skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I went ahead and made a drum machine out of your notes using a bit of JavaScript...

https://gist.github.com/721253

Load it as a bookmarklet using this:

javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("script")).src = "https://gist.github.com/raw/721253/f70c2bdeaed54d9907a448504...

EDIT: the bookmarklet is getting cut off by HN, see the first comment on the gist linked above.

Unfortunately there's a little bit of delay due to loading the sounds but it sort of works.
I'm with you. This price is WAY too much in my opinon.
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I get plenty of work done at work. It's my job.
Still broken as hell on linux: http://code.google.com/p/earth-issues/issues/detail?id=1068

The quality of google earth for linux is an embarrassment.
Because at least at the startup you have the possibility, however remote, of getting FU money and never having to answer to anybody you don't like, ever again.

And besides, if you're that good, you don't really have any worries about getting paid what you're worth.
Ask HN: Is there a service that backs up all my SaaS user data?
Ideally, what I would love to do is have api access to a service that I pay for (on a metered basis) that backs up all my SaaS data to multiple service providers at the same time.

So I can login to a dashboard and I can see that my files are stored on S3, Rackspace CloudFiles, and any other CDNs I chose to pay for.

Basically, Mozy/Carbonite for the back-end of a SaaS app...but charged on a metered basis.

Does that exist? If not, would that be something anyone else would be interested in?
I think the app has quite a bit of potential. Right now, you are just focusing the user side, afford-ability side of things. Usage is more one-off.

Members option is possible.

Forward planning option to help users build things is also a possibility.

Integrate with other finance/expense tracking app will help too.

Do keep working on it. Love it to see it developed over time.
Wow, seriously? That's insane. Are you an Australian citizen?

(I'm also somewhat surprised at the level of technical knowledge on display, I wouldn't honestly expect that where I live though I probably should I suppose.)
I usually just use whatever is the most robust, stable open source choice for Rails app. Sphinx for search, etc. and Apache for the web server. Doing SSL is well documented and pretty much everything is possible and documented and supported by webmin too. I have a virtual host sending all non-ssl requests to ssl.

It doesn't have to be Ruby, especially if I won't be programming for it anyway.
How about adding a print button/link on the same page as the text ?
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What am I missing here? Groupon: Solid brand, good copywriting, mailing list of qualified buyers... okay, that's great stuff, but where's the defensible advantage here?

Do they think customers will be loyal to Groupon when more specialized competitors emerge? Do they think merchants will stay loyal to Groupon and continue to pay a crazy cut?

Maybe Google picks up a lot of synergy value for their search and data-mining and integration with other services, but they don't exactly have a great history integrating acquired companies with their existing services.

What's the value they're buying in Groupon? I see a company making an unsustainable cut of deals and no defensible advantages long term as competitors emerge to copy their (easily copied) business. Someone enlighten me - what am I missing here?
Aaron Swartz did it first with http://jottit.com/
Indeed, most of the time I use codeigniter, though I was focusing on "where" you do the logic, opposed to just how.
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> Any reason why the URLs are 5 letters long?

What has Twitter done to this world? I for one would like to see the title you type appear in the url.
What you say eerily reminds me of the argument Ballmer made to not buy Google in 2003 (the amount being spoken of was 10 billion - not too far there either).

My hypothesis is this: mind-share and network-effects are hard/impossible to value.
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Sure, they did not collapse actually. But their economy very nearly did. Both Greeces and Irelands economy basically only survived because the rest of Europe paid for it. And I think this is a good thing. Europe is a better place if we help each other.

Of course, no country in the Euro zone is supposed to be a weak country. After all, investing so much money in Greece and Ireland is a testament that Europe indeed does believe that these countries can get back on their feet.
They get the same deal as the rest of the media. They keep writing sensationalist stories, we'll keep talking about it, and advertisers pay them for it.
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The visual sensing is quite impossible due to the high speed of its movement. Any camera that can capture the color information at that speed is expensive.
It's all relative, but yes somebody obviously believes it is worth $50B.
I think that this submission does not belong to the HN. It carries little educational value and I wouldn't call it deeply interesting (as described in ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html ). There isn't any effort to explain the beatbox effect. Also there are many voice synthesizers, google's is just the easiest accessible one. This is why the link seems to me just like a funny picture of a cat and I am deeply alarmed. (sorry for bad english, non-native here)
Thanks for the feedback. I noticed that you did not use the site to post a lunch-meetup, is it because you aren't interested in meeting up with others at the moment, or is it because the site lacks features?

