skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's hardly a good rebuttal. Most of it is just disproving some overreaching by Wozniak and other anecdotal evidence, which leaves his basic point untouched, and the rest is lacking in actual science. For example:

> * Everybody who needs an alarm to wake up is “seriously sleep deprived”. No really, he says that outright. I feel bad for my parents — apparently they’ve never been well-rested in their entire lives. Of course, while I’m sure it’s a better sign if you don’t need an alarm at all (like I didn’t when I had Uberman down pat?), this guy is completely ignoring the known fact that people will sleep extra if they can, just like they’ll have a second helping of pie if you let them. The existence of a second piece of pie on your plate is hardly an indicator that you’re starving!

No, people don't oversleep 'normally', they oversleep as a result of sleep deprivation; this is the standard way to measure sleep deprivation, to see whether, given the opportunity, they sleep more for a while and then start sleeping less! And for that matter, the basic theory of polyphasic sleep - forcing very fast REM rebound to get the REM done within the 20 or 30 minutes - basically presumes constant deprivation because deprivation is what triggers REM rebound.

If a polyphasicer wanted to disprove that, they'd have to switch back to a monophasic or biphasic sleep without immediately incurring any excess sleep penalties compared to their normal monophasic/biphasic sleep lengths.

(I'd do this since I have a Zeo and that would give great data for this purpose, but unfortunately, neither time I tried did I succeed in adapting to polyphasic. Maybe one of the polyphasic sleepers using Zeos http://www.myzeo.com/sleep/forum/176 will do this at some point.)
get it from your library. But actually, if you read it you the #1 point is simply that sleep patterns are not a well understood concept - there is little evidence to say that any pattern is a good or bad concept. The author sleeps for 6 hours at night and takes a siesta.
Obviously he's trying to garner public pressure against Amazon to get his account reinstated.

I'm not saying he's not a rational person. Rational people lie all the time.
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The academics of Anonymous
Is market size really that important? Symbian is still the biggest one out there. How are their developers doing?
I have a nice alternative to suicide. Since you hate your life so much that you want to end it, why not just say "fuck it all" and go start a new life from scratch by having some crazy (and possibly dangerous) adventure?
Hi raganwald. Your post might be dangerous. I am not an expert. It is worth further research. You can start with the following sections on Wikipedia to give you a gist of why it might be dangerous and then research further:

- Journalism codes for reporting on matters related to suicide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide#Journalism_code...

- Social proof model for explaining copycat suicides: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide#Social_proof_mo...

- Cialdini's book, Influence: the psychology of persuasion, references some scientific studies on this subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide#cite_note-isbn0...
After reading the kickstarter page, I have a much better idea of the benefits of this. Suggestion: Replace the contents of the home page with the contents of the kickstarter page. The explanation and bullet points there are way better.
Dust.js: asynchronous templates for the browser and node.js
'But at the time, having it explained to me (at great length) that I was an "associate," not a worker or employee, and that I needed to "challenge" myself to think in these terms felt nothing short of Orwellian.'

I hate to rain on old Winston Smith here, but Montgomery Wards (remember them?) was calling its employees "associates" many many years ago (35 and more). I will say that nobody asked us to challenge ourselves, that I can remember.
Hack with Hackasaurus and P2PU
The Higgs boson: What has God got to do with it?
I think I've seen Gumroad before (here on HN?) and thought it was an awesome idea. Just took a look at your other work and I've gotta say - thanks for building such great stuff!
Indeed, for those of us who missed it, they had a poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335916 and Yehuda announced the change yesterday: http://yehudakatz.com/2011/12/12/amber-js-formerly-sproutcor...
...with the social network portion of its business...

Isn't that the entirety of their business?
Cool to see you using the HN community. I met one of the founders (not sure if it was you by your username) when the University of Michigan visited Lightbank.

So I'm going to New Orleans in January. I typed in my dates and all and started clicking around. The design is beautiful and UX/UI was intuitive.

Some product feedback:

I'm overloaded. There is way too much to look through in New Orleans. I need a better way to filter and curate. This would be really useful if I had the time to sit down and go through all of it but I don't. I might be missing some obvious stuff (it's happened before), but I also don't know how things are being ranked. I literally want one page to go through and ignore the rest, hopefully feeling somewhat confident in knowing that the first page is the most relevant for me. Just my two cents!

-Alex
I've pondered a similar concept whenever I design an embedded system that needs a user interface. Provide a common formatted set of data (JSON say), a fallback interface (HTML,CSS,javascript), and an identifier for a better interface if the user's device can get to a network and snag an app or updated UI (URL).

Look at all the things around you in daily life with awful user interface devices, and yet you almost certainly carry a really nice UI device in your pocket and probably have a really great device in your bag.
Move to Seattle and the lack of sunlight will pretty much guarantee that you need antidepressants.

