skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a real good look at the total picture, not just your wrists.

Getting a new chair is one thing, but that doesn't mean that it is the right chair for you.

There are people that specialize in this sort of thing, maybe you can find one in your environment ? There are so many factors to consider that you'd be studying for weeks if not months to figure out exactly what is going on here.

Hardly any of these symptoms is 'single cause', and like debugging any problem that has multiple interrelated parts it's going to be hard to break it down into items that can be fixed individually.

It's really good to see you take this serious, don't ever ignore those warning signs. And that dull, persistent numbness is a good indicator that you have a very serious problem, as long as that persists I'd avoid that keyboard/screen/desk/chair setup like the plague unless you absolutely have to.

And find a doctor that will get you referred to someone that can have a good look at your wrists.
Summary:

1) iphone and john deere ads show you actual demonstrations of the product in everyday use cases

2) the palm pre ad "flow" shows you nothing useful about the phone but does show a huge mass of clearly asian humanoids in faux-shaolin monk robes dancing and bowing in unison to a smiling white girl perched above them on a rock

Conclusion: iphone and john deere ads > palm pre ads

My own take on this: the Daily Show's lack of online ad inventory has completely burned me out on the palm pre after forcing me to watch the same uninformative and borderline racist ad several times while trying to watch a single 25 minute episode. Now anytime I hear the mention of the palm pre in any context I am seized by a pavlovian urge to smash the nearest mute button.
Another personal anecdote: I developed severe pain in my mousing wrist and switched to a trackball. Within a week of switching all pain was gone.
Oh, and System->Preferences->Keyboard->Typing Break under Gnome, or workrave for Windows.

Being interrupted every 30-40 minutes is irritating as shit, but if you practice you can keep your flow alive by staring at the screen, keeping headphones on, etc. while doing stretches for a few (5 or so) minutes.
What a crock. The first sentence:

Principles of cognitive neuroscience and time management can be applied to attain conversational fluency (here defined as 95%+ comprehension and 100% expressive abilities) in 1-3 months.

(a) is bullshit;
(b) isn't even given an attempt at substantiation;
(c) is barely connected to the gobbledygook of the rest of the post.
I would choose the second. Real estate is fairly solid, money in the bank is money that gets worth less every day.

Sure the real estate market is in the dump right now, but that doesn't mean that a home isn't a solid investment.

A home may devalue a bit, it needs upkeep and so on. But it'll never 'crash'.
Just a reminder, DailyBooth.com is a YC summer 09 company, and hiring PHP hackers right now. Their growth looks to be faster than Twitter's at an absolute relative rate.
I think we're all on the same page there :)

A rise in any price (gold, for example) quoted in any currency (the dollar, for example) is as much about that currency losing value as it is about that commodity rising in value.

Said another way, if you flood the world with anything (the dollar, for example), all things equal, then each unit of that anything becomes worth less. In our dollar vs. gold example, it takes more dollars to buy the same amount of gold. The dollar is worth less. Potential Wile E. Coyote. Yada, yada, yada.
Spending the money that you make wisely and making more of it than you spend.
C++ isn't bad, per se. It's an incredibly powerful and rich language, verging on being a meta-language that allows you to create your own language. However, that flexibility is a double edged sword. Just like Perl or Javascript, any powerful, flexible language can, and will, be abused.

The main downfall of C++ is probably that it's too flexible in every direction. It takes an equivalent amount of effort to do the "right" thing as to do the "wrong" thing. In a sense, the language makes no value judgments regarding design. Which is helpful in some ways because it doesn't lock you into the straight-jacket that Java does, for example, but it doesn't encourage users to fall into a "pit of success" either (which a truly good language should, even if it is ultimately flexible enough to let you do those "wrong" things).
Congrats to Dailybooth! (I'm in too, but only for a little.)
This is ridiculous.

It is about science, not politics.

First make a decent scientific point, then make statements like "environmental orthodoxy" or "far left's equivalent".

