skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is silly. If you have many applications accessing the database - and not every app will go via your API, unless you plan to rewrite everything - then you want your business rules enforced in one place, that will be effective for any client, be it a command line, a web app, client-server, Excel, third party products, anything.

The web world has produced people for whom there is a 1:1 correlation between app and DB. In the enterprise world, most apps are written to run against existing DBs, some of which have been around for decades. This is scalable development processes. And the funny thing is, web kids will blithely repeat "DRY" without ever understanding the truth of it.
Nah, it's safe enough. See Oracle's take on this, http://apex.oracle.com/
Mezzanine 1.1 and Cartridge 0.5 (Django CMS and Ecommerce platforms) released
Former champ Evander Holyfield allegedly owes $372,000 in child support.
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I personally would still be doing business, coding, and still work. I love this stuff and making/having a ton of money doesn't change this. It didn't in the past and it wouldn't in the future.
All of the things that you've mentioned apply to full-time employees too.

Flip it around again: As a business, employing just part-timers (ie. using the part-time as a carrot) could be a very good way to build a decent team. Doubly so if they're working on a startup - you know they're good. And if everybody's part-time, there's no potential resentment. You'd want some ground rules (maybe one day per week where everyone's onboard) but other than that I don't see why it wouldn't work.
In the "Allocator (malloc)" row of the comparison table. Why is dietlib-native red and musl-native green?
Heroku for a static site? Sounds like overkill. On my VPS I just do this:

1. Have public git repo, clone on server

2. Run nginx pointing to htdocs folder in git repo

3. When I want to deploy, ssh in and git pull

Works just fine. Sure, it's a public site on GitHub, but I could just as easily run a git server.
A slight tangent, but dmenu-4.5 uses token matching, which allows you to search somewhat fuzzily: "foo rb" will match "foobarbaz". How it looks compared to Alfred and co. is a matter of one's aesthetic...

Disclosure: I'm a dmenu developer.
I think that if they support 'proper' Linux might also depend on the architecture of the console. If it's PowerPC or ARM, then we might not see x86 desktop support.
Oops, probably shouldn't have been eradicating the poppy crop in Afghanistan, then

Actual article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/31/us-medicine-poppie...
Is this yet another cancer cure that will never see the light of the day?
I know right, where's the hitch? Where DO I attach my horses?
The largest producer of opium poppy is actually Turkey.
It _should_ also work in Internet Explorer 10.
Well.. I actually think that anything that qualifies as a job is more or less going in the category of wage slave.

I just think that the extreme hierarchies and subservience are unnecessary and detrimental. I think we need to examine our basic assumptions and have a realistic perspective about the actual level of suffering that is currently going on in the world.

We need to see the extreme inequality as being unacceptable and move away from the Social Darwinian rationalizations.
It is too complicated and abstract for ordinary people to understand, and it is spiced with a sense of inherent danger since critical system files cannot be modified without doing significant damage to the system- system files that are right there along your ordinary user files which are impossible to find unless you can remember what you named it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface
All of the things that you've mentioned apply to full-time employees too.

Well... yes... but to a vastly lesser extent. There are only so many hours in a day :-)

As a business, employing just part-timers (ie. using the part-time as a carrot) could be a very good way to build a decent team

That sounds like an interesting tactic. I'd be interested if anybody tries it.

My personal experience, or at least my perception of my experience since I didn't write everything down, is that part-timers have a higher turnover than full-timers. I suspect that could well kill the advantages that you talk about.
I think Telepizza[1] proves you can build a very successful pizza business/chain making terrible pizzas. I mean, they're worse than Pizza Hut, which doesn't exactly make a great pizza itself.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepizza
> The Linux kernel is capable of commanding individual devices to power off. Run powertop and it will show you what's using power and offer to turn it off

Oh I perfectly know that, the problem is that it's manual. With OSX I play a song, soundcard comes alive from its powered off state and plays sound, song stops, soundcard powers down after a little idle timeout. The same goes for the webcam, ethernet board and various other components. With Linux I have to either write some suboptimal wrappers to programs to kick devices in or out, or do it manually, or sacrifice battery life.

Comparing battery life, Linux is two~three full hours behind OSX out of seven~eight (after thorough analysis involving powertop1/2). That's a 30% drop and brings me to almost a day to a little more than half a day of work per cycle. Well, it was so a year ago, because now my battery has crossed the 600 cycle count bar so it holds an hour less. And don't start telling me "oh that was a year ago, Linux has improved on that front since then", since OSX improved in that area too (I've looked at hard data battery metrics).

> For your second point, just explicitly command your computer to do what you want. If you want it to go to sleep, type "acpitool -s". If you don't want it to go to sleep, don't type that.

You're missing the point, I perfectly know that too.

