skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rock Climbing is probably a better plan then. It is fun in the way that you're not supposed to be having fun anymore at your age, to the point where you find yourself rearranging your schedule so that you can do more of it. And it absolutely will give you a sixpack by the time you're any good at it.

The only downside is that it won't actually get you fit in the traditional sense. I can pull into a front lever using two fingertips, but I can't run a mile to save my life.

Still, it's exercise that you'll actually do. And unless you live in Nebraska, there's a climbing gym within a 20 minute drive of you right this minute.
How fast could you cross the country (without killing yourself)?
I work as a consultant and a CTO for two people startup building a product(asp.net mvc,sql server).Here is what i'm doing :
Week days:work for two hours /day on the product no matter what(early on the day or after cosulting job hours).
Saturday: 8 hours on the product.

the difference beteen me and you is that i have a cofounder taking care of the marketing ,business side.May be you need your wife help on that or get a cofounder and give hime some equity.
So 100 ms is on about human eye-hand reaction time. Not that humans think in discrete chunks, but 100-400ms is like 1-4 extra responses, which makes game play quite different.

Also, I know people will say "Game Mode!" but obviously, as a dev you can't just assume your end users will do that.
Yes I plan to be a regular on those fora.

Also, I think you would get the message you are seeing even if it were unlocked

Right. I was thinking that if it were locked it wouldn't have such a thoughtful warning and the option to proceed. But this reasoning could be wrong obviously.
Quadrantids Will Create Brief, Beautiful Show on Jan. 3-4
Uh, four tenths of a second to change the camera angle would make every 3d game completely and totally unplayable. Even one tenth would have everyone up in arms about how terrible every game is. Maybe you meant 10 and 40ms.
Are you a gold prospector, or a construction worker?
You can simply ask Mac OS X to request another DHCP address when it comes up with Self-assigned IP. The Self-assigned IP address is actually in a range that is specified in the RFC 3927 [1]. This is mainly done so that if it joins a network without a DHCP server it can still communicate with other hosts on the network, just not the outside.

Also, in my experience Apple's DHCP agent will re-request an IP address after having assigned itself a self-assigned IP address. This generally takes about a minute or so, in that time the DHCP server can then reply once again. I've never had issues with this at all.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3927.txt
Strange! I go to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEED, I search for "not enough" and it's on the end of the first paragraph.
I think he was just referring to the productivity hit during the learning curve.
Fugazi is also a good point because their goal as an organization is sustainability. This is exhibited in their $5-or-bust ticket price, among other things. Black Flag's goal, particularly during the Decline of Western Civilization years, was mostly to get drunk and fight cops. Just a bad analogy in general for software intended to make money.
Lurk again tomorrow, after my commute. :)

Appreciated the link to a clojure based podcast in general though, and noir is far too long on my list of things to check out.
NIH launches first online genetics course for social and behavioral scientists
Thanks for the feedback. I'll add a few use-cases / examples to the project page.

Here are a few good examples which use sift:

- Realtime API library: https://github.com/crcn/guava

- Simple database written in node.js: https://github.com/crcn/gumbo. I use this primarily in command line utilities, and other applications where mongodb seems a bit over the top.

Underscore is certainly a better alternative in many cases, but the goal for sift is to provide control over filtering collections with one query versus manipulating them.
I've raised my rates in the past, and it has both helped business and improved the quality of my clients, no doubt.

But in Israel, I've found that anything over $100/hour scares off everyone, including the very largest potential clients. They're used to paying $60/hour for top brass at a consulting firm, which makes it difficult to convince them that my higher rates are worthwhile.

I'm not saying that convincing them is impossible; I've made a living in this way for 15 years now, helped in part by my willingness to negotiate and discount my rates in exchange for long-term agreements. But whereas the US and Europe might have large, wealthy companies with technical needs who don't flinch at $150/hour or even $200/hour, such rates would get you tossed out on your ear in Israel.

