skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, any financial planner who told you the best thing to do was to stick your money into the highest-yielding bank account you can find would be out of a job. They have an incentive to make investing look complicated.
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Why not remove the icon and leave the text logo as is? FWIW, I think just the text looks good.
I love this idea
Touché. :)

We'll put up a HTML5 video version too.
Regulators Prepare to Dig Into Google-ITA Deal
I knew a few people who thought that the internet was merely a fad, right up until around 2001. After that time it was clear even to the most hardened sceptic that the internet was here to stay.
I've tried both commission-based financial planners and fee-based financial planners.

Not surprisingly, commission-based financial planners hawked their firm's mutual funds which just so happened to have high fees on them.

With my fee-based financial planner, their only incentive was to make sure I did well, was happy, and would be back next time to get more unbiased advice. If you're interested in a referral, send me an email. She appears on CNBC a couple times a month, and I've been satisfied with her work.
I highly recommend going through the examples/ directory in the Werkzeug source. It might prompt you to take off your helmet and relax.
Looks really well executed. I would definitely do some legwork on the operator front. I tackled this same problem about 2 years ago and found that operators simply aren't able to understand the need for this type of service (maybe it was the timing). Keep in mind that many don't have a website and some don't even use email, so explaining why they need a "mobile" website makes for a potentially hard sale.

Someone discussed online ordering as a possible revenue model, from my experiences with operators they weren't interested in this approach. Most orders they received over the phone would involve customization and the cost of handling order problems simply outweighed the benefit of not requiring their bartender to take an order over the phone. However, I could see this being big for chinese restaurants. Most customers order by number, and many chinese restaurants are carry out exclusively. Remove potential language barriers during order taking, increase total ordering, win-win.

Anyway, best of luck!
Thanks for the pointer, I'll try to fix it and see how it works.
I don't think he was ever ordered to kill civilians. He figured the proliferation of 'civilians' on the island was a ruse, and they were actually soldiers in disguise.
Here are some earlier items on this subject:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175576

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011716

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726110 <- This has lots of comments

There are more, but my search-fu isn't up to it. "default" is a common word.
The definition of quoting out of context...

As I mentioned, to criticize PayPal's inflexibility in situations like this as "harassment and extortion" is melodramatic and misunderstands both the work they really do, and the number of times you aren't saying this about the people on the other end of the transaction.
I've tried just about everything - OmniFocus, ToodleDo, Things, ToDo, Remember The Milk, etc. What really worked for me though was Unfuddle (free both online and iPhone).

It's a software project management system - which sounds complicated - but I found it to be the most intuitive. It allows me to manage all my tasks (programming, bugs, personal) in one place and I always like apps that have online/iPhone components.

P.S. Unlimited SVN and GIT repos too :)
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Thanks! I'm not sure about the pricing, but we're definitely open to adjusting it based on feedback.
If your objective is to stretch the $20K out over a long while through reducing your living expenses, I don't doubt you could make it last if clever enough.

However, if your objective is to turn that $20K into a much higher sum and gain much higher % returns (which I think Altucher was referring to), given the age range (20's), and the amount of capital, it makes sense to parlay that into knowledge and experience.
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happy 1 year
My bad. Both have moved on since I last reviewed their offerings (and ran an event).

Which then prompts me to ask... why is OpenCamp not using EventBrite's own gateway then? PayPal thus circumvented.
The problem is that PP empowers bureaucrats (like the "Kathleen" identified in the OpenCamp story) to act capriciously, without reference to pre-established (and pre-published) standards and policies.

One commenter below the OC story describes how he has used the PP/EventBrite combination successfully and comfortably for a couple years. That's great for him (for now).

The problem is the unpredictability of how PP may treat any customer in the future, without regard for their past performance/association with PP (as in the OC case).

Personally, given the number of (unresolved/unexplained) horror stories I have heard with PP, I would not advise anyone (ANYone) to risk any business connection with PP (beyond what they are perfectly happy to lose) - no more than I advise people to take their retirement funds to a casino.
Dressing up for work is something I'd love to see studied more. At my first job I wore a suit everyday. Wasn't a biggie except cleaning a bit of a hassle, but I always felt really good going and coming from work.

Now I wear jeans when we have important customers coming by. I definitely like the freedom, but I do think that maybe I should dress it up a bit more. It sometimes just felt really good. Not sure why, or if it matters. Inertia is the main thing holding me back.
Anything that keeps MG Siegler from writing another post about Apple, Foursquare or Twitter for even a few minutes is a huge win in my book.
BTW Michel Foucault was well known to use mathematical (particularly topological) analogies that sounded impressive to the uninitiated (most of his audience was terrible at math, anyway) but was complete baloney.
If I book a place at a conference I don't understand why it's any of PayPal's problem if the organiser runs off with my money and the conference is cancelled? What's the legal backing there? Is this some quirk of US American law?

