skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously you can put enough of anything into your body that you can't stand up, but for normal amounts it's safer than driving drunk, on your phone, texting, etc. There are several researchers who have found that it's so safe that in double blind studies they couldn't tell the difference between the sober group and the stoned group, i.e. they found zero harm at all. The ones who do find some impairing effects say they are minimal.
Rich Hickey's Clojure-Conj keynote (audio and LiveScribe)
Most of these are micro optimizations that matter most on a larger site. Most large site do not use Apache for static content. I agree, nginx would be a better first choice for a module.

One thing that may not be obvious about minimization is that it does not yield much size reduction when coupled with gzip. You may see 30% decrease in size with minimization on the plain file, but when you gzip both the plain and minimized you may only see a difference for a couple of hundred bytes. If you are worried about speed, you should be using gzip for static content.
If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)
"I realized I only enjoy software if I'm building what I want to build"

You sound like an entrepreneur to me. Find something you want to build, and build it. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Would it help to suggest that, on average, half of your posts should get a below average response? Most of them, actually, if you take into account how much the average can be skewed by a handful of high-scoring posts.

If you're being disinclined from posting one-word answers and empty "me too" responses: cool. No one would miss those. But if you're stopping yourself from posting interesting or helpful responses to old or unpopular threads? That's when you should stop caring about "karma" the poorly-quantified score and worry more about "karma" the concept. Being directly helpful to a dozen individuals in otherwise ignored threads would usually give a lower karma average than simply posting a clickable version of a link, but you'd get a lot more real respect from it.

Also keep in mind that anyone that sees your average karma will see your total right next to it, and if you game either one too much at the expense of the other it could give a worse overall impression than posting normally. I'd rather see a 1000-total 3-average poster than a 100-total 8-average or a 5000-total 1.1-average.
I loved Accelerando but found his other novels to be not nearly as visionary or entertaining
That does happen, and when it does you adjust. It's not like your report is about to checkin everythign all at once, he's about to click Commit, and then new marching orders come down just before he presses the button.

Presumably when A gets cancelled, he comes by and says, "A just got cancelled" (or you tell him, depending on how news flows). "This was part of my plan for this cycle, how can we adjust the plan?" And then you discuss giving him proper credit for work on A until it was canceled, and then break down what his new priorities look like.

Or, "I just started work on D, how does this fit in the plan?" "Currently it doesn't, but lets get it in there".

There should be very few things that happen that would be so important that they'd be worth discussion in a promotion that you don't communicate about within a day or two of it first appearing on the radar (if not hours).

The last issue of a reorg is the one that is toughest to deal with. I would talk to their new manager, layout their plans, etc..., but there's no guarantee that the new manager will have the same philosophy.

Being a manager is hard work. And frankly, I'm largely done with people management. It's the hardest job I've ever had, bar none. But its important, and I think some of the problems noted in this article are things good management training can deal with.
Frankly I loved the design. Neat and minimalist. I was expecting something really bad and was pleasantly surprised. If this is what you call, I'm very curious to know what you call good :) Your target market may appreciate a more jazzy design though.
Microsoft tends to play a zero sum game where it will innovate like mad until it dominates a market sector, then let it stagnate until threatened, having moved on to other areas. Anyone who operates a web server has seen a noticeable shift away from Microsoft platforms (both OS and browser) in the last couple of years. This has spurred the recent IE development, and I don't expect Microsoft to settle on Windows 7 when it's so much easier to "just buy a Mac" and get everything a consumer needs or wants in a computer these days.

I have shelves of Windows software sitting right next to me as I type, and I just realized I don't use any of it anymore. Moving on wasn't hard, and Microsoft's promise of backwards compatibility was uneven and ultimately unnecessary. They have the resources to retool overnight and release a streamlined OS, which is what they need to do to get back in the game, when they decide they're losing.
Every new version is the first version of whatever makes it a new version.
I really loved Blindsight. It set me off reading reading a bunch of non-fiction about the mind (e.g., Hofstader' I Am A Strange Loop)

The first Rifter book was pretty good, but in the 2nd he really let loose with anti-capitalist themes to the point where I couldn't stand it anymore.
I've found macports provides a ton of python libraries, like numpy, scipy, and matplotlib, all easily installed from the command line.
Being Geek
Managing Humans
The Design of design
Linchpin
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The paper:
http://research.google.com/archive/sawzall.html

On a related topic about another Google project:
http://sergey.melnix.com/pub/melnik_VLDB10.pdf
A GOP Congressional Sweep: Outlook for the Telecom Industry
Google’s Android Operating System Is Surprisingly Bug-Free
Coverity came out with a bug report for Android, so I asked them to put the bugs/KLOC in context for me. It turns out that of 36 project scanned, the HTC Droid Incredible code is some of the cleanest code they've seen: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/taylorbuley/files/2010/11/defect_density_by_open_source_project-1024x1024.jpg
In general, what's there to suggest a company use Git versus Subversion?
I left a BigCo job for the same reason.

