skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're talking about habit of highly successful people, I would agree it's persistence. But if we're talking specifically about highly creative and innovative people, then we may have to measure them with a slightly different set of metrics, for which solitude may be a more relevant habit than persistence.

Though I can't say whether solitude is THE number one habit, I would agree it's one of the best habits to have for generating insights and ideas.
We should be skeptical. Taubes' books show most of the conventional nutrition information is based on flawed studies that eventually became dogma. GCBC was aimed at medical professionals, and his new book tries to present it for average people, but he still has to present enough to counter 50 years of bad advice.

"What's better? 5 servings of fruits and vegetable. Unrefined, whole foods. Water. Legumes and grains. Fish."

Cut out legumes and grains - those are not whole foods, but they are modern (in evolutionary terms) and processed, and detract from nutritional advantages of of real food: fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables.
When I clicked the image, I got a PDF that only had the logo and vertical divider.

Mac 10.4.11, using Preview 3.0.9
Your wife wouldn't be angry at you if your projects made money. Your track record so far is spending a lot of time on projects that you don't complete, so why wouldn't she be angry?

Pick ONE smaller project that adds enough value to a user that he will pay for it. Drop everything else. Try to find the right partner, but don't wait around. Have a timeline and income projections you can show to your wife (and yourself). As long as you meet your targets, then everything will be fine. Actually finish it without quitting. Make money. All else is denial.
Huh? OS X is my primary development platform, Debian is my primary deployment platform, and on both, I use a ruby from /usr/local/bin, and I type "bundle install" to get my deps working, and everything works fine.
Well if IPv4 runs out soon enough and we successfully jump to IPv6, port forwarding in general has the potential to become a thing of the past.

That port forwarding is required isn't a bitcoin bug, it's a NAT bug.
I wouldn't be too quick to criticize ICICI on their fix. They did the right thing -- the quickest possible secure fix. Yes, input filtering is the "most right" fix, but speed is even more important in cases like this. It's quite likely that switching to a boolean significantly reduced the number of side effects. If they don't switch on input filtering in January some time, then we can start criticizing.
If you google "to paraphrase Winston Churchill", you hit the figure of speech that you've used. It's a pretty common turn of (para)phrase.

PS: Don't rely too much on dictionary.com, it's not the best. E.g. the New Oxford American Dictionary correctly gives the second meaning of "paraphrase: a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else".
Peer review happens the following way: editor gets manuscript, if it passes first cut (it's not obviously crazy) sends to three elder scholars in the (hopefully) appropriate subfield, they send it back after about 3 months with snarky comments based on cutting edge work their advisors did done 10-20 years previous, rinse repeat In the social sciences, it takes about 2 years from submission to paper publication.

In the pre-internet days, peer review like this prevented some bullshit from wasting the relatively scarce resources used by paper / USPS distribution and storage. Today it is just goofy, and only serves as a weird sort of evaluation procedure of scholars who rack up "scholarship points" just like some weird game of monopoly.

What about all the crap that gets "published" electronically, you ask? Almost by definition a "subfield" is a collection of people able to evaluate each other's work; if everybody in a subfield gets emails when a new paper is available, they ALL evaluate it via the internet (chat/ email/ etc), and they are all peers, and we see the old school scholarly distribution system to be parasitic ...

.... except there is no other way to rack up "scholarship points", so people continue to submit to the old school journals with their crusty old reviewers and their bullshit.
We're in complete agreement.

I hate being double and triple booked because I worry that I'm going to miss something that I wouldn't otherwise. I mind slightly less if the projects are of dissimilar types (like an app test and a network test), but I feel like it's just an accident waiting to happen.

I worked 16 hour days for the majority of 2010 (worked mind you, not billed) with a huge portion of those on opposing testing schedules (so I'd do one test in the daytime, another at night, and then try and sleep for a few hours).

And we don't get overtime. We have a utilization target (420 hours per quarter), which if we hit we get a bonus. I don't think anyone has missed it in two years (as pretty much everyone is working at least 600 hours per quarter).

I'm hoping we fill some req's (we had around 30 open last year for testers, but the larger organization had a hiring freeze).
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But does the iPad recognize handwriting as part of the operating system like the Newton did?
The allied victory was not a sole American effort. And the US would have had a hard time if the Germans were to take over Europe. It was in its own interests to get involved.
That reminds me two different attitudes towards life. If all you need to support a good meaningful life is $100k, and somehow you can get $1M a year by running a business, soliciting dontations or whatever, you could choose to get $1M for year one, and continue with your lifestyle for another 9 years without getting more money; or you could change how you spend your money, aim big things and spend $1M all in year one. My zen master taught me to aim big. How big an impact your life can make depends on how wise you spend your money and also, equally important, how much you can spend.
The search section is out of date now, they use the Realtime Lucene branch (with modifications). The link to the slides seems to 404 now, but you can see a video of their presentation at Lucene Revolution here: http://vimeo.com/16063395
Um, you're joking, right? Perlbrew itself is fine (I use and like it - I actually wrote a small Bash completion script for it[2]), but it implements only a fraction of the functionality of rvm[1]. (Rvm also precedes Perlbrew by some time, I think).

