skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This works fine for me, but my body has this habit of waking up when the sun is up -- even if I've only gone to sleep a few hours ago. That also isn't a problem in itself, as I will fall asleep around 16:00 on those days and catch up whatever I missed the previous night, and still be tired enough in the evening to go to bed at a normal hour.

It's a sort of built-in automatic circadian rhythm reset mechanism which kicks in after just one late night coding session.
Most awesome project i've ever seen!

I have the same problems with getting up in the morning. It's mostly lack of sleep, I think. I just can't get myself to go to sleep early enough... perhaps a sleep schedule with 2+ sleep phases would suit me better?
Definitely needed fast synchronous requests. I know you can fake this in RabbitMQ but am not sure why we didn't go with it... guess you'll have to wait for Tom's presentation :)
Except for the few specific things he cites as being particularly good that were unique to CL.
Well, that is what I get for uploading and old project without taking in some consideration on it. Thank you to lucumo for the head's up on this and the rest of your for your exploits. Things should be a bit more secure now.
Can you give some down-to-earth examples of "a good set of rituals that dictate how new businesses are launched"?
i've tried both, and i now no longer attempt to host client's sites. i'll do it on request or on certain occasions, but i find that the money you make from hosting doesn't tend to offset the time and the headaches that come from having to deal with it.
Those that are so certain of themselves often don't allow the more creative thinkers the luxury of being uncertain. They demand action, right now, and typically their foolish brand of action.
One of the screenshots shows side-by-side of the same file I think.
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maybe he'd get calluses after a while, from getting hit in the same spots all the time, which is when you'd need to drag him out of bed and dowse him with ice water...
...and people are still using java?
I still don't understand all of the fuss. These two are close enough in performance to where people should pick the framework that best serves their needs, their designs, and their brains.

Big deal -- there are now two ways (at least) to accomplish the same outcome in Python. Competition is good. I'm guessing that this will be a call to arms for the Twisted community and we'll see development accelerate.

At the same time, it is likely that a development community will form around Tornado. Great!

It's like people saying, when the Mac OS first launched, "Why didn't they just use DOS --it's there and it works." And yet the Mac OS has had a positive impact on operating systems produced by Microsoft. And Microsoft has impacted the Mac OS. It's all good.

And why is it that this same argument doesn't occur every time a non-async framework appears for python or other languages? What is it about the async nature that polarizes people? Maybe it's the fact that the both also start with the letter "T" and the name "Tornado" is a better named than "Twisted" (which implies increased complexity even if it isn't there...of course Tornados ultimately make a mess of things, so that's not it).

I, personally, am excited about Tornado. I think there's room for more than one player -- especially given the 'real time' direction the web is heading. And if this negatively impacts Twisted, then it'll be because Tornado has come up with an easier to understand approach and they'll benefit from being new and easy to grok -- in the same way Rails was once an easy-to-grok framework and that's what made it easy to understand.

The biggest winner, in my opinion, is the Python community and who doesn't want that?
The eye-tracker used in the HCI lab at Rice is actually used in experiments and implemented in CL. http://chil.rice.edu/facilities/eyelab.html
Most open source projects have a leader who decides what additions and changes to commit. I don't see the City of Vancouver being any different - as long as citizens have the ability to push changes that the city can then decide to commit.
Microsoft's technical preview of Office Web Apps: too rough to get excited over.
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Ooh yes Pockets is awesome, it is built on Twilio as well
This is exactly what I want to do! just take a time out to try the things I'm interested to try. I have emailed my advisor to see if something like this is possible.
Ask HN: Anyone around Chantily, Virginia/Wash DC area?
I first want to say sorry for the bit of off topic question here.

I am going for an interview up in the Chantilly, VA area for a very well known and respected company. Looking for a few hackers to hang out with on Sunday the 20th. This Sunday. I am a foot in the door to getting the position and my HR rep has assured me if I don't screw the person to person interview, I am the new hire. So anyone willing to hang out? Hack a little, tour the city with me? You can find me at spoiledtechie [attt] g mail...

Thanks for understanding that I will know no one in the area and thats why I am posting to HN...
I'd be more interested to see a graph of net revenue (minus costs) over time by format. Straight revenue for online music might be smaller, but their media and distribution costs are much smaller as well.
I would have paid as well.
It already happens. If you fund as many companies as we do it's unavoidable you'll end up with some overlap. Even if you tried not to accept competing companies, you'd still get overlap because startups' ideas morph so much. So the way we deal with it is that when two startups are working on related stuff, we don't talk to one about what the other's doing.

In practice it turns out not to be as big a problem as one might think, because most big markets have room for several slightly different solutions, and it's unlikely that two startups would end up doing precisely the same thing.
Sublime HTTP 500 error.
Yes, using a graphic design app is inappropriate if you're not doing any graphic design.
Nope, for now what you see is what you get. You can only sort by type of activity and distance.
Very cool!

