skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been starting my day at 5 AM for decades. There's something invigorating about getting a jump on the rest of the people in my time zone (and the time zones to the east as well). This does, unfortunately, mean that "sleeping in" on the weekends might last until 7:30 at best.

I need 5.5 to 6.0 hours of sleep, and will generally just wake up after I've been sleeping for that long, regardless of jet lag.

I like to blast through my email, do my online reading, review and rewrite my TODO list, and generally have things on the right trajectory for the day by 6 AM.

I use the alarm clock on my BlackBerry and don't have any special tricks for waking up. I've been getting up at the same time for so long that my eyes will often open up at 4:55 or so.
Are you saying one should meditate for the sake of one's children?
Choosing co-founders (an addendum)
Facebook silencing Tunisian cyber activists involved in Revolution
He's slightly misrepresenting the Fuck Truck which is the (legitimate) shuttle bus that goes from Wellesley College (an all-girls school) to Harvard and MIT, rather than some sort of special purpose direct-to-sexy-party charter.
I've been using the first generation MacBook Air as my primary machine. It works, but battery life could be better and the hard drive faster. Now that the lease on it is running out I'm thinking about the 11" version. SSD should make the experience way better.

My Air runs with Ubuntu and XMonad, and I develop using regular Linux editors. I don't know how well this would perform with something like Eclipse...
When I was working in the office, I was arriving earlier. And started to work straight when anyone was there. Fortunately enough the times when we needed to stay longer than usual were quite rare, so I never had to answer this question myself.
Avatar was a good enough movie by itself to win awards and make money. It probably got a small kick from being 3D, but I disagree it was a huge part.

FWIW, I saw it in 2D first, loved it, then later saw it in 3D and hated every minute watching it. It was dark and gave me a HUGE headache.
Yes - we have seen it, and a few others. Try some queries in ours, and some queries in yours, and you will see that we use quite a different set of algorithms although there is some overlap.

We all like some healthy competition, right? How have you been doing with yours?
I believe it says they grew to 16 million VISITORS not users? Did I miss something?
"Nested <a> tags are a bit unusual, too, even if they are legal (is this valid? I don’t even know, because come on!)"

As it happens I've been fiddling with the HTML 4.01 DTDs in a project the past couple of weeks, and I can answer this for at least HTML 4.01: No. An A element may contain any inline element except for another A tag, which is explicitly denied.

(It isn't entirely clear to me whether the standard permits something like <a><b><a> or if the exclusions apply to all children, but the latter interpretation makes more sense.)
I definitely saw Avatar a second time only because of the 3D. Additionally, last weekend I wanted to see a movie in the theaters and picked Tron: Resurrection or whatever it's called solely because of the 3D.
And yet, they still didn't switch back to Horses.. strange
Your idea makes sense, but historically OO design came after OO languages. It was a big part of the hype promoted by tool makers during the 90s.
Update: fixed the Google account sign in link.
Digging into last year's 381,576,305 check-ins [infographic]
But in this case it's the site choosing to share the search term with the ad network -- and www.medicinenet.com/gout/article.htm (my first result for gout) has a pretty good idea that you searched for gout. It's also a rare enough term (this is my first time ever typing it) that any calculation on statistically improbable phrases will know I searched for "gout", not "article".

In most cases the "leakage" is pretty minor from search engine to page, the big leak is from page to ad network.
The thing about the internet is that it is so publically humiliating. Now I know that that is there and don't clock off the day job for another few hours.

Thanks for the tip.
I just finished reading the book and it's superb. With all the emphasis on raising venture capital and building rocket ship companies you need to realize they're not the norm.

