skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the Pomodoro Technique to be a bit like daily pushups. It really does work, but it requires discipline and/or a routine to keep it up. The problem is that once you've missed a few days for any number of reasons, it requires effort to reinstate, and in my experience that inevitably gets procrastinated.
Ask HN: Resources to learn about entrepreneurial finance
What books/resources do you recommend to learn the basics like valuation,dilution,notes,stock,taking seed/angel/vc money.
--Thanks,
Madhavi
Venture Hacks watches your copy and pastes
The two sides? You've stumbled across another problem: facile and vapid Manicheanism.
"By your logic, other PC/mobile manufacturers should have similar profit margins to Apple, but they don't. "

How you could you possibly extrapolate that, attributing it to me?

I propose no such thing. Electronics is a low margin arena, and this is great for consumers. High margin companies like Monster cater, arguably, to suckers.

So when someone makes a lot of margin in electronics they're usually serving the sucker market, or they're offering something other than electronics. Apple puts good software on otherwise vanilla hardware, and that's what their differentiation is. It's how they get their margin.

There's a cert cult essence to Apple that makes it impossible to discuss their products. The number of faults in their devices is legendary, and there is that telling moment of truth: When a new anointed device comes out, suddenly there's a mass realization that the last device really was kind of shoddy (see the 3GS when the 4 came out).

There just isn't anything special about them. There really isn't. Motorola has made any number of brilliantly engineered products...but it's just Motorola so who cares, right?
Except that you may die tomorrow.
Um, I'm pretty sure that measuring PSNR and SSIM differences in percentage makes no sense at all. PSNR is measured in decibels and SSIM is a log scale. They might as well just have said "it went up".
Right on. I was just going to link to wikipedia, but you beat me to it.

Wealth has a very specific, easily quantifiable definition. For an individual or household, it's essentially your net worth. And you can actually have 'low wealth' (a.k.a you're poor).

I wish I knew what the subtext of the original question was. Can I be wealthy if I'm a school teacher or something like that?

If the question is really "What is wealthy?" I think Chris Rock's routine about 'rich' vs. 'wealthy' is as good as any. Wealthy is the point where your grandkids will never need to work a day in their life. Wealthy is getting foundations and libraries named after you. etc...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWERzwbobOk

I'll never be wealthy, and I'm fine with that. I'd gladly settle for rich.
There is no real documentation yet, which is unfortunate. "rebar -c" is pretty helpful for what commands it has, and most of the layout conventions are not rebar's, but OTP's (those are documented here: http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/applications.htm...). A rebar.config.sample file is provided in the GitHub repo which lists every configuration option. The mailing list and its archives are also pretty useful if you get stuck.
And ask yourself if you can effciently code, write, whatever for 90 hours per week?

Then measure your effciency and act accordingly.
spectacular. now where's 'use emacs like a pro'?
FAQ page has "Fundstap" as title, little typo.
Personally I like the Wacom Tablet as an alternative to paper sketching. You get (almost) the immediacy of paper with the benefits of copy / paste, layers, undo, erase, etc
Sense and Nonsense: Altruism Without Virtue
Being rich is having money. Being wealthy is having time.
- Margaret Bonnano
Marco.org - For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance
I've smelled lots of stinky people and never told them they stink.

If everyone acts like me, it makes sense that these people don't get told they are stinky.
No, I just linked it as a reference to what I was talking about, since not everyone is likely to remember what I was talking about.
Its amazing that after having read probably hundreds of Vim tutorials / guides every user is able to learn something completely new from every one of them.
It sure scales.

This one brought ^T and ^D for indenting in insert mode to me, and starting with -o/O as argument for opening multiple files in splits.
emacs has a text editor too? I always just used it as an irc client... (http://delysid.org/emacs/erc.html)

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsCrashCourse is fairly good for a quick introduction to similar ways of doing things in emacs. =)
VP8 is heavily based on VP6 and VP7. If VP8 breaches some patents, they are very high odds that so do they.
The author is Tim Ottinger. You can find him on Twitter[1] for example, pretty easily.

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/tottinge
I think that's why I've been spending more time back at Reddit than HN lately. They talk about the same stuff with the same depth, but they have more fun doing it.

Even Einstein wasn't afraid to stick his tongue out for the camera.
I get this way when I'm writing. Earlier today I was sat in my in-laws back yard and I'm guessing I was staring at a coffee cup, but I was working out a part of my story in my head. I had character associations messed up, and in about 5-minutes of being zoned I sorted a bunch of it out.

I think she said something along the lines of "you just had such an evil look, what was you staring at?" I didn't know I was staring, because to be honest my concentration had receded from the visual. Similarly when I write I can completely zone out audibly to the point I get pissed off and people around me can, because I'll have a playlist going and I miss my favorite song so I'll skip back to play through it again and I'll zone out and miss it. I think in one day I put the play-count of a dozen songs up by like 5 points on iTunes via this.

