skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's safe to say that everyone gets a little demotivated at times. For the majority they are able to overcome this. I don't believe in changing your environment in an attempt to be motivated (don't move somewhere). But I do believe the things that surround you are what drives you.

It sounds like your jobs is boring and unchallenging. You havent gotten a pay raise in 3 years. I know it's not always about money. But money can definitely be a motivator. It sounds like your managers aren't very good or the company has financial difficulties. No raise for 3 years in unacceptable and says "we don't appreciate you". Time to look for another more interesting job. As some other mentioned, try a startup.

Which leads me into my next point. Surround yourself with smart, motivated people. The environment you put yourself in can make a huge difference. Joining a startup will give you access to smart people doing interesting things. Go to meetups, talks, etc.. Meet people who are actually doing something. Have a drink, lunch, dinner, whatever with 1 or 2 people who are actively working on something. Offer your suggestions and feedback to them regarding their projects (most people dont turn down free feedback). I think if you spend enough time with people in the community and actively trying to accomplish stuff, you might get motivated to do something yourself or one of those people might want to do something with you.

As for the gym. If you can afford it, hire a personal trainer. Try and book a bunch of classes in advance. Its easy to be lazy and not go to the gym after work. But if you've already paid for the classes and made an appointment you might be more willing to show up.
Future of the Computer User Interface
83% of US stocks are in the hands of the richest 1%

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-statistics-that-prove-the-...

So what do the remaining 99% do, if they can't get a job and they're not holding the stock that pays out the benefits?

Not to mention "distribute earnings to shareholders" sounds a lot nicer than "pay myself as CEO and owner of a bajillion options".
The Ludum Dare 48 hour game making competitions are also pretty fun. A relatively low barrier to entry, a set theme, and a large community.

They probably won't help with sleep much, though. ;-)
How to find an entry-level job after you already have a graduate degree?
This infographic was a brilliant move by the guys at RateRush.com. Not only did it hit the front page of Reddit they've now also been 'featured' on TechCrunch.
I think that was Modern Warfare 2.
I don't get it.

"If consciousness is what causes a quantum wavefunction to collapse..."

Surely things other than consciousness will cause a wave function to collapse.
> I fail to see the advantage (swipe, swipe, swipe, press) has over (move, press)

Turn up your trackpad's sensitivity.

Also, if you have a keyboard driven workflow, a trackpad means shorter travel from the keyboard to the mouse.
Chevy Volt Goes on Sales for $41,000 ($7,500 tax credit available)
What about the Zeroth law?

Disallow: /harming/humanity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Robotics#Zeroth_Law_add...
They are both good for different things. :)

The clojure model means state is easy to move around. This is awesome. The Erlang model makes the server-like nature of each component very explicit, which can significantly reduce the complexity of some types of systems.
Thanks for the explanation. I think part of my confusion arises from the (apparently) mistaken idea that t=0 is equivalent to "the first moment of time." But it looks like t=0 is closer to "before the first moment of time". In a certain sense, that's a contradiction, because you can't have "before" time, but in another sense it's the only way to speak of that which (logically, not necessarily chronologically) precedes time.

Would you say that's a decent summary, given that I'm translating from scientific terms to more philosophical terms?
The mystical experience is remarkably consistent.

What do you mean by this? To my mind, some definition of "the mystical experience" may be internally consistent, but I highly doubt what you're hinting at makes any testable claims.
Not everyone can sleep on a moving train in a small bed.
Great. Now I am afraid of last.fm...
Yes, exactly, in the standard theory, the Universe is undefined. :-)

Have fun with that and your "dark energy." I will continue to laugh at you. :-D (And will get downvoted as a result, but it's worth it.)
I didn't follow up on the "sales are down" stories too much, but it did seem pretty hard to believe that they had data 48 hrs after the campaign ended.
Leave it to Activision to figure out how to screw you every way possible.
They modeled gravity but not the atmosphere. So the most drastic effect isn't even mentioned - the much longer day length would roast the planet on one side and freeze it on the other.

