skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm skeptical of this approach.

I can say it worked for me - I do not live like this, currently, but I remember fondly the feeling of waking up every day overflowing energy.

Try looking at this article - http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm - specifically look for "free running sleep".

> I've had very poor results with eating whenever I feel like it, and continuing until my body tells me to stop.

Poor comparison - I would guess what you ate could not be really considered food. That's were maybe the problem lies. Try to eat only healthy food - no compromises, no sugar, no junk at all - it is unlikely you will have bad results, even if you eat until your body tells you to stop.

> I can't say for certain, but I suspect they didn't have unlimited access to sleep either.

I reject the premise of your question - that it would be better if we did what our ancestors did - but I will just point out that not having artificial light (or an alarm clock) means that on average they likely slept much more than we do today.
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This is definitely not the case with the Sony Ericsson K550 which has enough standard features to make it worthy of any situation. As a successor to the K510, Nokia has upped the ante and upgraded the integrated camera to make it worthy of the Cybershot name.
This article can somehow help me to justify why I no longer interested in joining any social networking sites.
Really? My take has always been: if it's important they'll either leave a voice message, call multiple times or try other methods of communication. It's rarely important (at least for me).
Freud hasn't really been taken seriously in the psychological community since the middle of the 20th century. The only place where psychoanalysis still has much credibility is among a subset of literary theorists.
This is, arguably, the biggest reason to use Monads in the first place, the typeclass thing.

You don't even need Monads to have completely functional IO code. Clean's uniqueness types are another method, but you can actually do it with just plain types if you're dedicated.

Oddly, monads just make things easier. Really.
in non-american-football terms, it's an asymmetric interaction (attack) formation. rather than establishing a 1 to 1 pairing between opposing players, this approach means that a play isn't reliant on the physical/defensive strength of the front line, rather, the speed & accuracy of any node can be leveraged. it's a step away from rugby and towards a game of tag.

in many ways, it parallels the battlefield innovations that allow smaller, faster but weaker forces to defeat a stronger, rigidly structured but predictable opposition.

it's decentralizing the game by removing the emphasis on a single quarterback as a control point, meaning the defense has to target the entire team, rather than 1 bottleneck. just as we've seen in other fields that have watched this occur, the criticism of this approach is that the 'spirit' of the game relies on the head to head match ups that this approach does away with. it makes the game a lot more strategic & less about brute force - brute force that is the heart of the game for many fans. that said, as someone who's mostly played the marginalized outlier positions as an outmatched line gets pummeled into the turf, this is a really attractive strategy because it requires collaboration between everyone on the team, which doesn't happen as much as it should in high school football.
I used to agree with that line of thinking, but now I see that as a self fulfilling prophecy: if you don't make an effort to communicate with others, then others won't communicate with you (unless they have to).
If there is such a disparity, presumably that will show up in the health stats?

They mention a few viruses transmissable in this way, so if their numbers and their inferences stand up, we should see a huge difference in the number of cases (or speed of communication - I'm not sure which - I am not an epidemiologist) between the London and Newcastle?

If such a difference doesn't show up, either their methodology was bogus, their inferences wrong (these viruses can't be usefully transmitted in this way) or it doesn't matter because some other factor balances it (maybe greater exposure to these bugs causes a degree of resistance).
Wow, talk about rules 1 and 2.
This happens all the time in Texas.
I've always thought the essential internal dichotomy was between maximizing mate selection and maximizing offspring survival.
the urge to maximize mate selection carries with it many anti-social behaviors, while the urge to maximize offspring survival requires cooperation with the group. the history of governance has been the history of conflict over how far to the "left" or "right" the social contract should fall. To the left lies collectivism (offspring survival), to the right lies individualism (mate selection).
The professional Patriots team used to be well known for running creative plays before their offensive coordinator (coach) was enticed away by a college team (at American colleges with a football program, head coaches are typically the highest paid employees.) The team has also been known for having the smartest group in the entire league, a quality sought in players above superstar skills and high maintenance demands, like a huge salary. Instead, the Patriots pick up superstars who have already made their money and proved themselves on another team, and now want a Super Bowl ring by playing for the Patriots at a "regular" salary. These players tend to be older and more mature than the reputation they used to have with their old team. This beats paying a huge salary to a great 22 year old college player who turns out to be a bust at the professional level, as well as immature, which is what a lot of other teams do. These approaches have begun to be emulated across the league, however.
Everything that's abnormal isn't a "hack."
This interview was from before I left Powerset to work on GitHub full time, but is still quite relevant. Let me know if you have any questions!
The problems of credit-card
Varnish: Notes from the Architect
PG (or simply anybody else) should simply do the following:

Try to say what you wanted to say in 1 (one) sentence only.

