skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tasks need to have dates I think for this thing to be both a brain organizer and a productivity tool, which I think is ultimately what it is going to have to be to be successful (and it is names workflowy).

I have used mindmaps before, which is basically the same idea with a different interface.

I'd like each node to have a "due by" or "do on" date, and maybe a simple color coding.. just a way to arbitrary label things into one of a few sets for later polling.

This is young so no one has built up huge maps of their brains and their lives, or imagine an organization using this.. it could get huge and cumbersome. To solve this you'd need to be able to pull all the 'purple' items from deep in the tree into it's own list, or get a list of everything that I said needed to be done today, or by friday.

In any case, I think this is a great tool, and I have been looking for a seamless way of keeping track of things, and this just might fit the bill. I will be giving it a try.

Curious how this is going to be monetized as well, I hope I don't get addicted and end up with another cellphone bill.
While you did this anonymously, it takes a lot of courage and insight to just write this down. So many people go through life ignoring the problem and those are people who don't want to change.

It seems by asking for advice, you do want to change. And whether your consumption is above the norm or not, you are your own keeper. You have to ask yourself, "Do I want to change my life or am I happy the way things are?"

If you want to change, and drinking less is part of that change, simply cutting down isn't the way to do it. You'll always want more and that will lead to depression. You have to figure out WHY you want the booze. You've said it takes the edge off, so what exactly is that edge? Stress? Anxiety? Boredom? Emotional Pain? Once you find that out, you'll be set. It's not easy because it means being really honest with yourself, but that's the road to happiness.

Some people have suggested seeing a shrink, which can help. But short of that, you can always just write your thoughts out and see where it takes you. Ask yourself the question, "What is the edge I'm trying to take off?" and write freely, without thinking. Do this 15 minutes a day for a couple weeks and see where it takes you. Penzu (the journal I use) is great because you can set reminders to write. I have a premium account and just write via email into my journal. I would write on a pad or in my inbox but I wouldn't want my girlfriend to read it.

There are so many things in life to enjoy that one shouldn't need an escape all the time. If you're drinking because you're bored, start taking some risks, take up a hobby, do something adventurous. A life wasted in a bar is truly sad indeed.
Some fun things against which to compare the ratio:

- Total male/female ratio among the group processed that day (obviously).

- Average male/female ratio involved in terrorist threats and incidents.

I bet the numbers would tell quite a story.
Well, I would need a little bit more info than the "detailed information" presented there.
Maybe boring isn't the right word. Vague is probably better. "MySQL at Facebook" is a facebook page, a launchpad user, a twitter user, a O'Reilly MySQLConf talk, etc.
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I've noticed that whenever I'm shutting off for any reason (depression, escape from stress, or simply lack of sleep) drinking beer perks me up and helps me stay functional the whole evening just like coffee does, but in a much more pleasant way. It's tough to abstain from a simple solution like that and just get the needed R&R instead. The downside is that the next day I'm almost as tired as if I had drunk coffee all evening and tossed and turned all night.
Maybe as an option. But I made two lists right off the back, Work, and Life. I put two things in Life and then checked them off..
It's not like we are offered the option very often.
I would immediately move to Malaysia and retire.

http://www.workpermit.com/malaysia/malaysia.htm
Your kidding right? It has a time and a place, and can pretty "easily" be substituted for mysql/etc in most applications. We just put together a really fun project, a very vanilla community news aggregator aimed at cyclists. Took two days of core coding and another day or two playing around with styling/functionality, but mongo was a fantastic fit. http://veloscoop.com

[edit] I mis-clicked and upvoted you when I meant to downvote. Incendiary statements about valuable technology has no purpose here.
I have a background in development and an interest in applying technology to social activism of which this certainly falls under. So id be interested in talking to you about it. How should i contact you?
A video is great but many people aren't going to bother with it if they aren't otherwise interested.

"A Better Way to Think" means nothing to me and is the only other thing to grab my interest. I would have clicked away in about 2 seconds if I didn't come across this on HN.

EDIT:
Why not something like "Your Brain. Organized. Everywhere." for a headline? It doesn't seem to be "a better way to think" but a way to "organize things the way you naturally think" [from the video].

I can definitely see myself using this and almost passed it up.
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I'm at my best in the morning: 7am - 11am.
I really like the app and I'm definitely going to be using it for many things from this point on, but I would use it even more if you had Collaboration. I need to be able to collaboratively edit a section of my list with my coding team. We should be able to move this section of the list where ever each of us wants it in our individual accounts.

