skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One reason I believe for this could be because often in these cases your project is a 'side' bootstrapped thing.

This causes the lack of motivation / reduces the chances of reaching success for a few reasons.

- The first is that you do not need it to succeed.

Don't get me wrong, you would love it to succeed and make money, however you are most likely doing it after your day job and the reality is, you've not risked enough to 'HAVE' to succeed. Therefore it is very easy to fail / decide to try again when things get tough or haven't yet been as successful as you had hoped.

- Another key reason is that, while bootstrapping time is tight.
You find you spend hours / days / weeks / months of your spare time on something (while working full time at a job) and the reality is, you just burn out / want free time again. This is not unreasonable, especially if you have a family to look after, or your health is being affected.

- Ultimately every idea goes through a dip, 'a hard' section.
The fun idea / initial build has started (if you're a software developer like me, this is the best part), but now you must focus on the other elements such as sales / marketing / support, etc. We can easily diagnose and fix a problem in our code if our product is running inefficiently, but it's often far harder for us hackers to say exactly why the traffic is not pouring in, why the traffic is not converting to user sign ups or why the sales aren't increasing. At this point we think how much fun it would be to work on another exciting idea, doing the fun part again.

- Finally (I already realise this is quite an essay), the idea may not have been so great to start with.
It is a common thing to have 'great' ideas, which at first seem brilliant, but after a week seem weak. I always try to give any idea I have at least 3 days of thought before jumping in. Similarly I always ask other people for their thoughts and whether they would use this service?

Ultimately, there is nothing more demotivating than working on a project realising that no one actually wants it.
I agree. That's why I've decided to focus on a non web/mobile/social and a technically non-trivial topic as my new startup.
- Non web/mobile/social, because web/mobile/social is highly saturated and overhyped
- Technically non-trivial, because as an engineer/geek type I have some competitive andvantages there against people like the OP.
For those of you who can't get 4od to work (i.e. me) or who're outside the UK, it's also available via BitTorrent and The Pirate Bay.
edit: danhood found a pic of the camera + helmet, and it fits compared to the video (IMO). Not obscured at all (also IMO). Go give them the points :)

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Obscured: probably. It's a helmet-camera, so it's likely small, and may not appear as such at first glance.

But still. One's behavior should not change when being recorded, especially not a cop.
U.S. accuses fired Dow scientist of sending pesticide secrets to China
that really might be.

Unfortunately people are only willing to take over if:

a) it makes them easy money, or is near to be profitable
b) you pay them for doing your work (you trust your idea, so you it will pay others, too? sure..)
c) you can make a big marketing around selling your pre-alpha-incomplete company (unrealistic)
If the activation didn't set right, wouldn't he not be able to even get on the 3G network? The phone works fine - just, in tests, the network is quite a bit slower than other phones.

Activation would seem to be a binary, not gradient, issue..
Right, there had been similar arguments by Rand of SEOMoz and Jason of Smartbear.

A/B testing doesn't dictate what you are testing. It is an instrument -- ultimately you have to plan the experiment. A lot of people confuse that testing is just limited to doing red v/s green button color test. But what prevents you to converting your site to flash app and then A/B testing it. What does it have to do with creativity?

Though all such articles are good at at least generating awareness about A/B testing.
Setting out to build "a passive income business" is a recipe for disaster. There is no substitute for intelligent work. Business exists to serve the community, not to maximize shareholder equity. The responsibility of business is to ensure that prices are kept decreasing, and that quality and wages are kept increasing. Focus on the right motivation and the proper methods and profits will follow. Here is a true saying: "he who is faithful in small things, will be entrusted with greater things".

Read:

Ecclesiastes - http://bit.ly/bFJruK

Proverbs - http://bit.ly/aJpmva

Henry Ford's autobiography My Life And Work - http://bit.ly/9fZkFG
I'd give $10 to each of my two daughters.
and the t-shirts :)
uncontested "trust me, if you type google into google you will break the internet"
I understand you, but learning to walk is standard. Everyone knows that everyone (at least 99%) will learn and do it. It's a no-brainer: just keep trying. It will work.

If you have some side project you are distracted every day by things that maybe have more potentials, people that may compete or even personal things.

So you start think: Why should I still do that...?
And then your project is toast.

Yes, If you rally know all "stages" you can recall them in future ventures:

"okay, I feel miserable now, but that's the same with the last thing and in the end I made a good product. I'll just repeat. EOD"
first, they took pictures of the kids naked.