Spoken as someone who knows.
How is it remotely paranoia? It doesn't affect me. If anything it's cynicism, but certainly not paranoia.

I have no idea what he was doing, but it seems most likely to me, based on experience and the facts at hand (that Amazon reviewed his account and still insisted on the revoking of his selling privileges) that he's lying.

In other words, like Amazon says, he probably had a previous seller account that got suspended for some reason and he's gotten by with this new one for a while but trying to sell the higher dollar item got his account flagged for review which resulted in him getting busted.

I'm no big fan of Amazon, and it's possible they made a mistake. But it's more likely -- in my opinion -- that he is lying and trying to garner public sympathy to put pressure on Amazon to reinstate him.

It's great you have so much faith in others, but we've seen this many times -- often in the case of people insisting they weren't cheating on Steam and they have no idea what Valve is talking about -- but I've seen it myself in my previous security work for a marketplace site.

I could be wrong, I don't know. I was just sharing my opinion but apparently the HN community decided that it was unwelcome.
This has nothing to do with the discovery or existence of the Higgs boson.
Hi,

I am in a similar position. Difference is that I have been hacking code for over a year now. I feel comfortable around python, clojure, sql and, in general, talking with people that know about this stuff.

In my experience, your main problem is going to be communication. I remember at the beginning I could not follow discussions about state, scope, memory, etc. Now I start to get it. It's important if you want to be part of this community. I am not saying it's useful, but it's really important, it shows commitment.

Also, you probably have a product idea? During implementation there are so many details, you don't want to miss this. You want to be close to the product as much as possible, or at least be able to grasp the basics.

So, my advise would be take a year and learn coding, web development, databases, memory stuff (if you plan to play with lots of data), eventually functional programming, etc. Take a full year, then ask the same question again on HN stating that you know some programming.
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [Beta]
Despite the stupid laws surrounding them, buckling up isn't a bad habit to develop.

Have you considered that the point of these 'stupid' laws is to save the public the expense of emergency medical care/roadside cleanup for non-seatbelt-wearing people who end up flying through the windscreen or pinballing around inside the vehicle? The government is not very interested in your private behavior, it's interested in minimizing the risk your behavior presents to others - both directly (DUI or cellphone bans) and indirectly (through the financial impact of accidents on the public purse).
I hope this type of talk evolves into a discussion about creating apps that can adjust to their environment. That, in my opinion, is what we really need now that all these new connected devices are popping up (Phones, TVs, 7" tablets, 10" tablets, etc...)

Let me try to explain what I mean.

To present a hypothetical assume you have an app with 6 top level functions (aka the functions you want to always be easily accessible). In a multi-platform development environment you'd define those top level functions and rank them by importance. The app would then use the norms of its environment to determine what is appropriate based on those rankings.

So it would...

- Put the 3 most important functions on the bottom of an iPhone screen and put a "More" button as the fourth (since the iPhone's norm is 4 icons at the bottom of the screen)

- Hide the functions on an Android App but then show them when the Menu button is pushed (as in the norm for Android)

- Place the functions in a side bar if the application is in a desktop browser (As is sort of the norm for the web)

I'm not suggesting that rule specifically but hopefully you see my point. Designing an app once and then making rules that adjust it to the optimal state for its environment.
Asus Transformer Prime Looks Like It Is In Fact Delayed
False pride nearly damned killed me.
His overhead could be 70% and he'd still be taking home huge amounts of money for every tour.

He's selling out shows and has been for at least ~4 years now. If the tours weren't lucrative, he'd raise the face price of tickets.

Sorry, I just don't buy the idea that Louis CK is anything but "pretty wealthy" at this point in his career. Which is great, because he's one of my favorite performers anywhere.
Looking at your Python script. Might want to learn about the built-in set() functionality. For exmaple:

def uniqueletters(s): return set(c for c in s)

def intersect(word, charlist): return len(uniqueletters(word).intersection(charlist))
True, but most people don't hold conversations with the radio.

'Yeah, so we should talk about this...hello? hello? Can you
hear me now? I think going through a dead spot...how about nCRUNCH'
Economic Graphs of 2011
February 2010 was a very long time ago by mobile standards; this article is full of assertions that are no longer true. Many that were dubious at the time, plus many points that might have been valid once but have since been overtaken by later events.

For instance: Flash on mobile never gained much traction anywhere and now that Adobe has killed it, it's not a drawback to developing on iOS. Palm Pre and RIM are effectively dead too so you don't need to develop for them. Yes, Google Voice did get pulled from the App store for a little while but it's back in now. No, Apple is not a bottleneck for corporate deployments - they have a separate process for that now. And so on.

Also: "Why does iPhone only come on the AT&T network?" Answer: It doesn't.

