skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was still working on it, my site ThatHigh.com would consistently get more than 100k visitors per month from SU. That started out from paid traffic, but since the site got good ratings on SU the organic traffic continued.

However, I only think it worked because of the site's niche (cough). If you have a site that needs high quality traffic, it might not work very well.
Well, you didn't disagree with me did you? I am just pointing out that use of Opera is strongly correlated with whether you live in a developing country. You claimed this product had a horrible flaw in its lack of attention to the Opera demographic. If your market is developed countries, then you don't need to worry about that too much. I think that is useful information.
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They do. But personally I would rather include 1 paid service that does everything I need than 3 or 4 that are free. Every extra service that I add adds page load time and more javascript. The app I'm developing right now already has quite a bit of javascript so adding 3 extra scripts has quite a cost.
In the weight training community, yoga is seen as problematic because it involves a lot of spinal flexion (ie bending the spine forward). This is seen as a general no-no (which is why sit-ups are generally viewed as bad as well today).

Stuart McGill is often quoted in these matters, as he has done extensive studies on the mechanics of the spine.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-440309/Is-Pilates-...

http://www.amazon.com/Back-Disorders-Second-Stuart-McGill/dp...

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai...

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai...
I'll have to check it out, if you remember I'd love to hear how well the migration went and if prosody is working better for you.

I only mentioned Openfire because it was something I knew that didn't require learning erlang to configure and was easy to setup chat rooms and such with.
His wife has between one and three sisters.
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Oh boy, another way to micromanage customers rather than just provide a good product.
Stumbleupon clicks convert at near zero rates. The value, if there is one, is in promoting linkbait. If you can get a genuinely interesting piece of content in front of enough people to attract some links, Stumble can be worth it. But to use it like you would AdWords (i.e. to directly generate sales/leads) is like burning money, only less fun - the CPA is astronomical.
I agree about the point regarding tile based window managers. Few others come close to maximizing productivity of windowed apps; but OSX's various other productivity enhancing features make it not worthwhile to switch back.

Of course tools (hardware and software) can only take you so far. I find that most productivity comes from being surrounded by sharp hard-working people trying to push the envelope. Working with hard-working people creates a cyclic motivational cycle, all pushing each other to be more productive.
Do and Learn
Actually, I've started Project Euler, I worked my way through them the hard way (ie, finding a general abstraction that's optimized for performance). I've learnt a lot, but more about math than software per se.

I still find it entirely fascinating, I'm putting a post up tomorrow with what I learnt from problem one.
That probably just means they are doing geolocation by IP instead of trying the HTML5 browser-based geolocation service first.
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If he's married, his spouse has a sister. Or there's a typo. Now I'll go read the article...
NASA Considers Nuclear
Browser share matters in cloud computing
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Here's an alternative story:

To the question "Are you an engineer?", Jack answered "Yes".

Would you still argue that the probability is 30% that he is an engineer? A lawyer can claim to be an engineer, after all. However I think it is clear that if we actually did the experiment, it would be much more likely than 30% that Jack is an engineer. A way of testing what you really believe the probability to be is this: I bet you a dollar that Jack is an engineer. If you wouldn't, that means that you really believe the probability to be larger than 50%.

This is because the probability that he answers yes to the question is much higher when he is in fact an engineer than when he is a lawyer. Bayes' law says:

P(E|Y) = P(E) * P(Y|E)/P(Y)

You should read P(A|B) as "the probability that A is true given that B is true". In this case E = "a person is an engineer" and Y = "a person answers yes to the question 'are you an engineer?'". As you can see the original P(E) = 30% gets multiplied by P(Y|E)/P(Y) given the information that the person answered yes. The probability that a person answers yes given that he is an engineer is higher than the general probability that a person answers yes. So P(Y|E)/P(Y) > 1. So P(E|Y) > 30%.

This same law applies to other characteristics, for example Y = "person likes mathematics".
maybe it'll cause you to stop being a fucking moron and causing side-effects on a GET request
One more piece to confirm the thesis
The article states something that a lot of us yoga practitioners already take for granted:

"Yoga is for people in good physical condition."

If you're overweight and/or in poor physical condition, yoga is not for you, at least not at first.
Your assuming a US bias, the sample could have come from India which has different ratios.
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Libraries create community and culture. I can't tell you how much value I get out of having a library across the street from me. I must go there at least weekly. I read books and see movies I wouldn't have otherwise. I meet neighbors there. Families bring children there. Libraries stock books and movies stores don't.

