skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The book is actually The Mindbody Prescription.

This cured me of 3 years of horrible RSI pain. I did go to Doctors, physiotherapists, chiropractors and acupuncturists and had anti-inflammatory creams, you name it. Nothing worked for more than a couple days... and this was a last resort. I wish I would have tried it sooner, but I doubt I would have given it a shot if I wasn't desperate.

Read this for a well written account from a hacker: http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm...

Then buy the book and read it. It'll cost you less than an MS Natural Keyboard, not to mention all the other crap (wrist braces, heating pads, etc etc).
Just to add to this, one thing you can learn from the iPhone's success in Japan is "don't let Japanese exceptionalism blind you to good and innovative solutions that people will pay you a lot of money for". The Japanese love to tell you how unique they are and how different everything is here. It isn't hard to get the typical Japanese salaryman halfway up his own ass in Nihonjinron bullshit after a few beers. In that, they are like nearly every other people on Earth, but for some reason they seem the most convincing. It's probably being on an island and having a tough language, and some other stuff.

Anyway, a "keen student" of Japan would likely have told you the iPhone would fail here (no 1seg? Ha!), and that an invoicing service for Japanese companies, built by foreigners, was an outrageously stupid idea. But the Japanese market is no more impenetrable than the American market, or the British market, or the Indian market, nor any more difficult to learn and understand (though you still have to do that, of course).
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Your Zagat rated pretentiousness is delicious.

Why shouldn't fast food be rated?
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See Julia (http://julialang.org) for an example of a dynamic language that uses LLVM rather successfully (IMO).
It is worth pointing out that there is a warrant out for his arrest to question him on suspicion.

He has not been charged with an offense.

This distinction is mostly left out in the news coverage.

And the arrest warrant was as far as I know was made at the behest of the police and prosecutor without a formal complaint from either of the women. At least the accounts I've seen indicate that the women came to the police jointly to ask for advice on whether or not they could demand and AIDS test of him, and described the situation in such terms that the police decided to get him in for questioning based on their own suspicions despite the fact that another prosecutor had closed the case because she believed there was no indication a crime had been committed.

Based on that he faces a substantial risk of jail without bail possibly for months on end because they have preferred to spend a year and a half on a lengthy legal process instead of taking up past offers of interviewing him about the case in London.

Conspiracy or not, there seems to be more big egos and agendas involved than Assanges, and in those circumstances anyone should be wary about going back voluntarily.

Maybe he is guilty. Maybe he's a horrible person. But guilty or not, if the situation is the way I've seen it described, I'd fight tooth and nail to stay out of Sweden too.
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100% spot on, Facebook could see massive profits if it pulls off any or all of the following:

- Upon logging in Facebook lets me know my favourite band is playing in a few weeks, tickets are $25 and I can purchase with one click.

- A new episode of Dexter comes out, Facebook knows I love dexter and thus notifies me and allows me to watch instantly in my browser for just $1.

- A games company (steam, humblebundle, blizzard, whoever) is running a sale on games similar to ones I've already liked on Facebook, I can view and purchase the bundle through Facebook.

All of this is taken care of in one click by my credit card being linked up to Facebook, just like iTunes. They can basically combine the best bits of iTunes + Amazon + All the data they have on everyone on Facebook and build the ultimate relevant shopping directory completely personalized to me.

Sure there are sites that already cater for this but it's about the convenience and instant gratification. 50% of their users log into Facebook daily and won't even bother checking out other sites for these things if they're already right there in front of them available with one click.

They don't even have to do it themselves initially, just hook into Amazon / Ticketmaster / iTunes data and this shouldn't take too long to develop.

This is where the future is and if Facebook does this there's no reason they can't be the most profitable web company in the world.
The most impressive part to me about the story was picking a niche, CB Radios, that doesn't appear to be a business you were already familiar with and building a successful company anyway.
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Oh yes, obviously I'm 100% wrong, that's real likely (50% crap and 50% outdated or inaccurate). How convenient that I'm 100% wrong. You're being disingenuous to say the least, and it paints your statements in an extraordinarily bad light.

China having lifted 400 million of its people out of poverty is based on a $1 per day rate of poverty. And it says nothing to the fact that they still have 3/4 of a billion people living on $1 to $2 per day, which is what I said and it is accurate. Would you like me to provide you with the most recent WHO and UN numbers? Are you not aware of what they actually are?

My information is not bunk or out of date. Here, a story about China raising the rural poverty rate from $0.55 / day or less to $1 per day or less. Sure sounds like they have no extreme poverty problems eh:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-15956299

You say the US health care system is a joke? China doesn't even have a real healthcare system for the bottom billion of its people, and it doesn't have a social safety net at all.