Find me a single PC that can do this:

1) asleep with lid closed, you plug in an external screen and if you're on AC power the computer wakes up and makes the external screen primary, else it does not even wake up and stays asleep.

2) awake with lid closed, AC and screen plugged in, you plug out external screen or AC power and the computer goes to sleep

3) awake with lid closed, AC and screen plugged in, you open the lid and it becomes primary while external screen becomes secondary.

4) awake with lid open, AC doesn't matter but you plug in an external screen and this one becomes secondary, retains its specific configuration including relative position, wallpapers, resolution and color calibration settings from previous times per external screen device.

I've written my own extendable acpid handler in Python to achieve various schemes, react to complex events, and take complex actions. I know exactly how to do 2, 3 and 4, and I know exactly how much hackery and time is needed to achieve this, and it's not really reliable in the end. As for 1 it might as well be downright impossible.

> My X220 has never run out of battery, and I fly a lot and don't really plug my laptop in at home, so 8 hours is apparently enough.

As I said my battery is getting past middle-aged and the more minutes, the happier. Also you can consider not only "instant" battery life (i.e time it takes to go from full to empty) but long-term battery life (time it takes before the battery is a complete brick): the longer the cycles, the less wear it takes, so the longer it lasts before going to the trash.

> If you like OS X

I do :-)

If only Lion's "full-screen" would really be a chrome-less tiling window manager I'd be completely happy. Things, like Window Magnet, fullscreen Terminal.app and tmux help a lot though.
This is a great article.

As an example of innovation in this space, some Chinese company has devices a socket which accepts many international plugs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18266022
This appears to be the company: http://www.europlugs.com/

It's not clear to me that they have managed to fulfil all the safety requirements. I guess it would take some effort to really be sure, but can anyone see any obvious bloopers?
GTD sucks for creative work. Here’s an alternative system.
"but I've seen enough successful and completely beloved hole-in-the-wall operations, run by people you would never mistake for intelligent, that I question the fundamental truth of it."

You've committed a fallacy by looking only at the successes and determining it isn't difficult. The vast majority of businesses fail, and you never see them. Most of the rest never amount to anything more than someone busting their ass for the same (or less) money than they could be making punching the clock 9 to 5. That's the fundamental truth of it.

But of course, we live in a world where everyone is above average, right?
Researchers develop new font for numbers that represent their relative value
Personally, I can't keep all of how C++ works in my brain at once. Most people end up limiting themselves to a "sane subset" of C++ to compensate for spec sprawl. But, everybody picks a different subset, so you can quickly stumble on things you think you know but don't work quite right when working on non-self-originated code.
As CEO you'd need to see what the biggest problems are with your company and work on solving them.

Have concentration risk around clients? Go get more clients. Short staffed? Hire or pinch hit on a project. Don't have enough data on what's going on? Start doing data analysis.

Find the obstacles that are there and remove them. Make it easier for everyone else to their jobs better.
Another issue with part timers is the overhead work around the employment.

Basically it's the same amount of work for a business to employ a part-timer as it is to employ a full-timer (sometimes more).

So if you have a full-time role's worth of work, you will need to hire two or three part-timers to get that work done. So you're at least doubling the overhead admin work around that role compared to hiring a full timer.
FidoNet was network governed by a group petty, power-hungry and insecure moderators posing as lords of the manor. It was really, really sad. It worked well in the sense a prison colony could work well. It's a good thing that the whole thing has pretty much died and replaced by the much bigger and more diverse Web.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't a jury have to be agreed upon by both prosecution and defense? I assume that at least one side would be fighting for people who knew something.
My convictions are based on:

- multiple studies showing that "pirates" buy a lot

- data showing that artists are making, in total, more money than before

- data presented by the media companies themselves showing consecutive years of record profits

Yours are based on a study done on just 30 movies during only three years.

And yet apparently, I'm the one trying to delude myself.
Funding Education: PTA that raises $1 Million
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
It depends on the site and demographics. For example, on Like.fm, approx 30% use email+password and the rest use Facebook+email+password.
Title of article says cancer fighting, not cancer cure. HN title should be fixed.
1930s photos show Greenland glaciers retreating faster than today
Lamp for the poor in Philippines
People in the Philippines have found a primitive, but also very clever way to bring light into their home. They make a hole in the roof, where is placed a plastic bottle filled with water and disinfectant. When sunlight hits the bottle, it is scattered around the room.
My schedule:

* 6 am - 8 am: Wake up. Check email. Some coding on side projects. You could read textbooks over coffee/breakfast here.

