skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It shouldn't take much imagination to see how ircd might be used to implement Twitter.
AFAIK, everyone only counts those who are actively looking for work but can't find it: that's what the "unemployment rate" means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment
(predated famously by Plato)
I think you'll have a "well, duh" reaction if you implement an OO system in pure C. It is basically just a bunch of structs (data) with a bunch of functions which take a struct pointer as their first argument. Mixins just let you randomly add or remove these functions without any extra shenanigans, which you can also easily do in our pure C OO system.
I don't have time to read the book. Too busy working :)

Seriously, the title and whole premise of it isn't something I'm interested in at all.
Under other circumstances, this would be trolling, but note that edw519 is the third most voted user of HN (12387 karma). I agree, this author has had a few other toxic posts to HN that, while excellent link bait, significantly reduce the intellectual civility of the community.
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"So it's purposefully deceitful?" ... yes? Isn't all marketing a little deceitful?

"I don't have time to read a book about getting work done. I have too much work to do." - Are you suggesting I shouldn't read up on programming because I have too much coding to do?
Twitter _is_ a weak reimplementation of IRC. For that matter, instant messaging in general, from AIM to Jabber, is a weak reimplementation of IRC. It took years for these chat protocols to get features like rooms and direct-client chats and file transfers. It would have been better to slightly extend the IRC protocol to support the handful of things these services offer (SMS delivery and off-line message stores).

In the same vein, all forum software is a weak reimplementation of Usenet. Not distributed, no killfiles, can't pick your own client interface, can't make your own groups.

I learned a valuable lesson when I watched AIM use explode in high school. I realized that non-geeks started using a crappy chat interface because it was well marketed and ubiquitous (AOL and AIM). The same thing happens with many inferior technologies. Java is an extremely weak reimplementation of some most fundamental semantics of Lisp (such as garbage collection), and, thanks to marketing, became exceedingly popular. Twitter is the same thing (except I still don't see non-geeks using it).
Pre-sealed pocket of wipes; good idea!

The wipes would be warmed by the baby's body heat as well; babies don't like a cold wipe on their tushies.
That sounds more appropriate for twitter...
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I find it interest that a commercial organization like the NYT is doing this.

In the UK there are a number of projects like this, mostly headed up by one group. Mysociety (http://www.mysociety.org/) have set up sites to see what your MP does in Parliament, write to your MP, work with local government to get potholes fixed, etc.

While it's good that the NYT are providing tools as well, I like the idea that Barrack might invest money in more small Web 2.0 style NGOs like mysociety.org in the U.S. to help get e-gov moving.
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Cooking is good for hacking.
In an effort to avoid leaving my house even less than I already do, so I can just sit around and write code all day, I recently began cooking all of my own food. I don't know why I didn't start doing this sooner.

I now feel as though every hacker should be encouraged to cook. You know how you like to use a text editor to write your code, so you know it's a lot cleaner and more efficient? Yeah, well, cooking is a lot like that. When you are able to select all of the ingredients you want to use, you can be sure that you're using the right ingredients, and you eventually get really good at a bunch of techniques.

This really changes the way you look at food when you eat it anywhere else, or when you eat processed/packaged foods. For example, I've grown used to mixing fresh yogurt from Greece with really good, locally-grown strawberry preserves from up the road (I live in Southern California); I now look at the packaged strawberry yogurts, and wonder to myself, "do they use really good strawberries? How do they keep them fresh?" (1. They don't; 2. Preservatives.) When you have to think about everything that goes into your food, you start to eat, and live, a lot healthier.

Cooking also gives you some great, regularly scheduled breaks from coding and your monitor, which gives you time to THINK, which is likely to improve whatever you're working on; so yeah, it takes up a little bit of time, but it's the best sort of time, and it's probably less than the time you'd have to spend waiting for food / going and getting it. So yeah, highly recommended. I assume I'm not the only one here who has discovered this? It would be great if we could get some sort of movement going behind this, and hopefully put an end to the idea that a good hacker should live on energy drinks and junk food.
So it's purposefully deceitful?

Yep. It's a farce!

Though, like much farce, it does prove a rather important point: Book titles are chosen by publishers to sell books. They're often inaccurate, or cheesy, or stupid, but if they move books they've met their design goal. The difference between this book and all the others is that it gives away that secret in the middle of the book. Think: Penn and Teller's Cruel Business Tricks for Dear Friends.
I found this review of the Palm Centro interesting:

http://www.wirelessinfo.com/content/Palm-Centro-Cell-Phone-R...