America's life expectancy is nearly 10% higher than China's, despite our obesity and heart disease problems.

Your ad hominen attack on America's basic freedoms is baseless. China is literally a police state, by definition their basic rights are violated 24/7, as they have no freedom of assembly, no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom to unionize, no freedom to protest, no freedom to vote democratically, no freedom of religion. So you're inherently and obviously wrong.
I think the most interesting things about F1 are the hierarchical storage model and a client-side programming model that's not dependent on SQL. SQL was originally intended as an analyst-level query language -- not a database API -- and that's the role it seems to play in F1.
You know you don't actually have to click an ad for FB to make money? Companies pay money just to get that ad in front so many eye balls!
The redirect url from the oauth process (which basically every third party has) is simply a page of ours with close(); inside some javascript tags. Since we opened the window programatically we can close it.

In the front end I just poll every few seconds for the oauth completion and the server says "yup I'm done" or "they're still working on it" :)
I don't imagine it would become compulsory. After all people need an avenue to buy their porno and health related products in privacy.

You would get something like "10% off for you and 5% off for all of your friends, if you allow us to repost on your wall"

The problem of course becomes spam, if FB ever gets to such a poor signal/noise ratio then people will simply stop using it.
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I've never clicked on a Facebook ad either, but I've run ads on Facebook and they got clicked a lot. The cost per new user was lower than Google Adwords.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to dismiss Facebook's chances at making money from ads yet. I've never clicked on a TV ad either, but stations make hundreds of billions of dollars from those ads every year. That industry took many decades to grow to that point though.
That's a slightly glossed over interpretation of thermodynamics. Perhaps photovoltaics have a higher theoretical efficiency than a thermal cycle plant, but in practice they don't. Thermal cycle power plants are the mainstay of our power generation - nuclear, coal, gas, geothermal - all those power sources make use of a steam based heat to work cycle. We've got 100 years of experience in developing thermal cycle power. Peak photovoltaic efficiency is currently ~20%, while most affordable cells are closer to 10-15%. A simple cycle thermal plant might have an efficiency of 30-40%. It'll be some time before photovoltaics are more efficient for a given area of collecting space.

Cost is a different question. Photovoltaics have fallen dramatically in cost recently. As the space taken up by a solar plant isn't really an issue (the collecting area could take up 10 times more space without really impacting anything), the winner in solar energy will be the cheapest option per kWh.
Yes, you can. Just one last mention: my opinion was formed in the times I used Perl and looked around the actual implementations of these. But that was years ago. It was reinforced quite recently by someone whining (probably on HN) about the same things. Apart from these anecdotes, I have no basis for these words.
This just looks awful.... Looking for restaurants in my city I get a list, of which I can display a whole two (!!!) on my screen at once, next to a tiny sliver of a map, because google wants to provide me a link to every service they have ever invented on the side of the screen (seriously, this is barely an exaggeration).... And within this list I get a host of useless information such as "at a glance: flavour, dining experience", "Score: overall: 15" (15 out of what?!!!), and a half of one persons text review (what good is half of one review for anyone?). Awful design. Just afwul.

And this is aside from the fact that the big 'restructure' and integration with G+ to succeed really needs me to have all of my friends using the same service, reviewing restaurants under their real names (v. unlikely).

Why don't google just focus on providing some clean and simple frontends to all that data they have. I'd love a better service to look up a decent restaurant to go to. This is very definitely not it...
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Programming is not Algebra
You can actually trigger the close function from the window that has been opened. Since it was opened programmatically it can be closed programmatically.
I haven't met anyone with a nice word to say about performance reviews.

If you are performing well and delivering results, to then have this annual review process which gives you a big list of all of the extraneous areas that you 'need to improve on' can be a complete sap on the old motivation.

Especially if it's accompanied by the typical 1-2% pay increment. That can really be a drag....

I've quoted this article on the topic a number of times, but it's spot on IMO -
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/0...

