skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mrjordangoldstein, thanks!
For me, at least, rationalizations and planning don't work when it comes to forming new habits. I just have to jump into it. With sleeping, I set my alarm clock at 4:30 and got up. First couple of days were tough, but eventually my internal clock shifted.

Having said that, you should have a good reason for waking up early aside from "I want to be one of those guys that get up super early; they seem to do so much work before I even open my eyes." For me, it was a couple of reasons:
- doing my morning power walk before all the traffic (so I can put in my earbuds and crank up the noise)
- getting stuff done before everyone else wakes up and messages/emails/calls... start
- prepping most of my food for the day so that I save more time
- avoiding evenings when I have to do a lot of work so I can focus more on reading/learning

It also helps if you're tough on yourself. I know I won't achieve what I want by irregular sleeping schedule and spoiling myself. And if there is ever a late night I still get up at the same time; I just take a caffeine pill later in the day.
mailbait is not intended to signup for spam.
The email returned is solicited from legitimate services; including listservs, newsletters, and anything else users dig up to add to the system.
This makes it a good fit for some tests, as inbound email is not necessarily from illegitimate sources with negative intentions.
Automated, integrated sharding — the new killer database feature
Did Bioware actually lie about the ending to Mass Effect 3?
According to the German Wikipedia, this is completely wrong - they rotate every year, and the office is given to the one who hasn't been President for the longest time (or ever).

This is, however, purely a custom; formally, the Bundespräsident is elected.
Whether or not employers are inherently coercive depends on your political/philosophical views behind wage labor. It's a big topic, and not one we're going to reach a consensus on in a Hacker News comment thread. Socialists tend to view wage labor as inherently coercive (using the pejorative term "wage slavery"), while capitalists generally view employment as a valid contractual relationship.

I tend to fall more on the capitalist side of things. I wouldn't consider employment coercive, unless the bad alternative (e.g. starving) was actively being caused by the potential employers (something like "work for us for $1 an hour or else we will kick you off your land).
Code-to-test ratios above 1:2 is a smell, above 1:3 is a stink

I think this depends on the domain. Some code ends up with a metric shed load of important edge cases because it's modelling something with a metric shed load of important edge cases - not just because your code sucks.

For example one project I worked on involved a lot of code to manage building estimates. It involved a stack of special cases related to building codes, different environments, the heuristics that the human estimators used, etc.

There wasn't any sane way to remove the special cases - the domain caused them. There wasn't a way to sensibly avoid writing tests - since we didn't really want estimates for the amount of drywall in a multi-million pound skyscraper to be wrong :-)
The transitions (such as sliding animations) seem too fast to be e-ink as well.
but if I meet weekly with a group of people where we discuss bombing federal buildings and how we might go about it, that's starting to get a lot more sketchy

You basically just described my college experience. (or a white-hat conference).
I've ran into situations where my pull requests duplicated effort made by older unmerged pull requests. I know I should've reviewed all the existing pull requests before coding, but repos with more pull requests make that workflow pretty tedious. When you view a file on Github, it shows you a list of contributors to that file. I'd like to see Github also add a feature to show a list of pending pull requests affecting that file. This helps contributors avoid duplication of work as well as providing users an easy way to identify potential bug fixes that are pending review.
I've backed the project. The main reason for me is that it's a whole, integrated platform with the smartphone. It's meant to be an extension of your phone, not only a watch with wireless/accel capabilities. I love it.
Linux Mint Debian 201204 RC (MATE/Cinnamon & Xfce) released
Too many panels and everything in boxes took away the elegance.
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Actually, history does not show that low-end mass malware moves to more advanced techniques and you CAN predict the vulns they'll target in advance, as long as you're familiar with their motivations, capabilities, and incentives.
http://www.trailofbits.com/research/#eip

Again, show me an actual attack that has exploited Safari. Ever. Targeted, mass malware, I don't care. Apple has better shit to worry about and their investment in Seatbelt was worth 1000x more than individually fixing the limitless supply of bugs in Webkit. Problem solved, move to next actual issue.
I suspect you don't know much about "libertarianism," or else you just use the term to refer to more moderate positions, like the American Libertarian party. There are libertarians (like Noam Chomsky) who view wage labor as inherently coercive and immoral.
What's interesting is the implicit assumption that mutating memory is O(1).

