skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any reason to believe that this promotion wasn't a partnership between Amazon and the record company? I'd expect Amazon to bare the majority of the discount, but would be surprised if they hadn't got some of the discount knocked off from the other end, as it was a great promotion for them as well.
i'm 12 and what is this
Thanks, I had already downloaded the latest version of Harper's Programming in Standard ML.

I think you're right about the SML folks' focus on PL research.
Yeah, coherence, altough I'm sure you can test for that. Some cheap pointers use nothing more that collimated LEDs.
I saw a documentary about sleep a few years ago. The main idea was that a sleep cycle lasts approximately 90 minutes, and you feel better rested when you avoid waking up in the middle of a cycle.

Since then, I always set my alarm clock to sleep a multiple of 90 minutes: 6h, 7h30min, 9h... (6 hours more often than not, but I might change this, having read this article...)

I used to dream all the time. I haven't dreamt since I started doing this. I guess I still have dreams, but I never remember them. I think you only remember dreams when you are woken up in the middle of REM sleep (in the middle of a cycle).

A nice benefit of my current sleep pattern, is that I fall asleep very fast, instead of waiting in bed for up to 1 hour like I used to. I hope it's not because I'm sleep deprived, though...
At one time I thought about something similar but the thing that tripped me up was what would the tax rate be based on? How do you propose to handle that?
pretty awesome analysis, i've definitely had some misconceptions dispelled and some suspicions confirmed. extremely helpful for an active angel investor like myself. i particularly like knowing the optimal range for how many times a startup should pivot.
Ok I'm impressed that this loaded on my iPhone. Modern standards for the win.
Er, would you mind correcting your post to indicate which one is more performant?

Thanks.
I don't know about Sitepoint for SEO, but I did like that one topic I linked to. I actually learned a substantial amount of my XHTML/CSS knowledge from Sitepoint (back in 2004-2005), so it's not all bad. :)

I like seobook and seomoz, and I'll check out the other sites you mentioned. Thanks!
Dan Kaminsky, Spelunking the Triangle: http://dankaminsky.com/2011/01/13/spelunk-tri/
Excited to read it front to back this weekend. Nice work!
I actually like http://mashupbreakdown.com/ better
I've always thought it would be nice if you could cause Ruby to dump its heap and symbol table to a file, which could then be loaded by other instances of Ruby. So, for example, you could run Ruby, load all of the Rails files, and then save everything, so the next time you want to run Rails, you just have to load one file instead of hitting the file system 2000 times.

You could probably also do this by running a Rails instance as a service, and then every time you want to run Rails, you tell the service to fork, and use the forked thread. I think this is how Passenger works actually?
I'm referring to all significant countries in Europe, since they all have the same copyright term, as part of implementing the appropriate EU directives on this matter. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_2006/116/EC

One of the main arguments for the Copyright Term Extension Act in the US was to better align US copyright law with that.
> Now if someone is going to tell someone else that they should do xyz, what are they basing that on?

Fair question. I would say these things are current, accepted "best practices". I'd liken it to suggesting you use a version control system instead of emailing code back and forth. Your existing system might work, but many other people who were also emailing code back and forth are seeing gains using this new-fangled VCS thing, so it's almost definitely worth doing.

You might try searching for "SEO before and after" or "SEO case study" to see how on-site changes have worked (or haven't worked!) for other sites. At any rate, many of the current "best practices" are trivial, under the hood changes so it doesn't really cost anything to put them into place. Most of them simply help search engines understand how your content is structured and benefit both you and your users.
rpg works by installing everything on a common directory: https://github.com/rtomayko/rpg

If rubygems did this, everything would be much better.

