skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone ever successfully sued a company for sleep deprivation? I know investment banks are notorious for requiring junior staff to work without sleep, lest they lose their bonus (or worse).
It will be interesting how this affects my open rate for Hacker Newsletter. I'll write something up and share if it does.
What an awesome idea.

It took me more than a slit second to parse your intent with "I want to read about..." though. Maybe you should try an "I'm feeling lucky" option or perhaps a "Start with one of these" and list some recent trending topics.
I'm still not convinced that Fiber-related gymnastics are massively superior to callback-related gymnastics, especially if you ever have to debug the magic under the hood (which I inevitably end up doing).

Can someone enlighten me?
Can you please explain more why psychiatrists get it easier?
That's a great idea. I'll get that out tonight.

Thanks!
'using netbook remix right now'

I like the UI re-hash, it really is the easiest thing to use on the tinier screen. As long as it they keep that usability they can call it anything they want :)
I find your site very useful actually.I would also like to see some data on homepage, for example maybe some random news sources to show up like twitter's Trending Topics (it would be great if they are not just random but maybe most popular or something) just to make me more interested in exploring and to show me some activity on website. Nice job with current data, it looks ok not just for US but also for countries in Europe what i find really useful.
what do you think about this possible next step in e-book publishing:

people will start selling thousands of e-books (actually: longer articles), all concentrating on popular, longtail keywords, and make a killing with that.
Even though $5 is pretty cheap. There is a lot of power in 'free' (As Dan Ariely would say), and I'm sure there will be some bad consequences for apple here, but not that many and maybe it's worth it for their new strategy for developers. What that strategy is, I have no clue.
>"Fair" is a fairly useless concept in the real world, and it's only going to muddy the waters if it gets brought up.

I sincerely hope those that feel this way will never wield significant power as a lawmaker, a sentencing judge, a law enforcement officer or in any other position. Many terrible things have been done by people completely immorally following their own self interest. Just look at the arguments for and against slavery in the colonial era if you have any doubts.
Xcode is free. I'm not sure where you're getting $5 from. You do need to create an account to access the download page, but again that is free too.

Edit Ok, when I clicked through the link and downloaded it, I got no $$ warnings. Then as I read some other comments, I see that Apple has changed this. I didn't see anything about needing to pay because I have the paid dev account.
I agree. Content that directly speaks to a target audience is a force-multiplier.

The only thing I would add is that "quality content" means "sticky", "viral", or "emotionally powerful" -- it does not mean authoritative, comprehensive, or any of a dozen other adjectives folks would think of when you use the phrase "quality content"

Even if you took SEO and links out of the equation, the goal is to get folks talking about what you are doing. If you care about people seeing your work, accomplishing that is the only metric against which you can measure "quality", unfortunately.

The corollary to all of that, of course, is that folks simply don't get all that worked up about a lot of stuff. When's the last time you got excited about your laundry detergent and told somebody? Probably never. So the guys in the low-emotional-impact zone have to compete using rules made for that Bieber kid. It has to be a very difficult situation to be in.
New Magnetic Resonance Technique Could Revolutionise Quantum Computing
Safari Errorjacking
The problem seems to have resolved itself.
Stop = power off, so no, only EBS data is kept. When you start the instance again, the OS boots from scratch.
I found my pair-programing-soulmate.

I'm currently in grad school, and he's doing something else (following some non-programming related time-limited dreams). But I do know that the day I start a company, he's the first one on the hiring list. But our relationship isn't like the Steve-Chris one in the link. I suppose every relationship is different that way --- ours is more equal. I think it's more a discipline thing. I've never found anybody else who was willing to document and unit test as well, and was willing to think before coding. I've often considered the possibility that I'm just really anally retentive and he's the only one willing to tolerate those flaws. Where do you draw the line?

It really is a productivity multiplier (for both of us): and the biggest scare I have is that time passes by and one of us gets locked into a career path that excludes the other. It would be sad. I have no idea how to fix this situation other than maintaining a somewhat decent rapport given the distance.

