skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the last year or so, I have significantly lessened my consumption of alcohol, and it has greatly increased my quality of sleep, but I was never one to oversleep because of drinking anyways. I will usually wake after only 4-5 hours after a night on the town. My biggest issue is getting to bed on time those nights ;) .

One thing that does help me out when I drink is to stick to spirits like whiskey and vodka. Beer seems to have much more of a draining effect on my body as do any mixed drinks with sugars in them.
You might like it, but a lot of people have problems with it. It gives many people headaches. For many others it's just plain uncomfortable. For others it's a pain to wear a pair of glasses over their own glasses.

And for many people the experience of 3D movies isn't much of an improvement over 2D movies.
What's the practicality of switching back to horses? It's prohibitively expensive to do so because using horses as a form of transportation is just not supported by the modern market.

I say this as someone who suffers from motion sickness, yet who rides in planes and buses. There simply aren't any reasonably easy alternatives.
What do you think about Give Well's analysis of charities? http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
Not bad, not bad. Fun little app for who-knows-what. I would think that it would be pretty easy to bypass as a CAPTCHA, unless you turned the text into an image and further obfuscated the image?
You can see the path that the hotspot carved as it moved across southern Idaho:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HotspotsSRP.jpg

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.636075,-111.335449...
Using Views to Connect a Legacy Database to Rails
Engineering Coop
Fascinating, but not especially surprising. Some references to eg major roads or borough boundaries would be really useful!
> We should stop using the term "Object Oriented". I see two reasons: first, "OO" means too many things to too many people. Second, the most popular definition of OO is essentially about syntactic sugar.

1, there is a good enough concensus: would people not broadly agree that C is not really, and that Ruby is, and that OCaml is a bit, and so on?

2, you cannot simply dismiss something as syntactic sugar. Representation for humans is half of the whole purpose of programming languages.
It's times like these, I wish I could move faster with Appleseed. It's quite functional, but I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending it to someone in the context of a revolution, yet.
I don't mean to be dismissive of your points, because they do have some merit in this discussion, but I feel compelled to point something out.

Lots of people, otherwise very smart and picky people, have absolutely no "taste" for visual content. They will cheerfully accept the most terrible photographs and shakey video if they accept that as par for the course. Artists tend to take a more objective view, and frequently notice things that their audience may not consciously notice, but that do have measurable effects on the overall quality of the production.

This is as true for videography as it is for photography (in which emotional investment can make people overlook ridiculous image flaws for years before finally seeing the ugly half-face in the corner or a totally botched focus). Unless you train yourself to look objectively, you're often not seeing what's in front of you, merely representing it and evaluating that representation (which is always the case, of course, but there are naturally degrees of fidelity).

For example, I saw Alice in Wonderland 3D, and I was viewing it at the excellent Sundance theater in San Francisco. We're allowed to take drinks into the theater, and we all had a Bit Too Much™ before the start. I don't remember the 3d of that movie being bad, but upon re-inspection and some pointers I can see what a hack-job that was, even among its lackluster peers at the time.
Yes, and see http://diceware.com for a method of generating highly secure and memorable passphrases completely offline, using standard six-sided dice.
Due to the last unrest in Tunisia, studies and work has permanently stopped for around two weeks. I was following politics and life (study/work/house work) was the last thing to think about.

So I was sleeping when I needed it and waking up, when I just wake up. I've found during that period that I'm following a poly-phasic sleep instead of one phase sleep.

This can be caused by staying late (until 4-5 A.M.) on Facebook. However I let my body naturally wake and sleep. It organised itself, by itself.

- The day begin at 9:00-10:00 [around 4 hours sleep]

-> Feel good and fresh; have a considerable concentration; however my strength and concentration quickly drop at 2:00-3:00 PM

- So, I get back and sleep at 2:00PM-3:00PM [around 2,5 hours sleep]

-> Feels good too, and I can stand up to 4 or 5 A.M. with a considerable strength and concentration. From 1:00 A.M to 4:00 A.M, I have a considerable concentration and spirit.

So, I sleep 6.5 hours Vs. 7 hours, where is really the difference?

I found out that the difference is huge!

1. When I wake up at 10:00 I spend much less time at breakfast, I then quickly jump to do something. I don't feel I need to waste time. -30 min. gained-

2. I need a rest in the half of the day. Generally, I spend 1-2 hours in front of T.V or Internet. Now I sleep instead. So that's time earned. -2:00 hours gained-

3. I also need a rest before starting my night, generally an hours. Now I don't need it. I just woke up. -1:00 hour gained-

4. Finally, when it's 1:00 A.M, I find that I get back my breath. May be because it's calm and dark. There is no distractions.

