skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that people are attached to Javascript, but I don't know why someone would downvote because of that. I didn't mean it as a jab at Javascript, but an observation that we're extremely limited when it comes to client-side programming language choice.

We can use Javascript.. or flash.. or Java applets (which really is't much of contender these days). Thats more or less it. Yes, theres a few projects which translate Java or Python to Javascript, but you're limited to whatever they can piggyback on top of Javascript.

Thats not much of a choice and yes, I dislike that this is my only choice for client-side programming. What if the Javascript VM ran bytecode instead, like the JVM or CLI? Then plenty of other languages could target the browser and we'd have more choice, flexability and innovation.

Javascript serves it purpose of client-side web scripting well enough, but with the whole move to the web, its a little ridiculous that this is almost the only choice I have. The great thing about desktop programming is the wealth of different languages I can use - C, Python, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, Prolog, F# and so on.. thats a nice bit of variety! Different languages are good and bad at different things, forcing everyone to use one is not, IMHO, a good thing and, contrary to what Javascript fanboys say, the language is not perfect or suited to everything you may want to do in a browser (which is becoming increasingly more).
I wonder what kind of brain changes occur in programmers who spend hours/day in flow states? Does this have anywhere near the effect of mindful meditation?
I was asleep when all of these replies came in. And I had it set for me to approve all comments because I had been getting spam. I approved your reply just now.
I'm getting similar but my cpm price is around 0.05 so the cpc is still pretty good.
Intellectual property legal threats kill competition and ingenuity. It is getting to a point where major corporations hold so many patents and intellectual property rights that the chances of other developer(s) potentially infringing on any one of thousands of held IP "rights" is seemingly likely. As an software developer I unfortunately do not have a retainer staff of IP lawyers available nor does the start-up company that I work for. Apple and other large IP holders use their IP as a weapon to drive off competition and kill ingenuity.

Developers in countries other than the United States have an advantage in that they do not have as much to worry about United States corporate legal threats.
That sounds really funny, but my stomach is hurting just thinking about it!
I like the parody but it's not really a fair comparison. In many cases paved roads evolve out of country roads while nothing can ever evolve out of Flash.
I'm pretty happy with the desk setup. The one thing I would add is a helper to come and tidy it every few hours :)

http://www.querycell.com/da_desk.jpg
In addition to your internet marketing, go in person to all of your local grocery stores, give the mangers a special free small trial bottle and ask them to order a case.

Get it in the local stores, and then go national.

To build a local customer base (cash flow), ask the store to feature it on an endcap even if you have to give it away at cost.
Again? But I'm already in the Order of the Sacred Pedant and I just can't turn my back on it..
Images of my old home office, it's relocated and had some additional hardware since:

http://i.imgur.com/o78Ix.jpg

But it still features the belt:

http://i.imgur.com/rK2Bb.jpg
My workspace- http://imgur.com/pWDwp.jpg
2 Ubuntu Machines, 1 Win7 Box, 1 WinXP box.
Using Synergy+ to share a KB/mouse between them.

I'm really enjoying the vertical monitors- Most monitors are wide enough these days, so having a maximized browser doesn't really help, but two stacked full-width windows is really useful.

I prefer the multiple monitors to divide up tasks- I can have email on one machine, Terminal windows on another, Browser on a third, etc.

I think the iPad/iPhone model actually makes a lot of sense. It's quicker for me to turn my head slightly to look at a new monitor, then to minimize/restore other applications that I use frequently.
The difference is, country roads are not nearly as bumpy as flash.
I'm sorry. But Flash has a fallback (HTML5 for the web and iPhone Apps if wanna go native), country roads has not.

Also, real infrastrucures are a bit distant than web-infrasctructures. I mean, Google could possibly switch it's search engine from XYZ platform to ABC platform in a matter of months (made up numbers), try to switch road infrastructures of a country.
You have a point. I've noticed I think more before blindly following links on the iPad. It adds just enough time to randomly surfing around that it provides a sort of focus.