What is this world coming to when this is considered "a mistake"?
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If I were tumblr I'd have sent the dogs the minute I read this one line:

"Here's how the Internet's rage—funneled by Tumblr and 4Chan.org"

Equating the two in any light is such a lambaste of untruth it's mind boggling.
I find IT Crowd to have good actors but an unremarkable script. I think that technology jokes are easy pickings - they're so rare that geeks wet themselves if someone drops the word firewall in a sentence....
"I took a few of my youngest daughter, Eliza, then age 3, skinny-dipping in the lake, and my son, Noah, then age 8, swimming in the lake in his underwear, and another of Noah naked, hamming it up while using a long stick to hold his underwear over the fire to dry. Finally, I took a photo of everyone, as was our camping tradition, peeing on the ashes of the fire to put it out for the last time."
this anti piracy spoof on it crowd is one of my favourite things ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
Good luck Nadam!
I wonder if the conclusion about A/B testing would have been the same if the tenuously-related lead-in anecdote had been about medicine ("Although randomized drug trials might have succeeded in saving billions of lives, it didn't ring true to patients...")

You can ask users about their satisfaction. Do it. If you do A/B testing well, after testing it goes up. I'm sorry if it doesn't provide spiritual fulfillment to Jeff Atwood or product visionaries who hate the idea that something so simple so often trumps their vision, but surely you can work through that after you see the benefits available. A/B testing let me help over 100,000 extra kids learn to read this year -- that is pretty freaking spiritually compelling.
spaced is in a different league. As is Father Ted. etc.
I already have the love for creating things, I just need to develop the programming- so yep you hit it right on the head! ...more to come in today's post
How do you know this women is guilty when a formal investigation has failed to substantiate that?
While I don't necessarily disagree, let me point out that it's considered okay to show a painting of a breast, or an acted shooting, but showing an actual breast or real shooting are both considered taboo. I think people lose track of the fact that violence on TV (and in video games, etc) is pretend violence, whereas most nudity is real nudity, rather than a simulation of same.

I'm not saying that makes it sensible, but it does bring the American treatment of them closer together than they seem at first glance.
Several reasons for this.

1. DF sneezes and get's hits.
2. Linkbait headline.
3. Shorter post means people are back here faster and will remember to upvote. Wired article is longer, much better, and by the time you are done, you forget to upvote.
These prosecutions aren't just wrong, they're un-American. How police and prosecutors sworn to uphold the law can abuse it to this extent boggles the mind.
> "When and why did nudity become such a taboo there? "

Much of the country was built and populated by puritans. State's rights and a lack of urbanization allowed tight-knit communities of like-minded people to keep anyone different away. This created a sort of moral echo chamber, that carried their views into modernity without ever being tempered via intellectual or moral challenge. And the US system of representation gives those rural communities quite a bit of power over national mores.

As for the rhetorical: it depends on context. It always depends on context. Nudity isn't necessarily less harmful.

Hiding violence and death away from children can be just as harmful as hiding nudity.
The closest thing I know is:

CompizConfig settings manager

Choose the "Put" plugin, under Window Management.

"Bindings" -> "Put within viewport"

and bind the window movements to the keys you want.

Never used windows 7 but I guess it does something more, perhaps resize the window horizontally/vertically ?
While I agree with you, it's worth noting that your children are removed from you custody almost immediately, regardless of the outcome of the investigation. So, the "hassle and waste" you refer to can devastate a family.
For experimental contrast:

I have no problem with a house style, but the claim that following one particular stylebook makes one a "better writer" annoy me. Worse, the linked article claims that "the elision of all adverbs from any technical writing," and "the removal of the passive voice," "constitute a net positive."

Good writing, technical or otherwise, requires adverbs. Notwithstanding the claims of a variety of self-proclaimed experts, no good writer will omit adverbs, and no writer can successfully omit all adverbs without sounding incredibly choppy and awkward. The author of the linked article included a few; counting those adverbs that end in "-ly," I found ten (fortunately mechanically really genuinely personally frequently unfortunately solely rightfully technically), and in the sentence condemning adverbs he included an adverb ("so").

As for the passive, the author acknowledges the difficulty of avoiding them, but claims that their removal still improves writing, though without explaining why. In fact, it makes the writing seem rather choppy (as if the author had to spend too much time paralysed by a set of rules to follow and had none left to make the text flow). And despite putting in a great deal of effort to avoid them, the author still included two or more that I found in a quick reread: "drawn for them" in the "beholder words" section, and "accepted for publication" at the bottom. In both cases, I find the result perfectly readable, not at all fuzzy, and entirely unremarkable--which shoots a rather gaping hole in the argument against the passive voice.

