skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a book full of studies on this very topic -- many of which show the perils, yes, of trying to do non-manual-labor for extended hours -- get the book Be Excellent at Anything, which is a misnomer. The book used to be titled The Way We're Working Isn't Working, and it was a huge overview of studies that show, well, the way people are working isn't working.
Than take {1,1,2,3,3}. By any reasonable definition the average is 2, and the most frequent values are 1 and 3.
what is the deal with that? I hate it: I get an email with a link, to word doc that I have to open,just to see a party announcement. urrrgh!
Can someone point me to some decent, relevant SEO resources? I feel like I'm behind the times here.

I need to understand how to take the information in Google Analytics and put that into ACTIONS.

I'm working specifically on http://howacarworks.com as this is solely driven by advertising revenue. It's quality content, well delivered, but Google really isn't giving me much in the way of traffic or ranking.
Up to 100 tabs.

Because I can do it without any slowness.

I'm one of the two Opera users.
I remember your tweet, glad you enjoyed the stickers and communication, and you're always welcome to stop by, and I'm hereby ENCOURAGING you to apply when we have open positions.
What does "use strict" do in JavaScript?
It would seem odd for them to launch the Linux client with the fanfare that they did and then pull the rug out from under everyone once the Steambox is launched, though I suppose it could happen. Besides making Steambox fundamentally incompatible would actually be more work than using standard parts.

Regards distros, they don't seem to mind people repackaging for other distros though it would be unrealistic to expect support for running the games under every conceivable distro of which there are thousands.
I think of electric cars a little bit like smartphones. I used to leave my old Nokia uncharged for a week. I used to use it in the rain. I used to stick it in my bag and not give a damn about scratching or damaging it.

The two main problems that electric cars have are a) image: it's simply not cool to have an electric car. To the majority of people, they're seen as an expensive compromise done to save Gaia and b) they don't offer any obvious functions not achievable by ICE.

Electric cars need metaphorical angry birds and social media apps if they're going to smash ICEs the way smartphones did dumb phones.
To be fair, UK gas mileage numbers are always higher than US numbers, for two reasons. 1) US and UK use different gas mileage verification (we have EPA, they have...). 2) A gallon in the UK is bigger than our gallon. It is not precisely the same unit of measurement.
Depends what's eye candy for you. For me it's pure solarized colors and lots of terminals open... :)
81 mpg? A diesel jetta only gets 42 highway.
Being a "Lisp" is a very broad category and I always wondered about people calling Lisp a functional language. I would love to see a list of things that are today considered functional that originated in Lisp, I think there is not that many of them in the end. However, there is a ton of things that have nothing to do with being functional that originated or got popularized by Lisp: garbage collection, lists as the fundamental data structure, dynamic typing,... One could just as well consider it the first "scripting" language, a spiritual predecessor to Python, Ruby, maybe Smalltak to a extent? Many Lisp dialects do not stress the functional part all that much and lots of Lisp code is written in a way that is very imperative. In the end I think many other factors contributed much more to the popularization of functional programming.

And if you take Common Lisp as an example of a Lisp, there are still tons of interesting things that are far from being mainstream. Multiple dispatch, conditions system, macros, ...
Highway driving and driving everywhere are two very different problems. This car seems to try to solve the former only, so it is not really comparable to google's car or this one.
Assuming that the Model S uses the HV pack and a DC/DC to power the 12 V bus all of the time (like the Roadster), it would make sense that parking the car overnight in the cold would cause issues.

All other EVs that I know of shut off the battery contactors when the car is keyed off, and rely on a 12 V SLI battery (usually lead-acid) to support the vehicle when the power is off. The roadster did not do this, which is explained in Tesla's BMS documentation [1]. This means that any quiescent current consumed by the 12 V system will drain the main battery pack.

[1] http://webarchive.teslamotors.com/display_data/TeslaRoadster...
I don't think there's really enough data to draw a conclusion here. Carmack's arguments seem to be based on their web game which everyone already played to death 10 years ago when it was called Quake3.
I do use Instapaper for that.

With some one-click extension.
1. XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011. Yup, close enough insofar as the point was made but some of the names were changed and improvements applied.

2. Someone will make a lot of money by hosting open-source web applications. Ya know, he might be onto something there. In retrospect, it relies on fulfillment of #7.

3. Multi-threaded programming will fall out of favor by 2012. It's just too obvious a technique to not use. Alternatives may be cleaner, but not as clear. "Get it done" trumps "make all the pieces play in perfect harmony".

4. Java's "market share" on the JVM will drop below 50% by 2010. That assumed robust use of JVM. iOS & Android exploded onto the market, changing the landscape he was addressing.

5. Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010. Nope. But I assume he never expected Objective-C would be.

