skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They probably would have hurt themselves more by keeping wikileaks and becoming the center of attention during the Christmas period, receiving the fury of conservative America, and losing major government contracts.
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I work on a 30-45 min work / 20-30 minute break schedule. It really helps me to prevent burnout, but I need something to do every 45 minutes for 20-30 minutes, so I'm asking for an xbox.

Nice headphones are always in high demand, as are a plethora of interesting books.

What about something useful to your job? A new keyboard? How about a new bag to carry your laptop?

I recently bought a DSLR and I'm also asking for a new lens.....
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Take his advice or not, but please, move those 4 <script> tags from your header to your footer. It would take you 2 minutes and your site would feel 2x as fast.

Its a nice site, which could be even nicer with some extra speed, and it won't take you any time.
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"As the drink cools more water melts into the drink, diluting the cocktail. Thus a shaken Martini is generally slightly stronger than a stirred one."

When a drink is shaken, or stirred, with ice, the cooling happens as the heat from the drink is used for melting the ice, tying together the cooling and the diluting.

If the drink was mixed in a completely insulated container (= adiabatically), both shaking and stirring would result in exactly the same amount of ice melting, for exactly the same amount of cooling of the drink. Shaking just makes the heat exchange happen faster, by moving the liquid more over the ice surfaces.

In practice I would guess, (1) we rarely have the patience to stir a drink long enough to cool it as cold as a vigorous shake accomplishes, so I'd guess that actually the shaken drinks are colder, thus a little more diluted by water.

Or, if we really stir and shake until the same temperature, stirring takes longer, so there is more time for non-adiabatic effects: (2) more time for heat exchange with air, so maybe stirred are more diluted.

Then again, (3) usually we stir in a glass container but shake in a metal container, and metal has higher thermal conductivity, so actually cooling both the drink and the container walls would use more heat (=more melted ice) when shaking.

I'd guess that effects (1) and (3) are stronger than (2), and thus shaken drinks would be more diluted that stirred.
Counting wars and conflicts seems like a pretty naive way to go about this. You only thought that world peace was inches away when the cold war ended because you weren't actually paying attention to what the cold war was suppressing/controlling. With hindsight, it was fairly obvious that we encounter the apparent 'uptick' in wars. Which really wasn't an uptick in total conflicts, but rather ones which the United States were directly involved in.

If you go to the wiki article on anything related to the cold war and look at the cold war section at the bottom where events are broken down by decade, just count the number of 'invasions' and 'civil wars' are listed.

It's possible things are getting worse. But this line -really- bugs me: "I’d rather have the cold war back, because in retrospect people who fight over ideology seem a lot less likely to blow the whole place to smithereens than the ones who fight over religion. "

That -might- be true if you happen to live in the developed world. But just look at all the shit both sides instigated in the developing world during the cold war. A necessary part of the cold war was constantly keeping a hand in the runnings of nearly every developing country to attempt to maintain a status quo.

All those toppling of government by the united states since the 50s? Nearly every single of them were motivated at least partly by the containment policy.

I'm not trying to argue that those actions were wrong. That's besides the point. The point is that many people (including the author) has the wrong view of the cold war period. Honestly, since I wasn't around then, I can't claim to have 'the correct' view. But I believe the facts speak for themselves. The Cold War period wasn't exactly a happy time for -world-.
I completely agree. I wake up in the morning and hack on some stuff of my own for an hour or two, go to work as a developer all day, get back around 8 and hack till 2-3am each and every day. I am amazed by most of the people i meet in the profession that are work-only programmers, and have never written anything for themselves in their lives. It's pitiful. No wonder they stink.
good points - but haven't many of the "best" chess players beaten each other at different points?
This suggests that there is no best - but best at a point in time - which suggests that practice and passion are what it is ;)
Honestly I don't buy into the Windows is awful line of thought. There a couple of key points you never see with Windows:

A. You never see forums posts on the internet saying "I have notebook XXX, main board XXX, graphics card XXX, will Windows run?" It just does which is why it will remain the dominant operating system for a long time to come. MS has the unenviable job of supporting every form of PC style hardware and adapting to it. Do they do it perfectly? Of course not but they do it better than anyone else has ever managed to.

B. I have a small phone book application I wrote in 1993 on Windows 3. I still use it today and it hasn't been recompiled in 15+ years at least. I doubt I still have the source (or anything that would compile it). The app is not command line, it's a GUI app, and it still works perfectly. MS has ensured as best they can that any properly written Win app from 16bit on up still runs today. Being a business app developer and seeing the legacy applications many of my large clients have to maintain, this is beyond priceless.

