skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally agreed, though sleep training is still somewhat controversial. If you and your baby have found sleeping habits that work for you all -- you are getting enough sleep to be functional and be healthy -- then skip it.

My daughter is 14 months, and still wakes during the night to breastfeed (she also eats solid food by now, but still nurses), but she doesn't make any significant noise and doesn't even necessarily wake my wife, and we're both fine and rested in the morning. This has pretty much been the pattern since she was a few months old.

Well... I'm fine and rested in the morning if I have gone to bed at a decent hour. I have trouble concentrating enough to get work done during the day, so I often do it at night. Last night I slept about 5 hours on the couch by my computer then worked as the sun came up. :)

It's not ideal -- I could use more rest in my life -- but I'd rather skip some sleep then cut out any of my involvement in my daughter's life... I'm really enjoying that part. She's learning at an incredible rate, and I'm finding myself pretty good at optimizing her experience (and man, now I really cringe when I see these parents constantly putting the most interesting things just barely out of their poor child's reach, or trying to "discipline" their children into, well, suppressing their essential and powerful natural curiosity).
It's interesting - all these things you mention are business decisions, not technically engineering decisions.

Yahoo has great tech products. Even during the heyday, the engineers seem to have been aware of what was going on, it just seems that the "suit monkeys" took things over and made a lot of short-sighted business decisions.

I'm reminded of the famouse Google quote (something along the lines of, when the VC's gave google money, they asked, "are you going to be run by marketing or by sales?" Page's response: "Neither, by engineering!"). It seems as if Yahoo is a great tech company run by sales people (or more apt, "media people").

The same could also be said about Microsoft. The smartest people I know all currently work there or have worked there -what's "holding them back" (in relative terms, of course!). Is it their business people and their internal politics? Sure looks that way after the Kin fiasco.
What do you think about the Flowdock UX improvements?
I'd bet vastly more people have left Google (in both absolute and relative terms). Employees at both companies would have plenty of opportunities if they leave and little upward mobility if they stayed.

Paul Bucheit, Evan Williams, that same founder of del.icio.us and many many more too.
Be careful with the word 'everybody'. Surely someone would prefer higher contrast, the ability to change foreground/background color, and faster page turning (without that annoying black flash) over crisper text.

Me? I still prefer print. Though I imagine that much like my preference for CDs over mp3s, my preference for print is doomed to die out over the next few years as the technology improves and I slowly get over my nostalgia.
I agree. Browsers really need a character whitelist (and also for other features like RTL and combining).
Your calculation is correct. If the tablet makes it to the retail market, it will cost around $50.
Is the dataset something that anyone can access and download or do we need to be associated with one of the mentioned companies/research groups?

Edit: Looks like we can't exactly just hack on this in our basement

http://alois.med.upenn.edu/niagads/how_access1.htm

http://bit.ly/dgbmmk
Uhh, no.

They would be violating the GPLv3 license under which they distributed the source. Changing the license only affects the next person acquiring the source. The people who acquired it under the GPLv3 license cannot have this retroactively revoked or relicensed. If Orcale sued those parties, they would be violating the terms of the license. In the least instance they shouldn't have been distributing the source unde GPLv3 so their claim for infringement would be moot.
Its actually a pretty sweet website.
Indian $35 Tablet/Laptop Specifications and Hands-on Video
direct download link of the hands-on video: http://bitcast-in.bitgravity.com/ndtvod/23372/ndtv/11082010_p_primeshowgadgetgurueng_merge_20906_4716.mp4
Hands-on video of the tablet: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600740
From a business perspective, if it's so popular that there are people abusing/spammers/etc. it means it's a success.

It's like if the gmail creators refused to continue their work because there might be spammer.. I think it is an opportunity to turn "There could be vulnerable.." to "We will find the best match for you", etc.

However, on the financial part, I'd feel bad taking money of vulnerable people coming for help..
Video: Indian HRD Minister with $35 tablet
OK but, did google not really think about this possibility? I think it was a very obvious risk and I would think they probably had a plan for this.
It's not true polyphasic sleep; it's just the best way to deal safely with exhaustion. And just about every new parent goes through a period of exhaustion, because the baby will probably be waking them during their normal sleeping hours, every night... plus there's more to do during the day, so especially first time parents start out trying to do it all (but without the sleep to recover at night), and that catches up with you pretty quickly.

Plus the experience of giving birth to launch this whole adventure means that probably both parents went for a few days with no or very little sleep, and the mother has a lot of physical recovery to do as well (ever worse if it was a c-section), so they're starting off way in the red.
Editorial: Waiter, there's a Nazi theme in my Android Market
It's amazing that for fear of future repercussions, someone would create a throw-away account to express a sentiment such as this.
Or a reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_Despair
> doing what's best for the rest of the industry obviously isn't something Google cares about.

