skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point about the lack of "alarm bells" raised while doing busy work really resonates with me. Its so easy to get in the habit of context switching between multiple inputs (email, twitter, …) that if you don't strictly time box it you can easily lose a few hours.

And don't get me started on meetings…
They don't have much else besides snark. When all you've got is a hammer, I guess you're gonna pound some nails into AP's face.
Ask HN: How to find short term work?
My situation is this: I'm about 6 weeks from starting grad school (CS), and I'm bored. I've been doing a bit of toying around with my own ideas, but at this point I'm trying to put a little cash in my pocket. I've wasted time looking through the Craigslist computer gigs listings never to hear back from anyone. I am young, but I like to thing I have pretty good ideas, and I am able to get things done. How can I go about finding some short term work to a) pocket some cash and b) not wind up churning out boring websites for some guy on craigslist looking to help me "build my portfolio" for free?
> But in NYC, a lot of the AirBnB listings are unlicensed hotels and unlicensed hostels, not people renting out spare rooms.

Why do you care?

> I wouldn't be surprised if a good number were affiliated with organized-crime groups, either, since those are the main operators of unlicensed hotels.

When renting a room is outlawed, only outlaws will rent rooms.
Do you provide the option to opt-out of the mobile version? I get really, really frustrated by mobile versions that are forced on me with no option to say "no thanks, give me the real thing".
Have the bite mark come out of the first 'C'. Seems a touch Apple-ish when I think about it, but you've already got a bit of that going on:

http://www.cultofmac.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/apple-...

Shoot me an email if you like. I'd be happy to put something together at a reasonable price if you're pushed for time :)
Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery
Also, some of his criticisms were very real issues that lead (in part) to the dot com bust.
I sense a bit of irony here: the guy who started HN is telling you not to waste your time by sitting around being unproductive... and you are seeing this article because you are on HN. :)
I know that purchasing locally may sound nice, but if going local was really better: Why don't we shut off our markets completely?
Calling the police is a reactive measure -- you're already awake at 2am, now you're just trying to mitigate the damage and prevent it from happening again.

With a short-term tenant, there isn't a next time to prevent, and chances are good that they'll just turn the music down until the cops leave (and possibly find ways to mistreat your property in retaliation).
I'd like to see some sort of demo, maybe a video a la http://teuxdeux.com/? It would be nice to know what I'm really signing up for before I sign up.
Twitter mimics Groupon with @earlybird
Yes, that's the other thing that can happen.

I was quite happy that during my university years the gender ratio was around 50/50 in most of my courses. (I studied math.) That made for a better atmosphere than those computer science or physics courses.
DailyKos diaries have been so wrong so many times that if this diary simple stated "2+2=4" I would have to triple check before I would believe it.
Here I check out of this discussion, as I'm clearly out of my depth. Thanks for an interesting comment!
How One Writer Developed an iPhone App
Strangely enough my friend was pitching me on this idea about 6 months ago. It just goes to shows, ideas truly are a commodity, and execution is everything.

So many websites I goto have menus that are PDFs of their actual menus.

It seems like the biggest hurdle to face is getting all the information in initially(those menus can get pretty long) and then having the getting the restaurant owners keeping them updated in terms of pricing/selection. To me, $15 a month is nothing, as long as there is minimal effort in maintaining the mobile sites.
I honestly think internet advertising has reached its peak and is going to wane slowly downwards from here on out. There is no way someone can tell me, what with Twitter, Youtube, MySpace, Facebook, and the whole gang, that Joe Shmoe can't advertise himself and his company or products, and has to spend a fortune for it. It might have been like that 10 years ago, but nowadays, you can be famous for absolutely nothing.

Example: Some fellow films his cat lying with his paws up and snoring, and narrating in the background that he's not as lazy when it comes to his business. It's so funny that everyone starts looking at it - and thereby the business being advertised. Viola. Free online advertising, and he reached hundreds of thousands in an hour. :-)
Check out Duck Duck Go's founder's lessons learned re:icons/logos: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/06/things-about-web...
That's something I've been thinking about a lot. I don't have millions, but what I have I want to a) not lose and b) make it grow.

There's always a tension between these two things, and I'm afraid that if I take too many risks trying to do good on b), I might end up doing badly on a). It's hard to decide how much risk you should be taking...
Thoughts on the quiet kid looking from the outside
Single page: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/education/06cheat.html?pag...
This post reminds me of the story I read of a Canadian billionaire who overcame this issue. Before he made big decisions, he wrote out on the notepad pros/cons and weighted each point with a number from 1-5, depending on how important each was to him. Then he would total it, and the side with the highest number wins. He did this from broke to billionaire and the story says he uses it to this day.

