skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're getting at having a common language, terminology, notation, in order to be able to communicate.

These also carry assumptions and biases within them. Often, breakthroughs come along with new notation or terminology - a new conceptual way to reason and talk about the subject - that the existing language "taught away" from.

But communication is also important for seeing more, and having more objectivity, by getting new points of view. Just being aware of the subjectivity is probably the best we can do in practice.
Deconstructing the LEGO Internet
I got a pair of "computer gloves" -- basically gloves with a beanbag under each wrist. They're very comfortable and almost entirely cured my persistent wrist pain.

You have to give the gloves a chance to work though. For me, the pain went away after a week or two of constantly wearing the gloves each time I used the computer.
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Workers may flag any HIT they feel violates Mturk policy. Flagged requesters risk getting banned by staff.
I had luck with the book "Its not carpal tunnel" or something -- http://bit.ly/Ocwy5 .. It suggested some stretches, one which worked in my case.

My pinky and half my ring finger were going numb from the bottom of my wrist sitting on either the desk or the laptop, and the exercise that worked for me involved holding my arm straight out away from me and repeatedly twisting it at my shoulder.

I found a good doctor in Chinatown, NY who recommended the book and suggested stretching daily instead of looking to any of the various surgeries suggested by other doctors.
Jupiters moons sure are interesting, but aren't they bit cold for life?
Don't forget darcs. I find it useful since they distribute statically linked executables. Installation then becomes a matter of just dropping darcs into a bin directory.
Yep -- $170 to the Secretary of State for 'express' service online; get an EIN online with the IRS; get an MN tax id online with MN-Revenue.

You can open a bank account with just your articles of incorporation and an EIN, so you can do that on the same day as well, although I waited until the next day.

It really takes more time to learn what steps you need to take than to take them, in the US. At least if you're doing it the first time and are fairly conscientious about it.

All in all, I am very happy with how easy it is to set up a business in the states.
What about when you're robotically putting money into the other players' pockets? After all, his short-stack bot lost $1300 in total.
Completely agree with geuis above. You need to work out. I had the same problem 2 years ago when I was programming long hours (dull persistent numbness, and eventually sharp pain). I self-diagnosed it as wrist tendonitis and wore a splint brace for a few weeks. Once the wrist felt better, I got back to the gym and started doing light weights with a sort of stretch bandage on my wrist. Also bought a resistance hand grip to squeeze whenever I could and did hand/wrist stretching exercises daily for a few months.

http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/sma/sma_wristten_rex.htm

This fixed it within a couple months and I haven't had a flare-up since.
Maybe, but not necessarily.

The heat on Europa would not come from the sun but from the gravitational friction (tidal flexing) caused by Jupiter. This would likely cause quite a bit of volcanic activity under the surface and possibly create deep underwater vents. There is an analogue on earth in the deep ocean and the so-called hydrothermal vents. There are ecosystems down there that exist without energy from the sun.
Most consumers will get Windows 7 preloaded on new computers, so this is not an issue.
Get a trackball. Learn to use it with either hand.

Don't work so hard.
Hehe, possibly true... but I think a lot of people have more than just "being able to pay the bills" on their list of financial needs. Most of the grad students I know are indeed able to pay their bills, but are also compulsive penny-pinchers and can't (or won't) really live any other way. Going back into academia isn't worth it to me based on that alone.
Wolfram continues to surprise me with the depth of his delusions.

$50 for an unfeatured 'native' interface to a free web app?
Yes, thank you! That was exactly my reaction. I don't believe that you should reward hard work for hard work's sake alone. You should reward purposeful hard work that yields beneficial results.
* newmogul.com

* hndir.com

* More official than a "spinoff": http://arclanguage.org/forum

Anyone know any others? There has to be tons more.
Yes, agreed. I just joined a small early stage startup. While I was deciding whether or not to accept their offer, I was thinking, "would I accept this job even if I knew right now that in a year the company will fail and I'll have to find a new job?" The answer to that turned out to be "yes." The pay is better than my old (non-startup) job, and I feel like the experience I'd gain would more than offset the hassle and worry about needing to find a new job.