6. A new internet community-hangout will appear. One that you and I will frequent. Facebook. EVERYBODY is on Facebook. Wasn't so important that "you and I" use it, but that our mothers would.

7. The mobile/wireless/handheld market is still at least 5 years out. Odd that he was more predicting something not happening; we'll say he was right insofar as what constitutes "happened" is squishy and took a few years to get going, but wrong insofar as when it did happen it did so to a far greater degree than he expected. Half of the then-absurd snide "promises" he listed as others making have pretty much come true: HDTV pixel counts on a pocket device, LTE data rate 10x faster than T1, etc.

8. Someday I will voluntarily pay Google for one of their services. He couldn't grok what Google would be able to offer for free.

9. Apple's laptop sales will exceed those of HP/Compaq, IBM, Dell and Gateway combined by 2010. Had to invent the smartphone and tablet markets to do so, but insofar as an iPhone 5 is on par with notebooks back then, we'll count this as a big win.

10. In five years' time, most programmers will still be average. More a tautology than anything. What's "average" is pretty friggin' capable given a cheap modern toolset. For $99 and a Mac darned near any competent idiot can whip up a practical app and have it available to the world in a few days, no need for mad skillz.

The thing about predictions is the difficulty of articulating how discoveries along the way will affect manifestation of the prediction. One may be right in the spirit of the prediction, but not the letter thereof.
Russian meteor largest in a century
>Seriously what is wrong with Libre/Open Office's slow ugly UI?

Java.
If you see it from ppl who have lots of karma/popularity or popular ppl on twitter is exactly the point. These people are singled out because they have been promoted by others who agree with them. Just the same if someone who had the opposite view were upvoted/popular they would be singled out.
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Your comment ignores my original point which is that homemakers have economic value, but it's still worthy of a response.

Obviously children are not in control of who takes care of them, but that would be true whether the parents worked or not; parents decide how their children will be cared for in any case. Also, I'm not sure if you've ever tried to browse reddit and watch a toddler at the same time, but I can say from experience it's not as easy as you might imagine. Children, especially when they are younger than school-age, demand a lot of attention just to keep them safe and healthy let alone educated and civilized.
Most people regularly drive short distances to and from work. An electric car charged overnight perfectly fits that model and covers 99% of most people's driving habits. Just like most people don't need to own a pickup truck. They borrow one once a year. Most people aren't driving hundreds of miles in a day on a regular basis. And if you do need to drive hundreds of miles? Then an electric car isn't for you.

I ski most weekends which is ~350 miles of driving and plugging in the car really isn't a huge deal. I did it when I had a diesel with an engine block warmer.

The exception receiving so much focus is kind of baffling. People seem really invested in finding faults with electric vehicles.
The Journey from Founder to CEO
Never had a problem with Rackspace Cloud (running 5 right now for various projects). < $20 / month for a basic server.
Airbus to drop lithium-ion batteries from A350
>Second, a lot of porn out there focuses on and glorifies the woman's suffering, pain and degradation. Seriously, you only have to read the word "painal" once to realize that. However, if that's not enough, you might also look for the occurrences of "choke", "gag", "destroy", "slut", etc.

And an entire subgroup which focus on the same with the man -- but most people don't look that far, because they just want to look down on porn.

It is religious bullshit, repackaged as concern for women(TM).
Yep, US EPA's 5 cycle analysis tends to produce lower MPG number.
Also that in addition to not having fixed it, accurate stats are apparently less of a priority than, say, a gigantic fixed-position toolbar. That's been disappointing…
The laptop can be left plugged in and still achieve it's primary function of being a computer. I don't really understand this analogy.
> SteamBox is going to be basically the same story only at a $200-300 price point

Where are you getting these prices?

>and with $5-20 games.

Steam regularly sells games at $50+. I really doubt this is going to change any time soon. There is always going to be a market for expensive "premium" games.
A lot of their success stories at http://success.heroku.com/ are sites you'd expect to be spending the $3-5k/month.

If their platform can't handle higher amounts of load, they really should indicate as such.
It's really easy to get into one of those communes. There are tons of messageboards if you know where to look. For all their back to nature blather, they love their resource-sucking smartphones as much as you and I.

The best argument for their "conservation" is really selfishness in disguise. Let's save this unraped land for future generations... to exploit for rare earth minerals.

Honestly, outer space is the only way out.
There's a qualitative difference between the games you can economically produce for a $5 launch price vs what you can produce for a $60 launch price.

