skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... Most of the stuff on youtube is utter crap, but there's still more interesting stuff than I have time to watch. ..."

Watching stuff on youtube for me is really like taping radio as a youngster. Now it's going back for old music video clips and tv shows. One persons crap is someone else's scarce resource.
Oh no, it is the average value. You don't want to know the lowest value. Or if you do, go to the Spanish utility's site and browse statistics for the summer months, when wind is usually slower:

http://www.ree.es/ingles/operacion/curvas_eolica.asp

E.g. July 1st 2009 - minimum of 105 MWe, or about 0.3% of average demand. The recent peak was 11,500 MWe:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/09/spain-nati...
Apple has always had good lawyers.
If you're looking for more discussion, there is an ungodly amount going on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_not...
Amir Pnueli, Pioneer of Temporal Logic, Dies at 68
My guess: This is for the Apple Tablet. Either pay for subscriptions, or view ads. And, since it's Apple, I'm going to guess that all ads must go through an ad approval process.
I was a CS major but I didn't _really_ learn how to write code until I got a job at a dot com startup in the mid 90's. I think school seemed too easy, and I didn't work that hard to get decent grades, although now I regret not taking advantage of the time I had. If an assignment is due friday, who cares. If it's due RIGHT FREAKING NOW, because your company is ON FIRE then you work hard. I mostly played MUD's at school. I worked my ass off once I got a job. Turn off the distractions and light a fire. I guess the fear of failure is what motivated me. Maybe try and do something risky and difficult.
I think calling it an article is a bit over the top in terms of giving too much credibility. It really is just a blog post of one guys opinion.(Not that that is bad, it just is.)
> the authors wanted to design away some common developer errors, which average developer cannot overcome.

Even the best programmers make mistakes. When writing for an embedded platform, mistakes can be exponentially more costly and difficult to fix.

All I see is hand waving and misdirection, no facts. How disappointing.
Apple usually makes the right decision on iPhone apps. Eventually.
> I hate the F-Lock key with a passion.
I haven't managed to hit f-lock by accident. The older Microsoft keyboards didn't remember the f-lock state between reboots. THAT was annoying.
s/Statements/laws/;

s/Genentech/every company and moneyed interest group ever/;

The health care bill was so long that none of the lawmakers who voted on it had time to read it all. Do the math. This congress is one of the most corrupt in quite some time.
The microsoft internet keyboard has all the trappings of the perfect keyboard. (except it is not USB.) The arrow keys are in the preferred upside down tee, it has a huge delete button, the home and end keys are in the correct logical left to right order, the page up and page down are in the correct up and down configuration. Split keys are there for ergonomics and it is fairly cheap.

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&safe=off...

I don't know about those sellers but that is the keyboard that I love.
Continually remind yourself of how great it will be to be able to do X after you've done Y.
It sounds like you might want to try to better define for yourself why you're trying to learn what you're studying. Without good reason to focus on what you're trying to achieve through your studying there's probably very little feeling of reward for doing it. Maybe developing reasonable goals for what you would like to do with C/Python will help you focus on gaining the knowledge you need to accomplish your goals.

If the documentation you're reading isn't satisfying, maybe try finding projects online related to what you hope to accomplish, and start there. Try reading their documentation and code, and then read C/Python documentation to figure out what the code is doing when you don't understand.
I foresee a whole lot of people making themselves look awkward and stilted if they try to integrate the techniques from the book.

People naturally adopt confident, outgoing, friendly body language when they're feeling confident, outgoing and friendly.

Trying to work it in reverse is a bit like trying to ride a bike while thinking of all the details of cycling - it looks a bit naff and you're likely to crash.

If people really want to adopt confident body language they'd be better off doing things to make them feel more confident - say getting in shape physically or skydiving.
Even though I'm young, I'll occasionally wear reading glasses with a 1.00 prescription. I most need my glasses when working with CSS and pixel perfect layouts. For me, the use of reading glasses significantly reduces eye strain by the end of the day.
Does forth qualify for the same category as smalltalk and lisp?
Tying task at hand to goal, consistently, a sense of urgency and a social component are all key factors in maintaining focus.
If you didn't see any facts it not means that they does not exist. =)
So, keeping in mind that what I say here is my own personal opinion, my own and no-one else's, and that I speak for myself and not any other person or entity...

I'm kinda on the fence about contrib.admin bundling/using jQuery, but not for any of the reasons in this article. For me it comes down entirely to compatibility.

At my day job I work with the oldest Django codebase in the world, and also one of the largest. We do pretty much everything it's possible to do with Django, including some fairly heavy custom admin stuff. Quite a bit of that involves JavaScript.