Unfortunately for real memory (caches, DIMMs, swap etc) that's not true. It's O(log n) for any non-trivial size of memory, and can have bad (constant?) factors for mutating memory that is shared between processors.

Of course functional languages have hidden and not-so-hidden costs too, starting with the garbage collector, but including the time taken to get the larger working set into cache.

I'm interested in any studies that look at these total costs in real systems.
In C, a "null pointer" (NULL, (void *)0, etc.) does not necessarily correspond to an address with all bits zero.[1] The compiler translates any pointer constants with a value of 0 to an invalid address appropriate for that machine.

I haven't verified this, but I could see this being used by microcontroller compilers, where address 0x0000 is often a memory-mapped register.

[1] http://c-faq.com/null/index.html
It's the music. If nickleback did all that stuff, as a geek, you wouldn't care.
Kids have snooze buttons?
It's a joke. Read the bullet points in the "Tips to Get Involved in Your Community" section:

* "HELP elderly folks cross the first part of the street and then encourage them to get across the rest of the way on their own!"

* "DON'T desecrate that statue even though you'd gain tons of street cred!"

* "START a lemonade stand but immediately go "Out of Business" to draw attention to wealth-destroying minimum wage laws!"

Have at it, kids.
It seems many functions are not implemented yet. I'll like to see if there is a white board to let users freely draw anything.
Discussions like this arise mostly because developers today think less about whether a feature should be built and more about how it should be architected and tested.

For decades, we've been conditioned to think that by the time a feature is written down on paper, someone else has crossed all the Ts and dotted all the Is to determine that the feature has value and should be built.

It's far easier to focus on low value testing issues than attempt the harder work of convincing the customer/product owner that certain features should not be built.
these 10 tips can be replaced with one:

1) Feed cat(s) wet-food in the morning

the cat(s) will not let you sleep until you get up to feed them...guaranteed.

if you don't have a cat

1) place obnoxious alarm out of range
Being on top of Hacker News, the numbers (for a developer site)
10 years of data on 10,000 startup founders: what can we learn?
Easy, that was assumption you had to verify. And afaik Leanpub allows you to increase the price later when the value of the book will be more visible. Or charge for the sequel, for practical examples of solutions etc. Anyway I hope you won't abandon the project due to cheapskates like me. The title and blurb made me curious.
stole my comment, that's exactly what I was going to say...
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You didn't address any of the points I made, and that's a straw man definition of ad-hominem. Ad-hominem is not specifically about tarnishing reputations, or unrelated attacks, although these can be part of it.

If you look at a real definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

You'll see that it conforms to what I said in my previous comment.

You have clearly indicated that you think the position of Apple users is less valid because of their loyalty to the company. That is ad-hominem - attacking the position by pointing out a characteristic of the person rather than the position, and is a fallacy designed to mislead the audience.

You also think that negative positions about Google are more prevalent amongst Apple users. On that point we have agreed from the beginning, but I haven't argued against that so repeatedly defending it is just another straw-man.

[edit: You added 'go away troll' to your comment after I posted this. That doesn't make your argument seem very strong.]
It's a joke. How? Comic Sans.
"TIPS TO GET INVOLVED
IN YOUR COMMUNITY:

START a lemonade stand but immediately go "Out of Business" to draw attention to wealth-destroying minimum wage laws!"
Google+ Redesign: What to do with extra while space?
Still a valid concern... a year has over 500k minutes to display.