That said, I haven't tried charging by the day, and will give it a shot at the next opportunity. I'm very curious to see what happens then.
Except 20 or so channels on my dish network setup are nothing but direct sales garbage.

I think we're suffering because its economically more appealing to treat the TV as a sales machine instead of an entertainment machine. No wonder there's no bandwidth left over on satellite or over those fat DOCSIS connections. Carriers are too busy selling us "lose weight now" bullshit over providing the service we're actually buying.

Toss in its "Public Interest" channels which hold useless junk like religious programming and public access, we have about 50 channels of non-entertainment nonsense. Everything looks like shit because the bean counters and MBAs think Billy Grahame and "Look good in that dress for $19.99" should be in contention over the actual shows and movies I watch.
It's a pretty big, more or less traditional lecture with about 45 students.

The students definitely did their homework. They might have copied from other students, I did not try to prevent this or really even forbid it. There are lots of resources -- I had a TA, we also had an undergrad assistant who held special tutoring sessions, there is drop in help at certain other times of day... if anyone wanted help, it was available to them. And many did try it out.

Flipping the classroom seems like a very interesting idea, I've thought about it in principle, but I feel like many students wouldn't watch the lectures. In any case, I probably need to gain a reputation as an outstanding teacher before I can pull off anything unusual.

Thank you!
The American Federation of Government Employees said the bill was insulting to the 44,000 TSA workers it represented and did "nothing to add to our national security."
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What's that you say? The TSA is insulting to human beings and does nothing to add to our national security?

What will the leading actors in security theater wear, then?
Right sorry if I my writing seemed to imply differently, I was definitely talking about time and materials vs project. I was just adding cometary to the discussion and not trying to refute a position, I apologize if my wording did not convey that. what I was trying to say was if a person is scared of by a day rate, because they want a total rate then I tend to shy away from those projects. I will provide an estimate of what I think it will take, but there is an understanding that due to the nature of software development that estimate will change the first time they change their mind. Which always happens in software development.
I was watching some TSA employees that were on "break" at one of the lanes since it was not busy at all and it was extremely unprofessional, loud, and they were making fun of various people that were going through the machine, laughing at how fat someone was, or how their outfit looked hideous.

These are the people we expect to catch terrorists! These are people we allow to go through our luggage and bags on their word alone that they saw something on the X-Ray monitor. It made me incredibly sad that we are entrusting these miscreants with securing airports.
While python has always been 'batteries included' I think some of the batteries should not have been included.

Libraries tend to move more quickly than the language and interpreter/compiler. Tying them together, while convenient, often leads to rot, clunky libraries, slow moving updates, and libraries being build to the interpreter/compiler instead of to the needs of the users.

I would like to see instead a somewhat canonical (widely accepted) list of the highest quality libraries for a given set of needs, with information and pro/con/caveats listed for each, instead of them being included in the mainline trunk.

I really applaud what Kenneth Reitz has been doing lately.

-- a very happy user of the `requests` library
That plaintext of the shared secret doesn't have to be the password, it can be some other authorisation token which acts as a first level of auth before a password hash scheme is used. As I said, there is _almost_ never a good reason for storing the passwords digested or encrypted.
Sonic Generations Update 4 - SKIDROW
This is the most convincing argument you've made yet (and you've made several good ones). I've definitely had clients say to me, "It's not my money," when talking about billing.
The Evoluent mouse helped me get rid of right hand pain, http://www.evoluent.com/
I must be missing something, where's the CSS discussion? Isn't that what takes up most of the time?
I've played only a four piece since 1990 or so and it will never run out of possibilities for me. A larger kit means things need to be farther away from you, and if things are too far away there's no point in having them, so in any studio I take that second tom off the rack and move the ride cymbal right in, and it feels great.

