skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of exercising during the workday - ideally at midday, at a gym within walking distance - but this sort of quasi-mandatory communal exercise seems a bit cultlike in a way I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with.
They specifically say there are two annoying issues this solves:
1. having to"CTRL-S–ALT-TAB–CTRL-SHIFT-R–JOY!", and
2. editing in Firebug "then trying to extract those tweaks back out of Firebug and into your website’s CSS files".

As far as working on teams, they're "thinking about how to expose your CSS in a versioned way so that you can keep it in Mercurial (with Kiln!), or Git, or whatever other version control software you might be using". Perhaps you're right, it's better to wait until that is implemented if you have that kind of setup.

EDIT: I've started testing it, and you can add other admins and editor users for sites, very nice.
Wouldn't this be more appropriate on reddit's IAMA sub?
Your equity is in the electric vehicle future.

For heaven's sake, this means Tesla may be turning in the direction of "profitable". Aren't you at least happy about that?
Hypothetically, were programmers to show up at the same time in some sort of morning analogue, I could see group pushups having a net positive effect.
Don't get us wrong, we love Firebug, but it is kind of a pain to then take the changes you made, copy them out, paste them somewhere else, and then deploy it. Backfire makes that easier, which is good, but you still don't have SASS and Compass, which I find makes working with CSS much nicer.

In a static environment, you can just compile the SASS to CSS before you deploy, or you can use WebPutty and have us host it for you.
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Yeah, if you read the article heading instead of just these misleading comments, it says "More wood behind fewer arrows". So it makes sense. It's about focus. More resources behind few projects.
This technique doesn't strike me as all that effective for exercise (doing a handful of pushups a day is better than doing nothing, but not by that much) or for team building.
Google labs lab winding down
First, congrats on the product as I don't want to come off as being a bowl of sour grapes when that's not the case. I totally dig the concept of immediate results for changes made. Like I said in my OP, I'm approaching this from the viewpoint of a team of more than 1 where there are multiple environments to account for so that's my starting point. For a very small team / personal site built using Rails that has no development environment I can definitely see the usefulness of this product.
Does this mean I might lose my Multiple Inbox on GMail? ... I hope at least that one sticks.
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True, but isn't it important as an expert witness to state the degree of confidence you have in the evidence you give? I suspect the problem here is that the US system of having high-priced professional expert witnesses gives the witnesses a massive incentive to overstate their confidence.

"Oh, yes, absolutely she did a Google search for chloroform 84 times, I'm certain of it, I'd stake my reputation on that."

Who says that in a murder trial and sleeps soundly at night?
We do, please.
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Obvious decision or not, Google Labs has been one of my favorite parts of Google for years. For me at least, this deprecation pushes Google one notch closer to "boring megacorp" and one notch further away from the sort of cool "research garden" that Google is famous for being. I'm not saying Labs was the forefront of Google research, just that it was a fun, lighthearted place where nifty (and often quite strange) ideas could be trotted out.
Officially speaking, we don't support the dev channel. It just isn't feasible.

That said, if you could send us a bug report at webputty@fogcreek.com or via https://webputty.fogbugz.com/?pg=pgPublicEdit we'll take a look and see what we can do.

If you want to host it yourself, you can use WebPutty to edit it, and then use the export link (page with a green arrow coming out of it) to get out the compiled CSS.
Seems like such a simple solution to alleviate the privacy concerns that I'm surprised this wasn't discovered during the initial planning of installing the scanners.
Why is the favicon the Notepad++ lizard?
I hope that we can more widely spread the news: power makes you stupid. I wouldn't say 'for some reason' - I would say 'because of cognitive biases that would afflict any other ordinary human being in his situation'.

Power makes you stupid, a summary: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11... - the article in question cites work by Adam Galinsky of Northwestern University and Dacher Keltner of Berkeley.

"Keltner and others have shown that power exacerbates many cognitive biases. People who lack power turn out to be more accurate in guessing the opinions of those around them, whereas those in power tend to be inaccurate. Because subordinates are also hesitant to tell superiors things they do not want to hear, the problem gets worse, with powerful people having even less input and perspective about how others think and feel."

So I believe that that's a cause of a great deal of bad management - I also believe that's part of why the 37Signals folks have done so well with a minimal-management strategy, they're consciously trying to avoid the way that information becomes tainted when it travels vertically in a hierarchy.
Uh, no. It's open source, so even if Google took it down you could put it on Github and keep maintaining it. It'll likely just move to Google Code.
This is also why 4chan blocks all access from Tor nodes. The only people who use 4chan from Tor are people posting CP and/or evading their ban.
am I the only one to clicked this thinking it was some sort of SSH client...;-)
And you have to rely on a third party for hosting your css.
Merkle Trees FTW, but it sounds like you've basically reimplemented ZFS.