Or maybe there is also a "Newton and Galileo orthodoxy" and Aristotle was right all this time?
I've switched to dvorak a year ago.
I highly recommend it my wrist pain has disappear.
And my typing speed is higher. (51 - 60 wpm in typeracer.com)
Although I wasn't a good typist to begin with.

Although the research on this field has stopped since the first investigations from Dvorak.
The empirical evidence is everywhere.

Highly recommended.
http://geeksloveclimbing.pbworks.com/
Personally I think more high-school/college tests should be given with the students using computers & the internet while taking them, since that's how the world works now. Not all tests by any means, but more than currently. But until that point, letting some students use their iphones because it's also their graphing calculator, on a test where most students don't have access to the internet and their friends and other test takers with iphones, is an invitation for cheating.
Does anyone know how Compete and Quantcast get their data?
I take his idea of "fluency" with a grain of salt because he hasn't actually posted any videos of him speaking the language.

Fluency is about "nativeness" (if I can create my own word here). It's being able to think in the language (rather than translating), about being able to express yourself in slang/sayings/expressions that you don't learn in textbooks, about the accent you speak in, and so on. In this respect I REALLY doubt he reached fluency.

The reason why many people fail to learn a language is because they use textbooks, which mean well, but are never enough. With Japanese, it always seems to be the same where each chapter is about:
- Vocab list
- A passage to read
- Grammar explanation
- Exercises
By the time you finish the chapter you would have understood a bit. The next chapter would do the same, but without refering to EVERY SINGLE vocab you learnt in the last chapter. Repeat this process and you're upto chapter 10 but can't remember most of what you've learnt from chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7.

The reason why living in the country works best is because you're constantly surrounded by everything you're learning. The chapter isn't finished, it's constantly being rehearsed.
Spyder IDE for Python has hit 1.0
It's true that you rarely have to work fast because the world will leave you behind otherwise (though that has occasionally been the case with startups we've funded). The reason you have to work fast is that your initial idea is probably wrong, and you have to iterate till you get it right.
If Java is good, then why isn't Scala better?
Can you be very specific about the location of the numbness? In particular, does it appear to affect certain fingers more than others?
Someone linked to this post in the comments, which I'd never seen before. It's by the guy who wrote the Vista shutdown menu, and it's pretty depressing reading:

http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c...
Spyder is an excellent lightweight IDE for short Python scripts and interactive use of Python. There are certainly better IDEs for large projects, but for quick scripts Spyder is excellent and has just hit its official 1.0 release.
Searching online, I found it interesting that the author supposedly knows 6 different languages and made his fortune when he sold his completely dietary supplement company that he started during the dotcom boom.

http://www.brainquicken.com/
Sync what? Google devices like the G1 and MyTouch sync over the network to Google's services (apps, contacts, email, etc.) and over USB for things like music. I expect the "droid" to be no different.
sorry, but they've been long time back baptized as "fauxtrepreneurs", eg:
http://scripped.com/jcal
I don't think it's cultural, or even generational; it's just the byproduct of working in a domain for a long time.

Inexperience doesn't mean a person isn't smart, or that they aren't good or that they aren't clever. All it means is that they haven't developed a significant body of familiarity with something.

So, your peers are learning several languages -- maybe superficially, maybe not -- but they aren't yet developing the familiarity with one or a couple of languages that allows them to feel comfortable mentally solving any given problem in the language they're most familiar with. Thus, you have "Ruby" problems, "Python" problems, "C++" problems, and so on.

Those older'n-dirt programmers on the other hand have already solved a huge number of problems in C++. That doesn't mean they're a better programmer, but it does mean they're more experienced. So, if you ask them if they could write X or Y or Z, they'll say sure -- and in their head, they're probably already gathering the familiar pieces that they would need to solve it.

Or, to put it another way: if you went to pg and asked him to write software to run a forum like this, he would probably choose to do it in Lisp, and that would be a good choice for him. If you asked me, I would do it in PHP. If you asked DHH, he would do it in Ruby (on Rails).

