skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that has always worked for me is increasing your awareness of the muscles and tendons in your hand and arms. Whenever I feel RSI coming up I start typing more slowly and make sure that every movement becomes very soft and gentle.

You'll also learn that when you type more slowly you can still get as much done because your mind has more time to think the problem over while you're typing the code you've already decided you are going to type.

You'll start to notice the little stresses you've learned to ignore and every time you notice a little bit of stress you'll adjust your movement into a more gentle way of interacting with your computer.

As you do this more and more you'll find that your shoulders start relaxing, your neck becomes more relaxed; your breathing slows down and you adjust your computer so that your arms feel featherlight and then your wrists start moving in more fluid movements and your fingers start moving across the keyboard with less resistance until the point at which you might notice that the only stressor left is the tactile pressure of your keyboard and the curvature of your wrists; and then you're ready to try out the keyboard that works best for you and your problems are gone.

When you do this it will become automatic and you'll learn to speed up and slow down back into this mode whenever you feel stress building up again.
Damn do they need someone for this position badly
So are you arguing that it isn't useful to know about racial differences, even if they're true? I hear about them all the time! People wonder why there are so many black people in prison, or why there are so many Asians earning PhDs. Some people have good explanations for these phenomena. One problem with ignoring data about racial differences is that you end up being forced to argue that some races (or all races) are viciously racist -- that white folks want Africa to be a hellhole, and are willing to sacrifice all kinds of natural resources to keep it that way. The world makes more sense if people vary in abilities and tendencies, rather than being absolutely equal in every way, except that some people are evil.

You would really be indifferent between finding yourself in Boro Park or Bedford-Stuyvessant? I understand the rent is very cheap in the latter (I lived there a while). Bed-Stuy doesn't have sub-Saharan Africans (or if it does, they're very smart immigrants who are likely to move to a better neighborhood in a few years), but the people there are from roughly that group, plus some admixture.
Actually, Adobe and Microsoft aren't doing so shabbily on that front.

http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/index.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb980136.aspx

The problem is that people don't seem to take that kind of testing into consideration unless it really matters (e.g. section 508 for .gov websites).

Lastly, nested tables I don't think are THAT much of a problem. CSS can be useful in other ways - e.g. to display almost the same information in a completely different way that may benefit low vision people, or mobile users. It's some uses of ajax and the like that can be a problem, not so much a table based layout or something like that.
Thank you, now I feel special ;P
I have an HSA as well. It seems like a great choice to me. Why?

I'm in my 20's and haven't had any major health problems, but don't want some random disaster to wipe out my consulting business. I also pay really high taxes on my profits, like to save money, and enjoy buying stocks.

With an HSA, I can put away ~$2,700 a year for health expenses, and that money isn't taxed. I pay Aetna $62 a month, which is $744 a year. How much would I have been taxed on the $2,700 I put away? Probably $700-800 dollars. So it has the benefits of a traditional IRA. While the money is in my HSA, I can make some conservative investments such as buying an ETF that tracks the S&P 500 or if I want more growth, maybe invest in the BRIC's (Brazil/Russia/India/China) or some tech stocks. That money can grow tax free and is reserved in case of emergency.

What if I live a perfectly healthy life and nothing happens? Well, I can withdraw all of that money tax-free when I'm 59.5 (yes that's a long way off). So it has the benefits of a Roth IRA as well.

If you don't have many health problems and have a few thousand in earnings that you can put away each year, I think it's a great deal.
yes. but it makes health insurance a non-issue for companies. we don't compete over it & we're not scared of loosing it with our jobs.

the American system forces the individual to be responsible for their health (smoker? that'll cost) and keeps workers focussed on pleasing their employers.
"Participation is NOT marketing

The most important asset that a startup CEO has or should build is his community. It has nothing to do with marketing. I took me 8 years since I started blogging in 2003 to have a community and it is no marketing. It is about sharing every day thoughts, tips, advise, learnings with the community."

Um, but that is marketing. If marketing is "the process or technique of promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service" then by building a community you are marketing yourself and thereby marketing your product whether that is your intention or not. (see "The Cluetrain Manifesto")
Resistance Is Futile
Is it getting cool to bash TechCrunch now? Or is it already cool and I'm out of touch?
Um, near caltrain would be SOMA where rents for a comprable place to CT are at least the same if not more. CT is also far from a corporate housing vibe, you pay for the view and the location (North Beach). Calling it one of the worst deals in SF is just flat out false. Check craigslist for housing in North Beach, its all in the same price range.
"You are forced to learn things you don't necessarily enjoy. For example, I was forced to take a few stats courses which I found extremely boring, but recently at work it was incredibly valuable."