If you're going to do them, performance reviews should be about identifying the areas where people are great, and working out how to extract more of that....
My favourite quote is from the summary page: “In short, we made our database scale, and didn't lose any key database features along the way.”
but what is new? Glass fiber cars have existed for decades. Studies and experience shows that metal stamping is much more cost effective once the manufactured amount grows beyond a pretty low threshold. The article gives no information on how Murray's techniques differ.
My thought exactly. Couldn't they settle this with an isotope analysis?
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I cannot talk for everyone, but I use paypal instead of Google Wallet, because it allows me to pay without using credit card.
I do think that current model of credit card payment is broken so I refuse to use it. Sure if dishonest merchant purges all my cash from credit card I could get it back by contacting bank, but money lost would be covered by all bank clients.
I don't have much trust in paypal, but I can transfer to it appropriate amount of money from bank just before the payment, so possible damage is much lower. That said my level of trust with facebook is so low that I would probably refuse to put on their account even 100 USD.
I can't take this article seriously because it's so terribly written.
Assange has not been charged with a crime because Swedish law requires him to be present in Sweden before they do so. This is one of 22 comment on this very article--if you're going to charge people with willful ignorance you probably need a more credible position to do so. :)

As I understand it both women claim he had sex non-consensually with them - with one he had sex with her while she was asleep, in the other case she insisted he used a condom and he refused, while holding her down with his weight. Both of those sound like rape to me (and that's how the Swedish name for the offense, olaga tvång, is usually translated as I understand it).

Assange, by his own words and actions, comes across as quite an unpleasant man. It's not hard to see him fighting his extradition to Sweden as being motivated by him feeling that his conduct in bed with these women was reasonable. It wasn't, and I'm sad (but I guess not surprised) at the misogyny some people defending him display.
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I don't think highly of Assange. I can't precisely tell you why, but despite the fact that I admire his dedication to Wikileaks, my impression is that he is pretty full of himself. I might very well be wrong and he might be a fantastic person, but that's my impression. And if even 1/10th of the description of him related to this case is right, he seems to be at least pretty stupid.

But I still think these "accusations" are fishy to the extreme. There might not be a conspiracy, but that doesn't mean that there might not be two scorned women out for revenge coupled with a lawyer and prosecutor who see a combination of a career move and pursuit of a political agenda.

And that in itself is good reason to stay out if at all possible.
It's legit. I got the same letter from Altrec yesterday...about two weeks after American Express fraud alert contacted me that my card was used on some UK based sites and random other places. It was cancelled and a new one issued. I had made a couple purchases at Altrec this past fall.
Really? No

Let me repeat: don't do streaming using RoR (or Django, or PHP)

This belongs in the web server. There are several extensions that do exactly that, in NGINX, Apache, etc. Including streaming, seeking, etc

Unless you want your server to have a ridiculous cpu usage and maybe only serve 1, 2 concurrent requests, do it in the web server.
SpaceX signs contract to launch world’s most powerful rocket
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That's not very Christian-like.
Do you attempt to control for seasonal effects at all in your models? I'm wondering if allowing for a dependence on day-of-week, time-of-day and other relevant covariates, has any benefits over tracking fluctuations in a generic way?
Goodbye, server configuration woes. Hello, Puppet.
Not if their container sealed properly.
Discussion from a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949323
https://github.com/bmuller/bandit
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Glad I could help. Just remember that numbers aren't everything. I personally would not buy Facebook at this time due to other reasons...
People are working on it.

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Autocomplete_Types
I find it quite humorous that humans will end up plugging chips in their brains to make them "better" before even trying to do it without - once again the path of least effort is the way.
On the face of it this sounds like a good idea, but I see some problems. For example, this presumes that others can understand the value of my contributions.

If I can accomplish something in 2 hours that takes someone else 16 hours....I could very likely go unnoticed. But if I bring donuts for everyone every Friday I bet I get a bigger bonus because people really like me.

My concern is this exchanges reward for actions highly visible to your boss, to reward for actions highly visible to your peers. A combination of the two would be preferable to me

Actually, this already exists in many companies and it's known as "360 feedback" where your co-workers (in and out of your dept) are asked their opinion of your performance before your review. This feedback is factored in to your review.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360-degree_feedback
looks familiar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
>Fraud. Paypal and others use complex algorithms, special teams and God knows what. But Facebook has an unique and unparalleled data base of a user’s history, friends, activities and what not.

The author seems to confuse credit risk and fraud risk. Credit risk pertains to the probability of you being unable or unwilling to honour your commitments. Fraud, within this context, pertains to the unauthorised use of funds. Facebook's data may be a uniquely valuable to evaluating the former, but to fighting the latter it is less important than existing transaction history databases.

Financial fraud is an immensely complicated problem. An estimate quoted in The Economist recently put the fraud loss rate at approximately 0.35% of transactions and up to 1.8% for online payments [1]. Cross-border payments are a niche unto themselves - even with margins as high as 10%, the fraud risk still poses a high enough barrier to entry that even the banks handle just 5-10% of remittances [2].