They actually timed the various user interactions on different phones. I'm not sure of their methodology, but for what it's worth, the Palm Centro came out at or near the top for the organizer and messenging features (but not so well for the dialing features). Hopefully this bodes well for their future phones.
Yeah fluxbox is nice. I use (eight) virtual desktops to group things by what I'm doing logically. And then within each desktop tab things together when it works -- and automatically if it is the same program (very helpful for terminals etc.).
It's a waste of time though. It's like reading a book called "The Blah diet - how you can loose 10 stone in 2 weeks!"

Just eat less and excersize.
Well, you could have a weird color packet. Last I check all mayo packets were white.
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I can't wait to use this. Elastic Fox is solid, but definitely feels clunky.
So far the closest thing to this would be to hire someone else.
I assume a book's title is a representation of its subject and contents. If you violate that assumption, then you've lost my trust and I don't want to read your book.

As for time and reading, you certainly should read things you think are valuable. But I doubt the efficacy of methods that sound good, feel good, but have not been tested. What seems to work for me and everyone else I know is working hard. I think I'll stick to that.
I use ctrl-_ (usually available as ctrl-7, too) for my screen escape.

My biggest complaint is the difficulty using the scrollback buffer.
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The way he picked the title was interesting. He purchased adwords for a large array of possible book names and then went with the one that got the most click throughs
> Of course, you'd have to find a way of guarding against malicious entries.

The system is operated in conjunction with the police. Stolen systems are required to have a police report number.
This is a well known technology. The classic example uses 2 clay pot's, sand, and water.

http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/lab/pot_refrigerator/index...

PS: Clay pot fr get's google to popup "Clay pot Frige" with 88k responses.
> But beyond that, you're sadly mistaken if you believe that humans actually maximize utility and follow any kind of logical equation in their lives.

This objection is of the kind "you can't use scientific models to describe our world":

Planets are not points (don't use Newton's equations).

Temperature begins to exist only after you wait an infinite amount of time for the system to reach an equilibrium.

etc.

The maximization of utility may be an approximation, but it's definitely a more helpful mental model of human preferences than none at all, and claiming that somehow hating failures and loving success should translate into self-loathing because all humans are fallible.

Anyhow, I'm working on not arguing this year, so I'll leave you here. Sorry I started this branch of the discussion.
This could be useful in the case of a mass emergency where 911 can't respond to everyone in a timely way. Also, when you don't have a cell signal. Or after the zombie apocalypse.
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I'm guessing that you know exactly how full of crap you are and are just waiting to see how many people eat it up like a delicious ham sandwich.

You know very well that by referring to actual studies of human nature I am not, in any way, implying or suggesting that "you can't use scientific models to describe our world."

It's not funny, and it's not clever.
The unemployment rate for IT workers is still closer to 2% according to an article I read somewhere recently (sorry, don't have the reference).
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No, its a beta with a designed "time out" period. If you want Vista without the visual glam, look for a torrent of Windows Small Business Server 2008 (its Vista based) and google for "Windows 2008 Workstation Tweak" -- its a program that'll knock off most of the server components and free up like 1.5GBs of HD space.

It should leave you with a thin, responsive, vista-based OS that looks a lot like Win XP/2K with some Vista influence.
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Punish savers and make them spend money
If you trust your local transit authority's posted timetables, then you could gather GPS coordinates for bus stops and write an app that correlates the two with your current location and time.
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I think the key words in your sentence is "left over".

Vista with 1GB does not really have "left over". Either that, or the Vista's "pre-emptive app caching" algorithms are really terrible, because the first two apps my girlfriend always launches are 1) iTunes and 2) Firefox. It should figure that out and launch them quickly, instead of disk thrashing for 15-30 seconds and then launching them.
Sorry, that doesn't apply to the books I've read in the past year:

- The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

- Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

- Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

- On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in
War and Society

- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

- The Yiddish Policeman's Union

Each of those titles tells you the contents of the book. The only one that perhaps does not is "The Yiddish Policeman's Union," but it's clearly fiction, and it is in fact about a Jewish policeman.

Maybe what you said applies to bad books.
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No, people that don't have jobs but aren't seeking them are not counted in the US.
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The meat:

In the interests of making one tiny, tiny optimization in this all-too-complicated matter of time (And we haven’t even factored in general or special relativity yet!), I propose that we all adopt UTC immediately. Forget about daylight savings, forget about time zones
What about using gmail? I'm using that for a project of mine and it's working pretty well.

