skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compare this article to advice from a famous Diplomacy player (http://diplom.org/Zine/F1997R/Windsor/lawdip.html):

1. Always Start With Your Own Proposal

2. Make Detailed Proposals

3. Clearly State Mutual Responsibilities

4. Be Prepared to Give Meaningful Consideration

5. State the Penalties for Breach of Contract

6. Be Prepared to Walk Away from the Table
jQuery and the dream of horses (natural speech programatic interpreter)
Typing on a Dvorak keyboard layout can help prevent RSI. At least I did not have any problems with it after switching.
Tonik by Blue Cross (now called Anthem in CA) has low monthly premiums (as low as $77/month) but pretty high deductibles ($1,500-$5000)

https://www.tonikhealth.com/
A high-deductible plan with an HSA is the way to go. You can put up to your deductible into the HSA annually with pre-tax dollars, so after a year or two you have money in the bank in case anything happens (and depending on your cash-flow can either continue to pay into). It's a great deal.
A degree proves that you can learn.
Search will be a fundamental part of the Web OS, whatever this buzzword ends up being defined as. You can argue an office/productivity suite is also fundamental.

For a company to ensure it plays at the Web OS table, it needs a hand to compete in the search market. MS knows this and they're trying to - literally! - buy their seat at the table. Google earned its seat, and Yahoo! seems content to be kicked off its seat.
Hi - I have had good luck with these two things - the Evoluent vertical mouse & the Goldtouch split keyboard. Try using the left hand mouse for a day and switch to the right hand mouse to relieve pain.
Music physiotherapists, believe it or not, are The People To Talk To. In my case, I had undiagnosed neck issues that were causing me to hunch in a way that screwed up my wrists, and about six sessions fixed it. Gone, never to return (as of 15 years later.)

The body will handle a lot if it is well maintained.

But it needs a specialist, and the people who work with musicians are the top of the field.
Food for thought: sales for the first six months of an help desk app
Most racists I know of don't suggest that one should use race when other variables are available -- e.g. they don't say that a black guy in a suit is more dangerous than a white meth-head with a gun, even though statistically black people are more criminal, because intuitively the armed cracked-out guy is even more criminal. I don't see how knowing average IQs of different ethnic groups obligates you to make mistaken judgments by overemphasizing them -- are you worried that other people will make this elementary mistake?

Also, discrimination means being able to tell different things apart. A 'discriminating' taste in wine means knowing the difference between good wine and bad, not thinking that all the wine from region A is better than any wine from region B.

Ashkenazim and sub-Saharan Africans?

Again, with the 'some overlap renders it useless' argument. I still don't understand why you will not also educate your child against the dangers of thinking that age correlates with height, when everyone knows that there are ten-year-olds who all taller than particular nine-year-olds -- and that you can have arbitrarily narrow age groups that make the average difference far smaller than the difference within each group. Overlapping bell curves with different medians still have different medians, however much they overlap.
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
I highly recommend a form of physical therapy called Active Release Techniques (http://www.activerelease.com/). I have had tendinitis in both hands/arms for several years, and regular visits to my ART practitioner have, over a year, improved my situation maybe 50%.

Also I have been using (on and off) the DataHand keyboard, which is wonderful for English text, but unfortunately inconvenient for programming because symbols are a pain to type.
What should I do with MOGBase.com?
1. Never ever contemplate using a conventional desktop keyboard (How anyone types on those things is beyond me). Use a laptop style keyboard with small key travel and easily pressed keys.
2. Use a touchpad instead of a mouse.

Also personally I'm one for using a laptop so you can get pretty comfy in a ton of positions - lying on bed, lounging on a sofa, lying on the floor, sitting at a table (Rarely).
Ask YC: How does Kayak or Mobissimo work?
I'm looking to develop a simple fare, hotel and car rental tool similar to kayak.com or mobissimo.com.

Both sites search hundreds of other travel sites, hotel chains and airlines, show the end-user the aggregated results in a nice way and then direct them to the original sources passing an affiliate id code so they can profit.

I assume that the majority of the sites they pull information from don't provide any kind of APIs.

Does anyone know how they might be able to pull this off?

I was wondering if there is a web service out there that gives you access to query the majority of these sites from an central API or if they are just having to scrape hundreds of sites individually.
Indeed, no ZFS support in major linux distributions due to licensing issues. FreeBSD has support for it though.
Ask YC: Best Startup Events
I am looking to schedule a slew of events to get onto the 'startup circuit' and know my way around the network. I'm UK-based, but mainland Europe and USA also of interest.

