skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously?

I think we're the one's making out on this deal. I get a lot of value out of these interviews and I know a lot of others do too. I want him to have access to more entrepreneurs and investors so I can learn something from them, and I'm glad he's getting sponsorships because it's deserved.

And while it might be free in monetary value, it's obvious that Andrew put a lot of time and effort into not only the interviews but also in being a good member of this community. The most valuable resource we have is time.

I hope that's a joke, and you probably expected the downvotes, but come on...
The art I taught / studied worked in all the major areas, striking, wrestling / judo, ground, etc. What I found is there is an exchange rate between skill and physical ability, and the rate is different for each major skill.

Imagine one smaller person, and one larger person. How much more skill does the smaller person need to defeat the larger person, in a striking art? How much more skill does the smaller person need in wrestling? In general, wrestling and ground have a more expensive exchange rate, because size and strength are larger factors.

You can defeat larger people, you'll just need to be more skilled.
Thank you, Andrew.

The interviews are inspiring but I have to say I'm inspired most seeing the work you put into Mixergy. You could slack and maybe not do an interview everyday but you do it because that's what you want Mixergy to be.

That's what I find inspiring and I can't tell you how helpful it is in keeping me on track.
The Deutsche Post is just about to introduce email that's guaranteed to reach the addressee. https://www.onlinebrief.de/ That would invite everyone to use e-mail rather than snail, except for the (iirc) ¢20 price tag per mail.
Flickr Co-founder’s Startup Hunch Raises $10 Million
My feelings exactly. I am quite surprised that Kurzweil misses that. After watching the film, I thought the Na'vi had pretty much mastered the whole "hooking everything to the Internet" thing.

Kurzweil sounds like a child, angry because Cameron didn't let the humans have that advanced technology.

In fact, it's rather Kurzweil who fails to see "beyond" today's technology, and envision a world where technology doesn't look like it does today, but is fused with nature.

And Cameron didn't show that nature can be brutal? Dude, it was full of monsters. The Na'vi could be brutal.

It was a badly written review, and Kurzweil didn't seem to grasp the film at all. He also seems to have a personal grudge with nature. Not cool.
> Does this mean we should be giving ourselves sugar every time we want to exert some self-control? Clearly, that would be a short-sighted strategy.

Maybe if you're only concerned with use of willpower to limit caloric intake. Otherwise, it sounds like an awesome strategy.

And where's the evidence that willpower is trainable as promised in the intro? I already knew that making choices at all (let alone difficult ones) depletes resources in my body and temporarily dulls my physical and mental capacities. I'd like some science that suggests how, and how much, I can expand my battery or lower the rate at which making decisions depletes it.
I'd recommend you talk to a lawyer that is familiar with employment contract law in your area. My experience has been that companies will put unenforcable restrictions in contracts because they know 99% of people will never check if the restriction can be enforced. It doesn't cost the company anything to add the clause but they benifit from it anyway.
Axod stole my comment regarding actionable advice. Mixergy interviews are some of the best gold-to-chaff ratios of any of my routine sources of information.
Luckily it's one of the ones that doesn't affect readability too much.

This may just be me, but the your/you're thing trips me up like crazy. I usually have to re-read the sentence 2 or 3 times.
The characters were more filled out in the original, even longer, screenplay
http://chud.com/articles/articles/21969/1/PROJECT-880-THE-AV...
I used a password manager, and I have a different password for every single service that I'm signed onto.

If you're using similar passwords for all the services you're signed onto, it's pure hypocrisy to turn around and criticise Rackspace for "poor security". The single point of failure is you.
Since this is a love-fest, I thought I would thank you for your comments. When I've finished browsing HN posts and want more, I check your profile to see if I've missed any of your comments.
Well, using URL shorteners to submit links to news aggregators is dumb, I agree. But I use URL shorteners to send friends/family to links and that's really the point of rddd.it.

I'm not saying use rddd.it ON reddit. I'm a little confused where that assumption was made.
I guess that's social proof at work. I've also noticed I get a lot less hassle about my hourly rate with potential customers when I tell them up front that I'm already pretty booked up and can't promise when I'll be able to fit them in. This is almost always true anyway these days so at least I don't have to lie about it.

I suppose this could be interpreted as a variant of "playing hard to get".
Great link (though it should come with a procrastination warning...) I've just spent over an hour browsing through it. It's definitely a different perspective.
let's do it next week - thursday?
Insisting Google obey the law when there is no rule of law is a little funny. No one else is required to obey the law unless it serves the party.
I wonder why you call it "$45k free yearly income", since you would have pissed 20 years of your life away. Not exactly "free".
I may be way off base, but the cynic in me sees your post as related to the recent changes you made with Mixergy.

