skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
upgradr.com - greasemonkey for IE => silly idea

digestr.com - some crazy idea similar to Yahoo pipes

zedhub.com - don't even remember what it was supposed to be ;)
This is a very rational way to use Facebook. Make yourself the master of it, and get value from the tool on your own terms.

Once a day (e.g. 15 minutes) use probably gives a person 80% of the utility or value of 20x a day (e.g. 2 hours) usage. There is relatively little benefit from all those "extra visits", since almost nothing on Facebook is urgent, actionable, or going to cost money if not attended to immediately. (A great example of the 80-20 rule in action, btw.)
The only advantage I can think of is that it should make it easier to walk away when you decide that some other opportunity is beckoning.
I wonder if we could find a way of making these drugs less "popular", similar to how we've done with smoking. That might require legalizing them, so I'm not sure it would actually reduce consumption. But it would hurt the cartels either way.
Given that the idea of the 10x programmer seems to be considered bunk by most of HN (as per the above post), I'm curious about the idea of a Free Electron described here: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2005/03/20/free_electr... . Would this just be another name for the same idea, or something separate that's more realistic?
Battery capacity is not the defining factor in battery cost, manufacturing is. I'd bet that they have almost identical manufacturing costs per laptop with either battery.

How much does Apple pay for the battery, and how much do they mark it up? If they only pay 10% more for the bigger battery, then they are gouging your 44%, etc.
There's a direct correlation between misery and drug use, as well as a direct correlation between misery and high levels of social inequality.

People who agonize between the dangers of prohibition vs. the dangers of legalization (or even decriminalization) are doing so in the context of a highly unjust society that offers virtually no social mobility, no access to the courts for anyone who isn't fantastically rich, no prospect for wage growth for anyone who isn't already in the top 10%, no job security for anyone not worth putting under contract (i.e. nearly everyone), and the terrifying prospect of loosing access to the health care system in the event of a job loss - all of which imposes tremendous levels of anxiety and insecurity for the vast majority of its members.

In spite of all this, we're still rich enough for most people to have some disposable income. Add that to the conditions under which most people live, and it's no wonder that the US is, per capita, a tremendously big consumer of drugs.

Given this environment, either option will have predictably bad results. But a society that was far less friendly to the winner-take-all ethos, and more concerned with basic health and economic security for a large middle-class population would find that drug coming down to much more manageable levels, making the decriminalization route a much more attractive option.
It sounds like what you really want is a lisp machine.

Everything old is new again...
Laws could punish behavior that affects other people rather than behavior that does not.

With alcohol, it is legal but certain actions that involve alcohol are not, like driving. So, driving while high would be illegal and there would still penalities for committing other crimes while using drugs, but casual use that affects only oneself would not be illegal.

However, there may be other consequences to actions like higher medical premiums or getting fired from a job for misuse, etc.

To me, laws should be designed to protect people from other members of society, not to protect people from themselves. Breaking someone else's things is illegal, but breaking your things is not.
What if production and sale were legal, but consumption was illegal?
Yeah, after the initial spike while downloading (7%) mine settled down to about 1%: http://i.imgur.com/iFijI.png

This is on a 1st gen Core i5.
How often do you replace the battery and hard drive?
Could you please add an issue with some more precise information about your browser(s)/sound server at https://github.com/ofmlabs/aurora.js/issues ?
Ah, yes. Now we can all experience the wonderfulness that comes with these parties: http://thedoghousediaries.com/1242

I'm (partially) kidding, of course. Interesting feature, and interested to see how this is going to work out for them.
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Paul Graham's essays are often very insightful, but they are frustratingly long.

First time PG has been denounced for verbosity?
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Ironically, that looks like Ubuntu's website header with the colors changed.
Choosing a good domain is a challenge in itself, quite separate from executing well once the choice is made. Programmers who don't explicitly tackle that challenge will tend to drift into writing stuff they would use themselves, which obviously means going where the low-hanging fruit has been scoured terribly clean; looked at that way, it is a testimony to Fog Creek's execution skills that they can stay in business at New York living costs at all.
I don't quite understand. You "always" wanted to quit your job, but you're in it for only 2 months?

And what moved you to accept half the pay of the average web dev in the first place?
The Fall of the Creative Class
> Eg, right now I can put an image file in my /public, get the link and embed it in an img src tag without the anyone else ever having to know it's on Dropbox.

> This way, I can't do that.