So what are the 'do not miss' events a pre-launch tech startup ought to be attending?
Another more important question, does the extra fragmentation actually affect performance and how does fragmentation behave over time (as linux file systems tend to de-fragment themselves during use)?
Here's some tips from someone who went through 2-3 months of not being able to type at all:

1. Get a split keyboard and make sure your wrists are straight when you type. For best results, get a FingerWorks keyboard on ebay and learn to use it. Stop using laptops at all.

2. Type less. Seriously. Turn on dabbrev-mode in Emacs, use SLIME completion when coding Common Lisp. Find a solution. Code the hell out of your editor (Emacs exceeds here). And don't participate in silly online forums.

3. "RSI" doesn't mean anything. Go see a doctor. Your pain could be tendons, muscle, nerves, or joints. It was joints in my case. If you can, see a doctor that specializes in treating sports injuries.

4. Dictation works for E-mail and documentation, but not for coding. If you want to use it, buy Dragon NaturallySpeaking (or MacSpeech dictate, same engine), forget everything else. Then get a microphone that costs at least $100. I use a Sennheiser ME3 from emicrophones. If you can't spend that kind of money, forget dictation.

In my case, cryotherapy, anti-inflammatory medication and typing less helped. If I'm careful, I can now work normally, but I still have to be careful about the amount of typing that I do.
pg: I disagree -- I still find it puzzling that you made this design decision about Arc. I program mostly in Common Lisp and I use very few keystrokes. SLIME+paredit+redshank in Emacs allow me to do structured code manipulation with impressive dynamic completion (as in m-v-b<TAB> -> multiple-value-bind).

In spite of my RSI problems I don't feel a need for more succinct naming. Succinct languages, yes, abbreviated names, no.
does O'Really really believe his own hype2.0 ?
All work and no play makes Paul a dull boy.
While you're still young and solo Kaiser Perminante has some cheap plans to check out. Some folks hate Kaiser, but if anything serious goes wrong, Kaiser has one of the best operation records of any HMO. When you guys have some cash consider a PEO like Gevity or TriNet. They can get you bigco benefit plans for your startup at reasonable cost.
Agreed, this is terrible advice. Negotiations are meant to be a method for two parties with similar goals to understand the needs of the other party and present an opportunity for everyone to walk away happy.

Paul seems to think that negotiations are best when you screw the other side over. Or he's defensive and believes that "since they are trying to screw me, I'll screw them."

Most negotiations are just the start of an ongoing and lasting relationship with the other party, do you really want to be trying to "screw them over?"
To a large degree I believe they do. But I think this is mainly because they are at the bottom of a very large heap.

At the top, is industry. They need a way to filter the 'hands dirty' workers from the management, and the management from the Executive. So the 'old boys clubs' traditionally get the Executive, the Universities churn out the management and the high school system produces the blue collar workers.

So in order to meet this demand, the focus of schooling has to be those skills which are most likely to be of use to industry - English, Maths, Science. Followed by history, geography and foreign languages. Last, seen as necessary for a 'rounded' individual are the arts - music, art, drama and dance in that order (as Sir Ken points out).

Is this good, or right? Don't know. Is it likely to change? Probably not. After all, are you going to be the parent to turn your child's back on the traditional model of schooling to provide an alternative education, knowing this will probably make them a 'better' (define that how you will) person but possibly less employable as a result?

I know there is a lot of babble these days about the breakdown of the workplace but even the most avant-garde employer would prefer their employees to be literate, numerate and deeply knowledgeable in a given topic.

Sir Ken's central point, though, about educating the whole person is spot on. I do believe greater emphasis ought to be given to the softer subjects, such as the arts. However, there are only so many hours in the day and unless the very large majority of parents start reclaiming ownership of their children's education then little is likely to be demanded to change. By this I mean that the parents are so busy themselves (working, may be single-parent) that they have little time and energy to teach their 2 year old how to count and recite the alphabet and so forth. So the job is delegated to the primary education system who have to make room to bring the children to a standard of literacy and numeracy where they can start the 'real' learning.
In Lisp dialects you debug mainly by typing expressions.
I've had lifelong problems maintaining anything remotely resembling a normal, consistent sleep schedule, coupled with chronic insomnia. Two sleep studies several years apart and a CPAP machine have done nothing. Scientific findings of a "food clock" that can override the circadian rhythm for sleep leads me to experiment. For the next 30 days I won't eat 16 hours before I intend to wake. On waking, eat breakfast. I hope this works.
Its probably a bad thing to reveal which company I work for here :).

