skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
_Conscious Loving_ ( http://amzn.to/cAzbRM ) and _Undefended Love_ ( http://amzn.to/c45k4L ) have by far had the biggest impact on me. Personal relationships are definitely my biggest challenge. Already one divorce. :(

Both books essentially have the same premise but explore it in different ways. The theory that intimacy is born out of telling what CL calls "the microscopic truth" where _all_ details are revealed.

"If you want a long-term relationship that's both close and creatively vital, you have to become emotionally transparent. To go all the way to ultimate closeness and full creative expression, you must eliminate all barriers to speaking and hearing the truth about everything." -- Gay Hendricks

But the truth is not accusing. You state what is going on within you. You describe your thoughts, feelings, your tensions, because that is what you own and that is what you can accurately describe. Everything else is probably just opinion or projection. Stating your feelings within is unarguable, it's your truth.

But it goes so much deeper. They talk about exploring reoccuring patterns where there is tension. I've noticed that everytime someone haltingly raises their voice, my shoulders automatically tense up. I think this is a pattern I learned very early on in my childhood from my dad screaming for no apparent reason. I am only now beginning to see it unfold.

Facing and telling the truth takes courage.

I've told my girlfriend that I find other women attractive. I told my girlfriend that I slept with someone else when we first started dating. In the end I believe she respects me more for telling her. At least the emotional "memory leak" has been cleaned up and I no longer have to suppress those thoughts or conjure up lies surrounding those circumstances.

"5 Secrets to Lasting Love"
http://web.archive.org/web/20080316082737/http://www.lifecha...
Has anyone been to DjangoCon previously? I'm curious if it's at all worthwhile to attend (since I live in Seattle).
Google AppEngine or Heroku?
Considering you can run Ruby on both, I know quite a few here would have experience with Heroku, but what about AppEngine, preferably with Ruby on it?
An interesting side effect of money in the jar though is that people are socially pressured not to take change from the jar, meaning they may pay say $5 instead of the $3 they normally would because they had the note.
You described pretty well the kind of thing I went through several years back. It really changed my life in every way possible for the better.

Stick with it. It's tough sometimes, but it'll only get better!

EDIT: I recommend starting with "Wherever You Go, There You Are" -- then following up with "When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chodron, be sure to get the audiobook AND the paperback. Really listen to it/read it. Then any book that teaches you to be responsible for yourself, you can pick from a million, straight up from Thoreau.

I don't agree with 100% transparency of every little thing in relationships, but I believe that feeling that you COULD is critical. Learning that you don't have to hide who you are, that you can form relationships by being open, is tremendously liberating.
why is he stepping down when RescueTime is doing so well?

> Wright said he's leaving RescueTime at a period of strong growth, with quarterly revenue averaging 51 percent over the past four quarters. About 600 to 1000 users sign up for the product every day, with an increasing number of Fortune 500 companies signing on in order to get a better understanding of how their workforces function.
Has anyone had any success with any Python debugger to debug multi-threaded programs? Just asking out of curiosity.
Hmm, on the whole monetization thing, there are a lot of good services that people (myself, anyways) would not pay money for. Twitter, Gmail, others. Figuring out how to monetize in a way other than "sell your product to your customer" is a real problem for such services.

Btw, I have never clicked on a google ad. Not once. I also now have adblock installed. Monetizing useful but free services is a tough problem, not to be dismissed.
They still shouldn't add per capita figures up, which the article mentioned.
I've noticed your crawler frequently on my site. Is it following from HN?

P.s. Good luck!
Aren't bees extremely sensitive to magnetic fields and various kinds of polarized light particles? The researchers say this method is non-invasive but I'm pretty sure X-ray is a kind of light.
Good luck for your journey, Tony!
also, the picture was gross
I went to UCC. While it's a fine university, with a lot of history and high aspirations, it's also quite small (approx 15000 students) with a small staff.
And in all these types of situations, if either has any political pull with the higher ups the whole thing can get blown out of proportion very quickly.

