/democratic tradition works better than the monarchial/autocratic one.

Having said that, here are some counterexamples in WW2:

- Hitler was more effective at quickly re-arming Germany and conquering its enemies in 1933-1940 than a republican leader would have been.

- Stalin was more effective at getting his country to produce good quality weapons in the right quantities than any other leader in WW2 was.

- Were Britain and America any better than France at coping with the initial Axis onslaught? The French army is often written off because it was quickly beaten by Germany in 1940, but at the time it was at least as good qualitatively, and vastly bigger, than the British ansd American armies. It's at least arguable that Britain and America only won that war because they had good natural defences -- the English channel for Britain, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for the USA.
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Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about project management?
I've just started a new job, which involves a lot of project management. This is something new to me, but I understand enough to know there's a lot more to managing a project than software (and to know this doesn't really come naturally to me).

Where can I learn about the true art and science of good project management? I'm looking for both practical tips, and also details about learning the processes used by major public and private institutions.
That is why I had a strike through for formal in the last sentence. I realized what I actually meant was an effective way. There is a difference between effective and formal. Sometimes meaning is lost in too much of jargon and too perfect a grammar.
Mistakes are part of life. Failing because you didn't learn a fact only shows that you didn't learn that fact. It shows nothing else. But children grow up and become managers thinking that mistakes is something to be avoided when in fact mistakes are something to be expected and accepted.

This fear of mistakes is exactly the reason some people actually believe in projections. Sad but true.
I switch between alternative and new metal, electronic (house / trance), and hip-hop / rnb. Pandora.com is awesome.
seconded for Airsealed. I ordered from them a year ago and the service was great and I could not detect any difference between their generic (Modalert) and Provigil.

As others have mentioned your mileage may vary. I used it for about 6 months during crunch development periods or when I felt I needed a bit more focus and it definitely helped me get through those times. I stopped using it because I felt out of touch with my team members when I was on it and I had started to experience a deeply unpleasant metallic taste in my mouth just after taking it.