The right people at MSFT are on the case (on a Sunday morning during Memorial Day weekend no less) and are trying to sort things out. I left a comment on the Consumerist post asking Bill to send me an email so that we can speed things along.
the other theory i heard was that the stomach uses blood to churn food, which deprives the brain of blood
There's no excuse for billing mistakes like this. But everyone needs to be aware that using a debit card for purchases like these (any large dollar amount) can cause problems like this. If the gentleman in question had used a credit card a solution would be one chargeback away. Debit cards are convenient but their great weakness is that if there is a mistake with your account you are locked away from your money until it is resolved. With credit it is the card issuer's money which is under contention. Protect yourself. Use a credit card for purchases, then pay off the balance. It's safer than giving a merchant direct access to your bank account.
Inside a NewEgg Warehouse (Operations pr0n)
Many of the flight-related sites use http://www.itasoftware.com/ for fare and schedule querying.
I think I'm fundamentally a pessimist on this front.

I think, for example, that the rising price of oil is a symptom of the absolute physical limits that material resources face.

Some raw materials have a small cost, others have a high cost.
Your sleeping problems resemble mine so closely I could have written that post, right down to the sleep studies and failed CPAP. I sincerely and truly and really really hope the food clock works for you; I'm going to start eating something, anything, when I wake up now.
i have insurance through anthem blue cross, but they've made me so unhappy in so many ways that sometimes I have to actually consider if it's worth it to not have insurance at all. they disgust me so much.

...until something (medically) bad happens, and then I realize getting ripped off by them is not nearly as bad as not having insurance at all.

if you ever decide to go talk to an agent/broker, sometimes they can help you find plans that are right for you, but sometimes mistakes happen, so double check everything. my mom's agent screwed up and she actually went without insurance for something like half a year..i can't imagine what would have happened if anything bad occurred..we didn't catch it until she went for a regular checkup and there was a question about the insurance.
One issue to be aware of is that it's not just the corporation interviewing multiple candidates. It's also the candidate interviewing multiple companies. Putting a large burden on each candidate may not scale if every company does it. I agree that it's important to assess actual coding ability but I don't know if a programming test is the best way to go about it.
"Making a web 2.0 site is now too cheap - there aren't enough users to support them"
Nice. I wonder, how long until someone sues them?
Working on ThinkCSpy . . . accumulating lots of exercise files.  How to organize?
My experience is that some fundamentals are only taught once. Eg, I'm kicking myself for not keeping my first shrodinger equation solution. There some trick little knot in there that I can now ever seem to remember, and electrodynamics. . . really miss those notes. Don't want to do the same thing in CS. suggestions?
Which topics qualify as controversial is itself something that there can be disagreement on. Race and intelligence is one of them. The parent who purposely imparts to their child a race preference does not believe that racism is a controversial topic.
Web hosting service
Hi. I am sure there have been questions about web hosting services in the past, but I am having trouble finding one. I am thinking about switching from Netfirms. All the review sites look biased. Is there a good review site? What web hosting service do you use?
Ask YC: Good books to take on a week away?
I'm heading off on holiday in a fortnight, for a week break. I've decided to leave my laptop behind, to avoid the week long hotel hacking session, that was last year's 'holiday'.

Since this year i'm going to force myself to relax by the pool with a book or two, I was wondering what things people would recommend?

I'd prefer things not directly technical (since I tend to read many of them while working) though not necessarily fiction.

Thanks!
It's a good idea to start looking into it now before current insurance expires, but I'm not so sure about the existing coverage mattering much. If there are no preexisting conditions, great, but if you do have at least one, I'm pretty sure they can decline you even with existing insurance coverage except in certain circumstances (e.g. cobra).

http://www.mrmib.ca.gov/MRMIB/MRMIP.shtml is worth looking into if you find yourself unable to get health insurance as a result.
My argument was in terms of real world situations in which it would be in someone's best interests to discriminate based on race. The point is that there are very few, if any, since there are other variables that are a far better proxy for intelligence than race due to the overlap in distributions. I wasn't trying to say that the overlap makes the medians irrelevant altogether; it just makes them irrelevant in almost any real situation.