If Dylan Evans produced this paper with the sole purpose of harassing (of which he has been cleared) or offending the woman then they should go after him for wasting university time/money on pointless research.

If it is a legitimate paper and it was appropriate for him to show it to the woman, but she was offended by descriptions of bat fellatio then you've got to wonder what she's doing in the dept. of medicine? I'm sure there are far more offensive things out there and I would hate to have a researcher unwilling to look at those topics just because they're offensive to their sensibilities.

If it is a legitimate paper but it was not appropriate for him to show it to her (i.e. she expressed no interest in it and it's not part of her job) then you've got to question his motives. Was it just a "passing the dirty joke email around the office" type scenario, or was it "hey look at this interesting results I found" type scenario.

Regardless, he will now probably have to move universities as most institutions don't like their dirty laundry being aired in public (assuming it was he who made all of this public)
Do trust badges on websites work? Oh yes 32% increase in conversions
We will look into it, thanks!
That's because corporations are spoiled :P The human is free, meanwhile a zombie is a brain-eating monster so its responsibilities to its insatiable bloodlust comes first

Corporations are legal entities and they clearly have socio- and psycho-pathic tendencies. Facebook (and many other corporations) should suffer under at least /some/ legal liability to treat users' data with care.
S4 - $12 for 1 year of 1 TB write-only storage
I swing far more Republican than I do women's studies, but does anyone here seriously expect me to believe there is a perfectly innocent, professional explanation for a clinical psychologist to give a paper on bat fellatio to a colleague?

There is almost certainly a researcher somewhere who does comparative anatomical measurements of land and sea mammals. If you bring the visual aids for the study to your friendly neighborhood chemist on the excuse that it is science and she's a scientist so "Haha", I have zero sympathy.
Their spam filtering service looks interesting: http://so.yandex.ru/all/index.xml
This is off-topic, but Cashculator needs better press / Google-fu.

I was looking for a goal-based Mac personal finance app that let me track my progress with useful graphs, do forecasting, etc.

Searched for ages, didn't find anything, eventually went with an iPhone only app with almost no forecasting (PocketMoney) because of the convenience of data entry.
7 Series Of Unfortunate Events (That Caused Horrible Disasters)
Here are seven examples of accidents that simply shouldn’t have happened.
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Smartest Man In The World
I think what she's trying to get at is that you should try to focus more on ideas that have monetization baked in rather then the ones that just try to get popular and figure out how to make money afterwards.

In that sense, figuring out how to monetize good but free services is a non-issue because you won't be building a good but free service.
> Man, I like a lot of your comments

Thanks! It's mutual by the way.

> but sometimes it seems to me that you cross the line into being a busybody

Possibly. But I'm not going to fall over and roll on my back just because it is PG that does something.

Wakemate has a great chance to manage their image here and PG has essentially thrown that away.

> I'd like to be more communicative about my startup too. The reason I don't is that I'm spending all my energy working on the product.

I've worked for enough start-ups to know that you need to do everything right, not just work on your product. If you spend all your energy on that - and you've signed up customers for pre-order - I suggest you do something about it before you copy wakemates mistakes. It's really a pity, I've seen them go from having a ton of goodwill to essentially being damaged goods.

That's wasteful.

And to see PG squelch discussion about a YC company when he's fine with us discussing everything else under the sun is for want of a better description less than elegant, especially if HN has been used as a venue to get initial customers. Another reason why it is bad to do so is because we can all learn from each others mistakes and to see bad stuff discussed in public is a learning experience for all, not just for the company involved.

You simply can't launch off HN and rely on us to do our bit with passing word of mouth to friends if there is an interesting new YC start-up and hit the mute button if there is a legitimate concern by a HN member regarding non-performance by said company. That's what causes the stink.

People that put their $5 or $50 down have a reasonably expectation of in order:

- a product

- failing that to be kept in the loop

- if all else fails their money back or an explanation

Less simply won't do, and even if it was free you'd still be morally obliged to keep people informed. Stonewalling is the dumbest thing you could possibly do.