Having fewer libraries, even if bigger, doesn't match the value of a neighborhood library.
I hope no one's actually doing these things. At least not all three.
He writes "my experience is that most yoga teachers encourage moderation". I've lived in an ashram in India and gone to a number of classes here and there and my experience is that the majority of yoga teachers are dangerously incompetent. Sure they talk about moderation, going slow, listening to the body etc but generally they still get people doing poses that are probably dangerous for a person in excellent shape and they almost universally fail to train people in the fundamentals. Partly its the fault of impatient students who don't want to spend a whole series of classes just learning to sit and stand properly (even if it's what they actually need). I still do a little bit of simple yoga now and then - it truly is excellent for fixing occasional back problems but I don't think I'll ever take another class, at least not without knowing the instructor very well.
Maybe a better example for the site/pitch would be to show localized currency or a news ticker.
what is so cool about this?

As a user I already know my IP, my browser locale and probably I can be more accurate on my location. I know where I came from and what browser I am using on which OS.

As a site owner I already have this info from the http headers and implementing a reverse IP geo mapping is not a big issue.

So? where is the groundbreaking stuff? perhaps in the payment scheme ...
The geolocation bit seems to be one of the last things that you can't really find for free (especially if you want one that works worldwide). In the same vein, good luck finding a free database or service that allows customers to look up the full address from the post code at least in the UK. The amount of constant updates required to keep it up to date is the kind of work prohibitive to most oss developers.
But a common design goal is to maximize altitude, and an automated valve would help with that. You can also have it wired to open if the balloon stops ascending, or strays too far.
Thanks, Diving into Python and Mastering Node are two good ones for me.
Although the rule is dumb, taking it out on the flight attendants is even dumber. Flight attendants shouldn't be expected to know which devices transmit and which don't or how a kindle works. There are stiff penalties that the flight attendant must pay personally (can be up to $10,000) for not following FARs. If it's dumb let the FAA know - it's their rule not the flight attendants.
The only way to make Stumbleupon profitable is to put a high-paying clickthrough ad underneath the Stumble button.

It seems to me that once you pay for traffic on Stumbleupon, they turn off your organic traffic, since by paying for traffic you've proven yourself to be a rube.
this is in the parser files in puma:
* Copyright (c) 2005 Zed A. Shaw

puma's README wording make it seem like the Ragel parser is some new thing unique to Puma, and doesnt mention Zed. no wonder he hatest rubyists

also, thin has had a --threaded flag for years
Exactly. People don't understand that many of the yoga stretches are actually making them more flexible in a way that can lead to injury. A person should want their lower back to be strong and rigid (see planks and dead lifts as an exercises) and their upper back to be flexible. Every time I see someone doing yoga and really bending their lower back it makes me cringe.
would go whole hog and get someone from the SOPA PR swat team to help you pick an interview suit/blazer - looked OK, but would get a solid red tie, and something about the shirt collar and suit looked a little out of whack. Only superficial people don't judge by appearances LOL (Wilde)

agree with what other people said about tightening up talking points - wouldn't hesitate to give specific examples about your own companies and the services people use that would be turned off if someone does something stupid, reviews, social networking sites etc.,

as other people said, would try to focus your attention on the interviewer and the camera like they're two friends you're engaging, avoid looking around into space.

good camera presence, good job!
I concur, though it's important to note the STEM bias in statements like "[most PhD Students] get paid a stipend". I can assure you my friend studying the history of Eastern European Political-Economic Thought is not receiving a stipend.

Further, for a large fraction of STEM PhD students the stipend only slightly dulls the loss from opportunity cost. A PhD-worthy CS undergraduate in particular is looking at 60-100k/year starting income plus raises in industry vs 20-25k/year PhD stipend. Over five years that's easily around 150k foregone post-tax (assuming for accounting purposes that the increased income would not translate to increased consumption).
The rebutting-author makes a valid point, but he seems to entirely miss the point. Yes, the yoga piece is no different than a "How Running Can Wreck Your Knees" piece, but yoga is especially treasured because it's seen as a spiritual, theres-no-way-something-this-inner-peaceful-could-be-bad activity.

