skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprisingly, lot of RSI problems originate from poor back posture, which distends the discs through which nerves run down to your wrists.

Wrist exercises may provide short-term relief without actually solving the root of the problem.

>>Try tweaking how you sit and sleep (90% of your waking hours).

1) Get a used Aeron chair off of Craigslist with lumbar and wrist support (a $300 chair will lave thousands of dollars in Chiropractor bills).

2) Sleep lying straight with your head resting in the curve of a single foam pillow (http://tinyurl.com/87exg3).

3) Learn and properly practice the McKenzie Tecnique (http://tinyurl.com/a8hr2g), a 30 second means of straightening your entire spine using just your pointer finger on your chin.

#1-3 are life-changers.
Wouldn't a pollution charge work better if it were assessed individually, instead of collectively?
Authenticity could be gained not telling the subject the date of the interrogation.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/we_already_had_the_year_of_th...

:)
I have some personal experience with this industry. When I was in high school, I ran a small site selling Diablo II items to people. Walked away with a little money at the end of the summer, but never figured out how to scale the business past just the founders, and we had to go back to school in the fall.

It was an awesome experience. Marketing was interesting: we had a very clean, professional site and made ourselves out to be the "trustworthy" alternative. Our major competitors had pretty poor quality websites.
What if the horseman actually loved riding?
No, I meant, "If you cannot take breaks periodically (at least once every few hours), you will have to change your work environment (to be able to take breaks) or change your work environment (by changing jobs)."

Not being able to take a break for hours at a time means that if your RSI continues getting worse, you will not be able to work there anymore. The RSI stuff I have read has suggested breaks every 20-45 minutes in order to not make things rapidly worse and end one's career.

I'm most definitely not a doctor, of course, but your body is already overly stressed and breaking down. It needs more time to recover, at the very least.
Even though you hate C, I recommend C, because you learn intricacies of computer software with C.
I hear Revelation Space there :)
I can understand your plight.

Oflate Microsoft products seems to be causing lot of problem to its subscirbers and users.

I've come across 3 which happened recent.

1. The bug in Internet Explored.

2. The y2k9 bug in its Zune on the 1st of jan. (microsoft version of ipod.)

3. And this delay....

:(

R U listening, Billy!!!
Polygraph results have been inadmissible in state court cases in my state for a long time, because of a late professor of psychology who did much research on polygraphs and debunked them.

http://www.salon.com/april97/news/news2970410.html

http://www.psych.umn.edu/people/faculty/lykken.htm

http://www.spitting-image.net/archives/005794.html

The worst risk in federal government use of polygraphs is believing their results, whether it's a result that clears the person who took the polygraph examination or one that implicates the person who took the polygraph examination. Pseudoscience is not a fact-finding tool.
China has the unfair advantage of near-slave labor,

Source: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1086571&cid=263...
Oops. Dict and an array, yes.

Also, Lua had a stack-based VM until Lua 5.0.
I don't believe governments have what it takes to make any good, big idea in space viable. We're biased towards believing that because of the space race, but I don't think it will ever happen again.

So even if something isn't new tech, the innovation will be the group doing it. I'm really excited about the private efforts today.
Something like this? http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox Not an interrogation as such, but definitely a test of psychological fortitude, and of the consequences of "being locked in a room" (even if voluntarily) with someone who is trying to get inside your mind (oddly, to write to it instead of to read from it.)
We're quantifiably more bacteria than mammal. Evolution isn't linear, and considering humans are the only species (that humans are aware of) which can manipulate fire, build non-trivial structures with straight lines, communicate with symbols, work levers independently, carve stone, create metal tools, vary sonic pitch extra-physically, design automated processes, and travel beyond the stratosphere, there is the possibility that we're already nearly evolutionarily optimal for this universe. (Please correct me if I overestimated our uniqueness on any of the above.)

Just because web source code looked a lot different fifteen years ago doesn't mean it'll change considerably fifteen years from now. Mutation can be beneficial, but it can also carry the unfortunate cost of breaking compatibility.
A Job Guiding Web Surfers to Your Company’s Site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man

Not really a theory in the best repute.
I have recommended SICP to friends that already have some programming proficiency. I have recommended HtDP to friends that are just getting started with programming.

HtDP is easier to study. It is also designed to be used with Dr. Scheme, which is a good learning tool for beginners. I recommend reading HtDP first, and SICP later.

Your choice of book, however, is much less important than the amount of time that you spend studying and practicing. Choose whichever book you want, or choose both and switch back and forth, or read HtDP first and SICP later. Just get started and don't worry about if you made the perfect choice. Keep studying and practicing. It is not easy, but you can do it if you spend enough time trying.
Ooh tiddlywiki, pretty cool.

