skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Todd!
1. I like morning and afternoon. I do a lot better when it's sunny outside.

2. I don't have a problem with it. In fact, I prefer it.

3. I wish people would explain exactly what they want. What is the goal here? I also don't work well when others assume I know everything they know. Breaking down the preferred end result and then explaining why they haven't arrived there is most helpful. Follow that up with specifically what I can do to help them reach their goal and things usually end up successful.

4. I don't believe in MB. I prefer business-y things, but have pigeon-holed myself in the tech world. Ooops.

5. I am constantly on phone/IM with my team. I actually quite enjoy phone calls and feel this is likely an anomaly. Most people don't like it, but I see it as a way to communicate more effectively and avoid email.

6. Split! I actually love working from our offices because I am an 80% remote employee. Facetime, IRL with my co-workers is invaluable. I feel they're more forthcoming and much more willing to share ideas when it's just stopping by my desk. Phone calls, IMs and emails are purpose-driven, which removes a lot of off-the-cuff creativity and brainstorming. I like being available in person for people to just grab me and talk about what's on their mind.
If someone doesn't know much about statistics what is your recommended source to learn from?
Are you thinking Improperly nesting elements?

<i>Some <b>text</i> here</b>

In that case, the label tag surrounding the input tag doesn't violate this rule.
I personally avoid reporting errors with null return values, though that approach might actually be useful in some situations. I've seen cases where less-than-skilled developers had an irrational fear of exceptions and just treated them like undesirable error states instead of an error reporting and handling mechanism. It resulted in systems where every layer of the call stack was polluted with blocks such as:

if (result != null)
{
}
else ...

This usually results in the real cause of an error being completely and utterly lost somewhere in the call stack, as using this kind of binary approach to error reporting is inadequate to communicate what really happened.

Question:

How do you handle data concurrency issues in big multi-user systems? For instance, if your lowest level service (usually data access layer) throws a data concurrency exception due to some other user modifying the data that the current user is trying to modify, how do you communicate to your user that the data has changed and that they are supposed to refresh the web page, if you are masking the real cause of the problem by just returning null values from the lowest level of the call stack?

I personally handle cases like this by allowing the appropriate exception to propagate to the highest level so that I can make a judgment call whether it's the kind of error that needs to be reported to the user, silently logged or something else. On lower levels I still might have try-catch blocks for logging purposes and in certain situations I might rethrow exceptions if the error needs to be reported to a higher level.
People actually care?
Bad performance of Haskell Strings - Honza Pokorny
Zurb Foundation seems to be what you are looking for. It uses SASS and actually predates bootstrap and is being actively maintained. Its a great alternative. http://foundation.zurb.com
I just came across this article in a HN post last week that was discussing a similar theme. I think it does a great job explaining the challenges of beings programmer...

http://alexthunder.livejournal.com/309815.html
These interpretations are unlikely to change - they have many judicial precedents.

Perhaps not, I'm not trying to prognosticate here. That said, I do believe it is the nature of governments to become more abusive, corrupt and tyrannical over time, and to eventually be overthrown by one means or another. I see the US government as being quite a long ways down that path, but I don't know where the end of the path lies.
F Objective C: Functional Objective-C
1) I get more work done at the office, away from home. Home is a distracting place. Whatever time of day I am in the office.

2) Annoying. My sleep schedule does not lend itself well to rules, man.

3) E-mail me for anything that isn't urgent. IM me for anything that is urgent but not important. Call me for anything that is urgent and important. Deviation from these rules will make it more difficult to reach me when it really is important and/or urgent.

4) I can bridge the gap between programming and businessing. I get more joy out of programming than businessing.

5) I do not chat using voice/video if I can avoid it. E-mail is better, there is a record to refer to when I forget the answer (in that respect, 6-month E-mail purging policies are counter-productive). I tend to ask more questions than I answer.

For teaching things, face-to-face seems to be better than e-mail. Most people seem to get more out of presentations (I, again, prefer text, but whatevz).