I don't think that's the way to go. If learning something is boring, then it's either because you'll never need it or you don't realize you'll ever need it. You can't know if it's boring because of the former or the latter before you really need it.

For example, I found math pretty boring in school (beyond 6th grade, say) because I just didn't see what applications it would have in my life even if I knew I wanted to be a programmer and supposedly good math skills were a hard requirement (it only is if the problem-domain you're working on requires math).

But now I have some big ideas for my projects and I learned that some fields of mathematics and other disciplines would be a great investment to learn because it would ease or even simply make possible their implementation. So now those topics really look fun to me so it will give me the push I need to learn it all as fast as possible and in an enjoyable way.
Shoe Seller’s Secret of Success
"I[t] took me 8 years since I started blogging in 2003..."

hm, someone lives in the future...
Cuill ( http://www.cuill.com/ ) and Powerset ( http://www.powerset.com/ ) are both contenders to make a better search engine. Cuill assumes that you can make a comparable search system more efficiently. Powerset assumes that more pertinent results have higher value. Scalability isn't an issue for Cuill. Cuill's president is Anna Paterson, who is partly responsible for Google's scalability.

Anyhow, Cuill and Powerset both have scope to make systems which are more efficient and could therefore be supported by less intrusive advertising. The switch from AltaVista to Google was influenced by the intrusiveness of advertising. Perhaps this consideration would inflence a subsequent transistion.
I feel like I'm in junior high getting bullied for being a nerd. I'm so sorry for using a big word. In the future I'll try and limit myself to a fifth grade reading level (maybe reaching rhetorical, which is a fancy word for a skillful kind of speech, heights of seventh or eighth grade level) so that the idiotic (for you mouth-breathers, idiotic is a big cloudy multisyllabalic way of saying dumb that fails to add brevity, or cadence or coherence) Techcrunch half of this forum can follow along without having to use a dictionary to find a word they don't know.

"Autodidact" is obscure? WTF? Where is this coming from? Did everyone come here right after watching the American Gladiator contest? Did we get an influx of Time Magazine readers?

For me, the goal of writing here is to practice at playing with ideas. If, in playing with ideas I use words that are (maybe, a little) obscure, and I fail to communicate to people who seem to me like idiots, well, I'm fine with that. Great, actually. If only the failure to communicate ran both ways.

I'm done being autodidactic. I'm going to put down my books and go watch some soap operas and sitcoms until I figure out how the idiots here think.
Actually, I think the reason so much attention is paid to which races earn PhDs or end up in jail is to find out how to increase the number of PhDs of other races or reduce the prison population of certain races. If those differences are caused by genetic differences, then there's nothing we can do to change that. There are other factors at work in both situations, like socioeconomic status and culture, which we can use to make everyone better off.

I think socioeconomic status is a better predictor of criminality than race. With that said, if I'm walking through an unfamiliar neighborhood, race is one of the few variables I have to work with. Unfortunately, in America, race is a moderately effective indicator of socioeconomic status, so I would use it as one factor in judging my safety. Even then, I usually use clothes and appearance rather than race to judge one's propensity for crime.

This is actually a more interesting problem in terms of what to tell children than racial differences in intelligence. I think by the time they're old enough to be somewhere without adult supervision, they are able to determine what looks like a poor area or poor person and act accordingly. I can see the logic that would lead someone to tell their kids to use race as such a proxy instead, but the consequences of doing so make it not worth the negligible increase in safety in my opinion.
The vertical flip they did--that's actually horizontal, right?
http://mog.com/ might be interested in the domain?
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I thought there was a difference where self taught would be "I did teach myself this thing" and autodidactic would be "I have the personality trait of continually teaching myself new things." Only one of the dictionaries I checked made this fine grained (and relevant) distinction explicit though.
"There are lots of studies that show very little to no relationship between grades and intelligence or grades and creativity. But organizations are unwilling to put this scientific knowledge into use."

I think that's the confirmation bias at work. If such an organization learns that a PhD-holder is real good the reaction will be: "Well what do you expect, it's a PhD!" but facing a successful self-taught person they'd say: "How did he manage to do that without a degree? Must be luck..."
It's been cool for a while. Techcrunch is the Teen People Magazine of the scene. All the cool kids don't like it but secretly want to be featured.

EDIT: I'm wrong. Brainfart. Techcrunch is more like Scientific American or Psychology Today. Popularizing, OK for interested laypeople, but a quite poor way to learn the topic.

Valleywag is our Teen People Magazine.

