skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd actually recommend Captivate from Adobe (it was a Marcomedia product). The reason being is it's awesome for mastering videos. It seems to run acceptably in VMWare fusion too.

I've used iShowU to capture video on my Mac but then mastered it into Flash files. You can add pauses, description, etc.

Screenflow also seems really bad ass from my limited experience with it if you are happy with doing 100% Mac demos.
That chart is worldwide, not US. And iatrogenic deaths wouldn't be in the chart anyway because there are ten or fifteen different types, most of which would fall under another category.
Although I've only had non-trivial procedures done on me once or twice, I've never seen a checklist used.

As for ignoring checklists on a day to day basis, this could be solved by making them a required part of a patient's medical record. That way, doctors are constantly being assessed on the basis of completing a checklist. You could even publish stats on it.

"No checklist, no payment" would also be a good way to enforce it.
Mine is 100652918. Aaaante up! Help me build my crew. Together we will rule the internets.
Welsh for checklist is "look you, boyo!" :-)
Sounds familiar, right? "Facebook is about connecting people"

Massive sites should always be about people. I heard a great quote the other day: "facebook is where you go to connect with people you used to know, twitter is where you go to get to know people better"

It's true for me.
this is just stupid noone will pay for friends. I more or less have one of those blank accounts, I just follow people, but I get a few requests here and there by random people who want to follow me...and the account doesn't have any information in the profile, nor a picture.

They should work on adding new features that businesses are looking for...and then create a separate level of accounts for businesses and charge a monthly fee for that.
> If you find yourself making all fields optional or needing only many-to-many relationships, that's a sure sign that you already did something wrong when you designed the data base.

Not really. Business rules change because the nature of business changes. Over-engineering databases to account for future changes takes a lot of time and effort. If the company does not sell outside of US and does not have plans to sell outside of US anytime soon, I would not spend a week implementing Norwegian, UAE, and Indian addressing and tax/tariff system.

When I designed the payroll system for my company, I took into account that hourly employees can get promoted and become salaried. This happens once a quarter or two and the system can deal with it. Now if a salaried employee wants to become an hourly employee, my system cannot auto-calculate the change in their vacation days etc. It would require a considerable amount of time for me to build that functionality in. However, it is possible for this situation to happen but in five years, it has only happened once. In that instance, I manually edited the records and documented the entries. So does that mean I designed the database schema poorly? No it just means I did not want to make it so rich and extensive that it can handle every remote case, just most of them.
if you want to work for free...why not find something simple and do a startup around that? Then release more and more apps as you learn more skills
From Edge 2007:

GOT OPTIMISM? THE WORLD'S LEADING THINKERS SEE GOOD NEWS AHEAD

While conventional wisdom tells us that things are bad and getting worse, scientists and the science-minded among us see good news in the coming years. That's the bottom line of an outburst of high-powered optimism gathered from the world-class scientists and thinkers who frequent the pages of Edge, in an ongoing conversation among third culture thinkers.

http://www.edge.org/q2007/q07_index.html
Jim Jarmusch: "Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that fuels your imagination."
How hard have you worked on the fundamentals in the areas you want to master? Newton slaved for years in deliberate practice to connect the neurons you admire so much. Many people who think they are doomed to mediocrity in fact are not. What exactly are your goals, where are you now and what are your habits? Maybe you are too stupid to achieve your dreams, but more often I think people are too lazy.

How disciplined are you? Everyone values genius, welcome to the crowd. It is a convenient excuse to obsess on others' talent as if genes and childhood were all that separated you from them. You appear to be focusing too much on outcome rather than on the hard work necessary to achieve it. Skills always look natural from the outside! But ask the honest, reflective people you admire and they'll tell you: they worked their butts off on fundamentals. Psst: fundamentals are open to you too.

Don't obsess over shortcuts. I would love to see you explain to a person with no arms how you'd gladly cut yours off for slightly better gray matter.

Practice with intense effort. If forum composition and wordsmithing is a challenge, discipline your technique by journaling stream-of-consciousness. To improve your memory treat it like a muscle: high reps, low weight at first.

How is your health? Do you exercise, eat right, avoid alcohol, have a positive attitude and sleep well? These are simple but powerful levers.

Talent is overrated. Upgrade your attitude not your physical brain, silly. :)
People new to computers have no existing assumptions, how the computer should work and in fact have easier time to use Ubuntu than those exposed to XP/Vista previously.