I am working to make the interface a bit more appealing (new design: http://i.imgur.com/KOaA8.jpg). Then I will move on to add integration with facebook and twitter and let users do more with their posts (invites, privacy, comments, geo-tagging, etc.).

As for the future, I plan to extend this beyond hackernews and beyond lunches. Eventually you should be able to post any event you plan on doing and invite anyone. Kind of like a social network focused around events.
I was a vim user and made the switch to Emacs. After finding out about Viper [1] I had to try it. If what you love about vim is the genius key bindings and modal editing, you don't really have anything to lose.

In that sense, you could say I never did switch to Emacs, since I never really got fluent in the default key bindings for basic editing in Emacs (always use the vim/Viper ones). So when I'm in an unfamiliar environment that doesn't have my personalizations, I still load up vi or vim before Emacs. :)

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[1] http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/viper.html
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Thanks for sharing, I didn't know about pabbrev-mode! This should help me show the IDE guys that Emacs can still dance. ;)
It is kinda sad how fragmentation can reduce the quality of an idea. I am not sure why we need a Ted Midwest or Ted XYZ. It is a topic for another time.

Now in regards to the topic at hand, "work" - the presenter has a very simplistic view about work and most of what he suggests applies to knowledge work and not defined work. There are plenty of examples where his notion of work does not make sense. Try pulling a stunt like this in healthcare where every minute counts and can affect some patient at some level.

I think knowledge workers, especially in IT are a pampered lot in comparison to sectors such as healthcare where you are overworked and paid peanuts. I will not say that people need to be radical and suddenly change the office culture of the corporation overnight because it is not going to happen.

Managers and Meetings seem to be picked on because it makes for good video and sounds nice as M&Ms. It sounds lame to be honest.

What offices need to do is quite simply (1) reduce meeting times from one hour to 20 or 40 minutes and (2) create small rooms that are available on a first-come first-served basis where people can come to work and take these rooms for two to three hours of uninterrupted time. Most of us do this anyway; we steal a meeting team room and shut ourselves to get work done. it just needs to be formalized.
It took me a while to be okay with For[] loops and now I can't quit using them. Crude, but effective.
Doesn't Google uses Vickrey auctions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction) just to avoid this? I recall an article by Hal Varian some time ago about this..
And he'd continue to enjoy his niche.
Yeah, it was pretty clear to me... I'm just not sure why they couldn't make array dereferencing a function?
allowing people to type in 'gerbil' is not usability
Let them work on more interesting problems. The InfoLab at Northwestern had cooperation between the EECS department and the journalism school and managed to build a system called Stats Monkey which wrote automated stories when given a sports data set. Ends up working so well that it's spun off into a startup.

http://infolab.northwestern.edu/projects/stats-monkey/

http://narrativescience.com/
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This was simply a case of simultaneous editing. I saw your comments only after writing the substance of my updates (and in the case of wmf's comments, only because of this meta-point). I don't want anyone to think that your comments were copied from mine, though, so I'm sorry if it might otherwise appear that way.

I've operated an ISP, and I'm deeply familiar with the issues involved here. I posted my main comment quickly and updated it as I thought more deeply about the press release. To my mind, a legitimate use of the editing feature is to improve a comment upon reflection.

Again, I want it to be clear on the thread that I'm comfortable that your (and wmf's) comments weren't copied from mine, but neither is your accusation fair. I expect that we've all simply worked in or around the same industry and have seen similar things.
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Niche? Apple is the second largest company in the world. It's long past being 'niche'.

For perspective: when I started there, the market cap was less than the amount of cash we had in the bank.
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Dunno how big is it, but the whole internet advertisement business lately seems just about groupon promotions.

(yes I surf without adblock)
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The two most costly for me were both email bugs.

One defaulted people's email preferences to off when they signed up. The other was a poorly chosen subject line that caused all the wrong people to read one of the most important emails that company had.

I can't give out an exact dollar figure for either. But both were in the 7-8 digit range. And both took a surprisingly long time to track down because everything seemed fine. And so the problem sat out there. And even once we knew that there was a problem, the problem was only discovered by accident. (But having been through it, twice, I now know that if business just starts drifting downwards, double check what is happening with email. Again.)

