skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anticipate and expect are words I do not like thrown out to the span of lifetimes because the random swervings between here and there are enough to defeat improved biological mechanisms. We'd have to radically change how we live to avoid death. Stop flying, stop driving, taking showers.

It's only when we give up all of those things could life spans extend through those centuries. It would take a lot of math to calculate life expectancy with perfect and infinite biological health.
120 usd/month is about 200 Rupees a day - you do not need to look that hard to find accommodation&food in India for that amount.

I was in Northern India about 4 years ago for 2 months, and traveling (which is several times more expansive than just staying in one place, especially since I ate at restaurants and did all kinds of touristy things) cost me about 300-400 usd/month.
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This article is rambling and lacking substance. Wikipedia has some more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala
That does not follow. There is nothing about having a simple to do list or tracking your hours that implies multitasking.
Well, you can add a little bit of time to one task, then add some more time to another task as per the video, which is essentially for multitasking.
One of the best days I've had since starting my current company has been receiving an email from a C-level at our largest competitor, pointing out a flaw in the product comparison table on our website (due to the fact that they had released a new version that added one of the features we had that they didn't). I imagine the guys at Mint must have been downright giddy receiving this letter.

On another note...Whenever I get into a conversation about a business I wish I'd started, Mint is the first one that comes to mind. It's such a huge market, and Intuit has failed so miserably to make the transition to the web--and if they ever admit that the web is a better way to solve this problem, they'll have to accept dramatically lower per-user revenue, which is something that very few companies have the balls to do. It's why the tech industry has massive churn every 10-20 years--market leaders get eaten from the bottom (mainframes by minis, minis by micros, etc. for example).
I think it simply depends on what you are doing. Multi-Tasking can be very inspiring and fostering creativity - sometimes you need to focus, sometimes you need to
stroll around different thoughts and activities.
996 out of a thousand would be 99.6%, but I agree with your suspicions.
Singletasking: Simple principles to organise a working day.
that link alone made todays HN visit worthwhile, thank you so much.
Most. Boring. Apple. Rumor. Ever.
What I find interesting that with espn.com in the first paragrpahs, he describes one of the futures of television (Future? end game.).
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The choice of medium will lie with the recipient. That's the promise the web holds for us. I hope it fullfills it.
It's not even close to uncharted territory. You can walk into any Apple store and buy a 1-terabyte backup device off the shelf.

OK so it won't handle your databases properly but that's not the point; 500G is not a troublesome amount of data these days.
Jack Dorsey on the Twitter ecosystem, journalism and how to reduce reply spam. Part II
Yes, and in the case of espn: you didn't think Joe Intosports likes to read (espicially at the evening, it's too much like work).
The problem does not lie with video - the problem is that video today is very linear. Even people who think they prefer text do not actually do so - they just prefer being in control of the reading speed and being able to immediately jump to the information they want.

Imagine video that behaved like a real person sitting opposite you. You type in google - "Where is Tibet", and a video immediately pops up with a person who says "Tibet is in China" and at the bottom of the video a bunch of relevant extra information popup, allowing you to jump up and down in the video. This would work a lot better.

Video has to become searchable, navigable, and you should be able to have an information context in any videos that you watch. Then the web will benefit by becoming video based.
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Well, extrapolate the data, from a largely rural society where you could get through life without ever reading a single word, and today, where literacy is held in somewhat higher regard, and the effect of mandatory education on literacy rates doesn't look that profound.

I'd say the basic introduction to liberal arts and natural sciences are much better arguments for mandatory education than literacy rates.
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Nope. Mine (a rather expensive one) doesn't have that. An old Pocket PC of mine did though.
True enough :) Another big factor is that television / video by default are passive, in other words your brain is in a different mode than when you are reading. A person that is reading is far more likely to see an advertisement for what it is, an interruption of their day and a waste of bandwidth. Television / video consumers are more in the mood for wasting time and will pay attention to almost everything as long as it moves.
That MP3/Cd player would be awesome if the plastic down the bottom curved around a little so it would essentially be a permanently docked piece of hardware... sort of a set top device for the home rather than a mobile device.

