skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... another is that my motivation and optimism is anything but constant, sometimes I think that if I work really hard for two months, I have enough to release an alpha, yet there tend to be some stumbling block, something I estimated to just a day’s work (or didn’t consider at all) end up taking the two full months, so it seems I have made no progress at all after those two months (sometimes it may even go backwards because structural changes disable certain features), and someone will then ask about that alpha I was so optimistic about, which will make me think it is all hopeless…

Anyone who has been burnt out should recognize that as a perfect description of it. It actually made me very sad to read that, since it reminded me so forcefully of times when I was burnt out - and I'm worried I'm close to that point again.
Give the intype a try, not sure if it has the many features of TextMate but I liked it enough to replace Notepad++ for me.

http://intype.info/download/download.php?intype-0.3.1.734.ex...
As someone who has been slowly unlearning SVN, I agree. Still, learning Subversion was trivial compared to Git, regardless of which I learned first.
The section under "Shooting the Web in the foot" might guide some of what's been done with WebKit and HTML5.
No, I'm pointing out that the paragraph in the original article doesn't seem to add up. $134,122 is apparently the equivalent of one lost job. But that's not anywhere near the right figure for a minimum wage manufacturing job.
Firstly, I love the idea, and there is, as I'm sure you're aware much greater scope than this application alone. The qualm I have is that it's currently at the intersection of gaming and exercise. I would be surprised if gyms wanted this since gym goers would feel silly, until you've got something more immersive (think VR system with tracking of goals, sprints and durations etc.). In the mean time I imagine you would have to sell it as an add-on to those with home gyms therefore.

If you're interested in talking about the idea more let me know on my public e-mail arie2007 at hotmail.co.uk.
Allan's words:

- "my motivation and optimism is anything but constant"

- "which will make me think it is all hopeless"

- "these will just be a reflection of my mood that day, which is anything but constant"

Allan may or may not be burned out. It isn't an unfounded observation, though. His comments sound a lot like burnout to me.
I bought TextMate but still mainly use Emacs. However, I'd still pay for an upgrade. TextMate was incredible when I had to write a lot of HTML. A Windows and Linux version would be nice. Emacs runs everywhere and I don't always get to choose my platform. My fingers know what to do in emacs. TextMate everywhere would make retraining more worthwhile.

Finally, I'd pay additional for a Linux version.
nice..but looks little bit dull.... anyways nice work..
Honestly, my one wish is for split views. With that, I would be perfectly content to use TM1.5 for the foreseeable future with absolutely no complaints.
But then there are people that have to work a lot and don't want to care.
Ironically, the main product i am working on is enterprise mail solutions. I could deploy somethign at home or in anotehr datacenter.. but even the time for the setup is too much time to bother with. So in the end, i use gmail for private stuff and our corporate mail system for business.
If i'd have the time to setup the toolchain you mentioned including custom hacks, i'd rather go outside or meet friends, for sure. Or work on some other projects..
Assuming you have $11500 you can spare, I'd do it. I think this is a pretty decent project and I personally would feel confident that 100 units could be moved.
You didn't use the "Article Text" feature, did you? I think that's a really great feature. Especially if you're on a slow connection.
Refactoring, as talked about in Martin Fowler's book and by people who've done academic work on the subject, consists of changes that alter the structure of code while preserving functionality.

In many environments, specific refactorings are pre-packaged, such that they know their preconditions for working properly, and work with almost mathematical precision. In these sorts of environments, with additional support like Unit Tests, you gradually morph from one structuring of the system into another. This can be a lot safer than "ripping out the plumbing and throwing the bigger pieces back together." (I've also done the rip/reassemble thing. It's often fun and yields good results too.)
What would you like updated in the interface?
I think if you want to sell to gyms you need a very robust system that isn't just bolted onto the exterior of the bike. Following that logic, you start to get into the game of selling exercise equipment which has been fully integrated.

