skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome idea. It could also be cool to hook into something like the RescueTime API (is there one?) or selfspy.py to start nagging during unproductive activities.

If anyone else is thinking about going ahead with this, consider dropping down to xmpppy[0], which does the lifting behind the scenes[1]. The design here seems to be intended for more strictly syntaxed command-response interfaces.

[0] http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net/
[1] https://bitbucket.org/k_bx/xmppflask/raw/b3d7c6e853231d8e18c...
I think the most annoying thing is they still don't answer Rap Genius's questions about being owed money for paying megabucks for newrelic. I mean If you offer a service that provides incorrect data for two years and you don't offer any sort of framework for reimbursement, that still seems, at best annoying, at worst, dishonest.
Basically the rule is "don't be a dick". Hard to quantify. I've seen coffee shops around college campuses close, because students would come in as a study group, buy $3 worth of coffee, then hog the best seats for 4 hours. Customers come in, no place to sit, turn around and leave. This happens over and over. During the busy evening or morning hours. Yeah after a while the barista can try to politely ask you to move or leave, but if they reach that point, it is already kind of unpleasant both for you and for them.

If the place is almost empty, you'd actually be doing them a favor probably by sitting in there to make the place look popular and happening (those that don't know the place might skip it as well if they see it completely empty).
I actually prefer Firefox's approach to multiple tabs: the tab bar scrolls (you can use the scroll wheel). That's about the only thing I like in Firefox anymore though… Been using Chrome because of its multi-user support (tied in with Google accounts) but Safari is soooo much better than Chrome in terms of UI and UX… Latest Chrome betas, with the full integration of the address bar as a full-blown "Google box" (e.g. you start typing, it loads Google Instant Search without the page's classic search box)…

I digress… :)
Isn't there such a thing in downtown Ithaca?
I too find this to be a problem. So let's add this piece of advice to the author's list: watch out for the least unergonomic chair/table combinations, and memorize the good ones. I know of some decent ones that I keep returning to.
Pygn-appengine - use Gracenote Music API using JSON requests
right but since those "new" things won't work in chrome the hope is that devs won't implement them anywhere else.
I'd agree that there are certain movements that you really don't want to attempt without a certain amount of prerequisite flexibility, which often requires a certain amount of static stretching to achieve.

However, overall flexibility seems to be a longer term condition than just pre-workout stuff. Stretching post-workout or daily but disconnected from pre-strenuous exercise seems to make you more limber/capable of movements that require more flexibility to safely/correctly do. In particular, most of the serious dancers I know stretch(ed) a huge amount (often daily) and also did fairly strenuous dance (often daily), but the static stretching and actual exercise were highly removed from each other. There are also a lot of movements in most types of dance that are either impossible or dangerous without a certain amount of prerequisite flexibility.

Pre-workout warmups are also seem important for avoiding injury: if your muscles are tight/tense and you throw yourself into a strenuous exercise, my experience and everything I've heard says you're going to have a bad time. From personal experience, but every time I've injured/hurt my muscles it was during exercise where I hadn't warmed up or had done a bare minimum of warmup.

Source: Mainly personal experience and what I've seen as a former competitive swimmer (high school varsity, butterfly, fairly serious), former dancer (modern; not serious, but I know some people who were part of larger dance companies), and someone who is currently involved in fairly intense bodyweight strength training (think gymnastic conditioning).
> It's getting to the point where patenting the business model of patent trolling is going to be the only solution

This might be what you are looking for
http://www.google.com/patents/US20100332285
Reason for having low maximum password lengths
there are no real facts in economics, but there are some pretty easy concepts to grasp. here is another explanation:

"Inflation is bad, but deflation is worse. The reason is that in a deflationary environment, no one spends money — because whatever you want to buy is sure to become cheaper in a few days or weeks. People hoard their cash, and spend it only begrudgingly, on absolute necessities" from https://medium.com/money-banking/2b5ef79482cb
The Problem With Social Networking
Site seems down. HN Effect?
How is this in the top 5 of HN? Most of the points seem pretty obvious.
'ASICminer' is the third company.

During their first week of operation they paid out 3860 BTC (~$480,000) spread over 163,964 shares. [1]

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg1568242#msg...
Did you ever consider that the launch date had been scheduled a long time ago?
Demand for a cure to hair loss is high, and billions more will be spent on it, than will be on a cure for malaria or other diseases where the sufferers can ill afford the cost.

Market forces are better than previous systems at allocating resources, but they aren't infallible.

As someone has pointed out, theres a difference between price and value.
I'm a competitive powerlifter. Your statement isn't quite true. The best way to acquire the flexibility for weightlifting movements is to perform those movements. If you aren't flexible enough to squat to the correct depth, the solution is to squat as deep as you can, and let that serve as the stretch.

