skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suffered horribly, now cured. I won't bother you with the steps that did not work, just the steps that did.

-main thing is to force yourself to use a posture holding your shoulders back and your head / neck back. Laptops are the worst because they force you to look down. As I understand it, the wrist pain is actually neck pain, shoulder pain, arm pain and wrist pain. Your neck, shoulder and arms unconciously make adjustments to relieve pain and the wrist bares the brunt of it because it cannot adjust and pass the pain down the line anymore.

-indoor rock climbing (bouldering) about 20 times helped a ton. I don't go anymore, but the stretching and strength building helped a ton.

-going to yoga about 10 times help also.

-I still don't mouse with my right hand, left only.

The #1 thing for me is to not look down toward the monitor and hold your shoulders and head/neck back. When I read about holding my shoulders back, I did it for 2 days straight and had extremely sore back muscles the next day. The sore muscles got better in a few days and the difference was huge.
Why was it blocked 5 minutes ago? This is a great example of a post (and marketing move) to release much-asked for sales information to software vendors, who at the same time, may be very interested in the product itself.
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199645
Social filtering absolutely works in the small: consider how often your friends and co-workers can recommend things that are of interest and of use to you. How you construct an application that facilitates or automates this is a different question.
Made me take the long way to the paper, but from the abstract it's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Ask YC: Financial Planning for Startups
I have to put together some financial statements for a technology non-profit I'm starting up: a profit-and-loss statement, and cash flows. After googling, I found all kinds of information that did nothing but confuse me.

Right now, I'm using the finance information that public companies release, since that includes cash flows and income statements (http://finance.google.com/finance?fstype=ii&q=NASDAQ:GOOG)

Any better resources or suggestions? I'll post back here with what I end up finding most useful.
Best platform/framework for developing a facebook app?
I'm getting started with facebook apps, and I'd love to know which language and/or platform you guys think is the best choice for this. Not to start a language war, I'm guessing one language/platform/framework has a larger community, more support, and is easier to scale for this specific need.

Also, any general advice with building facebook would very much be appreciated.
Haruki Murakami. Sputnik Sweetheart, Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore. After the Quake, if you like short stories. Great stuff.

If you want something lighter, try Banana Yoshimoto. If you want something with more sex and gruesome murders, try Ryu Murakami.
Science vs Religion (humor)
Get good rankings so you can steal other’s content
Some recent updates to Tipjoy
http://www.amazon.com/Financial-Statements-Step-Step-Underst...
Incomplete article, yet starts an interesting discussion topic: are spoken languages also distributed along a power continuum, in a similar way to programming languages?

From personal experience: yes. I speak Spanish, Catalan, English and Russian. In my opinion:

* English would be php: it's dead easy to mash together just about anything, and grammar and vocabulary are as inventive as you make them. Plus everybody understands it to some extent.

* Russian is Lisp: amazingly powerful, but hard to get right and to think in it (at least for a non-native like me -of course I'm biased.)

* Spanish is like java: everybody understands a bit of it, but getting started is terrible (one needs to know what subject, object, articles and verb conjugation are just to say the simplest of things.)

* Catalan is like Spanish, but much less widespread: perhaps a java-like language now nearly defunct because of lack of libraries and a powerful company/state behind it -take your pick.
People have pointed me to http://opentick.com/ before, though I have not yet tried it.
Speed Test: Dynamic SQL vs Stored Procedures
Perl has a good API implementation:

http://search.cpan.org/~unobe/WWW-Facebook-API-v0.4.11/lib/W...

http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/WWW-Facebook-API
Giving a donation with PayPal is a 7 or 8 click process that takes you away from the page you're on.

Tipjoy is a single click that leaves you where you are.

The difference is quite real. Not to mention that a macropayment is going to happen that much less often.

