skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The healthcare startup scene in MN is actually pretty vibrant, but other sectors aren't quite as strong.

I've been involved in a number of healthcare start-ups in the Twin Cities over the years, including my current VC-backed one, Bloom Health (http://gobloomhealth.com).

There's quite a bit of startup work to be found if you look around. It isn't as barren as some would have you believe.
Ebay sued for billions over e-commerce patents
Are we sure an optimized version of Esperanto or some other already real language is not a better fix for this?
It requires literally dozens of .js files to get it working... Is there a bundled and minified version of this in a single file?

I'm very much interested in a basic rich-text editor that is either uses jQuery or is just framework independent. I've liked 37signals's wysihat, but it uses Prototype. I'm sort of working on porting it to jQuery, but that takes time.
What motivates me to live well is my fear is of losing the respect and approval of myself, and what motivates me to love and respect my partner is the genuine love and respect I feel for my partner. I don't think anything is fundamentally wrong with that.

I'm normally a big proponent of fear, but in other parts of life--not love.
The music industry always relied on intellectual property legislation, as do lots of businesses - including the automotive industry that replaced horsed-drawn trailers (they had and still have lots of patents). It's just not being enforced now.

More generally, all businesses rely on legislation to keep their property from being stolen, whether that property is intellectual or physical. If those laws were widely ignored, it would be hard to do any kind of business.
http://flask.pocoo.org/

That's flask. It's nice and simple, but still lets you do things. Give it a try, it has good documentation.
No question it's not as popular. A few folks (myself included) are working on using it for the NetBSD src, though, fwiw. IF we get that up/running and blessed (by NetBSD, who are on search for CVS alternatives), it'd a nice feather in the hat for fossil.
It is a non-trivial problem. Emails can be spoofed pretty easily. Could open up security vulnerabilities.
Clearly the solution is to get a thin monitor and tape it to your cat or dog.
Maybe you need a vacation. You mention that you do 12 hours of sports every week, that is already quite high.

Perhaps you could also reduce the number of hours you work everyday.
I like talking with people, actually. I could definitely see walking around talking for half a day - it'd be much healthier than sitting on my ass staring at crappy code.
I've had the same sort of thoughts, but I've been sitting at a desk for almost 20 years.

I've often considered landscaping / lawnmowing, especially when my landscaper took off for a two-week vacation to Europe that I can't afford. A few of my firefighter friends have landscaping businesses on the side.

My father-in-law works in environmental permitting. He spends about 4 days a week in the office (home or corporate) and about 1 day a week out in the field, surveying plant and animal life. It's not the most physically demanding work, but it is outside.

I had a friend in the Army Reserve that spent a year in Afghanistan, doing IT work for the Army. Sucked, but he was very close to going right back as a civilian contractor and making 5x as much doing a similar job. Afghanistan probably isn't the best place to go, but with bases all over the world, there are probably some more desirable locations.

You could get involved with FEMA or even someone like the Red Cross. I wouldn't call it high-paying, but they employ IT guys in disaster areas.
Karma, I admit is a bit of a game mechanic to me. I get really excited when I pick up a point or two. However, I am also new around here, and thus have not accumulated enough to make it not exciting.
"for about 150% less than I do now"

Wouldn't that mean, instead of getting paid, you were paying them 50% of your current rate?
µTorrent (many torrent clients infact) have long had their own web interfaces, for managing downloads thru a browser from afar.

It sounds like these Apps/Extensions are simply a tidier bundling of the long present webgui [webgui.zip ?]. Technically, I bet all this was possible already, but this likely makes the use more conventional, supported, & easier to setup.
there's also one of my favorites, Swinger, http://c.ixxr.net/swinger/_design/swinger/index.html#/
which is like powerpoint except it's free and it works. It's great for pitching to folks
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Network latency is not that much of an issue when you have your application in the cloud as well.

And I'll only believe claims about backups if the contract contains an enforcable clause that I'm entitled to a pound of the CEO's flesh if/when they lose my data for whatever reason.

(Amazon S3 occasionally loses your data when two/three servers fail at once. If they had such a clause, their executive board would probably be short of a leg or maybe two).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1516015
IOS 4.0 on 3G iPhone (parody)
Well, the sociology brigade has already arrived to explain how the inclusion of gendered pronouns is a deplorable, sexist act.

I love the Liberal Arts department.
I pity anyone who has to debug problems caused by monkeypatching the socket module... I wish people would stop trying to solve problems with monkeypatching in python. There are better solutions. Cool idea other than that, though.

Does anyone know of any large-scale projects using this library? It would be interesting to see how it performs in the real world - not needing to use OS threads means that maybe you won't have as much trouble with the GIL, but on the other hand, operations like socket.read() are supposed to release the GIL while they block anyway.
New Munin plugin repository website
Awesome. I'll pick up a mirror tonight, and start flexing into it while I work, shirtless.

