skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing.

But be aware that black tea and green tea often have the same caffeine content. The trick is to make your tea weak.
Are we not questioning the morality of said laws? Simply because it is the law, does not make it right or just.
I'm learning about mindfullness for trying to beat my depression. I experienced a few days of utter relaxation out of the blue before christmas, so I know that it's a real thing that can be achieved.

I'm hoping that a combination of anti-depressants and learning to live in moment will be what allows me to finally beat this.

Edit: Thanks for the reading suggestions, I'll try them out and see what sticks :)
But it's so tasty...
Making Sense of Standard Deviation
Twitter seeking more room, S.F. tries to keep it
Scientists size up monster black hole
Which is only a capability relevant when interacting with Adobe's flash media server. There are several alternatives media servers available, most of which are open source.

The problem of FMS parity is a wholly different ball of wax, aside from (although perhaps relevant to) the behavior of the Flash VM itself.
Keep this shit off of HN please. It is both content free and very sexist.
Have you looked at other language libraries lately? It's hard to find a really useful perl module that doesn't have an equivalent gem or entry in pypi. As much, as I like using CPAN almost every day, it's not something unique to perl anymore. Also, a lot of good stuff that people otherwise use from cpan is in ruby/python by default (oo, logging, testing, threading / multiprocessing, ...)
Startups Seeking Shortcuts Will Just Take Longer
I think that name of that girl is Agda Second.
Ask HN: What are the most interesting mailing lists?
Do you know any mailing lists that are full of interesting stories and experiences, programming-related or not? I love reading stories like that of Carmack's inverse-square-root, or interesting pranks. Would I be better off just looking at some blogs? If so, which ones?

edit: spelling
It's not worth the regret though. I find myself thinking I wish I'd done my first year of university differently (I was a shut in), but then I remind myself that even though I made bad choices for the wrong reasons, they still led me to some good things. All I can do is try to make good choices from this point onwards.
So you move in with Haskell the funny-named girl. You're in Heaven.

After a few months, you find out that there are some words that you say, some things that you do, that make her take her coat without a word, leave for a day and max out your credit card buying shoes. Sometimes you find out that it was your way of nodding that reminds her of Uncle Herbert. Sometimes you don't find out, and just decide not to say the word "mattress" any more.

(Whether that disturbs you enough to break up is up to you)
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>Also the typical patent FUD in this article suggesting that WebM might violate patents without naming them is somewhat indicative of the author's motives.

Stating that Webm might turn into a patent minefield is FUD now? What happened to journalistic freedom and rational discourse?
Without going into details, we've done a fair few jobs involving UK systems with BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) to India as well as other countries and in pretty much every case we were able to smuggle Personally Identifiable Information (PII) out of the remote estate or access things that shouldn't be accessed.

I should note that this is not something against Indians, most of the time it was due to the problems with working across two security boundaries and the lack of acceptance of the problems and realities of doing so, combined with what were effectively unrealistic promises and a complete lack of understanding of the two cultures, gaps and overlaps.

To put it another way, any system where data is held in trusted environment A, but accessed from partially trusted environment B is dependent on the security of both A and B. However, while environment A is fully trusted, environment B isn't, and for (sometimes) good reason. The problem arises when instead of proper controls what happens is a bizarre form of security theatre starts to arise, and subsequently gaps start popping up all over environment B that would be otherwise considered acceptable in environment A.

It is not realistic to securely manage information with a strong trust requirement in an untrusted environment on a permanent basis. It is even less realistic to do so on the basis of contractual obligation as an alternative to routine checks and balances.
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While you are right pointing out the notion of triggering a limit breach and thus having to pay out the dues, that is exactly what needs to be avoided. This is not a home-brew, I made a tinker-toy use case that Mozilla and Google are describing. They are defending a ubiquitous tool such as a browser, that is prevailing as the de facto standard of accessing information. That channel needs to be kept free.

Imagine a scenario where an ink/printer producer patents blending of the colors and every newspaper in the world has to pay $0.25 for every paper they print after 10,000 units.

What I hope that people understand, and I'm aiming high by including the well connected writers and media personnel, that tools that serve as backbones for information flow need to stay free. There are software engineers working on that tirelessly. To undo their effort or trip them up, is to hurt the very rights to freedom to information.
This had made me realise I have never tried decaf.

I will go and buy some and see if I like it.

Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Communication_Foundatio...
You can take off the flamesuite.

* WebOS, imho, has the much better UI than apple now
* And 2nd, it's, imho, desired if Google, apple, RIM, Microsoft, Nokia and HPalm copy from each other.
The problematic word here is force. I don't enjoy being forced to "consider" using something by being prevented from using anything else, and when the people doing the forcing claim it's for "freedom" and "openness" I just scratch my head.

