skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is interesting; I was aware of day/night variable rates but not punitive usage caps. I suspect that even in places that have them, the punitive caps 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than the original per-watt usage rate like they are with text message caps.

Perhaps it is just me, but I have heard many instances of people getting charged 10x as much as their base plan for data overages, and I've never heard someone complain about power overages (though I have heard people complain about getting a higher bill than they original expected because they were loose with their power usage across the whole month).
Ugh, I can't believe it. My laptop battery died and with it, my recent bash_history (which was not saved to disk). I don't remember the exact text, so I might as well spoil my prediction now since it can't be confirmed.

I predicted that some nitpicker would reply to my comment and name a few important works that are in the public domain or CC-licensed. Like I said, not a very interesting prediction.

This hasn't happened yet, so my prediction was wrong. In this case, making the prediction public changes how people act, so I didn't want to say it outright. On the other hand, saying "I knew you were gonna do that" isn't very believable. A hash of the prediction is a good solution to this problem. The only information it conveys is that a prediction has been made.

Sorry for the losing the exact text. I love being able to prove I predicted something.
I hope that was facetious.
I have seen it too many times to count. The problem is for the one success story that pulls through at the 11th hour there are thousands where the employees come to work one day and the doors are locked. I always started looking the first check that was not paid and left as soon as I had another offer. The odds are that the company will not survive very long.
Too easily, one can justify that their computer is both their work AND their entertainment. I've enjoyed trying my hand at some offline gaming.
Feeling like anything fantasy/sci-fi can be a waste of time, I turned to a WWII tabletop miniatures war game called Flames of War. It's a three in one: social interaction with some older guys that I can shoot the bull with whose social circles I wouldn't usually fall into, diorama construction and historically accurate miniatures painting (hone those artistic mind-muscles), World War Two history. I'm not trying to go for a shameless plug but I've found in it more than a game, not imagining I would have learned so and become THIS much more interested in history.
..and as some of the other comments have pointed to, exercise is ++. Hiking, biking and exploring the OFFLINE world around you can be key to returning fresh (and inspired!) on Monday.
True, but you have a family. There's a lot of value in that...
In general, *nixes report 100% capacity per core, not just OS X.
Posting this on a Saturday might skew the results.
Since I don't work for a startup, I spend most of my weekends wishing I was working on/in a startup. I have few friends, so when I'm not doing anything productive I feel mentally awful and occasionally get chest pain. So weekends are pretty tedious for me.

This isn't your standard answer, but I figure I'd give you a perspective from someone on the outside wanting to get on.
If you're not naturally social you should involve yourself in some activity that forces interaction with other people. Consider a weekend job at a bar or popular night spot. If that's not your thing, try finding groups on Meetup that involves interests you like/might be interested in. Maybe even pick a few outside your comfort zone.

Very few people have the kind of personality that allows them to naturally develop friendships with the type of people they prefer to be around. Given that, it's basically up to you to find activities/work/etc that puts you in "social proximity" with the kind of people you want to have in your life.
Whatever you do, find a group. I make it a point to go out at least every other weekend with a group unrelated to work.

I recommend finding a group for something unrelated to your work but that you are still passionate about or at least find interesting. For me it's geeking out about movies and eating morning Dim Sum.

It's also nice that it "pops the bubble" a bit and reminds you that other people may not interact quite like you do at work. People still poke fun at me when I say I'll "ping" them about next sunday.
If the idea is executed well, this can become a hit. Not to mention the fact that it could make Bitcoin even more known than it is already (not sure if that's a good or bad thing).
I have a big list of stuff I want to do or learn. I try to use my leisure time to tackle that list.
The World Wide Web Is Becoming One Big K-Mart
There is much more to social marketing than "going viral". Even if I can have a conversation with 10 people relatively cheaply and easily, that is still of value. Social marketing is a social exercise, it gives you an immediate proximity to your audience. Just because you're not making a video with a million hits on youtube doesn't mean ur doin it rong, or that it's not having a positive effect on your business.
I don't have a stay at home job or startup (yet), but I usually use the morning (6am-9am) and after bedtime (after 9pm, usually until midnight) to do any programming. Luckily, my kid does pretty well with bedtime and nap time, so it's rare that I get interrupted by her.

Since I do have a day job, I try to come home and spend solid time with my wife and kid before she goes to bed. After that, I do my best to claim it as alone time. The wife is really understanding, which really helps.
That would require all individuals to have the disposable income to cover all their own medical costs. The further down the income ladder you go, the less an option it appears.
Efficiency in one area should (in theory) allow us to spend more on unsolved problems.

It may also create new unsolved problems. Fast food is efficient, but has it represented a net gain in our quality of life or health?
It's true that everything in this article could have been done with node.js, but the nginx configuration is pretty trivial, and nginx is good software. It's stable, it's plenty fast, and you don't have to worry about a new release breaking everything.