I am sad that over the last year or so this has gone from a quiet fact of it being a corporation to a in-your-face "Google: do no evil unless you can make money". I guess each generation needs a company to fantasize about being a righteous white knight.
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Do Developers Have Enough Time to Keep Their Skills Up-To-Date?
This is definitely the main point in this "debate"; some people will just prefer one screen type over the other. A lot of people seem to be advertising these opinions as objective fact, and that's quite a dangerous trend.

I'm personally of the opinion that e-Ink is what I'd prefer for reading, but I absolutely despise reading on screens; anything lengthy I print out. And while I think that e-Ink is better for reading, that's all that e-Ink devices (while being a lot cheaper than the iPad) do. If you read less and do other things more, then e-Ink is unlikely to even be an option for you unless you feel like shelling out for another device for the few times you do read at length.
Eat your Own Dog Food is the one I never get. I know it's supposed to mean that your dog food should be good enough to eat yourself, but it's akin to expecting the CEO of a pet food company to open a can and start eating!
Money can't buy recognition of talent or self-discipline but it can buy you girls in a KTV lounge and a hangover?

it's like an updated, amoral version of A Christmas Carol...
Thank you, appreciate it!
"Flattr is a social micropayment platform. Help support the people you like - and enable them to continue to do what they do! And add your own things to Flattr and receive support from others."

I'm obviously not an English expert, but I don't particularly like this text. Too much "10 years old" words repeated. (i.e. "to do what they like to do")
> Be aware that as your wife breast feeds (if she does) her hormones are still rocking to a different beat every hour.

Well, and never mind the hormones (though both parents will have a lot of these going on) -- breastfeeding quite literally takes a lot out of you. She will have more to do, but less energy than she's used to.

Just do everything you can, and then more, and look for the humor to put a smile on your face (and hers) whenever you can. It gets easier as you go along.
This kind of news makes me wonder if maybe we should just give up completely on patient privacy & by default just share everything.
Yep, and the PS1 was discontinued March 23, 2006. So we might expect a new PS4 in 2012, and the PS2 to be discontinued that same year.

PS: The XBox was discontinued early due to licensing issues. Microsoft was unable to drop the production costs as far as they would like so they decided to release the XBox 360 early.
I'd rather see us become licensed professionals, like CPAs, with a large professional organization (like the AICPA) to lobby for us on issues like software patents, etc.
Perhaps you are missing the point. If I pay for more bandwith and you do not then we will access every website at the same speed. You might access all sites slower than I do, but the sites you access, are all accessed at the same speed.

So you would have no artificial incentive to visit say the BBC rather then Huffington Post.

But, what internet prioritization is about, is that regardless of the speed of bandwith you have, some websites will be slower and some faster. Sure, if you have a 10mb and I have a 20mb then the slower sites will be even slower to you than me, and the faster sites not as fast as mine, but that is the point. Not that a user can access all sites faster or slower, but that all users can access some sites faster and some slower, regardless of the package they have.

So, if this was the case say in 1998, when Google was the newest and best thing, google.com would be so slow and Yahoo so fast that possibly people would just stick with yahoo.
Even the smallest and emptiest of internet forums have their trolls; this one seems like a magnet for them.

With chatroulette I'm sure the penises came before the popularity.

Filtering out the abuse would have to be absolutely top priority for something like this.
"Eat, Pray, Love" Strict Compete with "The Expendables"
I don't follow how the author dismisses the security patent by judging one flowchart of an if/then statement, and then in the next sentence claims that the dalvik implementation is substantially different. If the patent is truly so simple, then the implementation can only differ by inverting the condition and swapping the if/then blocks. If the dalvik implementation is substantially different, then there's probably more to the patent than that one diagram.

From that point on, this analysis stopped smelling objective.
This guy doesn't seem to know that Android includes Apache Harmony and not OpenJDK.
If it doesn't exist yet, it's vaporware until it does. Any time a device claims things that it hasn't yet actually produced, that's vaporware.
It's an excellent justification for allowing throw-away accounts.
Erm, this guy lost the opportunity to make a few hundred bucks with that post, because I want that microscope!
The movie scene I thought of is in Clerks 2 where Randal and Dante are in jail and Randal is going off on Dante about how Dante complains about his life.
permitting third party developers to interact with bank accounts in even a strictly limited way seems like an absolute gift for phishing schemes...
Newsflash: Unhappy people are not made happy simply by having more money.

If you don't enjoy life, you're doing it wrong. The secret isn't any material thing. It isn't 'who you hang out with'. It's who you are. If you don't like life, change yourself until you do. Learn to enjoy things, instead of simply using them. Learn to enjoy accomplishments, instead of using them as goals on your way to happiness.