Of course, I don't expect us to fail, but it's nice to take a pessimistic view into account ^_~.
switch your mouse to your other hand. Worked for me.
I've had pretty good success with the Power Ball.

http://www.powerballs.com/rehab.php?m=Benefits
offtopic: gcc -Os is probably even faster than -O3.
What's career planning and how does one go about it?
Second the general message here!

Specifically, rock climbing absolutely puts your wrists through the gamut. The strength and flexibility building you'll go through will demolish RSI.
Agreed. My brother's Verizon phone is usually unable to make voice calls at my house in North East Denver.
The chain begins with Joseph Romm telling Caldeira that he had read SuperFreakonomics and “I want to trash them for this insanity and ignorance.” Romm adds that “my blog is read by everyone in this area, including the media” and tells Caldeira that “I’d like a quote like ‘The authors of SuperFreakonomics have utterly misrepresented my work,’ plus whatever else you want to say.”

Did you read the same post that I did? How can this possibly be characterized as mere "joining" in the debate by "intelligent readers". Isn't having pre-formed views completely disregarding opposing viewpoints (versus an honest attempt at addressing them) the antithesis of intelligent?
My oldest is 1999. I read somewhere that google also uses that in there complex page rank and results page.
Holy shit! I believe this here is a genuine hipster argument on Hacker News! Face it none of you are cool enough to even be a hipster.
You can do straight SQL in migrations, and when I'm working with PostgreSQL I usually do. I don't really see the need or desirability to fully abstract SQL away in Ruby: either you'll have to avoid using some of the features of SQL, or you'll create a DSL to describe SQL which will end up being more verbose than SQL is anyway.

Personally, I use Rails migrations as a versioning system for my DB schema, but within the migrations itself, it's just a straight "execute" call with the SQL to create, alter, or drop the tables as required.
The Toshiba and Samsung SSDs that Apple uses are decent, and leagues better than the Taiwanese shovelware that was their only competition when they were introduced. They aren't plagued with embarrassing pauses, but unfortunately aren't particularly fast either.

The Intel SSDs offer much better performance, but no OEM is shipping them due to supply-chain issues -- Intel isn't even close to making enough for the aftermarket.
Isn't this just a less thinly veiled version of I Am Rich?
How a Liberian "newspaper" reaches thousands, with just one copy
Please stop spreading such baseless FUD.

They don't beg any more replacement than the other SATA SSDs you could purchase. You yourself admit that they aren't any less reliable than magnetic drives.
"I eventually want to be rich, so I'm going to be a lawyer, not an artist."

"I eventually want to be rich, so I'm going to move to Ann Arbor to go to Michigan for law, instead of staying with my friends in Phoenix."

"I eventually want to be rich, so I'm going to join a major firm after law school, not a nonprofit."

"I eventually want to be rich, so I'm going to find out what the merit comp scheme is at my law firm, and put extra effort into doing that stuff."

"I eventually want to be rich, so I'm going to work 80 hour weeks to impress the partnership selection process".

etc, etc, etc.

Was that what you wanted to know?
FWIW, in the beginning I thought it would be easy enough to do with simple conditional statements. That proved to be way too difficult/impossible.

The HUSNG bot made heavy use of statistics, data mining, and expected value calculations.
The Shorter, Faster, Cheaper MBA
http://www.ycombinator.com/ideas.html

27. Hardware/software hybrids. Most hackers find hardware projects alarming. You have to deal with messy, expensive physical stuff. But Meraki shows what you can do if you're willing to venture even a little way into hardware. There's a lot of low-hanging fruit in hardware; you can often do dramatically new things by making comparatively small tweaks to existing stuff.
So, if I got this right, Ken Caldeira didn't proofread enough and Joseph Romm wanted to do a hit piece on the book and fed Ken Caldeira a quote he was going to attribute to him.
Droid Does
Steve Mann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann
http://wearcam.org

Interesting factoid: he was the one who invented the word "sousveillance".
That last sentence is misleading. The web app that they're interfacing is only free because they made the mistake of making it free. If this iPhone app was the only available interface to Alpha, and they hadn't blown their marketing wad on a huge marketing launch for the free web version, $50 wouldn't seem nearly as "unreasonable" as it does now.
For the record, that technique was developed by Jon von Neumann. It's called a randomness extractor.

