skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When FogBugz on Demand launched, Joel touted 2 data centers[1] , in NY and LA, "for the once-in-a-lifetime case of an entire data center blowing up". What happened to the second data center?

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lHEK939...
> benzodiazepines generally lower cognitive ability

On the subject of a particular drug sometimes being useful and sometimes counter-productive, the missing link is that the brain has several points of neurochemical homeostasis - these are also known as 'moods'. Moving from a given mood to another requires some combination of influences. E.g. moving from mood X to Y may require a boost in dopamine while moving from mood Z to Y may require more GABA. This is why it's relative and different people are not affected by the same drugs in the same ways - their baseline levels of major neurotransmitters differ. So one person has a natural tendency towards mood X while another tends towards mood Y - i.e. one person has naturally high dopamine levels which another has high levels of serotonin.

I believe that these tendencies are the result of the body adapting to the conditions it grew up in. The major factors I can see are diet, the social situation (both in terms of family and culture-at-large), amount of exercise, genetics and pollutants.

I completely agree that mood and productivity are inherently inseparable. It's not a one way relationship either - they affect each other. Hell, everything in the brain seems to affect everything else in the brain. It's a giant web of dependencies and influences. It reminds me a lot of badly designed legacy software systems - everything makes sense when you dig in deep but looks like an absolute mess from afar.
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And never would allow that much integration across all apps. If that what you want, best get a Nexus 4.
Am I missing something or is there no way to pick the sender address in the new composer?
Before my rant: I think the Haskell community is incredibly nice. It is the most helpful and brilliant group of people I have interacted with in my life.

Rant:

Yes, I have spent a while getting up to speed with Haskell. I think it has definitely made me a better programmer to learn, but I really don't like how quickly everything seems to go in the deep end.

The need for the 'right' abstraction and 'good enough' stuff like Cabal really irritates me. Cabal is especially hurtful to the community growing. I think there needs to be a much bigger investment in Nix, that is an absolutely amazing project that barely gets the attention it deserves.

Another thing that really makes me not want to invest time in Haskell is how quickly code starts to depend on language addons. I think that idea can be done well, like in Racket, but for Haskell it really seems like a scary way of bandaging the standard.
One of the reasons that I finally jumped over to the Mac was the fact that it was one of the few laptops that provided 1680x1050 at around 15".

My previous 2 Windows laptops had been that resolution, but when I came to upgrade about 2 or 3 years ago, that resolution seemed to have been abandoned for 15" laptops by pretty much everyone apart from Apple. Most of them had gone to 1440 or even less. A handful of pretty expensive, at least Apple price, and usually quite bulky, ones offered 1920x1200 but given that the scaling didn't look too great on them at the time I though that this might be just a bit too small for me, and if I was going to be paying about the same price for a Windows PC as I was paying for a Mac one - and not get the resolution I wanted anyway on Windows, I thought I'd bite the bullet and see what all of the Mac fuss was about.
That's absolutely true, but you were quite explicit about Nexus devices also being included.

Edit: Adobe made their original statement that they were moving away from Flash on mobile devices a year ago: http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/9/2549196/adobe-flash-androi...
How other search engines rank your site is a (mostly) a secret. ProCog seems to show exactly how they (ProCog) ranked your site and why. I liked the 'spammy words' score on the webpage breakdown - that would be really useful for SEO.

It also shows inbound links and how they effect your rank. Last time I worked in SEO (a couple of years ago) we either had to pay for that sort of report or build our own web spider to generate the report.
There are a lot of concurrency related libraries implementing all kind of abstractions. Distributed computation is upcoming. There is an overview here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_librarie...
Using Google products with the idea that you can avoid giving out personal information to them is not wise. I was also considering the Nexus, but why bother fighting against the product's design.

