skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
git commit --amend is also useful for when you immediately realise that you aren't happy with the commit message (it has a typo in it, or you forgot to mention something), as you can use it without git add -ing anything, just to edit the message.
Although it's less common now, in the Windows 3.1 days it was very common for the hardware manufacturers of the day to include their own "custom" shell that replaced the Windows Program Manager shell
Certainly we trust the polling workers with paper ballots, and fraud exists there, but IMHO the ease of electronic fraud is much greater than the ease of paper ballot fraud. I'm thinking of the work involved with ballot stuffing - you basically can turn it into a "one click" operation.

(Speaking only of the US voting system)
I'm not attempting to apply Moore's law, merely the past 40 years of growth to the next 40 (just as the original poster tried to do).

In any case, the point I'm making is that "middle class life" needs a time period to be attached. "Middle class health care 1970" would be pretty cheap today - any medicine available back then is out of patent, and dying of untreatable cancer is pretty cheap. "Shelter 2010" is 60% bigger than "shelter 1970". "Luxury" in 1970 would be a 32" color TV, as opposed to a plasma screen with playstation today. Basically, "Middle class 1970" == "poverty 2010".

It might be the case that middle class 2010 is as good as it gets - I'm not trying to make predictions. I'm just pointing out that if, as the OP suggested, the next 40 years are as bad as the last 40 years, then we will be doing pretty good.
s/Facts/Propaganda Poster/.
The tax situation on work you do for yourself (saving money) is also as favorable as it gets.

There's a sense in which dollars saved are like tax-free income.
Non-volatile DIMMs: immortal DRAM?
You're arguing from the point of view of Google, in that they will lose money due to a symbiotic/parasitic addon. I'm arguing from the point of view of the actual user who seeks the best experience they can get.

I think it's the user's choice. People installing ad blockers, and in some cases re-using their space for another purposes, is the market sending a signal to Google. Google and other ad hosts can get cranky as much as they want, but it's my browser on my computer and my browsing experience.

If they offered an ad-free for-pay version, I'm sure they'll get many customers. Heck, they would make money off of me when I am not giving them any right now.
> I'm sure Google would lose the Rapportive-detector war.

I wouldn't bet on that. Chrome is at 10% and rising by the way, so there is another angle to be wary of.

Betting against 800 # Gorillas is usually not a winning strategy anyway, especially not if you just took off with their banana.
Ahh, I see they left out Erlang.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting the movie, but I don't think this is correct at all. If you cut out the first and last 10 minutes of the movie, then maybe you could get the impression that it flows somewhat like this.
I must admit I'm totally confused by how they think they'll monetize the business without being a simple talent acquisition without crossing the dangerous line of essentially stealing google's money.

Then again, YC signed 'em up on the spot and the guy's past experience is impressive. So we're probably not seeing the whole picture here. I can only imagine the money makers come from further as yet unreleased web apps or features that integrate.

Although the dark thought emerges that it'll be selling the client cleaned data that they're gathering. That would be truly low. But I'm encouraged by their privacy policy that this won't happen: http://rapportive.com/privacy
I also just noticed that they score capitalized and uncapitalized versions of their words differently.

For example, "scala" is 67.03/100, while "Scala" is 90.92/100.
Thanks, You've gotten me to try the pomodoro technique. We'll see how it goes. Probably write my own timer inside emacs though to fit my workflow better.
My OCD co-founder never stops tweaking the front page
The Buzz: Is RIM a screaming bargain or the next Palm?
Fermi Detects Gamma-rays from Exploding Nova
But you ARE. Or at least you are obligated to work on things that throw off meaningful amounts of money. What if what interests you is poetry? Raising foster kids? Working on open source projects?

If what interests you is not an income source, then you're going to need to avoid "living rich". Which, IMO, is fine and dandy. I get very little joy out of huge houses, expensive wines, and 1st class travel.
The bicycle has been constantly improved since its invention and will continue to be improved for a long, long time. For example, engineers and scientists are able to create new alloys that are lighter and stronger than previous iterations.
I commit pretty frequently, so unless I'm merging in a large feature I tend to use git -m more often.