You can only send so many with a free account, but I believe you can send a lot more with their apps for domains product (or whatever it's called)... just a thought.
Yes I was thinking about this one. Thanks!
Even if everybody is employed, people would still be looking out for better jobs than what they currently have. So I don't think there would be missed growth opportunites.
Strongly disagree.

For example, crowdsourcing logo design is a highly efficient and inexpensive way to get a professional logo. I know Stackoverflow.com's logo was crowdsourced through . . . 99 designs, I think it was. It's a great logo, too. Same with offbeatearth.com.

Whether designers like the author of this article like it or not, web-based competition (crowdsourcing sites) are reality. His little screenshot of the Xed-out $50 contests on a phpBB site isn't even accurate. Most design contest sites have professional sites (99designs, crowdspring, even logotournament, which I'd never heard of but which was mentioned in the comments) and awards that are much higher than $50.
I read the book, and I hate myself for spending time with that. He is not just a self promoter, he is a liar, he certainly doesn't work 4 hours per week. He may have done it for a small period of time, but how many times per day do you think you need to work to get the self promotion he gets?

The plan of the guy is simple: 1) find something that most people are interested in (working less in this case); 2) Research whatever has been said about the topic and write in a friendly way; 3) make people believe by whatever unsubstantiated means that he is the master of that topic; 4) promote the book and laugh all the way to the bank...
the blog is hilarious to read. surely her book sold well!?

> re: 2. This is his world record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9pWKB2D23k

weird. the show spells his name wrong: 'Ferrioss'
awesome! put it to good use :)

ive pared down my list of "want to dos" to a single choice, but i definitely want to use uclassify. if i hadn't buckled down, i'd have a half-working django prototype in ~/src/ right now that i'd revisit to burn some time on every 3 months.
Right, but they aren't typically counted anywhere else, either. Did you read even the first sentence of the WP article?
A live public transport map for Helsinki, Finland:
http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/

It's a trial, there are most (all?) trams and a few buses.
Who is Penelope Trunk? Her about page reveals little information.
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6.8% of TV households aren't ready for digital transition
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If your company wants to do well in sales, it's important to have a system that helps it keep up with the pace of today's marketplace. SFA (Sales Force Automation) is a great way to do so, and it offers numerous options for eliminating or streamlining tasks that would otherwise distract your salespeople from doing what they do best: selling.
Visual dictionaries (including online ones) already exist, although according to one ( http://visual.merriam-webster.com/ ), the aglet is actually called a "tag".
Sure, interesting, if all you want to do is sell books to the masses in the short term. If you want some longer lasting credibility, then probably best to choose the title and content some other way.
Somalia is not an anarcho-capitalist society. In Denmark there is less violation of property rights, so you could say Denmark is more libertarian than Somalia.

The Seasteading project might result in some anarcho-capitalist societies: http://www.seasteading.org/
i guess, as w/ most things in life, it just depends on the context.
I use Camino on my mac for just this. It has the handy "porn reset" which dumps the whole session cookies and all. This is great for webdev site testing, online banking, etc.
"It's childish. It's a childish, semantic game. And it reminds me of him winning the Chinese National Kickboxing Championships by leveraging a little-known rule that people are disqualified if they stop outside the box. So he pushed each of his opponents outside the box to win.

He is winning the I-work-less-than-you game with a similarly questionable method: semantics."

Sounds like TF is a hacker and she is jealous of his sk33lz.
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Well, those houses being rented out seem to be in the range of ~$3000/week. That's what's nuts. There would be more people going that route if that price wasn't so high.
This is not the problem Private Browsing solves.

Private browsing still lets your browser show cookies that it already has, it won't store new ones (except it doesn't have control over plugins, so they might).

What that means is if you are a regular Amazon user then decide to pop in as a stranger by turning on private browsing, Amazon will still know you.

What Private Browsing does do, is on window close get rid of all the cookies, history, field autofills, and such that you accumulated in two hour private browsing session searching for an opened, boxed, Luke Skywalker figure for your girlfriend. It doesn't stop the web sites from keeping track, for instance eBay might still show them in the recent items if you were logged in.
I got bored reading this article but I generally like Cory Doctorow's sci-fi writing. His book Little Brother was great and every now and again I seek out a futuristic hacker* short story he wrote called "0nz0red".

*the other meaning of the word
"If you daydream about quitting your day job to work on your business that's just an indication that you don't want to work on your business. Otherwise, you'd spend all your spare time, and some non-spare time working on your business. You'd spend evenings, weekends, and more of your work hours than you should actually working on your business. If you're not doing that now, quitting won't change a thing."