I feel sorry for his grad students, and hope that when they come out the other end, they discard the silly mandates of their advisor, rather than perpetuating the myths....
I am picturing po-faced cowboys of the period watching Deadwood and then whingeing that the dialog isn't realistic.
I'm not sure how to say this without sounding like a terrible troll, but when an entire religious group gets up and sails across an ocean because everyone back home won't stop telling them that they're crazy... what else would you expect?
Do sovereign debt ratios matter?
Monads in Python, with nice syntax
The power of a headline that grabs your focus
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How is accusing them of negligence going to generate more evidence against you? If no-one stands up to this organization this sort of thing is going to continue to happen.
I think there will always be money in 'Fun'
There was a good talk by the Adafruit folks at HOPE this weekend. They mentioned using Authorize.net and not storing the cc numbers on their own site. I don't know if the video has been posted yet, but check www.hope.net. It covered all sorts of aspects of running their ecommerce site/marketing. I think it was called "running an open source hardware company".
Even in Canada, nudity is not such a big deal. In Montreal last week, I saw billboards with ads like this (partially cropped):

http://www.montrealsciencecentre.com/documents/csm/images/Im...

It was advertising this: http://www.montrealsciencecentre.com/exhibitions/sex-a-tell-...
How many journalists are in jail for causing which hunts? How many have even uttered an apology?

That's the difference.
A complete guide to A/B testing
Why the Kindle Will Survive
So you dove right into Objective C?
Should a startup bring on a strategic investor?
There's a noun version of the can't-go-wrong words: 'entropy.'
Thanks and the same to you! (I did not want to sound offensive, I've just realized that I am not especially good in creating small consumer applications (and there are crazy amount of competitors), so instead I do something which fits more what I am good at, needs more programming/algorithmization experience, and there are less competitors.)
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> sometimes value in aggregation

What do you think of http://kottke.org ?
I used to think Steve "wearable PC" Mann was a crackpot, but his sousveillance [1] argument is making more and more sense.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
You never want "to make a mere assignment", nor "to write a pointer to memory". These are not problems you want solved, they are parts of a possible solution.

Haskell don't need assignments nor memory writes. It solves problems (including state management) differently. You may not like that, but don't say that not using some specific low-level feature is bad by itself.
Logic behind a schedule- I used to row at UNC, and we had practice twice a day. Having the same schedule over and over again creates a certain amount of comfort within the repetition. It's 6am now- been responding to comments & emails since 5:30, so yep holding to it! The blog post a day will serve as a marker for the previous days accomplishments, and thoughts for the process ahead.
Except with wait times measured in seconds and milliseconds instead of hours and days.
only on Fridays, casual day, where you can wear anything, if it fits a list of two page requirements :(
I tried once to involve a junion partner (but 50/50) in one project. The idea was to give him a ruby introduction but with the main focus for him to do others things so that I can code e.g. he should checking out support-SaaS, googlemail, terms and conditions.

I thought that both partners are going to motivate themselves, don't allow one to procrastinatel off the roads.

In the end it did not work out. He raised more "no go" concerns than even I have when I start failing a project, e.g.:

A 2 hour discussion about: "when we focus on the US, who does support at night? I'LL NEVER STAY UP READING EMAIL TO 2AM EVERY SECOND DAY. I CAN'T DO THAT."

That was after approx. three weeks. Nothing worked yet. No customers of course.

TL;DR

I try to find cofounders but usually they have less motivation than I have. I probably don't do me a favour.
> So it reduces to, "For any given language some things are simple and others complex. For other languages what is simple and complex differ".

Though that might be the case, what doesn't change with languages is what users typically consider as simple problems. So "simple problems" are specific to user expectations, not language features. So I think the parent's point still stands.
At this year's edition of Stump the Experts at WWDC, Bill
Atkinson went up to the mike and asked the experts what the original name for the HyperCard project was. He got a standing ovation and pimped his photo iPhone app.
The timing of this question couldn't be better because I think I know something that might help give you perspective.

Go out to the library, or borders, barnes and nobles (or digitally) and buy this book - http://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/04.... It's called the War of Art, and a really short read, 150'ish pages (but actually more along the lines of 75 pages). A friend of mine loaned me his copy and it's definitely pulled me up from the doldrums I've been in recently to get some perspective. I suffer from pretty much the same thing and succumb to that resistance, or what other people sometimes call the "lizard brain", in getting something DONE. It's HARD.