Would that be too difficult to implement at this point?
@ clojurerocks

Thanks for the interest. feel free to contact me at: aaron.lee.moy@gmail.com

Thanks!
I was just asked this by my girl friend the other night, as I was telling her I am taking part in the Hackernews November App launch Challenge thing.

I had put on the facebook page my idea and explained that I am doing it to learn how to program myself, as my day job is creating the best customer service in the world, and has never really touched on writing code myself.

I was nervous about sharing my idea because of the fact that anyone who has been learning to program for more than 5 days (I am on day 4) has a huge head start on me and could launch the idea way quicker than I could.

However, What I got back from the community was more encouragement and enthusiasm. And I even was politely asked by one of the guys if I wanted to partner up on the idea as he seemed to really like it, instead of him just taking it for his own.. as he is studying comp science in university i think.

This being said, I am a huge advocate on the fact that every idea has been thought of before and people are going to make the product whether I tell them or not.

So in conclusion, I think telling anyone who will listen about your idea is the right move. You don't have to tell every detail of course, but the feedback, encouragement and opinions of the people who would listen to me have been a big help in this project for me.
People with nothing to lose. A good friend, who was a psychiatric nurse, taught me never argue or fight with a person with nothing to lose. There are more than a few in the wold, unfortunately.

More common is anonymous people on the net who threaten to do so. My point is a bot is predictable, but humans are emotional and irrational. Further, you can't always tell the difference between the snakes and the monsters in an anonymous environment (notice I'm not anonymous). Thus, I'd be more willing to argue with a bot.
>One time I got selected for a pat down because the metal detector went off of my belt.

I think they have an override under the desk that they can push - I get stopped every time (internal UK flights, not many). I've always found I'm stopped often, I'm bearded and usually have a backpack.
it is supprisingly nice match to the textfiles google-docs i use a lot lately.

currently i'm playing with meinmeister for deep-not-taking.

compared to mindmeister one thing hold me back in workflowy: lack of links

what i like:
- makes nice use of the space (gets stuff out of the way when zooming in)
- clean
- works like my text files :)

hmm.. that's more pros then cons :D
Sites are usually also pretty bad initially.
The name grates on my nerves (although I am aware of the URL shortage problem). But the product looks cool. I'm going to use it for a few days and see how I like it. It looks near perfect.
This seems conceptually similar to http://www.cascading.org/ (at least looking the code examples: http://www.cascading.org/1.1/userguide/html/ch02.html).
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It's a different use case. If you want, you can click on links in the original site, but then you are no longer on newsblur.com. The way i am able to take over the original site is through a proxy.

What your describing is that every link shows it's original site endpoint, which means reading every story would require a separate page load. Instead, I just consolidated the front page, and if you want the story content as it appears in the feed, then there's the Feed view (and you can go back and forth between them with the left and right arrow keys).

Otherwise, it's a slow process to load all of those stories one-by-one.
it's opensource, right? so anyone could go in and fix any problems they see, right?
Of course if you were a terrorist wouldn't a line of hundreds of people all being crowded into one space BEFORE security make a much nicer target?

And if somebody did detonate a backpack full of nails in the security queue how they react - more security and make the queues longer?
>The old style european type is designed such that you should be facing the controls.

What's confusing, same way you use a toilet.

;0)
a million bucks isn't enough to retire on in perpetuity, but it is enough to set yourself up in such a way that you can, professionally, do almost anything you want with your life as long as you have some sort of working income stream.

i'd probably work on my current bootstrapped startup full-time for a while, see how it goes, and then travel the world while doing freelance work a few hours a day.

edit: oh, and pay down all of my debts, of course.
it's opensource, anyone could do that, not just Yahoo!
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I'm not sure what that means, or if I want to know, or if I'm seeing innuendos where there aren't any, but it made me lol anyway. Have an upvote.
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I wish I had heard about this a few months ago. I wanted to implement a way to create and connect streaming web services. I hacked up something then called webpipes (https://github.com/dnewcome/webpipes) using node.js. Unfortunately I haven't looked at it again since I first put it up on github. S4 looks a ton more advanced than anything I was envisioning, but I still think that something simple done in one of the evented servers like node.js (the S4 implementation looks to be Java) would be useful.
But if you believe GR and have a geological map for your position you can work out the correction reasonably accurately
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I thought about that, but given its potential for me I set it as my homepage. I'll give it a few days to see if it has money for me.
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You missed the ads? And got 17 upvotes (at least), well done.