The knowledge that the average ten-year old is taller than the average nine-year old is just as useless as knowing that the average Ashkenazi Jew has a higher IQ than the average sub-Saharan African.
This is what I have done as well. Health Insurance is really just financial disaster (health care originated) insurance. The deductibles are high but they will be more affordable than the alternative. To make things easier on yourself in case you do get a problem, make sure you actually contribute to the account. Between the plan and contributions to the account you might be paying as much as people with a more traditional account but at least that money (minus the premium) is going into your own nest egg.
Fountain head by Ayn Rand.
Thanks--I hope the experiment works also. It seems as though it should, based on my experience. It's also an opportunity to record the results of an experiment in Google docs, using their fancy spreadsheet gadgets.
Product: Condor - Compute Intensive Workload Management | High Scalability
Well, I agree that you should not be 100% truthful to your kids since our role is to slowly introduce them to the real world, but you should hear the stuff that my mother-in-law comes up with to convince my 3 year old to do things: "I have to leave your house now because my doggy is lonely and misses me" or "we can't play with that toy right now because the toy is tired and wants to go to bed" or "its time to leave the playground because the policeman just called me up and said its time to go."
As a hacker you will like this non-technical fiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Incident_of_the_Dog...
For some reason Paul's post seems targeted at the job interview process. With respect to point #1, it seems like it's rare that as an employee you will write your own contract, or that if you did, your employer would accept it.
They seem to have thought of that - they don't provide the accused clips, only screen shots ("snippets") of the videos they are linking to.
Although this won't help you (unless you're considering moving to the UK ;)) but I'm glad that we've got the NHS (National Health Service) just looking at some of these costs, $300 a month for health insurance! it makes my head spin.

For me if the UK didn't have free health care then I would be probably be paying a lot for all the health care (for a fact I know some medicines I take cost the NHS thousands of pounds a month to buy).

Not to put a downer on things. Good luck setting up your own business.
In French (autodidacte) it's pretty much the canonical word for that concept, too (French is similar to Spanish in lots of ways).
In regards to XML: haha, they are "human readable" but I can't read them either. But the thing is, that is still better than nothing. In fact that's scarily like fancy gmail vs. the newer yahoo mail interface - the former is like some xml formats, the latter is nothing at all. I know many webapps cannot be translated so easily into linear and text-only pages, hence I think at least some comment up at top about different options for doing something similar or an informational message about what is required for this app is a good idea if all other options have been exhausted.

I understand some apps are inherently inaccessible and there's probably going to be no good solution for presenting them in an accessible manner, but the number of those are very small. e.g. Gmail does not fit into that, think of what webmail was before web2.0. I'm not even talking about some of the fancier features of the webapp like chat, just the basic email functionality. So no, it's not quite like requiring that CNN do that. Just that they provide a CC feed. The rest are not so relevant.

Nor do I want to force every site to be accessible, as it really depends on what the site is. But like i've pointed out, yahoo mail is a horrible reminder of how a big site with a popular product is just ignoring a bunch of people. I can't even count the number of folks I've had to move to gmail from hotmail/yahoo mail because the latter two are just becoming a mess in their screenreaders.

Might I point out that this isn't just for the visually disabled. I have an iPhone and no matter how much Steve Jobs goes on about how I can see nytimes.com in all its full glory, it sucks. In fact, a lot of regular sites suck a lot in mobile Safari. My fingers ache from zooming in and out and trying to click on tiny links and getting unexpected behavior. Like, I use sigalert.com daily on the phone, and I can't click accident/traffic reports on the map because whoever designed that was expecting someone with a mouse to click, not a fat finger on a small display. If it works and I actually pressed the right thing, the ajax popup of accident/traffic detail shows up somewhere totally different.

But, I have the option of going elsewhere on the same site for a list of accidents by freeway. It sucks, but it's still something, and something a LOT easier to look at on my phone. And most sites can do something like that, hence my bitching. I would be hard pressed to find a site where the same information cannot be presented in a more accessible manner. Sure it's not as nice and for the average user it's pretty dumb, but it is better than nothing.

Lastly, I think what you're looking for is http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria which is a start.
Using that word may not be pretentious, but -- worse -- it is bad form. An intellectual might object to the word's use in this context simply because it is bad writing.

The goal of writing to communicate. Unnecessarily using obscure words clouds communication. In this case, I don't think the using "autodidact" was necessary. It did not add to brevity or cadence or coherence. It was a mistake.

The only thing worse than an anti-intellectual is a bad intellectual.
Your health insurance isn't free: the UK has a much higher marginal tax rate.
nice, pretty cool to able to see it live(15 min delay). Who knows maybe we'll see some aliens
I also have the impression that Yoga helped me a lot. I still have some problems, but in general my hands feel much better.
The only thing Twitter has to fear, is Twitter itself
PR secrets? bullsh*t.
THANK YOU. :) I wish more people would stop and consider how they'd do what they're trying to do if they were geared towards an older audience. To an illiterate audience. To an audience of all deaf people. and so on. It would make such a big difference. I try to get a lot of my Mac friends to enable voiceover (the screenreader) and the screen curtain (makes your display black, a key combination you can't remember is less tempting than turning off the display) and test out their sites and apps. It's a completely different world sometimes.

And nowadays, I don't see people "reading" the whole page..they do the equivalent of scanning, I guess, by going through the whole page and skipping irrelevant things. And if that doesn't work, then searching. Still a frustrating experience.