There is one problem though, and it is that some libs are bad citizens and install stuff outside of lib|bin and depend on it (haml's VERSION file is an example of this), and that sucks.

rpg has a 'shitlist' with fixes for specific cases: https://github.com/rtomayko/rpg/blob/master/rpg-shit-list.sh...
if anyone else missed out, there are actually 69 cent albums available that will give you the extra 15gb free:

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Samsung’s lawyers demand to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3
Why wouldn't they have felt themselves dropping as they plunged towards the ocean?
This is fascinating data and I'm very impressed with what they've gathered.
The problem I have is concentrating. I lose focus and have a hard time remembering what I read.
Um, yeah, I would edit those URLs out before the edit window expires. Google will kill your account.
That's pretty unrealistic. You seem to be assuming authors who write as infants. Even the most precocious authors usually wait at least until they learn to speak and read before they start publishing.
But just taking sugar pills won't make you feel better. Your mind has to believe in what you are taking to gain the placebo effect.
Unfortunately, it's going to be a long time before startups can use a novelty .bit domain if they want customers.

But in the meantime, sites likely to have their domains seized might be able to expect a more technical audience. And bitname.org seems to lower the barrier, as long as it stays off of law-enforcement radar.
the C10K problem was a decade ago something to take into consideration, but Moore's Law and better software has made that problem a thing of the past IMHO.

So the real question is, what is the new CxK value?
Thanks everyone, the personal anecdotes are the fuel I need to keep me motivated. It's tough when you see lots of big news about developers at startups doing amazing things and you just think 'well, I didn't do x,y,z perfectly, so I'm not eligible for this kind of project'. I work for a fairly small company that's existed for over 10 years but is still in startup mode, probably for the wrong reasons. But it's convinced me that startups and other small outfits are definitely where I want to be. Thanks everyone!
'Urban Outrage'
Either this program (Market Samurai) is shitting the bed or he has 291,557 backlinks to his domain. That's a pretty serious number of backlinks for a personal site.
African land grab could lead to future water conflicts
I agree with others that meds are not quick and easy. They should be considered when other efforts are failing. Each medication, as mentioned elsewhere, takes 4-6 weeks to show efficacy, and any particular medicine may not be effective, so you may spend six months finding your solution.

On the other hand, if you have tried non-medicinal alternatives and you think you are getting worse (or you are already at a seriously bad state), the drugs can be life-savers.

But quick, they are not.
What are other property taxes based on?
Drop And Give Me $25,000: ‘Startup Boot Camp’ Launches In Vancouver
I'm very nervous about this. I'm a rising sophomore at Virginia Tech (best in-state engineering school for ECE), and, while it's not a diploma mill, it's also certainly not "top-tier". I wonder whether my job prospects (or, worse, my education) suffer because of it. I take it your advice would be to get moving on the OSS/Company-starting as soon as possible? What other methods might make me a more impressive candidate?
Being a first time entrepreneur is like looking for your first job
Perhaps disk IO / multi-tenancy in the cloud.
Thanks, I had plenty of upvotes until you guys started replying.
One of the 5% of articles that I think would benefit from seeing points. This GP's attitude makes it so difficult to get help. I've got a great job, wonderful wife, amazing kids, beautiful house, cute dogs and cats, and yet I can't pull myself out of bed in the morning.

The problem is me, not my environment. I have to change.
What about single page apps?
History time. Antidepressant pharmacotherapy was actually discovered in the 1950s when reserpine, then used as an antihypertensive, was noted to cause depression. Reserpine acts by blocking the transmission of neurotransmitters 5HT, NE, and DA. Given that over twenty drugs, all with different actions on different neurotransmitters, have shown efficacy in depressed patients over the last 60 years, I think it would be rather shortsighted to dismiss the significant body of literature dedicated to the role of neurotransmitters in depression.

There are certainly many theories, and depression is a complicated disease. It is primarily modified by neurotransmitters, however. That much should be clear. Beta adrenergic receptor sensitivity and downregulation are also involved - but to what extent? Hypersecretion of cortisol (or lack of cortisol suppression) is also a factor - but to what extent? Even thyroid hormones are implicated.