It's almost like working on a long distance relationship...
Xcode on the Mac App Store
When I learned to program I used a clone of Apple II. At that time it was the only way to produce computers in my country (former communist one).
http://www.pravetz.info/images/pravetz/photo-imko-2-1.jpg
Maybe he's featured more lately because his break from HN gives him time and energy to write better? Just saying...
That's the thing about TechCrunch - it's often a content-free wrap around an article that they then conveniently fail to reference.
Hah! My developer membership expired a few hours ago (ok they did give me 15 days' notice). So I have to spend $5 or wait a day for them to reactivate it. sigh
Xcode 4 is not free. I have a free developer account which I use to download previous version and where you see the download page, it refers me to the app store.
A gobsmackingly weird comment considering that for the majority of the lifetime of the most popular application development platform on the planet, its development tools cost hundreds of dollars.
I really enjoyed this story. I worked with a brilliant developer for a couple years batting cleanup. I learned a lot and really enjoyed it though I was a lead developer/architect before and after the experience. We just got tons done...
Sorry ebiester -- I had the heading incorrect (Envy 15 rather than Envy 14) -- they discontinued the 15 and 13 in favor of the new 14. The link should point to the new machine and the heading is updated. +1 on HDTV bastards!
I totally agree that software is worth paying for, especially at 5$, but what is it that rubs the wrong way about this? It's so irritating. Developer tools should be free. Charge more for something else!

If I may quote PG: "They make such great stuff, but they're such assholes. Do I really want to support this company?"

This is only getting more and more true. Stop it Apple!
So far, no. I've been doing this for about a week, and - as far as I can tell - it works fine. I don't know if this is actually a supported thing, or something that only works by happenstance, or what. But for the time being it seems to work. <shrug />
I wonder if this has anything to do with the new accounting procedures (e.g. 99 cents for Face Time, charging for iTouch updates, etc)? Maybe it will be free to Lion users?
It should have come out March 14th, 2009.
A lot of small businesses use card readers plugged into PCs. I'm more worried about trojans on those PCs rather than some crafty salesman with a jailbroken iPhone.
Lean Startup on a bus
For those not registered as iOS or Mac developers (which is $99 a year), it's a $5 download from the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id422352214?mt=12&l...
You did, in fact, download previous versions of Xcode for free, but Xcode 4 has required a $99 developer account until today (Xcode 4 is so much better than Xcode 3 that I was happy to pay it).
Not to be obnoxious but I wasn't wasn't very impressed by this post ... use explain plans to add indexes to your tables? use passenger instead of mongrel instances? don't use rand() because it does a table scan? these are things a developer should know and be doing already.

There are also mistakes in there like saying you cannot add indexes to your tables using rails (can do this using migrations).
Anyone else disappointed that this was not about machine translation of Haskell to Javascript, with some sort of DOM monad?

While Haskell -> Javascript has been done before, all the examples seem toys without a rich integration into the browser.
Super Mega Awesome Xcode 4 Review
have you tried this ?

username: username@yourdomain.com

pop.gmail.com as incoming server

smtp.gmail.com as outgoing server

Link : http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
In experiments, rats have actually been killed by lack of sleep. Mind you, it took about a month as I recall, but it's still a bit scary.
Yes, it's for anybody who runs automated tasks. Not lay users who can only suffer catastrophic data loss.
My question, unanswered after reading the link, is this: what is WebOS?
http://www.mediafire.com/?zxtbagfkz7e64ja
Here is the zip of the IPA and provision file.
Another Steve here.

What I find helps me to keep going through the lame part of a project is working on pet projects. It keeps me fresh and motivated enough to be able to at least moderately focus on the now boring codebase.
"I already use a plugin that is now part of Jetpack (such as WordPress.com Stats). What do I do now? As we upgrade each of our individual plugins to be a part of Jetpack, we’ll prompt you to switch over to the new, Jetpack-powered version."