[1] http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

[2] https://github.com/telemachus/perlbrew-bash-completion
I think it's a bit more than that. It's worked on sites that Safari can't find a feed for, and I presume Safari looks for the meta-tag.
I would rather see more details in your professional experience than the details under each of the skill categories. "Almost everything" under Appleseed project tells me nothing about about what you accomplished, what technical aspects of your skill set was used, and what you may have learned (even if it's your own personal project). Additionally, I hear people talk about 1 page resumes all the time - I rather have a multiple page resume if it's what is required to show me what you know and can do - just don't make it a 13 pager either.

You pass the 2 second rule, where I wanted to keep reading - but in the end, from my point as someone in a hiring position I may not score your resume all to high based on the information I was able to pull from it - no offense intended, and I am sure others have different guidelines when it comes to resume vetting - but that is how it would score with me.
I think persistence is paramount, but the most general habit is simply "creation." One needs to be creating something, perhaps not always, perhaps not always well, but creating something none the less. It's a self selecting habit to unite a group by, but for some reason, to some, not an obvious one.
That sounds like "the no.1 habit of highly productive creative people", not "the no.1 habit of highly creative people."
You can avoid somewhat of that with some considered keymappings.

For instance, I remap Control to Alt a ton in emacs. It's very easy for me to thumb-key instead of pinky-key. YMMV, depending on keyboard and hand-size.
How did I not know about the Tamper Data plugin - thanks!
The article left out the following quote of Albert Einstein:

“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
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Ask HN: Unusual ways you've made side-money in the past?
Put down what you did and the profit you made. I'll start:

1) I sold homemade cookies in high school and made about $100 weekly (not pot cookies)

2) I sang on the subway in NYC with a friend making $100 a day each

3) I did SEO for a lumber company when I was learning the skills and made $200 a month

What's yours?
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Statistically, we are all failures, out to 6 sigma. [1]

The next step is to get a certain 1950's classic about humans' use of statistics.

--

[1] (Stated off the cuff and not scientifically.)
I like the way you think, revorad ;) I appreciate the hipmunk love.
That's odd, I'm on OS X 10.6.5 with Preview 5.0.3

I'll try re-uploading it with a more compatible PDF version.

EDIT: Re-uploaded with Acrobat 4/PDF 1.3 compatibility.
But we all have something like that in our head. The point is, that's not the part that keeps us from deploying - its execution, and the thesis is (paraphrasing) that should not be a problem any more.
Taubes' primary point, which is that "we get fat because we eat more calories than we expend" does not satisfactorily explain why we maintain a calorie surplus in the first place.

Is that really his point? That's true, but tautological.

Similarly, the theory that "the apple I dropped falls because of gravity" also doesn't explain why I dropped the apple. All it explains is how (and not why) the apple falls.
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> I find the notion that friends' recommendations will replace that as nothing short of bizarre.

Not for generic terms. But for _buying stuff_. If I am buying a camera, I'd be more interested in what my friends own, recommend.
I highly recommend that you read "The 4-Hour Workweek" book by Tim Ferriss: http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Expanded-Updated-Cutti...

I was in your same situation. Once I managed to find a way to work remotely now I'm able to organize my time more efficiently and find time for my side projects/ideas.
An user marking a web as spam is hardly a problem.

Haven't you used Gmail? If I tag a site as spam, DDG shouldn't show it to me. If a thousand users mark it as spam... then it starts to be clear that is a shady site, and DDG should eliminate it from its system.

Uhm, but now we have a vector for script kiddies to ban sites from a... who knows, maybe in some years... major web search.

Perhaps definitively removing a site should be done by a human operator.
What I believe he is complaining about is the fact that there is no way to specify an alternative installation path for binaries outside of bin.

Now, I am not sure with one either way since I don't use Ruby, and am merely interpreting the sentence above.
RSS is really cheap to set up compared to the cost of an entire site, and for news sites, it makes economic sense to add a feed on the off-chance that you might get 0.1% more readers.

The technology that is the RSS reader is not the driver of RSS. The feed is what drives it. NYT is putting up a feed even if is has zero browser support, I'll bet.

Until it's not worth the practically-zero cost of setting up a feed, there will be piles of feeds out there. Publishers will use anything they can to get more eyeballs, and feeds like RSS fit perfectly into that strategy.