Try observing reality around you next time. (Yes, flame, he asked for that. It is amazing what some people are able to rationalize and be rude in the process).
From HN guildelines:

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You're very rigth, I was trying to share what I do to get myself out of those outbursts. Also I was under the impression that you were talking about a general condition.
looks pretty dead...noone is talking
Awesome news... especially since since NewsCred is about to migrate to 100% Django! So far it's been a great experience for all our developers.
one cool consequence is that twitter-using consumers will be slightly more empowered to give feedback to companies. it's only a matter of time before social and environmental grassroots aims become just as important as boardroom bottom lines.
And why shouldn't they do a controlled FDA-approved study? Medicine is a /science/ which means we need to test things, rather than relying on "common-knowledge". If it is as effective as you say, a study should be fairly easy to set up.
ahhhh, nice!!
It's like finding Everything2 again..... there goes my weekend =S
Ouch. This "Android" paradise is sounding farther-fetched each day.
I once witnessed a wily 40-something Master's student torturing one of the department's young star PhD candidates. The PhD student had caught one of his mistakes and was taking it back, as any honorable academic should. The Master's student continued on, pretending as if the PhD student was insisting on the correctness of his earlier assertion. You could see the urgency with which the PhD student was trying to roll over and expose his belly, and his perplexity at that not working.

Never have I seen someone so distressed at being told he was right.
I agree. I remember seeing a site around the US Presidential Election time that used the mass of tweets to form a consensus of opinion on a number of topics.

Surely mining this collective intelligence provides invaluable market insight.
Also check out http://jircii.dashnine.org an open source irc client I wrote awhile ago. [Another shameless plug] :)
Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes
Oh, it's more than a weekend :)

It's low on the usual puffery so don't skim or you'll miss awesome gems like the 2006 Human Security Project report about 40% decline(!) in armed conflict in the last decade.
If you spend time around a wide range of people it becomes clear that there is a baseline intelligence that relates to the speed someone thinks and learns. While extreme intelligence is hard to quantify the lower end of the scale has a dramatic impact on a wide range of activities. People forget that there are about as many people with IQ < 80 as there are people with IQ > 120.

You might be 50% better than your baseline in some areas, but if you can't learn to feed yourself then you are not going to become a dancer.

PS: I think it's best to look at it as leverage, if you need less sleep you can get more done, if you have a higher IQ you can get more done, but if you spend time watching TV then you're getting nothing done.
Sounds a bit like Scrum (the agile methodology).

The Surgeon/Anaesthesia/Nursing teams reviewing what has been/needs to be done out loud to each other is similar to a daily stand up and the initial sprint planning meeting in a scrum team.

Saying things out loud to each other makes a social bargain that they will/have been done.
Making 3D movies with Xtranormal--serious fun, not yet a serious tool
While your stats are nonsensical and incorrect, I agree there is a big problem with Witch Doctor, M.D. An experience I once had:

Me: I have nerve pain in my pinky and right side of the forearm. [Shows the doctor where it hurts.]

Dr: You are a programmer. I think you have carpal tunnel syndrome.

Me: I've got pain in my forearm. Also, the ulnar nerve is what connects to the pinky, and that doesn't pass through the carpal tunnel. Are you sure about that?

Dr: Are you questioning my judgement?

I'm happy to say I have found a doctor who does practice the scientific method. Unfortunately, not all do.
TweetDeck reportedly raising angel round
He's obviously a lot younger than you. "txt speech" is the new social norm, Grandpa. ;)
Check out epi0Bauqu's site http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/
Does anyone here use checklists in a similar manner for application development?
Circuit City to liquidate all US stores
Don't work for free.

Try finding a smaller software company (like under 10 people, perhaps a startup) and working for them in any capacity they need people. Running ad campaigns, managing forums, tech support, whatever. Once you have a job with the company, you can then start helping out with programming to whatever degree you are able.
That $300 US is really only $1 US circa 1930

What data set are you using? I got $12.39 (for $1 inflating from 1930-2009; $24.20 for $300 deflating backward in time) using the standard data set at Tom's Inflation Calculator: http://www.halfhill.com/inflation.html
How to search for information within social networking sites
It looks like the pilot decided to not take the chance to land on the small airport, as if he wanted to avoid the risk to crash into the city.
Immad I'm curious how you plan to compete with Kongregate, et al. What's the value add? One of the things I notice about Kongregate, as a level 16 user (sad, huh?) is that "badges" play a large role for me.

I don't have an infinite amount of time, and I've found that achieving badges has become essential for me to feel like I've "done something". A lot of the Flash games have a variety of levels of engagingness. Spending 20 minutes completing a badge gives me a warm glow even if the game was mediocre and keeps me going back to Kongregate again and again.
I can't wait until someone gets the black box data and History Channel does an animation of the landing trajectory.
My French is a bit rusty, but here are some examples I can think of right now:

Je le mange - I eat it.

Je tu le donne - I give it to you.

'le' means 'it', and 'tu' means 'you'. So literally, the first example would be "I it eat", and the second would be "I to you it give".