If you're not capable of that, you actually don't have anything to say, and you really would do better just...
Look at what they did here. After talking about dirty hands, they throw in this nugget:

"Worldwide, around 1.9 million people die from diarrhoea every year. In Britain, an estimated one in five has an episode of diarrhoea each year."

You see what he did there? He put together two unrelated sentences in a way that scares you. Let's break down the 1.9 million:

From a google search:

"Global deaths from diarrhoea of children aged less than five were estimated at 1.87 million"

"WHO African and South-East Asia regions combined contain 78% (1.46 million) of all diarrhoea deaths occurring among children in the developing world"

"In sanitary living conditions where there is ample food and a supply of clean water, an otherwise healthy patient usually recovers from viral infections in a few days. However, for ill or malnourished individuals diarrhea can lead to severe dehydration and can become life-threatening without treatment"

"In many cases of diarrhea, replacing lost fluid and salts is the only treatment needed."

You see what he did there? He took something common, threw in some death statistics, and made a horror story out of nothing.
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I'm FROM the north of England, and I still don't think this has any relevance to HN. Besides, I'm left-handed, so that's a whole new handshaking ballgame.
It said "hack" in the title so it clearly qualifies.
It is interesting that everyone here considers Slate a mainstream medium...
Ask YC: Issues with submitting blog to Drupal-powered communities.
I currently use feedburner to track subscribers to my site and follow-up comments.

I like feedburner, but I’d like to change one of the things that it’s doing.

When I submit my blog feed to a community like this one (island.byu.edu), if a user tries to click the "original article" link that is under my article, they’re taken to a feedburner version of my page that re-directs to my main page. I want them to go directly to my page. For two reasons:

1. For SEO rankings, having your domain referred by .edu sites boosts your score and sends your blog higher in the rankings.

2. I like to track my traffic with Google Analytics, and if the feedburner problem isn’t fixed, I won’t be able to tell if people are coming from island or other similar sites where I submit my feed.

Any suggestions?
seems like they are fans of putting things on top of that dome.
Concert site structure and user dashboards are next.
Well, almost. Not everyone on the field is eligible to receive. Two of the guys on the line aren't eligible. However, it isn't revealed who the eligible receivers are until just before the play starts.
The most innovative coach in college football
Written by one of the best living writers, Michael Lewis.
That article is submitted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336606
It takes buying compatible hardware, and things will Just Work. With Windows, the manufacturers design their hardware to work with it. With MacOS, you can't run it on most hardware anyways. With Linux, you have to spend some care chosing hardware -- mainly wireless networking these days; Graphics are far better than they were about a year ago, since ATI released documentation.

It doesn't take any effort to get Linux working on hardware that it claims to support. In fact, I find it far easier to get Linux working on supported hardware than Windows; the install is far smoother, there are no drivers to hunt down after the install, and the software that I care about is 90% preinstalled. the last 10% is just a click in a nice GUI away, and I don't have to search around the internet for a reliable source to download from.
Wasn't complaining - just observing. I run a sports ticket site you know :P.
Or picking the right hardware (or getting lucky). Generally Lenovo or boring old Dell boxes (laptops) work quite well with Ubuntu or Fedora (fedora is notable becuase it doesn't include any proprietary drivers, so its even more fussy with hardware then ubuntu).
The G Stands for Goodbye
planes are the safest way to travel PERIOD. What other method of travel gets as much safety testing? And has a second pilot just in case the first one is knocked out.

From 1999 to 2007 there's been a total of 11,000 deaths from plane crashes world wide. With an average of 1,200 deaths per year.

Car accidents? According to world health organization, there are a total of 1.2 million deaths world wide per YEAR. In addition to 48 million injuries per year.

So in 2007 when there were 965 deaths from plane crashes, you were 1,243 times more likely to die in a car accident than you were in a plane crash.
It seems that the single-mindedness of the male "hunters" mind suits working with computers quite well. You focus on annoying trivia to the exclusion of all else for a while and that is exactly what is needed. Females seem to be more balanced, and capable of many concurrent tasks, which makes them slightly less likely to allow themselves to be as obsessed as males are with computers.

Of course all this is generalisation and doesn't apply to great chunks of people..

One other thing that seems to happen in the programming language world is testosterone charges debates/arguments. Thats not terribly attractive to 60% of the population, so that can't be helping either.
Beause it's epic.
Wow, how bad was the code before you made it "too awesome" in your latest update? Sounds like you need some new programmers and three new DBAs.
Bzzzzt. Off topic.

This is just as off topic as the 'Krugman Wars':

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=332475
Yeah, it can be a pain. Here's my setup (hope it helps):

I've got ubuntu 8.04 running with a PCI 802.11n card, the EW-8828 from EDImax. It's based on the RT2860T chip. I used the open source drivers on RALink's site. It works really well. I'm using it on a WPA-2 network at home (Apple Airport Extreme 802.11n).

