skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've done two logo contests at 99designs (formerly SitePoint Contests), and we loved the results of both. We made sure our prize was the highest on the site for a logo at the time ($500 in each case), and so we got tons of entries, quite a few of them very good. We even got a goatse entry: http://inthebox.webmin.com/its-just-not-a-contest-until-you-...
I will be there, obviously :)
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Awesome. Will look forward to meeting you.
Oh, I just realised that I didn't explain the most important thing - the difference between 'I see where you are coming from' and ' I see where you are going'.

The first is more of an acknowledgement that I have understood the premises that your argument is based on. I may use this expression to indicate that I now agree with you, having understood your premises, or it may indicate that I am going to argue against your premises - 'I see where you are coming from, but your premise that we are losing market share as a result of the project is false - statistics show...)
The second (I see where you are going) is more a way of saying that I have understood the base of your argument, and I know what the conclusion is going to be. Typically people use this to cut someone off before that person arrives at their (now redundant) conclusion.

My apologies to everyone else for spamming the list with this finer point of language, but as someone living in a country where my native language isn't spoken, I often wish that people would help clear up my misconceptions, so I'm doing the same thing for someone else.
gmail, using self-addressed emails and labels as folders.

Being able to search and "reply" to your own thoughts is really nice.
UAVs ;)
clearly we need some sort of voice versions of vim and emacs
Of course, it's only in the USA that this is even an issue.
This is by far the best one: http://99designs.com/contests/6774/entries/442807.png
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Ditto. I have a giant "ideas.txt" with unfinished 1 liners, and separate files (supersecretproject.txt) with more details.
Django, RoR and for PHP no framework.
Yeah, I love google for that too, stuff tends to get lost with time though, or I forget about it.
i couldn't live without http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productde...

split is like 500x more comfortable than joined
And ZERO geeks look at their keyboards while playing games (gamers being the probable target audience for this).
(A) Definitely read the GPL itself.

(B) There are a couple of books about open source license that explain the various bits pretty well -- you might want to read them, too.

(C) On your first question, no that's not allowed by the GPL. You've created a derivative work and it must remain GPL'd.

(D) Your "new functions", if they are truly your own independent creations can potentially be separated out into their own e.g., library and you can release just that under whatever license you like.

(E) In terms of your second question, that depends on what you mean by "new source code". If you mean "only the completely new source code that you've written independently" then yes as long as you don't include that code as an integral part of GPL'd code in creating a derivative work. The other cases have been covered above.

(F) IANAL. Seek competent, professional legal advice.
I use Google Docs. It works well for the most part, but the long load time is mildly irritating, and I don't need most of its features. I've been thinking of writing something like this from scratch for fun.
i don't like the name. something like "The Murderer" would help it sell better -- an exaggeration, but i think the eggheaded name is lame and will be off-putting to people
I got some VP's hooked onto the iPhone by making them and the Exchange Team aware of, and sign up for, the iPhone Enterprise Beta program shortly after I was accepted as an Individual under my own accord. In January, I presented some slides with a manager to a bunch of smart people beforehand to bring attention to the iPhone as a potential platform and a reduced cost option than the $80-$120/mo crackberries. The point was to get some development for the platform, but VP's took the iPhones for themselves when the test units came in, so that's a good sign. One big deal with the iPhones is that several VP's and Architects I've talked to have large collections of music from way back when they were younger and listen to them on their iPods, so the iPhone has a good quality of reminiscence to it. In fact, at a corporate gathering, two of them were comparing which albums they had standing by a jukebox with tons of choices. They could be doing the same with the iPhone. One could say that showing your albums to a friend could be a killer social feature for two people standing next to each other who are in their forties or fifties. The BlackBerry keyboard was judged to be better, but I told them to wait a bit as it learns from the way the user uses it.

There are probably great reasons to present the use of the mac as an option or to have an Ajax web site for the company's target audience, but I have better things to do at home. I'm already initiating other crazy things, like teaching the web content team in IT how to use basic HTML, and how to create simple banners in Photoshop (don't ask) in the beginning of May. Somebody yell at me.
XP makes programming less like a creative art and more like checking off items on a to do list. You can't teach art, but you can sort of get people to do stuff on a list. Hence XP.
How do they make money again?
Cool :) Good to see Perl users on Hacker News :)
Even then, it's still faster to press the keys for moving around. But maybe your editor could be in command mode by default, and you could import words by speaking. That might be cool.
agreed, but im a sucker for avenir

i wouldve made a graphic depicting two old farts yawning
I'm unfamiliar with how the rest of the world works when it comes to immigration and entrepreneurship. Is it difficult to start a startup in Canada or London if you aren't already Canadian or a resident of the UK?
One other thing -- I notice all the stacks are overflowing from the top. Shouldn't they be overflowing from the bottom?
fwiw...

