skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site I had the idea for three years ago still hasn't been made. A friend and I are ambling along getting it launched, but there's no particular drive. We figure if it hasn't been solved yet it won't be this year either.
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I would worry about trying to specialize in internationalization. It can be a lucrative market, and things like iphone apps are relatively easy to do. Trying to aim for the international audience, however, can be deceptively hard.
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3M ergonomic mouse.
A lot of the bacteria by those vents get their energy from sulfur compounds. Other creatures can then eat these bacteria.

Europan life is likely to be cold, damp, and smelly!
Excellent point, but that was accidental. His plan was to do the exact opposite.
* Start from your diet: http://www.thechinastudy.com
* use dvorak keyboard layout
* regular non-strenuous exercise every day for 15 mins
By exporting this data first into HDFS, I can now run Map/Reduce jobs more quickly and not hang up DB connections

Right; the typical configuration is to have one database that does transaction processing, and another separate database (a "data warehouse") that collects data from multiple operational DBs and runs analytic queries over it. Hadoop is basically just an alternative analytic query processor in this configuration.

Hadoop becomes incrementally more useful as the size of the files increase

I think the same would apply to parallel DBs: you are basically talking about just partitioning the data over the storage nodes, which is a common feature in both systems.
That's been around for a while - think of the video billboards of Times Square, or any of the ones that inhabit the financial districts of major (Western) cities.

The problems come, I would guess, from a very high start-up cost. Not only do you need the side of a building in a busy location where people can stand, but you need a big-ass screen that is readable and reliable. You may also have trouble with determining advertising numbers - you don't even have the "subscriber base" numbers that print media has; all you've got is the average number of people that walk by, times some small fraction who, on average, watch the thing.
An interesting, related, thing I saw while I lived in China:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fortes/215857055/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fortes/215856981/

Many bus stops and other public areas put a daily newspaper up on display, and people stop and read it.
This is easily explained by Zajonc's Social Facilitation Theory.

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/33455/1/0000...

Developers usually have less social interaction due to the nature of the activity.

Because others usually have more human interaction instead of sitting in front of a computer all day, their dominant (or widely accepted) behaviors are encouraged, while deviant behavior is discouraged. This makes developers look weird by comparison.
Not _quite_ to the point of absurdity. I kinda like it. Admittedly, I dislike it when I have to instantiate four classes to read the contents of a file. But I have also used the same flexibility to great advantage, and been burned in other languages when the standard library wasn't flexible enough.
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I concur, theory 3 is the winner.
This article is too fluffy to be worthy of the HN front page. It's 267 words that explain that SSD drives are good at random I/O.
Nice overview at undeadly.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2009101815531...
As we've discovered in the last few decades, life in general has no concept of "too cold" or "too hot," or even "too irradiated."
I find it humorous that the Tech Crunch author notes a typo while creating a few of his own, e.g., by spelling "default" incorrectly. One who notes a typo should to not to create one of their own, if only to save face.
(Btw, Aside from hacking, I'm a martial artist, body worker and qigong practitioner, I've dealt with my own tendon problem for fifteen years and I'm feeling really healthy at the moment, so this is a good topic...)

Paying attention to your body is much closer to the problem than gadgets - but I believe that "work out" often isn't close enough. For every story of "working out" helping someone, I suspect you will find a couple stories of it injuring someone. Sadly, normal computer use general involves considerable insult to the proper use of your body. Putting further strain on your arms and legs through weights and other devices has often resulted in a further problems for people.

Certainly there are some bodies that are helped by this - one must always keep in mind how much variation in bodies there is in we biological humans and not assume one person's solution will automatically work for another person, meaning you.

That said, what I'd strong suggest is that you need is to become aware of the proper use of your own body. One good resource for this: "The Alexander Technique". Another: qigong in general and http://www.qidao.org in particular. Yoga has helped some though I'm dubious - Yoga is also more harsh disciple, people say good things about Feldenkrais. Another very good thing to try is Tai Chi. There various solutions out there aren't mutually exclusive but approaches that are gentle and gradual tend to be best in my opinion. Gentle and gradual - if nothing else, remember that.
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I went through this a few years back -- had headaches, shoulder pain, wrist pain, back pain, neck pain. And I work out, am in good health, and play a lot of tennis.

This article pretty much sums up what you need to do positionally: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000938.html

The chair is important, but I already had a nice one and couldn't get the rest of the geometry right with my existing desk & monitor.

So I got myself a fully-articulating monitor stand, a split keyboard, a pull-out keyboard tray with negative tilt and a mousepad extension.