I mean, isn't it strange that browsers that only support certain vendor-chosen codecs are described as more open than the browsers that allow the user to install any codec they like?
An often overlooked option is to look for a great programmer who knows any other language well and is willing to learn your shop's pet language. Hire him, provide some learning room, and he'll be up to Level Competent in no time compared to the time you need to spend looking for "a great Volvo driver".
I spent a year or so trying to help a company I was working with hire experienced perl developers to work on existing code. Pretty much all of the candidates were way below the standard required.

I came to the conclusion that this was probably a question of maturity. I think experienced perl developers are now an enclave of older programmers who've stuck with it and are now entrenched experts. They're all too expensive.

There seems to be a generation gap, presumably where everyone ran off and learnt ruby or python, as perl 5 was perceived to be stagnant, for whatever reason.

I think what remained in the available salary bracket was either people who weren't very good, or were too new for it to show either way. Anecdotal, of course, but it reminded me of other job markets I've seen entering the first phase of an eventually near terminal decline.
Alta Vista would consistently show adult websites as the top link for most search results.

As far as Facebook goes, the 'Like' button is great for things of a viral nature and trending topics, but over the long term, I have my doubts it can be used as a search engine.

Prove me wrong, Zuck!
> Perl is horrible (relative to other choices) for development, it ranks low on readability, refactorability, consistency, dependency evolution.

The flip side is that other languages are tediously verbose, require IDE's, lack flexibility, and need frameworks to accomplish the simplest of things.

Language-memes. Less fun than they used to be :)
Perhaps. Although even the experts don't fully understand ADHD.

Most people don't know where they fall on the ADHD spectrum. Maybe that's one of the reasons why there's such a mixed opinion on whether caffeine is good or bad when it comes to focusing.
$6.5 million is chump change for Google. And $1.5 million would be lying in the seat cushions of Google executive.
There is no way you could ever do a forced swim test on a human. You would be sent to prison for a long time.

You'll have to go back to the earlier half of the 20th century to see research like that.
So inbound links can be faked but Facebook likes can't? Please.

Also, Google won because of better search, to such an extent that all they needed was word-of-mouth to completely demolish the competition in the late nineties and I don't recall any indications that Yahoo or Altavista couldn't scale their technology. Back then using Google was simply like using a different, infinitely more usable internet.

Finally, anecdotally, Google is a lot more difficult to game than any other search engine. It is pretty clear to me that inbound links carry a lot more weight with Bing and Yahoo, whereas Google includes several other metrics in how to weigh search results (including, fairly or not, significant emphasis on how long a site has been around).
Hmmm, I am quite a pessimist so perhaps that means I have quite the acceptance of reality.
No where near as interesting. Windows Communication Foundation - a networking stack for .NET. Sorry.
> If the situation or problem is such that it can be remedied, then there is no need to worry about it. In other words, if there is a solution or a way out of the difficulty, you do not need to be overwhelmed by it. The appropriate action is to seek its solution. Then it is clearly more sensible to spend your energy focussing on the solution rather than worrying about the problem. Alternatively, if there is no solution, no possibility of resolution, then there is also no point in being worried about it, because you cannot do anything about it anyway.

This is all well and good, but what if you don't know there is a solution. Only "worrying"/thinking about it will you know if you can find one. And then the solution itself might be difficult to reach or people disagree with your solution etc leading to stress.
Some stats comparing caffeine content in tea.

http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine+and+tea.aspx
>But if you don't have any experience with it, how can you make an informed decision?

Of course, the answer is "by utilizing experience of others" or "comparing my efforts to others' efforts".

That's how progress works, I was told.
Hi, I'm the founder of Coderloop.com, a programming competition platform. Our platform is able to test user submitted programs against a problem spec. We also support specs that require the user to write a program that interacts with an HTTP server (an example here http://www.coderloop.com/puzzles/islands ).
If you are interested we can build some puzzles dedicated to your API. :)
There's probably nothing objectively wrong with it. I'm just a coffee snob.
When your bad, your better!
Being acquired by a verb that is really a noun is a confusing read.
As noone's mentioned this, backupify is a pretty good service that solves this problem. Of course it could also be a transitory CDN, but that goes a little to far down the rabbit hole for me.
Let's face it, financial support for open-source software development is critical (KDE/Gnome may be the exception, but the financial investment into these two may be justified indirectly).

Well, in the case of KDE there's Qt licensing. I seem to recall some commercial support for Gnome as well.
I actually went out, met and talked to other people.
It is, but difficulty in requiring diligence in such a creative environment is the reason Perl has failed for larger team development.

I was once praised for the readability of my Perl code by a junior teammeate, and immediately scolded by the best Perl programmer on the team with "yeah, because he makes it look like C code".