In that way I guess a four piece kit reminds me of lisp - just some parenthesis and a few other things, but endless possibilities nonetheless. But I've never used lisp for anything really and in software I always like to shoot for a happy medium of scale and pragmatism. Also Neal Peart's setup is part of the entertainment value. EJB or some overgrown PHP thing, on the other hand, not very entertaining.
Is that what "game mode" is? I had always thought it was just changing the preset of brightness/contrast/etc. but is it also trying to reduce latency?

(I'm not a gamer)
Kleiner Leads Klout’s Latest “$30 Million” Funding Round
Maybe Ron Paul. Why not. He is the best candidate out there. Better than Obama.
One question: When a friend send me an app do I have option to say 'NO' before app installs itself?
Turn off your stylesheets and scroll down (the TOC links don't seem to work anymore when you do that).
>But they don't want your $20 to watch the game on TV, they want ABC's $3 billion (or whatever) for the right to charge you whatever ("watch these ads") to see the game.

I had to look this up, but it appears that the price per year for NBA television rights was well under $1 billion/year(http://www.insidehoops.com/nba-tv-contracts.shtml). From 2002 to 2007, TNT paid about 2.2 billion in total. ESPN/ABC paid around 2.4 billion for the same time period. Per year, that's around $300 million each. Even assuming a 50% increase in cost, that comes out to around $450 million/year per network for 2012.

The biggest irony is that the NBA could be making an absolutely insane amount of money selling directly to the consumer. At $30 per month for a 6 month season, all they need to do is sell around 5 million total subscriptions to equal the net income from the television contracts. I'm positive that the NBA could get those kinds of numbers, especially with European or Chinese basketball fans who might not be able to see the games any other way.

All the NBA needs to do is actually make the service work, and provide the games that are already being televised.
This is especially bad for rhythm games like DDR, where I learned about the problem the hard way. Even the "game" mode still introduces way too much lag. So I had to switch to the old CRT when playing my PS2 DDR games and thus had to keep it around.
A nitpick: the amount of sit-ups you can do does not correlate well with the six-packness. At 20ish% body fat it's possible to train yourself for a huge amount of sit-ups, but your abs still would not be too visible.

If you have an ability to track your body fat with a decent precision, that would be a better metric.
$299 iPad 2 seen shaking up tablet market, Amazon's Kindle Fire
I have been enjoying 4clojure, although I found myself hitting a wall a few times, mostly due to not knowing about some function that I needed to solve the problem. It'd be great if there were hints available without looking at a completed solution - eg "try using 'reduce'".

Also, I have enjoyed the Clojure koans as well: https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans
Right. Just the fact that it's digital means that it has to buffer at least a frame before it can be displayed.
Klout Raises $30 M. at $200 M. Valuation
The way you're describing the feeling puts it into the 10-40ms range. In the 100-400ms range you'd immediately and consciously wonder WTF was wrong with the game.
Seeing this makes me wonder, because I've dabbled with the thought of living a year in NYC ever since I visited this summer, but I have been put off by all the warnings here on HN and elsewhere stating that the cost of living there is insane. My current city of residence, Trondheim, Norway is ranking top for consumer price and second for consumer price + rent in this ranking. And still, living as a single male on state scholarship and loans (which adds up to about $15k a year), I live in a pretty ok standard apartment with a room mate and don't save on food etc. at all. I have zero credit-card debt etc. (I could easily do the same in Stavanger, Norway, which ranks higher for cost of rent.)

What am I missing?
He has been citing the same figures, always favoring the same group and against the same group for years now. I just went through 5 pages of his posts to find gems. Yes, he avoids be overt, but it's obvious.
Hi, thanks for the encouragement! I taught a grad class and that was awesome.

I definitely like the source material and daresay I am communicating a lot of enthusiasm. I have had successful teaching experiences in the past, so I think I need to worry about the two variables that are different: (1) I am teaching to students in a new state (South Carolina), with different background and also where the culture is very different. (I am naturally kind of a fast talker, which could be off putting.) (2) I have a lot more autonomy now, in the past someone else wrote the exams and decided what the homeworks were, freeing me to play good cop. My students here know damn well that if their homework was really long, I'm to blame.