The danger is not just in the physical exertion, but the mindset of the practitioners and teachers.
or The Demise of Physical Media
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I've been going to a yoga class once a week for the last nine months or so. I guess I'm lucky that I have a very gentle instructor who repeats something like this many times in each class: "let go of any preconceived notions and judgments of what you should be doing and pay attention to yourself". I've stopped looking around the room to see what others are doing and just try to push myself a bit more each week. Its been slow but I think its paying off.
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I've spent about $50 on stumble upon for my site, at $0.05 a click. As others have said it's very poor quality traffic. I don't sell anything on the site so conversions is not meaningful, but I did not get any lasting traffic from the campaign.
Because my site is about beer, it was nice that I could target very specifically (males, 21-35 in california).
One thing i noticed is that after you run a paid campaign, you're more likely to get organic stumble upon traffic - I've probably gotten twice the amount organically then I've paid for.
To be fair you just picked out the things on the list that are hard to measure and partially comes down to personal preference/style. For example I absolutely detest the code behind DotNetOpenAuth but I can't really tell you why and I'm sure others would say it's fine.

It's not a bad measure of where you are as long as you're honest with yourself.
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Except that there's a difference between what people can produce and what they can google up. When you let people out of the room to do something, you have no way of knowing if they did it themselves. Or if it took them 12h to do it.
^^ THIS!

I've seen so many bad teachers here in Canada that just watch as students do poses totally wrong and risk injury, it's pretty bad.

When you are getting started, finding a good teacher is absolutely key.

Do some research, ask for recommendations, etc..
See? That’s the kind of shit I’m talking about.

Crap like that runs rampant on Reddit.
Looking for Technical Partner
Hi I am looking for a technical cofounder/partner.
I am a college student at a business school in the Boston area. I live in Northern New Jersey over breaks.

What I will be bringing to the table is a credible knowledge of accounting, finance, economics, marketing and other business subjects. My major is going to be Managerial Economics so that is my specialty. Most importantly I bring with me an entrepreneurial spirit, which I have found is a very important, but rare commodity.

I am interested nearly any intellectual topic, and actively seek out to know as much as I can about said topic. Although my education has been as a business person, I would rather think of myself simply as a non-technical cofounder. I say this because I have always been quite good with computers both on the front-end and coding. I have only coded very basic programs, but I understand the mindset, and respect the art. And I am certainly not a hands-off kind of guy.

I would prefer someone who is in college or college-aged and understands the time constrains we have to deal with, as well as willing to take more risk. I would like for us to both share in responsibilities, and to specialize as well. I would like for us to be as knowledgeable about our aspects of business as each other’s. You would be in charge of the technical side of the business, and I would be more focused on everything else, however that doesn’t mean that I will not learn some programming and fully understand how the technology works. I want us to supplement each other in skill, and learn from each other in what we lack. It doesn’t matter what language you know as long as you know enough to bring a full working web app to fruition.

I would love to talk to anyone interested and feel free to send me an email – blyandvert@gmail.com.

Let’s build something amazing together.
AFAICS Visual LISP Developer’s Bible is not free. US$8 in Amazon, couldn't found any free download except that of the sample chapter and exercises.
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I hate this. Now I have even more books on my reading list. Damn it.
First Look of Jism 2 Released..
While this sounds like an interesting and ambitious project, I don't think it will ever get off the ground. I use Emacs daily for 80% of my work and its performance is not an issue. The author seems a bit too optimistic that a GCC plugin can automate the majority of the port to CL -- it may provide a nice start but finishing the port will me a considerable amount of tedious work and from the perspective of an Emacs user, I suspect either they won't notice the change or the change will introduce new bugs.
The thing is question three is about dates and question three B is about how happy you are so the two are suppose to be related. If it was question three and question four maybe, but not when they put the two questions together.
oh god, not another of these masturbatory articles
Didn't Bloomberg know some programming since he basically created the original Bloomberg terminal?
I think the point that many are missing is that is not known for certain that an engineer is more likely to enjoy certain hobbies over others. People use their personal experience to develop a heuristic which this test is designed to reveal.

Getting hung up over the specificity of the hobbies and interests and the likelihood of those hobbies and interests representing either or a lawyer or an engineer is irrelevant, because the only factual data that was provided by the questioner is that 30% of the participants were engineers, and 70% were lawyers.
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It seems as if our representative government only represents money. Yet again, the profit motive prevails.
This is why we're left with a 'Vocal Minority' as Lamar Smith stated when pressed about the opposition. What he should have called us was the 'conscious' and 'educated'. With a near media blank out, he thought this was going to be a walk in the park.

More people would be outraged if they only knew about the bill, or once they were told about it believed in the power that it wields.

