skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
love this story :)
If you though that was in jest then I'm really sorry I didn't make it clear that I was 100% serious.

I don't think an explanation of why programmers commonly face mental health problems is required beyond asking you to read through the last years postings on HN, which include some very sad entries indeed.
SSD firmware needs to do clever things with caching and write combining to avoid premature wear. These algorithms are black boxes whose behaviour is very poorly modeled by the usual tuple of contiguous transfer rate / random 4K access rate / seek time etc. measured by artificial benchmarks. You don't know how the drive is really going to react until you hit it with the mix of operations that match your real workload.

Personally I've found the Intel SSDs to work best at the primary use case, speeding up small random reads, even when other drives have appeared to exceed them in random read. Bulk contiguous transfer looks really impressive, but mechanical drives with high data density are pretty fast at that too. What you really need the SSD for is random reads, and ensure that the random read performance holds up when mixed with other use patterns.
I assumed he was talking about tumblr, which is (I am told) a short, multimedia-rich blog service.
This last quote I worked on required the proposal to be uploaded to the agency's fancy new web server. Efficient and technologically savvy, right?

Wrong. Every vendor tried to upload their 2GB proposal to the server about 15 minutes before the deadline, crashing their server in the process. Thankfully no vendor got a quote in on time, so the deadline was extended three hours to let uploading finish. But I'm guessing if one or two got completed and the rest were still in HTTP limbo, they would have let those vendors fail.
1024x600 to benefit most common desktop/laptop users and the netbook users too.
Nick Carr: Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty, With Real Dangers
Counterpoint on the "impolite to discuss how much money you make with friends" - from my experience in two European countries, this seems to be largely a US-centric phenomenon. On this side of the pond closer acquaintances have no problem discussing career, including the financial specifics of it. This is only one data point, of course.
Go on, what sort of problems?
Use ion beam deposition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_beam_deposition). You can inscribe 20,000 pages on a 5" nickel disk. The data can be read by any civilization that can build an optical microscope. It will last for millennia.
Presumably most of us are adding value by a mix of activities and not just merely by typing. You can work during the forced downtime.

That said, such software would drive me insane.
You mean like this one?

http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/black-and-decker-power...

Aside from the available ones that track the spin of electrical meters or grab data from the optical port. This is the first one I've seen for a gas meter though. Clever hack. Although my gas meter uses the old dials with needles, the same kind of optosenor hack could work there too.
I especially liked the part where smoke came out of the fan vent on my laptop.

But seriously, if this is where things are headed, why not just run compiled binaries in the browser? There, I said it.
It can lead to other problems though.
It only counts active time (keyboard activity, mouse movement). For instance, I naturally pause for some time while thinking. If you take a break, the counter will reset automatically. Yes, it has driven my co-workers nuts when they try working on some code but I tell them to relax.

As for being fired, I've proven that I can get more done than others in this setup. It's not quantity of code, per se, but fixing three to four times more bugs than other devs. That's my niche - I love fixing bugs. I don't understand why other developers claim to not like fixing bugs. For me, quality balanced with efficiency is utmost.

Getting laid off would be a nice clean break.
But trust me on the sunscreen…
This guy pretend that x86 is strongly ordered, while it is not...
> why not just run compiled binaries in the browser

Indeed, this is the whole point of NaCl.

http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
somebody who think a problem is simple with thread but manages to introduce deadlock... can't be qualified as being "smart".
After trying to use that on my ipad for five minutes, I lost count of the obvious bugs. And no, the scrolling is not faster.
I just sit in a 120 degree angle and have never had problems with my back, wrists, neck or anything. Just make sure the screen is high up that you don't have to bend your neck...
To be fair, the App version's scrolling is "just plain broken"[1] so that isn't hard.