The students are not the best in terms of either background or motivation, many are taking this class simply because it's required, but... they're the students I have.

My office hours weren't popular. The appointment thing sounds time consuming, but perhaps very well worth it, so maybe I will give it a try next time.

Thank you!
Mogees (Gesture recognition with contact-microphones)
IE 6 Officially Dead, Usage Dips Below 1% in the US
There's a dedicated section if you're hiring, see this month's one here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3412900
One issue is that even if the password database is more secure than root access on the server, having the database at all means that it's possible to steal the entire thing in a small amount of time and in a way that may be difficult to detect. An attacker with root access on the server would have to keep the exploit open to continue gathering user credentials. And I still don't see what convenience having the password database offers.

One-time links are definitely the right way, though I think it's better to give the user a new password dialog than to tell them a randomly generated password.
Hm, interesting suggestions, thank you! (I picked even problems, so students couldn't copy the answers, but perhaps I should choose a mixture.)
Interesting! I don't think I can reasonably (for now anyway) require the students to bring iPads or whatever. But this does look cool.
Randi Zuckerberg: Startups and Babies Can Live Together
Disagree. Their stories may suck in general, but I find this one highly relevant to the HN audience. This issue infuriates me as a consumer and a tech person.

Why do you find this insignificant?
Seems to me there is some good money to be made where high and low cost of living adjoin.

For example Vienna and Bratislava.

If nothing else, if you can work in the high cost of living place, and live in the low cost area.
I also have a one-year-old Samsung and I managed to get it to not overscan for at least one input. Put your Mac Minis HDMI into the HDMI 1 / DVI input and then select the input in the Source menu on the TV, press Tools on the remote, and chose PC as the name of the input. This magically turns off overscan. Hope it works!
Kiip's key to Success Could be Happiness
Awesome to see you answering questions here.
Let me state that your posts on pgo are better than anything tdwtf can deliver any day.
Thanks a lot for looking into these pits (ACPI..?) so that I can be blissfully ignorant. I owe you gin.
Looks like mongodb + compojure + some other interesting libraries (clojail for protected eval, for example), running on a Linode.
I'll inflate my ego here, and state for the record that I'm a pretty darned good consultant, with many satisfied clients over the years and lots of projects under my belt.

Regardless, people in Israel totally freak out when I tell them that I want to charge $100/hour. For Web technologies, that's considered an unheard-of high price. If I were to ask people for $150/hour, they wouldn't even negotiate; they would say "no." And I speak from experience.

(In case you think that I've only worked with small startups that are hard-up on cash, I've negotiated consulting deals with large Israeli and multinational firms in Israel. The response was similar.)

Charging more for a valuable skill set is totally OK. But you can't assume that every consultant on HN can simply increase their rates and get what they're asking for.

I should add that one solution I've had to this issue is to get some work outside of Israel, working remotely for people in the US, who tend to be more flexible on consulting rates.
What are the most frequent false beliefs in CS & software programming?
A hypothetical doctor might say, "You can teach yourself to be a programmer in one month, that I can understand, but a doctor in one month? Impossible."

Perspective is a funny thing.
As long as I can see distracting digital compression artifacts on my SD television I have no intention of upgrading to an HD TV and HD cable package.

If anything, I'll drop cable altogether and go OTA.
We got good value, but I don't think the average startup would be best served by an incubator approach. The amount of cash is too little, the mentors are generally accessible in our industry, and you can get the camaraderie of being around other startups via a coworking space. For us, our program being sponsorsed by the largest indy ad agency in the world (W+K), as well as Google, Target, and Coke, was a huge factor in why it's been good for us. But I don't think most incubators have that kind of approach. And in particular, as more and more generic startup incubators spring up, the value of being part of one probably drops.
>>Unfortunately, this is not the world I live in and we have to coexist with the less than ideal systems other people want (sometimes for no good reason) to live under. We don't have the right to impose our own way of life

You think the North Koreans made an informed choice to starve while the party elite drank good whiskey?!

