skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I define it these days: there are two types of people, those that "recharge" when they're with others for when they're alone (extroverts), and those that recharge when they're alone for when they're with others (introverts).

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Couldn't agree more, I wish more people understood that aloneness doesn't mean sadness.
Someone already created it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSqctHH9vY
AFAIK, the yeasties will eat lots of stuff, including flour, etc.

[I vaguely recall adding not sugar, but corn starch to warm water to get the yeast going. It's been a long time though ...]
You should trial some adverts, hunches are great, but testing is relatively cheap these days and can make a big difference.

Always test your assumptions.
I'm thinking of advertising in magazine/tabloid, like a small box in the corner, anyone have experience with this kind of offline-to-online marketing like this?
"We actually don't have a good gifting tradition yet for e-books," says Sourcebooks' Raccah. Despite all the advances in reading technology, physical books are still the best Christmas presents.

Yes, that is sad. Or even lending (looking at you Amazon!). Nevertheless, e-books have done to publishing what mp3s and online video has done to the record labels / movie studios.

It's basically killed them, yet they are still running around with zombies waiting for that headshot to put them down for good.

E-books are here to stay and publishers, just like record labels, are useless as one can now establish a firm and successful marketing campaign mostly through the web.

Self-publishing may not kill e-books by publishers but has killed not only their monopoly, but also their whole business model.

Welcome to 2013. Accept it or zombify. Or better yet,

die;
I've no idea what mcd.s does, but you can add all sorts of crap to hamburger before it becomes too obvious. Probably a lot of it is not ... so appetizing (the bits you don't want to know you're eating, etc).

My mom used to buy hamburger meat that was bulked up with soy protein, mainly because it was cheaper than pure ground meat. [I absolutely loved the taste of that stuff actually, much more than all-meat burgers! Wish I could find it as an adult...]
Traditional publishers are worthless when it comes to e-books that the author can market himself. Distribution is taken care of so only marketing/advertising is left and that can also be taken care of by a competent author.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
One advantage of using the NY Times over the full OSPD for determining letter scores is that it gives precedence to words that people know and use. Casual players don't memorise lists of two letter words. Having imperfect letter scores adds an element of luck to the game which can make it more fun.
I'd be interested to hear from people that actually have accounts to find out if they think it is good.
You can download the essay in audio format here: http://castify.co/channels/3-eliezer-yudkowsky-the-simple-tr...
Oh its a lot more straightforward. For starters, you only need three things: a decent text editor, the MOAI host executable, and the MOAI SDK docs. All of these things can be found on Windows, Mac, Linux ..

Second of all, the MOAI API and programming environment is a lot, lot nicer than Objective-C/XCode/Frameworks.

But I say this, of course, with 4 years of experience in Mobile development, and 2 years with MOAI specifically. Of course I'm overlooking the training period I've been through - for a newcomer it may indeed look like a lot of hassle. But I swear, once you have spent a couple days building an app in Linux with MOAI, and then simply deploy it straight to Windows/OSX/Android/iOS targets, the value is obvious. I simply won't go back to XCode/Android/&etc. now - its just too fun to be building apps this way. One set of code, develop on your platform of choice, deploy all the way to the walled garden, and back again, around about the massive fields of Linux/Windows/OSX, and so on.
In which country did this happen?
How do you verify that a member is female or not?
I dunno. NASA has pulled off some ridiculously long odds in the past, and I'm always amazed at how low the body count of manned missions to the moon is. (Apollo 13 was nothing short of a miracle, even all Hollywood interpretations aside).

I think that so long as no one attempts a mission to Mars before they're actually ready to do so, we'll be alright.
Oh that's cool. Didn't know about that.
Eastern Europe, I'll leave it at that.
It is amazing how people can produce such an amount of content with absolutely no value at all.
I love to do that, and also the opposite trick: when people are telling a story, try holding one of their fingers between your thumb and index. They'll stop talking immediately, wondering what the hell you're doing :)
Anyone have some numbers on web comics? Are they loss leaders into ecommerce? What are the business models here?
It makes a lot of sense to use the subreddits to provide targeted ads. Being seen as friendly with goodwill notice for visitors might also be part of this.

Still, that remains one of the least agressive revenue models I've seen.
Actually, Feynman warned against something very similar in `Surely You're Joking, ...'--cargo cult science. It had something to do with Pacific Islanders who'd try to make offerings to their gods to receive food and other supplies like they used to at one time. The gods never responded, of course, because those airdrops were only being made during WW2 because normal sea lanes were cut off (if I remember the story right).

So there is something to understanding the difference between the apparent cause of a thing and the real cause.

Still, I think you're missing the point in this particular case. Following in Feynman's footsteps wouldn't mean following one specific formula of `play' -> success, but more or keeping an open mind and letting the solution come to you. Which I think is the opposite of cargo cult science.
Feel-good books about programming from an "evangelist." Yeah, just confess your sins and accept Apple/Whatever as your savior and you'll be a great programmer.