Also, no mention of what the weather would be like without Coriolis "force" - no cyclones, no prevailing westerlies, no geostrophic winds. Would you get one big Bénard cell or multiples? (Currently there are six).

I suspect that these changes would be much more dramatic than the ones they discuss.
Surely some hard SF writer has thought through this further?
Well, this is last.fm so I'm certain they thought long and hard about adding that law and came to a compelling reason why they shouldn't include it.

When the revolution comes, we will understand why.
If the company is google chill. It takes a while. Rejections come early. So feel good.
I read this and thought this was a joke.
Not the first launch at $60. Warcraft 3 was also like this. I imagine there are also other titles at the same price point.
Correct, this is only anecdotal "evidence". It's hard enough even for professionals to do controlled medical studies. However, my work environment has not changed at all, and my colleagues continue to get as sick as ever.
I don't get how the fact that the railroads were built with eminent domain a century ago should affect current policy.
Apologies, my servers were overloaded with traffic yesterday. Was honestly caught off guard by the huge spike this demo caused. Now running with 3 EC2 Squid servers behind an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer. They're handling it much better :)
How do you cultivate a user base in a particular direction, when all the content is submitted by the users?

The only way I can think of to cultivate an anti-ad userbase is to not have ads, but Reddit has had advertising for a long time. For a while it was even a bit obnoxious.
IPad owners a 'selfish elite'
Do you get the oil by sucking on an actual cod liver?

Note that regular unrefined cod liver oil is very high in vitamin A, so you can kill yourself by drinking enough of it(see hypervitaminosis A). Vitamin A pills contain trivial amounts though(to stop people from killing themselves I am told), so the cod liver oil is a nice way to go if you feel that you need to supplement for some reason. And of course you also get the D, some nice fatty acids, and maybe a little mercury too.
Thanks for the pointer to OpSec term. DevOpsSec... I sense a tshirt in the making?
Gruber's updated URL-matching Regex
Quick Craigslist user acquisition experiment
The missing detail from all of these, of course, is that transferTo doesn't work with blocking I/O. You need to use a selector on WRITE to the client socket to make sure you're actually allowed to transfer bytes. Given that transferTo involves zero-copy (always faster than copying to buffers), a mix of the two approaches is usually best.
A lot of physics is built around faith.

I would take issue with this, at least when speaking of "faith" as "a belief that is not based on proof". For example, the belief that a god created the world in 7 days is based on faith since there is no evidence to support your belief. On the other hand, belief in the big bang is supported by some evidence.
The vitamin D in cod liver oil actually comes from the algae the cod eats, so a pill based on that algae is closer to it's original state than the oil.
I was mindlessly scrolling with two fingers as I was reading your post :)
At the time yes, but it seems like it came across more as a troll. Time to stop posting after midnight.
yeah, dealt with the smartenergymodel thing. Google hasn't updated that yet. this seems to be related to a lot of Mediatemple happenings.
Sure, Skytrax surveys can draw conclusions about average difference between airlines but they don't really account for the variance in flight quality, which is one of the chief factors that discourages people from paying a premium for a "quality" airline...there's no guarantee of even acceptable quality by paying more and most LCCs offer a safe and tolerable environment. Moreover, their sample is necessarily skewed away from the many people who use price as their main or only differentiator between airlines.

A quick glance at the reviews section of the same site will show plenty of low ratings for "top" airlines and good ratings even for the likes of Ryanair (an airline that actively seeks negative publicity for its customer care in order to create the perception its tickets are cheaper than they actually are).