* 8 am - 5 pm: Day job

* 5 - 9pm: Family time

* 9 - midnight: Side projects, freelance, and any leftovers from day job that exceed the normal 40 hours.
If you have a decent part-time job, where you're treated and paid well, why would you be any more likely to leave than a full-time employee? I know I'm not.
Coming up next, Google uses Street View's uncensored data to fight "street spam..." :-)
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I think the important thing for us is that it's both personal and abstract — most things that are generated look random, or like a lot of faceted jewelry out there, but the person wearing it knows which way it faces and what each point means. It's a little different to say "this is randomly generated for you via seed X, congrats". I think it's viable, and interesting, for sure, I'm just more interested in the personal (see also an old project weeplaces.com)
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I think there's an interesting trend around faceted jewelry / forms in a bunch of different fields right now, which is maybe a separate discussion: http://pinterest.com/search/boards/?q=faceted
It wasn't uncommon for us to have spare cord and plugs either, although the change of law to require moulded plugs obviated the need for any of it.

I remember us having to wire up kettles, lamps, and irons when I was a kid. And you'd sometimes go to antique (or second hand) shops and come across old appliances that had no cord attached. Anecdotally, we bought an old style telephone that we then had to wire back up.

That being said, I can't corroborate any claim that this was backed by legislation.
To many people in the Valley, I believe, "running a business" means coding something and getting it out there. What you speak is a foreign concept. They'll never spend time marketing. They'll never process a payroll. They'll never deal with the myriad HR issues that arise when you have many different personalities co-mingling. They'll never scrutinize their financials. Hell, most of the time they aren't even concerned about making money.

But you'll see many resumes that read, ran X successful businesses. They can point to a website and say, "There's my business!" I can say from experience, the small-business pizza shop owner doesn't get to do that.
"Or you could, you know, just use Xmonad" comments considered harmful.

(plus ignorant/simplistic: it's not like everything else related to one's OS use and needs will be the same).
i think you're just paranoid
Yes. Mastery is satisfying in itself. In a way that money (and facilitated experiences) can never be. Notice how extremely wealthy people often keep working? I tried retirement. It sucks.

for PedantNews: mastery remains valuable only if that skill remains in demand (e.g. slide-rule proficiency); at $600 a head, how is he not rich?; the capitalization (and themes) echo Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill); I love sashimi, but, being raw fish, how can it can be improved beyond the quality of the fish (displaying my ignorance)? BTW: the film looks great. http://www.magpictures.com/jirodreamsofsushi/

I rephrase it: create value - according to what you feel is valuable. This differs from YC's entrepreneurial "make something people want", which emphasizes other's values. It is closer to creating intrinsic beauty/transcendence. And, IMHO, that is what this guy Jiro is doing: creating something great. Not being great. He and his mastery are in service to what he values.
Maybe it's not a "smells like Java" but from Google's perspective, they treat every api method with equal weight because so many people use different parts of it. GMaps is trying to solve the simple use cases where the other 80% of the api methods are unnecessary.

If you need something specific and you're building something beyond the typical google maps customer, then you'll have to use the google standard apis, but most people would be happy to use something simpler.
Thinkpad. Great build quality, Linux friendly.
I have a Dell Vostro with an ATI 6600m card running ubuntu 12.04.

Putting "echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch" effectively boosts my battery time from 1 hour to 3 hours.

What I'm seriously hoping from Valve is not a game per se, but a linux distro (or a standard) that is compatible with my drivers, multimedia devices (dual hdmi monitors - I'm looking at you) and audio/video.

I would pay serious money for that kind of a distro.
Google Doodle celebrates Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Yes , groupthink, consensus, the fear of not conforming to normal all hinders the collaborative mind, marketers know this and try profit from it ...
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tl;dr; Poor people are irresponsible and waste time on facebook, maybe rich people do something different. The title suggests a digital divide, but the body only discusses one side of it. Statistics are hinted at but not given.
On the run so I can't reply to the rest, but the film is very good. I don't fully agree with the author's take, but it's one of the better films to watch if you're struggling to hold on to some passion...
I'd personally suggest 'CoffeeScript vs Predator' too.

Since naming after desserts and alliterative animals has already been done, I wholeheartedly support action film naming conventions.
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Doing it with Sinatra w/ no routes and just using the public folder seems easier IMO but the php method another commenter mentioned sounds like the best! I'll be doing that from now on methinks.
The jury selection process is called voire dire and IIRC each side can only eliminate, not choose, jurors.
I'm astonished you write that here. The point of this ycombinator thing is, as I understand it, "The Internet streamlines the process of production conception to delivery in a historically unprecedented way". Its as different from traditional business models as can possibly, possibly be.
Mastery simply means moving forward continuously. There is no way to achieve it, for the path has no end.
If you have a decent part-time job, where you're treated and paid well, why would you be any more likely to leave than a full-time employee? I know I'm not.

See the conversation over there > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4060394 :-)
He did seem to imply that his usage of Xmonad was 1 app per workspace, which isn't really 'tiling' per se.
I was going to note that it's not MIT License as I recall from last time I checked, but turns out they relicensed it recently (May 6, 2012, http://www.etalabs.net/musl/download.html ) to MIT License. Thanks for pointing it out!
I'd expect lab meat is a different kind of beast altogether when it comes to who is funding the development of it.

