skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem today is we spend a lot of time in front of back lit devices like smart phones, laptops/pcs & tv's before bed time. Therefore our melatonin levels stay low.
I've been supplementing with melatonin tables to help with sleep before bed and I get an awesome night sleep.

Also things already covered like regular exercise (w/ weights), sleeping in a pitch dark room and consistent sleep & wake time work wonders.

I blogged about some of this last year here:
http://blog.ernestsemerda.com/2009/09/24/sleep-less-and-have...

Enjoy.
~ Ernest
17/19. I didn't know groovy or scala.
How did Oracle got to own this project? I imagine that thru the Sun acquisition. But, was this a project started/sponsored by Sun. I couldn't find any information in the hudson site or in the wikipedia page.
That's great to hear! I'd love to learn about your situation RE learning design. I hope you signed up for the email list, but feel free to say hi: david at kadavy dot net
"Some people have done a lot?"

-CIA backs military coup in Chile to overthrow democratically elected president. Cue almost 20 years of brutal military dictatorship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973

-Funding and arming right-wing paramilitary militias in Nicaragua to overthrow another democratically elected government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua#Sandinistas_and_the_C...

-Hell, blanketting the entire damned continent in brutal military dictatorships.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America_%E2%80%93_United_...

-Overseeing said brutal dictators' plans to assassinate political dissidents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

-Training the armies of said dictatorships in the methods that made them notorious
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas#Human_ri...

And that's just before the "War on Drugs" era. The US has earned the enmity of Latin Americans the honest way.
The point is that "in theory" a democracy represents the ideals of all its people. Usually, a democracy represents a fraction of the will of a people. Plus, the fraction that agrees with everything the leader does is even smaller.
Launched a beta of http://babble.ly today. The concept was born in late October, and execution done this month. Would love feedback on it!

My Show HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954329
I plan to send out about an email a month, and have already started drafting some sample content. A lot of this stuff I had thought about releasing on kadavy.net, but it’s too valuable to just put out into the ether. I want to make sure only those who are really interested in it learn these secrets. Find out:

Just sounds like an infomercial to me.
Mozzaic.TV - Import, Organize & Share Your Videos
Coding Horror: FizzBuzz: the Programmer's Stairway to Heaven
Analysts on Groupon Deal: Google Upping Its Fight with Facebook?
It was clear quite a long time before 1971 that Castro's regime 'had humanitarian costs', as you euphemize'; note that
Che did all his torturing and murdering before he died in 1967.
For anyone wondering, the song is In Motion from The Social Network soundtrack, which by the way, i find to be excellent coding music.
> Design is about communication. That's all it's ever been and all it ever will be about (a user interface is a communication to the user how to interact with your product/idea).

Yes, design is about communication. But communication and interaction don't happen in a vacuum. They are always conducted via some medium. On the web, that "medium" is generally visual graphics, copy, and interactive behavior.

But it's not enough for a designer to be proficient with just the "communication" aspect of design. A design (or more likely, a design team) must possess actual, specific competencies in those areas.

That is: Someone needs to be a good copywriter. Someone needs to be a good front-end developer. Someone needs to be good at rendering things visually (e.g. choosing colors, laying out elements, creating iconography).

The truth is there are very, very few people who are skilled in all of these areas. As a result, I think there is a need for visual designers who are extremely skilled with the tools of the web design trade (for now, that's Photoshop and Illustrator) AND who possess very strong abilities in visual design, but who do not necessarily have the responsibility for conceptualizing the interactive or other aspects of the application.

So while I do agree that there are a large number of projects that have suffered because someone just took an idea, dumped it into a graphic designer's lap and said "here, make me something like this that looks pretty" -- I think it is equally wrong to expect people with those very specific graphic design skills to be able to step up and take real responsibility for the conceptual design of the project.