[Incidentally if Jacques is reading I'm not waging war against you.]
I did not get that impression; and that would make for a pretty petty editor.

More likely a genuinely clueless person who has been in 'print' for a decade or two but is largely clueless to the interwebs.
A good, simpler than S4, solution may be to use zeromq (PUB/SUB).
As has been pointed out: this matters to you if you subscribe to MySQL support. The vast majority of MySQL users who just run the DB on their servers have nothing to worry about.
save half, invest a quarter in long term things (property, bonds, etc), distribute an eighth to friends and family, improve my own immediate quality of life with 1/16th. Invest the final 16th in shorter term projects, eg putting together a startup etc.
I live in a country with one of the slowest Internet connections out there, I'd really rather read a 2-line paragraph description than watch a 45-sec video.

Besides, YouTube is blocked in most offices - like mine.
I worry that embedding media would just overcomplicate it. There's definitely a point where it's simple enough and adding more features will only detract from the overall effectiveness.
iphone app please :)
To the frequent business travelers, might this increase the growing trend of working remotely?

Now that it's trivial to set up video-conferencing on your home workstation, and collaborate via online tools that range the gamut from github to office docs to just about anything you can imagine, might this drive even more people to shift business travel to remote work instead?
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Having a video is a good option but shouldn't be the only one. See how dropbox is doing it.
The scariest thing is the truth.
Adium definitely gets its update list over HTTP, so maybe it just prompts the user if the signatures don't match and lets them install anyway?

The relevant module in evilgrade is sparkle.pm if you want to check it out.
This research doesn't tell you much concretely about the benefits of the patent system that might be lost in any potential reform, but it certainly says something about the costs that it imposes right now: clearly lots of people get sued over things they invented independently. In fact, in the overwhelming majority of cases not involving chemicals or pharmaceuticals, the people being sued (and thus punished) are independent inventors. It's hard for me not to conceive of "people getting sued over things they invented/created completely independently" as anything other than a pure cost to society, and the research in this paper makes it pretty clear that most patent lawsuits fall into that category of "pure cost to society."

It also does say something about the "benefits" of the patent system, though less strongly: clearly if the vast majority of people being sued in particular industries are independently inventing things, that means that the knowledge transfer benefits of patents in those industries is likely over-stated by pro-patent lobbies.
I'm not saying that reocities is not right, just that it is not legal. Even if it were non-commercial then they are flouting the content creators moral rights (whether some of those people, as the reocities people say, are very happy to have their copyright infringed or not).
I'd settle for TSA employees working naked - a kind of Orwellian nudist colony. At least I could giggle back.
I don't think it's paranoia at all. It doesn't even take bad motives, just a lapse of judgment or faulty assumption to ruin privacy -- like Google Buzz integration into GMail.

I think the solution requires more than feel-good policy statements and trust building. And God forbid someone mention legislation.

Ultimately the users need full localized control (hosting, or decrypting) over their private identities, content and social connections. Private groups should be darknets. And it should be as easy as automatic to set up and use. Zooko's Triangle be damned.
You saw APT in the supported list right? :-P
I also thought something along the lines, "wasn't this an April fools joke...". I'm glad someone found it so I could see it again.
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I think part of the problem was the use of "cover letter/resume" language in the context of a blog posting.

On a job application, it's ordinary to praise your own accomplishments and abilities. So you declare things like "excellent writing skills", and nobody really bats an eye [1]. However, if you were at a dinner party, and you praised your own "excellent cooking skills", it would probably rub people the wrong way. Blogs fall more into the second category, I think, which may account for some of the reaction.

All in all, this was a clever approach that worked out well, and maybe it should be more of a norm. Unlike Andrew, I've been in the workforce for well over a decade, but I think that I may have a skill set that doesn't match up neatly with a most job descriptions. As a result, want ads don't do much for me. I always figured that this is just because really good jobs are never listed on recruitment sites - they're the jobs you create and grow into. But who knows, a reverse job application might be a good way to see if there's one out there.

If I try it, I'll make sure to heed the lessons I learned from this first go-around, which is when many of the mistakes are first made.

