skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since Google bought Android in 2005, I'm highly doubtful they were trying to save us from a "draconian" iPhone-AppStore-centric world 3 years in advance.
Integrated blogging, I like that. Useful for content mills. Just look at the amount of value created by Associated Content. $20m per year of existence.
I've done 2 hackathons with a large group over at UC Berkeley (sponsored by the CS Undergraduate Association and Startup @ Berkeley) but both times worked alone. I also did the overnight hackathon at Chirp, the Twitter Developer conference, last month.

General tips:

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- Make sure there's enough food & drink. It's very hard to think and keep working when you're thirsty or hungry.

- Second monitors for everybody involved are a must.

- Definitely still use version control. I've seen some people avoid this for the sake of speed but the ability to try things out and quickly recover is vital in a chaotic coding environment of a hackathon. Take the time to set it up.

- Don't keep things in your head for too long. It's faster to express yourself and communicate on paper. Bring LOTS of scratch paper and pencils.

- Take breaks unless you're in the zone. Get up, stretch out, walk around, get food, talk with others. It'll help re-energize your thinking.

- Don't sleep. All my hackathons were less than 24 hours and I didn't sleep. I got a good night's rest the night before I started and I stayed away from naps because it's very hard to wake up once you fall asleep.

- TDD is optional. If it's part of how you already code all your projects, keep at it. If you're not in the church of testing, don't bother. It will only slow you down. A hackathon is not about coverage or whether your code is well-tested, it's about whether you have code that works at all.

Splitting time:

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- Never hesitate to stop and brainstorm, just don't let a session go on for more than 30 minutes.

- Leave visual design for last. My goal has always been to build something functional, not necessarily pretty or usable. I can also crank out CSS pretty quickly so I'm comfortable leaving most or all of the visual design for the very end.

- It's worth sketch out the flows early on. It will help guide and structure your code and other ideas. Just don't obsess over a great user experience in the beginning.

- Spend the vast majority of your time coding. Iterate like you've never iterated before. Hack, hack, hack, and only refactor if the latency is really bothering you. Get to something that works first and foremost, then worry about code quality, performance, readability, and all the things you're supposed to when you have more time.
People are always acting in their self-interest, whether they're aware of it or not.

If you're going to engage in criminal behavior, don't: if something goes wrong you have no recourse.
Ask HN: How do you deal with the 'Office Politicians'?
I'm sure most of us have had our fair share of office politics in some form or the other.

I'm also sure that most of us have come across that 'one piece of work of a slimeball'.

So how do/did you deal with that one office politician that one time?
What this basically does is what you would do when starting without a CSS reset: Just reset the elements while you're styling them. Elements that you don't use don't get reset.

That's fine of course, but if you make a lot of websites then you really just want a common stylesheet that does everything you might need, and go from there. (I made sencss with that in mind: http://sencss.kilianvalkhof.com )
Very little exists within a vacuum, whenever you make an important choice you're choosing a philosophical position. Always understand the angle of the factions you align yourself with, pick accordingly.

Things are rarely so cut and dried nowadays that you can easily understand what factions you're aligning yourself with so careful analysis is called for. Who do you work for? What do they do? Why do they do it this way? What are their dependencies, what is the ecosystem that each of these dependencies links into, and so on, and so forth.

Also, good way to analyse something from a competitive perspective too, weaknesses become clear. Everything has them, it's just a question of what's important to you.
Emotions are like weather. You can stick to your regimen forever, and you're still going to feel down sometimes, even if for absolutely no reason at all. That's totally normal cycles of chemistry.

And yes, life is suffering. You stub your toe. You think it's too cold, or too hot. Somebody doesn't look at you the way you want. Your tummy hurts. You constantly have to 'battle' against focusing "on what you're not," for example. You have a hard time focusing. You look at books, things, places, scenes, and people (hey, and HN comments) and they feel WRONG. You don't like them. You judge them. You judge everything by your yardstick.

That is all suffering.

That's the human condition: judging, and struggling, and hurting.

It doesn't say there aren't OTHER things, but the suffering is always there.
“If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one company, one carrier was the future.”

– Google Vice-President of Engineering Vic Gundotra explains why the company made Android.

That sounds to me like Gundotra committed the fallacy of backdating present justifications/motivations to the original act. I assume this was in a speech at Google I/O? It does read a tad pretentious.

Though, while I don't think cognitive backdating is a healthy habit (keeping in mind it's a common mistake, one we all actually fall prey to), it also seems a bit grandiose to call this a "Microsoft moment".