People criticize life style companies but your chances of success are much better. But I think that you need to have tried to build a rocket ship and failed to truly appreciate the wisdom of thinking small. Not very sexy subject for publishers so that's why this book is a rare gem.
Not so sure about that, Freescale isn't far behind:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/03/freescale-announces-i-mx-...
It's not a pay wall if the registration is free...
I wish I could up-vote you 50 times, as this is the best, by far, response to this pompous article.
Holy shit, thanks to cturner who posted this. This is going to be the best new blog I find in 2011. This guy is not only a very talented writer and storyteller, he also has a shit ton of stories to tell. Dynamite combination.
Well, the man wrote a game engine in JavaScript, so asking him to implement a sqrt() function in JavaScript isn't unheard of. They don't ask "math trivia" questions of every interviewee, but here it seems relevant.

Not to diminish the awesome work this guy has done.
I thought it was very clear, and the benefit was for your relationship.
Nice, but I expected more discussion of the solution, rather than just discussing the problem.
Let's not slip into a false dichotomy. We don't need to argue about whether to block cookies OR block search engine leakage.
The article is a little breathless in its style... hard to see how there is any sort of barrier to entry being raised for another competitor to do the same thing.
Programming isn't that easy. I've been trying to teach some friends who've expressed interest for years. It seems rote and simple to me, but even working with them one on one doesn't seem to work. I've tried analogies, metaphors, and diagrams; I've tried to start from the high-level over-view and from the nitty-gritty. Some of them make a little head-way, but most have given up.

I think it has something to do with the cognitive load of assimilating language. A lot of what makes math hard is the language of math. Those that understand math find the language to be the easiest part and by far the most mechanical and simple to understand. Yet not everyone can pick up new languages. Most people as I understand it only have room in their heads for one or two. I would wager those that learn math or programming might have room for a little more. To learn a language is rote excercise, but not everyone can retain it for some reason afaik.

I think most people can learn what a "variable" is and might understand assigning a number or a "string" of letters. Yet even understanding arrays, hashes, and such low-level primitives is difficult. Going beyond that into functions, operators, generators, classes, objects, closures, data structures, memory allocation, pointers, references, etc... forget it. It takes a certain kind of person to be able to assimilate all of that and use it effectively.

Why else do we continue to invent languages "for people who cannot program?"

It's hard for a master to think like a student.
"It's unfortunate that DuckDuckGo is preying on people's fears and offering incomplete information in order to garner attention," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mailed statement.

It really is impressive that you're on their radar enough to warrant a reaction like that.
Flexie.js 1.0 (And you thought you'd be using floats for layout forever)
Want to Secure the Web’s Next Premium Domain (.Co) for Your Company?
FWIW: I created an AppEngine-based webapp (http://www.gnaught.com) to keep track of blacklisted domains and uses Google's "-site:" options in the search query. It was a weekend-project to learn about AppEngine and Python.
Funded DC startup TroopSwap is hiring.
If you think you can do better than SlickGrid, let me know. I did some in-depth research into JavaScript (specifically, jQuery) datagrids some time ago. You can find it on StackOverflow (I'm Rudiger, the asker): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2402953/javascript-data-g...
Mobile phone hacking - can you stop it?
Over 380 Million Check-Ins: Foursquare's 2010 By the Numbers [Infographic]
If I am mistaken it is indeed sincere as there is nothing in that article to even hint at anything more.
TWEriod - Get more exposure to your tweets
This sounds genius. I'll give a go soon.
PiffHop - your free indie Hip-Hop Internet radio station
How to persuade corporate IT into making your next computer upgrade an Apple
Thanks guys, we are also inclined towards giving a shot at applying.
Using Reviewboard with Git
Win 5 Free Poster Prints from UPrinting	
Posters can be great promotional tools or advertising for a web design company or a freelancer.Today UPrinting is bringing us an awesome giveaway by giving a custom Poster print to 5 WDD lucky winners.The winners will be announced here on WDD on January 31st, 2011. All winners will also be contacted via email.
Smartytask - Web based GTD system and task manager
Can anyone comment on their experience with OptionsHouse?
Red Bull sponsorship? :-)
$9/mo. for a handful of "coming soon" pages?