At the moment, we have code actively using the current bundled admin JS, two different public JS frameworks and one private internal JS framework. This is the result of years of dev work making use of whatever tools we happened to be using at the moment, and all of it still works today; we even have areas where multiple JS frameworks are in use side-by-side on the same page along with reuse of the standard admin JS.

I simply don't know what happens to all that code if suddenly the admin is jQuery. I don't know off the top of my head all the possible intersections of libraries and frameworks and how much code would need to be rewritten as a result. And I really don't want to think about whether people who use, say, MooTools for their own customizations would suddenly get the rug pulled out from under them (if Django's bundled jQuery and your bundled MooTools each want to bind '$', who wins?).

If the admin's going to move to using jQuery, these are the sorts of questions which need to be thought out, planned for and answered very, very thoroughly first.
Excellent article. The author does a great job highlighting the parallels between the Psytar and the rebellious early stages of Apple.

I find this Shanzhai phenomenon fascinating. These are the true hackers of today.

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanzhai
> Oh and you don't even need to launch X to use tmux

Right, but you're assuming that everyone that uses a tiling window manager does everything on a console.
Like Lisp, it's a programmable programming language. Like Smalltalk, the original Forth was a self-contained programming environment with full source that you can hack on the fly. (This particular Forth system isn't the best example of that.) Unlike either, it's lower-level; except for things like embedded systems you're unlikely to prefer it to get stuff done. It's most notable for being super-simple to implement on bare metal.
The MS style riddles could be very useful in an interview, if used correctly.

The correct process is to weed out anyone who begins solving them.

A pragmatic get-it-done approach is generally far more useful at work than playing bit twiddling tricks with you mind.
my guess is that once their library of apps is a bit more useful and full, they'll apply their search method to it. this will essentially give you the relevant apps when you look for something.
It's quite likely you meet diagnostic criteria for ADD. Talk to a mental health professional. It's one thing to get distracted occasionally but it's a problem if your distraction is more pathological.
I find that music helps keep me focused on the task at hand. I've got different playlists setup for my different developing moods. ie. learning, coding, designing, administrative, etc.

That along with actuall closing the IM, Email and IRC clients can go a long way towards helping you focus.

I also find that when learning something completely new it helps alot to have a small project to apply the new knowledge to. Even if it is something silly, it helps cement the new concepts in your long term memory.
I own a older version of "das Keyboard" which is actually a Cherry-G80 OEM (which I also own, and a unnamed clicky DEC Alpha Workstation PS/2 keyboard). They all give great feedback and I prefer them for typing larger amounts of text. Of course they are absurdly lound, and I'm happy that my coworkers don't complain (too much).

On the other hand, I detest keyboards that only use a soft rubbery membrane that feels like I'd dip my fingertips into honey (which is basically every keyboard that nowadays is shipped with cheap systems). While it may sound illogical, using those for anything larger than a simple blog-post and my hands begin to hurt. Maybe because the lack of feedback makes me assume a unhealthy hand-posture?
From "You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming :

http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~anab/grad/hamming.html

I started asking, "What are the important problems
of your field?" And after a week or so, "What
important problems are you working on?" And after
some more time I came in one day and said, "If what
you are doing is not important, and if you don't
think it is going to lead to something important,
why are you at Bell Labs working on it?"

I wasn't welcomed after that.

It doesn't necessarily apply, because that was research he was talking about, not "making money" or even"making a living."

Even so ...
You push your car to the hotel, but when you get there you realize you've lost all your fortune. Why?
Forth is an easy-to-bootstrap language that defines several primitive words.

You use the primitives to define other words in order to achieve your desired effects.

It is a stack-based language.

Forth programs tend to be extremely small, typical usage is in embedded control applications, though there have been much larger programs written in Forth. Forth was invented by Chuck Moore, he is still active:

http://www.colorforth.com/

It definitely is a language that is worth learning, if only because it will subtly change your point-of-view.

If you're really interested you might want to read this book:

http://www.forthfreak.net/thinking-forth.pdf
Anyone can claim anything they want. I can say the topcolor of HN is "jrockway green" (because mine is green). It doesn't matter though, because nobody else has to call it that, and I can't stop anyone else from using it. (I can send you a C&D, of course, but you can just ignore it because you can't own a color.)
I have an old SGI keyboard that I'm totally partial to. The previous one died about a year ago and I searched high and low for another, finally buying a complete indy just for the keyboard.

It's heavy, sturdy and doesn't move around on the desk when I type.

You'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands if you want it though :)
This is a gem: I've read it before and I read it again.

This is what I long for: simple self-contained bootstrapping systems that can be eventually used to build anything. These days it seems that all we have is that "anything" and we'll just glue the pieces together without ever understading how everything works.

That's what got me started in computers anyway: to understand how _everything_ works.
Link to application:
http://gb.espacenet.com/search97cgi/s97_cgi.exe?action=View&...