It's good to keep Google on its toes, of course, but Gundotra's misspeak doesn't strike me as sufficient reason to draw all manner of parallels to Microsoft. Google's actions to date do not seem equivalent, in my estimation. And hopefully, by catching such misconceptions, we'll remind them not to actually make mistakes in the future like Microsoft has made.
Full of shit.
What happens between 0815 and 0900?
Me and my cofounders are residents at Dogpatch Labs in San Francisco. The experience is awesome. The community feel and support is there, and it's so motivating to be around other startups. The coffee, meeting rooms, Internet, and awesome location on a pier in SF is awesome.

I think these environments are great!

I work there 2 or 3 times a week, otherwise i work out of my home office the whole day banging out code. But there are times you just need human interaction and meeting rooms. It's slightly embarrassing asking people to meet with you at home. Being at dogpatchlabs is much more professional :)
There are some App Store sales advantages which stem from simply having sold a large number of copies. For example:

1. More ratings (shown as numbers next to 1-5 star ratings) - Help convince potential buyers that your app is significant

2. More reviews - advantage as with #1, but also higher chance of having at least 1 review in a larger number of countries.

3. Recommendations in iTunes - On the iTunes interface to the App Store, users are shown 'People who bought X also bought Y'-type recommendations. High sales increase the chance of your app featuring in these.

So by getting in early, you sell copies through being the main/only product choice in your area. Then, when competitor apps arrive there are some residual advantages like these which place you ahead of the pack.
http://Dogpatchlabs.com
Take the one that gives you best ownership chance... if you are capability of getting job B then you can do in a year from now if A is to fail. But beware... if A is true startup your bound to go on an adventure.
The problem that I have with this comment (and many of the stories like the one linked) is the simple fact that, although this is obviously a blatant attempt to re-write history via corporate PR (something that Google does just as often as any huge company), it really is true (in an overall sense-- Google certainly is attempting to avoid a future where the iPhone is dominant. Whether or not you think that's "draconian"... well, really, stop right there. How many HN posts are there about various App Store debacles? Censorship? If it isn't "draconian", it is certainly less than "free"). Google is doing something to challenge Apple here, and they are doing it in all the right ways.

I have a Droid, and a good friend has an iPhone. There are times when I really wish I had his phone instead of my Droid, but there are also a lot of times he wished he had an Android device. Like it or not, Apple has competition, and that's forcing them to innovate rather than letting developers do it for them via the App store. Tethering, built in MiFi-like capability-- these are things that Apple's good friends in the App store can't do for them, and Google is right to go after them. Likewise, although it is very likely I'll try to turn off/disable Flash support if my Droid is ever updated to 2.2 (or if I ever root it and go with Cyanogen, etc), it is a weakness of the iPhone, iPad, and going after Apple where it will actually hurt is more than fair game.

Again, I don't think giving Google a pass here (or worshipping at their temple) is a good idea per se. But I do think that a lot of the criticisms leveled at Google for this comment have less to do with Google's real sin-- PR manipulation-- and more to do with the fact that a great deal of Apple supporters are a bit chagrined that Google is doing so well against the iPhone.

Just look at Gruber. I mean, I love the guy-- read his site every day, as I think it is some of the best Apple analysis out there-- but as Google I/O has gone on, his normally cogent commentary has degenerated into what basically amounts to one-line (or one-paragraph) sniping over Google's attempts to challenge Apple. As if Apple somehow has the right to complete 100% dominance of the consumer smartphone market.

Again, like Google or not, I think its hard to argue that Android isn't a serious challenger to the iPhone (and soon the iPad, if Android-lovers have their way). And its hard to argue that this is ultimately good for consumers-- certainly much, much better than an Apple-run world where political satire is banned from our phones simply because it might ruffle a few feathers or distract from Steve Job's vision of the "perfect" App Store.
I think WebM is a good thing, but then I also think Apple's Webkit is a good thing too. Doesn't give either of them a free pass in other areas.

Something that annoyed me for a long time as an Apple user was that people would criticize them very strongly for the wrong things, while ignoring, not understanding or actively embracing them when they did bad stuff. It seemed to be the wrong kind of feedback loop. (The absolute roasting they got from Mac developers when they suggested web apps were the future being a good example).

For an example of a Google faux pas, they're crowdsourcing map data in the developing world and then keeping the data proprietary.

