skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been building Speckle (http://speckleapp.com) for a little while: a to-do list with multiple checkboxes per item. it's reasonably light-weight -
I don't know whether it suits what you're looking for, but Id be interested to know what you think :)

Edit: epi0Bauqu beat me to it!
More generally, working in a team helps a lot.

It doesn't matter whether you are 2, 3 or 4 people. And it also doesn't matter whether you meet with a co-founder or a customer. It helps to meet in RL, but sometimes a plain phone call can be sufficient, too.
Based on posts here I found the "Task-focused API" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task-Focused_Interface . There are lots of extensions available based on it: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylyn_Extensions . For example, from gmail, you can add a task by tagging a message! This Extensions page also seems to be a good reference list of todo aka project management trackers.
There's a difference between a bug tacker and an issue tracker.

Bugzilla works great as a bug tracker but is not a great issue tracker. Trac, the opposite.

From what you described, seems you're looking more for an issue tracker or a project planning sort of thing.

I've liked Redmine, though I haven't used it professionally yet.
I never read this before. Great read. Thanks for the link man.
That's exactly what I was saying. Out of context, the phrasing I have chosen may not be the best one, but it matches the phrasing of the sentence it responds to. I think it has more impact in a live debate.
They kind of do, eg, 65nm was introduced with Athlon X2 before they came out with Phenom, then the Phenom was shrunk to 45nm, etc. I've always seen tick tock as purely a marketing thing, although the 1 year goals may drive engineering somewhat.

Interestingly, Intel is considering doing tick tock tock for 32nm.
Wouldn't the $4.55 over just be metered distance? You also pay a flat fee when you get in, pay when the cab is idling, and pay for any tolls you pass - those wouldn't be effected. It's been a while since I was in New York though, and I usually tried to avoid cabs.
Gotta love Reddit. I have to admit, it was hilarious.
Trac works pretty well also for our team.
For asynchronous, web hooks may not be the answer if clients can be behind a firewall. It's too much work to set up an externally accessible resource just for this. Polling or some sort of "job" resource works great too. When we designed the Windows Azure management API, we wound up offering both and it has worked out pretty well.
For any economic system in a country to function also depends on having your chief export (copper, something like 70 or 80 percent of Chilean exports at the time IIRC) not having its price dropped through the floor by a huge and powerful country dumping its strategic reserves on the market all at once, on keeping alive your top military brass instead of having them killed by car bombs and replaced with guys eager to overthrow your president, on maintaining order despite agitation stirred up by foreign spooks and their covertly funded proxy organizations, &c. &c.

Chilean socialism may have been flawed, but it was never really given a fair shot.

It is indeed interesting to speculate whether a command economy could function effectively given modern computer hardware and software.
You're welcome.

Although WRT to subscriptions it can get tricky. E.g. the Financial Times will let you read 1? or so articles per month without registering, free registration gets you 10? or so per month, then you have to pay.

Murdoch's Wall Street Journal doesn't make it easy for a subscriber to know which articles are directly free and which aren't: some of the news items that are in the class of this one and some (recently fewer) of the OPED pages are free. But if not, if you do a Google search like the one above and then click through you get the full article, despite his grumbling about Google et. al. Go figure.
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I'm not talking about industry/research, I'm talking about commercially available and meaningful tests for humans. All I can find are BS tests that try to sell you personalized nutritional supplements.
It works in very nearly (but not quite) 95% of cases.
Free research paper – apply the one on this site as a guide
Getting a free research paper might not be the most difficult thing, but getting a good one certainly is. Though there are hundreds of writing firms that offer all sorts of writing services, you could count on your fingers, the number of firms that provide quality work.
See my recent comment on how a subscriber can't easily know if a Wall Street Journal article is free or not and how you can easily see all of one anyway.
fnid2 - you don't have your facts straight on Zynga

read this post and see what really happened.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/03/candid-camera.html

calling me corrupt is strong language and inaccurate

i have a reputation for being honest, respectful, and generous. i have worked for 25 years to build that reputation. i value it more than anything other than my wife and children.

it is very hurtful to me to read hateful stuff like you spew out
I must've missed it the first time around, still, its an impressive demo, at first I thought I was uncovering some kind of hidden image, then when I figured out I was making it I immediately had to try it all, very cool stuff.
You might check out Garret Dimon's http://sifterapp.com. I think it's what 37signals would make if they made bug-tracking software.
"Chilean socialism may have been flawed, but it was never really given a fair shot."

That's what all failed socialist countries claim (including my own, former East Germany).