I just checked out http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ thanks for mentioning it.
Links down, here's the cached version: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:YchvBt7eH24J:www.cs.cal...
Absolutely. As far as I can see, the government does everything poorly, especially charity.
At my initial evaluation for my RSI problem, the physical therapist said she thought my typing/mousing was relatively inconsequential in light of my head-forward position, forward-sloping shoulders and asymmetrical back muscle development. She believed this had developed from poor posture and slouching while seated at the computer. I tried to pay attention to it but couldn't seem to translate my posture-in-my-head to my posture-in-reality. I considered using some kind of brace to try to hold my posture in check until I get used to a more upright posture but couldn't find anything that would be inconspicuous at work. The McKenzie book sounds very promising for my problem because it seems to address some of these undesirable physical developments that I have grown into from my computer lifestyle. I have already tried #2 although a lifetime habit of sleeping on my side is hard to kick - even on a low pillow I manage to turn onto my side. As for #3, I doubt I could manage to get permission to have one at work which is a pity because I have no problem paying for one and would like to try it out because so many people have recommended it. Thank you for pointing me to this book which I assume has helped you. I look forward to reading it.
I'd try to contact other startups and see if they need freelance work done. Instead of looking for another job, continue doing what you're doing and work part-time elsewhere.

Email other startups and ask if they're hiring, tell them about your situation and if you can pull your weight and do what's required I'm sure you'll have a job in no time.

Can't think of any startups off the top of your head? Use startupwarrior.com and map some that are close to you and start calling/emailing.
Why Writing Software Is So Hard
If he were to take your advice, maybe you could elaborate on the less obvious ways of saving money?
I'd recommend reading some Murray Rothbard before anything by Milton Friedman or Rand. It's even free online here:

http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/ethics.asp
Playing an instrument has a good correlation with higher intelligence. And it's no secret that hackers are some of the smartest.
Ordinary people vs Extraordinary problems
Sorry the example isn't ugly enough for you guys, but I had to pick something reasonably generic. Sounds like we've all seen a lot worse, but most of the really bad stuff I've seen could be easily identified as proprietary. That particular type of snippet was taken from a system that had a sick amount of duplication and some really "creative" use of arrays for sorting that took forever, when the sort could have simply been done with SQL in a fraction of the time.
I enjoyed reading your post. Eric Raymond made a good faq on libertarianism that I think helps support your position. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/libertarianism.html
He seems very fond of Douglas Adams.
americans are fat greasy pigs
I'd second this. If the company founders are not a.) In YC b.) best buddies with venture capitalists or c.) have previously started & exited from a startup for multimillions, I wouldn't count on them having any chance of getting funded. And even then, their odds aren't that good.
247 milliseconds of latency

I guess that is good enough provided your job doesn't involve winning DotA tournaments.
Actually I think more of our space cadets need to move to space.

I'm not paying for it though. They're going to have to fork out whatever needs to be forked out to pay for their digs.
Interesting. A few thoughts come to mind:

1) You should be covered by worker's comp (by law), in which case a brief to-the-point conversation with a key decision maker in your company over the trade-off between them covering thousands of dollars of WC coverage vs. allowing you to bring your own chair to work is in order.

2) Habits are formed and habits are broken. If you believe you can't change your sleeping posture, than you're absolutely right. The opposite is also true.
Are they imagined features when you can watch a video of them?

Could the Apple Newton recognize your handwriting? It was really accurate in the commercials!
Did you know crazy people invented the web in 1960, but no one ever used it?
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

- Leon Battista Alberti, (architect [1/3rd], painter [1/3rd] and mathematician [1/3rd, possibly less])
Earth orbit has:

A continuum of accelerations, down to zero g.

Hard vacuum.

A sense of place that is not Earth surface.

Do they look like they are having fun?:

http://images.google.com/images?q=zero+gravity
Then you should teach him C or assembly. But you don't want to teach him C. So fuck off.
Maybe the accuracy is its big benefit, but in the video, it looked like the lag would make it useless to actually play a game. And the demonstrator looked like he was moving gently and predictably in order to mitigate that issue.
If you can't see that theres something wrong with American society that manifests in our young then there's something wrong with you.

I'm sure those immigrant parents know the benefits of America; thats why they came here. But stop bullshitting: kids here do a LOT of insane stuff that has to be a major shock to anyone coming from a traditional culture. The little monsters I see in the store curse at their parents like sailors, demand everything, are obviously lazy, etc. I can excuse a parent who doesn't like that.
To put it simply: Yandex is just more relevant because it's a lot smarter than google is when it comes to dealing with the language. It makes a huge difference, for instance Google may treat a word as a simple verb, while Yandex will correctly recognize it as a hockey player's last name.
I play violin; I'm currently the concertmaster in the best non-professional orchestra in Vancouver.
And if you're eating ramen, try to find some without the MSG that most brands have in abundance. Blech.
I'm certainly interested. I got bogged down in Chapter 2 last year. Time to go again, I suppose.
World’s first flying car prepares for take-off
Those are very imperative concepts and while imperative programming is good for some things, a language that teaches and allows for higher-level programming is probably a good idea. Languages like Python and Ruby allow functional and object-oriented programming which are becoming more and more common.
You should assume funding will not happen. Follow your intuition here. And then calm down and realize that 5-7 months of living expenses isn't exactly scraping by. Follow everyone else's advice on cutting costs, and look for part-time work.