None of those are wrong.

The only wrong choices would be me coding in Lisp.

That would be horrifying.
It could never have scaled into cohabitation, for example.
Recent Cloud Outages May Give Opera Unite a Second Chance
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885138
Google & Verizon Announce The Android Deal, Team Up Against ‘Apple-AT&T’?
Things change. When it comes to 4G Verizon has abandoned EV-DV (Qualcom/CDMA family) and instead committed to LTE (GSM family). What this means is that come 4G there will be one standard across all major carriers both in states and in Europe. (I can't imagine Sprint having enough money to justify further EvDv R&D so they will have to switch as well).

Verizon is hard at work rolling out LTE equipment as we speak.
The first critique of Delong's blog is:
pp. 165-6: Change to no longer put "global cooling" in the 1970s and "global warming" today in parallel: The scientists in the 1970s who were worried about global cooling had neither the quantative evidence, the climate models, the understanding of forcing processes, or the peer-reviewed consensus that analysis of global warming has today. Placing the two in parallel is simply wrong.

But the first reply from the author's in the NYTimes article makes it clear:
The real purpose of the chapter is figuring out how to cool the Earth if indeed it becomes catastrophically warmer. (That is the “global cooling” in our subtitle. If someone interprets our brief mention of the global-cooling scare of the 1970’s as an assertion of “a scientific consensus that the planet was cooling,” that feels like a willful misreading.)

That being said can anyone provide the text of the "brief mention"?
If I'm not mistaken, this is called "market segmentation", rather than "blue ocean" stuff, which is where you create an entirely new market.
"No professor is going let students whip out arbitrary applications to aide them on a test" -- oh the things we used to do with our TI83s...
"the cultural, economic, diplomatic, and ultimately military power to coerce the rest of the world. "

He's not talking about military power alone. His argument is that consensus among the four major world powers would be able to accomplish carbon reductions. It's a reasonable point.
I've often wondered why spinning hard drives don't have multiple heads per platter. For example, two heads spaced out on the same arm could conceivably cut seek times in half. Or, a second arm on the opposite side could offer similar benefits.

The head-positioning firmware would get more complicated, yes, but for the fixed cost of getting those algorithms right many multiples of increase in seek times and transfer rates would be possible, by adding arms and heads.

Perhaps the competition from SSDs will trigger some new approaches in mechanical drives, as well.
So, by theory 1, animal trainers in the circus should be weird. I think this somewhat proves it. People daring to put their heads into the mouth of a lion or crocodile is not unweird in my opinion.
I am excited by this. The article doesn't mention it, but VS 2010 is a game-changer. ML goes mainstream. Let rock_mode=on in...
PlayClaw Brings 100% DirectX 10 Compatibility to Record Video in New Games
OpenBSD is one of my favorite operating systems, I don't think it gets the credit it deserves. That mentioned, there are a few things that have slowed its adoption down.

-drivers for common things such as network cards come to the OS much slower than OSes such as linux.

-the ports system often does not have the latest versions of software because of more code reviews.

-the OS runs somewhat slower than other *nix based operating systems
Underestimated UI techniques: Morphing
Fuck you money. 50 mil in ~5 years.

Also, let's not confuse "startup", a single project requiring one's all, with "ventures", a diverse portfolio of small businesses seeded with one's capital but managed and run by domain experts.