(I have nothing against node, mind you. I've used it for something similar to Google Wave, and it was very straightforward and capable.)
Yeah, when this happens I always feel like I end up being way to high level to actually give the other person a good idea of what my startup does and they lose interest pretty fast.
JavaScript:
Printing to firebug console

function echo(text)
{
if(!window.console)
{
alert(text);
}
else
{
console.log(text);
}
}

SRC: http://www.getsocialize.com/static/playground/API%20Playgrou...

PHP:
Printing arrays

function A( $array)
{
echo "<pre>"; print_r($array); echo "</pre>";
}
I tend to run, read and just chill out. Most weekdays start at 5 and end at midnight (work about 12 hours a day, I don't work for a startup, but for MegaBank here in Japan). So the weekends are spend just forcing myself to slow down, and try to devote myself to more leisurely pursuits. Recently I made an inventory of all the half read or unread books lying around in my flat and on my kindle and am trying to finish as many of them as possible. I am failing!
May I suggest Pandaboard[1]? Or if the availability of PandaBoard is an issue, there's the slightly older BeagleBoard xM[2].

[1] http://pandaboard.org/
[2] http://beagleboard.org/hardware-xM
Sounds like you were overclocking your brain.
Weekends have kind of stopped existing for me. I do not understand the necessity of having certain time for work and certain time for leisure. I'm going off of fundamental principles of delivering basic value to whoever needs it in return for money. And who fucking gives a shit if I created that code on Monday from 9-5 or on Saturday at 3am.
I have a family, so my weekends are filled with honey-do lists. Well worth it, though.

Can you cook? If not, learn. Cook new stuff and invite neighbors over for dinner and get to know them.
Isn't it Obvious?
My solutions:

function getUrlContents($url, $showError = true)
{
for($x = 0; $x < 5 && !$content; $x++)
$content = @file_get_contents($url);
if(!$content && $showError)
br("Unable to retrieve content for '<B>$url</B>'.");
return $content;
}

function getUrlHandle($url, $context = NULL, $showError = true, $retries = 5)
{
$url = str_replace(' ', '%20', $url);
for($x = 0; $x < $retries && !$handle; $x++)
if($context)
$handle = @fopen($url, 'r', false, $context);
else
$handle = @fopen($url, 'r');
if(!$handle && $showError)
br("\t - Unable to access '<B>$url</B>'.");
return $handle;
}

function br($text = '')
{
echo $text;
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])
echo '<BR>';
echo "\n";
}
The problem there though is that those working have little interest in paying say 50% tax to support those who they have put out if work with increased efficiency.
Can everyone please stop shoehorning in random xkcd comics where they don't belong?
Another funny one (also by a familiar name, though perhaps not as much in contest math circles) is Manjul Bhargava's: http://www.math.princeton.edu/graduate/generals/bhargava_man...

In this case, the funniness is for the totally opposite reason: sounds like Bhargava totally crushed his exam.

Also, is anyone surprised how well everybody seems to remember the details of their exams?! I suspect I'd barely remember anything afterwards...
I like about juggling metaphor the thing, that juggling is not hard, at least with 3 objects. Anyone can learn it in 30 minutes and be able to juggle in several hours of practice. The real problem is 4 objects and more.

Probably this applies to startups too :)
Veracity 0.9.1
Oh, be serious. I still use my @hotmail.com account extensively. I've had it since before MS bought it, so I think it is more a sign of my longevity online than anything else. Most professional software engineers that I know feel the same way. My experience is that people who judge you by your email tend to be very young and inexperienced software folk.
This. Sleep, and sometimes laundry.
If a private school is better than a public school at educating non-retarded children, then why shouldn't we allow it to do so?

Normal children will receive a better education than at public schools. Retarded children will continue to attend public schools and receive the same education.

I.e., some people get a better education, some continue to receive the same education. What's the harm?
One awesome and pretty understandable blog post of his is a layman's introduction to Quantum Mechanics, using Tomb Raider as an analogy:

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/quantum-mechanics-a...
'Coated Sand' Excels At Water Purification
* Would Watt and his investor have built steam engines without the patent?
* Did the patent enable Watt to create a market which otherwise did not exists?

To argue that patents were overall beneficial, one has to argue that without the patent, steam engines would not have become popular, and for that two things would have had to be true: 1. Watt would not build engines and 2. Nobody else would build them either. There is an argument that nobody else would have built them because there was no market, and only Watt's patent allowed them to create the market. Except that to believe that, one has to ignore the fact that a) England was undergoing the industrial revolution in all aspects (not just steam engines) and b) there was a huge need for industrial power removed from water wheels. Watt did not invent the steam engine. He invented an improvement, simultaneously along with many others. But only he had the clout to get the government to enforce his patent.