I have a friend who is doing interaction design, and I see this as a more auspicious trend in the design profession. An interaction designer is someone who understands all of the disciplines that go into an application -- even if they are not proficient in them individually. The interaction designer then works with people who are skilled in their disciplines and orchestrates them into what is hopefully a better user experience.

Anyhow, hopefully this discombobulated rant makes some degree of sense.
Groupon doesn't have that many developers- it's sales in which they have an army of employees. The most recent number I've heard is 2,500. Groupon is not a tech company, it's a sales company. Lefkofsky and Keywell (the original investors who often are referred to as "founders") continually bring a slight bit of tech into old industries and then throw tons of salespeople into them. Highly doubt the profits will last.
Resumable, asynchronous file uploads using WebSockets in HTML5
"one of the main passages of history."

A small correction of perspective: it's the history of two countries, and it's only a major passage for one of them.

This asymmetry is one of the main reasons of international disputes.
I see the title has now been re-written. It used to be more descriptive, and point out that this was a non-scribd link. Now it's been trimmed simply to say it's about sleep hack, and not mentioning the non-scribd aspect.

I find that leaves a slightly bad taste in my mouth. I wish it hadn't been done, but I guess I can understand why.
That's good to hear. I'd figure that TMo would be early on this. Surprised to hear about ATT. I know in the past I've tried and was stuck with EDGE. Almost certainly not the case with CDMA.
It's also a completely different experience to see something through beyond launch, and refine it over the course of many years.
AWS API - how would you make it better?
One occasionally reads complaints regarding the AWS API. What do you like about it / hate about it? How would you make it better?

Assuming that some kind of key based authentication is needed, what beyond the security might you like to see changed? Is there anything about the basic nature of the APIs that could be better?
Did they actually say "appreciate"?
It appears for an article making such a bold claim, there's very little content or support. I was quite disappointed.
Doesn't anyone write "Hello World"s anymore?

I usually write a simple hello world example then make it more and more complicated, usually following with IO next, data structures, networking, etc.
You do have a point and I was aware of that unfortunate side-effect of my comment. I'm doing it rarely. But this is also a site for people who make decisions on how stuff is published on the web and how to monetize it, etc. So I think it's not completely useless to have that kind of meta debate sometimes.
If you're interested in whether and how postmodern art/music/architecture has innate and/or learned appeal to people, there's a whole chapter Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate that discusses it. IIRC he argued that while one can acquire a taste for nearly anything, not all tastes are acquired.
Thanks for reading that far - I'm not sure if I understand, are you implying that is a bad thing?
Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Reveals Profound Hatred for Democracy
Considering they haven't been able to successfully block the downloading of quite plainly illegal material, I seriously doubt they'll be able to block simple text files. When there's a will, there's a way.
Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)
IPhone 3G/3Gs and iPad iOS 4.2.1 crack released
Here is an example of what this kind of thinking leads to:

Craigslist SF: Web Designer/Front-End Guru Intern

• Demonstrable years experience creating consumer web/mobile applications
• Masterful command of the Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator
• Sophisticated knowledge of HTML, XHTML, CSS
• Experience with JavaScript, AJAX, and a JavaScript framework such as jQuery, MooTools, etc
• Knowledge of browser compatibility issues and web standards
• Embrace the practice of rapid prototyping, and working in a fast-paced environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for performance is set high.
Sense of humor and a positive attitude are non-negotiable.
Brownie points for:
- Advanced Flash skills
- Illustration
- Experience with mobile application design

//

Guru Intern = ¡LOL!

This is from Formative Labs, veteran entrepreneurs, backed by blue chip angels, yet...they don't see the need to actually pay anything for the task of doing the actual design work. (it dangles the plastic carrot of 'it could easily turn into a full-time job,' presumably meaning it's a full-time job to start, but they might decide to pay...someday.)

