skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who want to give it a try I'd highly recommend this (short) book http://amzn.to/11zPRcJ (Deep Meditation - Yogani), of all I've read on the subject this was the best by far -no religion, common sense, and simple method.
Depends on the boat. I want to buy a 13ft one-man sailboat that weights 130lbs. Any car can tow that. Some people have boats that weight two tons. Good luck towing that in a Fiat 500.
What about "My Two Dads -- Redundancy Works" -- Subline "Erlang redundant processes and safety"
Catalytic converters have a minutes long warm-up period beforce they approach a narrow interpretation of "effectiveness".

Oh, and since we are talking about diesels, they produce diesel particulate matter, ultrafine particles that can cause anything from cancer to nausea. Even modern diesel engines can't completely filter them.
They just don't come up for sale too often...

http://www.kungfo0.org/theweb/ebay/carrier.html

Never know what you may find on ebay...

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-050902a.html
Every child deserves access to an education
Probably not minus 100% :-)
I wonder when they will kill Google Earth, we have Google Maps and with WebGL I think Google Earth is pointless.
I don't know if it is related, as I've never read on the subject, but when I was in highschool, before falling asleep, I often spend over an hour with soft music playing at a very low level while focusing on any body parts. For instance, on my knees, or arms, feet, etc. I'd feel them loose, like they were floating, not even touching anything. I'd reach a point where I couldn't move even though I'd try, and it actually felt great. I sometimes miss taking the time to reach that point before falling asleep as I'm usually too tired to stay awake longer than five minutes once in bed (even with a book open).

I'm not sure if that counts as meditation, but I'm sure willing to read more on the subject, as I want to fell that calmness again.
How does that work zoning wise?
You might be surprised. 50 years ago it was a major issue, but now engines are powerful and small so all you need is a tow hitch and a small boat. EX: Toyota Corolla can tow 1500 lbs which is a fair sized load.

Granted if, you want to pull a 22' boat that's another story. But, for lake fishing it's fine.
Meritocracy is a fiction.
I would think it's controversial when applied to
engineering. This implies that the basic tools of
software development are somehow viewed/used
differently by people of various genders/ethnicities/etc

We're probably operating with different definitions of "software engineering."

I understand software engineering to encompass much more than just using "the basic tools of software development." Within that scope, you're definitely right: I don't think one gender can use Eclipse (or vim, or whatever) better.

I'm thinking of a broader definition of software engineering that involves understanding problems and choosing from many viable solutions, each with their own trade-offs in terms of implementation difficulty and end-user experience. There are a lot of people who feel that process, and our industry as a whole, would benefit from having a greater variety of perspectives.

the author seems to think "cognitive diversity" can be achieved
simply by adding women to your dev team.

It can be a step towards it.
I cannot rightly say I've ever been up against another female candidate. But I have a lot of opinions about how I am different, at least from a personality standpoint, from most of the women I work with. None of which are objective. :-)
“Usage has declined.” Come on. That is very weak. It may have done so but that is like saying it is a cold Winter so global warming isn’t true.

I don't understand the analogy, unless we are supposed to assume that there is some very large and natural cyclic pattern in Google Reader usage?
"Don't be evil, except..." -- the new Google
What is the most performant production-mature filesystem at petabyte-scale?
What is the most performant (but useable) filesystem for petabyte-scale parallel processing, that is running in real Production environments today?

I assume that there are newer options than Hadoop that compare well? What I'd really like is a properly-tested Haskell solution, but I imagine that's a few years off yet...
Wow. The producers are more sharks than the sharks themselves. This reminds me of those places where people pay to pitch. What a rip-off.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel
Malevolence is in the eye of the beholder, of course, but try Adolescence of P-1, True Names (novella) and A Fire Upon the Deep.
>Not flying doesn't really reduce emissions though... Those planes are going to fly whether or not you are on it.