You end up being http://www.expresso.com which sells some bikes with a basic video game attached. Your product is very expensive, not from a trusted name in equipment quality, and quickly feels technologically out of date.

I think there might be some interesting ways around it, but I need to think about it more.
I do, but its most of my savings :)
Funny how Google went and did the same thing.
Firefox - Google Search
An open letter to Adobe regarding CS5
Unless and until there's another state makes non-competes invalid (or California reverses this century plus old public policy) it's hard to say just how important it is, but I think it's very important, at times clearly overwhelmingly important.

The beginning of the silicon era of Silicon Valley simply wouldn't have happened without the exodus of the Traitorous Eight from Shockley Semiconductor followed by the exodus from Fairchild Semiconductor, and following that we've heard a lot about how cross-fertilization helped the industry move so quickly.

On the other hand, I've personally experienced several startups that never got off the ground in Massachusetts and Virginia because one or more of the potential founders were restricted by a non-compete. In one case, a bunch of us just all did something else before getting back together.
I was just marveling how someone fixed doc typos shortly after we published http://github.com/stevedekorte/vertex.js
I actually wish the main site stylesheet can be changed so that the white columns on left and right sides does not show up in mobile screen. This will save spaces, make the text bigger and make navigation/zooming easier on small screen.
So would "design -> test -> implement" work for you?
No tomorrow means a limitless today. Read everything here, forget about it, then do absolutely anything you want until you die. Between now and then, you might find something to live for. Happy journey my friend.
Wow! I had no idea California has such a law, and I e.g. know that Honeywell's standard and no exceptions employment contract in Massachusetts in the early '80s was a nasty issue for some would be startups by Multicians. I always found such provisions to be more than distasteful, they start the whole relationship on a really sour note.

As I and others have discussed elsewhere on this thread, sane and balanced employment law has had a critical positive effect on Silicon Valley. Given that SV is unique in the world, maybe an essential one.
Like Jakob pointed out, I added the ability to pull the text of the linked article, which still needs some tweaking but works for most normal blog/news articles. It really makes articles readable on phones. It's based arc90's readability.

In addition, I added in the ability to read the comments and made them collapsible (like reddit).

But yes, if you only want the list of the front page links, the RSS will do.

I plan on adding more features soon:
-Make comments sortable by date or points
-More extensive caching of the comment pages along with the article text (in case either go down)
-Improve the overall look and feel
Posting a link like this will surely miss the point for a lot of people.
If you don't know who Fravia was go and read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia

I don't like his later theme of 'searching' stuff too much.
But I still remember his reverse engineering site back in the 90s. I surely learned a lot from it.

Actually I just found a mirror of his old site on the net at http://woodmann.cjb.net/
Many things will be surely outdated but to learn how to do reverse engineering I'm sure it is still a very good resource.
For the front page or the comment pages?
Barefoot running and injuries
Solving xkcd's raptor problem
I guess by mobile you mean iPhone; it looks pretty poor on Fennec/Maemo or probably any landscape device.
I really like icombinator but I wanted to address some problems and add new features (View the article text, collapse/expand comments, and return to the previous position when using the browsers back button).
I'm not a designer, but a grid with unknown-width columns seems like it eliminates many of the benefits of grids.
The point being that for most users the faster approach that requires less thinking is to type it twice.

Spoken like a touch-typist with a short email address. I feel confident in claiming that annabelle.t.johnson@woodandplaster.co.uk will be looking for that copypaste button. It's not like copypaste is a new technological innovation - it's practically the most used feature of personal computing, after backspace.
I'm currently developing a custom system to track all requests and events on my app that will allow me to map visits and see how users move through the site in addition to specific metrics.

