skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted this to be a good article ... then I clicked and realized it was a TC guest post.

I know TC people read HN, so in all seriousness: how do you choose guest posters?

I like reading TC from time to time but every guest post reads like a 2-page magazine advertorial on why I should do business in Nashville—sponsored by the Nashville chamber of commerce ... It's 1 part information and 9 parts "look at me and my industry, we're awesome"
Or provigil. But I don't suggest either as longterm solutions unless you get psychiatric confirmation that medication is necessary.
All UK carriers will - they're obliged to.

Not sure how a SIM-locked iPhone is any different to any other phone that's SIM-locked - any pretty much any phone that's subsidised will be locked.
Marijuthingy? But this is why God invented Adderall!
"God, Make Me So Uncomfortable That I Will Do The Very Thing I Fear."
Ask HN: 'Virtual' team workflow?
I have recently been charged with building a virtual product team - on a scale which I've never been accustomed.

Curious what HNer's think are the best collab tools and methods for managing a pretty hefty design & dev team w/ multiple products. Currently I'm using Google Wave (yup), Google Sites, Pivotal Tracker, Harvest, Beanstalk, Skype, Dropbox... But so many different tools will be daunting at 15-20+ people. Thoughts?

Oh and how do I keep my sanity? Delegate to project managers?
Chuck Close's Advice to Artists During a Crisis
It is essential to understand GI not as the contents of an ingredient, but how your blood sugar reacts to you ingesting it. If it is pre-chewed, your body will have an easier time consuming it, and your blood sugar levels will change in a different way then if it is not pre-chewed.
We also have the problems with having a huge illegal immigrant population and the associated costs with it. (education, health care, public assistance) When you add it all up, California is in pretty bad shape.
For me he ruined it when he tried to use Jon Postel to further his agenda. It's a not very veiled attempt at using Jon Postel and his reputation to 'trump' the reputation of Steve Jobs, which you might be able to apply if Apple decided to come up with a non-standard version of HTML tomorrow morning but has no place in the 'should the ipad/iphone/somegadget built in browser' support flash, yes or no.

And I actually think it should (simply because that would be a convenience, if flash is to be replaced it can happen without resorting to user inconvenience as a means of applying pressure).
I dont have time to go into every point they mention on your behalf, but it is easy to get a little perspective:

http://www.educationworld.net/salaries_us.html

"Average teacher salaries. California had the nation's highest average salary in 2002-03, at $55,693. States joining California in the top tier were Michigan, at $54,020; Connecticut, at $53,962; New Jersey, at $53,872; and the District of Columbia, at $53,194."

55000/year average for the people teaching children doesn't seem the slightest bit unreasonable to me given the amount of work they are required to do.

The statement 'highest salaries in the country' makes things sound awful, into you take into account that many teachers in many places are (IMO) woefully under paid.

The same applies in most of the other industries.

Do some research and try to get some perspective on the problem - there are some big problems in california but laying them all at the feet of the unions is just ridiculous and lacks a true sense of perspective.
Oolong Engine is an iPad / iPhone / iPod touch Engine
Sitting next to another person while I tried to write my rationality book increased my productivity by at least 400%.
Yes, that is one of the first articles i read along with....Hot be a Hacker - Eric Steven Raymond, Great Hackers and Undergraduation-Paul Graham. I agree with the long-term approach or 10 000hrs according to Outliers-Malcolm Gladwell. Also in Talent Is Overrated-Geoff Colvin, you get a good idea on how to become an expert/outstanding performer in any discipline. But....

In Entrepreneurship(Particularly web apps), i disagree that
you need to be an expert, i believe that you need to be able to get something built and manage whatever traction you get from there to make your business solid. Such as getting top talent to do thinks the right way. The key is just get something built first......in my opinion.
I don't know who would prefer good enough, but the realities of the market and life in general forces you into it.

Even companies which we associate with excellence end up shipping less than ideal products with crucial things MIA, e.g. copy+paste, multitasking.

But in the end those things didn't matter so much, did they.
> A skosh uncomfortable

Are you military or ex-military, by any chance? They're the only other people I've ever heard use "skosh" (from the Japanese skoshi, a small space or time). (I'm an Air Force brat and Navy vet.) EDIT: Looks like you might be a Navy doc?
Is there macro-scale evidence for the latter part of your assertion? I can't think of other sectors that are getting smaller as a percentage of GDP as a result of technology cutting costs--- not even other service/overhead sectors that are vaguely comparable to government in the sense of just providing infrastructure.