[1] It is better than it used to be. There used to be a weird lag at the start. Now it is nearly subliminally jerky. It also crashed when I opened it to check for this comment.
It's all based on public data gathered using this: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/docs/

You can always just edit your contacts on the original sites where the information came from and either wait for a recrawl or force a recrawl using: https://sgapi-recrawl.appspot.com/
Yes, it's the Social Graph API: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/docs/
Python logging 101
I'm intrigued by this. I once crawled a wiki that later went away, & the database was lost too. I've been looking for other people recreating a wiki from HTML (including the edit pages, that is) for years since then, without success.
Ah, the times I've done that (or not done market research because I wanted to write the tool)...
Great Entrepreneurs Have Vision, Not Just Ideas
Google is missing the thing that Facebook does well here, "identifying real people". [0] When I looked at the "Friends" google identified it was really just connections I'd made with Twitter, flickr and various other services. Very few I'd met or consider a friend. Parsing data to find friends isn't as good as being sucked into the human "social graph".

Identifying real people is a core concept at Facebook. and something they have got right (identity) and google will find difficult to replicate.

[0] I wouldn't have realised this point as quickly had I not read "The Facebook Effect" ~ http://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Effect-Inside-Company-Connect... which despite its flaws gives some useful insights. Excerpt: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/06/facebook-david-kirkpatrick/
From a Buddhist perspective economic growth is an evil. I suspect that Hindus (Ghandi definitely) would speak similarly. Certainly if it increases meat consumption it would be an evil to many Hindus.

Using our societal mores to judge the benefit of our occupation is precisely the sort of paternalistic jingoism that makes colonialism such an unmistakable evil.
Works great here, flawless throughout... only 4% CPU load on the dev channel version of Chrome.

Having an octo-core might help out a bit ;)
We know very little about the design process that led to the iPhone 4 antenna. It's very hard to guess how much blame, if any, Papermaster has on the design flaw and where, in the continuum between "he was fired for covering his ass" or "he decided he could not work with the kind of external interference in the design by Ive or Jobs that caused the problem", this decision happened.
With the rates of our both culture and technology changes, communicating with people 50 year into the future is like communicating with Aliens. So you may apply the same principles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_Extraterrest...

Another proven way to communicating your knowledge through thousands of years is to start your own ethno-religious group/nation, like for example Jews.

If you want to combine both approaches - try Scientology ;)
I don't think you can get Chrome for the iPad yet. Not holding out for it either.
I posted a quick note to Zed about this. The mental side is underrated. One thing I've noticed is mental exhaustion occurs much easier than physical exhaustion. With a strong minds you can block the physical. Crack the mind and that's it.

Some discussion on "mental habits of mind" would be good.
Seriously, or just kidding? For years I have wanted to try a setup like this and would love to know how it actually feels to use one.
TFS SCM is Subversion.
I had the same question. Can someone explain?
Maybe, but I think internet time wasting is a lot less toxic than TV time wasting. For me the main differences are:

tv channel-surfing is a variable-rewards skinner box (more so than internet)

tv has an essentially higher cost to stop watching (getting up from your couch is a lot harder than alt+tabbing back to emacs), and due to the immersive quality of video it is also harder to multi-task with useful stuff, like alternating between reading HN and an academic paper

due to the rigidity of tv programming, it has an incentive for you to just stay where you are (if a show you like starts in 10 minutes you're unlikely to do anything useful in these 10min) and for you to structure your life around it (staying up late to watch a late show, for example, means you're probably going to look for thing to watch on tv before that late show you wanted to watch)

tv creates a social illusion (at least here in brazil almost everybody knows tv-related inside jokes and comments, and not watching tv means being left out of these conversations)

tv programming comes in very long and rigid quanta of time (just like WoW playing; half an hour easily goes by without anything significant happening), unlike reading stuff on the internet or watching 5min-long youtube videos

tv tends to be (although this can be said to be changing) more about the tv experience (sit on couch, relax, watch "interesting", beautiful people doing "interesting" things in a funny way) and less about the specific content, while the internet is a lot more about the content, so there's a higher chance you can get something out of it

tv is completely passive, no comments allowed.
As a medical doctor, i think its a good article

the hacker community is not thought about in the medical community overall
MIT: A defense research giant, with a long tradition of defiance
That makes sense, I suppose. I guess I was thinking about it more in terms of my own habits - since I got "carpal tunnel" (or whatever it really was that was killing my wrist last month), I've taken regular breaks where I stretch my wrists. I wasn't thinking about your setup as being strictly about "keyboard time."