6) I don't think it matters. What matters is managing distractions: Alone, I can do anything (only one option being work). Too many people and it's hard to concentrate.

But some people actually work well using pair programming, I am not one of them.

My ideal work environment is a cubical with at least 20 sq ft of floor area, desk covering two adjacent sides, walls high enough to prevent stray movement from other cubicals. At least 2 conference rooms with doors and presentation equipment big enough to support the entire team. Temporary shared offices with doors, 40 sq ft, for use by anyone (for interviews or otherwise). One extra room with A/V equipment for video games (but I work at a video game company, so that's "research"). Galley kitchen would be a nice-to-have.
have you checked out refer.ly?
I have no affiliation with Code School, but I saw that they recently offered a free course on R, which is a programming language built around statistics.
It does use Sass, but was released after Bootstrap.
"Sass is better on a whole bunch of different fronts, but if you are already happy in LESS, that's cool, at least you are doing yourself a favor by preprocessing."

http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/
9 Rules for Leadership
I believe the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy truly shone in the radio format and that the book did it a disservice.

There was something in the way Simon Jones narrated the series.
Interesting idea. Simple, but useful in a fun sort of way. Could it be a successful business? I guess we'll find out.

Web site looks very nice. I don't like the bright body text though, I had to darken it with firebug so I could read it comfortably. Despite the current fashion, I can't imagine why text on a white background would ever be brighter than #444 much less #999.
Q: What’s Wrong With Quora?
Since when did comedy have to be fair? It's the Rule of Funny: if it makes people laugh, it's worthwhile for that fact alone.
MUJI HOME MADE GINGERBREAD HOUSES
The project is titled Muji Home Made Gingerbread Houses by Tha. Muji Home Made Gingerbread Houses is a collection of interactive installation of 100 gingerbread houses.
This looks fantastic, but how on earth can it be listed here as public domain? The original novels are still very much in copyright, so I would think that a radio adaptation would be, too. (Even if the publisher licensed the rights to the BBC, it's hard for me to imagine that allowing a public domain recording.)
The only thing is that it costs about twice the price.
Well, it is an issue that we are more likely to care when someone suffers, these days. That increases human suffering all by itself.
None taken. I'm just thankful for the term 'thingamawhop'.
from a practical perspective, the federal government should have the authority to say what kinds of vehicles should be able to drive on public roads paved by us tax dollars. maybe you think you should be able to drive a car with no headlights, but the other people driving on the highways at 60mph could get hurt.

A couple of thoughts:

1. This sounds more like an argument for not building highways with tax money, than an argument for more government power, to me.

2. Liability for the consequences of ones actions should be sufficient to deal with this. If I do drive without headlights for a few miles, or - as far as that goes - 10,000 miles, and nobody is injured, it's totally bogus to claim that a crime has been committed. However, if I drive, without or without headlights, and crash into someone through my own negligence, I should be held liable for that outcome. If we adopted this as a basis for governance, we wouldn't need all these lame statutory "laws" in the first place.

3. Even if headlights are required, a driver might choose to turn them off, or they could be defective or inoperable for some reason. Focusing on the requirement that they simply be present is focusing on the wrong problem even from a practical standpoint.

4. Regardless of what the Constitution, or any other document says, I personally reject the notion that the State has any particular authority at all. Even if you accept Bastiat's extremely minimalist view of "Law as no more than the collective extension to our individual right to self defense" one can still imagine pathological cases where the whole thing reduces to "might makes right". That said, I think Bastiat's view is an ideal to strive towards, as use of force should be limited to situations that could be considered self-defense. Pre-emptive use of force (or threat of force) is invalid, in my world view.

Note: I don't expect everyone (or anyone in particular) to agree with me on this, I'm just explaining why I see this as an invalid role for government.