I'm sorry, but anyone who knows the actual value of such a service is going to roll their eyes ... and anyone who doesn't know that they're being ripped off will one day get tipped off, and they'll likely warn everyone they know not to patronize you. I can't see this being a sustainable business.
You're right. What gave you the impression that I thought otherwise? (I'm serious, I really want to know. I may even modify my essay.)

Regarding inheritance, I did say that I do not consider it to be mere syntactic sugar.
Nice write up. Thanks for sharing.
I found this routine to work and cement the habit for me to sleep 5 hours a night:
http://blog.ernestsemerda.com/2010/08/06/sleep-5-hours-night...
Summary of "Must Read" articles for starting entrepreneurs
Site appears to be completely down at the moment - some sort of database error.
Foursquare's year of 3400% growth
A euphemism for "web page".
Interesting that Aether gets mentioned in this article. They raised about $2B in a stock offering at the height of the late 90's bubble and by buying and selling companies they parlayed that into about $100M a few years later. If it were in a movie you would think it was un-believable but in 2004 the still CEO decided to invest the money he had left in leveraged mortgaged backed securities:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_June_8/a...

EDIT: here is a link to a better overview of Aether. Someone should write a book about this company:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-07-22/news/0407220158_...
Hackers usually underestimate the importance of PR. If you are going to do one thing from the article, I'd say get media training. Reading it reminded me a lot of this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Nicolas Sarkozy's Facebook hacked
Barcamp user registration tool + presentation display
Motivation follows action.

I don't know if this is strictly true in the absolute sense, but we're very programmed to think "ok I need to get motivated so I can get something done", when what seems to work far better is thinking "ok I need to get some things done so that I can get motivated". This follows the "take small steps, any steps" idea.
I wrote this for a site I worked on. It uses prototype.js.

https://gist.github.com/271597
Exactly, good to hear I'm not the only one. Fortunately nobody locks doors where we live or I'd been retracing my steps every day.

Do you ever crash around 4PM? I find that there are many days where I absolutely need a strong cup of coffee right around then, just to get me through to about 6PM when I perk back up again.
Incase anyone is wondering about the shirt in the article photograph: http://www.experimentaljetset.nl/archive/john-paul-ringo-geo...
Is the video not working for anyone else?
Skip the screen and go with VR glasses? Then the projectors are at a fixed distance from the eyes, and you can (in theory) go wild applying individual corrections for everyone, up to and including correcting for individual focus.
How does the "micropreneur" achieve this?

Is it the cheap personal assistant?

Most things seem too technical for that, and I wouldn't want to be obliged with hiring one for so many hours each week.
Regarding being tired before everyone else when you do decide to go out at night because you got up at 5am, try taking a little nap for an hour or two before going out.

Some people call these siestas, I lovingly refer to them as "Disco Naps".
At my parents' house, I solved this by changing the encryption to WPA - obviously not a perfect solution but it worked at the time
"How to persuade corporate IT into making your next computer upgrade an Apple" - I don't see this question answered in the post...?
Even if search engines stop sending keywords in referral data, the ad networks and webmasters will still be able to piece together your browsing history. Every day there is less and less anonymity on the web, and for the most part people are ok with it. Ten years ago very few people would willingly use their real name online. Facebook changed that.

The web as we know it has been built on the assumption that search engines pass along keywords in referrer data. Changing this would have a significant negative impact on a lot of businesses. Considering that most users don't really seem to care about privacy, at least if you judge by actions and not what they say, I don't see why a company like Google would ever stop sending along keyword data to webmasters. They'll piss off webmasters who buy ads from them, and it won't help them increase their share of the search market.
I took it straight from a financial times site I follow. http://ftalphaville.ft.com/

But thanks all the same :)
Referrers aren't passed on to all the elements loading on the page. If you click to nytimes.com from a Google search, the referrer is sent once in the HTTP request to nytimes.com and then your browser makes all the other required requests separately once it gets back the HTML page. When the ads are loaded they don't get your Google referrer, they'll either get nothing or a nytimes.com referrer. You can work around this with JS (which is how Google Analytics works), but it's completely unnecessary for the problems Gabe's talking about...

