skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this argument really depends on how much sleep you're getting/missing-- not just for that night but over an extended period of time. As a student, I didn't just use snooze-- I actually set 3 or 4 separate alarms in addition to having snooze enabled on every alarm. The reason for this being that I wouldn't even hear the first alarm and would often unconsciously hit the snooze button without knowing it.
At one point I had up to 4 different alarm times with different ringtones, volumes, and snooze durations using both my smartphone and a regular alarm clock! And I remember still not waking up for a few classes during long periods of sleep deprivation.

After graduating this year. I started sleeping on a regular schedule. I consistently slept from 2am - 11am (9 hours) for over two months and now I can get up each morning at 9am using one alarm, and automatically 9:30am-10am without an alarm at all.
Stripe.com is still not well tested here in Canada

Then lower your expectations until it is better tested. They just launched and the fact they chose Canada has been incredible. I have nothing but great things to say about Stripe from my own use.
I've always just traded favors with more experienced coders for this kind of thing. I'm the sort of person who always jumps in when somebody needs a favor, so I inevitably have people I can turn to when I need one.

Best day ever (well two best days, it's happened twice): the first time someone whom I considered a much better coder than I came to me for a code review.
I'm with you. What I dread is missing an email (spam filter, etc), not actually receiving messages.
Banned Books Week Sept. 30 - Oct. 6
The Horrible Moment when Everything Works
I see this story differently. I see a fairly common, two-stage approach toward programming enlightenment.

In the first stage, you simply go forth and try. And you drown in complexity. This stage is important, because it's what motivates the second stage. And we shouldn't underestimate the sheer volume of useful trivia that seeps into one's head here.

In the second stage, you shift focus to the longer-term project of mastering the underlying concepts.

Many people get stuck in stage 1, though some of them manage to have careers in programming anyway.

Other people try to skip straight to stage 2, but they often lack the context to understand why the concepts are important, and so they struggle. I think many people who get frustrated in introductory computer science classes fall into this group.
This line from the article had a particular resonance for me given the slow drip feed of articles from Patio11 on HN gradually establishing credibility ↬

Drip marketing means sending a timed sequence of emails to educate, persuade, and only then sell.
"Edit: My take: just because a folder is private doesn't mean you couldn't suddenly make it "public", making Microsoft the proud host of illicit pornography. I say illicit because I'm sure there are, depending on the state, laws to abide by which you must have a "18+" warning/prompt in order to access it."

Wouldn't the Safe Harbor provisions that cover online forums and the such negate the need for that worry?

(Sidenote: I want to down vote you since the "don't break the law and you don't have to worry" is such a flawed line of thinking but at the same time I want to up vote you for introducing me to the word "jagaloon".)
Sleepy, waking-up me is not rational and wants to go back to sleep. Alarm's purpose is to wake up enough of rational me to make this happen. Optimally more-rested me would be more rational. Realistically, longer period of time dealing with annoying noise wakes me up more.

Going to see if I can get myself off the snooze cycle starting tonight.
That underlies a major issue i'm seeing more of in the tech startup scene: Coming up with solutions to problems a large majority of users don't face. Blog after blog proclaiming that "Email is broken", "It's time to rethink email" etc, etc.

No. Your users don't think that at all. They are happily chugging along, oblivious to the crises manufactured by neckbeards. Your value proposition needs to be reframed in terms of what your product can do on it's own merit; without the need to attempt to deprecate an existing technology/platform.
Hi gmac, appreciate the note - understand where you're coming from.

It's really important to us at TelAPI to expose as many features to developers as possible. Telcos offer all of these features to different businesses and organizations already. Consequently, we want to ensure they're available to every developer as well.

There's so much room for innovation in the telephony space, we want to ensure TelAPI facilities it in every way possible.

We're really excited to see what you guys come up with!
The problem with this is that I'd like to use the service at work, but if people are inspecting the content, we probably can't use it since the drive would contain proprietary information.
I have weaned myself off alarms.

Fuck alarms. Go to bed on time. That's the new alarm.

I find I still wake up at the exact same time every day. 7AM.

Still single and/or like to go out? Pick your battles.
Very true, all your points. But the need is still there.

And I hear you about the quota problem. They should just make it take up the quota of the person doing the sharing... Or am I missing something? But in the meantime I am using Dropbox and I really, really did not want to become a Dropboxer.
Adding "clear: left;" to the h1's style seems to yield the expected result, perhaps the problem isn't with the floated items but instead with the blocks? Is there some new rule about the default clear behavior?
First I've heard of Chilling Effects. Their website (http://chillingeffects.org) looks like a conspiracy theory website, but I guess take-down requests are rather conspiratorial.
I appreciate that someone is making an email app for power users. It does a lot of the things I am currently forced to hack onto Gmail's priority inbox (I leave items I need to revisit in my inbox, archive "done" tasks, and star items I want to revisit in the distant future). On the other hand, I have grown so accustomed to Gmail's conversation view that there is no way I can give it up, even for a really good service, and it doesn't look like Mail Pilot has this feature.