The new setup eliminated all of the problems in a matter of a week or two. The monitor and keyboard stands came from Humanscale, and the keyboard itself is just a cheap MS Natural Keyboard. It isn't an ideal keyboard, (the mouse is still way over to the right which hurts a little).

Hope that helps. Good luck!
+1 for rock climbing.
As a longtime RSI sufferer, I agree with the need for strengthening. However, working out is a long-term preventative measure, not for when you are inflamed and in pain!

If your muscles and tendons are struggling, the last thing they need is more to do. I would strongly recommend doing whatever you can to give your hands a break for a while, and then start strengthening. And for giving your hands a break, you should absolutely feel justified in getting whatever ergonomic gadgets you think will help.

If you are suffering from numbness, that means your nerves (ulnar nerve, etc) are irritated. There are indications that this is not just a hand problem, but is due to postural problems in the upper back and neck from sitting statically in front of the computer for long hours. Google "thorassic outlet syndrome".

I highly recommend you check out the following books:

"It's not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome", http://www.amazon.com/Carpal-Syndrome-Therapy-Computer-Profe...

"Trigger point therapy workbook", http://www.amazon.com/Trigger-Point-Therapy-Workbook-Self-Tr...

I give these books a lot of credit for my almost complete recovery.
>and everyone was talking about Twitter.

Back in 2007, twitter's userbase was smaller than 4chan's and it wasn't nearly as well-known. In 2009, they're now bigger than MySpace. These graphs should show the difference clearly:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=twitter%2C+4chan&ctab=0&#...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=twitter%2C+myspace&ctab=0...
sure. just wanted to note the author's belief that rails is a language undermines his credibility.
Reading other comments I see a lot of people recommending the short keyboards to avoid reaching so far for the mouse. That is good advice -- I just have yet to find a split-key that is short. But the one failing of my ergo setup is where to put the mouse.
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I set up Spaces right when I got my Macbook, and it's hugely helpful. I assigned each of the major apps I use (Firefox, Terminal, Xcode, and Photoshop) to a different space.

Combine Spaces with SizeUp [ http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ ] for optimal window management. Throw in Quicksilver and you don't even have to remember which Space holds which apps.
No, not just random IO, but parallel execution of requests. Rotational drives cannot pipeline the requests - they have to execute one request at a time. With SSDs you can send multiple requests (via NCQ), and they will be executed in parallel. The drives can literally satisfy multiple requests at the same time (at the moment, about four requests in practice, from my testing). That means that a single SSD drive is similar to having a striped RAID of four rotation drives, plus the benefit of no seek latency.
haskell, libSDL, and OS X are a match made in hell. I recently tried this, and all sorts of dylib problems on my system lead me to believe its just not practical.

Are there other 3D/multimedia frameworks that play better w/Haskell? Or is it just raw OpenGL?
Yes, extremely important. Be very careful about any advice to dive into exercise if you have an existing problem.

Trigger point therapy is worth looking into...
"Now, when coding, I try to think: 'how can I write this such that if people saw my code, they’d be amazed at how little there is and how little it does'."

golden. i've been trying to pound this concept into my head lately, and this is a very well-stated version of it.
Ah, but Wolfram using "egonomics" is too rich.
The I in RTTI stands for "identification", not "inference". Stop saying "runtime type inference".
If your definition of rich is $110k salary or owning $1M in assets (which translates to relatively safe passive income of $40k before tax, according to the financial planning books I read) then sure, you can absolutely achieve it with careful career planning. I don't believe that's what most people would call "rich" though. There are actually people who will tell you that $100k in the Bay Area is "barely breaking it even" (not that I agree.)

I freely concede I could be wrong with respect to directors and partners. I work at a software company and my girlfriend works at a law firm.

I absolutely agree with you that the odds of getting rich by starting a company are low, all I'm saying they're better than the odds of getting rich by other means.
You are always in the knee of an exp curve. There is no point in the future where the growth breaks down your models. That is a persistent state of the world right now.
+1 for paying attention to international customers

For our ecommerce startup, we did nothing as far as internationalization goes other then offering to ship our product outside of the US and Canada. We were amazed at the response we got and it was one of the factors that helped us get cash flow positive very quickly
I would disagree about not using wrist braces; my doctor recommended I use one when I was experiencing wrist pain several years ago, and it helped a lot. A lot of RSI conditions are caused by pinched nerves, and the immobilization of the wrist prevents the sort of bending that leads to pressure on those nerves, allowing it to slowly be relieved over time. They don't help mitigate the pain, they help treat the cause of the pain. It helped me to wear them while working, but I also got a lot of benefit out of wearing them while I slept, ensuring that my wrists were perfectly flat and healing.
I donated $50. They never cease to amaze me.
Ditto 3. The life science community and the non-life science folks I interact with are as active as ever.
The degree to which environmental orthodoxy brooks no questions (let alone outright dissent) is both scary and unscientific.