And it sucks. Embedding public/ images on university discussion group was one of my primary uses of Dropbox and I would have never ever suspected that of all the features, they would phase this one.
I can't upgrade the RAM in my Canon 5D, the damn sensor is soldered on, and the damn thing has such tiny screws I can't repair it when it goes wrong. Useless, untenable design, if you ask me. They won't sell many of these...
Etsy is a terrific company for development, especially for continuous delivery and how to build great systems. Their tech blog is excellent: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/
It's not quite the same, but a circle of college friends have a long-running email thread which we use for this purpose. Everyone usually sends a "What I did on the weekend" email update on monday morning, then random tidbits/links/experiences over the week.

It's a great, casual way to stay in touch with a lot of friends. A few I keep in touch daily through GChat, but the others I depend on the email chain. I look forward to Monday morning to read what everyone did over the weekend.
Forces you to keep your cost of living down. The trick is that when you get a job that pays well to not let it increase your cost of living.

You could be compensated in other ways besides money. Maybe you get significant flexibility/freedom in the way you work or some other kind of perquisite.

Generally though it's not wise to allow yourself to be underpaid. It will grate on you now or later.
Counterpoint: Matz has no beard.
I visited an office today where they had a continuous strip of whiteboard on all walls. It was actually painted on the wall.
Another cost to add to 'bells and whistles' is that it requires more development time and may risk feature creep.
I disagree. I think the cartels or some large agro businesses would set up huge farms just like tobacco farms. I'm fairly certain it's perfectly legal to grow tobacco in your backyard, but no on does because it's so much cheaper and easier to buy it from a farm.

So those people with expertise in growing it would continue to do so but out in the open in huge farms and profits would plummet to near at-cost production levels as they compete with similar large farms.
It would be nice if I could get Google Reader to do this. Push everything as a single update, once a day. That way I could get my RSS fix and have zero temptations of looking at it.

Then again, I could just have more self control. But every little bit helps.
Side issue with this article/tenXer press release: the thing about constantly reworking code being a sign of a bad programmer was wrong -- it actually takes more skill to be able to do routine refactoring. Not to say that that is always practical.

Also, taking advantage of existing software makes a huge difference in 'productivity' at least as far as business people can measure. And someone who does that without acknowledging that they are doing it may appear to be a 'superstar' to management.

For example, someone may just consider all of the source code they have ever written, regardless of the circumstances they wrote it in, to be a code library they can copy and paste in whatever company they currently work at. And not even acknowledge that they are reusing code they wrote years ago.

So that sort of dishonesty irritates me, but generally I think taking advantage of existing software is the right thing to do and is the number one factor in what non-technical people would perceive as productivity. There is a huge difference in the time required to build a system using an easily configurable base like WordPress with plugins or components or by integrating open source software or libraries versus building various parts or all of the system from scratch.

That's where you will see orders of magnitude difference in productivity where one person or group is reinventing a bunch of wheels that another group is not. And again there are many different ways of avoiding reinventing wheels, from using Google to basing software on existing open source programs to selecting more practical application programming languages/tools (like ones with things like garbage collection or more straightforward syntax or support for interactively configurable graphical components/plugins), or for example doing test driven development or in general having any type of automated QA rather than relying on a manual QA process entirely.
I once chased down the paper where that Russian showed lower bounds on circuits couldn't be used to prove P!=NP.

The frustrating thing about the paper was that it lots of references to "what a mathematicians thinks of a proof as" or something like that. IE, it wasn't a formal proof of a general result, didn't claim to be such, but was still taken as a definite word that circuit lower bounds was a dead end for that problem.

I'd chase down the real reference if I had time.

I'm still not sure exactly how oracle foreclose diagonalization - that seems to also be something complexity theorists take by demonstration rather than formally prove.

Anyway, best of luck to them...

Edit: Also, it occurs to me that a lot of the core math curriculum, even at the starting graduate level, has been somewhat "sanitized". All the results have been digested to the point of seeming logical from the start. The "edge" of any field probably would look messier than that.
> POP based on linux kernel (currently 2.6.32) and GNU userland utilities.

So, not actually a "pure python OS," but rather a desktop environment containing a large amount of python?
I feel like drcube's comment could be repeated to you here. Anyone's components could be plugged together to create an identity service and a synchronized or centralized stream of data ("microblog posts" ala Twitter, a "news feed" ala Facebook, a photostream ala "Instagram") etc. The hard part is composing it into a platform or something that appears as a centralized platform in order to get people to use it.
I recall the 15" non-Unibody MBP batteries costing $149. So for $50 more you get a better battery, and because of a design that makes it a non-user replaceable battery, but also one of the thinnest laptops in the world with this kind of power, this story is getting voted up? Replacing batteries isn't a monthly ordeal, it's likely needed only once, possibly twice in the lifespan of the laptops usage.