Referrers aren't needed for targeting. On that Gout example, Google knows you researched gout so they can target you with gout ads on sites that run AdSense or DoubleClick (which is a lot of ads). If you visited another site about gout that ran ads from a different network, then they too could target you. The referrer has nothing to do with it, it's what you're requesting.

If you don't want targeted advertisements, it's far more effective to use adblock or modify your /etc/hosts file than it is to use DDG.
From the guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In Submissions

...
If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn
us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.

Let me explain why I think the guideline is a good one.

I have two monitors. Each has 12 virtual desktops. Each virtual desktop has between 10 and 40 windows, some of which are browsers. Each browser has 10 to 50 tabs. I've just counted.

I tend to launch a bunch of stuff quickly, then methodically track through them, skimming, launching, and closing as appropriate. When a video auto-starts I have to track through potentially hundreds of windows/tabs/whatever, to find the one that's giving me grief.

It's annoying, and I think it's rude not to follow a site's guidelines.

You may disagree, and I'd be interested in an enlightening debate.
What would stop the site that is scraping content from using the rel="original" tag too
Exactly...When "to catch a predator" was on, they'd show the conversations and even the dumbest guys figured out which words to misspell and all of that.

On another note, do kids really still chat with strangers, ala AOL chat rooms circa 1995? The whole thing seems anachronistic.
Wow, that is really impressive, but I do think that foursquare will have some decline in 2011.
Top global software vendors ranked by Software Revenue - Worldwide
I'm a fan of Nvidia and their products but this claim is fairly meaningless.

Nvidia is often "ahead" of the competition when they announce something and then right about in line with the rest of the industry once they get all of their delays out of the way and finally release something.

See: Fermi, Tegra 2, et al.
This comment made my misspelling entirely worthwhile.
Tiny Apartment Made with 25,000 Ping Pong Balls - and Cheaper
You are affected if you see ads, using https, using noscript, blocking ads and erasing most of your cookies you are somewhat not vulnerable.

Using google the first link that came with 'gout' was wikipedia.
The Usability of Passwords - FAQ
I think you are one of few that would enjoy in it in 2D and not in 3D.

I also think it wasn't a great movie itself. It was a really safe storyline to appeal to a broad audience.
China's new, new tainted food scandal - this time it's the meat.
Retail Verizon iPhone 4 Costs $50 More Than AT&T's
Colorblind?

A good friend can't enjoy 3D movies because for that reason.
Great read. I agree with less immersion in 3D films.

I saw Pixar's "Up" in 3D. Such a touching story.

But at the sad scenes, when my eyes started to water up, I became super conscious of the fact that I had silly oversized glasses on my face, and it ruined the moment.

Watching the Blu-ray, in the comfort of my own home, I'm bawling like a baby.
I said two things: (1) class based programming isn't much different from plain old structured programming. (2) "OO" sucks.

I did not however, said that OO sucks. In pompous words, the quotation isn't the referent. http://lesswrong.com/lw/ok/the_quotation_is_not_the_referent...

Also, my C code wasn't meant to be class based in C, only idiomatic C. That is my point: idiomatic C (which is procedural, structured) often strangely looks like class based code.
Interesting, except that the idea was to raise the price so high that the person would not pay it. And of course, saving 30 infants might not offset the damage done by the scam...if one is willing to count dead babies.
Your page doesn't function well as a landing page or give enough information straight away about how it all works. The comment from Ben Thacker (facebook comment) is the kind of thing you need to get to the user quickly:

"For US bank-account-holders only, an interesting idea. Choose whether or not to donate $1 per day to a variety of charities pre-vetted by Philanthroper. Religious/personal appeals are excluded, and the website makes its money from ads, not by taking a cut. The only fee is a 1% charge for the payment processing."

https://www.banksimple.com/ has a pretty epic page/intro, open source too. Do some testing anyway, but it's a good idea you have got going there. Congratulations on your launch.
Honestly? I don't know if I'd care much. If it turned out to be a perfect clone, I'd probably be a bit irritated, but in the end, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I've been involved in a few tiny ventures (only me, or at most one other person) and one thing they've all had in common is that none of them were unique except in the personal approach I took to them.