Cue the torches and pitchforks...
These approaches are not mutually exclusive.
Anyone have any links to develop on this idea?
$50 isn't much for professionals who pay hundreds of dollars for reference manuals ... or are on location in NE Turkey without laptop Mathematica access.

I'm guess W intends an access lite for later.

For decades, most tech products coming on the market start out high-priced (HD TV's for a recent one). Why should Wolfram look like it's low-balling? They know you've got a $200+ phone and are paying $1K a year to use it. Mathematica isn't cheap either: how much will the App cut into sales?
100% agreed, been over engineering things for too long
I'm sure that's why my wrists hurt. It's such a habit though that I doubt I could retrain myself after years and years of typing and mousing this way.
Depends on the scale of rich.
I would recommend never using a mouse in your daily computer use. I use a laptop with trackpad. You might be able to find a keyboard with a built-in trackpad but make sure it's centered the way a laptop's trackpad is center. This is also why I think keyboard shortcuts are very important...
Right. In the average case, you have almost as much opportunity to money manage, etc. as a professional and thus wind up with big savings. The bonus is that you increase tremendously your chances of becoming rich in a shorter term.

Plus you get to control your own destiny, which humans really crave.
Freeblock scheduling (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.33.4...) can do some of this for disks -- on a completely busy drive, additional data can be scavenged for background processes.

In anticipation of the likely "but it's not really parallel!" rebuttal, I'd like to point out that the internal parallelism is only important for its effect on throughput and latency. Parallelism is not a magic bullet.
Not true. There are lots of SSDs with much higher longevity, using a variety of techniques. The Intel X25-M is optimized for capacity/cost, not longevity. Depending on your workload they can very well be less reliable than magnetic drives, especially if judge by the manufacturers' specifications.
Fun little slideshow but it kinda begs the question: If it's not biology, what is it?
I second reading the Dawkins version. The surprise mutation to digest citrate by one specific lineage was one most interesting parts.
Agreed - it was a great reference.
Sure, but that's a hack - you can scavenge some data in some cases but you have no guarantees (or even high likelihood) of getting the stuff you want.

SSD parallelism is important for its effect on throughput and latency. If you're reading a database index to satisfy multiple queries, and you need to read in leaves from totally different disk locations you can do it in parallel in SSDs. This has huge potential to improve performance (once databases get around to taking advantage of this).
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The iPhone application still requires Internet access. If you seriously needed to reference Wolfram Alpha for your work, then you would most likely be within reach of an actual computer. This app is nothing more than a novelty and is ridiculously priced.
Even if verbal diarrhea doesn't kill any trees, no one is going to want to read it.
Except that, if we take your restaurant staff analogy seriously, you're actually bribing the bartender to get the chef to put your product on the menu.

Depending on the product or service your offering, the traditional (if time-consuming) direct outreach to the intended audience may still be better than hiring the services of an SEO "expert."
My first domain was guetech.org, running over a UUCP link to eskimo.com, I remember having to fill out and email a text template to request it. I think this was sometime around 1995. I still have the domain :)

I think the absence of microsoft.com is telling. They really didn't see where the internet was heading.
There is some correlation between intelligence and skilled labor throughput, but it's definitely not a linear nor steadily increasing function.

And while the managerial toss-up is an interesting historical note, it doesn't explain why people think programmers are weird, but don't have the same associations with, say, doctors.
"SSD drive is similar to having a striped RAID of four rotation drives"

You are still limited by the speed of a SATA channel, so a striped hardware raid of SSD drives are going to be faster still.
The other moon of interest here is Titan, a moon of Saturn that has seasons and surface liquid:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16626-europa-trumps-ti...

If you're interested in this kind of origin-of-life stuff, you might like "The Universe" or "Evolve"

http://www.history.com/content/universe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolve_%28TV_series%29
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Wolfram is not the sort of company the engages in marketing ploys. They've always charged a hefty amount for their products, from Mathematica to their crazy prices for API calls. They get away with it because they create niche products that are usually paid for by the user's employer.
Nice release song too :)

http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#46

Does it refer to Ubuntu or am I misinterpreting?

edit: 4.5 song is still missing commentary :(
PG doesn't want you to know what the parameters are.
What do you think of, when you think about startup entrepreneurs getting "rich"?
It's the far left's equivalent of the far right's tired line; if you criticize the war strategy, you don't "support the troops". It's ironic that both ends of the spectrum pull the same stunts on their pet issues. It all boils down to fear, the simplest of political power tools. If you can make people sufficiently "afraid" of something you can get them to unquestioningly support things that would be otherwise unthinkable.
That thread has been killed by the editors, that's why you can't reply to it, not because it's one day old.

