skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beer as well. Even the stuff imported from Europe, they say that it doesn't ship well and that's why it doesn't taste as good, but I think that's bullshit.

In today's world, the process to ship mass amount of goods across the Atlantic only takes a few days--a week max. That is not nearly enough time for the taste of the beer to degrade. I think that the European beermakers purposely make exported beer taste more watered-down to play to American tastes--which happen to be the likes of Bud Light. I don't understand America's obsession with light beer.
After a day in the ocean, you will often feel the motion of the water as you fall asleep.
$40/hr. I'd expect to pay at at least $2,000 for an identity package which usually means some collateral as well as the "logo" itself.
Start browser on home machine and use VNC or similar to get access to it?
Maybe it could be the next Michael Pollan book?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...
Anyone try it on an iPad?
Given the amount of work that has gone into optimizing Javascript speed in browsers during the past two years, I'd say these results are completely obsolete.
The report is launched into a political environment. Any errors, such as grossly misstating the economic impact of sea level etc, is guaranteed to be seized upon by greedy shortsighted folks (politicians) and used for political capital. That is also abundantly clear to everyone.

If you insinuate I am somehow trying to convince anyone that global warming is wrong, your zeal is clouding your judgement - my simple remarks were directed simply at the unfortunate fact that the report was released before a review found the errors - which was what? a matter of weeks?
I couldn't agree more with this. I personally know a few bright, talented entrepreneurs that are very frustrated with they have to constantly worry about their visa situation instead of their startup. I'm an immigrant myself, but I came here as a kid with my family, and feel very lucky that I didn't have to deal with this.

This country was founded by immigrants and became world's technology and science leader based largely on the work done by immigrants. The famous "dey took our jobs" argument can't apply here because entrepreneurs CREATE jobs, right here in USA. Why it's so difficult for them to gain permanent residence, and eventually citizenship, is beyond me.
Slightly all over the place too, but recently it's something like:

(optional)

5:40 wake up and drive my girlfriend to some networking breakfast event

7:00 crash back into bed

(/optional)

8:00 Wake up, breakfast, browse HN, catch up on email, etc

9:00 or so, real work begins

13:00 start to get uncomfortably hungry, locate some nutrients, and absorb them orally. Usually about half an hour or an hour.

Between 17:00 and 20:00, varying depending on the day brain begins to emit SIGHUP signals and I end up doing something else, whether that's going for a run, watching some brain-dead TV, reading a book, or even spending the evening with my girlfriend.

Rarely, I go out to networking events or other social functions. Most of the time, though, I stay in, and go to bed by about midnight.

I think the most important thing I learned about working from home was that you have to act as if you had work hours, and protect that time so you don't spend it doing stupid chores like laundry or shopping or whatever. I do my shopping in the evening, like everyone else. I do my bills in the evening, like everyone else. Daytime is reserved for real, productive work.
The same reason a pail of water swung around your head doesn't spill. The path cut by the rolling plane in this case is a spiral, as it's a barrel-roll rather than an aileron roll.

So yes, if you stopped at the top of the roll, the liquid would indeed fall out. The reason it doesn't is that the plane is continuing to roll, and the acceleration of the plane away from its upside down position is greater than the acceleration due to gravity. The liquid is "falling" at 9.8 meters per second, but the plane - and hence the glass - is being pushed at a faster rate.
I suspect that many who have posted so far are younger than I am, more single than I am, and either in school or self-employed. Here's my typical schedule:

6am-7am: wake up, feed the dog, get ready for work

7am-8am: commute into NYC

8am-4:30pm: work in office; fit lunch in somewhere often at desk

4:30pm-5:30pm: commute back home

5:30pm-12am: mixed bag; dinner, dog, time with wife, time with tv, email (work and personal), sometimes more work, etc