We encourage tippers to contact sites they support for the same reason I'd encourage people to engage the community of a site in comments. Bringing a closer connection between content creators and content consumers is one driving principle of Tipjoy.
English has no dedicated future tense.

http://www2.gsu.edu/~eslhpb/grammar/lecture_4/table3-1.htm
Replying to the second part of your comment, tipjoy has a platform API. I think OurDoings was the first to use it. You can attach a tip jar by checking one box.
I would recommend two great resources:

1. Using AppJet to build Facebook apps: http://appjet.com/docs/guide/facebook

2. Free (1yr) scalable hosting from Joyent for Facebook apps: http://www.joyent.com/developers/facebook/

Hope it helps!
I signed up for Joyent about a month ago but still haven't heard from them. I assume the wait list is pretty long at this point.
From the article: When it comes to duplicate content, authority matters more to Google than who published it first.

I mentioned to friend that a small but anti-social group of spammers were repeatedly using this tactic to improve their ranking. The more they do it, the more hits they get, the more links they get, the more their ranking improves. This puts them above the authoritive threshold of other sites which allows them to steal more content.

Can you think of a method to discourage this activity?
What is your preferred language for developing web applications?

Facebook app development is like any other web app development so you can pretty much stick to your preferred platform language.

If you haven't made up your mind I'd recommend PHP, since its my preferred platform/stack for web apps today.
That's partly what I'm wondering. I'm currently leaning towards PHP, partly because I know it pretty well, and partly because it seems like Facebook supports it the best.
Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People
ohh one more thing ... I compiled (from the fbforum) a list of "rules", if you will for developing facebook apps. Feel free to check it out http://senthil.homelinux.com/2007/11/18/ten-rules-for-facebo...
"Self-taught" and "autodidactic" are denotatively equivalent, so from that perspective the word "autodidactic" is absolutely not more precise.

What's more, relying on connotation to enhance precision is kind of silly. Connotation is highly subjective and often inconsistant across a community.

One good example of this fact is that few people here seem to see the connotative difference between the two words in question. I don't.

Maybe you can help us. Thanks.
Or http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/

http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... would be a good start.
'Probably' does not constitute a black and white line. Although this topic will be covered on the news over the next week, it is one that pertains to majority of the users' interests, and is highly tech related.
Open-Source Upstart Challenges the Big Web Browsers
Oh no, not again.
Ask YC: What do you think of my revenue sharing startup?
This is not my main focus, but is launched since we managed to do code it (in php) in only two days (my "main" startup is coded in asp.net and I haven't done anything in php in over a year so this was a fun project to do some simple php again).

The main idea behind it is revenue sharing for game guides. Users spent hours writing game guides and then sites (which I won't name) make money off those guides. We want to share the ad revenue with the users that do all the work.

Any comments, ideas?

Here's the URL: http://pwnguide.com/
I was very careful not to mention blogs specifically. All sorts of content stimulates emotional responses and thus comment - photos, comics, software, articles, and yes, blog posts.

As a feedback mechanism the "blog format" is de rigueur. Fifteen years ago you would have sent an email.

Disagree that Tipjoy doesn't add value to Disqus simply because comments are so often a statement of appreciation - local customs aside, that's what a tip is too. Appreciation of the value provisioned, if you prefer.

What you get is distribution channel for Tipjoy and a product enhancement and revenue slice for Disqus.

Another aside: Tipping of high value comments would be possible. There are plenty of times the OP has been light on value but the comment stream is a gem - we see it on HN all the time.
programming the universe, seth lloyd is very nice.
I have a Tipjoy account, but I doubt I'll ever use it unless you add the following functionality: Charge me five bucks a month, and then let me choose however many sites I want for that money to be divided up among. The problem with the micropayment concept is the cognitive load is through the roof. Deciding whether to spend money on something is stressful, and Tipjoy asks me to make that decision every time I go to a webpage.