We use google analytics but that doesn't provide the type of segmentation and exact event tracking I'm looking for. It may be possible, but I find the integration of specific event types will provide a lot of insight that google can't. Also I really want some specific data on demo users with the new registration less sign up I integrated.
Pitch it to the "as seen on TV" companies that sell exercise equipment through infomercials perhaps.
Well, a comment rather than code and it's NSFW as well.
Most of the time, the long discussions aren't about anything important. Nobody cares how you build your nuclear reactor, but everyone wants to debate the color of the bikeshed.
hi, any idea what problem embed.ly solves. it seems like having a mapping of 30 odd services/urls -> to their oembed codes.
I'd be curious to see how accessing an open wifi can be made illegal.

Using the magic words "expectation of privacy". If we assume that the general public is clueless about computers and thus many people expect that their open wi-fi is private (even though technically it isn't), then there's a problem. Also see the debate about thermal camera scanning of homes.

...my laptop wifi is going to ask permission to the open wifi...

But that's not what Google did; they were sniffing traffic without associating, so the APs had no opportunity to deny access.
The link is broken on my mobile phone. It sends me to a mobile portal instead of the content.
This post reads like full-blown second-system effect.
The 'Article Text' is incredibly useful on old mobiles and slow connections.

I will now be able to read actual articles, not just HN comments. Thank you!
Weinstein doesn't link to any of the sources he is criticizing, perhaps out of a desire to avoid giving them any more underserved publicity than they already have. But rest assured, such conspiracy theories are out there:

http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/05/speculation-could-goog...
I think it's that only YC/Slashdot readers call it that.

How many Facebook users have you encountered who would leave if there were an alternative? The lack of portable data inhibits the adoption of alternatives by raising the cost of leaving. I've heard "I'd leave, but I've got everything on FB" (referring to photos, usually) which they can't get off FB.
An example of gaming art: Shadow of the Colossus.

The gameplay elements are integrated into the storytelling in a way I can only describe as art. Desolation, terror, desperation, and triumph experienced in the gaming elements are as well integrated into the story as the best soundtracks are integrated with the best made movies.

The experience of holding on by your fingertips, as the grip bar shrinks, the horror experienced when scoping out the 8th colossus from a distance and letting it close with you, the hopelessness of operating the last character to appear... these are all integrated with the emotional intent of the part of the story they are in, to the point where the gameplay is integral and not a bolted-on gimmick.

Interactivity is just another element, like color, sound, music, CG, 3D, or any number of technical innovations. It's just another tool to be used, artfully or clumsily. It may start out as a gimmick, but creative and talented people will figure out how to properly integrate it over time.

(Yes, soundtracks, color, CG, and 3D were once all pronounced to be gimmicks that added nothing to the art of movies.)
Thank you so much - very much appreciated!
We just starting using KISSMetrics http://kissmetrics.com/ started loving it, you actually describe your app funnel.. Also has a beautiful A/B Split Test API
The problem with this analysis of aerospace progress is that you are focusing on the most obvious factors for differentiation and missing the real revolutions that are continuing to happen within the field. Yes, airplanes today have the same approximate shape and engine types that they had thirty years ago, but that is because the Cambrian explosion of the late forties and early fifties converged upon shapes and configurations that were simply the best option given all of the different factors that had to be balanced.

The concord was fast, but speed is not everything. The reason that there were no other supersonic passenger craft is because once this particular prestige project actually started flying everyone saw what a bad idea it really was; if the plane had been built and flown by private companies it would have been retired a decade earlier. It was cramped, had abysmal fuel efficiency, and required a great deal of maintenance to keep flying. It also turned out that few people actually needed (or were willing to pay for) the speed advantage being offered.

The current advances in passenger aircraft happen in areas that are not obvious to a casual observer; more efficient engines that require less maintenance, avionics that can fly the plane themselves and fly by wire systems that reduce weight and can increase safety. A modern sedan car looks very similar to one from twenty or thirty years ago, but the modern vehicle is superior in just about every possible way, The thing that you tend to forget about all of those "mind-blowing engineering achievements" is that most of them failed to have any significant impact -- optimization to an extreme along a single performance axis is neat, but not really as useful or interesting as most people think.
Copyfree vs Copyleft - WikiVS
She also has five of his kids, so yes, I would.
> In the U.S., the cost (to go public) is $2 million to $3 million and (start-ups have to meet the bar of) $100 million in (annual) revenue.