That's not to say that more expensive games are necessarily better, just that there are no shortage of people willing to pay $60 on launch day for games like COD or Skyrim.
Text-only Google cache version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Ubuntu is now by default Unity and not Gnome.
I like both, both didn't find one that doesn't lag for me, maybe im doing something wrong with the drivers :/
Wouldn't it be a better idea to store the timezone and then account for the DST at the server side?
https://bitbucket.org/pellepim/jstimezonedetect

getTimezoneOffset() gives you the offset with the DST accounted and will be a different time when DST is off.
Drug passed on to fish boosts their confidence
He was referring to Microsoft Excel.
OEM license != software

The fact that you've successfully installed Office 2011 for OS X on at least two machines only means that the installer doesn't actively prevent this. It does not mean that the license agreement for the software says that this is ok.
A Simple A/B Test that Generated a 31.54% Lift in Sign-ups [Case Study]
Lisp will never be popular. Everyone likes to kiss the ass of Lisp, and talk about how transformative and powerful it is, then they go and write a bunch of Python or Ruby or Lua or Perl or anything other than Lisp, because infix is just much much more readable. When was the last time you went to a math class and the professor wasn't using infix notation? Even the Common Lisp Hyperspec has to resort to infix notation to explain things. Look at all the infix notation: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_car_...

Otherwise, this is pretty spot on. I would say that XML databases should be replaced with JSON or schemaless databases (there was no json back then) and then this prediction is spot on as well.
I'm a fan of AWS, and their free tier.
As other people have stated, insurance fraud is a very real risk and dashcams help protect drivers from scammers. Here is an example of what they're dealing with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjj-1L6qeOc
The last mile of data
CNN just said that they have them in their cars to Stop Police Corruption! Maybe that is what we need to do here in America!
Actually 4 is almost entirely backwards. He's saying that Java the language will be less popular than other JVM languages. That's not true at all. Obviously what actually happened is that the Sun/Oracle JVM dropped below 50% market share of "VMs that run Java", losing badly to Google's Dalvik. Java-the-language remains dominant on both, however.
Nature article: http://www.nature.com/news/russian-meteor-largest-in-a-centu...
If you throw enough money at people, it's hard for them to refuse even when they don't like the circumstances. Take a hard look at WHY all that money is being transferred.

Example: Milk production is heavily subsidized in NY, obviously a lot of money being given to rural businesses. Most of the farmers don't want the subsidies, but if they refuse the 'free' money their product prices would rise 2-3x and instantly be driven out of the market. A few politicians find it very beneficial to keep those subsidies in place.

Don't complain about people accepting offers they can't refuse.
Well that's partly my point.

The owners of python.co.uk have waited 13 years to make a complaint about others using their trademark. And due to this, are arguably in a weak position to claim ownership of the trademark.

So my question is this; are the owners of python.co.uk also being challenged to prove they've used their trademark? Are the owners of python.co.uk being challenged to prove that they've tried to enforce control over the trademark over the 13 years leading up to this case?

If you want an example of what I mean, then check domain name trademark policy: http://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/

> "All other WordPress-related businesses or projects can use the WordPress name and logo to refer to and explain their services, but they cannot use them as part of a product, project, service, domain, or company name and they cannot use them in any way that suggests an affiliation with or endorsement by the WordPress Foundation or the WordPress open source project. For example, a consulting company can describe its business as “123 Web Services, offering WordPress consulting for small businesses,” but cannot call its business “The WordPress Consulting Company.” Similarly, a business related to WordPress themes can describe itself as “XYZ Themes, the world’s best WordPress themes,” but cannot call itself “The WordPress Theme Portal.”

> Similarly, it’s OK to use the WordPress or WordCamp logo as part of a page that describes your products or services, but it is not OK to use it as part of your company or product logo or branding itself. Under no circumstances is it permitted to use WordPress or WordCamp as part of a top-level domain name."

The reason for this is quite simple, they've been seen to enforce their trademark so if there's ever any disputes, Wordpress are on strong legal ground. However python.co.uk owners have allowed the name -"their" trademark- to be borrowed and used globally. So it's now a grey issue as to whether the aforementioned still have a legal right to that trademark.

So if I understand trademark law, then the PSF should also be challenging python.co.uk to prove that they've made any effort to enforce their trademark before now. I hope for PSF's sake that I am right here because that would put them in a much stronger position to win this dispute than just proving the widespread use of the term under their context alone.
Vivaldi tablet in harmony with new vendor
Fear of Starting is a Bitch
For me the question for the larger web community boils down to this: we benefit as a whole when there are multiple high-quality browser engines but the implementors do not directly receive a significant share of those benefits (i.e. Opera implemented some things, helped the standards improve, and 99% of the web didn't benefit until the corresponding WebKit or Gecko implementation).

If we want that to change – particularly for ambitious projects like major security or parallelism improvements – it seems like there has to be some way to bring the scale back to the level where a small group can effectively enter the field.
CNN just said they do because it is to Stop Police Corruption.. Maybe that is what we need to do here in America!
Posting a link from an article on the front page is something we have to stop doing. This was a link from another article currently on the front page (link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5225149 discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224954 and post referring to it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5225149 ).
Open Graph for Email
Why would you not pay for proprietary software? It seems like asking "why would windows users use free software?".