I'm sure the coworkers won't mind.
Shouldn't this be the job of a real estate agency? You ask them to find an apartment matching your criteria and they find it (in their database with the current offers).
It's incredible how he keeps expanding into viable markets. Has he opened any "stack" sites that didn't get immediate traction?
I probably would, yeah. Sign me up. :-)

Maybe incorporate some of the ideas from this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514803
it's not incredible, it's by design :) We only open the sites that we know will get traction (through the "Area51" process, see http://area51.stackexchange.com). Right now it looks like we've got about 10 sites that are pretty much guaranteed to work, then we'll probably take a couple of weeks to study the data in detail to see what the real success factors are.
Wonder if drinking green tea helps to bring you back to 'normal'..

Who knows what to make of this.. It's not easy hearing that the profession you've chosen puts you at greater risk for heart disease.

If this is true I bet it could be balanced by good diet. I also have a dog which forces me to walk for at least 1-2 hours a day.
Might be hard in an office environment.
Minnesota is not going to fair well on the per capita basis either.
This article isn't about quitting Facebook. The key quote from the OP:

> Facebook is only evil as long as saying Facebook is evil is driving traffic, is my takeaway from this.

It's about what happens to news in a lucrative, competitive environment. The reason we haven't had to use the term "yellow journalism" since the turn of the last century is because the market for news was so stagnant.

Now there's a new, robust market, and we're seeing a lot of the same tactics all over again.
I might, depending on the kind of place it turned out to be. If it was a constructive environment like this one, where I know the goal is not to become like facebook, I think I'd like the gaps it would fill in that I feel this site could use (private messages for example).
Thanks for the reply.

Models may have fundamental value, but wisdom on model valuations is a little sparse at this point in history. Same for people in general -- there just aren't more than a few people (and I'm giving a benefit of a doubt that they exist at all) out there making a living by estimating the future earnings potential of an individual. Valuating corporations, on the other hand, is quite popular and there are many thousands of highly-paid analysts who sit around and talk about how much a company is worth, then sell that information to their clients. Actuaries are sort of in the same ballpark and society already frowns on them enough as it is, so while this might be a market ripe for the taking I suppose there needs to be a really compelling reason to pay for the service first. It would make more sense if one could purchase an individual -- I know I've seen Robin Hanson talk about the concept of a society where parents sell shares in the future earnings of their children to finance their education.

But for the moment, even if there were "model analysts" who published estimates on how much a model is worth, it would have little impact on their popularity. Models don't get popular because they have earning potential so much as the other way around. A model who is popular will command higher rates and more frequent appearances. If she is diagnosed with cancer and has 6 months to live then her potential is greatly diminished, but she can leverage it for charity purposes and get even higher rates. Valuation is interesting an academic sense, but for the time being it is a very useless thing to have in the fashion market. This effectively leaves the idea of a model's fundamental value even less tangible than that of a corporation.

Considering the extent to which bubbles form even with the possibility of valuation, the only way that a model popularity market could be analogous to an equity market is if it lives in a perpetual bubble, effectively negating the relevance of the fundamental value. "Reckoning" in the equity markets might be rare, but it does in fact happen. The career of a model, on the other hand, has zero empirical effect by their fundamental value.
Wait hold up. Did anyone notice that if you increase the volume of sales the square cost goes up significantly? The number they gave $30 per trans avg + 4000 per month is the sweet spot. This is kind of bs. Oh and uncheck the iphone option and square sucks.
I'd certainly be interested in such a network, though some questions of intentions and differentiation arise quickly, e.g. How would it be different from existing sites, like, ummm, HN? or Forrst.com?

Presumably we'd also want some way to find people quickly - how to organize that? Some dimensions would include technology preferences, time/availability, stage of startup/work, one's One True Editor, etc.

Have you seen this spreadsheet of people looking for co-founders?
http://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=t1_0CjyeF5QqMwgh6AFG...
GPL covers code. If you take code from Git to write an alternative implementation, yours has to be GPL.

However, if all you do is take the file formats and the over-the-wire protocol, and write original code, it can be under whatever license you want. That seems to be what most of the alternative Git implementations have done.

The Git repository format is remarkably simple. I'm confident that if for some reason all copies of Git disappeared (binaries and source) and I needed to keep working with my existing Git repositories, I could cobble together something that would get me basic DVCS functionality in a couple of weeks.

By basic functionality, I mean the ability to check out revisions, view history, make changes to the working copy, and commit them, and to tag and branch and merge. (Heck, it was only a couple of weeks or so for Linus to write the thing once he decided to go for it, and he didn't have the benefit of having a well-designed and documented repository format and wire protocol handed to him).