12am-6am: sleep

My commute is mostly by train, so I spend that time reading or on computer+WiFi, depending on my needs. I often work from home too, which shifts things around a bit but I basically keep the same work hours so I'm in sync with colleagues.
Sorry, I only meant to point to reports of concrete data. I didn't know the standard of accuracy here is extrapolations on studies, speculation and politically-charged argument, istead of data reported "on the ground".
This happened to me the summer of 1993, but in my case it was Mine Sweeper.
http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html -- in English
Actually, I feel just the same way about HN. You have to spend a lot of time on HN to follow the development of conversations and have to get in early to accumulate karma. I'm happy with HN as a somewhat glorified newsfeed with interesting topical commentary from coders but as a place to actually engage with people the pace is too fast (i.e. like a newsfeed) and the subject matter too limited in scope, at least given my interests.
That was funny, the comment got upvoted and then downvoted. So perhaps I'm not the only one who would be interested to hear examples of situations in which one would want a Scheme interpreter implemented in Ruby. There isn't much of a rationale in the README. On the other hand, a Ruby interpreter implemented in Scheme would be interesting as an attempt to nail down the ever-elusive semantics of Ruby, if nothing else.

If, as another commenter mentioned, there are "Ruby shops" where one would have to sneak Scheme in through this mechanism, then I guess Ruby has truly reached the mainstream.
Ask HN: San Jose HN meet-up?
Anyone interested in a San Jose HN meet-up?
I love the community. Would love to pay for it. But a charity by me, to a huge corporate; really? THERE HAS GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY.
> The artificial horizon is a gyroscopically steadied line, which stays level with the earth's surface. The airplane pitches and banks in relation to this steady line, which in spatial terms never moves. Of course, in airplane terms it does move -- which presents a problem, because pilots are part of the airplane: they fly it from within, strapped to their seats. In clear skies they would never misjudge a bank as the tilting of the earth, but with their view restricted to the abstractions of the instrument panel they sometimes do just that: when the airplane banks, they perceive the motion as a movement of the artificial horizon line across the face of the instrument. This causes them to "fly" the wrong thing -- the moving horizon line, rather than the fixed symbolic airplane. For example, as turbulence tilts the airplane to the left, the pilots, tilting with it, notice the artificial horizon line dropping to the right. Reacting instinctively to the indication of motion, they sometimes try to raise the line as if it were a wing.

Would this be considered an example of a dangerously confusing user interface?
For (a) I would recommend Mark Boulton's book, Designing for the Web, which is available free online:

http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/index.php

It has really competent sections dedicated to aesthetics: typography, color, and layout. That he made it free is unbelievable. It's a resource I always recommend to the developers I work with (I'm a designer) who want to understand more about design.
Then you don't really believe in individual accomplishment. I've stated that the wealth that is created is taxed as it is made. Taxing wealth more after a person dies just to transfer it to the inheritor is a slap in the face to the person that created the wealth in the first place. Society has no claim on a dead mans property as the property has been paid for by the income taxes each year, sales tax of the state, property taxes, SS, and all the other little taxes out there. By taxing property/wealth after death and ignoring the taxation that already occurred on that wealth you simply support redistribution and do not support individual accomplishment. I have to repeat because you don't seem to acknowledge this.
Magic Ink: Information software and the graphical interface
Lots of portuguese as well as many many other nationalities here. We even have a little portugal. You'd be fine here.
Congrats on the kid!

I came away with the impression that the focus was on trying something new in order to learn and that a lack of transactions in existing libs was merely the excuse to experiment. There is still the performance issue with his approach, which I am investigating out of curiosity, so I wouldn't worry about it replacing yours.

It's hard not to take criticism personally but there will always be people who think you code is shit and approach all wrong.

BTW - I'm still running a patched version of the latest redis-client in production. Any thoughts about the patch to fix the internal buffer length calculations (changing "Math.max(currentLength * 2, atLeast * 1.1);" to "Math.max(currentLength * 2, offset + atLeast * 1.1);")?
A smart tactic to be sure. However I do find it odd that it is Apple doing this as opposed to Dell or HP. I'd argue that more people have heard of the iPad than have heard of the Streak. Take a look at google trends for example:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Dell+Streak%2C+Apple+iPad%2C+...