This is very good food for thought.
Maybe what you said applies to bad books.

Yes, that's where the phenomenon becomes obvious. I note that none of your titles are business books, for example. ;)

[Pertinent side question: How do I know that? I haven't read any of the books. Though I probably should, because your reading list sounds awesome.]

Which is not to say that the titles of all those books weren't chosen primarily to enhance sales. It's just that the target customer was a nonfiction reader, a person who is probably more likely to buy a book if it has a descriptive, serious-sounding, nonfiction-type title. Perhaps the median nonfiction reader is much more likely to pick up The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York than Architect: Robert Moses and his Largely Discredited Ideas, or Robert Moses: A Musical Homage to an Architectural Juggernaut. (Though the last one might turn out to be a great farce!)

Have you noticed that every nonfiction book has a colon in the title? Even my fake book titles have that stupid colon -- it's like a tic, I can't get rid of it! Why is that, do you think? I think it's because the titles are designed for marketing: The initial title is short, and memorable, and evocative like a tiny little poem, kind of like a good domain name should be. The part after the colon tells you what the book is actually about, because the first title is so busy being pretty that it doesn't have time to tell you anything.
Greenspun sliced up the unemployment numbers and got 9.1%

Unemployment statistics were redefined starting in the early 1960s by the Kennedy Administration. First they took out the "discouraged", people who wanted a job, but had stopped looking. Under the Reagan Administration, the workforce was expanded by adding in members of the U.S. military, who were by definition "employed", thus shrinking the percentage of "unemployed". The Clinton Administration reduced the number of households sampled from 60,000 to 50,000 and "a disproportionate number of the dropped households were in the inner cities." Phillips doesn’t talk about prisoners, but we have greatly increased our prison population, most of those incarcerated are working-age men, and none are counted in the workforce. Phillips claims that "Based on the criteria in place a quarter century ago, today’s U.S. unemployment rate is somewhere between 9 percent and 12 percent." [Poking around at http://www.bls.gov/cps/ reveals that, in 2007, 146 million of us were working, 7 million were unemployment, and 4.7 million were classified as not in the workforce but "wanted a job"; an additional 2.3 million Americans were in prison, presumably due to their energetic work habits in illegal trades. The "U-6" series, published by the BLS but almost never reported by newspapers, shows an unemployment rate right now of 9.1 percent.]

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/04/23/cooking-gdp-un...
Well now you only have a year under 102(b)... This counts as public disclosure.

Although, more seriously, I doubt it would be accepted. In order to be patented, the idea must be novel, useful, and not obvious. It meets the requirements for useful, but not-obvious and novel may be harder to establish. (Depending on any patents for single-serving condiment packaging, they may be phrased in general enough terms to be considered prior art)
i think my dog would like a game that required her to quickly decide whether a particular newly introduced item requires growling, barking, or wagging. is it the trash truck, the hated dogs next door, or mommy? the dog often gets this wrong, so practice would be good.
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Ask HN: VC are calling later today, how much should I reveal?
We have a number of competitors in our niche. The VCs are calling us out of the blue, I guess to size us up, saying they are interested in the niche and us because we have a presence in it. I wouldnt mind the investment (though I've read about the downsides of VCs here and elsewhere), but I also dont want to give too much away in case they end up funding a competitor. What should I/should I not reveal? Plans for 09, new features, new customers in the pipeline, core competencies and tech, etc. There is no NDA at this point. Thx!
I am shocked people know so much about this guy and his book.

Have I been living under a rock? I heard about the book, but had no clue that he has some weak world record.

He clearly does a great job marketing himself.
Hmmm, what about a carousel/mobile that sits above the crib. The mobile has a camera in it that takes daily pictures of the baby's face so that the parents can see their child's progression.

Maybe the mobile could upload the photos to an online album.
Unremarkable lifehack-type article, but still a good reminder to cut out distractions and do some actual work.
Another factor that might explain why US unemployment is lower than European countries like France & Germany.

The barriers to hiring & firing workers are typically much higher in most European countries. In the US, the laws make it easier to hire & fire, so the employment process is more "efficient".
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If you did you'd realize you're making his point for him.
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That's basically my idea, I didn't describe it well enough. The wipes would be in a little tiny sealed packet attached to the outside of the nappy.
What problems do people see in this code? The hard-coding of the sql statements that differ by only by table name? The code repetition of the while loops? Something else? Just interested in seeing if my understanding and analysis of it agrees with what others think.

Edit: One more - the "select *" when only the "name" is used?