The usernames are interesting. Some are still around, and many of them are (now hard to get) first names like sam, matt, greg, justin.
I actually saw an alarm clock that did that (detected REM sleep), but I think it was a demo, and not a commercial product.

Maybe make use of OpenEEG and build one.
dupe of direct announcement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=828551
What does 'value of units shipped' mean?? I'd beg the question that all they put out now is crap anyway, so I'd agree that the value is nothing compared to the old days.

I don't think I like that it's in billions of current dollars, seems a little misleading since they didn't actually have $8.1 billion in LP/EP sales in 1978.

Finally, the difference between CD and other digital media versus LPs and cassettes is that they don't wear out. You only have to buy it once, and if a bunch of your friends borrow it its not a big hassle.
Or, Google has spent the 0.00038% of its gross profits that it would take create an optimally aesthetic version of its home page, A/B tested it against www.google.com, and found the aesthetic version less effective.
I was going to post the same thing. Being that tired in the morning is probably sleep apnea.

Do you have headaches in the morning? Wake up more tired than when you went to sleep? Sleep apnea can also cause depression, weight gain, and memory loss.

And weight gain can cause sleep apnea.
Javascript is not enabled on Posterous pages for security reasons. We'll be introducing ways you can add your own javascript widgets soon.

I wonder how good their protection is…
The attacker cannot get a new challenge, because in a CSRF attack the attacker never got to see the challenge to begin with. CSRFs are blind drive-by attacks.
That's odd - I'm fairly certain I've seen a number of 37signals articles where they post pics from Photoshop while they're designing interfaces...
I went a somewhat similar path. I studied Computer Science in undergrad and wasn't sure if that was the route I wanted to take, so I went to law school (three more years of college also sounded fun). I enjoyed my time at law school, especially its relation to philosophy and quasi rule-based systems, inter alia (oh yeah, you pick up some Latin in law school).

However, after a few years out practicing patent law, I miss the hacking, startup, engineering, etc. and related cultures. I obviously took a somewhat circuitous route, but now realize how much more one can do in life hacking things.

Even in patent law, which is highly related to technology and, accordingly, startups, you are just another cog in the creation system, not yourself creating. I find software much more liberating philosophically and mentally. However, practicing patent law does have many positive attributes, e.g., staying abreast of technology is part of your job duties.

I am now heading back, both mentally and hopefully soon career wise, to everything hacking and startup related. My time spent away obviously helped my skill-set in other areas, but, hacking is something too hard to stay away from full-time. Good luck on your journey. I do not think you will regret any path you take.
Counterpoint:

"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."

There are plenty of things you just have to do if you want them to get done, enlightened being or not.
I agree. And, the quest for knowledge makes the study of Philosophy look appealing. It appears to be a mysterious field where all truth resides.

Take it from me, it isn't. I got a degree in philosophy. It isn't all bad. It will teach you to read fast, write well, and think logically. It is basically the study of logic and how it relates to language.

If it makes the OP feel better, I went Philosophy, Law, and now all I want to do is hack. The grass is always greener.

Now, we should both just make something.
"You have work to do. Do it."

Oh, come on. Says who? You only "have work to do" to the extent that you need to survive. Beyond that, it's optional. It's equally bad advice to suggest people should force themselves to work when they don't want to, simply because they "have work to do."

The only insightful comment you can make here is that one-size advice doesn't fit everyone. Some people are workaholics, and should try harder to take breaks. Others are complete daydreamers, and maybe need more discipline. There's no one right recipe. The world is not binary.
I am interested in philosophy, and this is the _reason_ I chose computer engineering. You now have the tools to find the answers to your philosophical questions, in a way that has never before been practical - you can study the nature of the mind by developing models in computational neuroscience; you have enough background in mathematics and logic to study Godel, Turing, Russell, and the meaning of knowledge and truth; you can shed light on the existence free will by developing FMRI analysis tools. Maybe you can look at your ECE degree as the first part of your education.
I always host clients' sites. In the past it was such a nightmare dealing with all of the various shared hosting companies that I made the decision to only work with clients who agreed to my hosting.

The way I did that is by offering subscription billing for the site, so instead of paying one huge upfront fee, clients pay a setup fee and then a monthly ongoing charge that covers hosting and maintenance. If you want to keep your own hosting, there is an additional charge for setup, and you still pay the same rate, so no one ever opted for that.

Now that I host on The Rackspace Cloud, Rackspace handles technical support for $3/mo/domain (US-based), and basic website maintenance is handled transparently in the Philippines.
If the tests were all over the map, I could agree with your original statement. But they are not. They are consistent.