I don't know enough about eInk to know if they have a certain "life expectancy", any clarifications by someone with knowledge on the topic would be great!
(1980) Steve Jobs interview about how he founded Apple
I would not be so sure at that. I see plenty of people doing that.
It's mostly habit, I think. Even somewhat technically versed people do that (many of them who have been working with computers for more than 15 years).
What is e—paper and how does it compare to e-ink? How does it perform in direct sunlight?
Good advice for any time
Ask YC Applicants: Is your posterous video url down?
It may or may not matter but I noticed our posterous url was down. The main Posterous.com page loads but the subdomain does NOT load. Is that happening with anyone else?
I have switched over to Archlinux-DE+WM. Total control of your system. It smooth and fast.
Gustavo Duarte has a lot of well-written (and illustrated!) blog posts. With a little bit of effort they could be combined into a nice ebook.
This is all I need:

http://www.amazon.com/EcoTeas-Organic-Yerba-Loose-5-Pound/dp...

and

http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Ancients-Bombilla-Strainerstraw...
I find it brilliant. I usually email my photos to myself to get them from iPhone->laptop. That takes effort. Here I could just select and they show up on my screen almost instantly.
Android app for end-to-end encrypted calls
Another one I hear a lot "We had that feature 2 years ago". They have no idea why it isn't blowing up.
I bet it’s a joke as well, but it’s not witty enough to work as a joke, the “inside jokes” should make you feel clever and exclusive when you see them.

And I should know, I’ve been falling flat on my face trying to be clever on the Internet for years.
So is it possible that life is just being flung from planet to planet through impact debris, over the course of billions of years?
This wiki entry has more information on it: https://guardianproject.info/wiki/Ostel
Don't miss out on the theme song: https://groupon.s3.amazonaws.com/sponsorship-imgs/chicago/Ki...
The monitors I work with are 20:11. Hard to find, but I enjoy them. Let's me tile two 1024 width windows side by side - good for doing cross browser comparisons. Ratio doesn't bother me on a monitor, I can always find some way to utilize it. I would appreciate a higher pixel density though.
It is a painful task. I have a spreadsheet of most of the U.S. app review sites if you want it to make sure you didn't miss any. Just email me. I couldn't find one anywhere else so I started compiling one. They disappear quickly.

We launched a little travel magazine; www.overnightbuses.com

Good luck to you guys as well!
Develop products that salesmen can sell with a dream
Facebook Adds Option To Delete Your Account (Not Deactivate)
Perhaps my greatest concern for e-reading is "how does it affect my ability to fall asleep when I read in bed?". A 10" iPad puts out way too much light even at the lowest setting and keeps me awake. An e-ink device works much better because it uses indirect light. However, I've found that my 4" phone works best of all. On its lowest setting it puts out very little light. And surprisingly 4" is also a better form factor for reading novels. The small screen reduces the amount of eye scan needed, and the small size also allows a very large variety of comfortable reading positions.
Also, the founder is an 18-year-old that applied for ycombinator. Hi.
Testing isn't just about preventing bugs, it also encourages better design, and good design makes extending and enhancing your application much easier and faster.

...in general, of course, there's always exceptions, don't be dogmatic.
Testing, or at least coding, like the TSA thinks is remarkably common in industry.

TSA logic - somebody tried to get on a plane with a bomb in their show so everyone everywhere has to remove their shoes

PHB logic - somebody somewhere had a bug because of a misuse of inheritance so you aren't allowed to use any inheritance in your C++ code anywhere.
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t in Product/Usability Design
Java (or JVM Lang) Based Startups - We Want To Hear From You
Gitv: a git repository browser for Vim
Isn't it the whole point of Circles that they don't have to clarify that? You're in complete control of who you send things to from the very beginning, and the only way you can add people is by putting them in the appropriate circle(s).
Steps for MBAs Learning to Code
Where did you find that? I'm not seeing that content.

The song is very special, however.