What I'm reading here is that I'll soon be dropping Wordpress.com stats entirely. I don't want a bloated plugin like Jetpack when all I need from it is the stats plugin. Thanks but no thanks.
It sounds like there is a lot of repetition in the EXE file.
It would be nice if they rolled server install into the same disc, because really all Ubuntu Server is is a different base set of packages from the exact same repositories.
I'm working on the ramen profitable bouncr.com service mentioned in the article. AMA.
Hopefully with the next gen of NFC devices, this is what we'll get.
I really don't want to have to start thinking of myself as a "Firefox Developer". If it surfs the web, be it desktop browser, mobile browser, screen reader, robot or even IE, it's part of my job as a web developer.
I was also thinking of that hypothesis as I read this.

It rings very true to me. I believe that people who have trouble sleeping are often people who didn't learn that much that day, and conversely, people who learn on a given day seem to need more sleep.

I noticed this with my kids. A few months before they started learning to talk, say, at about 13 months, they seemed to need more sleep, even though they weren't exercising any more. This is the period that you can really begin to see them starting to "get it", about a lot of things in their world. Even though they aren't talking yet, they are beginning to understand what you are saying, so they are learning fast.
Introducing Stellar
I have been using it since the first developer preview, and I have to say that is really a leap forward. Apple seems to have learned from good features in other IDEs. Still not perfect, but much better than version 3.

But it surprises me to see the final release this soon. The GM seed 2 still had some issues, especially with syntax coloring/code autocompletion, which is now tied do LLVM. I hope they addressed this in the proper way, since the last GM seed was just 5 days ago. When the syntax indexing broke, it rendered XCode totally unusable (I had to reinstall version 3 since I was not able to solve the problem in any way and I found a thread in the Apple forum where people where complaining about this issue).

EDIT: some grammar.
Try with daily jogging (30-40 minutes/day). I bet you'll feel better and will have enough sleeping 7.5-8h.
You can also play along on The Startup Bus's stock exchange at http://www.startupbus.com/ref/1
I want to point out Visual Studio (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/), but I don't know how it compares. The Express version is free, but the "Utlimate" version is almost $12,000. There are "Premium" and "Professional" below that. I don't know how the features of the various versions compare to XCode.
This is really quite nice. Mixing objects with pattern matching is something that I've always wanted and found lacking in many languages.
I was testing this last week with SoundManager2... the latency is far too great for games.
Nice one. Does this mean an API might be just the other side of SXSW? :-P

P.S. This post dedicated to Tristan, who asks "what's up with you commenting on every Lanyrd thing on HackerNews?!"
The suggestion here is that YC's view is due to them not being impartial. I think a more likely explanation is that they are indifferent - their investment system has continued to allow them to 'buy low', even through-out this so called bubble, and AFAIK they only sell at maturity (aquisition / IPO), so the timing of the sales are not bubble timing driven.

If you see YC attempt to liquidate lots of their positions at once, then maybe your suggestion might ring true...
So far the closest I have found and been using with good success is from genieo.com
Their app run in background and monitor your browser history from what I am guessing and then extrapolate potential sites, news that could be of interest.
Since it is in active development some results can be awkward but overall I am a happy user and stumble upon some good articles that were not in my daily sites visits.
I am curious to see if anyone else share the same feeling.
There's something inspiring about this robot we built careening on the edge of the solar system. We should be launching another one today, with even more ambitious exploration goals.
FYI, I was getting an error when trying to download (I'm a registered dev). Turns out I had to agree to their updated license agreement first.

In case anyone else runs into errors downloading.
Xcode now costs US$ 4.99
I personally wish for a crippled version of IE9 that doesn't use GPU acceleration but reliably backports to XP. But I can also see how that could be a nightmare to develop and maintain.
"Please note that these images are copyright protected. Reproduction without permission of the copyright holder is prohibited."

