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I'm starting to love the typography of Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information." I'm loving it because unlike a lot of other texts I've read its margins provide room for very detailed notes. In a normal book if I wanted to sketch out an amazing proof, I wouldn't have the space, but his book has room for that and more.

You know what would suck? If people didn't have any idea that choosing one page design over another actually changed how there product would be used. Not that long ago there was an interview with Joel Spolsky on here where he pointed out that small differences could really change a community. This is just as true in books as it is in an internet application.

So there is no perfect page. There is no secret law. Your better off doing A/B testing than treating anything but the gospel as gospel.
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Upfront apologies for being harsh, but you asked for feedback.

You can start by improving spelling and grammar. Both the website and this message has jarring grammatical errors. Even "Where's Your Duck Been" doesn't look grammatical.

After that you can work on your messaging. "Share Photos - Be Creative - Be Inspired!" - the only information in that slogan that says anything is "share photos".

You should better explain how your website is different than any other photo sharing website. "community of members following an idea worldwide" is nonsensical as is pretty much the rest of the copy on the website. Your blog posts aren't much better either.

With such a terrible level of writing don't expect to be taken seriously by anyone.
That's because of the SARS outbreak.
StrongLifts 5x5 - real strength and fitness for geeks like me.

Getting Things Done using Org mode (very simplified).

The Unschedule from The Now Habit.

Many tips from The Four Hour Work Week.

Make lists. Not too many. Mostly do.

I'm sure I'll think of more...
There are 2 types of people in the world: those who classify others into categories and types, and those who don't.
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With the difference in rent for live/work places in say the Mission and other more central neighborhoods, you could all get bikes for easy access to Caltrain and still have a lot left over.

Disclaimer: I live in SOMA.
That hypothesis would be easy to test.
What do people use yacc and other parsing tools for these days?

Looking at the uses page for ANTLR yesterday, it seems to be entirely DSL (query languages etc) and language tools (Java src code transformers, coverage checkers etc).

It seems that if you just need a text format, you'll probably settle for JSON (if you're happy to output data-structures directly) or XML (if you need to design a schema or interop with one). They are both general, non-tailored formats, making specific formats easy to extend. Less specific, more flexible.

Recently it was said here that most modern programming languages (surprisingly) use hand-made recursive descent parsers. This gives maximum power and performance, at the cost of complexity and being a lot of work.

BTW: javacc is a nice update of yacc IMHO, using EBNF, eg. you can write repetition with an * instead of breaking it into A:: aA|- . But it doesn't seem to have an active community around it (cf ANTLR), which is sadly a crucial factor for practical use.

However, I personally have always written manual recursive descent parsers (including XML formats), instead of using tools. For me, yacc et. al. just get in the way. But it's such a cool idea! BTW: There's a body of research called "grammarware", that didn't seem to take off; and I've heard that everyone who looks at grammars believes that can make it simple and easy to use, and set out to do so, but no one ever succeeds (...yet, anyway). http://www.cs.vu.nl/grammarware/

In my humble (and I admit, extremely unpopular) opinion, XML represents an amazing leap forward towards this goal: an XML Schema (or a DTD) is a grammar, and many parsing issues just disappear using this simpler, less powerful approach. For example, it has to be deterministic (aka 1-unambiguous); you can't have recursion within the one level of an element (aka tree grammar). I just wish it weren't so ghastly and soul-destroying to use. You have to look past the surface to see its disguised beauty (its beauty is "very effectively disguised").

funfact: Eric Schmidt wrote lex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software) Now, you might pooh-pooh lex for various reasons, but you can't call Eric a non-technical CEO.
Ah ok. Thanks. Any good communities you recommend in Mission?
To add another note to this, its a bug that Apple seems to know about. I can't link to it because its marked CONFIDENTIAL across the top of the dev forums, but in short its known about and being investigated.
That seemed a bit strange to me too. For all I know, Yahoo Answer users are there because they are young, they know the Yahoo brand (maybe from their parents), and they like the cuteness of the site,
I really wonder what they'll do with the podcast. With all three gone now, it'll be extremely hard to continue on with the show - either they find replacements, which will change the atmosphere of show altogether, or they just discontinue it.
Real Racing HD 2 shows basically the same benefits in their iPad 2 optimized version.
SOMA is the expensive part of SF, rent wise.

Your other option is to live close to 24th st BART station. It's not close to SOMA but it takes 10-15 minutes to get to Powell or Montgomery stations and another 5-20 minutes walking to any place in SOMA (depending where it is exactly). BART runs very frequently (every 15min on weekdays) so you don't wait more than a few minutes on average.

I did such commute for a few months (from 16th/mission BART stop to an office close to 4th/king st in SOMA) and it was about 35mins.