That doesn't mean that I don't rebase a bunch of those smaller changes away before pushing them upstream it just means a lot of the changes I commit are small enough that it's easier not to load Vim to write a commit message.
How would you feel if you were operating a store selling ice-cream without whipped-cream, and some guy walked in, threw your chocolate boxes out in to the street and started giving people whipped-cream inside your store because it improves the users experience, after all, none of the ones buying ice-cream were buying chocolate anyway?

Never mind that the user owns the browser, the whole principle of gmail being free is that it is ad supported and this project was launched in the hope that as large a number of people as they can attract would adopt it.

So at some point it will start to affect googles bottom line. Is that ok?

Of course it is the browser on your computer, that's fine. But this is not you doing this, it's rapportive doing it, setting up shop inside googles pages displayed on your computer.
I don't think this is like the 20th Century DotCom bubble, where you could get rich off of stock options as an employee. Working for a startup is ultimately no different for the employee than working for an established company. If anything, it's possibly worse, as the employee is expected to put in a lot more effort "for the good of the company" than for their own good.
"But you can let off your gas and not hit the break. Hitting the break is an instantaneous warning signal to people behind you, causing something of a reflex for them to also hit the brake."

...As long as you're careful about doing this, of course. If the people behind you aren't paying enough attention to notice a slow decrease in speed (and can't see the reason you're slowing down), they'll be hitting the brakes hard to slow down when they're suddenly too close.

In hilly city driving (hi, SF), I will actually intentionally use my brakes to signal to the people behind me I'm trying to slow down, because there's often not enough space to notice when your line of site effectively stops at the next intersection's brief period of flat road. And yeah, this behavior was inspired by seeing someone rear-ended right behind me.
he has. He makes ~$30,000/year (before taxes). Not only is this not "rich", most people couldn't survive on it. It's even worse if you have a family.
Reminds me of a rhetorical question Ted Nugent once asked which he then answered himself, "What does the National Guard do? They guard the nation."
When I was in college, I paid all of my expenses- food, rent, and out of state tuition doing affiliate marketing on the side.
This was not throwing up banners on a site, but rather running PPC campaigns to affiliate offers (arbitrage). I also learned incredibly valuable marketing/PPC/getting traffic skills I am applying to my startup.

Go to affbuzz.com and read all of the blogs there, you'll learn a lot about how to actually make money with affiliate marketing. (Step 1: Stop using CJ).
Thank you for this information.
Author of the original article here. I guess I should have said that I never glance at the Gmail ads and I have a hard time imagining why anyone would, as they are consistently irrelevant to me. As soon as I learned about a plugin that could replace the ads with something useful, I installed it.

On the other point that seems to be getting commenters riled up -- "messing with other people's content" -- I think I am on Rapportive's side. I admit that I would be seriously annoyed if someone wrote a plugin that replaced my stories on Xconomy with, say, TechCrunch stories. But that's the risk of publishing on the Web, where the viewing platform is not ultimately under your control. And if people started using such plugin widely, it would be useful feedback for me -- it would mean that I should do something to make my own stories more interesting. Google should see Rapportive as a signal that something is missing in Gmail. Either they should provide more relevant ads, or they should copy (or buy) Rapportive.
How much money does Gmail actually make? Whenever I open up Gmail, I am way too busy to be looking at ads. I'm sure there's a non-zero number of people clicking on ads, but as far as I'm concerned Google is mostly providing free IMAP service with a nice web interface and great uptime.
Goodwill is part of the value of company. Oracle had the chance to produce goodwill for the company with relatively little cost.

The backlash that this and other actions will cause will cost Oracle real money.
Some customers at least will be more reluctant in using Oracle's offerings. I'm sure the Oracle suits considered that risk, but I think in going forward with this they made a mistake.