On an individual level, sure, but not flying reduces demand, which in turn reduces the number of flights.
This is a terrific idea if it means that people become more open to expanding the size of Congress, an idea which is currently met with objections like 'Oh, but then we would need to build a bigger building'.

The Congress of the United States is absurdly small in relation to our population and absurdly unrepresentative as a result. The British House of Commons, which represents a country of 63 million persons, has 650 seats. The Canadian House of commons has 308 members (rising to 338 next election) representing 33 million persons. The entire US Congress, including the Senate, is only 538 seats, representing over 315 million persons. The House of Representatives has not been expanded since 1911 and the population of the United States has increased by 200 million since then.

Anything that makes this more achievable is worth having. The bonus of giving Congressmen the ability to work from their district in direct communication with the electorate is also worth having.
As someone who was convicted of a felony at age 19 and immediately turned his life around (yet still suffers the consequences), I wish more people felt the way that you do. Thank you.
I think that was a joke
"Are you willing to work a 40 hour week" (ie, the industry standard full-time week) is code for "are you sure your motherly obligations aren't going to get in the way of your job?"
Signal vs. Noise by 37signals — Business, Design, Programming and the Web
Regardless of the level of offense, 'Dad' isn't a natural word to use in that context (I've never heard anyone use the word 'dad' when discussing redundancy). 'Master' would be much more appropriate.
You forget that the entire head of the penis is basically a mucous membrane through which STIs can be passed (i.e. one big open sore). So you would have to cover the entire head, at which we run into the problem of sensitivity again.
The XKCD comic is about herpetology and ornithology. The revised one is about the difference between wordpress users and developers. Where on earth does either mention the intelligence or status of women?
Hm.. That's curious. Works pretty much fine for SemWeb stuff
My CF-hosted sites have been unavailable for the last half an hour or so and according to Twitter I'm not the only one.
This kind of proof is often named "proof by lack of imagination".

You're reiterating the design ideas of the condom with a bit of expansion, asserting that it must be this way.

But you really don't know if you've explored the entire design-space.
A week-old repository tarball is almost worse than useless in the context of the git repository; we'd sooner restore that data by having a developer re-run "git push" than to lose a week's worth of development.

The risk of using mirroring rather than versioned backups is that you lose all the data when a deletion is mirrored.

Redundant storage is not backup.
This may be a little off topic, but I just wanted to commend you for saying "Nothing to report as yet." Lifestyle changes often have a honeymoon period where everything seems to be going great, whether or not it's actually sustainable. After the honeymoon is over, then you can get a clearer picture of what worked and what didn't.
Danny Hillis, co-founder of Thinking Machines (maker of the Connection Machine), bought and drove an old fire truck around Cambridge, MA, in the 1980's. I guess that was a lot harder than getting around Montana!
Inconclusive either way is different from 'shown drinking isn't a problem'. So technically, he's right, even if a little too aggressive about it.
Energy per liter also is an important factor. Your mobile would float, but it also would be the size of your lower arm. Maybe, you should wear your battery as a jacket or a pair of trousers?
Oh, that's exactly what they're doing. Except rather than a one time fee, it's equity or revenue...forever. Even if you don't get a deal.

F*ck. That.
Experimental evidence: poor spatial memory for buttons [pdf]
Yahoo: The Marissa Mayer Turnaround
Weird. Something ate that post.

The question was, "I can hear your kids in the background. Are you sure you're okay with working 40 hours a week?" From a female recruiter for a previous employer when I specifically inquired about FTE. Her boss (also female) certainly didn't think it was fair to ask.
"What a rip-off."

The opportunity to showcase your product and have it seen by millions of potential customers and investors on national television may actually be worth far more than their take.
> The smart ones take the huge publicity jump from appearing on the show, turn down any deal offered, and seek money from the inevitable inbound investor generated post-show airing.

Turn down the deal is exactly what Scott Jordan of SCOTTEVEST did... I'd be curious if he got action on the deal he was trying to make after the show aired. Scott described his experience with Shark Tank extensively on the company's website [1]. The "raw unedited video" of Scott watching the episode he appeared on for the first time is interesting (he gets interrupted with news that the SCOTTEVEST site is not withstanding the traffic surge during the episode's airing!).