So the Aliens first have to come to earth to ask permission to make copies for analysis :) ? Smart NASA, smart!
I wonder if they will package the toolchain sans IDE for free as a download. Otherwise in the future package managers on OS X (homebrew, macports, fink, etc) may have a $5 entry fee.
The cynic in me thinks this feature was built to push Groupon emails to a now auto hidden "bulk" area.
Thanks for the feedback. We're already working on making the home page at least somewhat more 'engaging' and 'live' - thanks again for the suggestion.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

"Stallman has also developed a number of pieces of widely used software, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU Debugger, and many tools in the GNU Coreutils."
The Maine Experiment suggests that when an area has more doctors, they administer more procedures, many of them unnecessary. This counters your simple supply-demand argument--doctors actually manipulate demand.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1135711...
I'm pretty sure that the only reason they're charging for it is because they feel they're obligated to by accounting requirements. Same reason they charge for Facetime. I'd wager Xcode 4 will be included for free with Lion, just like Facetime will be.
The lack of updates in the face of promises of updates is the one thing about Windows Phone that irks me beyond all else; it'll be a quick jump back to the iPhone if it's like this for the length of my upgrade cycle.
Apparently not for everyone:

Ngoc Thai: The Man Who Doesn’t Sleep
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/2855/
All 62 days of always?

Your post and the parent's post were posted one minute apart. If you see a post that you think is unfairly downmodded, upmod it and hope others will be as fair as you are. That approach has worked well for me for some time.
Were you on passenger for apache or passenger for nginx, and were you on passenger 3? Those make quite a difference. Memory usage and performance have been greatly improved in 3, with important parts optimized in C. The dynamic multiprocessing can save you more memory during idle time.
I always think this is funny. Most people didn't see the housing crisis coming before it was terribly obvious to everyone. Crying bubble doesn't make you look like you're any good at predicting anything. The only danger of a bubble has to do with debt.

Most startups are funded by savings and while that savings can be wiped out no one is hurt after that hit. Businesses fail all the time and only when massive amounts debt is involved is anyone else (outside the people directly involved) affected.

A bubble would start to scare me if people started taking out massive loans to startup companies that had no hope to make money. I sometimes wonder about the quality of the companies that are able to raise money now but I'm not worried about them taking it. The investors will learn from their mistakes and hopefully we won't have as many daily deal sites for me to deal with. In the meantime I'm using Yipit to help me who also raised a decent amount of money I guess. Oh well.
Placebo effect.

Sleep doesn't work in neat 90 minute cycles. They're really longer in the early part of the night, and get faster and more biased towards REM in the later part of the night. The details are very individual and also vary night to night, so you can't predict with any accuracy at the start of the night what stage you'll be in at 7:00:00AM the next morning.

(Anecdote: A friend of mine used to swear by a theory, mostly as a joke, that the recipe for good night's sleep was sleeping an odd number of hours. One day he came all happy and said, "Thank God 15 is an odd number!")
I think this is what surprises me - this is hacker news, not normals news. How interesting is a safe interpretation of the research that conforms to what I was taught in 2nd grade? Its like someone posted an article extolling the virtues of the food pyramid or something. Even my doctor has a more liberal interpretation of the research than this particular author (and he is probably more qualified to make this interpretation).

In the past I've experimented with quantities of sleep, polyphasic sleep, measuring sleep quality, light / sound in the room, sleep supplements, etc, etc. Why? because sleep takes up 25-30% of my life. Its a no brainer activity for me to try to hack and optimize. Further, given sleep is such a big part of all of our lives, I'm surprised more people on this site do not have a similar mindset about experimenting and tweaking their sleep patterns.

