skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, for food, I follow the Upgraded Life / Bulletproof Diet. Also awesome and amazing, but I was almost eating paleo 2.0 anyways. Before this I was following the Slow-Card Diet as described by Tim Ferriss in 4 Hour Body.

For sleep I recommend these things. I've been experimenting for the past month and I now regularly sleep only 5 hours a night and I feel AWESOME all day with the Bulletproof coffe / Bulletproof diet combo and these things:

1.using F.Lux or just turning down your screen's brightness an hour before bed time
2. 20 minutes before bed I like to take a 15 minute shower. Start with hot water and lather up, followed by 10 minutes of progressively colder and colder water and sit in the shower for 3 more minutes under ice cold water. The temperature change will cause your body (Brown Adipose Tissue) to try to burn up the outer layers of fat (White Adipose Tissue), heating up your system. You will fall asleep pretty quickly as an added benefit, as long as you try to go to sleep right after.
3. Have some saturated fats before bed. That 'groggy' head you might wake up with is because you are dehydrated and have low blood sugar when you wake up.
Commodore - A Company on the Edge by Brian Bagnall covers the Commodore side of the "Troika of 77" (Tandy / Radio-Shack, Apple and Commodore" who made up the bulk of the volume sales in the early home computer market).

Commodore's ongoing hunt for vertical integration and their huge margins in periods were definitively impressive, and the numbers you cite probably indicate their peak margins (at least in percent)

But Commodore rode waves - they kept getting close to crisis and then rode through it once they had their next temporarily high margin product for a while, then their margins would get squeezed either by their competition or their own decisions, as their product lines were aging and they were too slow to replace them. It happened with the PET, the Vic-20, the C-64, and eventually did them in with the Amiga.

With the Vic-20 and C-64 it was actually Tramiel (Commodore's founder) himself that dropped margins massively to force Texas Instruments out of the home computer market.

The $595 price lasted for a very short time, as Commodore went through wave after wave of slashing VIC-20 prices (eventually to under $100) and C-64 prices. With a $100 trade-in offer, the C-64 dropped as low as $300 in 1983, and at Spring CES they dropped their prices to dealers to $200-$250...

The result was that TI lost $100 million a quarter, and was forced to quit the home computer market entirely. Commodore was still making money at those prices, but obviously their margins had been slashed massively, and so again R&D suffered.

Towards the end their vertical integration was pretty much gone - Commodore Semiconductor Group had seen so little investment that they were not competitive at all, and more and more of Commodore's chip manufacturing was done by partners.
Completely agree with you. Last week I worked 17 hour days, combining my day job and my freelance jobs (2) and I will never do that again if I can help it.

It broke my sleep schedule (which is fixed now thank God!) and really took a toll on my mood and motivation.

Completely not worth it.
Surely POSIX is the least of it. Mac apps are built on an API that has been much extended since the NeXT days and which even then was a complete wrapper over the underlying Unix OS. Think "copying QT and the whole KDE ecosystem" to get a grasp of the scale of it.
The same rules that apply to barter.
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Oh, yes, definitely. Once a healthy amount of Bitcoin starts circulating, though, that won't be as big a problem.
Do you remember why they asked for memory size?

It was the ROM asking you how much memory you wanted to allocate for BASIC variables. You could tune this for various programs and/or if you were planning on running machine language programs you wanted to have BASIC get out of the way and leave your program more memory.. :)
This is nice to see. I've ran lighttpd extensively in an embedded environment and for our application it's always performed like a champ due to its really tiny memory footprint. In an embedded environment most of the time the web server is just running a UI, so it's best that it stay out of the way and leave the RAM available for the main application. However in the case where we're doing inter-device communication via HTTP, I might reconsider nginx.
Hmm, from what I saw, Blockchain keeps everything encrypted at all times, so it looks pretty secure. I imagine that buying Bitcoins might be more problematic, though, true.
This is the University of South Carolina, not Southern California which most people probably associate with “USC”.
If identifying the brain region or drug that produces the sensation of identity counts as discovering the essence of identity, does identifying the brain region or drug that produces the illusion of being a cat count as discovering the essence of feline nature? Would the illusion provide us with accurate rules to distinguish felines from other animals?

This is exactly the kind of equivocation that contemporary philosophers complain about nearly every time an arrogant scientist announces the end of philosophy. Not because the scientist's answers are uncomfortable, but because they don't even answer the same question. (Arrogant philosophers, in turn, would say in Latin: ignoratio elenchi.)