If I pay by credit card then I can recoup the money from them - but they're supposed to insure themselves to mitigate the effects of the risk going bad, again what's that to do with PayPal?

It sounds like PayPal are being screwed by credit card companies and not by event organisers.
Concurrency should really be the number one issue for any new programming language. To my knowledge, none of the popular languages out there today are really able to handle concurrency in a seamless way which doesn't generate headaches for the developer. Distributing computation over threads and machines needs to be easier.
Harry Frankfurt's "On Bullshit"
I really like this idea! I don't have a smartphone, but I would like to support you if I could. Do you have a page listing all of your customers, so I could go to them and tell them it was because of your site?

Speaking of which, how are normal people supposed to find these mobile sites? Maybe you could have restaurants pay you to list them in foursquare or equivalent.
I did buy some, but I only sold about half when it was up 50%. I own a lot more of BYD, which is way up from when I got hold of it. I am still not sure the whole electric car concept makes sense yet.

One thing about plugin electrics that gets me though is that, for me, they switch from gasoline powered energy to coal power off of the grid, which would seem to be a bit more carbon-y.

Another slightly amusing negative is that the current Energy bill winding its way through congress looks like it is going to put a carbon tax on utilities (where the power for the cars would be paid) and not on gasoline, thus making it potentially more expensive for electric power than gas power (and making the scapegoat utility companies appear to be raising rates for customers while the politically unpopular gas tax is avoided.
"If you're being put on medication because you can't cope with high school, it's not a problem with high school. It's a problem with you, or maybe a problem with your doctor, but high school generally isn't that difficult an environment. You show up every day, you hang out with your friends, you go to classes, learn some stuff, you do some stupid crap that you're told to do, and you figure out a way to avoid doing some other stupid crap that you're told to do."

While I believe that may have been your experience it clearly is not universal.

Concluding that anyone who needs something different from you is mentally ill or is receiving bad psychological advice is contemptible.
I don't know if it's changed in the last couple of years

This remark was meant to apply to my entire comment, although I just realized it only appears to be talking about the sentence that follows it. Much of my information comes from the 2005 documentary Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and cursory fact-checking I performed at the time that I watched it.

What you've said sounds like a positive change to me. I've personally never seen security guards on golf carts, but I haven't been to Wal-Mart at night in a long time. If they have made that change, I applaud them, as well as the people behind the documentary who encouraged such changes.
What the AP flack meant to say:

"We are the AP, we are a for-reals, big-timey news agency. Without us you wouldn't even know what was happening two towns over. Thus, re-using our content costs money, because our content is valuable. You, you are just some guy who runs a multi-million dollar company or some a-hole with a blog. Your content is meaningless pablum slathered on the walls of the digital romper room that is "the internet". It is valueless and thus we are able to reproduce it in any way we choose."
If Tesla develops relatively good technology and a good patent portfolio then it is much more likely that they would get purchased than simply be out competed. If they are purchased while on the path to success it is likely that the founders and many early investors will make a very nice sum in the process.
At the risk of getting beat down I totally disagree. I think the logo is awesome. The branding hit me in the face hard. "Chomp"? Yep, that looks like a chomp. :) I wouldn't change a thing. It's colorful and communicates the food message quick and cleanly. Having just the logo text by itself would be too plain IMO. As for higher scale restaurants, I don't think that's a problem either. The site won't be seen by their customers, yet it's fun branding any restaurant owner can remember.
As of a couple of years ago when I asked my sleep specialist, no one knows.
Any idea which book called "Influence" Justin was talking about? Looks like there is more than one: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap....
Two points:

(1) You and your circle can't get more out than you pay in, or convince other people to give you freely

(2) Who cares about those who would go through so much trouble to save a few bucks? The point is to make it easy for those who want to pay, with subtle encouragements to pay. If the easiest thing is paying, enough people will -- and your network of strawman sites is a fringe rounding error.
GeeTasks/Pro author here. :-)

Try the free GeeTasksLite and see if you like this cloud (Google Tasks) + native iPhone app combo.
NASA Takes Gamers on a Lunar Adventure With New Online Video Game
I also was discussing this with a friend the other day. I actually feel a bit relieved to know that someone is doing it better than I could have.
Good links, thanks, will check those out.

My case was actually a Lian-Li case, the only ones I've ever used. Which gives you some idea of the abuse UPS put it through. But it was one of their lower-end models. And the CPU fan breaking off wasn't really LL's fault.
I had a similar question about how the service connects with your site. Does it use a custom DNS record or does this mobile site sit on an island?
What is the stack? Just curious.
Ask HN: Feedback on Listeria, my new app
http://mylisteria.com

Listeria is (supposedly) a more beautiful way to view, create, and organize lists.