So its not hard to say "whether overall the English patent system facilitated that process": it most certainly did not facilitate that process, and the "temporary roadblocks" you describe were demonstrably the only effect, and a negative one.

To argue "the english had the most dramatic industrial revolution and the english had a patent system, therefore the patent system caused the industrial revolution" is to ignore the political, economic and scientific history of the country.

Edit: this bit is my opinion: England's supremacy is entirely due to its separation from the catholic church: it generated a need for military supremacy and at the same time freed the minds of thinkers to be scientific. Do you think Cambridge scholars had to worry about being locked up by the inquisition like Galileo?
This is a very well thought out and well worded answer. Thank you! I've always had trouble expressing this.
Recently, I've been moving really heavy things (like a slab of granite for a stoop and a cast iron sink in my basement) from one place to another using minimal force and simple machines (wedges, levers, etc). This kind of work is as far from programming as I can get, but still has an intellectual component.

I've found Jaimie Mantzel's videos about roadbuilding to be a good explanation of what I mean: http://jamius.com/Road.html
Do you mind sharing the details of that hack ??
Lol. Was surprised to see kanban sprinkled in random places. Nice touch.
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You don't have permission to access /2011/07/14/basic-intro-to-python-meta-programming/ on this server.
And for those interested, here; http://public.ccsds.org/publications/default.aspx are the specs for the protocols, formats, etc. currently used to communicate with stuff in space.
I'm laughing at the idiot neighbors. They have no motive to oppose his ownership other than jealousy or exclusivity (snobbishness). It is better for their neighborhood home values that the guy stay there so someone will cut the freaking grass and keep the place clean.
> And recall the quote attributed to Lawrence Summers: In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. [1]

Man, I'm sure glad Lawrence Summers doesn't go to Burning Man. But if he did, it sounds like his entire worldview would be destroyed.
No, actually. With money the only thing that matters is the degree of change, not the simple number.

The change from 1 million to 2 million is much more important than the change from 99 million to 100 million.

Try an experiment: take a calculator or a spreadsheet. In one case start with 1000 then keep doubling it. In the other start with 1 million and keep adding 1 million.
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www.heroku.com has node.js hosting.
I build flying robots [http://diydrones.com/]
You might "discover" more in the sense that you'll get far more recommendations of songs you've never heard of, but those recommendations might not be relevant to you. Why? Because your mood changes from song to song and algorithms will never capture human emotion quite like, well, humans.

When I'm in a well-DJ'ed Turntable room, the "radio" feels so much more natural. Songs flow. People are constantly editing their queues to best the song before it and I find myself rarely having to vote on a song. Its already better than Pandora, IMO. It also beats BMAT which has amazing algorithmic recommendations (based on waveform analysis and musical feature decomposition).

The only issue I see right now is that if your tastes are outside of Electronica and Indie, theres not much else for you at the moment.
Dinner with friends every Sunday at our house, cooked by my wife and I, with some settlers of catan type board games before/after. (6 years now, jeesh, that's like 250-300 dinner parties come to add it up).

Some time walking someplace on Saturday (usually a restaurant).

Watch some stupid something or try a cheap steam game or play a wii dance thing.

Read a novel/part of a novel.

Sleep in a lot.

Take a trip with the wife to a cuban sandwich shop

Improve some part of my condo.
I wanted to go fishing, but I need to get my Xterra running again before I can take my canoe anywhere and it was too hot & humid to work on the truck.

Instead I spent the afternoon in the basement machining a piston and cylinder for a steam engine I will finish... eventually.

Should have worked on the Xterra instead!
I am not sure I like people offering to work for free. Nor of founders taking people up on this offer.

Also, I guess this explains why foursquare signs up so many seeming biz dev wins but still does not manage to generate revenue from any of these deals.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870407680457618...
The idea of having portable public libraries sounds like a very interesting idea. I think it's cool.
>>> Foo = type("Foo", (FooBase,), {'bar' : 42})

is not equivalent to what the blog post says it is to. FooBase should be defined before running this, and the blog post's equivalent make it look like this statement defines FooBase as well.
Fair enough. The title made it sound as though Google+ was providing something to the collaboration.
I bet you are right ... those neighbors are working a little too hard for something that is only a minor irritant at worst, and at best could be a big benefit to the neighborhood. There simply isn't motive for all the hours and energy they're investing in fighting it. Unless there's some other motive involved. Probably more like classism than racism.
you need a life.
Bicyclists beat Jet Blue flight from Burbank to Long Beach
I agree. You can work on normal life after your startup is successful. Not many ppl in life have created a successful startup. Aim to be one of the few, ordinary can wait..
I like the idea you have there. I wish there was a service that would keep track of predictions by politicians, pundits, and other notable figures. Maybe then people would realize that a lot of people on TV(radio) are only randomly saying something reasonable.
Maybe. If they still have the paperwork. And if they can sell it. I mean, I got my house for $8K, of which the bank got $4K, on an outstanding mortgage of something like $56K. And there are lots of vacant houses - the city actually demolished one last winter that was owned by Deutsche Bank because they hadn't even responded to letters from the city.