Yes, we already know which binaries produce the KDE Plasma Desktop when executed from the bash shell. We also know exactly which bits produce which parts of the GUI. But what we really wanted to know were the conceptual, historical, and perhaps even ethical significance of the design decisions and system architecture that make KDE what it is. (If we replaced Qt with something else, would it still be KDE?) You can't answer that question by showing us a million lines of C++.
You should be careful with this grand pronunciations about what scientist have discovered, given that your last sentence doesn't have much to do with anything that precedes it. A "sense of self" is not the same thing as the "self". Nor does association/correlation of the self with brain regions imply identity between those two things.
Yes the boot screens would say Copyright 1983 Microsoft.

You also had to pay $750.00 just to get Vi and a C compiler!
What is it with all the headlines this week abusing the classic "for fun and profit" title?
Did your parents have a similar sleep profile?

If you don't set an alarm and just sleep until you wake up 'naturally' do you sleep longer and get symptoms, or just wake up after 6 hours or so?

Just interested. I tend to wake up 5 to 6 am most mornings without alarm.
I agree the Foundation Trilogy is important for any science fiction fan to understand because its one of the classic works everyone has read. To miss it is to miss out on that common experience that makes us part of a community.

On the other hand, I found reading it as a child in the 80s a great disappointment. At the time I was learning about chaos theory and the butterfly effect. It was painfully obvious to me that the Seldon theory of psychohistory was impossibly simplistic. Human society and culture is just too unstable and susceptible to disruption for long term predictions of the kind the plot relies on to be viable.

Yet despite that, it's still a worthwhile story with valuable lessons. Asimov realised that random events could disrupt the predictions of any system like psychohistory. The way I read it now, I don't think Asimov necesserily believed something like psychohistory was possible, instead he was positing a classic SF 'what if'. The point is that even if long term predictions like those of psychohistory were possible, there a still random events such as mutation that are outside the scope of any deterministic system that can derail it.
How does this work? Could you elaborate on how to use those sites a bit? Thx
Wow - I've long aspired to be as "fearlessly eccentric" as SPM. What an incredible man, and hopefully a lasting legacy. What a guy! RIP.
One example as one of the commenters noted was prefork being the default mpm. Something else valuable for static performance is allowoverride none (disable htaccess checking).
As to why it is default, I suspect due to the popularity of php and other modules which often misbehave on the threaded worker mpm.
Best part most everyone is missing out on:

Page 17.. yes you had to PAY $750.00 just to have a C compiler and VI!

Seriously, you only got 'ed' with the basic system, no C, no Vi, lots of stuff missing.

I remember trying to beg my customers to buy it so I could use Vi and compile code on their systems. Otherwise I would edit code on my system and have to compile and transfer binaries via 8" floppy disks!

Worse was explaining to them why they had to pay $250.00 for the COBOL Compiler PLUS another $750.00 for the Development system so we had Vi on the system to edit files with! :-)
So, assuming all typos inserted are in fact a serious error to the program and assume that the output they used to compare is a unit test. Then an interesting number to look at is:

Errors remaining = Successful run - Faults caught in unit test

In that regard most languages in the study are quite equal. Although with the static languages you most likely catch the errors much earlier and you probably get a much better hint of where the error is, instead of just an assertion that you have an error. And of course this assumes that you do have unit tests.
"as does exercise, though I can't see as direct a impact on brain energy as sleeping and napping."

You sleep better if you exercise effectively.
I grew up in the U.S., so I didn't get to see his television program, but his books provided many hours of pleasure when I was a kid. The ability to make real learning so enjoyable is a rare gift. He will be missed.
Sad as it may be.
I will always remember him as GamesMaster.
RIP
Probably as a preloader... http://i.imgur.com/9BeuH.gif?1?9200
The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraising goal by 50%
I don't understand how that fits with the existence of X-linked-recessive diseases. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_disorder#X-linked_rece...)

These seem to be well-known cases in which you really do get a phenotype that's a function of both X chromosomes.
No no no. This is unkind.

'Finish everything.' Everything? No way. Abandon stuff which is unfruitful or superseded or published. Just don't abandon stuff lightly: have a good explanation why (which is not a personal excuse).

Make progress with things that have meaning to you. Go slowly and keep returning to them. This is the fastest way. Don't force yourself to work when you're sick or bored or have other commitments. Your mind would not be engaged anyway.

Two more points. Valuable works are never truly finished. They are abandoned. Things can always be improved!

Also, don't worry about being competitive. Life is not a competition. There's infinite room for everyone to form a niche. Read up on comparative advantage.

Competition engenders a false sense of lack and zero-sumness which causes much harm to the world. It fosters greed.
To be perfectly honest I'd be pretty offended if a place where I was working put these on the walls.. The Holstee Manifesto (http://shop.holstee.com/?campaignid=446&mbsy=7pD) I understand, because it's great. But these are just trite and tacky, form over function kind of stuff.