P.S. Accidental down vote, sorry! (As a result of being on a iPad, alas..)
Another great technique that I read about recently: be the opposite of secretive http://cdixon.org/2010/03/14/developing-new-startup-ideas/
I didn't necessarily suggest that the menu not be organized at all, just that the strict categorical hierarchical menus are lame. Why do some text editors go under the Utilities menu and others under the Programming menu (like Emacs). It's hard for a new user to know which menu a program is going to be under immediately after installing it, so they have to scrub all of them until they find it.

Why not have a more semantic approach? Why can't I tag my applications and have the application menu be more like a tag cloud and let applications be under multiple menus. At least then I could put Emacs under Editors and Programming.
I agree with both this comment and the article 100%.
What's the point making open source stuff for the most anal-tight closed platform?
definitely something to this. Facebook presents "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" ads to me and I delete them, labeling as offensive (pressures people to buy overpriced courses at his free seminars) and these ads just keep coming back, sometimes 2 on the same page.
"Happy" is maybe the last emotion I pick up from OSX.

The bouncy, glossy, faux-reflection sheen feels forced. I prefer just enough animation to help me notice something; whoshing, swirling, jiggling is just tacky.
Here's mine:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/251849/hacking-setup.jpg
Sounds like a great idea, thanks!
I love the belt!
You should find a way to mount it. It's a very cool trophy, but when it's just sitting around it's too easy to look like clutter, rather than being a nifty and unexpected gift.
Efene 0.5 - two languages for the erlang VM - released
Do you use both machines?
What's up on the wall?
But it doesn't work -- look at how Microsoft got sued by Alcatel-Lucent after licensing MP3 from Fraunhofer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent_v._Microsoft
http://www.deskography.org/people/gs/desks/1/photos/1/

(pretty old photo, changed computers twice since -- currently using imac 27")

http://www.deskography.org/media/desks/images/DSC04028__jpg_...

Edit: Added some text and URL to the actual photo.
Very simplistic, but in a positive way. Looks like very little privacy, but enough to get the job done.

No personalization, though?
So the library can gain the benefits typically associated with OSS?
Not at all. Just because a problem in general is uncomputable does not mean that certain specific instances can't be computed. For example, the halting problem is undecidable, but anyone can see that loop of the form

while (1) { }

is an infinite loop. Undecidability and uncomputability apply only at the level of general problems, not specific instances.
Desk at Home:

http://ur-ban-public.s3.amazonaws.com/images/desk_home.jpg

Desk at Office:

http://ur-ban-public.s3.amazonaws.com/images/desk_office.jpg
Here’s mine from about 5 months ago: http://i.imgur.com/MqZop.jpg
pg post your current work-space pwease.

EDIT: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=614454
Ask HN - Feedback on homepage : Braintrust - organize your team's conversations
Well, Google Chrome and Mozilla ship with theora, isn't that "big pocket" enough?
Worth a chuckle, but yes, not really fair.
There's another zsync : http://zsync.moria.org.uk/
Why don't you test it to see if it works first?

1. Post an ad on craigslist for personal delivery tasks and find people who would want you to deliver their package.

2. Post an ad on rideshare and see if someone can deliver your package.

Validate your minimum viable product first before you invest more energy in this.
I sanitize my posts (and I post very little), and I would no matter how few connections I had. Given their history of privacy flaws, it's not what my friends see that I worry about.
www.heroku.com ?
I've seen at least one situation where personal e-mail "from the CEO" was actually written by a committee, both to reduce individual liability and to free up more of the CEO's time. It was possible to identify who actually wrote the e-mail by the number of dashes used to separate the signature from the e-mail body. It's somewhat possible that, when it comes to e-mail, "Steve Jobs" is the official name of a cadre of executives and PR people with varying levels of expertise. Whether that actually is the case, or whether it actually works to provide plausible deniability, I don't know.
Mine - http://imgur.com/s3rzx.jpg

I really need a bigger desk. I had to add an extension to it to be able to fit both speakers, and the monitors have to be rotated towards each other more than I like, but it works for now.
I work from home, on my couch with a MBP. Not very exciting.