For example, you might say, "if anything, the financial sector should be getting leaner with the application of technology that is cutting costs everywhere else", but the financial sector has massively grown as a percentage of GDP (much faster than government has).
When programming life support software for spacecrafts, A and B converge. Nothing less than excellent is good enough. I know there are other industies like this too, where 'release early and often' can result in death or some other disaster.
Your site is a much better presentation than his of the same art: http://www.markferrari.com/gallery/digital/game_art/
"Bach war der erste Hacker. Das Cembalo war sein Computer. Kannst du vorwärts und rückwärts spielen"

In English: "Bach was the first Hacker. The Harpsichord was his Computer. 'Can play it forwards and backwards."

~23: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/
This is probably a good place to share

www.brics.dk/~hosc/local/LaSC-8-4-pp293-341.pdf

The first 11 pages really helped me understand the motivations for monads and it explains bind and return. It's written really clearly and doesn't assume much prior knowledge. I think it may be the original paper introducing monads to Haskell but I could be wrong.

(For some reason its a .pdf when it should be .ps.gz)
Go back for a moment to Pareto-efficiency. What that means is that you're looking for a move which benefits yourself without harming anyone else.

A Pareto-efficient society is a society in which no such moves exist; we have the optimal wealth available. If you want more wealth, you have to take it from someone else.

So naturally, if you mistakenly believe we live in a Pareto-efficient society ( I doubt anyone would agree ) it makes it very difficult to actually create a Pareto-efficient society. It's all rather Utopian, but generally I like the sentiment.

Though I'd rather believe that Pareto-efficiency is unobtainable and we can always create more wealth.
Yes there are loads of programming jobs in Ireland, which should help since I'm looking for a python job soon myself!
i dont get it. what difference did displaying it on a mobius strip make? it seemed the same as when it was being played forward and backward at the same time.
Extra Half-bright. The Amiga's HAM mode was even stranger. 6 bits per pixel, but the first two bits were for control: 00 meant the other four bits would reference a standard 16-colour palette, but any other value would cause the pixel to take on the value of the previous pixel, modifying either the red, green, or blue component (depending on the two control bits). Total of 4096 expressible colours. Great for photographs, not much use for anything else.
Are you sure that Boost mobile works for iPhone? Their coverage seems to be limited to iDEN and CDMA, neither of which is compatible with iPhone's GSM requirement.
A whole younger generation in America seems to be more into Marijuana, and they don't see it as wrong. And these are usually middle class kids. That is probably why a lot of people here seem to be really casual about it. And now let the down voting begin.
Agreed about 256-color being a turning point. I remember being amazed by Nextstep's 256 color mode when they ported to PCs. It was an incredible concession for an OS that delayed supporting color until they could "do it right", which to them meant every pixel had 24 bits for RGB plus 8 for alpha. It was great for those of us with modest hardware.
What you've got there is pretty sweet. Certainly worthy of a Tell HN.
The Möbius Strip just makes it an infinite loop. This won't work with music you can't play backwards.

Edit: Thinking a bit more about it, it is a bit silly. I guess you could put every musical piece on a Möbius Strip in an infinite loop. Just don't have it played backwards.
No diagnosis here, it's just what it sounds like to me. I'd encourage the OP to go see a doctor and consider medication. But it seems silly to me to rule out drugs at all, given how much effort has been put into researching and applying them.
RFC 2468 - I REMEMBER IANA (1998)
Coffee Never Tastes As Good As It Smells
I agree, but I think Gabriel's main point is in the parenthesis - "Symptom: you've written more than a 5pg business plan (intended for others)"

You're more likely to find someone to invest in or collaborate with you based on a prototype than a detailed rationalisation of the thought behind the prototype you're thinking of building.

Putting your thoughts on paper is one thing. Putting your thoughts on paper as a substitute for trying to put them into practice is another.
Excellence in one thing. Good enough in everything else.
You probably just have programmers block. Give in to your distractions for an entire day or two. You'll get so sick of them that you may want to go back to programming. Going to a cafe to work is also a really good idea. Have done a lot of work in them. We all go through these problems.
That's only true for public shares. $10,000 from Thiel is different from $10,000 from Joe Sixpack.
And if you mouseover the color swatches it highlights which pixels correspond to that color. Doing that really makes the intricacy of these images apparent.

Truly a wonderful piece of art.
I wish I could, actually. I've just been picking it up by reading random articles for a couple years now, writing some Rails code, and looking things up (details / best-practices) as I go. Not a route I'd suggest in general, but it works if you're focusing on other things.

What got me started & revealed a lot of other cryptography techniques was to look into how Diffie-Hellman[1] and RSA[2] work (they're not too complicated, really), understand what hashing functions do, if not necessarily how, and then look around at news of exploits / attacks. A lot to understanding secure code / techniques is understanding how the attacks work, and a lot of the news around them contain surprisingly-good explanations.