What are some HN'ers methods for keeping time & money?
Lots of cool stuff to come in the next beta as well:

Electrolysis (even more process seperation) merged with trunk recently: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571166

Hardware accelerated graphics should be turned on by default soon as well.

And of course, the continued iteration of the new theme, many platform featured to be added...
They are usually not installed by default (unless something pulls them as a dependency - can happen for perl or python, but definitely not lisp/erlang/forth... by default) and they are installed separately. The situation is exactly what you ask for - they are available for separate install, right there in distribution repository.

You can also choose - either too many subpackages, or overspecified on dependencies. You can not have both, for obvious reasons.

Wrt gems/easy_install/whatever, do you realize that these language specific systems are broken by design and interoperating with them is not exactly easy?
Shameless plug for one of my favorite startups:

See http://www.RescueTime.com :)

EDIT: Wow - did anybody that downvoted me actually read the article?

The conclusion of the article is 100% that we need to get better about managing our time.

Time slips away like CRAZY - I am a RescueTime user, a fan, and nothing more - it's a great service in the right direction for what the article just underlined as a critical problem!
Buy from Dell china!! you do get international warranty so it will be covered back home!!
Women shop and men buy: Gender differences in shopping part 2
Were I Paul Colford, I'd have bought the headphones, sent Woot the receipt, and noted publicly that this is in no way a payment for the quote, but merely a very good deal on headphones.
You absolutely can use Selenium to test flash (and flex): Gratuitous Landing Page: http://saucelabs.com/flex
Source Code: http://github.com/admc/flex-pilot-x/

A lightning talk by Adam Christian about Flex Pilot:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_eECx0vgsI
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3YeK_eowi0

Another tool you might want to look into for flash testing Sikuli:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/
Posting in the forums is not completely optional. I mean sure, you can go your entire game-playing life without doing so, but if you ever get a hankering for posting bug reports or wanting more help than GMs can provide in-game, the tech support and bug report forums are now unavailable to you should you wish to never post with your real name.

Also, if I ever stop playing WoW because of the Real ID changes (so far, they're optional, works for me), it's because I hate getting harassed for being female (and my real name is very definitely feminine). Not because I fear what I say in forums or in-game will have a negative impact on my life otherwise. I just don't play a game to be annoyed like that.

I normally don't care about my name being plastered everywhere, as I'm fully aware of how not anonymous the Internet is, but let's just say I don't exactly want Blizzard to go and tell the whole world my real name if I want to post cause those idiot 15 year olds in that retarded guild on my realm would probably go far enough to post IRL details of people they don't like for whatever reason in trade chat and more. I also don't see why that has to be the case, especially when they plan on introducing a big load of new features to help CMs moderate the forums.

There's a difference between keeping that information thinly shielded behind a pseudonym from in-game vs. screaming the name on your billing address for the world to hear.

But.....yeah, I ultimately have a choice. I have the choice to stop playing the game. Works for me.
I'm pretty sure we are just being exposed to the internal developer versions, which don't have the arbitrary stupidity of public-facing versions. All the numbers mean is 'this build is more recent than the build you have on your machine'.
Running with the food example. Earlier this year I started cooking food instead of eating out every single say, I saved some money and I am much more conscious about my eating habit.

(self-plug) http://blogriot.com/maintaining-a-food-budget/
More like a /woot/ point! Amirite?
Of all the things to do online, HN is probably the one thing that is not a waste of time
The April Fools python micro-framework was called 'Denied.' The Hacker News coverage is here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1237412 .
I was rude to earl in my original post, and I apologize for that. I have no way to be sure what kind of neighbor he'd make, and I shouldn't draw conclusions from one post.

I grew up mostly in the suburbs or in smaller cities (Columbus, Lexington), and I've lived my entire adult life in cities (New York first, Philadelphia now.) In my experience, which is limited to those two cities, I've found that the base level of noise is higher in the cities regardless of time. Trash trucks, ambulances, police cars, delivery trucks, drunks walking home, cabs cruising for fares, and tons of other noisy events occur at all times of day and with a greater frequency than I experienced in the suburbs.

I overreacted to earl's post. I pictured him as the type of person who can't handle any late night noise, regardless of the day of week or the holiday associated. I pictured the kind of guy who won't sign the block party application, or who pins notes to your door or car.