Don't get me wrong, I like perl, I just think its unique characteristics make it a poor choice for complex, long-term software, which is where the most money is, and thus the most people/candidates.
Why don't they just implement the accepted WebSocket standard instead of their own competing API?
Maybe it means most people will give up instead of trying to click through too many pages of results. Its might be more effective to go to specific sites sometimes, example Wikipedia for general info, imdb for movies, stackoverflow for programming topics, amazon.com for product review.
"But Google’s fixing it."
What are they doing exactly? Don't believe it's mentioned in the article.
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I like Perl. I am doing my own non-that-plain-stupid-website projects in Perl (for plain websites i am using PHP+Drupal). But I have no projects-for-cash involving Perl at all - looks like nobody is doing it today. And this means I have no real-world experience too. That's bad.

But I still love this language and will continue do own stuff with it. =)
The Ghostery extension for Chrome tell me that there are 15 web bugs and beacons on that site.

- Google Analytics
- Quantcast
- Omniture
- Wordpress Stats
- Google Adsense
- Woopra
- AddThis
- Advertising.com
- Facebook Connect
- Vibrant Ads
- Mindset Media
- Real Media
- Comscore Beacon
- Tynt Tracer
- TweetMeme

edit: this observation is off-topic of course, I merely mention this because it's the most I have ever noticed on any page.
I don't really get it.

He basically said "don't screw up" in outdated slang, and the post didn't communicate how they came away with deep insights based on that.

Maybe I'm just sleep deprived & grumpy . . .
Stephen Fry to pimp Pushnote to his 2m+ followers – will it work?
I might have misread the article but I don't recall anything about actually moving to the US.

Going to the US for up to 3 months (or 6 if you actually apply for a B visa) as a "business visitor" under the VWP would allow you to do most of the activities relating to funding and attending conferences, etc. You just couldn't do any "work" or plan to stay.
That is correct, but hiring staff and recruiters speak a different language. At least in my experience, I used to get phone calls that a so and so firm needs a Django developer. While I used Pylons and Python extensively, and probably could learn Django lingo on the job, they wouldn't hear of it. In retrospect we were both right.
This all seems like GameGenie for your brain, where big pharma enters random codes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_genie
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Indeed. One of the first things that emerge for a language is a centralized repository for user managed packages.
> require IDEs

http://osteele.com/archives/2004/11/ides
You're using 'other languages' as an awfully broad brush, as that certainly isn't true for all languages with the exception of Perl.

No language requires an IDE, either.
> Facebook, which can rank content based on the number of Likes from actual people rather than the number of inbound links from various websites, can now provide more relevant hits, and in realtime since it does not have to crawl the web.

Unfortunately, the Like button means too many things. It doesn't just mean you like the content on that one page, it means you like the creator of that web site enough to let them put updates in your news feed. And it means you don't mind telling all your friends you like it.
Ooooh nOOOOooo! Don't click that link! Please! NOOOOOOOO!

It's 1987, in the wee hours of some morning. I'm tired and frustrated, staring at the green-on-black screen of a 640k XT running Leisure Suit Larry, my first-ever video game (on my first-ever computer, too). I've been up all night, trying all kinds of ways to get those pills off the window sill. Failing again. And again.

I notice that the screen is kinda blurry now; then I realize that it's because my eyes water. I need to stop playing this - now! Save game, turn off computer, go to bed.

Can't sleep.

How do I get those pills without falling off the balcony? Maybe tie a rope to the railing and hold on to it while leaning over to the next window, where the pills are. There is a rope in the game, but it only appears when your bride ties you to the bed and leaves you there, forcing you to restore. How could I get that?

Need to sleep.

Can't.

The knife! One of the bums has a knife! Maybe you need the knife before you marry, to cut the rope in the wedding suite, later. Then use the rope on the balcony, hold on, lean over, grab the pillbox. This could work.

How do I get that knife?

The wine! You can buy a bottle of wine in the 7/11. The trick, maybe, is to trade in the wine for the bum's knife. Of course, all this has to be done before you first meet the bride in the disco...Imma try this - now!

Get up, boot computer, load game...

I (mostly) stopped videogaming after my Larry Laffer experience. Much too dangerous. Could have ruined my life.

But before I stopped, I did see the fireworks. Would be kinda nice to see them again, after all these years...

NOOOOO!!! Must...resist...clicking...
Selling a Theme by the Thousands: What Thesis Teaches Us
About two years ago, Chris Pearson’s WordPress theme, Thesis, passed the $2 million mark in total sales. Here is a theme-not a platform, but a theme-beating many of the world’s leading independent design firms in revenue, all through passive sales.
Relevant links:

- http://quantifiedself.com/2009/10/the-false-god-of-coffee/

- http://lesswrong.com/lw/1w1/coffee_when_it_helps_when_it_hur...
I was always curious about the timeline between:

- finding one of these talismans of productivity

- actually trying it out

- blogging about it

- staying with it

I have a feeling the first 3 occur pretty rapidly.
not Japanese but I'm pretty sure "to not give a fuck" in Japanese doesn't contain 性交 (to have sex)
I gave up caffeine more than a year ago, because I didn't like the idea of being addicted to a drug. I have a cup of tea once every couple weeks or so, but that's about it.