I don't deny Windows problems... it's been around so long it is a bit of a hodge podge of UI design, it has been unstable, and it is built around an aging architecture model. Then again I also view these as byproducts of its age and focus on legacy and hardware support. The performance of hardware is now to a point where virtualizing older versions of the OS for legacy support is practical and I like to think that this will work well for Windows in the future as XP mode has in Win7. Hopefully MS will really make use of this more going forward.

Then again, with where things are heading what operating system you use to access the net is going to become largely irrelevant anyhow.
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I think I read it in Scientific American.
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"Google is clearly in no danger as far as its core search/advertising business goes..."

Facebook would like a word with you.
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Dupe. Nut: there is an actual rule, in place for ages, that disclosure of classified info doesn't declassify it; the notion behind this "warning" is that the students would be demonstrating an inability to deal with classification.
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A suit (my current black one is wearing out), a new desktop computer (the old one was in storage for a few years and died), and a few specific hardcover books.

Realistically, I'm going to end up buying the first two for myself, but will probably get the books from my parents and a few friends to whom I send my Amazon list.
No. If telecommuting is an option, at least some of the time, we're only a couple hours away from Philly. Feel free to email me, if you haven't already.
Yeah, but Chrome (browser + eventual OS) and Android consist of "the base for all non-server computing".
Package managers are great. You don't miss having one until you've used one enough to understand how helpful they are.
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Well, it's not just software developers who are fired up about free speech but putting that aside more a moment...

The soccer moms, teachers, honest workers, etc. in my and my SO's family would almost certainly honor our requests to "please don't get us anything via Amazon" -- especially if we give them alternative sources. Some of them would be interested enough in it that we'd discuss it and probably convince at least a few that this is a serious problem and they want to get involved. Most people have at least a few friends who are sympathetic; as people start posting about it on Facebook, others will see and at least a few will decide to get involved. Plus there are some family mailing lists (mostly used to exchange bad jokes) and people there tend to defer to my expertise on computer stuff. So we'll probably pick up a few more there ...

And internationally, my guess is that feelings are a lot stronger. It's fascinating watching the discussion on Twitter -- there's so much in other languages. Initial momentum for a boycott seem strongest in Spain right now ... and no surprise, given the revelations in the cables. From abroad, it looks like an American company trying to censor the world's access to information, so I could imagine a boycott having a bit impact there.
It's pretty disingenuous to suggest that Apple should artificially prop up American technology manufacturers by giving them business that they don't win fair and square. The companies mentioned in this article, like Toshiba and Samsung, are manufacturing their products in first-world nations (Japan and Korea). They are competing with the USA on features and support, not just cost. Not to mention that Intel has never prioritized the mobile business -- they sold off their XScale division, which had sizable market share in the space, less than five years ago.
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A new technical Podcast, called BitBanter has been listed within iTunes, the next recording is scheduled on Tuesday 7th December.

Their proposed format includes recent tech news, progress on their own software development projects, and last, but by no means least, a detailed 'geeky' coding discussion, for those that can stomach it.

The first episode was a little rough around the edges, but BitBanter are going to increase the sound quality dramatically over the next few episodes.

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Could it be Google was as surprised as everyone else about Groupon's revenues? During the rumors about Google's offer of $2 billion and then later $5 or $6 billion everyone was reporting Groupon at $500 million per year. After the deal was rejected people are reporting $2 _billion_ per year instead.

As far as innovation from their acquisitions, Google still has Dodgeball. Even without Dennis Crowley they must own something right? Couldn't Google put a few people to work reviving that project and have a social location app, probably tied into their existing Latitude/Maps infrastructure, to get into the check-in game? It seems like it could be possible to get value out of "failed" acquisitions, some of which were just a few years ahead of their time.
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Well so much for free speech.
I can't tell if this is a joke or not. I know the Hacker News hivemind is hate Google / love Apple, but this is ridiculous.

You want to know what Google has released to great success in the past five years? Here you go:

Google Chat

Google Docs

Google Calendar

Google Checkout

YouTube

Android

Google Chrome

Google Voice

Google TV

Granted a few of these are acquisitions, but I'm leaving out a ton of tiny projects and the tremendous contributions to Open Source projects and the developer community over the years.

