skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, actually. A recent hire. Apparently was big on MS development, their company was a big partner, really pushed MS technologies, basically drank the kool-aid. Ended up rather bitter about the entire thing. Asked him just this week about Silverlight, and related a few stories. Is he infuriated? Not anymore. Mostly because he's moved on.

* I can't get into specifics, mostly because it was just a conversation, but you could sense the resentment and the feeling of betrayal.
Have you been diagnosed as such by a qualified professional? The traits listed in the article are also listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Psychopathy_Checklist - do you have any contrary sources?

Assuming you don't, then if the terms listed don't fit you, you're not psycopathic because that term is defined to mean 'one who displays those traits'. Disagreeing with that is as meaningless as saying that not all brunettes have brown hair.
And what % of that is healthcare costs? Check it out. I don't know conneticut that well but if you employ a lot of people, and they have healthcare, then it was a huge cost to roll them over these past 11 years.
See this:

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
If only more people were willing. I'm 100% positive that most current ad-based free content providers would like nothing more than to charge for their content and get rid of the ads.
I've been doing the standing thing for two months or so now, and at the risk of sounding like a hopeless shill I am very fond of my Ergotron Workfit. It works great. I stand, and walk around, but then my feet get tired so I slide the computer down and sit for a while, and then I stand up again.

At home I have a plain old standing desk with no adjustability, and that is worse because you're stuck in the one position. Maybe I need to geek out even more and get an old treadmill. ;)

I bet the Geekdesk works as well, although I have not tried it.

This guy is right about the shoes, by the way.
I think the real question is "Is MapReduce Our Only Hope?"

MapReduce has a lot of limitations. It doesn't have a query language, instead, you need to figure out the sequence of map and reduce steps and implement those in your favourite low level language yourself.

And it can't do efficient joins. That means you need to visit each and every row for each and every map-reduce stage. There's no b-tree or other "lookup structure".

And it's a batch based framework, which means if you add 1% more data, you have to re-analyze the entire data set, rather than update previous results with the new 1%.

Disclaimer: I work at Endeca, which is about to launch Latitude, an Enterprise platform for big data analysis. But (a) I work in Engineering, not sales or marketing, so I spend my time thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of various technologies, rather than how to sell them, and (b) I'm an actual human being who has independent thoughts.
Life of an Implementer: If you're good at it, don't do it for someone else
Every good programmer needs to understand pointers and aliasing at this level. And maybe it would convince some of them what a tremendous waste of time it is to try doing reliable and productive work using raw pointers.
Standing is much better for leg circulation than sitting, but I'll grant you it's not as good as walking.

The thing is for me that I don't stand stationary, I move from foot to foot, sometimes kick them around, and pace around the room while thinking. It wouldn't work so well if I were in a cubicle though.
Good advice, but please keep in mind that even if you're merely shoving the cc data over to authorize.net for storage, you still do need to be PCI compliant if any of it ever touches your servers at all. Everyone is reactive about PCI compliance and cross that bridge when they come to it, but it is something to keep in mind.
Hence "without being a psychopath".

I was noting the connection between one of the article's themes and one of the more meaningful quotes I've applied in relation to my life starting up my own business.
The linked article was pretty small, so I went and tried to get a bit more information:

* http://www.bainitesteel.com/ - the company making the product

* http://www.gizmag.com/stronger-steel-in-a-flash/18882/ - a longer and better writeup

* http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/06/flash-bainite-is-strongest-... - another writeup

Looks cool! Though not sure about the flamebait title from the original article. :)
I'm going to be the odd man out here. There are several statements made in the article that are incorrect, and then other arguments are based on them.

In particular, the tying together of speed and time.

"By 'world line' we mean a curve traced out in the four dimensions of space-time". Time is not a dimension. Time is a human concept. Clocks don't measure a physical dimension or force called time, they repeat mechanical motions at regular intervals that we label as time passing. Same for atomic clocks. We measure the spin rates of cesium atoms but that isn't any different than mechanical clocks. Time is not a force that figures into physics equations.

Further, time doesn't exist. Not in the classical sense. What we experience as time is the entropy of energy in the universe winding out. We remember things that happened before and imagine things in the future, but since there is no physical "time" dimension there is no traveling forward and back.

If you are on a ship traveling close to c, the rate of entropy in the matter and energy on your ship is lower than the outside universe. That's why time seems slower.

There's a classic thought experiment that you can build a time machine by putting one end of a wormhole on a ship, send it out for 20 years near c, then bring it back. At this point you would have a wormhole with ends in two different times. It doesn't work like that though. Passing through it will just put you wherever it opens to, and you'll just end up in whatever local entropy rate is going on.
<!DOCYTYPE html>

Misspelling.