The basic principle of socialism, in all its flavours and colours, is based on the idea that some country, idea, person or group needs to be "given" (by whom?) a "fair" shot (well how much do the demanders of the chance "feel" is "fair" and do the givers have a say in it?).

What's interesting is that you never need to ask for chances, favours or a fair shot if you have something very appealing to offer and can point out its benefits (sometimes this is called marketing) in a convincing manner. This site alone is an example of many.
I agree with the parent.

Write up an Ask HN post about your project or idea and ask for feedback and then maybe at the end say that you're looking for someone to help with it as a partner. Or something along those lines.

As much as we'd wish HN to be a different type of community, this is still an online community and you can only know the next HN'er as much as anyone knows anybody else from an online community. However, when you discuss things of a non-superficial nature then you'd get to have a feel of the other person's personality.
I tried to write my own because i wasn't satisfied with all the different ones i tried. But as free time kept getting shorter and shorter, I abandoned the project and reverted to using Tomboy on my Ubuntu desktop.

Not exactly cutting edge, but I yet to overcome the information overflow that i suffer from.
Your analogy to WoW is a great idea!

In fact, WoW appears to be very addicting, to an extent you usually don't want to have in a game. (Unless, of course, you are the one who sells the game.)

However, for the work you consider to be important, this is exactly the kind of addiction you want. In that regard, we can learn a lot from WoW. I'm sure they have more "tricks" than just splitting big tasks into smaller ones. A study about that topic would be very interesting.
to bad she didn't hook it up to a NES controller, should have been trivial no?
there's also "c++ as a better c", although i guess that is dying out as c99 becomes more common.
For bugs http://curecode.org/ is ery lightweight and fast. You can see it in use here http://curecode.org/rebol3/view-tickets.rsp .

For sharable todo's I can "recommend" (my) http://www.qwikitodo.com , you can even make "actionable" Plan/Todo meshes with it that have titles, subtitles, free form mixing of text todo items, regular lists, etc...
Also, you'll have to remove distracting things regularly, at least once a month. Better every two weeks.
I haven't used it, but this is "interesting" - http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki

(I use Trac myself, and it's OK, but not wonderful - haven't found anything better, but will be trying Redmine after reading comments here).

[edit: also, you can do bug tracking with Google code, which I am surprised no-one else has mentioned]
Personally, i found that typical programmer interviews are a waste of time. I played both sides of the table and now I just ask for a small project as a sample to be written and brought to the interview and then discussed.

The discussion reveals a lot about the candidate from coding style to design decisions and shortcuts made. I am especially interested in the shortcuts and that the candidate understands what's wrong with them and have them explain why he/she took that route.

The sample can be as easy as a command line todo application or any utility that should take just a couple of hours to make.

Granted i don't do a lot of interviews, but when i did that's what i asked for. My boss on the other hand does typical interviews and the quality of the candidates shortlisted shows.
Why no XML as response type?
Of course, I'm sure socialism as an economic system has other, deeper flaws :-)

Wow, such political correctness, it brings tears to my eyes.

:-)
Okay. My point is only that the people you need to convince, in the specific case of cold-war-era governments, are not your own citizens, but rather the hard-ass anticommunists in the U.S. government, war criminals like Kissinger et al.

Amusingly enough, if you were a military junta like Alvarado’s in Peru in ~1970, even a leftist military junta, you could pretty much get away with attempted agrarian reform, expropriation of foreign assets, nationalization of major industries, etc., as long as you agreed to fight against isolated communist guerillas in the jungle, and the US would leave you alone. If you were a democratically elected moderate like Belaundé, they’d cut off aid and impose sanctions. If you were a center-left european-style socialist like Allende in Chilé, they’d go all out to destroy your government.

Former East Germany didn't work out for substantially different reasons than Chile. Neither excuse making nor specific domestic policy was really the cause in either case though.

Basically, the "givers", other states, should, according to commonly accepted international laws and norms, only intervene in the operation of other sovereign states in certain limited circumstances, such as for self defense, etc. Deciding you don't like the leaders they elect, even before those leaders have done anything, doesn't cut it as a rationale for toppling a foreign government.
Hi! We had similar idea (i think?) with http://movieorwhat.com - contact me - maybe we can help each other? ...
Fantasic!
You are wildly out of context here.

In 1970-73 Chile had a democratically elected president with a socialist program, not unlike France's Francois Miterrand. He wasn't "given a fair shot" because he was overthrown before the end of his term.

(Edited: no solid evidence that he was murdered.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_détat
Which job sites in india are you using?

Recently I put a cutting-edge, hardcore (low-level, C, cpu architecture, smp, concurrency type job) startup job post to Naukri and I only seem to get mediocre responses.