Being in the dominant position I wonder how much Apple gains from this. Dell and HP though should definitely start doing this to raise awareness of their products.
I know a number of couples who met through online dating web-sites. Their success rate does not seem to be significantly lower than couples who met through more traditional routes.
Ah, but the statement "the plane of its swing remained constant" is not imprecise; it is false. And I don't mean false-but-kinda-true like "pi = 3.14" is false-but-kinda-true; I mean just plain wrong. The fixed-plane idea seems to be a common misunderstanding, even among intelligent people, but it ain't so. The plane turns, even with respect to a "fixed" frame of reference that does not rotate with the Earth.

I would have been better just to say that the plane changes, showing that the Earth rotates, and leave the explanations for another time.
Reminds me of this, a 7.5hr video of a train journey across Norway: http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/
Think of the wings as the glass and the fuselage as the tea in the glass. The pilot's glass of tea is imitating what the wings and fuselage that contain the glass are doing.

If the pilot turns the plane at the correct rate, it's a 1 G maneuver. If he turns a little too fast (like spinning your arm too fast) the downward acceleration relative to the fuselage becomes greater than 1 G. If he turns too slowly, the downward acceleration is less than 1G and the tea might spill.

I use the term downward acceleration because "G Force" is not a term that physicists like to use.
This is genius.

My parents house in the UK receives about 8-14 of these calls every day. I've been dreaming about creating an asterisk-pbx-powered spam call catcher for them.

I'm now thinking about it more seriously…
About half a million years ago I sat through a Nolan Bushnell (Atari, Chuck E Cheese) speech.

He said a sentence that has stuck to me forever. "The only question that matters is when you say 'What is your Visa card number?'" Meaning that until the moment of truth when money leaves your customer's wallet, everything your prospective customer says is bullshit and not worthy of building a business on. He was completely dismissive of market surveys, etc. Waste of time and money.

He brought this thinking into physical products, too. His basic "build a business" model was:

1. Make a flyer. See if you can get an order. (Similar to the "dry test" idea). AKA the landing page.

2. Iterate until . . .

3. . . . you get nibbles and interest. Then make a mock-up. (You've gone from two dimensions to three dimensions).

4. Continue iteration on the marketing front until you get an order. (I.e., the customer gives you his/her Visa card).

5. Then and only then manufacture ONE of your products, even if it costs you $5,000. It's cheaper than manufacturing a bunch of units to get your unit cost down below $200.

6. Iterate based on experience, refine the product, get another order, etc. etc.

Even antique guys are smart. :-)

Sincere apologies to N. Bushnell if I mis-remember this. It was a long time ago. But the "What's your Visa card number?" question stuck. Life is either bullshit or jellybeans, and in business I tend to treat things as bullshit until a prospective customer puts his/her wallet on the line.

/Phil
I have a 32GB wifi-only model. I use it daily, and I would buy it again. I use it for surfing, watching videos off iTunes U, reading (via Kindle app), checking mail, etc. It basically replaced my Kindle DX and ThinkPad but, not my iMac or other desktop.

Sometimes I wish Safari could be a little more stable. I'm finding that when I go to a page (like The Big Picture) that has lots of large images on it, Safari on the iPad will crash.
It'd be hard for me to disagree with your conclusions more.

No girl I've dated would have given my profile on a dating site a second look. You can't communicate over a profile what you can collaborating on a project, tutoring someone, or even playing WoW.

I think a helpful way to think about online dating sites is as just another class of venue, like a bar or whatever. You wouldn't expect to completely know someone immediately after meeting them at a bar; rather, you're using a quick first impression to decide if you want to get to know them more. After your first date, it doesn't matter much where you happened to meet.