//

Again, I don't totally disagree with the premise of tfa, but it's just to closely linked to the penurious thinking behind getting a design 'guru intern.'
ISP's don't want to block Torrent traffic. They want to figure out how to make more money from it.
Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953309 - ctv.ca

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952077 - businessweek.com <- this has comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948235 - guardian.co.uk
I wouldn't call it widespread hatred. I certainly didn't see any evidence of hatred towards individual Americans. It's more a widespread opinion that the United States is at best questionably moral. There are certainly many who think it is evil, and if you ask the average person on the street they'd probably have mostly negative feelings towards the US.

I haven't been to the Middle East, but I imagine the sentiment to be very similar. People have an odd way of resenting you when you back brutal dictators that kill thousands of civilians.
they are merged into the trunk

Do you mean to say that this process never introduces bugs? With subversion's merge model?
Avid GPS Use May Hurt Your Memory
It is eerily similar. I do have some differences but they aren't major.
Actually, one of the impacts of Android (and Linux generally) is to reduce the barriers of entry and allow new players to produce relatively small runs.

I'm not really interested in some Chinese conglomerate I've never heard of's idea of of a touch based tablet or phone OS. But I'll happily buy some oddball phone or tablet running Android. In fact I just did buy a ZTE Blade, and think it's pretty stunning for the price. I'm also considering a 7" Android tablet from a range of unlikely sources including Archos and the Dixons group.
Thanks for pointing that out. Does this mean I can access a .onion address from within firefox when I've got the Tor plugin enabled?
Horrible fonts.
Horrible tagline.

I have no idea what you do, why would I want to get updates on your progress?
AT&T goes after copper wire thieves
Atlas Shrugged is a fun fantasy, but in reality there are many different valuable specialties. It's all too easy to dismiss anyone that doesn't do what you do as worthless.

That said I do agree that a very small number of people in any organization are responsible for the lion's share of the productivity and are inadequately compensated for that.
Seven out of my ten most tweeted words are other peoples' @names. Since there's already a 'top friends' list, wouldn't it be more useful to keep only actual words in the 'top words' list?
Still a bad acquisition overall - one of those "what were they thinking" things? It's like they bought a company because it was cool, not because it had a place in the portfolio or they offered something of value to the core business (or even a tangential spinoff business).
I'm sorry, Commander Riker. I'm afraid I can't do that.
I suppose considering HN was somewhat split on the issue my sarcasm isn't completely obvious.
This deal will tend to make that happen. A lot of companies have such high thresholds to use their APIs that they prevent potential customers from getting off the ground. But if deals like this can show them that lowering the thresholds is in their interest, they'll lower them for everyone.
Check mate.

This game is far from over. Filtering web requests based on the requested host is enough to disrupt this, and even SSL requests send cleartext hosts (sadly).
Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing
All of those ideas have clearly worked.
Uh, a country does not become "free" by symbolically offering one person the privilege of freely attacking an entity it is at best ambivalent about. That's just falling for the propaganda move hook line and sinker.
I asked if you have lived in or traveled in Latin America, but you didn't answer me. Does that mean you have not actually been here?

I ask you because I do, in fact, live in Latin America and my experience has not been what you describe.

> People have an odd way of resenting you when you back brutal dictators

Actually people tend to first resent the brutal dictators themselves. The person paying the hit man isn't usually as hated as the guy who actually stuck a gun in your face.
Questions for VCs and Angels
He forgot the 3D window manager.
I've worked with small robotic military platforms, and AI must overcome major physical limitations before anyone even worries about whether the AI is making good decisions!

Battery life. If necessary, humans can stay active for a long time. Robots can't. If it dies, you either manually get the robot, or leave it for the enemy. The more processing and sensors on a platform, the sooner it dies. An almighty AI will likely require an almighty amount of power.

Cameras. Humans swiftly adapt to lighting, can deal with very dark and very bright conditions, have an amazing field of view, can accurately track tiny objects very far away, and very quickly refocus and swivel our eyes and head. You'll have a lot of trouble finding cameras+mounts that meet all of these criteria that aren't a giant bullseye. It's more likely that you need to tailor your sensors for particular situations. What we see as a person at 80 meters might be a few pixels if the camera is zoomed out. If you zoom in, you'll see the enemy, but not your surroundings.