Anyone else have suggestions? I could probably use them too.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie–Hellman_key_exchange [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsa
Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports Assert
Are you saying that some fruits, like bananas, can make you more hungry when you eat them? I have certainly never experienced this myself. When you're cycling and you haven't eaten enough you can sometimes get incredibly hungry and tired in a short amount of time. I take a ripe and mushy banana with me for when that happens. It fixes the hunger and tiredness very quickly.
It looks like this particular case wasn't about the payments themselves being illegal, but an SEC investigation into Dell's accounting that found they were hiding the payments and then using the money to manipulate their quarterly earnings reports, which violated various accounting regulations.
That is a hellish commute; 30+ waking days a year spent in your car to or from work. Move closer.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368176
"Published on June 29, 2009" using "Linux 2.6.30 kernel"…
One of the instruments used to play that composition is a Klein bottle.
It's hard to get a handle on the API usage mix of the various synthetic and app benchmarks described here. Some analysis breaking things down and revealing the performance model behind the FSes would be good, so that particular benchmark performances could be predicted from the model.

For example, SQLite is known to use fsync, and btrfs fared poorly there, so can we infer that btrfs doesn't handle fsync well with a particular pattern of writes / etc. beforehand?
Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation
Instead of asking HN, ask a doctor. What you're describing sounds like the textbook symptoms of ADHD. Numerous studies have shown psychotherapy to be ineffective for ADHD compared to medication therapies, which have remarkably high success rates (much more so than, say, antidepressants do for depression) and relatively good side effect profiles.
Likewise - Interesting site. Though I think it currently misses some of the info that true DIY builders need. Not just comparison of listed specs but real worlds performance results. Overclockability and best CPU/mobo pairings for that. If you would like to research more about your ~target audience, email me in my profile.
Of all these, the universal problem is only number one, and still only due to the amounts of food. Portion sizes have nothing to do with carbs being evil on their own, and are definitely something one can restrain self on. Anything in large amounts is detrimental.
I doubt that there is any one answer to a question like this.

What field are you talking about? If it is a performance critical application like code for hospitals or intelligent life support systems/medical devices then certainly one would go for B.

On the other hand if you're designing a UI then there is no one way to do it. It's true that Apple releases only one update in a long time but they make hundreds of prototypes and test them out like anything (see: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExp...). So they do a clever combination of A+B, while maintaining their image.

However, if you're small then you can't afford to hire professional testers to test everything, or do videotaped randomized trials with volunteers who have signed a NDA. So, then a release often and correct often strategy would work well for you.

The question should be; How should I decide which one is better for me? A, B or A+B in some permutation?

[note: I am assuming that B in its pure form means micro-managed code that is proactively developed to be perfect from the start based on some previous parameters.]
Read a book called "The power of full engagement" by Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr. Its a life-changing book.
I dot think that's true. Someone did a study where they observed when people entered REM sleep and later woke them up and asked then how long their dream had been going on. They generally said they'd been dreaming for the same amount of time as they were observed to be in REM. Which pretty much proves they were experiencing time at the normal rate, and their dreams weren't condensed (there's even a myth going about that dreams only a couple of seconds). I suppose the possibility remains that people have many dreams in the REM period and each on just happens to seem like it's the same length as the total REM duration (incrementing each time in a =+ fashion). Not seen that documentary you linked to but I'll post the link to the study if I find it.
That's pretty much exactly what it sounds like, yes. The documentation calls them "stream updates", in the same way as you can with Pages. I'm not on FB, so I'm not sure if Pages allow you to do more than that; if so, I'd assume Liked-updates can do the same things.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph#publishing
I have had this for quite a while now, and I cant be burnt out or anything because I´m just 16.
And its not just on coding, but anything, really. Even gaming.
It's not very structured information, but the forums here are somewhat useful to mine for information: http://www.prepaidgsm.net/forum/gsm-3g-prepaid-worldwide/
Celebrities - Awesome Caricatures
Here are some great drawings and caricatures of famous people, created by Sebastian Krüger.
A. Because existing good enough is better than non-existent excellence. And it can be polished forever.
A gear never breaks after it has been designed out of the machine.
That depends on what you want to do with it.

I found Katz & Lindell's Modern Cryptography, a textbook written by active research cryptographers, quite good. The classical "applied" work is Schneier's Applied Cryptography", but note there are a lot of issues with that work. His newer book, "Cryptography Engineering", is supposedly better.

Goldreich's Foundations of Cryptography is quite solid, but requires quite a bit of background and is very theoretical.
because it is in the interest of perhaps the majority of Americans to have inflation, and because it seems that the fed is trying to generate inflation.