Obligatory wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor#Von_Neuman...
It's not even working for me. Also CA.
Ask HN: Review My YC Application (is this not appropriate?).
Hello! I am asking for help on my application. Release early and iterate right? Would appreciate any insights or opinions you guys have. Thanks in advance, and if there's anything I can do for your project, please let me know. Don't worry it is not the full application, just 5 questions and a demo.

--------

5 main (product/concept) questions are here:

-- http://plusjade.com/yc/application

Product prototypes are here: (all are instances of the system)

Public Demo:

-- http://demo.plusjade.com (most major functionality for a site instance)

Live sites created and running on plusjade:

-- http://larasgift.plusjade.com (end-user example site)

-- http://inkedsites.com (niche specific micro-site)

-- http://plusjade.com (generic main marketing site)

(admin demo is not ready yet, sorry =\)

------------

The Team:

I am the primary developer having worked on this for almost year now. 4 months ago I met Brian (schindyguy) on HN and he has been enthusiastic about seeing this project through and offering his marketing-oriented help as much as possible when it's time to roll out.

Feedback, opinions, and insights are much appreciated, thank you!

P.S. I will be at startup school if anyone wants to meet up or talk =]
I think we now have the answer to the question "Will Verizon ever get the iPhone?". Given how they are attacking the iPhone and Apple's temper, I would say "No".
Harvard Business School Is Taking Over Boston VCs - For Better or Worse?
I look forward to someone writing a free "FoxEwe Beta" app very soon.
To make sure you get past the registration system on MercuryNews.com (I know this because I'm quite familiar with their CMS), append a variable named source with any value to the end of the URL, like this:

http://mercurynews.com/ci_13579962?source=hoops
I'm now intensely curious about what the oldest "popular" hostnames were before there was the DNS.

Also, what were FMC, Alcoa, and DuPoint doing with domain names?
You have most likely already seen this, but Guy Kawasaki often talks about a similar annoyance with people involved in entrepreneurship purely for the money: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3755718939216161559...
Need Help - Market Share for Electronic Dance Music 
So Justin and I have been at it for the past week and half looking for number in regards to market share for electronic music. We have focused our search just on the US market but are unable to come up with any good numbers.

According to RIAA total Digial sales in 2008 was $1.6bn
http://76.74.24.142/D5664E44-B9F7-69E0-5ABD-B605F2EB6EF2.pdf

IFPI says there are 700 electronic music based bands in the US.

The interesting thing about EDM is that its hard to figure out market share just based on sales. Its more a of a live event business and promotional based genre. People rarely buy dance music, since a lot of it is available for free through podcasts and sets. Artists make bulk of their money from doing live shows at big events or clubs on a regular basis.

If you guys have any pointers let us know.

Cheers
Many friends have told me that Verizon cripples their phones horribly---removing or disabling features that are available in comparable phones on other networks.

Will this be true for the Droid?
Actually it's a signifier in two status orders at once. It says "$50 is nothing to me." and "I am smart enough and knowledgeable enough to find this useful."
I think Verizon is making a mistake getting so caught up with the iPhone. Android is in more direct competition with Nokia, RIM, Microsoft and Palm competing across multiple carriers. Apple is still a relatively smaller player in mobiles but has traditionally strong brand/customer loyalty. I'm not sure the average iPhone owner cares much about the technical differences/limitations. There's probably a much lower barrier of entry to Android for someone who isn't hung up on iTunes syncing for example.
OpenBSD 4.6 released
Links:

application: http://plusjade.com/yc/application

demo: http://demo.plusjade.com

examples:

http://larasgift.plusjade.com

http://inkedsites.com

http://plusjade.com
Are Software Developers Naturally Weird?
In the case of an honest 3rd party doing the toss, you can even have someone call it before the ref shakes the coin around in his cupped hands. That way you eliminate the possibility of someone seeing the coin's orientation as it's placed on the thumb. The ref doesn't even need to hide the starting position after that.