I don't know Spanish very well, but I pulled this off of Google translate:

Yo lo vi - I saw it

I'm assuming 'lo' is 'it', and 'vi' is 'saw'.
I'm going to be as nice and polite as I can be here.

Medical science has had a long history, at least a few hundred years and performs studies/experiments/etc. to make sure that things work.

Witch doctors try random shit and see what sticks to the wall even if it means the patient dies.

Do you see the difference?

If doctors were killing a lot of people, I'm sure journalists would have jumped all over it by now and a lot of doctors would have malpractice suits filed against them.

Antibiotics do work. There have been studies to prove that. This isn't the small-time, this isn't the minor leagues, these pharma-companies are paying a big chunk of change to make sure something useful happens when you take those pills.

If you want lies and deceit, I suggest you go to a "natural" "organic" pharmacy that sells homeopathic garbage.
From the resumes I've seen, most people list far more languages on their resume than you could expect them to be very proficient with. I wouldn't worry about it - there are a lot more important qualities for a software engineer than "knowing the languages well".

One friend of mine did like to ask interviewees questions like "So, you say you are skilled in Prolog. Could you write some Prolog code to reverse a linked list?"
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They did set up a study, informally, like you would do in most sciences for an exploratory experiment.

But it was shut down by the FDA. And to comply with FDA rules (which are designed specifically for drug testing and exploring new surgical processes) it would have taken six years and been too expensive for their budget. So they went to the UK and completed the study in six months for free. The US lost out on that.
About time. They've been thrashing around long enough and the store near me is already in shambles as employees have apparently stopped caring.

But it's a reminder that a struggling company isn't always going to get bought out. Circuit City simply couldn't compete with Best Buy, and they're both being increasingly squeezed by Wal-Mart and Target.

Circuit City will remind Best Buy that it's perch isn't safe.

One thing that jumped out at me is that Best Buy is not a "tech" name, so they could in theory (I'm not necessarily saying they should, only that they could) have a rebirth as a Target, Walmart, K-mart competitor.
That's 35,000 jobs...
It's pretty lively actually. IRC channels are never active 24/7.. There are always gaps.
Nintendo sets US sales records in 2008
Fun story!
Karma Warrior, awesome name.

On a more serious note tho' you have to be real careful about giving entrenched industry people political power by appointment. Here in the UK we are still feeling the aftereffects of Beeching, a lifelong auto-industry man appointed by the UK government to look after transport. His plan was to tear up railway tracks, who needed them after all, when there were cars? Only now public mass transit is "in" and it's too late, the tracks are gone, the land has been sold off, what's left of the system is overloaded. You want to be real careful she doesn't start tearing out bits of physical infrastructure, it's hard to replace.
Did you just start reading stuff online, or are you his English teacher? ;)
National Buy A NewsPaper Day
There's a post here with some hints on getting high quality up on YouTube: http://nerdwithnolife.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-to-get-high-q...
Gee, it's a good thing I don't know crap about monetary policy, or else I might think measures like this are just putting a bandaid on a bad situation rather than addressing the fact that Zimbabwe is under the control of an incompetent authoritarian dictator.
Thanks, it's easier to participate when you know that your interlocutors are able to understand that just because you don't master their language perfectly do not mean that your ideas are any less valuable.
Beautiful, but I can't believe they left out how the plane cleared GW bridge by 900 feet!
At what point do you just admit defeat?
As an information assurance guy, I'd encourage users to use the most embarassing possible passwords, since you should never share them. If you need to make resources available to more entities, do it by sharing access, not authentication.
the pilot is said to be an experienced glider pilot, probably helped in this situation
Honey, we shrunk the food -- really, really fast
Wait another few days and you could be a quintillionaire for less than the price of a cup of coffee.
Is the CTO of the US handling software patent stuff or is that someone else's problem?
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Googolplex, no, but based on jws' post, they are well on their way to a googol.

Googol = 10 ^ 100, Googolplex = 10 ^ googol.

They're over a quarter of the way there!

(And I am finding very hard not to type Google.)
There was a good post recently on Mugabe in the other half of this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433767

Mugabe wasn't horrible, and that's what's sad about all of this -- the land reform was a populist grab that was initiated when he started losing his grasp on the country. He's shown over and again that he's willing to put his position above the interests of the country in the last few years, and that's what'll make him go down in history as a despot rather than a hero.
Over a decade ago, I was working at a company that sold insurance software. It seemed like the database got designed only about halfway, then the rest of everything was kludgy hacks. Like, if this certain number field is negative, then it's really the absolute value, but it meant that this row was the active one for the account, unless the next timestamp in the same account has a value "i" in this other column...

On and on like that. In fact, there were entire internal courses to teach these kludgy schemes, and they had fancy sounding official names. (Yes, entire week long courses, not just 1-day workshops.)
I'm a freelance developer, but a couple of months ago, one of my customers asked me to make some screencasts of the product we're building.