By contrast the obvious disasters that I have seen have cost much less. Surprisingly so. The database crashed without a proper backup taken in the last 2 months? OK, we're out of business for a week and a half while we replay all of the logs, but then the email blast we sent saying we were back up attracted more than enough business to make up for the time lost.

And the toughest bugs? Surprisingly cheap. It took literally months to track down why we had to do a careful dance bringing up Apache or else nothing worked. Yet despite months of grief the actual cost in lost business was a few hours of downtime at off hours. I'd be surprised if we lost 5 figures on that. And the memorable one where you couldn't fill in a particular form if your screen was the wrong size? I'm pretty sure we lost $0 on that. (The bug, for the curious, was an invisible div that was in front of the window. If the window geometry placed it over the form, it became rather hard to fill out said form.)

It is a hard lesson that what developers care about and what businesses care about are only tangentially related.
I have worked through the questions for a software engineering position quite a while back, and while most of the problems were rather boring, there are some quite nice ones in there, for example there is a very simple and nice solution to this one:

Given a Data Structure having first n integers
and next n chars. A = i1 i2 i3 ... iN c1 c2
c3 ... cN. Write an in-place algorithm to rearrange
the elements of the array ass A = i1 c1 i2 c2 ...
iN cN.
Speaking of which, from the OP:

> what is the first thing you write...
"Basically, they are printing money by being a middleman. Funny, i thought the internet was supposed to eliminate that kind of business."

Have you MET the internet? It's one huge lead gen contraption (ads, groupon, kayak, google, the app store, itunes, etc). One of my all time favorite blog posts on the topic here: http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2007/08/the_web_is_becoming_a_gi...
I'm sorry, I fail to see how that resolution would be recognizably altruistic from a modern perspective. Had Abraham Lincoln "saved" the Union without freeing any slaves, there would have been no philanthropic regard for others, it would have instead been the government capitulating to monied interests. That Abraham Lincoln was willing to sacrifice an altruistic and noble outcome for political expediency shouldn't detract from the actual good freeing the slaves wrought.

To be fair, I'm a consequentialist, we might be arguing morality at cross-purposes.
Google could build it for sure, but they can't have any guarantees that it won't turn into a failed Wave or Lively. They already have coupons for local listings ( http://www.google.com/local/add/coupons , Google sign in required) and I don't see that anywhere near as popular as Groupon.

On the other hand, their ad business could benefit greatly from a coupon/promotion system that actually works. They already have advertisers pouring in billions of dollars, just imagine the leverage of owning the world's leading coupon platform as well --they just need to improve revenue by 10% or so and you have 0.5 billions more each year, which is enough to justify the 5 billion price tag.
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<i>If people manage to be productive on a noisy, busy train by not in a quite, nice office, it isn't the interruptions that are the problem.</i>

Trust me, interruption or even conversation from known people is much more disruptive than a noisy train station because in a noisy-train station, there is probably a more scientific explanation for this; probably the familiarity of the person who is talking is what is more disruptive, I do not know. Secondly, you are obligated to be nice to people at work, even if they disrupt you. You don't have to do that at a train station.

At my place of work, people sing, play youtube, talk loudly and are completely oblivious of how it affects those who are in the next cube and are trying to get work done.
It's a reference to the Facebook movie.
>That Abraham Lincoln was willing to sacrifice an altruistic and noble outcome for political expediency shouldn't detract from the actual good freeing the slaves wrought.

Exactly. My quote was an example to support the sentiment of your post, not argue against it.

Ultimately the end result and lasting impact was the freeing of the slaves, history and time rendered Abe's intentions/motivations nearly irrelevant outside of historical study.
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Right. Let's see what's more likely: (a) A real psychiatrist finds HN, makes an account there and uses said account to hand out incredibly irresponsible advice to someone on a forum based on one post

or: (b) you're full of shit.

I'm going to go with option b.
Can I ask what browser, version, and platform are you using? I've tested it on Firefox 3.6, Opera 10, and IE 9 on Windows, and the <<< and >>> seem to work. When you hover the mouse on top of the <<< characters, is there a underline showing up?

There's no enabling/disabling of the <<< and >>> links, (though it might be a good idea to show/hide depending on the current snapshot). They are just anchor with href=#, with Javascript to handle the mouse click. The links should always be there.

