skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got a lot of mileage out of this Employment Hack:

Treat your job as an unimportant thing that's easily replaced, as opposed to your Career that's Important and Fragile and something that you should never ever mess with for worry of ruining your entire life.

If you're not sweating your Career, you're more likely to do silly things like take too much vacation, even long sabbaticals. You're more likely to stand up to silly policies in your Big Company and even find ways to work them to your advantage. If things start going downhill, you'll be more likely to simply bail and go find someplace better.

But if you get into this space where you worry that you're going to be laid off at the first little screwup, and that will mean you have to move into a cardboard box and ask for spare change at the offramp, you're only going to get deeper and deeper into that space until you're stuck. And you're going to cling to your crappy job as though life depended on it while they keep treating you worse and worse.

I have thoroughly employable friends in their 30s who live in constant fear of being laid off, and it's ruining their lives. And I have the example of myself, who didn't sweat it too much, spent the better part of his 30s on the beach with a laptop, and seemingly landed on his feet, more employable than ever.

It's just a job. Try not to give it too much importance.
Ask HN: Where to buy domain from?
My main requirement is no-monkeybusiness and second price. Any retrogradations, opinions, stories, tips?

I did some research and reached to this list:

https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

http://www.dyndns.com/

http://www.namecheap.com/

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

http://www.1and1.com

Other?
Up to 100,000 protest Wisconsin law curbing unions
I don't know if this is supposed to be some tongue in cheek demo of Apple iTools, but I get the feeling after reading that résumé, that if Jobs had to start from nothing again, he could.
Unless you're Intellectual Ventures. Then you just extract money from anyone who properly executes the idea you bought.
#1.
What if a simple mental exercise could improve your memory and intelligence?

http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

#2.
Dual N-Back Community [ lot of tips: Dual N-Back, Brain Training & Intelligence ]

http://groups.google.com/group/brain-training

#3.
Memory hack .. [ Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. ]
http://ankisrs.net/

#4. Medication hacks:

ADHD: http://curetogether.com/blog/2011/02/22/what-patients-say-wo...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: http://curetogether.com/blog/2011/02/03/surprising-new-data-...

#5. self-monitoring / Self Tracking

tips: http://quantifiedself.com/

#6. Lonelyness hacking:

http://www.meetup.com/
"Europe" is very diverse from North to South. Your sentence is quite reasonable when you consider Central/Northern Europe, but doesn't quite make sense if you think of Southern Europe.
Another option would be base 5 for a pentatonic scale [1], or using the decimal representation to cover 2 octaves. Might sound a bit more natural than base 12.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale
Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors.
I played both. "not even in the same universe of playability" doesn't explain anything. Angry Birds looks to me like another projectile-shooting game, but with birds. Shooting birds onto even more elaborate structures I find tedious. I did a level or two, and didn't bother to continue. On the other hand, Tiny Wings has unique gameplay (at least as far as I know): you can fly a little bit, but generally you use slopes to accelerate (a la vert ramp); touch to accelerate downwards. Also, I find it hard to be so angry on the pigs as to bash them for many levels. Tiny Wings doesn't want you to be angry at anyone; you just fly because it's fun, then you will want to fly longer and higher.

Yes, the music is the same. I find this light-hearted tune very fitting to the graphics and gameplay.

To each their own, I guess?
This is a little more deeply engrained than from an outbreak of a single disease. The thing that is bizarre is that Ontarians respond to disease similar to how the Japanese cultural response has been to radiation.

The only thing is Japan had two nuclear bombs dropped on it. Ontario has at most one outbreak of an infectious disease, which didn't really do a god damn thing; 44 Torontonians died from SARS... but by the average incidence of accidents over 5100 Torontonians literally died because 'shit happens'.

It's so completely bizarre to an outsider. I mean if this is a corollary to all North Americans, if I go to New York I expect everyone to duck and cower on the ground whenever they hear the sound of a plane. But they don't.
What's the best way to get ants out of laptop keyboards?
Ask HN: Tips for flying with a guitar?
I'm going to be flying from New York to San Francisco tomorrow and would like to bring my guitar. Does anyone have any experience with this?