I really liked Mixergy. I turned lots of people onto it. When you decided (almost out of the blue) to turn it into a strictly money making venture for yourself I felt burned. I thought you were following in the footsteps of Charlie Rose's interviews, Paul Graham's essays, or one of the dozens of great Podcasts that exist. Something fairly altruistic that may generate money for you, but not as its primary goal.

It turns out you were really just building an audience so eventually you could upsell us into into some kind of self-help guru educational pay site. Not that there's anything wrong with a site like that, but it's not the kind of site I would ever use, and certainly not something I would ever actively promote.

I think there were a dozen ways you could have made significant money off Mixergy that wouldn't have felt like bait-n-switch. Instead you took the easiest and lamest possible option. I don't visit Mixergy any longer and I don't promote it anymore.

For your sake I hope you're really successful with the path you're taking. For mine I hope someone moves in to take the role I thought you were filling: The Charlie Rose of the startup world -- not the Tony Robins.
Seneca was a Stoic.

But being a Stoic has little to do with the standard cliche of suppressing your emotions.

It is a philosophy that emphasises a rational response to nature, your own and that of the universe. "Follow nature" is a common Stoic saying - unconditionally accept that which is the case and do not disturb yourself with emotional upheavals about that which one can do nothing.

The French philosopher Pierre Hadot summarised the four features that constitute the universal Stoic attitude in his book "Philosophy as a way of life".

These are:

- We are part of of a Cosmic Whole, made up of the totality of the universe and the totality of all human beings

- There is nothing evil in nature. The only evil is moral evil in humans. Realising this makes a person serene and free, the only thing that counts is the purity of your own conscience.

- The belief in the absolute value of the human person

- The concentration on the present moment through training and spiritual exercises. Through the present moment we have access to the entire cosmos.

Much of modern cognitive psychology owes it roots to the work of the Stoic philosopher Epictitus. Much of our beliefs about human rights, the basic ethical doctrines of Christianity and our notions of healthy psychological self sufficiency all come from the Stoics.

And yes, I am a fan :)
I mostly agree with parent, but the divorce between AI and ML might only be temporary, and the deep learning branch of ML is targeting more general AI than just fitting linear models, c.f. for instance for a high level overview:

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/pointeurs/TR1312.pdf
Godaddy was raked over the coals in these pages a month or two ago over the same issue.
> then we discover yet another subatomic particle

I guess that is a general principle: Just look at the thing (= what you have/what we know so far), then zoom in, ask: "Why is it that this is how it is?"

I guess you can do that on and for just anything we know, therefore we won't ever have a complete picture.
You're probably talking about Njal's Saga. There is a feud that degenerates into exactly that--but it is also clear if you read the story that this is not the normal way disputes get settled. We got a saga out of it precisely because the standard process broke down in spectacular fashion.

You should be able to find a copy of Njal's Saga pretty easily. I recommend reading it for yourself--even apart from the historical/political value, it's just a good story.
Ironically, I was just now on the phone on-hold with Rackspace waiting to activate my account, when I tabbed over to HN to see this post at the #1 spot. I tipped off the customer rep that they might want to come on over to HN and reply. Looking forward to seeing how they officially respond...
I met Ryan in my freshman year almost five years ago. He's always been very helpful to RTP area startups and contributes a lot to the startup scene here. The meetups at his house draw a quality crowd of smart college folks, investors and hackers!
Managing a startup, it's hard to stay motivated 100% of the time. There are hacks for this, such as visualising success (both professionally and personally), or planning to meet your friends one evening to relax, or re-enforcing financial pressure by checking your bank statements.

Another one is to listen to an episode of Mixergy. The interviews are the ideal compromise between high level strategic questions and the grass roots stuff, such as what were the scaling problems, how was a given process managed, what was the advantage of doing X over Y.

I'll be writing in future about how to 'cook your own MBA' - Mixergy will certainly be a key ingredient.

Good work Andrew.
It was because of the poor font support in LaTeX that I gave up trying to use it many years back.

[And without fail, every time I make this claim, I get piled on by LaTeX die-hards -- please don't bother. It's a total PITA to get the fonts of your choice working properly in LaTeX. It SHOULD be as easy as referencing a font file or dropping a font in a directory, but it's not.]

XeTeX looks awesome. Finally, full, easy, natural OTF support through Freetype. Even AAT support on a Mac! Looks like I'm jumping back into the world of TeX.
I'd agree if it were still the mid 90s but it's 2010 — Apple Computer Inc are now Apple Inc, a major OS X release has been stunted by a phone and an update of their laptops has been pushed aside for the release of a tablet. Apple are a hardware vendor but I don't think their users focus on computers anymore, hence nor do they.
I was actually wondering that today with Lead Nuke: http://www.leadnuke.com/signup

Their free and $10/mo plans both include "standard security." The $30/mo plan includes "Enhanced (SSL) security."