Gmail's conversation view is in my opinion a nearly insurmountable barrier to entry for other companies. 1) It's a tough natural language processing task, which means startups have trouble with it. 2) It requires someone algorithmically reading all my emails, which means it's such a PR nightmare to even try it that only Google is willing to weather the storm.
I was referencing her educational course called 3x500.
I've done this for junior high school students with great success. I keep meaning to write up methods/curriculum but haven't found the time yet. You can email me at HedgeMage -AT- binaryredneck -DOT- net if you'd like to touch base and get some pointers.
Please enable HTTPS on your blog.
I tried to sign up but it kept telling me my password was not good enough, although I was sure to include the required characters.
I miss Steve, this would never had happened if he was there
dawg, where isn't bash these days?
What's the turnaround time for the Gold/Platinum transcription? What's the estimated accuracy for them?
I have this cool Android app "I can't wake up", which I can only turn off by scanning a bar code in my bathroom. It works very well; before I had problems with snoozing, and if I don't set my alarm at all I consistently fall asleep again after I first wake up. I have simply become addicted to the dreams I have in this light sleep, so my rational thinking is completely overriden.
Re: Hakin9's new Nmap Guide
Google seems to relay the majority of their legal notices there for many years now [1]. That said, the site didn't change at all in those years, either. Just an information trove rotting away.

[1] You can try searching for "Amy Weber" on Google (random query I pulled from one of the complaints, semi-nsfw). For me, it shows multiple links to CE with respective DMCA-esque requests made to german governmental bodies. You aren't affected by those in the USA, but theres a DMCA one, too.
A paradox well-stated.
I believe our mentality is good engineers want interesting problems to solve and can learn any language. We're interested in what you've done, not the language can do it in.
Way to go! Next up MVCC using do-nuts
Amazon breaks down its Kindle Paperwhite light technology
Here in Sweden, Google Maps have transit directions for buses, subways, trams and boats in at least the three major cities.
Might have some pretty major security flaws...

https://github.com/openwebos/core-apps/tree/master/com.palm....
Create a custom icon that goes to the Google Maps homepage? That's really they suggested solution? Wow...
The main selling point of Grove over any other IRC provider is the beautiful UI that is easily understandable by non-technical users, and the easy linkability of historical content (for reference in emails, development tickets, etc).
The Federal Circuit's TSM (teaching, suggestion, or motivation) requirement for showing non-obviousness was overruled by the Supreme Court in its 2007 KSR v. Teleflex opinion, available at http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5415246430487863...

KSR stressed the need for common sense in obviousness analysis; it also mentioned that "obvious to try" can be considered.

An excellent summary of the case by a young and well-regarded patent law professor is at http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2007/04/ksr_v_teleflex_.html.
Which versions are you thinking of in particular? I know 2007 added OneNote, and from what I've been able to tell 2010 improved stability over 2007.
There's new ICC support in Chrome 22. Perhaps that is interacting poorly with some setting in your system?
Indeed, one example of commercial use that's possible (and desirable!) under these licenses is printing the books and selling them. Blocking that would make it harder to get the books into students' hands.
It does not indeed, but one is wise to not get pissed off when privacy is breached. It's fighting the current, and hopeless.

Much wiser is to not upload anything anywhere that you would not like to see posted publicly or read by someone; or at least strongly encrypt stuff and deal with the inconveniences that it brings.

My point is not that privacy breaches are excusable, rather that they will happen eventually, even if privacy was promised/assumed/implied.
Interesting UI - needs better topic discovery, maybe track popular/active/trending topics. Realtime search feed is cool but prone to griefing. Maybe hide scrollbars when not in use?
Your parent is referring to the long time period before Firefox really took off that IE6 was Microsoft's best offering, and we've all heard how terrible it was ad nauseum. Even once FF took off, it took them years, until IE9 in fact, to release a browser that could be considered semi-modern and standards compliant, and it still is missing a number of important features, and isn't even available on Windows XP.

That IE is no longer rotting is certainly true, but that's only because of the competitive pressure from FF (and now Chrome and Safari as well, of course.)
this is great. ambitious, yes, but it's well put together, very little friction which is always good.

keep the spam in control (i already see someone going Roxbury with the topics) and I can't see it not being sticky.

broken on iPhone which only surprised me because since it's already so modular i just assumed it to be mobile ready :P
When I was an undergrad and graduate student I got into the habit of always doing the readings pencil in hand, which involves filling in the details of the important proofs, and doing some simple problems of my own devising before going to the lecture. I still do that before I work the exercises for an online course.