Let me know if you want more specifics.
Or be insulted...some people expect an answer.
Sounds like you need some candy, Mister! Candy always cheers me up!
Worldspace files for bankrupcty
Hi,

We admittedly cut a lot of corners in order to get launched in two months with only two people. So far, it's been worth the gamble.
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If you need a quick fix for the terrible style, paste this in your address bar, or run it via firebug:

javascript: function f(){s=document.body.style;s.backgroundColor="white";s.color="black";s.fontSize="10pt";s.fontFamily="arial";}f();
The financial collapse proves that fiat money and government intervention in markets via the fed makes no sense (creates bubbles that then burst, like the housing bubble cause by 5 years of 1-1.75% interest rates).

To see if a free market works, we should try it someday.
No, no, no. Libertarianism is not the philosophy that free markets will never crash. Libertarianism is the idea that government intervention is morally wrong, and many libertarians believe that it is always eventually destructive.

The article does not address the bigger question: What government intervention would have prevented this?

The article is disturbing because not only does it lack rigorous logical arguments, it openly mocks libertarians for using them. This kind of anti intellectual attitude is common among republicans, but I am surprised to see slate publish an article that espouses it.
Hmm but wouldn't I have those people in my phone? I'm just trying to think of someone I care about who I wouldn't have in my phone. Or someone who would actually be upset with me. If a friend had to borrow someone else's phone they'd probably either call twice or send me a text. Either way they wouldn't be insulted. I guess we associate ourselves with different people.
I've honestly never had any problems. Then again I make sure to save everyone's phone number in my phone, and I'm the opposite of important. I've never had any problems with having a good amount of friends or staying in touch. I've always preferred email any way.

I guess when you're getting biz dev calls or what have you every day it'd be different.
We don't have a free market. Blaming the crash on freedom is ridiculous.
Even better: Skip the site entirely.

I want those 38 seconds back.
The financial collapse doesn't prove anything.

Capitalism, socialism, despotism, anarchism, whatever. At the center of any society there will always be people making mistakes.
That was fascinating. It's just like startups...
Future planes, cars may be made of `buckypaper'
I Wish I Could Clone Myself
YC got a record number of applications this cycle
One bit of good news about the economy: would-be startup founders don't seem to have been deterred by it, yet at least. YC got more applications this time than ever, and by a large margin: 10%. The number usually goes up, but rarely so sharply.

It wasn't due to the essay I just wrote about starting a startup in a bad economy. We were already on track for a record before that.

We don't quote actual numbers, lest it tempt competitors into a competition on that account
(which could easily be won by encouraging instead of discouraging single founders and undergrads). But we have a long week ahead of us.
If anyone has any advice on prioritizing their work, I would seriously appreciate it!
Best of luck to all the applicants and to you PG on reading them! =)
Without going into too many details, a coach has found a way to bring American football closer to rest-of-the-world football. They've made it harder for the defence to focus it's brute force, so that they can win by agility instead.
That's awesome. I thought people would be more risk averse in this economy.
Libertarianism is the idea that government intervention is morally wrong

In every case? Does this make logical sense? How can this be justified for all possible conditions and outcomes?
Kudos for being so open and also for injecting a bit of humor into these posts. Tom is a badass developer and I know TicketStumbler is going to be even more awesome as you roll out more concerts and more.
Ask YC: Do we need to increase C.S. participation in high school by making curriculum broader?
Although risky in terms of the likelihood of failure of a business, I think at this point in time funded start-ups are actually significantly less risky careers than regular jobs.

It's good to know exactly where your money is coming from for the next X months, and to know for sure that no one can arbitrarily fire you so long as you do your job (your job being to ensure there's enough money to cover your salary, whether by fund-raising or, better, making sales).
Could the bump be due to the large number of recent graduates who (presumably) can't get jobs right now?
I wonder if, during the next application cycle, you'll receive a bonus uptick in applications due to people having been made redundant, as our friends across the pond say. Being jobless can turn even the most mild mannered programmer into a super entrepreneur.
Or proves, like many a previous crash, that there are still bugs in the de facto software that is the financial system. Patch, continue, hit the next-- but grow overall.

At least we know now not to debase the currency; it took the Romans a couple hundred years to learn that didn't work.
You sound very, very excited. Congrats on reaching so many people, and I hope the quality of the applications is as strong or better than ever.
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Best of luck to the other teams, we'll see you in January
The Future of Email
Doesn't look like it. The age distribution is about what it always is.
At this point, I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to require a demo along with the application? As I recall, virtually all of the summer interviewees had demos, which gave them a significant advantage over other applicants. If YC only continues to get more competitive, I assume there will be no practical downside to requiring a demo, as the few applicants without a demo that are competitive with the top applicants with a demo are presumably not worth wading through all of the other no-demo apps.