[1] Watch out, though. In the tech world, describing yourself as an expert in a programming language may be a bit like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
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When I was a child is was normal in my family to drink alcohol when dinner or lunch, I'm Spaniard and we consume Sidra(cider) and wine and a little beer. Nothing high alcohol concentration like whiskey . It is normal for one person to drink a bottle of Sidra(750cubic centimeters, we use metric).

I didn't have any problems with that, I do a lot of exercise every day, but it affects your intellectual performance so I don't drink during the week. How? Alcohol is the byproduct of sugar metabolism, witch people in today society over consumes(it is better for the body to use fat and oils as energy fuel), the metabolism of alcohol itself is very hard by the body and creates a lot of byproducts itself difficult to eliminate, and with secondary effects like acidification of your blood, so your body has to generate cholesterol to protect your arteries...

Long story sort, drinking alcohol makes you want to rest, and that means your energy during the day to vanish. My personal advice is NOT TO TAKE DRUGS for controlling your mood whatever the drug, you should be able to control your mood with your brain witch is the number one manufacturer of natural drugs(without secondary effects).

If you are interested, there are a lot of videos on Internet about Sugar and Alcohol metabolism, and a lot of people that are "fighting" white sugar and alcohol, there is even some TED videos about it.
I cannot move things horizontally, only vertically. That's no no for me.
As someone who would actually prefer to be able to stop getting ideas, I think my best advice would be to try to become the "real person" you're looking for.

Using your example, someone who is interested in travel will not necessarily be a travel agent, but a person who uses travel websites (of providers, travel agents, or whoever) to plan their trips. More often than not, these sites have easily identifiable spots for improvement. Page layout, search functionality, mapping...the usuals. About as common is for these sites to also be cookie-cutter sites that are either webservice or some PHP (or whatever) package that they run themselves on a webhost.

This state of commodity makes it easy to design an entire site pretty much instantly that would be an order of magnitude easier to use, because eliminating any one frustration with using a commodity and you can take entire swaths of the marketplace. In travel it's going to be all about conversion, so anything that cuts down find-and-pay time is user-friendly. I don't know how attached the inventory (destination providers, cabin landlords, etc.) gets to these sites or if they'll sign up for anything that can be explained as an improvement over the status quo, but that's easy enough to research: the next time your interest in travel takes you to a travel agent, all you have to do is wait for them to say, "Gonna take a sec, the web thingy is slow," and the conversation can flow from there. "Is it better than what you used before that?"

Furthermore, I'd bet people at (e.g.) FlyerTalk are likely to describe their frustrations with site providers in some detail, which would be another "real person" vector: go to where the customers are. If you can find people who pay money to others despite having to do it via a flawed (to the customer) solution, you might be able to find out what would constitute an improvement in the market's eyes. The company/agent/provider (inventory) side of this equation is always going to be relatively dumb.

I guess I should have a second-best advice, too: Let people tell you. They will, if you're listening. Try to speak their language rather than hunting for people who can speak yours ("it's often quite hard for them to point out inefficiencies").

So anyway, as someone who gets ideas all the time, that's a little time-lapse snapshot of my thought process when loosed upon a hypothetical.
Yeah, Virtual Infrastructure and VSphere clients download updates over HTTP from a URL that looks like: http://www.vmware.com/vmware<%RND1%>.exe
So here's something very similar i launched recently http://www.knowcase.com (works on ipad & mobile too)
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No party?
agree. colaboration feature is a must. for me it could easily replace piratepad if it have implemented colaboration.
true that. But AFAIK metasploit doesn't have exactly this kind of functionality. It would be nice if someone would port it though...
a million bucks isn't enough to retire on in perpetuity

It is if you don't live in the US. You could invest that money in the US where you can get decent returns and live somewhere like the Philippines where less than $1000/month affords you a comfortable lifestyle (see http://trifter.com/asia-pacific/philippines/true-cost-of-liv... for a middle class married couple who do it for under $500). Living in the Philippines will also give you a more relaxed lifestyle (maids, drivers, live-in cooks, etc) so you could even work on a startup if you wanted since you can't say you're too busy working or doing chores.
Well, the old TLDs would have to stay operational, at least during a transition phase, perhaps infinitely. However, ripe.com gets the 'ripe'-TLD. And ripe.net gets to keep what they have.