When a house becomes unlivable, moving to a new home or nursing home can be a heartbreak; especially for an elderly person. I think it's great this device can treat that.
Adventures in brain tumors: part one of many
Belle de Jour was a computer programmer
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6917495.ece

"I did the two — computer programmer by day, prostitute by night — for three or four months."
Belle de Jour and the Impossibility of Anonymous Blogging
Forth and lisp are very closely related — conceptually, not historically.

If you wrote a lisp where evaluation went left-to-right instead of right-to-left and where the operators took fixed numbers of arguments (so you could drop the parentheses), you would have an unconventional but recognizable dialect of forth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECD_machine is an interesting example of something between lisp, forth, and traditional assembly.
Shut off the television and the IRC!

Stuff that distracts you has a much harder time of doing so when it isn't active around you when you want to focus on something else.
One of the largest FOSS events, held annually in India.
Here's an article on dopamine and information seeking - answers some of the 'why' we do this:
http://j.mp/38EhSy
Makes you think, until

you realize you don't even

have a wheelbarrow.
Eight Tips for Feeling More Energetic
Read the article again. Companies can in fact trademark a specific color and they do - T-Mobile magenta is specifically mentioned.

If T-Mobile magenta shows up in a photograph or a painting, that is, of course, not a problem, but if it shows up in another corporate logo (the article specifically mentions Engadget Mobile), T-Mobile gets to sue and wins.
Isn't the difficulty with Haskell that evaluation isn't strict? Laziness adds a lot of flexibility but there's definitely a time cost to it...
You're right. Anyway, and what I mean, is that the average of energy provided with enough wind is pretty high. The average isn't that low for the 95th percentile (and the bottleneck is still the wind)
I have mixed feelings.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184118/what-programming-b...

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1W0YZZWT53Y9M/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pe...
They're willing to pay ... all of $35 for the Leopard->Snow Leopard upgrade disks. Psystar wouldn't even shell out the full $150.
Hi, my technique to focus on learning a language is:

1.) Think of an interesting program that I would like to write.

2.) Write the program. As I write your program, I grep the documentation for stuff that I don't know. When I can't figure it out from docs, I grep the Internet.

I've never ever really been able to focus on anything that I don't find to be immediately relevant to a task that I want to accomplish. Some say this is ADD, I say it is pragmatism. Either way, I learn programming languages really well in this manner.

If you use this technique make sure that this program is something that will challenge you. Make it something in a domain that you maybe don't quite know, or at least have some interesting property other than the language.

Language is but a vessel for thought anyway, languages influence thinking, but once you know one language, you sort of know them all; (however, the really interesting languages can fundamentally change the way that you think).
Since this point keeps on being brought up, here's a concrete example: Qi.

http://www.lambdassociates.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_%28programming_language%29
I love the old clicky keyboards. The ergonomic split keyboard feels like mush and these laptop keys are too slick. I do like the latest chicklet Apple keyboards. I went in with the expectation that it would be weird and unenjoyable, but I acclimated quickly and achieved incredible typing speed.
because you forgot to encourage the next player to take their turn before the owner of the hotel asks for rent and you are playing by official rules
Atlas: Visual IDE for Cappuccino Applications
Seeing as Windows Vista already uses a giant Aqua bubble for its start menu, and 7's major change is a dock, it's fairly hard to deny.
Comparing Non-Relational Databases: CouchDB, MongoDB, Tokyo Tyrant
Loading Enterprise Library validation rules from external file
BHIP Global - Mr. Mario  Šaić
Maybe you are reading too much. Start coding asap - most tutorials do have examples in every chapter, don't they? Python has a REPL, so just play around with it while reading.

Maybe you can even think of small useful tools to program, that are possible to do without knowing all the ins and outs of Python.
You could shorten this to 'regexs are for strings, xml is tree shaped'.

This is the reason etree is now a standard type in Python.
Somewhat related (though not directly related to your problem): Flux ( http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/ )

It changes the color temperature of your display. By reducing the amount of blue in the evening, the idea is that you can fall asleep easier and not tire your eyes out late at night. It's done purely by timezone/time of day (no sensors taken into account), but it works well enough for me. I don't know if I fall asleep any faster, but my eyes are certainly happier when browsing late at night.

Note: The windows version is far more customizable than the mac version. I also haven't tried the linux one.
Sueing your customers and potential customers in proportion to their devotion will never be clever and only sustainable by virtue of abhorrent damages and societal control.

How about introducing a blackmailers charter for music fans ? Or just F shoot them ? Federal PYITA Jail ? Racial profiling. Prohibition.

I listen to more music than I own. Copying is now free. Humanity is universally enriched. Make money from a joyful future.
Make it free for users and work out how to monetize the aggregate data (sell it to Google?) somehow
I thought type safety in Haskell is a compile time thing? Where are the runtime costs?