The only improvement I've noticed is that I don't suffer withdrawal symptoms if I don't have caffeine. If anything, I think my mind feels a bit slower without it. I think I might take it up again.
Voice recognition and computerized translation have been around for a while.

Now your reaction makes sense. If you're viewing at as an advance in the technology here (research wise, etc), then this announcement has nothing new. But from a standpoint of anyone with an Android phone having access to this whenever they want (accessibility and ease of use), this is incredible. I think most people are concerned with the latter, but you do have a point about there being nothing "new" here.
> The much acclaimed PageRank algorithm,

I stopped reading here. Really, do people still believe that PageRank has any significant weight in the complex ranking machinery of web search?
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I drink coffee all day right up until bed time, 1.5 pots of coffee a day on average. Sleep like a rock and frequently wake in the morning in the exact same position I fell asleep in. My wife occasionally notes how little I move while asleep.

Ethiopian Yirgacheffe in the coffee pot this morning, my favorite bean at the moment.

Edit: I should add that I do understand that it effects everyone differently, my wife can't even drink half a can of pop without getting jittery.
I don't think anyone can give you a clear answer, given that the effects of coffee depend on complex mix of factors, like caffeine metabolism, metabolism in general, brain chemistry, and so on. However, it is known that stimulants generally shorten the attention span, so a good guess would be that you indeed are in or close to the "normal" zone.
WCF is not a competing API. It's a common framework to enable .Net apps to communicate over any type of communications channel (TCP, UDP, Pipes, HTTP, WebSockets, etc) using any type of protocol (SOAP, JSON, plain old XML, Google Protocol Buffers, etc.)

Looking at their past endeavors with WCF (Windows Communications Foundation), you'll find that they implemented SOAP 1.0/1.1 to spec and I have personally used it to communicate with Java and C++ apps. So, I don't think they're going to break WebSockets unless the standard is ill-defined at which point they will start adding their own methodology to it.
I wish Google and the other search engines well.

A couple of minor additions to the article for context based on what little bit I've been learning:

- About 25%-30% of Google searches each day are searches that Google has never seen before

- While 90% of bad results is just, well, bad results, there is significant room for interpretation. In the example provided, is there a reason Google should return first in a search for PageRank? If so, what is it (described technically, not emotionally)? It may be (but probably isn't) that these other PR firms are actually honestly more cited than Google is. I'm sure this isn't the case, but whenever somebody says "And the result wasn't what I liked" I try to take a careful look at what they are saying. Sometimes it's that they had an academic reason for the search that wasn't validated. Sometimes it's that their opinion of what is popular and the rest of the internet's is different. Most of the time the system is gamed, yes, but there are times in which the author is just expressing an emotional dislike of the results in good/bad terms. Search isn't something that has a "right" result. You are either generally kinda pleased with it or you aren't. (In fact, blind studies show other search engines consistently scoring higher than Google, but when the participants knew it was Google, then Google scored higher. There is a lot of room in this topic for personal opinion and stupid human tricks)

Since it's all so much based on human reactions, what could happen is that Google could fix the problem and nobody would notice. Or they might not fix the problem and everybody thinks they did. It's all about perception.

I've tried DDG and Bing, and I'm still with Google. At least for now.
Well there are days I drink a lot of coffee and days I don't drink coffee at all. I haven't noticed any difference in mood swings.

Sure if I drink coffee all day (and no water), I get caffeine overdose symptoms and feel dehydrated. Drinking water is good in any case. But that doesn't mean completely stopping drinking coffee if you enjoy it...
Thanks for the link to the ever wonderful "lesswrong" site. So much for me thinking I had stumbled onto something.
Correct wikipedia URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning
I believe 3 finger gestures are used by VoiceOver so there's a possible conflict there, but VoiceOver is a system wide on-off setting so I don't know if that'd be a good enough reason not to use them as shortcuts. VoiceOver more or less redefines how you interact with apps anyway, so I'm not sure it'd bit a big problem, but Apple may want to avoid having too many different actions for different combinations of fingers.
Wait, did you just say $30/hour is low?
The WebSocket protocol is still very much in flux. This drop is only to give an idea of the server side API would look like (I think anyways). I imagine as the protocol calms down they'll implement whatever's decided on.
So what would be the operation to keep O(log n)? save p(x, n div 2) in memory?
Giving up coffee was one of the best things I've ever done for myself. (Perhaps second only to marrying my wife).

- no more trouble sleeping

- migraines significantly reduced in frequency and severity

- caffeine has become a very effective ibuprofen booster

- significantly reduced "up and downs"