I lived by people like the one I describe, and I can't stand them. Maybe I'm unique--one of my first apartments was within a 1.5 block radius of a very active fire station, four bars, a liquor store, and a 24 hour gas station. You get used to noise pretty quick, or give up sleeping in environments like that.

But, politically, I do have a point: I don't see why earl's right to be free from potentially noisy, short term neighbors should lead to legislation that will cripple an industry that hasn't had the time to find its legs. We're killing innovation by some to avoid possible annoyance of others.

That doesn't seem like a fair trade, or a likely one. I doubt anyone paying to spend a few nights in earl's neighborhood is really there to throw a kegger and urinate in the hallway.
This is only peripherally a sex app. Basically it is a local mash-up that selects nearby objects of interest based on some matching property--sexual orientation, gender, availability, specialized interests, hair color, etc. A simple but effective idea for our increasingly depersonalized society. It turns everyone into a sex object.
I recommend On Writing Well by William Zinsser:

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti...
Agreed completely. Not only is this not even news, it's not worth caring about... it's just a squabble with TC being the loudmouth, rallying it's readers against some target we're supposed to care about because they said so.
Why you should write down your passwords
To a point. It's a whole lot easier to get overweight eating lots of calorie-laced, nutritionally poor junk food, like pizza, junk burgers, sodas, fries, and the like, than to do so eating large quantities of freshly cooked vegetables.
This reminds me Cal Newport's "pseudo-work"
http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2007/07/26/the-straight-a-gos...
Haha - quite true. Though it must be said that, after a streak of productivity, a break is prudent. HN is some of the most productive downtime I get to enjoy.

Besides, PG put the "procrastination settings" in here for a reason ;-)
Reading that essay felt like improving my life.

Fortunately, it was fun.
Google bringing accelerometer support to Chromium
Does that get people to pay him money for that service? I think there is a growing market for relevant online advertising that is largely untapped. For example, mobile, location-based advertising (you just checked in near LAX airport on Foursquare, here are rental cars and hotels in your area).
as in, an internet of fridges and door locks and cars? good god, the viruses... let's put off the internet of objects until we have a web browser that isn't exploited every other month.
An open-source alternative to the eggPlant's visual-based testing tool is Sikuli: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli

And I posted above, you can also use Selenium + Flex-Pilot to test Flash or Flex apps:
http://github.com/admc/flex-pilot-x/
http://github.com/mde/flex-pilot/
Eh. This is the sort of thing I would (and might) recommend to my restaurant-owning clients free-of-charge, which is why they call me when they have other trouble, and why they recommend me to other people, which is where I make money.

That's not to say that it's a bad idea, just that it wouldn't change my recommendations, personally.
It should be serious.

http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-pathio-the-stealth-start...
They are changing them to push updates. Your browser won't update unless a version with a higher number is available, so they have to increase the number.

Most companies bundle updates (example: windows service packs) which means they only need to increase version number a few times. Chrome decided to update continuously instead.

The number changes are not meaningless; there is change in the background, you just don't see it.
Guess what. Loss of "anonymity" isn't going to do ANYTHING about that problem. There will still be plenty of people with fake Real Names and the Real Names of the people being billed (read: not the actual people playing the game, i.e. in the case of minors) trolling, except now they get to do it elsewhere with other players' real names. Welcome to the Internet.

This is a big loss for people who go to the tech support forums, bug requests, and do guild recruitment. None of those need real names, and I've almost never seen any flaming going in most of those threads. This is also quite retarded for realm forums where the context of your character is more important than your real name, so what now? Now you get to associate your toons with your real name, and well shit it keeps snowballing from there.

No, this is not a good thing because it doesn't solve the problem at all.
maybe the players have gotten fatter
He makes an interesting point though about intuitive, human expectations for data retention. In interactions with humans, we can expect passing comments to eventually pass, but a computer could retain even the most trivial of information indeterminately.
> ...first you have to convince the POS manufacturers to give you access to their APIs.

Or roll your own POS and blow the competition completely out of the water. :-) There is a huge opportunity here for the sorts of people that hang out on HN.
In regards to #1:
sure there is. Assuming they are a sit down restaurant and have hosts/hostesses, put that fax machine at their stand where they wait for customers, if an order comes in via that, have them walk back and give the order to the expo guy or the guy in the "main window", they ring up the order as they do to-go stuff(at least where I worked at Mitchell's Fish Market) so receiving an order over the phone or via fax isn't too much of a difference. Perhaps some re-training.