I think 'crazy eyes' is when you zone out visually, and I guess 'crazy ears' is when you zone out audibly. It's like there's a lack of processing power in the brain and its CtrlAltDel'ing a wasted function.
> anyone who doesn't want to subsidize Apple's dystopian future will choose to buy a competitor's product whether VLC is on iOS or not. The only party's substantially affected here are iOS users, who are now deprived of a program to play more video types.

If you don't like Apple's dystopian future, then reducing the incentives to own an iOS device sounds more effective than merely not subsidizing the platform.
Most people are used to putting copious amounts of detergent in their hair every day. This makes the scalp's oil production go into overdrive. Stop shampooing and your hair is like an oil slick. This effect takes many months to go away, thus making most of us dependent on shampoo.
Well, it was the exact same situation with OS X (you had to explicitly trust the self-signed applet when asked), and that was apparently still news-worthy, so this is no different.
The Fallacy of Bimodal Returns, Part Two
I have always seen wealth as a function of time and choice.

I would echo the sentiments of thibaut_barrere, reasonattlm, and especially bmelton (as it pertains to time and choice).

In other words, I would call myself 'wealthy' if I had the opportunity to do what I want when I want to do it. I think in American society when we think of wealth we think of Wall St Bankers with multimillion dollar penthouses in NY, or we think of Ellison and his yachting, but I think we can boil it down to time and choice.

Ellison can choose to pursue yacthing as a passion because he is wealthy, and the expense of that hobby is not a determining factor.

Gates can choose to spend his energies at philanthropy because the lack of income and time constraints associated with that endeavor are not determining factors.

For me, wealth would be 'the ability to follow curiosities and interests, whatever they may be.' If I have a 9-5 job AND trying to get a startup off the ground AND I have a family with young children, I am able to follow some of my passions, but not all of them, because there are large chunks of my time that I dont control.
I have my own personal definition of wealth, which is "net contribution - net consumption". The bigger the gap you can create, the greater the wealth you experience.

Lasting wealth can only come from a pattern of giving much more than you take.

Simply making a habit of creating and contributing without looking at what you get back is the first step. Then creating the pattern of minimizing your personal needs is second. Managing risks and continuing to value things intelligently comes final.

I don't define true wealth as a numerical value. I think merely appreciating any moment in time can create true wealth.

However, I think us humans are builders and creators. We like to make new things, and coincidentally, everyone I know who is happy creates things. So no, I don't think you can be static, sitting on a pile of cash doing nothing, and still feel "wealthy".

...But I may have something wrong with me. Or I just might not have met that numeral that truly makes me feel wealthy. But then again, I am very skeptical of the power of money to make me feel wealthy. I just like to use it as an (inefficient) measuring stick.
I'm still a little unclear (even with the FAQ) exactly what projects are acceptable and which are out of the boundaries. For example, you say international accessible. Does that mean projects on a national scope are not accepted? Will you curate projects like KickStarter?
I'm the partner and co-founder a PPC Agency.

The right way is to do it yourself first. But make sure you have conversion tracking, so that you know the basic metrics. For instance, if you are doing PPC for sign-ups, how much are you paying per sign-up.

Then you try to improve it, by either cut Cost per acquisition (CPA), and/or increase your volume of acquisitions.

Increase volume of acquisition is always harder. Most people only know little bit of Search, but Content and Retarget works great too. A lot of product are so new that no body is searching for it, so there are challenges.

You should try this yourself until you hit your bottleneck, e.g. can't increase volume without a much bigger CPA, then you should try find a good agency that can bring your PPC to a whole new level. And it's better doing it now, because you already know your basic metrics, and it will be easy to judge is an agency is doing a good job or not.

Judging by the people who commented there, my feeling is that few of them really had the experience of spending serious PPC money PROFITABLY.

A good ppc program is a pure profit center.

Do it yourself just means that you as founder won't have time for other stuff. Do it in-house means you pay a salary of someone doing it. Agency's cost is most likely lower than a full-time employee, and a good agency knows PPC way more than an individual who had some years of experience.

p.s.

Another point, I happened to work with a lot of start-ups. People seem to assume that only big stupid companies spend serious money on line, small smart start-ups don't. But this is just wrong. Small smart start-ups are spending very aggressively online, because they know they are making profit, vs big stupid companies are often too timid to spend anything. So, a small start-up actually need more PPC expertise than the big companies.
People are so sold on the you are disgusting and smell and only buying product will save you.

Personally I like a shower every day but saying that I haven't bothered with soap or shampoo for maybe the last 5 years. I also don't bother with deoderants. Strange though it may seem people never notice and are happy to sit next to me and give me hugs etc.