It's an acoustic guitar with a hard plastic case. I'm on a direct flight on a 757. What are my odds of being able to carry it on? I'm flying Delta, who has an explicit policy allowing guitars to be carried on, but they say that there are exceptions made (http://www.delta.com/traveling_checkin/baggage/special_baggage/musical_instruments/index.jsp)

Lastly, it's about a $300 guitar, but it was a Christmas gift so it is meaningful to me. Would it be safer to ship it insured with fedex or something?

I know this isn't tech related, but (a) I feel like there's probably a decent amount of musicians on here and (b) the best answer probably falls under the category of hacking a non-tech system :)
Delta guitar policy clickable: http://www.delta.com/traveling_checkin/baggage/special_bagga...
PhpMyAdmin-3.3.10-rc1 is released
I'd disagree with the conclusion.

Khan made a really good set of tools to teach with. His model is great if you're looking at replacing textbooks with something better, which is sorely needed.

The problem is that teaching isn't about delivering information as much as it is about evaluation, answering questions, and having soft skills. Khan does none of those things.

(While I like what I've seen of Khan, I generally avoid "screencasts" (which is pretty much what Khan's things are) and other learning materials that have a typically low information/time ratio - I feel I can learn faster if something was written out in longer form as I'm a fast reader.)
Excellent writeup.

I've been telling people this all day, but it's great to have a PhD confirm it.

BTW, with Chernobyl the control rods were not able to be inserted all the way, which is one of the main reasons it was so bad - the chain reaction never stopped, and the heat just kept building up.
History: The Web As We Know it Was Predicted in 1945
I've no doubt about it. He's done it several times, now. Actually, if anything, I think his success would hamper him. When he left Apple his name was tarnished and he had to prove himself again. I think his success with Apple the second time around would hamper him, as he would come onto a team with people instantly expecting he would transform the company. I don't know how many people push back against him at Apple, but I can all but guarantee nobody would at a new company.

The point, sadly, seems to be moot.
> Use a vertical monitor for your code editing

I used to use emacs's follow-mode for this, but it seems to have been broken for several years. EDIT: I just tried it again after a long hiatus, and it seems to be working, now.

> Next time you're tempted to immediately fire up the
> debugger, just don't and try to figure it out only by
> looking at the code.

That "sixth sense" develops even if you use the debugger. The debugger is basically useless unless you have a fair idea of where the bug is in the first place. Its main value is in verifying your understanding of what's going on.
I need to send this to every person who tells me about their amazing iPhone app idea. Angry Birds was a different take/execution on an idea from an old Flash game. Doodle Jump was nearly the SAME app as Super Papi Jump but with new graphics and execution. How many unit conversion apps are there? The guys who made Convert were the last app to do it but they went to #1 thanks to brilliant execution. Fart apps? I'm friends with the guy who made the #2 fart app, and I can bust his chops all I want, but he's now a millionaire.

In the App Store it's actually rare for a mega hit app or game to truly be original: they're all mostly riffs on existing apps or games.
This was also the time when the legendary "Microsoft interview" started coming together. I.e., you'd have an all-day interview with everyone on your prospective team (if you were targeting a particular position), and each interviewer would have one or two IQ-test questions and at least one whiteboard coding exercise.

People really went after the lateral-thinking questions and the estimation questions to find "smart" people. "How would you calculate how much rain falls in Washington in a day,"[1] "How many gas stations are there in (IYFStateOrCity)," and "How would you make a desk calendar with two cubes,"[2] were all fun ones.

Now, by making your questions similar to those on IQ tests, you select people who tend to do well on IQ tests. Funny, that.