I reckon I'd be far more inspired by, you know, pictures of the team. Or lolcats.
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Why I don't add social media buttons to my apps anymore.
It is only trivial to hide income using Bitcoin if you never plan to spend your income. Otherwise, you have the same problem you have with paper money should you be audited or otherwise attract government attention.
Founders Must Keep Their Startup Culture Positive
His testing is very flawed. Look at the availability chart: nginx has higher availability at 200 concurrent connections than at 100? It's simply not possible if the test was the same w/ just a higher concurrent connection count, as he claims.

Edit: Yes, it's "possible" that this is something in the nginx code causing it work weird, but I'd say a benchmarker should use some common sense instead of blind reporting, notice that this is an anomaly, and re-test. Benchmarking should be a scientific statistical process, reporting mean and mode, standard deviation, etc. The background environment should be heavily studied and documented to ascertain no background/cron tasks are taking place, and every little detail should be carefully looked at before putting results up for the world to see.
Scraping could be made a lot harder by website publishers, but they all depend on the biggest scraper accessing their content so it can bring traffic: Google ...

The biggest downside of scraping is that it often takes a long time for very little content (e.g. scraping online stores with extremely bloated HTML and 10-25 products/per page).
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I think you're reading a bit too much in the 'a few Macs'. The iMac and MBP's are getting steady updates. Granted, the Mac Pro is a different story. It's obvious too they're trying to bring OS X and iOS closer together so you might not be seeing tremendous advance in every release but under the hood a lot is changing to move to a unified platform which will, probably, be beneficial to us all.

What is a professional customer anyway? Is that someone who doesn't buy iPhones and iPad 'cause I can tell you a lot of professionals do. Is that someone who is frustrated because of the changes made to 'professional' audio, video and image editing software they produce? Is that a customer that only buys Mac Pro's because of the Pro and now feels duped because the Pro's don't get the love they used to? Is that a developer who's very happy with his MBP because it offers an awesome GUI and a BSD/Unix subsystem allowing him to develop all his cool software? Is it the frustrated Windows SysAdmin that can't deal with all those pesky Mac users in his carefully though ought Ivory Tower Active Directory infrastructure? Or the guy who bought >9000 XServe's a decennium ago?

It might be worth defining what you see as 'professional' customers before asking a question like that which, imho, is rather vague. A discussion like this can certainly be interesting but it needs to be unambiguous if it's going to be constructive.
The bottleneck wouldn't be the device, it'd be your internet connection. Higher latency, no uptime guarantees, bandwidth limits, contract restrictions, etc.

Plus, unless you already have a 50 or 100mbps connection at home for other reasons, getting that internet connection speed will cost you more than a VPS somewhere (usually). (And, it'd be 100mbps downstream, but your upstream would likely not be more than 10-20mbps.)
Of course it 'stuck'. That's what crap does. Doesn't mean its a good idea, or helped the university or promoted anyone's interest except maybe a poor design firm got paid too much.

A logo is controversial of course. But this reductionist trend results in some awful logos, all in the interest of compressing alittle better for web pages? As bandwidth grows this becomes a pointless exercise.
All you need are the regular motivational posters with an additional caption: Do you want to work somewhere management thinks this is a good idea?
Are desktops really diminishing? Of course cheaper portable products have sold like hotcakes. Is it a mistake to compare those numbers to desktops and conclude that they are dying?
My bad on flipping kun and on, but that doesn't change my point.

>Those readings are not used to count by native Japanese speakers (I speak Japanese and have lived in Japan) ... They do not.

Have you asked a native speaker? Speaking Japanese as a second language is not the same as speaking it natively, so unless you have discussed this with a native speaker, I don't think that's a sufficient credential.
Facebook and the imperfect past
http://maggotfilms.com/2010/12/08/they-live/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live
I don't think when people say "Asians are often better at math", that they are talking about post-calculus.
emacs23-el. Thank you very much
As a pioneer of scraping (NetProphet, the first interactive stock charting app with push-data) we initially scraped every quote we had in our database from other sites.

The fundamental problem is, web pages can change a lot. We constantly had scraper scripts fail either because the web pages changed for some innocuous reason, or they noticed the scraping and blocked us.

We resorted to a list of scrape targets and constantly-updating scrape-scripts to adapt continuously to the 'market'. We also pinged each target to find the least congested.

Eventually we got our own stock feed (guy that did that is a research scientist at Adobe now) and stopped scraping altogether. But it was a wild ride.
Interesting goals but....

>> 1. Create a single language that incorporates the best of functional and imperative programming. Both offer distinct advantages, and we envisioned marrying the two.