Specifically I was wondering if the cost of an SSL certificate that browsers like was what influenced not including it in the lower level paid plan ($10/mo) or whether it was more to make the $30 plan more attractive. Or something else.
It was a private school.

My point is simply that someone at the school decided, apparently, that these books were in some way bad for he kids. They weren't being exposed to great and sometimes important literature.

I find it disgusting that anyone could try to "ban" those books and still call themselves educators.... (and yes if a school canteen banned candy I'd consider that pretty silly - but at least they could have a sound scientific or health basis for such a decision)

if it were a public school I would be even more sad. Such a school should not actively ban books for shaky moral reasons...

(I'm not sure what you felt was intentionally deceptive. Sorry I guess.. I think you potentially scanned thr article and missed some of the data. No worries)
If you look at Phil Dick's published work, he isn't faithful to his own scripts at all - the short stories and novellas weave and re-weave each others' ideas, characters and settings, and the ending and message of a story can be very different from version to version.

I could comfortably imagine him reworking the DADOES plot into something just as far away from the original as Blade Runner - in fact, if anything, I find Blade Runner less radically different from the source material than some of his own reworkings.

Memory is saying the two versions of Second Variety are a good example, as are the various forms of Ubik, but my books aren't currently on the same continent as me so alas I have no citations.
Novell (yes, Novell) ports Xbox 360 game to the iPhone
The approach I have always been taught is to make it so the user does not hit the "pay wall" within the first hour. First full day of use is preferable. If they are using the product for that full hour, their use of the site/product is becoming more than a passing interest. In which case, when they get to that barrier they are already invested mentally and now they need to decide how valuable your service is.

In the case of Dropbox, you can store quite a few documents, pictures, and MP3s within 2GB. When you want to start backing up your whole hard drive, then you have committed to their product.
Thank you for producing your content. I've found it very inspirational. I love that there are so many great resources for aspiring entrepreneurs these days and I'd definitely put your site on the short list for great content in this area. Your ads are good too actually. They are very topical and interesting for me so well done there, too. Good luck!
who doesn't like DST? I hate standard time, or, to coin a phrase, "daylight losing time".
I'd bookmarked those posts:
- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...
- http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-... (was a good post, but does not seem to be available anymore - it's in google cache though)

Also, since xmarks told me that those links were well ranked in the "hiring" category, you could look at other links from there:
http://www.xmarks.com/topic/hiring

For example, http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hiring and http://www.artima.com/wbc/interprogP.html seem interesting
So You Want to Build a Web App
The OP said "non-Chinese residents".
The words, even fine words, of men set to rationalize the span of years they knew they had are no longer relevant in this day and age. The difference between Seneca and us is that we can toil to turn money into additional years of life. Scientific research and medicine.

Of course, given that we are on the cusp of this new era of longevity science, rejuvenation of the old, and greatly enhanced life spans, we look around and see only the past. It takes a bold, one might even say entrepreneurial, soul to recognize what might soon be, were people to put their shoulder to the wheel.
After the war the US was forced to cut spending and pay back debt. The spending they had to cut were the New Deal programs that were holding back the economy from recovering.
"- however, passwords are visible to customer service via a "secure, non-public tool""

"- so if a user account database is stolen somehow, the malicious thief would not have access to convenient info like email/username/cleartext password."

What if the secure, non-public tool is also stolen?
Seems a bit early to say anything is doomed by the iPad at this point, let alone a single app on the iPad. The obvious reason why Courier won't be doomed by this is ... you need an iPad, most people in this world aren't going to buy one.

Most won't buy a Courier either but there's plenty of room for both to be independently successful regardless of the other.
I give you a point. I think Andrew can improve the titles and make them sound less like informercials.

What he does is good & valuable work. Note that the archive is the only one that he is charging money for. So, we still can get on the juicy stuff within the week.
yeah, that was the main gist of my question: What makes such a clause enforceable or unenforceable? Is that speaking in terms of legality, or that it's simply impractical to do so?

I would really like to hear from some other HNers on this: Are you already well aware of the ramifications of the contract you signed before you begin work on side projects, (and maybe even demanded changes to a contract before you signed) or do you forge ahead w/ the knowledge that the "any and all" clause (or whatever) is unenforceable? - this assumes you are not violating any non-competes -it's just a question of IP.....

