skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It means don't argue about unimportant things. If your spouse wants something that you don't have a strong opinion about then roll with it. Don't sweat the small stuff.

Maybe to you... I know more than a few of my guy friends who literally let their wives control them "by the balls" so to speak, and don't have that healthy balance.

But anyway, yeah, what you just said, I'm down with that, when you put it that way.

If you're keeping your pickup skills sharp, you haven't really gotten married, you just did some mock ceremony and happen to be living together.

I have to admit, my views on the nature of sex, romance, dating, marriage are NOT inline with the majority of society; so it comes as no surprise that you would say that. I really think the whole idea of life-long monogamous relationships is basically a farce... I'm basically polyamorous, but can see the merits of interludes of monogamy....serial monogamy if you will.
Great News !!
Or, you hire an illustrator to do a quick gig: http://twitter.com/#!/cameronmcefee/status/20917220263600129
Enjoy our new born and work
Thank Christ for the near extinction of dracunculiasis, which while far from the worst plague afflicting the world is certainly one of (if not the) creepiest. Let's get onto river blindness and pulmonary leishmaniasis next K THX.
Interesting. The bitterness makes no sense to me. Hardware hacking is hard. Hackers are overly optimistic with deadlines. So WakeMate "is late"? So what?

Personally, I'm pretty happy with the Zeo, but I really respect the difficulty of task that the Wakemate folks took on. There is a little more intrinsic difficulty than making a website.
I was liking that reply in 2010, noob (technically true, living in Chicago).
We Love Buttons (CSS3)
Another iPhone Alarm Bug: Non-Recurring Alarms Broken, Beginning 1/1/2011
Solving oxygen
I'd like to improve my language skills so I could much easily move somewhere else.
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Right... but when you're comparing it as a measure of area it's actually a greater then 5x difference...
5120x2700 (5K) = 13,824,000
1920x1080 = 2,073,600
Roughly a 6.5x larger resolution then your 1920x1080 monitor.

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:28k_RED_CAMERA.svg)
>People who get seriously addicted to WoW are usually either looking for any escape from reality, or they have the type of personality which tends to get addicted to something, whether it's online games, math puzzles, tracking railroad schedules, or whatever. There's no question that these people might act in unhealthy ways, but WoW is the symptom of their problems, not the cause.

Do you agree that more people get addicted to playing WoW than tracking railroad schedules? If so, what are some of your hypotheses for what is causing this discrepancy?

:-P
So I tried moving my mouse left and right while closing my right and left eyes. Alternate fast enough and it really looks 3D!
Hmm, it's Simplified Chinese version of Win7. I highly doubt it's even a pirated version.
After seeing this marvelous bit of hackery I've subscribed to blog. Anyone with that level of curiosity must certainly have other interesting knowledge to share.
Get a girl
Not to diminish what he has done, but what about Barney Frank?
Here's more: http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-os-di...
Organizing a group hang with your buddies is a real headache.
ok, I think the chromeos forums deleted the thread. They are not in any way affiliated with google btw. Here is the screenshot which has instructions from the guy who said he flashed.
http://imgur.com/TN21R

Here is the BIOS which came with that CR48 Windows 7 laptop. http://www.sendspace.com/file/wp9nb6

This guy flashed his regular CR 48 bios with the above one and was able to boot back into Chrome. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10302232&postcoun...

Ok, just got done with this. I can verify 100% working. Instead of installing another OS though, I just rebooted after the BIOS flash and surprisingly Chrome started up! It erased the stateful partition and then reboot and voila I am back in Chrome -- with the notable exception -- of now being able to get into the BIOS.

Simply awesome.
Hiis spirit will live on through the works of many diy / homebuilders of R2 units:

http://astromech.net/
finish learning python, build a project and ship it!
Great article, although I'd prefer if there was a bit less of a focus on Objective-C and Cocoa, since all the rest applies pretty much the same to plain C.

(However, that technique with blocks looks like a good solution to the "many statement expression in macro expression" problem, would that work with C++0x lambdas?)
Keep working on my startup class.io, travel more and get married I hope :)
Ask HN: What is best spcialty to freelance in the Bay Area?
I'm moving to the Bay Area.

What is best to freelance in the Bay Area? What has more demand? iPhone apps? Android apps?
Web development? Something else?
It seems worth noting that many people are able to take cocaine on a regular basis without it screwing up their lives as well.
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Ask HN: How to have more energy for the new year
I have a horrible problem - I have low energy levels. Actually most people think I'm enthusiastic and high energy. The problem is though that I get exhausted early in the evening when I get home. I'll fall asleep by 7.30pm and be out cold until maybe midnight. Then I'll be awake for 3 hrs then force myself back to sleep so I can wake back up at 8am. Essentially my body is always forcing me to sleep 10 hours.