Anyway, my point doesn't revolve around me being right or wrong in what I believe on the issue... the point is that this conversation needs to be had in the first place, and that people should quit simply glossing over this stuff and just accepting everything the State sends down the pipe as being valid. "Question authority" should be everyone's mantra in my book, even if they decide that the answer to the question is "yes" on a particular occasion.
I'm suffering through the usual problems of setting up a new linux transportable laptop right now. It is an ASUS R900V, and Ubuntu 12.04 currently has problems with wifi, graphics, and sound! I would love to be able to buy a transportable (large screen 1920x1080, 8GB, fast cpu) for a reasonabl price in Europe, and that is well supported by Ubuntu.
I really liked the books, but I have to agree with you there. Even series 3-5, which followed the books instead of preceeding them, were superior in radio format I think. (Particularly the conclusion to the series)
Without any hardware choices !!!
The thing that finally pushed me off LESS was animations, and the contortions necessary to get to something even approximating DRY for some concepts.

I think it might be a result of trying to be "better CSS" instead of "a language for generating CSS".

Say you wanted to delay a slide-in-right animation for 50ms per list item. (So item 1 slides in immediately, item 2 50ms later, item 3 50ms later, etc.)

For that portion, this is what the LESS looks like:

-animation-delay(@delay) { animation-delay: @delay; ...vendor prefixes... }
.delay-child-animations {
&:nth-child(2n){ .animation-delay: 50ms; }
&:nth-child(3n){ .animation-delay: 100ms; }
&:nth-child(4n){ .animation-delay: 150ms; }
... more things here ...
}

In SASS, we could do something like

@mixin delay-child-animations($max-children: 20) {
@for $i from 1 to $max-children {
&:nth-child(#{$i}n){ .animation-delay: ($i - 1)*50ms;
}
}

References:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8294400/css-animations-wi...
http://radiatingstar.com/css-keyframes-animations-with-less
There's this kind of unintended effects all over the place in tech.

A particularly interesting one for programmers might be the M6502 CPU.

All opcodes on the M6502 are 8 bits. Due to the way it was implemented in order to keep transistor count low, various patterns will trigger specific functionality at specific stages of execution (you can find a javascript emulation of it that displays the execution in excruciating detail as the result of creating a transistor exact clone of the design by decapping an actual 6502 CPU and scanning it...).

These were arranged so that the documented instructions present a suitably useful instruction set. But all of the remaining opcodes still does something that was simply deemed pointless by the designers.

Some have been found useful by demo writers in particular as a way of saving cycles. Some are just totally bizarre and/or unstable. Some does fun stuff like putting more than one value on the memory bus at the same time. Some even locks the CPU up so solid it needs to be power cycled to recover...

Here's an overview of the nitty gritty details from someone who actually knows what they're talking about: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=39
I consider Idiocracy to be the greatest satirical film post WWII.
With a view from beyond the moon, an astronaut talks possibilities
> has way better performance

Do you have any performance comparison?

> many more capabilities

As...? Care to compare?
Cool. It's funny to think there's still an active N64 flashcard user base, since emulation for the N64 has always been pretty decent. My first foray into console hacks was with thick first gen PS2's, and all the ones I've bought over the years have basically died of old age, even with manual maintenance and cleaning, so I sort of stopped caring about the hardware. Makes sense that the older consoles with a longer shelf life would still have a lot of people who care about the real hardware.
Can you elaborate on CloudFronts "poor cache hit ratio"? Wouldn't this just be up to the origins use of cache headers (cache-control, expires, etc)? I suppose cold content could be LRUd out, but the CloudFront docs advertise advertise 1 day last I looked. PS CloudFront customer access logs include cache result (hit/miss/error) so you can see for yourself.
The books are still very much copyrighted, but I am not so sure that means much. The content may be the same but the book and the radio series are still entirely separate entities in copyright law. That is why you can copyright a recording of a presentation of Beethoven's 9th.

I assume archive.org has done their homework here, but IANAL.
> "Knowledge of statistics is the best investment one can make with one's time."