On the other hand, there are some pretty big deflationary forces (like, say, bad loans) at work here, so being /certain/ of inflation is probably a bad idea, but I can see why a person my worry that we might have inflation.
Forgive us compsci folks our lack of rigor and correctness here. We're emboldened by the likes of Moore who, through remarkable intuition, created predictions that match the facts with startling accuracy.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, though. Calling everything a "law" is a nasty habit that has crept into compsci's pop literature over the last decade.
And the fact that males have been in the dominant position culturally for effectively all of recorded time implies what cultural influence? That males have had the ability to choose partner(s) for so long has affected a lot, but implies nothing about biological predispositions to "novelty".

Also consider that male-polygamy not too far back in time for much of the western world was relatively expected ("mistresses"), but female-polygamy often meant death. That sort of influence tends to leave some lasting impressions on a culture.
Or "Abstruse Goose: How to Teach Yourself Programming"
http://abstrusegoose.com/249
I agree this was frustrating initially. After a certain number of django projects most of the django devs I know use the heck out of it's modularity. If the templating system is driving you insane drop in Jinja2 and go. If it just needs to be tweaked then implement the template command yourself.

I felt confined and frustrated with Django until I realized that it was built with the intention that developers should just crank code on top of it. And not just page code - anything that you need. It's more than just an end product that is just configured, tweaked and templated. Of course ruby similar in the same way... But in comparison to java and .NET web frameworks this was a big change.

Why couldn't they just write it in python instead of inventing strange keywords like "ifequal"?

I think they were trying to get away from the horrid nastiness that had become php or before that cgi. Yet they still wanted to provide options for designers. It definitely has a learning curve and requires the programmer to just roll with it and adopt the "django way". At least until you figure out you can just move to another templating system.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/custom-template-t...

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#topi...

http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2063/
I am using Boost on the Motorola i1 which runs Android. I haven't tried it with the iPhone.
So when they post something to my stream, does it also show up in my friends news feed?

It's bad enough that "liking" something means I opt in to potential spam. But it would be even worse if it opted in my friends too.
Mode-X anyone?

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article373.asp

which also tells you why Michael Abrash is God
It is more of a continuum than an A or B question, and it would be a bad idea to get religious over the question.
From a pragmatic perspective, B should be favored when either production constraints (capital investment, etc) or distribution costs are tangible at the margin. So durable goods and long-term services (e.g. insurance) should lean toward B.
A is favored if and only if iterative cycles can be accomplished without additional capital investment and distribution costs are near-zero. So, basically anything that could be delivered digitally that is not embedded in a durable good should be released when "good enough" (and then only improved if the iteration creates more value than the development of a new good or provision of a new service--iteration as rent-seeking is wealth-destructive).
Erm, proposition 13 is the “stupid 2/3 rule”.
Why does illegal immigration seem to be a bigger problem in California than in Texas? Maybe my perception of the relative problems is wrong, but certainly Californians complain a lot more about illegal immigrants (specifically, Mexicans and other Hispanics; not generally Asians) than Texans.

Is it just that Texas is less doomed overall? Or that the economy and government of Texas are more able to benefit from immigrants? Or something else?
So you don't believe industries can get more efficient when technology is applied? This has to be proven?

Over time, the number of sectors in the economy has grown. This can only happen because on average each takes a smaller percentage of the total economy. Yes, they produce more now than when they began. But that is BECAUSE of the application of technology.

The financial sector grew fat with cheap money supplied by the Federal Reserve. Its risks have been passed on to people with have no choice in the matter, the future taxpayer. And government is currently helping to hide the bad news.

Both government and finance have grown fat on other people's money, people have not yet gotten the total bill.
"Does not really diminish my IQ"

You remind me of a TV program where they did a study how drinking affect driving. The test subjects would swear that they drive even better when drunk. They got them drunk, put them behind the wheel, and it was horrible. They completely suck. How do you know is not the same thing with you. We would need to do an experiment to verify your claims.
Only trash like Nature are sensationalist enough to squeeze the word "flummox" into the title of this article. The TLDR is that the experimenters tried and failed to demonstrate a gaping flaw in quantum mechanics, which is widely accepted by pretty much everyone. No flummoxing occurred, except in the minds of Nature's editorial staff. These results were expected, agree nicely with theory, and should be nothing but reassuring with regards to our understanding of QM.
I must admit that your answer is pretty scary.
I wasn't taking it seriously till now because I was not totally aware of it. But today I realized how I was behaving, so that's why I wrote it here.

I hope is not LBD, I did some research and I think I'm quite young for that (I'm 30). But the main reason for which I think it's unlikely it's because I get this only when I try to code on my projects. I can get other things done outside of coding and even write code if I'm really compelled (like in my daily job). But when I'm on my own my mind drifts away. I can read books and manuals, even think about solutions for my project, but as soon as I start to code it strikes me (not always, to tell the truth, two weekends ago I got a lot work done, but this is increasing).

I'm going on vacation in 10 days, I will take them very seriously.