Then I thought that non-strictness (!), non-mutability of data and referential transparency offer all kinds of possibilities for optimizations done by the compiler?

But maybe the 'interesting research' done in the Haskell community is more into fancy type system features that get the author a PhD and not so much into compiler optimizations?
If T-Mobile can trademark Magenta in the mobile space, I would like to trademark vowels. In fact, my new startup, AEIOU(Y), works in the audio-engineering space, so would all actors, TV producers, musicians, and everyone else who records sound, please refrain from using vowels. We don't want our customers to confuse us with your recordings.

Being serious, I understand the need to protect your brand from people who would capitalize on the trust and recognition the brand has built. From what I understand, with trademark law definitions are often based on a 'reasonable person's' potential deception (eg. would a reasonable person mistake your generic kleenex for brand name Kleenex?). All other things held constant, it would appear that the mental capacity of a reasonable person has declined.
for anyone interested in getting the best keyboard possible, check http//:geekhack.org. Nowhere on the net will you find more keyboard knowledge.

I have + ~5 keyboards. Using a kinesis contour now.
My "eye strain" usually consists of me wearing contacts for too long. Especially in front of a computer screen, they dry up a bit and irritate my eyes. Wearing glasses when the eyes get irritated is the best solution here!
Many of these are "think outside the box" type problems. For example, the one about the lightbulbs makes you think that the only information you get is binary - on or off. There are 4 possibilities - 0,1,2,3 on (position doesn't matter) but 6 configurations (123,132,213,231,312,321) making the problem impossible. The actual solution is to turn 1 on, turn a second on but turn it off just before you open the box, and leave a third off. Then it's a simple matter of checking which one's on, which one's hot and which one's off.
The kensington slim type is the best kb I ever had out of my 18 yrs or so of computer usage. It's tactical feel best even the Lenovo laptop keypad. It is one of few kbs that has 4.5 stars rating from 100+ users on amazon. It's also one of few kbs that is not a mile wide. I just wish they just drop the numpad all together, or at least make a version that did.

My only quest in finding a better kb is to find a relatively good kb that doesn't have the numpad (I dislike extra travel space to the mouse).

I don't think there are any good kb for < $60 that drops the numpad. I had some el cheapos from Fry's that didn't have the numpad, but they aren't as good and the key placements are not the normal settings. The apple kb is no where near as good as the slim type for me, and it doesn't have delete key and it's well over $60. The only ones I know are ones like logitech makes that comes with kb and numpad separated, but they are close to or over $100.
Practice things that require long-focus in all parts of your life. Read books instead of watching TV. Cook instead of eating out or warming up prefab.

If you have to read an article, before you start reading, remind yourself that you tend to drift away, so set a goal on how much to read before you allow yourself to take a pause.

This works well for me. It just takes a few days and I have stopped reaching for quick information kicks.
A Price for the Thrill of the Auction
Thanks for the reply.

I understand your point about the background of the website. However, in this case I thought it was a fairly well known story, and there are quite a number of other accounts.

eg: ""At times, they acted like amateurs," Dani said, listing some ways the Serbs managed to breach NATO communications security, including eavesdropping on pilots' conversations with AWACS surveillance planes.

"I personally listened to their pilots' conversations, learning about their routes and bombing plans," Dani said."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-10-26-serbSerbian-st...

And:

"A network of spies and observers would report F-117A takeoffs from Italy’s Aviano Air Base. Coupling this intelligence with tweaked radars, the Serbians fired several surface-to-air missiles almost blindly, hoping for a hit."

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/04/airforce_nighthawk...

I thought that it was shot down by SAM missiles was generally accepted. The NATO spy part was more interesting, because there was reasonable support for the Serbs within some parts of NATO, so that isn't out of the question.

The "people listening for aircraft" theory makes a lot of sense, too, though - it's easy, and it's been proven to work before.

(Also, Zoltan is a reasonably common Hungarian name: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=name+Zoltan or http://nameberry.com/babyname/Zoltan - as you are no doubt aware, Hungarian names are quite common is some parts of the former Yugoslavia, and Zoltan Danni is of Hungarian decent)
The definition of what a reasonable person is, seems somewhat variable. The law holds that a reasonable person is too stupid to see the difference between a T-Mobile logo done up in magenta and an Engadget one but at the same time is smart enough, apparently, to reason that Tesco's "Lincolnshire sausages" are merely made in "typical Lincolnshire fashion" (whatever that means) using pork sourced from the Netherlands, Germany and Poland.
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Do not read documentation before you begin to code. Start some project first. Then if you stuck up - google and read. It will save your time, increase level of learning, because practice is the best teacher.

Launch fast and evolve - this is the mantra of this site. =)