skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pretty amazing video indeed! the sound is kind of spooky during the space flight :-)
I find it much harder to take breaks when working at home. This is good and bad. You can slam through a long uninterrupted coding session, but sometimes this goes past the point of diminishing returns. Interruptions (if not too frequent) can help re-focus your mind (e.g. the Pomodoro technique).

Physical exercise is another one. Sometimes at home I'll forget to move (or even eat) for many hours. That can't be healthy.
So where does that leave us? Sharecropping for those new media moguls? Doesn't matter if you model is app-based or ad-based. You're still small fish.
You don't? If that's the only way to get off the ground, then yeah, that might just be the start of your dream company. Better part-time than never.
It's going to take more than a handful of cherry-picked anecdotes to convince me that this condition really exists.
Stealing credit card numbers, creating accounts with those CC#s, and using purchases to drain them into your account is the first thing that comes to mind, though it's probably only one possibility.
I recently rented a small office in a coworking space and I can't recommend it enough. It's increased both my happiness and my productivity.

For me it makes it much easier to separate home life and work life - when I'm at work, I'm working. And when I'm at home, I'm spending time with my family. There is no more confusion for me or for them.

I also used to get really lonely working from home, and I've found that just having other people working near me makes me significantly less so. It also makes me feel like I'm still connected to the bigger capitalistic machine and not so isolated from everything.
hacking != science

Yahoo needs to compete on product, not algorithms.

Yahoo Mail did nothing while Gmail made continuous progress towards a great product and earned market share.

Yahoo did nothing while Twitter grew into a monster. Yahoo could have crushed Twitter if they had simply adapted or expanded YIM while Twitter's servers were flailing.

Advertising is the one area Yahoo has retained some leadership (rightmedia), but they aren't blinding the competition with that science.

Yahoo needs creativity. It needs product vision. It needs to stop resting on prior accomplishments and start building if it wants to recapture the attention of consumers.

Science should be a supporting character to creativity.
I also both close and lock my door. The problem stems from the fact that while my wife intellectually understands I'm at work, she has trouble accepting it on a more emotional level. When kids are acting up, or she is having a rough day she tends to get resentful that I get to "relax" in my office while she deals with the various disasters. Actually one of the biggest challenges is meals. Do you take your lunch in your office? Eat with the family? Eating with the family sounds great, but it can really derail your train of thought. The only thing that seems to work for me is to be really strict about it, and deal with any resentment head on at the end of the day.
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I am not a lawyer. I wish you would not have looked. The question you need to ask is will their political views impede their ability to do the job requirements. If they do, you have a legitimate concern, if they do not, you would fall into the Civil Rights Act of 1964: "The Act requires the elimination of artificial, arbitrary, and unnecessary barriers to employment that operate invidiously to discriminate on the basis of race, and, if, as here, an employment practice that operates to exclude Negroes cannot be shown to be related to job performance, it is prohibited, notwithstanding the employer's lack of discriminatory intent."
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Congtrats! Way to go! You never know if its going to be huge or not btw ;) Good luck with that!
Why the "leetspeak" URL? It implies there is something alt.2600-y about the site that I don't get.

Can't/won't test it. It tells me to send an email, but I have no idea what that email will do. Does my email address get published? Stored? Can people send me emails or reply to me? Are the email headers visible/can someone see my source IP?

No clear value-add to me makes me shy away from something that is so poorly documented. Of course, with traction 95% of my questions would be answered and it would be more obvious what the site is/does. Kind of chicken-and-egg I guess, but you should post a demo or some bette descriptions first.
wow, really nice!
Now, you homepage claims 'have fun!', but where's the fun when you don't have access to the css or the page template, and can't start tweaking those immediately? :o)
"... led to an 8x increase in paid conversions. Look at that again. That’s not 8%. That’s 800%."

Technically, a 700% increase.
Where is "here"? Afaik (but I'm no expert), the diagnosis is used in large parts of Europe (even if some countries use other acronyms). The Swedes even came up with their own version of ADHD, called DAMP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deficits_in_Attention,_Motor_co...
I'm in the middle of an examination period.
I do have a product that still needs a few weeks of work until it's launchable but the project is on hold atm.
Oh no doubt, discrimination as a result of this information would be dead wrong (and likely illegal). Like I said, we will hire this person because they are very talented, enthusiastic, etc.

I think you're right; I kind of wish I hadn't looked.
If I were you, I would go for,

1. Ad supported free digital copy (which will help advertisers achieve attention of lot more targeted crowd, that is hackernews readers).

Free version would ascertain the momentum for the product (and probably interest for advertisers).

2. A premium print version _with_ extra premium only content (eg. additional essays, interviews etc.), with probably lesser/no ads (Which I dont find annoying in print, to be honest).