Time will tell.
or teleportation devices
Flight search improvements, step 1: Allow time ranges to cross midnight.

I shouldn't have to do 4 searches for "A flight that leaves sometime Friday night or Saturday morning, and returns Sunday night or Monday morning."
Ask HN: What are some of your current startup ideas?
What are some ideas that you've got in your mind, but aren't currently working on? Here are a few of mine:

- Webcomic reader for iPhone/android

- Meetup-like site for tabletop gaming, LARPs, and other nerdy social activities

- 99designs for custom music tracks

What about everyone else?
Spending 10's of thousands a month is getting up there, but "blowing through" more than $4k per month isn't necessarily an extravagant lifestyle. My guess would be that you don't live an as expensive a metro area as the author is basing his calculations on.

In a place like San Francisco, a few non-frivolous expenses can add up quickly:

- Your residence. A decent 2 bedroom place in a desirable part of San Francisco will run $3,000 per month in rent, a mortgage will be much higher. We're not talking anything extravagant here, just 600-900 sq ft.

- Travel. Paying for more than one person to travel to visit family/friends a few times a year can easily add up to $1,000 or more per month. We're not talking luxury vacations here, either -- just basic airfare (coach) and accommodations.

- Health expenses. As you earn more, you'll probably be more likely to spend more on optional health items. Things like LASIK for example. Also, as you get older, these expenses will get much larger.

- Kids. It doesn't even have to be private school we're talking about, but I imagine that clothing/feeding/entertaining more than one person adds up quickly.

- Any time/money trade-off. You have a limited amount of time and, similar to health expenses, you will be more likely to spend money to save time as you earn more. Each person's choices will be different here, but again, we're not talking luxury. Maybe paying for parking instead of a time intensive bus trip? Or arranging for laundry service? Or paying an unjust $40 bill that would otherwise take you 5 hours to fight?

Notice there's no talk of fancy cars, big screen TVs, luxury trips, large mansions, or extravagant dinners. I think this is the definition of "upper-middle class" that Tony is talking about. Nothing fancy, but a few things to make your life more convenient.
Yes, you can make tons of money from affiliate marketing.

Doing it "ethically" is another question however. If you want to make money fast and big, its pretty necessary to learn blackhat techniques.
A quick google search finds many links suggesting house sizes have gone way up. This one says 1500ft^2 in 1973, 2500ft^2 in 2006.

http://www.realtor.org/RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2007032701?Ope...

In spite of the purported declining income and increasing energy prices, people in 2007 have more and better material goods and services than in 1967, far more than the mere $10k increase in real incomes would predict. You could be right, the next 40 years may be different from the last 40 - I'll leave predicting the future to you and Ray Kurzweil.
Unlocking Google's Lotus Notes opportunity
More people need to know about kayak.com/explore - it does exactly what you want - here's your exact query:

http://www.kayak.com/explore/#/AMS?a=any&d=any&fb=60...
Good point, in the case of Erlang it wasn't a picking favorites thing, so much as for whatever reason Erlang was not particularly well represented in the corpus of 25k comments that we grabbed from the site.
Support verified voting if you are concerned about electronic voting: http://verifiedvoting.org/
Aah, the penny drops. (Hipmunk site was top of reddit a few days back). It looks great, but it would be amazing if they could incorporate Ryanair, Easyjet, Fueling and German Wings.
I think it's a fairly good representation. It's faithful to the chronology; the first 10 minutes of the movie and the last 10 minutes are the same.