I hope we aren't supposed to believe this was a real story, either. Unhappy people don't turn around in 1 night. You can't show someone that other people are happy and have them wake up the next morning realizing how to be happy themselves. You have to work at it, and realize that the unhappiness is you and the only way to change it is to change yourself.
In point #11 pg presciently says,

> If Sun runs into trouble, they could drag Java down with them.

[ 'trouble' could of course include 'nonexistence' or 'sleeps with the enemy' ]
> Mom takes care of the baby, Dad takes care of Mom.

I'm pretty opposed to this idea, actually.

Breastfeeding is an obvious exception (I couldn't help much with that, though during the tricky part at the beginning I learned a hell of a lot about how to help the baby latch on), but in general I think you should be doing every single baby task whenever you can.

If you don't, after a few weeks your wife will be so much better at changing diapers, changing clothes, calming the baby when it's upset, taking the baby for a walk, etc. etc. that you won't be able to do it, even when she needs you to. It'll be weird for you, weird for the baby, and you'll just get screams until Mommy comes back, and that means you'll be fairly useless when your wife most needs your help.

If you're working from home, dive in (this was how I did it).

If you are away at work during the day, then when you get home you should take over the baby as much as possible. Change the diapers, even if you're slow & awkward at first (you'll quickly improve), give a bath (also hard at first!), dance the baby around the house and sing some songs. And if the baby has nursed recently, do NOT just hand if off to mom at the first sign of distress -- figure it out yourself. When the baby cries in the middle of the night, take it far away from the bedroom (once you've figured out that it's not hungry, that is), take a deep breath, and start experimenting to learn how you can calm it (it may be different from what mom does). And actually, if you've got bigger hands and a longer reach than your wife, some of these things will be naturally easier for you anyway.

Trust me, you'll be a far more valuable daddy this way.
The best bit in "Cyber War"
I dunno, it's pretty definitive that emissive displays cause more eye strain than a book (and E-ink is really close to a book). For any serious reader, eye strain seems likely to be at the top of their to-be-avoided list.
Anyone that doesn't have Arial installed almost certainly won't have Verdana installed anyway. Helvetica would be a more logical fallback for those people who hate Arial so much they won't have it on their system...
So, this article is a government minister telling you that it isn't vaporware? And ending with the words "Never be sceptical of the government."?

Yeah...
Ask HN: I Am Stuck Between A Rock & A Hard Place. What's Next?
I am in the process of creating a web based service for small businesses. So, I went out and got feedback from as diverse a group of people I could find within my immediate environment (I live in India).

The feedback I got was troubling to say the least. The thing is that although after an extended conversation and repeated cold calling people understood and appreciated what I was trying to offer. They're still refusing to use it in a small private alpha. Why?

The thing is that I am asking them to store their financial records with me and, although privacy is not an issue, they are worried about tax. In fact, they have an elaborate culture in place to tackle just this. This ranges from bribes, destruction of all financial records at the end of the fiscal year to purposeful inventory mismanagement to throw off the sales data. For example, if they got ten boxes of something they'll put in 5 and keep the rest black.

Since, the paper trail is huge and the honest tax authorities like to trap big-wigs. they get away with it. So, if they opt into my service in the longer run the noose tightens on them. The obvious way out would be to encrypt the database and allow for regular erasures, but that undermines the core benefits of my service.

Moreover, I intend to stick around for a while. So, it's pretty inevitable that I'll have a messy legal situation on my hands down the road. The precedent has already been set and it's disturbing to say the least (see: http://knol.google.com/k/david-sarokin/google-ordered-to-reveal-blogger/l9cm7v116zcn/7# ).

It also doesn't help my cause that I am still a teenager. It's quite obvious to everyone that I cannot possibly know what I am talking about. It's a trivial issue, but it's amazing how such things tend to bias conversations.

So, any tips on what I should do?

Thank you.
I can't help but hear the sound of my bullshit detector when I read your stories, 'Max'. I am sorry and apologize if what you write is all true.
That doesn't really happen though. A family with multiple iPhones usually has multiple computers too.
For the particular cases I saw, runtime extensibility never mattered. (Do you have one where it does?)

And extending a third party sum type is not very hard:

data LibType = Zero
| One Int
| Two Int Int

data MyType = ZeroOneTwo LibType
| Three Int Int Int

(It of course implies that you use MyType instead of LibType in your code.)

Finally, if you really want to extend a sum type, no work around allowed, you might want to look at Ocaml's variant types.
I tried being a listener and never got a complainer to chat with. So I tried being a complainer and I was just connected to endless AFK listeners.

I guess the ADD folks who switch tabs after a few seconds are clogging up the listener queue. I think you will have to tweak the social interface to make this work.
It's a fairly minor omission when you can use a tool like calibre to convert your EPUB files to MOBI.
I did a semi startup (code in my free time, consult for actual money) a few years ago. It was hip, but after 2 years I realized it wasn't working out and I sold it. After that, I've been doing consulting and actual jobs for a few years. No real effects on my career, as far as I can tell. I am thinking I'll probably start another one soon, with many lessons learnt.