I suggest 24th st rather than 16st as I assume that part of the town is cheaper but you can look anywhere along BART (personally I live close to 16th/mission and fully recommend that neighborhood).
Sounds similar to the event that leads many companies claiming that they're "Agile".

Someone I knew interviewed a candidate and asked what he knows about Agile. He responded by telling a story of what happened in his previous workplace: "We have a 1 hour status meeting everyday, the management decided to apply Agile/Scrum. The easy way to do this is to change the name of that 1 hour status meeting everyday to become Scrum Meeting".
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It's a nice sentiment, to be sure...but not a realistic way to live, even if you do as much as vote or invest money. You have to treat large groups of people as large groups of you deal with them at all.
Companies are trying very hard to attract the talent that do not want to sit head-down in a cubicle for 8-10 hours a day ina tomb (no conversation) like development department, and come up with the term, "startup" even if a 40 hour work week exists. Like the catch phrases Agile (true Agile, creative environment) etc. But, some programmers love that environment :D It is all fit.

Though, the companies established like AMD, Amazon and Netflix, for example, do require the insane hours (if not blatantly then tacitly).
Mission is rather small, I'm not sure it can be subdivided further into communities.

In general I recommend the block delimited by castro st. on the west, valencia st. on the east, market st. on the north and 24th st on the south. The parts west of mission st. and north of 24th are more sketchy.

I would suggest investing in a few day stay in SF to check out various parts - after all what is sketchy to me might be colorful to you (or vice versa) i.e. you can't assume that your taste will match the taste of people giving recommendations here.
True, but those are empty pixels.
Far different from a light touch on the elbow and "can I speak to you a second" or "you look familiar, have I seen you at _x_" but point taken.
The meter was originally defined in terms of the earth, and the foot was originally defined in terms of peoples feet.

No matter how you slice it, feet are just dumb.
"I was sitting on well over 2,000$+ over the course of a month."
Thanks to everyone for the information.
Misleading how? It's an FPS graph between devices. Do you want to scale the Xoom score? It will still be more than doubled by the iPad 2.
If I am in a conversation with another developer because they asked for my help I will stop talking if it looks like they are 1. either ignoring my advice 2. or have understood enough and are busy doing what they need to do or 3. are busy doing something completely different.

This way I don't waste my time, and I can quickly get back to what I was doing. I tend to spend a lot of time explaining concepts even to people that may know what I am talking about so that I don't have to be interrupted again.

I work better while in an almost empty room with no movement around me and no noises other than the music I am playing.

I tend to spend too much time multitasking so I have disabled all of the notification features on most of the apps I use (such as Mail.app, Adium, Twitter, and others) now they can't interrupt me with an badge stating how many messages I still have unread in my Inbox. It has given me a cleaner experience.

Socially I have started cutting out those people that only demand my time but don't provide me with anything. There is no reason why I should be spending my time writing a long reply when I know you are not going to read it or provide some sort of adequate answer to the questions I posed in an attempt to help you. This is in real life as well, phone calls and the like.
Timely article. I was reading a National Geographic about taming foxes through selective breeding, and reflecting on how humans select for good-natured creatures. Perhaps this is happening with the human race too? Do jails serve to exclude violent people from the gene pool?
Missing research which suggest the type of hug and psychological meaning behind it: pelvic proximity (or touching) and lack thereof.
the problem with a publicly subsidized education system and semi-monopolized teacher system (credentialism) is that market forces are not shaping teaching compensation. the decision of how much to pay teachers handed down from on high whether that be from unions, legislation, public policy what have you will ALWAYS be less efficient than supply and demand.
It CAN (though not as a rule) imply a personality type (or just apathy on the part of the individual):
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

http://www.ecs.csus.edu/career/articles/article58.html
Yeah they actually did a census last year that was supposed to be the first to include these "unofficials". But yes, this does mean that lots of women have never received an education. The rich/poor divide here has to be seen to be believed.
I wanted to listen to my music in a way that my iPod wouldn't allow. So that day, about a week ago, I wrote an app to play my music the way I wanted. It has a big button, when pressed once marks that position of the song, twice immediately loops from the first mark to the second.

I felt like I had just grabbed a wrench or something and fixed a part of my life, but the wrench was Xcode.
"we're in a land where probability says we shouldn't be."

You, sir, need better advisors.
Bored and entitled youth in these countries are going to screw up quite a few things over the coming years. I remember walking around Kuwait and the only thing some of these bums had as entertainment was spitting on passers by from the first floor. That, and cars. Permanent squealing of tyres, and races on the road at night. Sick.
Thanks, I was looking to re-read that again after the root post. For some reason I thought it was posted on Salon.
Wow, a game layer. Imagine if those dowdy old airline frequent-flyer programs implemented one of these.