Do you have any numbers to back that up? ;-)
With Eric Reis' fame, I actually fear this may become standard practice at one point.
Hopefully never. I can't stand finger prints all over my screen.
Fucking Fan: Why Apple Will Win
Or how about humor? Can you scientifically prove a joke to be funny? I know what I find funny, but humor is not provable, or created following the scientific method.

Demonstrably false. Going by Steve Martin's autobiography, as just one example, stand-up comics routinely submit their new material to controlled tests with sample audiences. Jokes (and performance details) that fail to elicit laughter and post-show satisfaction (i.e. as practical a demonstration of "funny" as any), are judged provably false and left out of the routine.
As jrockway mentions, the ATMega does not have a power regulator. That would be inefficient as regulators work by dissipating excess energy as heat. So, even if the chip had onboard regulators to limit the combined current draw of the output ports to 200mA the chip would still be susceptible to overheating.

That said, I'd guess the weak link that puts the 200mA limit in place is not actually in the I/O circuitry but is how much current can safely be drawn by the I/O pins when the chip is otherwise fully utilized - peripherals and CPU both consuming max power.
Well, yeah, but my point is that CloudFront does this too. The quote I selected made it sound like CloudFlare reduces bandwidth usage by 70% in comparison to CloudFront. So I'm curious how that works.
You know, I feel really crappy today. I am not finding anything that readily matches my recollection of the process, though glycolysis and atp come up in my search and that partially matches my memory. Maybe you could link me to something that fairly clearly shows what you mean? My understanding is "burn" = "consume oxygen".

Thanks.
Exactly, rohern. Just look at the findings on oxytocin.

Even more to the point: the impetus lies with the proponents of "love as a useful, concrete object" to defend their hypothesis from dissection by neuroscientists. Linguistic and poetic convention have no hold over hard data.
Upon hearing this, the astute listener will realize just how much George Lucas lifted from this to build the Star Wars story lines.
We could keep the network alive indefinitely for probably $2K-$3K per month. This network provides free and open internet to dozens of sites all over east Afghanistan including hospitals and schools. This is way down from just two years ago when bandwidth was $5K per month for 1Mbps.

I can only speak for myself and this is where I am at with this right now.

I don't know if you have ever done fund raising but it is very time consuming and frankly unpleasant. Also, if you start including pay for yourself in the cost not only does the amount needed go up drastically, but people start questioning your motives. That makes it even harder to raise funds. So between working jobs and spending our free time trying to make a difference in a very difficult situation, I just don't have the cycles to spend raising funds.

I think it boils down to the fact that I am an engineer and want to spend my time solving problems over there, not in endless meetings and hoping for little bits of money here and there. That is what we have been doing and for me personally it's starting to burn me out. At this point what we really need is bandwidth costs and a small salary for the Afghans keeping it running. And we need the money to be painless for us. It's a hard to find a sponsor like that.
The books are still very much copyrighted, but I am not so sure that means much.

That means everything. The audio recordings are a derivative work, so the audio"ness" of it is a separate copyrightable/copyrighted work (but the underlying novel itself remains subject to the original copyright). This means that the audio recording is subject to both copyrights unless part of the license given to the creators of the audio work includes a license to redistribute the audio work, which may be the case given that it is a BBC production.
> (though, imposing memory restrictions is much harder).

I developed an Emergency GC patch [1] for Lua 5.1 (Lua 5.2 come with this feature). With this feature it is easy set a per Lua State/script memory limit. The Emergency GC feature is needed to allow a custom allocator to force the GC to run when the script is at it's memory limit. My EGC patch has been in use by the eLua [2] for years to help run Lua scripts on Microcontrollers with as little as 64Kbytes of Ram.

Also Lua is fine for large projects [3].