Do you honestly expect anyone to believe that when test after test is run on a VM, and one framework consistently outperforms another, that this is due to the VM, and not the frameworks themselves?
This is just a glorified digital photo screen with embedded controls in the bevel. It has limited internet connectivity through preloaded applications and no browser. Hardly a fair comparison to a real multi-touch tablet, even if it did make it to market first

HP's product sheet shows all of it's features (caution, 5MB PDF) http://www.shopping.hp.com/shopping/pdf/ky616aa.pdf
While I understand _why_ they had to introduce theming, I'm worried about the simplicity that I have come to love in Posterous. I just hope Posterous blogs don't become the next MySpace pages.
usually they click on one of the suggestions from the auto suggested searches. that's what i've seen people do.
Jeff Croft's comment hits the nail right on the head:

"Do you think the aesthetic you guys have developed for your products makes this no-Photoshop workflow easier for you than it might for others? ... Is it possible that your no-Photoshop workflow has actually influenced your design style?"

It's fine that 37signals chooses to skip Photoshop as a design restraint to increase flexibility and agility, but they're choosing to sacrifice a degree of aesthetic freedom along the way.
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I don't have his problem, but I still think an alarm clock with weight sensors on my bed is an awesome idea. In much the same way that having lights that turn on when you enter a room is cool, having an alarm that turns off when you get up is something I can get behind.
No.

Some people need to do that. Others are workaholics, and need to take a break to inspire creativity. Others work because they're doing what they love, and do not need discipline because they're passionate about something. Others are usually passionate, but need momentary discipline to work through a tedious spot. Everyone is different. One size does not fit all.

This is a good place to apply the Paul Bucheit quote: "Limited life experience + Overgeneralization = ADVICE"
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Yes, 'competitor' would have been just fine as 'killer' depends on performance and a bunch of other unknowns.

But anyway, good on MS, I'm glad to see what competition will bring and I do quite like office so I'll give it a whirl, as well as seeing how Google responds.
It would be interesting to see two groups get accepted with absolutely identical ideas and see how different they finally end up.
I'd like to see hard data. In the beginning of the housing bubble collapse, some "experts" (realtors) were advising that it's a good time to buy now.
There is no "dark" market worth mentioning in this context. There are simply no significant sales beyond the major labels and their subsidiaries. The four major labels account for more than 80% of ALL music sold in the USA and the 1600 members of the RIAA account for more than 90%.

The topmost performers in the indie market may achieve some success on their own, as individuals, but in aggregate the total indie market is a disaster.
No doubt. I don't disagree with that, as old as the argument is, but it would be interesting nonetheless to see how the rise of downloads dovetails with the decline of the CD format. If it's an even flow from CD to mp3, as it appeared to be with vinyl>cassette, then cassette>cd, or if it's disproportionate. It would actually go towards supporting or disproving your very argument.

However, I don't think there will ever be any trustworthy comparison like this, as the number of downloaded tracks was never reliably tracked in a manner that would be comparable to the RIAA unit sales data. Even if you could estimate the number of tracks downloaded, it would end up including things the RIAA doesn't include, like mashups, indy tracks, concert bootlegs, simpson quotes, etc.
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There's far too many there for someone not dedicated to knots to actually bother learning. A few good ones to start with would be the bowline, reef knot, figure eight knot, fisherman's knot, clove hitch and trucker's hitch.

For everyday use in tying things together so they don't fall apart and other odds and ends they are probably the most useful and easiest to learn.

Of course, if you rock climb, or sail, etc. there are different knots to learn.
...and sleep apnea can cause weight gain (I speculate it's due to eating sugar for stimulation).
What is Patentable?
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I'm more concerned with the drops to 0 and the overall throughput. The drops to 0 look quite bad, overall throughput is low compared to what I would expect from a setup like this.
My main problem with waking up is not to get up, you'll have to do it at some point anyway. It has more to do with the alarm clock in itself, I sometimes wake up with the choc of the alarm sound. The strident noise catches me by surprise while sleeping and it produces a boost of adrenaline which I would love to avoid.

I pretty convinced that a very progressive and friendly sound as an alarm sound would work great.

Does anyone have any experience with such an alarm clock ?
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…or, just get a wife.

This hack only works with a spouse of opposite polarity. If you select for compatibility, then you will amplify the existing patterns of staying up late and turning off the alarm.

Now a baby, on the other hand...
I am ~25 mins north of DC but will unfortunately be out of town this Sunday.
Polyphasic sleepers are a myth. The only truth is a handful of people who tried it for a couple of months and then went back to a conventional sleeping pattern. (However, many of them, for some bizarre reason, are still strong proponents of how great it is.)

Edit: Downmodder - Give me one documented exception please.
I’m getting all nostalgic. Just such software was all the rage in the late nineties.