Lots of stinky people actually wash very often. If I was smelly I'd do something about it too.
The Long-awaited async
Works fine for me on FF 3.6.12
My Business Is Growing, So Why Am I Running Out Of Cash?
ASk HN: Do you set life goals, 3/5 year plans?
Hi guys,

Curious to know if anyone sets goals of places you'd like to be, several years in advance. Many companies make their employees write and define their career goals, I was wondering if any entrepreneurs/hacker/startup guys do the same thing and write out goals of where they want to be in several years.

Do they work? Does anyone actually follow and attempt to achieve their goals? Or is life too chaotic and the industry changes too fast to have realistic goals?
@pg, i think the average is a bad way of doing it. it discourages people from commenting on low-traffic, or old threads.

the game becomes that of other threaded comment systems where you get more up votes on heavily traffic-ed threads. it should push the long tail of comments further out, and have fewer threads with high traffic. someone trying to game the system might look for threads with say 10-15 points and then make a comment, hoping they get above the average. it's like investing in DOW companies during an economic upswing.

your karma actually should not be purely based on uptick, but should represent some amount of risk you took, and then measure that against how well the community responded to it.

so commenting on old or low-traffic threads could still be of value.
I like that Brad touches on the time-factor of 20+ years. I think it's easy to forget that it takes a long, long time to create a sustainable business environment, and it also takes years of success stories and phenomenal leadership to put a city on the entrepreneurial map. SV has made more than a few good tech companies. Hollywood has made more than a couple good movies. NY has made more than a handful of innovative finance companies. These legendary communities have created extraordinary results, but they didn't become legendary overnight.
You are reaching, though not sure why.

"...custom-designed by Apple engineers to be extremely powerful yet extremely power efficient." is 100% valid. Picking certain features from a Samsung catalog is what the general consensus is they did, and that doesn't contradict their statement at all. I can get on a website right now and make a custom designed t-shirt or even a custom designed candy bar by picking the ingredients I want. If I tell someone I then made a custom-designed candy bar, will they call me a liar because I didn't make the chocolate and all the ingredients from scratch or because someone else cooked them and put them together to make the candy bar? Of course not. Apple engineers picked the features of the SoC they wanted, ones they felt would give them the best efficiency for how they were using them, and that is their A4. No more, no less, and exactly what they say it is. Featuring the A4 doesn't mean they are giving any details about it. No one is telling 'flat out lies'.
If you want some basics... you could check this out, there's a couple different videos on related topics http://www.khanacademy.org/?video=raising-money-for-a-startu...
I'd generally agree, I was a good reviewer but I'm still having a devil of a time getting a novel written that I'm proud of.

I'm thankful that every query I've sent out, especially for short stories, have come back with constructive criticism explaining why they didn't accept it. This is far better than friends I knew who had simply received constant standard rejections. So I want to take my time and make sure when I'm going for a sale, I want to be selling something I'm truly proud of... I'm sure I wont care after the first advance so it's probably best I do it now when the money isn't important than when the money is important.
We've recently engaged Software Promotions (SoftwarePromotions.com), who were recommended to us by Patrick (patio11).

Just getting started with them, but so far we've been really impressed.
cite please.
Otherwise known as long division :)
One of the best resources for learning more about vim is the various .vimrc files on github

A simple http://github.com/search?&q=vimrc is a goldmine for mastery.
I'm relatively new to this community, but I've thought for a while that the problem with any points-based system is the inherent competitive nature. One of the interesting things I've learned in improv classes is the "Yes, and..." structure that performers use to build on each others performances to create something bigger and better.[1] Structurally this may be as simple as implementing a mandatory "Yes, and..." string to the beginning of each comment. Maybe it is only displayed as the user is writing comments, but it could be a simple, effective nudge to be more constructive used in conjunction with the existing points system.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvisational_theatre
You can replace web browser by a video player like VLC :

'''The approved commitments address these concerns. PC users, by means of the Choice Screen, will have an effective and unbiased choice between Internet Explorer and competing web browsers. This should ensure competition on the merits and allow consumers to benefit from technical developments and innovation both on the web browser market and on related markets, such as web-based applications.'''

This was the accepted proposal of Microsoft by the European Commission in December 2009. (http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/0...)

Apple with the AppStore is just playing the same game than any other monopole, trying to exclude competitive products.
Yep, we got rid of it about 8 months ago. All of the programming we watch is, for the most part, available on the public TV stations (NBC, ABC, etc.), or on Hulu. I set up a Windows Media Center PC to DVR our shows on broadcast TV, although we could just as easily rely on Hulu if we were willing to wait a day or two to see the shows. We also have Netflix.

We are also serial Pay Per View watchers, but now that $5/movie is going to either Playstation Network or Xbox Live/Zune, depending on which TV we want to watch it on, for about the same price. We have also been known on occasion to pay for TV series on iTunes (such as Tudors) that aren't available anywhere else.