Communications. Quickly transmitting binary data at the ground level is a very open-ended problem.

Positioning. GPS doesn't work within buildings. Some of your platform power will be allocated to dealing with this fact.
A move to github doesn't constitute a fork, though, does it?
Mondrian Generator with Processing.js
I made a fun in-browser screensaver that generates Mondrian-esque works using exclusively client-side JavaScript built around Processing.js called Mondrian Automaton.
I'll second both of those UK companies. Jing has great stuff (a little pricier) and I've personally worked with the people behind Canton Tea Co.

BTW I'm also a founder of Steepster
It should be a one-item list - craigslist killer.
The problem that line of argument runs into is that the American people has also failed to hold its democratically elected government responsible for the shadier things its done (I'll stop just short of calling them atrocities, though some of it crosses that line).

Hell, the sorry state that much of Latin America is in right now is largely directly attributable to the direct intervention of the USA (see redthrowaway's post re: coups and installation of brutal military dictatorships friendly to US interests). These crimes have essentially gone unpunished, or hell, unanswered entirely back at home.

When the government purports to represent the people, the people rightly bear responsibility for its actions. While it is unrealistic to expect said government to do no wrong and always abide by the democratic principles on which it is founded, at the very least its abuses, once known, need to be reigned in by the very people who put them in charge. This is largely not happening.
Do you have a list of topics? I'd like to see what will be covered. For example, Photoshop? Gimp? Typography? Effects? Etc.
I think the browns is ugly and the fonts need some work.

Seems like a bit of a waste getting the HN community to review some colours and fonts though. If you told us a little more about the idea maybe we could give you feedback on that instead? I mean, the coming soon page is pretty insignificant with respects to the idea itself, no?
Ask HN:  Looking for a Hacker News for Education Reform - please help?
There are numerous blogs and groups all across the country that focus on education - I think a Hacker News like site for Education Reform would be really beneficial to the cause.

I know many of you have made Hacker News like clone sites - can someone help me by making one for education?

Thanks!

-P
Pgroverman@tapinko.com
This benchmark seems to be either out dated or somewhat falsified. I ran the same benchmark on my system and CI out performed Yii ( https://github.com/JosephMoniz/BlueElephant/blob/master/docs... ) . The main point though is that with or without caching (APC) CakePHP is the slowest by an order of magnitude.

EDIT: yeah, pretty sure the original Yii benchmark is dated as the graph has older versions while the phpmark repo has slighlty newer ones ( http://code.google.com/p/phpmark/source/browse/#svn/trunk )
He forgot the data synchronization system, except that Dropbox pulled that off. Also the "social browsing", "see who else is visiting this webpage", except that Facebook is after that one already. Also the "alert me if a website has changed", well, I don't know if that really exists in a usable way or not.
Anyone else catch him reading HN right before 6:30? :)
In my day (I'm only 32), the startup ideas everyone always wanted to do were:

1. A better bug/issue tracking system

2. A custom CMS

3. A code library/platform for easily building Business CRUD apps.

4. A word processing app that has only the 20% features that 80% of Word users use.

5. A better classmates.com
Why the office isn’t a good place to get work done (TEDxMidwest video)
Versions of #4 have worked, though not usually structured as X% of all future earnings. The most common version is the group-of-freelancers variant, where a group of people are really working independently, but do it legally via a partnership, which pools income to reduce risk, share upsides, smooth cash-flow bumps, etc.

It's pretty well-established in a number of professions outside tech, e.g. in law, a partnership of four or five lawyers will all get rich if any case that any of them took hits the giant-settlement jackpot.
I took it up...but never finished :( Unfortunately this was the worst possibly month I could have picked to join. I had 2 major code releases and a bunch of late nights. Sigh...I'm so pissed!
It works similarly if you're using the gitflow extension:

https://github.com/nvie/gitflow

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/why-arent-you-using-git-flo...