Any decent programmer could do the same or better. Thus, I don't think Git being GPL is any significant barrier to adoption by people who need a good DVCS in a closed source project.
Mobile Innovation's Greatest Threat: Greedy Providers?
The best part about this site is that people coming to it will understand that they aren't getting access to the developers (unless they come to visit.) That should rule out half the trolls. The other half will be down-voted.
Gevent seems to be the fastest Python async server after Tornado: http://nichol.as/asynchronous-servers-in-python

I'd be interested in seeing node.js benchmarked against these.
_Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts_ instructs us all to be skeptical about statistics
Seems the Grasshopper's or Skype's of the world should sponsor something like this. Shouldn't take much to build.
Ask HN: Resources For Good UI Design Practices?
I've recently found myself doing front-end development with Flex, and I'm ending up making a lot of "This looks good"/"My friend thinks this looks good" decisions. I'd like to put a bit more objectivity into these as well as have a strong feeling of consistency when I add a new element.

I know there are UI design books out there but I don't know which ones are any good. I'm also looking for specific practices rather than general advice like "Follow the principle of least surprise", "Get feedback from users", "Direct toward actions", etc.

I'm also more interested in broad-application practices, so not just a bunch of "Do A/B testing" which to me seems only useful statistically when you have hundreds of users viewing a page.

So, what resources and/or advice do you have?
This is the first time I've heard about the "Closure Library".

Do you think this is what the new m.youtube.com HTML5 site is built in? Is Closure a replacement for GWT?
I always thought model jobs were decided by who was willing to sleep with the boss.
Monkey patching is not mandatory. 3rd party modules can be "ported" to gevent manually as well. It's a matter of preference probably. Would like to know what better solutions you have in mind.

not sure if counts as large-scale but omegle.com uses gevent. 9257 users online currently.
Emacs is de jure using Bazaar, but is it using it de facto? I read somewhere (I think it was here on HN) that the Emacs developers were leaning toward Git, but RMS decided on Bazaar because that's the office GNU DVCS. The comment or article I read said that someone made a good Bazaar/Git bridge, and most of the active Emacs developers are actually using Git, and bridging to Bazaar when they want to push to or pull from the official repository.
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Very cool. I was just wondering where to post a game design job opening.
Ask HN: Help me find an old submission about using a chat bot during deployment
Somebody a while back submitted a link to a article describing their deployment process which I think used a irc bot interface (it was some sort of chat). I think they also said something about not liking the word "staging" for some reason. Anyone know what the link is? My google-fu and searchyc-fu is failing me.
A new release that is not entirely backwards compatible with older code. Python 3 was created to fix some of the flaws in Python 2.x.
I wonder if someone wants to port the type checker of Typed Racket over to Clojure?
The gevent author wrote up an article regarding what led him to writing it after working on eventlet for a while: http://blog.gevent.org/2010/02/27/why-gevent/
Should be. That's what they told me in #scala on Freenode.
How about talking pictures and pictures travelling from one picture frame to other ?
How to Use Game Mechanics for Good and Evil: The "Gamification" Trend
I mostly comment because I like to get a bit snarky. Karma is a scorekeeper--did I annoy people, or strike a chord?

I also like to share my views on things, but generally I post about things that I don't feel too deeply about. Several times I've gotten very angry and composed a detailed, thorough rebuttal, only to delete it because I don't want to get so involved.
Makes sense either chicken or egg came first. It does not matter but one definitely did, it is not a paradox though, theory of evolution solved that.

The truth is that the egg came first. I still hold that belief. The predecessor of the chicken had a mutated female which laid an egg which embodied the modern day chicken. The egg gave birth to the chicken, and thus the species evolved. However the female did not have to be a chicken. The only thing this theory proves is that the layer of the egg had to have the correct secretions, so it had to be a mutated female that created the species.
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My startup works with small businesses. I've been amazed at the amount of income that good service professionals can bring in. Landscapers, air-duct cleaners, carpet cleaners... we have a couple of clients that have owners pocketing 7 figures yearly.

What I find really interesting is how much the process these really successful owners use mirrors what we do in technology companies. They try different pitches. They test different call-answering tactics. They hone in on the words, phrases, and ideas that resonate with customers. They test different advertising metrics and are obsessed with tracking and analytics.

Once they understand how to close deals and what the best sources of leads are... they scale. For instance, one of our air-duct cleaning partners (that clears 7 figures in profit) has grown to four crews and a full time booking agent. The booking agent is extensively trained and closes 60-70% of all leads. The owner spends her time focused on quality control of the actual crews for the most part.