Tyrants like those just has no right of existence.
New York is perhaps a very big city, where you can be in 'new york city' and still be 2 hours subway ride from lower manhattan.

I'd guess the other thing is that in new york you're exposed to people who are very wealthy. It distorts the perceived cost of living vs actual numbers.
11 Things I Learned in 2011 (reflections on the first year of entrepreneurship)
Do you have some examples? I thought I knew a fair number of programming languages, and Python's got one of the most comprehensive.

IMO, Python's stdlib beats C++, Ruby, Java, javascript and Perl....
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Two data points:

My four-year-old Samsung has a "Just Scan" mode that maps 1:1 to the panel's pixels. I've never had a problem with overscan over HDMI, DVI, or VGA.

When I was home over the holidays, I noticed that even my parents' Black Friday mystery-name TV from Menards offered a 1:1 pixel mode. This mode was strict enough to map a 480i picture into a little box in the middle of the screen.
Phidelius: Constructing Asymmetric Keypairs From Mere Passwords For Fun and PAKE
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"Since programming isn't primarily normal English language text, Dvorak really doesn't help"

Here's a late Christmas present: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
every month we have this post about your app :)
Good points - thanks very much for taking the time to answer this. I enjoyed the article a whole lot!!
Harvard Declares Dairy Not part of a balanced diet
I don't think anyone was 'forced' to pirate. It's just one basketball game, I'm pretty sure he could have lived a fruitful and satisfying life without seeing it.
Usually it turns off all of the filters/post-processing steps and tries to mimick the response times of CRT displays more closely by sending the framebuffer to the screen as soon as possible.

The works to varying degrees of success on a per-model basis. Just check out forums discussing which television to buy when you want to play music/rhythm games (like Guitar Hero) to read a lot more details about specific displays.
Or where it's easy to fly from one place to another. It explains why there are so many hackers in Portland. It's a nice place to live with noticeably cheaper cost of living than Seattle or San Francisco. I know folks who consider it a bedroom community to silicon valley, only 550 miles away.
Looking at the methodology [1], I have some doubts about the validity of all these numbers. Apparently they're at least partially user-submitted, which implies to me that there's likely to be some bias, depending on who actually took the time to submit information.

For example, the site claims that residents of Indianapolis, IN have the most (average) purchasing power of anyone in the world, by an incredible margin. Indianapolis is nice enough, but I'd be shocked if that were true.

Still a cool/interesting site, but I would take it with a grain of salt.

[1] http://www.numbeo.com/common/motivation_and_methodology.jsp
They sponsored the last Hacker News Seattle event and made a big announcement about it then. Everyone was pretty happy to hear, and it was a great time.

Congrats Microsoft for spending so much effort phasing out an old product!
You mean like composer http://packagist.org/?
This is probably most dependent on the video card and drivers that you have available. A good video driver should allow you to adjust things such as the overscan %, centering, etc. to get the best picture possible.

I know from experience using an LG LCD TV with Windows 7 and ATI graphics that all drivers are not created equal. I was forced to downgrade my graphics driver when ATI decided to remove overscan settings from more recent releases. That being said, there are drivers out there that allow you to mold the picture to fit your screen.

Your best bet would be to get a high resolution PC monitor and just use that. The monitor will have much better quality for computer use. If you must get a TV I would say the primary concern is what your computer is capable of, more so than the TV.
Controlled Quantum Levitation on a Wipe'Out Track
Codeacademy Signs Up 97,000 People for Its New Year's Resolution Coding Class
Not using email subjects anymore
Show HN: QRawr is our attempt to make QR codes fun
Dear RIM Board of Directors, change is good. Really good.