Thanks for the clarification.
A4 page is 8.3x11.7 inches

use 1200 dpi printer to print b/w dots this gives:
8.3 * 11.7 * 1200 * 1200 bits/page = 17 MB/page

5 TB are 142 Books with 1000 pages double sided each (size of a small personal library)

case closed.
"... Is there anything like a Y Combinator equivalent in Australia? ..."

The closest I can identify is at Mick Liubinskas at Pollinizer ~ http://www.pollenizer.com/pollenizer-investing-in-web-startu... & http://twitter.com/pollenizer
You can read my reply to wallflower above, but the problem with my assumption was that these were "hard" breaks, not just "time I'm not actively typing something."

Other than that, I've found that even non-coding tasks tend to be typing tasks for me. I almost can't stand writing by hand anymore since it just feels so slow by comparison.

That said, with my wrist issues I think of writing as being a task in the same abuse category as typing. My wrist only flared up after I had written a lot by hand for the first time in months.
I just happened across http://abcnews.go.com the other day on my iPad and thought it was fairly well done and the page turn animations were decent. Check it out.
I started twitter only because of the commands it offered..

follow @nick / leave @nick / dm @nick hi etc.

But the ability it provides in sharing things quickly and shortly & reading stuff shared by like minded people actually got me stuck in.
My policy for this is to simply lock the doors and hide for an hour if my network traffic averages over 2 Mbps for 5 minutes. I would also send myself an email. So far this has never happened.
More in-depth information is available at:
http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html
Switching Apache from Prefork to Worker MPM in RHEL / CentOS 5.x / Fedora 13
Nowadays I use SSDs in all my home machines (MacMini, laptop, gaming desktop). It really speeded them up, since seek times are so much faster. My unix server runs with a SSD for more than a year now, and I haven't had any problems with it.

Just for fun, I once configured two Intel SSDs in a stripe to see how fast it would be. After tweaking the stripe block size a bit (this made a huge difference!) the stripe maxed out at 400 megabyte/sec sustained read. That's almost a CDROMs' worth of data, each second ;-)
>fter all, HTML offers more capability now than it did back when the iPhone was released.

Over all web apps offer more control for the developer as well.
Unfortunately, it is not. TFS has source control built-in, which is slow and buggy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Foundation_Server
NERDGASM!

I must say the program in itself is nicely made, not mentioning the javascript-fact of it.

Edit: Too bad does not work in IE9, was hoping to see what video acceleration can do for performance.
Poll: How do you combat RSI?
After reading Zed Shaws post on health issues, I think it might be a good idea to see how we all actuallydo at self-help.

Please vote only once for each group (I do this / I don't do this).
I take regular microbreaks to rest my hands and get away from my desk.
I don't take regular breaks.
I stretch regularly.
I don't stretch regularly / I stretch only to try to relieve discomfort when symptoms present.
I get regular therapeutic massages.
I don't / rarely get massages.
Other. See comment below.
You do know that coffee causes you to pee more often? Lookup it up in wikipedia. If you drink a lot of coffee those liquids are going to be sent straight to your blader. That is what causes dehydration. Same for caffeinated soda.
Ask HN: Do you host paid video content?
What technologies do you use? Which CDN (if any)?
I've lost the game files once so far and emailed them, they let me download them again which was nice. I wonder if it's possible for them to let you add it to your steam account after you've bought it through there website, I think steam has its own payment processing things from which Valve must take a cut.
190mm * 277mm = 52630 mm2

size of one pixel: 0.5mm * 0.5mm= 0.25 mm2

1 page can then hold: 52630/0.25 = 210520 pixel

1 pixel is 2 byte thus 1 page is 421040 byte is about 0.5 MB/page (or 1 MB if you print double sided)