Sorry to the folks that bring us techcrunch for confusing them with valleywag. When I read "Already not cool" I must of just had valleywag pop into my head.
yeah, individuals are responsible. in the UK it's (smoker? that'll cost everyone). people don't pay for the costs they create.
We're quite a few years from having a DWIM button in your browser.
Yes, see a physical therapist. Don't just try to diagnose yourself, which is what you seem to be doing right now. The pains in my arms and wrists were due entirely to postural problems in my shoulders and neck, which was pinching the nerves leading to my wrists. If I'd kept self-diagnosing I'd have tried keyboard after keyboard, wrist braces, less wrist strain... and have completely missed the small adjustments to my monitor and my chair that actually make the difference.

Plus, PTs can prescribe proper massage, therapy, ultrasound and/or drugs to speed up your healing.
It isn't even just the muscles in your hands. As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, my wrist pain is caused by inflamed neck and shoulder muscles. Anything which builds torso strength can improve your posture and solve a lot of second- and third-order problems.

Plus, exercise helps muscles heal and stay healed. They like moving around. Exercise helps keep the blood and lymph flowing through muscles, both directly (I believe that moving around keeps fluids sloshing about and causes blood to be directed to the moving muscles) and indirectly (exercise builds cardiovascular health, which leads to better circulation and oxygenation). It even improves your sleep, which has many excellent side effects.
I'm pretty sure they've worked out deals with each of the target sites and have access to some private APIs. Probably this only works if you can convince them you're going to send serious business their way.
Any programmer who considers such a trivial test a large burden, you don't want. There's no other way to assess programming ability than programming, it's really that simple. If you hire an unknown programmer without making him submit a code sample, then you deserve what you get because you're gambling and likely to lose. The whole point is to find good programmers, and good programmers enjoy programming, they'll happily write a trivial program to prove it, happily. Anyone who balks at such a test is not someone you want to hire, period.
Locks vs. STM
Cryptonomicon is great if you haven't read it. I think it's a canonical piece of scifi. It's two generations of nerds from a family. One is a WW2 codebreaker, and his grandson is a startup tech guy. The book tells the story by switching between 1940s and 1990s. Lots of historical people, alternate timeline stuff. Lots of interesting ideas about economics and information. A great read.
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egads - he didn't say he wanted to be bored and made to feel like *&$% ;)
"only in a formal teaching environment is one introduced to these topics."

That looks like dangerous thinking to me. I guess it's conforting to think that what you never heard of in your "formal teaching environment" doesn't exist or doesn't matter. School can only expose so many topics to you. It can go deeper than necessary in some topics that won't be relevant to you and completely ignore others that would be.
How about these:

Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works: http://tinyurl.com/3ftxva

Founders at Work:http://tinyurl.com/4cytwa

(links are to amazon.com)
I'm from the UK and although free health care sounds good, you really do get what you pay for.
Did You Say "Intellectual Property"? It's a Seductive Mirage
The Right To Read
CSS would become so much easier to learn (and teach!) with a tool like this.

Actually, "would" should probably be "will", since this tool is so useful.
The problem(s) with OpenID
to be fair it -feels- like 8 years
> I'd prefer things not directly technical though not necessarily fiction.

Sounds exactly like me. I strongly suggest:

1. The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)

2. The Demon-Haunted World (Carl Sagan)

...or if you need a little inspiration...

3. Founders at Work
Was this really worth blogging, or by extension reposting anywhere? Nothing personal against pbnaidu, but really. If you know two cents about XHTML and CSS you're probably already doing this out of habit.
We can't answer this question w/o some more information. What are you looking for in a web host? Shared? VPS? Dedicated?
Take "no books". Use this time to physically get in touch with the rest of the world. Spend time with you, then with total strangers. Now if you are an introvert like me, this will look scary, but I think it will do you more good then reading. Enjoy your vacation.
>apparently he doesn't ask for much money

With how Nintendo's stock has done lately, he must be doing alright.

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=OTC%3ANTDOY
I use Gmail's plain HTML layout because my connection is spotty and slow in most places I'm at, and the AJAXie layout takes up additional bandwidth.
Rolling with Rails 2.1 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 1
The Day Google Erased Me From the Internet
I agree, influencing is what parents do, but influencing is also a form of lying:

> Influence: the power or capacity of causing an effect in indirect or intangible ways.

The effect in the case of parents is that the children will end up believing the same things as their parents did. This is completely distinct from education, because education is the teaching of what is known to be true, or at least a non-biased account of the available information. This is something most people cannot do as its very difficult to do right. Either you stick to known facts (1 + 1 = 2) or you give a non-biased account of history (say, a war) by arguing for and against both for both sides equally. If you look at any moment in history and think someone was evil or good, you probably misunderstand something and need to go back to that topic and learn more.