This robot has an obvious business/marketing plan: the moment its better & cheaper than humans, it'll start to replace them everywhere. Hit that point and it'll sell in more or less known quantities. Don't hit it, it's (at best) a technology looking for a problem.

Lab grown meat is who-the-fuck-knows R&D. How cheap does it need to be to sell how much of it/ How do we know when it tastes good enough. Who will buy it when it just hits the shelves. Who will buy it ten years after. etc. etc.

Two completely different and probably non-competing buckets of time & money.
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I've been watching Thinkpads very closely. I used to own X40 until it broke and before 600x (which never broke, but it's kind of old now).

What model is preferable nowadays? There are not lots of shops to test them at least in Berlin. I want 13" and lightweight, but still powerful enough laptop. Lots of ram, i7 CPU and a SSD disk. The most important thing is an excellent keyboard and touchpad. I heard Lenovo is not using the old and excellent keyboard in their laptops anymore and I haven't tested the new one yet.
At the moment, not much - Apple's displays and some third-party external drives. There are announced plans from Sony and Asus (I think) to add it to their laptops toward the end of the year, and Intel is close to adding support to their chipsets. I'm interested to see if Apple's approach (partnering with Intel) will help it avoid Firewire's fate.
Don't forget to stop and thank someone who has helped you.
also known as information radiators http://goo.gl/rJkFU

many moons ago * 20+ i had a summer jobb in a industrial consumer analog photo lab, in the entrence to the coffe machine / resting area there where hand-plotted charts updated daily on velocity of orders / our fulfillment with comparison to expected orders and also historical high and lows . this made the workforce (40+) transparently se what shape we all where in with regards to business ...
You know, static hosting works really great on Amazon S3, as long as you don't need a .htaccess file. On all of my jekyll sites I use S3 now and there's even a jekyll-s3 gem that makes pushing your site up to S3 painless. The nice thing about using S3 is you don't have to wait for Heroku instance start up if it's not a high traffic site.
I found it entertaining.
Depends. I have a X41, which gets flakey with the headphone jack when you put the laptop to sleep (requires a reboot to get it working again). Other than that, I can't remember having any issues with it.

One of the nice things about it was that the volume / brightness hotkeys were hooked into the BIOS so I could use them even when the OS was locked. I believe all ThinkPads are like this. I miss this on my current laptop.
Technology is definitely a force amplifier, so I guess it's not surprising that it will amplify pre-existing anti-patterns.
Yes, a pretty awful article about an (IMHO) important problem.
grep and in general regex mean survival.

i have to admit that in my early unix years i did not understand (the power of) grep until i learnt perl. funny, isn't it?
It would be nice to get the data from the study that's mentioned, if it's available somewhere. What bits are parceled out in this article seem pretty hard to interpret conclusively without more.

For example, they mention that children from less-educated families use "media" 90 minutes/day more than those from better-educated families, but don't break it down into which kind of media. In addition, "Kaiser double counts time spent multitasking. If a child spends an hour simultaneously watching TV and surfing the Internet, the researchers counted two hours." This could potentially have a large effect, but it's not mentioned how large. Are children from less-educated families using media for more total time, or multitasking more, or both? Or perhaps they're even using media for less total time, but multitasking more? Or using it for much more time, but multitasking less? This double-counting metric doesn't make much sense to me in the first place.

The causal conclusion about parents being "unable to monitor" their kids' usage also seems like only one of many hypotheses. Another one is that kids from less-educated families, which the article notes tend to be poorer, have fewer alternative entertainment options available to them.
Note: I've never seen anything of the sort near the US-Canada border, but Canadians illegally sneaking into the country isn't as big of an issue (or as large of a political hot-button) as Mexican illegal immigrants.
Sure, I don't really refer to Myers-Brigges as such but to the J/P distinction, which for me is a useful way to think about this.
Unlike businesses, the government doesn't contract (as in shrink) or 'fail.'
I'd put the lower bound of a thorough description of the average YC business at 350,000 words (a full-length novel is 100,000), since I have managed to say about that many about what is, quite possibly, the simplest software business imaginable.

You can get a web application in front of customers much faster than you can get a pizza in front of customers. This is really important. It does not imply that the average YC company is orders of magnitude less complex than the average pizzeria. If you have doubts about this one, buy any YC founder drinks and mention "hiring" or "investors" or "accounting", then see how simple their lives are. This is especially true as you go up the age or success curve from "founded by two guys eating ramen 12 weeks ago."
why build these by hand, use a tool like Hype or Sencha
I use toto to host my blog on heroku.
Why Multi-armed Bandit algorithms are superior to A/B testing (with Math)
There Is No Digital Divide