Have you tried using ZFS on one of these?
Yeah, at this point we're not doing HTML because that would mean we would be hosting your whole site. Fortunately, with CSS3, there are fewer extra elements you have to add for stylistic reasons, so it's getting to be less of a problem.
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Where have you been? The Firefox version scheme changes have been talked about almost every day here for the last few months.
agreed - i thought it was a real "web" putty and thought of all the reasons why i wouldn't use it
Ask HN: Remote travel jobs/occupations?
Hey HN, I've got a question: Does anyone know of any particular company that hires or a type of occupation that would enable me to travel extensively and work somewhat or entirely remotely? I know the obvious answer might be a trucker or a flight attendant, but I've been dying to find a new career related to IT or Marketing that would enable me to visit new places on a regular basis. Any ideas?
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I think it makes sense. They are going to cycle back and forth between "let's come up with something crazy and hope some of it is useful" and "let's all work on X". Now they are in the latter stage. They want to build up Google+, and want more power behind that project. Once that's done, Labs will come back under a different guise.
Haha, we were wondering how long it would take people to notice. Yeah, it is. We picked it before realizing it, and didn't know until we were getting permission for it. We'll probably change it soon, but since it plays a pretty minor role on the site, we decided to leave it until we could get some more time to search for a replacement.
It's about aerodynamics: if most of the wood is sticking out sideways, the arrow won't fly very well. However, if it all is behind the tip, then it'll at least have a chance to fly. Then again, extending the metaphor, you'll have one really long arrow, and that won't fly very well either.
I liked the customization that Labs offers (undo send in gmail being a brilliant example), but I can see where they're coming from on the focus front. So long as I get to keep the features I currently have enabled, I'm happy.
Interesting, I hadn't seen his article on LMAX. For more details (and the code) check out their google code page: http://code.google.com/p/disruptor.

The disruptor pattern itself was new to me but the general principles (particularly the idea of running trading business logic in a single thread with all data in memory and no garbage collection) is very familiar.
For better or worse, JVMs don't change that fast. (In 2008, the latest official release was JDK6, reaching 'update 12' in December. In July 2011, until the official release of JDK7 next week, the latest official JVM is still JDK6, 'update 26'.)

Or do you know of specific NIO performance improvements between JDK6 in 2008 and JDK6u26, or in JDK7?

100k threads isn't going to beat 100k NIO connections

That may be true but I wouldn't assume it with certainty without evidence. Threading has been improving, too. Tyma's 2008 presentation mentioned a JVM limit at the time of 16000 threads, but that may have changed as well.

A single-threaded NIO implementation, using only one core, could very plausibly lose to a 100K-threaded implementation on a multicore machine. And once you split your NIO over a few threads to use cores effectively, you have most of the same concurrency worries as with connection-per-thread approaches.
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Your "I hope" sections are exactly how it happens. The amount of preparation that goes into a trial like this is ridiculous, and the cross-examiner will have a host of questions that the expert witness cannot answer with any certainty.
Said accounting reason made it $5 for SL users, but free (or more accurately, "included") with Lion.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The site is a complete rip of a subreddit.
Definitely. But in my experience (I used to work in this industry) the reality is much sketchier than most of the industry lets on.

There are long chains of subcontractors involved, and there were many points where I or any other low-paid employee (at the time, I was making $12 an hour, though my time was being billed out to the client at $150 an hour) could've easily tampered with or falsified data (and no, I never actually did this), despite a lot of security theater and data integrity theater.
starts here: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/01/08

"boink":
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/01/10
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Link to an English article on the University of Heidelberg pages:
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/news2011/pm20110708_netz...
It's really hard raising funding without a huge list of credentials and contacts. That was my world, I bridge the gap between the digital- physical world. Had it down to an art form and could produce a mobile-physical, web-physical, or pure consumer electronic prototype for about $10k. But I did most of the work myself. Under a normal setting with a normal team you're talking $50k for a prototype. That's why it's hard to start, too many things to know.

Also the channels have far more barriers, getting into Target and Wal-mart is a pain in the ass and I know them. That's where you make the real money on a consumer electronic devices.

If you have questions about it, I seem to be the person everyone contacts so feel free. Take a look at my blog curtgeen.com might help you get an idea on how to do it.
http://www.abmx.com/1u-xeon-e3-server

Click 16gb.

$1,008.99

(ed:no endorsement, never tried this website before)
Getting ready for Lion?

They should have got ready for BBEdit 10.

Adding actual features at any point in the past five years would have been good.

Textmate is the saddest example of abandonware, Allan Odgaard has thrown away an army of loyal customers.
Especially if you're sitting at a computer all day. Gotta strengthen that back to keep your shoulders from curling in too much. Then everything starts to go wrong =/
Are you sure you do that all at once without slowing down on a MBA with 2GB RAM? I just tried my regular use case - Mail, Firefox, MS Word and Excel plus Adium and it was 350Mb into swap and switching apps wasn't all that instantaneous.

