• Advanced NFL Stats: The 4th Down Study - Part 1
• Getting Started | HTML Dog
  html dog is a better html tutorial than w3schools, will recommend this to people in the future
• 7.2. Finding the path of currently executing script - Dive into python
  When running Python scripts from the command line, it is sometimes useful to know where the currently running script is located on disk. This is one of those obscure little tricks that is virtually impossible to figure out on your own, but simple to remember once you see it.
• unix - In the bash shell, what is " 2>&1 "? - Stack Overflow

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• Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS

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• How to ace the world’s toughest interviews | I Will Teach You To Be Rich
• Animal toy - Google Patent Search
  guy patents a stick of wood
• Brown and Cornell are Second Tier - Percolator - The Chronicle of Higher Education
  don’t show up with a diploma from Dartmouth or MIT. No one cares about those places. 2. Don’t work your rear off for a 4.0. Better to graduate with 3.7 and a bunch of really awesome extracurriculars. And by “really awesome” I mean literally climbing Everest or winning an Olympic medal. Playing intramurals doesn’t cut it. That’s the upshot of an enlightening/depressing study about the ridiculously narrow-minded people who make hiring decisions at the aforementioned elite companies.
• McSweeney's Settlers of Catanlifornia.
• Smarter web hosting - WebFaction
  will switch soon.
• Fabric — Fabric v0.9.3 documentation
  Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

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• Hacker News | Career advice
  "big advancement only comes from big lateral jumps. Different companies, different projects, different markets, or different customers." "what usually happens is that you join an organization because you meet some minimum skill baseline that they're looking for. And then as you practice and learn from the people around you, you end up picking up a bunch of other skills and getting better at your job. But the people around you generally won't notice. First impressions usually pigeonhole you into a general category, and then people are blind to gradual changes." "So to reap the rewards of everything you've learned, you have to expose yourself to new people."
• Wired 13.01: Instant Detox
  from 2005, but guy claims he can help you kick your heroin addiction in an hour. would like to see academic studies on this topic
• Aftershocks: Welcome to Haiti's Reconstruction Hell
  fucking terrible.
• Only 8 Percent of Internet Users Now Account for 85 Percent of all Clicks

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• Secret businesses aimed to exploit vaccine fears, British ...
• Threats to Lawmakers Rarely Lead to Charges - NYTimes.com
  As the F.B.I. investigates the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, a review of hundreds of cases involving threats to lawmakers from 2000 to 2009 demonstrates just how hard it is to discern the real threats from mere bluster.
• Sign languange version of Cee-Lo's "Fuck You"
• 241543903 - Google Search
  (tags: humor)
• On packaging
  use pip instead of easy_install, no eggs
  (tags: python)

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• 50 Cent tweets, tiny stock soars
• The Great Courses
  they film lectures from great teachers around the world. any chance i can get these on netflix?
• The Unsolved Mystery of the Notorious B.I.G. | Rolling Stone Music
  crooked dealings at the LAPD
• what is it like to be a hot girl? - reddit
  you have a skewed perception of the world and won't notice it

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• Internet start-ups: Another bubble? | The Economist
• Results of a 1995 study into cocaine use that was quashed by the USA
  The conclusions strongly conflicted with accepted paradigms, for example "that occasional cocaine use does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems ... a minority of people start using cocaine or related products, use casually for a short or long period, and suffer little or no negative consequences, even after years of use. ... Use of coca leaves appears to have no negative health effects and has positive, therapeutic, sacred and social functions for indigenous Andean populations."
• An anarchist history of the state (or the one book you should read this year) – Chris Blattman
  The link from ancient hill tribes to modern-day development is this: many of the poor who states and institutions aim to develop (notice I did not say “help develop”) exist in spaces and cultures perceived as primitive and waiting for advancement into something more modern. But many of these cultures and peoples formed and exist largely in opposition to states.

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• Get the Energy Sector off the Dole - Jeffrey Leonard
  Government statistics show that about 70 percent of all federal energy subsidies goes toward oil, natural gas, and coal. Fifteen percent goes to ethanol, the only renewable source of energy that consistently gets bipartisan support in Congress (think farm lobby and Iowa). Large hydro-power companies—TVA, Bonneville Power, and others—soak up another 10 percent. That leaves the greenest renewables—wind, solar, and geothermal—to subsist on the crumbs that are left.
• Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving - Magazine - The Atlantic
• The Services Used By Y Combinator Startups [Infographic] - ReadWriteCloud
• Picking Investments: Only Two Things Matter
• Immannuel Kant on Betting and Prediction Markets (short)

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• Unbeaten Ohio State Buckeyes are foul-phobic by design - Luke Winn - SI.com
  Lighty, who has fouled out just twice in his college career, now commits bad fouls so infrequently that he can remember each one. He described his worst of the year -- a play in the first half against South Carolina on Dec. 18, where he correctly identified what the Gamecocks were running from the scouting report ("I knew it, and I even called it out," he said) but failed to get in proper position to chase his man off a baseline double-screen. The ref caught Lighty trying a quick grab-move to keep pace. He was forced to watch it again on tape because Ohio State, as a policy, has its players review every foul they've committed.
• Retracted autism study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds - CNN.com
  investigation finds vaccine study's author altered medical histories of all 12 of the patients in the original study. meanwhile, the non-vaccination rate in marin county is 7%

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• Fact and folklore in software engineering
  10x programming ability may be a myth, in the industry at least. My first reaction is "then why is everyone so desperate to hire?" Maybe a smaller group of developers that are well rounded.
• Be Very Afraid « Cheap Talk
  The airline would like to achieve the efficient allocation without leaving you this consumer’s surplus.  That is impossible in a spot-auction because the airline can never know exactly how much you are willing to pay and charge you that. But a hybrid pricing mechanism can implement the efficient allocation and capture all the surplus it generates.  And this hybrid pricing mechanism entails overbooking followed by a departure-day auction to sell back excess tickets.

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