<!--[if IE]><style type="text/css">.home .not-hacked p, .home .not-hacked #social { margin-left: -150px; }/* fuck you IE, you should burn in hell */</style><![endif]-->

No wonder.
I think part of the problem these days is that the most creative and innovative efforts are going towards the browser. And, indeed, if browsers keep growing and start to provide an credible, sandboxed, near-native-app equivalent(e.g. pNaCl + local caching, low-level input, sound and video APIs and full network capabilities) the desktop could potentially be stripped all the way back to the programmer-and-sysadmin-centric environments we had in the mid-80s, and usability focus could be on supporting the browser experience instead, as ChromeOS is attempting.

As it is, the Linux desktop is still working towards "yesterday's experience," since we don't have good enough browsers and there are tons and tons of legacy apps. Unfortunately, supporting yesterday's experience is harder for usability since it's conceptually richer, and most of these concepts are dueling at the bits-and-bytes level, where they're hard to reason about and present in digestible ways. The browser can blackbox a lot of stuff behind the standard APIs, something which the OS does not enjoy.

Another problem, just as large, is that there continues to be lots of new hardware, and correspondingly new drivers to support and specs to reverse engineer(since many manufacturers remain unwilling to assist). This is a problem that can only be solved by maintaining a hardware taskforce roughly proportional to the amount of new hardware released, but it's not particularly interesting or sexy, and it's not a core goal of most of the Linux ecosystem to create premium-grade drivers for all hardware.
This reminds me of the people in New York selling umbrellas when it rains. Know what people need and offer it to them when they need it.
Out of curiosity, what use case do you see for this?

Future features would be being able to let users specify which folder they want the file to go to and be able to change the file name. Also, just FYI the example link is broken for me. But I'm more interested in the use case, since this seems cool but I don't know when I'd find it helpful.
Don't forget noscript.
Indeed.

I find it very difficult to underscore this point without going on a rant -- perhaps because I find it so bad.

Let's say I'm living in IL and making 10K a month with Amazon sales. This is all because of a lot of hard work putting bits on a server somewhere in Austin or something. People come from all over the world to consume content and buy things.

Aside from the legal discussion, in practical terms what part of this equation involves the state of Illinois? I don't mean to be facile, but looks to me like the only reason they're coming for the money is because they can. In any other scenario we'd call this a shakedown. But because politicians do it we call it policy. Weird.

I'm not by any means arguing for no government, just pointing out that most times when I pay a tax there's something concrete and direct in return. If I pay property taxes, it goes to the local school. If I pay a road toll, it goes for road maintenance. If I buy a fishing license, I pay for game inspectors. This payment and feedback loop allows me to be able to judge if a tax is working or not -- and form some kind of opinion about what rates might be best. Here I'm just paying the state because they have the power to hurt me if I don't pay them. Seems to me once you reach a certain point in decoupling taxes from benefits, there's no rational basis to have any kind of compromise any more. Instead you get these hugely polarized debates. This is not a good system for people to live in.
Nice try, but no - basically, to use your phrasing, there's nothing to detect when Q2 collapses.
OS X System Equalizer
That's totally awesome.
This are not Standing problems!!

This are:

Women wearing high heels that constrain blood circulation(because "small shoes with peak shape are so beautiful") AND standing on then, putting all weight on toes as is not natural to do.
http://www.hazards.org/standing/standingproblem.pdf

Natural feet(from a person that had lived all their life barefoot) have not the shape we are used to because shoes reshape it, creating bunions that do not exist on the people that grew their feet barefoot.

With heels on your shoes you divert your weight to places where the body is not prepared to handle it, creating knees and ankles wear and problems. Also the upper part of the body has to compensate the balance from this artificial diversion creating bad postures that bend the back on unnatural ways.

If you are interested, sitting down have a lot of hazards too.
Well, since PHP will work with IIS (not to mention that Apache and MySQL both work on Windows, negating the need for IIS at all), is there a reason to switch? Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress all work well on Windows servers.

That said, Umbraco is interesting if you need something in the .net space. My few remaining Windows servers all run PHP through IIS or Apache, so I can't really recommend anything else.
People might use it for different things, but I made it so that I'd have a convenient way to download a file to my desktop from my phone. Using the native Dropbox client, I'd have to download the file to my phone first, then upload it.
Further, time doesn't exist. Not in the classical sense...
If you are on a ship traveling close to c, the rate of entropy in the matter and energy on your ship is lower than the outside universe. That's why time seems slower.

Not trying to be facetious, this is a genuine question, but rate of change in entropy with respect to what?
S&P, Fitch & Moodys didn't just sell their reputation for a "few deals". Pretty much every MBS or CDO was rated highly by these companies. Trillions of dollars worth. A large part of this is due to the fact that they are paid by the "bad actors" inside the investment firms & banks that they're suppose to be "independently" rating. If we banned that form of relationship that would be "regulation" which is "bad".