5 TB= 5000 GB = 5,000,000 MB = 5 Million pages

this is 5000 books with 1000 pages each.
Some of us are aware of this. But it becomes less important if you are stuck in your apartment for a weekend coding and not seeing anybody. You have to take a bath in the morning when going to the office. You will smell otherwise.
Certainly Brahmins would say that. Who is threatened more by the rise of an independently wealthy merchant/middle class than those who owe their position to an accident of birth?
There's the government neis program. http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/services/...
You can use http://news.ycombinator.com/lists which is a good start to get high quality user lists.
Works apretty well in Chrome on my ancient desktop machine which is a HP machine with AMD Sempron 3000+ and 2GB of RAM.
use microfilm, write as text.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform
Mental health is partially (largely?) a function of physical health.

Sitting up straight and relaxing your breathing isn't just good for your back it changes the way you think about what you're doing.
I am pretty sure this isn't him. It is still funny though
Automatic monitoring and restarting of Internet router
Why is everybody worried about the future people knowing how to read the data? Barring some unprecedented catastrophe, we should still have detailed technical specs of today's formats in 50 years.

Just bury 250TB worth of SSD storage, along with a device that activates every year and copies from one 5TB block to the next. Any single SSD will only be in use for a year. If the drives can survive 49 years before their first use, it will work.

Storing the data in some ridiculous format is just going to discourage anyone from ever reading it. I'm sure the people of tomorrow have better things to do than OCR millions of sheets of paper just to see grandpa's porn collection.
The Five Minute Introduction to Traits Instead of Inheritance
This made me think of something similar: start a sect devoted to preserving your files, to keep the ancient hardware running and to protect it from outside influence. Kind of like in "Foundation".
INVALID_STATE_ERR: DOM Exception 11: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable.

Safari 5.0.1 mac.
I use workrave & Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 and MS Natural Mouse 6000. My exp with RSI http://www.codelathe.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/30/out-of-ac...
No, seriously. What sort of setup do you mean? I just lie back on my chair, so all you need is a chair with an adjustable back. I also lower it all the way down so the desk is at shoulder height. This forces you to rest your hands on your elbows instead of your wrists and to have them on a straight line.

Your desk just needs to be deep enough to allow your arms to be on it past the midway to the elbow, so you don't have to actively raise your hands. Lowering your chair also has the benefit of bringing the screen at eye-height, but you could just get a high desk...
This is decidedly unscientific and at least in the small part I read clearly uniformed. Eyesight problems from LCDs have nothing to do with fonts. It's staring at something that's bright and at a close range for hours at a time. Even if you were just watching YouTube for 8 hours a day you'd suffer.
I think you should be able to add a game to Steam if you have a key, they do let you do that... If I lose the files (which I will), I'll just get them off TPB, I guess...
My point wasn't that we'll disappear, it was that there are more pressing concerns to address...
London, Berlin, Barcelona, Hamburg
My opinion on (3): I think you're overlooking the importance of sheer dumb luck. For entertainment products like Twitter, you have to somehow hook a core, influential audience. Then it takes marketing talent and more luck to expand into a mainstream audience. I don't think you can plan it, even with deep pockets (see Wave, Orkut, Buzz).

I don't use it nor understand the appeal, but I think of Twitter abstractly as an Internet-scale multicast message queue. You can blast any type of message out to a set of subscribers very quickly. That is a very interesting technology with potential value. It just happens to be used primarily as a chat application today. For example, you could trivially implement rssCloud on top of it.
Thanks for the info, I'll give Amazon a go. Hopefully they'll be less fascist than PayPal, thanks again!

