skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False dichotomy--there are other alternatives than lashing out physically or "bottling up" your feelings. "Bottling up" generally refers to going into denial and emotionally repressing yourself. Sometimes just sitting and thinking about something calmly helps. Sometimes distracting yourself, or creating distance can help. But pretending everything is okay doesn't seem to be a winning strategy.
Indeed. For me it was very memorable the first time I saw "Don't Block The Box" - because I heard the phrase on The Sopranos, and I saw it for the first time in Spain (i.e. in Spanish). And I was old.

Also rumble strips. I remember the first time I encountered them (trying to cross a median in Madison, Wisconsin). Now not very memorable.

Realizing that time isn't actually passing faster, that it's just your perception, helps with dealing with it.
I agree completely; however, this is where Engineering should start and stop. If the heartbeat of the software isn't tied inextricably to the heartbeat of real people, don't call the people that work on it Engineers, and don't expect them to do any Engineering. On the other hand, start giving the people that write the plane firmware those neat iron rings[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring (It's a Canadian thing.)
Managing IT in desperate times
Where exactly did he say he was unhappy with the change? All he said was that he didn't know about it and would ask when he gets to the office.
huh. see, I am always more suspicious of people who put more effort into appearance. I mean, if you show up to a programming interview in a suit, my first impression is that you are trying to distract me from things that matter with your appearance.

But yeah, that's taste, and varies based on who your customers are. Functionality matters to everyone.
I really admire your brash confidence. It's that kind of self-centered attitude and utter disregard for social norms that will ultimately make you a very successful Man. Apply that persistance to business and you will be one very well-off bonehead :-)

Cheers!
I use sendmail, mysql, and handful of perl programs. We considered using some outside service a year or two ago but we were doing some targeted campaigns based upon purchase histories, geographic region, etc. and the trouble to pull out lists like that and then sync them with an outside service becomes a problem. Also our lists are large enough that the expense of paying someone to send them starts to add up.

Also, we tag each email sent with a synthetic key to a table that stores the specific email address and time it was sent. This way we can do stats on effects of time-of-day of sending on conversion rates, etc. Not that we're actually doing those stats.

Also, it's surprisingly easy to do mass emails and campaigns with a little perl or python and {sendmail || your_favorite_MTA}

Some of the services are really good and easy to use if you are only sending a few, though. I've heard good things about Constant Contact.
You could start here for a list of a few Apollo-era spinoffs: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/apollo.htm That doesn't take into account the raw knowledge/experiences/technologies that were transmitted between NASA and the various private companies and universities they worked with during that era which no doubt influenced some of those 20,000 institutions later in history.

As to proving if the same technologies or products would exist without Apollo - that's just stupid and pointless. How about you try to prove everything would have turned out the same had we not gone to the moon? Has the private sector developed time machines that I'm not aware of?
"If you can, try to identify those which wouldn't have happened without Apollo. The harsh truth is there aren't any."

Advances in various fields such as Integrated Electronics, Error-Correcting Codes, Communication Systems, Control Systems (etc etc etc) would have happened without the Apollo program, but the Apollo program was a major boost.
I like this article better... :)
I have a feeling that, at some point in the future, all the "engineering" could actually be done by the compiler. You tell it "I want to store X, Y, and Z"; it selects the best data structure for you, and tailors the algorithms to be optimized for just the kind of data you'll be working with. The designers would still exist and be responsible for feeding the compiler new data structures to select from, but most "programmers" would simply become business analysts, feeding the domain knowledge required to the compiler and watching as it evolves a program that best handles those conditions. The "craft" aspect would reduce to defining Interface contracts for your libraries that the compiler would have to adhere to when munging its algorithms (though it could always just tack the "right stuff" transforms on top of its quirky works-by-coincidence internal versions.)
umm... Thank you..? You have confused me and caused me to literally laugh out loud. Regardless of your intentions, awesome comment.
This story is bullshit. The whole premise for it is a Twitter message. It wasn't even a complete sentence let alone a statement worthy of a story. Then, Arrington goes on to infer that Rose is not happy about the situation when all he said was that he was just hearing about it and would check when he gets back to work.

just now reading the digg short url discussion, I was not aware this changed and will check in on it tomorrow (was on vacation for 2 weeks).

How does one draw the conclusion that Rose isn't happy about it? What it says to me is that he wants to find out more before saying anything.

Translation: He’s not happy (otherwise he wouldn’t disagree with a new policy publicly). Look for a reversal on this policy sometime soon.

Oh, please. If Rose had the authority to reverse this it wouldn't have been done without his knowledge while on vacation. This is a pretty big change. They had to have known it would be at least a little bit controversial, and there had to have been some sort of discussion before its implementation.
It's like anything else that's trivial to implement but produces mildly-interesting results. (Kind of like message queues, the other fad as of late.)
Hypertable
Good idea, but please please be careful and take the necessary precautions before you send your IP/domain name to the abyss of spam trapping blackholes.

If you're sending more than 200 messages to the big 4 (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL) take the time to REGISTER with them first and tell them about your messaging habits. Do not change the from FROM field ever! Try to minimize content changes between messages; rewrite the URLs in message bodies for tracking purposes. Don't send a message to an unverified mailbox. Make sure your users consent to receiving your message and you have a way to prove this (a check box on the post sign up screen.) Do not use a misbehaving SMTP server that doesn't accept returned messages and other housekeeping communication; gmail will say "message undeliverable" the first time around and look back at you to see if you acknowledge this, or it might not confirm delivery for a while, to see if you're a phantom smtpd who would disappear after an hour. Get DomainKeys, SPF and other credentials you need. Do all your mailing from ONE domain name, mail.example.com and make sure you have backup servers as well.

Good luck.

P.S. Postfix has various mailing list and newsletter management addons. Qmail was written JUST for that purpose.
Chemical engineers? I mean if you define: Engineering == blueprints that's fine, but it's an awfully narrow definition.
IIRC, Melinda was a PM at Microsoft and that's how they met.
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3428721.stm:

"He met his wife in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan. She was working for the company and later became one of the executives in charge of interactive content."
Empathy/Pride swallowing helps too. Not saying you're wrong... just saying that in the end it doesn't really matter. You can still find a way to agree.

Good luck.
Interesting, that kind of "smelled" like the right answer.

So, help me out here - "You're using a language where you can put the data in an appropriate structure used by high-order code." I don't understand that statement? I don't know what "the data" or "high-order code" is?
Agreed on the rock climbing. It's a great hacker sport. Much more intellectual than I thought it would be.
I posted to HN ages ago. Took me 30 minutes.
What else can I ask for?

How about faster, cheaper, and more flexible? If you back up the same or overlapping sets of files, tarsnap's snapshotting functionality will probably result in it using less bandwidth (and thus end up being cheaper) than a raw tar | gzip | s3 approach.
Bad example. Bill Gates was notoriously work-obsessed. I remember reading about how in the 80s he had a girlfriend who left him because of what he called "8 hour turnarounds", meaning he had to be at work 8 hours after he left it. He didn't get married until he was the richest man in the world. (I think. Wikipedia says 1994. At any rate he was certainly a billionaire by then.)
I don't think it's ever been the technology that's prevented us going to Mars - its the cost and the will of the people. A 25% bigger budget for NASA is still bigger, and considering right now even the ISS looks to be in trouble, you would need someone or something very special to get the public behind more space missions.
Before sharing a link make sure it isn't using Digg's domain. If it is, resolve it and send the original.

Well, but the Digg short links are just redirecting to other Digg pages. So it's not straightforward to resolve it.
Outliers suggests it's neither the motivation nor the method we see as genius or talent, but 10,000 hours of practice combined with the "luck" of being in the right place at the right time.

While reading the Pyramid article, it seemed to me that both an amazing amount of practice and exposure to (or in) the right venue figured in.

What the Pyramid article seems to add to practice and luck is accelerated self-improvement through a feedback mechanism. Playing hockey needs a coach. Writing a novel needs an editor. Rapping needs an audience.
New Path from Digital to Custom Print Magazine: You’re  Editor and Publisher
They advertised the service as a URL shortner; i.e. following a digg shortened URL should redirect original URL, not drop me in a digg landing page.

<Dan Rather>

When I throw a tennis ball at a wall I expect it to bounce back.
I would be frightened if the ball sticks to the wall.

</Dan Rather>
I don't doubt that people flip out. I don't even doubt that thousands of people among the millions who served in the military have flipped out.

What I'm wondering about is whether otherwise undamaged people who repress their emotions eventually go nuts, or whether people who control their emotions end up in control of their emotions.

People who eat small portions generally don't suddenly devour a turkey. People who only have one drink a night one night a month don't suddenly become alcoholics. Self-control doesn't necessarily mean that a problem compounds; it can be the solution to a problem, instead.
Assuming your post is meant to be sardonic: There is an established school of thought that says that that sort of thing has a high likelihood of impressing women.
Sometimes distracting yourself, or creating distance can help.

That sounds like 'bottling up' to me though? I think we agree in principle, I just don't think 'don't bottle up your feelings' is the best way to describe these strategies.
Same thought I've had ever since seeing he first URL shortning service.
The expression "slow news day" is applicable to both stories.
It annoys me when router vendors (Cisco, looking at you) advertise their throughput as theoretical maximum bi-directional. Almost no real network design can take advantage of that speed. If this router only has 4x10g port (the two left cards), for all intents and purposes it's a 40-50gbit router. That's probably a great deal in the $50-100k range, though, so there's still a place for it.

I feel like I'm telling Larry Wall what is up with Perl or something, but this guy is making route caching sound like something new, when it has been in crappy $4000 workgroup-class layer three switches now for almost a decade. This kind of deflates his "I should know" appeals to authority.

The buffer-alternative algorithm isn't well explained but sounds kind of novel and useful. It would be particularly so if it allows the network operator to manage flows on a per subscriber basis.

One other concern: if this router is cutting power/weight corners by decreasing its ability to calculate new routes ("flows"), it's possible that an ISP would be exposing themselves to a DoS of their network by intruders sending a lot of unique flow requests to the router. An obvious example of this would be several concurrent NMAPs of a large range of IPs.

If it can keep up with the large workloads they claim with only 300w and 3U (or so) of space, it's pretty compelling, all of these issues aside. I'm excited to see it in the real world.
I Disagree with your Solution.

It's called using the real URL.
Seems this is account is just a bot that simply posts articles from the website collegemogul.com.
I tend to think that any link and visit is a good one. What I would prefer to do is using the above javascript, detect incoming traffic from URL shorteners and display my own informational bar across the top with the pages real URL and perhaps simple stats of how many people were referred to that page using a shortened link.
I just checked out Mailchimp and they seem way more reasonable than the others. Thanks for you suggestion.
Rockets for the Red Planet: engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back
Ask HN: DEFCON?
Are you going to DEFCON? (http://www.defcon.org/) Have you been before and decided it wasn't worthwhile? I'm curious what "good hackers" think about it.
Try PhoneGap or Titanium Mobile. Both of them use Javascript, HTML, and CSS to build apps that can be run on both phones and have access to the native controls.
user:	BlueLove
created:	3 hours ago
karma:	1

You made your account just for this? What's the video site?
Thanks for your ideas. I don't really have time to set up my own system though. I decided to rather work on making my application great.
Honest question: Why do you care?

Consider this like an impromptu poll about why you care about not getting linked via a shortener. (If you don't care, I'd ask that you not post a reply to my message here, though I obviously can't enforce that.) I ask because I wouldn't care, but I am interested with an open mind in why someone would.
$28k-30k profit last year and $6,200 profit this year to date and he's asking just $20k-25k total for the business? This just sounds too good to be true. When have you ever heard of a healthy business being sold for just 2x the annual profits?
I'm not defending the account in question but don't be so sure it is a bot. There are lots of website owners who really do put hours on end into submitting their content to various sites manually. Anyway regardless of how it got here, if it hit the front page it means the community must think it is interesting.
None of the reasons you listed are significant to the person reading them. It is not the visitor's problem that you can't track referrers or that it slows down the web, and the fact that they're seeing this page means the shortened is working as intended. Furthermore, you're basically making it impossible to share links to your site on Twitter (where they get auto-shortened).

All in all, you're doing little more than pissing off visitors you've probably worked pretty hard to get.
I'm all for blocking framing sites like the Diggbar, but killing all URL shorteners is a bad idea, IMO.

With Twitter growing so fast and automatically shortening pasted URLs, you could actually be losing some quality traffic if people start talking about your business/app/site.
That's certainly why DRM has become a bad word. All I'm saying is the article seems to imply this is somehow an admission that they were wrong. When in fact it's just the opposite. It's setting the stage for it's eventual return under a new name if they should ever feel the need to bring it back.

Because if they do bring it back part of the push will be "we realize DRM was bad but this new thing fixes the problems." In order to make that statement they need to disown DRM now.
See current DiggBar scandal. These shorteners put a middleman in between your links and your content, allowing them to, at any point they like, do whatever they want, including sending all those links to themselves, to a competitor, to a landing page strewn with ads with your content framed inside, whatever. As much as we all love middlemen in other industries, seems like a great idea to let them in here, doesn't it?

Joshua Schachter wrote the definitive anti-shortener argument:

http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html
After some more research it appears jungledisk is the best option. I have never had to do a restore from Mozy, but the reviews and horror stories are enough to turn me off.

Thanks everyone!
When they're not sure if it's a flash in the pan that people will lose interest in shortly?
So, down from 'thousands of spin-offs' to 13, all of which would have been developed on their own for the explicit purpose to which they were eventually put. None required the magic of putting a human on the Moon for their development and none required an up-front investment of billions of dollars.

The hope for spin-offs is a really horrible justification for a program. If you want to do something specific (say, establish a permanent human presence in space) why not do it direct instead of hope it results from a spin-off of something else?
If I am half as remembered as Michael Collins, I will consider my life well-lived.
"All the other kinds of capital-E Engineers sit around making blueprints all day."

[citation needed]

This debate comes up periodically, and in some forums we are lucky enough to have engineers from other disciplines pop up, who comment to the effect that they do rather more experimentation and software-like development than computer programmers often realize. The "big" projects that we associate with blueprints are rather small by percentage of projects done, and even they require a certain amount of flexibility to handle changes discovered during the course of the build ("oh, crap, this bedrock is actually sand!").

Mind you, the previous paragraph is also [citation needed], but my real point is and remains to call for actual experience and knowledge and not just regurgitations of stereotypes.

(I know a number of engineers in my circle of family and friends, and none of them actually work in anything like the "Waterfall" model, only with blueprints. The closest is the one who is in charge of designing racecars, and they still do experimental designs in computers, and before computers, did experimental builds of cars.)
Pagination is awful, but this article isn't paginated even in the original, so your point here is well-taken. To wit:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/19/michael-collin...
It does. I swallowed my pride and extended an olive branch before this issue began as I sensed something was wrong. She said everything was okay. Then the next week she phoned me at work, after I'd invited her out to a movie, and she unloaded on me. Apparently wanting to do stuff with her meant I was not respecting "boundaries" (FYI nothing shady going on like an affair or anything of the sort). Totally ruined the rest of my week. I suspect this is her way of pushing me away and telling me she doesn't want a relationship, but c'mon we're adults. Just come out and tell me.

If I were a couple of years younger, I'd have defended my position when she phoned. Instead, I bit my tongue, only replied with "okay" and decided to respect her wishes by cutting off contact for a while. We share a hobby so it'll be interesting to see if she shows up this week.

I've been really bummed out by the situation. I'm not old, but I'm too old for this sort of crap. I thought we had a good thing going, so much so that I didn't follow up on a few opportunities with a couple of other girls that I was attracted to who showed interest.
The entity definition files are the data. Higher-order code is code that operates on code. I need a slightly more concrete example from you to get any more concrete here, but I'm imagining that the C# code generator has a set of rules for mapping entities to 1) C# classes and 2) fields in a database, and the generated C# classes automatically do database queries upon method/attribute accesses. In Python, you might override attribute lookup on your "DatabaseObject" class to hit the database, or you could have some code that processes an entity definition file and adds appropriate functions to Python classes at runtime. The advantage is that you don't have reams of code to muddle through and compile.
Malcolm on being old school. Damn, we need more people with names like 'Betsy' and 'Hank'.

There is a certain attraction to 40's/50's imagery - this polite simplicity masking darkness beneath... alcohol, war stories, adultery, mental issues:

“I want you to be able to talk to me about the war. It might help us to understand each other. Did you really kill seventeen men?”
“Yes.”
“Do you want to talk about it now?”
“No. It’s not that I want to and can’t—it’s just that I’d rather think about the future. About getting a new car and driving up to Vermont with you tomorrow.”
“That will be fun. It’s not an insane world. At least, our part of it doesn’t have to be.”
That's a good idea, instead of

document.location.href="...";

You could use:

document.getElementById('urlshorteners').style.display='block';

Where originally, the div is like this

<body>
<div id='urlshorteners' style='display:none;'>
Url shorteners information...
</div>

I like that idea.
I didn't think I was that old - but I don't get it.
How feasible would it be to load all your CPU cores and the GPU at the same time? Could you just fork off a thread for each core with some SIMD instructions?

With 2-8 cores combined, they should be able to give you at least a 10% increase in aggregate processing power.
Russia/Soviet Union had some decent success with Venus though which is supposedly more difficult.
I think its because tasks take longer as an adult. For example to accomplish something as a child takes a few hours, homework for example. But to accomplish something significant as an adult could take months or years, like software. So I think we appear to have less time because we can only get 4 significant tasks accomplished a year instead of say 100.
I find the title "disturbingly" stupid. Why should real-looking faces be disturbing?

http://www.madametussauds.com/London/
Poll: Do you use PGP?
OK. I read it. Why do athletes keep making the same mistakes?
The --newer switch does the trick
Yeah, I'd like to see them get a cadaver and prove that their robots don't feast on the dead. I don't trust a corporation farther than I can throw it. And I can only throw a dead body about four feet.
I think really, because I care about the future of the web. I know there are myriad problems with url shorteners and they are jeopardizing the future of the web. My website is just one little piece of it, I know, but education is grand. I think people, when presented with rational reasons that benefit us all, will listen to them.

The person linking to your content is interested more than anything in bringing users to your content. If you put up a page that prevents them from doing that, then they'll use another link, or not link to you at all.

Really, it's about education and education comes at a cost. If you are educating, then you aren't focusing on coding or something else.

On the page where the javascript redirects, you could say, "Thank you very much for linking to my content. I think it's great that you appreciate what I have written, but please understand that the method you are using to link to it is not good and here's why: yada yada yada..."