Imperative/Functional hybrid are nothing new. C#, Ruby, Python, Javascript, Scala, and Groovy all fit that bill.

>> 2. Codify and statically enforce common shared-memory state patterns, such as immutability and isolation, with minimal runtime overhead (i.e., virtually none).

"Statically enforcing variable immutability...." Isn't that just a fancy word for "constant"?

>> 4. Do all of this while still offering industry-leading code quality and performance, rivaling that of systems-level C programs. Yet still with the safety implied by the above mentioned goals.

He wants to allow for "pockets of imperative mutability tied together with functional tissue". That's not a bad thing but it's not exactly a "safe" feature if put in the wrong hands. Lots of people have written function objects with bad imperative code and side effects. Lots of people have fed them to their language's equivalent of the map function. That can cause bugs.
I'd be careful because in this case his eccentricism is a polite way of glossing over some of his antiquainted views. He had an amazing life but he never stopped being a man of his time.
How to Do Philosophy Better (response to PG)
Ask HN: What sites or services do you use that other people should know about?
Title says it all, and I think other people might be interested in this too.

What sites or services do you use that might not be well known that add value to your personal or professional lives, that other people should know about?

I want to try some new stuff out.
This might be an interesting read. Also the comments about Krauss on that blog are useful because Krauss is representative of many contemporary scientists. http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/...
alternative: http://www.nzbsearch.net/
Yeah I know just enough about hardware to be dangerous but I think you can stick 6 16-bit GPIO expanders off of an I2C or SPI bus and address every switch individually. Makes no sense for mass production but for diy it's $10 in parts or something

http://octopart.com/mcp23s17-e%2Fso-microchip-470569
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For Perl you can use Web::Query (but don't use the default HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath with it, it's extremely slow - use http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-TreeBuilder-LibXML/), or Mojo::DOM (part of Mojolicious: http://mojolicio.us/). Both use the nowdays standard CSS selectors for comfortable handling.

JavaScript can be scraped using WWW::Mechanize::Plugin::JavaScript or even WWW::Mechanize::Firefox).
or rather, centralized as in that everybody can set up their own network, and many can run servers on those networks.
Yeah, it would be really exciting to see a resurgence in this area spurred by Bitcoin. It may still happen.
IPad Mini 2 with Retina - back on track for 2013?
26$ + 50$ + 20$ (or something like that) shipping, 96$, isn't it too much for a framed print? I would like to buy one but it looks expensive to me.
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The trilogy came along at the wrong time for me. I could never get past the 1st time-jump. When an author abandons characters so frequently, I get lost in the whiplash and quit reading. I guess I feel indignant at trying so hard to connect with the characters, just to have the author throw that away and ask me to do it again.

So no never read it. Never got past a few pages in the 1st book. Similarly, never read the Rings trilogy. Nor Dune, which I regard as the ultimate hey-let-me-tell-you-about-this-cool-dream-I-had book which always annoy me.

Yet I have read thousands of Science Fiction stories. Just not the ones you have. SO I can connect pretty good, while I hope keeping a fresh perspective in the community.
I think the comments thus far have been a little harsher than is necessary. Sure, some of them are a bit cliched but that's fine. None of them seem as tacky as the traditional corporate motivational posters. Perhaps if I worked anywhere near the valley I might be more critical but given that I work in a city that is as far removed from start up culture as possible, I'm probably not as jaded (for lack of a better word) as most HN users.

I purchased one of these posters because the quote addresses one of my biggest repeated failings and the author, Jason Fried, is someone I have a lot of respect for. I wouldn't mind an attractive reminder to avoid my perfectionist, obsessive nature hanging over my desk.

Kudos on the site design and the idea. Best of luck to you. My only quibble is that the site name could be a bit more subdued on some of those posters.
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My first thought was of the more cynical http://www.despair.com/motivation.html

Motivation:
If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.
Any idea when this might air?
sweet idea, i hope it catches on
Thank you for your remarks, i just added a live check feature as your proposed.
I'll also try to have an interface that doesn't move all the time!
Solitary confinement... What kind of justice system still considers this kind of punishment a valid form of reformation. Heres an insightful article by The NewYorker with regards to the ethical implications of solitary confinement: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_...
I've always enjoyed reading this (by ― Mikhail Naimy, from - The Book of Mirdad)...

"Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise."
>> I think that the most significant outcome of our study is the demonstration of the potential of comparative language fuzz testing for evaluating programming language designs.

> What should it demonstrate

E.g. Java is better than Haskell.
I'm old too (using USENET since mid-90s). There are other indexers out there. Try http://www.nzbsearch.net/, http://binsearch.info - and if that one goes belly up, there will be others, or install your own private indexer (or write your own). I stay the hell away from torrents.