skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's referencing this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059075

And yeah, it was a great choice.
You clearly don't have any idea how django template engine works lol. How can someone even compare this with django, beats me. But Hey, whatever works for you.
Happens here in USA all the time.

For right-wing distortion of reality: Fox News

For Left-wing distortion of reality: MSNBC

CNN is a twitter feed. CNN is about news the same way MTV is about music (which is very little, if at all)

Its not news, its a fucking drama.

Thankfully I disconnected my cable TV service since last election.
You can easily get overwhelmed even if you stick to a few genres or platforms. I own Fallout 3, Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2, and I am pretty confident that I will not come close to fully exploring them before the next great RPG is released.
This is marketing trash. Life is too short, don't watch.
Agreed with yummyfajitas: anyone who expects that the promises of financial instruments between belligerents will be honored in the case of war is delusional.
One obvious difference is that in the military, there is only one career advancement path, where each level trains you in the skill-set needed for the next.

In software development, being a good programmer doesn't make you a good project manager, which in turn doesn't make you a good middle manager, which in turn doesn't make you good at making the business decisions of the management group.
i've probably not had cable more then i have for most of my adult life. I've gone years without watching TV in my house but in recent years with the advent of hulu and other online streaming services, there really no need to pay comcast (or whomever) $100+ a month for something you can get for the cost of an internet connection.
I liked the way the first page looks prior to the modification. The second and third pages just needed some layout work on the fields.
I wish I could give up web surfing for a year.
Don't worry about it. Your feedback is perfect. The fact you're thinking about these types of things is a really good thing.

A few other folks have mentioned editing right on the timeline too. My question in response is: how often are you going to be editing an event? If the answer is not often, I think that the clutter that will result from integrating it directly into the timeline will outweigh the benefits from being able to edit it a bit quicker. That being said, it may be possible to do it in a clean, simple way that doesn't confuse people.

API -- in the future, definitely.
Wow that sums it up for me!

Now, if you are a parent and want to HELP your kid with his passion...take 'em to the library, take 'em to the places where they can delve deeper.

My dad took me to the library on weekends so I could check out programming books in middle school.
He also talks about the upcoming changes in Subversion, such as Working Copy Next Generation (WC-NG), which he believes will cause a number of Git users to convert back to Subversion.

If I've already left for git (or other dvcs) why would I come back just for "working copy"? I moved on from Subversion for much more than that...
Fair enough. Maybe I was harsh. I just hate the implication that TV is for dumb idiots.

I would say if we took the content on the web, and compared it with the content on TV, the web would not come out of the comparison well at all.

And yes, if you're interested in politics,news,world issues,etc Question Time is good.

There's 100s of other TV shows that are of fantastic quality and well worth watching. QI springs to mind for example (Stephen Fry).
The trick my parents played on me was "Your uncle was so good at this at your age..." First they taught me to look up to my uncle and I still do. He's an amazing man and I can't write enough about how persistent, hardworking, and optimistic he is. So as a kid, anytime my parents wanted me to do something, they would mention how my uncle could do so much at my age (and it was always true). Instant motivation! Real-life role models are inspiring. Celebrity role models end up in the news embarrassing everyone.

My parents rarely used themselves in the role-model position because if I was mad at them, I would do the opposite. But I can never be mad at my uncle. He's awesome. One of the things they said was that my uncle could use the calculator without looking at the keys. I didn't believe it till I saw it in person. Give him a long ledger and he could add/subtract 50 rows of currency amounts without even looking at the calculator and come up with the right total time after time. I didn't feel like I had to be that good at a calculator because I had a computer. But within 6 months I could type without looking at the keyboard. Inspiration works.
Agreed. It's probably more accurate to say "I've given up just watching anything, and now choose to watch only the TV programs that interest/entertain me".

Which is what a large amount of people already do, who own a TV.

So the fact you own/don't own a TV is irrelevant. You've changed your behavior from 'watch whatever is on', to 'watch things I want to watch'.
No surprise considering that they're a business, not a charity.
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Incentives don't work.

Given the choice of doing exactly the same work for company A that believes that and company B that pays bonuses anyway, what sane person wouldn't go for B? That's not puzzling at all.
I don't agree that China is hurting the global economy in fact I think they are making the west richer by stealing from their own people. You can morally object to that, but whenever a country subsidizes exports they are improving the lot of foreigners at the expense of their own citizens.
I'm at 6 years now. I spend much more time doing (fun and creative) things with my son and when he's asleep - I have more time to work on side projects.