Still, AFAIK, you won't see actual ads in the OS.
Any laptop I buy for any one, I always replace it with SSD. Higher dpi doesnot matter much for a programer but higher screen estate or resolution matters more.
Not that I could tell - it did the typical screen doubling trick, and presumably renders the fonts nicely - but I couldn't get extra screen real-estate the way I would if the screen was 2560x1600. The 15" MacBook Pro Retina actually felt _smaller_ than my 2010 MacBook Air. It screen shrinks back to 1280x800, and my 2010 MacBook Air runs at 1440x900.

Or maybe it was the Font Handling - I was hoping that it would look okay (just small) at Andale Mono 4 - but it pixelated.

Regardless - In my 5 minutes of futzing at the apple store I could get it to do what I wanted (Basically, make the Screen look 2560x1600 to Terminal.app, but have the OS treat it as 1280x800)
CasaHop's Co-Founder Florent Peyre Leaves The 'Airbnb Killer' Just 6 Months..
Is this a slideshow? I can't do anything here in FF 16.0.1.
I think a better thing to mention is Jocaml; I think that is the true successor of *ML as much as Microsoft doesn't want to admit.
I've been thinking the same thing lately. 2560x1600 needs to be the standard resolution for all laptops from 11"-15". In fact the 15"+ ones can start having 4k resolution (300 PPI) about 2 years from now, as both Intel integrated GPU's and ARM GPU's will support that resolution.
Social catastrophes
My gamma waves must be low because I too read it as "gamma rays"
On Windows Phone 7, the Facebook app is made by Microsoft. It will probably be the same for Windows 8...

Facebook probably requires a larger user base before investing on a platform.
I would love to see what apps would be produced if e-ink devices became an important platform. I really think about 80% or the apps I use could be remade for e-ink without losing much functionality.

Forced simplicity is always interesting. Kind of a "didn't have the time to write a short letter" principle.
Attention young professionals - what is in your digital baggage?
After Hurricane Andrew, my father and I needed to siphon gasoline from one of our cars to use in our generator. Lacking a proper container, we siphoned the gas into a 5 gallon plastic water cooler bottle. The gasoline promptly ate through the bottle's seam and spilled out, dissolving a good size chunk of our asphalt driveway. Lesson learned: use only approved storage containers for gasoline.
My question as well. Though I think you can scale service businesses, they scale differently to product businesses. (E-myth revisited provides a roadmap).

But yes, cleaning is already a crowded market, and if someone could make the "Starbucks of cleaning companies", you'd think they'd have done it anyway. I guess Exec's bet is that they can leverage tech somehow to change the dynamics of the business, like Uber did.
Mercury Delay Line Memory
To my understanding GPU's basically suck at anything with decision paths/move away from straight matrix manipulation/signals analysis, right?
Vim running on an e-ink display: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdmX52SCpG0
Python - Big Data's secret power tool
For current events, Google will always have the lead here. They have the full weight of all the searches that are being performed around the globe at any second.
I've been deploying F# into production for a couple years, on to both Windows and Linux. They're rather simple daemons that talk to databases, message queues and filesystems, and do telecom logic (routing/billing).

Overall, Mono has been incredibly smooth. I prefer to compile from source as RedHat doesn't come with packages for mono. That takes time, but isn't a big deal. F# support seems lacking when it comes to some of the tooling (compiling, interactive).

mono-service, the service daemon to act like a Windows Service host (allowing same code as on Windows, and ~5 lines to a minimal daemon) sometimes has acted weird, but it's been due to how it handles it's runfiles and lockfiles, and once you know that it's easy enough to make sure they're ok. (As in, if one user ran it, the perms are wrong so another user can't even check it, and the error messages aren't there/clear.)

F# performance is on par for .NET. If a certain high-level feature is not generating great code, there's always the option to drop down or approach another way. F#'s much more flexible than C# when it comes to performance.

F#'s why I stay on the MS stack. .NET is pretty compelling with it's base library and great tool/developer support. But after seeing powerful languages, I just get so annoyed with the verbosity of things like C#.
I dont know if you read MY comment but the capacity is not there. It will take years until you can supply this resolution for all standard displays on the market. It requires new lines and only Apple can do it now because they only make one model of everything so it helps them scale in volume. Get real.