[1] I got a boost on this one by spitting out,"weigh the clouds on their way in and out of the state," right away before building a slightly more feasible estimate. :-)

[2] The trick is just like the Jimi Hendrix song, if six was nine.
Clickable:

http://www.wheresyourduckbeen.com
PHP is probably not a good choice for COMET because the required open connection will block your server:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/603201/using-comet-with-p...

I guess this is the corner case one would use services like pusherapp.com

PS. Don't you like services that deliberately try to hide information from you?
Find sites sharing the same IP address
Success is a habit. I bet that most successful individuals who started from scratch, if sent in a foreign country with no connections or resources at all, would recreate their level of success given enough time.
> Whenever you get a new program, hit every button

Or you could just read the manual...
I noticed there is little difference between reddit and HN today. Could we have a way of voting for an item to be discussed at Reddit instead? We can then return the content to be more focussed on the so called "hacker" ethos.
I haven't come across any scientific basis for ADD, and I've looked. It seems to be a catch-all diagnosis for "responds positively to ritalin, etc."
It has some cool options too. For example:

http://sharingmyip.com/?site=ycombinator.com

It finds related sub-domains being used, like wiki.ycombinator.com

Or for Cisco:
http://sharingmyip.com/?site=cisco.com

It shows that some of their external domains are pointed to internal addresses (in the 10.0 range).
Or that the owner of symbolics. com (first domain ever) http://sharingmyip.com/?site=symbolics.com

Also owns iblog. com, tablets. com, etc.
Japan just got struck by an 8.9 (some saying 9.1 making it one of the worlds most powerful earthquakes ever recorded) and 1/25 reactors had a problem. They only had a problem because they lost backup power, which is quite simply the easiest fix that can be applied to all power stations essentially rendering this an impossibility for happening again.

I think it is time to declare the safety of nuclear when 1/25 plants only become dangerous after an 8.9 earthquake. Virtually 90% of the planet will never be hit by a similar level earthquake making a similar situation impossible outside of an earthquake zone.

FYI the Japanese government is worried of a partial meltdown in some rods in the reactor. This is in no way a meltdown. Also furthermore there's serious doubts in the nuclear community over whether a reactor can even achieve explosive criticality. Again, proper design inhibits the danger of these accidents. Three Mile Island for incidence had the same meltdown event as Chernobyl, but because of a better core design the corium never breached the core.

Given the Japanese precautions around nuclear technology I'd expect their core to hold up at least the same as Three Mile Island if not a lot better. Given they're only claiming a partial meltdown in a few rods, the risk of corium breaching the core vessel is extremely remote.
"Discovered a little animation company that needed a vision."

That's so amazing - or amusing - I absolutely can not tell if this is humbleness, irony, some bragging disguised as humbleness or something totally else ...
If there is one...$20 would be worthless.
Are you applying to YC again? (for the 2011 summer batch)?
Find out who unfollowed you on Twitter.
Beware the fear of Nuclear fear
WiFi-only Galaxy Tab Launching April 4 for $399?
That's what I do. I just dump all my socks in my drawer and pick two every morning. Sometimes they match, most times they don't. This has been the subject of much amusement at the office and with my family for many years now. I can't count the number of times I've had to ask people why they assume socks "should" be the same colour.
100K for even a few months would give most people a lot of room to find another hit.
good comment from there:

I wonder how the news that two reactors are in partial meltdown, six out of ten are without any cooling and in the japanese prefecture of Miyagi Sunday radiation levels 400 times above normal have been measured fit in your “analysis” that the situation is now under control.

do people really need to jump to conclusions as the situation is still in development?
This résumé looks far better than many I come across today, aesthetically.
Why would he apply? He has 1.2m revenue per year, his valuation must be much higher than that, the 30k YC will give him in return for 10%-30% (or whatever it is) is a pittance.
Why aren't all reactors mandated to keep a huge tank of emergency water at some height, so that you only need to open some bulkhead and gravity will ensure that the reactor gets cooled during the 7 or so days it takes to cool down. No batteries, no diesel, no offsite power needed.
What do you base that theory on? How can I trust you that "success is a habit"?