Or doing that manually. Git is pretty flexible.
I would also like to submit a whole spectrum of ideas that have a huge bootstrap problem and that problem is often hand waved away.
Cleanup Crusade: Keeping Your Windows Based PC Clean
There are tons of tools out today for cleaning up your Windows based PC, so many that it is hard to wade through the good applications and the garbage. I will run through some great applications that I use myself to keep my PC spotless.
Twitter Gets a Hollywood Guy: Omid Ashtari
we need to invest in 'mining' in this country... there is no shortage of materials only a shortage of companies digging them out of the earth... why don't we create clean technology for extraction instead of investing in China...
I wish somebody would actually make a better Social Travel website. TripAdvisor is exceedingly unpleasant to use, despite the solid content.

I keep hoping that wikitravel will thrive but it's never very good...
> Does this mean I can access a .onion address from within firefox when I've got the Tor plugin enabled?

Yes.

You will however need to run the Tor software -- Privoxy or Vidalia bundle or... something. I don't think the plugin can do the routing itself.

I haven't used Tor in a while, but there used to be wikis, forums, even shell account servers and search engines available as hidden services. Don't expect anything interesting though.
Ask HN: Is Y Combinator basically just communism?
Take this post with a grain of salt... I'm reviewing my YC start-ups list at http://ycuniverse.com/startups.php along with other YC-related news. It would seem that YCombinator, with over 200 start-ups in various niche markets, has all the essential elements of communism. The notion of a rising working-class of networked start-up founders almost sounds like some sort of political movement. And if you read Paul Graham's essays (I've read them all at least twice), some of those "essays" border on being propaganda.

Theoretically, if you fund that many start-ups and they largely prefer goods and services from each other rather than outside sources, and with YC itself providing new resources to the entire group, there's definately some communist undertones there. An entire city block of YC-funded startups? Hmm...

So is Paul Graham a modern Lenin-esque architect of communism or what?
An interview with Craig Hockenberry: The Setup
I see what you are saying. Technically we are a federal republic but that doesn't matter in this particular argument. We (US) are boasting at being a democracy to the rest of the world. In the propaganda domain we are a democracy. Our citizens have the potential of affecting the political establishmnt through voting.

This comes in constrast to say North Korea, China or Lybia. If their government does something outrageous, one can blame the people to some extent, but they should also get plenty of slack since standing up and otherthrowing the leadership would take a lot lives, blood, and suffering. It is not just a walk to the voting booth.

In general one can argue that the people of a country should be the responsability for their government's action in proportion to their ability to influence that government's actions.
Treat them like you treat your reporters.

Partner them one on one with a reporter to create one off stories.

Young programmers dream big, find a way to limit them, have them complete something in a week.

Not all people who know how to program work in the CS dept. Cultivate those already on your staff who show an intrest in programming.
Remote pbcopy
Ask HN: Why isn't logic programming more popular?
It seems like such a powerful paradigm, but it doesn't get nearly the press these days that OO and functional programming have. What could be the reason for this?

I wonder if we're due for a young language to rejuvenate Prolog the way Clojure has done for Lisp.
Of course, Lt. Commander Data is that good, but he looks human so it's OK.
Hackers are used to teaching themselves whatever is necessary to achieve their vision;

Can't be more succinct.
Ask HN: Google Scribe + Google Beatbox?
It occurred to me that there could be potential for some really interesting mashups combining the Markov chain text generator properties of Google Scribe [1] and the recent beatboxing fun with Google Translate. Could someone more experienced with the Google APIs shed some light on the possibilities?

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[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1669650

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952356
The daily tomato: How to maintain focus and kick ass on multiple projects
If we are talking rivers here then "Rubicon" might be an apt project fork name.