One thing that strikes me as off, however, is Cobb's length of time spent in Limbo. It's only slightly shorter than Saito's yet as far as the audience sees, Cobb only spends a brief amount of time there to find Saito, as evidenced by his relative lack of aging.
For me, I tend to read on a high-resolution monitor, a few feet distant from the thing, so I'm always at high magnification, and image-heavy layouts like that really bog down the page magnified on a 1900x1200 screen.
I'm not a lawyer so don't take this as legal advice, but here's my understanding:

I don't think that you are able to give a percentage share of the company with a sole proprietorship. By definition it is owned by him alone and if you transfer the IP to the company, then you are transferring it to him and you have no stake. I am not sure what effect a contract would have, but I think he would be in a position to do what he wanted with the company and you'd have no official stake. For example, what if he sells the sole proprietorship before he gets funding?

As an LLC, I know that you can specify shareholders. I have seen people do this for family-and-friend investors. Although a full-fledged startup typically runs as a corporation.

If I were you, I would insist on creating a corporation (or at least an LLC). From what I've seen it only costs $1,500-$2,500 for an affordable lawyer which isn't really -that- much if you're serious about building a business here. You can even do LegalZoom though it's not typically recommended, but you can just re-do your corporation when you get funded. But the point is that at least your interests will be protected until then.

Personally I'm running as an LLC because I'm not expecting to get funding. If I was actively looking for funding I would have just started a corporation.
Or the post-OS X mac, for that matter, which is a very profitable and growing line of business.
I figure multiplied by a huge number of users it adds up nicely. And don't forget the spam filtering.
I'm one of those people whose Google Apps account takes 15-30 seconds to return a result when I search for something. It drives me nuts.

I just installed CloudMagic and it's amazing.
People seem to make this movie out to be far more confusing than it actually was. I found it pretty straightforward, so although there is a lot to keep track of, it's not really difficult to follow.

Now something like Primer, on the other hand...
It depends. In NYC if you work in finance you'll probably find yourself getting taken out to nice cigar bars or steak houses after a good Friday trading session and running up several thousand dollar bar tabs on somebody's corporate card, rather than paying anything out of pocket.
On writing papers- Terence Tao
Another version:

http://dehahs.deviantart.com/art/Inception-Infographic-17242...
Ask HN: 1 star ratings with zero feedback in app store
My iPhone app has gotten five 5-star ratings, out of which three have left a review.

It has also gotten nine 1-star ratings, out of which none has left a review. So, I have no feedback on what they don't like.

Is the app crashing? Is it buggy? Do they think it's useless? Do they want some feature that's missing?

My questions for you guys:

1) Is this a common problem with apps, that is, the 1-star raters are much less likely to leave a review than the other raters?

2) Is there anything that can be done to find out some of the reasons behind the 1-star ratings?
May I ask how you received a visa to stay there? I looked into Thailand but axed the idea when I could only get a 30-day visitor visa.

Whereas Costa Rica lets you stay for 3 months before you need to cross the border to extend your visitor visa. And apparently obtaining a permanent residency isn't difficult if you can prove income from foreign sources.
Facebook spam is lame. But it offers better conversion rates than email spam.
Ask a lawyer.

But before you do, read up on the sole proprietor model:

http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/start/chooseastructu...

It would appear to be the same as what we in the UK call sole traders - the most important point is that there is no real legal distinction between the owner and the business itself. Not in terms of assets/debts, anyway. This is the kind of business that loses the owner's house if it all goes to hell.

I don't know how this affects relationships with employees - even if there is such a thing under this model - and I really don't know how it affects the notion of equity. In particular, 'a percentage share' of what?

You want to talk to a lawyer about whether what your partner is proposing even makes legal sense, as well as whether it is advisable.

My hunch would be that it is not a fantastic idea. Go see a lawyer (or even a business adviser - your city may have some that don't cost anything).
At high scale, you should have a few grand to pay gomez for some real-world load testing without having to buy your own hardware. Also, it sounds like the author did not even try a "workstation with jmeter". I am by no means a scalability expert but even I know better than to stress-test on a live system.
Seems like we're just talking about writing a spec before the code, and README being a specific form/template/symbol for that. Starting to feel like we're moving full circle w.r.t. agile vs process/documentation heavy methodologies.
I think it's really hard for mass media people to understand its value.