1. http://lua-users.org/wiki/EmergencyGarbageCollector

2. http://www.eluaproject.net/

3. http://prosody.im/
Mathematics is separate from science (at least in the modern sense, to the same degree that philosophy is separate from modern science). It's also a form of rational thought, and relies heavily on evidence -- just not empirical evidence. It relies upon reason and proof, but not experimentation or observation.
While an interesting hypothesis, it seems unlikely: one copy of each x-chromosome is deactivated in each cell, and this is done randomly in development.
What is the most likely correct emendation? If you use a statistical method to answer, explain how you compiled your corpus of comparisons.

That describes the basic pattern-matching mechanism employed by the neural networks that constitute our brains. Developments like natural language processing (NLP) continue to turn that mental black box increasingly transparent.
Countdown to Rails 4
I've had similar experiences with AVRs, they are quite robust and will handle shorts, reversed polarities and the like rather well. They seem to be rather conservative on the datasheets probably as they are guaranteed over a much larger temperature range than most people use their chips at.
The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark
wtf?

what would happen if I transcribed it?
And how did that research come to the conclusion that most research comes out wrong? Statistically-rigorous research.

Second: it remains a question of degree. Most preliminary medical research, for example, suffers from heavy biases, but it remains far more predictive than the "alternative medicine" beliefs that are more than 90% incorrect.
coder's block? no such thing!
Run OSX binaries on linux
Really interesting paper but the use of comic sans on the axes labels is a turn off. Why comic sans?? Why? It's a crime against fontology.
How Emacs changed my life by "matz"

http://www.slideshare.net/yukihiro_matz/how-emacs-changed-my...
1. I get the most work done during bipolar hypomania episodes. Cognitive functions, creativity, focus, and vision are all enhanced. In these episodes, I can replace entire teams. I have to compensate by going mostly into maintenance mode after the end of an episode, in order to prevent an extended depressive episode.

2. Pre-defined hours are useful to maintain work discipline.

3. I manage and prioritize distractions by utility and time sinks. I pre-manage situations by making sure that stuff is reliable or stupid-easy-to-fix so that people don't freak out. That makes it easy to engage opportunities when they arise.

4. A good tech thinks like a business guru and a good business guru thinks like a tech. It's all the same discipline.

5. Chat is disabled for all of my work. I typically disable e-mail unless I'm filing a status report or handing off an asynchronous task.

6. My productivity is scheduled according to whether I'm with people, or by myself. I handle extended tasks when I'm alone. When I'm with people, I handle the tasks that benefit more from real-time iteration. I prefer to work independently since real-time iteration almost always leads to a dumbing down of a final product.
1. When I feel collaboration from my team. The time of day is irrelevant. With a good team, you should always feel "in the zone". Sometimes people begin to drift, if you're a good manager...you know when this starts to happen, and you pull them back together and refocus. Losing focus, and allowing that loss of focus to continue is a bad thing.

2. I don't. Double Cluepon is a startup, not everyone is paid. Sometimes you do work with some people when you can, but you balance it out so something is always getting done. Flexibility is always key, but again..you have to keep yourself focused.

3. We've had some drama in the past. We nip that shit in the bud. Drama, power basing, political bs...we show it the door. We don't need it, actively remove it. Better to remove one, than lose all.

4. As the Production Director and the CEO in a company that makes games, I balance it as best I can. I actually love all aspects, from art to the infrastructure and code. Really, when you're a chief, you have to be a generalist, not a specialist.

5. ALL. THE. TIME. We also hire people who are local. Telecommute is a buzzword in some respects; there is no substitute for face time.

6. It entirely depends on the job. We're in games, sometimes I design away from people, away from my computer. Other times, such as Game Design meetings, I work with others. It ultimately comes down to an amalgamation of what I said above: you do some stuff when you can, do fill in the other time with stuff that still needs doing.
I gave up xmas many years ago and haven't regretted it one bit. Yes, we still have a decoration or two and a nice meal, but that's it. Kind of like Thanksgiving.
Bootstrap came out of Zurb, Mark worked with them and learned everything, and then when he went to Twitter he re-used a bunch of zurb to create the first version of bootstrap.

Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4588053