No prior programming knowledge needed.

$999,999,999 for the 2 hour seminar.

Thanks Mitt, but I think we've had enough.
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Yes, I tried the Evoluent vertical mouse. I found it too big and thick - I couldn't hold it in a relaxed way (but it could be because my hands are smallish). The Penclic let's me keep my fingers and thumb closer together, which feels better for me.
[Check out http://www.functionn.in for more web resources to keep you functionn.in']

boxbox is a framework for making games with the box2d physics engine. Technically, it’s not the same C++ box2D library that’s being used, but rather box2dweb, which is a JavaScript port of box2dflash, which itself is a port of box2D for C++.

While the original box2D C++ physics engine has a difficult API to learn if you’re not proficient with C++, boxbox provides a simple API in JavaScript for you to make full use of the physics engine. There are difference between box2D and boxbox.

While in box2D we work with fixtures, bodies and shapes, in boxbox, we work solely with entities. We can also attach event to those entities rather than the whole world, use common configurations among those entities and use built-in canvas rendering with image support.
Does it matter? His title was "evangelist." Like John the evangelist.

Where's your church Guy?
LinkedIn endorsements turn you into the product
Bullshit is an art indeed.
I'm about to get into biking too and agree with your comment about getting an inexpensive bike for starters.

I'll probably buy a new bike instead of a used one.
I got a netbook with an atom for $250-ish dollars just about 4 years ago and still can't find anything under $400 dollars that's enough of an improvement to make it worth replacing.

The crap SSD long ago died so my machine now runs LXDE off of a USB key, but it's still chugging. Still even gets 4 or 5ish hours of battery life which is pretty damn amazing after sitting around that long.

I keep thinking at some point someone will make a 12" cheap device with a day's worth of battery and maybe keep it completely fanless.

But no. The only thing remotely close any more are chromebooks, which lack the hard Linux features that make my netbook so useful. Unfortunately everyone else just price gouges you for something with an i3 that mysteriously costs $600.

As for Ultrabooks... they are HEAVY. Every time I see one I think they look great until I pick one up and it weighs ~ 2.5 times what my netbook does. Go figure... One of the things I love about my netbook is that I can hold it up with hand all day.

In any case, I don't think they're dead. Marketers just figured out how to label them ultrabooks and get an extra few hundred dollars.
Entire history, yet published in the early '90's?

Let's face it. Had Steve Jobs not returned, Apple would have been bankrupt by y2k.
I am a subscriber, purely because I don't want anyone to get my username. This really pisses me off, but at the end of the day, I like being richo everywhere so I'm gunna suck it up, pay $5 a month for a service I don't use and write it off to being a vain fool.
Not entirely sure, but I think he's getting that from this famous Winston Churchill quote:

> No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time;

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1947/nov/11/parli...
or Guy Kawasaki
I'd ask, figuring it was some party trick.
Thank you. Very well said.
I'm experiencing a small personal 'netbook revival' myself, with the recent hacking of a Motorola Lapdock to accomodate small miniPC's like the MK802 and so on .. you can see a picture of it here:

http://seclorum.minus.com/mGeislSULuCVd

The cable mess is ugly as hell, but after the New Years break I'll get a bit more time to design and build a better solution for the mess using a local 3d printer and laser cutter.

My hope is that I can modify the device so that it will be possible to just simply plug in any one of the hundreds of new miniPC devices that are being released, it seems, almost daily.

Of course, I'm also avidly waiting for Motorola (or someone) to just make a lapdock that makes my hardware hacking redundant - but I don't predict that this will catch on for another 3 to 4 months, yet. And in the meantime, 5 hour battery life on the Lapdock+MK802 combo that I'm currently running is really nice.

In fact, I'm grandfathering my Macbook Pro as a result of this work, and will turn it into a desktop build server only for the task of running xcodebuild ..
As a writer, I absolutely agree. It's also not new advice. As in hundreds of years old.
And some do both. To limited extents. As in, I can take this much recharge from people and this much from my alone time. It's really a matter of numbers, although the numbers are variable over time.
XtraFinder (free) adds tabs, dual panels, cut & paste, more to OS X's Finder
CHICKEN have a quite large set of libraries. I'll check out Racket though.
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There are known programmers who are really good (USA Computing Olympiad)

IOI and similar programming competitions do not select for good programmers. They select for people who can solve small algorithmic problems efficiently in a short time period with throwaway code. There is some overlap, but also a lot of perverse incentives. In professional programming, the tortoise usually beats the hare.

(I have competed at a national level and won a national college-level programming competition myself, and don't really take it all that seriously.)
Me too. The problem is that extroverts are seen as the norm in most societies and since introverts, while usually contributing a lot more, are not as well viewed.