I produce television, but I understand that Twitter is a totally different medium than people just consuming what I produce.
Nice catch.

We generally keep the set of words case-sensitive because that can be helpful for disambiguation in broader corpuses ("Python" is often something different than "python"), and also because POS taggers tend to have trouble identifying proper nouns if case is not preserved).

But in this situation "scala" and "Scala" definitely should score similarly.
Whoa, that 40->50k over 40 years stat seemed ridiculous to me so I looked it up and you're right. This strikes me as bizarre because in the UK, both prices and wages have blown through the roof over the same period. I wonder what the deal is here (though the USD-GBP rate was significantly different decades ago).
The person I was replying to said

> I think I could get by on $30,000 a year

Also, most people couldn't survive? Seriously? I live on two thirds of this, and I'm putting money in the bank every month.

It is worse if you have a family, but then you have two incomes to play with.
This analogy is not 100% accurate. A better attempt: If I were giving free ice creams along with a local business flyer, Rapportive is basically a stall nearby that offers a better ice cream cone while taking the flyer.

That's the user's choice. For me as an ice cream vendor it would suck. For me as a user, it's a more yummy cone.
how much does the condo rent cost you?
Clinical trial confirms effectiveness of simple appetite control method: water
You are burned out and being an entrepreneur is not a solution to being burned out. In fact, entrepreneurship is likely to cause more burn out.

I would focus on fixing the burnout first and then if you're serious about being an entrepreneur, do it later. If you do it now, you'll likely just stall out early on and be even more disillusioned.

Get out of burn-out by taking vacation, spending more and more quality time with your family, etc. Once you take some time away from the keyboard, your passion for coding and inspiration for new ideas will start to surface. Once you HAVE to stay up all night to work on an idea because you're so excited, then you'll know you are back.

Once you are serious about starting your business, read http://www.startupbook.net/ and http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09... to help you identify and verify good business ideas and take the first few steps, lean on HN once you have an idea to help you improve it and iterate on it.

Due to your family situation, you'll probably need to keep your job and work on your startup on the side (welcome to the club!). Once your startup is making some money you can consider switching to consulting or a part-time situation. It's crazy hard enough as it is, and basically impossible when you are demotivated and burned out.
Ask HN: What is the best CRM tool/service out there?
What is the best product you have used/are using? Are there any other alternatives/services?
The author said "a few years ago". I presume it was before cloud was available.
IPad 2.0 and the iPad mini
"The problem is that the GOP have a very long history of getting into power, then passing laws that help line their own pockets and protect their wealth from being "stolen" by the government ..."

Clearly we should elect more Democrats! Oh, wait, they have a history of getting into power and then passing laws protecting unions and paying off organizations which help them steal votes.

In so far as trickle-down economics is concerned, it certainly worked better than the command-driven economy the Democrats and current administration are pushing us towards.
I've seen several, and this one does an alright job, although with too much text:

http://i.imgur.com/HXLOw.jpg
This one contains more info, and as a bonus has the Escher stairs effect as featured in the movie. However, it's harder to understand.
Low-tech literate programming. Personally, I use org-files.

http://orgmode.org/
Depends what you're selling, and how you sell it. I make maybe $10 a month posting affiliate links to Twitter, but it's because I'm trying to share things with people, not trying to make cash.

You'd better believe that somebody is making money on all of those "flat tummy" ads you see all over the web. A few years ago, black hat SEO got a lot more competitive -- you've really got to do criminal things (like hack people's Wordpress installations) to rank of highly competitive terms.

A lot of the people who were doing black hat SEO switched over to pay-per-click promotion of landing pages that push affiliate offers... Some people make pretty good money that way, but you can easily blow $500-$5000 on advertising before you've got figured out a campaign that actually makes money...

I know of a guy who spent about $3k a day on ads and made $5k in revenue. You've got to watch it like a hawk because if something goes wrong, you can burn cash pretty quick
Where is the Linux support?