Don't assume any of the confidently-made statements in the article are actually true unless you've checked them.
Pardon? If you're implying that ST2 is somehow inherently bad then I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER HOW MUCH JOY ST2 IS EMANATING.
Marketing for Hackers: Turn your weekend project into paying customers.
Make your STDERR red
If a person were smart enough to "develop new models to accurately predict the market response to large trades", they would have to be very foolish to sell it for only $10K.

Assuming it was real and actually worked.
While it may be true that all DRM is pointless in an ideal world there are cases where it actually works.

Good counter-examples are Autodesk's products (their DRM/dongles stand up for 6+ months) or the PS3 that took years for people to be able to play pirated games.
FWIW, evolution actually is telling us to do biphasic, not the current monophasic. We slept biphasic right up until a century or three ago, and the literature documents this pretty well. Let's see, to pull my canned refs from my melatonin article (http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin); we have Stampi in _Why We Nap_:

> “It is worth mentioning that anthropological studies conducted in tribes active at night show that human sleep can be highly polyphasic in certain cultures. Although they have different cultures and ways of life, both the Temiars of Indonesia and the Ibans of Sarawak have similar polyphasic sleep-wake behaviors (Petre-Quadens, 1983). Their average nocturnal sleep episode duration ranges between 4 and 6 hr, and nighttime activities (fishing, cooking, watching over the fire, rituals) at any one time involve approximately 25% of the adult members. Daytime napping is very common in both tribes: at almost any time of day, about 10% of the adult members are asleep. Whatever the cause of these polyphasic sleep patterns,whether the expression of an inborn ultradian rest-activity tendency or other factors, such populations exhibit extremely flexible and fragmentary sleep-wake cycles. The minimal contact with modern civilization could be one of the reasons for the preservation of this possibly ancestral sleep pattern.”

There's http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2006/10/what_is_a_natural_slee...

And then, for all the European examples, see http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/106.2/ah00034... The author apparently has a book on the same topic which I really ought to read, but the preceding is the article mentioned on his profile-page:

> _At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past_ (W.W. Norton, 2005), a sweeping study of nocturnal culture before the Industrial Revolution, which garnered four prizes, including an award given by the history honor society Phi Alpha Theta for the “best subsequent book” in all fields of history. His article in 2001, “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles,” in the American Historical Review, earned two awards, including the James L. Clifford Prize given by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Well, the real problem is the drivers who have poor response times for whatever reason. There's no current good way to judge who is really at fault for an accident, so society devolves into witch hunts against drunk drivers, speeding, cell phones, etc. What about simply recording as much data as possible so driver behavior preceding/during an accident can be reconstructed after the fact?

Such a system mandated by insurance/government (same thing) would clearly be an abomination of privacy/ownership issues, but if it was developed for end-users to help prove their innocence, it could be implemented properly (user-based crypto+open formats+local storage).
How much of the world lives in programming circles? Is it large enough for the labels to bother suing users? Regular joes/janes are more resourceful than you give them credit for.
he (i'm assuming you're referring to panupol) knew some english; he just didn't speak it very well. but you're right, at a tournament level scrabble is a lot more about memorisation and strategy than it is about vocabulary.
Not just any websites, but websites locked down by Apple/Microsoft/whomever for your own good!
I was a long time delicious user, and I like having my data up in the cloud. I think what I prioritize the most is having a good UX and my links being available everywhere.

minor thing: your signup password fields should be of type password so they don't show up in plain text.
> But guess what? Code that was written in PHP3 over 10 years ago works just as well today under PHP5.

Sorry, but having felt the pain of keeping legacy installs of old PHP versions around to run business-critical processes, I have to call bullshit on that one.
This is what "transporters" should have sounded like: http://bit.ly/svTHFI
16 Questions to Know if you Need a Content Management System
This is the part that really irks me.

It wouldn't bother me so much if I could test my model and get a score, without having to turn over the code in the event I won - of course without accepting the cash either.
Paul Allen teams up with Elon Musk, Burt Rutan for plane-launched rocket
Here is a thought that has helped me get through episodes: I would rather suffer this pain (which is probably not permanent, even though it feels like it is) than inflict on others the lifelong burden of a father, or friend, or companion, or spouse who committed suicide. This one thought has gotten me through a number of episodes. Nowadays I'm doing better, with a combination of therapy, Prozac-family meds, and meditation. Episodes do still roll around at times, but they are much shorter in duration (order day instead of order weeks/months).
Tuning Linux IPv4 route cache
I loved it. My main domain is up for renewal from godaddy soon and if your prices are OK I'll move it over. Automating the DNS verification of Google Docs would be awesome (if that's possible), even if it's to some degree. I'll send more comments after I've tried it out some.
Thanks for the extra info. Seems to me like this is the perfect company that can eschew outside investment; I assume they curate these bundles with no upfront payment, and then everyone gets a cut of digital sales. Not sure where this $4m could be going unless they have big plans beyond the current the current model.
Might want to fix your signup form password fields:
http://awesomescreenshot.com/050q3oh29
The NTSB would probably love if autonomous cars became the norm. The rate of accidents would probably go through the floor, since most drivers suffer from a bad case of survivor bias. They actually talk about requiring more automated safety features (like collision detection for commercial vehicles) in their report.
Hey! Thanks for your feedback. What would you imagine better way to educate the user that we rank results based on your likes, so first page of results should be the best (if you login)?
Is the page layout broken for anyone else?

