skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's an issue anymore -- every modern machine I have right now (even a netbook running XP) is flawless coming out of sleep/hibernation. From my experience, the vast majority of windows laptop users almost never shutdown their computers.
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Wasn't Sprint the bigger player in the MVNO market?
I agree, great book. Especially for somebody who is not the 'people' type or comes if one comes from an introverted family.

Its like learning a new language, you suddenly start getting more information about people and situations.

Another suggestion for the shy types (am/was one - in transition :), so please don't take offense) - Goodbye to Shy by Leil Lowndes. (warning - there is quite some cheesy sounding advise, but if you look past that, you can find good usable stuff)
I'm having a betamax moment around all of this.
I was surprised to find that no one else has recommended dwm[1], which is what Xmonad (and others) are based on[2].

It's tiling, keyboard-driven, small and lightweight. I've been using it for years now. It's a little hairy to start with, but I love it.

Instead of workspaces it uses "tags" which you can treat just like workspaces, but you can also combine, on-the-fly, to form a mashup of different tasks. For example, sometimes I want my editor & web browser next to each other, when I'm looking something up, but most of the time I just want to focus on the code.

[1]: http://dwm.suckless.org/

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwm
Fair enough. I'm not pretending to have any great insights here. In fact, it turns out I misread your initial comment, which led to this over-blown thread.
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google may eventually buy twitter, but they'll wait for the valuation to drop. twitter is an awesome technology, but i'm not sure how well and how long someone can monetize it.
"A domain name doesn't win you a market" - he clearly didn't understand the domain name field.
That's why he got that crappy Wesabe name. Mint gave hares to the owner of Mint.com so he let Mint use it.

A domain doesn't win you a market but CAN help you quite much! Otherwise, you put more money in the marketing...
I have no idea how this could possibly work, but it sounds incredible. Ad-hoc distribution for beta testing is still really painful.
My laptop only has one hdd bay. It would be a wasteful to use SSD space for my media collection and big app installs, but the alternative of having an external hdd hanging from the laptop all the time would be a net step backwards as far as I'm concerned.

512 was kneejerk binary; 320 would do :-)
I use awesome (http://awesome.naquadah.org/), a tiling wm.
That was the general idea. But it's taken quite an interesting turn lately! Turns out I can parse Fexl one character at a time and build the closed executable form in a single pass as I go along -- thanks to a concept which I discovered several months ago but shelved as a mere curiosity at the time. But I'm sure using it now!

I started a proper blog here: http://fexl.com/blog , but we can still use ycombinator.com for discussion.
So, recently, as I started pulling loans out for school and creating budgets, I went on the look for a money management service and tried out Wesabe among a few others. Mint ultimately won, and I'll tell you why, from my personal opinion as a user. Maybe it might help somebody somewhere.

A) Design

Perhaps the biggest selling point for me was how polished Mint was in comparison to Wesabe. It felt professional. I felt I could trust Mint with my personal financial data. Wesabe seemed unfinished, rough around the edges. Sure, it played more to my irrational mind, but I just felt more comfortable using Mint. Just hook in my various accounts, let me create a budget, and do the rest for me, which is what Mint did. I was guided through the profile filling process, and there was a strangely human quality about Mint -- as if it were my own personal accountant.

So the first thing I learned was that a good design and user experience can be very effective in developing trust within a potential user for your service. Second was that lots of time should go into capturing a user's attention upon first laying eyes on your app, placing guides along the way, etc, ensuring initial and continual engagement.

B) iPhone App

At the time, Wesabe didn't have a native iPhone app (I don't think they ever did come out with one). They had a webapp, but it wasn't good enough for me, especially when Mint had a native app. This played a bigger role than I thought it would. Having a native app just feels better. Just the feeling of launching the app is rewarding. I don't know about you, but I really try to avoid using webapps in mobile Safari as much as possible; they tend not to be as polished and snappy.

So, if your app and users create the need for a mobile interface, don't settle for webapp.

C) Focus (Personal/Community in this case)

Wesabe seemed to have a communal element, which I really didn't care for. Mint came across as a more walled-off made-only-for-me personal assistant, and I liked that feeling. I didn't want to share my tips on saving cash with others; I just wanted a service to manage my money, nothing else. In that respect, Mint felt more refined and catered to my needs -- it was more focused.

Give your app laser-focus.
17% of the US adult population has Herpes. Something like 25% has HPV (the numbers on this are all over the place, but this seems like the most common result of studies).
I've been using blackbox for many years ( after using afterstep and windowmaker) but recently turned to stumpwm, a tiling wm written in lisp[http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/]. Getting used to it but i think i'll keep it, i like tiling wm . Never been a fan of gnome or kde, and never need all things they carry i prefer a simple window manager.
yeah but the support isn't that great, that is where you suffer. They were really sluggish so I moved everything over to http://www.pacifichost.com and despite the cost they have been really great
Because a startup is a serious risk for this sort of thing, I wonder if the 'groupon' idea could be adapted to this sort of purpose. Buyers pre-order their keyboards of a certain design and price, and the order is batch manufactured and shipped after a certain number of people sign up. Considering what can be done with small batch manufacturing these days, it seems like it would be easily doable.
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My biggest bitch about paypal and subscriptions?