Interestingly enough, I learned in my HR class just last night that stacked systems are disastrous. Any modern HR dept. should not be using them.
IronJS 0.1.91-preview
It's a pyramid. Lots of folks, particularly young people in my experience, don't really understand that you have to do lots of crap work in order to get to do the fun stuff. It's simply not possible to only do fun things, or if it is, I've never met anybody who was able to do it.

Most of the stuff you have to do to live is crap work nobody has a passion for or wants to do, then there's some measure that's tolerable, then a little bit that you look forward to, then there's a teeny tiny little bit up top that's awesome fun.

If you try and set unrealistic expectations that you only want to work on the teeny little bit that's fun, you'll always end up disappointed because the rest of the crap work supports you being able to do the fun stuff.

Of course, if your job never lets you experience any fun stuff, then what's the point? Move on. But don't expect you'll find a place that's only fun.

Even the craziest 90s dot-com companies, with pool tables, lava lamps, comfy chairs, top-of-the-line machines, liberal dog policy, etc. ended up not really being terribly fun places to work in the end, because they forgot to do the crap work that nobody wants to do.

This phenomenon actually manifests itself in a very real way in the open source world. Nobody actually wants to write device drivers or boot loaders or other such drudgery, so that stuff simply doesn't get worked on. What we end up with then is upteen million shells, window managers, audio subsystems, and other junk yet nobody can get their wireless card to work. (okay, maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but until the open source world found itself corporate sponsors, lots of necessary but boring stuff simply didn't get built).
Using X the way it wasn't meant for is the definition of hacking.
I'll have to agree as well. The only problem for me is: if not on the web, how are we going to make GUIs that aren't severely limited to our platform? Wasn't web design supposed to solve the "platform question"?
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Ask HN: Webapp workflow
I have had a good idea in mind for the past year and I think it's time I move my ass and do something about it. A friend suggested me to start formalizing every aspect of the the webapp, creating a very detailed graphical/worded description of what the site should be, page by page. I think it's a good suggestion (I know, I am _so_ naive).

What tool do you recommend to do that? Any webservice or software (preferably for linux)?
Holographic Technology Is the Next 3D
Trainspotting, the novel that 90s film about Edinburgh drug addicts was based on.

Being written in Scottish slang for the large part enhances the humour and character greatly.
Seems very much like Percolator from google: http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/google-percolator
I think part of it is that if you've just saved your company a million dollars getting a bonus of a few thousand seems unfair & like your company's being greedy. Yes, I absolutely want to be recognized for the good work I do, but it would also be nice to get monetary incentives commensurate with the work I've done.
A Paper Internet: Saving the web, one page at a time
Dunno when you left, but you can go up many levels as an IC currently.
I just finished that one last night. Some of the interviews are better than others; Woz was probably my favourite. I found the stories of the failures most interesting, as they seemed to inspire the most reflection and have the best lessons.
"In almost every measurable physical activity, athletes show improvement over time."

Barring chemical or surgical enhancement, we'll see athletes hit the practical maximum human performance for various activities sooner or later. Considering that world records are broken by mere tenths of a second now, athletes may be closer to those walls than some people would think.
Huge difference between the two, unfortunately. The CSE is made for specific websites, not web-wide search. And it's limited to 100 queries (more if you ask for it, but still limited) per day per key. Compare that to the previous unlimited search api!
You're not looking for just a designer, you're looking for a designer and front-end developer. Rarely do you find someone who is good at both.

Minimum wage is around $8/hour and $200 gives you 25 hours (3 working days). This is for custom design, custom cross-browser development and testing. Yeah, you say you're OK with some repurposed design but that isn't really going to solve your problem.

Can you not do better than $200? If you could do $500 I bet you'd get a different caliber of responses - assuming you don't request change after change after change. Even $500 is absolute peanuts, though.

Regardless, this is just my 2 cents. Good luck.
I don't understand why this isn't just a setting on each of our account preferences; if you want links to open in a new window you'd just 'check' that option. Choice solves the debate (aka each their own...).
They need users to be confident in their ability to run a secure service, especially when company secrets (source code, in this case) are on the line.

Also, their audience is much more likely to pay attention to things like FireSheep. I can just about guarantee that 9/10 Facebook users have never heard of FireSheep and wouldn't even notice if Facebook went 100% SSL tomorrow.