Of course whether I finish the exercises before the lecture completes really depends on the course. If it is implementing a simple algorithm and devising some test cases for it then it is often the case. If it is implementing an ML algorithm over a large data set, of course not.

Also I have been working in open offices for a long time, so I have learned to focus when there is a lot of background noise. I usually do not start paying attention to the lectures unless it sounds like there is a good joke, or I am getting stuck doing the exercises.

I also do not actually watch the lectures, I only listen to them unless I get stuck in the exercises.
This was an honest question to clarify what was meant by faded away... I appreciated the response... what is the problem? Sheesh
Yes. It seems like you could reuse a lot of work from your web application with something like WebOS.

("It seems" == totally unfounded guesswork).

iOS development seems like more of a temporary stopgap to the eventual rise a great standardized mobile web platform. Well, temporary meaning "probably 4-5 years or so".
Every browser suffers this occasionally. In fact every piece of software does. To suddenly throw it all out is childish. Look at the SQL injection vulnerability in rails recently. Has that killed it? Looks at the java vulnerability. Has that killed it? Look at the number of ssh worms - has that killed it?
That almost works. But it seems like you can't have tab to <i>both</i> bring up a list of completions <i>and</i> cycle through completions which zsh does.
Nonsense - their service is extremely cheap.

For the record, I paid their top tier price (actually more than that - they created a custom plan just for us because we had over 50 users) happily for several months (and would have paid 2x more).

First, they have this nice web UI, which means hardcore geeks in the company could use their IRC clients while other people just using the channels ocasionally to get support (not all of them technical staff) can use the web version instead.

If that saved one hour of my infrastructure staff overall (and I am sure it saved quite a bit more than that) it was worth it - hiring first class infrastructure staff is very challenging, so their time is worth gold.

OTOH, sadly the service was unstable/crashed a lot and eventually we gave up and migrated to xmpp.

I actually wish they had charged more, because maybe with that they could have fixed those issues more quickly and I could have avoided another painful migration...
"Pithatician" is a novel use of πείθειν, "to persuade;" it reminds me of pithiatism, which is supposed to be a form of hysteria curable by persuasive suggestion.
There are many ways of allocating resources. A free market (if and when it exists) is one, and it tends to be efficient, if not fair.

Others include lottery, kleptocracy, autocracy, social-welfare state, theocracy, anarchy, communism, socialism, despotism.
Thanks for the Gunicorn hot-reloading tip. I've been using Gunicorn with Supervisor, and I wish I'd known about the SIGHUP trick earlier.
This is awesome, but appears to be broken right now.
These are solutions to problems faced by middle- and upper-management, so there are real customers out there that have this real problem. The difficulty, however, is getting this cool, shiny solution into their existing corporate email workflow.
Chrome does, too: http://support.google.com/chromeos/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Inside NZ Police Megaupload files: US investigation began in 2010
Whoa, this game is awesome. I especially like how you can figure out ways to get the flying things trapped in the center by orbiting them carefully.
Adapteva turns to Kickstarter to fund massively parallel processor
(Work at Facebook, but not on this system, and know nothing about it.)

It looks like the search matches on job title/position, and not content. That does seem a bit unexpected.

In general, Facebook does not place much emphasis on programming languages that people know before they start at the job, and part of the Bootcamp process includes the expectation that people will be learning at least one language they don't know (unless they already know C++, Java, PHP, and Python at a production-code-writing-ability, and then they'll have to learn our libraries anyway).

We obviously discuss the languages we use and what we use them for during the hiring process so that people know what they're getting themselves into - people might be looking for something familiar to ease themselves into it, or they might be looking to explore a new language when they start.

(Yes, we use Python for a bunch of stuff. And I know we had a few people working on talk abstracts for PyCon to try meet the deadline that explore a few ways we use it.)
I'd love to see some competition, but it's a tough nut to crack. Yahoo gave it a try for a few years, but ended up shutting their offering down. Google has millions of paying advertisers, billions of page views and the ability to match them up in real time. All the while providing analytics to both sides. You're not going to beat them at efficiency.

I get pitches from ad networks all the time, but they are almost never able to beat AdSense. Google never had to set up a conference call to win my business, they just do a better job,
Its an interesting take on topic chat. The trolls will ruin it for a while (you can already see some of this) but the base idea is cool.
Study Shows Power of Cute Improves Concentration - Japan Real Time - WSJ
I agree. The best thing I have ever done was get a job without a set schedule. Turning off the damn alarm is awesome.

The funny thing is, a couple months after I dumped my alarm, I started getting up early on my own. Now, I am up well before I used to get up with an alarm, and I don't feel like shit all morning.
There was a surprisingly large "enterprise" crowd using Tcl, as it's pretty great for self-contained environments. You have to generate the binding to your own proprietary legacy interfaces anyway, and lots of situations benefit from proper event handling and easy enough GUIs (esp. canvas graphics). And every enterprise GUI looks bad anyway, so complaints about Tcls' L&F were rare.