Figuring out if a webpage is worth tipping is like going to the store and trying to figure out which toothpaste is the best. It's stressful as hell because they all look the same and you're afraid if you buy the wrong one you're teeth are going to fall out. Except instead of having to do that every three months, Tipjoy asks me to do it every couple of minutes. Even if you're only tipping a quarter the cognitive load is just as bad as if it's a much larger amount. In many ways it's worse because you know the people you're tipping are only getting a quarter for the mental effort; the end result just doesn't justify the process. So just let me contribute as big a pie as I want, and then make hitting the tip button just cut out an extra slice from the pie. It completely eliminates the stress of having to figure out whether or not to spend money, and the cognitive load goes down a lot as well because you can, for example, favorite Fred Wilson's blog once and then a slice of the pie automatically goes to him each month. And speaking of, Crest solved this problem by just releasing their new Pro Health product, the one that costs an extra couple bucks but just does everything. Which of course is the toothpaste I now buy. Tipjoy has to figure out a way to do the equivalent. Because as is, Tipjoy makes being nice feel like pulling teeth.
Good grief I feel your pain! I had the same thing happen to me.

Some hacker inserted a single randomly named php and new .htaccess file in every directory on my Movable Type blog - www.geofffox.com. We’re talking thousands of directories.

The .htaccess file was amazingly clever. It sprung into action on 404 errors, and only from search engine referrers. I originally thought it was Google’s problem, because I couldn’t make the pages appear by typing them in.

By the time I’d begun the cleanup, Google thought I had over 330,000 pages (actually around 16k) on my site. My most cited keywords had to do with porn and game cracks.

The hack left all .html files in a single directory. My real pages are all php, making it easier to eliminate the scourge from search engines. It took a long time.

Since cleaning up my act in January, my traffic is down by 2/3! MSN Live is referring more traffic my way than Google. I am still a PR4, but with little to show for that. That’s one reason I’ve cited my site on this comment and hope it’s not ‘nofollowed’ out. I’m hoping for some Google love.

My biggest complaint is, Google is not answerable to anyone. You can fill out forms, and beg (and I begged), but Google will neither tell you what you did wrong or how to rehabilitate yourself. I had to find those out on my own.

They have gone beyond a simple search engine. If you’re not on Google, you don’t exist!
It's a good idea. I like it. Also, I'm pretty sure "imappriately" isn't a word. Check your FAQ :P
Do you only have 3% because your site looks horrible for them, and they leave immediately?

You've gotta be careful with those statistics :)
Good idea. It's actually in the works.

But I think there is very much a place for in-the-moment support. It's such a good feeling to get some excellent content online. I actually love tipping.

I'm eager to get that same feeling when I listen to music. It's exactly when you're listening to favorite song of yours that you want to give back. That's downright sexy compared with buying music on itunes.
I take it you didn't read the 'article.'
He makes a good point, but with Seesmic, I just don't see it going anywhere. Will it really become mainstream? Twitter sure as hell won't, so what chance does Seesmic have?
(Cover) Flowww For Your Tech News
I was mostly kidding. I very rarely click on AdSense ads anyway, and only do so if I've got at least some interest in the company. But if I stumble upon a site or article that I don't like (linkbait or parked domain pages for example), I will never click on an ad. I don't want to reward crappy websites. However, because the corollary to that is true (if I like a site I am more likely to click on an ad) that does not make my behavior inappropriate, imho.

Regardless, a certain percentage of frivolous clicks won't kill ad supported sites. If conversion rates from content ads decrease advertisers should bid less and prices will correct themselves. In other words, if advertisers see their ROI on each click drop by 10%, they should bid 10% less per click. If you see a decrease in ROI and don't decrease your bid amount, that's no one's fault but your own. If you see a decrease in ROI and decrease your bid amount but lose placement to competing bidders, than for some reason you are seeing less ROI than them and it has got nothing to do with frivolous clicks. Unless of course one of your competitors is specifically targeting your ads, but I believe Google is pretty good about catching those things.