One of my assistants working at my workstation http://i40.tinypic.com/2nw2z4.jpg
Ask HN: Bad experiences after sharing your idea?
I read a lot about, how ideas are worth next to nothing. As many have pointed out in the past, ideas are worth a negative amount if anything (since you have to put in all the work and money). Also it was interesting to read about all the positive affects of sharing your startup idea (others will help you polish your idea).

Still, I'd like to ask...
Did any of you have bad experiences because you shared your startup idea with someone you should not have? What happened?
At home:
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1300/59324811.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5153/59588711.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/729/91695111.jpg

At work:
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/3091/jobb.jpg
We sure love our Macbook Pros!
What do you do? :)
Check out decluttered.com
Why are people so seriously angry about stuff like this?

If you don't like Facebook, just quit and get a drink with your friends.
I would imagine census.gov would have pretty detailed income distribution statistics.
sshuttle: a new kind of userspace VPN
The key to retails products is distributors. Get enough local support (this also tests the market to see if it's a viable product), then contact distributors to talk about regional, then nationwide distribution. You should also get a website running where you can have it shipped to you. Finally, it's hot sauce, don't be stingy with free samples!
What is impressive is working while sitting on an exercise ball!
Nothing special:

http://i.imgur.com/bkacQ.jpg

I also have a big whiteboard behind me.
It can be, but often people have to get themselves in a rut 'the easy way' before they're willing to learn it (at least I did).
Money is an effective ethics bender but when the ethics are bent, you still get judged and rightly so.

Does a hitman who kills for a thousand dollars have weaker ethics than a hitman who kills for a million dollars? Would the million-dollar-hitman deserve less jail time?
Also I guess Bumptop could have some patents for its products.
A man is lost in a balloon in fog; a building looms up out of the fog and another man looks out the window. The man in the balloon says, "Excuse me, but can you tell me where I am?" The man in the building says, "You're in a balloon." The man in the balloon thanks him, because he answered the question perfectly correctly, yet in such a way that he was given no new information, thus allowing the man in the balloon to conclude that the building was Microsoft Customer Service and he was therefore in Redmond, Washington.
This is my home-office.

http://imgur.com/SBuQ0.jpg

A Mohawk and snoutnose, from SQ7.

Jingle Networks plastic phone I received on my first anniversary.

The mascot of my favorite news site.

And the badguy from the first Videogame I worked on.
New Product Failure Rate: 3000 Ideas = 1 Success
The only bad experiences I've had after sharing my idea are:

1) realizing that my original idea sucks and that it needed to evolve or completely change

2) realizing that even if my idea is good, most people are either indifferent to it or they hate it. Which makes me think of this quote, "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."

Neither experience is pleasant. Both are morale killers.

Ideas are cheap.
I disagree on the need for tabs, but that is a nice looking webpage.
The iPhone platform is very popular with developers, not so popular with the quacks in the peanut gallery.
lap desk plus lap top plus lap dog http://imgur.com/AAHMX.jpg
Those are big speakers for that close to your face ;)
People like OnePlusOne are why I don't allow comments on my blog.

The author was quite clear that he was stating his opinion.
Because the FUD is an excuse for not allowing Flash, not the end goal in itself.
Your home office is stunningly clean. Does that help get work done, without distraction, or is it dull?

The work office, at least, has a few accouterments ;)
Here's the catch. I have gotten in touch with a lot of old friends via Facebook. That is actually all I use it for - communications with old, non-local friends. I fully admit that my communications with them is sporadic and superficial, but it is better than nothing.

I'm cool with deleting my account - but not at the price of losing contact with many "friends".

Is there a middle ground? Or a replacement service?

Maybe we can build an app to 1) Copy basic Facebook data, 2) Delete the Facebook account, and 3) set you up on a new system that does respect privacy.
Those are typical CTRs, not paltry.
...i believe same is the case with Mac.