If we can't give feedback about companies at any granularity lower than loving or hating the whole company then we're in trouble as an industry (and sadly that often seems to be the case).
in japanese but someone already started.
http://www.foodlog.jp/
With the walking, waiting and bus riding (and leaving home late) it takes me from about 0745 to 0900 to travel to work.
New UK govt to curb CCTV, scrap ID cards, help open source
http://www.fiddme.com/
The Perlegorical Imperative and the Will to Contribute
Or as my Dad often told me "Don't count your chickens before they hatch". This was a very important lesson for me. Don't spend money counting on "the sure thing" that is going to pay off, because often it never appears.
I like your general point.

I'm sure there are unforeseen expenses in all of those scenarios that would require some padding to insure against, but the contracting scenario is the one I'm most experienced with, and the assumptions behind your numbers have bitten me in the past.
Wasn't Eric Schmidt on Apple's Board of Directors back then?
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Visiting Australia? Your laptop may be searched for porn
I don't recall these guys ever saying they were trying to take down Facebook. That was the media's spin. A lot of people only understand change in terms of bloody revolution.

They're some geeks with a solid idea and they've got way more cash to build it than most successful open source projects ever see. There is absolutely no problem here. But I guess if you swim with sharks...
Why the boiling?
Reality is that Android started before we even knew about the iPhone. It just matured after the iPhone launch, which makes the common guess that Google was out to outdo Apple here explainable, but not more true at that point. Apple profits from this image of course. Being the copycat tends to give you a slightly worse image by default, and I think Apple likes it that way.

Nowadays the iPhone is a worthy competitor of course, and at this point outdoing the iPhone is a logical step/consequence.
That, and the sheer sum of suffering vastly trumps pleasure in the world. And not just in humans -- there is a lot of cruelty in nature.

Pain can also be condensed much more easily than pleasure, to maddening heights.

It seems very whimsical to say that suffering is not one of the main defining features of the current situation on planet earth. And to say so is to blatantly ignore not only your own suffering, but the world's. Think about how tiny hope was compared to everything else that was let out of Pandora's box.
You are probably right. I forgot completely the 64c existed.

An 8-bit Commodore is something that's missing from my collection.

edit (for the retro-curious):

the 64c http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=998

the 128 http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=...

and the 65 http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=...
"and animal experiments confirm"

bastards...
Suggest a better solution?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_pressure_wound_therapy
7am Usually woken by our two Burmese cats asking for breakfast.
Put cat's food out.
Put coffee on.
Empty dishwasher.
Empty cat's litter tray.
Shave, shower get dressed.
Breakfast - coffee, muesli, natural yogurt and fruit.
Drink coffee, listen to Radio 4, chat to wife/kids.
Put breakfast dishes in dishwasher.
Wake up.
Brush teeth.
Check work email on iPhone.
Leave house at 8.35.
Walk to work listing to podcast or an audiobook.
Get to work at 9am.
Pixels Attack
>>> You constantly have to 'battle' against focusing "on what you're not,"

Well, I don't have to. If I focus on the problem I'm facing probably I will be happy with the outcome.

One thing is for sure: My "focusing on the problem" self can beat my "focusing on what I wish I'd be" self any day.
Tesla confirmed months ago its interest in compact cars (video)
Ask HN: % of Free to Paid?
Who wants to "open the kimono" a little on their SaaS experience? :) For the good of all, naturally.

I'm looking for info on people's experiences of free:paid account ratios. Not just traffic:signup of paid accounts rates, but over time (after signups).

Give to get: Freckle (http://letsfreckle.com) has a fairly typical conversion rate for signup - between 1 and 4%, on any given day, heavily dependent on the source/type of traffic. Overall, 7.8% of all our accounts are paid accounts.

I'd also love any posts, essays, etc., that you know that discuss this rate. I haven't had much luck googling.

EDIT: Made my intro more compelling ;)
http://www.astronomycast.com/space-flight/ep-121-spacesuits/

Just because it's entertaining, the presenters are awesome, and you get to learn a lot of cool stuff (and they cite the link in question, too).
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It's called win-win. The handset makers are not doing Google a favor, they are saving the costs for developing their own OS.
As pressure decreases boiling point also decreases, so in a vacuum it is below your body temperature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_pressure#Boiling_po...
If I can remember my high school physics, basically it's because of the low pressure.

Pressure x Volume = Temperature, so as the pressure decreases, so does the temperature.

But Wikipedia answers it better than I can:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_point
How much is it per month? The website doesn't really state the prices and I'm also assuming it's selective in which startup/project it lets in.
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Reasons I want to know this information (and maybe you do too):

* to know where I stand

* to help me decide if I should put more emphasis on the signup/upgrade process, or not

* to encourage other people to talk about this stuff (since it's so hard to find), to demystify it as a business
Ha, good point, my cat actually attack my legs if I try to leave the kitchen without feeding it.
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Is there much advantage starting out defining how rich you want to be?