I think maybe you are overthinking that aspect of it. I totally understand and likewise agree with doing POS integration with the kitchen(you can't automate it), but there are methods already present in every restaurant to getting an order to the kitchen, some are paper, some are DASH(Darden's system, microsoft stack) aloha system etc seems to be a pretty big one.
How Washington blew its chance to bring real change to Wall Street
And I'm saying that Apple's rightness has a lot to do with Steve Jobs being an influential part of the company.
You misunderstand. Internet advertising isn't about getting people to pay for your services.

It's about getting people to your front door. :-)

THEN you get them to pay for your services. If you've got a good website, and you offer exceptional services/products, you're bound to get some customers out of those visits.
Small correction PG:

Just thinking about it makes we wince.

should be

Just thinking about it makes me wince.
Weekly Poll: Is the Government's Move to the Cloud Inevitable? - ReadWriteCloud
BUGS in Writing, Revised Edition: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose (2nd Edition) [Paperback]
Lyn Dupre (Author)

This is a useful and sometimes inspiring book. Lyn Dupre was copy editor for some of Don Knuth's books.

Also, take a look at this outstanding list on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/R2ECKRZ...

Reading through that list has sent me off to find a out-of-print paper copy of Don Knuth's Mathematical Writing (Mathematical Association of America Notes), much of the content of which can be found on his website.

And if you really want to improve your writing, spend a bit of money and hire a good editor and track the changes. Good editors are hard to find and worth their weight in gold; if you need a recommendation, let me know off-line.
Facebook wants you to know how its ads work
Is it faster and/or less of a memory hog?
The Java guys have spend a fair amount of time tuning and improving garbage collectors.

Given that you run clojure, have you considered trying to use a concurrent garbage collector?
Didn't the article just warn you about downtime that we think is productive? ;-)
Similar tangent: Is this the Shogun book that Justin was talking about? http://www.amazon.com/Shogun-Tokugawa-Ieyasu-Tuttle-Classics...
I didn't downvote, but I think that RescueTime is of little help with what he describes here, at least in some situations. I remember Eric Ries describing his implementing a ton of features for their chat-thing, only to find no market for it. Realizing that he might as well have been on vacation was pretty hard for him.
Anything open for Erlang? I'm already living in NJ :)
Forum access is included in my WoW subscription. I've been told by a GM to go post in the forums once. Official tech support forums are...on the forums. Yeah, not part of the game. Right.
Who else would have agreed with him at the time of writing?

This is gold: it reads as if it were written today to troll us. It's almost freaky how nearly all of points have manifested, and some have even forced the obsolescence of their alternatives. I haven't purchased a ticket at an airline counter in many years; I'm not even sure if it's still legal :) I feel like I'm a holdout on the newspaper, but although I buy one almost daily, I still find that I get the majority of my news from online sources. The last time I visited a library it was to charge my blackberry so I could make a call.
Making An Indie Game In Your Spare Time
Greasemonkey’s GM_getValue/GM_setValue functions for Google Chrome
http://www.itservices.ws/websites/portales/menu2.htm

This is one menu that presents the type of problem I'm talking about. The line that worries me is "All entrees come with salad bar," which reflects on every entree. From my perspective, the easiest way to incorporate data like this would be to include it underneath the extended explanation of the menu item.

PS Steven - I want to set up a phone call with you or something. I'm working on something that is literally one step away from what you are. follow me on Twitter (@nate) or e-mail me at nchastain at gmail.com and let me know if you've got some time free some time next week. I'm still in the development stage and won't have a product out for at least a month.
Noticeably faster that 3.6.6, except none of my extensions work.

FF4b1 disabled:
1 Password, Delicious Bookmarks, Firebug, Greasemonkey, Google Toolbar, Stylish, YSlow and others...
Except that's disingenuous, because the AP has suggested that bloggers and Google and basically anyone else who reprints AP text should pony up the fee. They don't explicitly say so in detail, but they've had a pretty consistent campaign of FUD about it.

For example, their document on the question "Do I even need to pay to excerpt your story?" prominently notes that "the safest course is always" to pay the fee, and suggests that if you're publishing the excerpt "on the Web," that "is cause for serious reflection before assuming 'fair use'" — particularly if you are "choosing not to exercise an affordable and accessible licensing mechanism."

Think I'm reading too much into a CYA legal document? Take a look at this story, where AP president says that they want to be paid for "any use of news articles," even as little as citing a headline: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/business/media/24content.h...
You're skeptical for good reason. The author has no idea what he is talking about. There are several false statements contained in his post.

The iPhone dock connector has pins for video and audio out:

http://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/ipod_pinout.shtml

There is no microphone or amplification hardware in the dock.
Smartphone Bloodbath: Nexus Two goes down