I use RSS all the time. That's how I got to this article. And I'm not worried about it one bit.
I admit that I was being too harsh. I think I was just having a grumpy day and let it spill over into my comments.
I guess I don't see how this is interesting. He views source and modifies parameters.
But you're a web developer. Ruby works excellently for developers and for web apps.

Debian's primary concern is for end users, those who install applications via the pretty GUI. RubyGems made some choices that are very poor for these users.

The Ruby community has decided that these users are unimportant. And that's fair, there aren't many of them. "Fixing" RubyGems would not help developers, would not help web apps, would not help OS X or Windows end users, all of whom far outnumber Linux end users.

But recognize that this is a deliberate decision on the part of the Ruby community to ignore these users. But these Linux end users are Debian's raison d'etre, so recognize that the blame properly belongs on the shoulders of the Ruby community.

It may be a reasonable decision on the Ruby community's part, but it's still their "fault".
Not yet, but Mac OS X does.
Yeah, I'm considering expanding it to two pages. I don't know if I'd go much farther than that, but I could easily fill two pages with pertinent information.

I could probably do a whole page just on Appleseed, which might be worthwhile. The project extends in so many different directions, that it provides a really solid amalgamation of my capabilities.
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Here are all the other videos and assignments + solutions:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...
Logo is very Lisp
It's a common phrase because it's meant to be funny. The word "paraphrase" is being used ironically
Both of these are fair questions: is Taubes accurately portraying the conventional wisdom, and what difference in diet corresponds to what final weight maintained?

Yes, Taubes is presenting a very weak version of the argument. But I think he does this for good reason: it's the camel's nose in the tent, it's the NRA's (legitimate?) fear about reasonable gun control laws. Once he can show that the simple version can be questioned, he opens room for further questioning. And I don't think that his portrayal of conventional wisdom is that far off: we have entire industries based on shaving off a few calories from our desserts, and many people seem to believe that if the fat slobs would just park at the far end of the parking lot and walk another 100 feet they wouldn't be fat.

He doesn't present the version you offer because he doesn't believe it. You're presuming that its possible to eat an additional half a slice of bacon a day and have no other effects other than maintaining a stable weight of 2 lbs greater after a year. You're also presuming that this effect would be achieved by eating an additional sugar cube. Traditional calorie counting would also imply that you'd be in the same place if instead of the bacon or sugar cube every morning that you ate an entire 7200 calories pecan pie once a year at Thanksgiving.

Taubes says this is also wrong: bacon and sugar are metabolized differently, and will have different effects on your body. Both will also have side effects on appetite and energy level. How sure are you that they are the same? How sure are you that timing doesn't make a difference? How would you design a solution to obesity that is more effective than merely encouraging people to eat a little bit less and to exercise a little bit more?

I think these are good questions, and still open to discussion. Likely there are better approaches than Taubes', but I think he's a bright guy on the right path. At the least, I think it's worth attacking his actual thesis rather than complaining that his straw man doesn't fight back as strongly as it should.
What's the story on using the Unlicense with libraries under other licenses? I'd love to use it, but I depend on libraries that are under Apache and LGPL licenses. Is it compatible?
I stumbled upon this technique when doing P90X, I would tell myself I would just do the warmup. By the time the warmup was done, was ready to continue the exercise. Worked wonders!
Nah, topics are tags; a question can have several topics, whereas a reddit thread can only belong to one category. (reddit terminology is not my forté.)

On the negative side, I feel like some evil search engine optimizer when I plaster my questions with topics.
A careful reading of my comment will reveal that that does not contradict what I said :)
Indeed. :) I just liked the dudes answer.
I've been using an extranet site recently that calls you, using Twilio or something I guess. They have my mobile phone number.

You enter your username and password on the web form and your phone rings a couple of seconds later. You are asked by a recording to type in your PIN. When you do, the HTTP request is completed and you are logged in.

It's very easy as a user, and seems quite secure. The username/password/PIN are all quite weak and easy to remember, but in conjunction with the phone call, it's fairly strong.
For a while in college, I would review the electronics (especially cell phones) listed on Craigslist, buy them up and selling them at a profit on eBay or to one of the websites that recycles phones. There weren't very many real big arbitrage opportunities, but I made maybe a total of a couple hundred bucks cash during the time I was doing it for little effort.
Wow, is it that bad now in Hyde Park? Back in my day, there was the Co-Op, Mr. G's, and Village Foods, plus University Market and the produce store on 53rd.
I can't judge how useful the data-mining stuff is, but there's some nice Lisp code in there. Simple, powerful, and makes it look easy.
You described a university.
"Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the great programmers".