Like I said, I'm not saying there is no inflammatory problem in depression - I said that we have no antidepressants based on this idea (and as far as I know, there are none in the pipeline in at least Phase II trials). Do I think inflammation is involved? Yes, I do. Do I think it's directly going to lead to more treatments for depression? No, I don't.
10 or 12 years ago, I saw a guy who built a hay bale structure with an evaporative cooler at Burning Man. It was the first time I'd seen one in real life, and it worked really well (it was a hot, dry year...not all of them are).
> receptionist

Whereupon, you knew you were communicating with someone who had real authority (interpolating from my own experience with corporate secretaries (the working kind, not the officer kind). ;-)
This approach really works well... I would add that off-loading MySQL to a different VPS within the same network works well too; latency within the same network is very negligible. Doing simple optimization such as moving/disabling mail and stuff you probably dont need works too.
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What do you mean? I say they're both very, very fast, but I think Varnish might be a bit faster (or better written). In any case, it's a really close call, and you should use the right tool for the job, as they aren't both written for the same job.
Very few examples of prototypal inheritance shows it beeing practically different from class based inheritance. If all (non-function) instance fields are assigned new values - like the Point example in the article - it is basically the same.

Prototypal inheritance makes a difference if one instance inherits field values (other than functions) from another instance. But this does not seem to be very common.

I believe one of the original use cases for prototypal inheritance were to save memory by letting GUI controls share common properties. Eg. if you had 10 buttons on the screen which all had the same color, same dimensions etc. With class based inheritance each instance would have their own copy of all properties, even if they have the same values in each instance.

I don't think that kind of optimization is relevant in modern JavaScript.
Crap, sorry about that. You can click the Download button on the right side of this page:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/56508265/?secret_password=20u3g2pa...

I didn't understand why, after filling out the form, I was given access to an html version but told over e-mail that "We will send you the pdf manually within 48 hours."

I wanted to read this offline, that's all..! :-)
So that's 1 app for every five users.

Apple and google are doomed.
An informative lesson from a wise quote: http://goo.gl/XUYv7
I don't understand. I can't tell if you are arguing for or against explicit returns. Can you elaborate?
Coroutines are less expressive than manually doing CPS, true, but they do make many common cases simpler. They're ultimately as expressive as one-shot continuations.
Yeah, it's part of Scala's type system, too - (Option, and Some or None. Better language designers go to great lengths to make simple things like null values well covered). Python will throw a fatal error and exits on reference to a nonexistent Dictionary key, but PHP blithely fills in the value with something falsy and continues.

I'd rather be using Python too, but for some apps we have to work with a lot of PHP legacy code, so I do what I can.
Yeah.. squid is actually great. I do wish squid is a packaged that just needs to be turned on for most VPS
As a pharmacist with an interest in depression, I have to strongly suggest you give it a try. Conspiracy theorists will now jump out and say "That's because you make money when he takes drugs!" No, I don't make much money when someone picks up a $4 prescription for a month's worth of citalopram, sertraline, trazodone, or paroxetine. But I know how depression can affect (and cripple) a person's life, and because of that I have to suggest that you at least go see a doctor to talk about it. Explain to him that you're skeptical, that's fine. Be open to suggestions, and be willing to try a few different drugs. We don't have depression completely figured out and only about 1/3 of patients achieve remission on their first antidepressant (about 2/3 achieve remission by with their second monotherapy trial).

Dependency is not an issue. You will not crave your antidepressant. You may, however, feel strange if you stop taking it suddenly (I cannot clearly explain it - 'strange' truly is the effect). Some of these drugs do have withdrawal symptoms, and again, this is where conspiracy theorists jump out and say "That's because you're addicted!" No, you are not addicted. You were taking a medication that modulated your neurotransmitter levels. If it was successful, over a period of time, your mood will be altered. If you stop that suddenly, wouldn't you expect your mood to fluctuate until your body readjusts? Of course you would.