In general though, content ads are much, much less effective than search ads because when someone clicks a search ad they are in a different frame of mind(looking actively to find/buy something) than when they click on a content ad(mildly interested), so:
A) I think you are making the right move not advertising on the content network.
B) What's going to kill 'ad supported' sites is the much higher conversion rates from search ads and the fact that most ad supported sites are no more essential to humanity than most ad supported TV shows.
Actually, race is the single best predictor of how much crime to expect in a given area. Besides population already in prison, at least.

I think it's a red herring to ask why we're collecting the data in order to decide whether or not the data are accurate.
It would be interesting to see statistics on Tipjoy tips as a function of time. What does the curve look like? That may matter more at this point than any absolute amounts.

I really like the service and considered putting it up on my blog. I want to advertise for Tipjoy. On the other hand, I don't really want to ask for money. So it's not up.

What would partially solve my problem is for Tipjoy to become a default. It would be pretty neat if Tipjoy could work out a deal with a few of the major blogs such that Tipjoy became a default setting and to not have a button on the page or associated with each post you would have to opt out. Then you aren't begging, you're just going with the flow.

I'm sure Blogger and Wordpress would love any extra little source of revenue if Tipjoy were to share some of that 3%.

That would make it a technical default. It might gradually lead to the point where it is a social default as well.
Second. This is a great book.
One thing that will help regardless is hanging out with technical people. Go to where they hang out. If you're in college, take some technical classes and get to know your classmates. Go to meetups, and depending on where you work, figure out how to meet techies in the workplace.
Good deal. Once you add that functionality you should get websites to offer the user plums in exchange for giving them a slice of the pie. Sites like K5 and Fark and Slashdot already offer plums-for-money, so if you could make it easier for more sites to do this it would seem to be quite viral.

Edit: I think the idea of donating in real time would be most rewarding satisficers. The problem is that early adopters, almost by definition, are rarely satisficers.
Sorry, I guess I should have said "let Uncle Google pay [the blogger]". But you're right, it's the advertiser that ultimately pays.
<shameless promotion>
If you want someone decent to talk to, my current employer also owns an insurance agency that only does self employed/individual insurance. Here's a list of the agents they have that are licensed in CA (only 6 at the moment)

http://www.usabghome.com/states.php?state=ca

</shameless promotion>
I'm not sure what "taking off" means, but if I launched a site a few months ago and already had 80k+ visitors a month in the US(compete.com--so I'm sure it's higher), I'd be feeling pretty good :).
I guess the comments are funny...

Edit: I guess someone didn't like my comment, but seriously, what comments are appropriate on a submission with no actual content?
Yes, sorry about that. I just realized it. My bad. My host didn't like the embedded links... (Thanks all you Viagra sellers out there...) Anyhow, sounds like ya'll are on the right track. Best of luck! I'm excited to see where this will go.
--Jeff
Is this a reference to their crash: http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/man-down.html?
PHP is the most-used language in terms of the Facebook Platform community, and since Facebook is built on PHP, they have the most support for it.
We do feel very good about where we are. But in the spirit of openness, compete is probably measuring the Tipjoy button embedded in other sites -- not all visits to tipjoy.com

They are indeed off by quite a bit (on the very low side) on even measuring this.

The graph on compete does look pretty good though.
> This is a great book.

Which version did you read? Dale Carnegie's estate has published a slightly different version almost every year since Carnegie's death.

The version I read mentioned Stevie Wonder. I was thinking 'WTF? I thought that Stevie Wonder became famous after Dale Carnegie died.' Indeed, I was right. Anyhow, for this reason, I recommend the earliest edition you can obtain so that it is closer to Carnegie's intentions.
Thanks, that is what I was looking for.

However, it seems they are not currently accepting new users.

I'll keep my eye on them.
Well theres alot of people with technical expertise reading this. Give us a summary of your idea, or maybe a way to contact you.
Hmmm. I could replace the disk drive I have now and it would be 1000 times faster, but it would cost $20,000. Ouch.