when i launched tsacomplaints.com, i had ~30,000 from hitting the front page of fark.com, 2500 from stumbleupon, and 150 from boing boing comments (comments alone -- not a real post from them). of this traffic, about (literally) 1% was worthwhile to the site. since then, i get about 100 hits/day from stumbleupon and more from travel forums. in terms of submissions, the signal to noise ratio with lower traffic has jumped from 1% signal to ~60%. i'll take that over massive traffic for now ;)
A recent Reddit frontpaging (150 points in the science category) gave us 11k uniques the first day.
it means that the bulky-but-workable version of what generated django's db queries has been replaced my malcolm tredinnick much more advanced refactor.

for details on the refactor and why it should matter to you, check out: http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/2008/03/11/queryset-impleme...

and, needless to say, kudos to malcolm for this massive undertaking! hes certainly helping take django to the next level of ubiquity.
looks like i got ahead of myself and the link was posted in the comment i was replying to.. i guess that speaks to the importance of reading it ;)
what would you do: maker faire in SF or red bull air race in SD? both are may 3-4. I'm considering driving to SD for the red bull event..
Yes I agree it is useful to consider the rest of the world. However that was not the cause for the discrepancy and the numbers are still out by a factor of 100. If you think that 1% of global surplus attention could annually create 10000 wikipedias instead of 100 then you are likely to reach some very different conclusions. Maybe he switched context from 1% to 100% - that would make sense.
"We are unable to find iTunes on your computer."

Is there any other source?
If you are a Windows person, I find OneNote to be indispensable. screen clippings, random thoughts, notes - whatever, really - are sorted, searchable, etc. It comes with certain versions of MS Office. http://www.onenote.com/
I like your last remark. Especially because it doesn't contradict your comment as much as you think. Shirky said: "People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share". He probably means to say that people like to share what they produce, but (at least) in case of TV people also like to share what they consume. Having seen the same movie/show/etc. makes us feel 'connected'. In that sense 'traditional media' actually hit two of his three points, not one.
It's available only in the US store.
No, wait, that's not entirely right :) The traditional media of course don't enable the 'sharing' through them. Still, I think there is a lot of (social) value in watching TV in the sense it 'gives you something to talk about' (to say without nice words ;)
According to the Developer's Guide, FPS supports micropayments as small as $0.00001. ("The money type handles micropayment amounts, with a precision of 1000th of a cent...")
Use the extension Foxnotes while online. You get six separate notes, all of them .txt files.
When offline use your text editor to access any of the six. Use the editor's MRU list for instant access, or a shortcut(s).
It's a simple, superfast online\offline setup.
If you're not using PsPad you don't know what a top class free text editor is.
Pretending That You Care
Also as an oldie, I'd say my productivity today is the highest it has ever been. How do I keep myself motivated? By constantly being a beginner. I do web programming, GUI programming, embedded systems, drivers, unix, mac, PC, bare metal, lisp, python, C, dozens of assembly languages, Verilog, hardware, analog, RF, antennas, etc.

In my opinion, you are just making excuses for why you are less productive than you should be; it's called rationalization. ;-)

My advice is to dive in to some area of s/w (or whatever) that you don't know at all (i.e. become a beginner) and see if that doesn't spark your excitement again. It does for me, over and over again!
Moving from gmail to my own email hosting, I discovered that horde had really nice notes/calendar/etc. modules (horde-webmail has them integrated).

The only problem is that it is somewhat of a pain to set up, but if you want a complete self-hosted solution, it's great.

I also discovered recently that the next version (rc now) has syncml support so you can sync with your mobile phone.
It's almost like they're running PHP.
I have a folder on my desktop called buckets with individual plain text files called:

Blog Topic Bucket
Books to Get Bucket
Business Todo Bucket
Daily Task Bucket
Domain Bucket
Idea Bucket
Link Bucket
Music bucket
Personal Todo Bucket
Quote Bucket
Scrap Bucket
Travel Bucket

I then add to those buckets with Quicksilver by pressing .[text here] [tab] Append to... [bucket]/name of bucket

It takes a couple of seconds to put anything I want into them, though it probably sounds more complicated than it is written out.
If you're constantly a beginner, your productivity is not going to be high. That's a given.