If one of the interested parties is also the coin tosser, this could offer an opportunity to game the system, though, so one might want to just use your proposal in all cases to avoid complexity.

Thinking about this a bit more, though, I wonder if this really has the desired effect.

Let's assume for a moment that the act of the ref shaking the coin around in his cupped hands actually generates a random starting position. Ok, so starting position is 50/50 heads/tails, and the caller of the coin doesn't know the starting position.

In that case, the final heads/tails probability then depends on the initial starting position -- to use the bad-case numbers from the article, say the final probability is 60/40, favoring the side that was initially facing up.

So what have we really gained here? All we've done is made sure the initial positioning of the coin is random. The bias in the toss itself is still there, but we're hiding it by making sure the caller doesn't know the initial state of the coin.

If that's the case, then why not:

a) Don't even toss the coin at all. If we're convinced that the act of the ref shaking the coin around in his cupped hands gives a random starting position, then why not use that in place of the coin toss?

... or...

b) Avoid the whole cupped-hands shake thing entirely. Just have the interested party call the toss before the ref places the coin on his thumb. Obviously then you have to have an impartial ref who won't then place the coin on his thumb in a way to benefit one of the interested parties. (You could just specify that the ref is required to reach into his pocket, pull out the coin, and place it on his thumb, all without looking at it at all or feeling its surface sufficiently to figure out which side is which.)

I guess it also depends on what we care about to make this "random." Personally I think it's random enough if the caller simply doesn't know the starting position when calling the coin, assuming the coin tosser doesn't use the call to game the toss.

Heh, or we can just admit that tossing a coin isn't sufficiently random, and use something else... like radioactive isotope decay... or even a PC's PRNG (though that of course opens a big computer security debate).
No 'microsoft.com', but Apple registered their domain 'apple.com' in 1987.
Exactly, entrepreneurship is about autonomy, not money.

Sometimes they go together, but the autonomy is more important. People who feel otherwise end up becoming investment bankers, not entrepreneurs.
...approximately October 5th 1995. spy.net was requested before it was announced that they were charging, but they grandfathered us in anyway. :)

Of course, like an old fogey, I'll state that it was all downhill from there. The ``one organization, one domain'' rules, etc... all died when people realized they could make more money by making it chaos.

Some good probably came out of that, though I'd say domain squatters did enough harm to make that severely unbalanced.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=501630
I think that's all true. The part that's important is that Caldiera was OK with the fed quote. Caldiera even updated his website to make it clear that he's OK with the fed quote: http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/

If you've ever spent substantial time with the press, you'll learn that this happens all the time. If someone feeds you a quote, it's totally OK to say "sounds good" and have them run it. If they feed you a quote and you don't like it, you can say "wait up, that's not right. I'd say [x] instead." Then, sure, you can you say you were misquoted. (You can also decline to OK the fed quote without giving a more accurate one, and it'd be wrong for the journo to run it.)

The reason reporters/bloggers/press use fed quotes is that they're short. People who are experts are fucking terrible at being pithy. Reporters have learned to feed quotes as a coping method when dealing with verbal diarrhea.
Go and read "It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome". It made a lot of sense to me.

http://cow.org/r/?603b

(Disclosure: that's got an affiliate link in it.)

Lots of people get misdiagnosed, have surgery, and end up right back where they started.

The authors explain that most people with persistent strain disorders are suffering from a combination of nerve adhesions, inflammation, and microscopic muscle spasms (tender points or knots) that cause pain, weakness, numbness, and so on. Actual carpal tunnel syndrome is much rarer than commonly thought.

Their primary thesis is that treating a symptom does not help. Cutting your carpal tunnel will only shift the problem elsewhere. Adjusting your position will, at best, move the problem elsewhere. You need to treat the (several) root causes, working your way along the chain until you're nearly pain free.