I think its fair to say that few people fly for the intrinsic pleasure of being strapped into a seat in a narow metal tube, so "premium" airlines are mostly about minimising the displeasure. Other than seat comfort, arguably the main factors that can make a journey deeply unpleasant are largely uncorrelated with price. Unpleasant neighbours can happen anywhere, and many LCCs are statistically more likely to depart on time than their higher priced competition (their business model depends on it and they avoid busy hub airports)

I considered creating an airline guide type site but shelved it because I'm just not convinced the consumer interest is there. Now if someone could make the process of booking _other_ aspects of a holiday more engaging and differentiated (forget price comparisons, wildly disparate customer reviews and grainy pictures in favour of something engaging, social and interactive) I think they'd make a mint.
I saw the virus on your site earlier. It appears to be gone now and I couldn't find any XSS or SQL vulnerabilities on your site. Here's some other stuff to consider:

- Possibly vulnerable to mod_rewrite off-by-one buffer overflow (Apache 2.0.54). Upgrade Apache.

- Possibly vulnerable to header injection (Apache 2.0.54). Upgrade Apache.

- Possibly vulnerable to session fixation attack. Set session.use_only_cookies = 1 in php.ini

- Install mod_security if you haven't already. It's a great extra layer of security and can save your butt when someone forgets to sanitize input (which WordPress and 3rd party plugins frequently do).
Russia accuses U.S. of kidnapping pilot in Liberia
Original http://vimeo.com/13270780
ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 is released
Monocle - An async programming framework with a blocking look-alike syntax
jbooth,

Interesting post -- I don't know if that is something Paul evaluated. What mix/ratio would you propose?

Something like 1:10 threads:selector/connections?
Because people will buy their products on faith, where a startup would just be ignored. Belkin could release this exact same thing and it would be mocked.
I don't think weather is what they were interested in.

Notice they said it was done to demonstrate GIS technology, and GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems
For those who don't know (which seems kind of unlikely with this crowd), those lines are Isaac Asimov's three lawys of robotics[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
We didn't miss an opportunity; no one came up with a patch, or an acceptable fix.
Haven't Apple wireless peripherals always used AA batteries? I don't know where your quote comes from.
Truly. I have the feeling a lot of people view the race as a sprint and run out of wherewithall when they realise it is more like an ultra marathon.
Most, as usual, miss my point or are trying to argue some other point.

Many people get your point but don't comment to say so. Making (pithy sarcastic lol agree simple rude first ...) comments is generally unacceptable on HN unless you are one of those few people who has name recognition.

I agree with you that commenting can generally be distracting and conversations and responses can linger as a distraction. Sometimes that is what I'm looking for and I comment and sometimes I want to comment but just know it could suck up the rest of my day. Obviously some people are not affected by this. But I can relate to what you are saying. The best advice - do what is best for you. You shouldn't feel obligated to participate.
Many thanks for the insight. Lot of it detailed here too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1551868 Sadly, my blog is on mediatemple, so I can't change a lot of the good Apache stuff. I may switch to the semi advanced setup I have running for Cloudomatic (rackspace cloud).
"We are the biggest startup on the planet." --Steve Jobs (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006526-56.html)
The other major issue with his analysis is the earth's crust would deform from its current shape into a nearly perfect sphere. The earth is well above the defined limit where a planets shape simply a sphere deformed based on their rotational velocity. So the mega continent he suggests would never form.
Devops may be what a good sysadmin does. I'm not sure that job is. Looks far more like they're looking for a developer to write sysadmin tools.
Then the bleeding corpse should be hung, drawn and quartered.

Then burnt.

Then the smouldering rubble should be jumped up and down on.

By a hippo.

By a hippo....
I've owned http://www.fingerworks.com/igesture_tech.html for around 5 years. SOLID product. I'm glad I got one before they were acquired. It's definitely saved my mousing hand. And has way more features than Apple's product. Still, the iGesture cost me around $400 here in Canada. So to get something even close for $70, isn't bad.
The easy way to check that is to get your level of vitamin D (25-OHD in a blood test) tested by your doctor.
Replicate Afghan War Diaries
The biggest problem, imho, is that there's no incentive for the credit rating agencies to care about accuracy.