It's the high school popularity contest over and over again (especially in the US).

The tables have and are still changing however. Those extroverts need their Facebook, Twitter, whatever to survive.

We build those systems for them.

Who's in control now?
The X1 Carbon is actually going for a little bit less than the 13" Air, at least for the base model of each.

https://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoP...
If get bored after a few missions and don't go back, then we might pull off a low to no body count. But the more missions we do, the more those unavoidable risks start to stack up. If we actually start getting up to "colony" scale, my money is on there being a decent bodycount, regardless of any herculean precautions.
I run my own DNS, but in a rather unique way. The registrar record points to my hosting company's DNS servers, but they are slaved off my DNS server; the only IPs that can hit my DNS server are the hosting company's. I make the changes I want, they're pushed out to the actual Internet facing DNS servers.
Ranking The All-Time BCS Games - The Snoozers
I sold my iPad 1 four weeks after getting it and bought a netbook. Still using it today. It's a real computer, does real work, and was a great bargain—none of which was true of the iPad, then or now.
Well, an alternative, perhaps a better, world would be one where those things were provided by common high quality libraries.
I have to check it out. However, if the book really does argue from a utilitarian POV, it fails right there. Utilitarianism by itself is hardly the basis of any human's thought. Otherwise we'd all be vegans thanks to Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation."

Still, I'm not going to take Wikipedia's take on it. Thank you for the first book recommendation of the new year.
not so hard to do when you're basically a porn forum.
It's an Op-ed, not an editorial.
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json_decode() without the second param or with it as false will create an object for you that is typed, loosely only if you mess with it afterwards. So what is the advantage other than speed? If I'm CPU bound, then yes, it's worth a look just as many other alternatives are worth a look. But that is a whole different issue.
Where is anything said about the rule of dictate?

The UK doesn't have a codified constitution - parts of it aren't written down anywhere at all. Any act of parliament can override any existing act or law, parliament can pass any new act it pleases.

As anywhere else, we're not perfect but it's not a complete disaster.
And you confused yourself. This thread is about JSON support in GO.
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I don't know what they do if you ask for a battery replacement or when something's wrong with the SSD, but changing a display on my 2011 MacBook Air was a matter of 20 minutes. I'd be very surprised if you couldn't at least replace the moherboard.

Which, by the way, is the only type of repair the other laptop manufacturers ever offered to me.
It varies person to person, but I find that some people are more "extroverted" in certain contexts and subjects which interest them, while others are more "introverted" in topics which don't hold their interests as much.
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/320/
This and their re-hauled (for awhile now) UI to a horrible mess that is almost impenetrable even by seasoned UI/UX developers is most likely due to a shortage of good engineers willing to go down to Los Gatos every day. I told them, one day a week, but big companies like this never learn till they're on the brink of collapse and it's too late. coughBlockbustercough
FYI: Go is not an acronym.
Better than the rest? Sorry, but parliamentary systems with the executive sitting in the parliament, answerable to the members, seem better than the American system. In Australia, we use the nickname "Washminster" to describe our delightful blend of Westminster and Washington approaches.

Question Time might be messy, unpleasant and adversarial, but it's a much better way to hold the executive / legislative branches to account than the duelling, highly staged press conferences that dominate American political conversation.
Not quite, the iPad gig was on OS X using Xcode (ugh!).

My first experience developing on iOS was SSH-ing into my jailbroken iPhone. Here are my notes on setting up the development environment but these are old by now and very probably not relevant anymore: https://www.dropbox.com/s/naq7763aximu8cx/iphone.org

If you are really interested I have a tarball with source and Makefile for you but it won't compile on recent toolchains I guess. (Also a bit of googling will get you examples as well.)

This is all thanks to saurik (who replied elsewhere in this thread) and others in the jailbreak community.

Also a lot of apps on Cydia were written using the GCC toolchain (at least initially, I'm not really up-to-date anymore).
Working JSON Protocols for Python Thrift
Apple expanding Japanese iBookstore in January 2013
I quite like netbooks, having been initially sceptical about them. As a note taking device they're hard to beat. Tablets just aren't as convenient because you have to faff about with external keyboards and trying to get the screen at the right viewing angle. Also netbooks have the edge over tablets in terms of being able to install a wider variety of linux based operating systems.
Mountain bike. It's SF. And Trek makes some of the best.
Microsoft Office is a superior experience to its OpenSource competitors, and definitely worth the cost.

However OpenOffice & LibreOffice (and possibly Google Docs) are functionality equivalent, and use open source standards. This raises the biggest question with OpenSource products: is the poor experience worth no vendor lock in?