They have a documented event for the end of a subscription (EOT) THAT DOESN'T EVER GET SENT! We had some unpaying subscribers hanging around for a few weeks before we noticed the money coming in didn't match our active subscribers. So now we have a nice little cron job cleaning up expired subscriptions.

Don't get me started on the quality or lack thereof of Paypal and their systems.
Wow, a plaque, that is a big deal.

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not, but I certainly am.
Here's a SFW link to the uTRON:
http://gearcrave.com/2008-12-02/the-wicked-utron-keyboard/
You mean like the Kinesis Freestyle? http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/freestyle.htm
"dial tone"

"punch a clock"
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http://www.webmd.com/news/20060822/genital-herpes-virus-rate...

This agrees with your first figure:

About one in six Americans (17%) had the genital herpes virus -- called HSV-2 -- during 1999-2004. But that is down from the 21% rate seen in 1988-1994.

But then closes with this, which seems very real world relevant to this thought experiment/theory/whatever you want to call it:

As its name suggests, HSV-2 isn't the only herpes virus out there. HSV-1, the virus that causes cold sores, is much more common. As of 1999-2004, 57.7% of Americans carry the virus -- down slightly from the 62% HSV-1 infection rate seen in 1988-1994.

There's some bad news here: HSV-1 is causing more genital herpes than ever before. About 2% of people with HSV-1 infection -- but not HSV-2 -- have genital herpes.

"Our findings are consistent with previous reports that genital herpes caused by HSV-1 may be increasing in the United States, as in other developed countries," Xu and colleagues note.

The researchers warn that the herpes virus that causes cold sores may one day become a more important cause of genital herpes. One factor: The increase in teen oral sex that's helping stop HSV-2 spread may be increasing genital infections with HSV-1.
That sounds awesome. Is it hard for you guys to hire Americans? Are there lots of immigration issues?
Its written in PHP, but I have a feeling thats holding us back from getting top developers which is why I declined to mention it.

Its a lot more about the framework than the language (I believe) and, together with the framework, we're using PHP quite effectively to produce our software.
Very simple: if they had spent $2 per user, they would have run out of money faster. Their problem seemed to be that they didn't convert as well as Mint, for the reasons explained in the blog post. Spending more to get more traffic would have just emptied the savings faster. However, if you could make $2 of profit from each of those visitors, then yes, it would have been a game-changer. The problem wasn't spending more, it was converting enough people to make reasonable profits.
The one thing to resonate with me the most is "No one, in my view, solved the financial problems of consumers."

Marc is right. Financial literacy is a huge problem for a country that's supposed to be the richest in the world. How do we teach people the importance of personal finance management or change their spending habits? We teach all sorts of things in school except this.

Personally, I have been on a campaign for the last 9 months to teach people about the importance of planning, budgeting and saving. It's been difficult convincing people that they should think about their future. Even when I'm sitting down at the kitchen table face to face, it is difficult to establish the reasoning why they should care in the first place.

There are 4 types of people I encounter with the most:

1. I don't know how to take care of my finances and I don't care about my future.

2. I do know that it is important, but everything is going to be okay even I remain ignorant.

3. I don't know, but I would like to learn more, but don't know how.

4. I know some, I think I have a good idea, but still want to learn more, but don't have somebody to turn to.

The common problem between all of them:

1. Most people don't know WHY they should care about their personal finance.

2. Most people don't know where to get trust worthy information to help them or have access to professionals.

I have been trying to solve these problems with one family at a time. If you can do the same with power of reach through the internet, it would be golden.
I lost. Thanks a lot.

Jerk.
By the way, the initial release of Fexl will take a very simple form: A Universal Filter. The "fexl" executable will be nothing more than a program which maps standard input to standard output. So it's a filter. But it's universal because it is Turing-equivalent, capable of performing any conceivable function from stdin to stdout.

When Fexl runs, the first thing it does is read a Fexl function from standard input. The Fexl process then "becomes" that function, processing the tail of the input accordingly. Simple!
I miss Ion3. But I use dwm now!
Yes. You'd be surprised at how many people can tell you the number of options they have, but not the percent of the company/equity/employee pool those options represent.
Of course, even if it was "saved" for future recipients, it wouldn't necessarily be better: one way or another, the future recipients will consume a share of future production. Money is only a way of accounting for this; it's only a way of choosing how to divvy up wealth production amongst consumers.