I am confused. What about that guy who is taking his beer pong table business public to raise 12,000? And what about other penny stocks? Can some one clarify by what he means by it costs 2 million to go public and your company needs to have a 100 million in revenue?
PedalSense: open source control that connects bike to xbox, ps3 or wii.
Small things like the project drawer which is quite outdated.
I liked the 1900–1920 ones best. There's no point in trying to pretend that the categories are scientific/natural or otherwise given. Might as well let people just fill in whatever they self-identify as. Would probably yield more interesting and insightful results in the process.
Legislative redistricting?

The original purpose of the race box was to skew the distribution of congress critters in a certain way (unfair) way. From what the Census says, it sounds as if they are still doing that.
Nice simple idea. It's mapped to trigger?

I think the cost is a bit too high for something that feels a bit gimmicky to your average dude though, esp once you add a margin for yourself (assuming that's your goal).
Really?

I've never heard "I'd leave, but all my photos are on Facebook". Instead what I hear a lot of is "I'd leave, but all my friends are on Facebook".

Data portability solves an easy problem that relatively few people are bothered by; at the end of the day the big problem is that you can take your social graph with you. You can't make your friends all jump to service Y with you.
Dennis Hopper, Hollywood rebel, dies at 74
I agree with that assessment with the exception of the repoze.who comment. Repoze.who is bad ass. It takes a while to get your head around it, but at the end, it is far and away the best engineered and extensible auth system for python apps. I would encourage you to take a closer look.
Worked fine in Firefox. Just not in Mac Safari 4.0.5.
With the exception of repoze.bfg, I think repoze.bfg is even more flexible.
It's hard for a solo developer, especially one who's invested this much time, to take such a pragmatic view of ridicule. If Allan anticipates that early criticism is going to impact his motivation, then he's doing the wise thing by resisting the urge to "show a fool half a job".
Sometimes they aren't, sometimes they are. Something about babies and bathwater. The ideal online debate platform would algorithmically marginalize bikeshedding.
I suspect that Wired detects that you're on a phone and thus serves you content formatted for a phone. However, many times I have seen sites do what you describe: redirecting you to the mobile version of the homepage rather than of the article you wanted to see in the first place.

This is very lazy (and frustrating) programming.

So, the link is not broken. Wired is broken.
Flight fundamentally depends on cheap, portable energy. When energy is cheap and travel times are long, spending more energy to get there faster makes sense. But the Concorde was already on the marginal side of that curve.

Those faster planes, not to mention things like flying cars and jetpacks, are dreams from the era of (apparently) limitless cheap energy.

Passenger space ultimately depends on cheap energy too, which is why the innovation we see is in things like entertainment systems, climate control, bigger windows, reduced noise, and so on that don't require more space.
Really? Just one or two things? Which ones?
This article has a lot of great points about private vs. open, but one I disagree with is "First, it's hard, if not impossible, to monetize private communication."

The obvious example that comes to mind here is Gmail. People still click on the targeted keyword ads next to their email, and I haven't seen that Gmail has started making anyone's email public yet.

That billion dollars Facebook made last year was mostly from those personalized display ads, which can easily target a person based on the ad profile of them facebook builds without anyone (read: the outside world) ever seeing their name/employer/statuses/etc. I can't imagine that the revenue from selling the status stream to Google for some multiple of $15 million comes close to the billion they're making from display ads, or the PR mess they've gotten themselves in.
slow and silent on my iphone3gs. otherwise well done.
Any idea what he means by "web objects"? I read the whole thing but couldn't get a clear idea.
"The ideal online debate platform would algorithmically marginalize bikeshedding."