And that's for the mortgage holders that are still in business. This one isn't. Presumably someone holds their assets - but my guess is they're in even more frightful a mess.
Daeken, you are a graphics/web wizard of the highest order. Congratulations :)
So you do real-life Minecraft?
But which college? How are they supposed to know that University of Phoenix is nowhere near as good as, say, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

Who tells them that they should study software engineering rather than sports medicine?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
You mean "to its unsecured creditors," not to its debtors. And actually, during bankruptcy, the company's assets are conveyed to a trustee, not directly to the creditors; the trustee pays the creditors the proceeds of the sale of the assets. And you're mistaken about when bankruptcy happens; a company can have a negative book value (assets minus liabilities) indefinitely as long as none of its creditors goes unpaid and files a (successful) bankruptcy petition against it as a result. It is less common, but certainly not unheard of, for bankruptcy petitions to be filed against companies with positive book values. (The company might be badly mismanaged, or it might have a lot of its book value tied up in illiquid assets it can't find a buyer for.)

Given this litany of errors, you ought not be offering the rest of us "lessons from Econom[ics] 101" and posting sentences in all capital letters.

Now then, I believe that in Texas law, and in the common law in general, you cannot abandon title to land. However, that is not the case for many other assets; if a company abandons some chattel property, before or after entering bankruptcy, the bankruptcy trustee does not gain the right to sell that property.

Also, under civil law, which is in effect over much of the world (although not in Texas), title to land can indeed be abandoned.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1348211
converse

Negation. There are plenty of true conditional statements whose converses are also true.
The interesting counter example (called out by Horace) is Windows, which, being 30 years old, might be considered a slow, yet extraordinarily profitable adopted platform. I would have like to have seen a platform adoption chart that included Windows, regardless of whether it did it justice, so we could see how a slow performer could do very, very well.
why don't my comments show up on HN?
Why My Father Hated India
> this is how wars will be fought in the future

See the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card, for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enders_Game
Pack the trunk with (micro)brews and drive the family down to the gulf (of Thailand). We sit on the beach, eat seafood and drool at (future) beach houses. If you're trying to fight off burnout I don't think you can beat the beach. On the other weekends we go restaurant hunting, go to movies or watch friends' bands play. A big dinner and a movie is usually enough for a weekend recharge.
Lots of mountain biking and hiking. Heading out to local mountains tomorrow with SO to hit the trails and hike around a bit. I have a long list of books that I'd like to read, so I get to them in the evening usually.

If the weather is bad I play with things like Arduino and toy around with new languages.

Also, coffee shops with friends, sometimes dance clubs if a good DJ is in town.
As a man, I count myself lucky that I was born in an age when a man can become a programmer. In the early days of the industry, programming was relegated to a "woman's job". I think it goes to show just how ridiculous gender biases are.

As for what I would be doing, likely a farmer, as that is a job I still do today. Though I'm not sure I would want to give up some of my modern conveniences.
Social marketing works and it is measurable.

What are some examples of published measurements that prove this point?
How about we just end this speculation over what is the next big language, and just check back in 5 or 10 years and see what is actually popular and useful.

There's so much that can change in one year let alone five or ten, therefore it isn't easy to make predictions that far out.

For the record I use C++ in a day job, and there's an awful lot of code written in it, so it will exist in some form or other for a very long time to come. Need I mention COBOL? There's also enough stuff written in Java, C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Ruby, and Python for them to easily last into the next decade.
As part of my condo fees I have access to a community swimming pool. Last year I didn't use it even once. Big mistake, it's a wonderful way to spend an afternoon, either by yourself or with friends. I take my ipod, drinking water, my comfy lawn chair, and sunscreen and hang out all day long. It's simply amazing how good you feel after a whole day of sunshine and swimming.
I am a yc alum who actually started a manufacturing business in san francisco. My business is unusual in that it is part of our mission to help protect a dying industry (bookbinding). In one year we have created jobs for 40 people in a low tech sector of the economy. If you want to find other business like this in the bay area check out http://www.sfmade.org/.
My bank limits it to 6 characters being only uppercase letters and numbers.

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I have several ecommerce clients that use Twitter and Facebook for social media efforts. Here's an average of their conversion rates: All Traffic Sources (3.34%), Facebook (2.55%), Twitter (0.23%). Average number of twitter followers: 6,280. Traffic from Twitter is pretty much worthless. In fact, they wouldn't even be using it if it wasn't for Google.
I got mine, but spotify wants me to download client software. Nope, no thank you.