1. http://www.scottevest.com/company/shark_tank.shtml
Yup! and suitable attribution is given.
Doubt it.

Scholar is mostly search. Reader was a lot of things: search (like google news) sync engine, social network (like G+), a complex web app etc. It's probably a lot easier to have someone on the search team maintain scholar than it was to maintain reader and it doesn't conflict (yet) with G+.

Given how many of their famous employees were poached from academia, scholar is probably worth keeping for recruitment purposes alone. Not to mention employee morale.
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When I learned about the dongle incident, my first thought was similar—what if a heterosexual man didn't like a joke about some aspect of homosexuality a gay developer was sharing with his colleague?

Actually, now that I think about it, what if the developer who joked about dongles was gay? We know the developer is heterosexual, but Adria couldn't know then. Even if he used gendered language—what if he was closeted and couldn't talk about sex with men publicly? Why did she assume talking about penises meant he was a misogynist?
I didn't find the first few paragraphs induced either of those - quite the opposite, it made me keep reading and kept me reading to the end.

It's a very interesting article, and obviously well thought out and well timed, and makes lots of very good points. One thing that particularly resonated was this statement at the end:

> The most reasonable people are now afraid to speak their mind. They rightly fear
> being shamed and harassed by those who scream the loudest of abuse. I've debated
> writing about this for a while, because I know what a certain part of the
> response will be. But I'm not the only one saying it, so I'm doing it here, once,
> in full length, with honest citations, after discussion with people of
> experience. Women and men, in case you're wondering.
> "Good luck" was a common theme.

It'll be interesting what the general take on it appears to be, once the internet has reduced it down to a couple of choice quotes for each side to rally behind.
Even though I have not taken the entrepreneurial plunge yet (in the true sense), I just had my first child 2 weeks ago and for some reason, at age 31 with a kid, I feel like I am more than ready now to get into doing what I want. No more distractions. I know what I need to focus my day on and nights on (well nights is mostly for baby with breaks in b/w :))
Coffice - Calligra on Android available now
Coinbase Availability Alerts
I tore so much industrial strength junk out of it. The seats? They were incredible, built to last many years of transit system abuse. Another example, a wheelchair lift that looks like it came from an aircraft carrier, and could lift an aircraft. I don't see ever re-adding that much weight. The most significant thing I've ever had was 300 gallons of potable water (and 8 companions + gear) for our last trip to BRC.
I'm not saying that it's a standards violation or anything like that. I'm not even arguing against GET retries, but only against them being default.

Bad behavior from apps you don't control is a fact of life. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away, and behaving like it doesn't exist can make it worse.
Silicon Valley Is The New Hollywood: Ignore The Hype And Keep Working
Sadly, the opposite will happen. There's fierce competition for a lot of jobs and a pool of job seekers full to the brim, criminal records are becoming just another qualifier employers conveniently use for filtering purposes.
First, plenty of boats weight more than 1500lbs, especially if you include the trailer. Trailers always weight more than you think. For example, U-Haul's smallest utility trailer is 630lbs.

Second, there are more issues than power. Towing 1500lbs behind a Corolla puts a lot of strain on the car that it wasn't particularly meant to handle on anything other than an occasional basis, especially with things like automatic transmissions. Also very important, a Corolla is 2700lbs. 1500lbs of trailer starts to get sketchy, and the trailer can start yanking around the tow vehicle.

Edit: yes, you are right, lake fishing in a rowboat, you don't need a dedicated tow vehicle. Thing is, people dream they will get that 22' boat in a few years, so they buy the F-650 or whatever.
Nice work! Noticed one issue though: did a US Citizen -> Brazil check and it said I didn't need a visa but then says I do need one.
If I could interject 2 brief points:

In some industries, your advice isn't practical. Tptacek's home base being Chicago probably brings commodities trading firms to the fore of his mind.