Of course there are some who will only use 100% free/open source software for ideological reasons but these people are a small minority of Linux users in practise.

Most of the new indie game Linux ports work quite well in my experience though YMMV I guess. It would be unrealistic to expect support for every distro.
A short history of Software Engineering
You are perhaps aware that the Death Of Lisp happened in between the first date and the current date? The Golden Age Of Lisp was during the 1970s and 1980s when the USA Defense Department put substantial funds into AI research, and the favored language for AI research was Lisp. And, to a degree, the Lisp community became dependent on that money. If you look up some of the famous companies that put together Lisp-oriented machines circa 1980, there was the clear assumption that money from the Defense Department would continue forever. However, Communism collapsed in 1989 and from the Reagan build-up of the 1980s to the demobilization under Clinton in the 1990s, the USA spending on the military shifted from almost 9% of GDP to roughly 4% of GDP. There were cutbacks in research spending. And this lead to the Great Death Of Lisp.

However, good ideas are resilient even if the face of death. People such as Paul Graham kept the flame alive. People like Rich Hickey brought it into the modern age. There is no question that Lisp is on the comeback trail.

There is also, of course, the broader victory of Lisp: the impact it has had on all other languages. Paul Graham wrote about that here:

http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html
Linode, easy to start small and grow just by re-sizing the server. They may not be the cheapest but they have very good support and their guides are perfect.
Four common fixes when you’re upgrading to Ruby 1.9
I think it's an attempt at humor at the expense of _racists_. I don't see why any non-racist white person should be concerned about it.
yup, same here
My Tweenage Dream and Why Having a Little Stage Mother in us is a Good Thing
When you convert the gallon sizes for US, it gets 52 MPG. No major engine servicing required until over 200k miles - why is the 5 series diesel not for sale in the US, seems nuts. Top Gear claimed last year that its pretty much "the perfect car"...I want :)
I think what you'll see in the future is battery swapping stations, where they'll take your uncharged battery and replace it with a charged one. Certainly some logistic issues, but I still think this would be more efficient than driving giant trucks of gasoline around the country.
Adventures in RubyMotion, Part 2
IPad? No, Sony Just Patented Something It's Calling the "EyePad"
If Office alternatives can't charge a small one off fee, what makes you think they will be able to charge a subscription?
> then, in 2005 at some international universities

Every, if you bothered to get your university internal mail unlocked.

I had to send them a mail with the website of my German university and how our e-mail addresses looked, about 6 weeks later I was able tor register.
Nice...I'm still working on my first hack.

How did you go about building it?
Because the rise of Microsoft caused malaria. Your logic here is fantastic.
It's roughly 250 miles each way. Unless you are just trying to do laps, you take a break when you get to the destination and fuel up before leaving. I do the trip from union square to falls church all the time in a 335 IX and a panamera without having to refuel on the way.
That brings up an interesting question of where the line of what is a database gets drawn. Does a JSON interface to a CRUD application that uses a relational database behind the scenes count as a JSON database? A part of me thinks it should. CouchDB positioned itself with a JSON API that allowed you to skip the CRUD middleware, so from the API consuming point of view there is essentially no difference.
This is a pretty incredible list of predictions. I'm not just impressed at how 'correct' some are, but also that these predictions turned out to be so important to the tech industry.

It's interesting how everyone has a different take on #2. When I read it, I thought of Heroku and I think that's pretty close. With the git integration many people do `git push github && git push heroku` which is pretty cool.

As fir #10, that's not good news for all of the "Rockstars Only" job postings.
It runs each statement individually? Or commits each statement individually?

Column stores are destined to have slower inserts, due to how the data is stored on disk. But if they are actually committing each statement individually, that is a problem.
Google's not an accurate gauge these days as it's results will be biased depending on who's performing the search.

Google results are trailered to the user based on location, search habits and so on.
That's pretty much what "OEM license" means. The whole point of the retail license was that it wasn't tied to hardware; what's news is that this is no longer offered.
> It doesn't matter if you think one dyno per request is "bullshit" or not, Rails isn't multithreaded

Sure it is. You just have to set `config.threadsafe!`, which right now is slated to be on by default in rails4.

But then you need a server stack that supports multi-threaded requests, such as puma which the parent comment mentioned using.

And then if you're using MRI, your multiple threads in a process still can't use more than one cpu at a time -- but this _probably_ doesn't matter in the scenario we're talking about, because a single heroku dyno isn't going to have access to more than one cpu at a time anyway, right?

How this all shakes out is indeed confusing. I am _not_ saying "If you just use puma and config.threadsafe!" all is well with their scheduler. I do not know one way or the other, it is hella confusing.

But it is incorrect to say "Rails isn't multithreaded, so what do you propose they do"
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