So, here we are with these same companies in charge of sovereign credit ratings. The same companies that played a large part in creating a credit crisis are the companies that get to set creditworthiness. Magnificent system we have.

So in order to make these credit rating agencies happy, we must deregulate further, lower taxes further, turn into a service level economy & freeze or depress wages so we can hope for short-term gains in our economy. Which makes corporations happy, banks happy & market makers happy thus our creditworthiness goes higher. It seems rather biased for those who are on top & those who caused the calamity in the first place. Once the economy stabilizes those smart rich people on top can start making imaginary investments with their friends until they create another crisis. Rinse & repeat. Look where prosperity has come from over the last 15 years. Bubbles & scams.

Does this look sustainable? Who really benefits from this?
Too bad they made lazy the default.
If you have a Web site, put a flat statement in your FAQ.
Wow amateur metallurgist sounds like a hardcore hobby.
Thank you for a thorough overview.
Sorry 'Bro' Clearly you are a SHILL -- your account was created TWO hours ago! Sorry 'BRO' we see right thru you.
You know, I think part of the problem is that a lot of the leaders of the Linux desktop experience are building these large, complex structures and applications where they are not needed. The best Linux desktop wouldn't be the one that solves all of our problems by specifically considering them, it'd be one that solves them by obviating them.

Now, I'll admit, I'm a minimalist. I use Arch Linux, run no end-user applications except Emacs and Chrome (and I use w3m as the browser often enough), dwm for window manager, and so on. But really it seems that the enormous complexity of these new solutions makes them near-impossible to support. PulseAudio, PolicyKit --- all of these had working systems that were far, far simpler. Maybe instead of PulseAudio, we needed to look at the ALSA code, clean it up, and add the few features people really cared about (per-application volume control) there. Yes, the semantic desktop might be this great pie-in-the-sky result. But really, too complex. Unity, Gnome3? Same thing. We don't need Wayland, we need to simplify and clean up X.Org (something, admittedly, that /has/ been happening. X.Org is the one of those software packages that /does/ improve monotonically with every release). We don't need the total solution to all our problems. We need to simplify and polish what we have now.
Is this game good enough to succeed in AppStore?    
http://www.kongregate.com/games/davidmduarte/tzolkin
Has any VPS provider thought of building customized Linux distributions specifically to reduce the memory footprint, preconfigured with lightttpd/nginx, php, and mysql, all with pre-configured configuration settings?

I find that most VPS hosts just install a standard distribution and expect the customer to do all the work to reduce the memory footprint, or they install memory hogging Apache + Plesk control panel configurations that are hard to change.

I think one of these providers could make a great offering by having this type of small VPS all pre-configured and ready to run as soon as it's provisioned.
"Sony hacked" is a phrase destined for memeship
Also, thanks for reporting the issue with the example link. It's still working for me, though (it's supposed to fill in the URL field with a URL to a text file). What browser are you using?
Omitting "(mathematically)" from the title seems misleading.
Then they'd have to collect sales tax from Connecticut customers for 30 days. They'd piss off a lot more people than their affiliates, including their customers for suddenly collecting taxes they didn't used to collect, to their shareholders for creating mass customer confusion just to be nice to affiliates.
This took some effort, but one site I worked on a few years ago used neither technique (well, it did have context-sensitive help, but that's not "showing how"). For each help topic and FAQ, I created in-page, automated demonstrations with Javascript. Essentially, a big green "arrow" pointer and pre-recorded audio with on-screen captions showing exactly how to do something, while actually doing it on the site.

So the benefit of "showing" how to do something without the bandwidth required for video, far more engaging than straight text ("click here, type something, tap that, etc."), and slightly interactive (the user could, depending on what was being demonstrated, participate in the scripted events - imagine being shown how to enter keywords in a CMS).

I keep wondering if I should commercialize that sort of thing for other sites, actually...
It seems to me that the IT industry has come upon dot-oh conservatism honestly. Isn't there a persistent meme to not ever roll out a dot-oh release or a microsoft OS until the first service pack? Plenty of people seemed to feel that way about deploying Vista.
however, I've noticed that striving for loosely coupled architecture has often fostered its own brand of, if you like, architectural astronomy, as the architects try to design the ultimate meta-framework that will make it easy to integrate disparate components without the components knowing anything about how they can be used.
The same cycle is of course common in proprietary software too (e.g. Longhorn/Vista/Win7)
Arsenal’s new signing Jenkinson first interview
Arsenal just transfered a new player from Charlton Athletic. Carl Jenkinson just signed with the Gunners and gave his first interview as an Arsenal player. Arsene Wenger seems to be keeping things in a simmilar line with the transfer of the 19 year-old defender.
Alright, that is an interesting take. I looked around and found these characteristics of both.