Alan Perlis
Just got it and I'm pretty impressed. Two things I'd like to see though:

1) the ability to bring up a keyboard (I had to lean forward to type something in. C'mon! :-)

2) the ability to pinch-zoom Switcher window previews. One of the frustrating things about Exposé for me is the unpredictable size & location of windows, especially when they look similar shrunk down. I'd like to peak closer at a window before I select it.

One note I had: I originally thought, "this'll be great because I'll be able to have an interactive animated trackpad!" but after using it, I feel like the use-cases for the Trackpad vs. the Switcher & Application chooser are slightly different. As a trackpad, I'm sitting closer to the computer and hardly looking at the iPad (but I do like the extra space), but I feel like the other two modes are better for sitting back and doing more casual surfing activities. Dunno if that's just me getting used to it though.

Anyway, good job and good luck!
Most normal people aren't going to switch carriers for a phone. And most people aren't on AT&T. It's pretty much Android or the free flip phone.
I am barely educated on this issue but what you are saying seems counterintuitive.

Oil resources are fairly fixed (for plastics and fuel) while China just makes contracts for more and causes our prices to rise for fuel.

The majority of jobs in the USA would appear to be service based for our own consumption while the majority in China seem to be manufacturing for consumption in the USA and elsewhere.

We restrict commerce to Cuba but have an overflow of goods coming mostly from China, to the point where they own most of our debt.

Why didn't we build up Mexico as the manufacturing capitol of the world so at least our continent would benefit from the stability the jobs would create?

I am not "anti" China, just saying we are still asleep at the wheel about their world economic power and their rising middle class is the cherry on top.
Based on your assumptions, he is arrogant for making such a ridiculous prediction in the first place. He is pretending to know the buying preferences of millions of people along with the performance of every designer in the future that could make an android.

If it came out of anyone else's mouth but John Gruber, no one would care.
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Bingo. I am generally far more creative than I am productive. :)
I've personally stopped using chapters, I found them to be rather detrimental to the process. When I feel I need them I insert them into the logical places via hindsight rather than using them to make arbitrary boundaries inside my work as I work.
I feel like we may be talking past each other.

I take your point: Ruby has made decisions that make it hard to install end-user applications (what few there are) without bundling up an entire additional Ruby universe. Ruby - community - Ruby doesn't work for end-user applications that want to depend on a single system Ruby. Yes. This is true. I get it.

But the actions Debian took to try to fix that situation broke Ruby for Ruby's real users, which are developers. You say that nothing Debian could have done would change things for developers, but that's not true; you presume that, had Debian not undertaken it's strange neutering of RubyGems, Ruby devs would still have to rebuild the universe to deploy there. No. I don't do that on OS X. I only have to do it on Debian, because Debian was wrong about Ruby.
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I know this probably won't happen in 2011, but I would kill for a phone/laptop that had wireless charging/sync that was practical (i.e. had a range of a few feet at least, and was decently fast.)
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I'm not saying whether it's a good or bad idea, I'm saying whether it's easy or not. There's a difference between "creative destruction which will end up good in the long run" and "easy"--in fact, they're nearly exact opposites. Just look at the fallout from this last recession for an example.

(On a side note, capitalism is defined by the legal enforcement of property rights. Abolishing intellectual property is probably the exact opposite of capitalism. The word you're looking for is "market".)
Universities would be very different if their sole purpose was to put great educational content online for free.
Not sure if you would want to use it, but I love ceevee.com for making my resume - the format just works for me.
Quad fat, NeXTstep also ran on HP-PARISC. In fact an HP 712/100 was the nicest NeXT system I have ever used. Blazingly fast (even in 2010!) easy to use and dead silent.
A factor of 5 then. How close would that put such a CPU to the slowest MacBook? (how many times faster than an iPad is a MacBook Air?)
I live in the bay area. Every time I fly back east, the first place I hit is dunkin donuts.
But for several years, up until, oh ~2005 or so, Wikipedia was on the path to becoming the repository of all human knowledge. Many people, including myself, found that to be extremely valuable, and exciting.

Why don't we get to say that the fundamental point of Wikipedia is to be an aspiring repository of all human knowledge? Asserting that the reason for these policies is that it's [merely] an encyclopedia [more or less in the traditional sense] is self-fulfilling rhetoric. You say "the point is X" but I say "the point was Y, and could have continued to be if certain people didn't establish turf and assert control."

From my point of view, Wikipedia was on the way to being something much more than what it is now, and value was lost.
ahhh, i didnt know about rvm ... just use and recommend rvm then!
That's pretty cool - is the market still there for that, or is there to many resellers now, do you think?
>when I don't have to keep a local copy of every transaction ever made by anyone on the whole system.

How about this part? That sounds like a pretty big flaw in the system.