I do consume some TV though but through the BBC iPlayer which we get in the UK. its a flash based player available on the web, but as I have to access through my Mac - I normally end up getting distracted and just browsing the web instead.
There are many situations where branches are the standard, conventional way of doings things: release managements, legacy development. Making branch hard does not make much sense - svn (with maybe cvs) are the only systems which make branch almost unusable. Every other system (including proprietary, non distributed ones) handle branch correctly.

Git made popular the use of branches for almost everything, but branches have been used way before DVCS became popular. It just happened to be that besides cvs/svn, all the non peculiar open source systems are DVCS, but working merge caps and branch managements are not specific to DVCS (but DVCS would be unusable without it).
Looks awesome! I need to be able to zoom in/out though. It would make for awesome Gantt charts.
Yes, but going from one HLL to another is much harder than going from a HLL to machine code.

Not that I regard PHP a particularly HL language
cool. i'm really digging this tool.

more usability requests:

* automatic scale adjustment, or at least continuous or more fine grained scale adjustment. i'd like to see all events at once...somewhere between years and decades.

* reordering of events, or automatically ordering based on start times. this only matters when i view a large time scale and the titles don't fit on the bars, thus the events from a single layer cause the events to be laid out on different rows. i suppose abbreviating the titles so they do fit in the bars would be another solution.
Is it just me or does it bother anyone else when libraries are referred to as frameworks?

http://hluujavablog.blogspot.com/2005/01/framework-vs-librar...
I've been looking for a timeline app over the last few days, but something with an API.
No different from the iPhone--the original does quite a bit less (GPS/Compass/3G/etc) with a much slower chip. Do consumers typically keep smartphones in use for five years? That sounds astoundingly long. Considering all the complaints over early termination fees, I doubt the average length is much longer than two years.
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It also bears emphasizing that he was a theoretician, not an experimentalist. He made his name in 1905 explaining phenomena that no one else had been able to (or doing a lot better job of it). To do this you need familiarity with the field and time to think and so on.
This looks great. I can see this being used as a new resume format.
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The group of technological innovations that made Windows 3.0 vastly superior to OS/2 did bubble from the bottom. The Microsoft management was focusing on OS/2 at that time. http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2005/02/02/36563...
TV is a distribution channel funded by advertisers - when you're making a show for TV, your economic reality is that you survive by proving that you're delivering eyeballs to advertisers. When you create content for iTunes, the economic reality is that you're creating content that people explicitly choose to buy. I would imagine that this will lead to "better" content on the whole.
Definitely a cool little webapp, and I can see it being more popular as an embeddable widget.

Head scratcher how to monetize, because I don't see your website being a hangout so you can't go with ad supported, and I don't know if it is useful enough to pay for.

You could sell it to evite, meetup etc. maybe.
Or some type of project planning community for Gantt charts.
true, but what happened to me was that i was off by a bit on my times and i wanted to change that.... and then i had to change all four events. what if i wanted to go back and change colors for everything. you know, being a nerd i want everything to be exact and meaningful ;-) it's not a big deal, but you do want to reduce activation energy as much as possible for your users.

also, i wanted to see the times of events already up there to help me enter new event times.

i only know this is important because i went from using project management tools like xplanner
http://www.xplanner.org/
to pivotal tracker
pivotaltracker.com/
i had to use the xplanner, etc tools for a few months to realize how much they sucked. i immediately loved pivotal tracker, wrote rave reviews, and recommended it to all my friends (i even got my sister using it for thesis writing, which isn't a dev project management use at all). one big win for PT is putting the view and editing all on a single page. i didn't realize how great that was until i used it. might not be right for you, and you definitely have to work out how to make it not confusing.
I wonder why YUI is so popular is Indonesia.
> How long do you think Taiwan is going to last as an
autonomous entity, now that it can no longer rely on the
US for military support, because the US is in hock to the
PRC?

I spent last month in Taiwan and asked this and similar questions to lots of smart Taiwanese people I know.

The answer is complicated. There's a few points.

1. Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan in the first place because of the mountainous terrain. You'd take catastrophic losses attacking the place. This is the same reason Switzerland was able to stay neutral during all the various European wars over the last several centuries.

2. Some of the people of Taiwan want to have closer relations with China, open borders, and what not, but they'll almost certainly never be fully annexed into China. Population of China is 1.3 billion. Population of Taiwan ~23 million. So if they came to terms somehow, Taiwan would almost certainly keep their own local government control of the Formosa island, their own currency, and most likely their own separate military force.