* Both psychopaths and people Asperger's might make comments that hurt other people. Those with Asperger's will do it un-intentionally, they just don't understand all the rules of social interaction and they won't even know they would be hurting others. Psychopaths will often say things in order to hurt other. So the difference is that they will knowingly hurt others while those with Asperger's won't.

* Psychopaths are better at learning and mimicking normal emotional responses. Some of them can even be "too" good and sometimes you can tell by them trying too hard. Those with Asperger's do that too but they are less successful

* A psychopath will easily switch on an off their "social" mode. Someone with Asperger's might not have the same level of control. A psychopath does not cultivate relationships with others because they deem themselves to be too good and superior and see it as a useless waste of time. But they could if they wanted to -- if it benefits them. You can spot these cases when someone is very friendly with their superior (the boss) but immediately switch and act a total dick for now reason at all to their peers or their inferiors.

* A person with Asperger's can be introspective. Can conduct self-analysis. They can have a low self-esteem and can be prone to depression. A psychopath will usually never see anything wrong with themselves.

* A psychopath will enjoy see others suffer for no reason at all. They would go out of their ways to hurt someone just to enjoy the effects.
Manchester United interested in Phil Jones.
Blacburn Rovers’ defender Phil Jones is now a priority for Sir Alex Ferguson after some very good performances by the player.
From its initial introduction Silverlight was Microsoft's response to Flash. It's development was a business strategy rather than the next step in the evolution of a programming paradigm.

If you accept that very few if any mobile apps are being developed/sold now with either Flash or Silverlight then you have to accept that the future of those technologies are in question.

The only thing that we can be certain of is that any decisions on the future of Silverlight will be based on a business strategy. The repercussions to developers from any decisions made will be of little or no significance to those making the decisions.
I will suggest that it might be appropriate to describe yourself as a "sociopath" which I believe currently has no clinical definition but colloquially tends to be understood as negative and somewhat similar to, though less than, "psychopath". Folks here are not likely to accept some colloquial self-determined definition of a term like "psychopath" when it has a clear clinical definition.

I have two very challenging children, one of whom is not empathetic, tends towards narcissism and so on. Like you, he stays out of trouble by making judicious choices concerning the longer range consequences of his actions which I spent a lot of time educating him about (in other words, I did not appeal to some sense of morally "right" behavior, which he lacks, instead I focused on developing a perspective of enlightened self-interest). He shares many traits with his father, my ex husband, whom I found quite difficult to deal with. But I get along extremely well with my oldest son. He was raised very differently from his father. He has a very similar nature to his father but the nurture part varied considerably and the difference in outcome has been substantial.

EDIT: Which is to say I agree with a point I feel you are trying to make that having X trait in no way guarantees Y outcome. Most people who know him superficially describe my oldest son as "very polite and respectful" or "a very nice young man". Others who have had to deal with him more than just superficially tend to find him pretty crazy-making.
"it's such an obvious win from a user experience point of view."

And yet so few implement this.

By the way, I think it only really became obvious, to me at least, when StackOverflow implemented that design.
Pfft - Back in '00, I shifted a million requests a month across 22 static (using SSI though) sites off a circa 1991 SparcStation 2 (weitek 80MHz upgrade) with 64Mb, NetBSD, thttpd and a couple of 4.3Gb SCSI2 disks. It finally gave up in 2002 when the AUI port decided it'd had enough of electrons.

I reckon you could do that with one eye shut on even the crappiest VPS.
I had a standing desk at home for a month and ultimately gave it up (I worked from home that entire month, so it was used full time). Despite my efforts, I just found I could not concentrate as well and gave up.

What about sitting on exercise balls?[0] Where do they fall in the spectrum? At my new job they are all the rage and so I am trying one out. They do seem to be a decent middle ground between standing and sitting in a chair.

[0] http://www.gearfire.net/10-reasons-to-use-an-exercise-ball-a...
I suppose it's Nintendo only at the author's home, then.
For those interested in similar websites:

http://isitsnowinginsfyet.com

http://diddukewin.com
I am in fact the author. I do understand the conservative approach toward adopting a new framework from Microsoft. However, as I pointed out in the post, Microsoft has been moving this way since Windows 95.
I believe that Virtualmin (a YC startup) is currently building[1] a control panel with the ability to configure a low-memory setup.

1. http://www.virtualmin.com/node/11831#comment-51928
Debian Sid and Archlinux are functional rolling release distros.
I think it still works fine as a basic metaphor to help illustrate the idea. The metaphor doesn't need to be 100% inline to do that and expecting it to seems a bit pedantic.

Speaking of pedantic, a flight's outcome is not really safety, nor was space flight what the folklore mentions. It was addressing the requirement to write/record in space.
I found a Windows host with 1GB of RAM for just $8.00 at vpsport.com. That's a heck of deal.
In Amazon's case, they have a lot of offices in Washington state, including their headquarters. They have always collected WA sales tax.