HN has some underwater tricks to keep the rif-raff out, these are 'mostly effective' so people put up with some of the more heavy handed moderation.

Meta discussion (discussion about HN) is for the most part discouraged.

The rules are relatively simple:

- behave

- no trolling

- no namecalling

- no spam

- avoid metadiscussion if you can (though, as in this
case, if the rules were spelled out a lot of
metadiscussion would never happen)

- use the 'flag' option instead of bitching about
submissions

at the bottom of the page there is this http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html maybe there is more stuff in there that can help you.

Just speaking for myself here, there is plenty that I think that is not ok in HN, especially the way in which some threads get killed because they're off-topic (I'd prefer if those threads were simply dropped from the index so that those involved in the conversation don't have the door slammed in their faces) but the value of HN far outweighs the downsides.

For instance, I really don't think this item should have been killed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=889349

Here are the the arc 3 thresholds:

267:(= gravity* 1.8 timebase* 120 front-threshold* 1
762:(= topcolor-threshold* 250)
980:(= follow-threshold* 5)
1038:(= downvote-threshold* 100 downvote-time* 1440)
1208:(= flag-threshold* 30 flag-kill-threshold* 7 many-flags* 1)
1326:(= legit-threshold* 0 new-age-threshold* 0 new-karma-threshold* 2)
1670:(= poll-threshold* 20)
1783:(= baditemreqs* (table) baditem-threshold* 1/100)
1823:(= commentable-threshold* (* 60 24 45))
1980:(= comment-threshold* -20)
2267:(= leader-threshold* 1) ; redefined later
2317:(= active-threshold* 1500)

These have been changed in the meantime, I know that the downvote threshold is now 200, possibly others have changed as well, you could download the arc 3.1 sources and then
run

grep -n -E "\(= [^-]+-threshold" news.arc

on it, but there is no guarantee that the arc that runs HN is using the same settings.

If you want to see the site 'plain', that is, without moderation filtered content you can set 'showdead' on in your profile. You still won't be able to click the links, but at least you'll be able to see what got killed.

The stated reason why there is a 'secret sauce' to HN is to make it harder to game the system for spammers.
Sorry, but people use the term this way: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&...
Key conclusions:

1. "The present sickness industry values secrecy, not openness. Secrecy means more profits. Secrecy means owning valuable, profitable data. Secrecy means locking users in to one proprietary piece of crap software. Secrecy means not being responsible for poor quality."

2. "Very little, if any, of healthcare will change unless consumers stop supporting the current business model of the US Healthcare Industry and unless the Feds stop mandating that consumers support this business model."

There has to be an opportunity in here for startups given that the status quo is so broken. Perhaps starting with a focus on medical services that the customer pays for directly: e.g. veterinary medicine, cosmetic, lasik, 3rd party blood tests.
Google changes the definition of "Going Google."
Correct about RTTI -- and I don't think I used that improperly any place -- but "runtime type inference" is also something people talk about: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&...
link to the paper (PDF) - http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-13...
This has definitely given me a better way to phrase my current coding style than "on-demand" or even "lazy" coding. Basically, the way I work is: I build what's being asked for, and no more. I try and anticipate where future demands might come in, and build things such that there is "room" for those features, but I don't build them before somebody asks for them, even if they just take 5 minutes. 5 minutes of dev is also 10 minutes of debugging and 15 minutes of testing, and that adds up quickly.
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Nah, a single drive won't saturate SATA (not in the situations I'm testing under, anyway), but a RAID of multiple drives might saturate SAS (not sure yet).
They'd have to convince people that their "computation engine" was worth anything in the first place.
PyQt is quite nice, but I am eager for an LGPL version.
The first thing I thought when I read about The 'Song Lyrics' Developer was: "wait a second, I've done that before..."

Actually, I've done it many times, and usually when I'm both deep in the zone and listening to a song with good lyrics.

So I guess I'm weird. Go figure.

Usually though, in code I write for other people, I go back later and edit it out.
"ultimately military power to coerce the rest of the world. "

That guy is advocating that the US, China and India should use military power to enforce pollution controls? That's insane.
How do android phones sync with one's Mac? Is there different software for each phone/carrier?
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OCaml also has a garbage collector, and so, the predictability is also not great.
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