Your deeper problem is the expectation that someone else will invest in a company with a large team, obligations to cover back pay, several months of development behind it, and no road map to profitability. If your company is pinning its hopes on a long shot instead of figuring out how to get a revenue stream, that is your problem right there. How it gets solved depends on the company. The standard way is called bankruptcy.
How long can Apple stay fresh once it loses its core?
> "They have been dubbed the "50-cent party" because of how much they are reputed to be paid for each positive posting (50 Chinese cents; $0.07; £0.05)."

This is not true. 50-cent party is a word from the times of Beiyang Army. in 1917 they argued whether China should participate the WWI, Duan Qi Rui hired a bunch of ppl to 'protest' in the parliament and urge China to declare ware against Germen. They pay each ppl 50 cents. It's historical.

Now the word '50 cents' means goverment payed voiced. No matter how much they got payed.

Sorry my English is bad but that's the true origin of '50 cents'.

Now 'Internet Commenters' gain more than 50 cents, in universities, students participate this could get 200 Yuan a month, that's about $28 USD.
How to migrate DTS Package to SSIS 2008 Package
Why do you need a 'bloated reader' to read a text file?

Does your browser not render plain text?
You may also want to see a nice example of how Garrett Lisi used it: http://deferentialgeometry.org/
drumset since middle school, orchestral percussion since about then too, and mallet percussion (and drumline stuff) since high school. wait, that sounds a bit misleading, since i don't do the orchestral, mallet, or drumline stuff anymore.

i also played piano since like 6. stopped when i hit high school.
I've heard several people say that when people start with PHP (or [insert language here]) they develop poor programming habits. Learning PHP or whatever else first could be the difference between becoming a casual programmer and a serious hacker.
There are three things that really helped me when I began developing RSI

1. Learn and use keyboard shortcuts. The mouse was a major issue for me, so I started to use the keyboard as much as possible. I installed gnome-do so I would be able to access all my apps through the keyboard.

2. When you aren't typing, DO NOT rest your hands on the keyboard. This one killed me until I finally broke the habit. Resting your hands on the keyboard causes them undue stress.

3. Make sure you are elevated above your keyboard at the correct angle. Find what works for you, but having your arms extend DOWN to the keyboard with a shallow grade is very important.

Just my $0.02
"our system"
Air travel gets you to a place that you want to go to. Going into space just gets you a pretty view and not much else. To quote Gurtrude Stein: 'there's no there there"
Rand is not a libertarian.
Everything old is new again. Magnetic trackers are fun, but they have been here already for ages.

I used to play with Ascension's Flock of Birds [1]. You can get pretty accurate 3D position and orientation.

Though these older systems were pretty expensive (~$10K), I wonder what would be the price of these new toys.

[1] http://www.ascension-tech.com/realtime/RTflockofBIRDS.php
So true. I cant even count the number of projects that I've started, only to have them fall into the background and die, never reaching completion.
I can play both violin and Bb clarinet; I started both in elementary school. However, I only play violin now in high school.

From your link:
"music: n. A common extracurricular interest of hackers..."

This definition is not just limited to just playing an instrument, though. It also talks about music appreciation and genres of music.

To strictly follow that definition, try asking if we are significantly involved with music in some way.
Because this adds a fuckton of standard libraries to JavaScript -- a full set of syscalls for manipulating files, contacts, etc -- it's not just a standard browser, and your shit is stored on the device.
Sorry, but I think search tools will evolve far faster than SEO will explode. Google changes all the time, and I can only assume they're working to make search less dependent on SEO and more focused on the content, and only the content. I could be off base, but that prediction about a $9 BILLION dollar industry for SEO seems like total bull.
Your startup doesn't have a 19 in 20 shot of being funded AFTER you get a term sheet.
With these sorts of stores you can easily bring your food expenses below $60 a month while maintaining a healthy diet.

Is that a typo? $60/mo eating fruits and veggies? I live in SF and I have a hard time imagining doing that here, let along NYC...
I didnt think Pligg was any harder to install than Wordpress. Finding good themes that match the version you installed is a pain though.
Yeah. It wasn't too bad...10-15 minutes of work IIRC. There was a bug in it that I needed code to fix, but I posted a report & patch on the forums and I think it's since been fixed.
If I saw a video of it recognizing a TechCrunch writer's handwriting, that TechCrunch took, then the answer would be yes.
Move to Thailand and chill for awhile. It will help you get your priorities back in line and that 5-7 months (if based on NYC living expenses) could last a few years.
You're statement is wrong unfortunately.