The point being: There is PLENTY of room for small business owners to make a lot of money with manageable levels of scale. You still have to have a keen business sense... but outcome based decision making works no matter what business you run.
What entails the "beta" part of a new stack exchange site? The platform is proven to be rock solid and the only changes appear to be in visual design. Or is it just an extra precaution and sites leave beta quickly?
Generally, physical work is not as rewarded in modern society as intellectual work. Almost anything physically grueling a human can do, a machine can be designed to do it better. If the human in question is expensive, a machine has probably already been designed to do it better.

Personally, I just go for walks at random intervals during my workday. It keeps me from being completely deskbound, and also keeps my brain from getting stuck.
It's a shame they won't make the typesetting engine available as a library so that a (real) graphical interface could be written for it.
Interesting pricing. The lower three tiers of the small business plans seem to be strictly worse than the most similar of the personal plans, and the highest is only a better value in a particular (small) range of request counts (490384 < number of queries < 666667). I'd hope they at least provide an SLA or something to justify the extra cost.
When Ideas Have Sex (possible relevance to HN: Why a cofounder is good)
Why so down on Austin? I've heard really good things about the nightlife scene and other things young folks would enjoy... do tell!
Um, is this more about gaming hardware issues, or the games themselves because we still have gamefaqs.com
It's nice to be able to get off snapshots is the main thing. I don't want a stable version of Leiningen 1.2 depending on some random Clojure snapshot. Plus now the primitives work can get merged to master.
There's also still experts-exchange, usenet and various forums for programming questions.
> and friendfeed before it.

I think you meant Friendster.
Physical Therapist!

"Physical therapists practice in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and private offices that have specially equipped facilities. These jobs can be physically demanding, because therapists may have to stoop, kneel, crouch, lift, and stand for long periods. In addition, physical therapists move heavy equipment and lift patients or help them turn, stand, or walk." And: "Median annual wages of physical therapists were $72,790 in May 2008." (From http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos080.htm )

Plus, you get to help people recover from ailments and improve their daily physical experience.
I'd have liked to have read that far, but the serif on the 'f' was just so overwhelmingly grotesque that I simply couldn't bring myself to do it.
If I'm not mistaken, you'll want to wait for the Game Dev version instead:

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2825/game-developm...
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>I can barely see the difference even after the explanation;

I'm only barely trained at piano - the handmade notation does look better to me, but I couldn't actually tell you why. Indeed my impression of the first close-ups was that they were pretty near identical, yet I couldn't get over the sense that one was richer, fuller. It would have been nice to have a blind study to open on - choose which of these x is the nicest rendered, state your musical training, then tell us why we like what we did.
You can make decent money as both golf and tennis pros. I'm not sure how easy it would be to become either if you're not already pretty skilled though. I'm certain it could be done, and the younger you are the easier, but it would be some work if you don't have much skill at either.

You could also get a teaching certificate and become a coach. This may be a lot of work as well depending on your state, education, etc.

You can become a personal trainer with not too much effort if you're like spending time in gyms. It'll take awhile to build up and maintain clientele, but it's not a bad way to go.
a treadmill desk is overkill
however a standing desk might improve health dramatically http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/phys-ed-the-men-who...
Plants 'can think and remember'
CouchDB 1.0 is out
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I am done with talking about relationships. Since you brought up Violent Acres on the other post, I merely add that someone has put my thoughts into prose more eloquently at http://www.violentacres.com/archives/100/dating-is-competiti...
There is a 7 day secret, private beta so that a few hundred super-committed people can fill up the site with questions to set the tone, and establish a system of tags. That way when the public beta hits, the site is already stocked with a bunch of appropriate questions.

After the private beta, there is a 60-90 day public beta. The purpose of this is to make sure the site really survives and doesn't just get a burst of activity and then disappears. Sites which still have a lot of activity at the end of 90 days become permanent sites... sites which don't would be closed down.

The public beta also allows a community to start to develop.... in addition to setting a tone for the site and deciding what kinds of things are on-topic, they work on picking a permanent domain name, a logo, a graphic design, and electing moderators.
I have not been a roughneck, but I grew up in Edmonton, Canada at a time when several of my Gr. 12 classmates went for 3 months in the summer and earned more than their teachers did in a year.

The pay is high (my friends earned about 12k/month) but it is dirty, dangerous work. You are isolated for weeks or months at a time. Drug use is extremely common, and your safety and even life often depends on the clear thinking and detail-orientation of someone who is hungover or high or both. There will be no internet access, although there is probably a communal television with satellite access. Many workers lose much of their money gambling: you can not participant and be isolated, or participate and lose, or participate and win and risk physical interventions.

My mom wouldn't let me go. :)
You could become a gigolo who fixes ladies' computers.
His account isn't "over-simplified". It is exactly wrong. VHS won because VHS was a "superior machine". It could fit an entire movie on a single cassette while the original Beta tapes could only hold an hour.
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