Given Greek austerity mesures, compatibility assurance, the educational use of the product, and it will force MS to compete it's best Greece uses OpenSource.
Yup, in case you missed it, I posted updated code that really cleans-up the scraped page data very well. With the new code "british" is on top of the Canada list. It was a fun little exercise. There are some issues accessing Wikipedia this way but no big deal for a quick little test.
Yeah, predictable three ... now four years ago. Zynga and the rest. Can you say bubble burst when FB finally goes down?
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Once again illustrating that if you practice anything whatsoever for long enough you will acquire eerie-seeming superpowers.
Generating valid sudoku with genetic algorithms
> The fault lines are already there: Liberals like Obama favor massive spending on ambitious social programs. Civil libertarians -- there seem to be quite a few here on HN -- want a reduced government presence and an expansion of individual rights. Centrists like Bill Clinton aren't opposed to overseas military intervention and support balanced budgets and the reform of social programs.

The fact that you refer to "massive spending on ambitious social programs" as a "liberal" idea, and distinguish "liberal" from "civil libertarian", already kind of belies the issue. In most countries, there's a distinction between liberals and leftists. A liberal is someone who favores reduced government presence, strong individual rights, and markets--kind of like US libertarians, except far less extreme. An example would be the UK Liberal Democrats. Leftists are the ones who favor workers and social programs, and have strong ties to labor unions, like the UK Labour party. Conservatives are like conservatives here except, again, less extreme. Conservative parties in countries like the UK or Canada still tend to favor universal healthcare, for instance.

As we've seen in the UK, liberals can and do coalition with either side. You tend to see similar things in the US, though--whatever party holds the Presidency usually wants to expand executive powers at the expense of civil liberties, which leads the other party to reflexively take liberal stances. For instance, the Clinton administration's efforts against cryptography and gun ownership led to Republican opposition on both fronts, while the Bush administration's advancement of warrantless wiretapping and indefinite detention led to strong Democratic opposition that disappeared as soon as a Democratic president was pushing for the same things.

Actually, the problem is that there is no coherent liberal agenda in America. Philosophically, gay marriage, gun rights, opposition to warrantless wiretapping, and marijuana legalization are all liberal viewpoints, but out of the current political parties, each position is respectively supported by Democrats, Republicans, no one, and a minority on both sides.
If I were in a startup, and we'd grown and grown, and we'd reached a certain milestone (e.g. Instagram selling for a billion dollars), I would make a Gource of the repository and have it displayed on screens at the office party.
There is an online version of Clojure koans built using Noir available here: http://clojurekoans.herokuapp.com
"But its impact this year was indisputable." Really? How much profit or even revenue did it bring in. Because in the end, that's all that matters. Digg committed suicide by algorithm and feudalism.
Every time I read something like this, one particular article from Pointless Waste of Time (now Cracked) comes to my mind [1]. In his very cynical and somewhat angry way, David Wong describes why current iteration of social media interactions model doesn't work too well.

I am very much advising to read the whole article, but his main points are:

1. Text is not a good medium

2. Internet relationships are too sterile (this works both ways, your 'friends' are more sterile and your annoyances are filtered too easily)

3. In the end we feel worth less

[1] http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-...
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Do you know what caused the fire? Improper installation? Overheating? Defective equipment?
I was on cipralex!
Why is CPU performance on EC2 so terrible compared to dedicated servers?
Celebrity hookups of 2012
> How that doesn't damage sales I'll never understand.

Because the people downloading it are not necessarily the same people who'd have bought it otherwise.

Plus exposure. I pirate a lot of stuff. At the same time I buy more books and music than anyone else I know.
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Ask HN: Is there a easy way to migrate from drupal6 to wordpress3.x?
Please don't refrain yourself of posting things like this because jerks poninted their snarky guns at you, just ignore them.

By doing that you achieve two great things. First, you help people who genuinely need your caring comments on real world experience. Secondly, you don't feed attention whores.

Great post by the way. You saved me weeks of hair pulling by showing that once you achieve the right mindset this problem, like any other, can be realistically managed.

Finally, have happy new year!
Being a wolf and keeping the motivation going
ScriptCraft - A Minecraft mod that lets you build using Javascript
It also applies to reddit.
Yep, exactly that. The idea is to sleep the same amount of time as you normally would (8 hrs, for example) but stay awake longer.

With a 28 hour day you'd come full circle in a week (I think), but with 6 days in your week instead of 7, and 120 hrs awake vs 112 hrs.

Edit: oops, just noticed jgeralnik beat me to it, with illustrations and all!
Please explain twitter to me. I don't get it. I searched #puerh to find interesting links and comments. I found 2 comments per day, 10 in total. What should I do with this? It is not nearly enough. If I go to teachat.com there is a 1700 posts long thread started in 2008, with complex discussions and pictures.

I tried other interests, every time I come out empty handed. Is there a trick to searching content on twitter? Is twitter only for gadgets and social stuff? What about obscure hobbies?
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