If you flew more, you could get some kind of "level up" that would enhance your abilities to increase your score. Maybe there would be time-limited missions you could complete. And you'd be granted some kind of socially-visible status as a reward. Now of course, you would have to "check in" to register your achievements...
Too bad that pi is wrong.

http://tauday.com
Okay, just life hacks, no tech:

Figuring out how to skip boring classes and phys ed in high school (mostly) without getting caught. Ah, good times.

Bypassing uncooperative assistants on the phone in order to schedule meetings with their superiors (OK, not my proudest moments actually).

Faking attractiveness and social intelligence in order to get girls with all kinds of tricks, including infamous wing man maneuvers.

Wow... I better stop right there. Those are all kind of terrible :-(
Setting goals and then pursuing those goals along any avenue, not just the obvious ones. Empiricism along the way.
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There should be an asterisk at the of the title Steve Blank's SXSW talk saying:

While new rules are in place for the new bubble they only apply to startups operating in the bubble. All other startups should continue following the rules for their respective sphere. Entrepreneurs should continue to start startups in any sphere.

He talks about four paths to startup liquidity. I hope he noted the latter doesn't replace the former. It should seem obvious but in the world of the new iPad making the original iPad a paperweight, I don't think it is. I'd argue for the continued validity of the former business models.

I wrote in more detail about this on my blog:

http://mattbauer.github.com/2011/03/13/new-rules-for-the-new...
Last time one of these threads came up, someone mentioned using the privileged security lines even without a first class ticket or whatever frequent-flyer status you need. I just flew out of Chicago and skipped a pretty decent sized line without any fuss from anyone.
I want to be this guy's friend.
Putting myself in positions where I have to pull through.

Like signing up to be a TA at the university -- now I know that I have to really master the course content.

Or telling people that I do/will do x and y.. so now I have to do x and y or else I'm a hypocrite and that sure would be bad. I tell my friends that I get out of bed by counting down out loud from 5..0, and that I ALWAYS get out of bed at 0. And I've convinced myself that I'm a hypocrite or fool of some sort if I don't follow through, just because i told people.

Also made a fun screen scraper last week for a course at the University that filled up with only Seniors and Juniors(has at least 100 students trying to get in). Crontabs to run my script which logs me into the course website and checks the spot availability of the class(and then alerts me if it's open). That's fun because only me and the other CS kids could possibly do this.
When pulled over by the police:

Surrender completely, be kind, considerate and honest. Haven't gotten a ticket in nine years. More, if you're curious about the step-by-step:

http://blog.danilocampos.com/2010/10/23/how-to-get-away-with...

Having a notebook:

A notebook large enough to comfortably dump your thoughts into but small enough to be always near your keyboard is awesome. The notebook helps with procrastination, especially when avoiding some gnarly bit of code you don't know how to write. I just start describing the problem and how I might solve it.

After awhile, I have:

- An idea of what I need to look up

- A basic list of tasks

- A clearer understanding of what I need to do
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The only time recently that I've seen a parser tool used was Yehuda Katz' handlebars.js[1], which uses Jison[2]

[1] http://handlebars.strobeapp.com/

[2] http://zaach.github.com/jison/
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Ask HN: Quality of content on HN
Off late I've noticed that there seems to be a decline in the quality of content that is being submitted to HN. Most of the content doesn't seem to be anything like "Hacker" news. Is there anyway that HN can moderate the content in a better way. If the content is interesting and doesn't belong to HN, there is always Reddit/Digg/StumbleUpon for that. As a huge fan of HN, I feel bad. I don't want to point out the content but I seriously feel bad about it. This is just my expression. Hope HN receives it in a positive way.

Edit: I don't submit content. I only am a regular reader of HN and love HN.
There are people with German ancestry, sure. But having parents or heritage from a country does not make you a countryman. People in Indiana who don't speak German, haven't lived in Germany for a substantial part of their lives, and don't know much about Germany aren't Germans. This is probably a good example of that.
At least he got thought a real person at the end, for most VPS/Cloud provider you never got this chance... That guy is seriously picky, I don't know why people just chill and instead of complain just build awesome stuff...
I don't really keep a traditional to-do list anymore. I tried GTD several times over the last 5 years and it's just too cumbersome (and having a huge to-do list is pretty daunting). I keep high-level project to-dos organized in Basecamp, project ideas are organized in soywiki, and any critical reminders are in Google Calendar (with alerts).

The real hack that I do though is every morning I take a post-it note and write down 3 things that I will finish that day. Then I stick it to my monitor and do the things. After that, I relax and play Starcraft 2 or work on personal projects.