I paid for 30 days access to check my credit report a few months ago and I had to fix a whole slew of errors dating back almost 10 years. When I followed up to see if they had fixed the errors, I was told that since 30 days had passed, I had to pay again to get an updated look at my credit report. Talk about messed up incentives.
Why was he complaining about the stack pointer first? Isn't this line:

st1 = (void *)malloc(5000) + 5000;

completely invalid too? You can't (I think it's undefined) increment a void pointer.
hey, thanks! :)
>Apple makes the best trackpads in the industry by a huge margin.

Do you have any research to back that up? I don't doubt that Apple trackpads are of high quality, probably even the best.

That said, the placebo effect can be very powerful when attempting to gauge how easy it is to interact with a computer.
I echo prior advice about habits -- the standard stuff I've heard is after doing something for ~3 weeks, it becomes habit. I have had moderate success with streaks (both for exercise and coding). Esp. insofar as coding goes, I would say "just to a little bit every day". Find 10 minutes here to just open the editor and fix/improve/write one line & commit (or work on design or something, since writing software is def. not all coding). You'll be there before you know it. See: http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...

I would point you to two other reference materials. One, is Andy Hunt's (of the Pragmatic Programmers) book: "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" which I cannot recommend enough. Second is 37Signals "Rework", which I also heartily reccomend.

One thing Pragmatic Thinking & Learning touches on is S.M.A.R.T. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

Also? I have A.D.H.D., too. I also struggle at times -- it's a bitch to admit you're both intelligent & disabled.
I don't have much practical advice on this topic, just be aware.

Finally, work on balance. Work on goals. And don't sweat the small stuff -- relax and work slowly. Change is hard.

Best of luck.

-N

P.S. Exercise helps everything (ditto sleep) -- cognition, bodily health, focus, etc. Even if you don't lose any weight (or gain slightly due to fat -> muscle) it's still worth it. Trust me.
As you would have noticed from other comments, habit-forming is key. I am not sure where I first read this, anyhow, here it is: It takes 14 days to form a habit. I acknowledge this is unscientific and the number is arbitrary. Nevertheless, I and my wife have used this idea many times and we both recommend it highly. Keep a good thing going--whatever it takes--for 14 days and there is a very good chance that it will become a habit.
But Belkin couldn't release this exact same thing. They don't have the right people. There's a single person at the top of Apple that all products go through. If Steve doesn't love it, it doesn't get made, and Steve has good taste.

I'm not trying to idolize the guy, it's just how the company works (internally, and in the market).
Effective blog promotion for startups: SeatGeek, WePay, and Bazaarvoice
And in fact, there are several competing map and navigation apps in the Android market (like Copilot for example).
True, in my experience, prayer is sometimes the only solution.

"Each of us will have our own Fridays...those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays.

But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death, Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come.

No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come.

Death is not the end of existence."

Joseph B. Wirthlin
Breaking News:"One Bing-er Worth a Googler and a Half"
Was there ever a question about that? I thought that was pretty much a fact. Of course static typed languages are faster.
I first heard about OpSec from Roland Dobbins with Arbor. Really smart fellow who has many suggestions on network design / defence.

I just think people need to specialize in their field (+ a general knowledge of how the overall systems works).

Almost how a carpenter, plumber, and electrician each specialize but probably have a general idea how everything works. Do you really want a plumber building the foundation of your house? Just seems a little silly to me. Each domain is so large that I would rather have deep expert knowledge in a area than a general handyman who might cut corners or waste time with solutions he doesn't know about.
You meant Dark Energy. Dark Matter is a different matter all together. It causes pull rather than push.
I think the article has a great set of ideas but if you follow this advice blindly you might risk flailing around doing everything badly instead of doing one or two things really well. As long as you cover your whole customer acquisition pipeline I think it's more useful to focus your efforts on a few of these channels and really push them.