I believe it's a two sided issue, there aren't that many talented people or as the saying goes, those that are talented have already moved to western countries.

I really really would like to find talented people from India but it doesn't seem that easy.
It’s not clear that he was murdered: officially it was a suicide, and as far as I know the evidence is pretty sketchy. But many others were certainly murdered, before and after the coup.
He's been very ill recently. Nobody knows exactly with what, but the first videos of him after the illness showed him looking absolutely just-off-of-life-support.

The belief is that he had a stroke, if you look at one of his ungloved hands in the photos, it looks swollen and not entirely functional, which jives with what the analysts are guessing.
Jquery.mb.menu 2.7.6 is out
pi = 6.283

http://www.math.utah.edu/~palais/pi.html
I work alone but I still use Trac and couldn't be effective without it. The Wiki is excellent and I love the Subversion support and how you can cross-link everything.
"Which job sites in india are you using?"

I've never needed to use job sites to get a job, touch wood. I am not using any. My point was that job sites are deluged by enterprise sw jobs.

Note that the job post under discussion wasn't put up on Monster.com. How then is your experience equivalent?

"Recently I put a cutting-edge, hardcore (low-level, C, cpu architecture, smp, concurrency type job) startup job post to Naukri and I only seem to get mediocre responses."

Naukri sucks. And advertising on Naukri rarely works unless you are some kind of bodyshopper like TCS or Wipro. No self respecting hacker looks ofr a job on Naukri (or any job borad for that matter).

" there aren't that many talented people"

yeah sure! Indian developers are untalented because they choose t live in India ;-)

" those that are talented have already moved to western countries."

partially but not completely true. Many ultra talented devs don't want to immigrate. Just shows you are fairly unplugged from the local hacker scene.

"I really really would like to find talented people from India but it doesn't seem that easy."

Well it is not as easy as putting up a job posting on a sucky site(naukri) and sitting back and waiting, which is what you seem to have done (I am extrapolating from your posting here, I could be wrong).

More constructively, do you have a website for your company? Are you funded? Do you have a blog? Who are you ? What exactly are you doing? Are you plugged in to the local hacker networks? Are you hacker yourself? Do you have any open source contributions we can judge you by?

If you can provide a link to your job post I may be able to give better feedback. My email is in my profile as well.
Hmmm, I've never seen it as purely marketing, it seems to be very engineering oriented:

Tick: Take an existing, known working and understood design and shrink it for the new process, using that to work out the kinks in the latter.

Tock: Now that the new process is well understood, get a new design to work on it.

Intel is probably in a better position to do this due to their very strong emphasis on manufacturing and their ability to solidly plan their spending on new fab lines and processes.
For this to be true, you'd have to imagine the investment as at least 1 year, wouldn't you agree? So probably several years? And you'd have to purchase goods that would last that long.

The reason I say that, is that you can still find 3% FDIC insured savings and money market accounts (look at your local Credit Unions). For me to get a better return on canned pears and chicken stock, we'd need real consumer price inflation > 3%. If you take a look at the consumer price index and remove energy costs, it's been quite some time since we've experienced 3% annual inflation. (Removing energy costs is the key here).

Now.. if you hold it for 3 years, it would probably be a no brainer. As long as you don't mind actually eating what you bought over those years -- eg no 40 cases of Peanut Butter!
I meant the whole 'tick tock' branding, so to speak - it seems to be marketing giving a name to something which engineering has been doing for sensible reasons for quite some time.
Can you give an example of rolling your own auth the wrong way? Sometimes I get frustrated by the built-in auth in web frameworks, especially when designing single sign on, but I'm not sure which components are must-keeps, versus being replaceable.
> it is the first device to satisfy the ultimate vision of Alan Kay

I thought Alan Kay's ultimate vision were computers that can be hacked by anyone, hence Smalltalk. Oh well ...
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I'm currently working on a web app builder called AppRabbit (http://apprabbit.com) and used it to create my bug/issue tracking system for tracking my progress with...it. I'm still working on finishing up a few fairly fundamental features, but you're welcome to try it out if you'd like a beta invite. Shoot me an email if you (or anyone else) is interested in seeing what it can do. admin@apprabbit.com.
I'm sorry, but I got the impression from your saying "although the 1 year goals may drive engineering somewhat" that the marketing was driving the engineering and not the reverse.

I think that if you're doing something smart, something that shows how ... solid? reliable? your company is, something that's easily understood by most with an engineering background, and something your competitor can't do, why not make some hay from it?
Local credit unions here are all offering 3% checking accounts on balances up to, usually, 25k to 50k. It means your cash is spread out but that's not really a bad thing.
I'll quote another reply to me elsewhere in this thread.