The OP wasn't trying to kick up a stink, he was simply a concerned customer. And given the way PG handled it now he probably went from 'disappointed' to something a few steps lower than that.
It's nutella!

Nutella is delicious! It's a chocolate hazel-nut spread. :)
Yes, you got it!

There's also a good reason to believe that lots of people WOULD pay for something like Gmail.

Remember people trying to sell off invites back in the early days?

More importantly, having a direct line to the company controlling their email -- attached by money -- is a very appealing prospect for people who understand that free is dicey.
Unfortunately I get redirected to the mobile version of the Russian site...
The other trick here is that you are not Google. Nobody who is Google is going to read my post. They can afford to run at a loss -- because their goal, remember, is to have all of the information in the world. Therefore Gmail serves their ends, even if you never click an ad.

It's a bad idea to look at a behemoth like Google, who operates on completely different physics, and decide to model yourself after them without knowing the full story.
Microsoft compares IE6 to nine-year-old milk
Hehe, I figured it wasn't actually feces, but the picture plus title put me off a bit :)
Traffic vs. employees [2006]
8-bit StarCraft
That's why the leiningen option with lein swank is useful :).
While I understand that they do tailor their ads to the information in your email, it was my (perhaps naive) understanding that the particulars of your emails were not used outside of determining those ads. Am I wrong in this?
hah. I love it. Now, personally, I don't have a problem with 'free' but I do think that 'free' goes more with "I'm doing this because I think it's fun" than "I'm doing this so I can get rich." - I think most of the problems you see with 'free' happen when you try to get rich off your free product, rather than just trying to create a good product that happens do be free. Craigslist is an excellent example. I mean, craig did get rich, by my standards, anyhow, but he's careful not to overdo it. He could probably become rich by global standards by selling craigslist to someone who would spam it up facebook or myspace style, but he didn't. even now, he focuses on making the free product good.

That's the other side of 'free' - infrastructure is super cheap these days. If you build it because you think it is awesome, there's usually no need to get VC to rent servers.

Really, though, if you want to make money rather than just cover your costs, charging money for what you provide is the obvious choice.

My personal goal is to have a conventional 'charge money for goods and services' business that is successful enough to support me and my crew while we work on a few free 'because I think it would be awesome' boondogles, because that sort of thing is a lot of fun, you know?
Throw this in your /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 spa.snap.com

and then just make sure you don't serve obnoxious mouse-over previews to yourself :)

Here's my full ad-block. I just add a hostname to it whenever I see an obnoxious bit of stuff on a webpage:

127.0.0.1 spa.snap.com ad-yt-bfp.doubleclick.net doubleclick.net m1.2mdn.net ad.doubleclick.net media.fastclick.net cdn.fastclick.net ds.serving-sys.com spe.atdmt.com content.dimestore.com speed.pointroll.com img-cdn.mediaplex.com clk.pointroll.com img-cdn.mediaplex.com pagead2.googlesyndication.com pagead2.googleadservices.com pubads.g.doubleclick.net partner.googleadservices.com tenbux.somethingawful.com somethingawful.crwdcntrl.net content.yieldmanager.edgesuite.net kona.kontera.com core.videoegg.com servedby.advertising.com uac.advertising.com at.atwola.com bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com view.atdmt.com ads.forbes.com bid.openx.net d1.openx.org edge.quantserve.com altfarm.mediaplex.com ad.uk.doubleclick.net shots.snap.com snap.com resources.infolinks.com fe.brandreachsys.com www.ttzmedia.com lapi.ebay.com cache.blogads.com mm.chitika.net techeblog.pgpartner.com cdn5.tribalfusion.com www3.adservenow.com ad.z5x.net clicktorrent.info this.content.served.by.adshuffle.com ads.adsonar.com js.adsonar.com web.adblade.com optimized-by.rubiconproject.com content.pulse360.com cdn.optmd.com as.casalemedia.com ad.ca.doubleclick.net ilinks.industrybrains.com context3.kanoodle.com adsyndication.msn.com technology.msnbc.us.intellitxt.com an.tacoda.net a.rad.msn.com b.rad.msn.com c.rad.msn.com d.rad.msn.com mjxads.internet.com ads.adbrite.com tag.contextweb.com contextweb.com media.contextweb.com cdn.eyewonder.com cdn1.eyewonder.com amch.questionmarket.com iacas.adbureau.net portal.mxlogic.com ads.revsci.net js.revsci.net images.intellitxt.com ads.cnn.com imagec12.247realmedia.com im.afy11.net ad.afy11.net afy11.net c5.zedo.com clickbangpop.com ads.clicksor.com clicksor.com pages.etology.com ads.okcimg.com okcupid.tags.crwdcntrl.net coop.crwdcntrl.net cdn.crwdcntrl.net d7.zedo.com ads.yimg.com us.a2.yimg.com
X-rays are on the electromagnetic spectrum, but they're a very long way up in frequency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Light_spectrum.png
I made an Opensearch plugin for it. Suggestions are not working but it is usable:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=yandex.co...
Surprised that the paypal link is real.
Raynes and Licenser (Heinz) have both worked on their own version of tryclojure but are collaborating on this version if I understand correctly. I'm not sure how they'll feel about this being posted early, but either way, pretty neat.
You really have no idea what you're talking about here. An industry that has had almost a century to prepare has a considerable legal advantage over rookie musicians, who can usually barely afford their instruments, let alone proper representation.