[edit] nm, it was under the 'games' directory:

http://www.groupon.com/pages/kidz-club-games

That's definitely one of the better company April Fools type jokes I've seen in a while. [/edit]
If I could count the number of hours I spent in my life half awake in my bed - it would fill many holidays <sigh>

I've tried a number of times to rise early, but I've never managed to do it consistently. When considering to get up, I can't convince myself that i HAVE to get up, since I can do what I want to do later anyways.

It seems that, on my own, the reasons are not strong enough for me to get up: the only thing that worked was when I had a commitment with a group of friends to swim at 7AM with them.
11. Get enough exercise.

I find when I'm getting regular exercise, I open my eyes in the morning and I'm awake and ready to go. It's the opposite when I've been lazing around for a few weeks not doing my physical activity.
I have one 16:10 screen, and then a few years later I want to have two 16:10 monitors... but no luck finding one for a decent price. :(
Now i Have one 16:10 and one 16:9 (I suggest not doing this because you will look at the differences every day)
Good point. We got the idea for this challenge from this:
http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/one_hiring_filter_tha...

We debated how to implement this and decided on using github because of the added bonus of being able to view github profiles as part of the screening process.

If anyone's interested in a job but doesn't want to submit a public pull request, please send your contest submission to reed@smashingboxes.com and let us know if you want your code to be committed to our repo or not.
While correct I think it is your tone that is earning you down votes.
I've gotta say, it's my first ever experience with express, jade, or a web app on Node (I've done decent amounts of non-web Node stuff, though). When I was starting ti get 10 requests per second, I still wasn't even caching anything.
Hacking Mobile Interfaces Using Paper
Here's some helpful tips from the Kidz Club Games and Tips Page:

> HELP elderly folks cross the first part of the street and then encourage them to get across the rest of the way on their own!

> DON'T desecrate that statue even though you'd gain tons of street cred!

> START a lemonade stand but immediately go "Out of Business" to draw attention to wealth-destroying minimum wage laws!

Whether you should copy that floppy is presumably left up to your own judgement.
The Sality botnet is still up
Aren't there two pieces of your comment that are contradictory?

But, aside from editing what part of the "book manufacturing" process is actually necessary now

and yet:

But still it remains very difficult for a talented writer to make a living without some kind of brick and mortar publishing house agreeing to represent that writer

How do you reconcile these two statements? Either publishers add nothing of value, other than basic editing (which you should be able to easily purchase yourself by contracting a freelance editor), or publishers do in fact provide a lot more value in the process that helps ensure the success of a book. If publishers provide no value, how could it possibly be that you need to use a publisher to be successful?

It has never been easier in the history of the world to self publish a book. It's naive to think that a publisher's only role is to typeset, edit, and print (or electronically distribute) a book. If that was all there was to it then authors would/should self publish. And yet, as the other part of your comment alludes to, that's not all there is to successfully selling a book.
Is there any way we can contribute to or sign up for notifications on this?
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I think dhh tried to address that with his comment yes, yes, if you were working on an airport control system for launching rockets to Mars and the rockets would hit the White House if they weren’t scheduled with a name, you can test it—but you aren’t, so forget it
I'd guess it went something like this:

Manager: "We need a kids club thing, like Burger King."
Designers: "That's lame, let's make it a joke."
Manager: "Excellent, go live with it."
For general websites, I preview the site using:

http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/

Many web sites are not designed for people who retain older technology for financial (or other) reasons. Every web developer should befriend someone over the age of 60 and watch their surfing habits.
How to avoid the biggest A/B testing mistakes
This article explains what exactly happened much better. It was much more than just "contemplating to collude."
http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/11/technology/apple-doj-ebooks/...

Amazon forced publishers to sell most books at $9.99 -- a price that came in below the cost of the books.

According to the DOJ, booksellers were unnerved by the discounted e-book price structure Amazon launched in 2007. The publishers went to Apple in late 2009 to find a way to force Amazon to raise its prices. The iPad proved to be the perfect tool to accomplish that.