I'm not sure why you thought I'd need your psychoanalysis or advice :) We have different neurobiology.

I've dived into new things many times. It's just not exciting to me the way it was when I was younger.
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Evernote is awesome. Although sadly currently only invite only while it's in beta, but you can easily apply for an invite on their site:

http://preview.evernote.com/

It has a great clipping tool so you can easily clip snippets from websites and has built in OCR capabilities so if you snip a photo/image you can filter your notes by text actually contained within the photo. It also syncs between your desktop client and web version so you are never without your notes and currently supports mac, windows and mobile windows, with an iPhone version coming soon.
Wikipedia = 100 million hours

Annual TV in US = 200 billion hours

Time watching Ads in US, per weekend = 100 million hours

Annual TV worldwide = 1 trillion hours
mde, do you have contact info? E-Mail in profiles is only visible to the YC people, not other users.
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Says the human populace: "You can bury my cold dead body before I let some computer program make my decisions for me!"

Say businesses: "Please, we'll do anything to increase profits and ROI!"
I think that's what most unsung "old guy" (35+) startups are - domain knowledge that's impossible to get without a decade or so in the industry. Targeted, valuable, higher odds of success.
I had the same problem some time ago, so I built this to support my needs:
http://scribbl.net/
Envy, Ignorance and the Semantics of a Zero-Sum Delusion
To do it right, you would need access to large sets of genomes with corresponding medical histories. No one has ever really gotten enough data together to be useful yet.

It is an untouched market though, someone will do it eventually and genomic medicine will suddenly be very useful. I would do it if I had more capital. Also, it would require competing with a public project: http://www.personalgenomes.org/participate.html. I'm not sure how well funded that project actually is, it won't be feasible for at least 5 years.
mobilemoney.com has worked well for me in the past.
Depends on machine architecture.
Yes and 1% of 1 trillion is 10 billion which is the equivalent of 100 Wikipedias - NOT the 10,000 Wikipedias he was proposing.
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The Computational Capacity of the Universe
I just got a Scribd error, document failed to convert.
The submission's link was altered (automatically?) from a direct link to the PDF to this broken Scribd site.

Working link: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0110/0110141v1.pdf

(If the problem goes away, I'd appreciate it if an editor would remove the meta-comments from this submission's title.)
Parking inspectors aren't even supposed to deal with customers. Why should they be trained to "pretend to care"? Sounds like a waste of money to me.
Sometimes you have no choice. Under Linux, for once: I'm loving it, but I loathe FireFox which is still the only decent browser I've come across there (but then, I'm only a recent convert = noob in Unixland). Under Windows, my favourite was Safari, with IE 7 second. But Safari under Wine isn't pretty.
To amplify a key point:
I think the core of your issue is "findability". It's not hard to collect a lot of internet stuff, or even your own ideas using different software - finding it again is the difficult task.

I'm in the http://twine.com beta, and it works pretty well if want structured notes/data about your research/ideas.

Along those lines, you can also try:
http://diigo.com
http://clipmarks.com

I also use a personal wiki or blog with lots of tagging. Wiki's are very powerful for organically growing ideas, but I find navigation difficult and tagging with most blogs provides easier content organizations. Drupal's taxonomy can help. Flickr's concept of machine tagging is pretty useful for fast organization of thoughts.

For offline there are more options like OmniOutliner for Mac. Here's more mac software for idea management:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/charles57/Creative/Software/s...

If more specific goals you have, the easier to solve the problem. But the general problem of note taking in turning it into a valuable collection is the hard part.

I also use paper. :) Old school.
You left out the explanation of Knuth:

"To me, "re-editable code" is
much, much better than an untouchable black box or toolkit."

This is how I understand it (and how I use it): I always try to improve and write my code more elegant and more adapted to the problem I want to solve. Old code is always the basics that I copy and edit to make it fit into a new and improved environment.

Generic pieces of a library that have been used in many places cannot be modified without very expensive investigation of the consequences on existing code. These investigations are not only boring and time consuming. If they exist (always!) you just limit yourself. Thats because you have to solve your problem AND keep in mind not to harm existing code. This is not what writing software should be about.