A typical Freemium model, where everyone wins.
http://listen.grooveshark.com/post/964834618/what-happened-t...

404 error on my end.

"Sorry! We couldn't find what you were looking for.
Please Search Grooveshark:"
Some entrepreneurs at SproutBox are attacking this problem, too. http://blog.sproutbox.com/2010/07/28/sproutbox-announces-nex...
It's just a sales channel, like steam.
There are also legal ramifications when doing business in a new country.

They (Google, in this case) have to ensure that they are complying with appropriate company/tax/accounting/privacy/etc. laws for each country. This may not be as easy as rubber-stamping some forms, so they have to prioritise countries they are familiar with and are can already do business in.
I recently wrote a post tracking evolution of pricing plan of a company (Clicktale) over last 4 years. Even though they still have the free plan, the prices of individual plans increased 10x in four years: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/how-pri...
That's the absurdity of the whole situation! Let's say I've stolen someone's credit card number.

If I am a game producer, and I specify this credit card as the destination of the money I earned, then I only make the card owner a favor!

On the other hand if I buy games using this credit card I cause harm to the credit card owner.

Still, they happily allow you to be a consumer but not a producer.
Nothing is stopping me. Just working on it every minute in my spare time while still working full time.
I agree, I thought it was interesting that someone who started in business a long time ago has adapted and updated to stay fresh with what is important at any given time.

As someone who started with a print magazine, it's nice to hear that he now sees the future on the web, compared to many from that era who would stubbornly stick to what they had originally started with.
I don't think manufacturers were quite prepared for just how high of a bar Apple was going to set with the iPad. I personally refuse to buy Apple iOS products on my own principles, but the hardware always looks amazing without sacrificing quality. Combined with the fact that nobody was even certain that the iPad would even exist when it was announced, I think manufacturers weren't really taking the tablet market seriously until they realized just how much of a hit the iPad was. I'll bet most companies weren't even investing more than a gee-whiz in tablet technology until then, either, just due to the complexities of development.
I don't know what the specific implementation of each company is, but having a separate program for email delivery makes the most sense compared to using qmail or any other off the shelf MTA. There is most likely an MTA that is used to receive mail, but a separate program can be used to deliver mail from the same machine. There is a Javamail API, for example, which has been open sourced and can be used to deliver email from any java program. Threading is an important issue here since it is possible to have as many open connections as you want to deliver mail, but you would not want all of your open threads to be attempting to send emails to one domain all at once. Reputation determines how many emails get accepted or are bounced.
Well since I'm the only person( so I'm doing all the coding myself). I'm learning Objective-C, going trough tutorials etc.
Not really an excuse, I think I have passed the excuse stage in my startup life.

So basically, I'm one step away from building the app.
Diversity is one of the ingredients that makes projects successful. You need people on your project that think differently than you. As long as they aren't interested in terrorism or a complete asshole (which, consequently, can be anyone from any political affiliation) then you shouldn't pass up on the good talent. Smart people are hard enough to find these days, as long as they keep that shit out of the work place (and you too, by the way) then you should be fine.

Also, I would google and check the social media profiles of everyone I was about to hire. It's easier to get out of some marriages than it is to fire some people and you need to know what you are getting in to.
I think the problem is when cross border fraud happens, the complexity and cost for detective work is higher than domestic fraud. Also in case of regular refund for customers, it is much easier for Market institution to deduct fund from domestic sellers' accounts. While cross border market has to deal with tax, exchange rate and different countries law regarding for refund.
While all of that is nice & dandy, in the real world discrimination does exist. I know I'm guilty of it & I simply consider this as something you cannot rule out, just like bias in journalism. The law in these cases is often just wishful thinking.

My favorite 2 questions: Can he/she do the job? Would you enjoy spending time with him/her outside of the office?

If it's someone I'd get in a fight with every time we go out for a few beers then that's a no-hire.
IDEs don't make much sense for dynamic languages anyway.

I mean, really, it's not a matter of price or whatnot. I just don't need an IDE to build something good with python.
I don't mean the undermine the skill required to achieve this but why would you use CSS to do something like this? I've also seen stuff like pure CSS logos, pure CSS fail whale, etc. and I have no doubt it helps you understand CSS inside out but what is the practicality of it? I love it, but I just want to know why you'd prefer pure CSS over images or some other way to display similar effects.
False. Dr. Sell of Sell v. US was not a specific danger to others, his case deals with forced medication to restore competency to stand trial (for a serious crime) in the absence of danger to self or others. You are right, though, that he was in custody because he had been charged with a crime.
Books/links to help manage a development team
My team has recently grown to the point where development process has become as important as development experience and open communication--there's about 7 developers. Though I've managed many technical projects, they've never been a full fledged product, and I haven't been a full-time developer myself since maybe 2002. As such, just about everyone on my team has more experience with formal development methodologies that I do.