I tried Camtasia and Adobe Captivate on Windows. Camtasia has been best to work with, although it has a couple of pretty horrendous bugs that require nonobvious workarounds that took me a while to learn. On the bright side, it has a great set of online video tutorials (duh) and it's easy to do transition effects and record from Powerpoint.

The other commenters are right -- the hardest thing to do well is the voice-over. You need a good mic -- USB digital mics are probably best, but I've gotten by OK with a good headset. You also want a quiet place -- digital "noise removal" post-processing makes me sound like the Predator. One day when I was at a shared office, I spent the morning standing in the bathroom, recording audio to my laptop.

It's also vital, of course, to have an engaging script and a product that's interesting to watch. Writing and filming the screencast will force you to concentrate on these things from the perspective of a new user, and you should take that opportunity to ferret out any needless distractions.
I'm sad to see them go. Locally my only real choices for electronics are Best Buy and Circuit City. I loathe going to Best Buy - the service is crap, the stores are cluttered, and in general it's just a miserable shopping experience. And don't get me started on the Geek Squad...
Why does the US need a CTO?

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand”
- Milton Friedman
The primary bootloaders for Linux distributions are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LILO_(boot_loader) with a large edge in popularity to GRUB these days. Unless it's a fork or modification, GRUB works like this: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual

Single User Mode isn't unique to CentOS/Redhat, or even Linux. In fact, the concept behind it isn't even unique to Unix: One of Microsoft's 10 security rules is "if the bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your box, it isn't your box anymore."

edit for clarity, due to reply

GRUB doesn't change the Unix root password. GRUB--like any other bootloader--lets you boot to single user mode, which doesn't require a password. Single user mode lets you change the Unix root password.
A linguistics prof's pet monkey is semi-literate in Hebrew and English
I can't say I'm surprised. The few times I've gone in there recently to purchase something, I couldn't believe the outrageous prices. $49 for a 1M "digital" optical cable? $99 for an HDMI cable? Everything was massively overpriced, and this is factoring in that I was willing to pay more than online prices for local shopping/instant gratification, but not 40% more.
This is great advice if you assume that there are many "right life partners", all about equally good matches, and that discarding any single one of them isn't disastrous. (I happen to basically agree with that assumption, but it's important to note it and ask if OP intellectually believes in that same philosophy.)

For my account, I had a tremendously important and drama-filled relationship in my late 20s/early 30s with an ex. I was dickish at times; she was <some adjective> at times; we couldn't make it work. It was extremely painful on both sides, and to this day I wonder how we could have managed the situation better. We're both now in our new "final" committed relationships and extremely happy with the outcomes, but I wonder what would have happened if I didn't follow time_management's advice above (or perhaps, if I'd followed it more precisely; the middle ground is worse than either extreme). We might have ended up together, and I can't figure that we'd be better off than we are now. But I also went through 4-5 years of hell between that breakup and finding my new relationship, so I don't know that the worst is over in 3 days is necessarily the case...

Your points about getting outside, getting exercise, and not becoming a 24x7 hermit are absolutely spot-on.
No, social norms are localized. "txt speech" is not the local norm, no matter how normal it may be elsewhere.

Besides, based on my observations, the inclination that "txt speech" is indicative of an immature manner is dead on, and people do indeed grow out of it. Today's txt-ers will type normally once they grow up. I can wait. l33t sp34|< is not a new phenomenon, anybody with eyes should be able to observe that it is not an endpoint... for anybody interesting, anyhow.
what times is it active?
Interesting. So, there's more processing needed for the context associated with the subject and object rather than the action?
A common mistake by small plane pilots is to try and make a U-turn and glide back to the airport. It usually doesn't work since you lose so much altitude during the turns. This pilot seemed to do an amazing job of finding the best glide rate and not turning too much - and then somehow figuring out how to land the plane in the water.
Yeah, this is obviously true for most websites. If a website is social than its about the people. Most sites these days are social. From basic forums to facebook and brightkite. Twitter doesn't deserve any hype and the concept is so simple. Facebook really should implement a more twitter-like service now before its too late, which it probably already is.
I don't see any fixes there.

If a field needs to be optional, then it needs to be optional. Remove the NOT NULL and change your validation code.

How else can you plan for this?

'Get it right the first time' is just wishful thinking.
Steven Pinker: "We have entered the era of consumer genetics."
can you elaborate? what do you think the investor saw when he invested? not necessarily an exit per se?
Latin itself was flexible, but usually S-O-V. It was long ago I learned it, around the same time that I started using an HP-48. I was pretty pleased with myself when I noticed the similarity with reverse polish.
All around the clock... just hang around for a few hours...