I tried to educate my family over the X-mas holiday about the recent poison legislation being put through our government, but it was met with blank stares, followed by, "our government would never do that". In a way I don't blame them, because this all sounds so crack pot. A simple personal can't fathom why the media would be in cahoots with government and not cover something that could change the foundation of the rights this nation was founded on.

The 'Vocal Minority' must begin to educate, the media will never do it for us. Sadly you can't just throw a book at someone, or a wall of text to do it either. Many on Reddit have had the right idea by creating memes and such, but the real power needs to come from the Google and those who oppose it. Put it front and center in the masses faces. They need to show them what a post-SOPA world looks like, and they need to do it before they get back into session to vote again.
I love China. I think they have the best human rights record in the world!
Personally I wouldn't call it "Bayesian" so much as just "a conditional probability." The question doesn't ask what the probability is that a randomly selected participant is an engineer, it asks what the probability is that a participant is an engineer given that he has "typical" engineer-like traits.

But then yes, ideally you could use Bayes' Rule to find that probability.
It’s a joke! Like on Top Gear!
>> "Responsibility of the press"

That would be good but hard to put in place. In Brazil, whenever there's talk about regulation they always make claims about censorship. These companies tend to confuse Freedom of press with Freedom of enterprise.
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I particularly like #3: Freak Out!
I did, but I think those also intersect with the most important things in everyday work -- soft skills, founded on judgement and aesthetic sensibilities, which are hard to measure, but which make the difference between an OK solution and a really great solution. It's very hard for me to perceive how large the range of ability is in those skills, or where any single person is in it.

(And many of the other, more concretely specified skills still suffer from the lots-of-room-at-the-top syndrome, e.g. I don't think that "has written custom macros" makes me an Emacs wizard, but whatever.)
For the people who say they never use a whiteboard: do you never talk about problems with colleagues? When trying to understand the best way of tackling something difficult, I find few things beat a whiteboard session of sketching out possible solutions. I find that writing actual code just obscures things when I'm looking for the method or algorithm to do what I want.
A hundred times this.
Touré should keep his childish revolution to himself and do as the flight attendants tell him.

I have a friend who's an airhostess and the stories she tells about these pretentious assholes and how they treat the crew... Argh...
Republicans don't hate liberalism, they hate democrats and "liberals" is just another word for democrats in American politics. It's just a case of factionalism and the democrats can be just as bad.
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THE optimal way to go for the following website-requirements
Hi guys,

since the quantity of available frameworks overkilled me while finding the quite perfect one for my needs, I would like to present my simple needs with the hope to get experienced advice.

- my programming skills are decent. I need to read books and google a lot, but I managed every (programming)obstacle by my own -so far. i write/wrote primary in Java and ABAP (a proprietary language of SAP)
- my website should have basic login-functionality for users and the possibility of interaction beetween users (mail, update-information of selected users, rate users, ranking, etc.)
- ajax for e.g. for inputcompletion, etc.

that's all! i would love to get these first functionalities embedded.

Is Java/GWT a way to go for these requirements (since I "know" Java), or is THE deal completely different?

Thank you for your suggestion(s).
the term "rational" for economists has a very specific meaning. an actor behaving "rationally" has a utility function that satisfies some set of properties, and when confronted with choices, chooses in a way that maximizes that utility function.

these are the properties of a "rational" utility function: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory#Actions....
My mother is in great physical condition, and certainly not overweight, but she still managed to destroy her shoulder doing yoga.

So while it's true that people in poor condition shouldn't do yoga, there are still risks to people in good condition.
Perhaps having tens of thousands of developers trained on your infrastructure has intangible benefits?
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It would appear that you actually do not have a REST API. GET requests may not cause side effects in a REST API. This is an important feature of REST.

On the other hand, there are probably many HTTP based APIs that cause harmful side effects on GET, so the danger is still lurking.
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Interesting that Yoga is marketed heavily for people who sit in front of a computer for hours a day, even though the article points out that it's more dangerous for them because they're not already exercising the way that the people for whom yoga was invented for did.
It was an example; these APIs clearly exist in the wild, and side effects are not the only danger of prefetching API URLs. What if a URL that is meant to be accessed with a GET request that kicks off an expensive, long-running process is prefetched?

There's a front page story right now about Google AppEngine, where the linked discussion mentions mashing a link to start a MapReduce job every day that's costing $200-300 a day to run. What if Chrome autocompletes the URL to that job, costing you $300 before you finish typing something else?
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