What does your swap usage show (Activity Monitor - page outs with all that workload?

However with 4GB it shouldn't be that much of an issue for this workload. So I might just bite the bullet given the Sandy Bridge and TB upgrades!
Agreed. Seems the second option (to upgrade OSX) should've been the first option, and the wording needed to be changed.

The "Upgrade" wording would have assured me it wasn't going to do anything crazy like wiping my hard disk.
Looks like some HN users have caught the butt-rage since nothing you said was false except maybe that Google would want to be like Apple.

Edit: Uh oh, looks like it's spreading to me now. Here's something shiny to distract you: OS X Lion, iOS5, MacBook Air, App Store is better than Android.
Now I have to ask: how is the unsophisticated user (at whom these messages are apparently targeted) supposed to distinguish such alerts from actual malware itself that masquerades as anti-viral/anti-malware software? If anything it will establish a design that malware authors will be highly motivated to copy.
Congratulations WePay. Having carefully watched WePay's slow and methodical exploitation of their much bigger, and better funded competitors, I think that currently they are my absolutely favorite YC Alum. With tenacity and focus, they've taken each part of the pay equation and they've re-engineered it with an aim to make the process better, more accessible, and almost more equitable. Taking a chunk out of Shopify is a great way to stay connected with their main mission, but to also realize that in answer to the question "Who are your competitors?" The best answer must be "Whoever's inefficiencies we can exploit in achieving our goal."
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x86-64 has many more registers than x86, which can minimize pushing values on the stack, and therefore boosts speed. On 64-bit you can also assume that at least SSE2 is available, which can help optimizations in some cases.
Maybe it's my monitor, but I can't really see anything inside the circle in the Venus photo. This is a cool project though.
Linux users have been using 64 bit Firefox for years now.
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It is possible, however, no PPC binary is allowed in the Mac App Store, even if your binaries also include support for other platforms. This could be a problem if you use third-party binary-only libraries as you have to strip the PPC stream manually from them before you can submit your app to the Mac App Store.
It's not just you. This kind of 'advice' has never helped me, I may even say that it harmed me in a way.
There is only a single thing you need to be productive: You need to want it enough. Literally nothing else. There is no magical trick that makes you work more. You either do it or you don't. Many will say now "that isn't helpful at all! 'Just do it' isn't helpful advice!"

On the contrary, it is the only helpful advice that anyone could give you. I don't expect people to believe this, I certainly didn't. It takes guts to admit that maybe, just maybe...it's you who is at fault, not the distractions.
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""The country is ready for the five day week. It is bound to come through all industry. In adopting it ourselves, we are putting it into effect in about fifty industries, for we are coal miners, iron miners, lumbermen, and so on. The short week is bound to come, because without it the country will not be able to absorb its production and stay prosperous.

"The harder we crowd business for time, the more efficient it becomes. The more well-paid leisure workmen get, the greater become their wants. These wants soon become needs. Well-managed business pays high wages and sells at low prices. Its workmen have the leisure to enjoy life and the wherewithal with which to finance that enjoyment.

"The industry of this country could not long exist if factories generally went back to the ten hour day, because the people would not have the time to consume the goods produced. For instance, a workman would have little use for an automobile if he had to be in the shops from dawn until dusk. And that would react in countless directions, for the automobile, by enabling people to get about quickly and easily, gives them a chance to find out what is going on in the world-which leads them to a larger life that requires more food, more and better goods, more books, more music -- more of everything. The benefits of travel are not confined to those who can take an expensive foreign trip. There is more to learn in this country than there is abroad."

http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/ford.htm

Henry Ford knew the answer 90 years ago, the key to keeping consumption up is to give people time to spend it. Think about it this way, a 5 day work week is 25% longer than a 4 day work week but most importantly gives people 50% more leisure time. During this leisure time people will consume more. Transitioning to a 4 day work week (with 5 days pay) would result in 50% more time to consume and would eliminate unemployment almost immediately.

The best thing the government could do to solve unemployment problems is to make a 4 day work week standard and institute overtime for the 5th day. The reality of the situation is that large numbers of unemployed people lead to instability in the political realm.
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I'm not the OP, but my office has a similar ritual. Out of about eight people in the office, usually three to six of us go out to the patio to do pushups and sometimes martial arts at about 2pm each day.

Our strongest person does about 120 pushups in a row (he is really strong); the least strong does about 10; the least strong male does about 40. We try to beat our old personal records but there's not really any competition between people.