Honestly - just read the book. It'll help. I promise.
Thanks for sharing that.

How did you manage to stay calm and respectful in the face of all the condescension and threat of losing your children? Since my son was born, I've observed my own protective tendencies really ratchet up. The few times I believed he was in real danger, all other concerns fell away, and removing the perceived danger was the only thing that mattered to me. I worry that were I to find my house invaded with people searching my stuff, accusing me of abuse, treating everything as evidence of guilt, the urge to crack some some heads might become overpowering. Of course, I rationally know that's the worst possible thing to do. But in the heat of the moment, the cerebrum doesn't always prevail. How did you keep your cool?
I'm going to shift your analogy over to where rmoriz is the baby and walking is shipping. Babies and children want to imitate what big people are doing. Without active teaching, babies will still learn to walk because they see big people walking.

If you want to be motivated to walk, look at big people walking. Adjust your time online to make that your focus. Meet up with people who ship.
It also shows that there are moments to break into a market and moments not to. If they had made an iPhone 3GS case, no one would care. Making an iPad case though, that is the new hot thing, and everyone was doing case round-ups and linking to the new cases.
I actually prefer not having multi-tasking on my iPhone. I really like that when I close an application it is gone and not running in the background taking up memory or doing unknown things.

No multi-tasking keeps things simple, which is how I like them on a device with a such a small screen (since you can only look at one thing anyway).

I also think not allowing multi-tasking encourages good development practices. It encourages software that can deal with a quick exit by the user at any time, but at the same time get them back to where they were. I find a lot of the iPhone software nice for this reason.

In my opinion, no multi-tasking is a feature. If it were an option on iOS4 I would turn it on.
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I sympathize that it sucks to be falsely investigated, but if you consider that there are people like those described above, who have become expert manipulators and liars to conceal and feed their habits, and DCFS has to investigate them too, you can understand some skepticism on the part of the agents.

I am so bitter and cynical about the whole ordeal that I have come to believe that you can do anything you want want so long as you let them check off their list of social programs they ran you through.

The father and high school friend that I spoke of had a stand off with the cops (DCF was trying to enter the home to investigate his brothers call), in which he was brandishing a weapon on the front porch claiming that he was going to kill himself and his family if the cops tried to enter his house (he was protecting his drugs). When DCF got a hold of him and he agreed to "enter" their program, the judge released him into the care of DCF and the DA dropped the charges so long as he entered a facility (1 month). The brother (who is still a good friend and not a drug addict) called me so mad when he found out that because his brother complied that he would (a) not be getting the kids out of the situation and (b) his brother was being administered a cocktail of legal drugs in the facility.

In my situation this was the point that my sanity started to weaken. I know that they deal with all kinds of manipulators and these two individual where class acts when in came to manipulation, but man they had so many red flags with these people, meanwhile with us, they found a single pipe and neither my wife or I, tested positive for a substance other than one I had a prescription for.

Anyway, I am glad it has long been history for us, but from my experience if you jump through their hoops you can get away with murder. If you don't, they are going to come after you with everything they have got.

I would be half serious in saying that there need to be a support group for DCF false investigation survivors. It was the worst hell we ever experienced and we did not feel secure in our house for years. The article talked about the journalist being in live fire situations and it not being as bad, I believe it whole hardily I would have rather been in a situation where I was being constantly shot at, than to endure that again.
Funny how "If you're not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to fear" only works when the authorities are recording what you say and do and not when you do the same to them.
> GIMP is ugly as sin, a pain to use, overly complicated and terribly huge

And yet you haven't answered ... the investment you make in these tools is substantial anyway. Why would somebody invest in crippleware ... instead of investing in Photoshop (the industry's standard) ... or in an open-source alternative that is just as capable, only more complicated to use and less standard.

Also, you're complaining about 78MB? Really?

Personally I love GIMP ... I even wrote my own plugin written in Python for doing smart-sharpening (based on this tutorial: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Smart_Sharpening/). Yeah ... it was a PITA such functionality wasn't built in, but GIMP provides all the filters you need, upon which you can build your own stuff.

Once you get the initial learning curve (most open-source software is like that), it f*cking rocks. And it's here to stay, and won't disappear into obscurity.
"PhD" may be a scary, Haskell's theses are not. Most academic paper I've read about it are quite readable (I don't have a PhD). The only serious prerequisite for a competent programmer is an introductory course on ML or Haskell.
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