Taking an antidepressant does not 'kill off' parts of yourself. It will allow you to be /more/ of who you are - without the anxiety, without the sleeplessness, without the morbid thoughts, without the intrusive thoughts, without the feelings of guilt. It allows you to break through the wall that normally holds you back.

If you are interested in further discussion, please email me. I have a lot to say on the subject.
Ask HN: Best job boards to post developer classified ad
Hi All, My co-founder and I have been working on the site yesdater.com. Conservatively speaking the site is ~80% complete to reaching an MVP, however my co-founder who is the technical lead has had to step away from the project for personal reasons. We are looking for someone to take us to the finish line; someone who knows Rails and has strong design skills.

Question: Has anyone on HN compiled a list of the best technical job-posting boards? If not, are there job posting sites that are the clear market leaders? Apologies if this has been asked before.

Also if anyone has interest in working with us, please reach out to me at richard@yesdater.com. Thanks!
I don't think I'm quite there yet. Are you saying having to type return vs. it being implicit encourages side-effects in programming? How does this relate to the begin block?
Nobody that matters will look at your schooling after a few years of experience. Those that do you should avoid, as they care more about superficial credentials than what you can actually do.
If developing the app doesn't cost much, having a port of your Android or iPhone app ready for when (and if) WP7 users arrive is a smart move. I am not surprised.
(He was talking about people taking psychiatric medications, not people with depression)
Great to see data being used to dissect entrepreneurship, but have to disagree on a few fronts.

-- "Steve Jobs isn’t doing anything radically different than other entrepreneurs. He just knows the rules of the game and plays it extremely well." I think that's nice in theory and may make folks feel good especially as its impossible to prove/disprove but arguing his success is the result of playing a game better seems wrong.

-- There isn't any factor which suggests the importance of the market the startup is going after. While management and momentum are alluded to in the 14 factors, market seems to be missing, no? And this seems to be a major gap.

-- It's not clear how success is measured which would be critical to dissecting patterns of success? It seems its measured in part by funding received. But given an overwhelming majority of funded startups don't succeed, not sure funding is an appropriate proxy for success. It may be necessary but is certainly not sufficient to guarantee success.

-- While large companies can use data to achieve better results, that's driven by the fact that they are generally more in the "exploit" portion of their maturity curve, i.e. eeking out another percent or two of market share, margin, revenue growth, etc. Startups on the other hand are about "exploration" (vs the exploit of the big cos) and while the practices of Ries/Blank make that exploration more rational, well-conceived, it remains an inherently uncertain thing.
Our designers frequently mock up designs for new features / versions of the site. They then get email responses that say X,Y, and Z (multiple times from different people). Sometimes they get conflicting X-1 and X-2.

With this I could see them sharing the wall with everyone and then getting collaborative feedback from all of the stakeholders.

What features specifically are you implementing? I would like undo, redo, step backward, step forward, and a better way to manage text.
Let's read some Rails code: OrderedOptions
I really wouldn't worry if you're at Virginia Tech; it's not MIT/Stanford/CMU but for ECE I'd say it's in the top 10 and definitely top 20.

You should do the same thing someone at Stanford would do to be as impressive as possible -- independent projects, maybe try to do a startup, open source, etc.

I think the difference between MIT and Virginia Tech, at least for undergrad, is that the 50th percentile MIT student is going to probably be better than the 50th percentile Virginia Tech student; the 95th percentile at each is going to be very good. Just make sure you're one of the best graduates and anyone reasonable will evaluate you on your merits.
Started with VIC20 Basic programming. 4 hrs typing from a book, then 2 hrs de-bugging, then no storage so played the sprite game until I was ready to kiss it goodbye and power off.