Influence breeds from a onesidedness that is not evident in education. Education breeds from understanding. If one tells their children they believe in god and this makes them believe in god, is it really significantly different then saying there is a god? Either way they still have a choice, to believe you are right or not. As they are the child's parents, isn't it almost guaranteed that they'd trust your judgment at such a young age? (I'm assuming an age of around 4 years old.)

> It's unavoidable, and there's nothing wrong with it if you do it with honesty and respect.

This is also true, almost. As described above it will take more energy to fully explain the correct answer to any question then the child is willing to listen to. I'm not arguing that there is something wrong with it. I'm just acknowledging that it is lying, albeit unintentional and without malice, but it is still lying.
Spoken Languages, Blub, and Convenience
Rolling with Rails 2.1 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2
Tipjoy: Why Didn't it Take Off? Pathology of a Floundering Web 2.0 Startup
I'm not sure disagreeing makes much sense if the question is "Is there a God?" What are you disagreeing to? That there isn't a god? Then you will be lying to your child and this is what the thread is about NOT doing.

If instead you mean, you must always disagree with whatever your child's opinion is, I don't disagree. You have to argue both sides of any philosophical question though, less you accidentally push your own beliefs on them, and this is extremely difficult to do correctly. Orson Scott Card's character Han Fei-Tzu is an excellent example of the type of teaching discipline I hold sacred. When someone makes an opinion about anything, you have to argue the other-side as well as you possibly can, and if your charge changes their mind, you have to switch sides and argue for that side. This requires an incredible amount of knowledge and intelligence which most parents are not going to be able to replicate.

Teaching in this matter will force the child to learn how to look at any problem from different viewpoints.
sorry, I didn't want this to turn "political" (I don't think this is the right setting), and not for one minute do I think the NHS is the be all and end all, but for someone in my position (a person with a serious medical condition) I don't think I could survive (financially and probably health-wise) in the US.

So I'm glad that I live in a country which contributes as a whole towards the nations health.

Update: LPTS says we should get political, so lets.
Politics and Edward Tufte's Lie Factor
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181697 for a recent discussion on healthcare costs.
Ask News.YC: Any studies on whether social filtering works?
Web 2.0's clearly about people, and the more people you get, and the more you know about them, the more your company's worth, right? The social graph, while not yet clearly monetizable, is universally considered valuable for the predictive ability we think it has or will soon have.

Which leads to my question: Does data about my friends actually help at all when it comes to guessing things for me? I know Amazon, Netflix and others have demonstrated the predictive power of aggregated data, but my gut says restricting that data only to people I know will make it worse, not better. And if indeed the friend graph decreases predictive ability, what's the value of the social graph beyond the network effect/lock-in to a service?

Pure speculation is cool, though if anyone has hard data on this, that'd be even awesomer.
I had this really bad about a year ago, and I was really frightened, because it got to the point that not only couldn't I work, I was getting pain just sitting and watching TV! I had it very bad in my wrists, but the worst thing was my elbows - I couldn't bend my arms, and I couldn't not bend my arms. I was really scared.

Anyway, I tried everything, new keyboard, different chairs, vitamins, rubs, Dragon Naturally Speaking, you name it. I even had a kind of pulpit built for my computer so I could work standing up. Since not being able to work would have been a death sentence for me at that time, I spent well over $1000 on this stuff. But none of this really made any difference.

Then, I sat down and thought about how the body works, and all I knew about medicine and biology, and I worked out that the wrist pain was caused by poor muscle condition. So I started exercising my upper body, particularly my arms as someone else pointed out above. That nailed it!

Within a matter of days, all pain went away. I mainly concentrated on standing pushups. Because I'm a woman, I have almost no upper body strength, so I could barely even push myself off the wall on a 25 degree incline. But gradually, doing this very gently every hour or so, I started to increase the incline and get more movement back.

Now, I don't have any pain or problems at all unless I really spend 12 hours in front of the computer. Then, if I get even so much as a twinge, I do the above routine for a day or two and all pain goes away again.
Mister God, This is Anna

A short book that shows the awesome power in looking at things in a new light (in this case, through the eyes of a child). Not directly religious as the title may seem. Warning: I can't get to the end of Page 1 without crying.
Order of Magnitude Physics Material
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191715 for audio book suggestions

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176710 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=110899 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85840 for favourite books.
What genes remember
Siddartha by Herman Hesse. It's a short read but very interesting.
An alternative is something like beautiful soup.

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse. Quick read, very elegantly written.

Nearly everyone that I know who has read it puts it at the top of their list.
No professional philosophers take Rand seriously, except for a couple whackos in a couple places.

I understand if your 15 how exciting Rand can be. But to see adults take it seriously is sad.
End Software Patents briefs court in rehearing of the Bilski case
NASA - Phoenix has landed
The Oxbridge Fallout Effect