EDIT: It seems that it's only available in the US, back to PayPal I go, I guess :/
Why I Miss The Blinking Red Light
use the 1000 year dvd:
http://www.millenniata.com/

or:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langzeitarchivierung
Note that you have increased the density of information from my calculation of 16 shades per pixel of 0.5mm x 0.5mm, giving 4 bits per pixel (i.e. half a byte, or one nibble, per pixel), so 16 bits per 1mm^2, and thus 2 bytes per square millimeter.

I intentionally chose a pretty big pixel for redundancy reasons rather than trying to be clever and working out a code etc., but the link in the reply to my post looks more worked out.
The four hundred years of planetary science since Galileo and Kepler
40-million-cubic-metre avalanche
Honestly I never really understood this. If I don't take a shower in the morning, I'm simply not able to do anything.

The rest is just routine: new day -> new shirt; fresh cloth -> deodorant; sunday -> do laundry..
Some of it is from people I've exchanged emails with over GMail, which shouldn't be public data, unless Google has leaked it out somehow.
Spots?
Funky, the english Wikipedia page. It says that the German pebble bed reactor was abandoned due to 'political and economic' reasons.

The truth can be read in the German version of the article, it simply did not work problem free. It is also mentioned further down in the English article. The German article about this specific reactor, the THTR-300, goes into detail.

The pebbles were breaking. The concrete got too hot. The reactor got too hot in its center. Taking out pebbles could only be done when he reactor was running with reduced power. It also had an accident where the reactor was leaking radioactivity.

All in all the handling of the pebbles had many ugly surprises for pebble bed reactor designers. They were breaking at a rate of 1000 higher than expected.
Shindig: Open Source implementation of the OpenSocial standard
The last one was a lot of fun, may as well come by this one, too. :)
It's paywalled. I can't read the content: could the submitter point us to an equivalent free to view article or does none exist?

At least a summary of the salient points would be nice.
I think this is a great trend for usability and security. For software companies that can actually do it well.

But at the bottom of the article it mentions that Adobe are experimenting with doing it. Argh!

Flash yes, I can see it. But Reader? I don't want it to update on the rare occasions I open a pdf.

Actually the only reason I oppose Adobe doing it is because I think of them as having some pretty awful programming teams. And whoever writes their updaters is one of those bloody awful teams.

Certain parts of their products are very buggy compared to Google, MS or games programmers. They just do not have quality across their brand.

My constant nightmares with adobe updaters across a wide variety of machines has made me believe this.

When it comes to updaters Adobe have always chosen the worst paths, annoying prompts when you hadn't used readers for weeks, horrible confusing UIs and obviously not thoroughly tested.

They're just not up to the task.

I guess what I'm saying is this trend should be welcomed, but with a pinch of salt, some companies like Google and MS I trust to do it. Others I would not (Adobe if you hadn't guessed ;).
"Personally, I dislike Twitter for my personal use. I think it is a fascinating way for brands to sell products to unsuspecting consumers, but there is no value as a standalone "Away Message" platform... that would be the job of something like Facebook status updates, since all of my friends are already connected on there."

Twitter seems better for personal use. Advertising/commercial use is everywhere, and it's nice to have a tool that's relatively uncluttered where I'm not being "targeted".

There are several advantages of twitter being "a standalone 'away message' platform" over Facebook:

•It's simpler (both in its look and its goal). I don't have to worry about applications, games, polls, or whatever else people do on Facebook that isn't communicating a single, focused idea, link, or observation. To me all that stuff isn't added value, it's just more baggage.

•Following can be one-sided, whereas friending is an agreement and is based on a real-life identity. I don't need to have a pre-existing connection to follow or be followed on twitter. Because Facebook is based on who you actually are, it doesn't have a "shit my dad says" or a "yelling bird" or whatever else that's silly and entertaining unless you have that one hilarious friend.
When I start to feel any pain in my wrists, I start wearing wrist braces. It seems that -- in my case, at least -- wrist pain is provoked largely by radial deviation; wrist braces force me to keep my wrist straight (and to instead move my entire forearm) and prevents this.

(For what it's worth, it took me over a year to figure out which particular motion was causing the pain.)