I have never needed to install a flash plugin on a Mac.
Having biked 5073 miles across the country in question on many of those country roads, I can say that they tend to have a certain 'rustic charm' despite all the bumps. The same could be said of Flash content on the web, in 2020. Do we really just want to throw all that content in the trash, never to be viewed or interacted with again?
He may be trying to educate others who are assuming facebook has a stricter privacy policy than they actually do.
Fiat Crowdsourcing Car Design
We're currently bootstrapping, so I do work wherever I can grab power and wi-fi. Today it's a teahouse in downtown Santa Cruz:

http://i.imgur.com/fYBKA.jpg
How do you promote your apps within Facebook without ads?
Facebook ads don't work when you don't know how to use them. If you don't understand your audience and try to force them to do something they don't want to do then your advertising efforts are going to have bad returns.

Although I've never seen three ads for the same thing at the same time, it is pretty bad that Facebook did that. Not a typical scenario though.
Uh, maybe where you live? I've been on country roads all over the US and they are bumpy as hell.
It's actually amazingly comfortable. Moreover, balancing requires you to sit erect, helping fight the second scourge of computer dorks -- bad posture. (The first being Carpal tunnel.)
Regardless of Job's other comments, the "Flash crashes Macs" isn't FUD by any definition. The SWF plugin is just a pretty bad bit of software. If you don't believe me, check the Firefox crash analysis for today: http://people.mozilla.com/crash_analysis/20100502/20100502_F.... The Flash plugin is the greatest cause of crashes for them on the Mac, and it's pretty damn high on Windows as well.

The claim by the Adobe CEO that Mac flash crashes are "to do with the Apple operating system" is complete and total nonsense (there's nothing in OS X that would cause Flash to be crashy, and the data supports the fact that it's bad on Windows as well).
Nice. Chromeos touch UI will be sweet now. I called this while shooting the shit a month ago.
Some business ideas are innovative, in the sense that they are a new, bold, or risky approach to solving problems. I don't think you have anything to lose by sharing those ideas. These ideas are all about execution, and passion and domain knowledge will out. Share these with impunity, I think.

Some business ideas are just really fancy arbitrage. Execution matters, but the value is self-evident; the more people that know about the opportunity, the faster the market is going to get flooded. I'd keep these a little closer to the vest.

I suspect the start-ups that we talk about and focus upon here on hacker news fall more in the first category and less in the second.
Flash comes preinstalled on OSX Snow Leopard.
I already have strawberry pancakes, badger badger mushroom, etc. indelibly etched into my brain. No runtime required.
Who in their right mind would agree to carry a box with a mystery object in it to a location they don't know?
Here's mine: http://bobwarwick.ca/photos/desk.jpg
Are you still happy with it? How long do you sit like that at a time?
Here's an old pic of my home desk, the one in my office isn't too dissimilar:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2277/2267898054_e3a45f4472_o....
Books and a computer on a desk. All I need. http://i.imgur.com/E1TW7.jpg
Is it time to Plurk?
ahh, looks like it's fully booked now. I was really thinking of going to this. Oh well.
I've never had a Facebook or MySpace account. I am on LinkedIn because a former boss was all excited about it and asked everyone to sign up, but I rarely log in or update my profile
Excuse me, I have to go brush my teeth.
I wonder if high sugar intake could be the common cause for both problems.
If HTML5 is a "fallback" for Flash, surely paving is a fallback for country roads. I mean, sure, it's nontrivial to change any nontrivial amount of existing work, but that's analogously true in both cases."
Mine is simple:

http://imgur.com/2d5e8.jpg

Later this year I hope it'll look like this:

http://imgur.com/SlUQU.jpg
Nobody has ever stolen an idea of mine.

At worst a friend has gotten his hopes up then frustrated we can't/didn't execute the idea.
That looks nice - which teahouse? (I'm in SC too)
The thesis of the article is that treating children as special without them first working hard to deserve or earn it leads to narcissism. The example of Mr Rogers is added for sensationalism. A similar message might be found in other countries where this phenomenon also exists.
Because people won't remember that, or associate the problem with Flash. They'll associate it with the iP*d.
Ask HN: PHP vs Static HTML processing 
How much more processing does a dynamic PHP page require over the same page in static HTML?
I am very satisfied. So far, I sat for a maximum of 3 hrs at a stretch and its still comfortable. After 2 hours, my legs start getting cold, probably because the blood is not flowing there, after that I adjust the recline and it feels better.
Asking users what they want often doesn't give the best user experience.
Отдых в Крыму. Отдых в Судаке.
Facebook is a fad. It will be gone or irrelevant in 5 years. Just my opinion.
Is it just me or do others get peeved when the words complex and complicated are used interchangeably?