There are CSS styles modifying the anchor links. Here're the CSS I use for the A links.

a:link { text-decoration:none; }

a:visited { text-decoration:none; }

a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }

The underline only shows up when the mouse is hovering on the links.
Interesting, merits further development I think. The idea has merit but not quite just in this current form, you need to find some other missing element to marry it too perhaps.
You mean OpenSocial?
Ya, scale can be a powerful competitive advantage.

"The social proof phenomenon which comes right out of psychology gives huge advantages to scale—for example, with very wide distribution, which of course is hard to get. One advantage of Coca-Cola is that it's available almost everywhere in the world.

Well, suppose you have a little soft drink. Exactly how do you make it available all over the Earth? The worldwide distribution setup—which is slowly won by a big enterprise—gets to be a huge advantage.... And if you think about it, once you get enough advantages of that type, it can become very hard for anybody to dislodge you."

-Charlie Munger [1]

[1] http://ycombinator.com/munger.html

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On a somewhat related note, if there's anybody out there that wants to build a Groupon clone, or sell excess inventory of some product, or provide daily deals for anything, and you don't want to build the tech, check out http://cajoots.com (a project of mine).
One billion? You know what's cool? One trillion.
This is much better than your original comment which was muddied by a grand pronouncement about kids and startups. In this comment you acknowledge individual differences, and you take some conventional wisdom to task. In the former comment you jump up on a soap box and proclaim what people with kids should do.

So first off, as a #1 employee in a startup that had a baby right during the early stage, I'm living proof of the fallacy of your judgement. I pull off the work-life balance thing pretty well (stay-at-home mom helps a lot), and my effectiveness at work is not diminished. The fact is that commitments at home give me an ongoing sense of urgency that keeps my overall productivity up without inducing burnout the way 18-hour days do. And in any case, the variance between individuals is far greater than the variance between hours worked. You'd be a fool to hire lesser talent just because they're willing to work 80 hours a week.

More to the point about this last comment, you're absolutely right to think about future regrets. Having a family is a big sacrifice, and it will not necessarily make you happy. On the other hand, slaving away at startups, even if you find financial success may not make you happy either. Today's media culture (of which silicon valley porn is a significant part these days) programs our ego with all kinds of beliefs about happiness: if I'm rich I'll be happy, if I'm famous I'll be happy, if my talent is recognized I'll be happy, but the belief doesn't make them true. The sad truth may be that nothing will make you happy, and you are destined to be miserable, or vice-versa. It may be that the greatest accomplishments require a certain discontent, and in fact you care more about the accomplishment than the happiness. It's a mess that you have to sort out for yourself. Anyone preaching how others should live their life is invested in a particular belief system that may or may not apply to you. When you are making these kinds of decisions I think deep soul searching is the only way to go. I wouldn't place too much stock in other people's regrets, because there's no way you can sort out the baggage underlying someone's stated beliefs to really get a read on how it might apply to you. Instead your only recourse is to go with your gut. This is the ultimate gift and curse of living in a free society.
No.

NASA has started using these press conferences for what would be considered minor discoveries by most astronomy departments worldwide. They're doing this because they're afraid of losing funding and relevance, and think that by hyping their discoveries they can postpone the inevitable attrition of their funding and projects.

Look back at their recent press conferences. It's like the boy who cried 'wolf'. When you embargo the announcement of extremely minor scientific advancements and make a big deal out of them, you contribute to the abrogation of scientific discoveries which actually matter. NASA is becoming toxic to scientific advancement and federal funding of scientific programs.
How about part of your test suite that just greps for http:// in public//*.css and fails CI if it finds anything?
The funny thing is that the better you become the more critical you will be, because you will have mastery and you will be able to detail all of the imperfections that before you couldn't even notice. And you will have the weight of all that training and all that anticipation on your back and you will be all the more hesitant to declare anything short of absolute perfect to be good.
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The crux of DTSTTCPW is defining the problem. It's difficult to work in the abstract if you don't have a very strong sense of what your goals are. You can see in the development of pipes that they had McIlroy's "Summary - what's most important" memo, probably a multitude of other such memos, a strong team and eight years. Most people have themselves, a couple of scratched notes and a few months... Getting lost in the dark abysses of the abstract in these circumstances is not fun. Suboptimal is your saviour, if not the world's.
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Groupon supposedly earns $50MM/month in revenue. So this offer would be at ~8x annual revenue. Overpriced? Yes. Is Google desperate? Hell yes.