The alleged conspiracy placed many books at so-called "agency pricing," putting them on the market for about $12.99 and giving Apple a 30% cut. About three days later, Amazon allowed publishers to set their own prices, resulting in higher prices on the Kindle as well.
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Music can be exactly as solitary and cerebral as math. That aspect of music doesn't get the same press, is all. If you play three chords on a tall stage people know you're in a band; if you sit in your home working out a Bach fugue nobody needs to know.

I have a slightly silly book about birdwatching. It has a section which talks about birding competitions - "Big Days", they call them - and the final two sentences stick in my head, always:

Don't go away from this thinking that birding is an endless succession of fabbydoo games or fun, fun, fun without a moment's rest. Quite the opposite. Birding is mostly about looking at birds. It is no use to pretend otherwise.

A useful motto.

Birding is very popular, of course, even in the go-go all-action United States. Other popular activities include knitting, gardening, hiking, sudoku, crosswords, reading, fantasy football, Angry Birds, writing comments on message boards, and, ahem, hacking. All of them solitary, cerebral, and socially unglorified. (Though I guess fantasy football is arguable: You can probably spend an entire evening over beer talking with your friends about the performance of their fantasy football teams. For all I know it's even popular in high school. I knew several people in high school who were reliable authorities on every active major-league baseball player...)

People have a warped view of other people's lives in general, and particularly the lives of high school students. I suspect that high school kids enjoy quiet, solitary activities as much as anyone else: In other words, more than you notice. The quiet hobbies are just unobtrusive, so they don't get a lot of press and they don't show up in movies or TV except around the edges.

Speaking for myself, I think I stayed away from band in school because it was full of people and attention. I gravitated toward the quiet sources of pleasure and meaning. Of course, I was blessed with a math club mentor who knew what "recreational mathematics" was...
I've never found the lcd vs e-ink to be much of an issue as far as eyestrain goes. I read several hundred books no problem on my old Palm IIIc which had, wait for it, 160px by 160px resolution. The e-ink is nice too though, but the need for an external light makes reading in bed a pain. I wish Amazon would just make a kindle with an LED built in(like the Sony PRS-700).
The best tip: challenge your basic assumptions about sleep and experiment to find what works for you.

I've found that hitting the general 1.5 hour sleep cycle pattern works for me (i.e. the amount of sleep you get is a multiple of 1.5) much better than anything else in terms of actually getting up and feeling well rested.

It is extremely difficult for me to get up and go to bed at the same time every day (not to mention unnecessarily inconvenient), but if I can get exactly 6 hours of sleep every night (or 7.5 if I'm feeling particularly tired), I can wake up easily at any time and feel well rested.
They fixed this somewhat recently. For every circle you can control how much content will appear in the Home timeline.
Kindle Fire?
How do you make money if it's completely free?

We have ideas for moentization that does not include charging people to user our service.

Ads or harvesting user info or what? Does anyone know where they are going with this?
Use SoundCloud timed comments to create rich media experiences
Become a farmer and sleep at 8 and wake up at 5. Not modern zombie clown.
Seems like it'd be obvious, but I guess not. It's very clear some 90s kids sat in a room and thought, "You know what'd be hilarious? If we did our own version of the BK Kidz Club." Probably were also on under the influence of something.
I think this is a positive direction for G+, with some nice, friendly, emotionally engaging UI touches that will help differentiate it from Facebook. However, I think there is one serious usability issue here, and that is the left alignment. On my 1920 x 1080 screen there is a massive gap between content and chat bar on the right. the content area feels uncomfortably crowded on the left, and it's just plain awkward to scan all the way to the right.

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You don't remember this?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_advertising#Kids_Cl...

That kid in the wheelchair? His name was Wheelz. Not kidding.
Possible. Not importent anyway.