Yes.

Quantifying your goal helps you answer questions like "How can I get there from here?", "How long will it take?", "Will I ever make it there at my current trajectory?", and "Do I still need to work anymore?"

And it will also tell you, "How much do I have to charge, and to how many customers?", which will help you avoid low-margin, hard-sale markets, and get you thinking about recurring revenue.
Whoever invented the snooze button should have to account for all the agony that button has caused. Think of the number of heart attacks.
It's on Kindle now. Maybe they added it in just the past couple of days.
May sound simplistic:

* Communicating with others what you feel.

* It is mostly chaos, everywhere.

* Do not drop your ideas thinking "Its so simple, someone must have already done it." People do much less that what you may expect"

* A very very small percentage of people within any system understand the "full picture"
With 24 employees and > 1PB of storage to manage, I'd certainly hope so ;-) Assuming the now-old number of ~3M customers (http://gigaom.com/2009/11/24/dropbox-raises-7-25m-crosses-3m...) it wouldn't be untoward to figure 4% are paying $10-25 a month, netting over a million a month in all.
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The Minimum Viable Product from our lean, bootstrapped startup - comments?
Sounds too good to be true. But if it really happens, it would be interesting to see how other governments react to one of the biggest surveillance supporting countries changing their policies this radically.
Toyota has a lot of manufacturing the US; the NUMMI venture with GM was not the only toe-in-the-water. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Toyota_manufacturing_fa...
plinkplonk 2--> Well you gave a pathetic example. I really feel sorry saying this but in response to your example, here is mine. You do not want your mom to get raped but why would stop other people to rape her? means you respect her right and she is the most important person in your life. I am a christian but I really feel sorry when I see comments like you have written. Why do we need to draw cartoon I mean cant we just think about other issues? why are you bothered about other religions?
It must be a very hard decision : accept 40 M$ or keep growing very personal work.

It sounds agonizing.
VLC 1.1.0-RC builds with VP8 support
So does everybody else, which explains why there are 460 of these sites up today. None of them have critical mass, so they're all completely useless. And since there's really no good way to make money doing it, nobody big enough to gain critical mass is going to take it on.
"...his last conscious memory was of the water on his tongue beginning to boil."

Reality is so much cooler than fiction. I've read just about everything Clarke, Heinlein and Asimov have written among many other physics sci-fi authors and none of them thought of that one.
Brush teeth. Work on learning emacs or customize emac further. Work on code if said emacs learning/customization is done. Get dressed and go to school.

I only got 2 more days of high school though.
I agree. The newer versions of Boxee have been much heavier, and crash or slow down significantly the Apple TV. I had a lot of hope for Boxee on Apple TV with their beta, but it's clear to me that their focus is on selling their boxee box now.

The alphas ran decently on it. Since there is no HD decoder hardware in the Apple TV (there's a minipci card you can apparently buy for like $50 that replaces the minipci wifi card that adds on hardware HD decoding), so you can not watch HD obviously. However, even the interface and regular SD videos are slower than heck on it now.

Apple and Boxee dropped the ball.

What would have been real genius (no pun intended), was if Apple bought Boxee from Avner, -or- they collaborated together for the Apple TV and Apple TV HD.

I'm not holding my breath though. It'll never happen, since their philosophies are so different, and Apple would want the iPhone OS SDK on it, which would require a rewrite of Boxee.
Programming helps here. I got a lot better at doing this in everyday things when i got a lot better at programming.
The video was mostly fumes. It's hard to really see the true vision of the product with that they released. But, at least this announcement may actually get Apple to rethink their Apple TV strategy.
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Aside from a few testing and promotional accounts, 100% of Tarsnap users are paying.

I've never really understood the desire to attract non-paying customers, personally...
The patent process is still notoriously too expensive for most people with ideas. And idea think tanks are out to rip people off, so it's hard to find partners who are willing to patent an idea that may not be monetized on an aggressive schedule.
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Well, when it's not going efficiently, it's something like:

Wake
Email/internet
Put on a pot of coffee and some toast in the toaster
Email/internet
Eat breakfast, then get a second cup of coffee to...
Email/internet
Turn on shower so water starts heating up
Email/internet
Take shower, emerge wrapped in towel and...
Email/internet
Get dressed
Email/internet
Get together stuff I need to take
Email/internet
Leave house