One thing it did for me is that for a while, I was hesitant just jumping into any idea, because I know now how much it can take out of you (years of work before you know it).
I enjoyed reading this, as it is a nice story, but wccrawford has a point. Happiness is internal, not external. It's a choice and a habit, not a situation.
You can choose between censorship and freedom of speech. You can't have it both ways.

Offensive speech is the small price you pay for your freedom. Enjoy it.

And, BTW, I live in a country where I am not given the luxury of being able to express some impopular points of view without risking being arrested.
Considering that no definition of "object-oriented" is accepted by everyone, I'm not sure your criticism is valid.

My suggestion: drop the term "object-oriented" altogether, and refer to more specific features.
Friend-based throttling in Facebook News Feeds
I wonder what the production cost of an iPad with TWO displays would be? The iPhone now has glass on both sides, what if the front could be LCD and the back E-Ink? Since E-ink is permanent, it could also be a great way to "personalize" your iPad with e.g. a custom design on the 'back'. Steve, are you reading this?
“Enjoying life has nothing to do with what you have, it has to do with who you are hanging out with”.

Umm, I can't agree with that. You need a new mentor, Max.

Enjoying life indeed has nothing to do with what you have. It also has nothing to do with who you go get drunk with.

Enjoying life has to do with who you are, and what your perspective on life is. Some people enjoy solitudes, others enjoy being with close friends, others enjoy being adored by infinite crowds. Some people are happy sitting alone on a grassy hill with half a penny in their pockets, others are miserable even as millionaires surrounded by the best and cleverest people in the world.

Happiness comes from inside, not outside.
It was too bloated, among other things
forgot i wrote a blog post on the installation so hope it helps someone:
http://duuit.com/pg/blog/bman/read/552364/how-to-have-gmaill...
HTC Incredible on Verizon.

So I'm definitely one of the people who laughs when people on tech forums yell about the carriers loading phones with bloatware and crippling their functionality. The only thing on my phone that wasnt on other SenseUI devices (even before root) was the Droid boot animation and a Verizon tab in the Android Market. And no functionality was crippled. I could always install non-market apps.
His point isn't that the patent doesn't cover Anrdoid, but that it's so broad that it should never have been granted.
What? So a few years ago Google believes that wireless needs to be kept open, makes a big bet and succeeds in ensuring as much.

Nowadays instead it does not require regulation because there's plenty of competition.

What has changed in the last few years to make Google change their mind? Have the number of wireless competitors gone up? From what I heard you (=Americans) are ending up with 2 large wireless companies (AT&T and Verizon), and a couple of little ones.

If anything competition has decreased. And yet Google feels regulation is not necessary anymore.
Software management via git isnt locked in i am referring to the issues, wiki and project management pieces.
LadyJava Music Video for JavaZone
If(Sun == SCO && Oracle == (Microsoft||Apple||IBM) && JavaFX == NULL) LOL()
Watch out if you're looking to read mostly PDFs. I'm in your position, and I found the Nook to be a beautiful device that was completely unsuitable; since the device can't reflow or scale fonts on PDFs, the screen just turned out to be too small to read all the PDFs I tried it with (even after manually trimming off all the margins and page numbers.)

I'm considering buying a Kindle DX, which I believe would be ideal, but it's hard for me to justify that when Pixel Qi hybrid tablets may be coming out in the next year.
> Make some meals you can easily freeze so you don't have to cook if you don't want to.

I'm glad you mentioned this -- this is my #1 tip for all new parents. But to hell with first few days (or weeks) -- freeze stuff like chili, curries, pasta sauces (with protein in them)... anything you can thaw and put on rice or pasta is great. My wife & I had a friend who was moving and needed to sell a full-size freezer that we put in our basement and totally filled over the 5 months before our daughter was born. That food lasted us months, and every time we thawed out something new we were very happy we'd done it.

I don't even remember who recommended the idea to us, but I wish I did, because we owe them big.
great source of actual business plans in their entirety and the site also links to authoritative business encyclopedias.
Design is about functionality first, you will see that the most functional websites have very minimal design, but don't think that minimal design comes easy in the planning stage (investment), it does however often come very easy in the implementation and maintenance stage (reward).
Don't be disheartened. You came up with a product, and it does not fit your market (tax cheats, apparently).

I would search for customers who do not have such a problem with being honest about their financial situation.

You don't want to get into the business of helping people evade tax. That's a good way to spend a long time in prison.
Where did you get the 10% success rate from? This sounds very low compared to figures from US census figures, for example, which reckons 50% ae still going after 5 years, without even accounting for the difference of being bought out, stopping while the going's good or going bust.