It is annoying to see a reasonable comment downvoted to 0, or less. I feel like I'm missing something and what I'm missing is an explanation. Why was the comment voted down?

Now what happened in the grandparent of this comment here is that another HN participant asked why a particular comment of his in another thread was downvoted. I kindly followed the link he provided, to see his comment for the first time. After reading that comment, I pondered his informational question in this thread about why that comment was downvoted. I don't know FOR SURE, because I had no role in downvoting that comment, and indeed wouldn't downvote that comment if I came upon it in a thread I was following actively. But I suggest to him one reason why somebody--unknown to me--might have thought to downvote that comment. Then I see that my own informational answer to his question was downvoted--for reasons not stated in this thread. There is some kind of signal here, but I sure hope that the signal is not "Don't answer informational questions posted by other participants."

The answer I gave above was a hypothesis based on previous comments I have seen with downvotes. But the hypothesis doesn't fit the answer itself being downvoted, which for all I know was simply drive-by downvoting.
Performance. Until someone rewrites the entire Haskell standard library to use unboxed primitives and that stream fusion voodoo then C++ sits alone at the intersection of performance, abstraction and usability.
Having used Jdeveloper and netbeans, I'd have to say I don't see the point of jdev at all, it appears to do much less, worse. I don't think it belongs in the same category as something like VS (does much more, better).
A lot of the drivers affected appear to be older drivers. It's possible that more savvy drivers do just shift into neutral and just "handle it", and just chalk it up to a random occurrence rather than a life-threatening major defect.

However, one thing that i don't think many people appreciate is that in some of these scenarios if the driver begins braking normally (i.e. to slow their speed rather than a full-on emergency stop) and they continue to do so for a little while they will very rapidly burn up their brake pads, and then they won't have the ability to use the brakes. This scenario may be frightening enough to induce panic, even though throwing it into neutral (or even, say, low) and applying the emergency brake would quickly resolve the situation.

Note also that for these keyless vehicles turning off the engine is not as intuitive (or even possible) as it would be for a keyed ignition.

I agree that the problem is not just a hardware issue, it's also the result of driver error, but even so you want to stack the deck in favor of safety and make sure that you avoid these sorts of failures that will be more likely to result in driving mishaps, even if theoretically drivers should be able to recover from the situation if they keep presence of mind and know what they're doing.
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Empathy - often poorly defined. Do you mean empathy - you "put yourself in other people's shoes" (i.e. you are not a psychopath), or the ability to read people?

People with lots of empathy who can't "read people" come across as ... awkward. Or dorky. Yeah ... the word is "dorky". Kinda like Simon Tan.
in the short run.
In a MacOS X package management thread, your solution is "install ubuntu", and you didn't know that was trolling?

I'm very suspicious of your story.
Exactly. Free market does not contradict planning. Both in-house and national-level planning works quite nicely in market economies. Leontief got a Nobel for theory and practice of the process.
Yes, the technical aspects of network communication are relatively trivial. The actual economic planning absurdly difficult -- impossible, in fact. Friedrich Hayek showed (and won a Nobel Prize for his work) that the coordination of production in the economy is achieved by using money as the channel of communication, which neatly encapsulates all of the information about preferences, substitutability, etc. Planned economies are necessarily subject to shortages and the like because it's impossible for any centralized entity to have all the knowledge about what the goals and needs of all actors are.

The article argues against the establishment of a Central Pricing Board (advocated by Lange) by highlighting the assiduously dynamic and organic nature of market price-fluctuations, and the benefits of this phenomenon. He asserts that a centrally planned market could never match the efficiency of the open market because any individual knows only a small fraction of all which is known collectively. A decentralized economy thus complements the dispersed nature of information spread throughout society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Society
Can you shed some light on Redmine's invoicing? I have not seen any plugins that give that functionality.
Anyone know of a similar service that can handle MS-Office type documents?
Ah, sorry, I meant that the only real change seemed to be that they drew a line in the sand and said we'll do a tick or a tock each year. But even then, it hasn't exactly happened that way (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock), and they must have had goals like that internally anyway.

I don't blame them for getting some marketing mileage out of it - just that I don't really see it as a very important change in terms of engineering. Although I'm just a casual observer of the industry so I may well be wrong about that.
This short essay from the 1920's lays out the fundamental flaws of trying to do economic calculations in the socialist state:

Economic Calculation In The Socialist Commonwealth:
http://mises.org/econcalc.asp
I agree, Fossil seems very interesting. I'm just waiting for a chance to try it.