I'm so envious of other people that are able to sleep for only 7-8 hours or less. I'm really dedicated and enthusiastic and could get so much done if I only needed less sleep.

I've tried moderate exercise (30 mins swimming in the morning, 3x a week), but it hasn't helped (tried this for a couple months straight). I'm not overweight, actually am pretty skinny. Normalish diet including red meat.

I did see the doctor about this, but they just dismissed it as "some people just need more sleep". They did some simple blood tests, not sure what they did, but they didn't turn up anything unusual. I convinced them to do an overnight study for sleep apnea, and that didn't show anything unusual.

Any suggestions, anyone please? I feel like I'm wasting the best years of my life (am 30) because I'm sleeping through my leisure/after work productive time :(

EDIT: Btw, not a smoker, zero drug use, seldom use alcohol.
The level of expertise the author displays across DBMS platforms is actually sort of terrifying.
Are you specifically planning to get a RepRap or are you considering one of the MakerBot line?
Sucker Punch - Official HD Trailer by Zack Snyder
maybe you can just use geo-ip by default, so you don't need to prompt the user for anything. (maybe provide a link to the prompt if the location is wrong)
Fucki Manufacturing Concern will jump all over this.
From your article:

"So, when World of Warcraft came out, I knew that it was very important that I avoid playing it, because it clearly was a game that I would get instantly addicted to."

I was also into MUDs big time while I was in school. That addiction was not all bad since I eventually got into the hacking-the-codebase side of it, which was in line with what I was studying. But as soon as I heard of it, I knew that WoW was bad news for me. It would become my MUD addiction on steroids.

Thankfully I've managed to stay away from it so far. But I'm not really that strong. Most of the credit goes to my aversion to having to pay a subscription fee to play it.
7 Billion of Us
When you've been on vacation what happens if you don't force yourself to go back to sleep?

What happens if you go to sleep at 7:30pm and set an alarm for 9:00pm?

Would you like it better if you got only 7-8 hours of sleep but weren't as energetic during your waking hours?

If you were sleeping only 8 hours and felt great, would you feel cheated if everyone around you only slept for 5 hours?

All of this depends on you, and what works for you. You may have to experiment.
I may have to play with that. My initial thinking was to leave it blank so that users could fill in the place they may be heading to. I tried to make it as easy as possible to type too with autocomplete of US cities and states. Also, the geolocation is pretty awesome on a smartphone. Is geo-ip very reliable on phones?

Edit: I'm making the geo-location button add zipcode as well to get a more accurate answer.

I love the feedback. Maybe I should add a feature suggestion box to the site itself. Thank you.
Start playing with your diet, it's the single biggest influence. Most people are unaware of what they do to themselves by eating. Also consider checking other environmental factors like air quality(dust/mildew/smoke) or noise.
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The Barnes and Noble I used to go to all the time in Manhattan will be closing January 3rd. It's really sad. The economics are fairly straightforward: physical stores cannot compete with the internet for goods sold. However, I'd only buy something on perhaps one-fifth of my visits. What they really had was an atmosphere, and the coffeeshop / bookstore experience is something Amazon can never sell.

They need to make a pivot into selling an experience, which is obviously harder to monetize than sold goods. But it's certainly possible (see: Starbucks) and it's something a lot of people are willing to pay for.
Thanks for the pointer. How does this square up against jrockway's comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2055115 )?
...he created R2-D2 and many of the creatures that populate the film.

Does that include the other R2 unit, the one with the bad motivator? That's one of the few Star Wars toys I had as a kid.
Phone message system
I've tried "free cycling". My body always forces me to have at least 10 hours sleep, and scarily I can often easily be lazy and have 12 hrs.

When I try to wake up without enough sleep it just feels horrible. Sort of headache/stomach ache combo. I can set an alarm and force myself to wake up early if I need to, but I end up paying for it later and my body demands extra sleep to make up for it.

I get amazing bursts of creativity and clarity when I'm in an energetic phase - so I guess I'd be devastated if I lost that high energy. But a lot of the time there is just stuff to get done so if I had control over whether I have 8hrs or 10hrs then that would be ideal.

The reason 10vs7 is way worse than 8vs5 is that it kills my social life or side-project time. If I go to a party and only get back at mighnight, then I'm screwed if I want to get to work before 11am the next day. If I force myself to wake up at 8am, I can expect to be asleep at 6pm after work the following day.
In Pursuit of a Pythonic Ph.D -- On Ph.D and OSS Contribution [pdf]
Learn Node.js, learn RoR, learn CoffeeScript. Read the Dragon Book. Lurk moar.
Any specific suggestsions re:diet? I eat lots of premium quality ready meals but also get my fair share of fruit.