It seems unlikely to me that every engineer w/ side projects hires a lawyer to go through his/her employment contract before they sign it.... What's best practice when dealing w/ a contract both before you sign it?
I wish I could see a graph of the number of votes on this post over time. I've looked at it a few times today; at one point it was 5, now it's -3.
Is this real? That would be called kid napping in the US, right? This must be staged?
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I respectfully disagree with you. One must be wary of the modern cult of technology as just another way to bypass the human condition.

Even if you live to be 2000, you cannot bypass suffering and you cannot stop change. Our attention span is between 5 and 15 seconds and you will have to share that present, that moment with all other human beings, just the same as if you only had six months to live.

The point is not how long you live, but how well.

As Marus Aurelius says in his Meditations:

"For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing."
A decent primer can be found here http://www.research-horizons.cam.ac.uk/features/-p-plastic-l... .
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This is not an apples to apples comparison, the implemented Languages are fundamentally different. I do think this is an inspiring factoid that shows what is possible with a well done JIT.

Go Rubinius!
Imaging the Antikythera Mechanism (with Polynomial Texture Maps)
general themes like trees and gardens? in what way, and in what works, are these things themes?

Christian mythology shares a lot of common ideas with other mythology, according to scholars. The Garden of Eden was a paradisiacal forest where humans lived in harmony with nature, where the Tree of Life gave them immortality, so long as they ignored the Tree of Knowledge (at peril of being cast out). In Avatar, the Na'vi live in harmony with nature in a paradisiacal forest with a Great Tree, afforded quasi-immortality by 'spiritual-uplink' to the tree, and in the complete absence of technology. Then along come the evil, technologically advanced humans who of course have been cast out of their own paradisiacal habitat (or destroyed it).

It doesn't sound like the loosest connect ever to me. one of the characters is called 'Grace Augustine'
The "acting busy" part is a natural defense against managers (most of them) who would pile more work to those who finish early. If you finished early, the free time is not yours to play with. More work would be piled on your lap, without additional compensation. "Acting busy" actually cut down on additional work.

I was with a company which was obsessed with time tracking. We have to record time spent on bugs, features, meetings, design, documentation, etc. I sat through management meetings where the SVP pounded on us repeatedly to get our people to raise their time tracking percentage higher; being 50% tracked was a failure. Of course, people padded the numbers to make it upto 100%, and some overzealous individuals have more than 100% time tracked. It was a fucking retarded process.
Cartoon: the magic of marketing
Anyone how much it would cost to build something like the GPS tracker they used?
How is this news, exactly? I use it and love it every day, but ... eh.

EDIT: Well, I see it's turned someone back onto LaTeX, so good on the submitter, then.
His criticisms seem to amount to saying that he doesn't like this genre of movie.

Complaining that a fantasy movie doesn't make realistic predictions about the future of technology is like complaining that a romantic comedy didn't have enough action scenes.
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I understand the frustration. I'm listening to the feedback on this the way I heard and adjusted to past issues.

I don't have the right formula yet. But I'll keep at it.

For what it's worth, I paid for 2 years of Charlie Rose interviews on Audible even though I could have watched them for free on TV. It took him a few years to figure out the paid vs free model that you (and I) admire. Hopefully it'll take me less time than that.

I don't want to BE Charlie Rose though. And anyone who heard me stammer through the intros to my interviews knows I can't be Tony Robbins.
I would recommend getting a torrent containing some popular ones to see what authors you enjoy (some writing really rubs me the wrong way), then buy the relevant books from the authors directly. There are so many different parts & approaches to mentalism you have to do some searching to see what fits best.

If you want some simple tricks to get into it, just get derrens audio books which are quick and powerful.

http://www.google.com/search?q=derren+brown+audio+books
All he said sounds good on paper but in reality people act and perceive differently. Acting busy has a number of perceived and real benefits, otherwise people won't do it.

Acting busy is perceived as important, perceived as in demand, perceived as hard working, perceived as the salary paid is well-earned, deters additional work, and deters disruption

In general it just makes you look like a super god. And that's why people do it.
Thank you for your excellent interviews. I thought your very detailed explanation of your reasoning for starting to charge for some content at some time made a lot of sense.
The tool is probably for decrypting the passwords. The Passwords are probably hashed for verification to their website, etc, and then encrypted to a key which is encrypted to each tech's password as they hire new techs.

I'm sorry, I should say, this is how I imagine a good way to do it would be, not that it's how they do it.

This way though everything could be stolen and it wouldn't give up clear text passwords.
The Charlie Rose Show on PBS is underwritten by companies like Google and Pfizer. It is also resold to Bloomberg Television.

I'm not sure how that is different from what Andrew Warner is doing with Mixergy.

Also, I'm not sure what entitles you to Andrew's hard work for free.