It is certainly interesting if it has merit, though.
Unfortunately, "solid business" and "getting acquired" are probably inversely correlated these days. Is Twitter a solid business?
When a meeting goes off topic, stand up and walk out. It's a good wake up call for all involved. And if they suddenly decide that there's something important they were meant to ask you but forgot because they were too busy discussing the weather, they'll ask you before your hand hits the door knob.
Remember: not everyone needs to lose weight and/or cut their calories.
It would be better if his PhD or his research were in a domain anywhere close to what he is talking about. Also, it would be better if the information he has where not only what is said in the news... People knowing what they talk about are really, really scared about the nuclear situation in Japan right now.
Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami
He says that even in the case of a total meltdown (which hopefully will not happen in Fukushima) we will be save because everything will be contained in the third containment.

What I don't get is how cooling is supposed to happen in this case. I think they still would have to pump sea water into the containment which would then get contaminated not only by neutron activation but also with Uranium, Cesium, Iodine etc.

What happens to the seawater then: Will it be released into the environment? Is it in liquid form or will it be released as steam?
Using Taskwarrior Instead Of Emacs+Org Mode For To-Do And Appointment Tracking
Well, I have to admit I'm surprised that you're saying that the iPhone 4 has worse "graphics performance" than such classic phones as the Nokia N900, the famously GPU-poor Nexus One, the venerable Motorola Droid and the cheapo Optimus One.

And I'm not even bothering to mention any device in the top half of the table that all beat even the amazing 3GS. But if you're that determined to argue that the iPhone 4 and iPad as a package suck at "graphics performance" to the extent shown on that link I provided then who am I to argue with such a revelatory benchmark. Those Android guys must really have their act together when it comes to holistic design.
Nilay Patel • It's tomorrow.
Apparently the earthquake moved the whole island by about 8 meters!

I wonder how that's going to affect GPS maps. 8 meters is enough to put you in a different street on your map.

Edit: Oops. 2.4 meters, about 8 feet.
It's my understanding that AngelList is just one small part of the broader Angel market, even if it is the epicenter.
Has Twitter been acquired?

edit: This must be misunderstood. My intent was to illustrate that Twitter is not a good example of a company that has been acquired without a solid business model. Obviously the news says they've had offers, but just as obviously no offers have turned into acquisitions. The many intelligent people who work there and have invested in the company think Twitter has at least the promise of a solid business.
Insert an ant-eater into the USB port. That'll soon get rid of 'em.
My high school class in Switzerland was chosen for the yearly measurement of radioactivity in the population. The graphs they showed us as intro were interesting. Basically they start in the mid-60's and were going down. The level then flatlined at zero for many years. Then Chernobyl came and was a small blip something like 5x less than the 60's level.

Turns out a complete meltdown of a civilian reactor a few thousand miles away matters less than open air explosion of multi-megaton bombs on the other side of the world, which was the cause for the 60's levels.

Not that I wish nuclear meltdown on anyone, but the above seems to me to suggest that on a worldwide scale it wouldn't have much of an impact.
This is actually the case for the design of some of the newer ALWR style reactors.

There are 3 or more holes at different heights, designed so that the most water flows in the early hours of cooling when the most cooling is needed, then tapering off to 2 then 1 holes with the water flow lessening over time.
Its had offers.
This scenario you mention about global warming is still an assumption that relies at least somewhat on probabilities. Many scientists believe global warming from CO2 emissions is highly likely, while others don't (they tend to be labeled as skeptics). Though there are too many variables that we as humans don't fully understand. So even if it is true and it makes some land unusable, it may well make other areas such as existing desert usable.