Do note that this is not meant as a serious startup -- just a weekend project I did for a bit of practice (and a creative outlet for procrastination!) I've always considered myself rather terrible at design (be it for the web or otherwise), and I wanted to make something that I liked to use, aesthetically speaking.

Sure, quite a few obvious features are missing, and I hope to fill those out in time. I would, however, appreciate any comments, particularly with respect to design flaws/bugs. I already know that I can code, but I am very interested in lessons concerning UI, usability, aesthetics, ect.

Btw, I recommend the combination of rails3+heroku -- it made setting this up really easy.
I know what you're talking about, but do you think mobile sites could possibly get away with not displaying that 'extra' information? Especially considering screen real estate on mobile devices is fairly limited.

If it is absolutely necessary, it seems like it would be fairly easy to have that show up when you select a section. That could get complicated if there are multiple paragraphs within a section (i.e. one for burgers and one for chicken sandwiches, but both of those are under "sandwiches"). You could just limit it to one description per category, though.
The D language actually is an example of a good site, in that there's a large chunk of code on the front page.
Ok, I'm going to actually suggest something crazy instead of either the stock market or blowing it all on a trip around the world, or hookers and booze. The two latter suggestions may be more worthwhile individually, but for the sake of argument, lets focus on investments.

Put it towards a HOUSE. Whats that, the housing market sucks? Time and time again the US Government has been telling us they will do EVERYTHING in their power to prevent further price erosion, even at the risk of inflation. They've kept the rate incredible low and are willing to continue to do so.

Getting a house gives you a place to live, a hedge against inflation, an income generating opportunity, and a tax write-off.

A two bedroom apartment in my neighborhood is around $2000-$2500 bucks a month. My housing expenses are $2500 a month, but I rent one room out to a friend ($650 a month), around $500 a month of my payments go to principle, and I save about $700 a month on my taxes.

All in all, even if prices stay flat I'm much better off than renting (and my place is bigger than the apartments with a yard).
clickable: http://mylisteria.com
Whoa. You write:

"If you're being put on medication because you can't cope with high school, it's not a problem with high school."

How do you justify that statement? If someone has a problem with their high school, then they have a problem with their high school. I would like to see the burden of justification put on the schools. They have the advantage of representing the status quo, but I would like to see them justify themselves without invoking that advantage. All things in this world are better when they can be justified from first principles, rather than from the dead weight of established practice.
The AP may be clueless, and Woot may be funny, but TC is just lame. They're just trolling for pageviews.
It makes for pretty bad neighborly relations, and they'll just behave worse the next time. The best approach is to mention it politely when you run into them in the hallways or out on the sidewalk.

However, it's still pretty rare for inconsiderate people to grow up and show some consideration just because you ask.

I've lived in cities for my entire adult life, and I find that choosing the right building and neighborhood is imperative. When I've had bad neighbors, it's rarely just one.
Thanks for the feedback.

I agree, the biggest challenge is with operator awareness. Most restaurant owner's priorities look something like this:

1) Food
2) Service
...
9544) Website

My hope is that with the mobile internet growing as it is, more restaurant folks will begin to understand that their customers are using their phones to look up restaurants, and showing them an empty Flash page or making them download huge menu PDFs is immensely frustrating and delivers a poor customer experience.
It's a mistake to think that pseudonymity inevitably leads to rudeness on forums. Plenty of pseudonymous forums are civil: HN, for one. Reddit also gets a really high quality of user discussion. If Blizzard wants respectful discussions on their forums, they need a culture of respectful discussion. Real ID can't do that.
It's this one: http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busine...
Don't forget that the email they sent out on April 1st said "you should expect your WakeMate no later than 07/30/2010, but probably significantly sooner" (your email may vary because the date depended on your pre-order date). We can infer that something went wrong, because I haven't been asked for money and 2 weeks isn't "significantly sooner" relative to a 3-month period.

On another note, I really need their product. I'm a graduate student and I'm having a lot of trouble keeping myself on a sane schedule. I slept 4 AM - noon or worse before daylight savings, and I now often sleep 5 AM - 1 PM. This isn't causing critical failures at work, but it's definitely not optimal and leaves me no room to stay up late to finish a project.
My ill informed opinion: the WSGI specification (i.e., PEP 333) together with a decade or so of cross-pollination seems to have made most Python web frameworks more similar than different. You can opt for more out of the box functionality at the expense of less flexibility, but not much else. (The exceptions seem to be where the code is really old and/or asynchronous.) Django seems to be the BDFL blessed option.