Patterns like the decorator may be a way out sometimes. But if used too extensive the resulting code will be too ugly for my taste.
Probably several megawatts. For comparison, the first Russian nuclear reactor, the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, produced 5MW.
Because they can skip a _ton_ of angry complainers by treating people a little decently.
"supersecretproject.txt" - can't be all that secret ;)
Filesharing Report Shows Explosive Growth for uTorrent
The second question should be clear, now: I should release the new source code (the plugin, not the closed source) as GPL.

Still not sure about the first question. This is not my case, but just to clarify: if somebody writing a closed-source program and sell it, and that program is using GPL'd DLL, is that violating the GPL license?
Sure. But on the other hand, what "security" is about is selling protection from a perceived threat, whether it really exists or not. On the plus-side, in the US these days, "terrorism" has been redefined to "people doing things we don't like". ;-)
I live in Montreal and I can only see advantages. Incorporation in Canada is simple and dirt cheap, cost of living in Montreal generally low(food + rent for me around 600$), you can have a small office for a ridiculous price (200$ for office with a shared conference room and reception). Fun city to relax and go out.

VC's? Who cares? If you reach the size to start looking for VC then move to another city if yoi think it's so important.
Jef Raskin on "Intuitive Interfaces"
I would like to note that I copied the link from reddit and didn't see that it was getting around a dupe filter.
<blockquote>"[O]ur job is make sure that we have as perfect as an impedance match with the rest of the world as possible, so that we are part of the resonance and not part of the dissonance."</blockquote>

As a starting point, this analogy seems useful to me, but I believe that when probing further, more complexity often shows up. Various stakeholders might have different impedances; e.g. your investors might resonate with you on a different frequency than your customers do. There can be many mismatches like that, and I don't see how I could possibly foresee them all while I'm building in order to prevent them upfront.

Another aspect: paradigm shifts in Thomas Kuhn's sense seem to <i>require</i> dissonance. After all, how can you make a radically innovative product if you're in perfect resonance with "the rest of the world"?

To some engineers, "Make something people want" might seem like a less precise directive than "Match impedances", but it might actually be more useful when getting up in the morning thinking of what to do today.
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Yeah, but what's in that for them?
Out of habit - most blog comment systems I know allow for it - I just used a couple HTML tags in a comment, to no good effect. I think that changing the little label I discovered afterwards on the profile page from "help" to "formating options" could help prevent such mishaps, since "help = formating options" in this case. Also, making the gray of said label a tad darker would make it easier to see - it's a bit "hidden in plain sight" the way it's now, to the right of everything else on the page.
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Google App Engine: One-to-many JOIN
True. But, if you're looking to quit your day job and move to an immigration friendly country, being in a startup hub there is definitely a big plus.
BTW, Where are all the UK startuppers? I know Auctomatic was founded there, then moved to the valley and now to Vancouver...
Don't get suckered in by the comments - they can be terribly misleading. Debug only the code.

Dave Storer

Cedar Rapids, Iowa
I find mind maps to be much more useful than a list of notes. You can always add notes to the map and attach/link to documents.
Both Canada and the UK are much easier to _immigrate_ to (especially if you're well educated) compared to the US, which was the original reason behind starting this thread.

I think you can get your permanent resident status in both countries in < 2 years, whereas in the US it could take anywhere from 2-8 years depending on where you're from (really bad if you're Indian/Chinese) and what phase the moon is in :)
Couldn't see your email, but I've added mine to my profile -- feel free to drop me a note!
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What about _good_ movies that make you think?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174515
If you browse with Opera then it has a nice 'copy to note' feature which is handy for clipping bits of the web and adding your comments etc.
I'm using xPad on the Mac and it does well for me. I do miss OneNote on Windows (about the only thing I miss).
this is an absurd company. would love to see a yc company do something like this with 20k, smart hackers, and an intuitive plan vs 20 million. thoughts?
"Because you're used to watching TV."

I watch very little TV, so I can confirm your idea that you get used to doing more creative things if you cut it out. I do watch DVDs which I rent from Amazon, but that's different because I get to choose the shows and when I watch them. A lot of it is very non-mainstream so I get something more out of them as well. And no time wasted watching ads, what's not to like? :)

I also find most of the Internet very boring, until I start putting something back in. I've recently grown a bit tired of my main project for the last few months (surftrackr.net) so I'm starting another one as soon as I get a break from work, which has been tough recently.

I think the "Here Comes Everybody" guy has a real point about changing patterns here. I only hope there's a lot more to come and we haven't peaked already. Sometimes I feel not so optimistic.
http://sharedcopy.com
evernote is awesome
try also tomboy (part of gnome)