> I don't care about the major labels, what I care about is maintaining a social structure where creativity can be rewarded and the investment and time put into great quality intellectual products isn't wasted.

Such a structure will eventually unfold, we're looking at a lively market here.

Just like open source didn't kill software development wholesale copying won't kill the music market. But it will kill the current business model.
So, curious what people think about this. Imagine you were running foursquare. Would you block check.in?

I could see an argument for it. If Foursquare blocked them, it would be difficult for them to gain traction. And as the front-runner in the space, Foursquare is arguably hurt more by aggregator services like Check.in, while its competitors are helped by them.
I buy all the Unicornfree ideology here. But I can't help but begin to think that I reject shit sandwiches simply because the shit sandwich makers reject me. By the way, I also eat up all the preaching that comes out of 37Signals. I love that stuff. I love being an underdog. But, is it an inferiority complex?

I have my own thoughts on this:
http://fireworksfactory.blogspot.com/2010/05/hacking-on-dyna...
Alternative to Balsamiq for wireframing?
Balsamiq is great but it has to be more alternatives out there that possibly could be equal for making mockups/wireframes that I haven't found.

So, great tools for wireframing/mockups. Ideas?
I couldn't tell you, I don't know. But their public mission is to index all the world's information. That much we do know for sure, since they've said it themselves.

They are also clearly trying to cover ALL the bases, to have everybody sucking at their proverbial info-teat. They want you to store your calendar, docs, contacts, phone, videos, status updates, internet reading, spreadsheets, etc., etc., all on their servers.

Did you know they used Goog-411 to collect spoken phonemes to improve their auto-captioning of YouTube videos (so they can search them)?

This is clever… and largely unknown… and slightly scary, since it shows on the kind of game they're playing.

OK so this is totally off-topic. My point is, if you don't have the capital of Google, or their 30-level thinking, charge money! You can make a really good income. :)
It would be laughable a few years ago that people would view the whole web through a php portal. Now it's just a little ridiculous, but not unimaginable. Can't the world do better than this buggy portal?
As an empiricist I find it funny you think the amount of karma earned is suddenly a proxy for amount of help given your view on the people here.

You also seem to think you are helping when people don't question you or your methods. Funny world view.
LOLROTF
Hm. April 1st was a while ago. If you consider buying, hit me up, I'll beat their prices whatever they ask for.
MotherInLawPhotos.com - great case study. ;o)
Single page version:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/mar/14/why-travel-make...
Doubt it. This isn't a big enough feature to be driven by that situation. It sounds like a routine product improvement to me.
Hmm, it seems we can only nest three times. (edit) nevermind, I either missed the reply button when looking for it, or it wasn't there before, but I see I can nest further (end edit)

Anyways, I have a couple of ideas kicking around in my skull. Right now I'm trying to get some work so I can fund them with my salary though. One idea relies on ads for money, because no one in their right mind would pay for such a simple service. The other two are direct sales things.