It would be reminiscent of a Bang and Olufsen design
Human eye may be able to detect quantum entanglement
I think it's more subtle than that; it's edge vs core. Edge systems are the ones (non-tech) people interact with, and have a very high turnover. 3270 one day, then Visual Basic, then Cold Fusion, then Java, then AJAX, then... There's a lot of churn so there's work, but there's also a lot of elasticity, a company won't really hurt if it delays projects like this for a year, it can even skip a generation. Core systems are the ones that operate the business. There's a lot less churn here and fewer people employed... But if a change needs to be made to support a new product or process or regulation or to integrate an acquired company, then it has to be done. Similarly these systems have to be up 24/7 and there are people needed to do that.

My experience over 15 years (almost all of it core) is that edge people can make fortunes and get written up in magazines in the good times as everyone jumps onto the latest bandwagon but suffer in the bad times when everyone realizes that what they've got does the job perfectly well and if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Core people have much stabler careers, but will never be "rockstars" (and we aren't interested in being either).
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So annoying we don't have mint in Australia I hate doing the finances manually.

Is anyone here able to describe how their interface to your bank account works in more detail? I haven't heard a great explanation of it.

Part of me is still amazed that many people have happily typed in their banking passwords.
Online crime costs start-ups £800 a year each
I caught an accidental double charge when checking my balances on my iPhone through mint's app while at work.

I use auto bill-pay, but the bill wasn't due for two weeks anyway.
That's a pretty remarkable price elasticity of demand, and it kind of makes me wonder about the rationality of the purchasers. If a game costs $50, a 25% cut merely saves you $12.50 -- that is enough to more than double revenue? Odd.
The word 'start-ups' is here just as linkbait, the article mentions 'small businesses' only. Every business online is subject to spam, phishing and every other trick under the sun, start-ups are no exception.
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The consensus so far seems to be "no, not for good developers, but it's affected everything else." Does that imply that good developers were accepting pay too low before?

Or is it just the way people are measuring? A good programmer should get better over time, so their work should be more valuable each year. Taking a new job is often similar to a salary renegotiation, so do the people reporting the same pay imply that either they're not a good developer (because they didn't get better), or that the economy has in fact affected the going rate of good programmers?
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Coding War Games
"Prompts" sounds stilted, "raises" is an extra syllable.
The Bad Apple: Group Poison
Although my projects are small and not currently using TDD, I found this analysis in systematizing development strategies. Present five ways of breaking down ways you set yourself up for intermittent failures during development:

Hidden data dependence

Race conditions

Time sensitive tests

Unstable 3rd party software

Intentional randomness in code.
Well, if sharing copyrighted content isn't illegal,..

It isn't in some countries. It's been proven in court many times.
I agree that "prompts" sounds stilted, but are you seriously advocating using something that's incorrect -- "begs" -- instead of "raises" just because it's slightly shorter?
I got fired and then found a better job. It seems I'm not alone in this. Strange crisis.

May I ask what environment do you use for mobile? I accidentally did some J2ME three years ago and it was funny.
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Almost everyone that owns a computer system has a printer. Mention the words laserjet, inkjet or even dot matrix and people will understand the reference. The most common usage of these devices is rather dull: to print documents and photographs.
Is that why they can make dubious security/privacy claims like:

Mint uses only your account login credentials for access to your account information and Mint does not store these credentials.

Clearly that information needs to be stored somewhere, but Mint can make it sound to the users that it is magically not stored (because it's technically not stored by Mint).

I haven't actually used the service. I have a general aversion to services that ask me for my password to a 3rd party account. The import-your-contacts types are bad enough, but bank account access is just too much for me to potentially give up.
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I hope they post the video soon. I'm an amateur R user, and it'd be great to see actual use cases from statisticians & developers from Google, facebook, et al.
i tried this, since so many of you reported interesting results. it didn't do much for me.

a common theme seems to be: "it looked weird at first, but then i went back to my default settings, which looks blinding." might i suggest that the real problem is you've simply got the brightness on your monitor turned up too high?

yeah, it looks cool at first. you get a new monitor, play with the settings, and you decide it looks most striking on full blast. i've long thought that's a recipe for eyestrain.

i've got an apple 23-inch cinema display. i keep its brightness set on the lowest possible setting. if there were two or three lower settings, i'd try those.
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Elvis is alive He just logged into Facebook, or did he?
Could it be that Gisin thinks there is more to entanglement than meets the eye?