How do I determine air quality? I don't smoke or live with smokers. My CPU fan does get clogged with dust a lot, but I've had this problem in several different houses I've lived in.
http://slides.html5rocks.com/#css-animation

Please make better use of it. We don't want a new blink tag.

Thank you!
Barney Frank (while I like the guy) was not openly gay when he was elected, he only came out years later.
Have atleast 1 MVP out for every 3 months (for-profit or non-profit)

Get more social

Learn to get "wired in" <- Social network ah!

Program more!

Learn other tricks (marketing is very high on that list)

And, most, importantly make sure to stay on track with my plans!
Which would you pick and why ?

I was thinking of starting out with a makerbot and then using that to build something a bit more ambitious.

I've had a 3D milling machine/plasmacutter with an 10'x5' bed so I'm a bit spoiled in the size department (cutting 3/8" steel from full size sheets to assemble your prototypes with is a really nice capability to have) but I currently can't house a machine that size, also plasma cutting is not safe without a lot of precautions so that's why I've decided to approach this from the other end of the spectrum.
Neat one :) Which language do you want to learn next?
Ask HN: Phone messaging system
I've made a phone messaging system, where you can buy a message and let it play on one phone number of your interest.
So, I'm here to ask you what kind of messages do you think it's funny and great to have on my system. Today I have only four tunes to test, if you wanna an invite to test, please mail contato@telerecado.net.
Yet in trying to be boring, they ended up choosing unusual novelty topics that are relatively interesting when compared to truly dull pop culture pursuits like American Idol or Dancing With The Stars.
Ask HN: Good book on Agile Development?
Whats the 4 steps equivalent for a book on Agile Development for noobies?
> "The path of least resistance is to try and gain seniority at small or obscure companies. From there you create legitimacy for your seniority in larger companies. Experience in the larger company will in turn make smaller shops take a chance on you for a more senior position."

Working in larger companies earlier on - when you're fresh out of college, for example - can often ensure you end up learning a very tiny portion of the development lifecycle. Moving from there to a smaller outfit, where you would assume greater responsibility, would leave you realizing that you know very little about the big picture.
Too late. There are some hardcore coupon shoppers out there. People who buy $100 worth of food for $5.
"We're all overstimulated," said Ms. Lee. "I think it's important to stop all that for a while and see what several hours of being bored really feels like."

There's a difference? To me, overstimulation is incredibly boring. Overstimulation is the siren that tempts me to the next thing before I grasp the thing in front of me. Overstimulation is the nagging fear of missing something that makes me miss everything. I have to narrow things down and slow things down before I can engage with anything. Like alcohol, overstimulation is a depressant that feels deceptively like a stimulant, and reliably makes me stupider though it often makes me feel smarter. Maybe I'm just too slow for the 21st century.
Wakemate: Advice for a better user experience.
Possessions don't automatically make life simpler.

Possessions that you use regularly, value, and are worth more than the trouble they bring you might make life simpler. Possessions that are merely things you're storing "in case you need them", and are moving from one place to another, certainly don't make your life simpler.

I've known many people (including myself) who have found themselves in a position where they wanted or had to move and discovered in the process that when it came down to it, they could happily live without half of the stuff they had accumulated over the years. I did that in my most recent move, and a year later I do not miss any of it, and am still getting rid of things (30+ computer science books recently, and am now moving onto the photography equipment that just gather dust in the closet).
This is the correct answer. For example, when your stay at home wife is coming to the end of her rope, and you can decide on the spot to put your kid in a part time day home to give her some her-time, with no need to consider the cost, it makes life a lot easier. Ditto for so many other things in life.

Whether a person should have to do this is another discussion entirely. ;(
1. Launch a social game project I've been working on a for a bit now.

2. Produce another short film, this one based on a Hugo nominee short story.

3. Climb Mt. Shasta.

I started on all of these in the last few months, 2011 is just when I'll complete them!
How interesting.

I had been playing like mad since the new expansion came out. The other night in a dispassionate drunken decision I cancelled my subscription AND permanently deleted my characters. I wasn't a hardcore player but over about 14 months I had 1500 odd hours racked up across maybe 10 characters. Around 65 days play time.

I woke up the next day with a pretty bad hangover, but suddenly had a lot of spare time that I usually didn't feel that I had.

I went for a bike ride, caught up with friends, read bits and pieces of some books, played piano and hung out with my dog. Instead of a 16 hour stint trying to 'gear up for the new cata raids'.

Last night I had dreams that I was playing though... But I can't go back, everything is gone! To go back would mean starting again and I don't feel like sinking two months of my spare time into 'levelling up' again.
Ed Catmull always says that his approach to hiring was to find someone smarter than himself and that meant he was the dumbest person left @ Pixar.
or just go learn how to pick up girls. the skills are relevant to entrepreneurs.