(Me: Chrome 17.0.963.2 dev-m on Windows).
Anything wireless that doesn't require some sort of pairing is crap.

Maybe fine for tv remote if you still want to be vulnerable to tv-be-gone. But since even tvs now have powerful cpus, not even it is worth
> if a single-threaded C process provides better performance (let alone a parallel C implementation), what does it say?

It doesn't say much until you define what's most important to you. Is it more important that you can use Scala and get your code working more quickly or do you have more time to write and debug a C program and do you really need to do that for performance reasons? Does the code need to function as part of a larger Java/Scala or C application, etc. In other words, and as always, you need to pick to right tool for the job.

The JVM is very fast now days, in my work the issue of performance vs. C never comes up. Obviously there are still valid uses for C these days, but you can get very decent performance from the JVM and that often means you can finish your work faster.
In fact:

max(wordlist, key=(lambda w: intersect(w, charlist))

should replace a good portion of the create_mnemonic function. But now I'm just showing off. Just letting you know that Python is much cooler than you know.

Haskell, however, could probably do this in a few lines.
i've been to the king's cup tournament in bangkok a couple of times. there's a children's tournament run in parallel in the same venue, and it was a truly amazing sight to see thousands of kids squaring off across scrabble boards. i truly wish school scrabble would take off in india; as it is, this year we didn't even manage to find two kids to go for the world youth scrabble championship :(
The ratio of article words to actual errors is very high here. But fans of pedantry will find much to enjoy!
Design To Sell. Build To Keep.
Nah. You're assuming they're finding success doing this. Most of them aren't.

It's a relatively young trend. There's enough people getting funded, and having pretty nice exits to attract loads of developers to heavily prefer founding. Also, the heavy hiring market means that if things don't work out there's a soft landing waiting somewhere.

The truth regarding #2 is that the vast majority of these devs will make far less from these ventures than they would if they showed up at GOOG. It's cheaper than ever to start a company, seed capital is pretty easy to come by.. so why not roll the dice? That's the mentality.

Unfortunately I think all of the furor and entre-porn makes being a founder look more than a bit easier than it is. I think lots of these kids would benefit from a year or two at another startup to get some hands-on experience and mentorship, but I think as an industry we're also a bit more fascinated with youth than experience at the moment.

At any rate, I don't agree that either of your points are major contributors. #2 comes close, but being compensated for founding and running a business (and taking the risks to do so) is very different than being compensated for writing software for someone else's business.
I saw him over a year ago and he packed the Chicago Theater.

I saw him in 2008 and he packed the Vic.

He had an hour-long HBO special in 2007.

Lucky Louie was 2006. That's a top-billed HBO show built around Louis CK.

He's only just now getting "Dane Cook Famous", sure, but he's been spectacularly successful on the scale of "performing artists" for awhile now.
On XML Abuse, a rant
Name Dropping 2.0 - will it stop soon?
Thanks for feedback, but this was conscious choice: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html
I've experienced this as well: my seller account was closed with no appeal possible, Then, later, my parent's (completely separate and valid) seller account was also closed, again with no appeal possible. This wasn't a business for either of us (we were each selling used books), so we simply left Amazon and sold through eBay/Half.com and never had any problems.
On the WTF Podcast by Marc Maron, he explains how his terrible buying habits with an Amex black card, including a new Mercedes, a sojourn at the Ritz, and a brass instrument, led to his inability to get a credit card for many years.

He basically lost his way after comedy clubs closed in the late 80's and had to reinvent himself. Youtube his old "I have a peach" routine to understand his reinvention. Here is a version of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmZfVCSzEw0
You're welcome! Having privacy enabled by default was one of the easier product decisions for us simply because having it any other way didn't make sense. Any other feedback?
Ironically this article looks terrible on an iPhone 4S http://i.imgur.com/H4FXD.jpg
Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)
This Is A Bacon Skyrim Helmet. That Is All.
Because I can. Sometimes - yes, sometimes - no, but why not? No, I am fine with Linux. Yes, I dislike python.

I hope, it is temporary problem. ;-)
The problem is if you open a new window with "Open "filename.ext" in a New Window" and then try to do something like Cmd-T or Find in Project in the 2nd window it doesn't work. So you'd have to open the project again, jump to the file you want, and hide the drawer.

New windows should be a part of the same project they were opened from.