As an example, here is a 12 cell HP laptop battery: http://www.hp.com/canada/products/landing/consumer-accessori.... Price, $159. User installed. I can understand people being annoyed they can't physically change the batteries themselves, but the pricing is not a scandal.
I have a 2008ish MacBook (the white plastic one), I installed some extra RAM and a Vertex SSD (both very easy to do, as they're user-upgradable) and it's just as fast as my new Air or my desktop computer, there's no noticeable difference.
Right, I doubt that it scales linearly like that either. My comparison was just as absurd as the article's comparison in the other direction. Really, we don't have a clue how much Apple is making or losing by replacing these batteries. My guess is that Apple's battery replacement charge is based largely on the price point of the original product.
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Perhaps their Supreme Leader felt that having an external enemy might quell dissention amongst the ranks.
I suspect the author hasn't read http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
I've found this article to be 100 times as effective when listening to this as I read it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-wtJuqyKko
Apple I was released in 1976, but Apple only went public in 1980.
Ditching Reddit was the best thing I've done in a while. I started feeling like I had to know every second what was going on. I found it really freeing.
I have a question how is this different from when the MBP laptops were originally introduced years ago?

Did they not come with RAM soldered on and Battery glued on?(my memory says yes)

They have in the past shown that once the get the kinks worked out of the alphas that they than revert to RAM not soldered on the board and battery not glued..what has changed as far as this time?
Dont blame Mexico for US generated demand. If not Mexico then some other poor country would supply. The US should legalize to finish the cartels off.
I had to replace a Dell laptop battery a while back and it was $140 just for the battery with self-install (notably much easier). So... I'm not sure that $199 is an outrageous price, given that they install it for you.

However, I'm more concerned about the turn-around time. Can they fix it while you wait at an Apple store or do they have to keep it for a day or more and return it later?
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It seems that although the id of a certain folder always stays constant, every file in that folder would have a random string before its filename which makes this method useless. I should learn to think more thoroughly.
Weird. The most common refrain here about copyright violations is that it isn't theft since nothing has been taken from you and you don't have any less than you did before.

Does that only apply to content creators outside this community?
The full list of applications is here: http://gtldresult.icann.org/
Yes, the secret sauce here is potentially Automattic. With WordPress.com, Gravatar and a substantial hold on WordPress.org, they have a rare opportunity to create a centralized platform.
That doesn't sound like fiction to me.
For now - yes.

But we thinking about rewriting Linux Kernel in pure python.
You can use something like this: http://www.feedmyinbox.com/

It's not free if you want to really use their scheduler, but I've found if you add the RSS feeds, they tend to be delivered overnight.
Exactly... But python machine =)
But the comments have identified possible problems with the posting and have information about the company (complimenting the work experience there and explicitly explaining what technologies they'll use).
I'd speculate that this is, in fact, why they're phasing it out: Too many people were using it as a free web host. I doubt it's profitable to be GeoCities Without Ads - GeoCities couldn't even stay up _with_ ads.
So the question I've asked elsewhere applies... what advantage is it that WordPress is open source now? If they're going to turn it into a social network, they're either going to have closed components (specific to Wordpress.com) or they're going to have to re-invision (and reimplement larges chunks of) it as a distributed social network, something that you seem to be happy to dismiss Diaspora of trying to do. Otherwise, it's just as "closed" as Facebook if I have to use a Wordpress.com site.

I feel like there is a massive misunderstanding of what Jetpack does and provides in the way of a social network. All indications I've seen is that Jetpack just shares to other social networks. It does... effectively nothing... to provide an alternative free of other social networks.

I mean, you even call out Gravatar as being "owned" by Automattic. I don't mind Gravatar but it's a bit stale and certainly not in the vain of a distributed or "open" social network.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but I don't see how Wordpress is anything like a social network other than you citing the fact that it can tie into other ident providers and share to other social networks. That describes... a metric ton of sites out there.
While I agree on your remark about talented programmers in game and linux kernels. I don't necessarily agree with lumping social networking with the two fields aforementioned. I also disagree of your remark about SAP.

I don't necessarily agree with SAP or SAP consultants but there are cases where people would prefer to use SAP to implement some of their core: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Building-a-Hybrid-Cloud-a.... SAP is a complex, specialized tools that requires specific knowledge on how to tame it.