For example: pregnant women often get the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. Advocating surgery for pregnant women is obviously insane, but it's commonly suggested for us programmers when the ol' "try wearing a wrist brace at night" trick doesn't work. Perhaps hammering away at a keyboard for thousands of hours might have something to do with it, rather than an actual problem with the carpal tunnel?

The authors have a ton of material on the web, so you can read before buying the book:

http://www.rsirescue.com/

My personal approach: I use an ergonomic keyboard, of course. I eat better than I used to. I take breaks. I massage my forearms. I lift weights and exercise. I don't take ibuprofen. I don't stretch too much (my arm joints are hypermobile).

Seriously, go read the book.
:D

Very fine sarcasm, sir.
Wow. Verizon attacking Apple's hostility to open development? Talk about a pot and a kettle...
Because the calling overhead is too fucking slow. Never mind what happens if the library allocates memory and you're expected to free it in another module. This is bad practice, but it happens.

If the library uses weird pointer tricks like "since every data item is 4-byte aligned, we can use the low two bits of the pointer for flags", you'l break the garbage collector. Again, not great practice, but it happens.

I love dynamic languages. Every so often I try to write a game in Lisp, but productivity is about Language + Runtime. You can only justify fixing broken GL wrappers for so long, before you realize you've wasted time that you didn't have to waste.

My current fav mix is C++ without aggressively using all the bells and whistles, so it's easy to wrap for dyn languages, and Python.
I think it's easier to do viral marketing for products that you give away. But it's a lot easier to make money off of things that you charge for.
Yeah, I was struck by that as well. It's true that a lot of money is riding on the outcome of sporting events, but the fact that that's so, and that society (or at least the Mercury News) has placed that in the category of "important" is... pretty sad, IMO.
I have moderate arthritis/rsi in my wrist from a bone graft when I was younger. I've found the best way to minimise soreness is to use a Wacom tablet in replacement for a mouse. Using a pen-like implement, whilst taking a while to get used to, is much better for your wrists than using a mouse.
Two coins flipped at equal velocity and trajectory in vacuum will flip an equal number of times. Thus, the process of a coin flip is completely deterministic since it depends on newtonian physics. So, the probability is defined by the randomness of the conditions, not the process itself.

When the conditions are controlled then so is the probability. The results of this research should not be surprising despite the tone of the article.
It will allow your body to mask the problem for another few years, yes.

It would be foolish to treat it as the only solution.

(I did much the same thing, but that's because I totally ruined my right wrist by working through searing pain. I needed at least three years for my right wrist to recover to the point that I could use it to mouse at all.)
Same here, except that after using C and C++ for over a decade I find switching to another language quite trying. The habit of constantly thinking what machine code is generated from the higher language constructs is really hard to ignore.

Moreover, I actually like C. But it is inconvenient. On the other hand C++ is convenient, but I don't like it. So I started playing with developing a dialect of C that adds support for parametrized code, closures, this pointer and type inference. All the stuff that I use or would like to use in C++, but in a syntactically cleaner way and without all the blubber that C++ accumulated through a design by committee. A hobby project, nothing too fancy :-)
An alternative is don't rest on your wrists. :)

It's hard to do, though!
Let's not allow all this character assassination, and/or accusations of same, to distract from other intelligent readers who are, in fact, joining in the debate:

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/glo...

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/10/sigh-last-post-on-supe...
yay! Python + PyOpenCL + ... is on my shortlist for the next project.

D is a dream to program in. The templates, especially, are so much nicer than C++ that I hate coding in C++ for a few days after doing D. OTOH, it's the same thing wrt runtime. Why spend a few days getting other people's crappy wrapper code working, FOR EACH LIBRARY, when you already know how to use, debug, and optimize those libraries for C/C++. It wastes a lot of time!
Douglas Crockford Talk on "JavaScript: The Good Parts"
I second the Kinesis Advantage keyboard. I haven't had any wrist pain since I started using it (and I'm typing more now than I did before).