Ooooh, I love the smell of a cheap, cheap joke in the morning :-)

Regarding the actual question, I think this is a case of garnering publicity (and attached funding) rather than of needing eyes to test entanglement. Instruments have served as adequate "observers" for some time now as far as I know, so I don't think there are any philosophical implications to having a human observer as opposed to any other kind of observer.
How do you get Internet connection? Or do you just post from the local version of an Internet Café?
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Continuous deployment vs. old-school QA
interesting details:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon.h...
So instead of a 17-byte string, you get some enormous video (not simply audio, but a video with pictures and everything) of someone telling you exactly the same thing that you could have read in a few seconds?

I agree that things like searchable video have their place, but it is not for stuff like that!
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A group of 4 with one deliberately undermining a group is 30% less productive. Now 25% of that is obviously just the 1/4 people not performing. Interesting to see that the individual productivity of the other team members was affected less than 2% each, which suggests that the larger the group, the less effect the "bad apple" has - it's not the case that the behaviour spreads out of proportion.
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Those seem like pretty high numbers if you counted everyone who lived there, which would include a lot of slaves. Did he count them? And they all knew how to read and write? Seems dubious to me. If he did not count them, who else did he not count?
Agree. It's especially annoying when the video link is not marked as such on the newspaper site. I immediately bounce back. If I wanted video I'd be elshewhere.
I don't know... there are also a lot of 'screencasts' coming out from developers. Personally I can't really stand them, for most of the reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread. The only excuse for them that I could see would be that they'd be easier to put together than a well-written article with appropriate code clippings and images, but I'm skeptical of that.
As purely a user (and fan) of JS-Kit, I feel the need to mention that JS-Kit comments have had Facebook Connect implemented for a while now. I use them for my blog. It takes a couple seconds to get up and running (like Disqus, from what I gather), and they are quite customizable.

http://js-kit.com/comments/features.html
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That was completely unnecessary. Never did he mention "marketing asshats" exercising some amount of control over any git developer. He mentioned that GitHub acts as free marketing for git. For git users, git getting increased attention is a benefit. More projects using git is a benefit. More hackers hacking on git is a benefit. More tools built around git is a benefit.

Your anger is grossly misplaced, and really lacks any use in this conversation.
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TDD means you write your test before you write your code.

Test code is code. You must write test code for your test code before you can write your test code.

Test code for test code is code. You must write test code for your test code for your test code before you can write your test code for your test code.

TDD is trapped in a loop of infinite regression. This means that TDD never produces actual application code. In fact, it can't even produce test code. How do you define a test of a test of a test .... of a test ... of a test ..... so you can write it? You can't define it so you can't write it. You have no starting point.

The answer must be that you really cannot do TDD. You just call it TDD. At some level you rely on the old standby of clean simple design, incremental implementation, inspection, and manual testing. Why not cut to the chase and do that on your application code?
That's not really correct, if they'd lost 100% productivity instead then each person wouldn't have been (75 - 0) / 3 = 25% less productive. Dividing like that's not valid.
I'm a geek, a business owner, a dad and a Quickbooks user. I've known about Mint for a long time but never seriously considered using them ... until now.
Was there a drop in retail sails to compensate?
What's in a Bonus Figure? Not Accuracy
What like blogging and writing software?
The actor who plays Mr. Bean has an M.S. in EE. It's not uncommon for famous comedians in other countries to have technical degrees.
A good post with interesting pointers for someone who is eyeing with R like me. A solid background of statistics is required, it's time to catch up for me!
I'd change my HN name to Rory if I had the choice: I'd rather have this tied to my name.