Yeah, they clearly haven't done anything useful in five years. They should be dying as a company any day now.
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How do you know your new company wouldn't do the same thing in the same situation?
Rosetta Stone anyone?

Beyond the basics (what you'd learn in a 101 series college course), the best learning method seems to be immersion, either by classes that focus on it or going to a country where the language is used.
GUI (which you can't easily replace, since it too is exposed to the
filesystem)

What? The graphics system is quite nice, there's no reason to replace
that. I'm pretty sure there is nothing tying the graphics protocol to
their GUI paradigm. I think it would be entirely possible to implement,
say, GTK over it.

Vim

There's no reason it couldn't be ported. I would use it if you made it.
It would be nice to have a libdraw based vi, even just in plan9port.
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It may be a rule, but it's still stupid: calling information that the whole world knows classified.
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Amazon was screwed either way. This way however, they have compromised their cloud service's future (instead of their online retailer's present). It's not their fault they had to choose whom to piss off. They did however turn themselves from a whitebox solutions provider to a curated whitebox solutions provider though with this decision.
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This is the problem with becoming successful in comedy. People expect everything you do to be funny. I bet the audience was laughing heartily at Steve's responses for the first ten minutes of the program. People are conditioned to laugh at what he says. But the moment he tries to be a multi-dimensional person, he gets slapped on the wrist!

</rant>
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Besides active development on their dozens of profitable projects, the only big-name product on the horizon right now is Chrome OS and their social solution the press have nicknamed Google Me.

This isn't unusual around the turn of the year though. They typically announce their upcoming products during all the springtime conferences, especially I/O.
Even crowd-sourcing needs judgment on the part of the people using it. I think the show directors were the real problem here. They, metaphorically, panicked like Obama being surrounded by Tea Partiers and caved in to the vocal minority. Samh has the right idea. Steve should have sung a couple of choruses of Y.M.C.A and walked off stage. He quit stand-up when he was at the pinnacle so he doesn't lack for guts.
Here's a response to the hullabaloo from an attendee of the interview:

http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.p...

It's not very flattering of Deborah Solomon.
For me i has always been "iterator variable" or something similar, j being the logical next iterator variable. Then again I haven't done this (code) for very long.
I'm a bit confused by this, I don't see any hyphens (Chrome on Linux). Anyone know what's going on here?
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Ditto. I actually asked my parents if they could help me get rid of some stuff as a Christmas gift. I did ask for one book though: http://www.cookingforgeeks.com/ Since it's formatting heavy, I'd rather have a hardcopy of it.
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yes they have definitely become irrelevant and lack even a minor understanding about the value of technology what with the second most popular smartphone os, a video site with a paltry billion page views per day and the second most popular website. man I wanna be considered irrelevant too
... and he hasn't been "that person" for over a decade. Shopgirl was, what, 2000?
Is anyone else just kinda over Christmas by now? I dont see why we have to have a specific date to give someone a gift, or spend time with our family or enjoy a nice meal. Then again, everone calls me scrooge this time of year.

PS: I made this site a few years back: http://whychristmasisbullshit.com/
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Believe it or not, the FDNY is putting this information out for a political reason.

They are trying to get away with closing 20 fire companies for 15 hour shifts (at night). This is a cost-saving measure at a time when a lawsuit which prevents hiring (http://nydn.us/ag55My) is making staffing difficult and expensive.

What the FDNY is not letting you know that firefighters are responding to more emergencies (medical, collapses, car-wrecks, etc.) than ever before. Also, that the night tours are when most fire fatalities occur.

Sounds paranoid of me to see an agenda behind statistics, but this is a situation with which I have much familiarity.
> Microsoft just removed that option.

Microsoft never had that option, because their filesystem is constructed differently (they could have introduced a special case workaround though)
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Google is a software monopoly at this point anyway. they wont go away even if you want them to.. they run your phone now!

Google is the executor of current internet innovation. although i use all their products because they are free and work. So i guess I'm the hypocrite
Yana - Yet another news app. Yet/Yep/Yes may work equally. I wanted to create a recursive name, but nothing pops up right now.
The rule is probably stupid in this case, probably not stupid in a lot of other cases, and the point may be that the system depends on rigid adherence to it. Either way, that's the basis behind the "warning".
* A kinect sensor so that I can have some fun coding hacks for it.

* Possibly an e-reader, although I still can't decide between the Nook and the Kindle right now.

* Hopefully not too many gift cards to specific stores, since I never seem to use them. I know I'll inevitably receive some.