So there is:

- Improvements in productivity and concentration

- I feel always fresh and no exhaustion

- I saved 3:30 hours
Also worth noting that non-app solutions do exist. [NextBus](http://www.nextbus.com/), for instance, includes both a web interface and an SMS-based query centered around texting it your stop number.
This sounds like a combination of Wolfram Alpha-esque search experience with APIs.

But I think this fellow is discounting how much value a good UI/UX is a part of what makes an application valuable. Every transit system out there had some crappy trip planner for a long time before Google Transit came along & replaced them. Star charts get a lot more useful with window-to-the-sky UI in new apps.

Does the NYC subway even have a fixed schedule during most times of the day? It's usually just "go in the station and a train will show up in a couple of minutes."
Your demo was quite interesting to play with. How does one get to that point and where does one go from that point within your software?
I meant that you rock for pointing it out :)

I have the Broadcom as well, so holler with your results. The dropping out only happens to me at home, not at work, so I'll give it a try in 8 or so hours.
Do you ever think that maybe it's GOOD of Twitter and Facebook to deactivate these accounts?

The information needs to be disseminated, but companies as large as the two mentioned may have enough conflicting interests that to allow a wanted person to interact with them would be a betrayal in itself.

Kicking dissidents off Twitter and Facebook might be like forbidding children from playing in the street. "This system is not set up in your interests, pursue them elsewhere."
What is this Polo app all about?
Looking at the web interface, it is claiming a 92% success rate on trades. That clearly indicates to me that those results are "in-sample". In other words, the model was trained on some data, and then backtested on that same data. In-sample results are essentially worthless. I used to work for a quant hedge fund, and at least on daily trading, you could have great results with 60% correct. There's no way you can have 92%.

Finding a useful financial signal is not primarily a search problem through a giant space of potential indicators. It is all about controlling for overfitting, and ensuring that the signal continues into the future. Also, I saw no mention of transaction costs for the trading strategy, which can often turn a great strategy into a money losing one.
People make the mistake of thinking that all revolutionaries must operate in total secrecy, but that's not how revolutions work, not everyone should be the IRA or ETA. In fact, that kind of underground insurgency is usually the result of a protracted struggle, not a popular uprising.

It's important in times like what Tunisia is going through for people to be open about their opposition, their numbers as insurance for their safety. Sure, it's dangerous, but what revolution isn't?
This is a case where someone's HN reputaion made the collection a "must read" for me. RoG has done a great job here of knowing what's been posted, more than "finding dupes" and adding to the conversation. I look forward to checking out the list.
Yes. Tunisian protestors repeatedly talked about Facebook's important role.

Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (unlike email) allows people to see updates without having to know about the email list. So that makes it much easier for a movement to get the word out beyond its core supporters and for like-minded people to find each other: "Oh look, my neighbor/colleague/second cousin just posted an article from Al Jazeera on Facebook. Funny, I didn't know she was political. Maybe we should talk."

Most younger people these days do most of their news and communication via social network sites. As an activist, that's where you want to be.

And about email's supposed advantages:

> Free,

If you have a server to host it, and the networking connectivity to get to it. What percentage of activists in Tunisa do?

> safe (SSL)

If you keep the server secure.

> distributed (choose any provider you like)

All Tunisian ISPs are owned by the government
Ask HN: Anyone use a life coach?
One of my ideas for 2011 is to test out a life coach, see if it helps with staying focused, getting motivated, etc. Has anyone used one?

I'd love to hear feedback and get recommendations for coaches to talk to.
It's more that I assume that people think OO is a property of a language until proved otherwise, and your essay did not give me the impression that you thought what I said. Especially the part with the C and C++ code where you deny the C code is OO: "Some of you may conclude that the C program is actually OO because it instantiates a data structure. No. The only alternative would be global variables. That would mean that any properly structured procedural program is OO as well." And I disagree. The C code is simple OO code, but it's OO, simple or otherwise. Here is a class. Here are the methods.

Besides, ALL software engineering terms of significant are ill-defined. Strong typing. Functional programming. I can even come up with two distinct meanings of immutable. If we apply the "there must be one clear meaning or the term's useless" we might as well give up discussing software, though the point that one must actually define which term you're using if you're going to have a serious discussion is still a good one.

I would also agree that the term OO has been not merely used as a characteristic of good design, but gotten itself defined as good design in some circles, such that attacking or even trying to refine the term OO gets perceived as an attack on the goodness of the language. Ask a Ruby partisan why it's better than Python and a good bit of the time you'll hear about how it's More OO than Python and Therefore Better, where it simply goes without saying that Being More OO Is Better, even though in practice the places where Python is "less OO" are not a problem, actually have their reasons, and for certain other definitions of OO are actually more OO. (len is a function that consumes generic interfaces to create its result. This is not a particularly "not OO" way of doing things.) See also MVC, where almost unlimited damage will be done to the term to show that something is "MVC", because MVC ===== Good Design.
If you don't want to wait for other people to fix this, there is a handy Firefox addon called No Referrer. It can block referers selectively, either when you click a link on a certain URL, or when you click a link that points to a certain URL. It uses regular expressions so it should be flexible enough.