Just as some people don't come across well in bars, others don't come across well in profiles. Sure you can argue that the "in person" impression is worth more, but that's actually a bit dubious. An online profile lets some types of people quickly demonstrate intelligence and personality in a way that some other venues don't necessarily allow.

So the elephant in the room, I think, is that dating isn't really a problem that needs solving via a web app.

Describing "dating" as a problem to be solved is akin to describing "graph theory" or "linear algebra" as a problem to be solved; you're being overbroad. There's the "life partner problem," the "I want to get laid tonight problem," the "summer fling problem," etc. I think the problem online dating solves best is the "introduction problem" — how to efficiently meet people with whom you share a baseline romantic interest.

You can meet significant others in bars, art and yoga classes, the gym, ... on, and on, and on. .... As long as you do things which involve meeting new people, you'll probably run into people you like enough to date.

While I agree with this, I disagree with the conclusion that these venues obviate the need for online dating. What happens if you live in a very small town? What if you don't have time to go to bars, seminars, and yoga? What if you're shy? Online dating levels the playing field for people who are affected by questions like those.

Hell, I know a lot more couples who met playing WoW than I do who met using dating websites.

Dare I say, you are an outlier.

What's the point of isolating and controlling the meeting of mates, when it's such a natural byproduct of being social?

Maybe because it's more efficient? What does "being social" mean in this context, anyway? And why is going to a yoga class to meet a mate intrinsically superior to using an online dating site?

The girl I'm dating right now actually lived down the street from me for a while, but because I don't work with her, go to her gym, or take Irish class, I'd have been unlikely to have met her and gotten to know her without online dating. Go figure.

Again, dating sites are just venues where you can meet people. It seems to be more isolating and controlling to try to eliminate or deride them: why should there be one less type of venue where people can meet potential dates?

I think there are many people out there who could really benefit from online dating but demur from it because of the kind of thinking in the parent comment.
From personal experience, during instrument training this is something you get used to and a trained pilot would not normally make such a mistake; the interface is so simple it would be hard to simplify it further, and further, it's not the only instrument you have at your disposal - you get a sense of them working together (turn indicator; airspeed indicator; compass, GPS, and VOR, all are secondary indicators indicating that you're turning in a particular direction or pitching down or up)...
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Here's mine. I like to get an early start. My eyes are generally open before the 5:00 AM alarm rings.

4:55 AM - Eyes open

5:00 AM - Out of bed

5:10 AM - 6:30 AM - Deal with email and eat breakfast, create TODO list for the day

6:30 AM - Get showered and dressed

7:00 AM - Drive or walk to bus (if not working from home that day)

8:00 AM - 5:30 PM - Work

6:30 PM - Home

6:30 PM - 10:00 PM - Random (dinner, gym, walk with wife, help kids with homework, personal projects, etc)

10:00 PM - 11:30 PM - Watch a few random episodes of Seinfeld or Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives on DVR

11:30 PM - Fall asleep in front of TV

12:30 AM - Wake up and go upstairs for actual sleep

My time on the bus is spent reading or resting.
The do-it-yourself life of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1988)
I stockpiled Heritage DP for this reason expecting them to pull it back off the market. Was up to twenty 12 packs at one point. Eventually ran through them all, thankfully it can still be found in stores.
Web workers vs. the crazy flies
Good metaphor. This sounds like when I was in high school and built a whole fantasy around a boy I only went out with once!
^ This.

I worked for a Fortune 50 for six years while building my business on the side. It was interesting for the first few years, then got old fast. There are two huge problems every big company has:

1. Communication Overhead - the more people you have to work with, the percentage of time you spend communicating with others vs. getting actual work done rises geometrically until it approaches 100%. You know you're getting there when you start having meetings to prepare for other meetings.