And try running games in that resolution with your crappy GPU and you ll have a nice slideshow that make you feel like you have a 286 playing Doom all over again.
Paul Erdos famously swore by their productiveness.

From Wikipedia:

His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems",[31] and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős,[32] but Erdős himself ascribed it to Rényi.[33]) After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[34] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use.
Satellites are saving lives during natural disasters
Satellites have helped in the aftermath of earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires and oil spills. They have also been used in monitoring long-term environmental problems such as deforestation and the melting of the ice caps.
Vim on e-ink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdmX52SCpG0
Fonts are clearer, it stops me from getting eyestrain (because I don't register everything as slightly blurred), and it is a great help when working on photos.
Facebook is losing it, however it will be a while before everyone moves on to something new. The only thing that will accelerate its downfall is its stock price.
I'll consider Haskell for serious programming when (and if) it gets a decent record system.

http://bloggablea.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/haskell-records-c...
A card with 6 outputs costs a few bucks. The Intel HD4000 I believe has support for 2x2560x1600 I believe.

Note that you're also comparing components with vastly differing prices. Maybe the market for $2000 monitors just isn't big enough.

EDIT: Eizo offers 30" displays with 4096 x 2560 resolution. However, they are not exactly cheap. About $20-$30K. Meanwhile a 27" 2560x1440 display goes for $600, or as an import from Korea even for $300.
You do realise that you're doing something quite dangerous by turning to dopamine-influencing drugs to motivate you, right? This class of drugs can change brain structure, promote cancer growth and generally make you devoid of emotion. At the very least, protect yourself with anti-oxidants and NMDA antagonists. There are plenty of less serious things you can take/do if you simply lack motivation. Exercise, cut out sugar and caffeine entirely and try Noopept.

Also see:

* http://www.nih.gov/news/health/feb2009/nida-02.htm

* http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2006/05/ritalin_causes_cancer...

* http://www.cchrint.org/2010/11/15/adhd-ritalin-%E2%80%93-bra...

But for the love of god, think about what you are doing to your body. There are other ways, just look a little harder.
Web Developer Economics: Hardware Costs
It's clearly the new AOL.
I think its terrible, perhaps its just my Scottish accent which is probably one of the harder English speaking languages to account for however its especially terrible. Siri doesn't have very many problems with me, but the Google services on my iphone and now guffed Nexus 7 were really terrible to the point it was embarrassing how inaccurate it was.

I use Siri a lot, and its powerful because it actually feels par of the phone. I can actually do useful things with it.
It prompts me only if I have unsaved changes in the file.
Obviously if you're working with massive datasets or many many VM's this may not be true, but everyone I know who has 16GB RAM has claimed that it's more than enough. I've got 8GB, and haven't any complaints. I even know people with 32GB who say that with hindsight they'd have been perfectly happy with only 16GB.

An SSD however, is incredible. I originally wrote "essential", though I guess it's not... but it certainly feels like it is once you have one. The downside is that it will make working with non-SSD desktop machines irritating-as-hell.
In Java, the compiler won't tell you that a variable may be null. In Haskell (at least when you compile with -Wall, strange this particular warning isn't the default) you'll get an error if you've failed to handle all the variations of data that you've provided.

There's a good presentation my Yaron Minsky about OCaml in the real world where he cites this as a major advantage (in OCaml, failing to match all patterns is an error by default).
I'm kinda-sorta starting to go off the kickstarter model.

They're not a shop, as the things are not ready yet (and may never be), and you're not really investing because you don't get any ownership of the company (however small). So selfishly I've started to wonder what's in it for me. It benefits me if I just wait to see if the thing comes to market, then I can buy it without the possibility of it never surfacing.