It also blocks referers being sent from localhost/local URLs. I would be interested in trying out an option that only allows referers to be send to the same domain or its subdomains. The interesting part is seeing how many things that option would break.

EDIT: Forgot the link.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-referrer-m...
The nice side effect of those apps: Every developer is actually building webservices to drive them. So the big UDDI vision might yet come to pass.
FAA: Expect unreliable or unavailable GPS signals during upcoming testing
Is there any significance to the distribution of the "Welsh" names? They appear a bit more central, but not especially. Perhaps at one time they were the poorer, more centrally located 'immigrants', but have since spread out?
I nearly decided on a Nintendo 3DS, but after trying one out in person, I completely changed my mind. I would play it in 2D mode the whole time because the 3D I've seen on it gives me headaches.
So basically, I'd be paying a premium for hardware that I would specifically be turning off. Eventually the system might stabilize with some good games like the DS did, but there's going to be a crap-ton of shovelware at first which tries to exploit the 3D effect.
SEO Marketing: Make a Call-to-Action
He mentions the Shakespeare & Company on Broadway, but the photo is of Shakespeare & Company in Paris.
"3D movies" is a very inaccurate tag applied to the current steroscopic productions and equipment. It is, in a sense, a pragmatic extension of both traditional film-making and film watching.

When the technology for producing and watching in real 3d (e.g. volumetric display technology and corresponding recording technology) becomes available, the entire process of producing a movie will be radically different from how it is today. Currently, everything is controlled at production time. Once you get real 3D, the "camera position" is controlled by the viewer. That should be quite a change for directors and editors. Once you get real 3D, you will probably not sit still while watching a production. you will want to move around, explore it. This will have interesting effects when a lot of people are watching a production together and people flock around because they discovered something interesting in the back. Or maybe there will be a controller for moving the camera position, that would take fights for the remote to a whole new level ;)

Also, acting might become quite different from what it is today, because recording a movie might no longer be done with a photographic process but may be based purely on motion capturing. Actors would become puppeteers. (Some are today: think Gollum)

What I'm trying to say. Real 3D will be much more revolutionary for cinematography. What we are seeing today is just a gimmick. Nothing more.
Weird, I didn't see much italicized text in either page; but this should resolve your issues:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
http://yumtab.com/
It's going to be on streaks.me eventually. Isn't that a nice domain for it?
Yup, but it still would have been very easy for them to ignore him and wait to see if there's any non-tech-blog reaction to it.
A Look at Blender's New User Interface
Maybe there was some kind of automated system that locked down the page/account when other people outside of Facebook tried to repeatedly log into it and hack it?
Yep, it's the same thing as "testing on the training set". With memorization, one can achieve almost 100% on the training set. I'm not saying that EDW is doing this, but I'd be very surprised if they could get 92% success rate on real, unseen, test data. Heck, most Wall St companies would _kill_ for anything in approaching 60%.
I want to hear William Shatner read troll comments!
One response on Twitter: Too bad there isn't room for a ping pong table.
I fear he's losing his goodwill and credibility by taking this angle of attack though. His whole argument really boils down to the fact that advertisers are retarded, not that privacy is being exposed.
What Really Happened to 15 Million Jobs?
Fuduntu Weekly Update - 14.8-3
Mario in reverse - brings new life to the classic game.
"The ACM, in common with other organizers, requires those who have papers published in its journals and conferences to sign over the copyright to them. This means that you can’t republish a paper elsewhere and that the ACM can charge for your writing without paying you any fee."

Really? So every CS researcher who posts their publications on their personal site is flagrantly violating ACM's copyright with no consequences? I don't see how this can be accurate.
Deceitful? How so? If it was just because he was a felon then that's a shitty thing you did ratting him out to his employer.
I'm using Firefox add-on RefControl, which can remove referrer for 3rd party requests
Oh, the number of times I've bouced off ACM's paywall. It's maddening to see an article that you think will let you make progress in a problem you're working on, but unable to access it because of the $15 fee.

And paying the membership fees is not a solution, either — if you are an ACM member, you probably still need access to IEEE body of publications, and then there is Elsevier/Springer/others…
Exactly. If I post something on Facebook or YouTube, I don't have a contact list. People can sign up to follow me if they want to be public about it, but don't have to.