Edit: That said, I totally agree with your comment.
balsamiq mockups maybe? then there is always pen and paper.
I feel this article is somewhat unbalanced in its single minded rejoice for a certain tool/environment. So in the same spirit here come a couple of reasons not to switch from Matlab to Python, all stemming from my experience when I decided to try to switch from Matlab to Python/C

- installing all these packages on (any) system is painful. Different versions don't play together or don't work (yet) on some platform and or architecture. This stems from my own experience of getting a version of python to work with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, opencv and PIL on a windows, mac, and linux machine. No 100 percent success yet on any platform.

- central and consistent documentation. Even for very simple cases, I got a bit of a headache. I encounter a python print statement for the first time that obviously differs somewhat from its c printf cousin. I google "python print syntax" only to find that the first xx hits, including the official documentation, do not cover the full specification of this statement. I fear the moment I might actually need detailed information on something less trivial.

- Numerical integration is more accurate in Matlab.

- Visualization capabilities of matlab are more powerful. But who knows, perhaps there is yet another package floating around :-)

- Matlab may not have advanced data-structures, but it is a rapid prototyping tool, for testing ideas. If I need to write an actual application, I will use a tool and language geared for that task.
At least one person is benefiting from this, having fun & gaining experience by creating this project.

Other people might benefit too, or perhaps not. There's no extra charge.
The first thing I thought when I watched the demo was "awesome!"

the second was "oh my god, look at those rivers, it's like the freaking Mississippi delta!"
Thanks! I could NOT remember of the name for it!
you develop a drug that will work on a couple of different diseases (or, more likely, different cancers) You can only afford to run a clinical trial on one disease. How do you choose? You hire a company who has a good handle on data (A lot of which is gathered by the CDC and other government orgs who make it freely available.) The data people mine that data and come back to say, "x% more people die from disease 1 than 2, but insurance will reimburse more for disease 2, so go with 2."

- totally making that up, but it is something you could feasibly derive from the data. Mostly it was along the lines of "teens get acne, american teens would rather use a pill than a cream so develop a pill for them, cream for the rest of the world."
That article would have been a lot more useful if they reduced the snark. Thank you for linking it though.
Does that make them a monopoly? If so, is it something we should fight? If the idea of a network-effect based startup benefits from a bigger network, we should all want them to own these ideas then, right?
Web kit is a fail that has a tiny percentage of the browser use. Safari has too small of a % to be relevant (except mobile obv), and Chrome just screws up too many small things (despite being an otherwise overwhelmingly better browser than the alternatives).
because it pretends that 2 people of exactly the same value to the company. What are the odds of that?
[re]Designing the Nutrition Label
Start a company, something you feel passionate about.

Another important thing: Have a balanced life. Focusing too much on one thing works great for a while, but it never lasts. You always need time to wrap your head around other problems or, better yet, nothing at all (entertainment). It's like listening to the same song over and over again -- it sounds terrible eventually.
I left "a certain threshold" undefined on purpose, because it varies from person to person. The point is that the reward must be meaningful to the person being rewarded, otherwise it is much worse than no reward; the person will become cynical, demoralized, and unmotivated.

The main problem is conflicting valuations of the work in question, which holds true whether the the payment is money or recognition. Who is to define how much recognition is satisfactory? Take the Microsoft "ship it" award[1] as an example of a formal recognition plan, which failed.

My evidence, like the evidence in this thread and the presentation, is just personal experience.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070.html
I just finished The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and started Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. For those of you reading Ice and Fire or who have finished all of the current work I recommend both of these series.

I also look at The Book of 5 Rings and The Art of War on a regular basis.
Google's asynchronous tracking snippet:

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTra...
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Basecamp lets you link to messages, comments on messages, to-do items, etc. It has a robust per-project auth/permissions system. Other collaboration sites offer something similar.

In general, when dealing with work that occurs via emails, it seems like it's easier to build a separate system that has email notifications, versus trying to glue features onto email.
I had a very similar book in 1993 when I was 5 years old, for qBasic. Got me started with programming.
Brian Solis: The Dawn of the Social Consumer
I took a Sawzall class for a week at Google along with my team, our manager had requested it because there was a lot of things that we wanted to do with logs in the long-term, which were quickest to do with Sawzall. The people who taught the class were awesome, but I can't help feeling that they were a bit apologetic for 1) knowing so much about the language, 2) having to teach us, and 3) not being able to change the language in any way. But maybe that's hindsight and altered memories based on the dinner and drinks we shared after the week of classes.

The opacity of the language lead to a shared conclusion of those in the class (some of whom were taking it as a refresher), that all of the unique Sawzall code at Google had already been written in the first few months of it's use, and everyone else had just been copying and pasting snippets from everyone else's scripts.