So, as an example, you could start a business producing readers for diesel fuel flowmeters as I did, but would you have the same approach to customer service as me? Would you go out of your way to make using the unit as easy for your customer to use as you could?

The employee scheduler is the first software-only project I've ever done (and it was started primarily to learn web development), so maybe my reaction to being cloned would be different. But in the past I've built and sold hardware devices that had plenty of cheap marketplace competition so I'm used to that. My approach was to not care how many people were building the same thing or how much less they charged, but to focus instead on how happy I could make my customers.

I think of the product as a means to an end. The desired end result is profit and happy customers. The product or service is just the route you take to get there and really not that important in itself.
Lost Bomber
I preordered a Nintendo 3DS on day one it was available from Amazon.com.

Not for the the 3D, but for:

1. A New Pilot Wings. No price is too high to pay for a new Pilot Wings. I have been waiting years.

2. Portable Ocarina of Time. Same reason.

The entertainment and distraction they provide me (I can play Zelda OoT over and over, it does not get tiring or dull to me) is worth every cent.

Edit: English, I can't type it.
After having seen Avatar in 3D, I felt no need to see it in 3D again and I totally agree that I'm not going to any more 3D movies until the next significant tech improvement occurs. The same is true for most people I know. However we had to go see Avatar in 3D to come to that conclusion.
This particular implementation will probably never work, but that doesn't mean "3D movies" in some form will never work.

This guy built a stunning demonstration giving a 3d effect with a wiimote and a standard TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
Getting iOS Developers on the Same Page With x-callback-url
That was before the site went down. The site worked fine, the facebook form, didn't.
Information from MOMA itself, including a list of the typefaces and pictures of them all: http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/01/24/digital-fo...

And here's the brief list of typefaces: OCR-A, New Alphabet, Bell Centennial, ITC Galliard, FF Meta, Oakland, Keedy Sans, FF Beowolf, Template Gothic, Dead History, HTF Didot, FF Blur, Mason, Mantinia, Interstate, Big Caslon, FF DIN, Walker, Verdana, Mercury, Miller, Retina, Gotham.

(Trivia: Oakland [EDIT: duh, no, FF Beowolf; thanks, prs!] was designed by Just van Rossum, brother of Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language.)
I think David Brooks article, like the article on the Rhodes scholars, are very partisan ideological articles, although both disguised quite nicely.

The conservative right has started a grassroots movement to make traditional measures of intellect and achievement worthy of less distinction. A PhD? Who cares? Nobel Prize in Chemistry? Chemistry isn't that big of a deal, anyone can do it. Plain talkin' people who struggle with things like math and science -- those are the real intellects. Because being an intellect is being someone who can just relate to the every day man. Everything else is just a "hobby" that is no more worthy of distinction than being good at Call of Duty.

Over 2011 expect a full court press on this. Academia, scholarship, science, math, etc... will all be attacked as not particularly interesting. Plain spoken populism will be the new metric for brilliance and the best this country has to offer.
I will always try and see the 2D version of any film, but here in the UK at the moment the 2D versions don't show at as many screens or times as the 3D one.
Complaint against Google filed to the FTC re HTTP Headers [pdf]
Will It Blend? A Look at Blender's New User Interface
The point is that we easily can sit in chairs staring at bright lights for hours on end. In so far as Murch's argument goes, arguing that we shouldn't for health reasons throws the baby out with the bathwater. Getting people to sit for hours staring at bright lights is his business and life's work.