As it is I feel a bit torn about the idea of acting as a crowdsourced bank for a business but not getting the returns of an actual investor. I can see why it's appealing for the business though.
Try the cursor keys?
I really wonder about the people complaining about running 2560x1600 on a HD4000. Four years ago I was happily driving both an external 2560x1600 monitor and the built in 1440x900 panel with a 8600M, which was a good bit slower.

People really underestimate how far Intel has come.
we do have the css, just not linked on the home page yet. check out the repo to see the links or http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/2.1....
That should be a quest in some space exploration game. You research hiperspace radio, then you decode alien languages, then you get mysterious quest involving intergalactic wars, lost artifacts and last scions of ruling families. You duly follow the leads to learn more about these subjects, find that nothing seems to check up, only to find out at the end that it was just Nigerian scam.
One can pay $15 to not have to see ads, but according to Amazon, most users don't.

http://bgr.com/2012/09/10/kindle-fire-hd-ad-removal/

You've never noticed Flash ads on a Galaxy Tab? Unless you turned off Flash, use a pop up blocker, or if you use a text browser like Lynx, I seriously doubt that: they're pretty hard to miss.
Just like they didn't have an ipad app and said they never would.

give it a few months...
I think the problem would be that e-ink would require special UIs that have no moving part, don't rely on scrolling, don't rely on colour, etc.

I think "mobile web" has taught us that. Increasingly we are finding that our toaster can run firefox and our heating system can run word but Firefox and the websites it displays weren't meant to run on a toaster.
XKCD: Stopping a train with a BB Gun
No, I'm not.

I'm talking about the actual physical size of the font, which is about 5mm. If I make my font size any smaller, because the resolution is crap, the font is unreadable.

Higher pixel density would mean I could make the font size smaller and it would still be clearly legible.
I disagree with Linus on this one.

In an ideal world I would agree completely, a better DPI is amazing both in terms of font readability AND for watching full screen media (movies, TV shows, games, etc).

But in the real world higher resolution means small screen elements. At 1600x900 fonts are readable at 125%, at 1920x1080 even at 125% fonts and some elements are literally too small to be comfortable read (you get eye-strain after less than an hour).

Now I would turn it up to 150% "text size" but that breaks SO many native Windows applications (e.g. pushing text off the viewable area) and does the same on Linux too (Ubuntu).

Ideally everything should remain the same size no matter what the resolution, and the DPI should just grow upwards. This is how it works on platforms like the iPad.

So, I disagree with him, I don't want higher resolution displays because Windows, Linux, and OS X still suck at handling resolution (and if you use a non-native resolution it hurts the performance since the GPU has to re-scale constantly).

http://i.imgur.com/RqL6v.png
Code of Conduct review during Community Roundtable on Wednesday morning
Play some Zumba music and charge for it.
It's fine if you're okay with gigantic fonts that are usually seen on laptops. A lot of us prefer much smaller fonts to fit more code on the screen.

For example the equivalent of 9pt on a 900p display allows actually reasonably split-screen editing. On an actual 900p display though, it's much too blocky to be easily read without straining the eyes. At 1600p though, it's crystal clear.
Sorry to sound silly, but, what laptop can do 2560x1600 for $399? I feel out of the loop!
> In my experience, the programming industry doesn't tolerate people like that

good observation :)
business doesn't work like that. the industry is always on the lookout for people who work hard, make sacrifices and get things done and who treat the work and the company and its wellbeing as their own (except when it comes to money)
From a visual quick scan of the tags here is a list of the top languages:

1 c# 371433
2 java 317047
3 php 295016
4 javascript 279976
5 c++ 156107
6 python 140451
7 objective-C 107083
8 c 74124
9 ruby 57577
10 vb.net 36981
11 perl 22101
12 dephi 17439
13 scala 11745
14 haskell 8696
15 actionscript 6102
16 groovy 4970
17 clojure 4046
.. f# 4046
Resolution matters when you need to work with text. For me, Macbook Pro 15" retina is the best thing ever happened, and it is impossible to look back now.
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duiker101 yes..that's the general idea. But the mobile app world is so chaotic these days, that it takes a long time to be found. WOM is a good strategy, but focussing on finding the competitors weakness might take away your focus away from the product itself ??
Yet another way to restore the Start button in Windows 8
This is exactly how I feel, there is no comparison, Siri is king of the hill for an Engineer like me. I use it all the time (in very noisy environments think power plant levels of noise) to set appointments, countdown timers/alarms, dictating texts, opening applications (as well as playing songs or other content) and asking it Engineering calculations with the help of Wolfram Alpha integration. Google's attempt can barely understand me at times and is useless in every other sense.
>>IPS 1366x768 on a 12.5" screen and it looks great

Some money advice: Don't use a retina display. :-)

I recently saw my old iPad 1 at my ex gf. It was the best screen I had ever used -- now after an iPad 3, it was just horrible.
Funny, I actually thought once that studying for the test was cheating.

I mean, either you learned or not, memorizing some things before the test won't make you better at the thing.
Now that windows 8 and mountain lion both for the first time credibly handle HiDpi I agree, it's about time we switched.

I made that decision back in 2004 when my laptop had 1680x1050 resolution. Since then I've only gone higher and I've yet to have problems.

Windows seems to have handled this pretty well long, long ago so I have no idea what people are complaining about.
Compared to GHC, MRI really is primitive. Parts of this are intentional: the object model is intentionally simple, and one of the design goals was to keep unixy goodness close to the surface, so the IO model, forking and so on are quite shallow shim layers over the system calls.

Other parts, like the threading, the GC, and the parser (oh god, the parser) are suffering from baggage that's never had GHC-levels of academic effort thrown at it.

To the contrary, Ruby, probably more than any other language, has a large community
that's highly enthusiastic about its programming style and culture, which is the reason
most of those libraries and ecosystems were created in the first place. I know this is just
a few bullet points, but vaguely mentioning a few (good) reasons to evangelize Haskell
(plus a motorcycle) along with three seemingly random relatively small issues as
criticisms of Ruby (plus a horse and wagon) distorts reality almost to the point of
unrecognizability

The presentation is making the point that MRI itself is primitive, and addresses the plus points of the community in the very next slide. For people who care about the implementation underlying their code as much as they care about their own code (or more), MRI's shortcomings are a visible downside.
That's like saying stop thinking about eating an apple and start thinking about eating fruit.

It seems to me more like "stop thinking about eating durian and start thinking about eating fruit" -- true, one is a type of the other, but it's a wildly unusual type and certainly not one which is to everyone's taste.
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One would hope that if screens of this resolution became ubiquitous, people would start to notice which apps behave poorly and fix them. It might also push forward an ecosystem for supporting such displays. E.g., tools to allow per app dpi settings to isolate badly behaved legacy apps for which the source is not available and on which no active maintenance is done.
It's really easier to re-compile your CSS from modified LESS files.
MacOS X is the best operating system out there
Common programming model of parallel supercomputers expect something like one shared filesystem across all nodes (used for input and output and checkpointing and such, almost never as temporary per-node storage). And most readily available and scalable enough implementations of that expect exactly this architecture as it is easier to implement in software, reason about it's performance and also significantly cheaper and easier to maintain.
I don't know why you've been downvoted - this is a completely reasonable comment and something I agree with. I've backed a few projects on Kickstarter which have both been successful and provided the given "rewards" but I agree that it's a very one sided risk/reward profile stacked in favour of the project and not the backers.
Also a bloody pain to read on a mobile device.
Lots of apps does not work with OpenJDK, I wonder how the "open" JDK differs from the "official" one. That's not real open-source to me (at least, not in the spirit). But I agree, the JVM is evolving in the right direction, maybe too slowly.
If it's accidental, is it really a DDoS? Or a poorly deployed/coded app? :)