3. Due to population differences, in anything resembling a democracy, Taiwan would have very little say over all of combined China's affairs, and combined China would have quite a lot of say over Taiwan's affairs. Thus, it probably won't happen any time soon, but more open borders and friendlier relations is likely.
Hey, good questions:

- You might not be interested in making an biographical timeline for yourself, but consider making for your father or grandfather. If you're like me, you probably don't have a good idea of what they were doing and where they were when they were young. With these timelines, you can get a much better idea of how the events in their lives ultimately led to you.

- And that's just biographical timelines. I'd like to see someone do a Y Combinator timeline, where companies are along the side and the spans of time represent their existence. It's very flexible and I think there's dozens of use cases.

- The level of detail depends on what you want to discover.

- Visualizing time is very hard. For example, imagine a timeline of World War II. There were a lot of moving pieces and simply by reading a block of text, it's not easy to get a feel for how they all relate to each other in time. Timelines, and especially these timelines, make it much easier. My hope is that people will build and discover timelines that make them go "Ah, I get it now."
You've got just under one month (and the shortest month of the year at that); Final Fantasy 13 comes out on March 9th. That's a lot to get through.

(Yes, FF may not be to $COMMENT_READER's personal taste, but you know what I mean.)
> Not being a graphic designer, I can't explain why the site doesn't say to me, "company that's established enough to trust with my data," but...

I kinda get that feeling too. Maybe use more blue text/background instead of red (blue is a more corporate colour), and make the site look a bit more busy -- it looks kinda simple at the moment which I guess appeals more to techies than corporate types. Disclaimer: IANA graphic designer either.
heres my take: we have millions of people connected to the net. id like to meet new people of similar interests. we should be able to connect them instantly, pushing new people to them. ie- id like to meet new entrepreneurs. introduce me to one new entrepreneur a day.
True, but if you were also trying to play Left 4 Dead 2, Modern Warfare 2 and Bioshock 2 you would be in a worse spot.

Even if you just focused on a single game like World of Warcraft, there is enough content and stuff to do that you would probably use up all your leisure time.

I have a monstrous backlog of games I feel I should play, sitting right next to the pile of books I should read and movies I should watch. Sadly, I have accepted the fact that I will never be able to get through them all.
Imagine a timeline for every major event that ever happened in the history of the universe. I wonder if that would be valuable? :)
Its essentially omegle 2.0

Its definitely a fun site in the way many sites are 'fun' - However, like 4chan- Turning it into a business is not going to be straight forward as due to the extreme content your only real option is to sell direct ads to the likes of fleshlight and livejasmin.

Im sure there is some options they can explore via filtering ie- " I am a xxx looking to meet with a yyyy near location zzzzz "
I am screwed.
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Your last example is exactly the type of thing that should be on your front page (see the end of my third question above). If you're trying to show how the service would be useful, present a time-line of something that would be difficult to understand or appreciate if presented another way. Most people (I assume) are pretty intimately familiar with their personal time-line.
I've always thought of it in terms of a compass: north east south west.
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The criticism against the commitments isn't entirely fair. They are just guidelines. I found myself suddenly thrown into an entirely different product and doing entirely different things from what I expected, and when I returned to my commitments I realized I didn't meet many of them. My manager still gave me an "exceed" because he was still able to see that I performed and contributed well to my team and MS.

And as for reporting to many people, I didn't experience that either. I had one manager, and was 6 away from Ballmer. My manager, skip level, and skip skip level were all in the same hallway as me and very accessible. My manager truly worked his butt off to ensure his employees were happy and headed where they wanted to head in their MS career (at least, as much as his power let him).
i wanted to see the times of events already up there to help me enter new event times.

I want the same thing. I was waiting for someone else to validate it. Thank you.

I'm not sure if its a good or a bad thing, but I haven't played with any other timeline software yet. I'll check those out, note the strengths, and go from there. Appreciate it.
i don't know...i just entered my own and....it's strangely fun to look at. once.

unless you could automatically gather this information from facebook? that'd be sweet.

i do think the biggest add is the framework, both embeddable (after creation through a choice of gui and api) and as a js library. i think you'll be hard pressed for folks to pay for this, but you can likely cover costs by asking for donations. this looks more to me like something that you'll eventually open source and use as mad cred on your resume. i'm already thinking, hey this guy/gal is cool. what's he going to work on next? maybe it'd be fun to work together.

then again, what do i, a developer, know about business. maybe you can charge for the embed stuff, especially the non-dev create pathway. developers are just not likely to pay for this....unless there was a super awesome premium ui capable or automatic detection<---but see i'd rather use your api with my own auto detection. would love to do a beta with you.
That is the inherit 'problem' with javascript/jQuery having such a low barrier to entry. Anyone can copy and past a couple of lines of javascript and before you know it they are a 'freelance jQuery expert'. Don't get me wrong its amazing the power jQuery has for something that is so 'simple'
But he did lots of his major work before he got his PhD.
It is pretty hard to focus on a single game or genre though. There are days when you just feel like playing something else.
That's a great idea. How do you overcome the social anxiety of getting dropped into a series of essentially on-the-spot interviews? I bet anonymity plays a huge factor in the popularity of the site, but that can't work (at least not in the same way) for what you're talking about.