I believe we do a good job (weekly reviews, good use of SVN+Trac, generally on track with our roadmap, etc), but I'd like to get more up to speed so that I can offer suggestions that are consistent with proven best practices. While I've done well enough picking up things on-the-job, a little push in the right direction would be really helpful.

I'm curious if you have any suggestions on books or links that would help me get more current on dev methodologies, given that I'll be leading rather than developing, and that I already have a good understanding of many components of agile, lean, lean startup, and the like...I could just use something more comprehensive and tactical for a project manager/team leader.

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// I've already checked out this "Good agile book" thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362210) and yesterday's Top 100 Agile books (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1610125)
Only hiring people that think like you is one of the worst mistakes a small team can make. Nobody can drive a bus off a cliff like a bunch of "yes men".

Unless you're never wrong, you should embrace hiring smart people that have completely different ideas than yourself.
I wonder when does it break the sound barrier when falling. It must fall pretty quickly - 7 minutes from start to landing.
>Morrill explains that the study shows that children born just after the kindergarten cutoff date were 25 percent less likely to be diagnosed as having ADHD than children born just before the cutoff date.

Anyone care to explain what is "kindergarten cutoff date" ?

EDIT: nevermind, found explanation via google(http://users.stargate.net/~cokids/kindergarten_cut-off_dates...)
Turns out? Nothing. I halfway participated in a hackathon recently, and since then, I've found myself... motivated.

Usually when the urge strikes, my day job starts taking up too much time, or life happens, or I realize my idea is stupid. This time, however, I'm just going to go for it. I don't care that the product I'm building is in a VERY crowded space. I don't care that there's no 'killer feature' to draw the crowds in. I don't care that it really isn't that marketable. It's a product, and I'm building it -- and while I don't expect it to set the world on fire, I've stutter-started enough times in my life that I feel like just finishing something and releasing it will be a huge step in the right direction, so that's what I'm doing.

You won't read about this product on TechCrunch, and you won't see it lauded as the next great thing, but you will be able to register for it and use it, and ideally, within a month and a half to two months. And you can bad-mouth it all you like, I'll have done... something.
Well I guess we'll never know ...
I wonder how well offering free accounts, getting rid of them and then grandfathering the free account users would work. How would the free users who have exclusive free accounts behave? Will they be more likely to promote your product (aka bragging) or would they be inclined to try to sell their account to someone?
Good point, but he did say "increase". Perhaps he meant x+8x?
Yes, going south on US 1, make an abrupt right hand turn...
I think you just persuaded me to double the quota on my free plan (non-recurring, pay-per-use plan)
It has to do with the way fsync works and metadata updates on directories. Linux does a lot more work updating directories, which hurts performance on mail servers in general but really hurts with qmail.

Practically you might find your CPU utilization is 2%, but the load average is 50 and you do 'ls' on a directory that has 20 files in in it and it takes 30 seconds.
This only works if the user base also evangelizes. Your model wouldn't work well if they say "Use BidSketch, its free and awesome!" and then they went there and it wasn't free, they wouldn't sign up for a paid account because their initial impression was they didn't need their wallet.

There are free/paid products that have been around for a fistful of years that people still accidentally stumble on.

Because we spend so much time on the web we think others watch whats happening all the time and catch our moves. From a marketing perspective, you have to tell the same story for 12-18 months before it becomes "common knowledge" and you need the right PR connections.

You could change your App's name and logo 10 times in 6 months and no one would really notice except for your users.

More simply put: most people don't know if a product is "known" or "unknown" - they simply decide if it does what they are looking for and make their decision based on that. You are not your user, something we developers tend to forget from time to time.
I was just thinking this about Evernote the other day. I really want to pay them. They make a great product that serves me very well. I do believe they deserve my money. The problem is, the payed plan would be a complete waste for me. I don't need it. The free thing fulfills my needs perfectly. If it would be a 30 days trial, I would be a happily paying customer by now.

The same thing is true for dropbox for me. After the first month I was actively looking for a "donate" button on their website. I love the product, it works perfect, I would pay for it without thinking a second, I just have no need for the paid plan.

I understand the free plans are for marketing purposes. In my case I had more than 10 different choices for a note taking application, or a online backups system. The factor that pushed me towards Evernote and Dropbox were the consistent great reviews. Free was the cherry on top, but not the reason why I choose those two apps.
I worked for an company that sends billions of messages per month. Their largest list is over 1500000 recipients, and delivery is tracked. Since the problem is trivially parallel, I just wrote a tiny jruby app that drove postfix, and multiplied the rig as needed.
Instead of saying that "free" plans don't work outright, I argue that they work for some type of products and don't work for other products.