2. Bureaucracy - managers are on the hook for other people delivering things they may not understand and don't directly control, all while dealing with massive uncertainty. That's why there's so much bureaucracy - things like Gantt charts make managers feel better by creating the illusion of certainty and control, even though they mostly make things worse by reducing flexibility and speed.

If you enjoy (and are good at) playing politics, big companies will be a good fit for you - that's what you'll spend most of your time doing every day. If you like spending most of your time creating useful things, don't work for a big company.
Ha, yes I liked it. In fact your actually part of the list above under:

I have found some good online articles http://delicious.com/csmeder/ux
A few specific habits that could be more important than the right routine:

- Learning how to get yourself into a creative state
- Automating non-creative, repetitive tasks
- Discerning when one should delegate or seek help from others and picking the right way to do that for the situation.
- Taking the time to learn principles/foundational material for a new tool. In other words, RTFM.
Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8Owe47L...
SSD performance on 2008 Macbook Pro Unibody
That's awesome, and I'm sure its the sort of story the developers would love to hear about.
The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research by E.W. Dijkstra
Another +1 on this fantastic book. It's extremely accessible and concise while covering quite a lot of ground on the subject.
Would be interesting to see some benchmarks against modern browsers, I don't have the bandwidth at the moment though.
Indeed genius. Google ought to implement this in Google Voice for all their unassigned numbers. Any Googlers up for doing it as a 20% time project?
one way to mimic the successes of these people is to do what they do

Disagree. Thinking like that is a common logical fallacy. Suppose you find a relation "isHacker?" <~> "schedule type". Then you have NO evidence at all that that these are related since your whole sample are hackers. Also you don't know anything about the causality.

Even if there is some relation (which I doubt) probably there are some other reasons and "reasons" ~> "isHacker?" and "reasons" ~> "schedule type"

~ is for probability.
I'm guessing the habit of strafing into a room after playing Doom a bit too much is of the same nature :)
5:30 wake up, meditate, breakfast, spend time with my wife
7:00 bike to office
7:15 works begins. no distractions.
9:00 check email, open IRC, continue work
11:30 lunch
14:45 bike home
15:00 spend time outside (walk, hike, swim, garden, study in hammock)
18:00 work out ~1 hour (alternate days olympic weightlifting/powerlifting
with rowing)
19:00 dinner, time with friends, study
21:00 meditate
21:30 sleep

no caffeine or drugs, drink very little alcohol (a couple of drinks once every 1-2 weeks)

i am very pleased with this schedule and very productive. i'll probably wake up later in the fall/winter.
I can confirm it. 64bit system, 64bit flash and browser. Don't know how to help though
Ask HN: Is it worth doing a patent?
Our online backend technology and business process seems unique enough to be able to patent, but I wonder if it is really worth the time, effort and cost.
I know Mint.com and eHarmony have patented their tech process, but I wonder if it really adds value to the company, or gives them a true legal defensible position against a competitor in the real world.

I ask this, because I read the eHarmony patent end to end, and it seems to lay out how to build the backend.

It seems like revealing this to the world might not be smart. With some little tweaks or additions it seems like a competitor could use basically the same process to compete against them.

To me, this is something I think we would not want to reveal.

Is a patent a smart move? What do you think?
I find I'm more alert with 6 hours sleep. Also generally two hours more each and every day.
I've never found that writing Haskell demanded much discipline at all, just follow a few simple rules (like making total functions etc.), and your code is well on the way to doing exactly what you think it should.
I've been using an app called Infinity on the iPhone to track and optimize my time, and I learned a few things that surprised me. For example:

- I was spending almost 2 hours a day on chit-chat with friends at work. This time is usually counted as work, but it really isn't. So now I stay in the office less, and go out with friends more. Same productivity, more fun.

- I was spending way more time than I thought on email, facebook, and reading news. Now I use a tool called StayFocused to limit my email/facebook time to 1.5 hours a day.

- I spent way too much time on technical support, so I went ahead and hired an intern to handle that.

Overall, I now work less and get more done, which is great.