Personally, I think the finger in many pies approach is far more interesting and rewarding, since you're hedging your bets.
Anyone have it running under VirtualBox yet?
http://sanbit.com/blog/what-does-it-mean-to-be-fluent-in-a-f...
Understanding Javascript Testing
My Data Says You Like Beautiful Things
The Interview With The Programmer
The whole article was an advertisement.
Tutorial and Tips on using python's datetime module
Bad form to reply to myself it's past the time that I can edit, but that post that was killed was killed for a good reason that had nothing to do with the content, I should have paid more attention before using it as an example.
I found it interesting that Austrian economics supports strong government protection of physical property while here the author is arguing against government intervention in intellectual property.
Actually yes I agree you can put arbitrary applications on TI-83s that can help you cheat. So let me rephrase:

No professor is going let students whip out blatantly arbitrary applications to aide them on a test.
The weird conversations are acceptable because when you have had an isolated few days solving a difficult problem and you come out triumphant, you will expect everybody you know to take whatever bullshit you dish.

My commit messages are rated R for language and violence.

FWIW, I also tend to go bar-hopping and talking trash to thugs over pool tables when I feel triumphant. i.e. "You know who the fuck I am? You see this fast-scrolling black screen on my phone? that's tail -f /var/www/log/access .. don't fuck with me!"
Why Microsoft can't afford Windows 7 to fail
Can't agree more.

People that I've spoken with in the past more often than not associated the idea of me doing a startup in the tech industry with gaining massive wealth. While I may entertain this, deep down I find it lacking as there's so much more than wealth to be had.

How about, living in a world... some distant future from the everyday-everyday where day-by-day you toil piecing together a vision, one day injecting it into the present, in order to influence a whole new set of social behaviors while also unfolding valuable opportunities. How about, the day of flipping that proverbial switch, releasing this vision out in the wild. How about, the potential of millions interacting with your vision, it becoming a staple part of a users online experiences. There's something undeniably provoking about all this, rush of my life.

Wealth, although a welcomed aside pales in comparison. Hell I would even go so far as to say, in a world where sex is constantly peddled as a cure all, let me say it, sex pales in comparison to the feeling I get from being an entrepreneur.
Neck pain might be exacerbated by micro-movements required to maneuver a mouse. Get a trackball, like Logitech's Marble Mouse. X configuration is at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Logitech_Marblemouse_USB
Fun with publicly accessible webcams
I had a similar problem few years ago, my resolution was to take a rest every 50 or 40 minutes. This mean, don't stay in front of the computer more than 2 hours without moving that's too bad.
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Five Energy Technologies with big potential
Systemtap looks very cool. I am reading about it now. I will try it ou on my FC11 VM.
> "You know who the fuck I am? You see this fast-scrolling black screen on my phone? that's tail -f /var/www/log/access .. don't fuck with me!"

Well, at least that conclusively answers the OPs question ;)
> the Daily Show's lack of online ad inventory has completely burned me out...

Happens on Hulu too. I'm not sure if they purposely spam the same ad throughout the whole show I'm watching (I'm assuming it's on purpose though since the banner at the top stays the same), but me not caring the first time usually means I won't care the second or third time I watch the ad. They'd have to show me the ad a couple of hundred times before I cave in because of psychological trauma.

If they let me skip ads and cycle new ones in until one that potentially interests me, that would probably be a more efficient use of bandwidth and ad money.
Just installed on XP.
Nothing shows up after I click link from start-menu.
Ermm, everyone talks about the importance of libraries. People have been whinging about Lisp's "lack" of libraries since the 1970s!
If your only 2 options are bad, then selecting the "better" bad option is still bad. So with google we will see less revolutionary designs and instead see more evolutionary designs.
go team

good luck Ryan!
META: Why the downmod? I assume it wasn't out of mere disagreement, so I must have made a specific mistake, but I can't see it (I answered the question, then stated an opinion which I think was on topic).
Surfacescapes - a D&D-based game for Microsoft Surface
PubHubSunday (Tim Bray's thoughts on PubSubHubbub)
Sometimes, you just need a lifetime to evaluate fitness, you know?
Although I think everyone should keep a healthy sense of skepticism toward Tim Ferris since he is above all a brilliant self promoter, I must say I was impressed by his command of Mandarin as seen here http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/category/random/ (Not that he's saying anything especially difficult, but his tones and fluency seem very solid).
Will Cloud computing obsolete SaaS?
I would buy real estates. Given a million bucks, I would buy five $175,000 homes and rent all of them out. By then, I could build whatever I want without needing outside money.