Otherwise, your ideas benefit the individual with an almost adversarial approach to companies. Tptacek looks at things from the position of that adversary. Your advice stands to surprise the established order... Instead of relying on the mercy of an all-powerful business benefactor, someone who followed you would continue operating under their own power, through their own exploit.

So it's possible you guys might agree in certain cases but it seems unlikely you'll come to public agreement on the hypotheticals here.

Also, I like your blog.
they license it out so less chance of Google Earth being shut down http://www.google.co.uk/earth/media/licensing.html
How to Say Thanks And Improve Your Launch Day Success
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ym2L1urOz8
...don't you think Kirsten Bell could just bankroll the $2m Veronica Mars movie herself?

Why on earth would anyone think that? It isn't hard to find out what work she's done [0]: on that page, I see a bunch of guest appearances on TV, roles in a few movies I've never heard of, and a starring role on one TV series, to which she was signed when absolutely unknown. (Unknown actors signed to new programs are typically locked in for years of low pay, because they're "lucky to be working at all".) Also she is listed as producer of one minor movie and one planned movie.

I certainly hope Ms. Bell has good financial habits, but I don't see how she could have saved $.2M from this body of work, let alone $2M, especially while living in Hollywood.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068338/
Thanks for making this! I'm making travel plans right now and it's quite handy.
What a sexist goal Etsy had, to hire 500% more female(???) engineers. Why engineers are separated by gender? It's 100% sexism.
Yes, which is why the mirrors were affected and not the thousands of individual developers clones, nor the existing tarball snapshots.

And even that is because of a deliberate decision on the sysadmins' parts based on a misunderstanding of how git clone --mirror responds to a corrupt repo, not some simple oversight. Which is to say, countermeasures will be put in place for that as well.

I do wish people understood why having relying only on even 2-week-old backups is unacceptable in the context of a large active FOSS project's source code repository, it's not like it's OK to simply start over again from KDE 4.9.4.
I'm new to Macs. brew returns with command not found. I thought it was installed by default...perhaps not? Also, I have Postgres installed already.
But would you pay for that? Besides, a "thinkerspace" would be as noisy as a cafe.
Smart, but I hate those people. At least make an effort to pretend like you want some sort of deal for entertainment sake. Don't just walk in, completely ignore the sharks and advertise your product.
Engine hours is where it's at. I bet the engine has been rebuilt several times.
I think that's a fair criticism: definitely one of the reasons why I didn't decide to back the project.

And I think the idea that this is may be really about paying tuition instead of finishing the game is something that's fair to report and let Kickstarter decide whether it violates their terms of use.

Overall, it looks like a bad Kickstarter campaign to fund, but it's not fraud and the level of vitriol about it is over the top. Bad Kickstarters happen all the time[1], but they don't get this crazy amount of hate.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters
I used to meditate for an hour to two hours a day - but I've recently began finding out that I can compress my meditations into 10-15 minute sessions. This might come from being able to slide into trance more easily than I used to.

I've found that I actually feel better from 15 minute meditations per day than 1 hour meditations as long as I remain focused an in trance - if I'm having difficulty staying "in the zone" then I'll extend the meditation accordingly based on feel.
Though not the obvious way of sitting and chanting, I meditate by just bringing mindfulness to an activity I am doing anyway. A run, a stretch, hanging out with my kids, a conversation, a breath. I summon complete attention, at first it feels weird to notice every little sensation, then I try to adapt the experience until it feels better.
There's http://sciruby.com/, but Ruby is really missing any sort of scientific ecosystem that's at all comparable to Python.
Given the comments made, GP has a valid question.
Seems like an expensive version of digitalocean.com
Tier1 offers similar features to digitalocean but is 159$ vs 10$
I wouldn't necessarily call this strange if you think about how this directly translates to assembly instructions.
Then it didn't reflect the actual value of the company. It was a low offer, and the unpredictable events are just that: unpredictable.