Show me some articles with new research, personal experiments, or useful tips that can allow me to hack my sleep - these kind of interpretations are much more useful to digest.
I think every developer has elements of Steve/Chris in them. Sometimes you want to punch out a project and other times you're concentrating on tidying up the code and making it production ready. Unit testing has you alternating really quickly between the two personas.
I wouldn't say that this is complete advice, but it's the most important principle. Many of the people who have the worst trouble with SEO have sites that nobody would care about, such as real estate agents.
Sorry to call you out, but what is the point of this comment?
A Valuation Problem
Hi guys, i'm stuck on this problem for my finance class, and I was wondering if anyone here can help.

An early stage VC fund raises $250M. The partners together have a total carry of 25% of the fund’s returns with the other 75% allocated to the LP’s and a 2% management fee. At the end of year 7, the fund has a return of 13% and the decision is made to allocate all the gains earned to this time. What is the dollar amount distributed to the general partners and what is the $ amount distributed to the limited partners? How are the distributions taxed?

Anyone have a clue of how to answer this question?
Same thing crossed my mind, then I remembered that I wouldn't really be getting much from the 3->4 upgrade since I don't use Xcode itself.

I'm guessing they'll something similar to what they typically do with iLife (and, more recently, FaceTime): Charge existing customers for upgrades, but offer it for free with new (operating?) systems.

Regardless, Xcode 3 is still available as a free download.
If you are using Firefox, I suggest the Gmail Manager plugin by Todd Long. I have used quite a few Gmail plugins for Firefox, but none of them gets it quite as right as this one.

Details here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gmail-manager...
I agree with this (expect that USMLE is not a board exam).

My SO is a medical resident. They really are placed in unstable situations (to use a math/physics term). They are required to work 80 hr/week. If they report working more than 80 hr/week they get into trouble for a duty hours violation and yelled at for being "inefficient". If they report less than 80 hr/week they get in trouble for being slackers (a.k.a. "unprofessional", actually that's a catch-all phrase for anything the speaker doesn't like). No serious thought seems to be given to increasing staff levels.
Put a Caveman in Today's World
We're shooting a laser at the moon. And it's returning fire (Really.)
Saved 10 billion DNS queries per month by disabling DNS Prefetching
Recruiting tips for startups (or any company, for that matter)
Worth paying for if you're certain you need it, but it will turn away lots of curious hackers. I have a hard time seeing raising the barrier to development, even by $5, as anything but a horrible move.
New GMail Service Disruption
perfectly legal software fix from the Internet that turned it into a fully functioning tablet running on Google's Android platform

Don't think this is legal, as the exception to the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause only applies to "wireless telephone handsets" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Ac...
Bootstrapped Startup Fitocracy Helps You Level Up in Real Life
Really cool. I'll see if it improves my German.
The paint could blister and peel, the door seals could rot, the dashboard could crack from UV exposure, the shock absorbers could leak, the wipers could seize, the steering could become loose and noisy, etc.

I haven't owned a Kia, nor do I have anything against them, I'm just being pedantic and pointing out that you could fulfill a 100k powertrain warranty and still end up with a car that's mostly trash. :-)
Ig Nobel honors world's wackiest researchers: 2010 winners
Then allow me to adjust his statement slightly:

Namely, those with free dev tools have little problem attracting good developers.
There are always unintended consequences.

The entire book publishing industry is funded by sales by mystery and romance. Make those easier to produce, and you lose the overhead to publish poetry, in much the same way that most newspapers don't have the overhead to fund the next Seymour Hersh disclosing the next My Lai or the next Abu Ghraib.
That would be great. However, we just spent a trillion dollars to destroy a few cities in some desert in the Middle East, killing some 100k people on the way. For some reason that seemed to be a better idea than exploring space. :(

>> in the next few years, leave the space dominated by the influence
>> of our Sun and enter the province between the stars - interstellar
>> space.

That sounds just awesome.
I know it's not new, but I still get a kick every time I see "Zombie Detection" listed on the features page and I re-realize it's not a joke.

"Zombie Detection: Hard-to-find application errors and crashes can be trapped within Instruments when an application tries to access memory no longer available."