For sports, we have ESPN3, which is also coming to Xbox Live shortly.

We are a 2 income household making a 6-figure income, so it is most decidedly not that we can't afford it -- it is simply that we got tired of paying for something so worthless.

What would get us to come back? Reasonable, a la carte channel ordering. I would, for example, shell out $2 or $3 per month for Bravo and a half dozen other stations that feature content we actually watched. But we had 300 channels and I didn't watch 297 of them -- why should I pay for them?

Also, I've never understood why everything isn't just available on-demand (like Hulu). If I have access to Bravo, I should be able to see any already-shown episode of Top Chef that I want, without having "recorded" it -- that should just be part of the subscription. Live TV should only be used if you want to watch sports, or the premier of an episode. Makes no sense not to provide this and make your customers happier.
Experts exchange has been in business since at least 2001, they also have a bit actual content.
Web App Site Designs
Wealth is well-being or quality of life. That accounts for your mind, body, and relationships..
What's wrong with the way its built now? Hard to tell from the pages

Is there any heavy lifting backend code in this project or is what we see all there is to it?
OSS Bounty project: todo list / collaborative outliner, to be open sourced
>other gold standards of personal hygiene, like frequent shampooing and deodorant use.

Using deodorant does not have an effect on hygiene.
Hygiene is about being clean; deodorant is about being dirty and not smelling like you are.

Being clean is important; if one has sufficient hygiene (in most climates), deodorant might not be necessary - it certainly shouldn't be referred to as a hygiene product.
But in a city that can't keep its budget priorities in line, this seems like another instance of a lot of money without any real data that the money produces better results.
Mine varies by a couple of points over the course of days, generally. The occasional +50 comment can bump things up, as can refraining from making a bunch of +1 or +2 comments.
With the current deficit, it is pretty clear that spending must fall or revenue must rise given any reasonable economic growth scenario. Given these options, the governing party seems focused on increasing revenue - permanently enlarging the public portion of the economy. That is usually bad for the private portion of the economy unless you have some reason for believing that public goods are underprovided.
Wood is not just a poor electrical conductor, it's also a poor conductor of heat. That means that a wood ladder resting on a wood building will not become hot enough to ignite the structure on which it is resting.
Detta är the geek post
Flying is statistically much safer than driving. They may not ensure quality in many of their amenities, but their safety standards are as high as they come.
That is obviously not true and it's easy to prove: betting on sports is wildly popular. And here the thing, people don't want to win per se; they want to share in the outcome for their team, positive or negative.

Never underestimate the tribal drive in humans.
The actual page:

http://www.frank-zhao.com/card/
or underfoot.
The ability to be able to say this, and mock so many of his surrounding people and disciplines, probably highlights best the fact that he practices what he preaches.

A refreshing read indeed.
There is also a threshold to change the color of the bar at the top.
This was a blast from the past.

When I was a kid, not only was someone going to die from strychnine in their Pixie Stix, but the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups also probably contained razor blades and needles.

These days when I think of Halloween I just think of women in the marketing department dressed like strippers. Or are they supposed to be Lady Gaga? shudder
And another great offer to the HN community!

This is the inverse of kickstarter. Is there a site where you can post these sort of things?
Vim talk - Walking without crutches
Even with the 11-inch MacBook Air being okay'd, the 13 inch won't qualify for some unknown reason.

With it being revealed this week that they'll be touching our genitals[1], I hardly figure this to be a good trade.

1: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/10/for-the-...
Exactly. If I don't shower every day, my hair gets really oily. I've often wondered what would happen if I indeed let those months pass and get a more "natural" secretion of oil, but the time it takes it just too much.
Tryed a lot of approaches and Promodoro is one of things that works for mee too.

My minimalistic setup is http://e.ggtimer.com/25%20minutes bookmarklet on browser toolbar.
There's also cost. At certain scales (such as Grooveshark's scale) it can be significantly cheaper to do infrastructure in-house. Try negotiating bandwidth prices with Amazon.
This might not exactly answer the question, but it points out an interesting distinction between being rich and being wealthy.

Chris Rock on Wealth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m37JkkGjAY
Feel free to read the libvpx source, it's based on On2's VP7 codec and mentions it in comments in several places.

You can also compare ffvp56 and ffvp8, although there's a larger time gap between the two implementations.
Same, however I've been plotting for my NaNoWriMo project for a good two weeks now.
Not yet, but if this succeeds I promise another bounty project to do just that.

See idea #32:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/My+list+of+ideas+for+when+you+are...

It might have been smarter to do this the other way around but I need this badly and so do at least two other HN'ers.
Agreed. Punishing people who make stupid comments seems like it causes resentment and anger and thus more stupid comments.

I wonder if there a parallel with the whole punishment vs rehabilitation aspect of justice systems. In essence, a justice system is a social tool to cause people to act a certain way. Some techniques are better than others.