I do think non-volatile memory is the way of the future, but maybe not quite yet. The 80 gig model however might make an excellent swap/scratch drive for not too much money. If only I could get in in my eeepc. :)
Really? That would be interesting data to look at. Do you have a source?

I don't care why we're collecting the data, and I was assuming the data was accurate. I'm just saying that as far as genetic differences are a factor in the data, there's nothing we can do about it or with it, so it's useless.
Browsers Are a Battleground Once Again.
I'm not an Objectivist.

I think this is Ayn Rand hate gone awry. You don't know anything about me. And all I really said here is people should be responsible for themselves; that's not some crazy fringe idea, and it's not limited to Objectivists.

And I said it specifically about economics and smoking. Smoking is a choice. I think if people want to damage their health by smoking they should be allowed to, but they should have to pay for it. Do you really think that's crazy and would destroy society?
Please elaborate on "aimless"? Are you not finding competent technical folks to pitch? Are the competent technical folks that you pitch not interested? For either question that you answer "yes", the followup is "why not?"
This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix.
In the US, children get medical insurance on their parent's plan and then, when they grow up, can buy their own coverage before that lapses.

So if you are medically unlucky, it's OK, many people pay into the insurance system, and then the medically unlucky people get money back out.

It's very similar to everyone pays taxes for medical insurance, except that instead of one government medical insurance company we have different ones that compete with each other and subscription is voluntary.

There are various important details. Maybe we get some of them wrong. But the general idea is OK and wouldn't screw you over in principle.
From the Wikipedia page, the RAD6000 was used in the Mars Rovers. I believe that the Mars Rovers used Java, partly because of static analysis that can be performed on source and object code and partly due to the garbage collection.
contact me at gacxllr10@gmail.com if you're interested in helping to develop this web application:

I wanted to create a site for wanderlusts - people who want to use the internet to find exciting places to see and things to do. Contact me if you're interested in seeing some mock-ups.If it's not overly apparent, I haven't refined my pitch yet.
Leave a tip to vote up? I really like this idea! I think that everything that's free gets abused in some way.

(Garret Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons)

If upvotes were micropayments, a lot of gaming would just stop. There would still be individual gaming of the system, but it would be a lot less. The problem would be PR flacks abusing the system. This could be fought with a well thought out Terms of Service and the right social pressures coming from the user community.
Using GMail as a backup mail server
Some people need a "chill pill". What made Paypal? Distribution. Wait and see what sort of monies this guys will collect when they have a distribution deal with hosted blog/site/wiki services (wordpress, sixapart, weebly.....) Go on Ivan and team.
Classified script
AJ Classifieds is a fully functional Classifieds Site with full administration controls. The user can search for postings by either by description or Main-category or even both. However, there is no registration for postings. The user can hide his/her email id. The user has the option of editing and deleting the postings. User can verify his/her email before publishing the postings.
I would be shocked if the actual rovers used Java. Perhaps Java is used in the tools used to control them (that send the signals), but not the little guys themselves.
From the comments: under 140 characters - excellent work!
Theres a great tutorial here - http://lethain.com/entry/2007/dec/04/two-faced-django-part-1... - that uses Django to build a facebook app.
Interview with former VC and new CEO of SF-based startup Widgetbox
+1 or Cryptonomicon. Although I don't call it SciFi. Nerd Fiction?!
The Telegraph's list of the "50 best cult books" has some great ones in there. Whatever a "cult book" is... I guess I read lots of cult books. :)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04...
Or maybe Steppenwolf by the same author.
I want to organize the world. I don't want to organize the world's information - as Google does, but simply the places and venues that make up our world - amusement parks and museums and baseball fields and movie theaters. I want a user to be able to go onto this web application and find out where the best skate park within twenty miles of his or her new house in Portland, ME is. I want a user to be able to come back from a vacation and create a list of the places where they went. I want to make the world more active, taking users away from their computers and into the thick of things.

It's sort of like a real-life Delicious.