Or there might be some other way of capturing them.

(Disclosure: I'm a no-demo applicant.)
Utterly ridiculous. The author doesn't know the first thing about libertarianism.
Technically, "the idea that government intervention is morally wrong" when combined with "in every case" is anarchism, obviously.

Most libertarians (big and little L) believe the government does have a few legitimate roles, often including national defense (and not offense) and defense of basic human rights (via police and a court system). Libertarians are an extremely argumentative bunch, and you'll be hard pressed to find two who believe the exact same things. Keeping a libertarian "on message" would be an exercise in frustration...which I guess is one reason why none ever get elected.

I'm a card-carrying member of the LP, though ethically, the purity of anarchism is appealing to me. Regardless, I'd be perfectly content, and would feel very much less disenfranchised and poorly represented, with a government that looked a lot like the one originally envisioned by our founding fathers, which is, I guess, "Republican" in the traditional sense.
One can only wonder what internet generation would dream of.
I agree - and man I can't tell you how glad I am I left a finance job to do a startup - even if we end up failing.
What about people that got laid off due to the state of the economy?
All the best to all the applicants ....

I wanted to apply but this model suit me ... as I am a single founder ... and I am not a hacker...
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Simpy is also good for discrete-event simulations.

http://simpy.sourceforge.net
Obviously- YC is a perfect place to learn (and practice) efficiency + frugality, both key success factors for any company, start up or grown up.

Add to that the fact that this is an excellent time to be doing a start-up(especially if you can offer a distinct cost advantage, and complement it w/ a business model that works at an empirical level).

So we ought to see some sensible wonders coming out of YC soon enough. Cheers, and good luck to all YC applicants..!
Let me know what you guys think of it. I will be adding more features in the future. If you do not have an iPhone or iPod touch; you can view the site using Firefox or Safari. IE doesn't look as nice.
I'm afraid I lost part of the thread. Was the final solution to move to a new machine?

Is that what this means?

By eliminating all the variables of the current machine, the question answered itself, without days of debugging.
What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial [pdf]
It will be nice to have a search feature on the home page...
The problem is that it will take you at least a few hours' commitment to find compatible hardware. If you'd also like to buy a box at a good value, the problem becomes exponentially harder.

Hardware compatibility is getting better, for sure. The biggest glaring hole is Linux support for USB wireless peripherals (something a majority of home desktop computers use nowadays). Also, software support for the 64-bit architecture lags behind support for 32-bit architecture despite the fact that every new box is going to have more than 4 gigs of RAM in a year or two.
This is amazing. I'd pay money for it. POV really allow some interesting effects with very few light sources.
I am very impressed with how well Ubuntu works on my Lenovo laptop. That said, I couldn't find that information before buying it and I took a gamble with the purchase. I had a nice pit of fear in my stomach when I clicked the "purchase" button on a $1,200 order hoping that it would be compatible.

Dell sells pre-installed Ubuntu laptops, but only with glossy screens.
A Speedier Groovy Coming Soon
The article says we are in the problems we have now b/c 3 people who explicitly believe in libertarian or libertarian like ideas followed their philosophy and deregulated specific portions of the market.

The added, and somewhat implicit premise, is that these actions are logically implied by libertarianism, since libertarians are known for logical consistency and the people at fault are a good example of this libertarian virtue.

Thus, their failure of policy is an implied failure of libertarianism. This is analogous, which the article points out, with the failure of communism - the best practical example of the ideology in practice is unsuccessful thus invalidating the ideology.

So, claiming that we don't have a free market does not address the argument the article makes. Instead, it is like the communists claiming communism hasn't worked so far only b/c it hasn't been implemented purely. Even if this is true, arguments like this only mean that the proposed philosophy is practically unworkable, since it is not possible to purely implement any ideology.
Five thousand children per day shitting themselves to death around the world scares me without needing to put it next to any other sentence. :(
A far stronger case could be made that the crash was because markets aren't free enough, since those taking risks knew governments would back them up.

It's an interesting and very complex topic, but this article is little more than nakedly partisan mud-flinging. The crash proves nothing, except that modern economics is beyond the ken of modern man.
Yeah, sorry I didn't clarify better. The real problem likely had something to do with the disk drives as the we'd been having problems with a couple drives on that machine. It basically came down to "re-install software, replace hardware" or just "move to the new stuff now."

The second option was going to be done in a way that didn't have any downtime, but with some many bad things happening at once it didn't make sense to wait.