That is a great sentence, in both senses.

It's hard to do, though YC does have several features for this, and they seem to work to some extent.
> Jobs's obsession with his old rival took the form of an unusual proposal for all parties to voluntarily keep the Web simple and avoid increasingly popular client-side enhancements like HotJava.

So Jobs didn't like the idea of Flash back in 1996. He didn't just make that up recently as an excuse.
He also has the option of making TextMate 2 free only to users who purchased TM 1 after TM 2 was announced.
The Bay Area could have enough housing to accommodate far more people at lower prices without sacrificing desirability. It doesn't because of regulation. (Finding the water for those people is another story.) New York is similar.
What about problem #3 of http://xkcd.com/135/ ? Will xkcd ever publish the floor plan from the next page where you escape from the raptors?
Interesting... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microemulsion
That's actually a feature I wish existed in e.g. StackOverflow. They actually do know which language code is written in, so they should include a comment before the copied code which links to the question.

I do this myself with any snippets I copy from sites, since I always find myself going back to the site at least once.
That's an excellent idea. As a devoted 1.0 user I really wouldn't feel comfortable taking 2.0 for free.
Introduction to Feedback in Electronics
WebObjects is/was NeXT's web application development framework. Think of it as being like the iPhone SDK for the Web (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects).

Interestingly, back in the 90s WebObjects was programmed using Objective C. In 2000, Apple (post-NeXT acquisition) overhauled WO to use Java. This was around the same time that the Cocoa/Java bridge was released for building native Cocoa apps in Java.

WebObjects seems to be on life support inside Apple today. They haven't released a new version in about 20 months, and there's not much sign they'll update it any time soon.
He's probably referring to Apple's WebObjects framework for making web applications - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webobjects

I don't think it's widely used at all these days although I believe Apple web apps like the iTunes store and their online store use it.
Why, they're the future of the web, or haven't you heard? ;-)
An analytical solution would be nice in addition to the simulation one. Even better if the number of sides of the polygon could be parametrized :)
What's the point of enacting laws that are impossible to prove in court? How can I, a user that doesn't even know that I shoudl have a Wifi password, prove that someone passively received radio waves coming out of my house?

The answer is: you can't. If you can't prove someone did something, it's dumb to make it illegal.
Ask HN: Please check out my web app
I'd post the link directly, but I must request that you not repost this link or use it excessively (in one day).

http://pseudomap.appspot.com

or

http://pseudomap.appspot.com/TileLayout.html?real=-0.25&imag=0&m=2&n=2&scheme=fire&colorparam=40

The second link is listed under 'Hot Diamond' in the link section.

This can be fairly called an alpha version of a google maps style explorer for a certain class of fractals. Right now you can double click to zoom in and use the mouse wheel to zoom in/out. Dragging the image around has not been implemented, but you can still get anywhere you would like. Currently you can only zoom in (doubles the sides) ~14 times.

Please check the about panel for more info/contact information. I'll check this wave:

https://wave.google.com/wave/waveref/googlewave.com/w+6hV8Fhr2A

and the discussion here of course. Thanks for the feedback.
Twenty Reality-Checking Questions for Would-Be Entrepreneurs
it abstracts out the hunt for the embed code for a particular resource, just give them the url and get back an embed code.
IPhone 4 to have dense IPS display
Actually I think GitX (note: you want the Brotherbard fork of it) is that. I haven't learned much about Git from using Github, but GitX is great for that.
I left Microsoft a few years ago to join a company in Seattle. Not having to cross those bridges any more was a HUGE part of the reason why I left. I cannot express how awful the commute is to and from Redmond.

Of course, getting a raise and working in a 15 person startup didn't hurt either... These days, I'm working out of a cafe two blocks from my apartment. My daily commute time has gone from 90 minutes by car to 30 minutes by bus to 5 minutes by foot.