De-bugging makes you think like a programmer. I can now look at code of a language I do not know and find where the error is by 'gestalt'

Props to taking a VIC20 manual on vacation to Spain. Serious nerd street cred :)
This article is effectively discussing the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which in its strong form says that language constrains the thoughts you can have, and in it's weak form says that language merely influences your thoughts. Wikipedia's article on linguistic relativity probably explains it better.

The strong form is clearly false -- when was the last time you wanted to say something but struggled to find the right word that expressed just the nuance you meant? In the end, you may have settled for a more complicated explanation, simply because you didn't know of an English word that fitted. The lack of the word didn't stop you having the thought or feeling though.

On the other hand, the weak hypothesis is clearly true. Some of the article's examples show that you can't have simple expressions in some languages without being expressing gender, compass direction, seniority, etc. To express these things, you need to mentally aware of them, at least in the sense of having some background cognitive machinery that makes it available to you when forming utterances.

It will be very interesting to see how the evidence converges over time.
It is also not really free to you directly; there is an opportunity cost to being in a full-time graduate program vs. remaining in your job, advancing in your career, or starting a company.

It still might be the right choice for financial and non-financial reasons, but school isn't free even if you don't have to pay for it.
Banks have ranks, for most employees, rather than job titles. For example, when I was there UBS had: non-officers, Associate Directors, Directors, Executive Directors and Managing Directors, in increasing rank.

Other banks do the same with other keywords instead of "Director". VP for example. Or whatever. The point is, it's just a rank scale that's meant to cover all the "officers" and provide them with sufficient apparent title that clients won't feel like the person they're dealing with is some junior guy.
Reminds me of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_drop
also http://jsfiddle.net/
Micropayments are easier to implement computers and a sophisticated financial system.
I have an awful lot to say about this comment, but I'll leave it at this:

The cited study included six drugs. There are currently more than 20 available on the US market.

One of these 6 is no longer used (nefazodone - see the black box warning if you're curious).

The study only looked at serotonin modulation. We have drugs that don't even affect serotonin now, and ones that do it much better than the old ones. [Venlafaxine is an SNRI but at low doses acts as an SSRI. To get the NE effects, one must go to the upper dosage range. Most patients can't do this because of intolerable GI discomfort. Since you're obviously negative on the subject, I'll mention that the GI upset is caused by nonspecific serotonin activity at 5HT3 and 5HT4, if I remember my receptors correctly].

The study, published in 2008, only looked at 1987-1999. Very strange. Recency is in fact important with drug trial data.

PLOS Medicine is not exactly a respected medical journal... if you want good data, try Lancet, BMJ, NEJM, AJP, etc. Just because it got published definitely doesn't mean it's reliable. Very few people are actually trained to properly evaluate medical literature.
To expand on this, I would say, get physically fit.

The process of getting fit, changing your diet and working out, will keep your mind off the depression. It will give you more strength and energy. You will end up feeling better.

Cardio activities also involves small challenges and small wins everyday. This will give you a sense of accomplishment. Its a huge morale boost.

But you have to be consistent with the Cardio, and make it part of your lifestyle to rip the benefits.
Hmm, is anybody aware of any relevant literature on this?
My friend and I recently came up w/ a phrase that we say out loud whenever we go out. It is "I DONT GIVE A SHIT" Ultimately it doesnt matter if they want to talk to you, if people are watching, if you bomb, etc because in the end it doesn't matter. Not at all. Try it and let me know if it works for you.
I've installed and used Chrome but am staying with FF because I know it, it works, and it does everything The occasional crash is no problem as FF restores with no problem, and using Windows I am used to crashes :d
Why are people calling URL fragment a "hashbang" now? The exclamation point is only as recent as Google's Ajax spider standard proposal.

(Is the present essay only concerned about the strict subset of navigation state encoded in fragments that seeks to be indexed by spiders? Or is it concerned about all such usage and is abusing the term "hashbang"?)
I'm in Davis too. Really like the blog Scott.
Apple testing A5-packing MacBook Air?