(I'm not arguing if complexity is good, bad, or anything like that. I'm focusing on what SAP is good at).
If you guys have interest in this topic, this is a good blog to watch:

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
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More powerful than Sinatra. Much lighter than Rails. Just Happy Ruby code. <3
That's the tricky thing about productivity, isn't it? You said that those domain-specific programmers were "not great at producing code," but I would argue (with tongue firmly in cheek) that in fact they were the productive ones, and you were not.

Let me explain. Productivity is defined as output over input. Programming input is activity--usually, time working--and output is software capability (or, more generally, business value). As architects, I'll bet that you didn't produce much that the company used. You probably produced designs, frameworks, or other tools for domain programmers to use. But the real software capability was produced by those domain experts you're criticizing, which means that they were the important actors and you were assistants at best. At worst, you could have been an impediment; I've seen "core" teams whose architecture-astronaut frameworks actually have to be subverted in order for the domain teams to get their work done.

I'm playing devil's advocate here, and I'm not entirely serious, but it's with a point: skill in coding isn't important unless it leads to tangible business results. In the short term, in my experience, business savvy outweighs coding skill.

(In the long term, technical debt becomes an overwhelming cost, so programmer skill does matter. But keeping technical debt low is more about maintainability, tests, and boringly understandable design than the kinds of things I see "rock star programmers" emphasize.)
Etsy posts a job spec with a difference...
Meh...if this is how it ends up working, doesn't this mean that gtld's will basically end up being equivalent to subdomains, but on the other end of the URL? Does it matter if some crappy blog is at unicorns.blog instead of unicorns.blogspot.com? I just see this landgrab as guaranteeing that those gLTD's won't end up being that valuable or prestigious in the long run...
First day of summer or last day of summer?
It's misleading to single out the 10x meme for the "that's not science" treatment. What beliefs about software development do hold up to the standard of hard (well-designed, controlled, and replicated) experiment? The published literature that I've read is all embarrassingly weak - understandably, given the complexity of what it's trying to study and the minuscule investment in such research.

I haven't read the ebook you're advertising, but a book with an identical pitch, Robert Glass' Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, is an example. The difference between his facts and fallacies is that the "facts" tend to have one poorly controlled, never replicated study (usually from 1978) to their name. Better than nothing (maybe), but close to nothing.

My point is that at this stage in history, it's all still folklore. Even you, immediately after playing the science card, followed with mushy folklore of your own ("I've certainly seen...").

Edit: come to think of it, your quotes make it sound like there is empirical evidence for the 10x claim, just that it's old and wasn't replicated. The "old" criticism is weird; it's not at all obvious that the internet invalidated the data. So the critique seems to boil down to: there was a study, but it wasn't bullet-proof and it wasn't properly replicated. What studies of software development isn't that true of?
"If the notebook is charged once each day, its capability will have dropped by a fifth after two years and nine months."

For a machine with non-upgradable RAM and currently no SSD upgrade path, who thinks they'll still be actively using one in > 3 years?
TV news still doesn't suck. Reuters, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Guardian, BBC, CBC, France24, AP... there's a plethora of choices online.
Nice idea. Put more information on some pages i.e. About. Also are you using Twillo?
One can be intrinsically motivated and still need a steady income.
It could be an awful situation.

But, from my experience, mostly it isn't.
Do you think "pro" signals anything? I always assumed it was like "sport" in a car - i.e., meaningless. (I have a "sport" car. And... it has 4 doors. And a diesel engine.)
I find it most curious that a whopping 13 companies applied for the .app gTLD, including Amazon and Google, but not the company that started the original App Store and which sells the most apps. That company showed tremendous restraint by only applying for the .apple gTLD.
In Chromium on Ubuntu 11.04 with an old E4500 Core2 Duo CPU, MP3 and FLAC work flawlessly but ALAC doesn't play.

CPU usage goes from 6/8% (the base level with 3 Vim instances open, a couple of nautilus windows open, the update manager window open and two tabs in chromium) to 20/24%.

That's very cool.
I always see this argument when it comes to drug violence in Mexico but I don't think it is that simple.

If the goventment gets involved I'm sure it will want a highly regulated system, just like it does with all of the alcohol regulations on the books now. If the government says that only X supplers or growers are allowed to legally sell drugs then I can't see how this is going to be cheaper than stuff that is out on the street. If the government wants to make drugs on par with high end drug cartels that customers like I see it being overrun in bureaucracy and will cost the buyer much more than if they hit up their local dealer for better product at a cheaper price.

If the government can't beat the price + quality then people are going to continue to buy from suppliers in Mexico, which will keep fighting it out for this market.
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Why does government follow policies that make drugs so incredibly profitable?