The winning lottery ticket still costs $1, because you don't know if it's going to win.
Now you're arguing that culture is hard to change, so we shouldn't do it, even if the existing culture is morally horrible?

(Oh, and you're using a straw man argument to do it.)
Thanks for picking this up - I've fixed that now!
Your first sentence conspicuously relies on the word "eventually". And there's no reason to assume that history is a linear march forward. Orwell's words may again be relevant, "even" in the west.
"This shirt was apparently so offensive and dehumanizing it reduced one of its victims to tears."

It's just an anecdote, but I think this situation emphasizes how much of the debate on gender issues is very tinted by personal feelings and morals. Men are responding according to their feelings, women are responding according to their feelings, transgender people are responding according to their feelings. And these feelings include a lot of resentment unrelated to the matters at hand.
I wrote an article on Dragon's Den valuation and why they're different from typical startup valuations a few years back:

http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/10/low-valuations-on-drag...

Fundamentally the type of businesses that go on these TV shows tend to be much slower growth than your typical tech startup, hence why they receive much smaller valuations than what we in the tech industry are used to seeing.
It also has citation tracking, alerts and journal metrics. Admittedly tracking citations is somewhat like tracking links for pagerank, but it must take a bit of effort - it's not just a regular search constrained to journal databases.

As a regular user of Google Scholar, I hope you're right about the recruitment & morale purposes. But I've heard several people making a similar argument against killing Reader - it serves a demographic that Google might especially want to keep on side. That didn't appear to stop them.
This is awesome! You should also add the ability to post comments about visas and the visa process, since in my experience, some border crossing agents try to overcharge you and you can get them to lower their price simply by stating that you "know" they should be charging x not y. An on the ground report of the visa process can be invaluable next to the usually inaccurate/out-of-date info available through the official channels.
Great post, and good follow on commentary as well. I wholeheartedly agree with the author. Using this technique (forcing myself to walk away from directly solving a problem) got me through my college calculus course.

Now that I have kids (3 of them), i know that a battle with a tricky bug or business problem is nothing compared to a battle of wits with a two year old.
$3600 is approximately the scrap value for the thing.
Off-topic, but since when did Target start selling lawn mowers?
Living in Greece, I just calculated it at $35k per year. Now to find something that will allow me to make that kind of money without working (too much)...
- Used to engage in a range of behaviors such as procrastination to keep a whole catalog of anxiety-producing thoughts tamped down and below the conscious mental radar screen. By now, the anxiety-producing thoughts have by and large come to the surface and evaporated, rendering those avoidance behaviors unnecessary.

yes.
I'm male and not really OK with working 40 hours a week (with a 2 year old at home). I find it annoying that people automatically assume I'm OK with it. Not sure what to think, I mean why the question is offensive. Maybe it is illegal to ask (like pregnancy status)?Edit: I don't know what FTE means.
I would bet it will be google charts, which would be a shame. They 'renew' its existence every year and have said they will give a year warning. I am currently building a site with it but will start looking into a backup for migration, if things go well.

The only reason it might survive is that google still uses it for google finance.
A quick rule of thumb for European Union member states: no visas are needed for any EU citizen to go any other EU country (as a tourist). It shows that I need a visa to go from Romania to the UK or Sweden (that is false, Romania, the UK and Sweden are all EU members).
Could you elaborate a bit more on the details of your breathing exercise?

Do you do:

5 second inhale, 5 second exhale
7 second inhale, 7 second exhale
10 second inhale, 10 second exhale
5 second inhale, 5 second exhale
7 second inhale, 7 second exhale
10 second inhale, 10 second exhale
etc..

or do you do:

5 second inhale, 5 second exhale
repeat 5 second inhale/exhale X times or for Y minutes
7 second inhale, 7 second exhale
repeat 7 second inhale/exhale X times or for Y minutes
10 second inhale, 10 second exhale
repeat 10 second inhale/exhale X times or for Y minutes