I'm basing this both on observation of successful startups of late, like the experience DropBox had with AdWords, and also on my own limited experience. In my last startup we would probably have been even better off if we had focused more on the things that worked and quickly discarded non-revenue generating activities. In our case AdWords paid handsomely for the time and money invested while PR gave absolutely abysmal results. However, I personally kept working on bad marketing efforts mostly based on the naive view about how things are supposed to be.
Inception: Attention to detail [video]
Sometimes spending those two years in an 'average day without guilt or anxiety' can lead you to the proper motivation. For example, I spent about 4 months playing World of Warcraft and not really worrying about anything once I returned home from work. I didn't strive to be the best in the game (went down that path before, easy burnout), but instead just enjoyed myself.

Then one day I just got bored, stopped logging in, and turned my focus to my startup and I haven't looked back since :) (this was 8 months ago or so, we'll see how long it holds)
Proving once again that consumers are easily influenced.
Yes. We hired Overcommitted to write our Highrise for iPhone app and Draft for iPad, but we've never purchased an app or product outright like this before.
I think a part of the problem is the perception that a successful launch is something you can measure 'the morning after', whereas the truth is that after the initial burst of traffic is gone you'll be left with little to no traction. That's when the real work starts and you're looking at months of gruelling grunt work to flog the thing forward in spite of any really gratifying moments other than to slowly see your stats craws back up to the level that you seemed to achieve so effortlessly on day one.

It can take quite a while before your real audience has found you, viral elements help but are no guarantee of a significantly easier process, even if they can cut the time it takes to get to the level of 'ramen profitability'.

And that's all assuming you make no critical mistakes, which can set you back weeks or months.

Endurance is far more important than talent in this phase and I think that is something that ought to be made much more clear. If the expectations are more realistic I think people would find it in themselves to go the distance.

Unrealistic expectations are killing.
It may be undefined, but gcc accepts it without warning under -Wall and does exactly what you'd expect. Note that (a) casting malloc's return is evil, (b) casting malloc to void* is silly since it's declared returning void* already, and (c) casting malloc to void* so it can be received as a char* is also pretty goofy.
That's still a lot less expensive per hour of entertainment than most other games, not to mention eating out or seeing a movie.

Still doesn't beat getting a good book at the public library, though...
Cod has minimal mercury. The fish with methylmercury issues tend to be large fish which live many years.

Data: http://www.fda.gov/food/foodsafety/product-specificinformati...
Yep, it's basically undefined because a void type has no known size to do pointer arithmetic with.
One Call To Action
ASP.NET MVC 3: Using HttpNotFoundResult action result
Or eerily similar to iTunes and OSX? or Windows and Media Player?

Every OS comes with some pre-installed apps. By itself, that doesn't prove any kind of foul play.

Also, the TC article is wildly inaccurate in a number of ways. Google places isn't new, but it's integration as part of Maps is. Previously it was a seperate app called Places Directory, that's been on the Android Market for at least a year. And Places Directory has had Yelp reviews for quite some time, I know because I've used Places Directory a lot.
Nah. Well fed ancients were about 6ft tall. Unless you're extrapolating from millions of years ago...
Or, the code could be released under the CRAPL:

http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/
Wouldn't it make more sense if the alarm was for when you're not sending data to the Google?
I expect developers and sysadmins to work together on these things. I'm always confused when they don't, and saddened when people think that's okay.

For instance: I wanted to do a few projects in Rails. I made sure that my admins had links, guides, and all the info they needed when I started the project. By the time I was ready to launch, they'd already had Ruby, Passenger, and all my dependent gems installed. Deploy was a breeze.

Later, a different coworker did a project in Django, but didn't breathe a word to our sysadmins. When he and the client agreed that it was launch time, our admins were scrambling to figure out what version of Python we needed, how to set up the environment, and what the deployment best practices were. Everyone was angry and the deploy was late, but the developer didn't see any consequences.

Kills me.