The best thing about this strategy? It can happen slowly and sequentially with minimal risks.
As I mentioned, I think proficiency is best measured by assessing what tasks you can accomplish. Empirically I'm able to convince the CEO of a multinational software company to greenlight the new product line I was proposing, which required making the technical and business case for it advancing our company objectives both orally and in writing. So I've got that going for me.

I also picked up a Japanese novel yesterday and am having quite a bit of difficulty reading a scene in which the protagonist is sparring with someone wielding an axe because my vocabulary with respect to hard bits on swords and soft bits on people is rather more limited than the book expects of me.
Starting your own web design business
1) What changes will occur in the global environment in the future and 2) how we should react to it are separate issues. You will note that (1) is a completely scientific issue, whereas (2) is not. Science can inform the choices we make in response to global warming, but there is no correct scientific answer to how we choose to make the tradeoffs between carbon abatement, economic growth, and etc.

What the authors of the book were primarily guilty of was not questioning the scientific orthodoxy about the effects of global warming, but suggesting that carbon abatement was a costly way of addressing global warming compared to alternative remedies. In short, they arrived at the "wrong" political/economic conclusions, where wrong == unpopular.
How I solved my own carpal tunnel after too much quake^H^H^H^H^Hcoding.

(1) Take some time off. If you can't do that, for your own sake take a break at least once an hour where you yawn/stretch and drink lots of water. This will help your body repair itself and turn your bladder into an internal timer to take a break. Seriously, it works.

(2) Wrist position is the _key_: hands must be straight extensions of the forearms. Angling up/down or side/side is a no-no. If one hand hurts more than the other it could be a mouse issue.

(2a) If you don't know what the "ideal position" feels like, then wear IMAK ergobead gloves which have this hard strip inside (like an injury brace) that forces you into the correct position. Wear these for several weeks until the pain recedes and you've "learned" the proper position. Think of them as training wheels for your wrists. Try them on in a store to make sure you get the right size (I think Fry's carries them).

(3) If you mouse a lot, consider an IMAK ergobead mouse wrist rest. All other wrist rests I've tried are either too hard or not supportive enough. If you're cheap, make your own bean bag (double-ziplock some small dry beans/beads/whatever, fold it in half, and put a thin towel over it). Think Japanese buckwheat pillow for your wrist.

(4) At minimum get an "ergo" keyboard where there is that split in the middle. If you can afford it get one of the fancier ones that have continuous levels of adjustment. I've tried Kinesis and Goldtouch to good effect. If you have small hands the Microsoft ergo keyboard may be too large for you.

(5) TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS or someday you will not be able to type. See rule #1.

Oh, and use vim for home-row navigation ;-)

To the "bio" guy: it's actually a mixture of gadgetry (so that your hands are in the right position with less effort) and having stronger arms (so that your hands can be held in the right position without getting tired).

Undisclosure: I have nothing to do with IMAK whatsoever but after trying lots of different product lines, their products were the only one that subtracted from the pain instead of adding to it in the long run.
That deserves it's own submission...

I remember reading it during one of my Microsoft internships and thinking "Wow, this was definitely a pathological case. My team executes way better than this." However, I was on a small, isolated team. I've recently realized that at Microsoft, the better the team performs, the more demand for their skills, the more strategic their efforts, the more people stick their fingers in the pie, and the worse the end result becomes.

So yeah, this was a pathological case, but only in the respect that it is such an un-strategic feature. Typically, a feature would have to be far higher profile for it to be so severely botched.

Microsoft's failings are of leadership and focus. I don't work in Windows, but following Windows 7 closely, it seems like Sinofsky is doing a great job empowering the right decision makers. Often, the right decision maker is the one closest to the implementation. Some teams get it, others are learning it, and still others may never get it.