The accepted wisdom amongst my crowd is that the appropriate warmup prep is some dynamic movement to raise the body temperature, like rowing or biking, followed by practicing a given movement at progressively higher weights, until you are ready for the work sets.

I've never heard a weightlifter recommend static stretching before training.
The piece that caught my eye is the notion that the soul of Silicon Valley is moving north. I heard it working in Cupertino and I'm hearing it in the bay area. The question is will the old guard (and I'm including Facebook here) be enough to keep the valley...in the valley?
Also add http://sleekxmpp.com/
Google forks WebKit with new Blink rendering engine for Chrome and Opera
Funnily though, I started with consider Phelbas, and it was good enough to keep me involved, the ending and the emotion it dripped has made me think about it in a different way, and far more than any of the other books, except maybe Use of Weapons.

Excession was quite a flourish, and deliciously fun.
On the contrary, this saves us from WebKit being the new Trident from IE6.
I'd phrase it slightly different. Working through the full range of motion is important for avoiding loss of range of motion. That doesn't have to mean static stretching.
It's worth looking at "active isolated stretching" for an approach that is well-regarded in distance running circles and is an alternative to the "static stretching" that this article is referencing: http://www.runnersworld.com/injury-treatment/active-isolated... . It's easy to learn and is a sort of middle ground between stretching and the active warmup suggested by the article.

Stretching is absolutely important in certain situations -- context matters. E.g. if you sit all day and have back pain, in general you should be doing psoas (hip flexor) stretches, and should not be doing back stretches. The article is mostly right that you should stick with light stretching and exercises on a daily basis, but for tightness and imbalances that need to be actively corrected, stretching is the way to go.
I used to think stretching was stupid. Then I got old. Now I find that stretching reduces soreness the next day after a run. Certainly others have had the same experience?
Long before the Facebook age,
I noticed something very interesting about
the personalities of the most vocal people
I would meet in chatrooms, instant messengers
and bulletin boards: They were mostly shy.
It took a while for me to realize that this should
have been expected. Shy people tend to prefer the
anonymity of the internet, where social cues from
body language, eye contact and tone of voice don't
apply—largely because they are invisible to all.

This hits right at home. When I'm active a lot on facebook / twitter, I am a typical shy guy with little social skills. Then I started going out a lot and meeting lots of people. Then boom. Less twitter and facebook.

This might applies to HN too, but sometimes I find it weird because some people on HN are successful, and I think you can't be successfull without good social skills. Maybe we grow to become good socially, but still attached to the community? I've never experienced that though.
US Debt Ceiling Visualized: Stacked in $100 dollar bills
With that kind of money invested in hosting and scaling, why not get a dedicated professional to handle devops on your team, and go with more traditional hosting solutions? I'm interested in hearing why people still use Heroku at the scale you're describing
Have a cite? This article indeed concentrates on pre-exercise stretching, but I've heard similar things about post-exercise.
New Symbols for iOS and Android
Every time I see that page it makes me realise just how small and insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things, and how badly I really want to go exploring everything that is out there.
Go 1.1 beta 1 Released
Where do Good Ideas come from?
The Story of how Animations were developed
This is terrific. Especially if you share Matt Taibbi's opinion that Friedman's writing is a bloviated mess of half-baked ideas and nonsensical metaphors.

http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/04/23/tom-friedman-stri...

However, I am surprised by the several posters here who feel this is a great approximation and yet also that Friedman is a great author. I am curious how a predictably impenetrable and meandering style is worth reading.
>That is your point of view and not a fact. This sets up my next point.

Okay. I was only saying that even though there are tons of startups, most startups are not very valuable. Given that everything follows a power law, I don't think this is just an opinion, but rather a widely held sentiment in the VC community, the Y Combinator community, and the wider SV community.

In these clusters is where VC's or angel investors are spoiled for choice, they may not have perfect substitutes but they are pretty darn close.

VCs and angels understand that it's not the idea, it's the team. There is most certainly clustering of ideas (i.e. crowdfunding, X-sharing, etc.) Yet VCs are by no means spoiled when it comes to choice of teams. There is a huge amount of variability when it comes to the quality of founding teams. The best founding teams will still get extremely high valuations, and mediocre teams will get no funding at all.

>This is just not true. Angel Investing is damn hard

I am well aware that angel investing returns suck. I'm not talking about those people. I'm talking about founders/employees who are now multimillionaires due to acquisitions/IPOs. You forget that every time a company has an exit of 30M-1B, you now have 3-10 multimillionaires. There are probably 50+ early Facebook employees who are now dabbling in angel investing after the IPO (lackluster IPO notwithstanding).

>You are talking about extremes here again.

This sentence does nothing to actually disprove my point. The whole economics of startup investing revolves around the extremes. So of course we need to talk about the startups at the 90th and 95th percentile. Your "average-case" startup never gets funding and fails, no matter what the economic condition is.

>Yes, but wouldn't it make a better community if out of courtesy you did. I have seen people do it and i am impressed.

It would be helpful, but the tone of your original post made it sound like a demand: "If can't then don't participate at all."
That is like saying Brendan Eich is beholden to Mozilla because they currently pay him. Don't forget the fact that he could get a job in less than a minute's worth of effort at pretty much any tech company in the world. Mozilla's traffic has a value that is independent of Google.
Everyone I know is really excited for ES6.
"Don't Blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't Blink. Good Luck."
That must have backfired for the Fedora folks.
Did you write a blog post about living in a van in SF? I see people doing this and I've always been curious about it. I would love to hear what that was like.
I'm not as familiar with Go, so I can't comment on that, specifically.
Read more carefully.

> ...without substantially reducing people's chances of hurting themselves.
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Dave
Of course this is how it would be in a perfect world. We don't live there. Managing expectations is certainly important, but it is nowhere near as easy, efficient, or effective as you seem to believe.

It's just one small part of a very large and complex picture full of things that never quite happen the way they should, mostly because what programmers like us expect to do does not line up with what our clients want or, more accurately, how they perceive what they want.
Stop using strncpy already
An economics explanation using computer science as a metaphor
I've always liked the look of Coderwall (https://coderwall.com/)
as part of our research on music api's, today I spend the day playing with the Gracenote Music API, given that their API is based on XML and runs with all the bad things of x-domain policies, I wrote this little wrapper as an appengine app that exposes the api for json requests.
I don't know, maybe getting to the point where you generate enough revenue to pay the bills?
I wonder how much of this effect (muscles weaker after stretching) is because stretching tires the muscles, as it will certainly require energy to execute a static for a minute or so. If the effect is similar to other forms of muscle use, it would be unsurprising. If it weakens muscles in a unique way, that seems more interesting.

I stretch quite a bit because my muscles get tighter over the time, in particular from working at the computer.

My dog stretches upon returning to activity from rest. A form of dynamic stretching, just a few seconds.
I was theoretically shocked.
It ain't hubris when it's objectively true. :-)
I'd suggest that the difference is that Zen (at least in some schools) is after a meta-cognitive experience (by definition inexpressible in concrete terms) which transcends (even short circuits) cognition - whereas the aim of Western philosophy (at least in some schools) is a description of experience in concrete terms accessible to the intellect.

I oversimplify, of course. But the extent to which Hofstadter is "into" Zen is open to question. (I don't remember much Zen in GEB.)
This is much more analogous to "stretching" by reaching to the sky, or by arching one's back, than to the static muscle stretches discussed in the article. This natural kind of stretching feels good (no need to educate people), which is evidence it's been selected for, and seems to concentrate more on joints than muscles.
Yes, standalone it is banal - but it's interesting as a conversation-starter, to see what habits and tips other HNers will share.
I had that same confusion.
In spanish: Empirico means based on experience / anecdote.
In english: Empirical means based on scientific studies.

Maybe the previous author had the same confusion.
Unless of course you want to be an outlier.
I find that more people aren't even going into the coffee shop. They just park outside close enough to get a good wifi signal and relax in their car or van for hours on end.
Damn, that is low. Time to get a vpn.
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Exciting stuff! Can't wait to see Go 1.1 in the benchmark games.
Try getting a tea instead. That's what I do. All the cafes I've been to have tea--yes, some have a better selection than others.

Black and green tea are caffeinated; herbal ones are not. You can have it hot or iced. With or without sweetener, with or without milk. And it's good for you (unsweetened).
Ask HN: Why can't asm.js compile JS efficiently with type inference?
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2011/11/10/type-inference-to-firefox-beta/
I mostly do Web Development with Python, PHP, Javascript, HTML and CSS.
The plugins I use are

* Package Control (http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control) - For easy installation of plugins.

* Tag (https://github.com/SublimeText/Tag) - Autocompletation, Indentation, Lint of HTML tags.

* Sublime Linter (https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter) - To identify the parse errors on the fly.
I can't really speak to general interest. As I said, discoverability is terrible, so I only know of stuff that either I've been following since the '90s or I've seen mentioned by others. So this is a very eclectic list. But they all have recent discussions going on.

rec.arts.sf.written
rec.arts.int-fiction
rec.games.int-fiction
rec.games.roguelike.development
rec.games.roguelike.nethack

And a few more active ones I found while searching:

rec.games.pinball
rec.games.bridge
rec.arts.books.tolkien
rec.arts.comics.strips
rec.arts.drwho
rec.arts.drwho.moderated

If you know the usenet hierarchy, you can enter the start of a set of groups (e.g. "rec.games") and the current Google Groups search interface will pop up a list of Usenet subgroups after a sec...but only if you're not already within a group. But the results look to be roughly sorted by recent activity, so that's at least helpful in revealing which of the groups are pretty much dead. (Undead spam threads are pretty common too, unfortunately.)

Note that Usenet quality has always varied (it's the place that more-or-less introduced trolls, viruses, spam, and flame wars). I really can't tell if the quality of the posting has gone up or down. I definitely can't guarantee what you'll find.
Hi Guys, yeah sorry it seems the server is kind of busy now. Cool...ill raise some limits.
If you have time to write long blogs and exhaustive comments, then I am not sure you are really working hard enough on the thing you love the most.

And that is why most people here on HN (me included) might not ever get know what it is like to be in the "zone".

Hence this whole debate of working hard or not working hard or productivity is all really BS.
Oh and yes, id like to built something similar to ShieldsUp - let me know if anyone is interested to join and help coding
Thank you for posting that command! It got me to read the wget man page in order to understand what you did and now I have another useful tool I can add to my arsenal.
Hmmm... Thanks. That clears it :o).

But at the same time, I have rarely seen players who charge (and some of them quite a lot) advertise or talk about their anycast capabilities.
Unmanned Drones May Have Their Greatest Impact on Agriculture
Any advantages to using this other than ShieldsUp (which has been around longer than I've probably been alive)?
New California Act Would Let Consumers Find Out Who Has Their Personal Data
I find it's worth the poor ergonomics because it makes life interesting during work. I do it 1-3 hours per day to mix things up socially--maybe meet a girl or run into someone I know or (like last weekend) run into a celebrity. Something different happens every time.
This is great. Thanks. Perfect time for me to find this.
Blog or an Article
Thats a very big question. I think the first step to understanding this is outlining what is happening in the industry: i) casual gaming is growing (iphone all the way to wii) ii) piracy is growing iii) social gaming is growing (attached to facebook's growth) iv) game studios merged in the 90s and 00s and now are too big v) in app purchases actually do work vi) kickstarter games and indie games are growing in popularity.

My summary of this is that larger studios are sticking with what works (makes money) and are looking more and more like hollywood - they want low risk games and are mostly only concerned with money. Games in this category: COD, NFS etc. Piracy is growing, and taking a large cut of revenue. Diablo III and other games made a lot of money, but implemented quite strong DRM - maybe they are taking Diablo's lead and ensuring revenue (or at least making it hard for widescale pirating. Casual and Social gaming is growing introducing new places to play, leading to different types of games (Temple Run, Farmville etc) that are built on a different revenue model - FREEMIUM. This means that in app purchases support the development and support of the game, along with advertising. There may be a merging of hardcore games and casual games in terms of business models, but I think even the games themselves may become more similar. The growth of indie games will ensure a large scope of game level/immersiveness.
The Fun Factory: Life At Pixar [2011]
I don't grok why they'd even try to inject their code into a webpage you requested. Why not simply create a separate page that you see BEFORE, that you read and acknowledge receiving, and then finish sending the requested page?
I f*ing hate you all ... equally
Wow, this is super impressive. It maintains a consistent theme throughout the article.
and yes i forgot sugar and lifestyle
Are you serious, a $1.50 purchase and you'll stay for more than half the day ? No business would be happy with someone doing that.

The rule of 'give any amount of money however small and stay for as long as I want' is not a good one to live by.
Yes, I believe they call it Adsense.
A simple thought experiment: what if everyone did like me...?

Say there are 20 tables, and it's open for 12 hours a day. Every customer spends $1.50 and hogs a table for 4 hours. Assuming constant full capacity (a very optimistic assumption), each table has 3 customers a day and brings in $4.50. Which means the shop as a whole brings in a maximum of $90 a day.

In other words: if everyone did like you the coffee shop would be bust in no time.
C ---------------
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(CSP) --> Limbo ----> Go
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China's Baidu working on Google Glass 'like' gadget
It looks cooler - and eventually shall have more features and better explanations. Isn't a bit of change always a good thing :-)
It doesn't have to be "revealed as a sham", it has to simply not be worthwhile to continue using. I see the speculators as being far more harmful to its long term viability than any nation-state.
I want to express how incredibly odd it is (and yet fitting for HN) that you're analogizing a fairly simple physical concept in terms of computing.

It's not called "warming up" because of the minor uptick in body heat.

Not a criticism; just remarking on the oddity because it amused me.