A thought experiment: imagine a hypothetical economy of 10 people with a bulge in it, but producing new young people at exactly the same rate that old people die off. Let's say current dependency ratio is 6 to 4: 6 people supported by 4 people's production. No matter what way you dice it, on average everybody is getting 4/10 of the average person's wealth production. At a later time, the dependency ratio may get worse; let's say it's 8 people supported by 2. Still, everybody needs to get by on average with 2/10 of the average person's production. Whether this is done by taxing current production, or because of a share of ownership of production via capital saved earlier, it doesn't change the fact that there's only so much wealth to go around amongst all the people.

Of course, productivity is increasing over time, so it's not like everybody is going to starve. But if anything, using a tax on current production to fund current dependents is more flexible than relying on capital ownership to fund future dependents (who will become "current dependents" in the future). If that 8/10 people own enough capital that they really try to put the squeeze on the 2/10 people creating wealth, that productive minority will revolt. With taxes, a political solution can be found.
It's not widely adopted yet (and it's doubtful that it will ever be adopted by Auth / Paypal), but of significance to this discussion is http://www.portabilitystandard.org/.

If the provider you're looking at is a member, then you can at least be sure they get it.
E text editor is supposed to be a TextMate clone for Windows. Never used it myself, though.
The groups shown to have the highest percentage of 100+ in age (with active lifestyles, not crippled) include a more "restricted" diet. Mostly in the sense of eating small portions until nearly full and no gorging.
Only one factor, but interesting.
(Other factors: large amounts of low-intensity activities walking, gardening, not exercising 1 hour a day), mostly plant-based diet(not necessarily vegetarian), and very strong community and a feeling of fulfillment or goal in life "why do you wake up in the morning").

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100....
It's a niche product - you have to price it high to make any money.
IAAL. In fact IAATL. In fact I have prepared hundreds of tax returns and am currently defending dozens of innocent Swiss bank accounts from the greedy clutches of the IRS. </STFU, Phil> But I digress.

Here are some scenarios.

1. You really truly have zero income.

In that case file an income tax return. You do not have a filing obligation but do it anyway. The IRS has a three year window to audit you. This time starts from the moment you file a tax return. So file the tax return and get the clock ticking.

This is a "stick the pacifier in the baby's mouth" theory of tax returns. The IRS will get noisy and send you letters asking why there is a gap in the sequence of filing tax returns. Prevent that.

Since the 3 year clock doesn't start until you file a tax return, imagine 7 years from now when you are a Bloated Plutocrat the IRS comes to audit you. They say "Hey, what about 2010? No tax return! We gotcha!" You say "But I didn't earn anything in 2010." They say "Prove it." You say, "Meh, I threw away all my paperwork for 2010 because I asked about electronic filing of financial records on HN and I got a comment back that said to never save anything."

You. Are. Dead.

Memo to all personnel: file the tax return, even if you lived on the beach and ate abalone you caught all by yourself and walked around naked.

2. You earned money but not a lot, so you don't owe any tax.

This is the scenario where you make a couple of thousand dollars, but below whatever the personal exemption + standard deduction is for that year. Even if you fully report everything, you won't owe any tax.

Again, file the damn tax return. It starts the clock running on the 3 year audit window. It prevents you attempting to reconstruct the past if the IRS does come back at you later.

This is especially true if you have a 1099 in any amount. You will get dunning letters from the IRS.

So do it.

3. You earn some money but you have deductible expenses and other losses that mean you owe no tax.

You can predict what I'm going to say. File. Start the clock running. Get your deductible expenses and losses documented.

4. Backing up a step.

I have handled audits where people have reported small amounts of income on their tax returns and the audit is triggered on a simple, common-sense question from the IRS computers: "Well, how did he eat and pay rent?"

Be prepared to document that you drew down from savings. It will work and work well as a defense on the audit.

5. I am assuming your startup is not incorporated.

There you are. Have at it. Question time! Hit me with some.
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Full continuations would be a major change to the code, and would disallow calling Python functions that call Scheme back. (E.g. right now you could add 'map' to the toplevel by just binding Python's map().) But yes, I'd mention the difference.
We're in central London. We love interns.

We're a small (10 full time) but profitable internationally focused consumer internet start-up where you will get direct exposure to the founders and all aspects of the business.

http://www.lokku.com/jobs/intern.html

We look forward to hearing from you.
I use Awesome WM. It was my first foray into the tiling WM world, and I am currently loving it. I have two monitors. I usually have whatever main task I'm working with on my main widescreen, and then a bunch of terminals with various programs (ncmpcpp, irssi, etc) on my old 17 inch monitor.

Awesome is great because of its use of the keyboard and tag system. Also, it is named after one of Barney Stinson's catchphrases.
I'm usually on a Linux or SSHed into a Linux and use vim most of the time (in combination with screen). When I occasionally have to do Java, I use Eclipse. If I'm stuck with only my Windows box, then I use Notepad++ instead of vim.