I'd much rather have real names used on blogs and news sites, personally. It feels cozier that way. When I comment on other blogs I always use my full name.
How to Keep Innovating
I really hate reading Atwood. His writing is generally boring, but I can deal with that. The problem is that random phrases are emphasized for no reason. Is his readership so dumb that they won't be able to extract the main ideas from his article with them being in bold?

Anyway, it really annoys me. I wish Steve Yegge would blog more often and drown Atwood out :)
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I would say that unless you're brilliant, learning to program takes way more practice than you will get in school. College is still a great way to meet hot chicks though.
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This is a far better article than the 37-signals one. Don't know why it was at -1. It's excellent, do read it.
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Yes. One way to learn is to compare things to each other and find out why they are different. The answers are usually illuminating.
Hear, hear. A courageous article. How often journals such as Science or popular outlets as Scientific American permit themselves creeping or outright ad-hominemisms.

Recapture politics to fortify the scientific method: publish all data and source code, publish negative results, aid higher rates of experiment replication and competitive epidemiological studies.
I kind of agree here - I much prefer the control over text, until the text gets massive. It's very easy to keep getting lost in one big page of text when trying to follow along a guide of something.

It's also pretty bad trying to follow guides when the text is full of pictures.

Google finance has a fantastic dynamic web application feature - it has a big graph of stock price for the stock you are looking at, and next to it a list of news items relevant to that company and its industry.

As you zoom and scroll the graph, the news items change to only show news for the time period you are looking at.
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It's oddly work safe. I wonder what Zed's up to.
Greedy Routing Enables Network Navigation Without A 'Map'
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He stated a while ago that he was planning on dropping the attitude and semi-starting over. It seems like he is working to make good on his promise.
Do you deserve it?
"market leaders get eaten from the bottom"

Textbook Innovator's Dilemma.
Not for RoR, but for PHP I've had great success with http://pchart.sourceforge.net/

Check out one of my quick and dirty graphs: http://yowzas.com/charts/view/0316017922.gif
We're Having a Chicago Tea Party in July
Anyone know who are the HN moderators? Are there any these days?
Oh! I hadn't known.
That took a lot of work, very impressive. Even if this whole crisis thing doesn't interest you watch it anyway for the clarity of the production.
http://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1230356535
Ask HN: Best email for elders?
This was an idea I had toyed with but I don't think there's that much of a market for. However my girlfriend's mom is getting on the Internet and she wants us to set her up with email. Any thoughts or experience on which web client is most friendly for internet neophytes and elderly folks?
Maybe not a bad division, from a business model perspective. Some companies are better at developing the "tech", that then can be licensed to multiple user facing companies whose expertise is customer relationships and UI.

But the risk for the back end company is that the user facing company owns the customer relationship. It is probably easier for them to replace the tech than for the tech company to replace the customer relationships.
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He dropped the tough-guy stuff a bit ago, admitted to creating said persona for (more-or-less) the purposes of trolling, and announced that he would be acting a lot more serious in the future.
Is this the death of Zed Shaw as we know it? Goodbye interesting articles...
Huh, I guess I've been out of the Zed Shaw loop for a little while. Thanks for filling me in!
My mom is happy with Gmail, and she really isn't a computer person.
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Agreed, I signed up my mother with Gmail a couple months ago and she couldn't be happier.

She's not really picky.
The thing that strikes me as fairly amazing is that I'm not unhappy with gmail, and my computer experience and needs are night and day from my mom's. Any product that can be an ok tool for such a broad range of people is pretty good.

Although... I really am starting to wish I could hack on the damn thing to improve it:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2009/02/17/gmail-associate-addres...
It was a special case, as the "Left for Dead" sale was featured on major online social news outlets. So i think it is not at all representative for the general case. But the article contains data about the general case, and they are encouraging : 50 percent sale = 320 percent increase in sales.
Yeah, that quality was really surprising to us. We weren't expecting to move so quickly, but when we found a place we could rent it moved very quickly.

We've wondered what it's like to live in the foothills. How long does it take to get to Palo Alto/Mountain View?
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