We haven't experienced the problems predicted by others in this thread. It's not explicitly a team-building activity - it's just something some of us do. It's not led by a manager, and managers participate somewhat less than non-managers. It's not mandatory and if people are engrossed in a task, they choose not to join in that day.
I'm surprised at how many people don't know about a feature they probably already have, found in the Web Developer plugin for Firefox. The Edit CSS lets you see your changes live as you type. I use it all the time.
Everyone in the comments seems to be poo-pooing either the pushups themselves or the team building abilities as noted by the author.

I'm not here to defend the team building side (nyeh, it's alright for team building) but pushups are a great exercise to do.

By themselves? No, of course not, but they're good by themselves anyway (full body weight exercise.)

However, in the middle of a long day at your desk, it doesn't hurt to take a 2 minute break to go down and do a bunch of pushups with a couple co-workers. It gets the blood flowing and it gives you an excuse to socialize.

Doesn't seem like a bad idea at all to me.
Back when I was in the USAF as a computer programmer, we would do "push-ups for darts" at work. We had a dart board and each person on the team would throw three darts. Each person had to do the combined total of the others in the room (throughout the day). The totals normally ended up between 200-400 (triple 20s was a pain). Granted, I was in the military, so push-ups were part of our PT test anyway, but it was a lot of fun.
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Nice idea and cool pictures. Too bad instead of HD they are only in micro format and embedded into a flash. Or did I just not find them on the site?
the favicon (http://www.webputty.net/favicon.ico) looks awfully similar to the notepad++ logo: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
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Who came up with the idea for Dolores Labs in the first place? Who named it and who drew the alligator?
I look forward to JS's reviews... so detailed and well-written. I always read them thoroughly even though I haven't had a Mac on my desk since the old beloved IIci at work.
It's a silly name for a Pattern. All the others - Command, Strategy, Visitor, etc are more-or-less meaningful. In another blog post, they say they named it after the weapon in Star Trek. They could have called it Ring, because at the end of the day it is just a ring buffer.
Granted that was meant as a rhetorical question, but I think regulation is often written by young consultants because everyone tends to back the buck on to someone else. However, when it comes to the process that actually choses which regulation to go with that's often a range of special interests each fighting to protect their individual pieces.

Conceder cap and trade which is clearly less efficient than simply taxing carbon. While it might seem like a terrible idea for anyone with a few lobbyists and the assumption that they can specify an exception for their industry it can become a huge boon at the cost of those with less influence.
Just wait until people start talking about IE 26, Firefox 34, Chrome 42, etc. Now that even the Linux kernel is jumping onto the inflated-version-numbers bandwagon, it won't be long.
I completely and utterly agree! Nice and encouraging lines of wisdom you have there. Congrats on making a continuous progress and setting a new standard all the time. Thanks for sharing this with us, and I am pretty sure it will kick some butts to do something :)
If one was to do just one exercise for a brief amount of time, jumping jacks should do the trick.
So use JRockit with deterministic GC on.
Anybody who builds their own pod is welcome to use RAID or not, and which RAID you choose will affect your final numbers. At Backblaze, we configure it as RAID 6 groups, each group is 15 drives which includes 2 parity drives. So you are down to 13/15 = 86.67 percent of the raw unformatted space BEFORE the overhead of ext4 which adds a little tiny bit extra. So after formatting in our datacenter we are left with about 116 TBytes of storage space for customer files. On the other hand, we use lossless compression on the customer's files before transmitting to the pod, so it can sometimes appear like we are fitting more than 116 TBytes of customer data on a pod, if that makes sense.
What makes it a poor text editor, or qualifies it as being "dated"?
there's an options in system preferences to turn it off. but it's global for all apps
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It's not the best metaphor but it is a relatively well known and understood saying for many native English speakers (at least in North America).

I think some people who have replied to you are trying way too hard to make the metaphor fit. Top item later today will be about a Hacker Newsian with feathers, arrowheads, and a sharp edged rock, being arrested by Google's security while muttering about trajectories and wind resistance and trying to catch Googlers in the cafeteria.
For a second I thought it said it supported sccs... I figured that come on, at least go with csv...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System
Bug Report? Mark Pilgrim's named is spelled incorrectly on this page: http://www.webputty.net/credits.
That might be. Apple now has much more revenue than Google.

Though, just today I was thinking: 'Well, Google with their young nerdy founders might just not care as much about profit.'
I hope Google won't sacrifice geeky projects like autonomous cars for better quarterly numbers.
Try the "Edit CSS" feature in the Web Developer plugin. It works surprisingly well for most things, in the way you are probably wishing for.
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Interesting idea. There are some guys in our diocese that run a company called Solutio. More web based stuff but really nice.

We use ParishSoft as a church management system for our church. Even thought it's MSAccess based, it's better than I would have expected. Also, since many churches are on a tight budget, including us, it works well for that. Could get some ideas there.