I think it missed some important opportunities, and was too focused on GUI stuff. And after all, the Perl/Python/Ruby bindings to Tk weren't that bad, either. In the early days of the web, tcl actually was a pretty good option (as a rival to Perl/CGI). And aolserver was pretty neat (still is, I'd say). But then it didn't go with the times, gtk/Qt stole the Unix OSS GUI thunder, RMS ranted against it, lua came along for embedded interpreters, Ousterhout moved around from Sun, to Scriptics to whoknowswhere… It's easy enough to miss your window.

At least it's still more popular than Pike… I wouldn't rule out a small comeback, there aren't any technical reasons against it, it's well maintained, fast, has a very good codebase etc.
Your comment is confusing to me. plugin-container.exe is a Firefox process, not chrome.
Service Oriented Side Effects
In the case of a national security letter, you have to sue the U.S. government. It's rare, but possible. The Internet Archive did it, and won.

http://archive.org/post/192021/fbi-gag-order-against-the-int...
Horrible JPEG compression http://www.mailpilot.co/images/img5.jpg
What would a persistent connection do for me if I'm offline? (honest question)
I needed to read that, thank you.
> As for bad ideas, nothing in the law prevents you patenting useless or non-valuable things.

Actually, section 101 of the patent statute expressly states that an invention must be useful in order to be patented. "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title." (Emphasis added.)

There have been court cases in which patents were invalidated because their claimed subject matter had no discernible utility. See, e.g., the Janssen case: A patent claimed the use of a particular chemical formulation to treat Alzheimer's, but apparently there was zero evidence that the treatment actually had any effect. The case is summarized at http://www.pharmapatentsblog.com/2010/12/07/solving-utility-....
You're right – we messed up here, and I am sorry for that.

There were some upstream difficulties in transferring USD funds to Canadian bank accounts. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand how important it is to have transfers go through reliably–your business depends on this–and so we are wiring the funds (of course, at no cost to you) as an immediate fix. We are continuing to monitor the transfers situation and we will make sure that you continue to get your money correctly and on time.

We could have communicated this more clearly, and are working in parallel to improve this going forward (though we of course hope to not see any problems like this). To that end, we are looking into proactive emails for these situations on the off-chance that this happens in the future.

Again, I'm very sorry that you are having to deal with this. We've built Stripe so that you don't have to think about the complexities of accepting payments online–including receiving your money–and I hope that you'll let us show you how important this is. I'll be watching this HN thread, but you're also welcome to email me directly at michael@stripe.com if you ever need anything.
Odd it loads in 2 seconds for me even on ie9.
Developing: Open webOS Ported to Galaxy Nexus Phone
Not exaggerating at all. I've never been in a position where I felt I had to lower my standards below "the best in the world (for our team)", and I've always been able to turn down a candidate who doesn't meet that criteria without having to worry about having an empty seat. That's how tech hiring should be; you're building an effective team rather than laying bricks.

Maybe I've been lucky with the organizations I've been associated with, but none of them has thought of hiring as filling slots, or of internships as anything other than nurturing the most promising young people to become great hires later.

Are people really hiring interns to get work done? No wonder we have so much unimaginative cookie-cutter software! I mean, there's no doubt that tons of people use absolutely abysmal hiring practices where making certain decisions would make them even worse, but that's not really interesting to talk about.
As a longtime chronic insomniac: don't screw around and take your sleep for granted. It sounds like you are seriously sleep-depriving yourself. Take it as seriously as proper exercise and nutrition. If you make apps, your mind being sharp is critical. An athlete wouldn't pig out on junk food and avoid exercise would they?

I'm following a series of exercise videos, which I try to do first thing after arriving home from work in the evening. Find a routine that suits you. Don't feel guilty if Random Joe Blogger's routine doesn't suit your situation. If you are blessed with great sleep: seize it with both hands!
What makes me the most suspicious of it is the content policy they have in place and I've been told they're actually enforcing. Basically it says you can't have certain things in skydrive, otherwise they'll terminate all the services connected to your Microsoft account. It's not that hard to imagine a scenario where this could be a problem. Say you have image auto-upload on on your Lumia, and in a party some drunken fellow decides to take a picture of his naughty bits. Off goes your MS account and all the services and data with it?
But the thing is that he is not selling himself at all. He writes some code for him and then maybe decides to release it as open source in case someone else finds it useful.
A concise and limited query syntax for constructing MongoDB queries.
Yeah. It's almost like a drug.
For new users, perhaps. For people that have been using office since '97, it was a huge kick in the face.
i wonder how so they test maps? I mean, there cant be test cases for every major co-ordinates. Probably Apple fucked up in their maps testing.