To me they mean very different things:

A complicated problem is one that is difficult to understand.
A complex problem is one composed of many distinct parts.

A complex problem could also be very complicated, but a complicated problem may not or may not be complex at all depending on the situation.
I love these sorts of threads. Without cleaning up, here's my desk at home while doing homework: http://imgur.com/xLSaA.jpg

Need some sort of entertainment: http://imgur.com/1iZrj.jpg

The helpful assistant, on break: http://imgur.com/E64iz.jpg
bootstrapping in Austin, TX from my apartment.

http://i.imgur.com/gqLWnl.jpg
Stalkify: Last.fm + Spotify
Of course no analogy is perfect, but I fail to see the relevance of your point. Country roads can evolve into paved roads and content that is currently coded in Flash can evolve into content that is coded in HTML5.

But today, when I want to turn on to a country road / visit a site with Flash, the iCar / iPad won't let me. I, as a consumer, don't care what that ugly/bumpy thing might evolve into. I care whether I can access it right now.

By the way, I own both an iPhone and an iPad, and I like them. It's just that sometimes I wish I could drive them onto "bumpy roads".
My requirements:

1) Quiet (but not isolated; 'Net and phone are adequate in this regard).

2) Clean (allergies).

3) Some natural light.

4) Ability to make basic ergonomic adjustments. Also the ability to get up and move around immediately and at will (helps my health, concentration, and to settle restlessness).

And, probably more in line with the question's expected responses:

5) Adequate (doesn't have to be exceptional) equipment and screen real estate.

Pretty simple. Yet I've found them ridiculously difficult to come by. People seem to really appreciate my work, yet they cannot seem to grasp the concept of allowing me these basic controls over my environment.

This is a primary motivation for my shifting to self-employment. Wish me luck.

EDIT: Currently, the home office has an L-shaped desk composed of two 6 ft x 2.5 ft segments with the height and angle of each segment independently adjustable. This provides plenty of workspace; I still find physical writing, printouts, and layout/organization of items useful in organizing my work and thoughts.

Windows on both sides, but now with the blinds closed due to a recent burglary :-( . Laptop with a separate keyboard. There was a second laptop, but it was ripped off. I don't have a particular need for a desktop; laptops have enough processing power, have effectively a built in UPS, and can travel with me. Short term, I'm substituting an older desktop for the stolen laptop. Some backup drives, printer, whatnot.

CFL desk lamp (soft white) and torchiere (daylight). Also a high intensity full spectrum "light box" angled to bounce off the white ceiling (otherwise, the LCD screens get washed out). The daylight / full spectrum bulbs do make a difference in perception. But they do not match the quality of and circadian synchronization provided by natural lighting.
Sure I'll admit that it is not literally packaging private info into a file and selling it. But it sure is asymptotically approaching it.

Your argument is analogous to saying Microsoft didn't really have a monopoly because 3% of computers used Linux and OSX. Plus, how does F8 instant personalization work? I doubt it is solely based on a 1 pixel tracking image.

And I do hold up AdSense to the same level of scrutiny. While it also has privacy issues, it is not of the same level. It does not force browsers to become advertisers to their friends, revealing their purchasing and browsing habits. Your friends do not know that you visited a certain website or bought a certain product and can link you by your name, age, friends, and likes/dislikes and organizations you belong to.

That is the sole reason why people think Facebook can beat Google.
Dynamic Music in Spore with Pure Data
The one thing I have noticed is that it takes considerably longer to implement the idea if I reveal it to someone else first.
Wow, nearly everyone works on a Mac. Any Linux/BSD users out there?
linux-only thinkpad.
If history is any indication, Facebook will fade out very slowly like Myspace, if there is a new competitor.
It's too bad they don't have locking wheels like on some pieces of wheeled furniture. Also, many times the wheels are removable, though I don't know if such chairs are meant to be used without the wheels.