It's 11AM and so far Visa and American Express already have 1-3 data points of swipe activity on me. Over the day they'll get 5-10 swipes apiece (+1 NYC). Facebook has a tremendous amount of value in its dataset, but think for a moment about how much Visa, Mastercard, American Express, or your primary bank know about where you live, what you spend on (and by virtue when and where you spend it), and, by aggregating that data, who you tend to spend with. That is what's valuable for anti-fraud and by proxy payments processing.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/21554743

[2] http://www.economist.com/node/21554740
What a bunch of FUD.

The recent release that was (deservedly) dubbed a fiasco, was for enthusiasts and adventurers. Not the general public, and this was stated quite clearly. This alone renders most of the arguments invalid.

The RasPi Foundation have promised to provide complete packages for schools and I'm sure those will also trickle down to the general public at some point as well.

I really can't take something like this piece seriously, when it talks about a lack of software. Just look at any of the BBC interviews with Eben and you'll see him demonstrate the MIT teaching environment (don't recall its name atm), among other things. If anything, the RasPi has too much software (the Linux paradox of choice) but I'm sure the good folks at the foundation will package it with a nice polished distro when it goes to schools.

This piece was written by someone who expected the first release to be the last and final say in the matter. This was just the beginning, the revolution hasn't yet begun.
It takes me at least 5 minute just finding my cc.
Micropayments haven't taken off because people don't want to pay 3 to 5 cents for anything. The perception of value is so low that even a one-button form is too much friction in the user experience.

If your article is only worth 3 cents, just show it to me for free and put an ad on the page.
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So what’s the startup scene at Harvard?
Well, they are, but they fall into the "Designed for Top 5% of Programmers" trap.

Basically - it's a balance - don't be too dumb, but don't be too clever either. I'd submit Python as being solidly in the middle ground here.
This assumes that you are guaranteed a promotion/autonomy/responsibility after a few years - how many contracts have promises of career advancement in them (not the "social contract")?
In the Twitter case, there's nothing stopping the bully starting a new account and tweeting from that instead, post block. You might have complete control, but a lot of the time it's only after the fact.
An Audi A2 diesel does that, with four doors, so does the VW lupo 1.2 diesel.

Perhaps they need to re-brand diesel in the USA? They could call it "heavy-oil, a real MAN's fuel" !
What do you mean trying to do it without? We have been living without chips in our brain for as long as we have existed.
Because Sweden will give him to the CIA, which will disappear him into their network of black sites forever.

Reading it, it sounds so nutty - but, fuck if I wouldn't give anything I have to be making this up.
It was quite serendipitous how although Rocket jumping was "incidental" to Q1 most levels still played extremely well using that feature. Still level-designers who later knew about it and designed for it managed to (ab)use it even more. I designed a level where the entire layout was optimized around rocket-jumping being possible (and encouraged) as much as humanely possible, great fun!
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I don't think this has anything to do with the treaty texts.

UK judges are known to stand up to the political establishment when parliament doesn't get their ducks in a row and very, very carefully make sure they are consistent with UK constitutional law, which does in fact provide fairly strong protections, and even more so coupled with the Human Rights Act. This to the ongoing exasperation of UK politicians. Swedish judges does not have a similar reputation.

I could very well see a UK judge deciding that extradition would not be compatible with rights guaranteed to him under UK or EU law, regardless of the treaty, due to the state of the US legal system, but I really can't imagine a Swedish judge thinking twice about it...

Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but personally I would not take my chances if Sweden if I didn't really have to if I was in his shoes.
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I worked in Hong Kong for a major international bank and they have 3 month notice period. If you break it, you pay for the prorated time.
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There's also DueProps, who turn this into a game: https://dueprops.com/
Thanks for sharing this great article.

In my opinion, it would be nice to get more information of how to combine commands. There are a lot of ways to do that and i think when anybody (include myself) wants to get a Vim Master, you have to understand more of this.

Hope i could help you.
I reckon most people would quickly turn off this feature after it would produce more than a few bad predictions/recommendations in a row.
The thing is the even if your help is useful (which you don't know), helping someone who doesn't ask for it will most likely hurt his pride.
Mad Facebook algorithm?
I have no doubt they have a real and viable Visualization Technology, but not necessarily a useful one for dynamic geometry, such as a game.
I always thought newest-first was a little silly, but it's odd how much I've been trained to it now.

It feels weird being at the bottom of the page when new things come in. I think a part of it is that it's slightly uncomfortable keeping my eyes on the bottom of the screen waiting for new content. Increasing the footer hight so that the latest tweet can be nearer the top of the screen makes it feel easier.
Shopify employee here - Unicorn makes accomplishments highly visible to both your boss and colleagues. The bonus is that if you do something for a colleague, your boss will find out via Unicorn rather than you having to say anything.