In fact, the PUA guys have taken a lot of ideas from the exact same sources that are used by sales-people, marketers, etc. For example, Robert Cialdini's book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion is a popular read amongst PUAs. You'll also see those guys recommending various books on sales and presentation skills, recommending improv classes (something else sales guys sometimes do), etc.

So yeah, there's definitely a sort of connection there... :-)
My #1 goal for 2011 is to put the house in order.

I'm a good programmer. You'll just have to take my word for it, as I have no proof. I have no links to offer to which I can say "I did this".

That's the problem. I've spent the last 10 years toiling away as a random code monkey. A well appreciated code monkey who can solve problems and learn new things quickly, mind you. But not so outside the hours of 9-5.

A recent event has led to an epiphany where I've realized that I'm not working to my (albeit perceived) potential and that I should stop wasting my evenings and weekends and work toward something more fulfilling. I've spent the last 3 months working hard on ramping up on relevant technology and beginning work on my first startup.

2011 will ideally see me release this thing to the world at large. Wish me luck.
re: diet
-cook for yourself as often as possible.
-try to avoid overly processed foods.
-check ingredient lists on foods you buy and try foods with fewer additives.
-do elimination trials with things like gluten and high fructose corn syrup.

It's easy to fall into a diet that's really heavy on wheat and corn, so diversify as much as possible.

I've tried all of these, and my health and energy levels have improved because of them. It's hard to stay 100% on healthy foods and cutting gluten is a huge pain (probably not worth it if you don't have celiac disease).
I really like some of your design work, especially supportbreeze, very clean and slick look.
German and Finnish. (I've already had some classes at high school and college respectively, but that weren't even basics.)
There is the annoying side effect that if I make my own food instead of grabbing a take-out at lunch/dinner, I've now lost even more of my precious time on cooking :(

As motivation, is there a way you could describe/quantify the increase in energy levels that you were able to achieve by eating healthy foods?
Cracking Any GSM Mobile Phone
> a possible solution would be to require that trade partners implement and enforce similar levels of environmental regulations on manufacturing so that international trade is not just "exporting pollution".

I'd love that, but you do realize that it would stop 'outsourcing' pretty much dead in its tracks. (not a bad thing by itself).

This will also immediately be reflected in the sticker price of the goods.
I had pretty much the same problem for a long time. I switched beds a few months ago, which really helped. Now I'm back in my old bed and I'm having the same problem again. Try a different mattress type and/or different pillows.

[sleeping alone in both beds]
How quickly did you notice the difference? Was there any particular characteristic of the alternate mattress that you think might have made the difference?

I've slept in many different beds, and for weeks at a time in hotels and not noticed a difference.
Oh, I agree. Even the original bid price seems outrageous to me. However, one thing to keep in mind is that the city government of NYC is massive. Something like a bit over a quarter of a million employees working in everything from teaching to subway track maintenance, with a budget of $50 billion/yr. Just stopping the fraud issue with the time and attendance system would have saved the original cost of the system!

One side-issue that's caused some of the bloat was the various city-employee unions fighting against biometric scanners for time-in/time-out logging.

Here's some of the sources I used in my study (note the great discussion here on the same topic a while ago):

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/26/2010-03-26_city_...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/nyregion/23scanning.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221068

http://www.nyc.gov/html/opa/html/about/city_time.shtml

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/26/juan_gonzalez_ny_pays_...

http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.62e273bb0ef1f...
"My mobile phone today is significantly faster and more powerful — and has a higher resolution display and more storage! — than my PC in 2000. "

That can't be right...
I thought it would present some ui allowing you to enter the code for the page. "page not found? This is github, so you write it. :)"
> The only way I can see them competing on price is by printing books at purchase

1-off printing costs MUCH more than batch runs of printing.
1. Grow my company - FrontCube
2. Getting married
3. Launch our non-techie start-up
4. Launch our first Saas app
5. Work more on products and fewer clients’ project.
6. Burn my fat
7. Blog more often
8. Produce More Screencasts
9. Buy a new house
10. Release Speedy 2.0 supports Mac and Linux distors.

My complete list of plans and the 2010 review can be found here http://aslamnajeebdeen.com/blog/it-was-a-good-year-the-best-...
I have your typical C++ experience taught in an engineering curriculum and rather enjoyed it; my brain definitely works in algorithms. I'd love to try the more web-centric platforms around now (eg., perl, php, javascript, etc.) but I really don't have any idea how to start.
Russia and open source laws
what does this mean for the american software industry and the open source community?
1. put on some weight
2. meet lot of people
3. launch my startup