Example: Everyone seems to think that Google copied "their" Python web framework in creating the "webapp" framework for App Engine. webpy, Django, ...
Yeah, it's true, it is a really crap user experience. Considering the miniscule cost of downloading a song, it really ought to be free to re-download.
True. There used to be a website UnitedPackageSmashers.com where people ranted about UPS. Gone now, wonder if they got a takedown notice.
Porsche was the most profitable car company in the world prior to the VW takeover debacle.

Ironically, though, it was mostly from selling SUVs instead of sports cars. Which just shows that selling overpriced oversized ego vehicles is the best way to make money in the car business.
I'm leaning toward that, very good chance I'll get one for my next machine.
Looks great. Scrolling just doesn't work. Seems to be the same on any mobile webkit browser (android, i{Phone,Pad,Pod}).
you can become a small angel and help others start their companies

It's actually really HARD to become a small angel if you are not an accredited investor (something like $300k/year income and/or $1m+ assets).

I have some money I am looking to play with but I'm not accredited status and most startups (if properly advised) won't touch non-accredited investors.
Thanks, appreciate it. Think I'll wait till used Mac Pro's with the Nehalem chipset come down in price.
Shouldn't the title of this link be: "TechCrunch overturns two year moratorium on posting AP content to prove a moot point"?

AP's attempt to control their content sucked, but TC is being way snarky.
I love the design of your landing page.

In particular, the graphic of the two iPhones on the right side made it _immediately_ and _compellingly_ clear what you're selling. Nice work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Altucher

According to the wiki page, the guy doesn't have any degrees in finances or economy, so I don't exactly see how his advice is authoritative. (And , no, the daily work for hudge funds managers is not very close to average-twenty-year-olds financial situations)

He's basically saying "here's what I did". He went to CMU and says investing in a good education is smart.

He also is the founder of a (successful) site, so it's no wonder that he suggests to try out your luck in a start-up.

In the video, he talks about investing in yourself (he gives an example of a friend who does video, and his suggestion is to invest in better equipment). The advice is good, but it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with money. Programmers invest in themselves for free all the time by learning new languages, frameworks, etc.

Also, when considering investing, you have to take into account risk tolerance on an individual basis. Some twenty-somethings still have student debt, some already have a mortgage, some are carefree butterflies with money to burn. Some can't sleep at night not knowing where they're making money the next morning. There is no one-glove-fits-all.
As clueless as AP is, even they seem to pick up on the fact that TC is just trolling.

I feel like there is some form of poetic justice or something going on here.
+1 for this idea. Maybe you want to consider giving free service to some early adopters in return for the ability to analyze the impact on your business. Ideally, you would spread this out across a few different target demographics, like pizza joints, Chinese/ethnic, late-night, etc., so that your potential customers would identify with the results.

Even the most conservative restaurant owner is going to be swayed by a clear financial benefit.

Also, convincing potential customers to take the plunge is the kind of task that (good) salespeople excel at.
That reminds me, need to order some milk on Amazon.
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I find the aggressive tone of Jon's post surprising and I'm troubled by it.

I write code in Clojure, deploy on the JVM using Amazon's Linux servers and GC pauses are a very real issue for us. Azul has been working on this problem for years and I'm quite happy that they decided to open-source a large part of their work.

Now, before you jump on me with the obvious — I do not advocate pushing crappy or unclear code into the kernel. But I'd much rather see a healthy discussion than this childish "take your toys and go away, we don't like you and you're not welcome here" attitude.
IIS7 and above have URL Redirection built in... No longer need to do 3rd party custom stuff anymore.
Not sure about the patterns being deader now than in the 80's, the ball-boy's' patches appear as dead as the baseline so either it's the courts (or number of games per court) that have changed, or his hypothesis needs to explain that as well.
You write:

"The conviction that 'I am special' (even if you are, you're less special than you think)"

This applies to you as well, doesn't it? But then, the reasoning leads to infinite regression - you are not special, your advice is not special, no one's advice is special, therefore everyone can be ignored. In short, this bit of reasoning does not move the conversation forward.

If the phrase "You are not special" is suppose to imply "You not valuable" or "Your ideas are not valuable" then the same can be applied to everyone who posts here, in which case we must conclude that the conversation is trivial. That's fine, as far as it goes, but it is a fairly pointless road to travel. If no one here is special, then why do any of us bother to read Hacker News?

We could instead go the other direction - we could admit that the conversations on Hacker News are interesting precisely because the people who tend to show up here are interesting. Hacker News is a good place for the intellectually curious, and those who are thoughtful and who enjoy playing with new ideas. But then, to really engage the site, one would have to admit that some of the people on the site are really special, that, in fact, what makes Hacker News great is that it draws in so many people who are special.

Suggesting that the people here are not special leads to immediate irony.
Do you guys do new york as well?