Also, after reading the article, I became curious about which "fucking awesome" products the author (you?) is selling. I didn't see any links on the page to them.
Why? It's the perfect product :)
But isn't this pretty much what Jobs said in his rant. To quote: "We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it." The way I see it, "we have ... asked" implies Apple were at least somewhat open to the idea to include Flash support.
That's a really good point. I read most of your essay, and you're probably going to hate me for this, but… all that effort you put into engineering a new type of business, why didn't you use that energy for building a product you can charge for?

I don't agree with "always work on your best idea." My philosophy is "always work on the your best idea that is the nexus of being fun and earning you money soonest."

That's why my first SaaS is a time tracker, and not the giant perfect project management suite that lives on in my daydreams.

And the best reason to avoid VC is not so you can feel like an underdog, but because A) it's often a pyrrhic victory, and B) you add one more cook to the kitchen. I hate anyone telling me what to do. A VC is a client, in another form.
Are you sure that this will work on an iPad? Just because it's available in the browser doesn't mean it can be used. Take Google docs as an example.
> It's not sensationalistic.

The thread title was "Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years" - the first line starts with "THE world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050..." That's sensationalism.

> You know damn well they're talking about edible fish that we're accustomed to eating now.

Actually, the thread title - "Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years" made me click on it, because I thought it was about ecosystems getting destroyed by oil spills, or pollution, or something. And then the article was just about overfishing. And it exaggerates the chances.

> You're just being intellectually dishonest.

C'mon now, that's totally unnecessary - nightmare scenario of fishless oceans is sensationalism. There's an important point there, but the hand-wringing is a bad trend in my opinion. Exaggerating the effects of terrorism, pollution, fishing, copyright infringing piracy, and so on - it's a bad trend in my opinion. And if you disagree, why not be civil about it? "I don't think it's too sensationalistic because x, y, and z..." would work.
We built a similar app for internal use, with the addition of real-time collaboration (flash-based audio/video chat + NetMeeting-style abilities to draw, type, etc. on the reviewed document). While this requires a central server to stream a/v and good connection, it's quite popular around here now.
Most "rules" in life are suggestions of varying strengths. Screening for "college graduate" is just a way of asking for a baseline level of education and polish. If you can demonstrate that in another way, you'll be totally fine -- it may take more effort to prove this without a diploma, but it's totally possible.

The CTO of EMC is an IBM Fellow... and has a B.S. in Finance from Marist College.
The homepage is indexed about 12 times per day as far as I can measure it. I've never managed to get an age > 2 hours for the links posted there.
does anyone here seriously expect me to believe there is a perfectly innocent, professional explanation for a clinical psychologist to give a paper on bat fellatio to a colleague?

Yes. The article refers to "an ongoing discussion on human uniqueness"; I've personally been part of discussions where people have made (entirely incorrect) assertions along the lines of "animals don't engage in reproductively ineffective sexual activity".

I have no difficulty at all in accepting that a paper about bat fellatio was required in order to contradict a belief that fellatio is a human-only behaviour.
This is what Twitter look like originally
At the 99% Conference, This is what Twitter look like originally, according to Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey
The most useful android app: Gesture search
Building a product right out of the gate, having fun doing it, and reaping the rewards for it, both monetary and plain 'ol satisfation, is something we really missed. I do regret that.

We're going to do it though. In our case we had the idea for the business before the idea for the product. I would not suggest doing it that way again, but that's just the way we were thinking at the time.
They check in, but they never ever check out.
If you follow the "Present like Jobs" school, then Keynote is all you need.

Of course, most people would rather futz with their animations than rehearse.
check out: http://wziwyo.com/?p=177
Super product, it's the one service on the net that I'm actually scared to sign up for :)

Kudos for a great idea and a fantastic execution, very curious what you come up with next.
wtf, no good job? =)