Before I started using the post-it note, I would have a day or two where I was really productive, followed by several days of lackluster productivity. Now, by committing to fewer items per day but actually accomplishing them all, I'm way more productive overall, my clients are happier, and I'm actually making progress on my personal projects.
Go easy... "it was the earthquake and tsunami."
they didn't go together in any of the scenarios they ran.
Things are moving fast. TEPCO(Tokyo Electric Power Company) reported that they have restored AC power to all units.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031302-e....
In the case of a meltdown, what exactly is the damage?
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Some tiny fraction of kids teach themselves and you're implying that teachers aren't important? That's a non sequitur on a few different levels.
Just off the top of my head, Ruby uses a bison parser. They're also handy any time you've got a syntax specified in a standard, like CSS.
Ask HN: Feedback on my real-time image board
This week I've been working on a real-time image board using AJAX long polling and various other JavaScript techniques to achieve hashbang navigation between pages (entire page doesn't need to reload). Pretty much everything is loaded dynamically without a page reload.

When there's a new post in a thread, if you're viewing either the thread listing on the home page or are inside the thread itself, the new data will be pushed to your browser and update in real-time.

It's still in its early stages, but any feedback (critical or otherwise) is appreciated.

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Now, this is the part where you elaborate and tell us how you did such things.

Honestly, your post is more suspenseful than a cliche horror movie.
Get good at every system (software or otherwise) you depend on, and stick with them. Don't take on new systems until it hurts too much not to.

For me, this means that I run the same GTD/Pomodoro routine day in and day out using Remember the Milk. And I won't evaluate alternatives until I can't help but.
I like Vanity Fair subscribe to the magazine. It's named after a 19th century novel by Thackeray, a satire on society. I find that the magazine, like the book, mocks society and points out it's flaws, being hypocritical and opportunistic.

At the same time the magazine itself is opportunistic, and perhaps hypocritical. It's a very interesting magazine. Lots of good reading.
Serious suggestion for our Japanese friends http://nukalert.com

added: looks like they have a page for Japan http://nukalert.jp
My wife is a teacher. When you look at the economics and politics of teaching it's hard to want to be a teacher.
All in the game, yo. All in the game.
Ifthere is a meltdown...
I have to say the "rules" are a great hack.

Thanks to them, I've never gotten a ticket while inside my own district.

While I have gotten tickets outside my district, I have had violations ignored or reduced drastically merely for coming across as a "good guy".

The police aren't there to mess up your day unless one of you is in a bad mood. You can't control his mood, but don't make your mood the problem.

----

That said, if you're looking at something worse than a traffic violation--invoke every possible right that you can.
Stopped eating lunch and lost 50 pounds in about 6 months.
I was just thinking about this tonight (we've done some marketing work with an airline).

Rather than having to wait 12 months to gain access to the lounge for instance you could gain access to it inside of a month if you check in on one of their planes once a week for four weeks.

A few of the SXSW sessions have really had me thinking about how to introduce gaming elements into everyday life like billing for my ISP, rewards from my airline or incentives from my gym.
Sure there is. Check out the "new" page. When you see something there you think should be on Hacker News, upvote it. If 3 other people agree with you it will find its way to the front page. If lots more people agree, it will stick around a while.

If lots of us do a little bit each day to promote what we think belongs, it will wash out the popular culture stories that make the front page with only a few votes.

I've felt the same way recently and instead of just passively soaking in what ends up on the front page, I've started taking a trip through "new" every once in a while to see if I can do my part.
Isn't that a good example of "less is more"?

I wonder if people would detect more the difference in framerate it brings, compared to detecting the difference in resolution on this kind of size of screen.
Yeah those lines operate via the honor code. No one is actually going to stop you. That said I consider line jumping to be cheating, not a "life hack".
Use the other door. The next time you're in a crowded place, like a mall, and lots of people are trying to enter or exit, take notice. Almost 100% of the time, most of the people will all be filing through one door that is open because other people are going through it. This is despite the fact that there is probably one or more perfectly good doors to the left or right of it.

Something similar for revolving doors. Most venues that have revolving doors also have normal doors for wheelchairs, deliveries, or whatever. Stick a large group of people together, and they start clumping up trying to go through the revolver, instead of just going through the other doors.

Being aware of this crowd behavior is a great way to bypass lines, avoid frustration, and beat the crowd.
That is one thing I never understood. There are less requirements to teach at the college level than to teach high school. Most people don't realize that most college teachers have never actually had any education courses, they just happen to have attained advanced degrees.
Do this enough, and then there's going to be a line to get into the security line.

"Tragedy of the commons."
Paul just created that site about a month ago. If you don't like the name, start your own!
Some people could use to leave the canned pitch in the elevator.
Don't you worry about getting stuck at a local maximum of productivity?
Just noticing the parallels that something social delivered too perfectly polished seems like a computer generated face with perfect symmetry, e.g., totally fake.