Here's a slide about different HTML editors for Windows/Mac that I made based on other folks input:
http://5lide-maker.appspot.com/list?id=ags1bGlkZS1tYWtlcnIQC...
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StumpWM.

Tiled and programmable in Common Lisp. It's fun to config/hack.
There's a lot of formalism surrounding the study of how much parameters matter; the field is called "dynamical systems" and often covers topics like bifurcation theory and chaos theory.

In this particular system, the parameters matter, but not very much for the particular question the author was asking. The system is well-behaved; it doesn't bifurcate or go chaotic. Tweaking the parameters will change whether the final level of infections is 10% or 90%, but the overall conclusion that "sexual conservatives taking more partners increases total infections" remains valid.
Yeah, though what OP seems to be saying is that they're encouraging mid level workers to apply for patents. That seems pretty common and rather benign to me, certainly not indicative of patent trolling.
What kind of reputation are you talking about? within your company, or outside your company?

Internal - Use Hard Metrics.
If you are the marketing team and have an influence on the final sale (ie:Your clicks convert to paid subscribers/purchases) then proving how you brought home the bacon, is a good metric to use.

In bigger enterprise type environments - show how you can automate and mature marketing processes.

External - Offer Something
Tweet, blog about your work, speak at conferences, attend user groups for marketers.... I know people who have built good career paths based on their perceived expertise from a few talks at marketing conferences. These are some ways to build your reputation externally.
This is why geeks will never rule the world.
Interesting! Could some of that effect be from people wanting "Chipotle" rather than "Chipotle-B"? One would hope investors would be more educated than that; but, before reading your post, if I'd been offered 10 shares of Chipotle or 10 shares of Chipotle-B and had to make my pick just on name, I'd certainly have taken the former.
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Sugar Inc, San Francisco, no remote

Small engineering team (<30) at a mid-sizeish, startup-ish company, and we're looking for 4 engineers: 2 PHP, one Java, one Objective C. More info here:

http://www.sugarinc.com/Engineering-8476536

Recent interview by Kara Swisher of Brian Sugar (CEO):

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100921/ladylike-fun-and-games-b...
Thanks Fabian! :)
> count up all the bullet holes in various places, and then put extra armor in the areas that attracted the most fire.
>
> Obvious but wrong

Please tell me I'm not the only one who instantly thought, obviously wrong. And thought the obvious solution is look at what got shot down (or similar such as the article listed)

Really? Are most people this illogical?
Haven't advertised yet, but if you go to http://minvp.com/apps you'll find everything I send out in the email.
Using Sprint would have been a lot of trouble for Apple, though. They'd have had to manufacture two iPhone variations – one that works with Sprint's CDMA network, and one that used GSM for every other market in the world. Not that this is impossible, especially if the tradeoffs are right, but it's probably much easier to only have to worry about one type of cell phone chipset.
Another vote for xmonad. I have been using xmonad on my desktop for most of this year, and it has worked amazingly well, and definitely has one of the best multi-monitor setups I've ever used.

One of the most impressive things is how well it has worked out of the box, so well that I basically forgot to come back and customize, its just been working for quite a while now.
Altdrag: Use alt to drag windows in Windows just like Linux
Easy... Use iOS device as multi-touchpad
What a potentially interesting feature: switching countries to see what the same tax amount (converted to local currency) buys in other countries
My media collection is on my media server. That's got 4x1T+4x1.5T drives in ZFS RAIDZ: a little too much to fit on a laptop. Laptops can get away with ~80G, just about, for Windows 7, and probably less with other OSes. But probably something like the C300 (256G) would be a better choice.
Thanks Terretta, I updated the blog post with your version of the jpg as well as some of the insights you had. I have photoshop here in a vm, so I'm going to go ahead and reconvert all of them from there.
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I think "very black hat" is pushing it a bit. That would be something like the worms and trojans people have used to take over accounts and spam everyone.

But paying people to push your page is definitely sketchy, especially since I'm sure there was no disclosure on the part of the pushers.

I'd call that mesh hat.
beats me ;-) Sorry I did 1% with ImageMagick

convert testImage.jpg -quality 1% lossy.magick.jpg
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Better than that would be for our society to get over the stigma around STDs and STD testing. As unromantic as it is, it should be uncontroversial to ask someone for a copy of a recent STD test. Even having cards would be nice, on a purely opt-in basis.

People will whine and moan about the privacy concerns, but when it comes right down to it people with untreated or untreatable STIs should not be having sex (and if they are their partners should be made aware.)
The tiling, keyboard-driven Xmonad on Linux, but then I got fed up of the look and feel of Linux in general and bailed to OS X completely (with a more basic helper, SizeUp).

I like a main window taking the left 60% of the screen and the remainder for 2 aux windows stacked vertically.