* Almost anything from ThinkGeek, like these Miracle Berry Fruit Tablets that I want to try: http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/wacky-edibles/ab3f/
The matter at hand transcends into international politics of the highest order. It is not some website that someone created to opine on their dissatisfaction with the government and hence were ordered to take it down. Its a website that hosted classified documents that don't belong to them, and were obtained illegally. No cognizant web-host in the US would want to host such content, if they want to remain in the business without an agenda. Amazon does not have to subscribe to some social contract that obligates them to submit to an organization like Wikileaks. As crass as it may sound, Amazon's in it for the money, not international politics.

Your expectations from Amazon, while noble, unfortunately do not translate into what is practically tactical for Amazon from a business' point of view. Any other US host would have yanked wikileaks out too. It is unfair to only subject Amazon to such high morality.
I think he's trying to say that learning is good. Hard to refute that one :)

But... "Would you be com­fort­able going to a physi­cian if you learned they hadn’t read any new find­ings in years?"

When's the last time you went to a family doctor that stays up-to-date with life science research?
We'll talk to H1-B candidates. Please, let's not fragment the hiring threads even further than they already are.
>No; height is a physical attribute.

What are our brains made of again?
Well said! I quoted you at http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=2201&cpage=1#comment-... -- hope that's okay!
You are getting wildly overcharged.
The moral of this story: if you want to publish something embarrassing to politicians, do it somewhere were they can't abuse their power/influence.
The price you seem to think it should be is in the range of what we've seen, with lawyers.
I would imagine that in China if you talk on the internet about news the Chinese government doesn't want discussed, then you'd be limiting your employment prospects with that government. So how is the USA any different from China in this instance?
Considering the quality of the average blog post, this would only serve to decrease the signal to noise ratio, especially when what is actually the meat of many posts are already so devoid of useful content.

I notice that you didn't start your response with concern about my health nor wished me well on my future endeavors in your sign off.
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The U.S. does have a similar program, the Self-Employment Assistance Program:
http://www.workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/self.asp

It's a Federal program, but the states have to implement it. Only Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania do. In short, if you're on unemployment and you qualify (they have some calculations that determine whether they think you're likely to exhaust primary unemployment anyways) then you can retain your unemployment benefit while starting a company, instead of looking for jobs.

One of my co-founders and I were on this after our last employer went under, and it helped a lot, keeping us focused on building the business instead of taking consulting work to pay the rent.
How expensive is "expensive"? For us, it seems to be in the neighborhood of what you'd pay for relo; in other words, international candidates just cost double relo.

Relative to fully-loaded cost, it just doesn't seem to be that big a deal.
Under the basketball metaphor: a shorter player may outrebound a taller player. If you play sports, you know that there are some people who seem to react faster to everything, who seem to know where the ball is going, who naturally position themselves where they need to be before they know where the ball is going. You can teach some of this, but a lot of it is just that Money Ball intangible stuff.
The audience did not like what it got. If you shut off communication, that does not change the audience and its feelings.
No US companies in the top 5.

I saw the Seattle Pitch Slam, which Optify won. They finished #28 overall. Props to them.
Only three things on the list I'd call great success, and two of them are acquisitions: Youtube and Android, third was build on the great work of others—Chrome.
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top line revenue vs. bottom line income (i.e. minus expenses, which include payouts to the merchants...)

I'd rather generally own a business making $5b/yr in profit on $10b/yr in revenue, vs. $0b/yr in profit on $30b/yr in revenue.
Yelling at the TV is a long-established American tradition. :)

Sebastian's got a great article here -- he's really been on a roll lately. The only thing I'd add is that sometimes you can't do anything. When I read that book on stoicism last month, one of the key points was that you need to sort out the things you can change, the things you can't, and the things you have some bit of leverage with. Ignore the things you can't change, act on the ones you can.

The ones in the middle -- the things you can change but only a little bit -- you internalize, separating the parts that you own and the parts you don't. For instance, you can't make yourself win a sports match. But you _can_ make sure you play the game as absolutely the best as possible.

This is such a simple observation -- almost stupidly simple -- yet we keep getting the three categories mixed up, worrying about stuff we can't change, and giving up on things we can.
Don’t be so sure it’s an easter egg. After all, as other commenters note, the phrase is used as placeholder text (perhaps like, or alongside, “Hello World”.)

I would like to see confirmation one way or the other from Google.