Maya (arguably the premier 3D modelling program for film and games) runs on Windows, Mac and Linux systems
Forget about your start-up and live it up for 1 month!
The article says $100. That's a big difference.

Of course, it will have to come down farther if video game manufacturers are going to consider spending $ developing features for people using these. Right now, spending time designing a game for this kind of interaction means you'll be able to sell it on the Wii.

When the PC, PS3, and XBox start having these kinds of input devices, game (and software) manufacturers will take much more notice.
Actually in most cases libertarianism is simply the position of arguing that the Government is causing whatever problem happens to be being discussed at the time. Unfortunately the idea of libertarianism isn't against regulation is a bit of a fantasy, because no matter what, someone can and will take the more extreme position against regulation and this person will be seen as more libertarian. I think ideologies are in general are flawed in their ability to be more easily defended if taken to the extreme.
I had a dual boot xp/ubuntu system for the last 18 months now and last night around 1am I reformatted and am on a pure ubuntu system as Photoshop was really the only thing that kept me tethered to Windows (I bit the bullet and have instead decided to learn GIMP)

I read the article this morning, good read.
HtDP appears to be eight years old, and SICP is 25 years old. Therefore, the number of people who have been exposed to the one is likely to be several times larger than the number exposed to the other. That may explain why one seems to be recommended much more often than the other.

That certainly applies to me: I read SICP about ten years ago after MIT-educated bloggers recommended it [1], but I was on vacation from the field when HtDP was published and this is the first I've heard of it. Thanks for the recommendation! Perhaps someday I will manage to read it and will then be in a position to recommend it in the future.

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[1] Though they weren't called bloggers at the time.
This can help: free food for hungry hackers:

http://images.google.com/images?q=food+not+bombs+san+francis...

http://images.google.com/images?q=food+not+bombs+new+york
That background looks an awful lot like ubuntu's.
When it comes to it, I think Libertarianism goes hand in hand with a sort of weighing principle. It only works as long as the actions taken do not infringe on any other individual's rights. Of course, this is impossible to always follow (rights will always conflict), so in steps the weighing principle to encourage people to act towards the perceived greater good of society. The real question that libertarianism brings up is, who enforces the weighing principle? This is the point at which libertarianism must merge with some sort of governmental structure. Because even though it would be great if everyone just followed the rules, it just isn't going to happen.
I played woodwind instruments all through middle and high school. I started on the clarinet, then the alto and tenor saxophones, and the bassoon as well. I was quite proficient and seriously considered majoring in bassoon performance in college but I decided to pursue CS instead. Unfortunately I haven't played seriously since I graduated high school and I miss it dearly. I really should find a used Tenor somewhere and pick it up again.
Social Security taxes are actually a rather large 12.4% of income. (this includes the employer contribution, which is economically part of a worker's compensation.)

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/taxRates.html

Worker "contributions" also are immediately spent on unrelated programs (the trust fund is given special government IOUs that are valueless) leaving an unfunded liability in the trillions of dollars. On a cash-flow basis, the program will begin to run in the red as the first boomers retire in 2017.
Agreed. Absolutes only exist in theory, whether it's communism or libertarianism. The best we can do is a delicate balancing act.
Doesn't the surface also detect objects placed on top (eg phones) and can in some cases interact with those devices (again, phones)

While I think this is defintely cool - I don't think its a step up, merely a competing product which is always a good thing.
Bricks, Bikes, and Code
I agree to a certain extent. SEO represents the failings of the Google index algorithm. But I don't think Google will ever get it perfect and there is always room where SEO (black or white-hat) can take advantage.
Linux has been pretty solid since 1999/2000, before that it was OK for home use but you had to like messing around with it (although it's no worse than Windows was in '93...making a boot disk to play games to get around the memory limitations). Ubuntu blew the doors off when it came along and made it a Mom and Pop OS i.e. anyone could easily install and use it, I put it on my 60 year-old Aunt's computer.

Also the other reason Linux is gaining in popularity is not due to Linux, most average home computer users all do the same things; check e-mail (web based not ISP), IM (web), browse web pages - all of which are not OS dependent.
Ah, I'm blind. For $100 it's well worth it. It's completely different type of interaction, true 3D (actually 6D as you get also orientation). I would get it even without games, just for hacking.

BTW they say it will ship for PC.
An Open Letter from Watchmen Producers: IP Battle between Fox and Warner Bros. rages on
I played various combinations of drums through high school. Right now I'm taking a tabla class.
That would be fun until you had to take a piss.
I have never used it but several clients of mine have used it which usually means it is easy to use.
which is exactly why no ideology should be taken to an extreme. You end up with Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin.