skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. I was kind-of assuming everyone here would recognise and appreciate the reference to this article:

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html

Perhaps I was wrong.
Doesn't this study just mean that Chitika's ads are half as likely to be cliked on from mobile users? It's only one data point without controlling for the type of ad. I wouldn't want to generalize to all mobile users based on just this study. Anything else out there that observed similar results?

Certainly for a mobile site I won't be using Chitika; instead I'll try another network. The numbers are clear :)
It looks nicely laid out. But I cannot read it. Perhaps a slightly darker shade of grey could help with the contrast.
You reminded me of learning abstract algebra, in the last year of my college. The subject is extremely abstract, and I try hard to learn the key ideas, without realizing I need do it intellectually, instead of just thinking it more, and reading it with more care. Besides, I could not make any progress on that book, it just got me frustrated. And then I gave up, I hope to continuing my study in grad school, but I could just not get my feet in.

I'm slow, I think, and I can not do well in math. So I just let math get off my life, and trying to be a computing hacker as well as an entrepreneur.
Obligatory RFC 1149 reference: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

We may have to update the old "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes..." chestnut.
I almost wrote you a detailed response but then I realized you didn't even proofread your post. :(
Remember all those "video games are recession-resistant" stories a year ago? The truth was always that, at least in the US, game sales depend largely on the console cycle and are thus falling with lower console sales.
Half of the time was spent getting the data from the stick onto the computer, while only half was spent with the pigeon flying.

So, it will go up, but with quickly diminishing returns.
This is why you should not comment on articles you have not read, as this is the exact opposite of what the article was about. It was about the idea of putting a human on a long relativistic journey while his money is left on a bank account on earth to let it age (i.e. carry compound interrest) a hundred times faster than its owner, thereby increasing the subjective interrest rate by the same factor.
Also: How many children were kidnapped by a non-custodial parent who grabbed them by picking them up from school?
I don't know why Cygwin and Windows Powershell cripple themselves with their lousy default shells. Neither project appears to have even minimal marketing expertise.

More understandable for Cygwin, I suppose.
Maybe this is connected to how "many" Americans feel they need guns to protect themselves?

It could also be related to how many Americans are afraid to trust others to have guns.
The main problem I can see is that, as with most copies, you are going to lack their insight into that domain which is what makes their product so compelling. You will always be several steps behind them in usefulness and will always be trying to play catch-up by copying their new features rather than innovating. It is likely that things just won't work "smoothly" and will be integrated poorly in your clone compared to the original.
The usual term for somebody who knows endless language details is 'language lawyer'. It's mentioned in _The Mythical Man-Month_ as a member of the "surgical team". Nowadays, the language lawyer role might include exhaustive knowledge of the dusty nooks and crannies of complex APIs.
This was exactly how I felt when I moved to CA from Sweden. It reminds me of that passage in "Bowling for Columbine" about how the US is a society filled with fear.
Most parents have no time to read well researched articles/books on raising children.

Most parents probably cannot find well researched articles/books on raising children. As a soon to be parent I've been shocked and dismayed by the total lack of books showing any sign of scientific research or rigor and the incredible amount of unscientific snake oil being pushed on the market If you have any recommendations I'd be most grateful.
If I learned what you were trying to teach me, I would be happy... afterwards. Being happy during the course is not required.
It might be okay for very young children. Even I don't think that five-year-olds should be walking to school alone -- preferably their parents should walk with them, but if that's not an option due to work schedules then a walking bus isn't a terrible idea.

At eight or so, though, sensible children start to have their first rebellious streak and realise how stupid the idea of a "walking bus" is. I figure that when they're smart enough to figure that out, they're old enough to walk alone.
I think a good self-teacher would be better a teacher than who just hold some fancy degrees. Since good self-teachers always know what students need, and where they failed to grasp the essential, and most importantly how to get them out of obstacles.

And I bet you must be a good self-teacher. I wish I have ever had you as my teacher!
The difference is that the thinking process has become more 'externalised'.

Ideas or structures are produced not so much by mental action, but by the mechanisms of external tools and representations. Instead of items being put together by knowing them well, they are connected by web linkage. We are being ever more subsumed into the community brain.
...after which the other parent, school administrator, or local constabulary reports you to the government's local social services liaison who begins proceedings to remove your children from your custody.
That's a good question, and goes to show that sensible parents who worry about letting their children walk alone should be worried about traffic. And yet, in the article, so many of the quotes are from parents worried about paedophiles.
Eyes all over the place
This is just another reflection about how people will avoid doing things they think are "dangerous" when they will without a thought spend enormous time driving, which considering the time spent doing it is quite close to the top in risk of fatality or serious injury.
It's very difficult because there hasn't been any major graphic enhancements or radical new story lines to convince consumers to purchase new games.
The assumption isn't that they owe you feedback: the assumption is that it was not in their best interest to create another instance of something that already exists. That assumption is supported by the fact that Tornado has the exact same goal as Twisted. Effectively, it is a rewrite, especially if they have obviously looked closely at Twisted's code for inspiration.

A CTO wasted money here.
It's not what you're given, it's what you do with what you've got.

http://www.mysongbook.de/msb/songs/w/whatyoud.html
Much of that traffic seems to be the parents. Every year when school starts, there are articles in the papers where the police and school officials remind parents to PLEASE obey speed limits and traffic laws when dropping their kids off.
I 2nd this completely re: Twisted documentation. When Twisted's communication via their documentation has been so lacking/off-putting/etc., it is hard to feel sympathy for a Twisted guy complaining about the lack of communication from people who chose a different route.
I'm actually believing the 'debunker' here is wrong, I believe it is a hoax (knowingly or unknowingly) but he's claiming they've built a simple DIY cell. I'm thinking they created a galvanic battery, they talk of using copper and there's no mention of what the casing is made of but IMO looks steel (I doubt in rural Nepal they have readily available aluminium). If it's stainless steel, they've got the three components for a basic lemon battery Copper, Zinc and an acid/electrolyte (in this case table salt).

By my guess they've got over 150 cells formed in there (if it's working how I'm suspecting it is), which would easily mean they could get the 9V/18W they're claiming. The 'debunkers' theory on what they're doing is somehow hiding a solar panel under the black craft paper and still getting power, which is absurd, or he's claiming they're using a battery, but the power visibly fluctuates far more than it should from a commercial 9V battery.

The simplest explanation is usually the best, and in this case I believe the simplest explanation is ignorance. Copper + stainless steel + salt = battery.
Zzzzzzzzz It's August the sleepiest month of the year for video games, which has been true since the beginning of time.

Look to see a big bump in sales in Sept when all the fall games start to come out and when the new PS3 price drop has effect.

As well the sales could still be year over year worse than last Sept and it wouldn't be the end of the world. The games industry traditionally follows a console cycle (though that will likely be broken up this time around with the launch of Natal and Sony's Waggle next year) and so once you're past the peak some years after a launch, your sales will necessarily decline until the next console launch.
It depends on the point you want to make. 250,000 is presumably the number of kids injured in all automobile accidents, 2000 sounds reasonable for the 2-block drive to school. But it goes to show that parents will willingly and without a thought of the risk involved subject their kids to an activity that hurts 250,000 kids per year (and presumably also without any risk of being charged with child endangerment.)
There is one glaring fault that a self-taught teacher may have; people learn in different ways. What works for one may not work for all. So the self-taught teacher may not realise that their own personal methods are not necessarily valid for everyone.
The best part was the last story, about the kid who walked five houses down the block to play with a friend, but got driven home. The article does note the absurdity that she wasn't allowed to walk home herself, but... well, couldn't the adult have at least walked her home? How does it even save time to get into a car for that kind of distance?
I never have to messed with that. I just sudo pacman -S your-intrepreter-package here.

I never have to download a dedicated IDE for the language. I just grabbed emacs and go along with that. I never have to change configuration files and setting environment for each language.

I never use a debugger, just old fashion println.

Yet, I lived in the world of open source.
The Angry .Net Developer: Angry-Coders: Stupid Programmer Tricks
I love the school that had parents write their kid's name on a piece of paper and put it on their windshield. 'Cause, absent further checking ("your ID, Mrs. Jones?"), no one can write a child's name on a piece of paper unless it's eir kid.
PC Makers Abandoning a Sales Pitch Built on Complex Specs
Google Economist Sees Positive Signs in Search Term Trends
I think there's a simpler explanation; video game prices haven't dropped in over 6 months. Fable II was released almost a year ago now, it's still the exact same price. I remember quite clearly, because I bought my Elite 360 almost a year ago and I remember looking at it on the shelf in bestbuy for 59.99 it's still 59.99 in bestbuy. I got Fallout 3 in the 1Q and it cost 69.99 (I griped because it went up in price from 59.99) and it's still 69.99.

This is from my experience in the games industry: big games prop up the big sales figures. The majority (over 70% IIRC) of sales are made after a game drops below half of its original sale price. Add the two together for long enough and you get this sort of major sales slide.
The NPD data shows that this August is down 16% from last August - so it's not just summer sleepyness.

I think NPD only tracks retail sales though, so any money diverted to downloadable content, Steam, or iPhone games would seem to "disappear" from their charts.
My personal take: Good ideas dont form in a vacuum.

Go talk to people in other professions (NOT computer-programmers) in depth about what they do.

Look for pains they have, that can be addressed with IT.

Boom.
I have one for you. It's something I thought of long ago and have an interest in but no immediate plans to work on. Develop a program that can answer based on plain English. The obvious value would be to apply it to search engines (huge money). People already type questions into Google because they don't know any better. Maybe they should be able to do this. Example: "What is the best restaurant in New York?" The challenge for the software is understanding all the words starting with 'what' because if it was 'where' it changes the answer. Notice also that this answer would be subjective, so that has to be dealt with. Yet another problem is the ambiguity of 'New York' because the questioner probably meant 'New York City' etc. As you can see it's a huge challenge, but one which has obvious financial reward if solved. I'm currently working on a project with some search aspects but it doesn't deal with this particular problem head on. If you have an interest we might do something together. The answer to "Where are my car keys?" should be either "I don't know" or "Have you checked in the car?".
Actually, I had read it. I just said I didn't understand it.
Five books? What do you do the next day?
Gmail down again?
for me at least... :(

edit: phew, short one. Didn't have resort to looting and eating pets.
Relatedly, suburban fears of swimming in natural pond water -- residents want to replace town pond with man-made swimming pool:

"Surveys ... showed that too many people view Graydon as unsafe and unclean. Younger residents in particular want a thoroughly disinfected pool with clear waters so they can always see their youngsters."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/nyregion/07towns.html
I have a 32GB USB stick somewhere, that's an 8-fold throughput increase. I'm guessing my 500GB portable hard drive would be a bit too heavy for a pigeon . . . I suppose you could do packet bursting by strapping the hard drive to several pigeons.
I have re-do the whole thing - that helps me coagulate everything and throw out the redundancy and unnecessary.
> However, he admits the plan is not without its difficulties: "There are other problems, of course. Winston is vulnerable to the weather and predators such as hawks. Obviously he will have to take his chances but we're confident this system can work for us,' says Rolfe.

They might need to retransmit once or twice a month too . . .
not if you're not breaking the law.
That's a nice feel-good statement, but grad school gives you an environment where you can spend all day researching what you're interested in. Most people can't do that at their jobs or they'll get fired.
The picture reminds me of an accident last year, the operator of a sidewalk snow blower had his hand cut off while trying to clear the snow from the auger. He was only using one hand trying to clear it because he only had one hand, and now he has no hands.

It doesn't say it in the article but his other hand was deformed at birth and he was unable to use it.

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=222859&sc=98
I'm sure game sales are affected by the recession, but the console industry follows a cycle, going up after the launch of a new set of consoles, peaking, and then dropping down until the hype cycle begins for the next console launch.

Largely everything seems to be following the same set plan.

Next year might be an upset year of this traditional cycle though, since Microsoft and Sony are releasing hardware upgrades in the form of their motion controllers. Microsoft has been quoted as saying that the launch of their Natal upgrade would be akin to a console launch event.
But seriously, who needs to know how many hotels someone's slept in over the last month, or what baked goods you've got in your house? Surely the novelty wears off pretty fast.

There are some things that I want to track (running data from my Garmin watch for example), but something as general as this isn't going to be much use for that.
Some Notes On iTunes LP
Can you give me an example URL? Sounds like a bug.

We do pretty print JSON: http://hurl.me/ufsmb1
One reason I wouldn't have reached out, as a private company, is tipping my hand to competitors. Maybe an NDA would solve that?
I don't worry about that. It's the process of writing down ideas that matters to me. Writing it down forces you to think clearly; gives your idea structure. If the idea is still good when you read it to yourself: great. You'll be able to reconstruct the idea at a later time if you need it. If the idea doesn't sound that good anymore, just forget about it. So I don't file ideas anywhere. I often don't even bother to save the files with all my ideas when I reboot my PC. Saving stuff I'm not going to look at later isn't worth it.

You write ideas down so they don't distract you while you're trying to work. Ideas interrupt your train of thought: they're harmful. Write them down clears your mind -- and a clear mind is far more valuable than any single idea.
An observation: Python coders seem to believe that when someone has solved a problem in Python and open sourced that problem every Python coder must use their solution or else they are somehow doing an injustice, perhaps even undermining the community!

On the contrary, 1) Friendfeed can do whatever they want. There is no part of the Python license that says you must use Twisted or else. 2) I doubt FF's statements really caused damage to Twisted's user base, just as we use Cherrypy at work and didn't drop it on Thursday because of Tornado. 3) All open source contributions are a Good Thing. If Twisted devs are really feeling screwed FF is basically saying "here's how we did it, use it if you want". Sounds pretty win win to me.

Instead of complaining and accusing I would suggest Twisted devs take the publicity opportunity to show why Twisted is still great, benchmarks, what the do better than Tornado and what they can learn from it.
the sonorities are rather similar to spanish I find...

This is very true. I grew up in an area where lots of Spanish is spoken, and I learned a tiny bit myself. For me, Japanese pronunciation was trivial. My teachers were praising me right off the bat. The only difficulty I have is with my current tutor, who is bent on teaching me to pronounce the Japanese r/l the way a Japanese would. (AFAIK it's not necessary at all for understandability, just a pet peeve of hers.) I had a very different experience with French and German, so I know I'm not especially gifted at phonetics. I think the early exposure to Spanish was the key.
If you accept the validity of the cathedral vs. bazaar premise, then the pattern of OSS fragmentation ultimately works against the general community's interests.

On the other hand, competition in the course of establishing best of breed constructs for emerging paradigms is healthy, as a preliminary stage before community building per Raymond's model.
Thanks for the comments everyone! The main idea here is that you can share Hurl URLs which others can modify and play with.

For example I can give you this URL: http://hurl.me/ufsmb1

And you can change 'json' to 'xml' to see what changes.

Hurl was inspired by sharing curl input and output over pastebins. We should probably make this more clear.
Ah, young padawan. How cute.
HTTPClient is great and was a big influence on Hurl (for instance we auto-complete headers just like HTTPClient does).
I commented about this further down but the main idea is you can share Hurls which others can modify and play with, e.g. http://hurl.me/ufsmb1
Gossip Gossip Gossip
Get the scoop before your friends or anyone else, by subscribing to Gossip Gossip & More Gossip!
Never mind hooking up to your fast PC, just add 4G+ network access and have it stream the video straight to the cloud for immediate analysis and indexing.

Freakin' cool. Scary.
We plan to open source Hurl so you can run it somewhere if you want (for auth reasons).
* all I did was visually change the text to make it look more professionally laid out, and carefully rework some of the phrasing to make it sound better to the ear. (Plus add a couple really good first sentences and a good headline.)*

Those changes are non-trivial. Layout and writing style are integral components in the user interface for comprehending text.
Yeah, it does.

Sounds like we should change this:

Hurl makes HTTP requests.
Enter a URL, set some headers, then view the response.
Perfect for APIs.

To something like this:

Hurl makes HTTP requests.
Enter a URL, set some headers, get a response, then share it with others.
Perfect for demoing and debugging APIs.
How to Really Measure Software Teams 2
Useful technology news
Two things:

1) I use an iPhone todo app (http://www.appigo.com/todo) to jot down ideas as I get them in a "Projects" category. This lets me quickly browse through them at a later time. You can add notes too if your ideas are elaborate and you want to jot them down too.

2) Keep a journal. Write down what you're thinking. There's nothing quite like reading something you read six months ago and wondering, "What was I thinking?"
It is a blog post!
Maybe the Google toolbar (like Alexa)?
I'm surprised that upcoming et al haven't done this yet. I might expect this from Yelp, but they released an iphone application and it didn't even include their events section.
I recently heard that newly educated teachers come to schools with a strong desire to teach their specialties. And to transmit some of their true passion over to their students. But since being a teacher (here in Norway) means they have to administrate and organize the kids so much, they have little energy left for teaching. Meaning the teacher appears as a boring, pale fuck (not very inspiring). This is of course a organizational problem, and not a pedagogical one.
Ok, but did you click thru to that listserv thread here https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/brisa-develop/2009-August... ?

I'm not familiar with the project or this guy in particular, but man, he seems awfully abrasive. Sarcastic and bitter came to mind as I read them. I have no dog in this fight, and one could fairly assume that these 2 discussions are just not his best moments. But from what I've seen...
Hard to read, main page has no lower case.

Without signing up, I don't understand how it works. Do I have to manually enter all my stats into a spreadsheet, or is it better than that?
I don't even bother trying. Hoarding "ideas" doesn't make any sense to me.

I will always have ideas. The Halfbakery website is full of people's ideas. My mom has ideas. Everyone has ideas. Someone's probably had the very same idea already.

Ideas are so cheap and common, they're almost worthless by themselves.

I put far more value into execution. Actually making an idea happen, that's where the value is. In order to make ideas happen, I need resources, so what I need to concentrate on right now is developing lots and lots of resources.

Whenever I need an analogy, I think of ideas as being seeds. You can go to just about any store these days and pick up a little packet of seeds for real cheap. Each one of those seeds has the potential to become something beautiful, but only if you give it soil and water and sunshine and a place to grow.

So before I go trying to figure out where to store all my piles of packets of seeds, I should figure out how I'm going to get the farmland I need to grow them all in the first place.
The Twisted people don't seem to get that their framework is too complicated for many uses. You can't just work on someone else's framework and make it simpler, if they don't agree that it should be simple in the first place.