I can understand why Google released it, it's the start to a halfway decent map-reduce implementation, having a low-overhead startup, quick runtime, etc. (compared to Python, which had been an initial logs processor, but which was punted for logs-processing mapreduces thanks to it's relatively high startup costs compared to processing time). But with things like Hadoop (and it's support for arbitrary languages for operations), I can't help but feel like this is a little late to the open source game.

Also, back at Google, I had the start to a project to translate a subset of Python to Sawzall in order to allow for people to not have to suffer, and potentially to write better logs processing code. Left before even getting close to finishing it.
I just want to make it clear that nowhere did I ever state people should pirate the books. If I thought they should, I would have provided a very convenient link to the pirate site. I wanted the Fleming company to be aware they weren't sitting on some sort of OPEC-like monopoly -- which is the thinking that apparently drives the current Agency pricing model in publishing.

Pricing is the hot topic in publishing right now. Notice how someone such as Konrath is raking in the dough with his $2.99 eBooks.

It doesn't matter what the publisher thinks the "value" is -- it's the price people are willing to pay that matters. Does Konrath think his stuff is devalued because it's no longer in paper form at a higher price? Or does he see the greater value in having a larger income?

Tell me, does being free devalue the software a lot of you use? I don't think so. But if they tried to price it, what would you be willing to pay?

You're all very smart people here (and I state that without any sarcasm), so I wonder if anyone here has devised any sort of pricing algorithm that could be applied to publishing?

I always hold up the Henry Ford model: he priced his cars cheap because he wanted them above all to be affordable and to sell. I think publishing needs to have the same attitude. When people disagree with that, I'm just puzzled and stumped.
Your title has a bug. On HN, all pages exist.
As usual, Common Lisp has many of the same features. The only thing it doesn't really have now is the same ecosystem as Python.
All. Of. This. (maybe not the high part)

You're actually in an interesting spot, because a year or two of community college, while not exactly like a 4-year school, will help you determine whether or not you really want to put forth the effort to complete a degree. It will also be cheaper than a 4-year if you decide not to stick with it.
Internally an email server uses directories like Windows or Linux. There is nothing really unique about directories. Externally though it works in a different manner.

The "http" protocol is an internet standard that is set aside for a specific purpose that does not include email. You could probably modify an email server to allow posting the messages in an email mailbox to an apache web server directory to be able to use the "http" protocol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol

Email has its own set of standards about how it works so that one email server can talk to other email servers and the DNS system. The http protocol is not part of this. So it seems like the email would need to be sent via standard email protocols and then moved to an Apache webserver directory as a copy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address

Email is pretty simple, if I were doing it I would set up an email server and an apache server on Centos5x and play with it. You can probably make it happen.

Postfix/Dovecot is a popular email combo.
Thanks for the reply, I am checking out the academic enthought lib. now
There's been a kajillion posts on this, but let me see if I can find an example. I'm doing this trusting you won't try to turn this into some kind of academic exercise.

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ajfcdscjzbvp_976rt9c...

This is the #3 post on the front page.

I know a good number of Googlers and Xooglers, all with complaints about the things mentioned in the slides and much more.

I'm not commenting further on the matter, if you care, you can read up on it on your own time.
I would suggest starting here. Good luck.

http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
Using Replication in PostgreSQL 9.0
>>>This sort of misses the point. Pricing is generally driven by one thing - profit maximisation. That's very different to maximising volume sales.

Sorry, no, I think you're unaware that there's no one price fits all in publishing. There's hardcover, trade paperback, mass-market paperback. That's three price levels, and not every book runs through all three.

Once upon a time, there was only hardcover, then Penguin revolutionized the industry with cheap paperbacks. I never see publishers whining about the lower prices of MMPBs. So why do they do this with eBooks?
Facebook defends privacy practices to Congress
Given two image filenames: "pogo-sticks.png" and "ic.HASH.x,pogo-sticks,p.png", I'm willing to bet the former will rank higher and lead to more pogo stick traffic and sales because of the straightforward filename.

From the horse's mouth: "optimizing your image filenames and alt text makes it easier for image search projects like Google Image Search to better understand your images."

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...

Anything that makes it harder for Google to understand your site is a losing business proposition.

I'd rather use PageSpeed for Firefox (optimize in dev, set the appropriate filenames, then deploy to production) to avoid any possible ranking penalties caused by this filter in production.
Why did California vote down legal pot?
Breckenridge CO is fantastic, as is Vail. Both are expensive.
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I meant that you were mixing currencies, and 2000 quid is a lot more than 2000 bucks. I agree on the rate being high if you can do it in a day, but my personal experience is that clients like that are hard to find. Long-term clients who need one-off sites are different because there's established trust and empowerment to make decisions.