So I don't really know that this makes a tiny probability of a nuclear accident all that acceptable. That said, I'm not against nuclear energy, but the probability of accidents needs to be next to nothing. Build enough reactors near fault lines and the probability of one of them receiving an 8.9 earthquake would surely approach certainty.
I never put a really big task on my todo list. Instead of having "Write 500 page report about XYZ" on your todo, break it down to smaller jobs, but not too small. So instead, write down "look on wikipedia about xyz for 60 minutes", "open up Word, come up with a first draft title, and write down the chapters needed". Makes it A LOT easier to get started on something! If the task is too big I, and many others I suspect, just procrastinate. You end up with half a day gone just thinking about how hard and big the project is, instead of just opening Word and writing down a title, which is better than nothing.
I just heard an echo in my mind of Tasha Yar in Star Trek: The Next Generation saying "Any. Hat."
What is it about colder environments that the colder they are, the less clothing the natives wear? :D
And I agree wholeheartedly with many of the assertions in the original post. Particularly the assertion that alcohol was distilled so that we Brits could build up the courage to reproduce. :)
it's a known issue to apple, several bug reports have been filed, so let's wait and see (hope). it's pretty discouraging nevertheless.
if you want to confirm with the V8 benchmark, you can use my homescreen-enabled version (version 5) here: http://pavingways.com/test/v8-5/ - numbers are around 230 in safari to only 90 as a homescreen app :(
What exactly is going on at Japanese nuclear plants?
Hey ! I am a Nepalese guy. Never heard the name "badu" in my life.
While the article was a decent read, he is not an expert in this field. His work is in Supply Chain/Management

http://lean.mit.edu/about/lai-structure/faculty-researchers-...

Where does he get his expertise in nuclear reactors? According to the article, his father.

"He is a PhD Scientist, whose father has extensive experience in Germany’s nuclear industry"
Another one:

http://sharingmyip.com/?site=facebook.com

They have dev . facebook.com pointing to 10.30.0.50 (internal IP address).
Bing does this too with the ip: operator.
Dyson does have a point about "fudge factors" incorporated into current models, which is why it's such a shame the recent Orbiting Carbon Observatory and Glory satellite launches failed. Climate change is real, but we still need more eyes in the sky.

Here's hoping SpaceX and their ilk help reduce launch costs enough that these failures aren't so disastrous.
i like it when scientists say "the situation is under control" after the roof was bombed off.
Well, except for the fact that there's no way in hell he could buy health insurance, but in business terms, he certainly could.
> How can something be worse than worst case?

Easy, when anyone involved starts "giving 110%".
Children's Games - For Shame
This can't be real. What type of employer would say "Oh, Steve Jobs. Yes, I think I may have heard of you, but let's have a look at your resume before we get serious." And would Steve really write that one of his skills was "That 'vision thing?'"
Almost everyone should cut their sugar/artificial sugar intake at least. I'm quite skinny and am working on gaining muscle, I don't want to lose weight, but for the last two weeks I've abstained from soda, candy and white carbohydrates (wheat, pasta, spagetti). It has made a huge difference on my energy level, feeling of well being (every day is just "better") and skin quality.

Saturday is my cheat day where I'm allowed to eat everything I want. I ate a pizza and drank a bottle of soda. The pizza was great, but the soda was way too sweet for me. I literary had to force myself to drink the rest (I don't know why I felt I had to empty it). Today I woke up feeling tired the same way I used to feel before I started eating/drinking better and with a huge pimple in my forehead.
Logarithmic scales tho', innit. Is 400x actually significant?

Remember at Three Mile Island everyone got a dose of radiation that you'd get going to the dentist, and that's considered to be a "disaster".
It was very interesting to read the wikipedia page for INES. Turns out we never heard about the most serious incidents except Cernobyl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Sca...
DSLs in CoffeeScript
The problem I have with a vertical monitor screen is that I end up craning my neck to see the text at the very bottom of the monitor.
I think he's being modest for the asset that most clearly has. Being a visionary is his greatest strength, I think he humbles it down by saying it like that.
Really? What do you do instead of a resume? Just a cover letter?
What's interesting to me is I can't imagine why he would need this unless he was looking to move on to his next thing after apple. This isn't a list of accomplishments - it's a resume, geared to sell someone on why this guy should be hired.