But really, the results of such automated font generation are always less than optimal. To produce something really nice you would have to put much manual work in. And you should have some training in how to make fonts. And it would still look tacky. It was gimmicky in the nineties and, unfortunately, it still is.
Judging by the mostly sane tumblr pages, this won't be an issue.
I disagree. I'm more inclined to say:

philosophy = science - assumptions

Also, mathematics came from philosophy... So did Science, actually.
I believe nearly all of their data is just pulled from the big 3 search engines, especially Google. They also grab page ranks, backlinks from yahoo, adwords data, and microsoft oci data. It's not proprietary data, it's just presented really well and saves a hell of a lot of time
Didn't they later come out with a post explaining how they _use_ Photoshop for mockups?
Is it really that big of a hassle to make a quick PSD mockup that will ultimately help you visualize a site? Are those 25 minutes that tedious? I think they're doing themselves a disservice.
I've been a climber for a bit over two years and am looking to get into sailing. Other then volunteering to help out during races, do you know of any other cheap ways to get into the sport/pastime?
Didn't know that. Ruby, you crazy.
Dinghies or offshore?
In a previous life I was a Merchant Marine officer cadet. Had to take tests for some of these knots without looking (given a choice of blindfolded or with hands behind back) and with 3-5 second time limits depending on knot. The point being of course that seamen often need to tie knots rapidly, in complete darkness or in less than convenient positions.

I still find it amusing that there is a Federal agency (US DOT) that requires that an applicant pass a knot tying test as part of a set of license exams :-)
I hate having to wake up on mornings but love music. This is how I solved it:

I have installed the linux-dist openwrt on my Asus WL-500g Deluxe router. This router has two USB-ports to which I have connected an USB-soundcard and a 80gig 2.5 hard-drive. On the device I have installed Music Player Daemon which makes it possible to play music by controlling it either by php, or a MPD-client.

The client I'm using is a modified version of Pmix for my android phone. It's open-source, so downloaded it and added an alarm feature. Before turning of the light I set the time and select which albums it should play.

Works like a charm!
There was no bubble.. just a market whose time has come and gone, much like the fabled buggy-whip.

The record industry (as opposed to the music industry) was a 20th century anomaly. Prior to the invention of the gramophone, music was largely a participatory affair.. singing to pass the time while working, to celebrate at a social function, to amuse and entertain friends and family and to pass on folklore from generation to generation.

The record as a social object and the idolatry of the rock star were temporary aberations.

The live performance end of the music industry will likely survive, but once all the big stars of the last few decades die off, even that will likely shrink dramatically in size.
This would have been a great opportunity for Posterous to gather data to test their hypothesis. It's obvious that there are passionate people on both ends of the spectrum.

Would people actually -pay- for themes? Why not show some users a link to a "Premium Themes" option and see how far down the funnel they go? If the numbers work out, launch themes as a pay option. It's always easier to go from paid -> free than the other way around.
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While we are in the topic. It is not too difficult to me wake up in the mornings, but why do I get sleepy after lunch?
Does it have to do with my diet?
The Illinois state budget might be a mess, but heck, California has been issuing IOUs and is nearly bankrupt. I'm not sure if the state budget necessarily has anything to do with startup-friendliness.
Where do you live? In Boston, for example, there's Community Boating, where you can get out on the water for a couple hundred dollars per season and learn with peer-to-peer instruction.
Interestingly, it seems that if you remove the Posterous branding box from the theme template, it still gets added back in during page rendering.
Check out http://www.realknots.com/knots/ for a more thorough list. On my short list, I would recommend:

-- the bowline, for putting a slip-free loop around something
-- two half hitches, for putting a cinching loop around something
-- the clove hitch, for tying a rope to a pole or other cylindrical object

Start with those three, tied properly, and you can do a lot.
That's brilliant. It would make converting much easier. Now if only it had Tumblr's social features...
I'm near Baltimore, so there's definitely a community here. Some clubs cost near $800/yr, which is a bit too much for me.
I got two engineering degrees (ME and EE), and you know what I learned? I learned that engineering is an amazing field and a boring career (for me anyway)!

So, I started doing something else. I now own two companies and in the 6 months since quitting my engineering job, I've doubled my income. No regrets, just decisions and action.

I wouldn't be here had I not went to school and gotten my degrees. Sure, I could probably be somewhere else equally exciting, but this is what I've done, and I enjoyed all of it greatly. When I realized I wasn't enjoying my path at any point, I figured out why and turned.

My one piece of advice is this: don't turn until you've figured out exactly why you're not happy.
That's why the idea is to get your life to a place where other people don't control you.
The obvious solution is to get a wife

I tried that, but it didn't help. If we wake up early/on time, we end up just having sex and falling back asleep. If we wake up late, she decides that since I'm going to be late for work anyway, we may as well have sex, then I fall back asleep again!

If this keeps up, the only solution is divorce :-)
What are you writing with twisted.web?