He provided examples of niche products that so far, serve small markets. LessAccounting, Crazy Egg, - what is their user base numbers? One example he gives has a user base of 5,000 users. If you are a niche product, I don't think the free plan is ideal since you are serving a small market and need to build a user base before it makes sense.

Conversely, if you have an app that is going to get a really large user base, and I'm talking 'millions', then it probably will work (i.e. google, twitter, facebook, ect.). The example of those are far and few.

The other comment I would make is, maybe you aren't creating a compelling enough product to get a user demand that supports a 'freemium' biz model.
Who's going to the first to mention Gladwell's Outliers? Oh wait, I just did.
They do clarify in the fine print of their terms and conditions which customers agree to if they're using the service. So, it's not unlawful just because you don't agree with it, because you've already agreed to it.

There is nothing new here in the Google / Verizon proposal. They can't be both killing wireless net neutrality and seeking 'legal cover' for already doing it, especially when it didn't exist because the current status quo of 'packet discrimination' on those networks isn't illegal.
Generally kids who are 5 years old (if I'm not mistaken) are in Kindergarten. Some kids start Kindergarten at 4 because their birthday is later in the year. However there is a cut-off date (probably in November or December) and students born after that cut-off date are enrolled in next years Kindergarten class.

So if the cut-off date is December 1st, kids born on December 1st will start Kindergarten a year earlier than kids born on December 2nd.
Maybe he should also consider changing the text on the register button?

http://www.bidsketch.com/
Sometimes I wonder if The Register just is internet trolls from 1995.
Printer friendly, (almost) no ads, no pointless images:

http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...
The title is somewhat misleading -- it's not like Kindergarten causes ADHD. The key observation is that if you grab any group of young kids with an age spread of a full year, "younger children may be mistakenly diagnosed as having ADHD, when in fact they are simply less mature." You cannot just pretend they're all at the same stage of development.

You see a similar effect in sports (where again, older kids in the group will have a big advantage).
I had quite some fun in the last two weeks implementing this site.
Configuring postfix, adding some queues, piping mails through spamassasin to my script that imports them, parsing mails, formatting html, making sure it's at least halfway valid.
Working with rails subdomain routing, learned a lot of jquery too.

I developed this to scratch my own itch, but since it's here, you may use it if you like.
Oh, and they spent a lot of time greasing isps to allow their traffic. For the record, it was all opt in (believe it or not)
I think we will see a migration towards 3D environments as the primary platform. I think 3D TVs will pave the way for computing devices (it may already have and I'm behind the curve).

It'll start with games but I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a 3D enabled "browser" within a couple of years. In the beginning it might be driven just by being 'cool'. But then I'm sure we'll see some real UI enhancements based on it (just like we saw with the recent AJAX/'JavaScript is Okay' trend).

So if "web is dead" refers to 2D HTML, I think it may be in it's sunset years. If it means external references from one piece of data to another, no way. That's here to stay, just in other forms.
Love it! Can't say enough how i wish you to succeed with that!

Remember there is always place for another player in ANY market. For example read article that explains why 1% of search worth 1B. Even if your market share is going to be 0.1% in the beginning and you are passionate about what you do - i believe in you!

Best of luck with that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jez_San (started as a games developer in his teens, now better known as the founder of pkr.com)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twins
I am curious as weren't you (bearswithclaws) advertising to advertisers of the huge reader base, which included free pdf readers, in order to get people to advertise with you.

I for one would be pretty upset if I found out I paid good money for an advertisement and the reader base dropped off insanely because of the new paid model.
Show HN: A new book notification service I just launched
Hi guys,

yesterday I launched a new book notification service called 'Any new books?': http://anynewbooks.com

The idea is that you enter your email, subscribe to a few categories of your interest, and then you'll receive one weekly email per category with a list of new interesting books that were just released.

The first day was pretty good I think, with many people signing up. Among these, I've already spotted a few key players in our industry (which I take to be a positive sign, of course) and the feedback I've been receiving by email has been very positive so far.

I'm posting this here because I think you may like this service and also because you may have some good advice. I'm particularly interested in hearing suggestions on how to get further traction (I have some plans in the works, but the more the merrier). I really trust this community when it comes to startup advice. :)

Cheers,
Antonio
That was basically what I took away from the article. Start by offering free accounts until you gain some sort of traction and people become aware of your product, but once you start getting significant traffic stop with the free.
Yeah, now you can just pick the fingerprint locks with a paperclip in about 10 seconds. http://www.privacydigest.com/2010/08/03/biometric%20and%20ot... That's progress for you.
Clickable link: http://anynewbooks.com