And the government got email passwords with its keystroke logging too.
New, Or Just New to Us? Social Media's Historical Antecedents
> tens of thousands of people are putting their lives on the line by going out in the streets where police are firing live ammunition -- over 60 have died in the protests. by those standards posting something on their Facebook profiles isn't risky at all.

When you're going out on the street, you're putting yourself at risk. When you use a service like Facebook for dissent, you're also putting family and friends at risk (and likewise if your family or friends use it). The specifics may vary according to the situation, but the principle doesn't.
I kept thinking this while reading the article, and I'm not sure why nobody else has posted this yet. I am not a fan of "3D" as it exists in it's most recent film form, but this is not a particularly well argued and supported indictment of 3D.

I think your comment should be directly in response to the article.
Freedom of Data 01/24/2011
(disclosure, I'm an ACM member, and a IEEE/Usenix/SAGE/LOPSA member as well)

Professional organizations have trouble with their revenue models.

The journal publishing business that the ACM and IEEE are in isn't sustainable long term, and drives people away or causes perverse benefit schemes, similar to how newspaper's business models fell apart in the last 10 years.

A better method would be to focus on conferences and community, which is more of the way that Usenix and LOPSA work.

That said, there's some solid stuff in the ACM journals, and their membership fees aren't all that crazy.

I can't wait until the dead tree editions of their publications go away.
I'd imagine posting on HN asking for an SSL secured server and forum/SN hosting for activists would find at least a few takers.
Video of the Day: Steve Jobs Demos the First Apple Macintosh
pretty sure there was 1 success in 50s and 80s as well.
Do the Indian and Bangladeshi communities have different customs regarding surnames that would lead to a more homogenous naming. Because the results seem disproportionate and shrink massively if you move the slider to the 2nd most popular name or further.
The Dolphin Browser Mini is fantastic as well. While it doesn't have the HD's plugin system, it includes several of the popular ones in the quickly-accessed Toolbox.

Personally I find the HD version a bit gaudy and slow... which is why I prefer the Mini on my memory starved, dated but trusty Droid.
Apple Signs on for Some Geekonomics
I personally don't mind it :)
You can generally post a user-generated version of your article for personal use on your personal server, not their typeset version. That usually means putting up the version that you submitted (in the generic Latex template), rather than the final version.
Intangibles - a way to like absolutely anything you want on Facebook.
The ACM grants back " The right to post author-prepared versions of the Work covered by the ACM copyright in a
personal collection on their own home page, on a publicly accessible server of their employer and in a repository legally mandated by the agency funding the research on which the Work is based. Such posting is limited to noncommercial access and personal use by others, and must include the
following notice both embedded within the full text file and in the accompanying citation display as well: ..."
* Does the NYC subway even have a fixed schedule during most times of the day? *

They do, headways (intervals between trains) vary at specific times of the days (large headways late at night/early morning, small headways during peak transit hours, mid-size headways during the day) and you can use those to compute the schedule. In NYCT's case, they run enough trains that in Manhattan a train comes pretty much every few minutes but in the other boroughs they may run infrequently enough that you'll want to plan ahead.
You're right about the people who always talk about the "high-level" topics and can't code for crap, but I also think that identifying problems is more difficult. Case in point: 42. Who knows how this number was processed?

Programming and debugging with existing code is challenging, and it's easier to talk about common ideals than actual solutions.
While I don't doubt Clojure 1.3 can get similar performance to Java, that's not what this benchmark shows. The Java and Clojure functions he's comparing don't even take and return the same argument types. He's comparing boxed Integers to primitive longs.

In the comments he says he saw no difference between Integer and ints. When I ran Tak.java with longs like the Clojure code my time went from 13s to 8s.
"Strong"?

381 / 6 = 63.5 checkins/user. Or, about 5 per month.

Doesn't seem like a high-engagement app to me.

I toyed with Foursquare for a while but then deleted the app. I'm past the "it's Saturday night, where are all my friends at" stage of my life, and battling some other schmuck for a mayorship so I can get $1.00 off at Starbucks or a free appetizer some place wasn't worth the effort, and leads to an increased spend that far outweighs the mayorship "benefit" (when there is one).

I'm kinda feeling like foursquare is best done as a feature to a larger app or business model.
It's very kind of you to say so, but in the interests of full disclosure I must declare that I've had no hand in creating this list. I've read several of the linked articles and found the general quality to be high (by my standards, for my rather limited context) and so thought I'd share it.

I even suspect it was posted here some time ago, but was ignored. I found it in my "Great Articles" experiment that I'm starting to review that to see if I can turn it into a more generally useful tool.

ADDED IN EDIT: Yes, thought so, here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1753144