I wonder if there is a way around that.
"I want 1 codebase, developed linearly."

Then, when you want to commit your branch, rebase the branch from your master before merging. Then, when you merge, the patches will show up all in a row at the point you commit, as if they were all done in a row. Essentially, this is exactly what happens when you are working with subversion for a couple of days and then do several commits at the end.

Except you can trivially have multiple of these things going at a time.

I'm going to ask you a question: Have you actually tried git or anything for a significant period of time, like, at least a couple weeks? (Not just "yeah, 5 minutes.") If not, I'd point out that you're speculating about how git might affect workflow to people who actually know how git affects workflow, since they are living it. (And if so, you're not doing a great job of showing that you tried it.)
API down the road for sure.
Eventually the dates will be dynamic, so you can base the start of one event on the start or end of another event, which opens up a lot of possibilities.
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The thing that struck me about yesterday's interview with PG on Mixergy, was how central to YC's process you are Jessica. I've really enjoyed reading Founders at work, and I'm looking forward to reading the second edition.

I'd be really interested in hearing your take on what qualities you find make for a good founder/co founder.
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I can. Can anyone name all the others that weren't?
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This is why I'm still playing Civ IV from 2006 as my video game entertainment...
I suspect that China currency manipulation has reduced global economic efficiency. It's mostly second order effects ex: Cheap Chinese exports still require the same raw materials which drives up global commodities prices.

Now if China was growing faster than other nations have when they transitioned to "modern" economy's that would be one thing. But South Korea experienced similar growth rates when they where developing and the "end state" for China is an economy that looks like US/Germany/Japan etc. So IMO, discounting their goods is keeping their population poorer for longer and harming the world economy at the same time.
Not only did the author opt-in, there's also a way to opt-out. There's a big X next to the location on the compose form. Clicking the X removes the location.
Someone else recommended a "fit" zoom level, which would place them all on your screen at once at just the right resolution. I think it's a good idea too.

Reordering events so that you can change the order they are rendered might be possible. Again, I worry about feature creep, since I don't know if this is something that will matter to a lot of people.
easiest to implement perhaps?
Yeah -- I imagine you'd have to be REAL careful about that, though. Many of the types of people you refer to would LOVE to claim to be looking for [non-sexual activity] just for a chance to flash something offensive.
I'm waiting for someone to build it so I can feature it on the front page. In time...
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The big advantage of branches is to allow to break your commits into smaller things. When working on two new features which takes many commits, if you work on the same branch, the history becomes inter winded, and that's a nightmare to understand if you need to go back (or find regression). With branches that are pulled into a public reference branch, you are guaranteed to get a workable, coherent and consistent state. Without branches, what happens is either broken trunk or giant commits, both often worse than the (real) complexity brought by branch.

The fact that DVCS allows for less rigid management alo explains why DVCS became popular so quickly in open source, I think (where the kind of collaboration managements you suggest does not scale very well).
I don't know about Wal-Mart (but I'd expect their management structure to be lean in the Sam Walton era), but the DoD in the Vietnam period was where I first heard of this principle. And the US Army certainly didn't go a good job of carrying out their mission then (the US Navy hasn't been put to the test since WWII ... and one might say they haven't been doing a bang up job of policing the sea lanes as of late (South China Sea, off the Horn of Africa)).

I don't think most companies are different, at least when it comes to the non-rote stuff. I.e. in a fast food restaurant the people are the bottom are supposed to be following a "book".

With the exception of navies, I don't think that works in warfare (I make this exception since most of the lower people have clear missions like "keep the ship afloat" and "fire this gun"; that doesn't work for infantry, armor or tactical air (might work in part for artillery)).

It most certainly applies for software firms, e.g. the IBM Chief Programmer Team concept has been shown not to work in practice.
It's also that many anti-TVers are simply anti-TV-ad-ers, though they don't explicitly state so. Most alternate sources of TV content have fewer ads (at least, of the kind that interject into the content) than TV. Beyond that, about the only thing you can complain about is the timing of what's available / what will fit on your DVR, where you can stream from Hulu or expand your computer's HD space as needed.
Chatroulette and Omegle are more about a new "feature" than the sites themself.

That feature of course being, impromptu and anonymous introductions.
That was a while ago.
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